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  1. Jon Marthaler
    If you don't like drunks giving their off-topic opinions, I'm not sure The Sportive is for you, either.
  2. Jon Marthaler
    I call unfair URL usage. Five yard SEO penalty.
  3. Jon Marthaler
    Hey everybody! This guy wrote link #2! I posted it because I didn't know he was here to do it himself!
  4. Jon Marthaler
    Alternate title for this thread: Today In Goofiness. How the Twins can spend that extra $251,000 Mauer Shouldn't Of Left The Team, by Anoka's Tom Hanson Ex-Twins, Assemble! Thank you for wasting your time.
  5. Jon Marthaler
    Nooooooooooo
  6. Jon Marthaler
    I have two entirely contradictory thoughts, and I am having trouble reconciling them. Thought 1: You don't like the catcher blocking the plate without the ball? He'll have a harder time doing that if you knock him into the first-base dugout. Thought 2: Geez, Jennings just goes shoulder-first into Marson's head. That's a potential career-ender right there, and on a play that the ball beats Jennings to the plate. That isn't right. I suppose the solution is to have the umpires enforce the "no blocking the plate without the ball" rule, but equally, I suppose that's impossible.
  7. Jon Marthaler
    @Parker: We love him especially now that he's so thoroughly dominated Triple-A.
  8. Jon Marthaler
    Hooray?
  9. Jon Marthaler
    No sense in waiting - now's the time. Here's my real quick United primer: What league are they in? They're in the North American Soccer League (NASL), the second tier of pro soccer in America. If the name sounds familiar, it's because the NASL existed from the late 60s to the mid-80s, most famously in New York with the New York Cosmos, who had Pelè on the team. (The Cosmos have re-formed for the second half of this year's season.) The second half? This year, the NASL split the season into a spring season and a fall season. The spring season is almost over; the final game is July 4. The fall season begins August 3, and runs through the end of October. The winners of each half play for the league title. How's Minnesota doing? They've hovered around contention for the league lead all season, but a painful loss to Carolina last Saturday - they were up 2-1, but allowed goals in the 86th and 88th minute and lost 3-2 - has their spring title hopes on life support. In terms of talent, though, United is pretty packed; they signed both of the past two league MVPs, strikers Pablo Campos and Etienne Barbara, before the season. They've been beset by injuries - Barbara in particular has missed much of the year - but they're getting healthy, and should be more ready for the fall season. And the games... Are in Blaine, at the National Sports Center. The fan base is rabid, but also very friendly to newcomers. But nobody covers the games! Well, you're wrong. That was pretty shameless. Yeah, sorry about that.
  10. Jon Marthaler
    Hello, TDers. Jon Marthaler of Twinkie Town here. Mr. Bonnes was on the stupid podcast I'm part of last week, and he encouraged us Twinkie Towners to start posting some article links over here. I'm not sure he understood just how little about baseball they are, but nevertheless, here's my Monday article: The over-expanded scoring summary for Sunday's game I await my inevitable ban for being off topic.
  11. Jon Marthaler
    PeanutsFromHeaven, I'll participate, but we have to talk about Minnesota United FC and not just the Confederations Cup.
  12. Jon Marthaler
    Seems to me there's a chance that "throw downhill" is a thinly-veiled euphemism for "WOULD YOU JUST THROW THE BALL ****ING STRAIGHT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE."
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