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  1. nicksaviking
    And here I thought you were talking about that new Matt Damon movie. Looks like he goes to China to teach the Chinese how to defend the Great Wall from dragons or something.
  2. nicksaviking
    I just hope this isn't actually Defensive Over-reactions. I'm fine with Castro, but it's not like he's on a team friendly deal. Adrianza? Ugh, OK I guess, but again he doesn't look like he can hit, neither can Drew Stubbs. I understand this team needed to improve defensively, but I don't think it's wise if this team commits to 4-5 of their 12 batters being offensive black holes. In the case of Adrianza and Stubbs, even if they make the team, they're unlikely to start. Their glove doesn't do the team nearly as much good on the bench. This is starting to look like an overcorrection to me, like the when the Twins finally realized they needed to stop prioritizing control over velocity in the draft and then went out and drafted a dozen hard throwing relief pitchers.
  3. nicksaviking
    Sure, when the bad guys were doing it, but when Jack Bauer absolutely positively needed information now, then it usually worked.
  4. nicksaviking
    I liked it back in the day as well. I'm wondering what I'd think of it today if I watched it with fresh eyes. The current political climate would probably make me skeptical of motivations, though that's probably more on me than anyone else. After all, with the old show runners it was always the Democrat presidents that were good and the Republican presidents that were bad. Ha, FOX didn't care I guess if it was making the station money.
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    Muslim looking terrorists, the African American brother is a drug-dealing, gang-banging thug in the ghetto and since it's 24 surely there will surely be tons of torture interrogation scenes. I thought Fox gave up on 24 because ratings were down; I think this show has new showrunners, and while this is probably conspiracy theory stuff on my end, it's on FOX so I can't get it out of the back of my mind that this show was only brought back, ratings be damned, to celebrate and push political agendas. Again, probably conspiracy theory gibberish, but I'm not going to waste my time to find out.
  6. nicksaviking
    I watched the first episode simply because the TV was still on after the Super Bowl, however my wife had two other shows recording last night so I didn't see Monday's episode. I think I'll pass though. More moles in CTU, and I'm pretty confident in who it is already, plus the lead is an Army Ranger and he looks like he'd get blown over in a stiff wind, but hey, he sure looks attractive! And while I might be giving up too soon before the writers have a chance to redeem themselves via plot twits, the bad guys are foreign terrorists again and it appears one of them is a high school girl who has seduced her teacher while the "All-American" boy next door is on to her. Seeing as this is on Fox, I see great potential for that storyline to be an endorsement of a-hole white guys everywhere to be suspicious of foreigners and take action against them. This is 24 so motivations can change at the drop of a hat and she'll probably end up being a "good guy" spy or something, but if I stuck around only to see her villainous ways come to fruition I'd probably have a broken TV.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yeah, too many guys who aren't terribly good but also not too terrible that you willingly want to DFA them.
  8. nicksaviking
    I don't think he is either, I thought I was clear on the hypothetical situation. I was just wondering if there happened to be a slam dunk pick if both team and player would agree to preventative measures seeing as how much money is at stake for both parties.
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    I'm looking forward to it. I only hope that the effort put into this show doesn't negatively impact Fargo season three since both programs have the same show runner.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah, the biggest thing for the Patriots was how much they had the ball. The first half Atlanta couldn't have done much about it because the Falcons scored using a pick six and a handful of big offensive plays, it's not like you're going to regret those points simply because you didn't hold the ball longer. But that last drive was Atlanta's chance to manage the clock to their advantage. And their O-line should not have been gassed. They should have been stiff and stale if anything, they hardly were ever on the field.
  11. nicksaviking
    Triple 'Like'. I wonder if there would ever be a HS arm considered the consensus top pick this early in the year and both the team and the player know going in that he'll be the choice so to prevent injury there is a mutual agreement that he doesn't pitch competitively (strenuously?) but instead only does simulated or side sessions working within a throwing program and with an instructor endorsed by the team? Not that I'm suggesting Greene is that guy, just a hypothetical I was thinking about the other day; an already anointed pick, like if Bryce Harper had been a pitcher or Stephen Strausberg had been a high schooler.
  12. nicksaviking
    Well I hope my post didn't sound too ominous or anything. It just had lots of new characters added with lots of different storylines not all of which seem to have a lot of purpose, but maybe they are part of a bigger picture yet to be revealed. Not all of the characters are as compelling as the original main cast though and it's hard to tell if it's the characters or the actors. That's in regard to the back half of the season anyway, the first half was more similar to the previous seasons.
  13. nicksaviking
    To be clear, you don't like Travelers? I was considering it because it had gotten good critical and audience reviews. However it looked like it had massive potential to be preachy and it also looked like the kind of show that might try to hard to hold the audiences hand instead of letting the viewers try to figure out what's going on.
  14. nicksaviking
    I like Vikings, without spoiling anything though, I hope recent developments in the story don't hurt the ratings and cause the show to go under, I suspect it could. I'm fine with how it's going, but I'm not sure how other viewers feel.
  15. nicksaviking
    I was hoping for that opportunity, but really only because I wanted to see Bryant miss the kick leaving the Falcons in the exact same spot to lose as the Vikings did in the 1999 NFC Championship game. Football may be the only thing that brings out the schadenfreude in me.
  16. nicksaviking
    Unlike baseball, lately I've had a hard time rooting for any football team. I was cheering against the Falcons because I'm still sore about 1998, but also because I'll be damned if another championship-less team wins a Super Bowl before my Vikings do. Unless that championship-less team is playing the Packers, Bears or Cowboys, then win away.
  17. nicksaviking
    If we're playing predictions, mine is Kintzler, Pressly, Chargois, Belisle, Hughes, Rogers and O'Rourke. But I would like to find room for Tonkin initially and Melotakis, Duffey and Hildenberger in short order.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I like riding my bike. It's been a little tough the last couple years though because my kids are old enough to bike, but too young to bike far. It's kind of hard to tell my kids I'm going out to ride my bike without them.
  19. nicksaviking
    My dad tore his in high school and I kind of think that stuff is genetic. A few years back after trying to get in shape by running (yuck) I got tendonitis in my achilles. Now I can't run more than about a mile without it feeling like it's on fire. Or so the excuse goes when my wife tries to get me in shape again.
  20. nicksaviking
    ***Mod Note*** I moved the Park related posts to the new Park thread created by Seth.
  21. nicksaviking
    Interesting, he used to be a "sinkerballer" back in the day: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/outcome.php?player=279571&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=year&minmax=ci&var=pcount&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=02/03/2017 He now only uses his sinker very sparingly. Maybe he was brought in to try to show Gibson and Stewart that it is possible to be cured of that disease.
  22. nicksaviking
    It seems Tonkin is the guy most see as the odd man out. He's actually the kind of guy I want to see if Falvey's new strategies will benefit. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/24826-article-how-will-derek-falvey-improve-twins-pitching/ A mid-90s FB and a slider are my two of my three favorite pitches. The first being a high-90s FB. At times he has looked really good. Looking at which bullpen options on the 40-man should get the boot, it kind of seems difficult. The pen was terrible last year (last decade) but it looks to me that there are a lot of guys that are just good enough or just young enough where you don't really want to toss them out. So I can see how Tonkin could be first on the chopping block. I can also see how Justin Haley might not make the cut which would cause a lot of us to wonder how the worst team in the league, with the first pick in the Rule V draft couldn't find room for a guy.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'd guess many of our educators on this board would disagree with this take. Coming from a family of educators, I believe that typically new curriculum and techniques get the kibosh at the administrative level, not that instructional level. In this case the administration appears to be very open to new curriculum and techniques.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm really surprised by some of the responses to this article, this is easily the most encouraging thing written about the team this year. Yes, the team has done little to add pieces, but two of the biggest flags we hung on Terry Ryan and the previous regime was their resistance to innovation and the poor player development. This article makes it abundantly clear that the new guys have made these things top priorities. Embracing new ideas and emphasizing optimal development programs for the pitchers is far more important to this club's long term health than signing some third rate veterans. I'm just fine evaluating how these new strategies impact the players we have, maybe they'll turn out how we always expected them to with proper handling.
  25. nicksaviking
    Interesting. His age and low strikeouts make him look like a guy who'd be forced to take a MiLB deal. On the glass half empty side, I'd rather have a better free agent or give the job to a young guy. On the glass half full side, he's another of way too many RH relief options, which can't hurt May's odds of getting handed a starting job. Just please don't put another guy who can't miss bats in high leverage situations. Let's give this guy the bases empty in the sixth gigs.
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