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Top 10 things that need that happen in sports.

1. The Minnesota Vikings need to retire the #84. Randy Moss not only is considered the GOAT but single handily change the way the game of football was played.  

2. The Minnesota Timberwolves need to retire the number #21. When KG entered the league and was drafted, the team was worth 90 million dollars, after years of success and putting the team on his back, he was trade and the value of the club was 400 million. A lot of that value comes from KG and what he meant to this franchise. It’s criminal that his number isn’t retired.

3. Seattle and the city of Las Vegas deserve an NBA franchise. After seeing the response to the Golden Knights, and the raiders coming to town, the city of Las Vegas is the next major sports town. Seattle was robbed of the Supersonics, and with them getting an NHL franchise, Seattle should get their NBA team back, it’s just not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.

4.  Move New Orleans and Memphis to the West. If you add 2 more teams to the east, it would leave an advantage of 2 more to the west over the east. These are the only 2 teams near the Mississippi River that could justify the move.

5.  The NFL needs to acknowledge the marketing idea of American football in London is a failed experiment. It’s a cause of concern for players and NFL logistics, and the key factor; American football will never go over in England, it’s a soccer country. There is no way this is a win for the NFL.

6. More Football in Hawaii. I liked the idea of having the pro bowl in Hawaii, it offered something different. If the pro bowl is no longer an option, at the very least we could do some preseason games at Aloha Stadium.  I know as a Vikings fan, if LA was playing a home game against the Vikings in august at Aloha Stadium I would most definitely go. Plus, there are too many Polynesian and Samoan football players in the league for this not to be a thing.

7. Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson to the Hall of Fame.  The MLB needs to put its age old ego aside and do the right thing. Joe was acquitted of cheating during the 1919 World Series and it’s a damn shame he isn’t in the hall, the man loved the game so much he would play under a fake alias in different farm leagues just to keep playing the game. As for Pete, I think his contributions to the game and the penitence he has paid thus far is enough. The MLB can’t point their finger when their own hands are dirty. There’s a difference between innocence and complicit denial of one’s own wrong doings and failure. Something the MLB needs to recognize involving this matter.

8. Cold Weather cities in the MLB need to play the first couple weeks of the season on the road. Fans aren’t going to come out and watch crappy baseball just to be cold. As a twins fan they’re doing really well thus far and can’t put asses in the seats. Now part of that is because during the target field era, they’ve been shit. There’s too much lost revenue when clubs are at 44% capacity like the twins are and some of the numbers reported are more than likely inflated due to the season ticket holders who don’t show. If we started after Jackie Robinson Day I think it would be much more profitable during the course of the season for clubs. #putaroofonit

9. Thanksgiving Day games in the NFL need to be division rivals. Now I am being completely selfish with this one because I am and Vikings Fan and live in Minnesota but I find it a little more entertaining when its either the lions vs any one of their division rivals or the cowboys vs any of in the east. Rival games will always draw more and have more of a meaning. And for the third game, make it a rivalry matchup but make it a good one like the Rams Vs Seahawks, not the Jags vs Titans. No one wants to see that shit.

10. College Football needs grow to an 8 or 12 team playoff. Nothing else has worked and they can’t seem to get this shit right. The definition of insanity is doing the same old thing over and over again expecting different results.

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Glen Taylor Doesn’t Know Shit About Basketball

Glen Taylor maybe one of the worst professional sports owners of all-time and a pack of wolves is nothing without an alpha. During the course of his ownership in a state that is begging for sustained success in basketball, he has failed as the essential leader of the franchise.  

The Timberwolves have been around since 1989, next season will mark the 30th season for the franchise. Glen Taylor has owned the team for almost 25 of them compiling at the time this is being written 820 wins 1100 losses,  from 1996-2003 the wolves had 7 straight first round knock outs, the best showing would be the 2003-2004 season making the western conference finals and there after The wolves went on a 13 season playoff draught, a list that at one point had the buffalo bills (no longer on the list), the Seattle Mariners whom hold the record currently having missed the playoffs for 17 straight seasons last making it 2001 after tying their league record at the time with 116 wins, the Carolina Hurricanes have missed 9 straight but in their defense the last time they made the playoffs it resulted in a Stanley Cup and currently ended that streak.  For as much as I think Jimmy and Thibs were tools, that playoff run was nothing without them and that’s a hard pill to swallow. We got a taste of the playoffs but are flirting with another long drought if we don’t correct somethings.

One would blame the lack of success on a heap of different reasons wither it be the 9 different head coaches over Taylor’s tenure,  the numerous GM’s, Presidents of basketball operations or  whatever the meaningless title they’re given happens to be. the inability by this franchise to draft credible talent, with the exception clearly being KAT, KG, Love, JR Rider to a certain degree, Laettner, Zach Lavine(which we will get to later) Taylor has allowed some great talent to slip away by allowing stupid picks or trades to be made like Ray Allen for Marbury or drafting Ndudi Ebi with the #26th overall pick and passing on Kendrick Perkins, Leandro Barbosa and Josh Howard, now these names may not jump out on paper but all have had much better NBA careers than Ebi. Oh drafted Flynn over Steph Curry and in the same draft traded away ty Lawson. In 2010 they drafted Wesley Johnson passing on Cousins who was taken at 5, Paul George and Gordon Hayward.  Let not forget the Joe Smith deal costing us draft picks and our dignity in the NBA. Taylor’s inept behavior has placed this franchise in to a dark corner of misery and false hope.

If I go any deeper into this madness I may go bat shit crazy. The Wolves and Glen Taylor have made some of the most idiotic moves in sports. They got baited into offering a max contract to Andrew Wiggins who is in my opinion not a franchise player of this team, he is simply a role player, a mediocre one at that whose career average is 19.4 pts, 4.3 TRB 2.2 AST and shooting just 44% from the field and 33.2 percent from beyond the arc and a shit 73.5 from the free throw line. Aside from injuries a lot of fans called for Wiggins not Zach to be in the jimmy trade but I’d like Zach to know one thing, we miss you. .

If you take anything away from this, it should be The wolves fan base needs to start speaking up and demanding more or Taylor needs to sell, Taylor has allowed for numerous bonehead deals to go down, his failure hire long term coaching beyond flip, which flip deserves all of the credit for the success of this team.  And there’s number 21, the greatest basketball player to grace a wolves uniform has yet to see his number retired and basically has little to nothing to do with this franchise. When KG got to this team it was worth around 90 million dollars and when KG left it was worth 400 million. It’s time for Glen to take a long hard look in the mirror and consider what’s best for this franchise and a state that’s allowed him to do business.  Glen maybe a good businessman but when it comes to basketball, in the words of #21 Kevin Garnett “Glen Taylor doesn’t know shit about basketball.” An Actual Quote.