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Jason Walker

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 23 weeks

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Posted on 02/28/11 at 12:23 pm in response to A Vikings stadium? Here's a plan to declare exactly what the public is willing to do

Fantastic piece, Jay. Thanks for your common-sense reporting.
I wish the team would just move, but as you say, it's become clear that the rich guy will win again and get his stadium. What a shock.
So, I applaud your approach and agree completely: If the stadium is inevitable, do it right.

Posted on 02/18/11 at 01:54 pm in response to What's the cheapest way I can watch the cable-only Twins?

The TV deal sucks, but the fact is, if we want the Twins to compete and maybe actually beat the Yankees (at least once) they need money. This is now a $115 million payroll team, in the upper third of MLB salary-wise. These are no longer the Piranhas.
The new stadium may have enriched the Pohlads to a degree, but it also allows the Twins to be competitive. Without the new stadium, Joe Mauer would have pulled a Pujols. Actually he wouldn't have; the Twins could have never even made a...

Posted on 10/20/10 at 12:31 pm in response to Star Tribune metro columnists go two months without writing about general election

I'm not sure I'd be eating up everything Tevlin and Rosenblum wrote if they did cover the election, but I'd at least read them more. Not because I have anything against them or their abilities, but I just don't care about yet another human-interest piece posing as a column.
What stinks about it is, I think they both have real talent and would write great columns that actually offered reasoned opinions. Oh, well.

Posted on 10/02/10 at 07:53 pm in response to Ken Burns needs at least one more 'Inning' to cover the story he missed on nation's diehard baseball fans

Great topic. This latest Burns saga had me thinking the same thing: Sorry Burnsie, but life exists outside of Boston. Mike Barnicle may love the Red Sox and live and die with them, but big whoop, lots of people live and die with the Kansas City Royals, but I didn't see any glimpse of the Boys in Blue, except when they showed Joe Randa striking out against Pedro Martinez. And by the way, what kind of a sportswriter wears his heart on his sleeve like that? Get a grip, pal.
It's pathetic...

Posted on 09/30/10 at 03:08 pm in response to MPR bids adieu to the 'Q' in NewsQ

I could never remember if it was NewsQ or NewsCue. Therefore, I never visited. Glad to see they got rid of it.
As for the consultant fees, it can't be as bad as when I was at the University of Kansas and they paid over $80,000 for a consultant who changed the logo from a straight, block KU to a KU in Trajan font with the bottom leg of the K slipping slightly below the U, the logo they still use today. Whew, that was money well spent.

Posted on 09/27/10 at 12:27 pm in response to Minnesota political polling: who's been right since 2006?

The robocalling isn't as bad a polling gaffe as omitting cell-phone-only voters, but it's close. Who is really going to listen to a robocall other than the old and the lonely anyway? Come on, I get a robocall about anything (which I don't, because I'm cell-phone-only) and I'm hanging up immediately. It's not a representative slice.
But then again, when it comes to likely voters, the old and the lonely lead the pack. So what do I know?

Posted on 09/07/10 at 11:15 am in response to Does excluding cell phones give Dayton-Emmer-Horner polls the wrong number?

Thanks, David, for this information. I haven't had a land line in 10 years and none of my friends under 30 does, either.
Every time I read a story about a poll I wonder about whether cell phones were called, and if not, I pretty much discount the results. And I completely agree that polls do influence voter attitudes, fairly or not.

Posted on 08/23/10 at 11:30 am in response to Neal versus Cuddyer on Twitter

Scott Ullger costs the Twins 10 runs a season minimum.
And he does crazy stuff like this:

http://soxmachine.com/2010/04/12/scott-ullger-third-base-coach-baserunner/

Posted on 08/10/10 at 11:19 am in response to From Urban Meyer's 'bad guy' to Pioneer Press Vikings reporter

I had not heard the Urban Meyer story and it is amazing, proving yet again that nobody on Earth, athletes not named Favre included, has a bigger ego than a relatively big-time coach.

Posted on 06/14/10 at 11:14 am in response to Sid Hartman and the statues of downtown Minneapolis

The Joe Mauer statues are just hideous, and the Peanuts gang needs to go. I say that as an unabashed lifelong Peanuts fan.
Sid Hartman getting a statue ... all a guy can do is shake his head.