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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Yeah, but I mean, most players hit better at home than away. So I don't know how much of that is Coors Field and how much is just home stadium.
  2. No way. I think the reluctance on the Astros part was purely due to the injury concerns, which were legitimate. Still are, tbh.
  3. I don't think being a Rocky automatically means you are 25% less of a player than your stats suggest, but Story's numbers actually do suggest that might be the case with him. My main point is that I'd rather not have a hole in the lineup or the defense where Correa used to be; I don't want to win 7 fewer games without Correa. We don't necessarily need a 6.2 WAR guy, but I think we do need a 2.5 WAR guy to be a playoff lock. That's what I want. Here's Story's career BA: Home .303 Away .241
  4. Why? Of the four best SS free agents, two are left. One wants a 10 year record-breaking deal; the other is a very good player and actually gettable by us. I'd rather spend the money for Story than ride with Diaz or Pena.
  5. Fuck that. WE need to sign Story.
  6. Those sweaters are great.
  7. Jesus. ND might be a playoff team! Could this be a smokescreen to get Kelly more money at ND or to cover for the coach they are really after? Coaches' agents must play all these AD fools and just laugh and laugh.
  8. If it wasn't assured before, the Seager signing pretty much seals that the Astros are not signing Correa. I have to admit, I had hope.
  9. The level of coordination and deception astounds me. I don't blame Riley for anything that he did. He followed the playbook. It's just a shame that college football has gotten that cold-hearted. Maybe it's always been that way. We just throw players away like trash. There's no real loyalty. It's all about the money and nothing else.
  10. This. I don't know why, but I hate the fact that non-Power 5 schools (and ND) have a shot. They don't play the same strength of schedule so they don't deserve to get in. Period.
  11. This, in the short term. Longer term, though, all of this conference realignment is going to end up changing the way the playoff is structured. The SEC with TX and OU is going to warp the gravity in CFB. The new SEC is going to have as many (or more) quality teams as the other "Power 5" conferences combined. Long term, I see an advantage to getting into the playoff by being in the SEC, which will get 2-3 schools in every year, versus each of the other three conferences getting 1, maybe 2. But for Riley, only the short term matters. What's the average tenure of a coach at the FCS level, anyway? 3-4 years?
  12. I don't know if anyone has already said it, but my thought is the best thing OU could do right now is try to lure Stoops out of retirement. When they announced he would be coaching the bowl game that's the thought that immediately came to mind. It would be the most seamless thing they could do - he's already plugged into the program. He's a proven winner. Owns a NC. Could do no better, IMO.
  13. ...he was named Reed Boyd...
  14. I remember when we used to have big games that mattered. That was fun.
  15. Update: I tell wife this morning that I plan to leave work earlier than normal today so I can get home in time to do some specific tasks. She calls me to verify that I am, in fact, coming home earlier than normal. I confirm. Then she says, "Good. Because when you get home I want to leave you with all three kids so I can go to store X." I'm like, "WTF?! I told you I was coming home to do some shit, which I can't do if I'm dealing with our three kids." Her solution: put the kids in camp again tomorrow for a half day at a cost of $240 so she can go to store X then. Somehow in all of this I'm the asshole.
  16. I think ol' Pods was being sarcastic.
  17. Respectfully, you are wrong. Every legal expert I have heard or read has said that bringing the charges was 100% justified and in bounds. These charges get brought 10/10 times under these circumstances in every jurisdiction in America.
  18. I think what they are trying to say is that the fact that he didn't kill more people shows that he was not an active shooter or there to commit murder. I think they are also saying that it further shores up the self defense argument.
  19. I've seen a mini-documentary breaking down the videos from that night. It appeared to me that KR was "stationed" at a certain business in the moments leading up to the first shooting. There was shouting or something that indicated that protesters might be vandalizing a used car lot down the street and KR started running to that scene, apparently to do something about it, whatever that was. Rosenbaum saw KR running and that's when he started chasing him. My personal interpretation of what was going through Rosenbaum's head is, "Here goes one of these motherfuckers!" Rosenbaum was already agitated and seeing one of these armed guys take off running was the switch that got flipped in his head to "do something." Causation is a series of concentric circles. If the cops wouldn't have shot Jacob Blake none of this would have happened. If KR hadn't shown up in Kenosha this wouldn't have happened, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum. But Rosenbaum was mentally unstable and I think he is the biggest reason this happened. Add a mentally unstable person to an already tense situation along with people like KR, with no training or experience, and it's a powder keg. It's exactly the reason why, as a policy point, it should be illegal to charge into a protest - of any kind - with weapons and assertions of open carry. It just doesn't work and is going to end in a lot of avoidable deaths.
  20. Because those things you listed are not what make a fascist state. None of those things are good, in my opinion, but they are also not indicators that we are already living in a fascist state. We had an attempt to corrupt our elections, an attempt to toss out the result of a legitimate election, an attempted coup, etc. All attempts; none successful. Our representatives are still duly elected through legitimate elections, flawed though it may be. The court system is still functioning. Opposition still has a voice.
  21. I don't really have a sense for what the true number might be, but I think it's probably more than you think.
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