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Wulaw Horn

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  1. Yep. That 6.124 we actually paid 3k in closing costs so if he wanted he could have gotten sub 6, but didn’t. I hope not- but that’s the way it looks right now. hell- I will be fine with that end of 26 if we have a couple months in the low 5’s on the up and down roller coaster…
  2. I will keep this updated by posting my lowest 30 year loan YTD (not buying points) on a conventional loan. Right now I had someone in at 6.124%- no points on a standard 30 year conventional. That's winning the year for the present. Hopefully I bump this post before the end of the year- but I'm starting to worry I might not.
  3. That Caratini 8th inning AB was the bad luck of the entire season all rolled into 1. How many times does a LHH hit a LD that hard and that high and it turn into an out? 1-10? 1-20? Instead of a tied game more LOBsters. This team is cursed.
  4. Yes I meant 23 of course. when you say come down what do you mean? My bet is before 26 ends I will put at least a couple people/ who didn’t buy points- into a 30 year loan that starts with a 3 in it. feel free to clip this and mock me mercilessly in 2.75 years.
  5. I still believe that almost every loan written in 2003 will someday be refinanced. Or at least refinance eligible depending upon time frame. Nothing lasts forever.
  6. Burn baby burn. MBs down 43 basis points. And away we go! 10 year broken through resistance at 4.67 all the way up to 4.72. Next stop-5.0! This is totally awesome.
  7. Brown said abundance of caution and he's eligible to come off the IL Monday night before the Tuesday start I had him penciled in. He also strongly intimated Framber was going down in Mexico. If neither of those things happen I'm going to assume in the future every time his mouth opens up he's lying. I actually like Arrenghetti- I think he's got some swing and miss stuff. Of course- Hunter Brown used to- I have no idea where that shit went to.
  8. Monday the 29th- off day- so him pitching Tuesday is perfect.
  9. This version of it has been. How about this version (and what I would absolutely do if I was Espada- no fucking around with Brown, France or Spaghetti again until you have to) of a staff- I can't imagine it will be bad: JV Thursday Friday off Saturday- Blanco, Sunday Framber, Monday off Tuesday Javier. Wednesday- JV Thur- Blanco Friday- Framber Saturday- France/Brown/Spaghetti/Bielak- whichever you think will suck least Sunday- Javier That's 10 calendar days where you should only expect 1 shitty start. Make that happen- fire Abreu into the face of the sun- send Singleton along with him- rotate C/1B between Caratini, Dubon and Diaz, move Bregman down to the 6 hole or something like that and lets see if that lineup/team can fuck. Altuve/Pena/Alvarez/Tucker/Diaz/Bregman/Chas/Caratini/Dubon. Make that the lineup for a solid week to go with that rotation and I bet we win more than 1/3 of our games. Boom- problem solved Espada. I'm sure that's not what they will do.
  10. Some reason they choose not to Count Yainers double or Meyer’s HR last night?
  11. The first sentence was how I think of him. I’m not sure why he couldn’t play a better corner than Brooks but that’s not me arguing that’s exposing my own ignorance. but this board is kind and gentle to well intentioned dolts so I figured- why not ask the question?
  12. I’m a dumb dumb so keep that in mind when you answer- but serious question…. Is that because you don’t think Barron is a good football player in general or because you don’t think he’s capable of playing CB- and if the latter why isn’t he?
  13. This is the same organization that trotted out Maldonado's corpse for the entirety of last year- April was too much to hope for that it would be over.
  14. We team up with the dome foamers and have a round table.
  15. Yeah, I get what you are saying. And I don’t have a problem really with the decisions being made at 4.30 which is where Dusty was the absolute worst, but I think he’s screwing up in game on his own.
  16. Yep. They are the difference (back of the pen) from us being worst in the league and in 1st place in the division if they had done their job.
  17. Our FIP is 4.31, our actual ERA is 5.1. We've had an insane amount of bad luck in babip both ways. Our top 3 pitchers have all been on the IL, and our back end of the bullpen who was supposed to be awesome and has been totally awful- beyond that- all is well, all is well. Seriously, it's really unlikely that this shit keeps up- it's not plausible and weird stuff can happen over any 20 game sample in a 162 game season. All that being said- our manager is a dipshit- he's pitching the bullpen too much and in the wrong situations, he's running out Abreu when he doesn't have to, he's running out Singleton when he doesn't have to, and he's fucking around with Meyers for reasons I don't understand. I'd rather have a gold glove CF with an average bat in the lineup vs the desecrated carcass of Jose Abreu- which is what the decision to play dubon at CF instead of 1B or 2b (with altuve doing some DH.
  18. That's just not true. There are answers on this roster. It's one guy that can't hit and one guy that isn't hitting (bregman) and that's it. OPS plus: Diaz- 125 Altuve- 196 Pena- 146 Bregman- 73 Chas- 98 Meyers- 100 Tucker- 162 Alvarez-152 Dubon- 115 Caratini- 110 That's 10 dudes with 8 of them average or above average- Chas 2% below and Bregman off to his typical slow start. You could play either Caratini, Diaz or Dubon at 1B and have a lineup that's basically average or above at every position- unless you somehow believe that Bregman is below average as opposed to just starting slowly as he always does.
  19. I was on record as not caring for the Joe Espada hire and thinking it was odd to turn over a WA team to a new guy, but I didn’t think he would be this over his head. I’d fire him and bring in Joe Maddon- he can grate on players and wear out his welcome- but that’s a thought for a later day. Also- any idea what scrap iron is up to these days? Is he dead? Bobby Valentine- is he still kicking it? Can he coach every game in disguise? this team probably doesn’t suck and the back end of the bullpen probably isn’t going to be hammered dogshit all year. The Abreu problem will resolve itself (if he wants Dubon in the lineup so badly why doesn’t he just go with him at first- or Diaz at first Dubon at 2B and Altuve DH some. It’s not like the Astros have any unmanageable or unfixable problems/ they just have to- you know- manage them and fix them. And hope the back of the bullpen becomes the strength that everyone thought it would be instead of horrific. we are 7/16. We are 2 for 8 in save opportunities. a more realistic 7 for 8 would have us at 12-11 even with all the starters being hurt and Abreu and the other mess, against probably the toughest opening schedule in baseball. I guess I just can’t believe those guys are going to continue to be so bad. I won’t believe it until Memorial Day- too much positive track record to throw that away after 4 weeks.
  20. I wanted to see what this team looks like when healthy when someone upstream had posted that we were like 3rd from last in runs allowed. I've put together a composite line just using guys we would expect to see pitch for us- JV, Framber, Javier, Brown, France, Blanco, Hader, Montero, Abreu, Pressly, Martinez and Bielak. That's it- that's not counting guys like LMJ and Garcia or Urquidy who you knew were gone for long periods of time before the season started. So- it's not like this is a healthy staff or anything, but it's what you thought you were getting- I guess I will throw Taylor Scott in there as well since he'd have broken camp with the main guys. 173 IP, 166 H's 79BB, 152K's, 88 Runs, 82 ER's ERA- 4.265, Whip- 1.41, 1.92 K/BB Hader, Pressly and Abreu are a combined 1-4 with a -1.1 WAR and directly responsible for 2 or 3 more losses that don't show up in that 1-4. This team is a little bit of health- guys with real good track records in the bullpen getting better and the will to solve the Jose Abreu situation away from being just fine. All that seems pretty fixable but maybe it won't be.
  21. I texted him a screenshot earlier in the year with GST above us and I said- I’m proud and pissed. He just laughed.
  22. They were apparently fucking lying about Jake Meyers.
  23. Pro bono or pro boner? Traveling nurse's. We've all heard the stories. We will let you decide.
  24. 3k a month for a place you paid 110k cash for (even with improvements seems like a pretty damn good ROI to me. I've never rented to traveling nurses but my SIL was one for a while. I wouldn't be at all concerned about it. They work those guys pretty hard- they make decent money and I wouldn't think they'd tear the place apart. She never did anyway. They also don't know many people so they aren't likely to be throwing ragers or anything like that. I'd do it if I thought I could get that number for sure.
  25. Sure. But I bet we are a lot better than 15-30 after 45 games.
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