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Hank Chinaski

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  1. Seems more like he’s in the midst of a manic episode. When people start going out of their way to say/write things like “I’m operating at a level that is over your heads/that nobody else can even understand”…well, that’s usually not good.
  2. One of the Aggie-est thing I’ve ever seen was McGee jumping up to get in Sergio Kindle’s face and talk shit immediately after Kindle sacked him, with his team getting run out of the building. It was kind of perfect.
  3. He has the highest single-season yards per attempt average since the 1950s (9.9 in 2000).
  4. Wait, is he saying that Rice is getting a B10 invite?
  5. “If this statistical model doesn’t completely affirm my biased, preconceived idea about the world, then I shall blindly disregard it and assume it is deeply flawed.” Jesus, imagine applying that sentiment to all aspects of life, as these people seem to. Their aversion to any degree of objectivity that may challenge their desired reality never fails to astound me.
  6. Getting Yordan more PAs than anyone else on the team makes sense to me.
  7. Statistically it is best to have your best hitter at #2. it doesn’t make that much of a difference if Yordan hits 3 instead of 2 - maybe the difference of a run or two over an entire season. But I’m of the opinion that there’s no reason not to maximize your odds on things like this.
  8. Yordan 2nd and Bregman 3rd and we’re set.
  9. As someone who was an undergrad while Gregory was totally renovated and came out seeming sparkly and new, I scoffed when I read this, as obviously it isn’t that old. Then after a moment of thought:
  10. JV having health problems in his age 41 season should 100% be expected, as his age is an obvious risk. Counting on him too much is a bit…optimistic.
  11. The fact that I have no idea what “happened” is probably a good indicator of basketball’s level of relevance to this conversation. What should NEVER happen is losing to Maryland or Cal or kicking off both halves of a game or having Steve Patterson anywhere near Belmont, or agreeing to play road nonconference football games that don’t serve the University of Texas’s best interest. Failing to sell tickets to a basketball game (?) is whatever.
  12. (I didn’t know either. It is actor Rex Linn who is in some tv shows. He’s the Mesa Verde CEO in Better Call Saul.)
  13. This is all probably true, but the pettiness and spitefulness is so much more fun.
  14. That’s interesting. I know he hasn’t killed it at UCLA but I can’t recall a head coach from a big program taking a coordinator job at another school without being fired. The rumors of Kelly taking an NFL coordinator job made some sense, but this seems…odd? I’m sure there’s more to the story that I’m not privy to.
  15. Me either. The guy has a pattern of injury at a young age and has the build of a DH/1B. He’s perhaps the best hitter in baseball. The primary objective should be to keep him healthy at all costs to keep his bat in the lineup.
  16. Yeah, I think Bouton basically wrote that Walker was a racist in Ball Four. Like you say, it isn’t difficult to believe that given his age/time. And it also isn’t difficult to imagine that a young Black man from California in the late 60s/early 70s may have found an old guy nicknamed Dixie to be a racist, an an old guy in the late 60s/early 70s from the south might have thought the young Black man to be a pain in the ass. Cultures were clashing in that era.
  17. It’s simple - a collective, chronic inferiority complex. Thats why they feel the need to shout from the rooftops about how great they are; it’s why their coaches feel the pressure to say things that are laughably wrong like “we’re the flagship;” it’s why they constantly pretend that they’re better than Texas at everything, even though they’re objectively worse at (almost) everything; it’s why they cannot be even remotely objective when it comes to the object of their inferiority, which is why they will forever say “Austin is terrible” and “Aggie underrated player X is so much better than Texas overrated player X,” and why they spend so much time thinking about and are undefeated in hypothetical fantasy contests. It’s pretty pathetic, really.
  18. I’d say this is obviously someone being intellectually dishonest by attributing Charlie Strong’s and Tom Herman’s shortcomings to the current Texas program, but, considering the source, “intellectually dishonest” may be giving too much credit.
  19. Jeff Kent too…only 2 years with the Astros (good for a 121 OPS+) but is the all-time HR leader among 2B.
  20. That’s fair, but also fair to note that Brown has only presided over one draft and wasn’t really in a position to acquire prospects via trade in 2023, and he was hired fairly late in the offseason a year ago (not to mention that there seemed to be weird power dynamics with Dusty last season). Not necessarily defending him, but I just don’t think we have enough time yet to assess progress at all. I don’t really have an opinion on Brown yet.
  21. I have no idea what these people’s skillsets are, what their jobs actually require, or really what they even do. Thus I don’t know if these changes are terrible or terrific. But if I had to guess, it is probably somewhere in between. Thats my hot take for the day.
  22. Ok. Perhaps I made assumptions based on the fact that this is the NFL draft thread.
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