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  1. nicksaviking
    Any good politician will tell you that apathy counts as a vote of confidence!
  2. nicksaviking
    No people are upset about a Met fan constantly coming to a Twins site to troll. Consider this a warning to tone it down or start earning infractions.
  3. nicksaviking
    Cashman and Van Ginkel out is trouble. If Dallas Turner can't step up now, I'm not sure when he ever will. Eric Wilson might have been a sneaky good signing though. They need to do everything they can to keep Ivan Pace out of pass coverage. They can't try to expand his game again just because Cashman is out.
  4. nicksaviking
    Yeah, it's under-reported how bad the Bears ownership is. They say they are a 'World class city' in the same press conference they say they want the public help in building a new stadium. America's other 'world class cities' New York and LA didn't get any public money except for infrastructure builds.
  5. nicksaviking
    It would be great if he keeps publicly calling out the team to spend and compete. With his no trade clause, he absolutely can hammer away at ownership and make things uncomfortable for them. Even if nothing comes from it, it would be cathartic for the fans having the face of the team fight against the deceitful owners. It never seems to happen in pro sports, but this specific situation isn't very common. Fingers crossed for more vocal fireworks.
  6. nicksaviking
    A great 4th quarter saved a scary first three. Definitely lots of optimism now. I was surprised how often they tried to stretch runs outside though. For a decade this team did not have the personnel for interior runs, but last night. the Vikings tackles were the weakest part of the line. I'm still trying to figure out why they didn't run up the middle more, or do a QB sneak; they were 3rd and 1 several times.
  7. nicksaviking
    Right. That 'taunting' call last night was garbage. Clearly the league feels comfortable once again telling these young men to to shut up and comport themselves strictly in the manner a certain demographic most prefers.
  8. nicksaviking
    Yeah, and he's as reliable a WR as they come, so hopefully that's just an omen for the Cowboys season. Not that I was cheering for the Eagles. Gross. Why did I bother watching that game? I should have cheered harder for the thunderstorm.
  9. nicksaviking
    A list of three pitchers? I don't think people realize how often pitchers get hurt league-wide. Much, more frequently than the Twins and I'd wager much more frequently that the Guardians. If the Twins have an injury problem with prospects, it's clearly on the offensive side.
  10. nicksaviking
    The fact that he went unsigned so long when he was still better than tons of free agents who had signed, made me think that the delay was on him. I'd guess he was leaning toward retirement all along but didn't want to commit, then when the Raiders sold him on playing this year and he started practicing, he realized for sure his heart wasn't in it any longer.
  11. nicksaviking
    Sure, but if you're good enough it can lead to a lifetime of retirement. Why would he willingly give up making that money now? Is he supposed to be a masochist just so as not to rock the boat? If he truly believes that the Twins coaching staff could prevent him from doing that, I understand why he'd speak up. And really, all evidence points to him being right; those guys in no way look like they know what they're doing.
  12. nicksaviking
    First year in about a decade that the Twins rotation has come up significantly lame. I'm REALLY not enjoying defending anything Twins right now, but the program they've developed for the arms has worked. Every team in the league should be jealous of the Twins pitcher health. So much so, that when the Twins DO finally clean house, the only person I'd consider retaining is whomever developed this pitching plan. Please don't let that person be Derek Falvey himself.
  13. nicksaviking
    Well they announced there were going to be new minority owners three days after gutting the team, so I kind of think they did tell us what the minority owners want.
  14. nicksaviking
    While Jhoan Duran and Taylor Rogers hit the ground running, Cole Sands, Louie Varland, Griffin Jax, Tyler Duffey and Trevor May did not. And bringing in free agents provides even less likely success; a good pen is built from a careful evaluation of guys you already know. Sorry, it's going to take time and patience to build a pen, so I see next to no chance it will be good next year, even if they spent 50M to fix it.
  15. nicksaviking
    Instead of putting his time and effort of his formative years into a profession he'd learn in college, he's doing it on the ball field. It's not like going back to school to become a doctor or lawyer is something a 30-year-old with a wife and kids can do without significant hurdles. I didn't care for the last comments Royce made about changing his swing and tanking his stats even further, but he's not wrong. Which player has this coaching staff successfully help adjust their offensive game? He can still sink lower, and he only needs to look at his contemporary prospects, Julien and Miranda. So many prospects have come up and looked fantastic. Then the other teams adjust to them, and pretty much every single time, the Twins coaching staff is unable to get the players to adjust to the adjustments. I have zero faith in the coaching staff myself, and I have nothing riding on it.
  16. nicksaviking
    I hate so much about the NFL, even while still watching it, but arrests leaguewide are way down from 15-20 years ago. Still, I know it seems like a lot of players get arrested, but it's pretty much in line with everyone else in the country. Nationwide arrest rates are 2.23%, with 70 players per team, that's 1.5 players per year getting arrested, which sounds about right for the Vikings. And really, that's an improvement based on demographics because these players are 20-40 year old males, which makes up the overwhelming majority of arrests in the nation. And that's not even including the economic and racial background of these young men. In context, these guys are better behaved than society as a whole. Also, siiiiiigh, credit to Mike Zimmer. As stubborn, surly and increasingly unlikeable as he became, he absolutely brought in a culture of accountability. There was a clear line after his 1st season in 2014 when arrests started tapering off. https://daviderickson.com/sports/minnesota-vikings-chat/comprehensive-list-of-minnesota-vikings-arrests/
  17. nicksaviking
    You wouldn't want to play for a guy who's always yelling at you to get off his lawn while also dating one of your classmates?
  18. nicksaviking
    They will ALWAYS be a rookie, no matter when they are called up. At which point you’ll throw a temper tantrum because you hate rookies.
  19. nicksaviking
    The expansion team fee ALONE is expected to be 2B - 2.5B. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/28/mlb-office-surprised-by-surge-in-expansion-realignment-interest/ And these are for markets smaller than the ones who supposedly can’t support these 150M floors. If those expansion fees are disproportionately, or entirely given to the big market owners, that may be what has gotten them to talk salary caps and floors, which obviously will require full or close enough to fill revenue sharing like every other sport. I mean, they KNOW it has to be done or the sport will collapse, this kind of up front payoff may have been the carrot.
  20. nicksaviking
    Then you’re not following. They are the ones pushing for a salary cap which obviously will never happen unless they agree to an NFL/NBA style floor. It’s a complete 180, so the motives are unclear, but suspicion is letting the big markets share the Vegas and expansion money may be motivation
  21. nicksaviking
    No, I'm specifically saying teams top 10 in payroll almost always win. You're the one saying that's not true because MLB is a magical and equal utopia. If there's no correlation between winning and payroll, why don't you take the bottom 10 teams and bet on them.
  22. nicksaviking
    No, they'd all be in the same boat because there would no longer be a 'bottom half of revenue'. Just like the other sports.
  23. nicksaviking
    You're not wrong about the timeframe or the division. But when I started following the NFL in the mid to late 1980's Washington and the Giants were really good each year and were usually the only teams that could stop the 49ers from winning it all. The Cowboys then did get fortunate as their run of dominance started at the exact same time that Washington and the Giants got really bad. I don't think there was much overlap with all three.
  24. nicksaviking
    Teams would be forced to pay the young players. Arb and pre-arb players get their fair share. And finally. Hopefully there isn't such a thing as arb and pre-arb players. Joe Ryan SHOULD be making 25M this year.
  25. nicksaviking
    You need more evidence than the decreasing money from TV rights teams are getting? Or that there are 300% fewer nationally broadcast games on ESPN and the network owned companies than there were ten years ago? Or that total MLB attendance peaked in 2007 at 79M and hasn't been within 8M of that mark since 2017? Or that the NBA has passed MLB in popularity and you have to go all the way up to the 50-64 demographic to find where baseball is still ahead (but losing ground)? Or that Bobby Witt Jr could walk down main street in every American city and not get recognized? The guy with the 339M payroll thinks there's parity. B-b-b-because of the B-b-b-Brewers!!!!!! Sure, you take the Brewers to win the World Series, I get the teams with top 10 payrolls. We'll see if your once every 20 year dream comes true.
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