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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I have no idea how much of a douchebag this Tennessee kid is. I’ll say that at my age, most of them seem like douchebags. They’re kids. They’re dipshits. Most will grow out of it.
  2. Sure, and it was still at least 3 years too long.
  3. I guess it depends on how long we’re talking about. The A-Rod one was good. These 10+ year deals that guys are signing these days are generally in their early/mid 20s. Those could work. But the deals that long for guys in their 30s (Pujols, Cabrera) were dumb and I doubt we’ll see those again.
  4. They have the best farm system per Fangraphs, so they have the prospect capital, and Soto won’t cost that much before free agency. They are already good and should be for a while.
  5. Yeah. I’ll be surprised if he’s moved this season. But in the off-season I could see it. Cleveland, TB, NYY, LAD, NYM could be fits - good farm systems, teams who could win in next two years, and a few that have a shot at extending him. Could definitely see the Mets giving him a $500mm deal.
  6. He turned down 15/$440. That’s…a little nuts. I think. I guess it’s possible he can string together some contracts that offer higher annual salaries…but holy hell. I said earlier that it would be almost impossible for Washington to get fair value for 2.5 years of Soto. That still may be true, but if he’s turning down $440 million…well maybe that changes the calculus a bit. It’ll still take a metric shit-ton of prospect value, probably a lot more than the Astros have. Sadly, teams like the Dodgers and Yankees have better farm systems right now. (And I love Soto; god I hope he doesn’t go to one of those teams.)
  7. Also, nobody has enough depth to offset the concurrent absence of the best hitter and best second baseman in MLB (in addition to another good hitter in Brantley).
  8. It’s not a free fall, it’s regression, and it was inevitable. Did you really think this was the best MLB team ever a few weeks ago when they were on a 120-win pace?
  9. If Dusty sits Bregman or Tucker for a game in which Altuve, Alvarez and Brantley are unavailable…well I’ll be terribly annoyed by the stupidity of the whole thing, and also completely unsurprised.
  10. I love how they’ve already concluded that Ewers is a headcase and won’t succeed, and that Manning is magnificently overrated on account of his family. Like, they’ve already accepted these as facts, and based all of their opinions on these assumptions, which are really just wishes. Also I’m old enough to remember them saying the exact same shit about VY and Colt. Those idiots legitimately thought that Reggie McNeal was a better QB than Vince Young. Hell, I bet you could still find some that would make that argument, despite one being in the CFB HoF and the other being completely anonymous and forgotten.
  11. I’m aware it’s not possible because it doesn’t make financial sense. That doesn’t change the fact that a set of 162 games does a better job of identifying the best teams than a set of 7 games does.
  12. Well yeah, it’ll never happen - it’ll actually go the opposite way and the playoffs will become even more watered-down. But it would be a better system in terms of actually pairing the best teams in the WS. As it is, we play 162 games - enough to reliably identify the best team - but the “champions” are decided by short series, which, in baseball, are reasonably close to 50-50 propositions. In other words, we choose to crown champs based on a sample size of 7 when we have a sample size of 162 just sitting there.
  13. I used to like it a lot more before interleague regular season play started in the 90s. I wish they would go back to that model (in which Al and NL teams don’t play each other). I also wish they’d go back to no divisions in the 2 leagues and no league playoffs. World Series is the winner of the AL v winner of the NL. (Yeah I know we aren’t going back to any of that.)
  14. It’s why I don’t gamble - I could win thousands and it wouldn’t get me that excited, but if I lose $20 I’m apoplectic.
  15. Yes. VY is the best college football player of the last 40 years, and Texas was the best team in CFB in 2008 and got royally fucked out of the title game are two things I will go to my grave believing. I like to think I’m a reasonable person who can be swayed by a solid argument, backed up by data/facts. But good fucking luck convincing me that I’m wrong about this.
  16. I was at some party with my girlfriend that night. Wine and cheese crowd, not a lot of interest in the game (even though I was in Austin). Despite how incredibly frustrating that entire game was, I kept it together pretty well…until that roughing penalty on the punt. Then I completely lost my shit. I erupted, lunging from the couch and screamed some incoherent string of the most offensive words I could come up with. I stopped, looked around and realized everyone in the house was silent and staring at me. I looked at them, yelled “motherfuck!” and left the house and walked the 5 or so miles home. It was not my proudest moment (ok it kinda is). That relationship went south very soon thereafter.
  17. Holy shit. This is hysterical. The incessant discussion, among mostly/presumably grown men, about this pool party (what the actual fuck happens at this party anyway?) is marvelous. The seemingly earnest confusion about what’s different between last cycle and this cycle, and the panic that this confusion is creating, is fantastic (I mean, I don’t even really follow recruiting very closely and it seems fairly obvious what has changed). But the best part is still just the complete lack of self-awareness that the ags have turned into an art form. I used to think they were just intellectually dishonest or were masters of cognitive dissonance, but alas, I’ve come to accept that…they aren’t. It’s sincere, and that is really something.
  18. Mancini (apparently) can play in the OF (though he’s mostly played 1B this season) which probably makes him a little more desirable than Bell. Offensively they’re similar, but I prefer Bell (higher BB%, lower K%). I wouldn’t be that excited about Cruz, would definitely prefer more position versatility. I like Benintendi…in that I’d feel better with him in there than Chas or Siri…
  19. This, haha I absolutely love reading this. It truly warms my heart.
  20. If only Dusty had gotten tossed before penciling Dubon into the #2 spot.
  21. When it comes to football uniforms, I am a firm believer that, in general, boring is good, a feature not a bug. I’m a fan of subtlety.
  22. Maybe so. I admittedly don’t even know how the reserves are selected anymore. I foolishly imagine that a small panel gets together, pores over objective data and makes rational decisions. Because that’s how I wish our world worked. I am very often disappointed.
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