Give Them A Chance

Why no love for the Wolves?

This is hands down the best community-driven Twins site on the web.  The Vikings side could use more activity and it will grow with time.  

The Wild and Wolves are a bit past my days in Minnesota so I don't follow them, but there is no reason this can't be the place for fans of both.  

One question.  Though users can use their Twins Daily accounts on the other sites, there is still a bit of a registration hoopla one has to do in order to post on sites you didn't initially sign up on.  Why not make this completely seamless?  You register for one, you can post anywhere.  One registration and you are automatically a member of everything on the site.  

I will certainly be blogging for the Twins and possibly the Vikings in the future.  Great thanks to Seth and all the others who made this place an open community where everyone can contribute and express their opinions.  I was once a regular on 'another' Twins forum where the comments can get a bit disrespectful.  I assumed this was because the site was lightly moderated and simply accepted it as a place where people could freely express themselves.  After some time I learned that the people who were disrespectful were all of the moderators.  At that point I realized it wasn't a place where people can express themselves at all, but it was a place where the moderators were bullying people.  Once I figured that out I left and never came back.  Twins Daily is a site where I know this would never happen.  

Love Twins Daily. My view of Vikings Journal has been that it lacks good content and rarely has enough of it. That isn't helped that the comments sections are rarely entertaining to read - no one making an argument or starting a discussion.

 

Maybe it's due to the basic difference between baseball and football? Baseball's stats make it easier for an everyday fan to make an argument and playing everyday keeps stories going. Football is significantly harder to understand and there's only 16-20 games a year.

I think baseball is a much more nuanced game than football. Hitting the cut-off man, a player not properly covering a base, loafing while getting into position, all of these factors can affect the outcome of a baseball game.

Football, at least the last time I watched, was about pass, pass again and then pass some more....with the hopes of getting a "completion" via a phantom "pass interference" call.

I find football to be boring and predictable. Plus, the players and the on field celebrations for making a first down have become reminiscent of the touchdown celebrations of a decade ago.

However, with baseball, I can safely say that even with the hundreds of games I've watched, there will always be something that happens that I've never seen before.

Love Twins Daily. My view of Vikings Journal has been that it lacks good content and rarely has enough of it. That isn't helped that the comments sections are rarely entertaining to read - no one making an argument or starting a discussion.

 

Maybe it's due to the basic difference between baseball and football? Baseball's stats make it easier for an everyday fan to make an argument and playing everyday keeps stories going. Football is significantly harder to understand and there's only 16-20 games a year.

I checked out the last game thread there and thought the same. I checked out....

To me baseball is a chess match, but a bit faster.

And football is a few seconds of action and break, more party like and less thinking. Explains the differences in those game threads.

As for the OP.....the Vikings site is getting better, but the game threads are pretty much dominated by a couple of very emotional people.....

And that's different than Twins Daily in what way☺?

We're all Twins fans but not necessarily all Viking/Wild fans. I don't really have any more interest in the Vikings than any other NFL team and the only interest I have in the Wild is hoping the Jets beat their sorry asses when they play each other.