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  1. Just checked in and saw the score.  This unfortunately isn’t fair but sports is a performance business and running out this rotation is fireable, particularly when you could have signed Snell or Montgomery and all it cost was money.  

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  2. 2 hours ago, Lonestar88 said:

     

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s Wheeler.

    Of note: Jinkens is currently the LB coach at Skyline high, I’m sure he helped a bit in this recruitment.

    It sounds like what you’re saying is that he’s been coached to commit at least one penalty per game, either offsides, unnecessary roughness, horse collar tackle, etc.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Holy shit the Harden trade was an absolute fleecing. The Rockets own the Nets 1st or swap in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027.

    Harden played a grand total of 80 games for the Nets over two half-seasons. The Nets then traded him for 57 total games of Ben Simmons, his bad back, and atrocious contract which somehow still has one more year and $40 million on it. The Nets also got a FRP that they traded for Royce O'Neil and another 1-8 protected pick from the 76ers. Absolutely brutal.

    I don’t know if we got lucky there but it did mitigate some of the remarkable damage from the Westbrook trade.  That might go down in the annals of Rocket lore as the worst trade ever and we still haven’t fully realized the punishment.  

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

    I’ve had issues with Rome just kind of unnecessarily being a dick when things are going good, but when it’s deserved, he can bring the ruckus to that ass pretty, pretty, pretty good.  

    I like him, I think he asks obvious questions and it's around performance. 

    It's not Jose de Jesus Ortiz (want some manufactured drama?), McTaggart (I can only hint around stuff because I might piss off the team) or Richard Justice (you guys like Rick Reilly, right?  How about a local version?), so maybe my standards are low. 

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  5. 13 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Person calls me Tuesday late asking to be pre approved fast as dream house has multiple offers. Etc. I drop everything and get it done within an hour. They got the house. CPI hits. Now they say rates are too high and went shopping and found an online lender willing to give them an 1/8 better. The aristocrats.
     

    I don't want purport that I'm some master salesmen but I've had a lot of training and trained up a team of my own and I'd like to think they were pretty good at executing my vision. 

    A sales coach will rebut that pricing with "sell them service".  I have tried all kinds of different scripting and I bet it works about 10% of the time, and we have basically built our entire business on supporting a service model over pricing.  I've even table-set by saying "this should be very competitive pricing but if you find something better let's chat on it.", in the hopes of getting a chance to match.  I'm sure you did that, too, because the borrower told you about it and didn't ghost you. 

    CSB: I lost a deal two years ago that still stings--jumbo, I connected well with the borrower, he's a new dad (same as me at the time), sent him a Berenstein bears book after our initial phone call, etc.  He's talking to me and the highest production team in Austin (his agent referred both of us) and I loved competing against them because I respected them (they didn't make promises they couldn't keep). 

    Anyway, our pricing is very similar and they cut him a deal that I could match but their LO got their first, and he gave them a verbal commitment.  I didn't have any more margin left to give up and couldn't do much but sell him on service after that loan closed, which didn't work work (probably doesn't help that by that point I usually feel like I'm begging). 

    Fast forward a few months and our bank is appearing insolvent, my partner and I are looking for a place to land and we've got two options under consideration--a bank that's been purchased by some of our former peers and promises no LLPA's, at least on investment properties (which at the time, a lot of our investors were California engineers, southeast Asian or Asian, and ruthless shoppers, so it's be cheapest or lose the business) and the Austin IMB that we lost that jumbo deal to. 

    We're interviewing/being interviewed by the bank president/owner and I brought up that loan (which was originated by his most accomplished LO on his team) and he said "Yup, I'll tell you a secret about her--she's very transactional.", i.e., she understood that bottom-line, if you find yourself competing on price don't fuck around, get to the LOWEST you can stomach right off the bat.  Win it or lose it and move on.  I can get way too precious about trying to maximize profit and it's a bad strategy in that particular contest. 

    Back to you, I'm sure doing this already but don't forget to sell him the refinance, but you're going to have to match the rate and maybe beat it. 

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  6. I know Chandler Rome isn’t one to hold his fire but his Athletic article this morning was SCATHING.

    One of the idiot commenters brought up signing Greinke and that’s not the worst idea I’ve seen-at this point, a starter who only gives up a run per inning is an improvement.  

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  7. 3 hours ago, campcrunk said:

    Not thrilled about Cojoe, Red, Kirkland, & maybe Jordan leaving

    I know this is all conjecture but I don’t want to lose lineman, particularly those that are more obviously projects.  I can’t imagine a Cojoe or Kirkland saw the recruiting class ahead of them and thought “maybe I can play as a freshman or sophomore ” so any departure on their part is (hopefully) program driven.

  8. 15 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    If a hugely consequential and incredibly surgical land use reform package while also unfucking the CMs office and three public safety agencies and getting multiple city enterprises back on the rails while also operating in a weak-mayor system doesn’t move the needle for you, I don’t know what to tell you. You don’t have to agree with what he’s done, but he’s done a LOT. 

     

     

    This--I'll add for the rest of you low-information council watchers, note how much less you've heard from everyone else over the past year, including Fitlump.  One of the best uses of the mayor's office is to use the additional prestige and resources of the position to herd the cats in a single direction. 

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Once this window closes for good, it’ll be another decade at best until we are good enough again to contend for a title (if we’re lucky to have a guy who knows what he is going unlike Dana).

    I wonder if Dana might be better for a rebuilding team.  I think I’m stealing this from @Wulaw Horn but maybe he’s not a war-time consigliere.

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  10. 16 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

    As much as it pains me to say, that pompous ass Keith Law actually was one of the few, if not only, writer who panned the signing at the time. Said his bat speed had shown signs of slowing down, and that trend likely wouldn't reverse.

    He’s a 37 year old ball player and that’s in Cubano years-I don’t think expecting bat speed declines is indicative of any particular insight.  
     

    The problem is the aging curve hasn’t been a curve, it’s been a cliff.  We would be fine with Joey Vitro’s age 36-37 seasons (cherry picking here because Votto was terrible at 38).  
     

    As far as overall run production, I have suspicion we’re going to look back at last year and this year’s team and see positives in run scoring but I feel the lineup construction lacks the ability to generate runs easily that maybe a more contact oriented team could produce.  We seem to be very feast or famine.  

  11. 16 minutes ago, uoftorange said:

    Some of y'all simply don't deserve this team.  Every time I see Astros fans get dragged for being little bitches I get pissed, then read this thread and realize our fans fucking suck. 

    1.  This is my own fault, but I’ve been reading the comments in The Athletic and you just described every teams’ fans.  
     

    2.  I also think Houston fans, in general, have some entitlement to generational trauma from 30 years of getting SO close but not winning a championship until the Rockets in 94.  The Oilers, in particular, are mostly to blame but also fuck the Mets, fuck Kevin Brown, fuck cocaine and the Celtics (frankly fuck Boston), etc.

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  12. 10 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    Is he immortal? He spent time in Damascus before the troubles. When was that? 1,000 years ago? His sister’s name is spelled Djen according to the subtitles. That’s an Arabic name. Being immortal would give him time to learn the 4 or more languages he’s fluent in.

    That's a really good catch--I like that idea better than it's a computer simulation. 

  13. 10 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    There’s a lot of people w expertise in this thread and I’ve learned a lot. From my untrained perspective, it seems the most high-end properties are relatively unaffected by the downturn in sales prices. All the reductions are really hitting the mid-level inventory. Can someone corroborate this or tell me if this is wrong?

    What’s high end?  I definitely think the $1m-$1.5m market in Austin is struggling.  It’s better at $2m plus because they are more rare immune. 
     

    Most of the mid-level inventory I see in Austin is moving as long as the seller isn’t greedy.  

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  14. 1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Yeah I could see that, but they may be waiting until after he can't earn a full year of service for being on the roster the rest of the season to maintain control.  He's also the next man up for any injuries to other players, so it wouldn't hurt to have 1 more guy to slot in the first base rotation.

    Belt's from Lufkin, which isn't too far from Houston, he went to UT for college, and his birthday is tomorrow (36). I could see him signing a deal for cheap to come play in Houston and have a solid role in our lineup playing about 2/3 of the games. He did make 9.3m with the Blue Jays last season, so maybe 3m is a bit of a low ball for him, but could 5m get it done? Just don't give him a 3 year deal and we should be OK. 

    Loperfido is 25 already--I don't think there are any service time manipulation considerations.  He's not on the Kyle Tucker career path. 

    I think it's more likely they see that last year he had his first taste of AAA but only played 32 games there and had contact issues.  He's pretty clearly trying to lift the ball more (as a senior sign they likely re-worked his swing) and he's really only had two years in the minors.  Getting a few more games in at AAA gives him more time to face pitching he couldn't hit last year, more time to evaluate whether Abreu is fully cooked or just mostly cooked, etc. 

    If they do sign Belt it probably correlates with their evaluation of Loperfido's readiness. 

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  15. 8 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Go get Brandon Belt for like 1 year 3m or whatever.  He was good in 100 games for the Blue Jays last year and he's a lefty.  A very cheap solution to platoon 1b for the time being. DFA Singleton to make room, and just hope Abreu can figure things out with some rest. No way do they cut him at 19m a year unless his arm falls off. 

    My prediction is they want to get Loperfido 25 games or so in AAA and then make a decision.  There’s a pretty good chance he’s better than Belt going forward and has more defensive versatility.  

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  16. 57 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    How the hell does OU recruit well almost every year? It’s a shithole city, shithole state, their coach is suspect, they can’t have that much NIL money, the school itself is unimpressive, the area is full of racist lugheads, there are more Karen’s per capita than just about anywhere else, the pro sports in the area are weak, it’s boring.

    I’ll tell you one other thing they still do-they remind (or don’t have to) the families of African Americans players that they integrated before UT* and African American cultural groups occupy a key part of campus life in way they just don’t at UT.  I don’t think it’s even based on number of students, but it’s a factor for AA families from north Texas.  
     

    *I actually think they officially desegregated around the same time but UT didn’t make much effort to make AA feel welcome and it might just be a historical accident they found a home at OU and they had kind of a first to market advantage.  All of this is far less surprising, to me, than anyone from that community looking at A&M and thinking “this place feels welcoming.”

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  17. On 4/8/2024 at 11:05 PM, Brian Fantana said:

    Would recommend. Maybe the best IMAX experience I've ever had.

    I think mine was Avatar in 3D but this one is pretty great.  
     

    Pretty much the only film I’ve ever seen at the Bullock IMAX and hated was Rise of Skywalker.  

  18. 7 minutes ago, RollingPresidential said:

    Max Merril will still be on the roster during the next solar eclipse.

    Um, Max, we’re gonna need to go ahead and move your locker downstairs and into Gregory.  We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get.  So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

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