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DallasGatr

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  1. I ain’t betting on the hated Vols. And I know some of you have it in for Barnes. But damn, that is one fine basketball team. It’s the one team we (Gators) played this year where I knew we had no chance from tip-off.


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  2. The Boeing takeover and phase out of McDonnell Douglas lines as well as the rise of Airbus probably have something to do with it.  The A320 variants have a lower crash rate than the 737 variants, but both are historically safe.  We've come a long way since the DC10, MD11, and MD80 were falling out of our skies.  Although the MD80 isn't/wasn't so bad for its day.


    There is a pertinent similarity between the 737 and MD-11. Both are stretched out versions of the originals. And it appears (thus far) that both have vastly inferior safety records than their predecessors.


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  3. I don't think I've ever seen a tree do that to a car. That would have not been pretty if there was someone in the passenger seat

     

    Yea that was an incredible wreck. As an aside, Officer Kennedy seems to be an insufferable prick.

     

     

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  4. F. Yea!  My Friday and Saturday telly watching is easy, LivePD at all times.  And I guess its not surprising that we so frequently see the same idiots committing various minor infractions.  I feel for the cops having to deal with these cretins on a daily basis.

  5. Just finished a few days of loitering around FitTeam Park. My first and most important take-CC, Tuve and Bregs all look 100%.

    My hot sports opinion. Seth Beer looks like a total and complete beast. Firstly I was expecting an AJ Reed type tubby bod. No, he’s a heck of a lot closer to Marisnick’s body type, tall and fit. But most impressively, he may have the quickest swing this side of Bregs/Tuve. And that bat speed comes with some immense power. Watching him take BP was incredible.

    Abraham-Toro was also impressive in the cage. He seems to barrel up on just about everything.

    Dont know if he threw it before, but Strom was really working with Emanuel on what looked like a knuckle curve.


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  6. Some boner inducing quotes from the 2019 Prospect Digest.

    “ Houston’s player development engine-quite simply-could be the best in the history of the game”

    “there were 510 minor league pitchers to throw 100 or more innings in 2018, at any level. Christian Javier, Brandon Bailey and Peter Solomon, who didn’t even crack the top 20 list, ranked #1, #2, and #3 in swinging strike percentage.”

    “The farm’s deep-so deep in fact, that many prospects that didn’t crack the top 20 would likely fall in the majority of top 10s across the league”

    On Bryan Aubreu, (whom he had as the Astros #10 prospect.) “The curveball may be the best in the minor leagues. Period.”

    “In terms of peak, Alvarez (his #5) should settle somewhere around .280/.350/.540.”

    Tucker(#2)-“Since 2006, here’s the list of 21 year old hitters to post at least a 140 wRC+ mark in the PCL (min 350 PA)-listed in descending order: Kyle Tucker, Anthony Rizzo, and Adam Jones.”

    Whitley (#1)-“In the conversation as one of the best pitching prospects in recent memory”


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  7. 2019 Baseball Prospectus came in the mail today = today was a good day.


    Love Prospectus. But my dream is that the Bill James Baseball Abstract was still a thing. I would savor that book the entire spring back in the day.


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  8. Saw it in IMAX today. (This movie was made for IMAX!)   Love climbing docs, but I had to look away a few times even though I knew it would work out for the boy.  Incredibly shot and edited extremely well.  (Those cameramen also need wheelbarrows for their balls.) Only disappointment  was a no show from Chins wife.

     

    .Jimmy+Chin+Chai+Vasarhelyi+2018+National

  9. Hate losing Thornton but this looks like a good trade. We were almost definitely going to lose Thornton to Rule 5 if we didn't add him to the 40 man roster.
     


    Thornton was our #24 rated prospect and #10 rated pitcher. (And a probable rule 5 casualty.) For this we get Marwin part II? Sounds like the Wizard strikes again!


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  10. Damn fine movie.  I was surprised that Cooper had chops and Gaga could act.  And yea, I had to fight back the urge to cry like a bitch at the end.  

    And why not a Directing Oscar for Cooper?

  11. 3 minutes ago, mycox said:

    Talk me into going to Boston for game one.  I can fly on miles, but can't justify the $350 night hotel and mid $200 game ticket.

     

    3 minutes ago, mycox said:

    Talk me into going to Boston for game one.  I can fly on miles, but can't justify the $350 night hotel and mid $200 game ticket.

     

    4 minutes ago, mycox said:

    Talk me into going to Boston for game one.  I can fly on miles, but can't justify the $350 night hotel and mid $200 game ticket.

    Mid 200's game 1 ticket?  Tell me you are joking.  I paid 350 for a regular season game ticket (albeit a few rows behind Crane) against the Astros in 2015.

  12. 9 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    Nice quote pos rep. I’m all for women’s advancement. My greatest heroes ripped hijab off women’s heads to help them modernize. I don’t believe in false accusations against an accomplished man 

    Damn straight.  Not much hotter than a middle eastern/Persian woman cleaned up.  The world would be a much greater place without the hijab or some other form of oppression.

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  13. Unlike the other major sports, football players have very little leverage.  They have on average around a 4 year career.  As the union leader you're going to convince them to take a year off of that career?  The 2nd year player making around 500k ain't gonna keep making it rain when that half a mill goes away.  The owners know this and also know they can get 50 scrubs off the street and take nary a dent financially.  NFL players are properly fucked.

  14. unless we trade for jansen, kimbrel, or chapman (obviously not going to happen), then you guys are crazy, stoned, or downright kidding yourselves if you think we're gonna roll into october with defined roles in the bullpen, including closer.
    hinch won a world series managing the pen by feel, vision, and a healthy dose of mccann's input.  we may see a save from giles, rondon, devo, whatever - but we'll also see 2ip from peacock, the back 3-4 innings from mccullers or mchugh - we're gonna see all sorts of shit.  we have 7 starters worthy of a rotation spot, and likely only 3 will start in the playoffs, maybe 4.  we have 10-12 good to great arms total and we'll likely add another. 
    whatever it takes to win, that's what we're gonna do in oct.



    This is outright poetry my friends!


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