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uoftorange

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  1. No, they don't. They show a box out happening while the ball is on the rim and a player with two hands in the back of the guy boxing him out. It's was 100% a box out and a shit overturn. It's just silly to keep arguing it. And I reffed up to the high school level, it's been a while, but I still know my rules pretty well.
  2. Again, you're wrong, but it's honestly not worth the time to argue it. There are other ways to foul than a hold or push, or a combo. Impeding progress, is a foul on it's own. Just because refs simplify it for calls, doesn't mean that there aren't many things that are fouls in the rule book.
  3. With respect, you're wrong. He was blocking him out immediately
  4. You are only partly correct. There is no "over the back" definition in basketball. But there is absolutely about 50 ways to call a foul there that aren't "a push".
  5. Bregman is clearly the best option for leadoff. Move Tucker up to 4 and it will be fine for a bit. But definitely could cause a big issue if it goes futher than 2 months in
  6. That's a damn shame, our LL fields are 10X nicer than that field.
  7. I thought that too, but was assuming I mis-remembered, like Andy Pettite. The trades the Astros have made have been usually pretty solid, Joe Morgan and Kenny Lofton not withstanding. Realized we missed Pettite and Jeff Kent. Both pretty damn good signings. Same for Roger. Hmmm, makes me rethink the list. Nolan is still 1 though
  8. This is correct, but the 2,3,4 spots are really close to each other. Alou was so damn underrated as a player. Pretty amazing just how few great FAs the Astros have signed in 60 years.
  9. Chas is everything you could possibly want in an 8th best fielding player. I simply do not get how people think we can just randomly upgrade CF. There aren't many teams that can say their 8th best player in the lineup has a wRC+ like that I agree that Springer absolutely spoiled people but damn. Chas has performed offensively pretty damn especially considering being yanked around all over the place and in and out of the lineup.
  10. Rocky IV is the greatest time and place movie of all time. And depending on your age is your favorite Rocky, and maybe even sports movie. It's basically a perfect movie for 1985, said everything everyone in Murica wanted. It's not the best written, it's not the best acted, but it's the perfect Rocky for what Rocky was for.
  11. The writing on this show is so freaking good and normal conversation funny. Of course it's no surprise with Bill Lawrence anymore
  12. I saw it in Houston the night after Bert performed here, they did a sneak preview. It was fun, but obviously not Citizen Kane. Drunk or High it would have been even better. I'm hoping they made a couple of the suggested changes. I know Bert said they made some.
  13. Harbor Freights Icon line is as good as anything out there. It's also not cheap at all. The Doyle stuff is also really good, and is much better priced I'm still a fan of the US made Craftsman wrench sets. The Husky stuff is just fine too. Standardized on Milwaukee a while back and have enough of the tools that I look like a fanboy at this point. For your grandson get him some Ryobi stuff and it will be great to start with. Nothing wrong with them except they are a bit heavier and the batteries are quite as good, but they are darn near half the price so not a big deal.
  14. I feel like the shotgun and toilet paper in the lower left need some explanation haha
  15. Love my lovesac. I bought it specifically because I had a huge area in my last house, and wanted it to fit exactly, not kind of. Quality is as good as anything out there. Everything is washable. You can update colors (though that's a pricey option). And like I said first, it will be exactly what you want, not sort of fit the area. When I moved to the new house, I split it in half and have a perfect couch for the living room and my office/media room. There may be something fancier, there may be something cheaper, but there isn't a single couch out there that's more versatile, or is better quality IMO. And yeah, it was expensive, just like every other non-POS couch out there. But I got it in the exact color(s) I wanted and it's virtually indestructible. Red wine got spilt on it by my wife and it came out with zero issue. Dog barfed on it, no issue. Kid spilled spaghetti, no issue.
  16. I have a very strong feeling that was just Crane making Bagwell happy to say that. I really can't imagine in reality that it was close at all.
  17. Well yeah, for sure, no doubt. And that's probably who Lucchese is marketing that service to.
  18. Allen Edmonds recrafts and does the exact same stuff for $150, $350 is idiotic and basically saying they don't really want to be in that business. Yes a full boot is bigger, but I'd argue actually a bit easier than a lace up shoe in some respects.
  19. True, I do think he mailed that analysis in though. There were only two places that the Astros could really upgrade and they did one of them with a big splash. I'd say it's a B, but C+ is fine given the criteria he is using. He used the GM thing as a negative I believe to get to that grade, and I view it as a significant positive, so that's probably the gap. To get an A they would have had to swing Sean Murphy also or the like as well as maybe another move for a more dynamic utility guy. I personally don't view the Astros offseason as just doing what has failed for other teams. We are clearly built for sustainable runs, and don't have to go balls to the wall every off season. Still, I agree that Schoenfeld has his own POV and I have mine. Both are opinions. I respect his while disagreeing on the surface
  20. I guess that's in eye of the beholder. He definitely came off as being confident in his opinion. He also came off as a pompous douche with the way he talked about literally everything. I'm pre-disposed not to like him, but he came off like "everything in this book is exactly how things happened on all teams", which we know can't even come close to being true. He repeated the idiotic "Altuve didn't stop it". No one stopped it. Nor really could they have in the way that people want on the outside. "Astros cheated on the road", there has been no evidence of this literally at all. And he didn't provide any in the conversation. He talked about presenting a full picture, but the truth is, he wanted to make money on this, and writing this book and shutting up before hand was literally the only way to do it. His one and only source was Mike Fiers. He even says that he realized it in the 2018 postseason that they were cheating. This was long after everyone states the Astros stopped doing it, including the league and Ken Rosenthal. But whatever, the Astros were/are just better at it all. They were better at "cheating", they were better at not doing it too. I've moved on, and so has most of the rest of the world of baseball.
  21. If the arbitration thing makes a difference he was never signing again anyway. Players know this is the system, it's one they negotiated. It just is what it is. Frankly I hate the system because it pits you against your own players in trying to downplay them. But at this point it's almost 50 years of "is what it is". The gap is big, but I also think it was somewhat intentional to get him to sign a better long term deal. It may have backfired, and now that the Astros won, maybe not because it could be more incentive to just get it over with and sign a long term deal and get that money back
  22. All of this... It blows my mind every year when the lineup comes out. Artists have to be available, they have to want to do it, they have to be desirable, and they have to draw. It's not like the Rodeo just gets to pick who they want when they want. I mean if they could it would be Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, George Strait, the ghost of Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, etc. every year
  23. And Lofton played 20 total for the Astros. Its the same thing And I completely agree about being rage-y about trading him for freaking Taubensee
  24. But none of that was as an Astro. I take stuff like this to mean them as an Astro. But yeah, in real life he was probably better than the others, but certainly not as an Astro. It would be like the Red Sox putting Bagwell at 1B to me
  25. Just to be clear. Only that one shelf on my side is Ikea. The rest I custom built. It's fine. Quality is okay, drawers don't work super smoothly and if I had it to do again I'd build that myself and be exactly what I want. But it's not bad at all. Works for now and is reasonably sturdy
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