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New Era Launching the Worst Collection of Baseball Hats Ever
Vanimal46 replied to Vanimal46's topic in Other Baseball
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Its their “overlapping” look… It reminds me when I was a teenager figuring out how to use Microsoft PowerPoint and forgetting to hide the other logo behind it. Truly awful
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You’ll see my math on Monday when Darnold signs a massive contract.
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I’ll throw a dart on Matt Guerrier in case if that isn’t Crainwreck in the picture
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Hey boss. Just following up on the Ty France bronze statue construction. You said the payment was coming today and the credit card on file is still declining. Can you confirm?
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Sam Darnold is better than Geno Smith today and the next 3+ years. I would bet a lot of money on that
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Main arguments were a team wouldn’t trade real draft capital back for a QB like Darnold and extend him for $40+ million a year (Geno Smith is going to do just that) Other argument is what if we have to hold onto Darnold’s cap hit on day 1 of free agency and beyond? This trade was made before day 1 of free agency.
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*broadly gestures at Geno Smith *points back to Kwesi Dude got played like a fiddle
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I want day trading analytics Kwesi to make something happen. I’ve moved on from Darnold. The only thing I want the beat reporters to dig in on is did Kwesi make a valid effort finding a tag and trade partner? If he did, then I’m happy. Sucks it didn’t happen, but at least he tried. If he didn’t make every effort to pull it off, then my pitchfork is directly aimed at him.
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Some teams do it better than others extracting value out of their players. KC traded 33 year old Joe Thuney with 1 year $15 million cap hit to the Bears for a 2026 4th round pick.
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Almost certainly. At least his time with the Twins. We can’t keep him on the 40 beyond this year without any production.
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Kwesi has let 3 of the biggest assets in the organization leave without much of a fight. Kirko, Hunter, now Darnold. That’s not exactly screaming analytics to me.
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Hard to imagine an opportunity like that again for the Vikings. I’d rather have a guaranteed return, even if it was a 4th or 5th round pick, over hoping the comp pick calculator works in our favor.
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I’ve accepted it before the decision was made. Super lame and now I’m watching for the numbers when Darnold lands elsewhere.
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Idk if Ishbia was the right guy. None of us do. But I’m very confident the brothers would have been better than the Pohlads over their 30+ year run. We know the Pohlads will never add to a team. Even when the stars all align like 2019, and pick any year from 2003-2009. We know the Pohlads don’t care about winning a WS if it means going over a self-policed salary cap.
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100% this. Now we’re stuck with the Pohlads again for the foreseeable future. None of us wanted that to happen.
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It’s pretty telling where he stands right now.. KOC was extended a month ago, and Kwesi is a lame duck GM.
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Free agents don’t sign same day, the final details are usually ironed out a day or 3 after it’s announced a player is signing somewhere. There’s contract restructures they will probably do later in the offseason anyway. They can hold onto a $40 million trade chip and still participate in free agency right away. Tomorrow will be telling. We won’t tag him unless a trade is already in place. It’s just going to bother me greatly if we got the best possible outcome out of a failing QB, and he walks for nothing.
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If things go OK, they get a borderline top 10 QB for less than the market rate which is 50-55 million. Darnold will have a market… Kwesi should know what the market is and make a trade. Otherwise I have zero confidence in him managing this organization long term.
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I’d go with Darnold over the old veterans IMO. Darnold gives them a chance at a longer term solution at QB. Rodgers, Kirk, and Wilson provide a 1 year band aid that likely takes them out of a top 5 draft pick next year.
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It will be mind boggling to me if Kwesi can’t get value out of a top QB option in a terrible market. Part of me wonders if he’s too scared to ruffle feathers in order to protect their good guy culture they’ve built. Kwesi is supposed to be an analytics guy, and every baseball analytics FO gets value out of assets they rebuilt. Re: tampering. Yeah, Brady is the golden boy of the NFL and they allow him to do whatever he wants. He should not be both an owner and broadcaster. Pick a lane. Why are we pretending he’s not getting insider info every single week to use for the Raiders’ benefit?
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Deadline is tomorrow to issue franchise tags. My confidence in Kwesi will take a massive hit if he can’t figure out a way to tag and trade the top QB on the market in a horrible QB draft class year.
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Spring Training Game Thread, Week of 3/2 - 3/8
Vanimal46 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
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Omarion Hampton pretty much locked in a 1st round grade now after his combine. Henderson and Harvey ran in the 4.4s. Tuten is faster than all of them.
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Yep. LeCroy. Lock it in!
