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I dunno, the hate for me was also a bit personal. He was such a ginormous douche. And that harassing the Jets reporter was pretty awful. If the NFL was serious about the way people treat women (hint, they aren't) they'd have cared more when a woman associated with the league was harassed by a star QB.

This is so factually incorrect it's not even funny. 1.) There was never a fear of a wrongful termination suit. The NFL doesn't work that way. They could release him at any time and no one can say anything - it has built in release language. 2.) San Francisco was afraid to play him because he had a clause where they couldn't release him due to injury. If they played him and he broke his leg and never could play again, they'd be on the hook for his whole contract. They're a bad team (CK was uneven and never the problem -- just maybe not the solutions) and they wanted to remain flexible. He agreed to redo his contract so that that language would matter. He got to play (and played well) and wouldn't be sat to avoid injury. 3.) Again, CK was never the problem with the fall from grace. Their defense got old and aged and their skill position players aged. They drafted poorly. CK certainly didn't keep them amazing (very few QBs can do that, he isn't one of those) but he wasn't the reason they sucked. 4.) The 49ers players, many of whom disagreed with him, voted him their biggest award last year. That kind of speaks against him being a me first guy who can't fit with a team. 5.) He never said he was protesting. He sat on the bench for a preseason game and no one noticed. A reporter noticed the second time and asked him, he told they guy his beliefs. Then it went nuts like news does in 2017. He didn't call press conferences or publicize it. He's made no money off of it. You can disagree with his beliefs but calling him disingenuous is pretty b.s. and outs you as someone who just doesn't like him. 6.) He absolutely talked about the issues and never made it about him. He altered his protest after talking to a military member. He talked about charities that supported his cause and donated $1 million to them without fanfare or broadcasted check presentations -- one of them just got a check for $50,000 in the mail out of the blue, he never even called to say he was making the donation. Get your facts straight. Your opinion is worthless without them.

We don't like him that much.

Lets get him a Twins win and an Angels loss.

It also appears that the Twins will miss Kluber and Corrasco when they play the Clevelanders. That should make winning a game or even two more doable. I really hope they skip Colon on Tuesday against Cleveland. That would set him up to make only one more start (against the Tigers - he does okay against bad teams but good teams tee off on him by the 3rd) and would set the Twins up to have Gibson in a Game 163 and Santana in a WC game. That's ideal, weird as that first part seems.

I think it's only going to take 83. Just gotta take 3 of 4 from the Tiggers this weekend and I'll feel very good. Try to take one in Cleveland and then head into that last series in control of your own destiny.

I think we're overacting a bit on this. Yeah they got swept. It wasn't great. But two of the games were close and the one that wasn't was a Colon game. He's not good enough to face the best teams. Hopefully the Twins will use the off day next week to skip him so he only has one more start, against the Tiggers. Teams get swept sometimes. The Twins swept the Indians earlier this year. Just gotta bounce back and take 3/4 from Tiggers.

Yeah this. I'm not against a bunt but when a pitcher gifts you a ball or two, it's time to pivot in the new position and swing away.

I predicted it time and time again. I pointed to his concussion, a weirdly low BABIP in 2015 and 2016 that had no root cause in line-drive rate and growing comfort with the position. I said there was no reason he couldn't win a batting title. Then again, I also made the same arguments in 2015 and 2016 and look where that ended up. Nothing makes you look better than making lots of predictions and really hammering home when you're right from time to time. :-)

2 out of 4. That was not a "phenomenal comeback". A phenomenal comeback is when you come back late in a game down big. The Twins were down 5-0 in the second and scored 13 runs. That's just a good game. Not every game is 4-3. The first game was a quality win. The second game was a quality loss. The third game was a spanking loss. The fourth game was a spanking win. That's what the Twins needed to do that series and they did it well. Some people just want to be negative I guess.

Kepler has an .837 OPS against right handed pitching. That's plenty fine for a 24 year old in his second season in the bigs. He'll hit lefties in time and in the meantime, Adrianza/Grossman are fine as a platoon. Not disappointed in Max at all, that second season can be hard. Rosario showed that last year and look where he is now!

I don't think it's ever been about money for him. It's about having an opportunity to play. The Vikings job should be appealing to him - he's better than Keenum, Bradford is a lame duck with serious injury issues on the same knee in the past, Teddy is a complete unknown. If CK came in and took a few weeks to learn the system and then beat the Packers (again), MN would love him.

Can't be worse than Keenum. Hopefully Sam can soldier through til Week 6 or so. Then we may have a credible backup in Teddy. I'd still like to see them bring in CK though. Keenum is just not an NFL QB.

I'm going to try to not be combative here but c'mon. Address any point I made? You quoted 70% and I assumed we were okay with rounding since we were okay misrepresenting the very question the poll asked. if that's the best you have just let it drop. No one said he was MLK, stop misrepresenting what I said. My point was that when people have time to calm down, they sometimes change their mind. Like they did with MLK. And Ali. My experience talking with people who don't like CK is that they don't really know what CK is saying - they're projecting their own beliefs about those who oppose them onto CK. You don't strike me as different in that regard. He doesn't hate America, he doesn't want the troops to die - he's just using his first amendment right to free speech. We should all be proud of that, even if we disagree. Jon Kitna led prayer circles after every game. I'm not a big fan of organized religion but I'm glad that he has the right to gather and worship as he chooses. Likewise, I think Favre is a perfect comparison. Favre was actually hated, not disagreed with. I have never known an opposing player that MN sports fans have ever hated more. Then he became a Viking and people raced out to buy his jersey and crow at their Packer fan friends with every win. People dropped that hate in a second because sports has a "my guy" aspect that is hard to resist. If a player makes your team better you like him. We all originally liked AJ if you need another example. And as to your last point, I never met a single person who didn't think that my stance was stupid and never met anyone else who was done with the Vikings for the Favre era. That's anecdotal but I think it's telling. Do you have an actual response? NItpicking and misrepresenting don't count.

1.) I thought they pulled Mejia a bit quickly. He'd been rolling and it wasn't like they were stinging the ball all over the place. It's also not like the Twins have an amazingly deep bullpen that you want to turn the game over to super early. 2.) I want to see a playoff start where the Twins run Mejia for the first three innings (getting the other team to get their righties in the lineup) and then switch to Colon. Both of these guys are great in short spurts and you'd give Colon a shot at a lefty-less lineup.

Agree 100% with Souhan on this. I also would love to see polls asking Vikings fans about having Kaepernick as backup - one taken Tuesday of last week and one taken tomorrow. I bet that watching Keenum suck today and seeing how the defense looks contender level might change . . . 25%? 30%?

1.) 70% disagree with his stance, it doesn't mean they dislike him. I don't agree with my father on anything politically but I definitely like him. I don't agree with my wife on how often we should clean the bathroom, doesn't mean I dislike her. When quoting a poll, make sure you quote it accurately. 2.) In 1966, 63% of Americans disliked Martin Luther King according to Gallup. I don't have the numbers but I imagine well over 70% of American disagreed with Muhammad Ali when he refused to join the army. We changed our minds eventually. I'm not saying CK is MLK or Ali or that people will change their mind but that number is relatively meaningless - it's but one moment in time. 3.) Do you really think Vikings fans would stop cheering for the team if they had Kaepernick? I know tons of people who disagree with his views but I don't think many would stop watching a winning Vikings team. And how many wouldn't come back once he was gone? I say this as a person who refused to watch the Favre Vikings because i hated him so much. I was alone in that. Favre pre-Vikings was more hated than Colin Kaepernick will ever be and people changed their minds pretty quickly. In sports, all you have to be is good.

Can we say this kind of B.S.? Those are still games, often against the best competition. I don't think they should count towards regular season records like batting titles etc. but they should count overall. Seems pretty ridiculous not to.

There have been many fine things about this season. Joe Mauer remembering the 2000s is one of the finest. It's been a few years since you had that confident "something good is going to happen" certainty when Joe comes up. I'd almost forgotten how great that feeling was.

Oh I don't think Joe's a bad leader or a negative presence in the clubhouse. He just isn't your rah-rah leader. It'll be interesting to see who is on the next round of Twins. Escobar and Dozier seem like guys who are leaders for the next year or two but then it's kind of a vacuum.

Hunter rejected the Twins' three-year, $45 million offer in August of that year. I don't blame him at all, he deserved to go out and get paid. But don't complain when a small market team makes a relatively big offer and then can't match the one you get from a big market team. He bashed Mauer for his leadership skills (fair but unnecessary) and questioned Morneau's work ethic and how Gardy handled players (not Gardy's big problem actually - he sucked at the managing the game part, I never though players didn't play hard for him). I just don't get bashing an employer on the way out, especially when you're moving on to something better. Be classy.

i just don't want him to get hired away. Or Hernandez, that guy deserves a lot of credit too.

Just don't fire James Rowson. The work he's done with the hitting has been remarkable.

This is what he does. Morneau was clearly a better prospect and Doug's time was over in MN. Dougie could have left classily or he could have gone nuts to the press. He chose the press route. No one should be surprised. Torii did the same thing. I never forgave him for that. The Twins offered Torii 3 years at $45 million, the Angels went 6 for $90 million. Torii chose the Angels and then went off on the Twins for not matching the offer. That's pretty crappy.

Hmm, Dougie leaves town and blasts his former employer. That's surprising because? He did the same thing as a player when he left town - blasted Gardy, Morneau and Mauer along with the organization. I imagine the Twins will be glad to have let him go. As a manager, it isn't about you. Jake Mauer for Twins manager!