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    Hearts measured your life in many 80's games. I believe you're thinking of coins. Or rings. Or green mushrooms.
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    I'd put the number of teams who blueprint their prospect progression around the Futures game at somewhere around -4.
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    You overlooked the fact he's a seasoned veteran with lots of moxie.... I think it is implied that he "really gets after it out there".
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    Man, if only they'd spent a "pair-a-dimes" on Correia. *crickets* That's the kind of humor this signing deserves. (And the actual monetary sum his pitching merits.)
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    Signed to make Correia seem decent in comparison? I mean, really, what is the upside? Old? Check. Shelled in AAA last year? Check. Hasn't been good enough for the majors in half a decade? Check. There are no words...
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    I'm not really disagreeing with you. Smith is far and away the type of guy the Vikes should be trying to bring in. They aren't going to find a franchise guy on the open market, but Smith can do enough to make them competitive. I think we're only at odds over the mediocre tag. He's succeeded the most when he's had to do the least. When he's had to try and shoulder the load with a more open offense, he's been unremarkable at best and bordered on awful during his first 5-6 years. Really, if not for Harbaugh thinking he could reclaim his career, he may have been out of the league by now, or holding a clipboard somewhere (else). It's why many teams with longer-term rebuilding plans won't look at him, but someone like the Vikes (who may simply need a QB to not lose the game for them), would be wise to snap him up and hope he can keep his 70% completions on limited attempts going forward. All we're disagreeing on is the mediocre tag, which I'll stand by. He's had two respectable years for a good team that followed 6 years of that same team being terrible with him at the helm. (When he wasn't playing poorly enough to lose his job to the likes of J.T. O'Sullivan, Shaun Hill, and Trent Dilfer.)
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    Come on, JR did his best. He floated lucrative 2 year/$10M offers out to every pitcher on the market. Correia just happened to respond first.
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    I blame Jodi. Kid refused to be weaned until he was 6.
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    I really need to sink my money into a turd polish manufacturer before JR makes any more signings.
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    You call Alex Smith a mediocre game manager, yet he has like a 105 QB rating this year and a 90 or 92 last year. In addition he is something like 18-6 in his last 24 starts. If he was on the Vikings this year we would be leading the division currently. QB rating isn't a cumulative stat. He's effective in the situations they call on him, (which isn't many) which is all the Vikings need. (Ponder had a really sweet QB rating for six weeks, too.) QB rating can be a fickle thing for a QB that shouldn't be asked to throw much more than 20 times a game. Smith is obviously better than Ponder, but citing his QB rating (and W/L record, which I'd credit just as much, if not more, to his dominant defense/running game as I would to anything Smith has done) is a slight bit deceptive. Smith was on a good team the last two years, and hasn't lost games for them. Sadly, Ponder can't even do that, and the Vikes somehow managed to win a handful of games that were clearly in spite of his play, not because of it. But realistically, how many teams will be lining up for Alex Smith's services if he's available in the offseason? Only a few, because he's a game manager, and not many teams have the QB situation that's in bad enough shape that he looks like a clear upgrade.
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    Well said. What's amazing to me is that when Percy was healthy and it was clear Ponder couldn't throw it to him past 5 yards he was still getting the ball and getting yardage....which is uncanny. Add to that the line somehow opening huge holes against 9 man fronts with a one dimensional offense and it's amazing this team isn't getting blanked week in and week out with his current level of play. If Percy was healthy I wouldn't hesitate to say a wildcat offense with him at QB would be better than what we are currently doing. And I think the wildcat is stupid. I'd have to go back and find the column where I saw it referenced, but I believe after 4 weeks, something like 22 of Ponder's completions were to Percy at or behind the line of scrimmage. Percy was averaging close to 10 yards per catch on those. Pretty unbelievable on the part of Percy, and would explain a fair chunk of Ponder's "impressive" early-season QB rating and completion %.
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    The main problem with Ponder is this: When he was succeeding, they were running the simplest offense in the league. Hand to Peterson. Throw high percentage passes to Percy and the receivers. Profit. The problem was, if he struggled, there was nowhere to go to make the offense any simpler without actually refusing to pass the ball. Percy going down didn't help matters, but that only excuses the few games he has missed. The fact is, Ponder's only success can be derived from running an offense so stupidly simple that any half-decent QB can succeed in it. Any QB that's played in the NFL should be able to complete passes against consistent 8-man fronts. That should be a given. The fact that Ponder's been hit or miss all year (with Peterson forcing defenses to stack heavily against the run) is a pretty clear indicator that he's just not good enough to make the Vikings consistently good enough to be a serious contender. Even someone as mediocre as a real game manager (the Alex Smith example) may be enough to make the Vikings legit.
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    You seem surprised. I could have sworn this wasn't your first year following the Vikings, Dave.
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    They need a mortar shot sound effect to play whenever Ponder throws over 10 yards.
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    This has all the makings of a "Wow, we're up 14-0!" game which transitions into a "Wait, it's late in the 4th, we're down by 10, have they really not scored since 7 minutes in?" game.
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    If 5 championships and 7 WS appearances in a span of less than 15 years is "checkered" I'll take it.
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    Wow. Just wow.
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    Pageviews baby, pageviews. You should be thanking me when this thread alone buys you a new Mercedes. Start clicking. I look forward to seeing the keys to that new Mercedes in 2064. You left a "2" off the front of "2064".
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    Somebody should just give you a little smuck across the back of your head... lol... A Finger Flick across the nose or something. Jeez... The Guy was nice enough to give you two decent pitchers and you still compliment him with the back of your hand. lol... I'd say the same of any Twins player whom I don't think is particularly good at baseball. Play deceptively well long enough to turn into something. Ben was nice enough to do so. So it absolutely was my favorite part of the Revere experience. It was not the dozens of groundouts to the pitcher followed by grinning his way back to the dugout.
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    I particularly enjoyed the part where he had a good enough season that the Twins could flip him for anything.
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    Is Vlad Guerrero available in this scenario? He's only two more years removed from his MVP award than Morneau!
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    A bold prediction that a pitching staff will allow runs. And to the outfield even!!! By most every account I've ever read, Hicks could be every bit the defensive CF that Revere is. He may not have the raw speed, but he's close, and Revere had plenty of, to put it kindly, "questionable" reads off the bat which he could recover from to make highlight plays with his wheels. Those are plays that Hicks, who is said to have excellent reads off the bat, also makes with ease.
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    But, but....."Revere is a nice-guy, worthless, low-ceiling nobody".... It was speculated on a blog, it must have been close to actually happening!!!
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    It's really strange... I can't describe it... I'm pumped about two decent arms coming to us... And floored at.the reality of the loss of my favorite Twin. If you liked Revere, there's this Hicks kid in the pipeline who does all the same stuff, plus a throwing arm, plus the ability to draw walks, plus some pop.
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