Baseball winter meetings, could the Twins make a trade for pitching? Vikings injury news, Jefferson and Evans will be back. Jim thinks the Vikings will announce their starting QB on Wednesday and thinks it will be Dobbs.

Coming out of their bye, the Vikings have several questions to answer number one being who will be the starting QB on Sunday? Jim also says signing Danielle Hunter to a contract extension is paramount second only to locking up Justin Jefferson.  Jim also talks about the Timberwolves having the best record in the Western Conference for more days this year so far than all the years they’ve been in the NBA combined.

Jim and Todd talk about the Wild's big in Nashville, Bill Guerin seeing what he wanted. Wolves win without two starters, they could really go on a run in December. What should the Vikings do with Danielle Hunter?

Jim and Todd talk about Gopher basketball. Will Edwards play tonight for the Wolves, if not, who starts? Will it be strange for John Hynes to coach his old team in Nashville tonight? Jim believes the Vikings will draft a QB in '24.

What does it say about the Gopher football program that their starting QB Athan Kaliakmanis enters the transfer portal after his first season as the starter? Timberwolves win, Jim says Rudy Gobert made a statement. Wild should win their first game under a new head coach, where do they go from here?

Which is the bigger story, the Vikings losing and maybe changing QB's again, or the Wild firing HC Dean Evason? Wolves host OKC, Chet Holmgren, Minnesota native back in town, Jim says "he's really good."

Vikings vs Bears. Would Jim rather have a defensive or offensive minded head coach? Hot Stove news, two Twins pitchers about to sign elsewhere. The Wolves are playing well and Jim expects that to continue.

LaVelle Neal sits in for Jim and talks about the Wild and Kaprizov's struggles. Is PJ Fleck coaching for his job this weekend? LaVelle makes his Vikings vs Bears prediction.

LaVelle Neal talks about his column this week about Jessie Diggins, Olympic Medalist in X-Country Skiing from Minnesota. How does he see Josh Dobbs future with the Vikings?

LaVelle is sitting in for Jim this week and he talks about Joe Mauer's Hall-of-Fame chances now that he is eligible for the first time. The Twins have announced they are cutting payroll, what will that look like?