> Well, after having stumbled out of the gate the vaunted Vikings come back from an early bye week and stand at 1-2, and with a LOT of questions. The offense has been a sporadic mess, with poor play from QB Brett Favre, an inconsistent offensive line, and getting absolutely nothing out of any wide receivers not named Percy Harvin. It's been ugly and if not for the efforts of RB Adrian Peterson, and TE Visanthe Shiancoe, it would resemble the feeble unit Chilly stuck on the field in 2006. The defense has been excellent and I expect improvement with the return from injuries of CBs Cedric Griffin and rookie Chris Cook. Not to mention that DE Jared Allen has been largely invisible and it would be nice if he began making regular appearances once again. The loss of WR Sidney Rice has been HUGE, and I absolutely fault the coaching staff for failing to 1.) make more than a marginal effort to replace him and 2.) for not being able to come up with a way to circumvent this loss and come up with other ways to move the football. Very shabbily done, and to be perfectly honest, unprofessional. Here's a hint Chilly: Can't stretch the defense?...how about some slants and crossing routes? Screen passes? Reverses and/or flea flickers. I don't dislike Brad Childress, and last year we got to see what his "vision" of this thing could ascend to. And it was awesome. However, the inability to adjust on the fly and react to the now equals poor coaching, and the fish stinks from the head down. 'Nuff said.
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> The Los Angeles Kings have signed former Wild D Willie Mitchell to a 2-year contract.
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> Okay folks, with regards to the Minnesota Golden Gopher football program, I will say this:..........EEAAAAGGGHH!!! Enough of the Tim Brewster Head Coaching Experiment. Losing 4 consecutive home games to USC (understandable), but also to such leafy-greens as South Dakota, Northern Illinois, and Northwestern is just not acceptable. We're going nowhere and before we take glittering TFC Bank Stadium and turn it into a dustbowl, let's remove this guy and PLEAD with Tony Dungy or Marc Trestman to come up here and run the football program!
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> Mass props to the A.L. Central Division Champion Minnesota Twins on winning their 6th Division Title in the past 9 years. And we did secure home-field advantage in the first round match-up vs. the dreaded Yankees, so if there was a series where home-field was needed, it was this one. All you will hear in the next day or so hours is how the Twins have been spanked repeatedly in the past playoff series by the Yankees and how we have no chance against them and blah, blah, blah. We'll they're right. We've been terrible against NY both in the regular season as well as the playoffs. The loss of 1b Justin Morneau for the rest of the season should be looked at two separate ways: 1.) I fell awful for him. This has to be killing him to not be out there enjoying this with his teammates. And 2.) From a Twins perspective, they should be used to this. Morneau has been either miserable or missing the past 3 Septembers anyway, so this isn't anything new. The Yankees are the far more storied franchise, and have all the rings to show for it, but we're a good ballclub too, and I don't think that right now they're any better than we are. Postseason baseball is about who steps up in crunch time, and who doesn't. Who pitches a gem, and who has a meltdown. Maybe this is our year and maybe we get some Target Field karma going and finally knock these guys off. The drama begins tomorrow night.....stay tuned...
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> Complete And Total Ineptitude Award: The (alleged) MLB franchise Pittsburgh Pirates have just completed their 18th CONSECUTIVE losing season. I'll reiterate: 18 CONSECUTIVE losing seasons. That's incredible.
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> Call me crazy, call me kooky, but I'm actually fired up over the upcoming Timberwolves season. Yes,..I said fired up,....and Timberwolves,......in the same sentence. Hard to believe. But I just like the fact that we're younger, bigger, stronger, faster, and can shoot better than last year's squad. That HAS to initiate some positive results doesn't it?? I honestly think that with hungry, motivated guys like F Michael Beasley, C Darko Milicic, F Kevin Love, G/F Martell Webster, F Anthony Tolliver, and rookie G/F Wesley Johnson, I think we can compete. Playoffs?....playoffs?? I don't know about that. I'm not going to map out my championship parade route for next summer just yet, but I expect to see much growth and energy from this years' team, and next year I expect to see PG Ricky Rubio running the whole she-bang towards the post-season.
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> Also, don't forget that the Wild open the regular season this week in Finland against the Carolina Hurricanes. They haven't looked particularly sharp in preseason play, but we'll just have to see how our new guys acclimate to Todd Richards system. Nice move also, by signing G Jose Theodore after back-up goalie Josh Harding was lost for the year with a torn ACL.
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> Mike Veiseth can be found this MLB Playoff season drinking coldies, chowing Hot Winges, rooting on the Twins against the Evil Empire, and hoping that Big Ben's return in Pittsburgh leads an all out assault on the AFC Title this year.
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