Twins Owner Carl Pohlad is expected Tuesday to ask
MLB's Executive Council "for its support of his plan to sell
and move the Twins," a high-ranking baseball official told
Hartman & Weiner of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE. Pohlad:
"I've done everything I can to keep baseball here. Nobody
seems to care whether the Twins stay or not." There is a
March 31 deadline in Pohlad's letter of intent to sell the
team to NC businessman Don Beaver, but the Twins Owner
"refused to comment" on whether he plans to sign it. Acting
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said that the Twins matter is not
formally on the Executive Council's agenda, but "we expect
Carl Pohlad to give us a progress report on what is
developing in Minnesota" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 3/15).
WHO WANTS THE TWINS? In Greensboro, Justin Catanoso
wrote that insiders say Pohlad "cannot decide" whether he
wants to sell the team to Beaver and move it out of town.
Catanoso said Pohlad "continues to send mixed messages"
(NEWS & RECORD, 3/15). In Raleigh, Chip Alexander wrote,
"Does Beaver really want this team, or was he doing Pohlad a
favor by offering to buy it and now finds himself on the
verge of actually owning it? If it were all a ploy to force
the Minnesota legislature to fork over money for a new ...
stadium ... it failed. Miserably" (NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/15).
