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  1. On 2/9/2021 at 5:47 PM, irishtexan said:

    The title of the article wasn't included in the post. Regardless, it's good journalism to include the full name of the person being profiled at some point within the actual article. 

    Good journalism? There is your first mistake.

  2. 15 hours ago, CHIEF said:

    What? Pete Kwaitkowski is our DC, and a quite good one, I might add.

    CHIEF

    Thanks, I just have never seen that confirmed anywhere. Yet, since I live in Poland, I bet I am among the few that can actually pronounce his name correctly.  You guys make this fun.

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  3. 11 minutes ago, HornyPony69 said:

    This isn’t a horrible hire at this particular position.

    1. He isn’t DC like he was at OU.
    2. He will only be coaching inside linebackers. That’s at most 2 players on the field at any given time.
    3. He’s been in the Saban coaching career rehabilitation facility for years.
    4. His 247 profile shows he’s not a bad recruiter.


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    What? Are you trying to use logic on surlies? EEEEEJJJIIIITTTTT Where is CTJ when we need him

  4. 1 hour ago, Xian said:

    I had no idea fajitas were this “new” of a food.  I guess i thought they had always existed or something. 
    I just asked my wife (raised in miami) and apparently she hadn't even heard of them before I took her to ninfas on navigation shortly after she moved to texas.    Now its one of her favorite meals. 
     

    my mind is blown.   

    Ask her if she knows about "cuban" sandwiches . . .

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  5. 4 hours ago, futureman said:

     

    yeah.  charlotte’s kid.  he’s big and athletic but rich kids from HP rarely have the drive to bust ass enough to get on the field at meaningful schools.  more than likely he’ll be a frat star before he sees any snaps. 

    hey butthead, I was a frat star, nothing wrong with a kegger and toga

  6. 22 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Helps when teams go up by 21 in the first quarter and spend the rest of the game running inside zone with their third string running backs (and rolling up another 30 points).

    sorta like the Texans?

  7. 3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Current recruiting news dashboard:

    Herb Hand has followed every decent GT o-lineman. More info to come.

    Drayton offered a couple of RBs but now he's leaving and they're not coming.

    Everything else is on hold pending new coaching hires.

    See? That's all l asked for>>an update. I will go back to sleep now.

  8. 13 hours ago, RGBIII said:

    Could be 100 times worse. Interested to see how the rest of the staff fills out

    Just as long as Ash fires Naivar asap after the bowl game, I will be giddy. We been Naivar''D enough.

  9. I just saw this thread and had to laugh out loud. Galindo is an absolute moron. And he is at his worst with the baseball broadcasts. Doesn't the idiot realize he is sitting in the booth with two former pro ballplayers, hell all-stars? Jesus the level of idiocy this guy reaches only pales when compared to that moron on Fox--Joe Buck, who can't shut up. But I hate all broadcasters in general. Last one I truly liked was Vin Scully, gosh what a delight to listen to, even if it meant listening to the dodgers. But heck I used to listen to Dizzy Dean and PeeWee Reese. I have found that listening to classical music, and watching games is a pleasant experience. Try it, especially if Galindo is on.

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  10. 12 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    We ready to fire Tom once year 3 is up?  Cool.. 2025 will be our  year!!

    Tom's going nowhere anytime soon. Accept it. But he can't leave this as is. He won't fire TO--yet. But he can shit can Naivar and Washington immediately, both mind-numbing hires to begin with, replace them with Huff who actually knows something about being a DB, give him Griff to help out. Players will respond to this. And ORDER TO to play two DTs with two rush ends, 2LBs, and 5 dbs. Fug that stubborn sumbitch--do what your told jarhead.

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  11. 1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:


    They have a greater risk, IMO, of closing their window by giving a 6 year (or more) deal.
    I truly believe Luhnow and Crane will continue to ride the horse that got them here (find good pitchers and turning them great) until it’s dead.
    I just can’t believe they will buy at the absolute market peak for Cole. There is simply no way he can pitch better than he did this year and I don’t see the Astros FO getting in to a bidding war for something less than what he did this year.
    The ONLY way we make a run at him is if he agrees to a shorter term deal betting on himself to go through FA again to get an even higher deal in a few years. But given point A above and labor uncertainty past 2021, he’d be foolish to do that

    Rosenthal on what he thinks it’s going to take (and a comment expecting Boras to ask for $300M):

     

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — I swear, I feel like I’m about to write this column on the official stationery of the Scott Boras Corporation.

    Seriously, I’m not sure there has ever been a free-agent case for a starting pitcher quite like Gerrit Cole’s.

    It’s hardly going out on a limb to predict that Cole will set the record for average annual value, surpassing Justin Verlander’s $33 million, and also for total value, beating David Price’s $217 million.

    So, what are we talking about, eight years at $35 million per season? That’s $280 million. Nice round number, but knowing Boras, not round enough. I’m calling Dec. 7 as the over-under date for the first report saying Boras is seeking $300 million.

    Sounds preposterous, just as these numbers always sound preposterous. But Cole, who will become a free agent at the appealing age of 29, is good enough to validate the conversation.

    He showed it on Sunday night in Game 5 of the World Series, allowing one run in seven innings in a 7-1 victory over the Nationals, moving the Astros to within one win of their second Series title in three years.

    He also had shown it in 25 consecutive starts between May 22 and his aberration in Game 1 of the Series, going five months without losing a decision and producing a 1.59 ERA in the process.

    Game 1, in which Cole allowed eight hits, five runs and two homers, indicated possible slippage, raising concerns about the life on Cole’s fastball. It’s not that Cole had stopped throwing hard — please — but Astros pitching coach Brent Strom told SI.com’s Tom Verducci that the diminished life on his fastball represented the “fallout from pitching 250 innings” (actually 249 through Sunday night, including postseason).

    Catcher Martín Maldonado had a different view, saying Cole’s bigger problem in Game 1 was that he didn’t have his secondary stuff.

    So, what happened in Game 5?

    Better stuff. Better location. Better execution.

    Cole had a swing-and-miss rate of only 14.8 percent on his fastball, his seventh lowest since joining the Astros, according to Inside Edge. But facing a Nationals team that led the majors with a .310 batting average against the fastball after the All-Star break, he recorded eight of his nine strikeouts on breaking balls, producing a signature Series victory.

    “It’s all come together for him at the perfect time for us and the perfect time for him,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “He’s had these ingredients along the way. As he has synced things up, he’s just figured it out.

    “The thing he doesn’t get enough credit for is that he’s a pitcher. Elite stuff? Yes. Power? He’s 100 in the seventh inning. Yes. The breaking ball, whether you’re into analytics and it’s the shape or whether you’re into just watching the game, old-school scouting would tell you they’re plus across the board.

    “But he’s a pitcher, and he’s a thinking man’s pitcher. I listened to his game plan today and he was locked in on every single thing he was going to do. He didn’t veer from that too much. Which is not to say he didn’t make adjustments. But every pitcher in the big leagues should have a purpose for throwing every pitch. I’ve just watched it demonstrated outing after outing after outing, start after start after start.”

    How does Cole beat you? Let us count the ways.

    • His ability to get swings and misses with four different pitches — his fastball, curve, slider and changeup.

    Maldonado noted that Cole’s 300th strikeout this season came on a changeup (Cole is now up to, ahem, 373 strikeouts for the season, including playoffs.)

    “That’s the great thing about Gerrit Cole,” Maldonado said. “He can strike out anybody with any pitch.”

    During the regular season, Cole had a 36.6 whiff percentage with his fastball. That rate dropped to slightly more than 25 percent in his first four postseason starts before sinking to 14.8 percent on Sunday night.

    Not to worry — Cole got swings and misses on nine of his 20 breaking pitches in Game 5, a rate of 45 percent that was even higher than his rate of 37.7 percent during the regular season, according to STATS LLC.

    “I thought this stuff was crisper, I thought we executed more pitches,” Cole said.

    • His ability to make in-game adjustments.

    Cole escaped a first-and-third, none-out jam in the second inning, preying on Ryan Zimmerman’s aggressiveness to strike him out with a curveball, then inducing Victor Robles to ground into a double play.

    “I don’t know how many pitchers in baseball can get out of that unscathed,” Hinch said.

    From that point, Cole did not allow his third and final hit until Juan Soto’s solo homer off a 99-mph fastball with one out in the seventh, but Strom maintained it was not the smoothest of outings.

    “The fourth inning was real bad. He started yanking a lot of stuff. He was upset with his delivery,” Strom said.

    “He kind of got back on line in the fifth inning. His big thing is his direction, staying behind the ball. His glove got active. A lot of different things happened.”

    Cole retired nine straight hitters between a one-out walk to Anthony Rendon in the fourth and Soto’s homer in the seventh.

    • His preparation.

    I wrote about Cole’s extensive note-taking after his victory over the Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. He was at it again on Sunday night, retreating to an area behind the dugout between innings to refer to his notes and “kind of take stock of things,” Strom said.

    “The most impressive thing about him is the way he prepares coming into the game,” Maldonado said. “He knows which count I want to throw this, which count I want to throw that. This guy is going to swing early. This guy is going to swing late. Which guy he can throw it by, which guy he’s going to pitch backwards. There is stuff behind the scenes people don’t know. I think he has learned from one of the best, if not the best — JV.”

    That would be Justin Verlander, whose Hall of Fame resumé includes only one blemish — his 0-5 record and 5.73 ERA in six World Series starts. Cole’s performance put Verlander in position to change that narrative, giving his teammate a chance to close out the Series at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday night.

    Maldonado acknowledged Cole had a “bad game” in Game 1 but said he had no doubt that Game 5 would be different, knowing Cole would be on regular rest, knowing he would not alter his routine.

    “From the first pitch he threw warming up, (I thought), ‘This is good. This is the guy.'”

    Oh, Cole is the guy, all right. The Angels are his most obvious fit, given his roots in Orange County and the team’s need for starting pitching under new manager Joe Maddon. But try to think of a high-revenue team that would not want Cole. All the usual suspects will enter the bidding, and maybe even some of the not-so-usual. No other free-agent pitcher in this class is of Coles’ caliber — Stephen Strasburg, if he opts out of his contract, is close, but he also is two years older.

    Analysts love Cole. Scouts love Cole. Everyone loves Cole.

    Not that Boras will hesitate, but he need not prepare his usual 50-page binder to market his prized right-hander. To anyone paying even remotely close attention, Cole’s brilliance has been evident for more than five months. He has everything a team would desire — an intellect as powerful as his arm, a competitive streak to match his work ethic.

    Sorry, I can’t help myself. Someone find me some official Boras stationery.

     

    I have heard from a source who has a source who knows someone that empties Crane's trash that he is willing to go 4 yrs, 40 mil per. Just the messenger, but was truly told just that. FWIW.

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