I am new to the ‘blog’ world.  For now I am going to assume blog is an acronym for Baseball Lovers Overcome Greed.  I am a baseball fan in general and a Twins fan specifically.   Pardon me for being Curt here but at least I am not Curt Flood.  I love the game.  It is so perfect in so many ways.  I love the Twins.   There are so many reasons I love baseball and the Twins that to try to list them would not be fair for someone that wants to read a blog and not a blovel.  Is that a word?  This is going to seem like a rant.  At least it will if I get my point across.  I have a daughter that is 6 and a son that is 3.  I named my daughter Victoria so I could call her Tori(i).  My wive realized this a game in the Metrodome and I think I still might have the bruise to prove it.  I sit in the Metrodome and see the banners, I remember the old Met and the Twins I loved as a child.  OK, I will get to my point.  T. Hunter leaves for warmer environs.  Why????  This I will never understand.  It is just another confusing decision that a person that has choices makes that bewilders me.  He had the chance to stay.  It seems so damn bizarre to me.   Money cannot be that great of a force.  T.  Hunter had the potential to be up on the wall of fame in the Metrodome.  With Tony O., Harmon, Kirby (his self proclaimed hero) and Herbie.  Where else would you want to be.  Let’s assume the best for him.   He gets one, two or three rings in the next 6 years.  He retires.  Where does he belong.   He is not going to the Hall.  He will be rich but he already was.  He has gained nothing 5 years after he is out of the game.  Had he stayed in Mn he would be a legend.  Forever.  What is the difference between 15 and 18 or 20 million a year?  Ask Knoblauch, Cordova or those that made similar decisions if they made the right move.  Or the numerous Twins that stayed against higher money.  Hrbek, Kirby or Radke to name a few.  What if it is about money?  I am not in the business of advertising or marketing but let’s assume that had the Twins offered T.H. 3 million more per year he would have stayed.  It seems as simple as him signing to stay here because he loves it here and leaking that to the media then I would guess the endorsements would make up the 3 million or if not at least let him sleep a little better at night.  We have overlooked his dismal average in critical situations at the plate.  We loved him in spite of his success or lack of it.  But now I want him to fail.  I know it is petty and meanspirited.  But I wish that it could be a lesson to the next one to leave because of money when they had it all to be a local legend.  At the end of the day, what else do you have, if not the love of those that know you best?