Jump to content

Welch

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    306
  • Joined

Posts posted by Welch

  1. 6 minutes ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

    Latest Euro model has shifted East to the TX/LA border

    Assuming this all goes as we now expect, hats off to the folks at the NHC.  So many other mets were aggressively pushing this west based on the Euro for the past couple of days, and those NHC guys didn’t really budge.  Even when a metro area of 6 million+ was potentially in the crosshairs.  Balls of steel.

    • Hook 'Em 2
    • Like 2
  2. I’m not sure why some of you expect people to be “permanently” turned off to the GOP.

    W had an approval rating in the low 20s on Obama’s Inauguration Day.  The Republicans had ruled over a decade that included the worst terrorist attack in modern history, a bungled war that turned into a quagmire, a natural disaster that rendered a great American city unlivable for months, and the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

    After Obama got the car back onto the road, our country promptly and eagerly handed the keys right back to the GOP. They won the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and rounded it out with the trifecta in 2016.

    Remember, Bush left office with an approval rating 15 points lower than Trump’s has ever been.  Maybe this administration will turn people permanently away from the Republican Party.  But I’m not expecting it this time.

     spacer.png

    • Like 8
  3. 10 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    We wanted to extend him!  Randle, Ingram, and Hart sound better than DD and Jakob's ladder?  Was last season's sub 50 win team and one and done playoff series worth it?  

     

    Still amazed at how much credit the NBA world gives to Masai for having the “courage” to pull off that trade.

    is it really courageous when all you’re giving up is a modern version of Willie Anderson?  He would have been committing front office malpractice to *not* pursue that deal.

  4. 6 minutes ago, runthebone said:

    Urquidy, man.  He just doesn't care.  He pounds the strike zone and is fearless.

    Brantley hit 5 fucking rockets today.  Bregman has hit the ball hard the past 2 games.

    If we can get Springer going...boom.

     

    This made the transition directly from Urquidy to James particularly painful.

    It was like going from first class on Air France to Greyhound economy. 

    • Like 1
  5. 56 minutes ago, runthebone said:

    I wish they would stop talking about a dynasty or say "this is a special team."  Just shut the fuck up and play better.

    “Apex predator” Carlos Correa is hitting a cool .111 in the series.

    • Like 1
  6. 35 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:
    41 minutes ago, BigXII said:
    It's seriously still weird for me to say that the Astros have been to multiple world series, period. It stuns me that they're the current kings of baseball. The fucking HOUSTON ASTROS. Honestly never thought I'd see the day.

    Same here. Always dreamed and hoped id see them win just 1. Thats why im so happy for the die hard fans of Astros. I know what this means to them, thier families. There are family members that i wish were here to celebrate and enjoy 2017 and tonight.

    I was eight when I got to go to Game 6 of the ‘86 NLCS, and I didn’t think anything would ever top Billy Hatcher’s homer in the 14th.

    Now it seems like these guys top it multiple times every year.  What a team.

  7. What an absolutely shittastic performance by Greinke.

    I understood the whole “wait all season, can’t judge the CFM move in July before the annual injury” argument, but we can judge it now.

    Gave up Chuck and four prospects for the right to pay Greinke ~$3M more per season.  Yay.

    Still, Astros in 4.

    • Like 2
  8. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    While I respect the whistleblower more because he took a definitive stand, I thought the way Mueller wrote the report was clever.  He laid out enough incriminating facts but left it up to everyone else to decide what to do with those facts.  People got pissed at him because he didn’t want to be the judge, jury, or some minister of truth.  

    The Mueller report to Congress was like Bobby three sticks saying, “I can tell you what happened but y’all are going to have to do your fucking jobs.  I’m not here to save you.” 

    People can view that as cowardice but the real cowards are the folks in power that did nothing with the facts Mueller handed them. 

    I get it.

    I just think that the gravity of the situation deserved a little more than bureaucratic i-dotting and t-crossing.

    If my house is on fire, I don’t want my smoke alarm to quietly send an obscure notification to an app buried somewhere on my phone.  I want it to wake up the whole block.

    • Like 3
  9. 1 hour ago, CrownKing said:

    Other games scores were displayed all night. 

    Minor complaint, but the home teams were listed first.  What is this, the Premier League?

    Glad to see more replays than I remembered last year.  I still think the random crowd shot-to-replay ratio is too high, but it’s getting better.

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...