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Snake Diggity

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  1. Is Brown tipping? Wtf
  2. What do you expect Dana Brown to say? “We’re fucked! Our rookie manager is cursed with every move he makes blowing up in his face, our payroll is maxed out with bad contracts put in place by our meddling owner, our farm system is trash due to cheating punishments and trades forced by the meddling owner, and we have 9 pitchers on the injured list! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO?!?!?” The 9 losses have come from an array of causes. Early on it was elite relievers melting down. Lately it’s been starters not giving the team a chance, and all along the offense has been hitting extremely well but not scoring runs in the highest leverage situations. The team could get a big morale boost if/when Verlander comes back healthy. But so far this is an expected 7-5 team that had luck fuck em in the ass.
  3. They pretty clearly aren’t using Kessinger, although the Altuve/Bregman/Pena will need more frequent days off than they’ve gotten so far. But if (BIG if given he has a 38% k rate in AAA) the FO believes in Loperfido, they could bring him up to replace Singleton and have him in a strict 1B platoon with Abreu, but also give Loperfido time in LF and RF, which would make him closer to an everyday player. Dubin would be the backup at the other 4 spots which over the 2nd half would also be a near-everyday role. Kessinger would continue to rot on the bench.
  4. No one with any integrity is attending that piece of shit’s funeral. His damn kids probably won’t even attend.
  5. I know this might make me pathetic, but the day Donald Trump dies might be the best day of my life that I have to look forward to. I am already married and have had all the kids I’m going to have. My children are wonderful and I’m sure will often do things over the next 2 decades that will bring me much joy, but nothing that will make me happier than knowing Trump is gone forever. I don’t really care if they get married and I don’t expect to live long enough to get grandkids. I don’t expect to complete any personal or career achievements that will eclipse Trumps death in terms of how happy it will make me. I hate that motherfucker so much. His existence is akin to having sticker burrs lining my asshole.
  6. Fuck Hunter Brown. Could be the man but isn’t. Fuck.
  7. Brown, Blanco, and France all have options. They could be optioned to skip a turn in the rotation and get another relief arm once JV comes back and the prep to switch to a 6 man rotation.
  8. Martinez and Mushinski both have options remaining. My guess is either Mushinski will be sent down or they’ll DFA Diaz and hope he passes thru waivers.
  9. Anecdotally, there is only 1 RFK sign in my neighborhood, and it replaced a Trump sign.
  10. Martinez and Montero have very good pedigrees for guys who would be the 4th and 5th best RP on the roster. No team has 4+ guys with projections to be fully reliable in high leverage. If we are “worried” about 3-4 weeks of having to filter thru fringey arms to find who sticks as the 6th and 7th best RP, what that really means is there’s nothing to worry about.
  11. Astros taking advantage of openings on their 40 man due to their shallow farm and long term injuries to take flyers on castoffs. It’s a good strategy. Hummel can be optioned and is probably a better 3rd C than Salazar and Diaz is an Interesting arm who will be put on the 60 day IL.
  12. Which RP doesn’t belong on a playoff roster, assuming a rotation of Framber/JV/Javier/Brown: Hader Pressly Abreu Montero Garcia (when healthy-June) McCullers (when healthy-Aug) Blanco France Urquidy And thats assuming Arrighetti and no other pitching prospects emerge. Unless somebody gets hurt (which is very likely), their staff will be stacked. They may go out and add a RP but it’ll be a luxury. The only spot I’m worried about on Houston’s roster is 1B. If Abreu doesn’t come back to life they will need to do something. If the Marlins sell they have 3 guys who could fit the bill in varying ways; Arraez would be a huge add, Burger would be a sleeper add, Bell would be a Mancini type add.
  13. If Abreu isn’t washed up this lineup could be the deepest and best in franchise history.
  14. Education, healthcare, and trades careers all should be relatively safe from AI. Manufacturing, tech, retail, and transportation are doomed. Rather than UBI, a 30 hour work week is where I would start to mitigate the downside of the societal change, but it has to be paired with universal healthcare and a dramatic increase in minimum wage.
  15. Not concerned about college kids as long as the schools don’t change degree standards. For school aged kids, I’d want to see the breakdown of who (rich vs poor) and why (sick, vacation, etc.). Generally speaking I don’t think rich kids missing school really hurts them. Poor kids need to be in school as much as possible. I think attitudes about work/school are changing pretty dramatically. Some of that is healthy (getting away from the “live to work” mentality), some of it is not (removing the dignity of work and not holding people accountable for their behavior). To a degree I think we are still unwinding the impact of the pandemic and it make take another 2-3 years to see the new normal and start to have data about the outcomes.
  16. It was Dana Brown’s idea to transition Blanco into a starter.
  17. I would like to see Scott and Mushinski sent down and Drew Strotman and Luis Contreras brought up. 9 of the 23 pitchers on the 40 man are hurt. Dylan Coleman is the only healthy 40 man pitcher in AAA.
  18. Yeah as well-intended as it is, it probably is not a politically savvy move.
  19. Estimated Trump flags seen from hwy on route from Austin to Port O’Connor: 2016: 23 2020: 18 (75% leftovers from 2016) 2024: 6 (4 of which are still up from 2016)
  20. Dana Brown has been GM for a little over a year. He’s presided over one draft (early returns are very good), one trade deadline (where the only significant move was dictated by the owner) and one offseason (where the only significant move was dictated by the owner). Could he have done a better job with the meager resources he had to address the middle relief? Maybe, but it’s been 2 games. I feel pretty good one of the fringey arms (Scott looked fine that first game) he added will emerge. And if Abreu isn’t suspended Houston wins at least one of those games, possibly both. Im stoked about Meyers and Javier. I’m worried about Framber and Jose Abreu. But it’s early.
  21. The site has an ignore feature. The fact that you circumvent that by continually creating new accounts makes you a very distasteful person in this arena. Also, color me extremely skeptical that anything you’ve ever posted has “helped other posters make money”. Kindly fuck off.
  22. Nah not yet, lemme get banned like 10 more times like you and then I’ll start one.
  23. Crypto bro immediately chimes in with link to crypto bro’s blog post.
  24. Thats an interesting point. I am not an expert and all the crypto bros say “no way” but I’m not convinced that the code can’t be changed in a way that undermines its value. Buying Bitcoin is an act of higher faith than buying USD (or gold or stocks) imho. I also look at how much the US is vested in the USD as the worlds primary method of exchange and the worlds reserve currency, and I don’t see them letting Bitcoin undermine that. People aren’t using Bitcoin to transact to any meaningful degree. Its use as a currency is not at all reflected in its current price. I think it’s current price simply reflects the fact that there was a shitload of capital out there with no reasonable place to put it; if Bitcoin’s price keeps going up or remains stable if/when the world economy goes into severe recession then that will be proven wrong to a large degree.
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