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True. But did something in this game prompt this comment? I already feel bad for his surgeons.
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Did Addison just drop that?
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Yeah, will he merely be fined? Or suspended? Full disclosure, he was my favorite defensive player in that draft. Further disclosure: I don’t get paid to draft players.
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San Diego is 100x more fun than Inglewood. There is absolutely nothing to do at the LA stadium, it takes you all morning to get there, and another couple hours to get back. It's one of those new suburban stadiums where the owners and developers get to design a giant patch of real estate. The only bar or or restaurant is in a new casino on the lot. Food and drinks at the casino were stadium priced, you have to ante each hand to play blackjack, (I'm not sure how that's even legal, no one will ever win and dummies will still play), and it's the only place to walk to after the game so it's hours wait for ride share. Which obviously was intentional as they want you to stay; see the part about it being a rigged casino. This is the future. Screw the local businesses in downtown San Francisco, New England, New York, Phoenix, Dallas and soon to be Cleveland. Just keep giving us more money while getting next to nothing in return. Stadium itself is nice though.
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I remember when Harbaugh was hired from Michigan, I was posting about my secret hopes that the Vikings could swing a trade getting Herbert for McCarthy and a 1st or so.
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Ah, yeah we have one of those but I've never been. You're right, the places that don't serve beer are for the super serious and the high school teams looking to stave off the rust during the winter. The one I do has a bar and we picked Sunday nights to do it so we can watch the late football game. And we're terrible, so it's just for fun.
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The Vikings are drawing a short straw with this Thursday night game. I was at the Vikings/Chargers game in LA five years ago, it was 70% Vikings fans. Most other northern city road teams that play there tend to be at least 50/50. And same as other destination cities that don't care about their teams. LV, AZ, Jacksonville. But those fans make a weekend out of it. This might be the only Chargers game all year where the road team isn't the home team.
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My buddy talked me into joining a league last year. Still in it. It's a good time.
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I'm not saying he won't work but: "Given his track record of stabilizing a mid-market club and developing young talent, Servais could be a natural fit for the Twins." Did he develop young talent? I thought that's exactly why he got fired. Under Servais the Mariners did well as far as the rotation goes, but offensively they sputtered every single year with most young hitters never showing a level of consistency needed to be an actual contender. Sounds pretty familiar.
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Came to edit the comment that Ingram wasn't a KAM pick. Yeah he was. Also, not a feather in his cap. So zero good picks in 2022. One good pick in 2023. Somehow the best player taken in 2024 is a kicker and a year and half in, we have zero clue about TWO first round picks, but the indicators aren't good. And no, trading your picks for veterans doesn't mean you drafted well. It means you've drafted poorly, have to use other picks to fill the holes you couldn't draft and then use more of your salary cap to retain them. I like Kwesi. But this isn't acceptable because the draft is very important.
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The Vikings have next to no good young talent. Outside of Addison, all the good 'young' players they have were drafted before KAM got here. And based on you're average NFL lifespan of 3.3 years, that means they are on borrowed time. The draft is EXTREMELY important. Yes, most of the picks fail, which is why the AVERAGE career for these guys is low, but you have to hit on one or two a year and the Vikings have not been doing that. And no, guys like Ed Ingram (not a KAM pick BTW) do not count as 'hitting' on one, he was awful by every evaluation, and is still awful. You absolutely should be able to get one starter per draft in year one and have two or three starters per draft by year two. You need to build the core of your team through the draft, you can't just go out and fill it in free agency every year or eventually you'll be filling it with quantity, not quality. Like the Texans did with Ed Ingram. Honestly, this is a weird argument. I'm sure even the Vikings and KAM would acknowledge that the draft is very important and that they desperately need to improve in this area. It's OK to admit his drafting has been poor and still like the guy. I do.
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Like I said, it was over dramatic. But this team STILL hasn’t figured out a long term QB solution. And we’re almost certainly not going to find out any time this year either. I also suspect if KOC truly thought it was McCarthy, he’d be back starting.
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Also, Wentz is starting again. hooray. Another tough defense too; I expect he'll get his clock cleaned again. Then a long week after this one. Will they turn back to JJ then? Or will they have him avoid the Lions too? They just beat the tar out of the previously resilient Baker Mayfield. Or will JJ conveniently be healthy when the Vikings face the Ravens and their squad of JV defensive players?
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I doubt it. I'm not against trying new things though and the Vikings shouldn't be either.
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I thought he got a significant raise, but I had also thought he had been hired as the manager, not pitching coach, so I guess my recollection wasn't straight on that one anyway. Guess he did get a manager job later, and in the SEC, that probably was 5x his Twins salary, but obviously not initially.
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During the press conference, Falvey seemed to slip up and confirm ownership was who had Baldelli fired. Agree, about Falvey as well. Much of the hate is just blanket disillusionment; most who are seething that he's still here wouldn't say a good word about him if he rescued a baby from a burning building. That's fine, I have no special spot in my heart for him and I'd also replace him. But if we're being objective, it's not like he's intentionally putting a losing team on the field. And if ownership did fire Baldelli, then he knows he's on watch and much more likely to look for a new approach instead of doubling down on his prior approach which clearly wasn't working. He's self aware enough to know that doing the same thing that got Baldelli fired isn't going to save his job.
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They were paying him something like 5x the salary the Twins were paying him. And it wasn't a job that would still be available after the season was over.
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Understanding that they are a very dysfunctional franchise, I'd still like to know why they were so dead set on hiring a former well known player with no experience. Sounds like it was only going to be Pujols, Hunter or Suzuki. Why no interest in non-former players?
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Kwesi has nailed free agency though. I've been saying for two years they should keep him, IF they hire someone else who has full autonomy to run the draft.
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I've seen some great Vikings v Chargers games in the past, but both teams are struggling. And it sounds like the Vikings truly could go in three different directions at QB with McCarthy and Wentz both injured and this being a short week. If Brosmer actually does start, he's either got to be really, really good, or really, really bad. Like good enough that everyone says, McCarthy who? Or bad enough that the stans are OK with washing their hands of him after one game. If he's anywhere in the middle, this franchise is going to be in QB purgatory and we all get to wallow in ambiguity, indecision and aimless direction. I really hope we don't later look back at these early weeks of the the 2025 season and say, Oh, that's when we turned into the Cleveland Browns. Not just because of the QB situation, but the aging roster and no young players playing well enough to dream on. Over-dramatic, I know, but I am worried this team is about to get stuck in a rut. And clearly they won't be able to draft their way out of it.
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Detroit and Seattle both dominated last night's games, yet neither could put their opponent away. A lot of that going around in the NFC this year.
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Twins Daily's Community Awards: 2025 MLB Season
nicksaviking replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Excellent work everyone! And well done Brock and company, you do a great job keeping people engaged despite, well...... that's for the other threads. We've got a great community here. -
Sure, whether it's elite power, elite on base skills, elite pitching or a combination of any elite skills, there is more than one way to win a World Series. But it's a crapshoot only for the elite teams. Only twice in the last 30 years has a team outside the top ten in spending won the World Series. So as long as you're willing to pay elite players, regardless of their specific skill set, you get to play this particular game of chance.
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Jalen Hurts admitted that the Eagles were on their A game and extra motivated for the Vikings due to the prior two losses: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6732007/2025/10/19/jalen-hurts-eagles-win-vikings/ Of course that poor timing of their prior two losses is such a Vikings thing. Still, the Eagles could have still lost despite the extra motivation, and the fact that they couldn't bring it the prior two games doesn't bode well for their chances of repeating.
