Everything posted by PGFrog
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Asking out of curiosity, is 572+ innings pitched in the minors a larger than normal amount?
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Formula 1 2025
Anyone surprised Yuki didn't turn into Pitt and then keep driving as if he simply ran over a ground hog?
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
Does anyone really believe Durant is that single missing piece for the Rockets and with him they are playing in the Finals? If so, make the move, but I just see a team that needs a bit more and most likely still 2-3 years away based upon where some of their supposedly key players are at this time. Thing is, same with the Spurs so why make the trade if you are either of them?
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
People put WAY too much value into the PFF grades and the use a great deal of conjecture when determining those grades.
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GJ Kinne: The next great offensive mind of CFB?
Define "winning big". Gary's first year as HC at TCU was in 2001, his 2002 team won 10 games, a conference title, and finished in the top 25 for the first time in roughly two decades. 2005 they won 11 games, beat #5 OU in Norman, and finished in the top 10. 2008-10 they won 10 or more each year, won the conference three years in a row, won the Rose Bowl, and finished in the top 10 all three years with a high of #4 in 2010. Somewhere between 2001 and 2010 there was an extension as Gary was considering other jobs, but again what do you consider winning big. One other point that I think gets lost with Gary and why he stayed a TCU so long is that he coached at TCU through 4 conferences (3 as a head coach) so while he was at the same school the challenges to his program did change as the the competition increased with each new conference. I think that is important because coaches don't simply jump for money, it helps, especially if they throw stupid money at you like ATM and Jimbo, but I do think some of these guys in the words of Reese Bobby, start to get a bit itchy when things are just a bit too perfect.
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Formula 1 2025
Actually, he could have driven like a person with a fucking clue and not tried to pass on the grass, but understand your point.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Really not a rare skill on this squad.
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Realignment talk not going away
Hell no, I hear tooooo many TCU grey hairs longing for the good ole' days of the SWC and unless we are going all the way back to Dutch and 50's fuck no. As far as the group above, Texas has already been there and left it so why go back?
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Realignment talk not going away
Boise sucks. Been there, won there, no need to go back to that shit hole.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
THat is obviously the abridged version.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
So did John McLain, but that raspy voice still pops up on the Houston airways from time to time.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
Fall camps will be here soon enough. I really do think with the increased usage of the transfer portal and the level of work they do with the incoming players over the summer you really don't get a truly clear picture until you are a couple weeks out from the season. Granted, there are a ton of magazines, websites, people on social media churning out content about their projections for the season based upon their own "unique analysis or algorithm" will scratch the itch for some, but even the most insider reports on how those freshmen receivers are looking in 7 on 7 and work outs really won't mean much until they put on pads and start show they can handle the physicality of the db's, read coverages, etc...
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Rick and Morty
I thought this has started out to be a solid season, first three were very good, but more Jerry has never been a good thing to me and this episode fell flat. Really wasn't sure what they were going for at the end when they wrapped up all the holidays and why include Summer at all in the episode. Hopefully, they get back on track next week.
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Formula 1 2025
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c3v5v7vn0qpo Norris said: "Our rule number one is to not make contact with your team-mate and it's what I did. McLaren is my family. I race for them, you know, every single weekend. I try and do well for them, more than I often try and do well for myself.
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Formula 1 2025
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cp3q3g1wd19o But the seven-time world champion, a vegan and well-known animal lover, was more concerned with the "horrible" death of the groundhog. "It was feeling pretty decent up until then. And then, I didn't see it happen, but obviously I heard I hit a groundhog," said Hamilton. "So that's devastating. I love animals, and I'm so sad about it. That's horrible. That's never happened to me here before. "It's never nice to see that - I just hope it didn't suffer."
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I think I read that is around $200M this year. Curious what it costs to run a mlb outside of player salaries.
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2024 Houston Texans Season Thread
No doubt shorter, but ugly as hell. My preference, but understand why a player would live on that side of Houston.
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Realignment talk not going away
I agree with much of what you are saying, but I don't think in the end the driver of all these decisions will be the conferences. If you are the networks, why pay for schools that don't bring market shares when you know that the big schools have already shown a willingness to jump for the money. I understand that the SEC and Big 10 will say they are subject to the same rules and temptations as what caused other schools to jump, but my response is simply not yet. Said it before on this board, but I don't see the networks willing to pay for 60 schools for example when they can get consolidate down and in the end they are the ones who are going to drive these changes yet again and not the schools.
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Realignment talk not going away
Looking at that, is that a better basketball conference than the current conference for Gonzaga? They have lost ground to St. Mary's and a few of the other schools don't have football programs which means in theory they can throw assets at basketball and other sports. The other big issue on Gonzaga is the sustainability of Gonzaga as a national brand. Few is 63, their international and US recruiting has fallen off since Lloyd left for Az, and they have been hit and miss in the transfer market. They are getting very close to being a basketball version of Boise and not a west coast version of Villanova.
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Realignment talk not going away
I don't understand how "restocking" the PAC does anything in regards to stabilizing the conference going forward and I don't see how the Big XII or the ACC adding new teams does anything for either conference. The argument that adding teams is adding markets really doesn't mean much when you already have a clusterfuck situation with your schedule and the networks don't want to pay you as much as the Big 10 and the SEC. Seriously, if the Big XII adds Memphis will that suddenly make them appealing enough to ESPN and/or Fox that the networks want to pay them the same? Will all of a sudden the Big XII be viewed on the same competitive level as the Big 10 and the SEC and the discussion now be how the Big XII deserves as many guaranteed slots as the SEC and the Big 10? Of course not and there is no reason to add any more teams. What needs to happen is fix the damn scheduling mess inside conference play that came from all the uncontrolled and impulsive growth and the schools in the conference needs to step the fuck up and raise their level of play. I truly believe that ultimately we will see consolidation and culling of teams instead of adding more and more teams. The networks have already shown their down have the appetite for more and more teams, ESPN has shown they would rather broadcast axe throwing, dodge ball, and kick ball on their "free network" and broadcast more and more college sports via they pay app. The only real questions to me are what form does the new group take, who ultimately acts as the head of this new group, and who gets culled out in the process.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
If the A's don't break ground on the new stadium in Las Vegas until the end of the month what are the chances they are in the new stadium by the end of the 2028 season? Their home attendance so far this year is less than 10K a game (down from over 11K last year) and I can't imagine their regional tv viewership has surged with the announcement they will eventually leave the area. How in the world are they even affording to operate? As a young kid growing up outside of Dallas I remember going to games with our Dad and watching the Rangers get pummeled by those great A's teams of the early 70's. Damn they had some talent on those teams.
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Formula 1 2025
I look at this picture and it so perfectly sums up that Lando is not only unaware of his physical situation on a track, but he was completely unaware of the situation involving the standings in the driver's race other than he is behind Oscar. As goofyboy pointed out, Oscar has shown so much more patience than Lando on the track and in race situations as they impact the standings. If Lando doesn't try to make the above pass he most likely finishes 4th which is 10 points for him. If Lando does make the pass that nets he 2 extra points with a chance he does catch Kimi. At the most the move nets him 5 points if he does execute two clean passes. I know the argument about how important 1 point can be in the driver's race, but there is no math that works out where the risk of that outside pass where half your car is on the grass is acceptable when you consider what is to be gained for you and your team and the potential that McLaren could have lost both drivers because of an incredibly stupid and immature decision.
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Angel Reese: Fair pay, anti-sexualization, side eyes, and Missed Buckets
With an impressive 2 of 9 from the field. How the hell does a team's starters shoot 13 of 38 from the field and win by 12?
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Greatest character introduction ever in a Movie or TV?
So, so badly want this movie to happen. Now that Tom is done stunts that can only be filmed in about 4 places in the world we need this movie.
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Formula 1 2025
Eating brunch in a restaurant watching the race and the looks of all the Ferrari supporters whenever we would get yet another episode of F1's version of "Charles in Charge" was priceless. Love the unintentional comedy between Charles and his engineer. Lando is a fucking moron and doesn't not have the temperament to win a title. He has talent, he wants to be good, and then he gets nervous and shits himself again and again and again. Finally, where can I can get a t-shirt that reads" We aren't testing, we are racing." That is a mantra to live by from Fernando.