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Fox Sports North (broadcasts most of the wild/twins/timberwolves games) has a total of about 7 of the most god awful commercials i've ever seen and they broadcast them on repeat. It's really bad for hockey games because they basically just show commercials for 20 minutes between periods

Yeah I'm sure there were tons of people complaining about using taxpayer money for a stadium and would have complained even more with the extra 100 mil. I'm not saying being against public funding for stadiums is stupid (because it's not), but I won't get into that right now.

Anyway, some people were purposefully buying tickets for this weekends twins games for dirt cheap, knowing it would get delayed and they'd be able to transfer the tickets to a different game later on with nice summer weather. Seems smart

STLCards1991 posted...

There are like ten postponed MLB games because of bad weather. So much for that global warming huh!!!

there have been so many people on twitter/where ever else complaining that they didn't put a retractable roof on target field.

since the place was built, this is apparently the first time there have been back to back postponed games (rain or snow), so that seems like a dumb argument.

This is also a freak snowstorm...biggest snowfall in years, and it happens to be in mid april. It's been snowing since friday night and it's higher than my knees now

The wild look soft as hell. The top 2 lines have completely disappeared. This game feels like it should be 4-0

I was reading about older blockbuster NFL trades and it's crazy how much things have changed. Trades like this would never happen nowadays. Here are 2 absolutely crazy ones

Ricky Williams trade
Saints traded their entire fucking draft, and a first and a third the following year to move up to pick 5 to get Ricky Williams.

And the Raiders traded Jon Gruden (their head coach at the time) to Tampa for 2 firsts and 2 2nds. Then the very next year, Gruden beat the Raiders in the super bowl.

And of course, the Vikings made the worst trade in history with the Herschel Walker trade

You can go sailing or fly a kite

8-15 inches of snow this weekend. Why do I live in this terrible place

I should just leave and leave everything behind

oh yeah that will be safe. Speaking of, sometimes when i go on gameFAX on my phone, I get a pretty nasty popup. It will completely close my gfax tab and open the popup, which says my phone is infected with 9 like viruses, which just isn't true. Very malicious ads by @sballen

yep chews is right. never turn off your adblocker for these streams. If there's a rare case where the site won't let you proceed with an adblocker on, move on to the next.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I took off my adblocker so I could stream the Sharks game on my computer and I'm realizing this site is horrible with ads. It keeps moving my screen up and down to make room for ads as they load.

do you have a chromecast?
if not and you're having trouble finding the game, PM me

CaptainHammer posted...

It is good. 3000 is where you auto reach the HoF and obviously he won't get there and he is unlikely to make the Hall anyway but it's not totally inconceivable. Catchers sometimes get a boost to their candidacy and sometimes they're totally passed over for no reason so it's hard to say. The MVP will help. He definitely had Hall of Fame talent but he has just thrown away too many years due to health or just playing like shit. Seems like a cool guy though and his 2009 was truly amazing

I don't think many twinkles fans are talking about HoF for mighty Joe, but he'll be a twins legend forever. Looking back, his contract wasn't even that bad (the twins are notorious for never actually paying players and the mauer contract was apparently a huge deal), but he had a few slump years when fans had massive expectations for him, after his monster seasons. The last few years he's been quietly pretty darn good again

this preds aves game is fire emoji as AF

according to twitter he's the 286th player to get to 2000 hits. That seems pretty respectable for how long the MLB has been around

Joe Mauer just got his 2000th career hit. I don't really know how big of a milestone that is but it's probably pretty decent

this is old now, but this is probably my favorite reddit post of all time
https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/67lfcg/should_the_nhl_have_the_hawks_and_preds_redo/

no way to tell 100% if he was trolling, but I'm pretty sure this dude is being serious.

I like the old Reebok preds jerseys a lot more than the new Adidas ones. And in general, I think the adidas ones across the NHL did a great job

You think the Aves have a chance against smashville? I think I picked the preds in 5 in my work bracket
As well as Jets in 6

SteamedHams posted...

I wouldn't even begin to know which one is my favorite, since I seem to spend more time nowadays complaining and agonizing over sports than enjoying them.

TBH, I've lately found hockey to be the most enjoyable to watch, but it feels wrong to call it my favorite. I didn't really grow up watching it, and of the four sports it's still the one whose rules and strategy I understand the least. I only really watch it in the playoffs though, which is also the only time I enjoy MLB and NBA. There's just too many games, local announcers are shitty and the vibe is unexciting with half-empty stadiums/arenas.

The NFL is a lot more fun to watch in the regular season since each game feels almost like the playoffs in the other sports, but the length of stoppages and commercials is starting to get unbearable for me. Anyways, gun to my head I'd probably answer your question with football and baseball, but hockey could replace either of those soon

I'm getting better at watching basketball and baseball. Honestly a large part of it is the twins and pups getting better, and probably me getting older.

So if all of us were to rank our favorite sports, and I the only one whose 2 favorites are football and hockey? I'm guessing so because I'm a huge fan of concussions and you guys seem to be against them

Doc Emrick is a legend tho...I just really don't like NBC's other commentators. And their Wednesday Night Rivalry/Star Sunday BS

Man I hate NBC announcers. They sound like Canadian Squidward hockey dbags with handkerchiefs stuck up their nostrils

I've said it before I'll say it again. Golden Knights is an awful team name but my god their sweaters/uniform is amazing

in college my friends and I would watch this all time time. We tried to learn the dances and were going to go as them for Halloween, even though nobody would recognize us. Never ended up doing it though #regrets

this is the version we always watched

SteamedHams posted...

Minnesota has more pro teams than the NHL

that's just not true chewy. The NHL has 31 pro teams. Minnesota has 4 (not including MLS and WNBA, and whatever else teams might technically be "pro")

I was wondering how that works with the MLB season being kind of out of sync with the other 3. Are the teams from each sport that start in 2018 all the same "year" ?

Now that I actually sit down and think about it, I'm not sure how else it would work. makes perfect sense

Man I forgot how freaking slow paced the end of playoff (or win and in/lose and elimination) NBA games are. The reviews/fouls/timeouts drag on forever.....this last 2 minutes of regulation and 5 minutes of overtime has taken like 45 minutes

SkynyrdRocker posted...

MNTwins1991 posted...

The Jets "Go Jets Go" chant sounds way too much like the packers chant

In that it is a most excellent chant?

no it's pretty terrible

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

It would be really amusing if they were doing this on purpose to channel the Packers.

It's more likely because hockey fans are not creative whatsoever.

well winnipeg has used that chant forever years, and the packers use this stupid little jingle then yell go pack go, and in that sense it's different than the GB one. And from what I understand, most of the jets fans that do care about football are vikings fans

The Jets "Go Jets Go" chant sounds way too much like the packers chant

Game 1 of the NHL playoffs, twolves' biggest game in 14 years, twins win on a walk off vs the champs, but the biggest news of the day is the Vikings preseason schedule being announced. Case Keenum takes on the Vikings in a GRUDGE match

Playoff hockey is as bad as movie trailers for actually getting the event started. They say the game starts at 6, but there's 25 minutes of building crap before they actually start playing

STLCards1991 posted...

The Cardinals game is on Facebook today for some dumb reason, and the consequence of that is that I have my phone propped up under my work computer and am watching it while on the clock.

I would rather actually do work

These playoff hype videos are always lame, but this is probably the worst one I've seen

https://twitter.com/NHLJets/status/983790702676103170?s=19

"What is it like to be from here? I grew up here. And I know what it takes to live in this place."

CaptainHammer posted...

Do you have a go to easy dinner that makes you feel less bad? My favorite things are a grocery store rotisserie chicken and these Tyson microwaveable chicken breast fillets. They're surprisingly delicious on a sandwich and they even stand on their own!

Nothing fancy, but I'm slowly getting better. Chicken breasts, pork chops, basic pasta/rice dishes

They're great. Jack's isn't bad and it's so cheap. I try to be responsible and not buy them when I go grocery shopping tho

I bet my left nut that the Twolves will lose

in baseball, is it hard to define the line between not fucking up, and making a great defensive play?

Are there "thankless job" positions in basketball and baseball (or other sports)? I was extremely bored today and was thinking about offensive linemen in football and defensemen in hockey (specifically pure defenseman rather than offensive defenseman), and if they do their job very well, it's very rarely going to make a highlight reel, get cheered for, or even noticed by most fans.

I don't know enough about the other sports to recognize when a player is doing their job versus going the extra mile and making an awesome play that doesn't get noticed by a lot of people

STLCards1991 posted...

By the way I am for sure down to play more MK tonight but 4pm is def too early for me. It would have to be like 6-6:15 or later.

works 4 me

maybe slurpee can help me out here, but I think most are in the neighborhood of 18k-20k

Every time the Wild play the Jets, a ton of Jets fans make the trip to St. Paul because they're the closest team to us geographically, and apparently it's expensive/hard to get Jets home tickets. I checked playoff ticket prices in Winnipeg out of curiosity and holy shit I can see why. Cheapest seats for game 1 are $330 in Winnipeg. Cheapest seats in MN are about $100. I also didn't realize that Winnipeg's arena is tiny (~15k capacity)

STLCards1991 posted...

but at the end of the day there was a mutual respect.

and that's what the sports topic is all about, ami right fellas?

Mario Kart reminds me a little of texas hold em. You can be an extremely good player, but sometimes the less skilled players are gonna win a few, and occasionally you can make all the right moves, but end up getting effed in the A

oh and if anyone wants to do some #kart today I'll be home around 4pm central

There is a decent sized chunk of Twolves fans that have the biggest case of ex girlfriend syndrome with Ricky Rubio that I've ever seen in sports.

STLCards1991 posted...

I'm better but he's not half bad. He finished ahead of me a few times. We were playing in a group of randoms aside from each other.

STLCards1991 knows how to throw some kart around, to be sure. He definitely got the best of me, but my best moment (bragging time) was right at the finish line of lap 3 where I NO SCOPED him with a backwards green shell to win the race

Hey everyone. Round 2 of the Switch Mario Kart sports topic party is starting soon. Everyone log in (it's mandatory)

Sports Topic Mario Kart festival at 5:00pm central

STLCards1991 posted...

Whom would like to play Mario Kart with me.

I will, give me like 40 min.

the twins game got snowed out so they will continue to be above .500

We should shred some mad MK on switch tomorrow

CaptainHammer posted...

I'm watching the Blues big game and saying "wheel, snipe, celly" over and over again

Dirty fuckin dangles boys

has anyone here watched The Americans? I watched epi 1 last night and it was very good