Keith Leckron

Husband, Father, Grandfather, Education, Sports, Huskers, Twins, Vikings, Music (especially live music) Reading, Travel, Family, Friends, Politics, Anti-Fascist

[Pitch Profiler @pitchprofiler]

Joe Pohlad and the Pohlad family aren’t just a disgrace to baseball, they’re a stain on the entire state of Minnesota.

Their story starts in the Great Depression, not as scrappy underdogs, but as profiteers who made their fortune foreclosing on homes of desperate families who had lost everything. From day one, they were taking from the poor to enrich the rich, and that ethos has never left them.

For decades, the Pohlads have been infamously cheap, demanding that Minnesota’s taxpayers and fans foot the bill for their every whim. They’re not savvy businesspeople, they’re parasites.

In the early 2000s, they nearly let the Twins die. Attendance was down, they refused to invest, and the team was on the chopping block to be contracted alongside the Expos. The only thing that saved the franchise was a court injunction forcing them to honor their Metrodome lease.

By 2006, they convinced Minnesota to cover seventy-five percent of Target Field’s cost. A billion-dollar family, holding out its hand to working-class Minnesotans and demanding payment.

Fast forward to 2016, Jim Pohlad hires Derek Falvey to modernize the organization. For a moment, there was hope. Player development technology, advanced analytics, and a revamped coaching staff started to pay off. By 2019, the Twins won 100 games. By 2023, they broke their playoff curse. The arrow was pointing up.

Then Joe Pohlad took over, and steered the ship straight into the iceberg. He “right-sized” the team, gutted investments in talent and infrastructure, and erased the analytical and developmental edge the Twins had built.

By July 31, 2025, the gut punch landed: an all-time pathetic trade deadline where they dumped eleven players in a payroll purge disguised as a “fresh start.” It wasn’t a reset, it was a surrender.

The final hope Twins fans clung to was the idea that the Pohlads might finally sell. Now we know they won’t.

Joe Pohlad, and the rest of your dynasty of leeches, you are nothing more than generational thieves. You take from people who make less than you, give back nothing, and expect them to be grateful. Minnesota doesn’t owe you thanks. Minnesota owes you the door.

Fuck you, Pohlad family.

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

@J_Wright20 😆

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

@miles_commodore Metrodome

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Jon Stewart nails it: Republicans want Californians to suffer so they can play partisan politics—but only when blue states are hurting. California pays more in federal taxes than the bottom 30 states combined, most of them red,but they’ll never admit that.

SAY IT PLAIN: They want to punish California because they think it’s the leader of woke!

[Nick Anderson/Political Cartoonist @Nick_Anderson_]

Spreading like...
#wildfires #misinformation

[Savage @Savageboston]

Just to be clear:

at every level from Pop Warner to the NFL, this is a fumble.

Never in the history of football, has this not been a fumble.

Thanks

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

Not only do Californians pay far more taxes to the federal government, they also receive less federal spending back.

It’s appalling that Republicans would withhold disaster relief.

[Ron Johnson @3RonJohnson]

This play being called back really changed the direction the game was heading…
Head down in the grasp there is no way this was a pass…

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr. FAKED event in Greenland, bribing people with free dinners if they would wear MAGA hats and pretend to be Trump supporters

One participant was sleeping under a bridge before he was coaxed into the photo op

With the Trumps, EVERYTHING IS A CON

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

So let me get this straight. Don Jr. flies all the way to Greenland and leaves after only a few hours when he finds out the Danes, the native Inuits of Greenland, as well as the entire democratic free world hate his daddy's fucking guts. Did Don Jr. really believe he'd get a hero's welcome? Everybody knows MAGA is just a dumber version of the Nazi Party of 1934.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

January 6th, 2021 should have been the end of Donald Trump’s political career. For as long as I live, I will not understand how it wasn’t.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb 23 years ago and we all still take our shoes off at the airport.

One failed attempt at violently overthrowing our country 4 years ago and we allow the guy who orchestrated it to be certified as President so he can do it again.

Disgraceful.

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

Keep it classy Fischer!

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Classless ass

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

@i_retrievers @FPWellman Deb Fischer from Nebraska. What a disgrace

[Cathy V 🆘 🌊 @ZPoet]

This chilling photo is a Trump supporter gouging out the eyes of a DC police officer at the Capitol. Trump called this day "A day of love." He calls this man a "warrior" and praises him as a hero. This is MAGA. #January6th

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

@peterbakernyt @sbg1 I think that ship has sailed. Many Americans will already do that!

[Cooper @justcuuper]

Flags were at half-staff during Nixon’s inauguration due to former President Harry Truman passing less than 30 days before.

Nixon wasn’t a narcissistic little bitch about it.

Have some respect.

[Keith Leckron @KeithLeck]

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[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Senators voting against social security increase