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    Sure, for someone like Devin Williams (who is not on the block, obviously). I'm not against moving prospects and the Astros have done a pretty good job at keeping the ones that matter so far (Hader excepted).
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    This is the kind of logic that leads to signing Carlos Lee.
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    I suppose disagreeing on the internet means everything must be binary but no one is suggesting that Lee could have been traded for a star, nor do most outlets consider the Astros system bereft of talent (I think the consensus is it's in the middle of the pack and lacks the kind of headline talent that tends to be highlighted in the top five systems). My point remains that trading Korey Lee today minimizes his value (he's underperformed in a super small sample size and is currently injured) and there appeared to be a spot for him on next year's team. I'd rather have traded off an outfielder, even Gilbert, who might have more trade value and first round pick shine for a better reliever.
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    Exactly, and thank you. Obviously there were exceptions but the beauty of Luhnow's trades is you could see the nerdy math behind most of them. If you think Graveman will outperform his season thus far then that's a prediction that's unsupported by what he's done so far. Personally, I was also holding out hope that Lee sitting around needing at bats would give Brown leverage to fire Maldy out into the great limbo of free agency. Now I have to read Chandler Rome writing about how valuable he was to the development of pitchers like Javier and Brown and how you can't quantify leadership.
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    That's the other part of this; he's been pretty shitty this year. You're basically using him as a substitute for 15 innings from Stanek and 15 innings from Seth Martinez, both of whom similar, or better, peripherals.
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    If his trade value isn’t high why trade him?
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    Not one that might be MORE valuable after a couple of years of service time. I mean, look at some of that trade suggestions online for Jake fucking Rogers, who is basically Lee with service time and maybe 5% more pitch selectivity.
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    My position, too. Lee was going to be very useful as a platoon mate next season and Graveman’s peripherals are terrible and he’s about been used heavy this year so not a great solution to an overworked bullpen. This smacks of “well, we did something,” when all the alternatives appeared worse.
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    I think it's telling that three days after broadcast few even care to comment on it.
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    I'm floating one after losing a deal to UFCU purely due to market improvement two weeks ago.
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    I've decided that Habib is that little girl standing in front of a house burning meme.
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    So which position player should we have throw the last three innings?
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    I don’t know, I thought Spider-Man/Dr Strange team-up used it perfectly. What does that have to do with Secret Invasion, though? Loki and Hawkeye were both good. I didn’t watch Ms Marvel and She Hulk appeared to be an ambitious miss (trying to make a 4th wall breaking comedy was at least an attempt at something different). Wandavsion was very ambitious even if the climax was rather conventional. I think Secret Invasion is just very much lacking in vision and is super low energy for some reason.
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    As long as we are venting about IT posters, Nahlin wrote something last year about "pants pissers" and now every other post feels compelled to reuse it. Best analogy to it I can come up with is when Trump (no CR) would refer to Covid as the "China virus" and his supporters adopted it, presumably as a way to self-identify to each other. Except in IT's case it reeks of sycophancy, a phenomenon I've observed at all the pay sites for their mods. I'm not sure what favors someone like Ketch or Liucci have available to bestow, maybe it's just the validation of an occasional shout out. Either way it's always struck me as very weird.
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    The Stephen King Thread

    LCHorn replied to dcbc's topic in Books

    Ugh, that’s what I get for typing on my phone. “Covering the pipe was a spider WEB and cocooned within it were several kittens.”
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    The Stephen King Thread

    LCHorn replied to dcbc's topic in Books

    I love Night Shift even more if you understand the context under which the short stories were written-exploitive, EC comic style short stories written for porno mags by a part-time freelancer looking for any extra cash possible. Not my favorite but Gray Matter refers to a haunting image that’s not really a spoiler that I’ll share and has stuck with me-in the story a bunch of regulars at a bar are recounting spooky tales; one of them describes a postman who, on his delivery route, passed one of those large storm drain pipes, the kind large for a man to crawl into. Covering the pipe was a spider man and cocooned in the web were several kittens. He never saw the spider.
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    I’m very intrigued by what Gordon Green might come up with.
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    Thanks man, that just sent me down the rabbit hole of looking through the Pirates records from 2013-present. I had zero recollection of their 2015 98 win season.
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    I was thinking about this yesterday and Pena's performance is really being overlooked in light of the other struggles on the roster. Keith Law updated his top 60 prospect list the other day and Baltimore has a SS that's blocked in AAA behind Gunnar Henderson with Jackson Holliday coming in behind him (Joey Ortiz). Very different game from Pena (far better contact ability/strike zone judgement with less power). I wonder if there's any chance of a match there, maybe on a three-way trade.
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    Hah! Catching up on this thread-my Mom cut out a bunch of Longhorn articles from the Statesman for me when I was in Iraq in 2005 and just gave them to me the other day. “Just found these in case you want to have them.” Even worse it was all Kirk Bohls commentary pieces.
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    I was also in Charleston for the fourth and posted about the talent on display on the travel thread (also it was crazy humid). What was interesting to me was the age diversity. Groups of college age girls, older groups there for bachelorette parties, more middle aged groups doing girl weekend getaways. It must check a lot of boxes considering there’s not much nightlife.
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    I feel like Mexico City is a slam dunk.
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    Pretty sure Jeremy Piven has made the move to Austin, as well.
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    That’s terrific news for my investment in a Noah Baumbach helmed “Hot Wheels” movie listed on the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
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    Pizza

    LCHorn replied to blacklab's topic in Austin

    Cursed location, imo. This is probably a stupid reason to not try it out but they’ve been direct mailing coupons and my record with nearby pizza shops advertising with such medieval methods has been universally poor.

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