Is a Minnesota team allowed to be successful in the playoffs?
26 thoughts on “December 4, 2020: Gonna Be The One That Saves Me”
Women teams, yes. Men’s teams? It’s 2020, just ride it out man.
Yes, sorry, an important point.
Last night might have been the most fun I've had watching a game with my boys. United are the only Minnesota team that interests both and DSC's early save got them fired up for the goal onslaught coming later in the half.
The Timberwolves are gonna slice through the West like a hot knife going through butter.
I'm simultaneously excited because this management seems to have a plan, and hopeless because I don't see how this roster finishes any higher then 8 or 9 in the West.
Yeah. The West is freaking insane, but this club should be better.
Lakers
Clippers
Denver
Dallas
GSW
Houston <-- assuming Harden stays,
Phoenix,
Portland.
All of these teams are clearly better than the Wolves, I think. That's a really rough conference. Maybe even historic.
Yes. It's discouraging. Although having such a young roster helps. Just need the core to stick around and develop over the next few years.
The additional two play-in spots make me feel like they can at least qualify for the play-in games. But I'll be happy with them playing hard, improving on defense, and ending up somewhere around .500.
Rosenthal wrote an article in The Athletic covering the uncertainty of the arbitration process his year. The Twins are called out early in the article as a positive example.
“(Arbitration is) unchartered territory to some degree,” Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey told reporters on Wednesday night. “We wanted to try to be creative beforehand. And when we brought that to a number of agents, they agreed. They feel no different than we do about the uniqueness of this year, so we decided this was the best course of action.”
Agents, in fact, loved the Twins’ approach.
“It was the most professional, amicable and refreshing negotiation I have ever done in sports,” said Mark Rodgers of Frontline Athlete Management, who negotiated reliever Taylor Rogers’ one-year, $6 million guaranteed contract with Twins general manager Thad Levine.
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An agent for another of the signed Minnesota players, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid the appearance of favoring one club, said, “The Twins deserve a lot of credit for thinking outside of the box.” And Nick Chanock of the Wasserman Media Group, who negotiated a $6.1 million guaranteed deal for Berríos, told The Athletic’s Dan Hayes, “This was an example of the Twins treating their ace pitcher correctly, respectfully and fairly.”
Rosario is also mentioned later. It seems putting him on outright waivers first to allow other teams to pick him up and tender him a contract is something agents prefer.
You know, treating players with respect could actually have long term positive effects for the club.
I really, really like this front office. This is one of the reasons why.
Bad news is Falvine might be headed for a "breakup".
Hearing that #Twins GM Thad Levine is a significant player in the search for the #Phillies head of baseball operations job.
From Bloomberg: Markets
Mortgage Industry Roars to Best Year Ever, Courtesy of the Fed
Nobody knows that better tha the industry’s first billion-dollar salesman.
It blows me away that in these modern times they wouldn't have software to catch typos like these.
Before software, there were these people called editors and proofreaders...
After replacing the bedroom TV that the cat killed, I had a spare Chromecast laying around. Then my wife got a home office setup delivered from work, so we had a spare monitor (with built in speakers). So I hooked up the monitor to the Chromecast and now we have a little TV in the fireplace room, I just cast from my phone and use it as the remote.
Nice. I love Chromecast.
I waited a long time for real TV/computer convergence, but I like the result. While setting it up I found out that the Roku on our big TV is also a Chromecast receiver, it shows up in my device list when I cast video.
We have a nice TV up in our bedroom that happens not to be a smart TV, but with the new Chromecast gen4 it acts just like a smart TV -- even has the remote.
Women teams, yes. Men’s teams? It’s 2020, just ride it out man.
Yes, sorry, an important point.
Last night might have been the most fun I've had watching a game with my boys. United are the only Minnesota team that interests both and DSC's early save got them fired up for the goal onslaught coming later in the half.
The Timberwolves are gonna slice through the West like a hot knife going through butter.
I'm simultaneously excited because this management seems to have a plan, and hopeless because I don't see how this roster finishes any higher then 8 or 9 in the West.
Yeah. The West is freaking insane, but this club should be better.
Lakers
Clippers
Denver
Dallas
GSW
Houston <-- assuming Harden stays, Phoenix, Portland. All of these teams are clearly better than the Wolves, I think. That's a really rough conference. Maybe even historic.
Yes. It's discouraging. Although having such a young roster helps. Just need the core to stick around and develop over the next few years.
The additional two play-in spots make me feel like they can at least qualify for the play-in games. But I'll be happy with them playing hard, improving on defense, and ending up somewhere around .500.
Speaking of the Timberdogs, KAT is having a really rough time with the pandemic.
Rosenthal wrote an article in The Athletic covering the uncertainty of the arbitration process his year. The Twins are called out early in the article as a positive example.
Rosario is also mentioned later. It seems putting him on outright waivers first to allow other teams to pick him up and tender him a contract is something agents prefer.
You know, treating players with respect could actually have long term positive effects for the club.
I really, really like this front office. This is one of the reasons why.
Bad news is Falvine might be headed for a "breakup".
Immediately agreeing to pay their minor leaguers last season was also a class act.
Is anybody watching "The Boys" on Prime. I'm in season 2. It's definitely a deeper show than I would have thought.
I watched Season 1, but inertia is keeping me from getting to season 2. It was definitely more dramatic than I was prepared for.
Season 2 gets a little more interesting. Still ultra-violent, but there is a story to it.
Runner daughter and I both enjoyed it. If you think it's over the top, it's The Lawrence Welk Show compared to the graphic novels.
8.5/10. Hot this would have been a ten.
From Bloomberg:
Markets
Mortgage Industry Roars to Best Year Ever, Courtesy of the Fed
Nobody knows that better tha the industry’s first billion-dollar salesman.
It blows me away that in these modern times they wouldn't have software to catch typos like these.
Before software, there were these people called editors and proofreaders...
After replacing the bedroom TV that the cat killed, I had a spare Chromecast laying around. Then my wife got a home office setup delivered from work, so we had a spare monitor (with built in speakers). So I hooked up the monitor to the Chromecast and now we have a little TV in the fireplace room, I just cast from my phone and use it as the remote.
Nice. I love Chromecast.
I waited a long time for real TV/computer convergence, but I like the result. While setting it up I found out that the Roku on our big TV is also a Chromecast receiver, it shows up in my device list when I cast video.
We have a nice TV up in our bedroom that happens not to be a smart TV, but with the new Chromecast gen4 it acts just like a smart TV -- even has the remote.