Carl Pohlad

[Willy]

giving to charities always makes the rich look good, but the reality is they do it for the tax breaks/incentives.

this is why professional athletes have their foundations and such, it's a place to put money lowering your personal tax liability and doing good for the community. if they were such humanitarians they would be volunteering for the red cross in foreign countries, not being a professional athlete.

BINGO!!

You nailed it. Carl was a rich man who wanted nothing more than to be richer. Rest in peace cheapskate Carl.

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Just don't think this is the time to do that, I can respect he wasn't the most popular ownder in the recent years, but the guy just died. There was plenty of time before to crucify him, just don't think we should be doing it now. Just my opinion

[Snag]

You guys have only hit the tip of the iceberg for negative stuff. There are way worse stories about him than has been reported here.

Go Twins!

[Windy City]

I didn't know the man or his legacy so I won't rip him, I will just RIP him!

Windy

[fishyguy]

Some give to charity because they can, some because they want to, some because of tax breaks and some will do it for all those reasons. He was a businessman first and I won't hold that against him. Foreclosing on farms in the depression was his start to megawealth. Horrible job and a horrible thing to do to people but if Carl didn't do it, someone else would have. The result on those peoples lives, farms and future was the same even if Carl had gone into the preisthood. We may question his motives, or ethics in some things but I believe every penny of his 2.5 billion was earned legally. If we were to talk unkindly against anyone who ever did something self serving to the benefit of their own careers or wealth we would not have many people to ulogize with kind words. I am not nominating him for sainthood but if all anyone can do is rip the guy for not giving his money away for our benefit, are we any less selfish?

Whether we have 2 bits or 2 billion, we all have the right to do whatever we want with that money. As long as it is earned legally of course.

[fishyguy]

I didn't know the man or his legacy so I won't rip him, I will just RIP him!

Windy

Just think Windy. If it wasn't for Carl bailing out Griffith many years ago, your Sox would be losing to some team called the Portland Twins or something like that.

[Windy City]

Man Fish,

I was just gonna write you some cudo's on your post after mine and then I read the next one and now I gotta pull out The Question. You know, the one where I ask you who won the division this year and who won the most recent World Series and who has won more World Series overall and then you will ask me about just the years that the Twinks have been in existence and then I will have to come back with...... Yada Yada Yada! LOL

Windy

[fishyguy]

Windy,

I know, but I was bored today and that ugly Sox ring in your avatar was staring at me. I just had to do something and was plain out of quality material.

[UdeLakeTom]

Be nice now boys...this is supposed to be a requiem to Carl.

RIP, but I don't think I will miss his tactics.

[fishyguy]

We are being nice. Just giving each other a hard time and no disrepect intended.

[UdeLakeTom]

Just kidding you 2...I've seen you and Windy go at it before.

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Hey Guys,

What would the owner of a team like better at his "virtual wake" more than baseball fans trading barbs! It's kind of like an Irish Wake, without the booze! LOL

I think everybody should pay their respects and some have seemed to do it better than others but none of us really knew the man. Some knew what he did and how he got to where he was but I don't think anybody in here ever had Thanksgiving dinner at the Pohlad house. I think Fishy said it best when he talked about him legally earning every penny during his life, even if they thought his business was an ugly one. Today's business world is gonna get ugly with the Messiah rolling into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave any day now to redistribute the wealth of America. You are going to see the have nots reaching deep into the pockets of the haves and legally stealing much of their hard earned dollars for doing nothing more than being born within our borders. Now that is an "ugly" profession if you ask me. I will get off my soap box now.

PS: Can you tell I was bored? Sitting here doing laundry! LOL

Windy

[UdeLakeTom]

Real men do laundry???I got a basket full to fold.

[Big Tom]

RIP. Just another banker that made his billions off the sweat of other's labor in my book.

Thank God for Eloise. The Twins are the only professional franchise in town I give two rips about. Carl might have pushed the contraction deal a lot harder without her giving him grief about it constantly.