Carl Pohlad is dead at 93.

[ogneopasno]

http://www.startribune.com/business/37106499.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1E::Dy_oacyKU

[Minnesota Raindog]

1. Did he try to get the taxpayers to pay for his funeral? n/t

[loveable liberal]

3. Now that is funny!!

"Pay for my funeral or I'll bury myself in North Carolina" HA!!

[USA_1]

6. America's # 1 Corporate Welfare Recipient

The Christian Bible says it will be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

I wonder how much fun Pohlad is having by counting his money in the other place.

[loveable liberal]

2. yawn....

I wonder if he ever found a way to take it with him.

[Thegonagle]

4. His son will continue to manage the business aspect of the Twins, and hopefully,

his son will continue to keep the Twins in Minnesota, as Carl did.

There. I said something nice. (He kept the Twins in Minnesota.)

Of course, he got taxpayers to pay for the new stadium. Now, there's no denying that it's going to be a pretty damn cool stadium, and it did help spearhead the Northstar Commuter-Hiawatha LRT connection, but he fought tooth-and-nail for a public subsidy--that we couldn't afford--for construction. So Pohlad wins the rewards, and the public "wins" the risks, which plain means we lost on that deal.

I'm ambivalent, I guess.

[dflprincess]

5. Not only a cool stadium

but in April, September and October (if we ever get back to the Series) down right cold. Remember opening day last year?

[mduffy31]

7. Should have been a retractable roof like Milwaukee's

[dflprincess]

8. Yes, it should.

And the way they built this one, a roof can't even be added. I say we start a pool on how long it will be before the team starts whining for a new statdium with a retractable roof. I'm betting 4/30/2010.

[Faintlyodd09]

9. Roofless

I'm not hearing negative comments from Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit or Cleveland about having to look up at blue skies during a game. This new outdoor stadium will be great. We can always run indoors to the Dome if it rains too hard. :)

[dflprincess]

10. They should have put a retractable roof on it.

And, I'm not worried about the rain - but it was snowing awfully hard on opening day last year.