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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 37 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    Worthy and Mitchell underperformed in our offense? Worthy went for 1000 yards last season and Mitchell had 845 yards and 11 touchdowns. All in a conference where every defense is designed to take away the deep pass above all else. But don't let facts get in the way of a good story I guess.   

    Well you see, Worthy was still underutilized, as was Mitchell, who also tested extremely well. Sanders was underutilized too, while we’re at it. Oh, and Brooks may be the RB1 in the draft - he too was underutilized. Sark is an idiot, he wasted so many plays.

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  2. 12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Feels like you just described Stephen McGee. 

    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. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Helobious said:

    Making a career out of handing the ball off or throwing swing passes to Marshall Faulk gives him unimaginable insight into what makes a good NFL QB that we just can’t have.

    He has the highest single-season yards per attempt average since the 1950s (9.9 in 2000). 

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  4. 12 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    I'd lead-off Yordan and bat Altuve 2nd. Yordan gets on base over 40% of the time, but I agree batting him 2nd would better than 3rd. Another beneft would potentially be less TOOTBLAN's from Altuve with Yordan in front of him on the bases.

    Getting Yordan more PAs than anyone else on the team makes sense to me.

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  5. 34 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

    Are we hitting Tucker behind Bregman in that order to split-up the left-handed hitters or is it optimal for Bregman to hit before Tucker without that consideration?

    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.

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  6. 34 minutes ago, slorch said:

    What happened at your house of hoops should NEVER fucking happen by such a huge , all powerful entity. It wasn’t an exception either.

    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. 

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  7. Just now, South Austin said:

    At the end of the day, I don’t see this as the product of hard feelings, but rather the fact that playing Tech has no real value for Texas, or at the very least it’s far more valuable for Tech than it ever could be for Texas. It does nothing for recruiting, and Texas can find better strategically-based nonconferemce matchups. The only nonconference team in the state I see Texas playing is Rice to get us a game in Houston on a semi-regular basis (we have DFW covered with OU).

    This is all probably true, but the pettiness and spitefulness is so much more fun. 

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  8. 34 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

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    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. 

  9. 1 hour ago, uoftorange said:

    Yeah, I have no idea if the manager was racist or not.  There were other black players on the team that didn't agree.  Joe was rumored to always be a pain in the ass, and that's what the manager said was the reasoning.  I mean it was 1971, a racist old white man isn't really a big stretch (his nickname was Little Dixie for goodness sake).  But neither is Joe was a pain in the ass and didn't want to be held accountable.  But just accepting either as fact seems a bit unnecessary.  From everything I've seen, seems like Walker was just a prick more than a racist, but again, late 60s/early 70s, racist was in a lot of people's DNA even subconsciously

    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.

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  10. 11 hours ago, Hairy Biped said:

    I swear, for the life of me I can't figure out where their extremely over inflated sense of self worth comes from…I have never seen a group that spends as much time patting themselves on the back as aggy.

    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.

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Tigerdroppings posts in the topic about LSU locking down the state and Mack signing with Texas.

     

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    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. 

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  12. 15 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    With this team, Dana’s primary job is to rebuild the pipeline, which is currently pretty bare. So far, I haven’t seen a lot of progress in that regard. 

    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.

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