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Gut Wagon

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  1. If we'd regularly fielded these lineups back then, we're all confident at least some of those pennants would be flying elsewhere.
  2. Whether as coaches or recruiters or simply "faces of the program," Charlie and Tom were paid WAY more than they were worth, only to hold us back at the worst possible time. As it turned out, UT's administrative ineptitude cost us about a decade, and that's on top of not booting Mack once he retired without leaving the sideline. I love what Sark has done so far to flush those lines and infuse our whole roster with better talent. We're prepping for a new era of glory. Even if our future teams don't live up to their full potential (few sports teams ever do), we finally are in position to forget those dismal years. It's high time we do.
  3. So it goes, I guess. One way better hitter than him crashed and burned in the 9th as well. No, Jake, not you.
  4. Sweet! Now to keep the circling bayou buzzards and others off the carcass for the next four months.
  5. Pena needs way more time in the cage than in the gym.
  6. A lineup we all agree on after two nights of solid offense can only mean we struggle to score 2 runs today. Hey, jk. We score at least 3.
  7. If Abreu had to pay me $1,000 for every slider he couldn't locate, I could foot the bill for Tucker's new contract.
  8. He's already just about reached his pitch limit, but hey...a goose egg is a goose egg. Solid start.
  9. Extend Tucker before he hits free agency and the O's give him $1B to avoid facing him.
  10. I finally had a chance to check the MLB scoreboard and saw it was 6-3 Orioles, bottom 8. Figuring we were toast, I didn't worry about the fact I couldn't check it again for another half-hour or so. What a nice surprise to see that final and then catch highlights of how it all unfolded. Huuuuuge win.
  11. While the veteran core of the Astros traditionally has played well on the road against good teams, I'm hardly expecting a sweep of Baltimore. The O's remind me of the Astros of the mid-2010s: young, but really talented and about to go on a multi-year run of excellence. Might not prove out, but the potential is clearly there. We'll need to bring our A game every night.
  12. With the search for another LH bat on the big club, does this suggest they've simply given up on JJ? I'm assuming so, but I don't know that he's a demonstrably worse bench option than some guys they've trotted out there.
  13. Not saying Bregman's a dog at all, just not as special as I once believed/hoped. He hits really well in stretches. I do have a hard time figuring out what we can expect from him year to year, or even month to month. Perhaps it's my imagination, but he seems to have reached his peak earlier, and then faded sooner, than many other great players do. It puzzles me that he hasn't sustained huge numbers longer than he has, particularly with Altuve in front of him and solid bats behind him most of the time.
  14. He might not be ordinary, but neither is he extraordinary. Still the better of our two guys on that side of the infield.
  15. Maybe Dusty knows it's his last season and after a half-century in baseball and a WS managerial title is just stubbornly determined to go out doing it "my way."
  16. Our friends of the sheepish persuasion might try to call that the world's biggest ag tag. Advantage: A&M.
  17. I was hoping we could at least clear Pena in that inning, for a better chance in the 9th. Sad to say that about your #/2 guy, but....
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