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South Carolina fires Will Muschamp. Buyout is $13 million.

Yep the Sanford experiment has failed miserably. He should be gone and let Simon take over as full time OC. Special teams have been a disaster for two years and whenever Fleck fires Wegner it won't be soon enough. I expected to take a step back defensively but it has been worse than I expected. Just terrible angles from LBs, soft soft coverage giving easy throws to young inexperienced QBs and allowing them to gain confidence, and last night was just total domination from Iowa's OL. Embarrassing performance.

Look at the change in live bet odds from the people who always seem to know in Vegas. They have swung the favorite to Trump. Big time change.

Vikings win. Damnit there goes Justin Fields too.

Dalvin Cook looks like he is gonna carry the Vikings to a worthless win today. On the other side Aaron Rodgers defended Mike Zimmer in the press this week and said it is crazy people mention him on the hot seat and then plays an absolutely terrible 2nd half of football and his O shows no urgency in the 4th quarter despite being down 14. Think Rodgers might be playing the long game here and trying to make sure Zim is around next year.

I don't condone what Miller did at all but I also don't think it needs to be held against him for his entire life like the kid can't change. Disappointed to see UND just bow down to public pressure and this is probably referring more to president/academic people than athletics people because I think they largely made the decision themselves. I trust that the coaching staff had done their homework on Mitchell and were confident his character at this point in time wasn't a concern. I'm not sure Miller would have played a huge role this year maybe 7this defenseman but in a covid year and injuries the president forcing the move right now really hurts the depth of this team. A 22 player roster where you dress 19 every night just seems a little lite to me. Maybe we can bring in a guy at semester.

I'm open to suggestions go ahead and throw out your guess at some combos.

Getting close to a month away from getting the season started. What are peoples thoughts on line combos heading into the season. Kawaguchi-Pinto-Adams Mismash-Weatherby-Caulfield Hain-Senden-Gaber Blaisdell-Keane-Ness Kiersted-JBD Sanderson-Frisch Kleven-Bast Miller Scheel/Thome Feeney Scratches-Moore, Rieger, Budy, Albrecht

Man Atlanta is so good at finding ways to lose. Really thought the Falcons and Bengals were gonna help the Vikes tanking hopes out a little today.

Vikes really proved something to me today. If you can lose to Atlanta you can lose to anybody. Sure Atlanta has a solid offense but I thought the Vikings would just outscore them but I'm sure glad to be wrong about that. I would think 3 or less wins should bring you a top 5 pick and with Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Carolina, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Dallas, ChicagoX2, and DetroitX2 I don't see any more than 2 maybe 3 more wins maximum in there.

As far as free agents I'd like to see the Twins target I have a few in mind. A few of the top free agents don't really fit like 2B LeMahieu and outfielders like Springer, Brantley, and Ozuna If the Twins were to move Jorge Polanco I think Didi Gregorius would be a great fit. On the pitching side we will go with starters first Trevor Bauer would be a dream fit at the top of the rotation with Maeda and Berrios. I don't know how realistic Bauer is though. Marcus Stroman would also be a great fit at the top of the rotation. Guys who probably won't be quite as high but would be good fits are Kevin Gausman and Taijuan Walker. There is some solid relief options as well with guys like Liam Hendricks, Joakim Soria, Blake Treinen, Yusmerio Petit, Greg Holland, Trevor Rosenthal, Alex Colome, Jake McGee, Tony Watson, Justin Wilson, and Jeremy Jeffress.

Twins free agents are pitchers-Odorizzi, May, Hill, and Clippard. Of that group I think you need to bring May back, I'd like to bring Clippard back, and if they can bring Odorizzi back to fill out the back of the rotation I'd be all right with it. I think Hill is at the end and I'm not sure how much he could start over a full season. Hitters-Cruz, Gonzalez, Adrianza, and Avila. I'm kinda torn on Cruz because I think he is a huge leader for this team and he still really produces. He also is really getting up there and it wouldn't be bad to have the DH spot open with some of the young guys coming. I do think I'd try to bring Cruz back for one more year. Gonzalez and Avila I'd let walk. Adrianza I'd try to bring back probably to fill that utility role. I'd definitely explore what you can get on the trade market. Kirilloff we didn't get to see much of but he has been hyped up. Aside from Cruz's double he probably had the two other hardest hit balls today. Rooker only got 20 ABs but I thought he definitely made the case to earn a starting spot next year. I wouldn't be surprised if the Twins go into next spring planning on both Kirilloff and Rooker starting opening day and I'd be good with that. That would mean 2 spots open up and the obvious one that everyone points to is Rosario. Where does the other spot come. Maybe it is Sano, maybe they don't bring back Cruz and Sano spends a lot of time at DH, or maybe it is just more of a rotating lineup in some spots through the week? With Kirilloff and Rooker being able to play 1st/OF that gives you some flexibility.

Exactly, give me the robot umps asap. Ump has been bad all day and then decides I'm sick of you hurting my feelings you're out of here.

Absolutely hate the decision to pull Berrios.

How many times this year has the Twins 3rd base coach sent a guy and the guy is about by 15+ feet?

If Rocco pulls him here he deserves all the heat he will get. Aside from the 2 walks Jose has been in complete control.

I don't mind some shifting but I've never been a big fan of a 3 completely on one side and the Twins seem to use that a lot. Even if Polanco would've been lined up a step towards 3rd from 2nd he would've easily made that play today.

Berrios loses command for 2 hitters and then the shift strikes again and the Astros take advantage for a run. Meanwhile Twins can't make solid contact at all. Lot of weak fly balls on very very hittable fastballs.

In the interview with Rocco just now he didn't entirely rule Buxton out for entering later in the game. Maybe he has some kind of flu or something?

Offensively I thought the Twins had a really good approach early. Really disciplined with the strike zone not chasing but as the game went on it looked like they were protecting the strike zone like they had 2 strikes when they had the advantage count. Polanco had a 2-0 and hit a popup to left on ball 3 well off the plate. Sano could've been up 3-1 in a count but reached out and hit a curveball off the plate softly to the 1st baseman. Happened multiple more times and it was very frustrating.

Don't think Astudillo would've been on the playoff roster if it was my call. Would've been better if Jeffers was still in there but Rocco has to pinch it Garver earlier for that great 3 pitch strikeout AB.

Another good call from Rocco. Astudillo's last AB came 12 days ago and his last full game came 15 days ago. Send him up to pinch hit with the game on the line though in the 9th.

Two huge errors from the Twins today and the Astros took advantage of both of them. Twins were terrible at the plate aside from a couple innings but couldn't convert on the opportunities. Rocco had his chance to impact the game with 1st and 2nd and nobody out by bunting Buxton but let him hit instead and Byron chased pitches and gave the pitcher a much needed out to completely change the inning. Terrible bullpen management as well from Rocco. No way Romo should be pitching the 9th in a close game. He is the guy who should come in for the 6th and you have May, Rogers, and Duffey for the 7th, 8th, 9th but for some reason Rocco fails to understand that. Heck I'd be more confident with Clippard on the mound over Romo too.

Nice job by Rogers there to escape the leadoff walk from Duffey.

Duffey you gotta attack Altuve there. He has been lost at the plate no need to be that careful.