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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 46 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    Well that is certainly possible, but if only two teams are carrying the flag, I still don’t see how they will be able to achieve the status they had 10 years ago. At this point the SEC and big 10 in my opinion are significantly better off. They are consistently good and I think the big 12 could best hope to just be considered their equals. They lost too much ground to the sec. we’d need more consistency from osu, tcu, wvu

    I mean, how's that different than 2000-2009, when B12 teams played in 7 of 10 national title games and the conference was considered to be as good as any? I guess Nebraska helped carry things in 2001, but that's really about the only difference, and they haven't been worth a shit since then, really.

  2. 31 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    ...but it's dead in terms of any sort of influence or reputation.

    "Dead" is not the right word because it implies permanence, and if you assume permanence, you are assuming that Texas will always be as bad as it has been the last few years. As soon as Texas is good again, the conference will be as reputable as it ever was. 

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  3. 7 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Or they could just wear normal unis again.

    Jacksonville+Jaguars+v+Cleveland+Browns+

    Yeah, those. Classic. Then again, Baker should have to wear the new ones so that the clothes reflect the man. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    Hopefully this will get Tucker going.  His power has been pretty disappointing this season, especially for the PCL.  

    I went to the game in ABQ last night...both HRs were crushed, about 420' to right-center. Granted, ABQ is basically like playing at Coors Field, but he mashed both. And yeah - hopefully his power bat starts to heat up.

    Also, AJ Reed is still fat. 

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  5. 51 minutes ago, tmoranish said:

    Browns are changing their uniforms back next year. Much needed after these disastrous brown home jerseys... New-Cleveland-Browns-Uniforms-Home.jpg

    Back to their old style? That's fantastic because those were great, and these they've worn the last few seasons are absolutely terrible. 

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  6. 10 hours ago, huge said:

    I know stats are for losers but we have the 3rd least blown saves in the AL

    6th best save %

    Losing sucks

    It's good for perspective. Frustrating right now because we've blown 2 9th-inning leads in 3 games against good teams on the road - games that are usually wins (up 2+ runs in the 9th).

  7. 14 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

    Waive Marwin, or trade him. I'm not even kidding

    I don't know about that, but I've been saying for weeks that he should be starting no more than twice per week. And he should never be hitting 5th. Bottom of the order utility guy - that's who he always was until 2017, which was clearly an aberration. 

     

  8. On 5/26/2018 at 6:47 PM, texifornia said:

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    Somehow I doubt that's proud Pitt alum and guy that is no longer alive Gust Avrakotos

    Aw, you guys got to feel almost relevant for a few, glorious moments, and you loved it so much that you are cool with your school's pervasive rape culture and a clear fucking scumbag redneck; and you want him back because it feels so good to high-five the other insecure bitch-ass poser alumni of your shitty, overpriced, corrupt institution after the rapists dressed in gaudy, classless chrome gold score touchdowns between assaulting other students.  

    Fuck you Baylor, fuck you straight to fucking hell. 

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  9. 37 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    We should be. Considering his 6 HRs would be tied for 3rd on the team. His 26 RBIs would be 3rd on the team, and his paltry .708 OPS would be better than everyone not named Altuve, Correa, Springer, Bregman, Reddick, and Stassi.

    I doubt it though. He can't really play anywhere defensively, so you can't really have both he and Gattis on the same roster. So we'd essentially have to get rid of Gattis to make room. Although that wouldn't be a bad option on the field, I don't think Hanley is superior enough to Gattis as a hitter (he's been below average this year and last) for the team to make that move. 

  10. 48 minutes ago, Ldogg53 said:

    Fuck.  This is beyond just being in a slump.  Something is clearly wrong with his approach and swing right now. 

    He's in a slump for sure, but he'll likely bounce back soon enough. This stretch reminds me of September 2016 - he was easily the MVP front-runner heading into Sep, then went into a funk like this for pretty much the entire month. 

    Looking at his peripherals...His line drive % is up. His hard-hit ball % is up. His ground ball % is down. 

    Main thing that stands out - his overall contact % is down - 82.5% in '18 compared to 87.9% for his career (it was 85% last year). He is making less contact on pitches both inside and outside the zone. 

    Also - his HR/fly ball is at about half his career rate, and he is hitting more balls to CF than normal. So could be some degree of bad luck there. 

    All in all - he should be fine. His contact rate is maybe mildly concerning, but probably too early and not large enough to worry about that. 

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  11. 8 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    This guy has so many screws loose.
    I could feel myself getting dumber reading this and had to stop before the end


    I know Sports Illustrated tried to do that earlier this year and make out my talking about league-wide spin rate issues and foreign substance policy to be attacking him or because I’m overcome with jealousy. I know some of their players think I’m overcome with jealousy. Maybe I should take a picture of how green my face is right now and post that on social media. Apparently, I come off as a super jealous, angry young man.

    So he talks shit, and when he gets called out on it, he tries to play the victim card and gets all passive-aggressive? 

    What a bitch. 

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  12. From Keith Law's "Big Board" of top players available for the MLB draft...in essence, Murray began screwing up his baseball career when he decided to go to College Station, but it is still salvageable and Law has him as the #38 prospect...but he further screws it up if he plays football for the Sooners...

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    38. Kyler Murray, CF, Oklahoma. Murray could have been a first-round pick out of high school but took himself out of the draft by declining to take the mandatory drug test. Then he went to Texas A&M to play football but ended up transferring and missing the spring of 2016 as a result. He had just 49 at-bats last spring and hit .122/.317/.122, then didn't play over the summer, so he came into this spring with those 49 ABs as his only game action in nearly three years. That makes his .292/.394/.557 line even more impressive and might lead some teams to gloss over his 55 strikeouts (25 percent of his plate appearances). Murray is now in center field, where his speed plays up, after spending time at shortstop as a high school underclassman, and he has come into average power now that his body has filled out. He's still behind his age cohorts as a hitter because of all the lost reps, and of course, he is still fighting for the quarterback job this fall for the Sooners, but if he'll commit to baseball full-time, there's a potential above-average everyday center fielder for a team with some patience.

     

  13. Great production from the bottom of the order. Nice first game back for Davis, drawing 3 walks. Gattis, Stassi, Kemp had really good ABs. This is what the 2017 team looked like - production from the bottom of the order. 

  14. 2 hours ago, Dr. Teeth said:

    We have five guys who are really good at AAA and suck in the majors. We are just bringing up someone we know is going to suck and be sent back in two weeks. But it is a small problem to have. If we are relying on these guys to hit, we have bigger issues.  

    Hopefully we can just use these guys to give some rest and do some pinch running. Expect anything more from them is just going to get us aggravated. We just have to wait for the next wave of prospects to come through. 

    Maybe. But Davis has had all of 96 big-league plate appearances, and has been a roughly average hitter (94 wRC+). Given that he has been a good offensive player at every level of the minors, I don't think he should be dismissed based on his first 100 MLB PAs. He is at least playable at 3B or 1B (and apparently he's played 6 games in LF). 

    Reed has had 147 PAs and has been awful (45 wRC+) and is limited to 1B. 

    Tyler White has had 343 PAs and has been below average (89 wRC+). Though he was better in '17 than in '16. Still, he is 2 years older than Davis or Reed. 

    I don't disagree that it is difficult to "expect" anything from them, but they aren't worthless. Getting average production from them at the big league level has value, even if it is in a fill-in capacity. I mean, we regularly have Jake Marisnick and/or Evan Gattis in our everyday lineup - any of these three guys outhitting them wouldn't be terribly surprising. 

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  15. Seems like it is sink-or-swim time for JD. The dude is 25 and is hitting .415/.473/.654 in AAA. Granted, he plays in a hitters league and has a .510 BABIP, but he doesn't have anything left to prove at the minor league level, other than maybe improving his contact issues (and he has been striking out less this year). 

    I hope he gets consistent ABs at DH, but he and Gattis both hit R, so who knows. As far as I know, Davis hasn't played any OF...

  16. 18 hours ago, texifornia said:

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    My favorite part of this is "and elko"...that just invoking his name is all the explanation needed for how completely badass their defense will be. 6 months ago these imbeciles had never heard of the guy. 

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  17. 8 hours ago, mycox said:

    Altuve had a career year last year
    Marwin had a career year last year
    I'm not concerned about Yuli and Carrera
    Reddick is probably a .280/15/70 guy
    Bregman needs to step it up
    LF is a concern

    Eh...Altuve has basically had that season two years in a row; it's not crazy to think he'll approach that kind of production this year (it's also not crazy to think he'' produce more like 2014-15, which is still very good).

  18. 9 hours ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

    He would be a fucking moron to not take the Baseball money

    You're right, and this would be the second time he would have passed on baseball money; he was probably going to be a pretty high pick out of HS but told everyone he was going to college. All of this to participate in an amateur sport at which he probably isn't as good and is extremely unlikely to play professionally, which also happens to pose a physical threat to his ability to play baseball in the future. 

    I mean...come on kid. This is not a difficult decision. 

  19. 13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    I don’t even remember who we sent to Detroit for Verlander but they got raped 

    Nah it was a good deal for them. They weren't going anywhere this year or next even with JV, so they shed salary and boosted their farm system.

    Daz Cameron could become an everyday OF for them in a couple years; Rogers is generally considered the best defensive C in the minors; and Perez is generally considered their top prospect now (though I think he's been hurt this year - pitchers are always risky). 

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    In my mind, the horns are on the precipice of falling into perpetual irrelevance, while we're doing the opposite.

    I, for one, am stunned that this is how an aggy sees things playing out.

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