Everything posted by LCHorn
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I read it as they are putting a dollar amount on each player and that’s based on an analysis incorporating demand, supply, and current roster. In other words, making a bigger splash is most likely constrained by a) who might be poised to come on the market as the playoffs proceed and b) if you’re exceeding what you’re paying for guys like Wingo and maybe retaining Golden, then do you also have to make a bigger commitment there.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Typically we expect increased demand for treasuries to lead to lower rates.
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Interstellar re-release
I think the Bullock sold out for all showings. I don’t know the reason but it’s too bad they can extend the release when that happens.
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
I think Pelosi would agree she needs to go. It’s mostly that the cohort behind her lacks any nerve and she knows it.
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Open for Xmas?
We made reservations for La Pascina at the Austin Proper. I cooked last year and it was amazing pretty much all I did on Christmas Day.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
That was a good trade for the Yankees. Use their ridiculous local revenue as a super power.
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Anybody use these portable outdoor pizza ovens?
I’ve become obnoxiously experienced with the TJ’s dough and you have to either dust it with flour or with olive oil. It’s also much better after three or four days in the fridge and worse after seven. If you’re working with a stone I also need to put some corn meal on it and not everyone goes for that.
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2025 Celebrity Death Pool
She’ll hang on until at least 30 seconds has passed after Trump has breathed his last.
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Blastfurnace 2024
You’re not kidding. I’ve just went outside and killed 3 of them in two minutes. At least they are moving slow.
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Silo (Apple TV+) - Premiers May 5th
Also, I don’t understand how/why judicial can’t fast-rope down. That’s low tech.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I guess we’re going to see, outside of exceptional circumstances, back-up QB’s as kind of itinerant journeyman who transfer annually in search of more playing time. Maybe four schools in four years becomes less of a stigma.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
I think if you sign one FA that requires draft compensation then they should just go crazy with it.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
I think they have to move Valdez for an outfielder. Also, I don’t understand how Tampa managed to trade a decent reliever, a AAAA 3b and a lotto ticket pitcher for Paredes and the cost for us is one of the best players in baseball.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
I’m underwhelmed if that’s the big pieces.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Not sure I agree with this one, either. I think the rise in insurance cost will be changing the cost/benefit in certain areas but Austin should be a winner there compared to Houston (hurricanes) and Dallas (the enormous sucking due to proximity to Oklahoma). Also, I’m not seeing any health insurers struggling to make a profit. Be honest, you drive a Cybertruck, right? 😉
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Not sure I agree with this one (in that a recession hurts tech worse than other industries)-care to elaborate?
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Queer (Daniel Craig)
Why do you need to be a homo to be into this? My wife and I both thought Call Me By Your Name was terrific. A Portrait of a Woman on Fire was also excellent. I think one of the reviews for it made the case that you can’t really do forbidden romance anymore except with same sex lovers because so little is forbidden.
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Shrinking (Apple TV)
Care to elaborate? I mentioned upthread that I’m getting close to hate watching this show, and while that diminished in the last couple of weeks, I think it’s due mostly to declining expectations. I was watching Segel in the first scene of this week’s episode thinking “if the camera wasn’t in close up and the lighting was worse, add a laugh track and this is a sitcom”. The fact I can’t stand sitcoms but love Ted Lasso probably speaks more to the recognition by the production team that shooting a sitcom like a drama seems to work better in the 2020’s. Here it seems to be trying too hard.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
This-I wouldn’t want to start wishing for the opposite but clearly the market isn’t taking the lead from the Fed at the moments.
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Google’s Quantum chip Willow
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
If we’re going all in on ‘25 we have to resign Bregman and anyone else that can add wins to this team.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
First off, I appreciate you feeding my news addiction. Other hand, you deserve permaban for posting something from that moron.
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
- 24/25 Astros Offseason thread
I agree that’s a presumption that gets repeated by sports media, and it seems intuitively true. Fangraphs (I think) did an article last season on Justin Turner and made a case that his bat speed was shit but he made it work because he was so selective about which pitches to swing at. At the time I read it, Bregman was off to his usual slow start and I wondered if the same thing was happening to him (let’s recall that the exit velocity stats have never favored Bregman and I presume it’s partially bat speed driven). If you look at Springers stats, the eye is holding up and if his contact could improve enough to raise his batting average by 50 points he’s probably a fringe all-star (I’m not equipped to evaluate defense and if he’s fallen off a lot there I wouldn’t opine).- 24/25 Astros Offseason thread
Oh yeah, of course. The question is whether there’s a way to obtain discounted Wins taking older players and using them in unusual ways. A more common variation of this would be moving a mediocre starter to closer where they can pump velocity better in short stints. We haven’t really seen this tried much with position players, maybe because it doesn’t work, rosters are too short, etc. If I was trying to dream up how it might look, however, I would start with someone who was a terrific athlete like Springer and/ or someone who can’t stay healthy like Brantley. I don’t follow the Dodgers much but I think they attempted a variation of this idea with Justin Turner. I can’t recall the Baseball Prospectus writer whose dad was an orthopedic surgeon or something and he would write about injuries mostly, but they’ve been promoting the idea that health is the sixth tool for 20 years. - 24/25 Astros Offseason thread
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