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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I can’t imagine you could trade Abreu for anything but a worse contract. Presley with one year left might be able to get you someone like Jake Meyers. 

    I think he means 8th / 9th.

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  2. 21 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Name the 2023 manager, make the argument for your pick  ….

    I mean that ship has already sailed, no?

    As for 2024 - let’s just get back to having an aligned and analytically-savvy front office/manager combo. I don’t want to hear another goddamned thing about “intangibles” and “there’s no way to measure it.” Bullshit. 

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  3. 30 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    I was hesitant to include the pitching coaches in the "get the fuck out of here" group, but after that article, yeah fuck those guys as well. Entire organizational reboot under Brown.

    Remember when we used to be a smart organization? You know - one that won a lot? That was cool.

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  4. 2 hours ago, n64ra said:

    Goddamnit. Read this:

    It's not easy to put a metric on: How does he instill confidence? How does he let a pitcher relax so they can focus on executing a pitch, rather than thinking about what pitch they should be throwing? You know, those things don't get measured.

    Our pitching coach said this. It actually is fucking easy to put a metric on it: the pitchers’ fucking performance? Who gives a flying fucking shit how “relaxed” or “focused” the pitchers are if the production doesn’t improve? If it mattered, it would be evident and measurable. For fuck sake. Why does anybody give any credence whatsoever to this fucking jet stream of bullshit?

    When someone talks about “things that don’t get measured,” they’re generally full of fucking shit and making stuff up. Do you believe in magic and the goddamned tooth fairy too?

    Don't worry guys - we are significantly worse offensively and defensively with Maldy, but the pitchers are relaxed (while also giving up more runs). 

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  5. 1 hour ago, JohnnyTapia said:

    If we beat Alabama can Quinn plant the flag in the middle of Alabama’s logo 

    I’d say no because we’re better than that Baker Mayfield trash, and because it’s football and not pro wrestling.

    But I’m an old. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Satchel said:

    I find it hilarious that some of you think Yormark was being petty Betty at one of his school’s kickoff luncheons

    So, is it your contention that it isn’t petty for a conference commissioner to cheerlead for one member over another, and that it isn’t petty when his second in command takes passive-aggressive jabs at a member school, based (I guess?) on a perceived slight, which is actually just that school making a sound business decision? That seems petty to me.

    1 hour ago, Satchel said:

    When has the kind of equanimity you expect ever existed in the 27 year history of the B12? It certainly wasn’t around when Texas fans reveled in and even bragged about Deloss being the defacto commissioner of the Big12.

    You’re comparing the conference office openly disparaging a member, and expressing a desire for a specific outcome in a game, to fans on message boards suggesting that the Texas AD ran the conference? Again, I expect professionalism and impartiality from the conference office; I don’t expect that of slapdicks on message boards.

    Look, none of this is really that big of a deal, and not even really something anyone should be upset about - we agree there. It just seems like a poor way for the conference execs to present themselves, as they come off as scorned children.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    But it’s  unrealistic to expect Yormark or any other leader, who had to work like hell to bring his conference back from the brink, due in large measure to the duplicity and deceit of UT and OU to be disingenuously magnanimous.

    Disagree. I don’t think it is unrealistic to ask him to be professional, seeing whereas this is a business and this is his profession. His job got harder? Tough shit. In the famed words of Donald Draper, “that’s what the money’s for.”

    If he chooses to take things personally, well, that’s why terms like “petulant” and “petty” are being used.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    This is the fanbase of the team that got worked by Jimbo's wonder bread kids, right?

    This is also the fan base that has witnessed Les Miles and Ed fucking O win national titles, yet they harp on and on about how Sark clearly isn’t a good enough coach to get it done. 

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  9. 3 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Hell missing Ted for 2 games completely sucked in this series.

    That added weight/ pressure on an opposing pitcher is absolutely part of the whole recipe for winning.

    Yeah but Dusty gives guys a day off once they’re ready to go, regardless of circumstance or context, apparently. So this was better.

  10. 7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Surely Dusty Baker will start producing lineups that give us the best chance to score runs, right?

    Right????

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    Come on, DD. We’re talking about a guy who likes to give guys a day off once they’re fully ready to go. Who has said that Maldy and Diaz have performed about the same at the plate. Who has started Bligh Madris at DH multiple times. Who spent half the season allocating equivalent playing time between Julks and Chas. Who believes that Dubon is a good guy to hit at the top of the order.

    Your answer is no.

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  11. 21 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    could have probably started “but it’s what Dusty likes to do. When a guy is ready, give him an extra day.”

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    Good thinking, Dusty. It’s important to remain rigid with your made-up, bullshit managing conventions, under any circumstance, despite no evidence that it helps anything whatsoever. Let’s keep minimizing our chances of winning the game. 

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  12. 12 hours ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

    Dana fucking Brown has had all year to improve this team and done nothing but claim shit off waivers. I got crucified on Twitter before the deadline for saying he was waiver wire Dana but that’s all he is. We needed offense we got Jon Singleton. Lap it up. They don’t want to win. Crane wants rings every 5 years. Have to make money off the last one before you win another one. Winning two in a row is not maximizing profits. Look at the bottom of our lineup tonight and our bench and honestly ask yourself who in the fuck would want that shit on their team or expect to win with it. No one. That’s who. It’s Oakland As quality at best. If you consider them a major league team. I didn’t even watch the game tonight because I was celebrating my friend getting a second chance at life while the Astros die the slow death of false hope.

    While I haven’t been optimistic about the 2023 Astros since roughly last December, I’m not sure how much Brown has contributed to the problem.

    The off-season roster management was a disaster, but Brown wasn’t around for most of that.

    Dusty’s indefensible lineup decisions and insistence on consistently playing his worst players are big problems. The team simply enters too many games without giving itself the best chance to win. Over an entire season that matters, whether those game are in April or June or September. I can’t understand why it is allowed to continue, and if Brown is cool with it, then yeah, it’s on him too.

    I did not like the Graveman trade (because I think Lee should have gotten you a better pitcher), though many here disagree and that’s fine. It wasn’t the worst trade ever or anything. The JV trade was fine, I think.

    The primary problems with this team are Dusty Baker’s managing and Crane’s ineptitude while playing GM over the winter. I don’t blame Brown for failing to correct all of those things. If this coming offseason is another shitshow, if Maldy and/or Dusty is back, if it continues to be OK to play fucking horrible players every day over good players, then either Brown is an utter dipshit or he’s powerless and Crane has gone full Jerry Jones. 

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