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LCHorn

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  1. I’m with Wulaw, I think Click is, or has been instructed to, save money even at the expense of cutting past the fat into muscle. If we’re going to have Verlander, Greinke, and Correa coming off the books but still are wanting to contend (which we kind of have to be paying Altuve and Bregman big money) then I’d like to know where the surplus money is going. Corey Seager? I don’t know all the pending free agents but CF and potentially SS aren’t obvious candidates to upgrade by much over what we fielded in 2019.
  2. Kevin Goldstein said in his chat yesterday and it’s doubtful the Astros extend (not sure if that’s management/player/both). I do think the current GM has a very different value on Correa-perhaps he prefers Lindor and would rather pay him.
  3. I was thinking about this in light of the Freakonomics podcast on advertising--I would think terrestrial radio would be a relatively safe place to put your ad dollars (haven't looked this up but I presume that the market penetration of satellite remains modest); if this is the case, I don't follow how Austin (which has experienced exponential growth over the past 20 years) and formerly was a reliable incubator for media talent has such terrible radio options. The fact that Todd and Don and Mark and Melynda and their vacuous understanding of the world are paid to promote their brand of anti-intellectualism is the kind of thing I'd expect in a Beaumont type media market, not Austin. Maybe they have data suggesting that their listeners are all living in Bastrop? It's also odd that KLBJ and a Christian talk radio station occupy prime spaces in the middle of the dial rather than on the fringes or AM radio. It must just cost nothing to buy a radio station these days.
  4. Just got Moderna #1 at the Austin VA. They are taking walk ins, all ages if you want to get it knocked out before next week (must be a vet in their system, obviously).
  5. If Ashton Cozart doesn’t drive an 80’s Camaro then something is wrong with this world.
  6. Last time I had it in Llano it was inedible. And I grew up in a small town where inedible was the norm so I consider myself an expert on shitty bbq.
  7. I don’t think it’s a low EQ-what you’re seeing is what a human looks like once their soul has been removed.
  8. I’d rather hang with the homeless than Mackowiak.
  9. Rich enough that he could get someone else to finance the purchase of a two screen theater. Using other people’s money=much better than your money.
  10. Como? Gordon's contract has negative surplus value if you need me to clarify where my sympathies may lie. I didn't understand that extension at the time and it looks worse in hindsight.
  11. They knew he’d decline it, for one. Oladipo can re-sign with the Rockets for 4 years during the exclusive portion of free agency and 5 years during the open portion. He’s coming off a career-changing injury and presumably wants something long term (plus this may be his one chance to cash-in unless he wants to resign on a one year deal and try again next year). He’s also a very movable chip on a two year deal; with a four year deal he’s more movable than Gordon but not by much.
  12. This is just my opinion rather than what I've been told (what I posted earlier is from an impeccable non $9.95 source), but I'd imagine Sarkisian is at least somewhat grateful that EOT blew up under Herman and not him. Probably Mack is the only coach in modern Texas history that could have managed it as it placed the head coach either on the side of his players or the alumni/donors. I'm not sure it's a failure of leadership--Herman knew he had to win and whether (in his heart) he shared the players position or not, he needed to not have the EOT divide the locker room. CDC will tell you that the players were the only group somewhat arguing to retain Herman (though they could see the writing on the wall with the team's performance, particularly when they are seeing their high school rivals get more attention at OU and A&M in 2020).
  13. Not to belabor this (I've written this in a previous post and it'll echo what we presume to be true and common sense) but Herman was fired for multiple reasons and how he handled the EOT among them. It's in the basket with how donors and some parents felt they were treated, the fact that the high school coaches hated him, multiple occasions of drinking to excess during or before university activities, including while on recruiting visits. Literally the only stakeholders resistant to a change were blushing at the buyout cost and the volatility of another coaching switch and not because they held faith that Herman would turn it around. It's something of a credit to the decision makers that they didn't wait until the wheels REALLY fell off or based a decision on the bowl game to make the change. I still like Herman's embrace of data and Sarkisian will have a much easier road to success as a result of Herman's tenure (at least in terms of updating operations in the football admin to more resemble the Ohio State/Alabama professionalized approach, PWO program, analyst bullpen for fired coaches, etc.). Sterns is likely to join the list of players who will be very public about their negative experience on campus rather than all of the positives available to a football player. Hopefully over time the attention paid to him is dwarfed by more positive stories and on the field success.
  14. That’s what I was going to say-not a real person.
  15. I wouldn’t presume to have more than hearsay info to contribute on lifestyles/work load at each (though my wife started her career at Deloitte), but as a mortgage lender I’m fairly informed on the compensation I see from employees of each. With AWS folks I see a lot of signing bonuses, and obviously RSU’s are a big part of the total compensation packages. Deloitte appears to have two tracks for staff-the up and out folks on the partner track and a lot of other folks that are at low six figure mark with more security but less upside (lot of Indians with engineering degrees among them) and that they are probably responsible for a considerable amount of the heavy lifting (I’d guess a portion of these are the subs, too).
  16. At risk of being a pedant, Richard never retook Jerusalem. He spent several years reinforcing the fortresses on the route to the At risk of being a pedant, Richard never retook Jerusalem, spending most of his time reinforcing the fortresses between the city and the coast and Jaffa (hence the need for the 4th Crusade). Personally I blame Orlando Bloom. Eva Green there for the taking and all he had to do was kill Guy.
  17. Ignoring the crime part and it's historical aversion to letting outsiders join the elites, one element holding New Orleans back is that the tourist money has made a lot of the cooler neighborhoods expensive to buy into.
  18. I'm not a Top Chef fan but the chef's tasting menu at Le Pigeon was probably my favorite meal of 2019.
  19. I'm kind of curious whether we see some tech spillover into San Antonio. A lot of the California tech veterans that are moving to Austin for cheaper real estate have had a rude awakening in 2021. Outside of Texas I agree with those suggesting university towns in Colorado.
  20. Bill, Bozo, or whoever-can you recommend where to go if you’re willing to pay secondary market prices? I’m on the Facebook Austin Bourbon traders group and those guys will talk about making five or six stops into different liquor stores every weekend. I’m never going to have time for that.
  21. Why buy in Austin at all? What’s the goal with the money? Nothing cash-flows here. I’d don’t tell this to investors that are realtor referrals but I favor San Antonio for someone that wants to buy in Texas or take that same money and invest in a builder. I’d also be looking for the next Fredericksburg. Price per square foot there has doubled in the last 10 years. Maybe that’s something Roundtop adjacent or Port A or Lockhart.
  22. Above 3.5 for whom? I’ve been locking most of mine in the 3.00%-3.125% range. I have noticed that Chase has really starting charging more (or maybe we’re on their shitlist). They were my best priced option most of the summer with under 3.00% Jumbo pricing.
  23. I’m told that Michelle likes to overdo it and they are both kind of bad mix when alcohol is involved. Supposedly he’s been sober since June. It was definitely an issue with players parents and one reason why the recruiting fell off a cliff so quickly. You just can’t sell “I’m going to teach your boy to be a man,” when you show up to a recruit’s house obviously drunk.
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