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