This has become a huge issue, especially with Buster Olney. First let me say that I love reading Olney's stuff, he's one of my favorite baseball writers. Plus he's a huge Vikings fan to boot. But I really disagree with him on this. As a 30 plus year Twins fan I've seen a lot if bad baseball played by my favorite team. The 4 straight years that the Twins lost 90 plus games before breaking the streak last year were not fun. But I'm the fan that wants to see my team win championships, not try to finish above .500. In those 4 years I had no interest in bringing in the kind of guys that Buster always talks about. Major leaguers with 4 to 8 years of experience that will cost a few million a season and will slightly improve your team. I don't care if the Twins win 66 or 72 games a year. If they are bad just be bad. I live in Dallas but I grew up in Minnesota. I am a Vikings season ticket holder and come home to Minnesota numerous times of the year. I see several Twins games a year at Target Field and watch most games on iPad. When I come to a game in Aug or Sept I would much rather watch Vargas or Rosario hit then some random veteran who might be slightly better at that moment. I don't care about spending or saving the Pohkads money. I just want to see the franchise moving forward. Sometimes moving forward means taking a few steps back. I use the T-Wolves as an example. A few years ago when Love was still here they went out and signed a couple of veterans like Kevin Martin and resigned Buddinger and Pekovic. I wasn't really excited by that team because to me it looked like a team that was going be a 6 seed at best. That means a solid winning team but defeats in the 1st round every year. That's not what I want. All of last year I was more excited by that Wolves team than any of the Love led versions even though they only won 16 games. We finally had a piece in Wiggins that could lead a team to a championship and by being really bad last year we got the #1 overall pick which turned out to be Towns. Now Towns looks like an absolute beast and we have 2 franchise cornerstones. I can absolutely see Towns and Wiggins leading the T-WOLVES to a championship. If we had used Buster's logic we would have signed a couple of veterans so that we could have won 29 games instead of 16. Still no where near the playoffs and we'd have Stanley Johnson instead of Towns. Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way but I want championships not playoff appearances. If that means my favorite teams need to be a little worse in down years so they can be a little better in up years, I'll take that every time.