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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I get your point, but I’d argue that Mack’s ability to attract, retain, and develop such a talented roster for a decade is exactly what made him a great coach. That’s part of a coach’s skill set - maybe the most important part.
  2. Fangraphs at one point created percentile outcomes on their top prospects lists, basically probability tables for performance outcomes for individual prospects. I’m sure teams have similar methods of estimating future value, and baked into that is the possibility that some guys will never produce any value. The assumption is that their predictive/odds methodologies are sound, and that such a thing can even be reasonably predicted. (I think it can.) So it’s basically an odds assessment. But yeah, deadline trades like the Bartolo Colon for Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips and Cliff Lee scared the piss out of a bunch of GMs for a long time. (As an aside, it’s a damn shame Sizemore couldn’t stay healthy - he was a tremendous player with HOF ability.)
  3. This is correct. The Texans began when I was 25 (and lived in Austin). I’ve never really cared about them one way or another. If everything were exactly the same except they wore Columbia blue and had oil derricks on the helmets, I’d be all the way in. It’s completely irrational, it’s literally rooting for laundry, but it is what it is.
  4. It seemed like they fired Culley because they wanted to hire Flores, and then all the lawsuit stuff flared up and that became a situation they wanted no part of. Then they just hired Smith. But I could be making that up.
  5. Look, I’m not going to pretend that I’m objective when it comes to this guy - he has pretty much every attribute I abhor in people: arrogant, zero humility, victim complex, loudmouth, attention seeking, childish, self-congratulatory, etc. We all know people like this, and they’re almost always insecure, full of shit and generally a drag to about around. But he has been accused specifically of being an abusive person, by multiple people. He has denied that he did anything that was extra-consensual in all cases. Maybe he really did nothing wrong, maybe he did - no idea. I tend to think he probably crossed some line, but maybe that’s because I think he sucks in general and it seems on brand.
  6. He has certainly already made more money for doing nothing the last year and a half than I will in my lifetime; I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, or “taking the L” (whatever the fuck that means). It doesn’t change the fact that he’s ruined his MLB career because his “weird kink” involves beating the shit out of women.
  7. Ha, perhaps, but I was thinking it may be the sum of all his loathsome attributes.
  8. Maybe one day Bauer will reflect on his a career and think to himself, “huh, perhaps if I wasn’t always such an insufferable fucking jackoff douchebag, I would have gotten everything I could out of my baseball career and perhaps I’d be memorable for something other than strangling women. Perhaps if I could have figured out that I should just shut the fuck up sometimes and not be a perpetual attention-craving, petulant titty-baby, things could have turned out better.” (Note: He won’t ever have the self-awareness for that type of reflection, he’ll always tell himself that it’s all everyone else’s fault.)
  9. I hope not, but I bet somebody will. Maybe not immediately, but he’ll probably resurface. But perhaps the fact that, not only does he like to beat the shit out of women, but that he’s always been a detestable dipshit, who lacks an ounce of humility and whose teammates have generally hated him, will ultimately push teams toward letting him rot.
  10. beware of poisonous sound waves, friends! (I don’t think that’s exactly what Nick says.)
  11. Dodgers DFA’d Bauer. Good for you, LA. Go fuck yourself, Tyler.
  12. Not gonna lie, I fucking love this dude. His expression in the meat judging team photo is one of my favorite things ever.
  13. I mean, the difference is obviously the years of team control at the time those deals were signed. It’s not apples to apples. But yeah, the Braves have used that leverage well. Well I guess it remains to be seen, but right now they look smart.
  14. I always need help.
  15. CSB: A cousin of my mother’s was Norm Bulaich, who played at TCU in the ‘60s (then for the Colts and Dolphins). I remember him showing me his super bowl ring when I was at his house as a kid.
  16. Ummm…they’re kids going to college and they’ve realized they would rather go to a different school? Not sure what part doesn’t make sense.
  17. goddamnit, if calling out disrespectful imbeciles, who lack even a modicum of understanding of medicine, physiology, or, shit, even just science in general, for trumpeting this asinine bullshit, for which there is no goddamn evidence whatsoever, then neg the shit out of me. This isn’t an attack in anyone’s belief about policy or political philosophy - it is simply calling out what is objectively, fundamentally wrong.
  18. Man, it would be great to secure a good player or two as a direct result of an orgy. This is exactly the kind of shit that 2023 needs.
  19. I don’t give a shit who wins. I only watch college football games in which Texas participates and I try not to talk to many people in general. I know one TCU grad - my sister in law, who may or may not have any fucking idea that they’re even participating in the playoff. I don’t know anyone who went to Georgia. All in all, I hate every other fan base equally and find them all completely fucking irritating and stupid. The only exception is Baylor, who I hate the most (I hated everyone from high school that went there, then the murder and rape things, etc) and A&M, though I honestly can’t figure out if I especially hate them or whether I actually love them for the extraordinary goofy bastards that they are and all the entertainment that their absurdity begets. I go back and forth.
  20. I don’t expect it either; but I can also see a path toward it becoming possible if he maintains a quality staff (compared to the last 2 coaches, I like Sark’s assistants) and consistently recruits at an elite level. I expect that even if he does this, we’ll still win 8-10 games per year (not 10+). Maybe it’s because I’m old now, but if he’s doing that, I don’t think you replace him - even though he isn’t quite hitting the standard you want - until you are doing so with a known/certain upgrade. And there aren’t many of those. I think the odds of an occasional playoff run would be better with continuity (in this scenario) than rolling the dice on someone new (simply because he’s new/different), because I agree with @David Dennison, coaching hires typically involve a lot of luck/chance.
  21. I think it comes down to what we mean when we say “talent”. We throw it out there like it’s an objective thing, but I think it is nuanced and fuzzy and don’t know how to best quantify it. Many people are really only referring to recruiting rankings from the roster. That’s an indicator, but experience also matters. QE may be more “talented” than Duggan, for example, but he was also a freshman who did a bunch of freshman shit. Worthy may seem more “talented” based on his speed, etc, but that means fuckall if he can’t catch. We had zero players from last year’s team drafted, indicating a dearth of upper-classman talent - which you could think of as the intersection of talent and experience. Some on here act like this year’s roster was like one of Mack’s teams in terms of talent - IMO it’s not in the same galaxy as those 00s teams in terms of depth, experience, ability, etc. Sark’s path to success depends on amassing a significant talent advantage. He can’t miss on many evals, his staff will need to develop players, and he’ll need good QB play. That’s his only shot, because he’s not going to consistently out-strategize opponents. It is doable but his margin for error isn’t wide.
  22. In college football? Yes. Getting and developing the talent is most of the job. People always try to separate talent acquisition and roster construction from Xs and Os; me, I don’t give a shit, it all comes out in the wash. It looks like Sark will need pretty sizable talent advantages to win consistently; he seems potentially able to create that. He will need to, because it doesn’t appear that he’ll outcoach (within games) many opponents.
  23. Bro, do you really think you can shit on our coaches better than we can? Nobody hates our coaches more than we do, believe that. Hell, we fucking hated (and many still do) our HOF coach who won 85% of his games for over a decade. Come on now.
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