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uoftorange

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  1. Chas is everything you could possibly want in an 8th best fielding player. I simply do not get how people think we can just randomly upgrade CF. There aren't many teams that can say their 8th best player in the lineup has a wRC+ like that I agree that Springer absolutely spoiled people but damn. Chas has performed offensively pretty damn especially considering being yanked around all over the place and in and out of the lineup.
  2. Rocky IV is the greatest time and place movie of all time. And depending on your age is your favorite Rocky, and maybe even sports movie. It's basically a perfect movie for 1985, said everything everyone in Murica wanted. It's not the best written, it's not the best acted, but it's the perfect Rocky for what Rocky was for.
  3. The writing on this show is so freaking good and normal conversation funny. Of course it's no surprise with Bill Lawrence anymore
  4. I saw it in Houston the night after Bert performed here, they did a sneak preview. It was fun, but obviously not Citizen Kane. Drunk or High it would have been even better. I'm hoping they made a couple of the suggested changes. I know Bert said they made some.
  5. Harbor Freights Icon line is as good as anything out there. It's also not cheap at all. The Doyle stuff is also really good, and is much better priced I'm still a fan of the US made Craftsman wrench sets. The Husky stuff is just fine too. Standardized on Milwaukee a while back and have enough of the tools that I look like a fanboy at this point. For your grandson get him some Ryobi stuff and it will be great to start with. Nothing wrong with them except they are a bit heavier and the batteries are quite as good, but they are darn near half the price so not a big deal.
  6. I feel like the shotgun and toilet paper in the lower left need some explanation haha
  7. Love my lovesac. I bought it specifically because I had a huge area in my last house, and wanted it to fit exactly, not kind of. Quality is as good as anything out there. Everything is washable. You can update colors (though that's a pricey option). And like I said first, it will be exactly what you want, not sort of fit the area. When I moved to the new house, I split it in half and have a perfect couch for the living room and my office/media room. There may be something fancier, there may be something cheaper, but there isn't a single couch out there that's more versatile, or is better quality IMO. And yeah, it was expensive, just like every other non-POS couch out there. But I got it in the exact color(s) I wanted and it's virtually indestructible. Red wine got spilt on it by my wife and it came out with zero issue. Dog barfed on it, no issue. Kid spilled spaghetti, no issue.
  8. I have a very strong feeling that was just Crane making Bagwell happy to say that. I really can't imagine in reality that it was close at all.
  9. Well yeah, for sure, no doubt. And that's probably who Lucchese is marketing that service to.
  10. Allen Edmonds recrafts and does the exact same stuff for $150, $350 is idiotic and basically saying they don't really want to be in that business. Yes a full boot is bigger, but I'd argue actually a bit easier than a lace up shoe in some respects.
  11. True, I do think he mailed that analysis in though. There were only two places that the Astros could really upgrade and they did one of them with a big splash. I'd say it's a B, but C+ is fine given the criteria he is using. He used the GM thing as a negative I believe to get to that grade, and I view it as a significant positive, so that's probably the gap. To get an A they would have had to swing Sean Murphy also or the like as well as maybe another move for a more dynamic utility guy. I personally don't view the Astros offseason as just doing what has failed for other teams. We are clearly built for sustainable runs, and don't have to go balls to the wall every off season. Still, I agree that Schoenfeld has his own POV and I have mine. Both are opinions. I respect his while disagreeing on the surface
  12. I guess that's in eye of the beholder. He definitely came off as being confident in his opinion. He also came off as a pompous douche with the way he talked about literally everything. I'm pre-disposed not to like him, but he came off like "everything in this book is exactly how things happened on all teams", which we know can't even come close to being true. He repeated the idiotic "Altuve didn't stop it". No one stopped it. Nor really could they have in the way that people want on the outside. "Astros cheated on the road", there has been no evidence of this literally at all. And he didn't provide any in the conversation. He talked about presenting a full picture, but the truth is, he wanted to make money on this, and writing this book and shutting up before hand was literally the only way to do it. His one and only source was Mike Fiers. He even says that he realized it in the 2018 postseason that they were cheating. This was long after everyone states the Astros stopped doing it, including the league and Ken Rosenthal. But whatever, the Astros were/are just better at it all. They were better at "cheating", they were better at not doing it too. I've moved on, and so has most of the rest of the world of baseball.
  13. If the arbitration thing makes a difference he was never signing again anyway. Players know this is the system, it's one they negotiated. It just is what it is. Frankly I hate the system because it pits you against your own players in trying to downplay them. But at this point it's almost 50 years of "is what it is". The gap is big, but I also think it was somewhat intentional to get him to sign a better long term deal. It may have backfired, and now that the Astros won, maybe not because it could be more incentive to just get it over with and sign a long term deal and get that money back
  14. All of this... It blows my mind every year when the lineup comes out. Artists have to be available, they have to want to do it, they have to be desirable, and they have to draw. It's not like the Rodeo just gets to pick who they want when they want. I mean if they could it would be Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, George Strait, the ghost of Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, etc. every year
  15. And Lofton played 20 total for the Astros. Its the same thing And I completely agree about being rage-y about trading him for freaking Taubensee
  16. But none of that was as an Astro. I take stuff like this to mean them as an Astro. But yeah, in real life he was probably better than the others, but certainly not as an Astro. It would be like the Red Sox putting Bagwell at 1B to me
  17. Just to be clear. Only that one shelf on my side is Ikea. The rest I custom built. It's fine. Quality is okay, drawers don't work super smoothly and if I had it to do again I'd build that myself and be exactly what I want. But it's not bad at all. Works for now and is reasonably sturdy
  18. I said that to my wife before we moved in. That I couldn't go in there again. It was nightmare fuel for me. Those are the current shoes. Before we got married she got rid of about half her collection. Positive side is very few of them are Louboutin or the like. Most are inexpensive knock offs of stuff. The purses and jewelry on the other hand...
  19. It's been a long while since I posted in this thread. Hell it might have been on the Shag even. Our master closet was just a basic builder one. Decent size, but just shelves and bars. Nothing special. The lady that owned the house before us had it stuff to the gills and had put thumb tacks, nails and screws all over the place, but we didn't have time to fix that on move in. So over Christmas break I went at it. Had to build and paint around stuff being in there, so did one side then the other so our clothes weren't out for too long. This is a panoramic of the nightmare fuel it was before we moved in. Shit EVERYWHERE But you can see that there are two sides with an island in the middle. This is the basic it was and the center section after I gutted it. It was just a bar on each side for the middle with a shelf up top And now the after: This is my side. Just added a shelf up top on the middle island, a shelf on the back top and then an extra bar up top on the right for clothes The Ikea shelving and drawer unit I put in on move in is working fine for now, but will one day be replaced like the other side I've also finished the braces and painted them up top but don't have a newer pic with that But my wife's side got a much bigger overhaul. Added in drawers, shelves and shoe rack to that pic above where it showed the before Then added a shelf along the top for more storage And in the previous island she got shelves up top and 12 adjustable shoe racks that are tilted to see better. Also face framed the end to look nicer and go with the rest of the closet
  20. It had a huge renovation though. 100mm change. I think I counted it twice.
  21. Retired: Kingdome, Arlington, Astrodome, Fulton County, Turner, Metrodome (that place was garbage too), Old Yankee, Comiskey, Riverfront, Cleveland, Mile High (thought not for baseball to be fair), Joe Robbie, Milwaukee, Olympic, Veterans, Three Rivers, Shea, old Busch, Candlestick (after Giants left), RFK, Current: Truist, Camden, Fenway, New Yankee, Wrigley, Guaranteed Rate, The Jake, Coors, Comerica, Rogers, Minute Maid, Kauffman, Angels, Citizens Bank, PNC, Citi, Petco, Nats Park, Chase, Oakland, Seattle, Tropicana Ok, with an actual list in front of me it's 42, not 43. But I'll count Abner Doubleday stadium to get to 43 haha
  22. Haven't been to the new one yet. Have been to old, and it was fine, just way to damn hot and poorly oriented for it. PNC is my favorite, I think it's better than Oracle/ATT even though it's more like 1A and 1B than it is 1/2
  23. I do agree that Trop is better than Oakland, but it's the worst of the active stadiums that isn't Oakland. I like the city of Tampa quite a bit, but that stadium is just horrible. And it has awful ground rules too Outside of those two I haven't been to any of the other current ones that are anywhere near as bad. I'm not a fan of the White Sox place, but it's not awful. Rogers in Toronto is just old at this point, but still fine. Honestly Yankee stadium is down here. The old one at least was the place Babe built. But outside of the outfield area and the hall of fame, the stadium is pretty bad.
  24. I think I counted 43 with the kids the other day of stadiums past/present. And Yep, that's a who's who list of garbage, only missing Tropicana from my list. That place is a concrete POS.
  25. Profar makes a ton of sense. Not sure why he hasn't been mentioned more lately. He was earlier in the off season. He can play pretty much everywhere competently and can still hit okay
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