Hank Chinaski

What the fuck is “baw?” Nevermind, I don’t care.

I just want specific examples of all the stuff Texas has done over the years that has egregiously screwed A&M and everyone else. Real, substantiated, specific incidents and examples. It’s a nice, convenient talking point to just repeat “Texas always ruins everything, just wait,” but I really have no idea what we’ve supposedly ruined and how exactly we ruined it. (And yes, the examples should probably include things that A&M didn’t also sign off on.)

That’s fair, though I always kind of feel like the “increased athleticism” idea applies to all players - offense and defense. So it all sort of offsets, right? Point is, it’s tough to compare across eras. Pure passing statistics don’t work because of all that has been mentioned here (different rules, different offensive philosophies, evolution of the game, etc). I just feel like SB wins as a stand-alone metric of how good a QB is doesn’t make that much sense because there are too many variables that determine that (not unlike pitcher wins in baseball).

This. Montana got the absolute shit beat out of him in the ‘80s (all of them did) and every rule change since has benefitted offenses. Not saying it’s a bad thing necessarily, but it’s a different game now.

I think QBs in general are overrated. That’s just how it is, always has been and always will be. We give them credit for Super Bowl wins, which has always been weird to me. (Does Pete Carroll deciding not to punch it in with Marshawn Lynch make Brady a better QB?) I like watching the line play, and KC’s OL was phenomenal tonight. They get the game ball. Mahomes is great, has always reminded me of Elway. I don’t think that if he wins a third Super Bowl that that means he’s necessarily better than Elway - that’s a weird metric to me if we’re talking about how good a player is.

Wow, whoever runs this account is quite the petulant titty-baby. Fat, bitter and childish is no way to go through life, son, and the pretend tough-guy routine doesn’t actually get you anywhere - especially when it reads more like the rantings of a spurned ex-girlfriend. (Not sure if fat, but the quote is the quote.)

What are the highlights, for those of us unwilling to create an account?

(I know the ads are inevitable but goddamnit it will never not bug the shit out of me.)

Probably doesn’t make a shit. I’m sure he/his agent have an idea of what it would take from a years/dollar perspective, regardless of the arb result.

Goddamn, why are they so obsessed with the first meeting being in CS? They know the game will be played every year at alternating campuses, right? The shit from which they derive self-affirmation is bizarre. Also: What “makes sense” to them is that this ongoing, 9-figure negotiation between networks was finally settled only because Texas was desperate to hang onto a few teenaged football recruits, who would have left if they had been made to play an extra season in the B12? That’s what makes sense? The only thing that makes sense? Seriously what planet do these guys live on? That’s a child’s outlook. Christ.

Someone’s not a Gen-X-er…

I wish they’d stay in Oakland, but I can’t see anyone wanting to pay for renovation of that decrepit stadium, and the taxpayers there have made it clear they aren’t paying for a new stadium either. Probably just a matter of time at this point.

Not yet.

I’m actually not opposed to this idea.

Ah, must have been thinking ‘91 then.

Agree on 2019 - we’ll never have a better roster than that. As for 94 - Bagwell broke his hand right before the strike. In a weird twist, the stoppage probably got him the MVP award. Bonds or Gwynn probably wins it if the season kept going.

I’m going to try without looking anything up, tell me how I do. C - Biggio ‘92 1B - Bagwell ‘94 2B - Altuve ‘17 (I think Biggio had some better seasons but we already have him at catcher) 3B - Bregman ‘19 SS - Correa ‘21 LF - Berkman ‘01 CF - Cedeno ‘73 RF - Alou ‘98 DH - Yordan ‘22 P - Richard ‘79 P - Scott ‘86 P - Verlander ‘22 P - Nolan ‘87 P - Clemens ‘04 P - Wagner ‘99

If I were older I’m sure this trade would irk me more than any other; but the Lofton trade makes me ragey every time I think about it. I was a goddamn high school freshman when I read about that trade and I remember thinking it was a bad move at the time. Imagine prime Lofton in CF during the 90s Bagwell/Biggio years. Ugh goddamnit.

Well yeah, but if you’re putting Lofton on an all-time Astros team (based on production he had for other teams) then you should have Randy Johnson on there too. And Joe Morgan.

Holy christ. This kid literally wrote a story about how smart and friendly and successful he is, how the university president and booster millionaire befriended him and gave him a job mingling with celebrities (what the fuck?), and how he’s using his immense skill and charisma to attract football players. For real, how incredibly insecure and childish - not to mention borderline psychotic - do you have to be to put that much time into this shit? Doesn’t he have anything in real life to do? What a pissant.

And there are other epistemic reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories as well in relation to this sort of need for knowledge and certainty. So people with lower levels of education tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories. And we don't argue that's because people are not intelligent. It's simply that they haven't been allowed to have, or haven't been given access to the tools to allow them to differentiate between good sources and bad sources or credible sources and non-credible sources. So they're looking for that knowledge and certainty, but not necessarily looking in the right places. The second set of motives, we would call existential motives. And really they just refer to people's needs to be or to feel safe and secure in the world that they live in. And also to feel that they have some kind of power or autonomy over the things that happen to them as well. So again, when something happens, people don't like to feel powerless. They don't like to feel out of control. And so reaching to conspiracy theories might, I guess, at least allow people to feel that they have information that at least explains why they don't have any control over this situation. Research has shown that people who do feel powerless and disillusioned do tend to gravitate more towards conspiracy theories. The final set of motives we would call social motives and those refer to people's desire to feel good about themselves as individuals and also feel good about themselves in terms of the groups that they belong to. And I guess at the individual level, people like to feel... Well, they like to have high self-esteem. They like to feel good about themselves. And potentially one way of doing that is to feel that you have access to information that other people don't necessarily have. https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories

He was - had 658 PAs. Interestingly, he only played LF last year, though he did also play CF, 2B and 1B in 2021. He seems like a good fit to fill that Marwin/Diaz role, but I really don’t know how well he can play IF positions. I suppose Dubon fills that role, but Profar is a better offensive player. But Dubon is already here. Neither should ever hit 2nd in this lineup, but if one did, it should be Profar.