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  1. Literally no one thought that. If he was healthy enough to play he wouldn’t have retired. You want to start a rookie (and not a broadly regarded one) on a team with championship aspirations? He’s had about 220 AAA at bats between last season and this one and there’s only the early 2024 hot streak to justify claiming Chas’ spot. As far as Abreu, there’s a pretty good chance that this was always the plan and he’ll be on notice once he’s back. If you want him gone you should see this as a positive. $40m is a lot to eat for anybody that isn’t in NY or LA.
  2. Ah, the "lull them to sleep" gambit, AKA Lupe Valdez but darker and with more muscles instead of an LEO background. Beto created a pretty good template for how to campaign and could have crafted a credible run in another race against a candidate with high negatives (say Dan Patrick) had he not gotten googley eyed about POTUS and gone hard left on guns. I bet if we asked 100 random Texas voters who Colin Allred is 90 of them will have no or a wrong answer.
  3. Yeah, I don’t know why we’d want to add another non-shooter. Sengun is going to have three dudes guarding him.
  4. I think you gents are in more agreement than the tone of your posts might suggest… I think Washpark is trying to rebut the idea that “deficits=always bad” rather than justify the current budget. Also, @Dbeasy, if I might quibble, neither Congress nor the executive branch sets monetary policy. They do set fiscal policy, however. I don’t really blame them—apparently getting elected to any Federal office is better than cocaine for a certain personality type. It’s the electorate that’s really to blame.
  5. I’m not sure the economics on it are clear, but Houston construction needs to adopt Pacific tsunami technologies. It seems like there’s a 100 year event now every five years.
  6. This might have been on Shaggy but in a predecessor version of this conversation @Bozo_Casanova made the point that what we think of as “defense” is an enormous government program combining actual defense, a jobs program both in the DoD directly and via procurement (all of which has to be sourced in the US and often is located in mid-size or smaller population centers), a retirement and healthcare system, etc. I’m sure he had some other points to describe the leviathan but I think the main idea was that a lot of what we call defense spending is just a transfer payment by another name.
  7. This-BYD isn’t making $10k EV’s because of low-cost labor and technology innovation. The CCP wants to dominate market share after watching Japan and Korea do the same successfully with consumer electronics.
  8. Why is Snoop from the wire stealing “All Gas No Breaks” from Sark?
  9. Brooks looks like a drag rat in hand me down clothes.
  10. Game of Thrones in space by the look of it…
  11. That’s my objection to him. Also, I think his type is more available in trade or free agency than less skilled/more athletic players.
  12. Got to be Chalamet. I bet Driver would vote for him, too.
  13. LCHorn

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    Has anyone tried Bambino yet? If so, what's the verdict?
  14. Not to poo-poo on the idea because Flood might very well be Alex Gibbs or Joe Bugel level great, but citing a Ketchum level hack who is principally using years of experience at a high profile program as his metric isn’t a great way to support it. I think if anything, we’ve learned that the recruiting services are pretty bad evaluators of high school line play and that it might be true that Flood isn’t ONLY hunting 5-stars.
  15. Have you considered something like Stratfor? If I had a PhD in Asian Studies I’d also be looking at anything Federal related (State, DoD contractor). Once to get your foot in the door it should be pretty easy to shuffle around and this probably makes your resume better for a future return to academia if you hope for that.
  16. Not at all, in fact I’m sure the creators of Lost would point to the Fallout games as an inspiration for the Dharma initiative.
  17. I think there’s merit in taking a Golden Triangle Shane Dronett style sociopath in every class and maybe this one is it for ‘25. You can always get rid of them later when they get arrested or caught ripping the door off some poor girls room at Hardin House. On the other hand, Dronett NEVER took a photo like this…
  18. If you scout just the 2020 and 2021 drafts (so guys coming up on extensions and because they are NBA 2 guards all feel entitled to the max), it's a couple of dudes like LaMelo Ball that have an upgrade on Green in one area but downgrade in another (or they aren't going to be available in a Green plus 3 swap). It makes me think that the Rockets might look to upgrade elsewhere with those same chips and use Whitmore or Thompson at the two.
  19. I don’t know why we’d want to pay for the downside of VanFleet’s career. I’ve been reading draft stuff all morning and the only consensus seems to be that this is a really shitty draft.
  20. This-also, I’m not really knowledgeable about current NBA talent in general, but just looking at PER paints a somewhat dire picture for upgrading over Green. There’s definitely not a Harden who is obviously poised to bloom with more minutes. Mitchell is really the only one that looks possibly attainable and/or has a peak that appears to line up well with Sengun, et.al.
  21. Are you being facetious? It’s Big 10 and about the secondary coach. I doubt he even cares how many games they win, this is all about positional development for next year’s drafts.
  22. Just don’t write his name three times…
  23. Wow--third pick is actually somewhat more useful than the first pick for this Rockets team. First pick and they'd feel compelled to keep it and I don't like any of the options at the top of the draft.
  24. If it helps Neris has been super lucky but is walking almost one per inning, Maton has pitched like crap, and Stanek has been okay but not 2022 good. Every time I try to armchair QB this team (“what’s Jordan Montgomery going? Oooooh…”) I see the road not taken wouldn’t have been of much help. Honestly that’s why we need a Luhnow type again. It’s the road the fan doesn’t see that we need to get on.
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