Worse, the committee is made up of people who inherited a lot of commercial real estate money - a business where "branding" only matters to a small number of potential customers, most of whom behave pretty rationally about lease/buy decisions.

I think we miss something by criticizing any individual Pohlad. The real problem is structural - it's a committee and that complicates everything, especially in a business like baseball.

Yes, she was too kind.

Cover up, cover up
Makes you wanna holler "hide the schmo"
Burns your soul up, don'tcha know
Cover up, cover up

(Apologies to the late, great Roger Miller.)

Ah governance...

Cover up, cover up
Makes you wanna holler "hide the schmo"
Burns your soul up, don'tcha know
Cover up, cover up

(Apologies to the late, great Roger Miller.)

We were told the board voted for the name change unanimously. So she didn't vote?

I did this and my domain expired yesterday without warning. I only learned about the expiration by accident. A reminder message or email would have been nice. I renewed as soon as I could.

Nobody's favorite Stooge.

I read the name as "Shemp" and was already to dislike them because they aren't Curly.