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  1. Hank Chinaski
    Ha, I was all in until they informed me about the 24 blood draws in 4 days or whatever the fuck. I then turned my attention to trying to sell my semen.
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    Altuve Alvarez Bregman Tucker Abreu Brantley Pena Chas Maldy
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    Wait…once in the SEC, Arch is going to get “clobbered” by his own name? His overrated name? This isn’t good.
  4. Hank Chinaski
    Man, I like some aspects of vaginas, to be sure, but “totally” awesome? Not sold my man. Nothings perfect.
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    lol at the echoing of “thanks for throwing the sips a lifeboat, Sankey!” Like we didn’t always have our pick of whatever conference we’d like to be in, and it’s cute that they act like they don’t fucking know that. Suggesting that the SEC is doing Texas a solid here is some impressive, next-level intellectual dishonesty, even for them.
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    I’ve been to: Retired parks: Dome, old Arlington Stadium, Ballpark at Arlington Current: MMP, Dodger, Petco, Anaheim, Seattle, Coors, Wrigley, White Sox, PNC, Minnesota My favs are Wrigley, PNC, Minnesota (is it still Target Field?). Seattle reminds me a lot of MMP. All the others are fine, enjoyed them all. May hit Nats and the new ATL parks this summer (work trips to DC and ATL).
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    I’d be interested in Profar. Defensive flexibility, competent offensive player.
  8. Hank Chinaski
    I live in ABQ and will road trip to Denver for a game or two. If anyone makes the trip, post in here and we can get a little meet up.
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    He was off in the playoffs that year but he had an historically good rookie season. At some point the sensationalized hysteria around sign stealing will die off and be placed in its proper perspective, the Astros won’t be in the WS every year, and (mostly) nobody will hate them anymore. All that is to say, “never” is a hell of a long time.
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    We’ve gone from “Yordan is a known cheater” to “Yordan still sucked in 2019” to “Yordan sucked in a few selected postseason ABs in 2019 and 2021” in a flash. That’s some impressive goalpost movement, especially since the whole conversation was originally about Jeremy Pena.
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    I went to UH for my doctorate. The bolded part is absolutely true. I remember being astonished at how much the undergrads loathed Texas, considering these were kids who would have been born during the final years of the SWC or after it’s death, and there was no relationship between the schools throughout their lives. There was a near-Aggie level inferiority complex with them.
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    I mean, that’s what I always thought it was about. A decade and a half of the Stoops brothers and Pellini having conniption fits on the sidelines in this conference and I never once saw them draw a personal foul penalty, much less at a critical juncture of a game. Im not saying it was any kind of conspiracy, I’m saying that ref on that sideline call seemed to be looking for a reason to throw that flag…for some reason. But yeah, fuck that game forever. What did we have 2 TDs called back, plus that DT holding call, and that personal foul. I am always one to acknowledge that simple incompetence can usually explain things like this, but something seemed all fuckwards that day, beyond just incompetent refs. (Not saying OSU did anything shady or anything like that, just that shit was really weird.)
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    Rolen is 10th all-time in fWAR among 3B, with nearly identical numbers to Ron Santo, another HOFer. Everyone ahead of him is in, except for ARod (obviously he has the numbers of an inner-circle HOFer) and Beltre, who will be in on his first ballot. Altuve is 25th all-time in fWAR among 2B. He has work to do. Good news is that he’s coming off an offensive season that nearly matched his MVP year. 12 more fWAR puts him in Ryne Sandberg territory; a few more and he’s right there with Biggio. And he’ll have more hardware than those guys (MVP, batting titles, WS titles).
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    Yeah, no. He’s short of 50 WAR and 2,000 hits right now. There’s no way he gets in if his current numbers are his final numbers. He needs to compile at least 12-15 more WAR and 600+ more hits for voters to support him en masse. I think he gets there, but he certainly isn’t there yet.
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    I don’t think so; I mean, there will be some pushback, but I don’t think it’ll be overwhelming. There’s a lot of time between now and then - let’s say 5-6 more active seasons, then 5-year waiting period. By then, the electorate is probably more analytically-inclined and further removed from the sensationalism of the last few years (which bodes well for Altuve given the evidence that his performance was unaffected by sign stealing). At some point people will realize how silly all of this is, and I think that’s enough time to get there. Agree that it may not be first ballot, but I think he gets in with a few more seasons like his last couple.
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    My dear god these guys are the best. ”can you believe they’re posting NIL stuff on social media?!?” ”Arch is overrated and horrible, so horrible that he when can’t beat out Ewers (also horrible), he’ll transfer to Georgia, and then they’ll really be screwed!” (Seriously, try unpacking the logic in that one.) ”#5 LSU” I used to assume that they don’t actually believe the things they say; I think I was wrong.
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    I love Berkman, but this is dumb. Berkman was a better hitter than Rolen, but defense exists too, and Rolen is an all-time great at 3B. It is (imperfectly) measurable and accounted for in their WAR totals (both FG and B-R value his defense roughly the same). Lance was a better hitter than a lot of guys in the HOF, he was just about 3 healthy seasons short of making it.
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    I think eventually Altuve will be viewed differently - possibly even somewhat sympathetically, as it will be recognized that he bore an outsized brunt of the vitriol aimed at an entire franchise (including non-players), particularly given that (1) it is well-documented that he didn’t really do anything; (2) statistically-inclined voters (who should continue to make up more and more of the electorate) will acknowledge that his actual production seems totally unaffected by any sort of sign-stealing advantage (home/road splits, before/after 2017, etc); and (3) he was a key player on a second WS title team. I’m optimistic on his Hall chances.
  23. Hank Chinaski
    I mean yeah, if Ausmus is named GM I’m going need y’all to organize safety checks on me around the clock for a while. I’d rather Dubon bat fucking leadoff 162 times this year than that.
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    Goddamnit y’all, Dubon is gonna hit second one night and I’m gonna fuckin bitch about it in here, because it will be stupid no matter how many games the goddamn team wins. That said, I’m proud of myself for not yet ranting about having a vacancy at GM for an entire goddamn offseason. It seems unnecessary and counterproductive, but I’ve obviously been holding it together and haven’t overreacted. (But for fucks sake it would be nice to, you know, have a real GM. Preferably a good one.)
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    What they also never seem to consider is…you’re in College fucking Station. That place sucks. It just does. It is a pissant town that doesn’t even feel like a college town - it feels like a suburb with no city attached. I’m not saying this is always a huge factor in athletes’ choices, but goddamnit they never even consider the possibility when they are discussing the reasons nobody wants to be there.

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