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Hank Chinaski

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  1. Charlie is the best. Always level-headed and reasonable in an industry dominated by dipshit blowhards.
  2. Really interesting race. I went with Harper, but I wouldn’t argue much with Soto, Turner, Tatis.
  3. I hope Tech does the right thing and hires Traylor or Dykes if they move on from Wells. Briles is trash.
  4. Kind of…it was a good deal for both sides because the club only bought 1 or 2 extra seasons from Bregman. That’s the kind of deal I’d expect them to try with Alvarez and Tucker. Anyway, I’ll be surprised if they sign Correa. But who knows what the FA market will be like this off-season, with the CBA negotiations, etc. Maybe it’s bizarro and nobody is getting what they want and he says “fuck it” and signs something like a 2-3 year / $75-100mm to stay for a few more years and try FA again at 29 or 30.
  5. Hell of a season for the Mariners. Going into the season I thought they had a bright future with a lot of young talent but weren’t there yet; but I was wrong, they arrived early and still have some serious talent that hasn’t bubbled up yet. I expect the Astros to take a bit of a step back next year (probably losing Correa, Altuve/Brantley/Yuli all a year older, etc.). I’d expect HOU/SEA/OAK to all be fighting it out again next year. (And hell, with a healthy Trout and Rondon and Ohtani, the Angels won’t be pushovers either.)
  6. Christ. Patterson/TCU joined the conference exactly when Texas began its worst decade in program history. He went 7-2 against checked-out Mack, Charlie Strong and Tom fucking Herman. Congrats? Every B12 team that didn’t go 7-2 against that shitshow should be ashamed. Is Sark better? Maybe/maybe not/maybe fuck yourself. Anyway, those games are irrelevant to today. Last year this game was a coin flip in which Texas fumbled away the probable winning score. And Herman’s idiotic ass didn’t use his best player. Also, I think everyone here would acknowledge that TCU winning today wouldn’t be stunning, but it’s a message board and that’s not fun, plus we say all kinds of crazy shit here (like really crazy, insane, depraved shit, just browse for a while).
  7. Yeah, as an Astros fan, I was not pleased that we gave up Toro. I think he’ll be a good player for several years.
  8. Seager’s free agency will be interesting. I’ve kind of expected the Dodgers to keep him, but are they going to just significantly exceed the luxury tax forever? I know they probably could, but that doesn’t mean they will. Acquiring Turner gives them some flexibility, as he can move over to SS, but I believe he’s a FA after next season…maybe they try to lock him up? Anyway, Seager and Correa are the same age and similarly productive players, both with a fairly significant injury history (though Correa hasn’t missed any time this season or in last year’s mini-season). They are sort of difficult to value if you try to factor in missed time in their 20s and how much you’re willing to invest in their long-term futures. Not sure which one is “safer.”
  9. It’s almost as though winning a bunch of games with a senior draftable QB in a bizarro pandemic season in which their opponents were a combined 20 games under .500, and winning the Orange Bowl against a just-ok team whose best players opted out, isn’t predictive of greatness the following season. Go figure.
  10. Highly recommend the book The Kid by Ben Bradlee. It’s terrific.
  11. I have no idea how good Tech is. I also have no idea how good Texas is. Thus, I have no idea how this game will go. $9.95.
  12. Oh yeah, well maybe they’ll beat us by…wait, shit, never mind.
  13. Just turned on Dodgers-Reds and Votto was up against Scherzer. They showed an awesome Votto stat: In his career, Votto has hit .344/.433/.591 against Cy Young winners in 393 PAs. (He walked in the PA, so tick that OBP up a notch.)
  14. I mean, sure, but this was true in 1999 too. Seems like tons of the top TX players in the 90s went to Miami, Notre Dame, Michigan, etc, and A&M was getting a lot of them too. We didn’t get Simms and Redding and Benson and VY because they grew up dreaming about Texas, we got them because Mack was a badass recruiter/salesman. And to your second point - this is a bigger deal and will increasingly render the “dream school” thing meaningless. I’m old and talking out of my ass, but it seems to me that kids nowadays may be more enamored with dreams of developing their personal celebrity and exposure than with any particular school (and the schools that facilitate this the best will reap the benefits).
  15. The best pitcher/deadline deal was when the Red Sox acquired Larry Andersen in 1990.
  16. If he sucks (or is just not great and misses significant time due to injury) nobody is trading for his age 32-39 seasons, even if they only had to pay him $5mm annually. And if they did, they aren’t giving you high-end prospects, which is the only reason you’d would be willing to eat the money. So under this scenario the club would be paying him $160mm to play elsewhere and wouldn’t come away with any guys likely to make a difference. That’s the risk. Look at Lindor and the Mets…he has a 102 OPS+ this season, year 1 of 11. If he is around there for the next 4 years, nobody is trading for his next 6 after that, as defense and speed typically decline with age and you can likely match that level of production with guys making the league minimum. Anyway, I’m with you in that I’d love for him to sign. I’m not particularly optimistic though. I don’t think he’ll quite get 13/330, maybe 10/275 or thereabouts. And I do think he’d be worth that deal.
  17. Disagree on Odorizzi - a 2 year/$20mm deal for a guy who’s been a decent SP in recent years, to a contending team who just found out it’s best starter was going to miss significant time, was a reasonable signing. That’s not an unreasonable salary commitment for an average-ish SP. Its tough to compare to Lunhow because they started under almost opposite circumstances. Regarding CC - it isn’t always easy to get out of those contracts. Shit, look at the Angels this past decade - they flat out lit money on fire with the contracts they gave Pujols, Hamilton, CJ Wilson…hell maybe Rendon now. They couldn’t have unloaded those contracts on anyone. The Marlins gave Stanton away instead of paying him, which isn’t as bad but still an undesirable outcome. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to lock up CC, and I think he’ll continue to be a good player, but there is risk involved in any long-term lucrative deal.
  18. I mean, ok. My point is that Saban and Meyer were “easy answers” for Bama and Ohio St. They were also the correct answers. Why is it a problem if Texas attempts to hire them but not if other schools attempt to hire them? And unless Texas is only making coaching changes on the off-chance that they say yes, what is the problem with attempting to hire them? Wouldn’t it be dumb not to? As for “developing your own coach” - like who? Doesn’t this only work if it is a guy who worked with a very successful departing coach (Riley, Day)? I suppose Dabo fits this description, though I can’t say I know anything about his career before coaching at Clemson. I guess we were kinda trying that approach when our last successful coach was here with the Muschamp “coach in waiting” thing, but Mack hung around too long. Somehow we weren’t seeking continuity with the Strong or Herman regimes. I suppose Texas could have rolled the dice on a lesser name (many on here were advocating for Traylor, and I would not have hated it). I also currently have no reason to think that he’d be better for the job than Sark. In a sense, Sark is a departure from the last 2 hires in that he wasn’t a head coach coming from a non P5 school. He has HC experience but hasn’t been one in a while.
  19. Ok, but you indicated that Texas’s problem has been trying to chase “easy choices.” What does that mean? I am sure that “we’re Ohio St” does mean the same thing - that was my point, that every prominent AD has that element, and that it isn’t unique to Texas, and thus isn’t Texas’s primary problem for the rut the football program is in.
  20. Sure, but Urban wasn’t the coach at Ohio St last year…we weren’t trying to hire him away, he wasn’t coaching. Are you suggesting that Texas shouldn’t have tried to hire him? Also - what are the “easy answers” Texas has been looking for? Trying to see if the best coaches would like to work there? I mean, why wouldn’t they ask? Wasn’t Urban an “easy answer” for Ohio St? Seems like easy answers often have great potential to be the best answers, no? As others have stated, there is some luck involved here - if Alabama had Mack in 2007 and Texas was where Bama was, Saban would have been an “easy answer” for Texas. But Bama was basically where we are now and that proved to be right place / right time. I have no doubt that dipshits at Texas have fucked up plenty on their own, but let’s not pretend that those dipshits don’t exist at Bama or any other prominent AD.
  21. Meh. Herman was essentially the equivalent of late-stage (2010-2013) Mack, even down to the highly-rated recruiting classes that always disappointed. So yeah, I guess we could have just kept running Mack out there. But to say that we should have kept Mack is basically saying we should have kept Herman. Though I guess it would have prevented the Charlie Strong era, so yeah, why not. At least in seemed like we were trying something. I guess.
  22. If this is really a 20+ year agreement…yeah that is pretty weird and does seem to reek of politics. That said, if half our schedule consists of OU, Arky, Tech, Ag, and, say, Rice every year…well at least there is a nice SWC nostalgia element to it (I know OU wasn’t in the SWC but we still played them every year back then). If, like me, you’re old enough for that sort of thing.
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