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  1. nicksaviking
    I seriously don't know that Mayfield is any better. He's been terrible for awhile now. Someone who knows the system and can hand the ball off to McCaffrey, the rookie RBs and Deebo Samuel might be that team's best option right now. Not that I want to encourage the 49ers to make the right decisions at the moment.....
  2. nicksaviking
    The Yankees have been linked to him, but I just don't see them doing 6 years. That sounds more like something the Angels would do. And then soon regret it.
  3. nicksaviking
    I suppose it is semantics. My deadline would be, "whenever there are only two of the four free agent shortstops left". If not earlier. Personally, if you could get Bogaerts for closer to the Story/Semian contracts, I'd be more than happy to make that deal instead. He has the best K and BB numbers of the four, which I think are traits most likely to age best.
  4. nicksaviking
    Trying to decide if I want the 49ers to sign Baker Mayfield. He **MIGHT** be better than Purdy, but there's also a decent possibility that his self-promoting and distracting personality and antics could make things worse in SF.
  5. nicksaviking
    Nope, it was not stated. I did miss the 'if' and the post has been edited accordingly. Some have thought he would be the last to sign, La Velle being one of them, but I think it was all just presumption because Boras clients often (but not always) do this. After last year's disappointing off season for Correa, I'm of the mind that he might not want to drag it out again.
  6. nicksaviking
    Do we know which local reporters are going to be there this week?
  7. nicksaviking
    It's not about making threats they can't back up, if they want one of the shortstops, but if Correa plans on being the last of them to sign, the Twins 100% have to tell Correa and Boras that it's just not going to work out. They can't let all the other shortstops pass them by, crossing their fingers that Correa will choose them only to be left empty handed. If they can get Bogaerts here for closer to the Story/Semien money, do it and be happy with the signing.
  8. nicksaviking
    Then I wouldn't sweat it, because guys like Clevenger do nothing except give us reason to complain about how they need to cut him before the calendar turns to June.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yeah, a deadline is needed so the Twins don't come away empty handed in the shortstop sweepstakes. It could work out for the Twins though, because they are Correa's and Boras' best leverage. They're not going to want Minnesota out of the bidding, so it might be most beneficial to get a deal done sooner rather than later.
  10. nicksaviking
    It has so far. It caught up to them against Philly and Dallas, and they’d have to get through one, if not both in the playoffs. Fun season for sure, but this team is going to need multiple better teams to play terribly to win it all.
  11. nicksaviking
    Congrats to Fred McGriff getting into the HOF. He was one of those players who came on the scene just when I was startng to memorize the back of baseball cards, and he was a great player until right at the end. If you would have polled voters in 1999, they probably would have said he was a sure fire HOFer. But retiring in 2004 was different as his eligibility and career stats got caught in the wash of the PED scandals.
  12. nicksaviking
    This is the first I’ve heard concerns about losing him. The Twins have never had luck fixing guys with this level of control issues, I think it would be a long shot the Twins would ever call him up. So if he does get picked, added to a MLB roster and paid a MLB wage, good for him.
  13. nicksaviking
    It doesn't seem possible, but they need to make this year memorable because next year is looking like a huge course correction. Thielen, Smith, Cook and Cousins have gigantic dead cap money, yet keeping more than one of the first three seems next to impossible with the salaries they'll command. Next year has to be Cousins final year with the team but there's no heir apparent. And they can't really trust a youth movement because they just had their worst draft since Fran Foley ran things. Maybe even worse than Fran Foley.
  14. nicksaviking
    Definitely plenty of luck. But to be fair, most games see the Vikings get most of the bad breaks going against them BEFORE the last second Deus Ex Machina ending.
  15. nicksaviking
    TBD if Oakland will open up the wallet once they get a new stadium. Pittsburgh already failed in that regard. Every other team saw a payroll boost with a new stadium, at least for a while. Pittsburgh generously only had the 13th lowest payroll when they opened up their new stadium. It's been pretty much bottom five for the 20 years since. This is undoubtedly the worst ownership in MLB in my view. The other owners should not put up with what Nutting has done, it's a flat out embarrassment for an original and classic franchise and everyone turning a blind eye to what's happening there should be out of a job.
  16. nicksaviking
    I’m not giving the DC a pass, but seems to me the biggest problem is the DBs and edge guys keep missing tackles. Maybe they can be coached up and the coaching staff is failing, however, if they’re just naturally poor tacklers, I might put more blame on the GM. If the GM did put together a terrible tackling team, that could also explain the typically soft coverage too.
  17. nicksaviking
    Too much time.
  18. nicksaviking
    Should have let Davis score
  19. nicksaviking
    Normally they’re wide open in the first three quarters. I guess they’re doing the opposite today
  20. nicksaviking
    I guess that’s why they normally play soft coverage. They can’t tackle.
  21. nicksaviking
    No, this team has played intentional soft coverage all year long. Likely because they don’t want WRs getting behind them. The Jets have pretty fast WRs.
  22. nicksaviking
    I know they’ll be tempted to run a screen thinking it will at least get them into FG range, but please don’t. This team sucks at screens.
  23. nicksaviking
    The DBs are playing tight coverage today. What’s that about?
  24. nicksaviking
    Ha, for sure now!
  25. nicksaviking
    Yeah but you’d have to wait 10 minutes after every other return to bring the cart out for some guy getting paid league minimum.
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