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Hook'Em0608

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  1. 5 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

    No man my bad I didn't watch any of the playoffs or World Series, let alone post about it on the old board.

    I'm a rational fan, or at least I try to be. The "fuck you Giles" hate on the day he gets sent down is crazy imo and lacks all perspective.

    He's a pro baseball player who wears a 2017 WS ring. He stunk at times and was OK at times. You guys got what you want. Do you need to take a shit on his jersey as well?

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    He had a good year last year before the playoffs but has been pretty mediocre to bad the rest of his time in Houston. ERA's over 4 his other two seasons and a complete meltdown in the playoffs. He's earned some fan push back because that's the only way you let the team leaders know this shit isn't acceptable. They gave up quite a bit (at the time) to get him and he hasn't performed. Despite that, they kept running him out there in high leverage situations. I don't care what the stats say, those of us who watch almost daily know what our eyes see and obviously the front office sees it too. 

  2. 2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Who said Kill off? I said criticize. And ive never advocated oscar even be fired. And no, you clearly fo not understand how aggy works at all. 

    I even bolded the fucking statement I was referring to in my original reply. Can you read?

  3. Just now, Machinator said:

    Cool straw man. It's been said many times over that Giles is a plus coach, and if we can hire someone else to shore up DL recruiting while cutting one of the deficient coaches on offense, that would be a more than acceptable outcome without having to fire Giles.

    I agree with you, but I'm still tired of the bash brothers shtick on this thread. They have become more insufferable than they were on Shaggy. It's over the top and doesn't bring anything new or relevant to the thread. But neither am I, so I'll tap out. 

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  4. 12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Thank you for the advice on how to be a “good person”. I’m going to roll this in with RomaVicta’s good parenting and really try to regroup for you guys. 

    The “Oscar is a Horn!” defense is probably the weakest, most aggie-esque of all of the defenses that get tossed out there for the guy. Either the fucking dude is helping the program get better every day or he isn’t. His alma mater means precisely dick to me and many others. 

    This shit always brings out the pearl clutchers. Inevitably I’m the big meanie beating up on poor ol’coach whoever, who’s getting paid mid-6 figures to coach a child’s game in which we all follow and Texas hasn’t been very good at in quite the while. But carry on, I’m being hurtful to poor Oscar for the 4-5 posts on him in which I’ve had a take. That’s what has the program below .500 over the past 4 seasons. 

    Nobody has an issue with you pointing out Giles flaws. It was obvious his first go around here. It's the manner in which you do it that is a beating. It's over the top and I know you wont change because I quoted you. I still think you are an asshole for it though, and it's a message board, so I'm free to post shit the same way you are. 

  5. 12 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Fuck that shit. Any human being period who is mediocre to shitty at a job deserves to be criticized. Any person who has been made a millionaire doing said job deserves an order of magnitude of such criticism. And sparing someone because they are longhorn? That is some fucking Aggie bullshit behavior. We should be more willing to have honest criticism of our own because we are not and (most, not all appatently) strive to not be like those groupthink-Good-Ag-idiots. 

    Okay, cool, we should metaphorically kill off any Longhorn who doesn't bring in the football recruits we covet. Now that's some aggy bull shit. 

  6. 14 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    You try too hard, sometimes, man. That’s an awkward post. 

    Thanks for the advice, though. I not only needed it, I’m going to take it to heart and really let it shine through my posts in the future. I’ll “assume positive intent” and “seek first to understand” before pointing out that posters or Derek Warehime or Drew Mehringer or Oscar Giles aren’t worth the fucking bullet it would take to put them down. Good talk, pops.

    People have been attempting to coach me or counsel me on my posting behavior for the past 21+ years on the boards. It’s worked out really well for them and you should continue to carry the torch. I think you’re going to find it really fulfilling. 

    The only reason people put up with your shouting down of everyone with a differing opinion is because you regularly drop useful information. I'm not even taking a side in the arguments because I rarely post, but I do appreciate everyone who contributes on this thread. However, Oscar Giles isn't in the same vein as Warehime or Mehringer in my book.  Your jihad against him is strange. Obviously his recruiting is less than ideal, but the vitriol shown toward him is breathtaking. He is a Longhorn and no Longhorn who is mediocre to bad at their job deserves to have comments like the above thrown their way. Simply because he didn't get some football recruits you wanted. Be better as a person. 

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  7. 30 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Hahaha. There’s a reason I spend the money I do to live here.  But I would like others to stay away.

    You have to spend money to enjoy living there. 85 percent of the city fucking sucks and the other 15 percent 99 percent of society can't afford to live in. It's pretty much science, or maybe math, I don't know. 

  8. 58 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    again, with this hyperbolic "he's going to suck" shit. either keep your arguments based on reality or keep them to yourself. and i already answered your question up the page, not that the answer isn't blatantly obvious. we're discussing an incoming player and what constitutes realistic expectations for him this season. it's completely standard talk for this time of year.

    if someone comes here every day and reads the litany of posts proclaiming hepa to be a major part of our offense next year then they might be disappointed when it turns out that he still needs time to grow and wasn't this instant impact player he was proclaimed to be. as i said up the page, this is jarrett allen all over again. he was over hyped and made out to be something he wasn't, and by december people were shitting all over him for not being what he was supposed to be. 

    The thing is, it's very rare for a freshman to come in and carry a team offensively. Offense is skill and experience, defense is often athleticism and effort. So I could be wrong, but I don't take either poster as saying he's going to carry the team offensively. However, it's possible he is a contributor, maybe even a major contributor. Who knows, none of it will matter if we don't improve offensive game planning. It's not like we've lacked offensive talent under Smart, just an identity and competent game plan. 

  9. Damn, I thought something important had occurred in regards to the basketball team. All these posts and it's a silly argument about being optimistic about a recruit vs tempering expectations. Neither position is so extreme anyone should be up in arms about it. Whatever I guess...

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  10. 23 hours ago, Cameltoe said:

    Losing your best 3-pt shooter halfway through the season with a roster lacking other 3-pt threats isn't very conducive to scoring.

    I'm located somewhere between you and the fire Shaka crowd, but you have to admit, we've been as bad on offense under Shaka (or worse) than the end of the Barnes era. We've wasted some pretty elite defenses with really bad scoring. 

  11. 3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    It's a subjective discussion, so I'm fine with you not agreeing at all. I don't really care about the prior years, but the go-forward with what I referenced. Simmons was a terrible offensive performer, and now he isn't, so the past with him is irrelevant to me. Bogaerts is in the same neighborhood as Correa and more durable. Lindor didn't slump last year, so I don't follow that argument. He's a demonstrably better player than Correa this year and he's not about to miss 40 games in the fat part of his schedule. He's tons more durable. 

    It's simple, if you like a guy because he's a year younger and marginally better than someone else on the non-counting stats, love Correa to death. If durability and counting stats matter, Correa isn't a top 3 shortstop in baseball. I fall into the latter category and I'm also sick of reading and hearing about how he and his crew, Boras included, think he's going to be worth $400million. I don't see him playing a complete year before his time is up with the Astros, so I plan on laughing a lot when he has to "settle" for something well inside of $200. 

    Lindor was hitting under .270 the vast majority of last season. So similar to Correa this year so far. Even still, Correa is a 1.9 WAR player right now. That is like 5th best in baseball at SS. 

  12. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I get it, but the injury component cannot be ignored. Volume matters and the adding stats are relevant in the conversation. If you could have Lindor, Bogaerts, SImmons, or Correa for the next 3.5 seasons, how would you rank your desire? It's subjective, but I'd go Lindor, Simmons, Bogaerts, Correa in that order. Correa is going to continue to handle himself with kid gloves in order to reach the next contract, and the other guys seem fine as replacements with either elite skills or better durability.

    Across the landscape of the game, I'm glad we have Correa as a core member and our shortstop, but I don't view him as a the unquestionably best shortstop in the game. Seager's injury and future health have me feeling the same way about him, hence me not ranking him as a top 4 guy I'd want at SS.

    I wouldn't take a single one of them over Correa. He's still just a fucking kid, and already a champion. Shit, Lindor slumped most all of last year himself, and he's the only one of those I put in Correa's stratosphere. Mostly because he is also elite defensively. Simmons couldn't even hit the damn ball when he was Correa's age. Bogaerts is worse offensively and defensively than Correa. Lindor is his only real competition IMO. But it appears to me he has fallen in love with the long ball. When he has the skill set to be an Altuve like hitter which is more valuable IMO. 

  13. 9 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Interesting. I didn't really see that as an issue last year. We seemed to beat the teams we were better than and lose to the teams we were worse than, outside of a loss at OSU, but that will happen once or twice over the course of a season.  We went 0-2 against KU, WVU, and KSU, 2-0 against OU and ISU (again OSU loss was bad), and then had a mixed bag against the middle teams in the conference.  Sure, we had some close games in there but that seems to be more due to having a bad offense and not being able to separate, IMO.  

    There was no competition to play down to in conference. Except maybe Iowa St, and they are tough at home even when they are bad. OOC we barely beat some really bad teams after we lost Jones. 

  14. 2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    There were a couple dumb posters blasting him, but they either didn't make the jump from Shaggy to Surly, or they don't post here in the offseason.

    Wasn't referring to you by any means, I remember you pointing out his impact for our team on a regular basis that don't always create pretty "stats". 

  15. 1 hour ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Regardless of the weak generalization and ad hominem attack of intellectual dishonesty, it really doesn't matter what posters on here are saying about Bamba's performance, Bamba was elite.  The data backs this up. Bamba's advanced stats were a shade below First Team All-Americans Ayton and Bagley. He had that much of an impact on the team. 

    I'm not sure I'd say there was much lack of mental toughness. The team seemed to respond pretty well to the loss of Jones and the other adversity. At the end of the day, they were being asked to run a horrible offense that doesn't suit them and they lost their best offensive player.  I think the struggles were going to happen regardless of mental toughness.

    In regard to Jones, sure, but they also would play down to competition. That is a focus and mental toughness issue IMO. I put it on the coaches ability to motivate. And for sure the offense is a known issue. Something has to change there. 

  16. Mo Bamba had a great freshman season, but some of you pumping him up now, were the same people blasting him last year. This entire thread is chock full of intellectual dishonesty to meet whatever argument you are trying to make. On both sides. 

     

    Personally, I saw real improvement from the team in the early part of the year. A little adversity hit, and they crumbled. With better coaching, better mental toughness, and offseason improvement, it's possible we could have a better season next year. Despite some drop off in elite talent like Bamba. 

     

    If we don't, we will see if CDC wants to go a different way. I don't see Smart getting fired if we make the tourney though. You fire a coach that makes the tourney and the replacement falters, you get fired yourself. If you really want to get rid of Smart, he needs a 2016 repeat. 

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