Hank Chinaski

This is also the fan base that has witnessed Les Miles and Ed fucking O win national titles, yet they harp on and on about how Sark clearly isn’t a good enough coach to get it done.

The only problem I foresee is that Javier appears to not be good anymore.

I don’t get it…won what?

Yeah but Dusty gives guys a day off once they’re ready to go, regardless of circumstance or context, apparently. So this was better.

Come on, DD. We’re talking about a guy who likes to give guys a day off once they’re fully ready to go. Who has said that Maldy and Diaz have performed about the same at the plate. Who has started Bligh Madris at DH multiple times. Who spent half the season allocating equivalent playing time between Julks and Chas. Who believes that Dubon is a good guy to hit at the top of the order. Your answer is no.

The pitching staff kept the record afloat through the first four months of the season. It was performing at an unsustainable level. Regression has arrived, as it almost always does.

Good thinking, Dusty. It’s important to remain rigid with your made-up, bullshit managing conventions, under any circumstance, despite no evidence that it helps anything whatsoever. Let’s keep minimizing our chances of winning the game.

Man, I wish.

While I haven’t been optimistic about the 2023 Astros since roughly last December, I’m not sure how much Brown has contributed to the problem. The off-season roster management was a disaster, but Brown wasn’t around for most of that. Dusty’s indefensible lineup decisions and insistence on consistently playing his worst players are big problems. The team simply enters too many games without giving itself the best chance to win. Over an entire season that matters, whether those game are in April or June or September. I can’t understand why it is allowed to continue, and if Brown is cool with it, then yeah, it’s on him too. I did not like the Graveman trade (because I think Lee should have gotten you a better pitcher), though many here disagree and that’s fine. It wasn’t the worst trade ever or anything. The JV trade was fine, I think. The primary problems with this team are Dusty Baker’s managing and Crane’s ineptitude while playing GM over the winter. I don’t blame Brown for failing to correct all of those things. If this coming offseason is another shitshow, if Maldy and/or Dusty is back, if it continues to be OK to play fucking horrible players every day over good players, then either Brown is an utter dipshit or he’s powerless and Crane has gone full Jerry Jones.

Here’s a fun fact: Jose Abreu 2023 wRC+: 75 Jon Singleton career wRC+: 76

Most hated - Eddie Taubensee. Because his name is only meaningful in a very painful way.

I wish that number was 1 instead of 2.

Of course, but the gif was 100% about Altuve.

I’d still try to extend Bregman, assuming he’d sign a reasonable deal. He’s almost certainly never going to have another season like ‘18 or ‘19. You also won’t have to pay him like that. He’s probably mostly like what he’s done this season, which may feel disappointing, but he’s going to finish up at around 3.5 WAR and he’s probably a 3-4 win player for each of the next several seasons, 10-20% better than league average offensively. Who would you rather have at 3B? There probably isn’t a solution in the farm system by 2025, so you’re looking at signing a FA anyway, or acquiring someone via a trade, which generally means losing controllable assets; more often than not I’d rather they just spend money.

It’s cool that the pitchers love throwing to Maldy and all, but throwing to him results in worse performance and more losses. So…I don’t know, maybe prioritize winning over pitchers’ superstitions or incorrect perceptions or whatever? Call me crazy.

Haha, always winning the games that were never played. Woulda/coulda/shoulda

And we’re not running out our best lineup. Weird.

I wanted to give you a laughing emoji but that actually wouldn’t surprise me, and I don’t find that funny.