Why the Vikings Won't Make a Selection on Day 1 of the NFL Draft

AEW Dynamite Recap! As It Should Be!

• Orange Cassidy defends the AEW International Championship against Bandido

  • His 20 title defenses most by a man in AEW

  • Only Jade has more; speaking of Jade

• She actually looked good…cuz Taya Valkyrie made her look good

  • Jade did do a superplex, though; first time I’ve seen her climb to the top rope

  • How about Taya almost taking Aubrey Edwards down the Road to Valhalla?! 

• How about that Pillars Tournament?!

  • MJF pays Sammy Guevara and helps him win the tournament

    • Beauty of a move throwing Darby Allin his skateboard and Sammy taking a dive

  • Guevara wins the tournament, but now has to tag with MJF against Darby and Jungle Jack Perry in order to main event Double or Nothing

    • Otherwise it’ll be a four-way for the title, which it was always going to be

• Super Kick Party!

  • Young Bucks save Kenny Omega after Konusoke Takeshita gets the win over Butcher and the Blade

  • What am execution of the Paradigm Shift by Omega

  • Konusoke Takeshita takes a screwdriver to the face! To the face!

Who Will the Vikings Draft?

• Calijah Kancey, DL, Pitt, the most popular pick for the Vikings at 23rd overall

  • The Athletic and Ryan Wilson of CBS both have Minnesota taking Kancey

• Trading up for Will Levis (or Anthony Richardson?) could happen

  • They’d have to target the fourth (Colts) or 11th (Titans) overall pick to get either

  • Trading for Seattle’s pick at fifth overall has been suggested

• We all agree the Vikings won’t make a pick on the Day 1

  • Trade for Lamar Jackson

  • Trade for Trey Lance

  • Trade down

Twins Win Season Series Over Yankees for First Time Since 2001

• Minnesota takes the season series over New York for the first time in 22 years

  • Anthony was there and used TicketRev for the first time

  • He was 15 the last time the Twins did that

• Joe Ryan and Sonny Gray look damn good

  • Both went seven innings and handled the heart of the Yankee lineup three times

• Alex Kiriloff is crushing the ball for St. Paul

  • Three dingers in 19 ABs (.421/.522/.947)

  • Just a 1.469 OPS

  • Who’s going to be demoted to make room for him onw the roster?

    • Willi Castro has just a .598 OPS

    • Nick Gordon has been even worse but is out of options

Wild Get Support from Buxton, Correa but not from Refs, Kaprizov, Boldy

• Twins Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa got Game 3 started in St. Paul

  • The Wild are 0-2 since

• Marcus Foligno got screwed in Games 3 and 4

  • Took a minor for tripping on a play that should have been, at the very worst, coincidental minors for elbowing and tripping, or at best, a minor penalty on Dallas for elbowing

    • Instead of 4-on-4 or a Wild power play, Dallas gets the power play and the deciding goal

  • Got a ridiculous game misconduct penalty for kneeing, which had no contact with a knee and should have been, at most, a minor tripping penalty

    • Won’t be suspended

    • Won’t matter

  • The Wild’s two leading scorers, Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy, have been nonfactors in the series

    • Dallas coach Pete DeBoer has a history of shutting down Kaprizov, “holding him a combined three goals and four points in 12 playoff games,” per The Athletic’s Joe Smith

    • Boldy has three points in the series

  • Penalties have been the baneq of the Wild’s postseason existence

    • Nine power play goals allowed

    • 4-for-18 on the power play

  • As Anthony indicated before the series started, if the Wild can’t stay out of the sin bin, they won’t get by the Stars