Jump to content

Wulaw Horn

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    20066
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

Everything posted by Wulaw Horn

  1. Why? Do neither of them have aspirations of being good next year? He made sense at Duke. I don’t see a program with playoff aspirations making sense pursuing him.
  2. I doubt it. They should though. Framber too.
  3. The point is you are just rearranging your cap and eating all that money in 4 years when Alvarez and all the other guys are gone. You are committed to a rebuild then.
  4. Acuna. Jrod, the pedo Tampa guy etc. the key is the part where you have to offer that after the first or second year. The Astros don’t that’s why they can’t get them extended. I don’t think Alex gets more than 220 total he doesn’t care how many years (probably). the minor leaguers all have surplus. Allie so it’s a matter of- we will trade you 25m now if you take the Abreu contract off our hands. If they have cap room and wa t to accumulate talent it’s workable. It’s like selling a draft pick. Can you 100% do everyone of those? Maybe not, but conceptually it works.
  5. So, yeah- they need to quit being dickheads if they get star young players and extend them for like 9 years 100M after year 1 if you want to keep these guys through their prime. Unfortunately, they always wait too long and then it's just not going to happen. The only guy on the roster that it makes sense to make a big offer to is Yainer Diaz- you could be like 10 for 100M right now dude- I dare you to turn down life changing money. You have to think the player isn't going to just become a fat lazy slob- but that's the only way to do a moderately valuable (to the team) extension and it involves not massively fucking them over up front. And- that only works for a guy in his mid 20's with 1 year of service time (Pena would have been another guy that might be open to a deal like that) the Correa types that are super young we see what happened in Seattle to get that kind of deal done. My timeframe has always been- end of Alvarez contract. Load up and do whatever you do to be good through the time you have an MVP like that, along with cheap young pitching and a star catcher making not much money and go for 1 or 2 more rings in that 4 years. If that means giving a 6 year deal to a guy who will only be good for 3 or 4 more years, or a 10 year deal to a guy who will be great for 5 or 6 more years and then eating money and trading players away so be it. You can strip the payroll back down to 30M, eat shit on the back end of dead money to the tune of 100 or 200M over the lives of those deals and go back into tank mode for 2 or 3 years. So- this year I would do something like: Tucker- 10- 300m, Bregman- 10- 220M, Valdez- 8-200, Walker- 4-80M. Trade Presley. Trade Abreu (Jose) and Matthews to someone. Trade Montero and Shithead CF minor leaguer that's our #1 prospect that sort of sucks and LMJ and whatever other prospects that are worth 20M in surplus value. Payroll Catcher- 8M, 1B- 20M 2B- 25M SS- 1M 3B- 22M DH- 17M OF- 40M Utility- 5M SP- 40M BP- 35M That's a 220M payroll, no dead money, and your prospects out the door of what- maybe 3 of your top 5 prospects? Then- the plan would be at the end of 4 years I'd have Bregman at 6/130M left, Valdez at 5/125 left and tucker at 7/210 left. Figure I'd have to eat 150M to offload those 3 guys and my books would be sparkling clean to do another rebuild beyond that. That's how I'd long term fix it if I wanted to compete at a fucking boss level through the end of Yordan's contract. Either that- or I'd trade Framber, Tucker, Pena, Caratini, Abreu (Bryan) for prospects, play Chas and Jake every day at CF and LF and hope I could move them at the deadline this year, play Whitcomb and Dezenzo every day and hope they get better, figure I've wasted a year of Yordans prime, audition every arm I have in the minor leagues, see what I've got, and see which of the minor league guys are keepers, which of the propsects I got in the Framber, Tucker, Pena, et al trades are keepers, and go spend as much money as I needed to in FA to plug holes that weren't filled by prospects for 26, 27 & 28 before Yordan, Diaz, Brown etc are all gone. One or the other. We won't though and those 4 years won't see us with a legit 100 win type team. So, we are hoping for chip and a chair (which to be fair- does occasionally work).
  6. Trade tucker, Framber and Presley to BMore for Mayo and whoever else you can get. Sign Walker. Sign a LHH OF to platoon. Hope Matthews is good. Call it a day.
  7. Close huh? Every win other than Vandy was double digits, which was actually 17 points under 2 minutes until a pick 6 got called back and they scored a meaningless TD
  8. Oklahoma might take a long ass time to ever dig out- if they are ever able to scrape together money to win in the nil world. They could be wrecked with this and SEC added competition. Hate to see it.
  9. Just realized I think there is a very good chance that the 4 teams given a bye all lose in the Quarters. Boise and ASU will be pretty large dogs. With Beck out I would bet Domers will be favored over GA in the Domers beat Indiana. Oregon and Ohio State played a 1 point game in Eugene. That game is a coin flip. You'd expect the bye teams to go 1-3 but 0-4 is a real possibility.
  10. Saban loves Sark. He's not helping Dabo dude.
  11. Yeah- I went too simplistic. It's interesting to me that we were so close to Oregon even having to play an additional game to them. I think you are right- it might matter if they play OSU v TN (and similarly GA might matter if they play Domers v Indiana. The other games won't have much of an affect one way or another b/c the 3 and 4 seeds will be favored to lose. If seeds hold it's probably Texas slightly favored to win it all after round 1. If TN beats OSU then Oregon is probably the favorite.
  12. So based upon what I gleaned from the odds to win on Saturday and overall odds to win- if we beat Clemson making it to the final 8 we should have ever so slightly better odds of winning it all than Oregon, right?
  13. At the rate they should have on that it ought to, if not cash flow, at least not lose money. Absolutely sit on that shit. 320 to 190. 6’1 and change.
  14. That’s a very low fucking bar.
  15. If Taffe comes back we could probably make do without one of any of the young guys are ready, but if Taafe doesn’t come back we need a starter quality stud would be my thought. Either way we probably, like LB, need 1 for depth if nothing else.
  16. Texas over Clemson Ohio state over TN PSU over SMU Domers over Indiana Texas over ASU OSU over Oregon PSU over Boise Domers over Georgia Texas over Buckeyes Domers over PSU Texas over Domers. So let it be written so let it be done.
  17. We need the best DT and best WR on the market. We need stud punter and kicker. Everything else is just depth, right? That seems doable. it’s so refreshing to see our rivals more or less fucked.
  18. We didn’t win the sec in our first year. The zebras didn’t want us to. Burt Auburn didn’t want us to. We had about 10 things go against us- any of which went down differently, and we’d have hoisted the trophy. We didn’t do that (or have the ball bounce our way, or the whistles in some situations) but we got rewarded for a a good season with the coveted 5 seed. clemson at home, Arizona state in Atlanta and then Oregon, TN or Ohio State in Dallas for the shot to play for it all in the first time under this 12 team format. Texas is as good as anyone in college football this year. Our floor is really high because the defense is pretty great. I think our ceiling is high enough to win it all against who we are looking at playing. Lets freaking do this boys.
  19. Helo is dumber, by far. Linux might be more irritating, obtuse etc, but in terms of sheer dumb it’s not close.
  20. Arch has played 2 games. He could go out and completely shit the bed. And there’s a really good chance that he might not be very steady over 4 games against good and high level opponents. Like I said maybe yes and maybe no. I don’t think you can say with certainty.
  21. You have no idea that is true. You think it is. It might be. But it’s far from a certainty.
×
×
  • Create New...