All right my winter break is over. I'd like to welcome you to 2009 and we are going to dive into the a few topics today, and I'll continue to update regularly again.
First off I find it very amusing that a day after the elections took place back in November Norm Coleman said, "Al Franken should not ask for a recount, and if he were in Al's shoes he would have accepted defeat." But then yesterday former senator Coleman filed a lawsuit of his own over the results of the senatorial election that has claimed Al Franken as the winner. Way to stand by your word Norman. Also Norm Coleman has now lost elections to Jesse Ventura and Al Franken.
Secondly if you're looking to purchase a house. Never ever ever go through Wells Fargo. And if the name BRIAN WARHOL ever pops up as someone you have to deal with, run like hell. He is in my opinion the WORST HUMAN BEING ALIVE! Tell your friends and family about him, scream it from a mountain!
Next up how can the Utah football team not be national champions? They won every single game they played. Something no other team in America will do in Division I football this year. So Utah never really actually had a chance to win a National Championship then. So what are these teams supposed to be playing for? This entire system is a joke? So you might have a 1 loss Oklahoma as the champion even though they lost to a 1 loss team, in Texas. So you might have a 1 loss team, Florida as the National Champion, but what about the 1 loss team USC? How can you justify voting for any of these teams over another? The college rankings are a joke. Take basketball for instance. Last week North Carolina was the unanimous #1 team in the country they lost 1 game. And now they're #3 in both polls. And their even behind another team Duke who has lost 1 game too. Did that much change over night in the eyes of 100 voters. They rankings should be abolished. At the very least they should not begin before the season. Have them start halfway through.
Minnesota sports are in complete disarray. The Vikings still do not have a quarterback, and are keeping a coach who has proven time after time, that isn't smarter than the average fan. The Timberwolves will win enough games that they'll get a pick in the 4-7 range, and then we'll find out there are 3 great players. And even if we do draft a great player, we'll trade him before the night is over (Ray Allen, Brandon Roy, O.J. Mayo, Mario Chalmers). So let's start making room for another white player that doesn't have a true NBA position. "Ladies and Gentlemen with the 5th pick in the NBA draft the Minnesota Timberwolves take Tyler Hansborough from the University of North Carolina!" The Wild will be mediocre enough to finish with the 7th or 8th seed, and get stomped by the Red Wings or Sharks. So Eason if you read this I do not want to purchase playoff tickets this year. The Twins give us a little reason to be optimistic, but our biggest off season move was signing Nick Punto. So yes we have a good young pitching staff, but are they all going to improve as expected? Are we going to say with 100% confidence that Span and Casilla are going to have years like they did last year? What about Gomez is he going to make us forget about Johan Santana? How about this. Carl Pohlad just died. If his family wants to convince us that they aren't as frugal as ol Carl. Go out and sign Manny. Put him in left, move Monroe to right, and put Cuddyer at 3rd. I don't care about the defense. If you have a batting order of
Span
Mauer
Manny
Morneau
Cuddyer
Kubel
Young
Punto
Casilla
Gomez
We'll win some ball games. If we added Manny our payroll still wouldn't be as high as it was 2 years ago. Think about that for a while. You could even have promotional 3M(Mauer, Manny, Morneau) nights. Give out post it scorecards to the first 50,000 fans. And with that lineup there would be plenty of nights where you would get 50,000 fans.
Anyways welcome to 2009.
4 comments:
I agree with most of what you said except for the Manny thing. Albeit a good idea, there is no chance of it ever happening. If there is one thing I've learned about being a Minnesota fan it's, don't hold your breath. We are the land of mediocrity. Everyone is okay with being average. "Minnesota nice" is what it's come to be called. Whoever made up that saying should be repeatedly kicked in the balls the rest of their life. I'm sick of it. Does anyone ever remember a trade or a signing in which Minnesota was on the recieving end of something good. From now on instead of being "Minnesota nice" we should be "Minnesota mean fuckers" until our shitty teams actually get something accomplished. Let's hold our owners and managers responsible for our years of suffering and not respect them until I'm partying in the streets of downtown Minneapolis or St. Paul drunk as a skunk because it was finally my team that won a championship.
Does anyone ever remember a trade or a signing in which Minnesota was on the recieving end of something good.
Twins receive: Joe Nathan, Boof Bonser, Francisco Liriano
Giants receive: AJ Pierzynski (for 1 year)
Just sayin'.
That being said, I totally agree that MN mediocrity is BS. The excuse is always, "Oh, we're a small market so it makes it harder to compete..." I think it just comes down to inept management. Hire people that can scout talent, coach, and motivate. One day we'll be cheersing at a bar downtown celebrating a championship (crossing fingers).
I hope that day comes some day. It's been too long
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