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John Bonnes

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Twins Daily started as an attempt by four bloggers to create a community for all Twins fans – a place of respite to talk baseball, examine the team, and explore our own fandoms. Now we're asking for your continued support.

Well, we built that community. All of us. Over the past ten years, we’ve accumulated over 100 million page views on the site and are the premier location to talk Twins baseball. We have extremely active forums, the best news page in the Twins world, and user blogs that fill every niche of the baseball spectrum. Dozens of writers have used the TD platform to find and grow their audiences. In the past year, we even added video to our stable of ever-growing Twins content.

So what comes next? Caretaking.

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. All of this expanding content with our community managers, video creators, and all that Twins Daily brings to the world requires so many people to dedicate themselves – always in their “free time” – to provide that content to Twins Territory.

We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Twins news site on the internet long into the future.

What is caretaking, you ask?

Caretaking is subscribing to the site and allowing us a consistent fund from which to distribute to all our content creators. From this fund, 100% of which will be reinvested into our writers, videographers, community managers, and the other people who make Twins Daily a place you want to visit every single day.

One hundred percent. That’s our promise.

Your subscription will go entirely back into making Twins Daily even better than it is today. Have you been enjoying our latest features like the prospect tracker? We have a lot more planned but we need your support to enlist more time from the creators you enjoy every day.

Why do we need additional funding? Because this site has grown enormously over the past year. We've hired outside development help to assist Brock Beauchamp in making the site bigger and better, as the site is becoming too large for one person to manage. The prospect tracker alone was over 100 hours of development work to implement, never mind the recurring upkeep every week to keep it current. In the coming months, we plan to move to a distributed server to keep the site up and running during peak traffic times like the draft and trade deadline, which means our hosting costs will nearly double overnight.

And there are our content creators. While we already revenue share everything we do with our creators who make that content, it's simply not as much as they deserve. Most of the caretaking fund will go directly into their pockets, which will allow them to write more often and focus on longer, higher-quality content. That means an even better Twins Daily for everyone.

One of the most important things we want to get across here is that if you do not join the caretaker community, your site experience at Twins Daily will not be affected in any way. This is not a paywall of any kind, but rather a completely optional way to show your support for the site and contribute to its long-term health.

With that said, there will be perks to signing up and hopping aboard. This is what we can offer for your caretaking:

- Icons and recognition of your support in your Twins Daily account
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- Gifts of the Offseason Handbook and other publications

- At the Gold Caretaker tier, ad-free browsing of Twins Daily

- Whatever else we can think of, we’re open to suggestions. After all, this is your site and we are only stewards of it.

On behalf of all Twins Daily, we know this is a big ask but we hope that, at this point, you trust us and know that we stand by our word. And our mission, 100% of the time, is about building a bigger and better Twins Territory. Help us achieve that goal today.

Become a Twins Daily Caretaker


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4 minutes ago, JCinNWMN said:

Love the approach you are taking with this initiative.

Thank you! We worked really hard to find a way to make this initiative not feel like a handout. We ultimately landed on making sure our content creators receive the bulk of any donations. After all, they're the ones who bring all of you back to read the site every day.

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Ha! Started clicking in off facebook notices, then started visiting the site, then registered a few days ago, then realized how much I appreciated the regular articles (especially in a void of local press/radio baseball talk). So this morning I thought I'd look to see if there was a way to pay in, and there was this article. Thanks for the good work!

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7 minutes ago, PatPfund said:

Ha! Started clicking in off facebook notices, then started visiting the site, then registered a few days ago, then realized how much I appreciated the regular articles (especially in a void of local press/radio baseball talk). So this morning I thought I'd look to see if there was a way to pay in, and there was this article. Thanks for the good work!

Thank you for your support!

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Brock Beauchamp

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5 minutes ago, The Mad King said:

No ads??? 

Paid...

I found this site by accident a few years ago (2018). I thought it was a professional site. No idea that it was run by guys that are just regular twins fans. Keep up the great work gentleman. And ladies. 

Thank you for your support!

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1 hour ago, Tjwalsh65 said:

I am in.  Long time lurker here.   

We'll have to get you from lurking to posting :) A good way to jump in is with game threads, once the season starts ... or ... just jump anywhere, when you have something to say! 

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I'm in. I also subscribe to the Athletic and read their comments after the articles. Not only are the article here just as good as they are there, the quality of the commentary here is much better than the noise in the comments there. I learn a lot and it's a fun group of guys to talk Twins with - knowledgeable, friendly, and informed. Kind of like talking to your brother or to a good friend over a beer or, in my case, a scotch. This is a great site and deserves our support.   

By the way, I see the subscription comes with a ticket to the Winter Meltdown. I live in LA now, and no offense guys, the chance of me coming back to Minnesota in mid-winter are somewhere close to the chances of me dating a supermodel. Hey, it could happen. If you want to, give the ticket to somebody fun and expand the group. 

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I have "Liked" the comments by those who have supported, but that feels like not enough. 

Thank you all for your support, and taking this step is very kind. As some have noted, we definitely did not want to do any sort of paywall. That was key. 

This kind of support just makes me want to keep working even more... 

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The Twins Daily Caretaker Fund
The Twins Daily Caretaker Fund

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Twins community on the internet.

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