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Hank Chinaski

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  1. Wouldn’t be shocked if Pena gets in, as he’s been easily a top-3 SS in the AL. But, with each team needing a rep, and him being a rookie, who knows.
  2. It’s mostly just that the shit Texas gets blamed for is oversimplified, misinterpreted, intellectually dishonest, borderline absurd in some cases, and often just flat out inaccurate, yet it gets echoed incessantly and has become college football dogma among writers, fans, etc. It’s annoying because nobody is particularly interested in any details other than the narrative that “Texas kills conferences” and “Texas caused all of this.” Lazy, inaccurate drivel gets old and makes you wish people would do better or be just be honest.
  3. As long as he’s in the bottom third of the lineup I am not gonna complain.
  4. Yeah, he got to that. Alvarez leads the league in slugging, OPS, position-player bWAR, Win Probability Added and Runs Created per Game. Judge leads the AL in home runs and runs scored — but doesn’t rankabove Alvarez in a single significant rate stat.
  5. That’s cool, but he’s swinging a bat 25% better than Judge to this point. So one might also say that Judge isn’t doing what Yordan is doing.
  6. Judge, Ohtani, Devers would be my top 3 at midseason. Yordan right behind those 3, but closing the gap fairly quickly. One could make a legit argument for any of those 4. (“Best player on best team” is not a legit argument, though.)
  7. Sending Nebraska off with that game - they spent the entire off-season hyping that game, Texas was awful, Gilbert beat them by running the ball haha, etc. - and the Case scramble to send the ags off after Texas did absolutely nothing on offense all night…well, those two games will never not be hilarious to me.
  8. I prefer losing the TEXAS too, but getting rid of that damned collar logo and fixing the shade of orange should be priorities 1a and 1b. The TEXAS doesn’t really bother me, but I do prefer the jerseys without it. Just looks cleaner. And given that nobody else wears burnt orange, it seems kinda redundant. This is our optimal look IMO…uncluttered Jersey, no helmet numbers…i could take or leave the pants stripes:
  9. Yes, and the really shitty part is that it was obvious a decade ago that this was the PAC’s best and only play. There simply were no other “marquee” programs to get that made even remote geographic sense. They opted to let the LHN be a deal-breaker. It was short-sighted and ultimately led to the destruction of their league. And again, this isn’t hindsight, it was clear back then that the PAC was cutting off its nose to spite its face. I know this seems arrogant, but they needed Texas more than Texas needed them, and they didn’t seem to consider that during negotiations. It is just true, it was true in 2011 - and we said it back then - and this is the result.
  10. You see, he’s playing second base. He obviously has to lead off, because normally the second baseman leads off.
  11. Agreed. The sport is moving in a direction that is less regional, more corporate, where programs are built based largely on NIL/payroll, where all players are free agents every year, etc. It’ll likely get more sterile and less passionate. I guess with all the money the sport generates, this was inevitable. Some people will like it more, I guess. I don’t think I will be one of them.
  12. Of course he did, he’s playing 2B.
  13. Teotihuacan was always my fav when I lived in Houston. Very likely to go there. How’s the wait for a patio table at the Heights location these days?
  14. Speaking of the wave, I’ll be flying into Houston tomorrow and going to the Sat and Sun games…first trip to MMP since 2018.
  15. I have been going to Astros games since the early 80s. (I know that this is difficult to believe, as your idea of “typical Astros fans” are those who began following the club in 2015.) I can honestly say I’ve never once, not a single time, witnessed a “stadium-wide” - or even section-wide - chant that included “fuck you ______.” So it probably isn’t “laughable” to expect that that won’t happen. What’s laughable is the extent to which Altuve has gotten under the skin of Yankee fans.
  16. Except with Yordan hitting off the tee.
  17. Nah, we just need to adjust our expectations and accept that he’s just not a 40 HR guy. I expect him to be more like 2017 Bregman than 2019 Bregman. He will finish the year in the neighborhood of .265/.375/.475 with 20-25 HR. I think that’s more or less who he is, and that is really good.
  18. Yeah I’ve wondered if he’s the type of hitter who may be more impacted than others by a ball that doesn’t carry as well…even when hitting 40 HR, he wasn’t a guy with elite exit velo or hard hit rates. In 2019, he was 53rd percentile in EV, 42nd percentile in hard hit%. He isn’t Yordan, who hits the absolute shit out of the ball at an extraordinary rate, he never was; he was a guy whose “game power” seemed to exceed his “raw power.” So my guess is that some of those fly balls that are dying at the track may have been HRs the last few seasons, with the livelier ball. That may call for an adjustment in his approach.
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