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  1. Hank Chinaski
    Well yeah, it’ll never happen - it’ll actually go the opposite way and the playoffs will become even more watered-down. But it would be a better system in terms of actually pairing the best teams in the WS. As it is, we play 162 games - enough to reliably identify the best team - but the “champions” are decided by short series, which, in baseball, are reasonably close to 50-50 propositions. In other words, we choose to crown champs based on a sample size of 7 when we have a sample size of 162 just sitting there.
  2. Hank Chinaski
    I used to like it a lot more before interleague regular season play started in the 90s. I wish they would go back to that model (in which Al and NL teams don’t play each other). I also wish they’d go back to no divisions in the 2 leagues and no league playoffs. World Series is the winner of the AL v winner of the NL. (Yeah I know we aren’t going back to any of that.)
  3. Hank Chinaski
    It’s why I don’t gamble - I could win thousands and it wouldn’t get me that excited, but if I lose $20 I’m apoplectic.
  4. Hank Chinaski
    Yes. VY is the best college football player of the last 40 years, and Texas was the best team in CFB in 2008 and got royally fucked out of the title game are two things I will go to my grave believing. I like to think I’m a reasonable person who can be swayed by a solid argument, backed up by data/facts. But good fucking luck convincing me that I’m wrong about this.
  5. Hank Chinaski
    I was at some party with my girlfriend that night. Wine and cheese crowd, not a lot of interest in the game (even though I was in Austin). Despite how incredibly frustrating that entire game was, I kept it together pretty well…until that roughing penalty on the punt. Then I completely lost my shit. I erupted, lunging from the couch and screamed some incoherent string of the most offensive words I could come up with. I stopped, looked around and realized everyone in the house was silent and staring at me. I looked at them, yelled “motherfuck!” and left the house and walked the 5 or so miles home. It was not my proudest moment (ok it kinda is). That relationship went south very soon thereafter.
  6. Hank Chinaski
    Nope.
  7. Hank Chinaski
    Holy shit. This is hysterical. The incessant discussion, among mostly/presumably grown men, about this pool party (what the actual fuck happens at this party anyway?) is marvelous. The seemingly earnest confusion about what’s different between last cycle and this cycle, and the panic that this confusion is creating, is fantastic (I mean, I don’t even really follow recruiting very closely and it seems fairly obvious what has changed). But the best part is still just the complete lack of self-awareness that the ags have turned into an art form. I used to think they were just intellectually dishonest or were masters of cognitive dissonance, but alas, I’ve come to accept that…they aren’t. It’s sincere, and that is really something.
  8. Hank Chinaski
    Mancini (apparently) can play in the OF (though he’s mostly played 1B this season) which probably makes him a little more desirable than Bell. Offensively they’re similar, but I prefer Bell (higher BB%, lower K%). I wouldn’t be that excited about Cruz, would definitely prefer more position versatility. I like Benintendi…in that I’d feel better with him in there than Chas or Siri…
  9. Hank Chinaski
    This, haha I absolutely love reading this. It truly warms my heart.
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  11. Hank Chinaski
    If only Dusty had gotten tossed before penciling Dubon into the #2 spot.
  12. Hank Chinaski
    When it comes to football uniforms, I am a firm believer that, in general, boring is good, a feature not a bug. I’m a fan of subtlety.
  13. Hank Chinaski
    Maybe so. I admittedly don’t even know how the reserves are selected anymore. I foolishly imagine that a small panel gets together, pores over objective data and makes rational decisions. Because that’s how I wish our world worked. I am very often disappointed.
  14. Hank Chinaski
    Wouldn’t be shocked if Pena gets in, as he’s been easily a top-3 SS in the AL. But, with each team needing a rep, and him being a rookie, who knows.
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    It’s mostly just that the shit Texas gets blamed for is oversimplified, misinterpreted, intellectually dishonest, borderline absurd in some cases, and often just flat out inaccurate, yet it gets echoed incessantly and has become college football dogma among writers, fans, etc. It’s annoying because nobody is particularly interested in any details other than the narrative that “Texas kills conferences” and “Texas caused all of this.” Lazy, inaccurate drivel gets old and makes you wish people would do better or be just be honest.
  17. Hank Chinaski
    As long as he’s in the bottom third of the lineup I am not gonna complain.
  18. Hank Chinaski
    Yeah, he got to that. Alvarez leads the league in slugging, OPS, position-player bWAR, Win Probability Added and Runs Created per Game. Judge leads the AL in home runs and runs scored — but doesn’t rankabove Alvarez in a single significant rate stat.
  19. Hank Chinaski
    That’s cool, but he’s swinging a bat 25% better than Judge to this point. So one might also say that Judge isn’t doing what Yordan is doing.
  20. Hank Chinaski
    Judge, Ohtani, Devers would be my top 3 at midseason. Yordan right behind those 3, but closing the gap fairly quickly. One could make a legit argument for any of those 4. (“Best player on best team” is not a legit argument, though.)
  21. Hank Chinaski
    Gilbert was 4/16 for 62 yards in that game lololol
  22. Hank Chinaski
    Sending Nebraska off with that game - they spent the entire off-season hyping that game, Texas was awful, Gilbert beat them by running the ball haha, etc. - and the Case scramble to send the ags off after Texas did absolutely nothing on offense all night…well, those two games will never not be hilarious to me.
  23. Hank Chinaski
    I prefer losing the TEXAS too, but getting rid of that damned collar logo and fixing the shade of orange should be priorities 1a and 1b. The TEXAS doesn’t really bother me, but I do prefer the jerseys without it. Just looks cleaner. And given that nobody else wears burnt orange, it seems kinda redundant. This is our optimal look IMO…uncluttered Jersey, no helmet numbers…i could take or leave the pants stripes:
  24. Hank Chinaski
    Yes, and the really shitty part is that it was obvious a decade ago that this was the PAC’s best and only play. There simply were no other “marquee” programs to get that made even remote geographic sense. They opted to let the LHN be a deal-breaker. It was short-sighted and ultimately led to the destruction of their league. And again, this isn’t hindsight, it was clear back then that the PAC was cutting off its nose to spite its face. I know this seems arrogant, but they needed Texas more than Texas needed them, and they didn’t seem to consider that during negotiations. It is just true, it was true in 2011 - and we said it back then - and this is the result.
  25. Hank Chinaski
    You see, he’s playing second base. He obviously has to lead off, because normally the second baseman leads off.

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