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  1. nicksaviking
    Sniped me, but I guess one round isn't much to argue about.
  2. nicksaviking
    A fourth or less I'm good with. Or contingent draft picks based on usage/performance. It's probably over for Lance, but Shanahan is not the QB whisperer people make him out to be in league circles. Maybe Purdy will break the mold, but he develops and only uses low end game managers and that's it. Garappolo, Beathard, Hoyer, Mullens, Purdy? Cousins and an inherited 30-year-old Matt Ryan were his pre-SF success stories. These guys are immobile pocket passers. It seemed to make sense when they drafted Lance, as he could sit a year behind Garappolo, but obviously he doesn't play Shanahan's style. I wouldn't be surprised if Lance was a big fight between Shanahan and Lynch.
  3. nicksaviking
    Reportedly, Trey Lance was pulled from practice to avoid injury after losing out to Josh Darnold for the #2 QB role. Where's he getting traded to?
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'm guessing he, Jonathan Taylor and J.K. Dobbins all have the same doctor. I don't blame him either. He blows out his ACL in practice and he'll never get the deal he deserves.
  5. nicksaviking
    Ryan and Gardenhire's success came before most clubs were heavily into using numbers to gain an edge. The Twins started struggling when the rest of the league decided to start using analytics too.
  6. nicksaviking
    Right, refusing to use math is why Terry Ryan and Ron Gardenhire won so many championships.
  7. nicksaviking
    I’d guess expansion hasn’t happened because taking these other cities off the table will hurt the league’s efforts to profit off of relocation threats to existing cities. I kind of think this new White Sox threat indicates they’re not ready to set up new markets at the expense of pillaging their current markets.
  8. nicksaviking
    Contrarian take here, but the young hitters seem to be feeding off of each other while the vets are mostly struggling. I won't speculate why. Buxton hasn't been playing the field or hitting well this year. I might rather give Martin the CF job, shut Buxton down for the year, and see if his competitive instincts take over wanting to prove everyone wrong and take back his CF job with a vengence in 2024.
  9. nicksaviking
    The paralyzing fear of the unknown when the known is already not acceptable, is a loser's mentality. I want no part of it. What if the new thing is implausibly even worse than this thing we have which is already the worst?!?!? Nothing, that's what. You still fail the test if you score a 40% or a 50%.
  10. nicksaviking
    Well the A's got their deal. If it wasn't the White Sox, it would be another team. MLB is always going to want multiple teams demanding free money. If all 30 teams were ever 'satisfied' with their situation, the momentum to bilk the taxpayers would be hard to build back up.
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah, wish the Twins had called up Martin or another of the young guys sooner to compete for the spot. A September call up would be great, but it likely won't be enough games to make the front office comfortable going into next year with them in key spots. I mean, had the Twins called up Wallner sooner last year to give him enough reps, maybe we don't go through this whole Gallo fiasco in the first place. Had they given Miranda a good run in 2021, maybe he would have been the opening day 3B, the Twins don't trade for Urshela, and Spencer Steer would have been among the fist call ups and wouldn't have been traded. I'd like the blame the Vazquez signing on the team's reluctance to play Jeffers over Sanchez, but if memory serves, Jeffers was injured multiple times last year. Bottom line, twiddling their thumbs with these young guys when there are average-at-best vets on the 26-man roster is not productive.
  12. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I was all gung ho about developing our own pitches when this front office took over before realizing that wasn't actually what Cleveland was doing. And it makes complete sense if one's of the mind that pitching is more volatile and unpredictable. Acquiring pitchers that are already or near MLB ready is obviously the safest bet to build a rotation. As far as the hitters go, sure, we can give the front office some credit, but homegrown hitters carrying the load is pretty much how all of this organizations best teams were built. Over-reliance on other team's former hitters is almost always a poor decision, even going back through the Terry Ryan era.
  13. nicksaviking
    Yeah, baseball seems pretty unique in that obviously being as efficient as you can is the best way to win games. Yet being efficient in baseball means less non-stop action, which is a turn off. Still, I'd rather my team win boring, than lose exciting.
  14. nicksaviking
    I never cared for either Cine or Booth, but I assume if the Vikings trade for Taylor, they'd have to extend him. If that impacts their ability to extend Hunter, Hockenson, Jefferson, Darrisaw and O'Niell, I'm probably out. Also, then they'd probably have to manage to get one of the top QBs in the draft next year, unless they think Hall is the real deal.
  15. nicksaviking
    Right, don't use any tools that the average joe has no interest in learning. We wouldn't have airplanes, satellites or the internet, heck, we'd all still be living in caves and eating raw meat, but at least average joe wouldn't feel insecure.
  16. nicksaviking
    The only way to persuasively argue that analytics are bad, is to use math to prove it. I love it. And thus far, I've seen no proof.
  17. nicksaviking
    The games mostly are, that's for sure. But that's not new.
  18. nicksaviking
    I stopped reading Coward's intentionally contrarian list when I saw Calvin Ridley and Lawrence at two. This is just uneducated troll fodder. Like everything he says.
  19. nicksaviking
    So when are these contracts for our star players getting done? What's the point in waiting until the last minute, just to see if someone gets hit by a bus?
  20. nicksaviking
    I'd take him for a 7th for sure. He wasn't good last year when he was banged up, but he was pretty good behind one of the worst OL in the league in his rookie season.
  21. nicksaviking
    If he's not getting the vertical break on the heater, then he should probably just start cutting back on the sinker. Four seemers up and curveballs still probably work just fine when you're throwing 100+ MPH.
  22. nicksaviking
    *******Moderator Note******* This is obviously a big issue to deal with on a message board. This is just a pre-emptive notice, if someone thinks about playing the contrarian on this topic, don't.
  23. nicksaviking
    It's hard to see the DR publicly and vehemently pursing these allegations against one of their most famous citizens if they didn't intend to enforce their laws. Dominican Republic said Franco is the subject of an investigation conducted by the National Agency for Boys, Girls, Adolescents and Family and Gender Violence Unit, which is a division specializing in minors and gender violence in the province of Peravia. I don't imagine you have a task force named this if they felt these kinds of crimes are something you sweep under the rug. Obviously we don't know the situation, nor the DR legal system, but I'd have to think the 'violence' part of that unit could possibly be something thus far we haven't been made aware of as well.
  24. nicksaviking
    Way too much of this contrarianism in mainstream media these days. Some of these guys always dabbled a bit on this side of things, but now they all constantly act like angsty, non-conforming, know-it-all teenagers because that's what gets hits on Tik-Tok and Instagram. I dislike it, but I suppose I get it. Nobody at major market newspapers feels safe about their jobs anymore, and this is probably the surest way to get views. Also, apologies to our teenage viewers for that analogy.
  25. nicksaviking
    This survey was from March and has since been closed.
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