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  1. nicksaviking
    *****Moderator Note***** This article has zero relevance to anything political, please get back on topic. As to the topic of if an occupied city can host MLB games, that may be a valid discussion, but elsewhere, and there will be zero tolerance for straying outside of that very narrow lane.
  2. nicksaviking
    If Pittsburgh doesn't hire him, I'm not sure any team will. Except for one. If he comes back, the defense is still great, but McCarthy and the offense is still holding them back, I wonder if the Vikings would promote him. As much as KOC gets flack here, I'm quite confident he has a good reputation leaguewide. Even another down year and I bet the Vikings could trade him.
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    That was pretty much the whole point of my post. It's the non-exciting starters who lost their luster who turn into relievers that have had the most success with the Twins.
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    Even going back to Guardado and Hawkins, just about all the Twins' relief 'aces' have been guys who were failed starters or turned into a reliever just before to getting called up. But outside of Jhoan Duran, I don't think any of them were looked at as exciting bullpen arms until they actually developed into one. Jax and Sands were after thoughts. Varland had already lost his luster floundering in the rotation longer than he should have. Prior to Varland, May, Duffey and Perkins had pulled the same stunt. Rogers was only converted to relief at the last minute because the Twins had a surprisingly healthy number of veteran starters blocking him (most of whom were terrible). So I guess my point is, that while Prielipp is similar to Duran, most of the team's other top end relievers were no longer highly regarded, so I'll guess someone from the Festa, Matthews, Bradley, Morris, Adams, Raya, Ohl, Klein group is more likely to be the answer. Plenty of room for more than one answer though.
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    Yeah, but sounds like Todd Monkin is coming with Harbaugh. That's going to limit the offensive upside. Could be a really good defense, but if you're still running a ball control offense with less than 500 pass attempts, it's probably going to have to be an elite defense to be an actual competitor. Jaxon Dart can move, but obviously not like Lamar Jackson, and they don't have Derrick Henry, they have an injury prone rookie RB who just snapped his leg in half. Their best player, Malik Nabors, is going to be severely under-utilized. And all the mock drafts giving the Giants another top WR can scrap that plan. You only need one WR in that offense. I think Harbaugh is a good coach, but I thought he should take a year off, get a good look at league trends and then start over. If he's just going to run it back with the Giants, but without the HOF QB and RB, I don't see much of a ceiling for that team.
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    Maybe. He was tracking to be the 2nd QB taken in this draft and next year he might go 5th or even lower if things don't go well for him. Yeah, the teams that would pick him don't look like good spots, but we said that about Drake Maye too. Things can change in the NFL fast.
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    HAD a hitting problem. Derek Shelton said in his interview that he'd have these guys playing like the 1975 Reds.
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    I suspect keeping them separate has more to do with perception. If the Yankees are winning the AL East and the Mets are doormats in the NL East people will rip on the Mets as typical. But if they were in the same division, then the Yankees are actively making the Mets look bad. For a more compelling example, the Angels already have a bad reputation, if they had been in the same division as the Dodgers the last decade, nobody would EVER talk about the Angels anymore, and if those two teams were actually competing for the same division, you'd could be sure that the Dodgers would be stealing way more of their fans than if they weren't competing against each other. The opposite theory doesn't seem to fly by my math. While a LA/LA, Chi/Chi, NY/NY World Series would create some nice headlines, the league doesn't want that. Instead of having two markets playing for a championship, now they only have one market. They want NY and LA, not NY or LA.
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    No, but if the team is willing to do it with three or four such starters in one year instead of over four years, you might find that two or three of them are ready to thrive in 2027. And they have way more than three or four such starters they could do this with.
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    Yeah, this isn't a unique situation to Ryan and the Twins, this happens all across the league. It may be petty and unreasonable and mostly used as a tool to dampen the possible real paydays that will come in the following years, but Ryan and his agent know this is how the game is played by the bean counters who are trying to give the bean collectors as many beans as humanly possible.
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    Yeah, DCs hadn't been getting as many good looks lately, and for good reason since most of them seemed to do a poor job as head coaches. But now the last three years we've seen DeMeco Ryans, Mike MacDonald and Mike Vrabel shoot their teams to be amongst the elite. So, yeah, I buy all the DC interviews now; the NFL is a trendy league I bet more than half of the new HCs come from that side of the ball. Still, while Pittsburgh has nothing going for themselves offensively and really should start from scratch, Baltimore is just going to waste the last few productive years of Lamar Jackson if they don't bring in a dynamic offensive mind to run things.
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    If Stefanski went to Pittsburgh, I'd bet that's where Cousins ends up. He might end up there anyway I suppose. It's unlikely Pittsburgh will get a QB with their draft position.
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    Seems the playoffs and hired/fired coaches conversation should be different than Vikings talk. Anyway, the initial commentary from Addison's attorney did have me thinking for a second that whatever he did could be overblown. Then this part made me roll my eyes: “On Jordan’s behalf, his legal team has already initiated the investigation, identified witnesses, and we are reviewing the viability of a claim for false arrest,” Younger wrote. “He looks forward to the legal process and upon full investigation, we are confident Mr. Addison will be exonerated.” Come on. if it was a legit misunderstanding or situation someone else escalated, your attorney would be talking about the county dropping charges, not suing them for false arrest.
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    Greg Roman is now out too. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/chargers-fire-offensive-coordinator-greg-roman Well, I guess maybe ONE of the Harbaugh brothers has decided to play modern football. TBD of course, it's possible John's doing this so he can hire Todd Monkin.
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    I suggested earlier that Pittsburgh is Flores' best shot. And it probably still is, still, with how disappointing their offense has been since Roethlisberger retired, they might have to turn to that side of the ball.
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    Lost in this, MLB absolutely shouldn't expand. There is already a parity divide between the jumbo markets and the rest of the league, and now we're adding two more of the smallest markets in the country? Yeah, they'll spend on payroll and celebrate their expansion team for five, maybe ten years. Then woo hoo, we have Tampa Bay part II!
  17. nicksaviking
    It does seem odd that for about a decade now, so many Twins leaders need to come from other organizations......
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    Such a screw up. Reading another article, the address he was picked up at looks to be a Hard Rock hotel in Tampa. And he was arrested at 3:45 AM. Tons of restaurants in this hotel but I don't see any open past midnight on Mondays, so he was probably kicked out of the hotel itself, but refused to leave. So I'd guess at that time of night he was drunk. Probably not high because Florida isn't shy from charging people for that. And probably nothing violent or he'd have been charged with that as well. So what do you do with this clown? He's probably untradable at this point. I wouldn't mind cutting him, but obviously that will impact a certain young QBs development. He was his favorite target.
  19. nicksaviking
    I never read of hard feelings. I honestly didn't care and suspect most of the team didn't either. They were out of it and he was buried on the depth chart. And probably since they were out of it, they were already considering making him a healthy scratch if only to give Felton some reps. Which of course he still barely got. Thielan played less than 7% of the offensive snaps in his last game as a Viking. I think he was probably about done playing outside of some token routes to send him off in the last game or so.
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    I'm not suggesting it isn't a mistake, or that they'd call up the players for the right reasons. But they haven't called up jersey-selling players in a long time. Buxton is the face of the franchise and took a decade to do so. You're not moving the needle OR winning with Fitzgerald or Arcia. You might do one or both with the young players. Again, I am neither an advocate or detractor for these moves at this point, and I'm not suggesting the Pohlad's would be doing right for the team in terms of winning a championship. I'm suggesting they'd be doing this solely for the better chance at incremental profit now.
  21. nicksaviking
    But this ownership group is unlikely to have to worry about those consequences. If burning an arbitration year for the next owners gets them more fan revenue this year, they wouldn't think twice. Joe Pohlad didn't get canned because the Twins were losing games, he got canned because they were losing fans. Therefore, bringing them back is almost certainly the plan to make more money. And without increasing the payroll, I don't see how they hope to achieve that goal other than creating draws from their young in-house talent.
  22. nicksaviking
    The Vikings seemed pretty confident he'd be back unless he gets a HC job. Not sure that a lateral move would be good for Flores, unless it comes with perks and money the Vikings won't offer. He knows what he has in Minnesota and he can be much more confident that he can continue to be a top DC here; changing teams presents much more risk as it would come with too many variables, many of them unpredictable.
  23. nicksaviking
    Washington is requesting to interview Flores for their DC spot. Obviously it makes sense for them, but hopefully it doesn't for Flores. Also, regarding Flores being blackballed and having few avenues to get a head coaching job, it seems crazy that nobody has mentioned that Pittsburgh is his best shot. They already broke ranks once when they hired him for their staff the first time. Now if Tomlin does depart, I wouldn't be surprised if Flores is the first interview mentioned.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm actually going to predict that Culpepper is up before the end of May. Not necessarily because he should be, but because I think the primary goal of the new ownership groups is (to make as much money as possible obviously, but to do that, they need) to bring the fans back. They aren't spending money on big name free agents, so I think they'll bring up the young top prospects and cross their fingers that a couple turn into household names. And with more business savvy bosses in charge, I'll bet they better market these young players than they used to. So they'll give most of us what we want as a bribe to watch and go to games. And lucky for them, this bribe costs them nothing but a possible arbitration year that this ownership group is never likely to have to deal with.
  25. nicksaviking
    I don't care about losing Fitzgerald. I do care that someone in the Twins organization thinks Wagaman should be a starting 1st baseman. He can't hit for power and can't get on base. The Twins traded for a guy Miami would have DFA'd before the season started.
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