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    George Wendt, Norm!, has passed away

    A few months ago, Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson had Wendt join them on their podcast and it was a wonderfully nostalgic ride through the heydays of Cheers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-everybody-knows-your-name-with-ted-danson-and/id1745204141?i=1000702803241
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    Nice use of all three of those guys, and particularly tip the cap to your utilization of Tippy. I went: Ken Schrom (.2%) Jimmie Hall (.1%--that man bounced around for a career that lasted 8 years, with the first 4 in MN) Terry Felton (.06%) Also slid Kirby into the 2B/only one team...
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    All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

    If I did my math correctly, in the last three games, the Twins have collected 14 runs and their opponents have collected 14 hits ((no runs, of course).
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    All Things 2025 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

    There have only been two Funderburk’s in MLB history and to this point, they have both played exclusively with the Twins (Mark was a power hitting 1B from ‘81(?) who didn’t deliver the power and headed over to Japan before Hrbek settled in for the next decade or so)
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    Who were your biggest surprises/obscurities?
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    David Mutaf, Bakary Konate, Gaston Diedhiou, and Oto Osieniks are offended by this question.
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    Wow, really shocked on AC being on that list, not the 10+ TD list. I did my typical cheat code, knowing that I had Moss in my pocket, so went looking for low scores and checked Jordan and Senser and then went w/Sammy White (only his rookie season did he eclipse). It is interesting, as prolific...
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    Twins & Vikings on the grid today… Cubs: closer from early ‘80s who was gasoline and a match (.9%) ROY: shared the award and had a promising career cut short by a bad back (9%) 20 game: hero of ‘65 squad Rams: HOF lineman who ran the string out with the Rams (1%) Chiefs: one of the recent CB...
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    Massive boys basketball tournament brings top recruits, social media stars to Twin Cities

    Old man on porch comment… So glad that I grew up in an era where the automatic instinct was not to use I’ll my phone/camera out and begin filming—yes, hypocritical for me to watch a video and complain about those taking the video but the need for everyone to document everything and anything, no...
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    Like Roster Medved Has Built

    Agreed. Just as it’s hard to predict how good the Gophers will be, I’d say it’s the same for other programs too, now matter how stacked their rosters may seem. USC is the kid in the candy store with a $100 bill, but how those players mesh, what happens to the players who don’t get the play time...
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    Draymond Green: The agenda to continue to keep making me look like an angry black man is crazy.

    There's a lot of things that I miss about living overseas, but being able to avoid Draymond Green's vocal stylings (who, if I'm following correctly, seems to getting set up as the next generation Charles Barkley when he retires--with not a lick of Chuck's charm nor humor, from what I've seen)...
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    Which Gophers did you miss on badly - you thought XYZ Gopher would be much better or much worse?

    Great thread Bleed, here's my go at it. . . Royce White. If he possessed even a 25 cent head, the whole Tubby Smith era could have taken a much different path and the abyss the program has been for the better part of the post-Haskins era might have been tempered. Ernest Nzigamasabo. I blame...
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    Movies that hold up vs. those that don't

    Rewatched The Great Escape recently, and man does that movie rock, just a great tale throughout it's nearly 3 hours. And while Steve McQueen might be the coolest guy ever, I'd be very satisfied with being James Coburn cool--his run with The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, and Charade was...
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    Movies that hold up vs. those that don't

    I loved the book so much, that I've avoided watching the movie, figuring it would disappoint, but you've got me putting it on my list (right behind The Right Stuff).
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    Movies that hold up vs. those that don't

    Movies before PG-13 was a wild time--the first naked woman I saw on screen was in "The Toy" in 1982 (talk about a movie with a gaping wide, confounding question of "how could that get made in '82?") which was rated PG. Alas, PG-13 arrived when I turned 12 years old, so the prime years of being...
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    I went with... Braves: Joe Niekro (4%) Brewers: Caleb Boushley (.008%-my favorite UW-Lacrosse alum on the board, narrowly edging out Jerry Augustine) 6+ WAR: Bob Allison (.7%) I'm going to have to take a look at that WAR in detail, shocked that Mays had a 6+ WAR season. WAR is such a...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    And unlike Ice Cube, it doesn’t seem likely triple doubles are in his future.
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    All Things 2025 Minnesota Vikings Off-Season Thread

    Feels like this is a bit you’re running into the ground now. I don’t think anyone can presume to get into Aaron Rodgers head and if one thing has been demonstrated by him over the last several years is he doesn’t have the humility to quietly step into a backup/advisor role for a young QB.
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    All Things 2025 NFL Draft

    I haven't been this outraged since Ron Mexico jerseys were selling like hotcakes!
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    All Things Immaculate Grid-related (MLB, NBA, NFL)

    Padres-Buck Buchanan (.3%) Cards-Tom Nieto (.4%) Marlins-Mike Redmond (2%) I slid Gaetti into Cards/300 homers for .8% Unfortunately, Reds/Marlins kept me from a perfect grid. April’s been a rough month for me.



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