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  1. This is continuing off topic but that episode was so well done it elevated the entire series.
  2. I always recommend starting out with Makers. I think it’s a little on the sweeter side but it’s otherwise just so squarely middle of the road. Knob Creek and BT are more interesting once you’ve developed a little bit of a palate.
  3. Let’s be honest, that was a really soft 30/20 at 26 in the PCL. Wasting 300 at bats on him last year was a canary in the coal mine that Dusty was on his own program.
  4. Back when Elarton came up Baseball Prospectus ran an article on the, at the time, discarded practice of apprenticing your top pitching prospects as relievers before moving them into the rotation. If I were GM that’s what I’d want to do with Brown. Also, @Macklemore, Kim Ng has done absolutely nothing to justify your faith that she’s Luhnow-esque. She, is however, excellent at leaking clubhouse intrigue to guys like Rosenthal and Stark, who in exchange drop her name for every GM vacancy and hint around there’s both racial and gender bias holding her back.
  5. If it was like Houston it would be four times the size and spread out. Personally I always really liked the concept but they needed to build 8+ floors of condos above the first floor retail to make it truly mixed use. Instead it’s kind of a weird, inorganic mix of commercial buildings.
  6. I don’t really think they are going to try to make a season 2 in earnest, this is more about giving themselves the best (somewhat legitimate) chance at a series Emmy. Marks and Kondo seem more interested in moving on to other things. They spent at least four years on this and had something to adapt. I doubt they are up for another four years playing in the same territory.
  7. I’m in the “take nothing for granted” camp at this point in the season. They’ve got to get a winning streak going.
  8. LCHorn

    Tex Mex

    Very rude…
  9. It’s kind of a testament to our weird faith in the team that we’re all still hopeful on an outcome that’s only happened 3 times in the history of MLB.
  10. In case anyone is curious about process, I FINALLY had my arbitration hearing on the 2023 valuation (Travis County) and had it successfully reduced to what I paid for the property in 12/21. There's definitely a learning curve with it--on ours, TCAD claimed a land value far in excess of what they could support, but that doesn't matter in arbitration--there is not (this was news to me) a burden of proof on the county at the arbitration hearing. One thing I knew was true coming off the ARB hearing but was reiterated by the arbitrator--you need to not just undermine the county's value, you've got to articulate what you think the actual value should be (I didn't do great at that, probably partially because I'm not an appraiser). Anyway, if someone has a question I'll try to answer it. I think winning does make it harder to support value increases in the future, i.e., "you're telling me the value of my property rose 15%, albeit held down by the HE, but my two neighbors only rose 8%?"
  11. That’s the kind of data that to me screams “he’s injured”. He’s gearing up for speed but can’t down-shift.
  12. I call bullshit on this one. First off, no one from Mississippi is smart enough to master one language, much less multiple. And they sure as shit wouldn’t be a bouncing from Spanish to Russian without learning French or Italian, and then to Japanese (Russian and Japanese are widely considered among the two most difficult to learn). And if you were learning languages for career advancement you’d never learn Farsi or Japanese ahead of Mandarin. It sounds like he has enough comprehension to perform party tricks and found an easy mark.
  13. I watched that on the Saturday morning on which it was originally broadcast and was SO disappointed when it ended up being a one-off.
  14. Looks like a young Mike McCaul, imo.
  15. Man, I want to like Hank’s so much but there’s just something off about the experience. I don’t know if it’s the space, the other diners, etc. I like that they have really tried to create a good place for a family to go eat and not feel like an Olive Garden and be relatively affordable. It just feels a little empty, kind of like it’s not recovered from the pandemic. We have a reserv at El Naranjo but now my wife wants to go Sour Duck, so maybe @HenryJames will be there and I can say “Hi! I’m from the internet!” like a real winner.
  16. I think this... begets this...
  17. Pretty sure it’s The Kingdom but my back up answer is Larry Wright’s The Siege.
  18. Leon, Loperfido, Corona, and that doesn’t include top prospect Melton. Most likely none of them are future all-stars but might have Chas McCormick level potential. In a lost season I’d probably give Trey Cabbage 200 at bats.
  19. It appears that Soto is turning into an Astro killer on a level with Jim Edmonds.
  20. I would trade Tucker and Valdez, at a minimum. There’s not really any reason to expect ‘25 to be much different than ‘24 with the same players, and your chances of a quick rebuild are far higher with the prospects or younger major leaguers. Plus, on paper we have outfielders ready for a tryout in the bigs and can afford to lose a starter (and Valdez as an immortal lefty will likely make me eat crow but he’s not the kind of young arm I’d want to commit long dollars to).
  21. This is a good recap. You can kind of see the strategy of taking developmental candidates against the most polished/expensive guys that A&M coveted. You can argue that the developmental takes could have been better but it also might too early to pass judgement. I think if you get one more DT in 2022 and Bo doesn’t leave for LSU (and therefore we retain Robinson) we’d probably be back to bitching about Gideon.
  22. All of this is also coinciding with Aggie buying up the market for two or three seasons preceding lawful NIL. We were at a pretty big disadvantage at DT, specifically, with Georgia, Bama, and LSU also willing to pay under the table when needed.
  23. That’s just loophole exploitation, the kind of shit Luhnow popularized with the Correa draft. I just saw the Ben Dubose tweet linked to on crawfish boxes and he makes a good point-the team has really been mediocre or worse going back to last year.
  24. I'd happily "settle" for Dave Roberts right now...
  25. It sounds like what you're saying is that TCAD doesn't need to improve anything because taxpayers should expect their tax appraisals to be inaccurate and it's a systemic problem state-wide. I would offer that's uncharacteristic of you--I would think Bozo would see inaccuracies on both sides of present market value as problematic. If every valuation you've seen over 8 years was low, isn't that starving municipalities of revenue to which they are entitled?
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