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Or, if Framber has his head up his ass like he did in the 2nd half and playoffs maybe it's just the staff sucks outside of our leverage arms, one of whom is missing. Forest Whitley. Duh.

What a whipsaw today. I'm trapped in a glass case of emotions.

Things that will definitely happen this year: Astros win 100+ games The thread enjoys the fact that most lineup decisions are defensible and make sense LMJ pitches more than 20 innings Garcia pitches more than 40 innings Yordan wins an MVP Bregman has a monster year Hunter Brown takes a huge step forward Javier goes back to being good at baseball The lineup scores somewhere between 850 and 900 runs The pitching staff gives up less than 700 runs 2 Astros receive CY Young votes and neither one is JV Forest Whitley throws his first pitch in the major leagues Jake Meyers is passable at the plate- hits 9th- everyone bitches about him (ops+ of 95) Jeremy Pena hits a home run sometime in the second half of the season- unlike last year Yainer has an 850 or so OPS and is worth 3.5 or 4 wins Maldonado is released. Someone on here suggests we bring him back to work with the pitchers- I establish a rock solid alibi and then hunt them down and stab them in the neck We do nothing particularly exciting at the deadline Bryan Abreu has an ERA slightly less than 18 and he's still capable of getting major league hitters out We go into the playoffs as the betting line favorites to win the AL. JP France, Ronel Blanco and Brandon Bielak have a combined era between 4.25-4.75 and a winning record overall. People still fret about how we need more pitching b/c a couple guys sort of suck.

Damn, Blanco's wife just had a baby a day ago. I'd like to think that both pregnancies happened during a key party amongst the Astros starting pitching staff right after JV came back and brought Kate with him. And that Case McCoy has the tape somewhere.

We tuned this into a game on our podcast, and winner gets 4 tickets of choice to Astros, or if not Astros fan some other prize. how the game works 1 point for every over or under you get right. 1 point for every playoff team. 2 for every playoff round. 3 for AL champ and 3 for MVP, CY Young and ROY. over unders on pod. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IuDVTJWSgwc6ntn0CYubV?si=XHh9RVoKS-KkVIO4DBYJkA

The one where we preview the American League and pick all the division winners, wild cards, bet on all the teams over unders and major awards. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IuDVTJWSgwc6ntn0CYubV?si=XHh9RVoKS-KkVIO4DBYJkA

Clemson was the app- now when Yale pulls through I am cruising.

Anyone want 4 for preseason on Tuesday? free.

Does anyone else on the team own a glove? also- Vic the dick.

I think I have 30 points. @Huckleberry where we at on our likelihood of scoring? I assume I will be down, after this round, to a potential of 18 points for UConn winning it all and everyone else eliminated (maybe Illinois) but hoping this is the one shining moment for me I can dream on having an 11% chance of winning.

Fucking Yale.

Yale motherfuckers. Told you I was super pumped to have them and shocked they fell that far.

Kentucky for me I believe. Down in flames. I’ve finished second a couple times in a row. This is much better than that.

I was estatic to get Yale btw. Also wanted Grand Canyon.

Not.

I’d be happy to talk through it with you if you want. I’m not going to do the loan for you bc a regional bank or CU would do it better and cheaper than me but I’d be happy to talk through the scenarios with you. 832-557-1095.

I responded back with "prepare your anus". Because you could get more head and longwood shoved up your anus. Because you like that stuff. Ha. I'm 12 again. Also, explaining super obvious jokes that everyone gets tediously is the height of humor.

I took Uconn in round 4 b/c I really believe they are going to win the tournament and get me 21 points, which feels like the right time to take a team that you expect to win 10 points, might win 15 and has a fighting shot at 21.

Yeah but he took one in the 5th round and 1 in the 7th round so that's pretty good value, really. He didn't go too early.

Yeah- well like- that's just your (computer's) opinion man. I've watched less hoops this year than I have in probably 8 years (since Shaka had the awful season) so this tracks with me anecdotally.

Motion to have Huck assign the remaining teams by ranking on his computer system if anyone doesn't respond within 15 minutes of being summoned to get this over with- as it's all nonsense from here on out...

Yale (Can't believe they are still here- had my eye on them for 15 picks St. Peters (Gosh I hope Barnes doesn't lose that game). @shadow_operative

Yale- 13 Morehead St- 14 Oakland-14 Long Beach ST- 15 St Peters- 15 S. Dakota ST- 15 Longwood- 16 Stetson- 16 ?????- 16 ??????- 16

Anyone here/read about what the fed said? We are still up 15 bips in the mortgage market so it must not have been horrible. WE were up 10 before they released whatever they release so it also must not have been great. Market looks like it's shrugging it off..

Carolina- 1 Houston- 1 Yale- 13 Morehead St- 14 Akron-14 Oakland-14 Long Beach ST- 15 St Peters- 15 Western KY- 15 S. Dakota ST- 15 Longwood- 16 Stetson- 16 ?????- 16