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Hank Chinaski

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  1. Disagree. Assuming he’s out until around Memorial Day, Altuve is probably about 2 wins better than his replacement in April-May. 2 wins matter when a division winner has to play in the wild card round. You can’t just replace a top-10 offensive player in the game with hot garbage and expect it to not matter. Throw in Yordan’s fucked-up hand, McCullers’s unreliability, Brantley’s shoulder/age…plus, Seattle figures to be better, the Angels still have the 2 best players in the sport (and have some upside in their rotation), etc…feels like we’re using up our margin for error right off the bat. talk me off this ledge, @Wulaw Horn.
  2. Also, can Profar still play 2B? I know he didn’t at all last year but SD didn’t need him there either. I’ve kinda wanted him since Diaz left. I’d definitely prefer him to Dubon but, yeah, I know.
  3. 8-10 weeks…of the regular season? Or starting now? I assume the next 8-10 weeks.
  4. If anyone other than Tucker, Bregman or Yordan is hitting leadoff every day I swear to fucking god I’m gonna stroke out before April is over (in the event Altuve misses the first 2 months).
  5. That’s a thing? I wish that that imbecile Jeff Fisher had the common sense to install something resembling the current Ravens’ system when he had VY. Imagine watching VY’s college tape and deciding to spend a top-5 pick on him and then throw him into a system that limits exactly what made him lethal in college. Baltimore devised an offense that enabled Jackson to win a goddamn MVP award. (Nobody will ever convince me that VY couldn’t have been at least as good as Lamar in the nfl in a similar system.)
  6. 1. Nolan (by a lot) 2. Alou 3. Yuli 4. Brantley
  7. Just because it doesn’t make any goddamned sense whatsoever to make both of these claims doesn’t mean that it will stop them from doing so…
  8. I mean, Brantley at 2 is fine (if less than ideal) but basing the decision on one guy having been good for longer than another guy is…well y’all know what it is.
  9. Sorry for partying.
  10. I like the pitch clock. Watching guys go through their elaborate series of nervous ticks before every goddamn pitch gets old. They’ll adjust during the season. Maybe MLB will tweak the duration of the clock after the season, but I’d bet it’s popular and here to stay.
  11. Good lord, their extreme victim complex is astounding and embarrassing (“nobody likes us, we’re always the target, it’s all a big conspiracy against us, blah blah blah”). For a bunch that prides itself on being salt-of-the-earth tough guys, they sure do feel very sorry for themselves and go to asinine, delusional extremes to blame everyone else for their shortcomings. What a bunch of goddamned weenies.
  12. I love Pena, but let’s see him get his OBP north of .300 (really, .330) before comparing him to Correa.
  13. I’ve often considered the possibility that their entire existence (and all it entails) is performance art. It kind of creates a quasi-catch-22 situation: while it is funnier and more entertaining that these are seemingly sincere people and this is how they truly are, the fact that it appears to be reality and not one giant joke also makes me feel worse about the world in general.
  14. It’s fascinating that these hayseeds keep trying to ascribe Texas’s move to the SEC to some sort of shift in attitude about the conference itself, or to “following” A&M there. Texas is going to do whatever is in the best interest of Texas, and makes Texas the most money. It’s tough for them to understand because they assign some sort of bizarre idea of moral value to their school’s athletic conference affiliation. Like they’re in a best friends club or something. We’re going for the money. That’s it. We can still hate the SEC (I intend to). We can still look down on them.
  15. Yeah, though I was thinking that the photo was just Earl and then the Doak Walker award winners from Texas.
  16. Yeah that 98 team was loaded. That was a better team than SD, though probably not by much. I hate short playoff series.
  17. He did, more or less, in the second-to-last sentence. Vince came around about 5-10 years too soon and went to just about the worst situation he could have. I still think he would have done well in Kubiak’s system, and I still think he’d have been at least as good as Lamar Jackson has been if he had been paired with a coach/system that made sense for him. imagine drafting VY and deciding he should be a pocket QB in a traditional offensive system.
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