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I figured it had something to do with the twins because it's baseball free agent time. Using the same powers of deduction and figured "Hot Rodney" is a nickname, so I googled Rodney Minnesota

Very ready for hot Rodney, who I have heard of and didn't Google before this post

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Question for the floor: if you had to run a team (choose whatever sport), do you think you'd be able to do a better job than at least one GM? The biggest deficit would be the dark arts of capology, obviously.

absolutely not

CaptainHammer posted...

Happy birthday op

I just saw on facebook that it's my freshman roommate's birthday as well. Happy Birthday Ryan

Happy happy birthday @Rockies
Most suck getting less presents because people give you 1 gift that covers your bday and Christmas

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Ultima_Dragoon posted...
The lack of star players in the NFL is staggeringly low right now. I think anyone could win. But it will be the Patriots because life sucks.

I wonder if it's truly worse than it has been in past years. I feel like we are so deep in fantasy sports, especially with the uprising of daily fantasy, that we become hyper aware of how mediocre the average player is.

Anyways, I honestly think this bodes well for Jacksonville. Their defense is full of beasts, and they have Leonard Fournette. They don't need Bortles to be great, they just need the opposing defense to be impatient.

I think Slurpee makes a good point about being hyper aware of average players. I have Golden Tate on my team and I'm hyper aware of his high ceiling but consistently poor performances. There have been a ton of injuries to star players, but there are plenty of stars, and new rising stars (a lot of which have gotten injured)

CaptainHammer posted...

Everyone does it with their stud prospects unless they need hem in some July. You'd be stupid not to in the front office but it's unfair to players who have already earned a promotion on merit and to players in general I guess

fair enough - I'll trust the experts on this one. The Twins owners being cheap is definitely a thing, so I'm interested to see if they do anything in free agency, and stuff

SkynyrdRocker posted...

15-1

are you talking about next year, or are you drunk or something?

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

There's also the thing where teams will try to withhold a rookie for as long as possible unless they're a sure bet because once they start playing on the MLB roster, their contract starts ticking and then after a few years they'll get a higher salary in arbitration. So it's easier to just wait until they're fully ready so the team gets the best performance for the lowest price.

I've heard about that. The Twins owners are notoriously cheap and have been doing that with Buxon and Sano and some other guys the past few years.

how long does it usually take a high MLB draft pick to make it to the big leagues lineup on a regular basis? I was wondering about the #1 guy the twins picked last year

No "Kaepernick should sign with the eagles" comments yet
I'm surprised at you guys

STLCards1991 posted...

whatever president is in office changes the way people think and Trump was turning people into bullies, but his example for what Bill Clinton did to change minds was "he destigmatized oral sex

I think I know what he's talking about for the first one, but for point #2....destigmatize oral sex...what does that even mean?

I like Rogue One. And it gave us this video, which is an instant classic and one of my favorites

I watched The Room in its entirety for the first time today. I have seen most of it in clips and segments, but never all at once. Not on my way to see The Disaster Artist

STLCards1991 posted...

I saw The Disaster Artist. It was good.

I wanna see it. I checked showtimes a few days ago and it was only showing at like 1 theater in my area. Just checked again and it's showing in more now...still not at every theater though.

As if it wasn't already

bad officiating + bias towards the Steelers

Yes Burfict is a PoS, but Juju shouldn't have done that

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Also TIME TO GET BACK ON THE WENTZ IS A BUST BANDWAGON

I never left

the vikings currently have the #1 seed in the NFC

classic Ozark

all my Packer fan friends on facebook who like to spam with Packers stuff have switched to exclusively spamming Badgers stuff

But I thought the whole reason us white, pbr drinking, blue collar, closet racist folks elected Trump was to help the middle class

I googled in-n-out burger to find the nearest one and found this great sports take:
http://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2017/08/20/nfl-preseason-paxton-lynch-in-n-out-burger-denver-broncos/

Never been to one. Is it like 5 guys?

too early to tell for pretty much every team...except maybe the coyotes

Nobody under the age of 60 cares about him

Bad management is catching up to the wild. Fletcher has made some good moves as GM, but also a lot of awful ones. He needs to go. They almost need to do a rebuild to get them out of this salary cap hell

I officially lost a fantasy football bet. The loser (me) has to make a facebook status for everything they do on saturday dec 2. I apologize in advance

I may have owned one at some point but it's long gone by now

Your people need you Kaep
http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/05/49ers-colin-kaepernick-a-lambeau-leap-from-fan-to-rival-2/

Rockies posted...

That's an interesting writeup, but wouldn't that apply to basically every team looking for a QB? At least in terms of the FAs. I really didn't need to know that Palmer and McCown were available, hopefully he's just covering the whole market and doesn't think they are serious options.

Dream scenario for me is they get Cousins, keep Siemian and Kelly, and stock up other positions in the draft.

yeah now that you mention it, it does basically apply to every team who wants a QB, but he did kind of specially tailor it to the broncos by factoring in their potential salary cap and draft pick situations

the post specifically says "for 2018 and beyond" not currently

I respect kaepernick a lot for what he's been doing, and for standing tall against all the media bullshit he's received from people who don't even try to understand what the protest means, and go out of their way to get offended. That being said, he's probably the best free agent QB currently like you said, but he's still not that good

Edit: Earlier this season, a former viking (linebacker Ben Leber) gave speculation on why Kaep doesn't have a job. To paraphrase, he said that he's definitely worthy of a roster spot, but coaches/GMs don't want the media circus that signing him would bring, regardless of the politics. He basically said that they are way too focused on managing a football team and winning games, and signing him would be such a big distraction to their day to day operations (because of the media circus, like news vans camping out around practice facilities), which is a big reason why he doesn't have a job in the NFL.

The end of an era #ParkBang
https://twitter.com/Jeeho_1/status/934976475744239617

this guy on reddit did a pretty interesting writeup about Denver's QB options starting next season
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/7fw3s8/denvers_options_at_qb_for_2018_and_beyond/

SkynyrdRocker posted...

McCarthy went full McCarthy at the end though, calling the worst possible playcall on third and 13 when Pittsburgh had three timeouts. They easily stopped the draw, called timeout, and had the ball with plenty of time. They finished the game with one timeout. He literally accomplished nothing with that call but ensuring Pittsburgh would have a chance to win it.

think he's getting fired after this season?

Rockies posted...

Okay, this was like the first non-shitty SNF game this year

I liked the very first MNF game this season

Alabama had most of its bench players ejected for leaving the bench during an altercation, was left with 5. One fouled out, one rolled his ankle

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/934571841338961920

The Alabama basketball team had so many players ejected that they only had 3 eligible, so they're playing 3 on 5 for the last 9 minutes of the game

Speaking of college football, the gophers play the Badgers today.
Badgers 65
Gophers 0

At least he's not like Adrian Peterson, who probably still has kids he doesn't know about and pays at least 10 grand a month in child support

I just saw on Twitter that everson's baby came 3 and a half weeks early and was very unexpected. I guess in that case it's not totally crazy to not have a name yet, but then again some people how what they want to name their future kids years before they even conceive

Rockies posted...

Everson Griffen:

- Missed his son's birth to play in a football game and watched it on FaceTime
- Asked the game viewers for name suggestions
- Didn't have a name picked out before the child was born

Is that bad? Well, I don't wanna say bad, but how tacky is that? Maybe not the last one because I've heard of parents getting inspiration for the name once they saw the child... but I feel like you at least should have one planned out

Or am I just a bitter, angry man ruining what is supposed to be a cute story

I heard that they weren't exactly sure when she was going to give birth, and everson went to the game. Turns out it happened (somewhat) unexpectedly shortly before the game was starting, so they apparently facetimed. He then spontaneously wrote the "what should we name him" in marker on the t shirt under his jersey.
They didn't have a name picked out obviously, but they're adults and parents and can make their own decisions
I think that I personally would have a name picked out when having a kid but that's just me

I went to my aunt's house on my mom's side of the family for Thanksgiving in Wisco. Been there plenty of times, but not for Thanksgiving. They all love mich golden, the packers, and hunting.
There were no less than 10 mounted deer/elk in their basement, which is where I spent most of the time watching football with my dad and brother. People who weren't cooking would come down and hang and talk. They made it clear they all hate the vikings, but were cool for the most part and nothing really awkward happened, or "crazy relative family stories"

I used to like Case, but this taunting penalty was a disgusting act. He needs to be suspended for this
https://streamable.com/fl7zv

I almost died from the vikings game

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except slurpee and crin

STLCards1991 posted...

It is with a heavy heart I must announce that my cousin made another Instagram post about how coffee is his boyfriend.

I thought it was Facebook last time

CaptainHammer posted...

Toto by Africa

yes that's my #brand, but not sure why you're bringing it up here

here's a retort you guys might be able to understand...eat my shorts

Today in a press conference, Mike Zimmer said case keenum has "big balls"

This caused a meme explosion
https://i.redd.it/i89qsxywmdzz.jpg