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  1. gunnarthor
    Not really Vikings news but Tomlin gets an extension. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31295464/pittsburgh-steelers-give-coach-mike-tomlin-3-year-contract-extension-2024 Wish we had kept him instead of Childress ... Tomlin is one of only two coaches to start their career with 14 non-losing seasons. I have no idea who the other is.
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    I don't know all the names on that draft but getting Paye, Rudunz, and Christensen while moving down, seems like a pretty good draft to me. I also think someone like Johnson might be a great fit for Zimmer.
  3. gunnarthor
    Yeah, this sorta has a "I want to hit reset" type of vibe to the season. Oh well. Hope everyone is healthy.
  4. gunnarthor
    I just don't like our bullpen.
  5. gunnarthor
    I'm ignoring everything else but this - the Packers have a league-approved holding style that other teams cannot replicate. I suspect that style ends when Rogers retires.
  6. gunnarthor
    Well, we aren't as bad as we look right now but, ugh. I trust our hitters to get it figured out a lot more than I trust the pitching staff.
  7. gunnarthor
    Those stats are through 9 games against a few pretty iffy offensive teams. Not sure it tells us anything. The Twins pen seems like a weakness to me. We'll see how the season goes.
  8. gunnarthor
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/umpire-joe-west-awarded-500-000-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-former-player/ar-BB1fBM7C?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds I was a bit surprised he won this but good for him, I guess.
  9. gunnarthor
    You mean like how PED Ortiz was brought up every other day for 15 years? Annoying, wasn't it?
  10. gunnarthor
    I think this link should be ok under this site's rules. I will tell you that, in legal circles, this opinion went off like a bomb. It made front page news nationally and many people, including me, hope that it might be the opinion that ends up being credited with ending a legal concept called qualified immunity. I'm sharing it because I think it might be important for you to read at least the first five pages. Comments like yours are pretty common and we could fight and then squirrel would be mad and no one wants that. Instead, just take five minutes, read the beginning of this and see if you still think the Twins or athletes in general are supporting looting or something more. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7013933-Jamison-v-McClendon.html
  11. gunnarthor
    Why? Baseball still celebrates Jackie Robinson. Many of our most iconic moments - especially in civil rights - are tied directly to sports. Frankly, it's one of the reasons I like sports and athletes. I understand for some there is this desire to have something that let's us ignore the present but sports has always been political (think of all the rich owners using fans to get stadiums built by cities and states for them).
  12. gunnarthor
    I think the Vikings will take a big time defensive lineman with their first pick and try to get a guy like Brady Christensen with their next pick. I'd be really surprised if they went with a CB.
  13. gunnarthor
    Seems like the right decision. I suspect the release of the footage and the disaster that was the press conference weighed in on the decision and that didn't happen until late morning/noon.
  14. gunnarthor
    I think our pen won't hold up but our lineup and rotation will. Part of this is that the starters aren't designed to go 200 innings anymore so we're more reliant on the pen. And part of this is that the pen arms are all feast or famine type. Great to see Buxton turn into the guy we all hoped for. Now if he and Sano can both get going at the same time ...
  15. gunnarthor
    Ignoring this season, Buck was already a star - the only issue is he couldn't stay healthy. Even counting his dismal 2018, he's been about a 4.5 WAR player per 162 games. I don't know if you can bet on him to stay healthy and I don't know what his agent wants, but he's the most fun player we've had in a long time. I hope he stays with the Twins for his entire career. Honestly, I'd probably pay him and if it doesn't work out, well, that's life. I won't blame the FO for locking up a talent like Buxton.
  16. gunnarthor
    He'll be fine. He'll have hot and cold stretches but he'll hit.
  17. gunnarthor
    I'm certainly not an expert but a lot of mock drafts have the Vikings taking some DE from Michigan who oozes tools. I'd be ok with that.
  18. gunnarthor
    I think, like others, the FO didn't think he'd get picked and they didn't think he'd stick. They were wrong. I'm not sure it was unreasonable for them to think like that but it's also fair to point out that some commentators - I think it was the fangraphs guy who later went to a ML club - were much higher on Baddoo then the consensus. He was a second round draft pick for a reason. But having two guys taken in the rule v draft and both sticking with the drafting club is not a good sign for the FO. Some might spin it as "oh, look at all the talent in the system" but tons of teams have tons of talent in their systems and this isn't a regular occurrence. The FO simply isn't rating their talent correctly or are making commitments to fringe free agents too quickly or just not taking the backend of the 40 man roster seriously enough.
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    It could also mean that the FO is not very good at grading their own talent. This isn't the first minor leaguer that they let go who became a solid MLer on another team. My guess is the Twins thought no one would take Baddoo since he missed so much time and, even if they did, he would have a lot of rust and not look great so they'd get him back. That seems like a reasonable guess but it's not right to say the Twins had 35+ better than him since, IIRC, we had some open spots and a handful of fungible relief pitchers. Again, I didn't pay enough attention at the time to say what the Twins did wrong but the PR the FO gets here is becoming a bit much.
  20. gunnarthor
    I know this is off topic but I saw Hughes hit a massive home run out of Trenton Thunder's stadium. It cleared left-center field which is actually huge billboards. The HR line is about 10 feet high but this cleared the boards. http://www.intheballparks.com/draft/waterfront
  21. gunnarthor
    I didn't pay enough attention this offseason so I can't go back and second guess the FO but I've always been a huge Baddoo fan. I thought our 2016 draft (Kiriloff, Miranda, Baddoo, Rortvedt, Balazovic, Jax, Benninghoff + guys like Wells and Poppen) was going to rival 2012 and I'm happy for Baddoo. I'm sure he'll struggle since he's missed so much time and the pitching he's facing now is so much better but he has talent and seems like Detroit and Hinch are committed to keeping him. He has a good eye and that might make the transition easier for him.
  22. gunnarthor
    I knew I should have ignored this thread. Without going into this too deeply, the first time I voted in 1992 I did so without any ID. I wasn't a registered voter. I had just turned 18 but didn't have a DL. My father came with me and told them that I was 18. That was enough. And that had been enough for 200+ years of voting in America. It wasn't until 2006 when Indiana was the first state that required ID. Why? Because it was an added obstacle to vote. One of the truly ugly things about America is that is really expensive to be poor. Is the voter ID free? Maybe, depending on the state, but what documents do you need to get an ID? Depending on the state, it might be a birth certificate which, if you don't have it, might cost you 25-50 dollars as well as several weeks/months to get. Other states might require a notarized statement, so go find a notary. I don't think there is a single state that recognizes an expired ID so if you were driving and you got your ID taken away for some reason (usually insurance based) you now probably can't vote and you have to jump through hoops to get some kind of ID while dealing with the original problem. Some states might give you one free ID but if you move, the next ID isn't free, etc. On and on it goes. There's a reason why the experts - not the biased voices of political parties - all agree that voter ID laws are racist: They are designed to reduce the voting power of people of color. Everything else is just background noise.
  23. gunnarthor
    Good for MLB. I'm not going to bother going through a step by step discussion of SarasotaBill's post. Here's a link from the NYTImes that pretty effectively refutes all of those things. I know some pretty good lawyers who work exclusively on voting rights, including several at the ACLU. Every knowledgeable voice agree on the same thing - the law is designed to reduce the voting power of people of color. That really isn't surprising but it's worth remembering and saying out loud.
  24. gunnarthor
    I liked Hunter the best but both Morneau and LaTroy are good. I think Bremer is done although I liked him just fine. But he's getting a bit hard to take.
  25. gunnarthor
    Yeah, a bit surprising. Oh well
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