Diamond Sports Group wants to pay lower rights fees to Diamondbacks, Guardians, Twins
Diamond claims that many of their rights contracts were signed prior to cord-cutting accelerated, and they are currently overvalued.
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MLB files emergency motion asking court to make Diamond Sports pay Twins, Guardians
MLB is asking for a court order to have Diamond pay the Twins and Guardians by April 13 or relinquish their rights.
Diamond Sports misses media rights payment to Twins, makes payments to eight other teams
The Twins' rights deal with Diamond Sports expires after the 2023 season.
Durland and Darvin Miller have now sold Twins.com, one of the last team site holdouts, to MLB
MLB finally has Twins.com, leaving them just Giants.com (owned by the football team), Rays.com (owned by a Seattle seafood restaurant), and Guardians.com (up for sale).
Fox strikes out with coverage of Giants vs. Twins game
If football gets the "Heidi Game," baseball gets the Monarch game
San Diego Padres analyst Mark Grant got extremely hyped over Twins pitcher Dylan Bundy picking his nose
"50 bucks says the kid’s gonna eat it."
Twins’ radio broadcaster Cory Provus, a Highland Park native, shared his thoughts after the shooting there
"My parents would bring me in my stroller and we'd sit there with the music and the floats and the food, and it was what July 4th was all about. It was about family and celebrating, and today it turned into tragedy."
Twins broadcaster Dick Bremer has had enough of the Cleveland Guardians
"I think we've had enough...of the Cleveland Guardians."
Cleveland Guardians broadcaster Tom Hamilton blasted Twins’ Miguel Sano with “He’s not hurt, he’s just fat.”
"Miguel Sano, he’s not hurt. He’s just fat. That’s as brutally honest as we can be."
Bally Sports North’s Twins-Rays broadcast invaded by Treasure Island advertising glitch
That's one way to disguise all the bad strike calls we've seen recently.
The Twins’ Bally Sports North broadcast had interesting Clayton Kershaw discussion, from “hard to watch” to “I completely understand”
This broadcast was a case in point where particular clips might make headlines, but the overall discussion considered both sides.
Fangraphs writer Kevin Goldstein joining MLB front office (again)
Goldstein previously left Baseball Prospectus for the Houston Astros.
Twins announcer’s way-too-early prediction about Gavin Sheets upended by game-winning homer
“That’s gonna be the ever-lasting memory of Gavin Sheets against Berrios, at least tonight." Well, about that...
Jim “Mudcat” Grant, a famed former MLB player, author, musician, and broadcaster, has passed away at 85
Grant led a remarkable life, starring in MLB, writing Baseball's Black Aces, playing music in nightclubs and on TV, and working as a broadcaster for two different teams.
Twins broadcasters miffed at White Sox for swinging at 3-0 eephus pitch in blowout
Can you really blame him for swinging?
Twins, Timberwolves and Wild postpone games after police shooting of Daunte Wright
After the police shooting of Wright Sunday and the release of bodycam footage and announcement of a curfew Monday, the NBA, MLB, and NHL teams in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area all postponed their Monday games.
Bert Blyleven will call his last Twins game tonight, then switch to a special assistant role with the team
Bert Blyleven has been calling Twins' games for 25 years, but he's now moving on to a different role with the team.
The Pirates-Twins game wound up in a “drone delay” thanks to an unauthorized drone flying around Target Field
Yet another odd 2020 baseball moment.
Dan Gladden tried to play long toss with Jake Odorizzi from the Twins booth
Cory Provus was on the air at the time, which really makes it.
Photographer accuses Twins star Miguel Sano of unwanted sexual advances, assault
"Every time I have to hear how great people think Miguel Sano is, I'm reminded of how awful he actually is and how he hurt me," she wrote.
Baseball America editor, prospect writer John Manuel hired as Minnesota Twins scout
The writer-to-front office career path has become more and more common in recent years.
Twins’ broadcaster Torii Hunter kept mocking a fan who missed a home-run catch
Hunter just wouldn't let this missed catch go.
Jack Morris leaving Detroit Tigers TV broadcasts, going exclusive with Minnesota Twins
During the past two MLB seasons, former major leaguer Jack Morris had been splitting time as a broadcaster...
A Twins’ player confronted play-by-play announcer Dick Bremer about his calls
Players being unhappy with announcers is nothing new, but Minnesota Twins’ TV play-by-play commentator Dick Bremer would be...
Al Michaels says Twins pumped fake noise into 1987 World Series
Al Michaels has covered incredible sporting events since the 1970’s. Michaels was the play-by-play commentator of eight World...
