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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 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.
  2. Oh yeah, well maybe they’ll beat us by…wait, shit, never mind.
  3. 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.)
  4. 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).
  5. The best pitcher/deadline deal was when the Red Sox acquired Larry Andersen in 1990.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Now that’s fucking funny. Texas went 9-1 against Nebraska in the B12 and arguably broke their program.
  14. Yeah, if the talking heads were blathering about how Texas will win easily simply because they’re Texas, that would also be lazy. But that’s not what any of them seems to be saying.
  15. This point about Texas paying them to play…do these goddamn imbeciles realize that we pay teams to play in Austin because we net a significant profit by hosting the game? Fair to criticize Texas for their recent play but this angle is kind of stupid and doesn’t make a lot of sense.
  16. Of course everyone is picking against the Horns. We knew that was going to happen all summer. It’s an easy, lazy pick…good G5 team with lots of starters back against underachieving blue blood that most fans dislike. That’s literally the extent of the analysis that went into these “predictions.”
  17. Christ, Herman was such a dipshit. Kissing the players before games would be fine if there was a reason or story behind it. But it was so obviously performative and contrived. When it trickled out that he was generally a prick to the players in day-to-day interactions, it looks even more phony. Man he sucked.
  18. Dodger Stadium is great. Of the 15 or so I’ve been to, it’s up there. But not sure I’d put it ahead of SF (formerly AT&T), Wrigley, Pittsburgh, etc. I would put it ahead of Petco, though it’s nice too. There are a bunch of great venues.
  19. Man I hope MLB pulls the plug on these contrived, hideous alt uni gimmicks. They’ve all been embarrassingly terrible. And yeah, get off my lawn and all that. That said, congrats on the fellatio.
  20. This is correct. Astros fans may unanimously hate him because of his public back-and-forth with Bregman, calling out Cole for sticky stuff, etc. But if there is anything that all baseball fans should be able to agree on, it’s that Trevor Bauer is a grade-A fucking unlikeable douchebag. We’re talking about a guy whose college teammates disliked him. Who has had public temper tantrums and that aforementioned Twitter bullying episodes. When writers and talking heads spoke of his free agency last winter, they always had to discuss how he’d impact team chemistry. They don’t mention that with other guys - not even that horrible cheater George Springer. Bauer objectively sucks. If I was to hate anyone because I’m a “butthurt Astros fan” it would be Juan Soto or Rendon or Scherzer or Strasburg because losing that series stung. But nobody has anything against those guys. Hell, Soto may be my favorite player to watch, at least at the plate. Trevor Bauer has never impacted the Astros in any meaningful way.
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