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henrygandorf

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  1. if pena stays hot i don't really give a shit if he bats 2, but he's not our best option there. if you drop him to 9th does he start sucking? either way our lineup is stretched out when the right guys are in it and pena/abreu are doing what they're supposed to do. that lineup is ridiculous but still probably can't hit at home.
  2. a few days ago during the back and forth with va longhorn, the orioles fan, he said something to the tune of, "your manager is benching your 2nd or 3rd best hitter and you're pissed, i would be too." we were referring to yainer, but that just shows how deep we are. yordan, tucker, and altuve are the unquestioned 3 best bats. but bregman has been a monster for 2 months now and now has the stats to match. chas has been covered. abreu has been a mess but is turning things around the past month. yainer is a 24 year old rookie catcher with 20+ bombs and a .530 slg but is our 5th best hitter at best. that's how deep we are right now. only the braves are better offensively, imo, and even they have hit a bit of a patch lately. the rookie (disney version) is pretty much schlock and i can appreciate that because it's disney and baseball, and i still like to watch it when it's on. one of my favorite exchanges is after the scout watches him pitch. he tells quaid he's gonna give the team the report and he might get a phone call. to defend this decision, he says something like, "if i call the office and say i got a guy here twice these kids age, i'm gonna get laughed at. but if i don't call in a 98 mph fastball, i'm gonna get fired." that's how i feel about dusty and accountability. you got a cf outproducing the biggest names in the sport and a catcher who's a superstar in the making. somebody needs to hold him accountable. it's very clear that they're aware of social media, and the results are on the field. the media is gonna media. let's just hope october goes how we need it to go.
  3. to that end, one pitcher on the staff should be allowed to have a maddux-style personal catcher. one.
  4. i said 3 years but they're basically ^^^ right now. they just paid hbo for some of their catalog, so at least they're smart enough to take advantage of other companies when they're bleeding. a few days ago we looked at their top 10 tv list, and the only 2 on it that my wife and i had seen or had interest in seeing were near the bottom - suits and swat (she used to watch swat on cbs like an old). neither is owned by netflix. this was an issue they identified ~5 years ago and are no closer to fixing it, though they have managed to throw billions at it.
  5. no chas, no yainer, no horny.
  6. i haven't listened to the podcast nor do i plan to, but i know how your pager goes off anytime you can drag me into a conversation. i won't go back and find my exact quote, but i believe i said something to the tune of "they either won't be around or they will look a lot different", which was in reference to leaning more on foreign content. have you been on netflix lately? it already looks different and the content quality is in the toilet. go look at their top 10 daily tv or movies. they'll probably blame the strike, but this was an issue pre-strike and the production calendar isn't some great mystery. they've also started to employ the part 1/part 2 rollout of shows, which is a two-putt into eventual weekly, even live programming. they're abandoning their own model because they know it's not sustainable. there are only so many "suits". they did a great job doing what they're doing, and they certainly fooled a lot of other entities into believing they could do the same. i guess that makes them geniuses or at least wealthy. i still think in the long run their shitty content will make them a less desirable streaming option, and the lazy young people will become lazy slightly older people, who don't want to pay the highest prices in the game. anecdotally, we rarely even open netflix anymore when we want to see "what's on tv". used to be the first button push. i have no idea what we pay, it's my sister-in-law's account.
  7. wasn't it broken and he forgot to call the fridge guy? that was one of the things that slipped through the cracks which reminded him that he can be great at that, but that will be his whole life. i don't know shit about fuck when it comes to walk-ins, but i thought that was the point of it. they never got with the fridge guy and couldn't remember his name.
  8. you could sum up altuve's career dominance with one sentence they said last night: "this is altuve's first career regular season game with three homers, of course you'll remember he had a 3-homer game in the playoffs against chris sale and the red sox." yeah, that's reggie jackson territory and october is what makes you great. i used to deny that, because of biggio and bagwell, but it's true. i loved the 1980's astros, i loved the 1990's astros. i loved the killer b's. even derek bell. i loved how mike hampton could hit, and i loved that moises alou washed his hands in piss. i loved all that shit. but this era is different. these guys are bigtime. they don't fold in rough matchups in the playoffs or wilt against tough pitchers. we punish tough pitchers and ruin top closers. we wreck dreams. and yeah, the scandal maybe bonded us fans closer to the team, and maybe i have some bias towards altuve because he not only wore it, but thrived off it. and i'm ok with that. the article in the ny post last year hit the nail - "it's time to stop blaming altuve for the cheating scandal. (1) he didn't use it, (2) the booing makes him better and he's kicking our ass. (3) please stop." by all accounts, they are all great players and all great ambassadors of the game and especially great representatives of the houston astros. who knows how the next several years go, but i have altuve as the goat, and biggio/bagwell on astros mount rushmore. and everywhere we go, people will continue to boo altuve while he poses for pictures with your kids and signs all their autographs and tosses them batting gloves and jerseys. that's just who he is, before and after the nonsense.
  9. circling back... 1. altuve is the greatest astro of all time already. better than biggio and bagwell. yes, already. postseason homers > career war. but he'll get where he needs to with career war, unless helo is right and he's slowing down and about to fall off a cliff. 2. "would he make the hall of fame right now" is a ridiculous question rooted in confusion. if he retired at the end of this season, said it's been fun, but he wants to go build houses in venezuela, he would get elected to the hof, though there would be some drama because of the limited number of years removed from what is seen as a "tainted" season. straight performance-wise, he's in. guys with short careers don't have to hit big counting numbers, they just need to show their excellence during their career, which jose has already done. reference the postseason homers again. kirby puckett is a good recent comp here. koufax is an older one, but he was one of the best to ever do it. *now if the question is "are his numbers good enough right now to get him in during a full career where he plays until he's 38-40 years old?" well that's a different question not based in reality. sure, if he plays another 6-7 seasons and hits .210 every year with 6 bombs and 33 rbi and becomes an anchor on the team, yeah, he's probably not a hall-of-famer. but that's not what the question is. when people say, "has he already done enough and is he a hall-of-famer", the presumption is that he'll continue his pace with the usual human decline, and retire when great players retire. if that's what happens, he's a hall-of-famer. and the greatest astro of all time. he's the leader of the unquestioned golden-age astros dynasty. come on, people. do better.
  10. baseball writers know best.
  11. well one of those guys had 22 homers last year, while the other had just 13.
  12. ruiz seems like the type to hit 9th and 1st a bunch. it's a joke that yainer isn't on there, but same as it ever was. two boston guys on the list lol. for our resident birds fan, adley finished 2nd last year and his numbers were fairly puny in comparison. plenty of folks were already calling him the best catcher in the league, so i guess there's that. he also finished 12th in mvp voting, which seems strange. when people envision adley do they think he's a .300 / 27hr / 90rbi guy? anyway, i don't have defensive/framing stats handy, but here's throwing guys out:
  13. are you saying that la is really the 5th character in the sex and the city universe?
  14. the last 5-10 min were holy shit. grease is the word.
  15. i always get the sense that she admired lazlo, but she loved rick. we don't really get the sense of how lazlo really felt about her. we got an intermission on lawrence. we saw doris roberts (marie) from everybody loves raymond loading up on whoppers or something. she died like a month later. i don't think there was one for the godfather. the others are pretty manageable. for some reason i have encountered several people that group casablanca in with gone with the wind, maybe because they came out around the same time and were both classics for decades before most of us were born. i think for this reason, some have avoided casablanca, because they don't want a big sweeping period piece epic that takes almost 4 hours to watch. casablanca is a tight 100 minutes.
  16. ok, time for fun. i have dropped everyone from my entire team. have at it, playoff teams.
  17. there are several things that dusty does that i find horrifying, but one i particularly hate is how he subs out a guy and then feels like the sub has to bat in the same spot in the order as the injured player. like when dubon led off on sat night. he did that move a bunch earlier in the season but it had been a minute. i'm sure it was covered but luckily i took the weekend off from this thread. nauseating.
  18. my wife won't get into old movies unless she sees them in a movie theater. now many of her favorite movies are from seeing them at theaters that still do that. the graduate is near the top, next to casablanca. i've also dragged her to chinatown, butch cassidy, the godfather, in the heat of the night, and lawrence of arabia because i'm an abusive husband.
  19. same. this.
  20. i never make plans that far ahead.
  21. it's not supposed to be funny, it's supposed to make you angry. any picture of the goat having fun playing baseball will do the trick.
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