Vanimal46
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Attendance of less than 15k in September when they are leading the wild card playoff race. Kinda says it all, no? Apathy is spreading far and wide for the Twins…- 53 replies
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Angels (Detmer) vs Twins (Festa): 9/9/24, 6:40pm
Vanimal46 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
The season is swirling down the drain. idk if we can stop this momentum of bad baseball and swirl it in the right direction -
I’m not ready to boost up my Vikings wins yet… But if Darnold is managed the way he was in NY all season long, we have a chance to be a playoff team. That was a good first impression. Keep it up this week against SF!
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Utter domination
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Just from a co-worker standpoint… Imagine knowing one of your colleagues makes so much more money from you and they suck at their job. Daniel Jones has to be resented in that locker room.
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Yes. Coverage is mostly good but Jones is throwing a lot of bounce passes.
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The Giants look like a team ready to give up on the coach. They know Jones stinks so they might as well play the NJ Italian kid for the memes.
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I loved Danielle Hunter for a long time, and I will be thrilled if I can love this new group just as much. So far they’re off to a great start.
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The little momentum NYG had is gone. Boom!! That was sick from Van Ginkel!
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Today has been thoroughly satisfying to watch though. Dominating effort by the Vikings
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Yeah I’m keeping my expectations low. The Giants are going to be bad this season too. They look like a team ready to give up on their current coach and QB. Daboll is one of my picks to get fired mid season.
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First half thoughts… Sam Darnold - wow! I was seriously impressed with the 99 yard drive for a TD. OL has been holding up very well against a tough front 4 of the Giants Daniel Jones is a terrible QB. He will get benched for good in the next 2 games
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Man, if they win 10 or 11 games then Darnold resurrected his career, and that would be pretty cool. I have high aspirations because the alternative also sucks (Big Pick Nick) but my expectations are pretty low.
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We made it! The Thursday and Friday games were pretty awesome. I don’t expect as many fireworks this game… Prediction: Vikings win 21-13. Daniel Jones is a terrible QB and Flores is gonna make life very difficult for him. Darnold will be okay. Offense relies on Aaron Jones and Ty Chandler to chew clock so we escape MetLife Stadium with the win.
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Lions win the division. Now that Love is gone for several weeks, I think the Bears sneak ahead to 2nd, likely a wild card team. Green Bay 3rd and Minnesota last. Vikings win 6 games. It’s all up to Darnold and how he looks. He’s a total wild card.
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“I’m terrified out there. Little things like that are just adding extra elements to a September push that’s important to me. I don’t know. We have plenty of really good second basemen, and I don’t want to mess up our defense just because we’re going to try something new. It’s not spring training or Triple-A for that.” Royce Lewis on the idea of playing more 2nd base (per the article sourced) That’s a tough look for Royce. Clearly playing 2B is not ideal but he has to know it’s temporary due to injuries. This is a life lesson as a leader, Royce. Embrace the tough times filling in where you can as a young, athletic player.
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Hall was an old prospect when we drafted him, small, and looked awful in the Green Bay game last year. He’s only a year younger than Darnold. At this stage he’s a PS caliber QB and that’s what Seattle signed him as. Good luck to him, but we’re not missing out on anything. 3rd string QBs are a dime a dozen.
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Also, it’s frustration spilling over for Merrifield. He’s seen 2 other teammates get beaned and injured in the last 2.5 weeks (Riley and Harris). It will be for the benefit of baseball finding a solution to this.
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I believe in KBO or one of the leagues in Asia has a rule for an automatic ejection if a pitcher hits a batter in the head. That doesn’t really solve the issue of hitting batters on the hand/wrist but it’s a start. At the end of the day, there won’t be a solution that satisfies both the pitcher and batter. But something needs to change from the current rules. Because pitchers aren’t fazed giving up 1 base and knocking a player out for weeks/months at a time.
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I understand the frustration. There’s nothing worse than losing a star player on your favorite team from a pitcher that has no idea where the ball is going when it leaves his fingertips. These beanings are a symptom of a much larger issue… baseball is so hyper focused on how hard you can throw. Not if you can actually pitch. If the pitcher isn’t throwing 95 with high spin rates, they’re lost in the minors. Perhaps a solution is a more significant penalty. Award 2 bases for beaned batters instead of 1 base. Then maybe we’ll see pitchers locate better instead of what we’re seeing.
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This sounds like backup QB syndrome. The FO and coaching staff has more data on these players than we ever will as fans. They see them every day. But we know better as fans. Just give the backup QB a chance! What if he’s better than the starter? You might find a Tom Brady once in a blue moon, but 9 out of 10 times you’ll have a Nick Mullens.
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You have yourself a deal.
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That’s cool I was talking about Larnach since that was the crux. Him getting pinch hit for last game.
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So what does that data tell you? My interpretation is they don’t want him to face LH pitchers because he’s not good at it.
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So we want to go back to the Gardenhire days of playing Jacque Jones and his .628 OPS against lefties every day?
