<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
in a state he didn’t campaign inSt Cloud rally in July and Lincoln Reagan dinner in May don’t count for some reason?
I guess I will spell it out for you and DW moving forward, Trump didn’t campaign here ONCE Walz, the sitting MN Governor, was on the opposing ticket. So yes, that is a fact and Trump not campaigning here in August, September, or October likely impacted the result he got. Really didn’t think this was debatable.
my statement was factual.
No, it was not. Trump gained 3%, in a state he didn’t campaign in, with the sitting Governor on the opposing ticket. 3% is not flat. And 47% of the vote is historically good for a Republican in MN, 3rd best in the last 50 years. Saying that because he didn’t gain 11% like elsewhere, ignores facts, and is your opinion. Which you are entitled too, even if it is factually incorrect.
What gives you confidence the Minnesota republican leadership will change? They have continually dropped the ball and misread what voters care for.
Nothing gives me that confidence Matt, I totally agree with you. However, the optimism for me is that the MN Republican party is weak and poorly run enough, that an outsider could come in and win. Like John Kriesel, who left politics largely due to the idiocy on the gay marriage issue.
How about this idea, Metro Section Finals at the X or Mariucci during the week? Tell me those wouldn’t be close to sellouts for the top matchups. Plus they could more easily televise them, like they do in Duluth at the DECC.
I ordered one today, found the titanium one for 50 bucks.
Where did you find the deal on one? Or if you want to offload yours I’ll give you what you paid.
Is Scott Jensen considered a clown ? He lost 52-44 % last go round.
I don’t know about clown, but he was a one issue (Covid) candidate, who was terrible at debates and was not a very influential congressman prior to running. He’s from my area, and seemingly a very nice guy, but he is not a politician. I mean look how bad Walz looked against someone far more competent.
Until the MN GOP starts to distance itself from Trump, this is reality. Remember Trump made pretty significant gains in most states this last election, but stayed pretty flat in MN
I realize your hatred for the Orange Man has skewed your grasp of reality, but Trump did historically well in MN in spite of running against a sitting MN Governor on the opposing ticket. Which also meant he didn’t campaign here this time. Only republicans to gain a higher share of MN votes was W Bush in 2004, and Reagan in 84.
So what adds up to the 7 points now? More back points or is a takedown were more than 2?
Both. Takedown is 3 and up to 4 back points I believe. My oldest just started in wrestling and it’s a lot different these days. Apple Valley is not the king of the hill anymore, STMA, Waconia, Shakopee (among others) all have great programs from what I was told in AAA. And in lower classes the local programs we knew, Pierz and Foley are on a little down swing.
In ‘22 walz won by an almost 8 point margin.
In 2022 Walz lost the outstate by 200k votes, but won Hennepin and Ramsey County by 400k votes. And with the way MSP and StP are run, I don’t foresee that staying such an overwhelmingly blue area. On the flip side the MN Republican party is a mess with few, if any, real leaders. Hopefully someone comes forward as we do NOT want St Louis Park Peggy representing the Tribe in the senate for us.
Fair enough. Plus we don’t want to ruin the hierarchy, everyone loves the outstate, then dislikes metro public a little, metro private a lot, and everyone hates the Cake Eaters, Edina.
Looks like the cake eaters won their section again too
I’m no Edina apologist by any stretch, but is it time to add some teams to the Cake Eater name? Cake Eater is a derogatory term insinuating wealth, and while I know Edina is a little more old money, Wayzata, Minnetonka, WBL, Hill Murray, Chanhassen etc. have plenty of cake too!
no one is forcing you to be here
Why should we have to change when Tyrant Tim is the one who sucks? 
I think the fact the Blue Line and Northstar at one point in time had much higher ridership, is even more evidence to be totally done with rail. As those lines show where people live/work/recreate changes, and rail, quite obviously, cannot change. Run buses down all of them and it’d be a far better system. Instead of thousands of people waiting on a few trains after a full stadium event, there could be a hundred or more buses. Or no one commuting into the city at 7 am, pretty easy to adjust a bus schedule or volume.
My FW and I just got back from Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos in San Jose del Cabo (about 20-30 minute drive from Cabo San Lucas). This place was excellent and by far the best all inclusive I’ve stayed at (I’ve been to like 4-5 others in MX and DR). Riptides were bad, so no swimming on the beach but they had plenty of pools to keep you cool. Food was awesome, and definitely could have done some shore fishing if I came prepared as I often saw rooster fish and a few other unidentified species right up to shore in the morning.
Seeing whales surfacing/jumping was basically constant, along with jumping manta rays flying out of the water. We sat thru a timeshare pitch at Pueblo Bonito (home of Quivira Jack Nicklaus GC), and got a fishing trip, sunset dinner cruise and bottle of decent tequila out of sacrificing a couple hours. Fishing trip was with Top Anglers Fishing, Capn Paco and Javi, and that was fun, only caught one Mahi Mahi, but saw 3 marlins that we couldn’t get to bite. Had Ziva cook it up blackened, grilled and fried along with sides for $25/person with sides and drinks (obviously, it’s an all inclusive), and no regrets! In general we prefer the Caribbean but I would go back here in a heartbeat. It was very reasonable, and sounds like tourism is WAY down there, so there are a lot of deals to be had!
Little disappointed no one mentioned duct tape yet. Lots of good other recommendations, carry on. 
We flew to Cabo on Delta the same day and time as the Delta flight to Toronto that flipped. I need to get JG Wentworth on the line, I need cash now! 
I bet it will be a late ice out into April, lots of ice on the river and the forecast up there isn’t as nice as down here, like usual. We won’t lose much ice when it’s still well below freezing overnight.
sadly she went straight downhill after he passed. Last time I was in there before she passed on she had a handful of methheads in there and it wasn’t the bait shop it used to be.
Bummer, Steve was 1 of 1, and Robbie was always entertaining too. Is it still open? I haven’t been up in a while, but will be next weekend and usually stop in there.
The State of HS Boys Hockey in MN has never been better, a decade ago we were basically tied with Michigan and Massachusetts for most D1 hockey players. Here is last years top 10 states:
Minnesota – 233
Michigan – 138
Massachusetts – 127
New York – 109
Illinois – 54
New Jersey – 52
Pennsylvania – 48
California – 47
Connecticut – 42
Wisconsin – 38
Any recommendations of places?
Pleasureland RV, I believe they bought Brambilla’s in Shakopee.
It should be insulting to every thinking person, that they keep building rail lines. People are accustomed to their own vehicles, OR an Uber/Lyft picking them up wherever they are currently standing. Not walking, biking, driving or Ubering to a train station to go a few miles. I used to live in St. Paul and took the Green Line to DT MSP once, it was over an hour to go 11 miles. And then recently took the Blue Line from Term 2 to Term 1, there were multiple homeless people, a few empty liquor/beer bottles rolling around and a crack pipe. Just the place I want to bring my kids…I also work in EP, no one wanted the SW rail here from the get go, but still they pushed forward. Now no one goes DT for work, and the locals REALLY don’t want to export MSP problems here, and still it moves forward. It’s both ridiculous and insulting imo.
x2 on the topper and truck camping. Andy Fiolka (old IDO guy) has a whole series on YouTube about building out his truck camper. I think his channel is Outside605.
Mahi Mahi blackened, grilled and tempura batter fried.
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Randy you have my utmost respect. I wish there was something I could do to help you out or just give as a token of respect. Your father raised a helluva son.
These games have been fantastic! While youth hockey earns a lot of criticism, it sure seems to put out the most humble patriotic pro’s of any sport. Also, was anyone else having flashbacks of Granlund with the puck on his stick sitting behind the net doing nothing, or was that just me?
but I have yet had those that believed in the vaccine give those that didn’t give grief.
Besides the whole MSM narrative of a pandemic of the unvaccinated, people getting fired for not getting vaccinated, totally different rules for the unvaccinated, and 1984-esque vaccine cards…..ummm sure. I don’t care what people do, and truly do hope you get better soon, but yeah this statement forgets a lot of what happened 2020-2023.
Is Darnold signed?
No, and that’s the beauty of it. We will probably sign Danny Dimes for $10M a year, have him outperform your $55m/year QB, again. Before turning it over to our rookie franchise QB, who will probably outperform your $55M/year flop also. But yes congrats on the SB 14 years ago, and 28 years ago with 3 Franchise QB’s over 35 years. GrEaT SuCcEsS. I will give you credit on your consistency of one point of smack talk.
And the Vikings QB is better?
Yeah, by a wide margin, and ours was a journeyman fill in, while yours is the Franchise QB for years to come!
Yards/TDs/INT/Rating:
Darnold 4319/35/12/102.5
Love 3389/25/11/96.7
But the kids at the high school watched me yaking off the roof.
I can almost hear them in a few weeks, “remember when that concrete guy was hammered puking off the roof”(to a HSer any adult puking is drinking related even when it’s not)
Bring it on all ya Covid naysayer KEYBOARD warriors. I will listen to the Dr.’s any day after what I am going through – which is on me for not keeping up with “da shot”.
Get some horsepaste Jimmy! JK, hope you feel better soon!
I think Green Bay should take him back and make amends.
It’d be a nice step up from their current QB!
I had/have a mild case of bronchitis, but have avoided everything else and no Flu Shot. My wife and kids have run the full gamut norovirus, RSV (kids only), bronchitis and a couple milder colds (possibly Covid), and got the flu shot. (Just answering the OP’s questions, not implying a connection or not)
does your stance on this change if there ends up being big tax cuts handed out to the ultra wealthy after all this is said and done?
No. I will always celebrate eliminating waste and fraud. And judge any tax cuts on their own merit, or lack thereof.
Elon has more than $20B in contracts with NASA, not small potatoes.
And he had a massive Tesla Govt contract as well….all from the previous administration. Watch the left will now oppose EV’s (Tesla’s at least), space exploration and free speech/X (oh wait that ship already sailed).
The 3k mile oil change is far from dead for me and will keep doing so. Cheapest preventative maintenance you can do on a vehicle. 3k on the 2011 burb (225k miles) and 5k 2011 sonata (374k). Full synthetic oreilly brand for both.
Tough to argue with those miles, and I know you learned from the best!
