We quickly recap AEW Dynamite, discuss why the Vikings shouldn’t make a pick on Day 1 of the 2023 NFL Draft, celebrate the Twins’ first regular season series win over the Yankees since 2001, and mourn the death of the Wild.

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AEW Dynamite Recap! As It Should Be!

• Orange Cassidy defends the AEW International Championship against Bandido
  • His 20 title defenses are 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 Anthony’s 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, is 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