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Posts posted by Gourmand
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Let's do this boys.
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Are those sold out in L yet?
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Goddamn right, Carlos!
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I'm skeptical about this line of thinking and won't be surprised if there's little response on the field of play. Many hitters on opposing teams were doing shady shit as well. They won't want to keep this alive into the regular season by brawling about shit from 2017.So, what's the over/under on bench clearing incidents involving the Astros this year?
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What excuses?
When you say it like that, it seems like it should be really easy for a fan of a team that cheated their way to a championship to just admit it, take your medicine, and not make a bunch of bullshit excuses.
Yet here we are.
Scoreboard motherfucker. The only taint here is the whiff your bitchass team gets of ours while we kick all kinds of ass again.
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Fuck you. This is an Astros fan thread, gtfo here and go do something productive like cleaning your cum sock.
Fuck off and return to your circle jerk where the only people buying your load of shit is fellow Astro fans going full aggy.
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Stfu Pokes and go fucking read the early reporting before you try to tell us what we already all know.
This is a media narrative driven by anti-Astros reporters with an axe to grind. While there's definitely truth to their reporting, the scope of this electronic surveillance is not limited to one clubhouse but the narrative of "cheating" is very much limited to the Astros. MLB is complicit in this and Rob Manfred is going to regret his handling of this. I can't wait for the whole thing to get blown open PED style.
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Yeah your head is firmly up your ass if you think this is limited to the Astros only.
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3 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:
I’m delusional. You guarantee. No facts that have come to light support anything you’re saying.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/sports/baseball/boston-red-sox-stealing-signs-yankees.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/mlb-fines-red-sox-and-yankees-for-use-of-apple-watch-and-phones.html
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Your head is in the sand if you really believe that. Carlos Beltran knew it was going on elsewhere NYY cough cough and brought it with him. You're delusional if you think teams weren't finding ways to use that information in real time. The only difference between the Astros and them is Mike Fiers. I guarantee that if this doesn't go away, more teams will be implicated as more guys break the code of silence.Great post because you interpret it to back up your lame ass excuses. I interpret that as teams watching video of games not in progress trying to pick up tendencies and tells from pitchers and catchers to use in a future game. That seems perfectly within the rules and a long way from what the Astros were doing.
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Mike Fiers return his yet or his playoff share?Crane needs to remove the banners and make the players turn in their World Series rings.
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If this is such a big fucking deal, why didn't it cause the same level of outrage when Verducci wrote the following in Nov 2 2018 SI?
QuoteForget free agency, Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. The most important person this baseball offseason is commissioner Rob Manfred. He punted on the chance last offseason to exercise his power to implement pace of action procedures (i.e., a pitch clock) out of deference to a players association that was chapped about a slow-developing free agent market.
Among the developments that are slowing baseball games to a crawl: the proliferation of electronic surveillance. Many clubs now have as many as six high magnification cameras installed in their home ballpark specifically designed to steal signs from opponents.
Here’s how quickly things have changed, according to a Dodgers source. Three years ago, if you walked into the Dodgers’ video room behind their Dodger Stadium dugout you would likely have found Zack Greinke pouring over video of opposing hitters, looking for any edge he could find to match up his stuff against their weakness. This year, if you walked into the same room you would have found a small army of 20-something analysts in polo shirts and slacks pouring over video from the in-house cameras, like the security room at a Vegas casino. Most teams train their cameras on the catcher, the pitcher (from several angles), the third base coach and the dugout.
These cameras are not used for training purposes. They are used expressly for stealing signs and deciphering “tells” from pitchers.
“We’ve reached a point,” said one club executive, “where the attractiveness of the sport as an entertainment option has been lost in the quest to find every incremental edge. And video has changed things rapidly. I’m increasingly thinking something has to be done.”
The entire takeaway from that piece has nothing to do with "cheating" but with the problem of the pace of play. So what changed between then and now?
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18 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:
Um, maybe because it's the most impactful sports cheating scandal in 100 years?
Oh please, not even close. This electronic surveillance "scandal" was employed by numerous teams across MLB, as previously reported by Verducci in 2018. This wasn't new, it was an open secret with a code of silence by every player in MLB. THEY ALL KNEW. So here's an idea for the opposition....CHANGE YOUR SIGNS!!!
Cheating is endemic in baseball and it's not the Big Deal this narrative has evolved into. This is a bunch of stupid fuckin pearl clutching by the media and butthurt fans of other teams who hate us because they ain't us. This gives them a participation ribbon and a dream of the World Series that they didn't win.This is only a big scandal because MLB allowed these circumstances with the implementation of instant replay and looked the other way when the Dodgers, Red Sox, and Yankees were doing it. Now the Astros are the convenient fall guy because 1) they had guys in the front office who played the smartest guys in the room role to the media instead of playing the likable insider role and 2) they kept beating the marquee franchises on the field and at their own game and 3) Mike Fiers didn't like being left off the playoff roster and not invited back and 4) Evan Drellich wanted revenge for the front office bullying him back in 2015 or so.
I'm ready to start this season and cheer as the Astros take on the world.
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Too much talent. Don't get sucked into the bullshit hysteria.What if it turns out we’re bad?
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The baseball media is fully engulfed in Astros Derangement Syndrome. It feels like just yesterday when this organization was getting pummeled by the Fangraphs and Keith Law for being dumb dinosaurs. Now we learn they had an elaborate analysis of catcher's signals called Codebreaker and these same writers are clutching their pearls about those cheating Astros.
I can't wait to fuck this season in its ass.
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1 hour ago, texashorne said:
get you some rep
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We have Fi in our household and bought two Pixel 3as recently and have no complaints yet. Pretty affordable if you use your phone most often in wifi connected areas. I also appreciate the data diet it encourages us to follow when opening the app and seeing how little/much our current usage is in dollars.If you are usually around wifi then you can look at Google Fi. It's $20 a month plus $10 per gig of data. They use TMO and Sprint towers. If you are using data while not on wifi its going to get expensive. And you will have to have a certain phone but there are probably 10-15 now. Internationally its amazing. Works in almost every country with a few exceptions.
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8 hours ago, clapclapclap said:
Getting awful Dusty in here.
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NSIAP but an interesting read nonetheless about Ratface
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The only reason this stupid ass player scheme got busted was because of three fucking cocksuckers: Evan Drellich, Brandon Taubman, and Mike Fiers.
Drellich is a crybaby bitchass Masshole mfer who has never liked the Astros organization because of his personal beef with them going back to his brief stint in Htown at the Chronicle when the Astros kicked him out of the clubhouse and tried to strong arm him with his bosses or something. Mike Fiers was butthurt because the Astros left him off the postseason roster and then declined to bring him back. Brandon Taubman was just an arrogant pissant who had too much to drink in celebrating the ALCS win and went full on douche bro against Alyson Footer in the presence of people like Drellich. So game 7 happens to go against the Astros and guys like Fiers and Drellich were ready to pounce in the wake of the Taubman story about the Astros culture.
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The report itself cast doubt on anyone trying to determining causality between the sign stealing scheme and the results on the field. The Astros weren't found by this investigation to be cheating in 2018 or 2019 yet they were still pretty fucking good both years. Not to mention the road/home splits etc or the testimony from various players who thought it was more distracting than beneficial.
Fuck this asterisk bullshit.
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Deal3.46 is market value. Even though down 7-0 I’ll go 3.5
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Not giving you below market value. 3.75 to 1....3 to 1 and you gotta deal
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If Hou wins Beeper pays me 400, if KC wins I pay him 100
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The sanctimonious groupthink makes me ragey.
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