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  1. 1 minute ago, Deej said:

    Herman had a QB who, despite his defencencies, had the will to win and push his teammates. Now we have some jagoff who cleaned out his locker, allegedly, when he wasn't named starter. 

    I do think people underestimated how much value Sam provided and how much he would be missed. He had clear deficiencies as a QB but he fit that system fairly well and his running ability probably did more than we realized to help out our line.  

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  2. 40 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    We keep firing guys expecting for a 1st season miracle from the next hire and it’s not happening. But we can never pick the right guy like Aranda. We’re such a worthless program year after year. Why would any recruit want to sign up for this? We just need to accept we’re going to be a shitty program. We’re the rival that occasionally jumps up to get a win against our superior rival. But otherwise we’re just a middling program year after year. 

    You would think we would luck into a good hire after three chances. 
     

    i don’t think we’re Nebraska though where there’s just no good reason to expect being anything more than mediocre. We can still pay top dollar for coaching and still have the potential to recruit lights out. We just need the right coach. 

  3. This looks more like a Charlie team than a Herman team where by the end of the game we just don’t even look competitive.
     

    Is the talent level in the program back to where it was in 2015 and 2016?  What happened?  I thought Herman recruited well his first couple of seasons or was that a mirage?  
     

    I don’t want to come to any conclusions yet about how Sark will turn out here but at the same time this team isn’t coming to close to meeting our expectations (9+ wins and at least a threat to win the conference) heading into this season.  Maybe those expectations weren’t reasonable though. 

  4. 47 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    The Astros pen is pretty meh. We have a 162 game sample size- and for most other guys in there a career sample size- that says that.  It's interesting to see how good they have performed in this post season in the sense that it's a story- not in the sense that they are now the world beaters they are currently pitching like.  I hope the alarm clock doesn't wake them up for another 7 days, obviously, but I'm not going to all of a sudden start trusting them.

    It's not the Yankees or White Sox pens but the stuff from our relievers is pretty good.  Pressly is an elite closer.  Graveman has returned to form now that he's given up trying to bring his cruveball back.  Maton obviously has bigtime strikeout stuff and Javier has returned to form with his slider being one of the deadliest pitches thrown by anyone in this series.  Also, Raley is probably one of the most underrated relievers in the sport.

  5. 36 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    I’m saying this. 

    Only the crowd-sourced, FanGraghs champion would really care about such a small sample. 

    I'm using those stats descriptively.  I'm not using them to form any kind of prediction about how this series will play out from today.  I thought that was clear from my post but maybe it wasn't.  

  6. 7 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Fozzz with the wOBA after 2 games. Never change, bro. 

    What are you trying to say?  I'm just pointing out that the Astros pen has been dominant since at least the beginning of the ALCS.  If the Astros end up winning the World Series they will be one of the biggest reasons why.

    The way the Astros have constructed their pen interests me.  They have really invested in the gyroball fad with Pressly, Yimi, and particularly Maton, the king of gyrospin.  

  7. 1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

    Agreed but after what we saw from Framber and Garcia in gms 5 and 6 I'm pretty convinced that the Astros figured something out about the Red Sox "dark arts" and/or realized what their pitching was doing wrong and adjusted accordingly. If they are pounding the zone like they did in those games, the Astros are going to be hard to beat.

    Possibly, but I think both pitchers had better stuff and located much better in their second appearances of the series. Hopefully that carries over as I was convinced Garcia was finished this year. If Framber and Garcia are still locating in the mid-90s I think we are in good shape. 

  8. 20 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

     

    Ozzie Albies hit 40 doubles, 30 HR, drove in 106 rbi, and stole 20 bases. he's decent.

    also Adam Duvall led the league in RBI.

    That’s nice but Albies doesn’t get on base all that often so overall he’s been about average the past couple of seasons and his xwOBA doesn’t indicate that he’s been unlucky either.  Duvall isn’t all that much different. Neither has had a  >.350 xwOBA in their respective careers. Yawn. 

  9. I think the White Sox are probably the best team the Astros will have faced in the post-season.  They had the best pitching staff in baseball and a well-above average hitting lineup, with their only real flaw being their fielding.  I'm still surprised we blew up their starters in each game of that series.

    The Braves are good at a lot of things but aren't really elite at anything.  I think Riley, Freeman, and Soler are good hitters, but after that the lineup fades pretty quickly.  Rosario and Pederson have been hot but both are generally average hitters.  

    With that being said, I think this series will probably come down to which versions of Valdez, Garcia, and Javier the Astros get in this series.  Those three guys turned the ALCS around and shut a red hot Red Sox offense down.  If they play like they did in games 4-6 of the ALCS then I think the Astros win fairly comfortably, if not then this series could go either way.  

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  10. 44 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    Calling it

    maldy will be fine today.

    I don’t know exactly what he’s going to do but it will be helpful to the outcome.

     

    …or, he’ll only get one plate appearance and Castro will PH against the first righty out of the pen that’s brought in to face Yuli and Siri after Tucker knocks sale out of the game 

    He's at least been putting the ball in the air lately.  Hopefully he can keep doing that and hopefully take a walk.  That's really the only part of his offensive game that's a plus.  

  11. 11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Castro needs some credit too for playing it so cool on that pitch 

    People were complaining about Cora using Eovaldi there but he is locked in until he either got rattled by that Castro hit or ran out of gas.  That was an extremely tough AB by Castro.  No way in Hell is Maldy able to foul off that heater at the top of the zone to get to that hanging splitter.  

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  12. 6 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    Exactly. Just came to post that. Had the Astros hinch  and lunhow the way the Red Sox kept Cora they would be talking about it with a billion articles of how wrong it is. So every Red Sox, dodger and yankee fan can suck a huge, veiny, aid infested cock.

    And Hinch's greatest crime was that he didn't protest it's used hard enough, unlike Cora who actually instigated for it and helped design it.  Also, they couldn't even find any concrete evidence linking Luhnow to the scheme (though i'm sure he was aware to some extent).  Luhnow built the whole fucking org from the foundation up and losing him was a very heavy price to pay.  And these idiot fans are screaming "cheaters" after the game.  lmao.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

     

    The guy had no business calling that game.  The fact that post-season work isn't merit based in some fashion is absurd but this is MLB.  I also don't buy the ump union being the entire and insuperable roadblock to fixing some of these issues.  Just negotiate.  

  14. 22 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Jeff Passan's bullshit is part of ESPN's ongoing campaign to make sure everyone is focused on how the Astros only win when they're cheating or getting bullshit calls so that no one talks about the Yankees, Red Sox, and Dodgers scandals.  They know where their baseball bread is buttered.

    Meanwhile, the Yankees and Red Sox cheated their asses off recently and have been getting calls for decades, but it's the Astros who are in their 5th straight ALCS.  But only because they're cheaters and lucky, obv.  And the Dodgers employed roid freak Yasiel Puig and anal rapist Trevor Bauer, and the Yankees employed woman beater Aroldis Chapman, but it's only a big deal when the Astros sign Roberto Osuna, ya see?  The Red Sox and Yankees have been involved in multiple cheating scandals recently, but only the Astros' sign-stealing is still being talked about years later.

    Yawn.

    The fact that Cora, one of the two main architects of the system, is permitted to be a manager shows what a joke the whole thing was.  They finally got rid of Luhnow though, which is probably what the league really wanted.  

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  15. Saying you see the strike zone as a "binary" when an ump is calling balls/strikes is so preposterous.  Hitters do not see it that way and are not going to swing at those kinds of pitches because they know there's a good chance that it's not going to get called even if it does catch a piece of the zone.  

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