The Wolves shot 7-47!!! from 3 point range last night…I’m guessing the defense is forcing NAW to take shots, but he really needs to find somebody else to shoot…
NAW was 2-9, but Ant and Divencenzo were 2-23 combined. Most of those weren’t even close to going in. McDaniels only played 18 minutes before fouling out and had 8 points. Still makes no sense how we were able to win that game.
Nice part if we get the Warriors we’d have home court.
Would definitely echo the sentiments that we were just much better than the Lakers. I don’t watch a lot of regular season so I wasn’t sure how we’d match up being they had Luka and Lebron, but their supporting cast is very mediocre and even those two stars were fairly uninspiring. No way we should have won last night, the Lakers were just terrible though.
Would be nice to see Ant able to do a little more than get to the rim or shoot 25 footers – like wiggle free and knock down 18 footers like Kobe or MJ. Frustrating to see him disappear some games.
Fairly ugly game with the exception of Randle and Rudy. (Sounds odd saying that) We’ll take the W and the close-out of the Lakers!!!
Definitely was an ugly win, but good to close them out. Hard to believe a professional basketball team could shoot 7-47 from 3. Very tired of watching Luka fall over and get calls and whine about everything, so nice to see him gone. Could be nice to get a couple extra days off and make the Warriors’ old legs work.
I hope those who hate Buxton get a chance to watch him when he’s healthy. Another homerun and triple tonight. The guy can flat out fly when healthy. 11-3 bottom of 6.
I don’t think anyone hates Buxton. But it is frustrating that he’s been hurt for most of his prime.
Wolves played well – obviously we’re not going to shoot 51% from 3 every game but that was fun to watch. Our roster is better than theirs but Luka (and LeBron to a lesser extent) will win them some games.
My mind on it is we’re going to have to incentivize conservation or very few are going to do it and as technology advances more and more land is being torn up/drained, etc. The benefits usually spill over to other lands (deer move off private, ducks hatch and fly everywhere, water flows, etc).
Saw that it was not only the smallest crowd of the Target field era, but the smallest since 2002. Weather was bad but a pretty marquee opponent in the Mets, I think the fan base is definitely getting tired of the same old.
I couldn’t find a Mets feed on TV so I don’t know what the attendance looks like. I do know a lot of former New Yorkers will spike the crowd count.
The heat is turning up on Falvey and Rocco. The Athletic had a story today stating Rocco might not survive this.
Gleeman had a tweet that announced attendance was just over 10k, lowest ever of the Target Field (non-covid) era.
I googled it and it looks like you can, but I don’t have firsthand experience with that.
I wouldn’t really disagree with that. Up there with Tiger and Phil in the last 25 years.
Haven’t watched a lot of games yet but thought after coming back from supper hey let’s turn on the Twins after a busy week…nope on Apple TV tonight. Good grief.
Correa is a good player who would be a solid piece of a contending team but is 30 years old and we’re several players away from contending IMO (for real, not just to make the playoffs). And he’s making 33M/per. If we’re middling along in July I wouldn’t mind moving him for some good prospects. Probably a limited number of teams that would take on that contract though. Buxton (age 31) of course is not leading us anywhere but no one is going to give up anything good for him. Royce is too young and too cheap to give up on yet.
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Wolves are playing great but getting into the 6th spot is a challenge.Their tied for the 6th spot now. Their last 6 games four are against crap teams and one with the Bucks and one with the Grizzlies who their tied with. With that schedule they should end up in 5th.
I’m not sure if the playoffs work in the usual 6 plays 3 then plays the winner of 2 vs. 7 but if it is it might be better to be the 6 than the 5 as the 5 would have to play OKC in the second round. Putting the horse wayyyy before the cart there though.
Looking for assistance from the friendly folks of IDO on getting more familiar with my Humminbird. Coming from a world of Lowrance the last 7 years I am needing to learn more about Hbird and the unit I have on the new boat. I’ve done some of the settings tutorials on utube and continue to tinker.
The unit I have is the Helix 12 G4 Chirp MSI+ and MDI+. On my boat invoice it also says I have the Hbird XNT 9 HW-T X-Ducer. I’m assuming this second ducer is the high speed ducer? Why do I need this? Also, which ducer should I be selecting on the unit?
I have the same setup, albeit a 10″ screen. I have the SI ducer on the starboard side of the transom and the HW ducer on the port side, as this seems to be what was recommended (I haven’t looked into the through-hull option). The thinking is that the SI ducer is large and can be tricky to get good on-plane readings but moreso it’s a $300 bill if you hit a floating branch, etc and break it so you set the transducer up a couple inches so that it is dry when on plane. The HW ducer is around $80 so hurts less if you wreck it. You connect the two to the unit with a Y cable. I can’t recall which ducer you’d select but it should work fine. This video’s first couple minutes discuss the setup a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1B_gJzJHs
Fair enough. Could be a long year
Obviously way too early to get worried but I’ve been scratching my head a bit as I’ve heard a few pundits predict the Twins will be pretty good. Pitching should be decent but I struggle to see where this lineup is consistently going to put up many runs, even if Royce comes back soon and does well:
Wallner
Correa
Buxton
Larnach
France
Jeffers/Vazquez
Castro
Miranda
Gasper/Bader/etc.
Wallner, Correa, and Buxton are a combined 0-24 these first two games. Yikes.
I’m in the same boat as most here, I don’t see a ton of promise on the roster. Pitching staff should be ok if they stay healthy. Would be nice to see Wallner really blossom but we’ll see. Hard to put much faith in Lewis, Buxton, Correa. But, the division should be pretty bad again so who knows.
Cabelas/BP has Helix G4 MSI 10″ for 1199 and 9″ for 999. Those are pretty solid deals. It appears that includes the transducers but double check. Guessing Scheels would match that too.
As far as the G2 models, they’ll be fine but you’re probably dealing with a little slower processor plus a unit that is probably 5 years old. Personally I wouldn’t pay more than 500 for a 10.”
As far as updates, I’ve never noticed any differences when I update my helixes. I’m sure they have their benefits, just not for any features I use.
I doubt it will drop the demand much.
Much of my extended family smoked when I was growing up in the 90s, most fortunately quit eventually. I don’t really know anyone who smokes anymore and none of my work or recreation activities really put me around smokers. It’s almost jarring when I smell smoke anymore, so hard to believe we used to eat in restaurants with it, not to mention the bars when I was in college…yuck!
Glad to see this finally posted (I think I submitted it on Sunday morning 
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After more searching I was kinda thinking what Bman posted also due to the height issue.
And yeah, the block of wood sort of works but figured this would be a good upgrade for $35.
Thanks everyone!
Also, all a kid has to do is say they didn’t bring it today or that they left it somewhere or let their friend borrow it, all the while it’s in their pocket or backpack. What’s a teacher/staff member gonna do, pat them down? Make them walk thru phone detector devices? Wand them down with a cellphone wand?
Just too tough to enforce for government and schools IMO.
Teacher here as well. Have tried the phone caddy thing (my high school says phones should be put away during class but no real teeth and many teachers don’t follow) and it’s a hassle. 75% of kids are good about it but you get the ones who are always trying to get around it and as a teacher it becomes a pain in the rear to police and I’d rather worry about teaching than be a cell phone cop. The schools I’ve heard of “banning” them seem to have positive reports, often times kids even report that they enjoy feeling free from them. Appalling how many parents text/IG their kids all day long while they’re at school. Sad how many kids don’t even talk to any peers at school, just play on their phone every free second.
I teach upper level science classes and it is sad to see how many kids who “struggle” or say a class is “too hard” or that a teacher isn’t good spend every free second mindlessly staring at their phone and I don’t think really ever study. Mind you, plenty of kids still do work hard and do what they need to do well. So many kids rush through the work so they can get back to playing on their phone “well I’m done with my work” and you look at the work they’ve done and it’s total garbage. That’s my biggest beef with the phones, no attention span and attention to detail on their learning. And yes, the amount of phone/social media drama our administrators have to deal with is disgusting. Plenty of research out there that anxiety and depression are way up in kids since smartphones came about. I can’t imagine if I would have had one of those things in my hands 24 hours a day when I was 13.
I just dumped some minnows that I’ve had since a week before Christmas sitting in a gallon bucket in my garage that I keep around 45*. No aerator or anything, just changed the water maybe every 10 days. I probably started with 5 dozen and lost about a dozen over that time. Unless you’re really keeping minnows a long time or a huge quantity, I really don’t think much is needed other than keeping them cold. These were fatheads which I’m sure are a little more hardy than shiners.
Seems like Wisconsin and Iowa keep their talent in state. When is the last time a big time recruit stayed here? Maybe Kris Humphrey?
Most Big Ten schools aren’t going to keep 5 star recruits in state for basketball, but you’d think you’d luck out on a couple 3 or 4 stars developing into well above average players, which I think is what Iowa and Wisconsin have done. It’s not like you need 30 very good players like in football to compete with the better teams. I count one above .500 season in the Big Ten for MN in the last 20 years, kinda sad.
Very true on the mediocrity, and it is odd that Iowa and Wisconsin are in the top 20 almost every year and the Gophers usually struggle to be in the top 10 of the Big 10.
Haven’t bought one but have looked into them and would strongly consider it on my next purchase. Flood ford, Ziegler and Granger all seem to have good reviews on various vehicle or ford forums.
But, did they catch anything?
Watching a ice fishing show with Marcus Quam in South Dakota. He has a Sno-Bear he drives around in. Seems like the ideal thing if you’re guiding or live on a lake. He has more screens in there than some sports bars.
Not my cup-o-tea but I can see where clients would like it.
Only about a $100k rig…definitely sweet though.
That’s pretty awesome. For ~$100/yr that seems like something I should look into, although it looks like a lot of things could be denied. I’ve been pretty lucky with owning labs for over 15 years and have only had a couple times where they’ve needed stitches due to barbed wire but I know accidents can get silly expensive in a hurry. Probably jinxed it now 
Definitely difficult to get my hopes up much for the Twins this coming season. Starting pitching should be decent with Pablo, Ober and Ryan…not too sure of much else with no first baseman and our best 3 players being very injury prone.
