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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    This. It's ok to have the tiniest bit of depth at an important position. I hope we draft another WR in the first few rounds, too.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Drafting an RB at no. 9 overall might be my least favorite option. Id almost rather take a (shudder) defender
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    So McGlinchey has a lower pass blocking grade than reiff or borom. No idea if it's true or not because PFF grades, but it's not out of pocket crazy
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    He did well with this transaction. I like that he chose to rebuild immediately and cleared out a lot of veterans. But ultimately, what matters is how well he chooses players, not how well he accumulates picks. It's too early to tell. I thought his first draft was underwhelming but understandable, give or take a gadget player in the third. I'm willing to write off his first free agency as tank-mode-doesn't-count. He's given himself one heckuva pile of assets, now let's see if he can actually build something out of them.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    So if I'm reading this right, for this year we have 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 7th, 7th I don't hate it.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    he's not really really bad in pass protection. but you do you. "notes from 49ers fans" lmao he's a great run blocker and he's an OK pass blocker. the guys we have are not OK pass blockers, PFF's evaluation of their pass blocking (while being protected by the playcaller eschewing passing in obvious passing situations to a comical extent) notwithstanding I thought pff graded him in to 80's overall, higher in run blocking. Regardless, McGlinchy isn't the top available rt in FA because a bunch of SF fans think he sucks He doesn't I mean, if you're going to cite PFF grades, they have a *very* low opinion of his pass-blocking. 80s run blocking, 60s pass blocking, 71 overall in 2022. Personally, I think PFF grades are RNGs that don't matter, but as people like to say, "you do you"
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    no he wouldn't be I'm glad you're confident. Scouting reports, notes from 49ers fans and stats all seem to think he's a great run-blocker who is really, really bad in pass protection.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    McGlinchey might somehow be a downgrade in our pass-blocking. I'll be very disappointed if he's our OL solution
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    The hard part is using the picks on the right players, but dang if that doesn't potentially set the team up well. I'm looking forward to a put-up-or-shut-up year from fields, no excuses
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is no point at which anything that happens in spring training matters outside of staying healthy.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Crazy how right after Poles did a media round, we start getting leaks about how the price is sky-high and there's lots of pressure on buyers to close quickly.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    And the Blackhawks dynasty was mostly definitely not built off of tank jobs. Those pre-2009 teams were trying very hard to win. They just sucked at it. Khabibulin and Aucoin were massive free agent signings at the time.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fans everywhere are way too enamored with tanking. I have a theory that the psychology of "no-lose" situations are appealing. Bad teams lose most of the time and most good teams' seasons end in devastating defeat. But a rebuild can't lose, or at least that's how it feels. There's no downside, it's all just the pure fun of dreaming of a future that can't possibly hurt you because it isn't real yet. With a dash of our society's weird moral legacy of believing that suffering as a prelude to happiness is not only a positive thing but an outright necessity.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Seabrook one is the only contract that truly bit them, and it was completely unnecessary and bad the day they signed it. But there were dozens of avoidable mistakes along the way that doomed them. Also true
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    This was all locked into place when we gave everyone from the dynasty reward contracts that had nothing to do with their future value
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    One time we were doing TV themes in game threads and Sofa put a SBTB new class gif on SBTB theme day and singlehandedly ruined an entire season of baseball.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    finish the job the airplane started
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Too late. He had me at bigger avatars.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Luck of the draw. It was incredible watching Mauer play 100% of his career in Minnesota but my lord were locals unfairly critical of him. And it's not as if Prior was a bust, he was just... a pitcher. With an arm. Those players tend to die horrible, violent career deaths. Even as an outsider, it was kind of a bummer to watch because he was just so good when he could, you know, throw a baseball hard. The Cubs have since learned their lesson and never, ever drafted a pitcher in the last 10 years. I assume. I honestly haven't paid that much attention since like the Kris Bryant draft.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yer all a bunch of masochists over here. Take your time, I know you've got a lot to do. I'm still scarred by the time all the Cubs fans made fun of drafting Joe Mauer because we got Mark Prior and that did not turn out the way it was supposed to.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like it already. New is always better. When do we switch over to Twins content?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can't remember the name of my grb account from the offseason when I decided I wanted to be a cardinals fan, but it's probably still there
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Asking for input is weak behavior. Make the changes unilaterally and establish dominance.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    That never stopped managers from overdoing it. For my money, Earl Weaver was likely the best manager in modern times. He understood baseball intuitively better than any manager before or since in the modern era. Maybe Francona is a close second. One of my favorite baseball quotes is Weaver and I can't find the exact wording, but it's something like "They put a wall out there and if you hit the ball over it you get to run around the bases for free, so might as well try to do that." But even the overmanagers don't really matter that much. Bunting is suboptimal strategy because you lose like one-tenth of a run expectancy every time you do it, so if you do it every game for an entire season you lose 16 runs, and statistically the odds are 1-2 of those runs will probably cause you to lose a game you would have won, and over your lifetime there's probably going to be one or two times your favorite team's season turns on those games.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly I just feel weird that someone spent money for us and am going to feel guilty of it doesn't pay off at all. I'm willing to give it a go to be a normal baseball site and care about baseball again. It's like the yahoo season of community, I'm down to email Diane. Someone tell me some popular Twins opinions so I can start disagreeing with them.
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