Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Derek Falvey and Andrew Miller walk into a bar …
Or maybe it was a restaurant, or the Cleveland baseball team's meeting rooms in Goodyear, Ariz.
At various times during the early-to-middle part of the 2010s, the three hung out together during spring training in Arizona, having no idea that they would one day become key figures on the Twin Cities sports scene.
"I remember meeting Derek and thinking he was a really good, smart guy," Adofo-Mensah said this week. "Then the next year I saw a story about the new Twins general manager, and I asked someone, 'Hold it, is that the guy I met?