Everything posted by Hank Chinaski
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
(I know the ads are inevitable but goddamnit it will never not bug the shit out of me.)
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2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Probably doesnāt make a shit. Iām sure he/his agent have an idea of what it would take from a years/dollar perspective, regardless of the arb result.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Goddamn, why are they so obsessed with the first meeting being in CS? They know the game will be played every year at alternating campuses, right? The shit from which they derive self-affirmation is bizarre. Also: What āmakes senseā to them is that this ongoing, 9-figure negotiation between networks was finally settled only because Texas was desperate to hang onto a few teenaged football recruits, who would have left if they had been made to play an extra season in the B12? Thatās what makes sense? The only thing that makes sense? Seriously what planet do these guys live on? Thatās a childās outlook. Christ.
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Realignment talk not going away
- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Someoneās not a Gen-X-erā¦- 2022-23 MLB offseason thread
I wish theyād stay in Oakland, but I canāt see anyone wanting to pay for renovation of that decrepit stadium, and the taxpayers there have made it clear they arenāt paying for a new stadium either. Probably just a matter of time at this point.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Not yet.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Iām actually not opposed to this idea.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Ah, must have been thinking ā91 then.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Agree on 2019 - weāll never have a better roster than that. As for 94 - Bagwell broke his hand right before the strike. In a weird twist, the stoppage probably got him the MVP award. Bonds or Gwynn probably wins it if the season kept going.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Iām going to try without looking anything up, tell me how I do. C - Biggio ā92 1B - Bagwell ā94 2B - Altuve ā17 (I think Biggio had some better seasons but we already have him at catcher) 3B - Bregman ā19 SS - Correa ā21 LF - Berkman ā01 CF - Cedeno ā73 RF - Alou ā98 DH - Yordan ā22 P - Richard ā79 P - Scott ā86 P - Verlander ā22 P - Nolan ā87 P - Clemens ā04 P - Wagner ā99- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
If I were older Iām sure this trade would irk me more than any other; but the Lofton trade makes me ragey every time I think about it. I was a goddamn high school freshman when I read about that trade and I remember thinking it was a bad move at the time. Imagine prime Lofton in CF during the 90s Bagwell/Biggio years. Ugh goddamnit.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Well yeah, but if youāre putting Lofton on an all-time Astros team (based on production he had for other teams) then you should have Randy Johnson on there too. And Joe Morgan.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
- Daniel figurelli aka Daniel Joseph aka Daniel Wilson
Holy christ. This kid literally wrote a story about how smart and friendly and successful he is, how the university president and booster millionaire befriended him and gave him a job mingling with celebrities (what the fuck?), and how heās using his immense skill and charisma to attract football players. For real, how incredibly insecure and childish - not to mention borderline psychotic - do you have to be to put that much time into this shit? Doesnāt he have anything in real life to do? What a pissant.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
And there are other epistemic reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories as well in relation to this sort of need for knowledge and certainty. So people with lower levels of education tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories. And we don't argue that's because people are not intelligent. It's simply that they haven't been allowed to have, or haven't been given access to the tools to allow them to differentiate between good sources and bad sources or credible sources and non-credible sources. So they're looking for that knowledge and certainty, but not necessarily looking in the right places. The second set of motives, we would call existential motives. And really they just refer to people's needs to be or to feel safe and secure in the world that they live in. And also to feel that they have some kind of power or autonomy over the things that happen to them as well. So again, when something happens, people don't like to feel powerless. They don't like to feel out of control. And so reaching to conspiracy theories might, I guess, at least allow people to feel that they have information that at least explains why they don't have any control over this situation. Research has shown that people who do feel powerless and disillusioned do tend to gravitate more towards conspiracy theories. The final set of motives we would call social motives and those refer to people's desire to feel good about themselves as individuals and also feel good about themselves in terms of the groups that they belong to. And I guess at the individual level, people like to feel... Well, they like to have high self-esteem. They like to feel good about themselves. And potentially one way of doing that is to feel that you have access to information that other people don't necessarily have. https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
He was - had 658 PAs. Interestingly, he only played LF last year, though he did also play CF, 2B and 1B in 2021. He seems like a good fit to fill that Marwin/Diaz role, but I really donāt know how well he can play IF positions. I suppose Dubon fills that role, but Profar is a better offensive player. But Dubon is already here. Neither should ever hit 2nd in this lineup, but if one did, it should be Profar.- Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Ha, I was all in until they informed me about the 24 blood draws in 4 days or whatever the fuck. I then turned my attention to trying to sell my semen.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Altuve Alvarez Bregman Tucker Abreu Brantley Pena Chas Maldy- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Waitā¦once in the SEC, Arch is going to get āclobberedā by his own name? His overrated name? This isnāt good.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Man, I like some aspects of vaginas, to be sure, but ātotallyā awesome? Not sold my man. Nothings perfect.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
lol at the echoing of āthanks for throwing the sips a lifeboat, Sankey!ā Like we didnāt always have our pick of whatever conference weād like to be in, and itās cute that they act like they donāt fucking know that. Suggesting that the SEC is doing Texas a solid here is some impressive, next-level intellectual dishonesty, even for them.- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Iāve been to: Retired parks: Dome, old Arlington Stadium, Ballpark at Arlington Current: MMP, Dodger, Petco, Anaheim, Seattle, Coors, Wrigley, White Sox, PNC, Minnesota My favs are Wrigley, PNC, Minnesota (is it still Target Field?). Seattle reminds me a lot of MMP. All the others are fine, enjoyed them all. May hit Nats and the new ATL parks this summer (work trips to DC and ATL).- 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
Iād be interested in Profar. Defensive flexibility, competent offensive player. - 2023 Official Astros World Champs Offseason Thread
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