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tokamak

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  1. Just saw an ad for this and it looked intriguing. I like Hamm. Worth adding to the list?
  2. If anyone is able to get to the bottom of all this, it'll be africa.espn.com
  3. I guess The Athletic is pretty bored these days because they're doing a ton of "the best ____ of the 21st century so far" type articles across all sports. Anyway, they did the Rangers team-of-the-2000s so far. Full 26 man roster. Only counting stats from 2000 onward. C - Pudge 1B - Teixeira 2B - Kinsler SS - A-Rod 3B - Beltre RF - Nellie CF - Josh LF - David Murphy DH - MY Bench - Heim, Andrus, Seager, Adolis SP - Yu, Eovaldi, Hamels, Colbyashi, Kenny Rogers RP - Coco Cordero, Feliz, Frankie Francisco, Leclerc, Joe Nathan, Sborz, CJW, Alex Claudio Manager: Boch That lineup is absurd, although Nellie didn't really kick it into high gear until he left the Rangers. Starters look decent but I bet most other teams have better lists. Bullpen is whatever. I have no recollection whatsoever of Alex Claudio. Full article spoilered below:
  4. Here's FanGraphs today going in depth on the Rangers' rotation, for your reading pleasure. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-rangers-rotation-has-been-great-but-things-are-gettin-weird/
  5. @Derka check out this 90 mph change from Skubal. I like how the batter immediately whips his head around like "dafuq??" Here's a fun article on his arsenal. The TL;DR is that he can touch 100 with two different fastballs, his change is possibly the best secondary pitch in the game, and his slider is a plus as well. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-multifaceted-tarik-skubal/
  6. First off, it's greenspoint. That's just kind of his thing. What's really interesting is that Snow's itself played a big part in kicking off the Texas BBQ revolution. They went from virtually unknown to straight to #1 on the 2008 TM list. It was a big fucking deal at the time. I think that was one of the first things that opened peoples' eyes to the possibility that someone could go above and beyond what the traditional Lockhart, Luling, etc places had always done. This 70+ year old woman in Lexington could be the best in the state just because she was willing to outwork everyone else. A bunch of people interested in food took notice of that and off we went.
  7. I’m no MBA, but I reckon the best place to open a restaurant is near where people live.
  8. As of today, the Rangers are dead last in the league in BABIP at .261. League average is .290. Aside from the 60 game COVID year, that would be the lowest full season mark for any team going back to at least 2000. I stopped looking before that.
  9. A month-long victory lap for a small cabal of truly awful people. Enjoy!
  10. You may very well be right. Like a lot of other people I had big reservations about holding the tournament in Qatar, and I still ended up watching damn near every minute. The tournament itself is far too compelling not to. I won't keep belaboring the point, but right now there is pretty much no aspect of this that is trending positively for my interest level. A year is a long time though, so we'll see.
  11. I hope this doesn’t qualify as a hawt take, but tbh my interest in this World Cup cycle is waning pretty badly right now. This version of the USMNT isn’t extremely likeable and chronically underachieves, Poch doesn’t seem to give a fuck, ticket prices will be astronomical, and it’s going to be one giant corporate fuck fest. FIFA is a giant corrupt piece of shit, Infantino is a disgusting human being, and there’s the kind of cloak room aspect that I won’t get into because this isn’t the right place. There was a time when I was really looking forward to this and would have told you I’m ready to pay whatever price to go to a game. But at this point, I can’t predict the future, but I think it’s equally likely that I barely even pay attention next year.
  12. Jesus are we about to get swept by the White Sox?
  13. I know I’m late to the party, but any streams for this?
  14. I've kinda been wondering if Bochy's seat could start heating up. Personally I wouldn't want to see that, but this team is shit after majorly underperforming last year, and there's really not much else they can do at this point.
  15. This dude's highlights are pretty fun. In the very first play I thought he was definitely about to get tackled 4 different times...nope. Third play is a kick return and he jukes the kicker without breaking stride or slowing down by even 1%. We really have a thing this year for dudes whose position could be listed as "Yes". edit: adding link to the hudl: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/18310068/66f312aa0f15104394993bac
  16. I think Apple has lost the plot. Their big selling point used to be that their shit just works. My wife just got a new phone and it's been nothing but a headache. Transferring from the old phone, re-setting up our kid's watch, and re-connecting it to our HomePods were all giant fucking hassles requiring hours of her time. We ended up giving up and connecting the watch to my phone, and hard resetting our HomePods to start from scratch. I also just took my phone in to get the battery replaced and the Apple Store experience is such a fucking beating. Make an appointment and you still sit around waiting. Then the girl put a hard sell on me to buy iCloud to backup because "replacing the battery might erase all the data". Fucking how is that possible? Just put in the goddamn battery, stop trying to sell me shit I don't want or need. We bought my mom a watch and you have to wait around for 20 minutes for the privilege of someone acknowledging you and taking your money. That said, Google and Microsoft are privacy dumpster fires, and Windows 11 is a disaster, so it's not like we have anywhere to go.
  17. Sure the White Sox aren’t good, but they do have actual human adult males that can throw pitches in the vicinity of home plate. That kind of advantage makes it almost impossible for the Rangers to score on them. Just a bad matchup for us, really.
  18. Absolutely disgusting. What kind exactly?
  19. we've wasted sooooooooooooo many good starts
  20. What a fucking beating this team is
  21. This one, too. Just Joey going off for 5 minutes
  22. We're not far at all from articles with titles like "Would Texas's freshman class be a playoff contender on its own?"
  23. I have too many players on my roster after these trades. I want to trade Pfaadt + a bat for a better bat. Does anyone have a need for that?
  24. "[P]ublic trust in vaccination in general has declined" (largely due to the efforts of our boss).....therefore, we're removing authorization of a proven safe vaccine. Makes total sense.
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