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Gut Wagon

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  1. That half-inning illustrated Brown's frustrating issue: cruise through innings until you get a baserunner or two, then let it turn into a run. I still wonder if he does something out of the stretch to make him less effective.
  2. I'm thinking he's on a first-name basis with Carrington Byndom. Or at least the Earl of Sandwich.
  3. What a lineup. As jaggy as it gets in MLB. So we'll probably score 12.
  4. We've seen a lot of magic in this franchise for a decade. We're not seeing it now. I don't think it's any one thing causing our decline, but injuries, age, loss of leadership and marked improvement by some other clubs have added up to a bad funk. Call it bad luck if you will, but it's not just being snakebitten on injuries. Correcting all this won't be easy or cheap, and it might not quick...but the sooner the front office takes an objective look at where things went wrong, the sooner we'll have a chance to contend again.
  5. Feels like we're just waiting on the last family members to get into town before pulling the plug.
  6. I wanted Jose Abreu to work out, too. But when a power guy isn't hitting, and hasn't for weeks on end, a manager can't keep pretending he is. I feel that way about Altuve, too. Stubbornly keeping those guys in the 3-4 slots might well cost us the postseason.
  7. Allow Aggy to suggest Mo Bamba.
  8. I said before Framber's last bad outing that I wouldn't start him again. Who knows what would have happened with another guy in his place, but that's a chance I'd have eagerly taken. I'd now be happy to try giving Blubaugh an emergency start this week, even if we approach it as more or less a bullpen game. That's what most of them now have become anyway.
  9. Such a fitting conclusion to a home series that defined our season.
  10. Because I desperately want it to happen, it won't.
  11. Over/under on days until the offseason thread? I'll hang up and listen.
  12. Watch him end up in Arlington and go 17-5. I mean, I doubt he does, but I also wouldn't be shocked.
  13. Such a waste of an arm. If you transplanted Framber's brain into a hummingbird, it would fly upside down and backwards into a bus.
  14. I thought last year's season-ending collapse against the Panthers was bad. At least that game was close. Atlanta's making the Carolina D look like the '85 Bears. Well, except for the fact Bijan is getting his yards.
  15. I view Raheem Morris much as I do Joe Espada. Whether dreadful play is all his fault or not, I'd send him packing immediately.
  16. Just needed a few more minutes to be down 17. Penix with the Pop Warner pass for a pick 6.
  17. That's a great summation. The offense laid an egg in Columbus and was so pedestrian for the next two weeks, with Arch looking way off and several key talents sidelined. For that matter, as solid as our defense was, the lack of a weekly sack party was unsettling after so much buildup. Given all this, I think many of us longtime fans have a rather uneasy felling about where things actually stand. Maybe that was always the likeliest outcome following an offseason in which some folks really asked if this team might beat 2005's, but to see us look so meh on one side of the ball has been buzzkill. While last night was a long step in the right direction, let's not forget that was a home game against an 0-3 Sam Houston squad that under no circumstances had a chance to beat us. I was a Coffee & Football guy nearly every weekday for months leading into the season, mostly to get recruit updates from Gerry. Recruiting is the one major part of college sports I can't really watch for myself, so accurate coverage of that topic intrigues me much more than game analysis. I'm no coach, but I'm content with my own ability to tell what did or didn't happen on the field of play.
  18. How emblematic of this whole disaster
  19. I'll admit I was happy we signed Walker. I'll admit I was wrong.
  20. I'll be dismayed if you're right. He's not up to snuff.
  21. Sounds like Arch was trash talking all week so maybe it's a concerted effort to change the vibe and be more of an alpha. Or maybe the DB said something bad about Vuori.
  22. Not that he's more athletic, but is Moseley actually even on campus yet?
  23. I've only seen the last two plays of ND-Purdue, but they were enough to convince me the Boilermakers should stick to making boilers.
  24. A lot of livestock and wildlife choke on released balloons. Yet another reason Nebraska bites.
  25. Our offense against Clemson's defense would be a matchup for the ages.
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