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Pato del Muerto

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  1. 53 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    "I knew literally nothing about him, but i naturally assumed that he sucks, and was super stoked when my team didn't draft him. turns out he's really good."

    is anyone here archiving these by now? he's like a junior rocko at this point. 

    Completely false interpretation. He knew exactly one thing about him. 

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    HSE didn't come along until 1983.  Before that, Ranger games were mostly on channel 11 IIRC, and only road games.  WGN, TBS, and cable hit my household in about 1980.  

    Well I was 2 in 1980 so televised baseball wasn’t on my radar quite yet. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    This.  I watched a LOT of Cub games and Brave games growing up latchkey in the 80s.   Never once thought of ditching the Astros.  Bill Doran got my all star vote every year over Sandberg.  

    Hope you didn’t leave any hanging chads. 

  4. 27 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I would disagree that becoming a Cubs fan because of WGN falls under "little to no personal connection."  Pretty sure you're not old enough to remember trying to follow MLB before ESPN took off -- in the pre-cable days, there was one national game on TV a week, every Saturday afternoon.  Then cable showed up and you could watch the Cubs or the Braves every night.  It was an amazing transformation and I don't begrudge anyone who's an out-of-area fan of either team because of that time period.  

    I watched so many cubs games during summer afternoons and they had guys like an aging Dawson, Sandburg, dunston, raffy then grace, sutcliffe, maddux for a bit. Plus Harry calling the games with Steve. 

    But along with wgn, Dallas area cable also had HSE so the rangers games were televised so there was no danger of the cubbies becoming my team. 

    Never watched too many braves games as they were night games and competed with rangers games and whatever else I watched on prime time in the 80s. Dukes of hazard and simon&simon or whatnot. 

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  5. Man, if Burris isn’t comfortable in a city environment that’s tough to overcome. I’d be inclined to remind him that nfl teams are in big cities, and ask if he’d rather make the adjustment in college or as a pro. 

    Luckily with Jackson there too, there isn’t an allocation of resources issue with pursuing Burris in a losing battle, assuming Jackson isn’t locked into aggy as well. 

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