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  1. I was thinking the same thing earlier this week when Berkman was doing one of the games. Biggio would do play by play because he would take the whole thing seriously and his Type A personality would kick in. Berkman would be the goofy color commentator with lots of stories. Bagwell would sit back and rag on both of them the whole time.
  2. If he's really the guy you want, give the Patriots a second or third round draft pick for him.
  3. Never underestimate the power of "Gotta beat the traffic!"
  4. Question about yesterday's game. Since the runner never touched Mayfield, is that why the second out wasn't called?
  5. Willie "Mays" Hayes wasn't just a fictional movie character, but a stereotype. Too many players with a ton of speed prefer to hit the ball in the air rather than utilize their speed to its fullest advantage. Not all of those players had the "runs like Mays, but hits like shit" problem, but some of them did. The passage of time and my faulty memory prevent me from naming names. I hope Straw doesn't fall into that category, but a quote from this week concerns me. Someone asked postgame why he doesn't bunt more. His response was something like "People have always been telling me I should work on bunting more. I don't know why but I just haven't worked on it much." I hope I'm wrong, but that immediately got me to wondering about how coachable he is. Anyone who sees his speed automatically assumes he should take advantage of it by bunting to get on base. I would imagine that every manager from little league, high school, college, and each level of the minors saw that potential....and yet Straw says he hasn't worked much on bunting. Yes, I know bunting isn't as prevalent as it used to be and isn't worked on as much. And yes, I know I am probably reading way too much into one postgame quote.
  6. Another Dickerson tweet: Dickerson's status as a Texan has to be reviewed.
  7. 7. Seattle has 3 times as many wins as we do. There's no coming back from that.
  8. This right here. I don't understand all the optimism. Bregman is 0 for the season. We should have traded him before before we got anchored to that huge contract. Springer is only hitting .200. That'll kill you in the lead-off spot. Correa has been out for the entire season. We don't have our Cy Young winner (Keuchel). Who cares about JV? I prefer winners over runner ups (sic.....I hate runners up even more) Our bullpen is going to be overused if we keep throwing Pressly and Osuna every single game. Diaz is a disaster. He is batting .000 while Marwin G. single-handedly has the Twins in first place. We're fucking doomed.
  9. This will be the third time. The first two times both happened in 1979. In the AL, Ron Guidry (Yankees) versus Mike Caldwell (Brewers). In the NL, Gaylord Perry (Padres) versus Burt Hooten (Dodgers). https://www.mlb.com/news/cy-young-winner-runner-up-facing-in-opener
  10. Now we need to lock up Correa and Cole for long term deals and Verlander for 2-3 years.
  11. I also wonder what type of throwing regimen Keuchel is on. How long will it take him to be ready to pitch in a regular season game? I can only imagine his negotiating power is declining by the minute.
  12. Here's an SB Nation article about Dallas Keuchel. MLB Daily Dish - The Tricky Part About Signing Dallas Keuchel
  13. I think a lot to do with that is the current emphasis on pitch framing. Catchers are trying to avoid excessive glove movement in order to improve on framing, but it is costing them in terms of surrendering more passed balls.
  14. I wanted a grad transfer or a true RB1 even before Brown's medical issue, so now I think it is almost a necessity. However, part of me wants to go into the season with what we have now. The optimist in me sees Ingram becoming the feature back we all hope he can be, Young proving last year was a sophomore slump and proving to be a useful RB2 and short-yardage back, Johnson overcoming injuries and winning the Gaskamp award, and Whittington being the reincarnation of Ramonce Taylor. If two or more of those situations come true we could have a special season. I wouldn't put any money on Johnson being able to stay healthy at RB, but he did seem to stay healthy on special teams. Maybe his injury problems are behind him, hopefully for at least one more season. Young wouldn't be the first to have a disappointing second season compared to productive seasons as a freshman, junior and senior. The term "sophomore slump" has been around for a while for good reason. We really need at least two guys to play to their potential. The QB is always going to be an option to run in Herman's offense, but if we can get the RB room up to our standard they should take a lot of the running game responsibility from the QB. We want to run Sam (or any QB for that matter) as little as possible throughout the season to save him for the really important games. If we can get two good players out of Ingram, Young, Johnson, and Whittington that would be great. Adding a fifth player to the group through grad transfer would make finding two good RB's a more likely result though.
  15. He was referring to a scene from the series. There was a book of all the kingsguard and their accomplishments. Joffrey mocked Jaime for only having half a page, with the last mention being that he had killed the king he was supposed to be guarding. Some other guy had four pages about him.
  16. Cersei wins the throne because White Walkers and everyone else kill each other.... .....but then Jamie stabs her in the back and takes the throne with Brienne as his queen.
  17. Or maybe George Clooney will get a big endorsement from Grecian Formula and return. Or Val Kilmer can get on Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig.
  18. Elway is smarter than all of us because he is a Stanford grad.
  19. The question is: What would be a reasonable deal for both the Astros and Verlander? If the Astros and Verlander were to agree to an extension before the end of spring training, what would it look like? What would an extension for Cole look like?
  20. I bet the Astros would gladly give that option year back to him. 1 year, $22M. I also bet they would drop the original requirement that to earn that option year he would have to finish in the top 5 in the Cy Young vote.
  21. Yuli being fully healthy would be a good start. Another thing that will help is having everyone else healthy too. Yuli is very effective batting 5th or 6th in the lineup. However, when he has to move up to 3rd or 4th in the lineup his numbers are not as good.
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