Everything posted by Wulaw Horn
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Glad we could start this inning off with a walk.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
No- that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying I don’t think he’s that bad a baseball player as what his results currently show.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
About time Christian Walker. I don’t think he’s that bad.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Eh- give him another year. Hes young for the level, he walks a ton, he’s got high athletic upside, plays a premium up the middle defensive position and he’s got plenty of thump for extra base power, all while hitting the ball hard. I don’t particularly believe in his hit tool and I’d bet against him being a stud/star, but it’s way too early to say that definitively. he struggled some in AA last year, I believe, before lighting the league on fire toward the end of like 850 type ops in a very tough league for hitters in the Texas league. he’s probably my favorite everyday prospect that’s not a teenager, but that’s damning with faint praise in this system. I love like 5 or 6 pitching prospects in the system and wouldn’t be surprised if we graduated a cy young type, a fringe all star type, and a half dozen MOR/BOR from our system right now.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Life is good and we are about to start racking up win after win after win.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I mean, Altuve isn’t good (defensively) at 2B. Like, he was probably the worst 2B in all of baseball last year (defensively).
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Let’s just say I don’t expect the season to end that way.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Fucking fatass maldy with a terrible passed ball. So glad he’s not our problem anymore. Yordan without a single base knock in the 1st inning is fun.
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2025 NFL Draft
Connor drafted and Majors not is the first I've ever seen that 2fer.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Arrighetti on the bump- feeling good. Oh. Well. Anyway.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
He wasn’t playing tackle here or even first tackle off the bench with Banks, Jones and Williams. I’d say you got the guy that probably had the best post Texas career in the portal era.
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2025 NFL Draft
1/2 the 6th round picks make a roster in year 1, 20% make it to year 3. That’s why 6th round makes sense. If he’s not in jail he’s on the team. He’s got no record and he’s got money- I’d think he’d be able to work something out but I haven’t gotten past the headlines so no real idea.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Can smith had a good day Sunday so he hits 7th Monday. Takes the collar Monday so he hits 8th today. Smart stuff from that big dummy.
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2025 NFL Draft
I would think he would represent very real value and risk reward at the 6th round level at the latest.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Dubon playing 5 days in a row does me.
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So excited to go to the SEC with these Tennessee assholes
The dumb thing about Texas and Meyer not working out b/c of the bag game infrastructure was that we already had the word NIL/the portal was going to be a thing (hadn't happened yet but was known) and it should have been an absolute non-issue for Urban. Uh, dude, we are going to kill it in the transfer portal man, there's no concern there. And then we did after Sark's first year. If he would have had a shred of foresight he'd have happily taken the job, but then again if he had that he wouldn't have taken a shitty Jags job, got fired inside a year and finger banged a 6 in public and made himself a laughing stock, so, dodged that bullet I guess. I wasn't sure if Urban went dirty at Florida from a money standpoint but he clearly did from a program standpoint. I excepted him b/c that whole thing seemed to me like an aberration from them during his time there, especially compared to the rest of their conference bretheren. Thanks for the color.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I think in a theoretical world where he wasn't a diva, sure. But that wasn't how it worked out in real life so i'm pretty sure either the door wasn't open for him to return or we didn't do anything to keep him from walking out said door. There are some guys that played fine elsewhere that we kept, but I really don't recall a time where we lost a guy the coaches wanted and none of what's being brought up here counts.
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So excited to go to the SEC with these Tennessee assholes
I know you don't mean it literally when you say every SEC school other than Vandy, but was Florida ever a real player in the bag game? I thought they pretty much sat that out, outside of Urban, but maybe that was wrong and I was dumb to buy into the myth of Spurrier running a clean-ish program and the guys after him not really playing that game.
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2025 NFL Draft
Innocent until proven guilty bro- why do you hate America? I'd think he gets drafted somewhere but maybe all 30 teams take him off their draft boards.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
He is the definition of a guy that we were not trying to keep when I say that. He graduated. He was a good soldier. He maximized. There were 5 or 6 ends better than him at the time he left so he wasn't getting any playing time.
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2025 NFL Draft
You had 9 bro on the same day in early October I had 14, so.... This is just a sampling from the first couple pages. When Gerry had his draft board at 13 or 14 or whatever you said he was me hopped up on psycadelics. To be clear- I have a back and forth between us here where I'm stressing that 16 is best case scenario but the main point is that will be closer to correct than the people saying 9 or 10 (you had 9). We didn't win the national title, not everyone self actualized (I never thought or suspected they would- I was just putting a complete and total outer bound on what could happen if everything goes perfect- which it never does in the real world). But from 10/4 on my locks are all getting drafted- my likely 5 that I predicted 4 would go in the draft looks exactly like 4, and my coin flip 6 that I said pick 2 of looks like exactly 2. From that point on I maintained that the over under number was 12.5 and I was betting over. I'm happy it's not 16 and that Taaffe, Moore and DJ, all of whom would have been drafted, are coming back.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Interesting. Neither of those guys would be people I thought we were actively trying to keep, but Sark refuses to answer my calls about roster management, the bastard...
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I’m probably dumb and have forgotten someone, but have we lost a single guy to the portal that we didn’t want to/didn’t more or less actively encourage to go be fat (or suck) somewhere else?
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So excited to go to the SEC with these Tennessee assholes
Toby Keith is dead and not walking through that door. We are fine and they are screwed. Act accordingly.
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2025 NFL Draft
257 picks in the draft. Just saw a write up where 13 are in the top 200, Hayden Connor projected to be drafted at 241 and Bolden just outside the draft at like 300. bolden could get drafted and Connor not, obviously, or both or neither, but continues to look like 14 is the number, 13 more likely than 15, but definitely higher than 12. I set the over under at 12.5 and bet over so I’m super confident. Note- when I said we had an outside chance at 16 (around September 11) and before the season, and everyone mocked me, I said if everyone that could go and get drafted declared. It looks like 14 right now, and Campbell and Taaffe and Trey Moore absolutely would have been drafted had they declared, so bam- what started as mockery has again led to me being dead balls on accurate. Y’all are welcome. I panicked too early on Blue, was from the future on Broughton, majors and Connor having good shots at it, but gave too much credence to Holmes and Gbenda getting drafted for too long. Should have cut bait on those dudes earlier. The point was always, though, people saying 8 for sure and maybe 10 were seriously understating it and this was the optimistic case push back to that all along.