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Welch

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  1. Three quick thoughts…

    1. Love to all of you in this thread.  Living in SA, it’s not always easy to keep up with the ups and downs of the long season… but I made it a point to check the thread every day all summer.  What a ride.

    2. Obviously he’s not everyone’s favorite and even Crane doesn’t seem to see totally eye-to-eye with him, but props to Click for building this bullpen.  It’s a totally different experience to go through a postseason with that kind of a bullpen.  I can get used to it.

    3. Avenging ‘80 was great.  I’ll be greedy and say let’s avenge ‘86 for the repeat next year.  F the Mets.

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  2. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    I think he runs out of steam by and end of the season and I also think his lack of a great breaking ball hurts him in the playoffs.  If his control isn't on point, he gets in to trouble when he can't throw high fastballs where he wants them.

    Wasn’t there also the whistling thing back in the 2019 series against Washington?

    Seems like he allows stuff to get into his head and things go off the rails.

    He might be able to learn a thing or two from Framber about overcoming it.

  3. 3 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    I was there during most of building that losing record. Not from the very start, but from the late '60s on. It often felt like trying to summit the Matterhorn on skates. To have the run we're on these days seemed unthinkable not so long ago. Another title of course would be awesome, but in the bigger picture of things, I'm just glad I got to see the surge. 

    Respect.

    Before you posted I was thinking that we've been pretty good for as long as i can remember.

    My first memories are of the '86 team.  Was there as an 8-year-old for Game 6.  F the Mets.

    The '90s through 2007 or so were pretty good record-wise with the Biggio/Bagwell teams, obviously other than the 2000 season.

    2010-2013 sucked but it's been fun ever since.  I think I saw we've had 21 winning seasons out of our last 30... and in one of those "bad" seasons (2020) we still made it to within one game of the World Series.

  4. 4 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    I think it will require playoffs.  At this point, there should be no question who the best option in CF is on the team.  Just like Yuli at 1B, they gave Jake every opportunity and he couldn't make it.  Chas isn't a superstar, but he's also not a JAG.  He's a quality MLB centerfielder.  That's good enough on this team.  Would we like to have more production from that position?  Of course, but we can't play who we don't have and Chas is the clear best option.  And I'm fine with that.

    Not disagreeing with you at all, but lol at the thought of Dusty Baker, of all people, solely judging people on postseason success.

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  5. 16 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

    Correa earned every ounce of the Htown love affair Astros fans grew into with him and let's not forget that he took a lot of shit for his injuries over the years but goddamn he was a GREAT playoff producer and true clubhouse leader. He will always hold a place in my heart as the guy who told all the haters to shut the fuck up in the course of defending Jose Altuve. Correa deserves all the respect on that basis alone. 

    As a fan of the Astros teams that routinely came up short in the postseason in the ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s, I respected the heck out of Correa’s playoff performances.

    It also should mean something that he’s easily the best shortstop in franchise history.  Who else is really worth mentioning besides pre-injury Dickie Thon?

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  6. 1 hour ago, TexPx said:

    Was whining to my friend in Portland when she reminded me around this time last year they went
    108 6/26
    112 6/27
    116 6/28

    What makes Texas heat so special is the knowledge that absolutely no relief is coming for at least another 10 weeks.

    And even then, that “relief” will be a day with highs around 89°, followed by a few more weeks in the mid-90s.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    I mean, yeah, instead of being in a position to draft in the top 5 each year and then have those players become all-stars on rookie contracts (and inheriting Altuve and Springer), he took over with no first or second round picks and all the best players reaching free agency. It’s impossible to compare Click and Lunhow.

    Totally agree.  Building and maintaining are two different things.  Especially considering the way the Astros built.

    Luhnow was obviously great at building, but unfortunately he never got the chance to maintain.  Maybe he would have been very good there too, but I don’t know that with any certainty.  

    Regardless, Click’s job is different from what Luhnow’s was.

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  8. 1 hour ago, XYZ said:

    Everything went sideways when Colt got injured against Bama.

    That’s how Mack portrayed it, and it would be interesting to see how the rest of that game (and 2010) played out had Colt not gotten hurt… but under the surface it was already a program in decline.  


    The OL recruiting/development had already fallen off a cliff and the RB corps that year was pretty mediocre.  
     

    Colt, Shipley, and Muschamp’s defense carried that team.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    maybe my sarcasm meter needs work but get ready for perpetual 5 or 6 win seasons. 

    how is this going to happen?  LSU, A&M, Ark are way ahead of UT right now. 

    In aggy’s last five years in the Big 12, they were:

    7-6

    4-8

    6-7

    9-4

    7-6

     

    Their first year in the SEC, they went 11-2, and haven’t had a losing season since.

    If those idiots can do it, so can we.

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  10. 32 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

     

    I really feel that  schools for ages 11 and under should have gone remote (or at least had a remote option) until the approval for that age range to get vaccinated comes through.   Given the time frame for things (getting all the kids who want it a shot, the two weeks for it take effect, then on to second dose and the next two weeks) I guess I would think the whole fall semester should have had that option.     Maybe that has happened in some places across the country, I don't know.   I just think we're going to be able to pull up lots of stories about schools and infections from any part of the nation very soon.  I should say "more" stories, since many are already coming out.

    Yep.  And I largely am sympathetic toward the school boards and superintendents who are now on the front lines of this, without really having those options on the table. 
     

    The real vitriol should be directed at the legislature and TEA for not funding any kind of remote learning option, regardless of the state of the epidemic.

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  11. 15 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    Lol at NE. It looks like vidpocalypse there. perhaps they should have chosen a different color for no data

    Yep.  Color scheme takes a while to get used to.

    And while we're on the subject of NE, check out those Sturgis numbers in western South Dakota.  Off the charts.

     

     

    10 minutes ago, justhookit said:

    As of late last week Corpus was definitely not declining. Last week’s report was “new cases skyrocketing and hospitalizations skyrocketing.” R# was 1.25

     

     New report comes out today so hopefully it’s better news.

    Don't get me wrong, it's still high.  Crazy high.  Over 370 infections per 100k even now.  (Austin is at 161 per 100k, for comparison).

    But the trend is hopeful.  It was 488/100k on Aug. 13.

     

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