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tokamak

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  1. We should all find someone that loves us as much as Sark loves taking 2 RBs per recruiting class. Do you think Texas can/will sweeten the pot for Edwards? He's a 4/5-star from out of state with a hefty NIL deal. A guy like that is going to entertain options up until the ink is dry. As he should. That's just the way it is. Sark and our $9.95ers have been talking up Lacey a bunch. To me this sounds like rivals trying to stir up shit in Bell's camp based on that. Agree that Arch staying is the better situation for Bell. 99% chance that the loser of the Owens/Lacey backup job competition moves on in that scenario.
  2. I'm still fucking on tilt this morning. I need someone to talk me down off the ledge. A serious ballclub that is interested in winning simply cannot run it back with this same offense next year. Look at what we have under contract: Seager, $31.5m: Fine, he's great Semien, $26m: We're fucked on this one. Defense is still fine but the bat is well below average at this point and it ain't gonna magically come back for a guy that is 35 years old. Pederson, $18.5m: LOL, might as well light this money on fire Adolis, arbitration (probably $8-9m?): Might be the rare guy whose salary actually goes down in arbitration. 2023 was a fluke. We absolutely cannot continue giving this guy 600 PA every year. Higashioka, $6.7m: This is fine. League average bat. Has yet to surpass 300 PA in his career though. Heim, arbitration: Below average bat. Again, 2023 looks like a fluke. Burger, arbitration: Will be cheap, but has not been good. Jung, arbitration: Will be cheap, but has not been good. Decent defense I suppose. Hitting all downhill since 2023 (see a theme?). Smith, arbitration: Hooray! A useful utility guy with an above-average bat. Not exactly fearsome at the plate, but useful. Langford, arbitration: I'm down on him. We're almost 1000 PA into his major league career. At this point, I don't think something will click and he becomes the offensive force we all dreamed he might be. Looks likely to end up as a solid regular that occasionally has scorching hot months. That's very useful, especially while cost-controlled, but a bit disappointing. Carter, arbitration: Even more down on him. He'd be fine as a 4th OF/platoon bat, except he cannot stay healthy, which is kinda what you need from your 4th OF. I think it's likely that his rookie season ends up being the high point of his career. So you have 11 hitters under contract. One star (Seager), two that are above average but not killers (Langford, Smith), a league average but part-time C (Higgy), a guy that you can squint and maybe see league average (Jung), and six(!!!) fucking black holes (Semien, Adolis, Heim, Burger, Pederson, Carter). If we go into next season with our main strategy being the hope that those 6 guys will improve, I'm going to rip my fucking hair out. Edit: Adding more, still pissed. I feel like the mantra this past offseason was "basically all our hitters regressed last year (2024), so the pendulum will swing back the other way". Which, OK, fine, that makes some sense. But now we're in year two of these guys sucking ass. At some point 2023 becomes the outlier, not 2024. The black holes are 34, 32, 30, 29, 33, and 22 years old (the 22-year-old has an extensive history of back injuries). They are not going to magically improve at this point in their careers. There is absolutely nothing in the minors anywhere close to helping, either. If there were, they'd have been called up this year. Justin Foscue is probably the closest, I'm serious. He's 26 and has been...decent in AAA this year? Not incredible, but fine. Walcott is 19 and has been mostly outmatched at AA this year. He's still at excellent prospect but nowhere close to helping.
  3. Seriously, what is the fucking plan for this team? The offense needs a complete overhaul. I’m getting pissed sitting here thinking about it. We’re going to waste an historically good pitching staff by not even making the fucking playoffs. We have exactly one hitter in the organization that scares anyone and Smith hits well for a utilityman. That’s about it. Semien and Adolis are washed and it ain’t coming back. I had such high hopes for Langford but it looks more and more like he’s going to end up closer to decent than star. Jung’s ceiling is league average bat. Heim sucks. Carter is frail and useless against lefties. Our two big free agent additions flopped super hard, and we’re stuck with the worse of the two again next year.
  4. Didn't know that. I thought I had seen an article where he said the Braves never approached him with a deal.
  5. I cannot for the life of me understand why we couldn't be bothered at the deadline to trade a bucket of baseballs for Marcell Ozuna.
  6. We gave up on this show during season 2 but I've seen a lot of buzz online about season 3. Did they kill the two bad storylines and focus on the good one?
  7. I unsubscribed from Zeffy emails on 7/29. No offense, I'm just a very aggressive email unsubscriber. I wonder if that's why I didn't get the raffle update.
  8. So drawing hasn't happened yet? I didn't get any email.
  9. Sling is doing day and weekend passes this year (for the Orange package only, which is ESPN but not Fox Sports). $5 for a day, $10 for a weekend. You can add add-ons (i.e., SEC Network) at a prorated price apparently.
  10. I think we'll go as far as the OL (and presumably Arch) takes us.
  11. That was my take away from watching his film as well. He's very, very advanced for his age. Any time you see an undersized guy with excellent technique, you're going to wonder about the ceiling. He's got to grow and maintain explosiveness to be anything more than a situational player.
  12. Randomly saw Uncle Lucius the other night. Never heard of them before, but they put on a really great show.
  13. I'm stuck with Southwest because I fucking refuse to set foot in IAH unless absolutely necessary. I'd wager good money that it is the worst airport in the country.
  14. This is where I'm at. This is going to be a very bad team.
  15. Just to piss in the Kool-Aid a little bit, I checked last year's fall practice thread and on August 5, 2024, Bobby predicted that Amari Niblack would be the highest drafted of that year's transfers and that he "looks like a major weapon" in camp. Allen Iverson said it best, we're talkin' bout practice. I think the likelihood is that after the season we'll look back on a couple of these guys and say actually they didn't do shit for us. That's fine. I'd say we really only NEED Endries, 2-3 of the DTs, and the K/P to hit.
  16. Wonder if Micah thought to call his agent this time
  17. I have a feeling that white t-shirt might be pretty good looking, it's just a weird pic. Blondie looks like literally every suburban mom in the state. I'd bet a dollar that she drives a Tahoe and has a bedazzled phone case.
  18. Bold of you to assume we'll be alive in 2033.
  19. Isn't there major moral hazard for all these companies to give Trump what he wants? All a president has to do is threaten them with tariffs and they'll give him financial contributions, political victories, and possibly, depending on who you ask, new investments in the U.S. What is the incentive for any future president to not make the same demands? As far as I can remember, Apple has never very publicly given a president a statue for keeping his nose out of their business.
  20. I think furry culture is as weird as the next guy, but if my "official hotel" was warning people about my presence and I'm not breaking any rules or being a nuisance, I'd be fucking pissed. Let people do what they fucking like.
  21. Beautiful pics. Whatever billionaire oligarch buys that place from the people of the United States for pennies on the dollar is really gonna enjoy it.
  22. Supposedly AD has been the star of Colts camp this year. The Athletic had a write up on him today.
  23. Does it have to be someone in their last year of eligibility? Like if Neto plays well but returns, do we have to repossess his award? I don't want things to get awkward. Not many obvious candidates this year for the reasons that ctj mentioned. I'm already hyped for the 2027 Ryan Niblett Gaskamp, though.
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