Vanimal46

2 out of 3 of these teams fired their front office. 

Disappointing homecoming loss today vs. Purdue. This offense can’t function without Mo Ibrahim at RB. 

98-58 Mets vs. 97-59 Braves tonight. DeGrom vs. Fried. That’s a matchup worth tuning into. 

Tell us how you really feel, Carlos. Sheesh. I’m still unsure he’ll get the long term deal he’s looking for. 

3 hours ago, nicksaviking said:

Ha, yeah our one away game tends to have very little to do with football and very much to do with local beer, food and entertainment.

As it should. I enjoy football very much, but I have very little interest attending an NFL game. When you’re there, you realize just how much they stand around doing nothing for commercial breaks. 

11 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What i miss?

Can you catch me up on the last month of action when I last turned on a Twins game?

Oops. Shouldn’t have brought your glove to the game dude. 

This helmet and jersey combo is my all time favorite out of all the options over the years. Love the dark purple and gray face mask. I wish they were our every game attire. 

Baseball has the highest number of unique teams winning a championship in the last 15-20 years out of the 4 major sports. So overall I think they’ve been doing a good job as far as the end result is concerned. The NBA hasn’t been on my radar at all over the last 20 years (other than me hopping on the T Wolves bandwagon once the playoffs started) because it’s so dynasty driven throughout their existence. 

MLB isn’t seeking revenue parity which I think is the crux of what @Trovis looking for. They want each individual team to negotiate the largest regional TV contract possible and continue to hide their content behind paywalls. I think they enjoy having the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Giants, etc. as perennial contenders. 

For the first time in damn near a decade, we have a competent OL. 

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

But really what is our defense right now? Can’t be shredded by Jared Goff 

Yep. We really had no business winning that game. Tons of season long issues were evident. At least today, we can ride the high of stealing that win. 

2 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Glad we didn’t have to try a field goal 

Same. The open doors and crazy wind gusts clearly got to both kickers today.

Wow, still in shock we stole that win! 

What a win! 

Osborn!! Yes!!

Boom! We’re in FG range to tie it. 

Thielen has a case. He was bear hugged on that 4th down call. 

The Vikings are making it an easy decision to figure out something else to do on Sundays. Running it back with essentially the same core of players who topped out at 9 wins 2 years ago is yielding predictable results. 

5 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

Then what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks are we all arguing about here? 

Based on your read of the predictions, shouldn't we all be ready for a change? I mean, if the consensus was that this team would not contend, and they are not contenders, why is the fanbase split?

Or let me put it more honestly: I simply don't understand what happened this season that would warrant Rocco's return in 2023. Maybe that's just what I need to admit. What are some of you seeing that I can't see? What about this team seems improved? What has Rocco helped to develop here that gets us closer to a title? Or is it just fear of change that makes firing the manager seem scary?

At the end of the day we don’t make the call so people are going to side with whatever decision is made. There’s been a lot of revisionist history being written on this site lately. The biggest culprit being Royce Lewis was projected to be a major impact player this year. 

I don’t know if deferring back to FanGraphs projections in March is some sort of defense mechanism to make people feel better that the Twins are living up to an 82 win season? And casually ignoring that they were a 10 game over .500 team in late May, leading the division until a few weeks ago. 

This is a really bad defense. There’s not much to salvage from the current situation roster of players. Danielle Hunter has been MIA all year. The secondary is brutal. 

4th and 5. Give up 30 yards. Of course. 

Kirk still seeing ghosts from last week. 

Today we find out if the Motor City Kitties are the real deal. No Harrison Smith or Andrew Booth Jr in the secondary. I’d like to see a lot more Lew Cine on the field. 

As much as I’d like to clean house now, I had no expectation Jim Pohlad would do it. Please don’t double down and give any extensions. 

23 hours ago, Doctor Gast said:

I know that I think outside the box, and you have difficulty understanding & agreeing with what I post.

What I mean Chief by "over extending" has nothing to do with total # of innings pitched during the season. It has to do with having them pitch too many innings in each game too soon over a period of time. I suggest that if they were kept at a 5 inning limit in the beginning, depending on how many pitches pitched, they would not have gotten injured (at least not seriously) and they could have pitched over 120 innings each.

Look at their game logs on baseball reference. Both were reduced to less than 80 pitches throughout the season. If that is over extending them then both are bullpen arms.