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Especially since you don’t need more than 8 or 9 pitchers for a 3 game series. I mean- I know they will carry more- but Yordan for a PH or two, even if he can’t run, is more valuable over the 3 gamer than turd Ferguson or Ort.

Split squad playoff game. Might be how they get us out before the ALCS.

Yes- I thought I had him in there. Brain fart. Him for King I bet.

I’m here to take my loss on Blue getting drafted I will take the win on Broughton.

Good catch. Probably will be Kess. I would have whitcomb rather than Dezenzo if you make that switch.

Time to predict the 26 for this round. Although I'd love it to be like no more than 10 pitchers, I'm sure they will carry 11. Pitchers: Framber, Brown, Kicuchi, (in that order). Pen- Hader, Presley, Abreu, Nerris, Arrighetti, JV, King, Turd Fergusson (barf)- I'd personally go with Ort there C- Diaz, Caratini, Salazar IF- Singleton, Altuve, Pena, Bregman, Whitcomb, Dezenzo OF- Yordan, Heyward, Chas, Meyers, Dubon, Tucker

I sure as shit hope so, but I doubt it will be on. They have some sports but not others- it's pretty hit or miss. If it's on somewhere I will see it but not counting on it.

Season is over. We talk about it. Off day today. Gives you plenty of time to listen to our pod. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1C5dypsx582KGedbdltsl8?si=VgeWezdNRsGcgiDCAJsjIw

So/ every year for the last 3 we’ve taken a cruise for our kids gal break. We get on the boat Sunday, get back Saturday at 8 am, home in plenty of time for first kick at 11. sometime 6 months ago: Wife- kids are off first week in October- can we do our normal cruise me- you know I hate cruises her- yeah but me and the kids love them me- fine- do the normal cruise Her- this one goes to Bahamas me/ I don’t care fast forward 3 months later: Her- I’m so excited to go to Bahamas/ I love cruises so much 8 days on a boat blah blah blah me- did you say 8 days? her- yeah- we leave Saturday and get back Sunday. me- so I thought I was missing zero weekends of college football but instead it’s 2. Once of which was OU. FML. I’m never not listening to her again. I fucked that up big time.

I would but I’m on a cruise. Sorry.

It’s like the fighting Hinches are throwing games. Maybe they want a piece of this.

Sure. I’m just going with what’s likely. MSU isn’t helping us out. Vandy isn’t helping us out. Florida isn’t helping us out. Georgia should, OU and aggy might. Kentucky and arky could go either direction. Of course. We are talking about tie breakers which presupposes we lose a game. No way do we not play for it with 0 losses.

We actually probably need aggy and OU and Kentucky to win most of their games. If our 1 loss was to Georgia for example.

They do specify a number of games but it’s like 159 or 160 I believe

Has gusto pitched for us this year? Ever?

Inertia is a real thing. Decent chance Bama jumps us during bye week.

The Astros game system sucks though. This year all we did was graduate a guy that was a borderline all star with a 2.8 era and another guy in Arrighetti that’s probably better than that and will be a top 50 at worst, pitcher next year. And enough trade bullets to pick up a guy that went 9-1 down the stretch for us. Other than that though- yeah- worst farm system in the league.

Bye sucks. They’ve played 100 plus games so far with no wins. They’ve scored no points.

I put up an OU game week thread (it was pure genius) and El Jefe said patience grasshopper, patience. Do a Texas vs bye week thread instead. I’m on a cruise starting Saturday, so he copied my Texas v OU gameweek post and he will be posting it for me on Sunday next week, worry not. So, Texas v Bye is a good time to take note of what’s going on and talk about big picture stuff and what our goals should be during this bye week. Big picture: The Good: This Texas squad is a rolling ball of butcher knives right now. We are one of 3 or four teams not to trail in a game yet this year. We have spent roughly 10 minutes of time in the second half not up double digits. We are averaging something like 45 points a game. We have given up 3 TD’s all year- 1 on a busted play 67 yard run and 2 garbage time TD’s while up 3 or 4 TD’s. We have a starting QB that’s looks like the best QB in college football and his back up has played almost as well and looks like the Heisman front runner for 2025, after QB1 goes to NY for this years Heisman ceremony and likely goes top 5 in the draft. This team lost 11 players to the draft and looks like we will have more players drafted than that this year. We have a head coach that is clearly the right man for the right time in Texas football that’s going to have us going a massive run the next decade. On defense, we lost a damn good LB coach to a head job at a lower level program and improved with his replacement- we got a guy that’s helped bring the defense together and brought new concepts and cohesion to the unit. Our special teams are pretty good. We have tons of young players who are showing out, getting better and showing that the future is bright. Recruiting is good, retention is awesome and the portal is an absolute weapon for us. This bye week is important. We need to get QB1 fully healthy- he’s a weapon and big game tested. We need to heal up some dings in the RB room. We need to make sure we are ready for a dual threat QB in OU and make sure we have some stuff ready to clown a pretty good but not great defense of theirs. We need to be ready for a very good Georgia team the next week that’s not as good as they have been, and, quite frankly, not as good as us. Most of all, we need to continue to work on us and play to a standard. This is, pretty clearly in my mind, the best team in the land. This is the best Texas team since 05 and if they continue to get better and play to a standard they will have the chance to go down as a special team in college football. Maybe not 94/95 Nebraska, 01 Miami, 05 Texas or 19 LSU, but better than the typical run of the mill national championship type team. It’s all on the table for us. Let’s use the bye as a tool to heal up, sharpen our blades, play to a standard and be all that we can be. It’s a good time in Austin when the football is good. Hook ‘Em and enjoy the good times.

This is true about all fans being idiots. Ours our set to bit more default pessimistic and critical. I know we have some myopics too.

Our fans are fucking idiots. Congratulations on sitting amongst some of the dumber of them. Hopefully they at least let their kid pound a Michelob Ultra.

Contest closed.

Got a guy putting down 3% on a 70k house. I’m skeptical that it will appraise.

Yall listening to crane talk about years are missing the point. It’s not years it’s total fucking money- he just frames it as years so the fans will be on his side. I guarantee you if Soto says/ hey- jimbo- I’d love to sign a 100 year deal for 100M you game? He’d fall all over himself to sign the thing. Crane doesn’t want to extend lots and lots of money and uses “years” as an excuse. I’d love to see him offer Bregman 200M over 10 years and see what bregs says. Maybe that’s in the market/ maybe it isn’t. But that would likely be my offer. .

Let Abreu pitch the rest of the game. Kidding. Sort of.