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Snake Diggity

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  1. Need portal studs at RB, OG, OT, C, LB, and CB, plus backfills for any unexpected losses from the projected 2 deep. If we don’t address the OL we are fucked. Otherwise we should have a better team next season.
  2. If the Dems don’t clear the field for the white male preacher schoolteacher, they are fucking up the only chance they have to shock the nation. The black milquetoast football player and the sassy highly intelligent black woman have zero (Z-E-R-O) chance of winning a senate seat in Texas.
  3. There really isn’t.
  4. Weiss will have options but it’s weird they’ve signed 2 guys the promised a shot at starting. Gonna be hard to add 2 more legit guys. Reading too much into it I think this might predict an Arrighetti trade.
  5. Teams get a big financial windfall from reaching the WS. Toronto has Santander (and Berrios) so they’re not immune from bad contracts.
  6. As things stand, Houston will have picks #17, #28, #60, #91, #120, and #131 in the top 4 rounds.
  7. I think Diaz is a hard worker. I just think he’s stubborn and prone to inconsistency which have prevented him from taking the next step. And he was unlucky offensively in 2025. But it’s a shame he can’t learn to be more selective and take more bad pitches. He could be a monster.
  8. Relative to their current fangraphs war projections, the guys I think have the best chance of surprising to the upside are: Correa (3.7 fwar projection): It won’t shock me he if busts out with a full, healthy, MVP caliber season. Paredes (2.0): Even if there isn’t a trade that opens an everyday spot on defense for him, I expect him to play the field most days and get more pa than they’re project him for. He will end up closer to 4 war than 2. Cole (0.6): The projections are down on his defense and it’s looking likely that Meyers will be shipped out and Cole will be given first crack at the everyday CF job. He has immense ceiling with his power and speed; a season like Joey Gallo had in 2021 (4.4 fwar) isn’t likely but it’s possible. Matthews (0.2): Cutting Dubon and Urias loose opened the door for Matthews to take on a super utility role, playing 2B, CF, and LF as they get guys more rest than in prior years. If another infielder is traded it could also open the door him effectively being the backup at 3B and SS. Either way, even in a bench role he will be a pinch running weapon. Hes a very high ceiling prospect and I expect him to for outstrip his 0.2 fwar projection. Javier (0.9): Javier has always been underestimated by the projection systems. If he doesn’t get hurt he will easily more than double the 0.9 fangraphs is predicting.
  9. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year Arbitration salaries are heavily influenced by the prior year’s salary. Meyers only made $2.3M last season (his first year in arbitration) because he hadn’t had much consistent production his first 3 seasons. So his $3.5M estimate represents a big raise. McCormick made more earlier in arbitration because he already had multiple 2+ fwar seasons on his resume going into his first year of arbitration, so his number ended up so high because he started off higher.
  10. Most likely Zach Cole would be at the top of the depth chart coming into ST, but Brice Matthews, Jacob Melton, and potentially even Cam Smith and Jesus Sanchez could all be in the mix.
  11. “Hirrrr durrrr what are the practical uses of gold derpy derppp” *inverts penis until it tickles the backside of asshole*
  12. Kash Patel’s face is always the quintessence of insecurity. Motherfucker ALWAYS has that “please don’t find out” look.
  13. Some of the dumbest shit I’ve read about crypto is how it can be an alternative/replacement for the US Dollar. As if Bitcoin would be worth fuck all if the dollar were to collapse.
  14. ETA: just realized these don’t have the ANC. The description is very misleading, as if says they have ANC in the description but then clearly in the outline section says this version doesn’t have it. Fuckers.
  15. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DGHMNQ5Z?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image Yesterday they were $69.99 (new) at that link; I bought a pair. Today it looks like they sold out and you can only buy used ones at that price.
  16. You might not be a crypto bro but you are repeating crypto bro talking points. The ideas that cryptocurrency has as much underlying utility as publicly traded stocks or that the US dollar is as “artificial” as bitcoin cannot be described as anything other than fucking stupid. There’s also no convincing evidence that crypto is “non-correlated” or contra-correlated” to more traditional investments. If anything crypto is just a more volatile leading indicator for more traditional investments. When bad times hit, it’s the first thing everyone will dump, when there’s boatloads of excess cash floating around and nowhere to put it, bitcoin skyrockets. It is a store of value based on blind faith. You can glorify “financial nihilism”, but I am pretty sure that’s just another term for gambling. You can write off “Warren Buffett style investing”, but I’m pretty sure that’s just another term for “investing in actual value”.
  17. Sorry but this is crypto bro bullshit.
  18. I think he’s being brought in as a RP. But the more guys they bring in like this on guaranteed big league deals, the more likely I think it is that Lance McCullers will never pitch for the Astros again. Out of options pitchers on Houston’s 40 man roster: Brown Javier France De Los Santos Ort Pearson Abreu Hader Sousa King Okert Alexander McCullers Weiss That doesn’t include Wesneski, Blanco, or Walter, who will be on the IL, or Arrighetti, who would almost certainly make the roster.
  19. Well sure, but it’s what is driving the speculation. For things like real estate and publicly traded companies, there’s underlying utility driving the speculative value. For Bitcoin (and precious metals), it’s blind faith.
  20. Sure. Bitcoin is an actual product as well; it can be used as a transactional currency with a self maintained ledger. But like gold and silver, such a large percentage of its value comes from speculative investment that the value from its actual utility is meaningless.
  21. 99%+ of people who are heavily invested in bitcoin are doing so as an act of faith, nothing more. It has no meaningful function as a transactional currency. It has no way of returning value other than price appreciation. It acts as a store of value for believers. You can pretty much say the same thing about gold and silver. So whether you buy it or short it is determined by whether you think the faith will grow or collapse. It’s purely a speculative investment.
  22. He really is shattering barriers. Our first lesbian president.
  23. 2023-2024 avg fWAR vs 2025 vs 2026 projection (FGDC): Diaz 2.7 : 1.6 : 2.5 Walker 3.5 : 1.1 : 1.6 Altuve 4.0 : 2.1 : 2.8 Pena 2.7 : 5.7 : 3.8 Paredes 3.8 : 2.5 : 1.9 Correa 3.0 : 2.6 : 3.6 Meyers 1.5 : 2.3 : 1.3 Alvarez 4.3 : 0.5 : 5.0 Of their top 8 position players, 5 of them are projected to outperform 2025, and 6 of them should be expected to outperform 2025 if they revert to their 2023-2024 mean. Those 8 guys currently project to be 4 wins better than last season combined, and that’s with Paredes and Meyers ceding a lot of playing time to lesser players. Yordan is one of the 10 best hitters in baseball. No team can plan around missing a guy like that for a big chunk of the season. Dodgers ain’t winning shit without Ohtani, Blue Jays aren’t in the WS without Vlad. 2025 was fucked because the Astros lost the one guy (Alvarez) they couldn’t afford to lose, and the problem was exacerbated by other guys getting hurt and/or not performing.
  24. I do think that by July Houston’s SP could be dramatically improved with internal options. I’m really high on Blubaugh, Pecko, and Brito, but there’s another half dozen guys I’m not that high on that a lot of other people really like: Ullola, Nezuh, Tredwell, Hicks, Mayer, Santos. Houston hasn’t had this kind of upper level minors pitching depth in a few years.
  25. Houston could’ve gotten it done but the equivalent would have been Spencer Arrighetti and Ethan Pecko. I wouldn’t have liked that for Houston, especially considering it would have left them with less than $10M in payroll flexibility still looking for another SP, a backup C, and potentially a LH bat and 7th inning RP.
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