Vanimal46

The biggest mistake every professional sport made was getting into bed with all of these gambling companies. I’m just waiting for the huge scandal to come out in the future of a network of refs who have been taking under the table money for years from gambling companies.

https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-major-league-baseball-statement-regarding-hoberg-appeal From the linked article… “The disciplinary action was taken due to Hoberg’s failure to uphold the integrity of the game by sharing sports betting accounts with a professional poker player and friend who bet on baseball and whom Hoberg should have known bet on baseball, and due to Hoberg’s intentional deletion of messages central to MLB’s investigation into his conduct. Throughout the investigation and appeals process, Hoberg adamantly denied betting on baseball directly or indirectly (i.e., through his friend), and the data provided by the sportsbooks does not show any baseball bets from his own electronic devices.“ Hoberg and Individual A, a professional poker player, met at a poker tournament circa 2014. They became friends. In addition to poker, they played golf, traveled together and watched sports on television. Individual A was a frequent overnight guest at Hoberg's home. These stays occurred one or two nights at a time and about 20 to 30 nights per year. The data obtained from Sportsbook A shows that Hoberg's devices were used to place 417 direct bets between December 30, 2020, and January 15, 2024, on Individual A's accounts. The total amount bet was $487,475.83. These bets lost $53,189.65 in the aggregate. The data obtained from Sportsbook B shows that Hoberg’s devices were used to place at least 112 bets totaling $222,130.00. These bets lost $21,686.96 in the aggregate. Most of the direct bets (on both accounts) were on football, basketball, hockey or golf. None of the bets placed on Individual A's accounts with Hoberg's devices were on baseball. Data reflects that Individual A’s accounts bet on baseball 141 times between April 2, 2021, and November 1, 2023. The bets were almost exclusively on which team would win a certain game (i.e., money line) or whether more or less than a specific number of runs would be scored in a certain game (i.e., total). Of those 141 bets, 26 were parlays, and six of the 26 parlays included multiple MLB legs. The total amount bet on baseball from Individual A's accounts was $213,754.45 with an overall win of $34,583.06 in the aggregate.

If we indeed have $5 million to spend, then the Twins should be all in on claiming Ryan Braiser from the Dodgers. Owed $4.5 mill 66.2 IP, 1.89 ERA, 220 ERA+, 2.83 FIP, 0.83 WHIP, .169 AVG, 19.0 K-BB% If they do that, I might start buying into the “best bullpen in baseball” narrative

But I got a sneaky suspicion he ends up on the Bears… They once again have a ton of draft capital, and Poles needs to make a huge splash move to keep his job.

Myles Garrett requested a trade out of Cleveland today. Complete pipe dream, but he’s a guy I’d give 2 1st round draft picks for and not think twice about it.

PECOTA is particularly bad projecting the Central division in both the AL and NL. The Brewers and Guardians consistently out perform projections by 10+ games.

PECOTA was off on projecting the AL Central by an average of 13 games last season. Forgive me for not putting any value into their projections. PECOTA 2024 AL Central: MIN 88 wins, actual 82 wins CLE 83 wins, actual 92 wins DET 75 wins, actual 86 wins KC 70 wins, actual 86 wins CWS 66 wins, actual 41 wins

Chip Kelly is now making $6 million a year? What a world we live in.

Hey now, 1 of those players will go to the Yankees. 1 will go to the Red Sox, and 1 more will go to the Mets. The rest is 100% true

Sounds like you’re not taking any of the content seriously like me. Zebby Matthews is playing his age 25 season and the headline is ranking top players under 25. So play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Easily correctable mistake, but this site continues to operate on auto pilot.

Pictured: Joe and Jim Pohlad

No young coordinator is going to touch that job. That’s a 2 year minimum sentence in cap hell. Expensive, average at best QB and a core of players in their 30s. By the time that team is ready to compete the coach will be fired and go back to a coordinator job for 2+ years.

This is what we’ve all been waiting for. The most pivotal point in team history.

Maybe I’m thinking of a different tag, I don’t claim to be an expert. But Sneed was traded for a 2025 3rd and pick swaps in the 2024 draft. Burns was traded for the #39 overall pick last draft and swap of 5th rounders. That’s about what I’d expect from a Darnold tag and trade. Darnold to the Raiders for their 2nd or 3rd round pick and swap 5th round picks.

How bored are the writers at Twins Daily? Spring training can’t start soon enough.

I don’t know all of the fine print, but there’s a certain type of franchise tag, I believe it’s a “non-exclusive” tag, to keep Darnold’s rights while they negotiate a trade partner. KC did that with their former CB Sneed who was traded to the Titans. And Carolina did that with Brian Burns who was traded to the Giants. That’s the route I’d take.

This is old school Twins Daily. Content that taught me something I didn’t know before. Excellent work! Better than 99% of the front page articles here.

The last 2 offseasons have been incredibly boring. All we can hope for is new ownership taking over ASAP. It’s not exactly inspiring to be a fan of a team striving for 85 wins every year.

I hate the Eagles so Chiefs it is sadly

Thanks for confirming. Tough to win at Arrowhead for Allen

Has Josh Allen ever played at Buffalo for the AFC Championship Game? Or has he always played in KC?

No way that's a catch from Worthy

Washington showing a little sign of life but it’s a probably too late

The Eagles never felt like a Super Bowl team all regular season but here they are.

I would guess cable/satellite customers have access to whatever channel they end up being on for no charge.