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Hank Chinaski

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  1. In VY's 3 years as a starter (2003-2005), Texas gave up 40+ points in a game twice (1-1). In Colt's 4 years (2006-2009), Texas gave up 40+ points in a game 3 times (1-2). In Sam's 4 years (2017-2020), Texas gave up 40+ points in a game 7 times (3-4). The point isn't that Sam was as good as either VY or Colt (he wasn't). But to the quoted statement - we might be thinking about Sam a little differently if his teams limited the opponents scoring better, which he really had almost nothing to do with. I'd say, going solely by memory, over the last 30 years of Texas football, the list is probably something like this, by tier: 1. VY; 2. Colt; 3. Sam/Major/Simms; 4. James Brown; 5. Gardere/Ash/Buechele/Mock/Morenz; 6. Gilbert Case isn't ranked - he gets his own tier based on the fact that he wasn't very good but had the hilarious run to beat the ags and the OU win. Also, Nordgren gets bonus points for his dribble TD. I got to UT in the mid-90s, so don't have much recollection of Gardere or Morenz (I think of him as getting a grade of "incomplete") and very well could be off base with those two.
  2. Yup, these are the two best Tech unis IMO. They should pick one and roll with it all the time. Although I do actually love the first one with black helmets like they used to wear (I think late-70s/early-80s): Modernized: Also, those road unis with the red pants/white jersey/black helmet was great. Couldn't find a good photo.
  3. No Bull Durham? That’s the best IMO. And yeah, Field of Dreams never did it for me.
  4. Yikes. From a purely baseball perspective, I don't get why Vizquel is even in the conversation as a HOFer. He wasn't a good offensive player. His 2,877 hits came across 24 seasons. His career OPS+ was 82. I admire the longevity but that doesn't make one a HOFer. And yeah, he was a good defensive player, but he wasn't in the league of, say, Ozzie Smith (nor was he in Ozzie's class as an offensive player). And I realize that defensive metrics are imperfect, but they'd have to really undervalue his defense for him to even be close to a HOF-caliber player. Vizquel finished with 46 bWAR and 43 fWAR...over 24 seasons. I don't see how he is a serious consideration.
  5. Joey Gallo, 2021: 135 wRC+, 3.5 WAR He needs time in AAA? This is just about the best version of Joey Gallo there is. Typically, all-star players in the prime of their careers aren't sent to AAA after a subpar week, because absolutely everyone has subpar weeks. I can never tell if you're serious though.
  6. Wait, did his “research” not include anything on brain biochemistry and neurotransmitter regulation? Seems his research may have been incomplete.
  7. Wait, was there some contingent of people patiently waiting for Chris Elam to finally speak his mind? And were they disappointed that “speaking his mind” was actually just retyping the same tired ag talking points?
  8. Fuck off, Baylor. Dissociating with that school is one of the truly fantastic aspects of this move.
  9. Korey Lee too - still going strong, at about .315/.385/.530 between AA and AAA, 11 HR. I hope the Astros hold onto him but I also hope the Astros go get a badass reliever and win the fucking WS this year, so…
  10. I hear you. Just saying I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide they’re rolling with Straw.
  11. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but there is a decent chance the org is looking at him as a 2/2.5-win CF that only makes about $500k and, thus, as a pretty good value.
  12. He's not in ABQ. Not sure of his timeline.
  13. It was the worst game I've ever attended, and the worst part was that, after watching it...you knew there was no fucking way Charlie Strong was going to be the answer, but you also knew he had at least 2 more years to fuck everything up beyond what seemed imaginable. It felt like rock bottom, and then we opened the next season in South Bend in what was pretty much the same game. Goddamnit.
  14. I have a connection to a current player, which doesn't mean I know a damned thing about anything, just that I hear tidbits. From what he said, every team has/had a system and everybody knows it, which stands to reason and is supported by circumstantial evidence. And he pretty much had the same thoughts about the pearl-clutching response that Evan Gattis recently shared. From the Evan Gattis article in the Chronicle the other day: Gattis, who said he and his teammates believed they were just keeping up with what most of the other contending teams already were doing, also said it was no secret around the league what the Astros were doing, especially after White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar let the Astros dugout know he could hear the banging while he was on the mound during a game in 2017. Gattis said the only reason no team spoke out at the time about the Astros' system is because they didn't want Major League Baseball to look into what they were doing on their side of the field. He said that's why his former teammates took offense to players from other teams - like the Dodgers' Cody Bellinger - saying the Astros didn't earn their World Series title. "There’s people in our clubhouse who have had to call other people from the Dodgers clubhouse and say, 'Hey you need to clean up your shit, because, yo, we know, bro. Why you gotta be like that?,'" Gattis said. "Everybody has a system," Gattis said. "Everybody knows a buddy that has a buddy that’s on the Dodgers in the baseball world. It’s like, 'Yo, we know, so you guys got to kind of chill out with that shit.'" https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Evan-Gattis-Astros-cheating-Dodgers-signs-podcast-16282495.php
  15. Olney has had a hardon for the Astros pretty much since Crane/Lunhow took over. He constantly bitched about how they "were trying to lose" in '12-'13, and how terrible that was for the game. Anytime service-time manipulation is mentioned, he uses the Springer example - never fails. (He never acknowledges that, given the circumstances, it would have been professional negligence to trade full-season 2020 Springer for a few weeks of rookie Springer in 2014 on a team with no chance of contending - never.) Everyone did this. Everyone. Look, I don't mind criticism about Osuna or the douchebag front-office guy that yelled at the reporter, or even the sign-stealing thing (although it is intellectually dishonest for writers to pretend that it was as big a deal as they've made out to be). But when he's been whining about the org every chance he gets for nearly a decade, and then he feels the need to complain about guys who say "fuck you" to the All-Star game - in part due to a situation in which he himself is somewhat complicit in creating - yeah, he just comes off as having an axe to grind. I'd have more respect for him if he just came out and admitted that he doesn't like the org and the people who run it, and by extension, the players in it. Instead he has been passive-aggressive about it for 9 years.
  16. Ha, fair enough. It should be noted that the 3 times UNI has beaten ISU in the last 15 years, each of those ISU teams went 3-9. But yeah, the OT game in 2019...
  17. Sure, I guess it's about the definition of "best in the game" and whether that implies a certain amount of time/track record; it certainly doesn't have to. If I could have any player in MLB on my team for the next 5 years (ignoring contract, etc), I'd probably still go with Trout. But I wouldn't fault anyone for going with Ohtani (or the other guys previously listed).
  18. Yeah. Ohtani, Tatis, Acuna, Soto, Guerrero are awesome, but they're still looking up at Trout. I agree with your overall point, but to nitpick, I'd disagree here. Soto has a 142 OPS+ in 75 games at age 22, and it feels disappointing. There is no reason to think he's not on the very short list of best hitters in the game. (Not saying that's what you were implying, just saying that even when he hasn't been at his best, he's still better than almost everyone.)
  19. Also pretty excited about Korey Lee, who is hitting .327 with 10 HR between A+ and AA so far this season. K% is at 16% and BB% at 9.5%. For a guy who's projected to be a decent defensive catcher, those offensive numbers are very encouraging.
  20. To me, Trout is still the best in the game - though I hope the second half of his career isn't like Griffey's, who couldn't stay healthy in his 30s and was never quite the same after leaving Seattle. But the thing with Ohtani - how do you compare him to any other player? Of course he's not in the same tier as deGrom or Scherzer or Cole on the mound - he's a good mid-rotation starter (which is still really good). Offensively, he's terrific. Is he a better offensive player than Vlad Jr or Tatis or Acuna or Soto (or Trout when healthy)? Probably not, but he's making a case that he's in that class. I'd guess that he'll lead MLB in WAR this season, which is probably still the best way to compare him to the field, but he'll have to do that more than once to be considered the best in the game because he has a teammate who has done that multiple times. It doesn't really matter - he's great and unique and a blast to watch. I hope he stays healthy and plays for a long time, because his career will be fascinating.
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