Elf about to be Wally Pipped

[purplevein]

I hope it’s by Dru Samia

[WisconsinVike]

Thumb injury,

My sources tell me he was trying to hitchhike out of Minnesota after the Packer game debacle and he whiffed on every vehicle speeding by him - in his desperation to stop anybody -  he hyper extended his thumb

[OkieDokie]

Whats wally piped?

[Norseman]

Wally Pipp is baseball's answer to Rodney Dangerfield. ... Or he's pulling a “Wally,” translated loosely to mean he's a coach potato, slacking off again. A sloth. Pipp is the guy that lost his job to Lou Gehrig, who just happens to the greatest first baseman in baseball history. But Pipp was hardly a slouch on the field.

(I looked it up so nobody else has to)

[OkieDokie]

I predicted Samia would be starting this year but he shined last year vs Bears 1’s. Zimmer never trusts rookies and therefore they miss valuable playing time to grow and mesh. And thats bad for players confidence too. Zimmer likes vets too much. This is a year we are not going anywhere and we need to know what we have before next draft.

[OkieDokie]

PAT ELFLEIN
C, MINNESOTA VIKINGS

Vikings placed RG Pat Elflein on injured reserve.
Elflein started as the Vikings’ right guard in Week 1 against the Packers. Minnesota's 2019 fourth-round pick, Dru Samia, and second-round rookie Ezra Cleveland are candidates to replace Elflein in the interim. Cleveland remains the team's long-term view at tackle.

SOURCE: Field Yates on Twitter
Sep 17, 2020, 4:33 PM ET

[greylock]

For some reason who ever is replacing him will be temporary. As soon as Elf is better back in he will go. Count on it.

[snotbubbles]

Sept 17, 2020 17:47:54 GMT -6 greylock said:

For some reason who ever is replacing him will be temporary. As soon as Elf is better back in he will go. Count on it.

Yep, and odds are he is even worse than before the thumb.

[skoldier]

Sept 17, 2020 15:28:19 GMT -6 OkieDokie said:

Whats wally piped?

Wally Pipp was the player who was briefly injured and a unknown player by the name of Lou Gehrig took his place at 1st base for the New York Yankees, and the rest as they say is history.

[Uncle]

Sept 17, 2020 15:01:20 GMT -6 purplevein said:

I hope it’s by Dru Samia

I hope so too. I don't wish any ill-will to Elf at all, but I'm not a believer in the Vikings doing very much this season and am all about trying out our younger players on the roster and seeing what we have. If Samia can show he can handle starting OG duties, great....if not, then at the very least we know that much more about our roster needs heading into the 2021 offseason....

[jtownesv61]

Confused about thumb. Did he actually injure it or they playing games with benching this bag of air?

[OkieDokie]

Sept 18, 2020 11:27:51 GMT -6 jtownesv61 said:

Confused about thumb. Did he actually injure it or they playing games with benching this bag of air?

With Zimmer who the hell knows. He loves vets so I doubt it was benching.

[Norseman]

Sept 18, 2020 5:50:38 GMT -6 skoldier said:

Sept 17, 2020 15:28:19 GMT -6 OkieDokie said:

Whats wally piped?

Wally Pipp was the player who was briefly injured and a unknown player by the name of Lou Gehrig took his place at 1st base for the New York Yankees, and the rest as they say is history.

Yep.  Every so often I'll actually learn something useful on the internet. 

This happened to me back at Megacorp, but I only now know the correct term for it.  One day I'm running a department with over 100 engineers.  The next day I'm in the next state on temporary assignment (i.e. out of sight, out of mind).  Oh well, it eventually went away....  

(of course, unlike in MLB, my replacement was "Wally Pipped" a few years later, and then his replacement....  That's Megacorp for ya!   )