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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I mean we pretty much hate everybody. You know this.
  2. Altuve: 130 wRC+, 5.2 fWAR Albies : 107 wRC+, 4.2 fWAR But ok.
  3. I mean, they made the playoffs in last year’s 60-game mini season. Which means that, in a real season, they would have been doing pretty well in the standings on Memorial Day.
  4. I’ve been concerned about the Astros’ pitching all season, and then they lost McCullers. But, they’ve already made it through the AL. I’m thinking Astros in 7. The lineup is so strong and I think the pitching is just good enough. That said, it’s baseball. In a 7-game series with two really good teams, no outcome is really all that improbable.
  5. Meh. I think you generally know what you have in a head coach by year 2. At that point, they’ve had 2 off-seasons to implement systems, get players acquainted and up to speed, 2 full recruiting cycles, etc. Year 1 miscalculations and fuckups are pretty common and it’s hard to know how to weight the apparent issues (how much is on players, schemes, coaches, etc). Sark has a track record as a HC, and that tells us something. He was also really young when he took over a shitty Washington program, and he obviously had some other issues that can compromise performance during his first go-round as a HC. Is it reasonable to suggest that he can do better at this point in his career, that he can be a better coach now than he was then? Sure. Do we know that yet? No. We knew Strong wasn’t going to make it by year 2. Herman had a good second season, but still lost 4 games. I think that’s about who Herman was - he’d win some big games every now and then, but was going to consistently lose 3-5 games every year. We’ll see with Sark. The record/results is one thing. I’m more interested to see how this staff adapts and adjusts as this season goes on, and then see if they eliminate this year’s issues in ‘22. Herman’s teams made the same mistakes year after year. He wasn’t terrible, but he wasn’t good enough and wasn’t getting better. We’ll probably know what we need to know about Sark next year.
  6. Yeah, I disagree. Boston won 92 games in a really tough division (TB, NYY, TOR are all legitimately good teams). Devers/ Bogaerts/JDM is a strong offensive core, and guys like Schwarber, Verdugo, Hernandez and Renfroe are good supporting players. The pitching doesn’t necessarily scare you, but it’s solid. I think the Astros have a better roster right now, but the Red Sox are pretty damn good.
  7. Fuck yes man. One more series. Shut everybody the fuck up.
  8. Oregon’s stupid fucking uniforms:
  9. Baylor should always wear those, but I don’t want Baylor to have nice things, so I’m glad they don’t. Fuck Baylor.
  10. That Holiday Bowl game to end ‘03 was when I remember people starting to get really impatient with Mack. Everything you stated is true, but Mack had also lost to OU 4 straight, including 2 total ass beatings. Mack was in his 6th year and everyone had kind of concluded after that game that his program had plateaued and that he couldn’t get over the hump. He made the defensive change going into ‘04 and VY became VY that season, and the rest is history. But there was a lot of doubt about Mack after that Wash St game.
  11. I think one or two people may have opined that Texas possibly “dodged a bullet” after Urban hired the racist from Iowa and Charlie Strong and brought the Tebow circus to Jacksonville. Since then WTB reflexively posts this anytime Urban is mentioned.
  12. Ah right, forgot about Florida St. My bad.
  13. Texas will be good when it has a good coach. Texas will be mediocre when it has a mediocre coach. I don’t know which Sark is yet - I think you typically know after year 2 what the coach is. There are 6 programs in college football that have a more recent national title than Texas.
  14. No, that does not matter, not to those who call the shots. Money matters. Period.
  15. I don’t disagree…just saying that I never thought I’d see the day that Mad Dog was revered on a Texas message board. He was hated and blamed (often irrationally) long before the program turned to shit.
  16. Hold the fuck on…am I actually reading a thread in which we are longing for the Mad Dog days? This is surreal. Anyone here as old as me will surely recall that we used to bitch incessantly about Madden back then. I mean, the dude was a perpetual punchline. You remember “Fat Dog,” right?!? (We’ve also bitched incessantly about every S&C coach since.)
  17. Damn shame Acuna had that injury. He would make this series very interesting. Without him, not sure the Braves have too much of a shot here.
  18. I’m generally all for the traditional non-celebratory or subdued ways of MLB players. I’m an old and I value humility in people. That said, the game has changed and the guys have become more outwardly celebratory over the last decade or so. As others have said, gesturing toward your own dugout is pretty much standard now. If CC had pimped his HR and stared down the pitcher, that would be bullshit. But that’s not what he did. He stood at home for too long for my taste, but it was an emotional moment and, again, he wasn’t taunting the opponent. And yeah, Boston isn’t throwing at him in this series unless they are waaaay behind in a game and the series is pretty much decided. You don’t give away outs when the stakes are high just because you didn’t like a guy’s celebration. (And if BOS is way ahead and the series is close to being decided, they won’t care anymore anyway.)
  19. Less is more. Just do this and we’ll have the best unis in college football:
  20. Because it implies that nobody has really lost to the Astros, it’s just that the Astros cheated. It’s the same reason the trash can bullshit was so overblown and sensationalized and embraced by opposing players (publicly at least - I’m not buying that any of them really fucking care or are surprised or didn’t know) and fans in the first place - because they get to feel better about the losses and blame someone else. They get to believe that nobody is really better than their team, but these heinous villains stole it. And now you have this dipshit saying the same thing - “we didn’t really get beat in Houston, and if we lose the series it’s because they’re cheating.
  21. Yes, but Texas had that lead with 3/4 of the game still to play, and there was no question even at that point that Texas would need to score a lot more to win. And we knew the defensive limitations. Another way to look at it is that Texas was completely dominated for an entire half. Given all of that, the outcome of the game wasn’t (a) particularly surprising or (b) anything close to “rock bottom” for this program. And this doesn’t even register in terms of “heartbreaking”…Lubbock in 08 or the Georgia Cotton Bowl or Colt’s Rose Bowl injury, sure. This game? No.
  22. Sark may not need a VY. But he will need a Huff, Griffin (x2), Robison, Okam, Wright, Blalock, Studdard, etc.
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