Everything posted by Wulaw Horn
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Prediction contest 2025 Week 3- UTEP @ Texas
I will get the other two graded this weekend and put up the season scoreboard. Been slammed at work, on the road and dealing with a miserable poison Ivy Situation. Prediction- Texas 59 UTEP 3. Prop bet- total yards from scrimage (so catching or running) from the WR position. 258
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
That’s what is so frustrating. That lineup they trotted out Saturday? There’s not a hole in it. Not everyone is great but there’s not a single below average hitter in it. we scored 11. First time we’d seen the lineup all year. We haven’t seen it since.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
They’ve broken me. I no longer hate this team. I applaud what they are doing as a great piece of trolling and performance art. Bravo Astros, Bravo.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Why wouldn’t you walk him?
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Zero chance here.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I absolutely love this. In Arlington we went 3 innings in a row without advancing now we said- let’s go backwards!
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
If we don’t lose here we lose in 10 thankfully. LmJ gonna be our last bullet (to the head)
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I don’t remember his prospect shine. I have a type/ good fastball and swing and miss. Command/control not as big a deal.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Fucking Varsho. That’s a former catcher doing larceny at CF 2X tonight.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Astros pitching prospects I’ve been super hyped about: Forest Whitley (I still sort of believe) Hunter brown arrighetti blubaugh Ullola. The Arrighetti injury is so sad. If blubaugh can keep his elbow intact I think we have a good one.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Dfa him. At best he’s a 5th OF thats even though he averages like 2.8 WAR per season played (150 type games)
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I feel like you are ignoring yeoman work Jfkfc has done on that front.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Don’t tell me about “latest politicized issue dude”. I’ve been saying this for 30 months. Consistently. And I’ve been right literally every single time I’ve said it. And I was calling for them to raise rates 4 years ago (or at least 3.5).
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
But we pretended they were and market priced accordingly. it’s awesome that the Fed drives looking through the review rather than the windshield.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Not sure why it’s not just Ullola.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
Add not a bunch of dumb shit penalties and yeah- that’s what I wanted to see and didn’t from the last game.
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
I do watch other teams play. Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with all the idiots saying 7-5/8-4/9-3 ceiling after Texas games. That’s dumb. This team could be special with that defense and kicking game, but… man…
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Off day reading. Started writing b/c it was funny to me that I keep getting texts from the Phillippines from my VA asking why Framber sucked. Turned into something a little more. https://medium.com/@breathingorangefire_71114/becoming-a-baseball-fan-texts-with-my-virtual-assistant-51b038bc0406 hope yall enjoy. If you do please share it with a friend.
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
To me beat yourself means turnovers, penalties and dumb shit stuff that's self inflicted, not being fucking incapable of scoring on good teams. The former is about self inflicted bullshit, the latter is sort of about what your actual quality as a program is. It's a slight distinction but after a loss we say things like "if only we wouldn't have done this, that or the other we'd have won" while they say things like- if only we were capable of completing a forward pass we would have won. There's a distincition there even if there's not a difference. I bet on the incompetant team (them) over the one that likes to cut itself so that it can feel alive (us) if it all comes down to the end of the game.
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
Also, holy shit I've been selling sunshine on this program for 4 years now- since december of 21 when Sark killed the recruiting and the portal. I've got optimistic threads in 2022 and 2023 where I had the zeitgeist of this team and this program right with the arrow pointed up, while a confederacy of dunces surrounded me bleating stupid shit like "6-6 with 8-4 as an absolute ceiling" or "we are losing to Bama" or "we won't be ready for the SEC" or all sorts of other nonsense. Hell, even in the darkest post I've made on here in forever I still say 10-2 or 11-1 and playoffs, losing in the quarters or semi's. That's not exactly grim, that's just what this team looks like to me as a best case scenario, unless we get a lot better, which, hey it could happen and I want it to. If I'm a little more surly than normal I got into some poison ivy while trying to fix up a rental house and it's covering my entier body with rashes, blisters and my eyes swollen shut, head to toes, stomach, legs and gooner. It's day 6. Chat GPT tells me it's the worst from day 4-7. Holy hell I'm miserable, itching, swelling, unable to sleep etc. At least I'm on enough steroids to hit a home run at MMP right now.
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
I mean- this is why I’m perfectly comfortable saying we go 11-1 or 10-2 and are favored in all our games sans perhaps Georgia. it’s a shitty year for college football with no great teams, but Ohio state has shown they aren’t going to literally beat themselves and I would guess the same about PSU, Notre Dame, probably Georgia. None of those teams are “good” and PSU is really really shitty at doing anything against similarly talented teams, but would you bet on us right now down 13-7 with 1st and 20 on the 20 to punch it in and beat them?
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
I mean- did I say Alabama looked like pressed asshole on a mirror before they won back to back titles? No. I started calling them Alabraska 2 seconds before we made that happen. Hope I'm wrong on this. If your boy Parker is as good as you keep telling everyone he is then we will probably be ok. I, unlike you, am suspicous of white WR's not named Shipley and need to see more of that kind of dynamism from #13 before I think our offense is going to be able to overcome a mediocre OL, backs that run for only what's blocked with no dynamism, other WR that don't separate and drop balls that hit them in the hand and a QB who spent large portions of the first 2 weeks skipping rocks. Oh- and penalties and dumb 4th down calls (not going but what we choose to do when we go for it).
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
Yes. We will beat the piss out of UTEP. What you said about arch is why I’m down. I saw an offense that’s less talented than we’ve had the last 2 years but able to be overcome with dynamism at QB. If Arch was great and a force multiplier it would overcome Quinn’s weaknesses and we’d be better. That doesn’t look like the case. That’s the problem. Sure. I thought in year 3 arch would be ready to be really good. If he’s a 1/1 guy you are looking for generational type play. Not perfection right off but more than we are getting now. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe go fuck yourself gif. You think Sark is happy about what we are putting on film right now offensively? I doubt it. Whenever we struggled against teams like rice during Mack we were good, not great teams. That’s driving my concern here. Feels a lot like 2002 type teams. Yep. also- whoever quoted Htwown thanks for nothing. He eats paint chips. I didn’t bet this game and bet almost nothing. I also probably have less than 5,000 a year at risk in total bets and finish within 1,000 of break even one way or another as is the case when you make a ton of 25 and 50 bets. I spend way more on vacations, Astros tickets and longhorn travel as far as entertainment goes. The idea that a couple small bets (I didn’t make any so far this year other than my season bet which is still in good shape) would color my perception of this team is as dumb as he is. If anything gambling sharpens looking at all the teams we play with clear eyes and avoiding the fucking idiotic takes from last week like “this teams ceiling is 9-3”. Uh, not it’s not dipshit, teams play other teams and we are better than every team on our schedule right now. I have one season bet with Doc OU and that’s that we go 10-2 or 11-1 and are favored every game. As I made abundantly clear our schedule sucks and I fully expect to go 10-2 or 11-1 and make the playoffs and probably lose in the quarters or semis when we play a team that takes advantage of us beating ourselves. I thought this team was going to be national title good. It’s early and we still might get there, but it’s not particularly close right now and won’t get there unless and until arch plays like a 1/1 kind of guy.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
My perfect batting order with everyone available (against RHP) Peña, Paredes, Correa, Yordan, Sanchez, Altuve, Walker, Diaz, Meyers. bam, that’s it. Sanchez in the 5 spot is a bit weak, but that makes 6-9 better than its counterpart.