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Snake Diggity

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  1. I think Pinder would have made more sense prior to signing Brantley (assuming they were going to add an offensive catcher instead). I have always liked Pinder and thought he was underrated. At this point signing him would displace Hensley or Dubon or Meyers (all of whom have higher upside than Pinder), so depending on price it is still worth exploring.
  2. Was just thinking about this yesterday. Has there been a new musical genre since Grunge? Doesn’t seem like there’s been a new type of music since the 90s, when prior to that there were new genres at least every 5-10 years. There seemed to be a rush of what I would call “Xanax rock” a few years ago, but I never actually heard a term for it, and it didn’t seem popular enough to be generation-defining.
  3. You know that article was from June, right?
  4. For almost every 1st world country outside of the US (who can/will pull the immigration lever to supplement their working age population) and China/Russia (who are proper fucked because of their economic structure and unwillingness to embrace immigration), the next 30 years will be a very risky time as they go through an unprecedented societal experiment. Can Europe, Japan, S Korea, and Australia maintain their standards of living despite dramatic declines in working age population and economic activity? That’s something never before seen in human history. If that’s not possible, can those same countries somehow turnaround the population decline to at least eventually achieve population stability? Again, never before seen in human history. There will be a lot it things that can be done in the short term (extending what is defined as “working age”, fully embracing automation and robotics to replace human workers) to stem the tide, but those 2 questions will really determine the next phase of humanity. One thing that is interesting to me is that of all the books/articles I have read on this topic, none of them predict that the countries who currently project for continued population growth (S America, Africa, India) will rise to the top of world powers as other countries populations collapse.
  5. No background/experience in scouting or player development. He’s totally unqualified to be an MLB GM by todays standards and if he is hired it’s pure nepotism based on his relationship with Bagwell, who seems like he kind of sucks when it comes to influencing the owner to veer back towards the old-school (eventual) loser way of doing shit.
  6. The Astros don’t have any “bad” contracts. They have paid market value for a few players recently: Abreu, Neris, Montero, Brantley, but those deals have either panned out in early returns or looked better as the free agent market evolved. McCullers $85M contract is probably their highest risk deal but I still fully expect that deal to end up being good for Houston.
  7. The real tragedy is that not one other student told that child to sit the fuck down and shut up. But also, that teacher should have sent someone to get help to remove the disruptive student. Not hard to avoid the potential assault charge there.
  8. My guess is Haley has been positioning herself to try to be Trump’s endorsed candidate if he doesn’t run and his VP if he does run.
  9. I consider any current layoffs at big tech that account for <10% of their total headcount to just be cleanup that had been postponed due to the last 3 years of insanity, and not really all that pertinent to current economic outlook. A 6% layoff at Google is mostly just firing people who aren’t doing any work and don’t have any real skills necessary for future growth.
  10. LoL no. Red bean is a kind of bean used as a sweetener in Asian food. I don’t even really know how to describe it. When it’s in paste form I would say it’s kind of like the consistency and sweetness of fig newton filling? I don’t know maybe any Asian Surl can chime in here. Anyway, this isn’t the exact product but very similar: https://chaoji.ca/en/product/6666/yimei-matcha-red-bean-popsicle
  11. I have learned over the years that some shit I have written off as Korean culture is actually just weird shit my wife’s family is into. They think red bean is equivalent/superior to all other sweeteners. They describe a green tea red bean popsicle as like a creamy sweet treat, but instead the motherfucker is a bland, milky-green popsicle with grainy ass beans mixed in it. Shit is nasty.
  12. Our freezer is just a temporary holding bin for trash. 2 months ago, our freezer was FULL. To the fucking brim. I demanded to go thru it together. The only things that weren’t freezer burnt or expired were a box of Korean green tea and red bean popsicles that even my kids won’t eat, and a package of chopped pecans. Shockingly, no lessons were learned.
  13. I think OH, PA, VA will be safe it nothing unexpected happens. I also think Dems can fund far right nutjobs in AZ, NV, WI, MT, and WV to win the GOP nom to make their candidate more appealing to the middle 70%; if they can hold 3 of those seats I would consider that a good outcome for them. That Cruz shit is a mirage; he's going to win again.
  14. I started eating Torchys when it was a food truck outside of little Woodrow’s on west 6th. I knew a couple of the owners and many of the original staff from my time waiting tables at Hul Hut; really good people who knew wtf they were doing and worked incredibly hard and cared deeply about their product. For the next decade, a Mr Pink on corn and a half queso with a Maine Root Cola soda was a staple of my diet. For most of that time, the total for that order was $10. Like most things it touches, private equity fucking killed Torchy’s. Within a year of that $400M injection, literally zero of the things on my recurring order were still on the menu; the Mr Pink kept shrinking until it disappeared entirely. The half queso, which was basically just a half priced full queso because it was served in the same sized bowl, got downsized and upcharged. Coke replaced Maine Root. My go-to order went from a $10 dream to a $20 bag of trash. I haven’t eaten at Torchys in years. Fuck private equity.
  15. It’s so fucking stupid. MLB should want as many eyes on their product as possible, even if it might cost them a minimal amount in tv rights fees (which if they sold their product properly, it wouldn’t). The fact that you can get billions of dollars in content for $20/month with Nexflix, but watching one live baseball game a week costs a minimum of $70/month is just ridiculous and short sighted by MLB.
  16. I remember being excited about that. What a bust.
  17. More recently the Chris Archer trade really fucked the Pirates.
  18. Nah. I’m fine trading prospects for the right value. I was only going against the idea that trading away prospects is “almost always” worth it. It certainly can be worth it. But as often as not teams get burned. Like most other things in baseball it comes down to front office acumen and luck.
  19. The following players were traded away by their original teams as prospects: Yordan Alvarez Dansby Swanson Trea Turner Willy Adames Sandy Alcantara Dylan Cease Joe Musgrove Thats 4 of the top 30 position players in 2022 fwar and 3 of the top 30 pitchers that were traded away as prospects. The Astros discussed Kyle Tucker in Chris Sale trades a few years back but luckily didn’t pull the trigger. Those trades go both ways. Wrt to the Greinke trade specifically, the Diamondbacks have already gotten more out of Rojas than the Astros got out of Greinke in terms of surplus production value and they have him for 4 more years, not to mention Beer and Martin are still in their system.
  20. Thought this interview with Owens was interesting. “Why would you commit to Texas with Ewers and Manning in front of you?” ”First of all FUCK that. I’m fuckin gangster and I will beat out anybody anywhere. I’m a BAD motherfucker. Second of all, ask me that while I’m LITERALLY blasting wads all over fat titties on skinny girls for 5 fucking years. 1500+ days of me just going absolutely fucking HAM on these UT hoes. Then..THEN I graduate with degree from THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT MOTHERFUCKING AUSTIN. All I need is a fuckin wheelbarrow to carry these nuts on move in day, and they said they’d provide that. Where the fuck else would I go?”
  21. If you drive a Kia Sorento, 2 things are certainly true: Jesus has indeed failed you People definitely tread on you
  22. Montana National Park? That actually sounds pretty dope.
  23. The most unbelievable part of that poll is that 1/11 people polled were like “Mike Pence, fuck yeah, that’s my guy!”
  24. Doing some VERY brief digging just now, I learned: the Fed's focus is always on inflation; they have defined price stability as 2% inflation or less, while target unemployment is purposefully undefined (or rather defined as a function of inflation) to allow it to be secondary to the inflation goal. The median inflation rate since 1929 has been 2.7%. The median unemployment rate since then has been 5.6%. There are only 3 years since 1929 that inflation has been >4% while unemployment is over 8% (1941, 1975, 1981). I guess it is incredibly likely that we get rate cuts before unemployment gets over 7% and that the Fed won't stop raising rates until inflation is below 3% YoY. whynotboth.gif
  25. If inflation comes down because 500k people are added to the labor supply because their retirement evaporated because the Fed raised rates, is that the Fed "working"? My assumption is that the Fed's ultimate goal in this scenario is to have inflation come down (<4%???) without having unemployment get too high (<7%???), since the Fed's mandate only involves those 2 factors and no others. Having a bunch of olds go back to work is one thing that could help that happen. I'm not saying it's necessarily a likely outcome, just that it is an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of before. ETA: for now I do not think it is a likely outcome because I think the labor supply is short far more than 500k workers, so my current guess is that there will still be further pain.
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