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  1. nicksaviking
    I mean isn't that like saying you'd be baffled by anyone voting for Mauer instead of superior hitters? It's all about their roles on the roster. Plus, I don't know why Pettite would be the PED user that gets in over Clemmons or Bonds or the rest of that crew.
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    I'm surprised too, but this is a really strong year. Maybe not at the top, but lot's of guys who'll likely get in eventually. With that many options, relievers probably get the short end of the stick when it comes to consideration.
  3. nicksaviking
    The defense made improvements for about four weeks in the middle of the year and then everyone figured them out. If Hunter leaves, they have one or two guys on that side of the ball that might start for other teams. It's an absolute train wreck. On offense, they have some good skill position guys but three to four offensive lineman that need to be replaced. If the Vikings are foolish enough to think they are close to winning a Super Bowl, 2024 will probably be the most frustrating season of Vikings football I'll have witnessed. The rest of the NFC North is getting better and the Vikings are just getting older. This team is in really bad shape.
  4. nicksaviking
    Even if the Vikings wanted him back, this is likely his last contract and everything he says sounds like he wants to win a Super Bowl. Don't you think he'll have better opportunities elsewhere? The Vikings aren't close and likely won't be before he's done.
  5. nicksaviking
    What costs? Diamond already has the infrastructure in place and Amazon is now just investing in Diamond. If everyone in the country already had Amazon Prime, then adding another tier of service would make sense, but most people still don't, adding baseball to their offerings will increase their subscribers. These streaming giants are making movies that cost 200M to produce. They don't charge extra for those movies, and that's almost certainly more than it costs to produce a season's worth of baseball games. And even if their new 200M Brad Pitt movie gets them some new subscribers, it likely wouldn't get as many as adding baseball games, additionally tons of people would only sign up for the month and drop it after they've seen the Brad Pitt movie. Adding baseball gets them adding subscribers for six months.
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    I haven't seen that stated anywhere, do you have an article confirming this? That wouldn't seem to make sense for Amazon as they likely wouldn't want to put more roadblocks than necessary, they are almost certainly in this just to gain a bigger audience.
  7. nicksaviking
    I don't want Snell though, I want someone more reliable without control issues. I want the younger guys on other teams. And an oompa loompa.
  8. nicksaviking
    Even if they could compete on the free agent market, I don't want those guys. I want the young guys in their primes on other teams!
  9. nicksaviking
    Why would Amazon want to limit people to picking only one team to watch and charging extra for any other games they have the rights to? I don't see how it would cost them more, and it would allow for them to advertise their products more often.
  10. nicksaviking
    If I was to assume Cousins was re-signed, it should be getting an edge rusher since there look to be some good ones. But I assume the opposite. I think Cousins is most likely gone and it's option E) trade up. Quite possibly with the team that does sign Cousins.
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that took awhile. I kind of thought Belichick and Jones wouldn't exactly work well together, but I also thought if Jones couldn't get Belichick, he'd fire McCarthy just to keep Dan Quinn.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm not throwing the GM out yet. One of my biggest Vikings pet peeves is blowing early picks on DBs and it always has been, so he started off rubbing me the wrong way from the start. I know, that's more on me than it is on him. And glad to see the Cowboys keeping McCarthy. Because I hate the Cowboys.
  13. nicksaviking
    Must have been a rough class for corners. Blackmon only played more than 50% of the snaps in four games, and that was due to others being injured. Hope he turns out to be a stud. Adofo-Mensah has used five of his nine 1st-4th round picks on DBs in his two drafts. He'll never build a competitive team if he keeps blowing 55% of his top picks on those positions.
  14. nicksaviking
    Ha, the young guys are the 'regression candidates' while you mourn the loss of Gray and Taylor? I mean, I can't imagine there are too many regression candidates in the league bigger than those two.
  15. nicksaviking
    McCarthy is staying. No word on Sirianni, but I have to think that's a good sign for him. That would leave Atlanta, Washington, Tennessee, LA Chargers, Carolina, LV and Seattle. I think this impacts the Vikings because Belichick doesn't seem like someone who would want to take the time or the risk (for Belichick, the risk is the time probably) to develop a QB. I think a Cousins and Belichick matchup would be really good, but Belichick could try another option too I suppose. Either way I really want him to go to a QB needy team drafting ahead of the Vikings. If that theory holds water, landing in Atlanta or Washington would be huge as far as the Vikings getting a better shot at landing one of the top QBs. If the Vikings trade up because one is available, the Chargers look like a good fit. They'll have a new GM in there who may want to accumulate picks so he can have players that he likes, not his predecessor. Like Kwesi did his first year. Of course other teams will be looking to move up there too. Vikings can't let themselves get outbid, but it could be a ripe situation for the buyers to have to hand over more than usual. One team I think the Vikings are safe from bidding against is the Jets. They aren't going to want to piss off Rodgers like the Packers did by drafting his future replacement instead of help now to win a championship.
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    This point could be what saves the sport. Amazon is going to want as many eyes as possible on these games, which is different than all the other broadcasters of the past that have wanted as many PAYING eyes as possible on the games. Unlike the RSNs, they can promote the hell out of the games to every corner of the planet on every device that has an Amazon app or web page or pop up ads. If the initial results for Amazon pay off, they will push to expand and expand even further. If this works for them, it will work for the MLB, and the owners are going to be more than eager to lap up more lucrative deals that Amazon offers in exchange for broadcasting concessions. Why would Amazon want to stop at giving us only reginal games? They want to sell stuff to Pirate fans who live in Utah. And then why stop here in America? No doubt broadcasting games to a consumer happy Japan sounds like a great idea to them. If this goes through and works well for the all powerful Jeff Bezos, this is could be a bigger game changer than expected.
  17. nicksaviking
    It's not like if the Twins traded Vazquez, they wouldn't pick up a cheap alternative. Curt Casali, Gary Sanchez Mike Zunino or Yasmani Grandal are still available.
  18. nicksaviking
    Fine by me, but I don't think I see the draw for the Red Sox. Connor Wong doesn't look like a world beater, but he looks better than Vazquez and he has five years of control left. If you're rebuilding, are you really going to bump him just to bring back an old flame you made no effort to keep a year ago?
  19. nicksaviking
    Wait, what about Kars for Kids and Meshbesher and Spence? What would be the point of tuning into a Twins game without those gems.
  20. nicksaviking
    It's not art, it's authorized cheating. And only because unauthorizing it would have been impossible.
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, rating catchers on faking strikes is like rating soccer players on faking injuries. I get it, since there's no current mechanism to stop it, it's relevant to evaluate, but it's only part of the game because there was no technology to stop it in the past and baseball is resistant to change..
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm not interested in the Pohlad's saving money, but if it was going to happen, this was a good year for it. They have lots of good, young but cheap players on the roster and few holes to fill. Regardless of the TV money, this would have been an organic year to see a lower payroll. Aside from a couple of pie in the sky names, this free agent class stinks. I have no interest in Marcus Stroman who can't get his own outs and would force Baldelli to run a defensive specialist lineup every fifth day, or Kiermaier who hasn't been able to string together two productive offensive seasons in a row in seven years. As always, they were going to need to trade for help in the rotation. As for the offense, there were only three names I thought were a fit and logical for this team based on position, strikeout concerns and a need to get reliable, not streaky/sporadic, offensive production. Lourdes Gurriel is gone, but Rhys Hopkins and Justin Turner are available. Should they fail to sign one of them, or someone of that caliber whom I personally don't find appealing, then I'll jump on the bandwagon to complain. Otherwise, I didn't want them to sign players just to sign players.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the lack of games was already going to hurt his stats. And we probably also should consider the difficulty Carlos Beltran is having getting votes. He'd probably have been in on the first ballot had it not been for the whole trashcan bit.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'll trade Lee for top end pitching in a heartbeat. I'd actually trade him before I trade E-Rod or Marco Raya.
  25. nicksaviking
    Pitching changes with the generations. It wouldn't be accurate to compare them as they're being asked to do different things. I'm sure Walter Johnson and Cy Young supporters said the same things about Whitey Ford and Bob Feller.
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