Everything posted by Hank Chinaski
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
People are drawn to belief in conspiracies because it makes them feel better. It explains away something that they don’t like, it excuses them from any sort of responsibility. Conspiracy theories create “bad guys,” characterized as puppet masters, at whom theorists can direct their anger. And because conspiracies carry no burden of proof, they are malleable and can fit any narrative one might make up. They’re for hyperemotional, discontented, irrational dipshits. When you keep this in mind, the prevalent sentiment on texags makes a lot more sense.
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Yeah that’s probably about 50 fewer hits for 2023.
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
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.
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
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.
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
8-10 weeks…of the regular season? Or starting now? I assume the next 8-10 weeks.
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
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).
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
- Fuck OU Mobilehoma, where is the surly tailgate for the BYU game on 10/28.
- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- 2023 Houston Texans Offseason - A Huge #2
- NFL 2023 Offseason
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.)- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
1. Nolan (by a lot) 2. Alou 3. Yuli 4. Brantley- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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…- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
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.- 2023 NFL DRAFT
Sorry for partying.- 2022-23 MLB offseason thread
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.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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.- 2023 Texas Coaching and Support Staff Thread
- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
I love Pena, but let’s see him get his OBP north of .300 (really, .330) before comparing him to Correa.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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.- Bijan Robinson is special
Yeah, though I was thinking that the photo was just Earl and then the Doak Walker award winners from Texas. - Fuck OU Mobilehoma, where is the surly tailgate for the BYU game on 10/28.
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