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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Nitpicking here in a meaningless game, but were there good reasons to pull JV after the 5th with only 77 pitches with a no-no going and the chance to do something historic?
  2. I will never understand this. They should not let those dweebs speak. It's embarrassing. I can't even watch the whole thing. And yet, they idolize these guys. How does anyone who is good at football want to go to this school? They get recruits somehow. How? Truly, truly bizarre.
  3. Based on what I've seen, I'm doubtful that Donald Trump himself has had any meaningful impact on the various enterprises that have his name attached to them. He has a whole business organization full of people working for him. They do everything. He sits back and takes credit for it all. He's just a figurehead or maybe more like Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders doesn't actually make the fried chicken. Trump was given everything he has to start with and then other people took it from there and made it work (or not).
  4. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Was riding in the car with the wife and kids the other day and my oldest (11) asks my wife to put his playlist on the stereo from her phone. She obliges. A song comes on I've never heard before but my wife knows all the words. I look at the dashboard screen and it says the artist is Post Malone. I know who Post Malone is, but I wouldn't recognize any of his music or know any of his lyrics by heart, like my wife apparently does. So I ask her, "How do you know the words to a Post Malone song?" She said, "This was the most popular song in the radio like three years ago." Post Malone, the guy who looks like a fat Hasidic Jewish homeless drug addict had a number one song on the radio. Huh.
  5. Javier clearly has starter stuff and has performed really well as a starter this season, but does the fact that he's worked more out of the pen than Urquidy and Garcia matter at all? And do you leave those two guys off the playoff roster or just move them to the pen if you are starting JV, Framber, LMJ and Javier? I assume Brown will be a bullpen guy in the playoffs, even though he's really a starting pitcher too? I guess I don't really know how common or easy it is for pitchers to switch between starting pitcher and relief pitcher roles.
  6. Damn it's nice to have such quality pitching and depth!
  7. Or dumber. It's basically demonstrating that the parents are proud of their mastery of phonetics.
  8. Why wasn't this part reviewed? It was a weird play, weird flag, weird explanation, weird result. The QB was down and we should have gotten a safety. I fucking HATE it when officials determine the outcome of games with bad calls.
  9. Actually, I'm having a pretty good day, thank you very much. I was wrong about when he signed. Okay.
  10. Okay, so maybe one and a half. I don't know why JV took that deal - if I recall, didn't COVID have something to do with suppressing the market that year? I could be wrong about that. My point is that everyone wants to sign old, high-priced free agents to short term deals. Some teams are willing to buy the back end of those contracts when the players could be washed up. The Astros are not one of those.
  11. Is there a difference between only being willing to sign high priced old guys to short term deals and not signing older high priced guys? Have the Astros signed an older guy to a high AAV short term contract in recent history? (Verlander doesn't count because this was a "prove it" year coming of TJ.)
  12. It's been proven with Correa and Springer that our front office will let beloved players go who are the highest priced and older. I don't think they are going to keep Verlander. Our remaining starters would still be one of the best in the league. I think they are going to be looking to pledge that money to extend guys and maybe find a LF, CF, C and/or 1B.
  13. An embarrassment of riches at SP. It would really hurt to lose JV. I literally love him. But if Brown is the real deal, then doesn't he become expendable at the high price? What do you do with six quality starters? One guy works from the pen? Six man rotation? Trade one of them? Good problem to have.
  14. Maybe this has already been addressed, but how does this affect the realignment calculus, if at all? Seems like maybe being a member of a highly competitive superconference would be bad for odds of getting into the playoffs.
  15. Full moon out?
  16. Pffttt. Chicks already have handlebars; they're called hips.
  17. Is Y. Diaz being looked at as a 1B option?
  18. What did we get in return?
  19. You need to run screaming from this situation. I don't care how great the house is, there are others. Doing business with crazy people is fucked. It never turns out well. No amount of legal papering is going to prevent the problems you will have. The legal docs only help if you end up litigating, which if you do then you have already lost. It's impossible. Accept it and move on.
  20. Well, sure. But we'd be 57-0 if we had him, so...
  21. Man, we are one bat short. Losing Brantley really fucked us.
  22. My plan was to sell my house in POC and my current boat before buying something. I don't have to, but my wife may have something to say about it if I drop $50K or so before those other things happen. Have someone at the house today with their contractor. Might get a contract soon... I might drive down and test drive that Maverick. I know it's going to handle way different than the v hulls I've always driven. May take some getting used to. I have been fantasizing about being able to cruise in 8" of water though.
  23. That's not what I meant. I meant that it will require meaningful, i.e. playoff, games for Dusty to put our best lineup on the field every night.
  24. I think it will require playoffs. At this point, there should be no question who the best option in CF is on the team. Just like Yuli at 1B, they gave Jake every opportunity and he couldn't make it. Chas isn't a superstar, but he's also not a JAG. He's a quality MLB centerfielder. That's good enough on this team. Would we like to have more production from that position? Of course, but we can't play who we don't have and Chas is the clear best option. And I'm fine with that.
  25. The only reason I can think of why he is still playing every day is loyalty. They are giving him every chance to stay on the every day roster. If he can't do it, then it won't be because management didn't give him a chance. That, or they honestly feel they have no better 1B options, which simply isn't the case. I think all will be made right with the playoff roster. They are going to play the best guys who have the highest chance of winning. That just can't be with Yuli at 1B; not with these numbers.
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