Everything posted by Gut Wagon
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Hard for me to imagine we wouldn't sign Snell if given the chance. He's a total beast. His epic game-saving 4th down tackle against Duncanville is still reverberating across the state.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Per Bobby, Brown to safety is false.
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Texas Softball 2026 - Running it Back.
All true. Pitcher pitches, hitter hits, fielder fields, runner runs. All individual skills that are largely independent of teammates' actions or attitudes. But I still want Tech to flame out in an inglorious fireball of failure, however it might happen. Even another botched IBB would work for me.
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Texas Softball 2026 - Running it Back.
Is it too much to ask for Tech to have chemistry issues and then fall way short of expectations? That's never too much to ask for.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Trying to recall ever having been this annoyed by a 9-0 lead. Don't think I have been.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Maybe humiliation (if it still even exists in pro sports) will do this organization some good. Odds are we're about to find out.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I'm not sure any one thing leads to Brown's little hiccups from game to game. But when the margin is so thin (due to our sad lack of offense), a run here and a run there gets him beat or at least leads to a frustrating no-decision too often. He's one of the top RH pitchers in baseball, and I just feel he has the stuff to escape more of those situations.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
That half-inning illustrated Brown's frustrating issue: cruise through innings until you get a baserunner or two, then let it turn into a run. I still wonder if he does something out of the stretch to make him less effective.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2027: I remember watching his dad play
I'm thinking he's on a first-name basis with Carrington Byndom. Or at least the Earl of Sandwich.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
What a lineup. As jaggy as it gets in MLB. So we'll probably score 12.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
We've seen a lot of magic in this franchise for a decade. We're not seeing it now. I don't think it's any one thing causing our decline, but injuries, age, loss of leadership and marked improvement by some other clubs have added up to a bad funk. Call it bad luck if you will, but it's not just being snakebitten on injuries. Correcting all this won't be easy or cheap, and it might not quick...but the sooner the front office takes an objective look at where things went wrong, the sooner we'll have a chance to contend again.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Feels like we're just waiting on the last family members to get into town before pulling the plug.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I wanted Jose Abreu to work out, too. But when a power guy isn't hitting, and hasn't for weeks on end, a manager can't keep pretending he is. I feel that way about Altuve, too. Stubbornly keeping those guys in the 3-4 slots might well cost us the postseason.
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NFL Week 3
Allow Aggy to suggest Mo Bamba.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I said before Framber's last bad outing that I wouldn't start him again. Who knows what would have happened with another guy in his place, but that's a chance I'd have eagerly taken. I'd now be happy to try giving Blubaugh an emergency start this week, even if we approach it as more or less a bullpen game. That's what most of them now have become anyway.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Such a fitting conclusion to a home series that defined our season.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Because I desperately want it to happen, it won't.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Over/under on days until the offseason thread? I'll hang up and listen.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Watch him end up in Arlington and go 17-5. I mean, I doubt he does, but I also wouldn't be shocked.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Such a waste of an arm. If you transplanted Framber's brain into a hummingbird, it would fly upside down and backwards into a bus.
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NFL Week 3
I thought last year's season-ending collapse against the Panthers was bad. At least that game was close. Atlanta's making the Carolina D look like the '85 Bears. Well, except for the fact Bijan is getting his yards.
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NFL Week 3
I view Raheem Morris much as I do Joe Espada. Whether dreadful play is all his fault or not, I'd send him packing immediately.
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NFL Week 3
Just needed a few more minutes to be down 17. Penix with the Pop Warner pass for a pick 6.
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$9.95 worth every penny
That's a great summation. The offense laid an egg in Columbus and was so pedestrian for the next two weeks, with Arch looking way off and several key talents sidelined. For that matter, as solid as our defense was, the lack of a weekly sack party was unsettling after so much buildup. Given all this, I think many of us longtime fans have a rather uneasy felling about where things actually stand. Maybe that was always the likeliest outcome following an offseason in which some folks really asked if this team might beat 2005's, but to see us look so meh on one side of the ball has been buzzkill. While last night was a long step in the right direction, let's not forget that was a home game against an 0-3 Sam Houston squad that under no circumstances had a chance to beat us. I was a Coffee & Football guy nearly every weekday for months leading into the season, mostly to get recruit updates from Gerry. Recruiting is the one major part of college sports I can't really watch for myself, so accurate coverage of that topic intrigues me much more than game analysis. I'm no coach, but I'm content with my own ability to tell what did or didn't happen on the field of play.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
How emblematic of this whole disaster