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13 minutes ago, HenryJames said:This is bad for the Democrats. - Surly probably
It’s 11+ months until midterms and 3+ years until the next presidential election. This is not bad for Democrats but the risk of the trough of Trump’s approval coming too soon is very real. It boggles my mind that after how the last decade has gone there is anyone left who is willingly stating “oh yea this is it, Trump’s finished.” That fucking piece of excrement isn’t finished until he’s all the way under the ground and his grave is soaked with my urine. And even then there will need to be a lot of care to make sure the remaining roaches don’t start a new infestation.
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This was not a good trade but the Astros are desperate for payroll flexibility, having $80M committed this season to Walker, Hader, McCullers, and Javier.
I just really hope they don’t trade Jake Meyers for nothing. He’s not making even as much as Dubon will and he’s worth far more. If they trade him it needs to be for a meaningful prospect or for a pitcher who will make a major contribution to the 2026 team.
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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
i think we're all missing the most queation important here, who'a going to be in the HEB commercials ???
Hunter Brown. Or Correa.
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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Holy shit. GOP leadership wanting things to go back to normal. You motherfuckers.
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8 hours ago, HtownHorn said:
I don't think the next 9 months define anything about Dana Brown. He is in a difficult position of having to lie to the media all the time, because that is what his boss wants while having to deal with the boss's constant meddling in personnel decisions with his cabal of HOF players that know shit about fuck about putting a winning team on the field.
I have been advocating trading Pena and Alvarez because there is no money to make a real addition to the roster because Crane has pissed that away to shitty players time and time again. This team is about 2 years away from being a complete dumpster fire like when Crane bought the team. You can course correct and try to avoid that fire, or you can steer straight into it, too many fans appear to want to go back to the 2008-2010 version of the Astros, except MLB has changed the rules to try to negate multiple seasons of tanking.
People keep saying Alvarez is a MVP level bat, but he's never put it together and is now 29 years old. He's never hit 40 HRs, and he has driven in 100 once in his career. I'd sell high on Pena especially in this shitty offseason for SSs.
Yeah you totally lost me on Alvarez “has never put it together”. wtf? He finished 3rd in the MVP voting in 2022. He has 3 seasons of 4+ fwar, as a DH. He is inarguably one of the 10 best hitters in the world over the last 7 seasons.
The reason I said the next 9 months will define Dana Brown is because I agree with you that the Astros are teetering between becoming a dumpster fire and returning to the kind of success they had from 2015-2024. They have a competitive roster but a below average farm. They have an inefficient payroll but no contracts >$20M/yr after 2028. What the GM does this offseason will determine if the Astros are able to have one more meaningful season during Altuve’s career. How he does in the next draft will determine if the farm is able to start producing again and give them hope of being good after the current core is gone.
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Just now, chainsaw said:
paxton has been far more loyal than cornyn. he fucking tried to overturn four other states' election results
Trump doesn’t actually care about loyalty. He cares about using people to get what he wants. A loser candidate is not useful to him.
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2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
Paxton will get the dotard endorsement, everything else don't make a shit in a gop primary
I don’t think it is at all a foregone conclusion that Trump will endorse Paxton. He will only do that if Paxton is able to improve his polling; Trump will not risk endorsing a GOP candidate who loses a Senate seat in Texas.
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48 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
You know Paxton is basically in a 3 way tie with the other two candidates, right? One of which is a sitting Senator with a huge war chest. Why are you anointing Paxton? I mean, sure, I'm cheering for Paxton. But lets not pretend it's fait accompli.
My beef is Talarico seems to be he's following the Colin Allred plan. 10 emails a day asking me for money, and I'm not seeing shit else.I told them they are fucking up with their follow up requests for additional money. Very annoying and stupid to continuously bug your donors for more money before you’ve taken another step in the campaign. I could understand doing another round right before and right after the primary then of course leading up to the election. But they should have a FIRM rule that they do not ask anyone for money within 90 days of their last donation. And if there is some kind of emergency where they are desperate for funds, the request should come from a human being (preferably the candidate himself) in person, not a fucking deluge of texts/emails.
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50 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
Never seen Talarico do this
What exactly is your beef with Talarico that you’re going out of your way to trash him in comments? He’s a great candidate, so unless you’re a maga troll fuckface, or can articulate a legitimate reason to be against him, these kind of comments are not helpful.
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Can you imagine the public reaction if Barack Obama had snapped at a female reporter “quiet, piggy”? He would literally have been killed.
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Lotta people reenacting that SNL skit from after the 2016 election. Like there’s a limit to how immune Trump is to consequences and a floor to how fucked up our country is going to get.
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1 hour ago, LebongJames said:
Agreed but what are you suggesting they do about it? Hire Ripken as the trainer?
The only thing that would make any logical sense is trading Pena for prospects but then you have a worse team and 4 injury prone players.
1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:I'd trade Pena and Alvarez. It's foolish to think they you are winning anything with this roster as currently constructed. Altuve needs to be the full time DH, and that only happens if Alvarez is gone.
Bottom line is this team has a lot of value and overall depth but has definitely fallen into the 2nd tier, well beyond the Dodgers and Yankees and Mariners but still firmly in the playoff mix. They have an aging roster, a nearly maxed out payroll, and lack elite prospects in their farm system, BUT they have an MVP level hitter complemented by a few star level hitters, an extremely good bullpen, and one of the 10 best starting pitchers in the league. Their roster doesn’t justify a full rebuild, but it also won’t be good enough with minor improvements on the margins.
The next 9 months will define Dana Brown’s career as a GM. He has enough flexibility to make the Astros a true contender but it’s going to require him to be lucky and smart enough to win the deals he makes. Giving out meaningful free agent contracts to players who fall apart or trading away good players for prospects who bust will accelerate the downfall, but finding unpolished pitching gems and hitters who complement their lineup will revive this team. Houston is on track to have 5 of the top 100 picks in the next draft so that’s another huge task where Dana Brown needs to have success if Houston is going to avoid falling into a perennial also-ran that needs a full rebuild.
My guess is there won’t be much demand for Alvarez, Walker, or Paredes relative to their value to the Astros, and that there will be significant demand for Diaz, Pena, and Meyers. But I could be totally wrong.
I think Houston is going to have a hard time finding the right bat to complement their lineup and might end up having their offense rely on a young strikeout prone lefty power bat in order to take the next step.
Houston has a great track record of evaluating pitchers so I will be optimistic about whatever they end up doing there.
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20 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
He’s done the opposite of every campaign promise he made except in 3 areas:
Be cruel to minorities
Cut Taxes for the wealthy
Cut access to abortions
And those 3 platforms are enough to maintain support from at least 35% of the electorate regardless of what else he does. Even with indisputable proof that he is a child-rapist, his support wouldn’t dip below 25%. Because the xenophobic -greedy-“pro-life” coalition is a powerful one.
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40 minutes ago, LCHorn said:
I love your optimism but I'd never hire you for a GM. You need to rely on mean outcomes (or just be realistic) for team building. "If healthy" is doing A LOT of work with post.
Just picking on trade candidate Jake, but he's had one season with full health in 2024 and had 1.7 WAR. He's going to turn 30 in June, i.e., we're not talking about projecting a big age-related performance jump (hell, we're probably closer to the decline phase given how reliant he is on his athleticism).
You've acknowledged either here or on clutchfans that we need to replace 200-300 innnings between Framber and just not having reliable starters. I'm out on Nooks fascination with Sandy Alcantara, Rasmussen and Mitch Keller aren't playoff starters on a good team, and probably like you I'd love to not surrender a draft pick trying to bring in someone who can give a Cease like performance.
Anyway, tacking back to that because I think starting pitching is really where I'd devote the off-season attention.
I wasn’t posting what I would do, just noting that even without making moves there is reason to be hopeful about the lineup being better than last season. I’ve said it a bunch before but if I were GM I would be looking to use the position player depth/versatility to follow where the market leads. I would be gauging value for Diaz, Walker, Pena, Paredes, Smith, Meyers, Sanchez, Urias, and Dubon (along with the near-ready prospects like Dezenzo, Cole, Matthews, and Melton) to see where I think the best value was. The Astros have 4 primary needs:
ToR SP
durable MoR SP
backup C
lefty bat to balance the lineup (preferably able to play the OF and hit leadoff)
A pipe dream wish list would also include improving the farm system.
If you’re asking for a prediction, I think the Astros are going to trade Jake Meyers, Jesus Sanchez, and one or two of Walker, Paredes, Pena, Dubon, or Urias. It will also not shock me if they trade Diaz although I would not bet on it.
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26 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
HOUSTON -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who was bothered by a sore right foot in the final two weeks of the regular season, underwent a minor skin aspiration Monday, a source told MLB.com. He will be ready for the start of Spring Training.
There’s a lot of room for optimism when analyzing Houston’s roster:
Altuve was hurt most of the 2nd half (or even before that), if this gets him healthy he could have a moderate rebound. He won’t ever be an MVP level player again but he could have another season or two where he’s an extremely good hitter.
Correa is entering only his age 31 season and is only a year removed from a monster partial season; an extremely good year is totally on the table and even a monster 6+ war season is possible if everything goes his way.
Paredes could have a monster season if he’s healthy.
Alvarez just needs to be healthy and he will be an MVP level hitter.
Pena is coming off of a star season and there’s not much in his underlying numbers that indicates it’s not repeatable.
Walker was a good hitter after July 1 and an ~830 ops is a reasonable good outcome for him in 2026.
Theres nothing that indicates Yainer Diaz can’t rebound to be the well above average hitter he was in 2023-2024.
Jake Meyers is coming off of a career year and if he stays healthy is a 2.5-3 win player.
Cam Smith and Zach Cole both have monster upside and have shown flashes in the majors. Jesus Sanchez provides some good insurance if they flop as a guy with a long record of being above average against RHP.
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37 minutes ago, pacman said:
We did RTO today, barely a full day's notice. We used to have people exempt over 50 miles, not anymore. People hired under full time remote work policy from Temple got up super early today, felt terrible for them.
Surely the company is just doing a soft layoff of those long range workers. No other logic makes sense.
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I’ll munch some crow in this thread. 2.5 years ago I predicted companies’ calling employees back into the office would suffer and that the backlash against wfh would be temporary. I still think companies doing away with wfh will perform poorly over the long term, but I overestimated workers’ leverage. I underestimated the odds of worsening economic conditions contributing to companies’ motivation to use forcing folks back into the office as a way to reduce headcount without doing layoffs. I also underestimated how quickly companies would lean on AI as a way to reduce headcount (doing away with wfh employees first).
I still think that long term, wfh will be common and companies that embrace it will be better off. But in the short term, remote employees seem to be proper fucked.
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On 11/14/2025 at 10:12 AM, torre said:
#3 class. (LSU, Vanderbilt) Excerpts:
That’s a shitload of draft risk. Yikes.
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I’ve updated my odds for if the Epstein files will result in Trumps demise to 0%.
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25 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
How dumb do you gotta be to take money from the woman who destroyed the Mavs?
Fuck off with this disingenuous bullshit. She donated to every politician who she knew would be in favor or legalized casinos. She gave Talarico’s campaign……wait for it….$59,000. The horror.
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Trump’s plan is to issue tariff checks to voters just before mid terms next year. It’s probably going to work.
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9 hours ago, runthebone said:
Offensively, there is no realistically available better fit for the Astros lineup than Donovan.
- Trade Sanchez and Urias for Bart and PTBNL
- Sign Verlander and McCann
- Trade Meyers, Brito, and Diaz for Rasmussen and Jax
- Trade Matthews, Sullivan, and Hicks for Donovan
RF Donovan*
DH Paredes
LF Alvarez
3B Correa
2B Altuve
SS Pena
1B Walker
CF Cole
C Bart*
Bench: Dubon, McCann*, Dezenzo, Trammell
SP: Brown, Rasmussen*, JV*, Javier, Pearson, Alexander
RP: Hader, Abreu, Jax*, King, Sousa, Okert, McCullers
Optioned: Arrighetti, Gordon, Murray, VanWey, Salazar, Whitcomb, Smith, Melton, Ullola*, Santa*, Fleury*
IL: Wesneski, Walter, Blanco
DFA: De Los Santos, France, Ort
Traded: Sanchez, Urias, Meyers, Diaz, Matthew
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Waymo is going to win the driverless car race. They may not win the driverless semi race, but the race to be the company that owns/sells the most autonomous passenger vehicles is over, Waymo won. Invest accordingly.
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I can’t imagine a scenario where Trumps approval rating dips below 35% while he is still in office. The severity and volume of shit that has happened in the last year but especially the last month has had to have eroded any potential approval he was getting from movable people. The 39% who currently approve of him are doing so in spite of a shitty economy, heavy evidence that the president is a pedophile who had sex with underage girls, severe domestic political unrest, and a fragile geopolitical environment. We know they are approving of him because of his efforts to disparage and punish minorities and the poor and because of his polices that exacerbate environmental and societal problems, not in spite of them.
A severe economic depression or a war in which the US gets attacked by a foreign country and is losing are the only 2 things I can imagine serving to reduce Trump’s approval rating from where it is, and even then I can’t imagine it getting below 25%.
The Democrats had effective messaging/leasership anytime before 2024, he wouldn’t be president. One thing I’m not sure of is if they had gotten effective messaging/leadership at any point this year, how low would Trump’s approval currently be?
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
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Not bad. I’d want NY to toss in some money or throw in a prospect but it’s close enough in value and it makes sense for both sides.