I am gruntled. While I would also like a marquee/destination road trip as a fan it's ok with the end of the line for the Pac12 and with Texas moving to the SEC. I am also fine with the west coast teams they are playing OOC. It'll be the first time they play Washington. The conference schedule is different obviously, and there is no traditional break for finals. It's also for the first time in a while with a full 56 game schedule.
I'm totally more ncaa baseball than MLB. If it were the Rangers and the Astros were not in the postseason I'd be pulling for the Rangers. Fuck the Rangers.
I think 3 things are true and not exclusive.
1 - The Astros are just plain better.
2- They cheated at a sport built around cheating.
3- Fans are douchebags.
I enjoy his videos when he is talking about baseball, something that I believe he is a subject matter expert in. Like a lot of experts when he starts talking about something else he starts to go off the rails. I also think I might be tempted to punch him while he was sleeping if I had that chance, and certainly would not ride cross country in a car with him.
I'd be fine if he was an Astro and could perform. I'd be fine if he could play anywhere else and not perform.
I had an opportunity to sit in on an HBO and ESPN presentation at a local cable company a few years ago (rhymes with bombast) and the the thing that was really interesting is that they viewed the cable operator as the customer/victim and not consumers of the content. I asked the HBO rep about this and they said they were all about getting the one big check instead of 30 million little ones.
A few years later when Tony Kornheiser left ESPN radio for the Nth time to finally start his own podcast I thought of this, trading one big check for a bunch of little ones.
I tell myself every year that I don't care and I won't look until first day of class... I think he should take the money and run... I would love for him to come back...