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Wulaw Horn

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  1. Should be about it for major moves. we are now 99% baked in on rate cut(s).
  2. This crew has been so fucking terrible this series. Both ways.
  3. Those fuckers hate me so badly they will bring up shithead Gordon whose sell by date was sometime in June.
  4. If he can hit at all I would DH him in the playoffs and PR with Melton for him the second he got on base. Then I would have Urias, Dubon and Caratini pinch hit in the DH spot the rest of the game. It's not like you are going to PH for: Pena, Alvarez, Correa, Yainer, Walker, Altuve, Meyers or Sanchez. So, yeah- rotate them all through the DH spot. Why not?
  5. Dh. Altuve at 2B. Yordan in LF. IF RHP Pena, Alvarez, Paredes, Altuve, Correa, Sanchez, Walker, Diaz, Meyers IF LHP Pena, Paredes, Alvarez, Altuve, Correa, Walker, Diaz, Meyers, Smith. I feel fairly confident that either of those lineups should be really fucking good as there isn't a bad hitter in the bunch and should in actuallity be likely to average 1.5 runs over a playoff series as we get a brook shoved up our ass.
  6. Fight then fuck.
  7. This for sure. If it was an accident you have to at least act like you feel bad about it.
  8. Fuck no. I never wanted Espada. I said there was a reason why that dumb dumb had 4 or 5 interviews and didn't get the job. Did I want Dusty gone? Yes. At basically all costs? Yes. My pod on the day we hired Espada read exactly like Wadlington's Preseason magazine the year we hired Chuckles the clown with best case, worst case, somewhere in the middle b/c I didn't want to come out and immediately shit on it- but if you read between the lines I expected him to suck. All that said- manager typically isn't all that important unless he's actively undermining the team b/c they hate him or if he's playing the wrong players day in day out. Dusty was waaaaaay too guilty of the latter. Neither of them struggle with the former- which is really the greatest problem for most managers. Truthfully, I think it was just 3 Putt posting 874 times not some groundswell of support for Slow Joe Espada.
  9. Again, explain to me what his value add is. You cannot. Your "we are in first bullshit" confuses causation and correlation. He's elite at nothing. He's tolerable at a couple things, he's horrific at most.
  10. YEah- but Alvarez has only been back for a week. During which Caratini and Diaz were hurt. I expect the 9 guys I put in there to be more or less the 4 good, 1 great, 3 average and 1 below average paradigm going forward. Hopefully starting tonight...
  11. If you've listened to any of my pods, or seen any of my blogs or posts you know that I was NEVER really positive on the hire and always sceptical. He's just dumb at the end of the day. Someone who knows the inner workings of the Astros has descirbed him as a dumb dog but loyal so you can't get mad at him when he shits all over the floor. He's open and non-antagnonstic to what Dana wants done (unlike Dusty) and everyone genuinely likes him as a really good human being. He's just dumb as a box of rocks, shitty at communicating and brings problems on himself b/c of that (that he solves b/c who can stay mad at the good natured simpleton giving it his all). Ugh. Fire him yesterday. Find someone that is actually smart, collaborative and isn't a total and complete asshole. That doesn't seem all that hard. Alas. we had it and Manfred made us get rid of it. The only thing that's been right the last 3 skippers have in common is not a major asshole that wears on people in the clubhouse. So, no Terry Collins. Larry Dierker would be fine (pre seizure Dirk). Morgan Ensberg and Jason Lane both still in coaching? I'd give them both a seroius look. Tim Bogar if he's still in the game. I'm picking former Astros I know that were good in teh clubhouse and not morons that have had minor league managing and Major League staff experience. None of them are Stanford grads in counseling or whatever like AJ Hinch, but they are all smart enough and decent people. I also have to believe that with no status in previous managing stops they'd all be ameneable to working hand in hand with the front office.
  12. After sleeping on it, I still hate this team. 1 fucking run. To follow up just gross performances offesnively 4 of tyh last 6 days, and managing to score less than 100 runs in the month of August. What's really irritating is this has been the lineup in the last week (more or less) and we've been basement level shit: Pena- Good offensive player (131 OPS+ this year- 105 for career) Yordan- Great offesnive player (180 ops+ since he came back from hand injury- 163 for his career) Altuve- good offensive player (117 OPS+ this season, Correa- Good offensive player (108 OPS+ as an Astro- Sanchez- Good offesnive player (115 OPS+ agaisnt RHP in career- which is all he's being asked to do as an astro) Walker- at absolute worst average offensive player (94 OPS+ this year, 833 and 829 OPS in the last two months after a shitty start with no spring training and nursing an injury, 111 for career) Yainer- At worst- average offensive player (90 ops+ this year, over 100 after terrible 515 OPS in march/April, 110 for his career) Urias- At worst average offensive player (113 OPS plus as an Astro, 105 OPS+ for his career) Smith/Dubon/Melton- Below average/below average/horrific offensive player (dreck, but its basically one spot in the lineup most night). 4 good, 1 great, 3 average, 1 horrific. That shouldn't be a recipe for averaging 3 fucking runs a game over a 32 game stretch or whatever it is right now. It's so infuriating. I pretty much bit my tongue when this team was going so bad in July when the hot streak wore off and the injuries piled up b/c that team was overmatched and just not very good. But this? This is just unmitigated horseshit. This is not a bad lineup. They are just perfoming like a bunch of chucklefucks who've mailed it in for the season. The starting rotation finally gets their shit together last week and they couldn't score if they were locked in a mexican whore house and kicked the ball around to boot behind Hunter Brown a couple starts ago. Do I blame Framber for that bullshit last night with the grand slam being a mental midget? Sure. A little I guess. But who fucking cares, the second the Yankees hit the 2R HR in the 2nd or 3rd or whenever it was you knew the only way the Astros were scoring 3 would be if the Yankees got up big and grew disinterested in the entire proceedings. The Grand Slam was emotionally and mentally irritating but if you've watched this piece of shit team for the last 5 weeks you knew it didn't matter- this game was already in the fucking can for the Yankees. Fuck, these bastards need to get their heads out of their asses. A 14-9 finishing kick and they win 90 games, the division for sure and probably get a bye into the second round of the playoffs where they will have Meyers back so a healthy starting 9 with no below average hitters, and a lot of pitching- it will all be right there. Instead- I imagine 9-15 is more likely with an 85 game win and maybe make the playoffs and maybe not b/c holy shit, the shit ass Rangers, absent their best hitter and best pitcher are on our asses and probably about to drop kick us right in the pussy over the weekend after we let the Yankees take liberties with us and finish up a 1-5 week which sees us lose the division lead and maybe end up out of the playoff pictrue altogether. Am I doing this rant right?
  13. This is the second most infuriating thing the Astros have done this summer- keeping him down the whole time. The most infuriating is keeping Cam up and pissing away his age 28 season when they could have sent him down for 17 days when he was the worst hitter in baseball.
  14. This means we might score a run or two through indifference.
  15. I fucking hate this team so much. Anyone who had the slightest hope for that inning shouldn’t have. Only way we are scoring 2 runs today is if they score 5 or 6 and get disinterested.
  16. OU also looked like warmed over dog shit. we have retards on here calling 9-3 our ceiling for the year but OU and aggy (realistic ones) have to feel about like chuckles the clowns second season at Texas bad.
  17. Hand fell off. Day to day.
  18. Have you watched that game yet? I thought they looked exactly as a 6-6 to 8-4 team would look. It’s going to be grim there on the defensive end. They aren’t stopping anyone quality. Offensively I don’t see them scoring against good D’s.
  19. Texas 59 (weirdly- Sark does kick FG) SJSU- 10 (they bust one big play early and score on the 3rd team late) prop bet- yards rushing for Texas: 297 enjoy. We only have 12 of these scheduled.
  20. Absolutely. We killed that monster. Same as we ended Nebraska in the 90’s and USC in the oughts. too bad we weren’t good enough in the 10’s to ends anyone’s reign of terror.
  21. You have no conception of how bad those teams are. Are you surprised every day when you wake up to the sun rising in the east?
  22. Sure. Agreed. If we practice good stuff.
  23. Dude. It’s an existential certainty we are going to beat the shit out of these teams. This roster is way too good not to. It will teach us nothing.
  24. Did you watch aggy or OU? Both terrible. They lose somewhere between 5 and 7 games.
  25. The no one looked better than us was in relation to teams that played yesterday. Didn’t watch today. I will be absolutely shocked if Domers offense is dynamic. I don’t doubt they will run for 250 or 300 and boat race aggy which I’m here for. we got pulled into a rock fight on offense by probably one of 3-5 teams in the country that could do that- and even still it was more about us than them. Arch was awful. We’ve never seen him awful before in limited time. The point is there was nothing structurally broken like overwhelmed offensive line, flaws with RB and receivers, etc that should cause concern. the sole point of concern is that out really talented QB was awful. That happens. That’s not a giant red flag for the season.
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