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Snake Diggity

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  1. For now Biden has credentials (and obviously experience) that Buttigieg doesn’t have. I don’t think Buttigieg will be a viable presidential candidate until he has been either a senator or a governor. He is a traditional politician (aside from the whole being outwardly gay thing); he doesn’t have any business or celebrity or military bonafides to run on, and despite being a genius talker, he’s not charismatic enough to rally enough people just based on his personality. And until I see evidence to the contrary I do not think black democrats will turn out for him. Buttigieg would certainly lose to Trump. He would very very likely lose to DeSantis. If he becomes a governor then I think depending on the cycle he could be a very good candidate for president.
  2. Pretty clear that the teams/MLB have known about both Bally and ATT issues for months and are going to recapture all the media rights and have their own streaming service. Long overdue. Hopefully this is the last season that requires a $70/mo minimum to watch regular season Astros games in market. I am hoping it’s something like $20/mo to watch just your team or $30/mo to watch all the games. Would be super cool if they went back to Disney with it and you could get MLB combined with ESPN and SEC network all streaming for some reasonable price. It will be interesting to see how this impacts revenues this season and beyond. If all those teams aren’t going to get paid their fees this year then we could see several teams anxious to cut payroll (hopefully not the Astros). It also remains to be seen whether MLB owning their own tv rights will result in more or less revenue and how that will be distributed.
  3. 43. Took one quick step about to start jogging yesterday and felt a big pop and like I got shot in the left calf, then could not put any pressure on my left leg. I’m fucking crippled. Reading about torn calf it says I could be out for anywhere from 2 to 12 weeks. Wtf.
  4. I can haz summary of their predictions?
  5. It actually kind of sounds like the beatings will not stop until morale implodes.
  6. I wasn’t making a prediction. I agree the GOP is fucked. It’s Trump’s/Putin’s party.
  7. Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan, or Chris Sununu.
  8. I’m not talking about voting. I’m mostly talking about funding. Find some kind of Hulk Hogan crossed with David Duke crossed with Chris Kyle crossed with Elon Musk type dude and give him enough money to take 10% of Trumps primary votes from the far right. Then, if you have the right moderate candidate you have an actual chance.
  9. Dems and moderate Republicans need to find and fund a viable nut job to outflank Trump in the GOP primary. Then they need to coalesce around a moderate candidate (DeSantis ain’t it). If they don’t get somebody to draw some of the crazies away from Trump then he has already won.
  10. Over on the Rays and Orioles.
  11. There are 3 moves I wish the Astros had made this offseaon that they didn’t make: sign Omar Narvaez, sign Andrew Heaney, and trade Luis Garcia for 1-2 elite prospects to restock the farm system. That would have made their offseason an A+. As it is, they made a very good signing in Abreu, a fine signing in Brantley, extended one of the highest upside young SP in the league, and are entering the season as the odds on favorite to return to the ALCS, with no glaring roster holes, an improving farm system, and a good amount of payroll flexibility. That can’t be worse than a B grade.
  12. Who do you think he’s gonna get primaried by, someone better?!
  13. Trump’s comment on Haley’s announcement was something like “she loved me and said she’d never run against me but then changed her mind so I told her ‘good luck’, and I wish her the best.” Hard to believe she didn’t get his blessing and there isn’t some sort of deal in place. Who knows if it’s for her to be his VP pick and who knows if he will end up honoring it. But there’s no way his response to her announcement would be that positive if they didn’t have some kind of deal.
  14. Who spied on your campaign? No one. Who stuffed the ballot boxes? Sane, legal voters whom you scared into action. Who paid off the FBI? No one, although you tried.
  15. Conspiracy theory: Haley negotiated to enter the field to ensure the GOP “moderates” cannot rally around DeSantis in exchange for being Trump’s VP. She will play moderate throughout her short time in the primary (through SC) while being very careful not to appear opposed to Trump and going hard after Meatball Ron. Trump probably actually thinks he can literally fuck her after they win. I believe that if this weren’t the deal Trump would have already released a statement condemning her as a traitor replete with a nickname (“Sikhy Nikki”?)
  16. Transitioning roles for pitchers comes with risk. Dudes change their pitch mix and effort level based on role and there’s always the chance doing that fucks them up. If Houston only had 4-5 viable SP I would be a lot more open to it. Abreu’s upside is that of a healthy McCullers. He’s not going to be a playoff ace, but he could be a viable #2 starter worth $25-30M/yr. That would be awesome but I don’t think the odds of that outcome are high enough to justify taking him out of his established role as a playoff-closer-level reliever.
  17. They have 6 SP lined up plus Whitley and Bielak and a few other interesting arms in AAA. Abreu was utterly dominant out of the pen last season. Not worth the risk of derailing him to try to get greedy.
  18. The Rangers seem like they’re only one player away from making the playoffs. Why they weren’t more proactive about upgrading their OF is beyond me. They spent all that money on middle IF last season then dumped a fortune into their rotation, and they didn’t have enough to patch LF with Mitch Haniger or Joey Gallo or Michael Conforto? That said I think Young has made several good moves this offseason and this will be a very competitive team. Heaney, Duffy, and Eovaldi are 3 of the potential best value pitching signings of the offseason.
  19. That looks very close to what I would expect. Unfortunately I do not consider that a very team friendly deal. Pretty much paying market rate for those free agent years which are into his mid 30s.
  20. From your keyboard to god’s will.
  21. Black, Williams, Umeozulu, Hudson, and Simmons are the 5 in-state must-gets from this class. If Texas gets 3 of those 5 it is likely a good year.
  22. Meatball Ron is fucking hilarious. Especially considering it is likely that Trump has busted his ass to lose a bunch of weight JUST so he can use it without looking stupid. I mean, all that WOULD be hilarious, if it were an episode of The Office involving Michael Scott and Dwight, instead of the 2 men most likely to be the 2024 GOP nominee for POTUS.
  23. What do you think happens when it becomes clear that Russia will be defeated? Putin just says “bummer, ok fall back” and everybody just accepts peace? Unless you think Putin will be taken out by rational, western-friendly Russians before then, how do you suppose Putin reacts to his ultimate defeat?
  24. It’s impossible for me to see this ending without it escalating. There is no way Russia will ever agree to a negotiated peace that doesn’t include them keeping Donbas/Crimea and there’s no way Ukraine/NATO will agree to giving up Donbas. NATO is either going to eventually abandon Ukraine which means much higher odds of conflict with Russia later since there’s very little chance Russia stops at Ukraine for good, or NATO is going to put Russia into submission which means very high likelihood of nuclear exchange. This is bad.
  25. Handicapping odds of each player signing an extension before 2023 opening day: Tucker 10% Valdez 12% Altuve 12% Bregman 8% Garcia 8% B Abreu 15% Pena 5% Brown 5% Y Diaz 8% McCormick 5% Leon 1% Lee 1% Urquidy 1% Stanek 5% Maton 2% Others 2%
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