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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 27, 2019, 02:15:54 pm »
And about shooting him in the head and women are property.
Sounds like a charming fellow.
Sounds like a charming fellow.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 23, 2019, 11:41:41 am »
Jim is absolutely right about one thing - the garbage can beating is totally immaterial to anything at all. If the league can find concrete evidence that the Astros used technology to steal signs after the directive came down in September of 2017 or whenever it was, fine. If not, they should be told, very politely, to go fuck themselves.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2020 Hall of Fame
« on: November 23, 2019, 11:36:51 am »I like how he had the Jeffrey Mier "home run" on the positive side of his postseason record seeing as how it should have been an out
That did not escape my notice, either.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 17, 2019, 09:02:52 pm »
There's someone on Twitter arguing vociferously that the person in question or at least the station in question pertains to the MLB replay system.
As is the new custom here I will refrain from linking to it.
As is the new custom here I will refrain from linking to it.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: November 17, 2019, 12:29:31 pm »
Just from my personal observation, it seems like the more MLB implements technology, the better the umpiring on the field gets. Sure, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's terrible, but across the board it seems to be getting incrementally better.
The NFL is most definitely going in the other direction. I used to be pretty happy with the officiating week to week, whether I was watching games I was invested in or not. This year in particular, the officiating is worse than it has ever been that I can remember. The more they implement technology, the worse it gets.
It's at the point where it's nearing NBA level bad, and that means unwatchably bad.
The NFL is most definitely going in the other direction. I used to be pretty happy with the officiating week to week, whether I was watching games I was invested in or not. This year in particular, the officiating is worse than it has ever been that I can remember. The more they implement technology, the worse it gets.
It's at the point where it's nearing NBA level bad, and that means unwatchably bad.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 17, 2019, 11:12:10 am »
The scouts were directed to film signs being given from the from the dugout, not try to intercept the catcher's signs.
It's puzzling to me that there seems to be little appetite to read the articles yet an abundance of enthusiasm to complain about the details.
I have no idea whether a team's filming bench signs, especially during a game that their team is not involved in, is a violation of league rules. Again, this effort was meant to try to decipher bench signs and decidedly not a scheme to relay improperly gained information in real time to players. All I know is that according to the article the scouts considered it wholly inappropriate and wanted no part of it.
It's puzzling to me that there seems to be little appetite to read the articles yet an abundance of enthusiasm to complain about the details.
I have no idea whether a team's filming bench signs, especially during a game that their team is not involved in, is a violation of league rules. Again, this effort was meant to try to decipher bench signs and decidedly not a scheme to relay improperly gained information in real time to players. All I know is that according to the article the scouts considered it wholly inappropriate and wanted no part of it.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 16, 2019, 09:42:45 pm »
With respect to this last piece, if true, and it probably is since the Athletic seems to have been forwarded tons of emails and Slack channel threads from someone (I wonder who) (Mike Elias coughcough), the thing that strikes me is the naivete of the person making the ask.
I mean, come on, dude, have you never seen scouts at work at a game? Don't you know they all sit more or less in the same place and they all know each other and one or two of them MIGHT notice if someone was fucking training a camera on the opposing team's dugout? God damn these McKinsey guys are lost in the real world.
This whole thing is bad and it's getting worse. And it will continue to get worse, I think.
I mean, come on, dude, have you never seen scouts at work at a game? Don't you know they all sit more or less in the same place and they all know each other and one or two of them MIGHT notice if someone was fucking training a camera on the opposing team's dugout? God damn these McKinsey guys are lost in the real world.
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Scouts discussed sign stealing with the executive outside of email as well, on phone calls and in a group Slack channel. Multiple Astros scouts said they were appalled by the possibility they would be asked to use a camera — and said that some scouts indeed voiced as much to management. Another scout noted a generally confounded feeling amongst the group by the overall request.
This whole thing is bad and it's getting worse. And it will continue to get worse, I think.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 16, 2019, 01:48:40 pm »
That's a hell of a good prank for a first grader. I like the cut of this little guy's jib, I like where he's headed.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 16, 2019, 12:28:20 pm »
This is what I mean by martyr complex. Literally none of what is being described is actually happening, despite many of you really, really wishing it would.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mlb-commissioner-on-astros-scandal-we-will-find-out-how-far-up-in-the-organization-it-went-131204081.html
"Some fans have wondered" is quite some distance from "Commissioner Manfred said."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mlb-commissioner-on-astros-scandal-we-will-find-out-how-far-up-in-the-organization-it-went-131204081.html
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So, what might a potential punishment even look like? On the extreme end, some fans have wondered whether the league would make the Astros vacate their 2017 title, akin to how the NCAA has punished college athletic programs like Louisville last year. Or MLB could slap an asterisk on the Astros’ 2017 title in all the record books. It could suspend or even permanently ban executives like GM Jeff Luhnow, who has been at the center of tech-related baseball scandals before. On the lower end of the spectrum, it could fine the team or the individuals involved.
"Some fans have wondered" is quite some distance from "Commissioner Manfred said."
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 16, 2019, 12:15:45 pm »Where was this stated? I have been trying to stay away from most of it, as I wanted to just wait for the official investigation to be over, but if this is the case, then shit...
It's a fever dream of some loudmouthed jackoff on WFAN.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 11:12:59 pm »I'm looking forward to a bobblehead of Orbit beating the hell out of a trash can. Not sure if he's a righty or a lefty.
You'd think that with all that McKinsey brainpower it would occur to someone to rotate the trash can so that the dude could hit the side that usually rests against the wall or, who knows, maybe swap it out for one in the concourse every month or something.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 11:01:11 pm »The side of the trashcan has a big wear spot that looks like it's been beaten to shit.
Looks like he likes it medium high and in. Typical righty.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 07:37:14 pm »
The Yelich video confuses me because the Bleacher Report guys don't seem to know the difference between right field and left field.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 07:23:56 pm »In the video of the Gattis at bat on Jomboy, the catcher is clearly not hiding the changeup sign. I've no doubts it could be seen by either base coach or the dugout.
There are many different videos with many different Astros batters playing against many different teams where the beating can be heard.
If they're picking up signs in the dugout, why the fuck would they have some goon beating on a trash can in the hallway? They could just do first name, last name. Or whistle Dixie, you know, normal things.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 12:27:37 pm »
I don't have the same martyr complex about this that a lot of you do, and if the Astros or any other team used or uses technology to cheat, they should be punished. But this, allegedly from a fucking GM, is the sort of thing that debases the discussion drives me into a blind rage.
When guys are on base?! It is totally legal for players to steal signs if they are on base, you fucking idiot.
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“They’ve been cheating, they still are cheating, and it’s time MLB puts a stop to it,’’ one National League GM said. “Come on, they won 60 games at home this year. Look at their numbers when guys are on base (MLB-best .282 average) since 2017. The banging of garbage cans and pipes (as a way to convey signs). The whistles. Everything.
When guys are on base?! It is totally legal for players to steal signs if they are on base, you fucking idiot.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 15, 2019, 10:57:46 am »One article today is quoting unidentified GMs as wanting the 2017 WS title vacated.
Where are you seeing this? I didn't look very hard, but neither could I find the video that shows banging in the game against the Yankees in April of this year.
Another thing that just occurred to me, someone absolutely has to use Bang a Gong as their walk-up music next year.
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Talk Zone / Re: Signal stealing haiku
« on: November 14, 2019, 09:28:18 pm »
The monitor gone
Hallway lonely, silhouette
Dejected, batless
Hallway lonely, silhouette
Dejected, batless
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 14, 2019, 03:59:38 pm »
But the good news is, this just gives the Astros another way to fuck with other teams. You'll have guys on the bench doing the Bridge Over the River Kwai, some joker in the hallway going Keith Moon on a trash can, dudes in the bullpen lined up waving like human semaphore... Next season is shaping up to be a lot of fun, Cole or no Cole.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 14, 2019, 03:55:59 pm »
I don't think so. I think there are two different methods being described here.
One, the Astros have a monitor in the hallway that carries the feed of a camera they have (hidden?) in centerfield somewhere. There's a guy with a bat watching the feed and whacking a trash can accordingly.
I think the bullpen catcher method is a totally different approach, and as plausible as I find the trash can conga, I don't see how this bullpen catcher business is supposed to work. For one thing, there are many, many facial closeups of batters throughout the game. I pay close attention to what they look at when the pitcher is on the mound (and before), and I have never seen anyone shoot glances out into right field, never mind regularly, never mind before literally every pitch.
One, the Astros have a monitor in the hallway that carries the feed of a camera they have (hidden?) in centerfield somewhere. There's a guy with a bat watching the feed and whacking a trash can accordingly.
I think the bullpen catcher method is a totally different approach, and as plausible as I find the trash can conga, I don't see how this bullpen catcher business is supposed to work. For one thing, there are many, many facial closeups of batters throughout the game. I pay close attention to what they look at when the pitcher is on the mound (and before), and I have never seen anyone shoot glances out into right field, never mind regularly, never mind before literally every pitch.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 14, 2019, 01:23:57 pm »Stephen A. Smith now says Altuve’s walkoff against Chapman was 2019 sign stealing. Make it stop.
I wonder why he didn't swing at the slider Chapman threw immediately before.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 14, 2019, 09:49:51 am »
Yeah, I mean, obviously, the next time the Astros want to get a pitcher rattled just have someone start beating on shit in the hallway. Hell, do it on the road, too, spice things up a little.
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 14, 2019, 09:34:10 am »
Are they sure the dugout banging wasn't coming from Gardner?
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 13, 2019, 06:13:46 pm »
Wait. What if there are two guys in Torchy's stealing signs... and they're doppelgangers???
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Talk Zone / Re: More controversy
« on: November 13, 2019, 12:27:12 pm »So, lies are justified? You’ll have a great time with teen-aged children.
Others are welcome to feel differently, but to me, there is a wide difference between the sort of lies that AFiBD describes and the lies that were told in the wake of the Taubman incident. The Taubman thing got corrected, appropriate apologies were made and hopefully accepted, the book is closed on that unfortunate incident as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know that anyone is arguing that lying is justified, but if a pitcher whose shoulder is bothering him comes off the mound and tells the press, No, I felt great out there, well, I'm not ready to crucify him.
I have no great love for Beltran and no great love for the Mets, but his saying he knew nothing about it might mean just that he never asked for or received any of the information being offered. If it was happening, the whole team surely knew about it. But what are they supposed to say now? Yes, I knew, and I was scandalized! I mean, come on. These guys have surely all watched The First 48. Just keep quiet and there's only so much anyone can do.
Anyway, the banging noise is plainly audible to me through regular computer speakers, and clear as day if you wear headphones. The Astros were clearly using technology to steal signs in 2017. They were clearly not the only team to be doing so. I'm not sure what the statute of limitations is on something like that, and I don't know how useful it would be to litigate the misbehavior of any team from several seasons ago. I would hope that the league would just re-iterate its current policy regarding the use of technology to steal signs, and it might be useful to express what a minimum penalty for a violation might look like, loss of a first round pick, you know, whatever it might be.
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Talk Zone / Re: Reid Ryan phasing out
« on: November 09, 2019, 01:22:25 pm »
The deification of Nolan Ryan is and has always been a total mystery to me.
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Talk Zone / Re: Reid Ryan phasing out
« on: November 08, 2019, 09:22:37 am »Yes you will. It is right there in his name. I'm just grateful McLane's kids weren't interested back in the day.
McLane's kid was a Mets fan.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:49:48 pm »As a former Beltway Bandit, I always had fun at Nats games. We'll survive.
Where the hell do you live now?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:44:33 pm »
Urquidy came in and immediately got a perfect DP ground ball; it was just placed well. I don't know what more you could ask from him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:37:18 pm »
That's it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:36:41 pm »
Pitching to Soto was not a great call. I don't really mind his being conservative with Cole.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:21:50 pm »You're such a pajama-wearing pussy, Chuck. And you always have been.
You're too fucking stupid to wear velcro. Choke on a dick.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 10:11:22 pm »
800-799-7233
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 09:54:05 pm »
I'm starting to wonder about Yordan's approach at the plate.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 09:29:04 pm »
Greinke was amazing. Ace sort of effort.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 09:06:31 pm »
11-0 would be fine with me, just expressing a mild disappointment that it didn't happen once over 180 games.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 09:02:38 pm »
In my opinion, two is twice as good as one, but that run ruins for the year my quixotic quest to see the Astros win 1-0, my favorite sort of game. They have not won 1-0 all year. They did lose 1-0 once. It was a Verlander start, naturally.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 08:57:22 pm »
I'll admit it, I was not expecting that.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 08:45:25 pm »39
Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: October 30, 2019, 08:44:48 pm »
The dude is apparently a Democrat which naturally means that extorting an ally and demanding that they make up baseless nonsense out of whole cloth as domestic political assistance is actually perfectly OK. In fact, it's perfect.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 08:41:17 pm »
If you don't have to throw a strike to get a guy out, why the hell would you?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 7, October 30, 2019
« on: October 30, 2019, 08:36:14 pm »Soto may have gotten jobbed there.
You hate to see it.
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Talk Zone / Re: Game 7
« on: October 30, 2019, 12:50:34 pm »
Cole has never pitched in relief. I will be surprised if he pitches at all, and if he does, I can't imagine it will be to anyone other than Rendon and Soto. And I'm pretty comfortable having Smith face those two guys, to be honest.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 10:20:28 pm »
That was pretty terrible.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 10:01:42 pm »I’m listening on the radio. Who’s the guy they keep showing in the stands?
GM.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 10:01:18 pm »
Fuck this cocksucker.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:58:10 pm »
Martinez tossed.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:55:52 pm »
You necks are out of control. It's only three runs.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:51:57 pm »
Go fuck yourself you little cocksucker.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:46:35 pm »
And I certainly don't blame the runner for pulling that shit because it is rarely called.
Who the fuck is calling for this review?
Who the fuck is calling for this review?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:45:23 pm »
No homer, I don't see anything wrong with that call. That fucker was inside the baseline when he hit Yuli's glove. Bold, sure, but correct I think.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 09:11:05 pm »
It's impressive that George didn't let the raw assfucking take him out of his at bat.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 08:57:15 pm »
I never thought I'd say this with JV pitching, but the faster the Astros go to their pen, the better.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 08:47:49 pm »Well, I hit the Worrell button, and tuned in Sparks and Ford. Already feel better.
Good man.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 08:38:32 pm »Strasburg is fucking cruising. Feels like the Nats have been batting this whole game.
Time of possession not in the Astros' favor.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 07:29:42 pm »
They threw three, maybe four breaking balls on the outer half of the plate to Rendon. If you're going to do that, why the fuck would you abdicate your second baseman, especially with a runnier in scoring position?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 6, October 29, 2019
« on: October 29, 2019, 07:12:58 pm »
Big Band of Horses fan.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: October 28, 2019, 02:01:24 pm »That guy and his dad are there for every game. Just unbelievably impassive frog-faced old dudes. That's the first time I'd ever seen him in the MAGA hat. I imagine it wasn't a coincidence.
I believe they are brothers. Henry and Murray Itkin. Charming pair.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 5, October 27, 2019
« on: October 27, 2019, 10:06:31 pm »Did none of you notice the girls during the Robles at bat???
Yes.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 5, October 27, 2019
« on: October 27, 2019, 09:23:34 pm »
The Starland Vocal Band was from the DC area. I'm disappointed that this is not common knowledge among all of you.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 5, October 27, 2019
« on: October 27, 2019, 08:47:06 pm »
Maybe he should bunt.
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 27, 2019, 12:31:24 pm »Yesterday Crane sent a letter to Apstein apologizing to her and officially retracting the original bullshit statement.
“On behalf of the entire Astros organization, I want to personally apologize for the statement we issued on Monday October 21st,” Crane wrote. “We were wrong and I am sorry that we initially questioned your professionalism. We retract that statement, and I assure you that the Houston Astros will learn from this experience.”
That's good.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 11:01:38 pm »
Let Cole and the boys win tomorrow, take this shit back to Necktown, two to win one.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:59:57 pm »
Urquidy was ridiculous in the most important game of his life by some geometric margin. Very, very impressive.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:58:22 pm »
Won game four doo do do do do do
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:50:07 pm »
Good send, good throw, it happens.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:28:53 pm »
Why the fuck don't these arrogant fucks have the goddamn shortstop playing shortstop?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:13:18 pm »He was a closer.
And for a good team. What the Astros have now is not exactly Lidge to Dotel to Wagner, but the guys they have at the back of the pen you'd put up against anyone.
Yuli is a good dude. I'm starting to warm to that guy.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:06:01 pm »
Nice work, Hector.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 10:02:51 pm »Wagner, right? Wasn’t that the first game of a doubleheader?
He knows exactly who was pitching. He also knows who hit the slam. He also knows who almost hit four home runs for the Astros.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:47:22 pm »
I would like to think that all of us recall the various 9th inning comebacks against the Astros with a 7 run lead.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:34:40 pm »Which one of those white dudes in the stands is “Anonymous”?
It's the 'dude' with the attractive underbite
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:33:44 pm »That’s awesome.
Yeah, man, thanks, everybody's pretty clear on how serendipitous the whole thing was.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:27:04 pm »If Springer grounds to SS, I'm gonna throw my wine glass in the fireplace.
Fortunately for you and your crystal collection, this idiot can't throw a strike.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:20:12 pm »
When I have the perspective to look back on all of this I wonder if Josh James might end up pissing me off.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:19:03 pm »My mom fucked up her shoulder one morning when she was moving chairs around for her Sunday school class. She had to have it operated on and they found a small cancerous tumor in her right lung looking a pre-op x-ray. She had recently just been declared cancer free the previous year from breast cancer. That was after a lot of chemo. Anyway the lung cancer was very early and they got it all. She has one kidbney, hell she's been operated on 20 some odd times in her life. She's tougher than most.
My mom's a Sunday school teacher, too. Maybe there's something to that.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:17:42 pm »
Harris is ridiculous.
Someone find that fucker a bat.
Someone find that fucker a bat.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:14:00 pm »Better to be lucky than...well, just better to be lucky. 👍
Yeah, you know, for years she'd been coughing like a homeless guy who lives under a bridge. She'd had a scan a few years before that came back fine. In her mind, there was no reason to keep looking. She though it was allergies. That's what everyone told her. She came to visit me a few years ago and her cough was so fucking annoying that I told her, Look, your doctors aren't doing shit about this. I need you to find someone who will. I don't know what's wrong with you, but something is wrong, figure it out. This shit is unbearable.
She found a doctor who took thirty seconds to think about it, scheduled another scan, the one that found the tumor, prescribed her some acid reflux medication, so we ended up getting rid of the cancer AND the fucking coughing two for one.
I'll admit, it is harder to find her in Target now, but these are the sacrifices we make.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:03:49 pm »Also, the Nationals have banned The Wave.
If I find out they've banned Aramark I might have to buy a hat.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:02:59 pm »One of the very rare cases where they found it in stage 1A, almost by accident. Treatment has been hell on earth, and there is a higher risk of relapse, but it’s a miracle she’s made it this far.
My mom had lung cancer a few years ago and everywhere we went they asked, How the hell did you catch it this early? Well, the answer is, both of her sons are assholes and got tired of her relentless coughing which turned out to have nothing to do with the cancer. Got a scan, saw the tumor, lopped it off, here we are.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 09:00:24 pm »
I haven't spoken to my contempt for DC area sports fans, they are in sort of an unassuming manner some of the worst fans in the country. But I have enormous respect for the Nationals because they for some reason have managed to put together a team that plays really good defense. I commend Suzuki especially, but there are plenty of other guys that I'm getting tired of.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:48:33 pm »HPU is not giving urquidy the same calls on the edges that Corbin is receiving.
And he does not give one fuck.
Amazing outing.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:39:38 pm »It takes a lot of balls to call that a swing after what went on last night.
Yuli seemed to know it but I was far from sure.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:30:28 pm »
When Soto does his annoying back and forth dance in front of the box he reminds me of that weird Future Islands guy on Letterman.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:25:06 pm »Yeah, I think you are. He's up there to drive a run in with 2 outs.
That's what he was trying to do. And almost did. He beats out that bunt, he steals, maybe Mike drives HIM in with an easy single, etc.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:22:32 pm »
I might be in a minority here but I don't hate that.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:19:09 pm »
And I would not have had him steal with Springer at the plate. Shows what I know.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:15:51 pm »
I would have had Jake steal and then let Urquidy hit away.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:13:21 pm »
That's more or less what I was talking about.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:09:55 pm »
OutSTANding.
Remember when the bottom of the order used to kick ass and produce runs like the 3-4-5 in other teams' lineups? Now would be an OK time to get back to that.
Remember when the bottom of the order used to kick ass and produce runs like the 3-4-5 in other teams' lineups? Now would be an OK time to get back to that.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 07:51:18 pm »Cards in the dugout?
Fuck no, they got sent home ten days ago.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 07:39:30 pm »
I've seen worse at-bats.
Also, Springer obviously does not know that you rush right up to the plate and swing at the first fucking pitch when you pitcher has just had an at bat. What the fuck is wrong with these millennials?
Also, Springer obviously does not know that you rush right up to the plate and swing at the first fucking pitch when you pitcher has just had an at bat. What the fuck is wrong with these millennials?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 07:33:28 pm »
I've come to accept that Redon is going to get a hit every time he goes to the plate, so just keep that cocksucker behind him from hitting the ball out of the park and maybe you can survive this thing.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 07:26:53 pm »
There is no way this idiot is going to give Urquidy the same zone.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 4, October 26, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 07:17:17 pm »
In my opinion, two runs is twice as good as one run.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 26, 2019, 12:54:02 am »
I appreciate the fact that he's a very technical sort of player. I've always been struck by his saying that he worries about where the knob of the bat is during his swing, and if the knob is where it needs to be, he knows his swing will be good.
But I do find myself wishing he had a little bit more of Altuve in him, see the ball, hit the ball, maybe not two feet off the plate, but swing at it without thinking too much.
He overthinks things, I believe.
But I do find myself wishing he had a little bit more of Altuve in him, see the ball, hit the ball, maybe not two feet off the plate, but swing at it without thinking too much.
He overthinks things, I believe.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:23:18 pm »
In all seriousness, that should be a great experience for you both.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:22:40 pm »My second son, Max - he's the real baseball fan.
Ah, good. Well, you do have quite a range to choose from.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:20:37 pm »And, more notably, me and my 7 year old.
Charles? That's not the one that always tries to hotfoot it out of there, is it? You'd want to take one of the more controllable ones if it's the World Series is what I would have thought.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:17:08 pm »
Well, boys, here's the good news. Game Five means Trumpy will make an appearance.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:12:19 pm »
Win tomorrow and make sure we take this thing back to Necktown. Win tomorrow, it's a new series.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 11:08:22 pm »
Mind boggling.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:54:53 pm »
Yeah, maybe what it says is that Joe Smith is really good.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:48:41 pm »They've mostly used Pressly as the get-out-of-jams guy.
I first read that as the get out of James guy.
Yeah, that too.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:47:52 pm »This isn’t the first time they’ve used Smith over Pressly in the post season, iirc.
No, but in previous situations I think it was mainly to attack left handed batters.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:43:42 pm »Speaks about Pressly, don't it?
Yeah, but I don't know what it says. Is he not healthy, does AJ not trust him fully? Maybe Smith has really good numbers against the guys due up.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:40:50 pm »
It's kind of curious that they're going to give the 8th to Smith.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:36:31 pm »
Surgical.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 10:28:05 pm »
Who knows how this is going to go, but Harris is the team's best reliever right now.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 09:55:33 pm »
Grab some bench doo do do do do do
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 09:49:23 pm »
Absolutely terrible.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 09:28:47 pm »
Struck him out doo do do do do do
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 09:07:01 pm »
I may be celebrated for my relentless optimism, but somehow I don't see a two run lead holding up here.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 08:59:52 pm »
Sorry bout that, Anabell, but he's calling that shit the same way for both teams, dickhead.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 08:42:25 pm »Greinke looked better than Correa.
He made good contact several times and eventually struck out on a pitch he actually could have hit. That's a triumph.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 07:43:37 pm »
That would have been a base hit if they'd had their shortstop out in right field somewhere like a normal team.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 07:36:31 pm »
He would have scored with a good throw. Carlos made an incredible read.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 3, October 25, 2019
« on: October 25, 2019, 07:18:54 pm »
MVP
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 25, 2019, 12:54:53 pm »Then it's likely there more as clickbait and pay me than anything else.
Not sure if serious... The Athletic is subscription driven and does not have ads of any kind. They don't do clickbait.
I thought this thread was a pretty cogent series of observations on the whole debacle:
https://twitter.com/eephusasher/status/1187544300680294401?s=21
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 11:24:53 pm »123
Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:55:17 pm »
That's just a fucking insult. God damn it, what a joke.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:54:07 pm »
Chimera.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:43:49 pm »
Well, all we need is a bloop and a blast and, uh, two grand slams and we're back in this thing!
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:26:49 pm »
Fox trolling the Astros with Space Oddity as the lead-in music.
Maybe next time they'll use Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up.
Maybe next time they'll use Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:11:51 pm »
By the way, each game Taubman is sitting one person further from Luhnow. So, you know, the Astros actually are pro-actively handling this internally.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:08:31 pm »I really feel for those people in the stands.
I don't. They have $3,000 to spend to go to a baseball game.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:06:12 pm »Did you miss the first batter?
If you've been missing him, well, here he is again.
MVP MVP
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 10:02:39 pm »
Game over, series over.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 09:55:38 pm »
This is not unfolding according to the script.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 08:27:24 pm »
I don't know who the hell Paul Rudd is but whoever he is, fuck him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 08:21:12 pm »
Nice stolen base there, chamo.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 08:19:11 pm »
Weird thing is, literally no one likes Joe Buck. You will never, ever find someone, football fan, baseball fan, dog show, whatever else he does, who tells you, You know what, I really like that guy.
Yet here we are.
Yet here we are.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 08:15:28 pm »
Eddings is a well known ball squeezer.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 07:53:14 pm »
Correa's striking out 45% of the time in the post season.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series, Game 2, October 23, 2019
« on: October 23, 2019, 07:28:51 pm »
What a motherfucking idiot.
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 23, 2019, 12:49:50 pm »The press release and now Luhnow’s comments are the reason why I counsel my clients to buy the crisis management add-on to insurance packages. Allowing senior executives to rake-step their way through interview after interview does nothing but generate clicks for the media and bad press for the individuals and organization.
This is nowhere near complicated. It's not that someone's offshore rig is spewing 400,000 barrels of oil into the ocean every half hour. Some baseball dweeb got liquored up and went a-bullyin'. Several of you knuckleheads have offered sample apologies that would have put this whole thing to bed immediately. It is absolutely mind bending that the people running the team couldn't (or wouldn't) do that right away. Don't they know that the entire global sports media is staring squarely at them right now?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series Game 1; October 22, 2019
« on: October 22, 2019, 10:39:08 pm »And I thought I would slowly drink this last beer over the last 2 innings...
This thing goes into extra innings and you'll be looking for a straw long enough to slurp coolant out of your jeep.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series Game 1; October 22, 2019
« on: October 22, 2019, 10:14:20 pm »
Yordan's insistence at expanding the zone is absolutely infuriating.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series Game 1; October 22, 2019
« on: October 22, 2019, 10:05:19 pm »
Altuve's heroics the other day aside, the guy I most want to see at the plate in a big situation right now is certainly Yuli.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series Game 1; October 22, 2019
« on: October 22, 2019, 08:24:57 pm »
I doubt even Altuve would have swung at that.
Not one hundred per cent sure, though.
Not one hundred per cent sure, though.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 World Series Game 1; October 22, 2019
« on: October 22, 2019, 07:17:39 pm »I'll spare y'all the details but I look ridiculous.
pix pls kthnx
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 22, 2019, 05:28:09 pm »Glad you know what no one else does. Ivory tower judgmental bullshit.
What no one else does. Not true. What you elect not to know, perhaps. I have told you and others again and again that the details of what occurred are known by many. I know them. You know who else knows them? Footer. She is sufficiently disturbed by what she knows to, as MM pointed out, continue to promote a domestic violence hotline.
I'll just say one last thing about the Osuna incident, and that is he is damned lucky that what he did didn't kill her.
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 22, 2019, 02:02:20 pm »Crane has that one covered. Called it.
You got a real Nostradamus over here.
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Talk Zone / Re: Latest Controversy
« on: October 22, 2019, 02:39:23 am »
Discontent at Taubman's meteoric rise through the Astros FO was allegedly a large reason many familiar names decided to seek opportunity elsewhere. I have no opinion on Taubman's work or value to the organization, but he was promoted very high, very quickly, and the organization clearly values him, and it is unsurprising that they would seek to protect him.
Their method of protection is also unsurprising. In other, similar situations the organization has simply lied - obvious, immediately provable lies. I guess they learned that the local media has no appetite for conflict and that eventually people will forget about the lies and life will move on, and maybe that's the case here, too.
It's very puzzling that the team wouldn't have the awareness to realize that a response such as they gave is not only insulting but also will inevitably create an enormous and unwelcome story line literally on the eve of the World Series, and in this case they can't rely on the inept local media's indolence and general servitude to make it disappear.
Luhnow needs to get out in front of this tomorrow, immediately. But he'll probably end up saying that Taubman's transgressions are really ultimately a net positive since they'll help to raise awareness.
Their method of protection is also unsurprising. In other, similar situations the organization has simply lied - obvious, immediately provable lies. I guess they learned that the local media has no appetite for conflict and that eventually people will forget about the lies and life will move on, and maybe that's the case here, too.
It's very puzzling that the team wouldn't have the awareness to realize that a response such as they gave is not only insulting but also will inevitably create an enormous and unwelcome story line literally on the eve of the World Series, and in this case they can't rely on the inept local media's indolence and general servitude to make it disappear.
Luhnow needs to get out in front of this tomorrow, immediately. But he'll probably end up saying that Taubman's transgressions are really ultimately a net positive since they'll help to raise awareness.
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Talk Zone / Re: Fuck the Nationals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« on: October 21, 2019, 02:03:12 pm »
You must have done some fieldwork researching Go-go music.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 20, 2019, 12:07:41 am »
Sparky's clubhouse interviews are a little disappointing. So far the best thing was when he asked Jake what he was thinking when Altuve was in the box against Chapman and he said, Whether I was going to be drinking one bottle of champagne or two.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 11:44:08 pm »Time for Jose to hit one in the gap and be a hero.
Don't be so specific next time, please, thanks.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 10:28:12 pm »Did you see that double play? Wow!
I did not, I was flipping through my Alan Lomax archives. Whappin?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 10:14:27 pm »Yeah man, that's another subject I'm an expert in
I always postured you a renaissance man.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 10:08:30 pm »It's an enthusiastic celebration of anonymous gay sex
That's always been my reading but of course I am not a PH doctor in the subject.
Last I heard you were working with children with significant developmental disabilities, wasn't that the case?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 10:06:24 pm »It's time for these assholes to hit into a double play.
Be more specific about how the play unfolds next time, please, thanks.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 09:56:27 pm »Hey y'all,
So some of the older posters on this site may remember that I was/am something of a musicologist. Well, I just wanted to share that since I last posted regularly on here, I have gotten my PHD in Musical Anthropology with an emphasis on American folk, blues, and roots musics. Anyway, one of the fascinating things I've discovered in the course of my studies is that the Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the Wind" is actually about sucking dick.
What do you know about 'YMCA?'
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 6, October 19, 2019
« on: October 19, 2019, 07:58:58 pm »
Yordan put the ball in play, Machete hit it hard, the offense is firing on all cylinders.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 5, October 18, 2019
« on: October 18, 2019, 08:14:49 pm »
This umpire is unreal.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 5, October 18, 2019
« on: October 18, 2019, 06:42:13 pm »
That was a home run in one major league park.
Three runs is obviously nowhere near insurmountable. I bet Greinke would rather be up 4-1 though.
Three runs is obviously nowhere near insurmountable. I bet Greinke would rather be up 4-1 though.
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Talk Zone / Re: Greinke
« on: October 18, 2019, 03:27:46 pm »This also got me to thinking... does anyone know Bregman’s link to autism? I know his foundation works to provide technology assistance to kids on the spectrum, and he’s working to open a school dedicated to kids on the spectrum.
I assume there are other connections, but the son of his longtime hitting instructor and friend is autistic.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 11:29:07 pm »
I posted this on April 10. I re-post it solely as a reaction to tonight's game and with full understanding that the series is completely in play.
I don't carry around the deep reserves of Yankee hate that some of you guys not unreasonably do, but I'm on board hoping they lose 100 games this year and I'll tell you why. I would like to think I have an appropriate level of respect for the game. Because of that, it offends me deeply that the Yankees seem to believe that they can assemble a competitive team by putting together a lineup of giant goons who can crush home runs and a bullpen the back of which features a bunch of guys who throw 100 miles per hour. I don't think defense registers even as an afterthought to these idiots. This team's defensive ineptitude offends me more than it brings me joy at the resulting failures. It's not surprising, I don't suppose. They sent Derek Jeter out to play shortstop for 20 years. For any number of those years the best shortstop in baseball played third base right next to him, so they obviously have never cared all that much about defense. But this is pretty bad.
It's not the worst defensive team I've ever seen, but they obviously don't care at all, and that pisses me off.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 10:44:06 pm »
Not super crazy about leaving all these guys on base.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 10:26:53 pm »
Gurriel's at bat there was amazing. His insistence on going the other way through the whole at bat shows a situational awareness not always fully present in every other Astro.
Also, Harris is a wonder to behold. He is in total control out there.
Also, Harris is a wonder to behold. He is in total control out there.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 10:16:35 pm »
Rebel Jew appears. That's an unexpected development.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 09:56:48 pm »
The home run doesn't bother me at all. The walk before it pisses me off.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 4, October 17, 2019
« on: October 17, 2019, 07:36:49 pm »
Most of these pitches are not close.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: October 17, 2019, 05:08:36 pm »
The Trump Administration is now pursuing the curious political strategy of publicly admitting to crimes.
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I don't know. I like London Calling, but to my taste, there are a lot of weak songs on the album to make it a top 5. Should have been a single album. Lost in the Supermarket is such an overrated song. And Jimmy Jazz? Lover's Rock? Meh.
Well, I love both of those songs. Lost in the Supermarket is not my favorite song in the world, but it has a role to play on the record and I think it does what it needs to do perfectly.
Of course, I'm someone who rejects out of hand the idea that Sandinista! should have been shortened.
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And I should say that Ellington's catalog is crazy. I know pieces of it, and some small slices I know quite well. But it is a lifetime's commitment to try to understand just what a genius that guy was, and I don't know that I have that kind of time.
But you can pretty much dive in wherever and be immediately rewarded.
But you can pretty much dive in wherever and be immediately rewarded.
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I'm assuming the other one is London Calling?
Of course.
It's funny, Limey references the title track, which is the only song on the record I don't particularly like. I mean, I listen to it, obviously. It's a strident introduction to a work of total genius. But it's the weakest song on the record to me, by far. And it's widely considered a classic song, if that gives any doubters an idea of how ridiculous the entire record is.
What are your other three? I don't know what mine are, really. They might change any time. But I'm pretty sure Loveless by My Bloody Valentine would be one of them any day you asked.
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I like to give Hudson a hard time for being a goon because, well, obviously, but this is the second record he and I are in 100% agreeance on. Kind of Blue is ludicrous. To me it’s jazz in the same way that Bob Marley is reggae. Sure, it’s jazz. But it’s so, so much more.
Anything Miles did on Columbia I’m all in on (and that’s a lot), and anything Coltrane did with McCoy Tyner I am all in on. I don’t know offhand if any of his Impulse records didn’t feature McCoy. I think they overlap pretty significantly.
Anything Miles did on Columbia I’m all in on (and that’s a lot), and anything Coltrane did with McCoy Tyner I am all in on. I don’t know offhand if any of his Impulse records didn’t feature McCoy. I think they overlap pretty significantly.
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I’m listening to John Coltrane on my turntable.
Which?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 06:54:35 pm »
The amazing thing is, that's the worst Cole has pitched since May.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 06:38:33 pm »
I've been to Yankee Stadium and have purchased items inside. Cheap is not the first word that comes to mind.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 06:36:33 pm »
Will Harris had no intention of dicking around out there.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 05:39:06 pm »
I'm as shocked that that didn't get out as I was that Gregorius' didn't.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 05:34:49 pm »
What did the shirt say?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 3, October 15, 2019
« on: October 15, 2019, 05:19:52 pm »
Yordan needs to wake the fuck up.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: October 15, 2019, 12:51:54 pm »And most of them don’t care. (Some are nice people, I’m sure.)
Lara Trump defends her father in law's withdrawal because, according to her, most people would have to google to find out who the Kurds are.
The old 'I'm an ignorant fuckwit and you're likely an ignorant fuckwit so it's ok to leave our allies to certain slaughter' foreign policy argument.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 11:30:34 am »I don't know if it's simple. Probably not but seeing the ball well against a different guy each time is probably really hard.
Meanwhile...7.2IP, 3H/2ER, 11K:4BB Yankee pen this series
4.2IP, 1H/0ER, 5K:2BB. Astros pen this series.
Our guys are holding their own very nicely.
The pen was great last night but they gave up four runs in three innings in game one.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 12:23:54 am »I really thought JFS meant just fucking score, now I see it for what it is.
Jesus Fucking Saves is what I came up with. A little edgy for an evangelical, yes, but they play live godrock at some of their services these days so I guess you never know.
Anyway, outSTANding day for Necktown sports. Astros beat a quality opponent, Nexans beat a quality opponent, Cowboys lose decisively to the second worst team in the NFL. OutSTANdiner'n hell.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 12:09:14 am »
When they come back they're going to interview Astros outfielder Gerry Springer.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 12:08:04 am »
I turned on the TV audio just in time to hear A-Rod refer to Correa as Carlos Beltran.
Looks like I didn't miss too much.
Looks like I didn't miss too much.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 12:05:17 am »
Also, Alex Rodriguez looks like a fucking clown. I mean, literally like a clown with all that absurd makeup he has on.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 12:03:30 am »
I'll just say that I appreciate the make up call by Blaser. It was a marginal pitch but Blaser realized he'd fucked up the previous pitch. Had the exact same thing happened with the Astros batting you would not hear shit from me about it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 13, 2019, 09:20:39 pm »Too close to take. He took a fat pitch and swung at a higher one in that AB.
Two fat pitches. It is unconscionable to get rung up there.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 2...October 13, 2019
« on: October 13, 2019, 09:02:36 pm »
Pinch hitting for Jake there was a desperation move. Terrible.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: October 13, 2019, 07:22:11 pm »
The only truly idiotic thing BOB did was give Mahomes another down, and that of course led to a touchdown.
Otherwise, I thought this was about as well coached a game as you could possibly hope to see. The RPO with the TEs was a new wrinkle that the Chiefs had no answer for.
Otherwise, I thought this was about as well coached a game as you could possibly hope to see. The RPO with the TEs was a new wrinkle that the Chiefs had no answer for.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 10:24:46 pm »
Greinke fine, bullpen terrible, offense worse than terrible.
The Astros need to wake the fuck up or the Yankees are going to ass rape them.
The Astros need to wake the fuck up or the Yankees are going to ass rape them.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 09:18:37 pm »
The Yankees are perfectly happy to hit the ball to the opposite field.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 08:41:10 pm »I wonder if they're going to talk about how the code-breaking factored in. In the middle of his extraordinary historical novel War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk interrupted the narrative to memorialize the pilots who--he thought at the time--just "happened" on the Japanese fleet after a desperate search.
Wait. So the Allies were stealing signs?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 08:23:21 pm »
I'm feeling pessimistic about the team's offense tonight. I knew that when the count on Altuve went to 3-2 he'd strike out on a ball off the plate.
Yet for some reason I'm optimistic about Tucker tonight.
Yet for some reason I'm optimistic about Tucker tonight.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 07:26:37 pm »Buck calling Judge “underrated” at anything is comical.
I'm going to say this just this one last time, for this post season, anyway. You guys do this to yourselves. For all of you in Nexas, turn on the radio. For all of you outside of Nexas, drop $10 on MLB At Bat or whatever the app is. Your lives will improve immeasurably. In my own case, my blood pressure is down to about 240/180, so that is something of a triumph.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Championship Series, Game 1...October 12, 2019
« on: October 12, 2019, 07:22:52 pm »
And here I was wondering if I was the only one. But no, I have found a community. I have what I thought was an irrational hatred for Gardner. Dick, yes. Like, Moby Dick dick.
Lots of guys who are dicks don't really bother me at all. We've been over this a bit. But for some reason Gardner fills me with uncontrollable rage.
Lots of guys who are dicks don't really bother me at all. We've been over this a bit. But for some reason Gardner fills me with uncontrollable rage.
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Talk Zone / Re: Sunday’s game
« on: October 12, 2019, 11:39:06 am »
So you’re saying that this broad downed two bottles of wine in fifteen minutes? That’s pretty strong work.
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Talk Zone / Re: Frito pie
« on: October 11, 2019, 01:27:52 pm »My frito pie was pizza. Supreme pizza. I picked off the olives. Did I do it right?
NO!
You don't like olives on pizza U FOO.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 5...October 10, 2019
« on: October 10, 2019, 09:48:06 pm »I turned to the radio feed in game 1 and never looked bad.
Good man.
I’m really curious to see if they trade Straw for a pitcher or Tucker for a pitcher or both of them.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 5...October 10, 2019
« on: October 10, 2019, 09:45:10 pm »
Joe Smith to Sparks: ‘You’re having more fun than half the room.’
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 5...October 10, 2019
« on: October 10, 2019, 09:36:57 pm »
Sparks in the clubhouse is always awesome. I don’t care how stupid he is, his clubhouse interviews are a treasure.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 5...October 10, 2019
« on: October 10, 2019, 09:28:27 pm »
Cole is ridiculous.
Why you guys listen to the tv broadcast is totally beyond me. Just irresponsible decision making.
Why you guys listen to the tv broadcast is totally beyond me. Just irresponsible decision making.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 5...October 10, 2019
« on: October 10, 2019, 09:08:18 pm »
Radio broadcast just played New York, New York as an intro.
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Toad the Wet Sprocket would have been more appropriate for the LA crew.
Solid.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: October 09, 2019, 06:31:19 pm »Rep. Mark Green, with NPR's Here & Now, talking about Trump and Syria:
"Yeah, I disagree with what he’s doing now, I wish it wasn’t happening, but I still fully support it."
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Republican Party.
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What's your stance on neck tattoos?
My stance is once you get one, go ahead and get some more.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 3...Octobrr 7, 2019
« on: October 07, 2019, 03:26:55 pm »Sorry, folks. This is clearly my doing.
Obviously. You're supposed to be watching from the parking lot of a sushi joint.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 3...Octobrr 7, 2019
« on: October 07, 2019, 01:47:42 pm »
Is Verducci drunk?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 10:33:32 pm »So 2 of the 3 best moments came from people not in the booth.
Or stadium.
I fear that when the Astros travel to Florida I'm going to lose my Astros radio feed option. They seem to offer only the home team feeds. I like Dewayne Staats for obvious reasons, but I'm going to go with the Tampa radio feed in Spanish.
And I'm going to tweet at whoever is doing the game that day, hopefully these same jackoffs, that they are so bad I would rather listen to the Spanish broadcast of the opposing team done by a guy who is motherfucking BLIND.
That'll teach 'em.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 10:13:22 pm »I am running out of things to clean.
I thought you were supposed to be walking around the neighborhood.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 10:12:49 pm »They keep calling him the bat boy.
That sounds about right for this crew.
They did riff for a while on how that play could cost the Astros the series.
This is pretty much what I was imagining.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 10:03:05 pm »
I'm watching but listening to the radio feed again. What are the tv guys saying about that fuckwit ballboy? They keep showing him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 09:55:22 pm »
Well, Jackass Cove has a new jackass.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 08:31:59 pm »Really impressive what they did with their pitching staff with Snell and Glasnow missing a huge chunk of the season.
If the Rays stay good and the Jays get good I will not be terribly upset.
And if the O's can... ahh, who am I kidding?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 08:22:03 pm »The worst thing about the Rays is that they're the opponent.
That's really about it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 08:21:40 pm »Absoulutely. Of course, I have personal reasons, but if not for the Astros, I'd easily be a Rays fan.
They have no payroll, no fans, the worst stadium in North American professional sports, I mean, the fuck are they doing over there? There is no universe in which they should be any good, ever.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 2...Octobrr 5, 2019
« on: October 05, 2019, 08:15:07 pm »Meadows is a tough out.
These guys have somehow put together a really, really, really good team.
And here's another thing - they're not really unlikable in any way, unlike most of the other teams still playing.
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Talk Zone / Re: Postseason schedule / info compilation
« on: October 05, 2019, 03:52:41 pm »The game is set for 12:05 CDT because why would they want kids to watch more than three innings of any postseason game.
Game 4* is at 3:15 on a Tuesday and game 5* is WHADDAYA KNOW?! 7:40 on a Thursday.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 03:57:24 pm »
People that are not watching and just getting pbp here, please note that Hudson is not exaggerating on the 'takes meatball down the middle for strikes one two and three' business. It is truly as bad as you're imagining it might be.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 02:13:14 pm »He really struggles with two strikes, not unusual for a rookie.
He struggles with no strikes, which is the thing that annoys me.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 01:51:27 pm »Very much so. AJ at least drops the occasional tidbit like why the umpire is more likely to miss the high inside strike.
AJ is a dick (even as a broadcaster) and my hatred for him as a player perhaps factors unfairly in how I consider him now. But he does know about baseball, and he will occasionally make a decent point.
If he does, someone's going to have to share it with me.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 01:37:44 pm »AJ Dickhead is one of the guys so you're making the right decision.
I think Girardi is worse. Far worse, actually.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 01:27:38 pm »
I've got the radio guys going with the mlb.tv broadcast. I asked about the tv guys just in case it wasn't a groups of idiots. Who that group of non-idiots might be, I do not know.
I guess I'll stick with what I've got and be happy for once.
I guess I'll stick with what I've got and be happy for once.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 2019 American League Division Series, Game 1...Octobrr 4, 2019
« on: October 04, 2019, 01:07:12 pm »
Who's calling the game on Fox?
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Talk Zone / Re: Choose Wisely
« on: October 02, 2019, 05:50:19 pm »Chuck’s source should read this.
My source is a goddamn minority owner, dude.
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Talk Zone / Re: Post Season
« on: October 01, 2019, 11:13:58 pm »I forgot about the racist tweets. Fuck Hader.
And here's the thing I swim upstream on - I don't hate Braun. Never have. I don't know why. I mean, I hate motherhood and puppies. Dandelions in the gentle breeze. Hate it all. Braun? For who knows what reason, that idiot just doesn't bother me. Should he? Sure. Do I understand why everyone else hates him? Of course. It's just one of those weird smudges in the rear view mirror I guess. I don't know.
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Talk Zone / Re: Post Season
« on: October 01, 2019, 10:59:52 pm »
I like Yelich just fine. He's the best player in the National League. Hader is a racist redneck so fuck that guy. The upside I guess is that Bart O'Kavanaugh is going to have to burn up his credit card for more postseason tickets. Hopefully he doesn't have any home improvement projects pending.
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Talk Zone / Re: Choose Wisely
« on: October 01, 2019, 03:18:21 pm »
Everyone laughs at the Orioles and rightly so, but the Angels are an absolute mess. They're going to come out of this with the best player in baseball and one of the top five starting pitchers in baseball and they're going to do well to get to .500.
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Talk Zone / Re: Choose Wisely
« on: October 01, 2019, 02:35:06 pm »I don't think it's much of stretch to believe the Angels will offer 6 years and $200 mil.
I expect them to offer more and I would consider it insane for him to turn it down. I mean, a hundred million dollars or whatever the difference works out to be? That is a tremendous amount of money.
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Talk Zone / Re: Choose Wisely
« on: September 30, 2019, 04:10:58 pm »
The Astros are going to offer Cole a shorter term deal, something like 3 years at $100MM. They're pretty sure he's going to take a longer deal, though, but they will make a not unreasonable offer.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 29, 2019, 08:20:58 pm »so, what is it you say you do here, Bill?
I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS! I AM GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE!
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 29, 2019, 04:08:55 pm »I missed the game but just saw the highlights. Not hard to tell what this referred to.
I did see the game but I don’t recall any highlights.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Angels - 9/28/19
« on: September 29, 2019, 12:44:45 am »Not sure I want the Astros to face either of those teams.
Those two teams are I think clearly more dangerous than either the Yankees or the Twins. Especially in a five game series.
I don't want to offend anyone, but I expect the divisional series to be the most challenging series they play if they end up playing more than the one.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Angels, September 26th 2019
« on: September 27, 2019, 01:42:46 am »
Kyle Tucker is fucking brutal.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Angels, September 26th 2019
« on: September 26, 2019, 10:58:53 pm »
Hopefully if you're on a plane it allows or denies you access to a game depending on if you're flying over a given team's airspace.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Mariners, September 25, 2019
« on: September 26, 2019, 12:24:43 am »
Holbrook's strike zone tonight was damn near perfect all game long. With so many clown umpires out there calling all sorts of bullshit, it's a really bad look for Servais to get tossed bitching about the zone tonight.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 25, 2019, 09:53:23 am »That's because, despite being bereft of evidence supporting your position, most of you truly believe that you know more than the professionals.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Fortunately, I don't care about your bizarre claims and positions enough to try to figure it out.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 25, 2019, 08:59:57 am »
Joke's on you, Hap, the Texans don't even have a GM! hahahaha!
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 24, 2019, 10:13:01 pm »
One man's pessimism is another man's realism.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Mariners - 9/24/19
« on: September 24, 2019, 09:48:46 pm »
That guy Dunn would be a perennial all star if he had any kind of command.
I guess you could say that about a lot of guys.
I guess you could say that about a lot of guys.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: September 24, 2019, 09:45:23 pm »From Twitter:
I saw another one that was basically Impeachment is the first thing Trump has actually earned.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 24, 2019, 09:43:52 pm »Point of order: Texans fans have to be the most pessismistic in the league.
You think so? You live close to Detroit. Drive up there one day and ask around.
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Talk Zone / Re: Postseason tickets
« on: September 24, 2019, 07:23:40 pm »Well, we scored tickets for games 1 and 2, but I'll be watching from a new vantage point: way up at the top out on the right field line.
Pay attention when Yordan's up.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels @ Astros - 9/21/19
« on: September 21, 2019, 08:16:18 pm »A day off from what?
Trotting around the bases every ten at bats or so will really take it out of you.
Plus, with these expanded rosters there's more people than ever you have to high five.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: September 20, 2019, 09:04:57 pm »"Schlongus gorvellus" was taken?
As was Talus grabberus.
I mean, what are you going to do? Science.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: September 20, 2019, 08:41:11 pm »
I'm sure we are. It's this, more or less:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)
When I was a kid you could catch all of these you wanted off of any pier in Texas. No one ate them, they were used solely for bait. The ones here have a yellowish hue to them. I like trying all sorts of unusual fish and I usually find that I can do something good with fish most people don't value.
I used to go fishing in the Bahamas all the time and the prized catch was yellowtail snapper. We were on a boat that was unofficially commercial. We'd bring back the catch and sell it to a local market. So I never ended up with yellowtail, which was fine with me. Pompano, margate, even blue runners. I'll find a way to eat any fish.
And if some idiot wanted to charge me $160 per pound for fish, you can bet I'd be in my kayak catching them, too. I went to the fish market today and I bought three kinds of fish including red snapper and I'm pretty sure I didn't pay more than $2.50 a pound for anything.
I remember the Australian fish markets and how the naming of the various varieties is strictly controlled. Here you get bobo.
That reminds me, have I ever mentioned to you goons that I have a species of animal named after me? I do, and I am inordinately proud of it. A close friend is an Australian marine parasitologist, and in his doctoral research he discovered a previously unknown parasite, ugly, angry and highly invasive, thought of me for some reason, and was kind enough to bestow it my name. Benedenia fieldsi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)
When I was a kid you could catch all of these you wanted off of any pier in Texas. No one ate them, they were used solely for bait. The ones here have a yellowish hue to them. I like trying all sorts of unusual fish and I usually find that I can do something good with fish most people don't value.
I used to go fishing in the Bahamas all the time and the prized catch was yellowtail snapper. We were on a boat that was unofficially commercial. We'd bring back the catch and sell it to a local market. So I never ended up with yellowtail, which was fine with me. Pompano, margate, even blue runners. I'll find a way to eat any fish.
And if some idiot wanted to charge me $160 per pound for fish, you can bet I'd be in my kayak catching them, too. I went to the fish market today and I bought three kinds of fish including red snapper and I'm pretty sure I didn't pay more than $2.50 a pound for anything.
I remember the Australian fish markets and how the naming of the various varieties is strictly controlled. Here you get bobo.
That reminds me, have I ever mentioned to you goons that I have a species of animal named after me? I do, and I am inordinately proud of it. A close friend is an Australian marine parasitologist, and in his doctoral research he discovered a previously unknown parasite, ugly, angry and highly invasive, thought of me for some reason, and was kind enough to bestow it my name. Benedenia fieldsi.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: September 20, 2019, 06:07:08 pm »
Lately I've been eating mullet every chance I get. I never understood why it's considered a trash fish; the filets are beautiful. Although it doesn't get much respect here, either. It's called 'bobo,' which means stupid.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: September 20, 2019, 12:15:57 am »Speaking of crazy shit Trump says, the whistleblower scandal appears to be about multiple occasions when Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Biden.
I wouldn't worry too much about that; Rudy cleared it all right up tonight.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: September 19, 2019, 01:42:17 pm »Compared to saying you are just going to shut down one of the biggest growth industries in the U.S., drawing on a map with a sharpie is just "eccentric".
Next time I find myself taking a selfie with her I'll be sure to let Warren know she can kiss North Dakota goodbye.
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Talk Zone / Re: Imelda
« on: September 19, 2019, 01:24:42 pm »
Make fun of my inflatable kayak now, Slappy.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros at Royals- September 14, 2019
« on: September 14, 2019, 11:13:43 pm »I’ll write up a longer post about the Japanese baseball experience sometime...
Onegaishimasu, Moriarti-san.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Sea Hags @ Astros, 9/12/19
« on: September 12, 2019, 09:47:27 pm »
Yuli has a great at bat and then gets fucked in the ear.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Sea Hags @ Astros, 9/12/19
« on: September 12, 2019, 09:25:50 pm »
It has been noted again and again, but when Yordan gets down in the count he is fucked.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Sea Hags @ Astros, 9/12/19
« on: September 12, 2019, 09:12:05 pm »
And right on cue he draws a walk.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Sea Hags @ Astros, 9/12/19
« on: September 12, 2019, 09:02:46 pm »
No one is criticizing him for lack of perfection, dude. We all know that the greatest batters in the league fail 70% of the time. I don't mind that he expands the zone. He gets a lot of hits on bad pitches. There have been other hitters like that. I'd just love to see him be a little more selective. More importantly, time and time again he goes up to the plate in important situations and shows zero recognition of what's needed at that time. I don't know where that comes from, why he's not more sensitive to the game situation.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Sea Hags @ Astros, 9/12/19
« on: September 12, 2019, 08:40:16 pm »Then he would get bitched at for trying to bunt. Altuve can't do anything right in this forum.
Altuve is an elite hitter. It is impossible to fathom how much better he would be if he had any sort of plate discipline or demonstrated any sort of situational awareness whatsoever.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 12, 2019, 05:00:13 pm »Texans let Ben Jones walk a few years ago, only to draft his lesser replacement in the 2nd? round and then pay him more.
Don’t forget Pro Bowler Brandon Brooks.
These are the GOOD players they let walk for no reason. We’re not even discussing the terrible picks they’ve made on OL over the last five years or so.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 12, 2019, 02:13:26 pm »
I'll just take this opportunity to point out that the Texans this week signed center Nick Martin to an extension placing him among the top three paid at the position league wide.
Last year, PFF graded him fifth. Fifth in the league?! No. Fifth in the division. A division of four teams.
Last year, PFF graded him fifth. Fifth in the league?! No. Fifth in the division. A division of four teams.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A’s @ Astros, September 10, 2019
« on: September 10, 2019, 09:25:40 pm »
If these guys would line up and play the infield rather than array themselves in some kaleidoscopic pattern here and there they might just record a fucking out every now and then.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A’s @ Astros, September 10, 2019
« on: September 10, 2019, 08:48:02 pm »
That was literally like batting practice. It would be hard to imagine a batting practice pitcher inducing more hard contact.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 09, 2019, 09:51:16 pm »Stupid fuck. 15 seconds at the end of the first half is 3 points for the Saints. That's enough to have put it out of reach at the end.
You're making a lot of assumptions, Cletus.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: September 09, 2019, 09:26:55 pm »Refs tried to give the Texans the game. Texans don't like that.
That's a penalty every time, dickhead.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: As v. Astros 9/9/19
« on: September 09, 2019, 08:13:46 pm »I have never seen a ball hit up there.
You never will again since those are the seats they're going to remove so people can get real cheese on their nachos.
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Talk Zone / Re: Off day question
« on: September 09, 2019, 07:08:31 pm »
I will never forget the look of total incredulity the guy manning my corner bodega in Brooklyn gave me when he discovered that I'm not a Yankee fan.
Djoo no laik Djankee?!?!
In my normal, polite, understated way I started screaming MAN, FUCK DJANKEE!
Djoo no laik Djankee?!?!
In my normal, polite, understated way I started screaming MAN, FUCK DJANKEE!
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros vs Ancient Albatross Wearers, 9/6/2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 09:13:13 pm »
WHUT IN TARNATION?!?!
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners @ Astros, September 7, 2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 09:07:30 pm »
HPU has been good tonight.
Kind of seems like it's worth a mention when it happens.
Kind of seems like it's worth a mention when it happens.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners @ Astros, September 7, 2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 08:49:58 pm »
That was a pretty solid pitch.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners @ Astros, September 7, 2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 08:42:54 pm »
It would be kind of weird to have both of those guys shitting their pants.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners @ Astros, September 7, 2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 07:32:30 pm »Blummer is out of the head.
Imodium is a hell of a drug.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners @ Astros, September 7, 2019
« on: September 07, 2019, 07:21:15 pm »Ace Fraley is apparently not going to rock and roll all night.
That shocks me.
I wonder if Blum took his sno-cone into the bathroom.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: September 06, 2019, 01:24:19 pm »Today his shitbag campaign manager is advertising for sale on the website "the official Trump marker, which is different than every other marker on the market, because this one has the special ability to drive @CNN and the rest of the fake news crazy!"
Man, if I were in charge of the Trump show I would be doing this kind of shit constantly. Trump markers, an oversized Trump driver that is 100% guaranteed to hit straight every time, a Trump tie that goes down to you knees, Trump cages for your unruly kids, grandkids, more probably, decorative mushroom penis candles, those lunatics will buy anything.
One of the biggest flaws in what appears to be a hastily conceived plan is that he ran for president after he quit peddling meat, vodka, water, wine, flights, online classes, who knows what else. Now pretty much all his minions have left is a night at one of the hotels, which would probably stretch the budget of the camouflage to church crowd. I guess they could try to satisfy themselves with one of those penis candles I was mentioning.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros vs The Dry Dockers Sept 5 2019
« on: September 05, 2019, 11:52:39 pm »
Brantley with another multi-hit game.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: September 03, 2019, 10:18:10 pm »I don’t understand the argument that “if we knew then what we know now we would never have done that” is somehow a subversion of democracy. Let the people speak.
Yeah, me neither. In the US if, for example, a president is elected and four years later the majority of voters say, Man, this is fucking crazy, well, you get to try it again. There is no trying it again four years after you leave the EU.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Brewers - 9/2/19
« on: September 02, 2019, 06:45:48 pm »
Yelich got fucked twice.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Brewers - 9/2/19
« on: September 02, 2019, 06:16:09 pm »
Stupid ass wife beating dickhead.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Blue Jays, September 1, 2019
« on: September 01, 2019, 02:29:36 pm »
The one time a guy gets all of one, Kalas has no idea.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Blue Jays, September 1, 2019
« on: September 01, 2019, 02:09:27 pm »
And another thing that annoys me - AJ seems awfully cavalier with Verlander's starts. I understand he gives guys scheduled days off, but if a guy like Yuli is a last minute scratch, why would you keep Springer out of the lineup?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Blue Jays, September 1, 2019
« on: September 01, 2019, 01:57:15 pm »
Reddick's insistence on trying to pull everything disgusts me. There was no one on the left side of the infield and strike two, which he took, was the perfect pitch to slap into left field. Instead he swings as hard as he can at everything, trying to hit the ball into the right field bleachers. Baseball in 2019.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Texans 2019
« on: August 31, 2019, 05:55:27 pm »
Fans: The Clowney trade was the worst deal in Texans history!
BOB: LOL hold my beer.
BOB: LOL hold my beer.
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Talk Zone / Re: Skaggs autopsy
« on: August 31, 2019, 01:46:43 pm »Well, the obvious answer is to not takes unprescribed opoids, but I guess that is too easy.
I'm sure you know this but in many cases an addiction is formed from routinely prescribed opioids taken as directed.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 30, 2019, 12:02:20 pm »
So I guess the moral of this story is if you DO want to launder money, don't ask Dotel.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rays at Astros - 8/2919
« on: August 29, 2019, 05:14:56 pm »
Strike one was an even worse pitch.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: August 29, 2019, 04:12:41 pm »What's the most recent polling say about faith in mass media?
That's where they've hurt themselves.
It blows my mind that you are treating Fox News as if it were a journalistic enterprise of some sort.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 28, 2019, 03:33:55 pm »Robo got a D+. That seems unfair. Why shouldn't robo produce AN AVERAGE DRAFT?
Maybe it's meant to be relative and your fellow owners are all OUTSTANDING.
Yahoo was puzzled why I might have drafted Johnson who, as far as they're concerned, will languish on the bench in Cleveland.
HAHA, WRONG YOU ARE! HE WILL LANGUISH ON THE FIELD IN HOUSTON! HAHAHAHA!
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 26, 2019, 04:27:46 pm »
I'm going Justin Tucker first before any of you goons can sweep him out from under me like you did last year. That or Jason Witten. I feel like he's due for a bounce-back year.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 26, 2019, 12:50:34 pm »I was thinking about D Watson as my fist pick.
That's a proven strategy.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 26, 2019, 12:21:57 pm »Im going, Zeke, Tyreek, Melvin Gordon, Kareem Hunt, Gronk with my 1st 5
Sounds good. You can probably get a guy like Gabbert in the 6th. Don't want to draft a qb too high.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 26, 2019, 12:10:56 pm »
Go ahead and draft Tyreek Hill and see how long he remains eligible.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: August 25, 2019, 07:31:07 pm »
I am going to be delirious with glee when Hap robodrafts Zeke and Andrew Luck.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Andrew Luck Retires
« on: August 25, 2019, 03:45:27 pm »
Listen, tough guy, it's not like my kayak is made out of the same plastic that they use for little kids' floats. It is partially synthetic and partially something like reinforced canvas. You would have to be very determined to puncture it with a hunting knife much less a fish hook.
I mean, I wouldn't deliberately go paddle over sharp rocks, but neither would I freak out if currents took me over some.
I mean, I wouldn't deliberately go paddle over sharp rocks, but neither would I freak out if currents took me over some.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Andrew Luck Retires
« on: August 25, 2019, 03:25:45 pm »
I could probably get by on a hundred million if I had to. And I'd probably enjoy it more if I could walk and think straight.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- August 25, 2019
« on: August 25, 2019, 03:00:55 pm »
Good Framber is so good.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- August 25, 2019
« on: August 25, 2019, 02:20:07 pm »
Kevan Smith shouldn't have been Smitty, he should have been Kevin.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- August 25, 2019
« on: August 25, 2019, 02:17:07 pm »
As annoying as it is to have to watch three whole games of these uniforms, for me it's worse trying to watch highlights from other games since you have no way to know who's doing what.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- August 25, 2019
« on: August 25, 2019, 02:14:55 pm »
There just aren't that many Panamanians in the big leagues these days.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Andrew Luck Retires
« on: August 25, 2019, 01:17:55 pm »
It absolutely astounds me that people are mocking him, fans booing him, etc. It is absolutely insane to me that everyone isn't celebrating this.
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Beer and Queso / Re: College Football 2019
« on: August 25, 2019, 01:16:36 pm »That last 5 minutes was some of the worst football I've seen in some time.
I'll take it that you missed the Texans game last night.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 24, 2019, 12:52:30 am »El Dorado rum from Guyana.
Guyana punch.
Uh oh, uh ohoh.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 09:25:16 pm »That was kind of sad and uncomfortable at the end.
I recall a very similar and similarly uncomfortable interview in identical circumstances with the mother of Kíqúé Hernándéz's mother. But somehow not nearly as weird.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 09:21:33 pm »
Both of those guys were safe.
Toro's mom cracks me up. She gave one of the more incoherent interviews you'll hear the other day.
Toro's mom cracks me up. She gave one of the more incoherent interviews you'll hear the other day.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 09:17:00 pm »Chuck casting from an inflatable kayak. What could possibly go wrong?
I bought it off this guy who was crazy as fuck. He lived up in the mountains, not sure what he was doing with the kayak in the first place. Anyway, he would walk around town ranting to himself out loud. He eventually moved to Ecuador.
I just remembered that I had some problems buying it because I was in Argentina at the time and PayPal doesn't work all that great down there.
It's pretty stable, actually. I feel like I can do pretty much whatever I want with it in calmish seas.
I like to put fish directly on the grill, too, but the cholo method is great. I was out with a buddy once and we caught so many wahoo that we eventually got tired of it. We ended up feeding the whole town.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 09:05:18 pm »
I bought a big Dorado yesterday, a mahi mahi, and I'm about to cook some of it cholo style, which is portion it, wrap it loosely in foil with a bit of simple seasoning, I'm going to drizzle a little olive oil on it, and then toss it on the grill quickly.
I talked with a guy today about the fishing situation out here. He said you have to go out onto the rocks and fish beyond there, that there are plenty of fish out there, or you can, as I suspected, walk down to where the river empties and do OK there. He said it's best to fish off a kayak out in front of the rocks and cast back in towards them. Fortunately, I have an inflatable kayak, so I'll try that out. He also said the best rig for fishing around the rocks is nothing more than a hook and a little slip shot for a bit of weight, cast it out there and there you go.
I talked with a guy today about the fishing situation out here. He said you have to go out onto the rocks and fish beyond there, that there are plenty of fish out there, or you can, as I suspected, walk down to where the river empties and do OK there. He said it's best to fish off a kayak out in front of the rocks and cast back in towards them. Fortunately, I have an inflatable kayak, so I'll try that out. He also said the best rig for fishing around the rocks is nothing more than a hook and a little slip shot for a bit of weight, cast it out there and there you go.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:57:45 pm »
So if La Piña hits an oppo taco, surely it's a taco al pastor, right?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:52:37 pm »“A-Breg” is quite an underwhelming moniker.
I'd have tried to talk him into U-Tuber.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:51:15 pm »
Hey, who the hell is that guy out there who looks like Brad Azmiss?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:50:04 pm »Are you more of an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy?
You know, I have to say I love them both equally. I really think they're both terrific.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:36:10 pm »Remember that time when Abraham served the Angels.
God said, No, Abe said, What?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:21:53 pm »Also, Mraup, seriously digging the lineup names.
He's not making them up, you know.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/23 Angels @ AstrosOHGODMYEYES!
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:15:57 pm »
I'd like to think I speak for all of us when I say I certainly am glad they aren't doing this all white business after Labor Day.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 23, 2019, 08:04:30 pm »There have some ex-Astros that I had grown fond of when they were here and I hope they do great, except when they play the Astros.
And then there's Carlos Gomez.
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Talk Zone / Re: Verlander addresses refusal to take ??? from Det reporter Anthony French
« on: August 23, 2019, 01:25:20 pm »
Fenech also reported that the Astros had offered Bregman for Michael Fulmer at the 2017 deadline, something that no one else seems to have known of or can make any sense of.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 22, 2019, 10:03:11 pm »Again dude, It's Mr. Snuffleupagus to you.
Shit. Sorry.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 22, 2019, 08:47:13 pm »
Snuffleupagus has a point. Some players' mothers historically have read this forum.
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Talk Zone / Re: Verlander addresses refusal to take ??? from Det reporter Anthony French
« on: August 22, 2019, 08:44:56 pm »
I have no idea if people catch fish in the surf here. I rarely see people fishing in the surf. A few people have told me that they do and have success, but I've never seen it.
I have had very minor success on other beaches around here, but I've never really paid any attention to the time and tides. The place where we are is directly in front of a large rock formation that you can walk on during low tide and gets covered up more or less at high tide. The beach to the left has fewer waves, smaller, less frequent waves, and I decided to fish there. There's quite a current sweeping from the rocks to the left, I could feel it in the rods, and I have noticed it swimming out there, and it could be that there just simply aren't any bait fish in that current so close to the rocks.
I'll try the other side of the rock formation later. I'll also walk farther down the beach; there's a small river that empties into the ocean maybe a third of a mile down the beach, and I imagine the fishing is better down there. I'll also experiment with different rigs.
I have had very minor success on other beaches around here, but I've never really paid any attention to the time and tides. The place where we are is directly in front of a large rock formation that you can walk on during low tide and gets covered up more or less at high tide. The beach to the left has fewer waves, smaller, less frequent waves, and I decided to fish there. There's quite a current sweeping from the rocks to the left, I could feel it in the rods, and I have noticed it swimming out there, and it could be that there just simply aren't any bait fish in that current so close to the rocks.
I'll try the other side of the rock formation later. I'll also walk farther down the beach; there's a small river that empties into the ocean maybe a third of a mile down the beach, and I imagine the fishing is better down there. I'll also experiment with different rigs.
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Talk Zone / Re: Verlander addresses refusal to take ??? from Det reporter Anthony French
« on: August 22, 2019, 07:15:24 pm »Did you hire Neil as your guide?
Good idea, I should invite him, he'd be right at home.
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Talk Zone / Re: Verlander addresses refusal to take ??? from Det reporter Anthony French
« on: August 22, 2019, 07:12:47 pm »
I had a maiden voyage of surf fishing at the new crib the other day and it was a resounding failure. Perfect time, perfect tide, nothing.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: August 22, 2019, 07:09:57 pm »Chick-fil-A is John Denver. Popeye's is George Clinton. Got it.
More like one of the Osmonds, I would have thought.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 20, 2019, 02:17:38 pm »He was set up, man
His defense is going to be 'It was only an eighth.'
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 20, 2019, 12:21:31 pm »
My first thought was maybe he'll end up getting charged by 12 other countries.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Tigers at Astros 08/19/2019
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:16:23 pm »
Maybe they're showcasing Eschenfelder because they think they can move him over the offseason.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:15:42 pm »Which itself is superior to the other kinds of roulette.
Depends on the chicken.
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Talk Zone / Re: Lunch today
« on: August 18, 2019, 09:40:01 pm »And yet, Chick-fil-A drive-thru lines extend out onto highway access roads.
Not today they don't.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: ASTROS @ ATHLETICS, AUGUST 16, 2019
« on: August 16, 2019, 11:36:05 pm »
10 years of healthy Correa skillset, is probably enough to be in the HoF. He has elite power, hit tool, very good speed for his size and good defense. The only thing he hasn't had is consistent health
Spinger is second most talented, then Bregman and then Altuve. Altuve has by far the smallest margin for error.
This is plainly the order any sane person would put them in.
And I love the chamo enanito, I really do. I want to choke him to death 60% of the time, but other than that, I love him.
Maybe not literally.
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The Bus Ride Discussion Forum / Re: Intentional Walk Stat
« on: August 16, 2019, 11:26:56 pm »Slurring your speech on the bus is a no no.
Only if you're driving.
If you're riding, well, that's sort of what it's there for.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: ASTROS @ ATHLETICS, AUGUST 16, 2019
« on: August 16, 2019, 11:25:39 pm »Did you think Correa would be last?
No. First? No. Last? No.
Shows what I know.
He would be my pick to be first. Closely followed by Springer, the guy who came in next to last.
Predictably fucking stupid election results out of Necktown.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: ASTROS @ ATHLETICS, AUGUST 16, 2019
« on: August 16, 2019, 09:32:03 pm »
Intriguing Stro Poll tonight.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Athletics, August 15, 2019
« on: August 15, 2019, 11:39:24 pm »The 3 run shot was a pop up.
When he hit it I said out loud, Oh, he got him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Athletics, August 15, 2019
« on: August 15, 2019, 11:34:24 pm »
Every run in this game has been scored on a home run. Thirteen runs and counting. Ten home runs.
I sound like my grandfather but this isn't baseball, this is bullshit.
I sound like my grandfather but this isn't baseball, this is bullshit.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros at White Sox 08/14/2019
« on: August 14, 2019, 02:28:28 pm »
Yeah, they wanted no part of Yuli.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros at White Sox 08/14/2019
« on: August 14, 2019, 02:06:18 pm »
Yordan is clearly going to have to concentrate on going the other way. Strike one would have been an outSTANding time to do that. It looked like he realized that, too, after the fact.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros at White Sox - 8/13 Game 1
« on: August 14, 2019, 11:04:19 am »
I think it's spelled Snuffleupagus.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ O's 8/10
« on: August 13, 2019, 11:56:50 am »If the links work, I think the second picture is right before Brantley's "Homer".
Looks like good old Henry's thinking about making a break for it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ O's 8/10
« on: August 13, 2019, 12:01:51 am »
The idea that you would, alone, take your four boys to games in Baltimore absolutely blows my mind. I can't take my kid to the goddamn grocery store alone without that little lunatic's running off into the ether. If I had four of them, they'd each pick a cardinal direction and I'd have to decide which I thought had the best chance of survival until the age of majority and run after that one. Or, thinking this through a little more, maybe pick the one with the worst chance. I'll never know, hopefully.
Oh, I've been to Camden Yards, too, of course. Many times. I like it just fine but am a little mystified by those of you guys who rank it so high. I like the parks in Pittsburgh and Seattle better, just off the top of my head.
Oh, I've been to Camden Yards, too, of course. Many times. I like it just fine but am a little mystified by those of you guys who rank it so high. I like the parks in Pittsburgh and Seattle better, just off the top of my head.
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Talk Zone / Re: Today's Loss
« on: August 12, 2019, 01:38:13 pm »
I thought this was pretty interesting:
https://twitter.com/astro_numbers/status/1160947275083988992?s=21
If the release points are that different then batters should be able to tell by the release point if it's a fastball or a slider. I wonder where his changeup release point is. I guess it starts to matter less and less after seeing six or seven changes in a row.
https://twitter.com/astro_numbers/status/1160947275083988992?s=21
If the release points are that different then batters should be able to tell by the release point if it's a fastball or a slider. I wonder where his changeup release point is. I guess it starts to matter less and less after seeing six or seven changes in a row.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2020 schedle out
« on: August 12, 2019, 01:35:37 pm »
I wonder if they'll ever get to play the Angels. Also, always great to close out the season on the road in interleague play.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ O's 8/10
« on: August 11, 2019, 10:44:37 am »Too me, he was just getting warmed up on his first three albums but I'm the kind of fan that loves all his work. He's one of my all time favorites.
I'm pretty sure Get Happy!! is the record I've spent the most time with, but I can get lost in anything he's ever done, even records I don't really like all that much.
I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ O's 8/10
« on: August 11, 2019, 12:01:43 am »
Oh I just don't know where to begin.
I have thousands of vinyl records. You know what I do to keep them clean? I put the sleeve in upside down (side A facing towards the front, of course) so the dust can't rain down into the slit and onto the vinyl.
I have thousands of vinyl records. You know what I do to keep them clean? I put the sleeve in upside down (side A facing towards the front, of course) so the dust can't rain down into the slit and onto the vinyl.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 10, 2019, 10:39:12 pm »
I don't know how smart I am but I do seem to have a certain facility with the chaotic.
Comes in right handy if you happen to have a five year old running loose around your house.
Comes in right handy if you happen to have a five year old running loose around your house.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/9 Astros @ Orioles
« on: August 09, 2019, 09:11:34 pm »
Trump can criticize Baltimore all he wants but a few minutes ago they were playing the Pixies in the stadium. In Necktown all you get is Clint Black and Pac-Man Fever.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: 8/9 Astros @ Orioles
« on: August 09, 2019, 08:07:43 pm »
I liked Villar just fine as a player but from what I remember he was always doing stupid shit like that.
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Talk Zone / Re: Ex-Astros News 2019
« on: August 09, 2019, 06:44:06 pm »
He's talking about Stassi I think.
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Talk Zone / Re: Off day question
« on: August 08, 2019, 03:13:42 pm »
2019 and it's not close.
Although once Beltrán showed up that 2004 lineup was pretty salty.
Although once Beltrán showed up that 2004 lineup was pretty salty.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rugged Mountain Range @ Vastness of Space 8/7
« on: August 07, 2019, 04:51:26 pm »He’s on another planet right now.
Piña Perrett.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rockheads @ Astros - Place data here
« on: August 07, 2019, 11:11:29 am »
Eschenfelder is absolutely a huge part of the problem. But Lance wasn't that much better with Kalas. In fact, Kalas seemed to sort of egg him on.
All of this goes to show that broadcasting baseball is not all that easy a thing to do well. JD and BB were GOAT I think, but Kalas and Blum are far, far better than most. Lots of other teams have the equivalent of Eschenfelder and Lance every game. Or worse.
All of this goes to show that broadcasting baseball is not all that easy a thing to do well. JD and BB were GOAT I think, but Kalas and Blum are far, far better than most. Lots of other teams have the equivalent of Eschenfelder and Lance every game. Or worse.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rockheads @ Astros - Place data here
« on: August 07, 2019, 08:59:17 am »Missing fairly badly on his arm side. Lance will tell you why.
You know, for a guy who’s otherwise a bonehead, he does know some things about baseball and does have some interesting and thoughtful insights. He’d be fine if he cut down on his chatter by about two thirds.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rockheads @ Astros - Place data here
« on: August 06, 2019, 07:24:37 pm »
Why the fuck are these slapdicks calling the game? The figured Kalas and Blum needed another vacation?
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Talk Zone / Re: The Call - family edition
« on: August 04, 2019, 10:18:13 pm »
I love debuts. The good news is that when the Marlins play at home that large crew probably won't have too many problems scoring a group of tickets together.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seamen at Astros, August 4, 2019
« on: August 04, 2019, 10:13:11 pm »
Well, there's Spanish and then there's Cu'ano.
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The Bus Ride Discussion Forum / Re: Round Rock 2019
« on: August 04, 2019, 10:11:14 pm »
If anyone ever learns what the Guduan suspension was all about, I'm all ears.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2005 big 3 vs 2019 big 3
« on: August 02, 2019, 09:43:30 pm »
In retrospect it's amazing that team won the league.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 31, 2019, 04:56:59 pm »He also says Luhnow told him Aaron Sanchez might start on Saturday and ideally will be used as a starter next season.
So Strom will get Thursday and Friday to work with him? That ought to be enough.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 31, 2019, 04:09:01 pm »
The Astros also got this guy from the Jays:
http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=670276#/career/R/hitting/2019/ALL
Not too sure what the Jays are doing, to be honest, with these two moves they made with the Astros and the Mets.
http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=670276#/career/R/hitting/2019/ALL
Not too sure what the Jays are doing, to be honest, with these two moves they made with the Astros and the Mets.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 31, 2019, 03:13:44 pm »
Biagini is a guy who never throws his best pitch. Very logical Astros sort of pickup.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 31, 2019, 12:24:03 pm »
I don't know that I'm Tucker's biggest fan but if you give him up for a rental, u foo.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 30, 2019, 02:41:48 pm »359
Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 30, 2019, 02:23:08 pm »Counter point: He wanted to file an arbitration number of "either $6.9 million or $6,420,969.69," and then proceeded to make "69 days of giving" donating increments of $420.69 to a charity each day for 68 days followed by a 69th day contribution of $69,420.69.
Huh. So that's why 911truth.org loads a lot faster than it used to.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 30, 2019, 12:56:10 pm »Also it's being tweeted that the Stems have asked in return for Thor:
Twins - Buxton
Sox - Benintendi
So they're probably asking for Altuve.
Maybe throw in Springer and Alvarez to sweeten the pot a little.
Those people are fucking idiots. I'm sure many of you saw somewhere that another GM said what they were doing is like a kindergartener's finger painting.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 29, 2019, 04:57:39 pm »
I'm happy to know that Vargas is leaving New York for a place with a tamer media and fan base, one that won't have him so on edge, nervous sort that he is.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros search for The Fountain of Youth
« on: July 28, 2019, 12:42:34 am »Here's some of their exchange.
https://twitter.com/stlsportscntrl/status/1148066634428506112?s=19
Fuck Molina, Muñoz, the Turdinals, and Bud.
Why the fuck is Carlos arguing with this goddamned knuckle dragger?
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: July 24, 2019, 11:52:14 pm »Expansion I think is a good idea.
OWA FF & SCOTUS FTW!
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: July 24, 2019, 12:21:22 am »
By the way, since Navin wants to play, if he doesn't end up replacing a former owner who is understandably intimidated by our collective fantasy acumen, I'm happy to open it up to two new managers. Mainly because I spent most of last year feeling like I had too many good players and found myself wishing we could water the league down some.
But really, I'd be happy to add more owners if it comes to that.
But really, I'd be happy to add more owners if it comes to that.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: July 24, 2019, 12:18:23 am »Much for Chuck's enjoyment when I draft a tight end in the first round, I'm back for more punishment.
Not if I'm drafting in front of you, tough guy. Jared Cook is all mine.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A's @ Astros, July 23, 2019
« on: July 24, 2019, 12:16:22 am »
Altuve and Bregman being zeros, and let's go ahead and add Yordan, too, to be fair, were not hugely helpful.
But as PopRaup says, it was Altuve that had the chances today and did nothing with them.
But as PopRaup says, it was Altuve that had the chances today and did nothing with them.
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Beer and Queso / Re: OWA 2019 Fantasy Football
« on: July 23, 2019, 04:07:31 pm »
Hope I get a decent draft slot this time.
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Talk Zone / Re: What I hate to hear
« on: July 23, 2019, 12:36:50 am »
I think Stassi is effectively useless so I would be very open to an upgrade. I'm just surprised to hear Luhnow more or less say the same thing.
Anyway, pitching issues aside, it's quite a statement that this is what we're talking about at the deadline - a guy who probably wouldn't even play in the postseason.
Anyway, pitching issues aside, it's quite a statement that this is what we're talking about at the deadline - a guy who probably wouldn't even play in the postseason.
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Talk Zone / Re: What I hate to hear
« on: July 22, 2019, 11:42:39 pm »
Maldonado would have been perfect, yes. It's too bad they got outbid for him if it's in fact true that the Astros were in on him.
I don't know nearly enough about the bottom five guys on bad teams' rosters to know who might fit the bill. I do know that plus defensive catchers are not all that easy to come by.
I was pretty ambivalent about the Chirinos signing when it happened. It's just another in a long line of examples of where I was perhaps not fully informed.
I don't know nearly enough about the bottom five guys on bad teams' rosters to know who might fit the bill. I do know that plus defensive catchers are not all that easy to come by.
I was pretty ambivalent about the Chirinos signing when it happened. It's just another in a long line of examples of where I was perhaps not fully informed.
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Talk Zone / Re: What I hate to hear
« on: July 22, 2019, 10:12:35 pm »Yep, but who the hell might be available?
I think everybody liked Maldonado well enough but he Keucheled himself over the offseason and then somehow got traded to the Cubs.
There's got to be some all glove, no bat defensive wizard playing for a shit team somewhere.
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Talk Zone / Re: What I hate to hear
« on: July 22, 2019, 09:19:18 pm »
He also explicitly (surprisingly, to me) said that they could use an upgrade at catcher and that if they found one, one of the two guys would obviously have to leave.
He's right, of course, backup catcher is the only real area of possible improvement among position players, and it's arguably a glaring one.
He's right, of course, backup catcher is the only real area of possible improvement among position players, and it's arguably a glaring one.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A’s @ Astros - July 22, 2019
« on: July 22, 2019, 09:16:59 pm »You're cool, just read the boxscore.
I like to get the gnus from you gnuys.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A’s @ Astros - July 22, 2019
« on: July 22, 2019, 09:02:22 pm »
So Yordan's been up a couple of times and has a homer and seven rbi. Cole has 15 ks. I was wondering about anything newsworthy or surprising.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: A’s @ Astros - July 22, 2019
« on: July 22, 2019, 08:50:49 pm »
Just getting here. Did I miss anything?
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Talk Zone / Re: Aches and Pains (2019)
« on: July 22, 2019, 07:07:59 pm »Kemp and Straw are very similar players, except for the RH/LH hitting thing.
Except Straw can play short and Kemp apparently can't.
Of course the Astros shortstop is usually stationed out in right field somewhere so maybe it doesn't matter too much.
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Talk Zone / Re: I MUST HAVE IT!
« on: July 22, 2019, 01:21:02 pm »This post without context might be the best thing that's ever happened on OWA.
I thought I was following this thread pretty good until a minute or two ago. Now I'm not sure what the hell's going on.
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Talk Zone / Re: Our info source
« on: July 22, 2019, 11:58:08 am »
The site also says, "Kevin resides in DeKalb, Ill."
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros July 21, 2019
« on: July 21, 2019, 03:03:43 pm »
Imagine how good this lunatic is going to be once he figures out how to have consistently good at bats and quits the Altuve style chasing he’s prone to.
I don’t know how to predict what his ceiling is.
I don’t know how to predict what his ceiling is.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros July 21, 2019
« on: July 21, 2019, 02:34:25 pm »I think Rivera is certainly deserving of induction, but it seems a bit ironic that the first unanimous inductee is a reliever.
I think so, too, but you could make a non-insane case against it. Against his induction, I mean.
Not at all surprising that the first unanimous inductee is a Yankee.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros July 21, 2019
« on: July 21, 2019, 02:22:35 pm »
Lots of inductees today that qualify as charter members in the Hall of Very Good.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros July 20, 2019
« on: July 20, 2019, 09:04:00 pm »
No walks.
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Talk Zone / Re: Our info source
« on: July 20, 2019, 04:57:03 pm »
I really don't know how to read the silence. I should say that he walked back the big contract comment saying later that it was an impression rather than a fact.
I mean, hell, I can make shit up too. Let's go ahead and stick to what you know, Slappy, not what you think.
I mean, hell, I can make shit up too. Let's go ahead and stick to what you know, Slappy, not what you think.
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Talk Zone / Re: Our info source
« on: July 20, 2019, 04:53:30 pm »I didn’t know Derek Bell was so connected.
I guess you've never been to a party on his boat.
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Talk Zone / Re: Our info source
« on: July 20, 2019, 04:17:23 pm »
My guy's implemented Operation Shutdown.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros, July 19, 2019
« on: July 19, 2019, 10:46:36 pm »Has anyone heard who’s on the mound tomorrow?
Whoever it is Sambito wants him to bean the first guy he sees.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Rangers @ Astros, July 19, 2019
« on: July 19, 2019, 10:04:40 pm »
Fucking clown.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: July 18, 2019, 02:30:40 pm »Is that Bob Pollard’s band? My buddy really liked them and him and I recall numerous stories about how much he valued beer.
'Value' is one way to put it.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: July 18, 2019, 01:30:11 pm »
One of my favorite bands in a past life was a bunch of misfits from Dayton, OH, called Guided by Voices. They have a song called Closer You Are. The chorus goes, The closer you are, the quicker it hits you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTEcNruLS3Y
Played live, when the singer was drunk as hell, which was pretty much always, he would sometimes sing these lines instead:
The fatter you are, the smaller your dick looks.
Not sure why that suddenly occurred to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTEcNruLS3Y
Played live, when the singer was drunk as hell, which was pretty much always, he would sometimes sing these lines instead:
The fatter you are, the smaller your dick looks.
Not sure why that suddenly occurred to me.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros Without Pitchers at Angels, 7/16/19
« on: July 17, 2019, 12:52:51 pm »I responded, asshole, but did not bring it up. Doyce did.
Go fuck yourself. If you have some problem with me, leave Mark alone.
Doyce brought new information. You brought the same tired ass bullshit.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros Without Pitchers at Angels, 7/16/19
« on: July 16, 2019, 11:43:52 pm »So the Angels are basically chuck regarding Keuchel on the whole topic. Got it.
It's your dad that can't get over it, dickhead. And won't stop talking about it at every opportunity.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: July 16, 2019, 11:12:27 pm »
He didn't do shit other than pitch his ass off, win key games in tough places to pitch and win a Cy Young award.
Other than that, fuck that guy.
Other than that, fuck that guy.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: July 16, 2019, 10:29:33 pm »Glad he is elsewhere.
Me too. I'm digging Framber and Hector as much as everyone else is.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros vs Angels 07-15-2019
« on: July 16, 2019, 12:15:58 am »
That closes the gap considerably!
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros vs Angels 07-15-2019
« on: July 16, 2019, 12:09:46 am »If you were given Framber, White, and Eschenfelder, but only two bullets, which two would you stack back to back?
At this point I'd take the first one myself and then see how I felt.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 15, 2019, 07:24:17 pm »
When you've got to go clear to Alabama to buy your Sunday beer, you know you're living in a fucked up state.
In Necktown in the same era the blue laws apparently were such that an establishment had to be closed one day a week, but that day was not specified. That's my surmise, anyway, because there was a store called Sage that managed to stay fully open on Sundays by closing or at least roping off most of their departments on Saturday. I guess that ploy worked well enough for them because they managed to stay in business until the repeal of the blue laws, whenever that was.
The Sage nearest my childhood home was on the southeast corner of 610 and Beechnut. There's a Lowe's in that spot now. The main thing I remember about Sage was the nearly overpowering aroma of popcorn.
In Necktown in the same era the blue laws apparently were such that an establishment had to be closed one day a week, but that day was not specified. That's my surmise, anyway, because there was a store called Sage that managed to stay fully open on Sundays by closing or at least roping off most of their departments on Saturday. I guess that ploy worked well enough for them because they managed to stay in business until the repeal of the blue laws, whenever that was.
The Sage nearest my childhood home was on the southeast corner of 610 and Beechnut. There's a Lowe's in that spot now. The main thing I remember about Sage was the nearly overpowering aroma of popcorn.
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Talk Zone / Re: Our info source
« on: July 15, 2019, 11:51:21 am »
I'm waiting to hear something new like everyone else. Maybe I'll poke him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:58:00 pm »Carlos Correa has never hit a grand slam. Neither has Jake Marisnick
It has to be Correa because it was someone that has hit enough that it was truly surprising. So what I'm misremembering is when I saw that statistic. I thought it was pretty recently but obviously not.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:50:50 pm »
2014 rather than 2017.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:48:58 pm »
OK, he hit one in 2017 and you're right, another this year.
I wonder who the player is I'm thinking of.
I wonder who the player is I'm thinking of.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:47:08 pm »
The team has hit a shitload of them this year but I remember seeing a stat some time in the last two weeks or so where a player, and I think it was Altuve, who hits lots of home runs and who's been around for a while surprisingly has no career slams.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:44:21 pm »
I'm working from memory but unless I'm mistaken that was his first slam.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 14, 2019
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:25:09 pm »
It never once occurred to me that he was not going to catch that.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:17:08 pm »
Scherzer was the name that was speculated by the person who relays the information but as far as I can tell that is nothing more than a wild ass guess based on who might be available and has a big contract.
Can Trout pitch? Probably can. I haven't seen much of anything he can't do on a baseball field.
Can Trout pitch? Probably can. I haven't seen much of anything he can't do on a baseball field.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 14, 2019, 03:18:21 pm »
Like I said, don't shoot ME.
Here's the latest:
"we are about to take on a big contract"
Here's the latest:
"we are about to take on a big contract"
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 14, 2019, 01:47:12 pm »
Apparently the A's totally blindsided the Astros. They had already told Kemp he was DFA'd.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: July 14, 2019, 12:40:20 pm »
One of my sources says that the team is on the verge of acquiring Homer Bailey and will DFA Kemp.
Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player.
At least you can say that a dude named Homer would slide right in to this rotation.
Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player.
At least you can say that a dude named Homer would slide right in to this rotation.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 11:10:59 pm »
If this fuckwit wins the game for the Rangers I am going to lose my shit.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 10:07:16 pm »Little storm cells are like 3-5 miles across and booking to the SSW so any shower will be very short lived.
So will any Astros lead.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:34:45 pm »
Jesus christ these people are fucking idiots.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:23:29 pm »
Hey, honey, it's only 97, do you think it's cooled down enough to wear our astronaut helmets?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:15:30 pm »
God damn it this team sucks dick.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:11:05 pm »
My Pony League coach would be losing his fucking mind right now.
Of course, Bregman wouldn't have made that error because his ass would have been on the bench after that unpardonable fucking idiotic base running fuckup.
Of course, Bregman wouldn't have made that error because his ass would have been on the bench after that unpardonable fucking idiotic base running fuckup.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:08:13 pm »
I was surprised that Alvarez was taking all the way 2-0. Swing the bat, dude.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers, July 13, 2019
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:02:58 pm »
Well, I can certainly see why the Astros don't want to expose a talent like that to waivers.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rangers - 7/12
« on: July 12, 2019, 10:16:15 pm »
This team is arrogant as fuck and they are going to pay for it.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: July 09, 2019, 04:12:35 pm »Given that all of the right wing's bad faith attacks turn out to be projections of their own behavior, this and the Trump Kentucky campaign chair seem to put the whole pizzagate lunacy into a new perspective.
Every accusation a confession.
Here's the part I don't get about this whole Epstein thing - if you were already a sex offender and you knew that investigators were still interested in you for a variety of reasons, wouldn't you maybe just go ahead and get rid of your child porn?
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Talk Zone / Re: Verlander -- Sleep Guru
« on: July 09, 2019, 04:08:18 pm »
This guy is a worthy successor to Selig.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- July 7, 2019
« on: July 07, 2019, 06:03:03 pm »
It is absolutely amazing how many replays these fuckwits get wrong.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- July 7, 2019
« on: July 07, 2019, 03:21:53 pm »
I quit watching this shitshow a while back for all sorts of reasons, but I just wanted to mention that I thought that last night's hpu was mostly excellent.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- July 5, 2019
« on: July 06, 2019, 04:50:28 pm »I thought the Bible frowned upon that
I think it all depends on how you dress it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Angels at Astros- July 5, 2019
« on: July 05, 2019, 10:20:01 pm »
The highlight for me was Berkman’s admission that he eats possum.
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Talk Zone / Re: Aches and Pains (2019)
« on: July 05, 2019, 03:57:12 pm »
Alvarez back in the lineup at DH. I guess I'll watch today's game live now.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rockies, July 3, 2019
« on: July 03, 2019, 08:04:42 pm »
I never thought I’d say this but Pettis would have held him up.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Rockies, July 2, 2019
« on: July 02, 2019, 09:45:29 pm »
Do these guys always pack this many people in the stadium? This is an impressive crowd for a Tuesday.
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Talk Zone / Re: Urquidy called up to start
« on: July 01, 2019, 01:32:16 pm »
My source tells me Corbin will need TJS.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Mariners at Astros- June 30, 2019
« on: June 29, 2019, 10:07:24 pm »
This is mind boggling. Twice in two nights.
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Talk Zone / Re: How Many Astros in 2019 Will Hit 20 or More Homers? Winners get beer
« on: June 29, 2019, 09:42:04 pm »
86
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 10:49:19 pm »
That was the crazy thing about it, I mean, he is the fastest fucker in the zip code, you don't need to go Beakering around the bases. Just run normally and they won't even try to throw. Or they'll cut it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 10:30:23 pm »I was gonna say earlier, I like these caps better too. The current ones are pretty close, but I like the understated look a little better.
They're less busy than today's cap. Cleaner, and, I think, better.
Today's cap is fine. Far better than any number of previous caps. But this one to me is the obvious gold standard.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 10:24:39 pm »
Pound for pound, I think these are the best Astros caps they have ever worn. I know many others disagree and that is just fine. But I like these the best and for me it's not really close.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 09:48:20 pm »Right down the middle for a strike.
I saw. He hadn't thrown a strike all inning. The idea that he might throw two in a row seems bizarre to me.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 09:46:48 pm »
Hate to see them take White's bat out of the lineup.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Seattle v. Houston; June 29
« on: June 28, 2019, 09:43:55 pm »
I don't care if it's a guy who gets 200 hits a year, I would have had him take on 3-0.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Roger Angell on "Most Important" Vote of His Lifetime
« on: June 27, 2019, 11:44:05 pm »Biden full pike with two and a half twists and into a nuclear face plant. Harris steps over him on the way to kicking everyone else’s ass.
What did you think about the previous debate?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Pirates @ Astros, June 27, 2019
« on: June 27, 2019, 01:51:34 pm »White
I doubt very seriously he could get into the crouch. Although on the plus side the chest protector might be superfluous.
Anyway, it would be good to be able to keep his bat in the lineup.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Pirates @ Astros, June 27, 2019
« on: June 27, 2019, 01:46:49 pm »
That reminds me, who is the emergency catcher? I would assume Aledmys if he's healthy but I can't think of any real candidate on this roster.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Pirates at Astros- June 26, 2019
« on: June 26, 2019, 10:16:15 pm »
Giving up on a six run deficit is an ugly sort of arrogance.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Pirates at Astros- June 26, 2019
« on: June 26, 2019, 09:01:48 pm »Fucking cricket stroke: Dickerson hits a ball on the bounce into short RCF and turns it into a double. I think that's probably a sign that I should go do something else.
I took the home run as a sign.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Pirates at Astros- June 26, 2019
« on: June 26, 2019, 08:59:19 pm »
I might have seen that before in big league baseball but I don't remember it.
Maybe Vlad did it, who knows.
Maybe Vlad did it, who knows.
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Talk Zone / Re: This losing streak
« on: June 25, 2019, 02:04:43 pm »
I'd be more generous than that, actually. I think defensively he's been very good.
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Beer and Queso / Re: USWNT
« on: June 24, 2019, 02:57:35 pm »
Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Yankees 6/23
« on: June 23, 2019, 01:43:21 pm »
Altuve’s knee seems fine.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Yankees, June 22, 2019
« on: June 22, 2019, 08:26:37 pm »
Que bola, asere!
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Yankees, June 22, 2019
« on: June 22, 2019, 07:27:13 pm »
Bregman gets up under more balls than a midget hooker.
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Talk Zone / Re: Les Expos du Tampa Bay?
« on: June 20, 2019, 02:08:07 pm »
The name I think I like the best so far is the R'ehs.
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Talk Zone / Re: Les Expos du Tampa Bay?
« on: June 20, 2019, 01:32:58 pm »This is just a "shit or get off the pot" shot over the Tampa Bay bow by the Rays with the blessings of MLB. It'll be an either/or, not both.
Do you think that if they built an attractive stadium where the current stadium stands that would solve the attendance issues or is it simply a case of the stadium's being in St Petersburg rather than Tampa?
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Talk Zone / Re: Tucker in June
« on: June 17, 2019, 04:36:07 pm »Sure, there are college players who would not embarrass themselves in AA, but the average to below average AA position player would be one of the top players on the best college teams, and the sheer pitching depth of an AA team would overwhelm college teams.
Almost all AA guys have a legitimate shot at a big league career, or at least their organizations think they do. I would imagine the percentage of guys on a really good college team with a legitimate shot is quite small.
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Talk Zone / Re: Tucker in June
« on: June 17, 2019, 03:27:29 pm »Duh. Maybe elite clubs are but nothing higher than this.
He was talking about it in the context of their first round pick out of Cal, he said that he felt like if they were looking at a college player who went to a school like that he could usually extrapolate that performance and compare that level of competition to High A and, he said, even AA.
I have no idea what would happen if one of today's CWS teams played a three game series with any give High A or AA team. I expect the professional team would win handily most of the time, but I thought it was interesting that Luhnow thought he could gauge a player's potential in High A or AA from having watched him compete at a school in a good conference.
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Talk Zone / Re: Tucker in June
« on: June 17, 2019, 02:11:50 pm »
Luhnow said the other day (and it surprised me a little) that he thinks the best college baseball conferences are pretty close to High A.
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Talk Zone / Re: Alvarez
« on: June 17, 2019, 02:10:05 pm »
I'm not saying he's anywhere in the same galaxy as a hitter but mid-career Bonds is who his swing has reminded me of the most so far. He's pretty similar to Delgado in terms of body type but I don't see a ton of similarity in their swings.
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Talk Zone / Re: 2019 Trade Deadline Talk
« on: June 17, 2019, 01:59:27 pm »
Brantley has never played first in the majors. But assuming he could, if you had to snag an outfielder and put him at first, he'd be the more logical option than Reddick.
Does anyone know if Brantley saw any time at first in the spring?
Does anyone know if Brantley saw any time at first in the spring?
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Talk Zone / Re: Tucker in June
« on: June 16, 2019, 03:21:12 pm »This time last year, everything you said about Tucker was how he was special. Then he struggled and now everytime you talk about him is in reference to trading him. Is that not considering him a failure? If you're just hoping to trade him, kind of a failure for a guy who had star potential.
I think Jim heard something about Tucker from someone who knows that has changed his perception of him as a player. That is conjecture on my part, by the way.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Jays @ Astros 6/15
« on: June 16, 2019, 01:03:13 pm »This. The new guys are not merely filling in. They are contributing and establishing trade value.
They're getting eyes on them is how Bagwell put it last night.
Before I go anywhere in the car here I check a couple of different apps to see if there is some sort of massive clusterfuckery happening anywhere near where I'm going because it is entirely possible to find yourself sitting there for three (or five) hours for no discernible reason.
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Talk Zone / Re: Tucker in June
« on: June 16, 2019, 12:57:23 pm »
I can envision a scenario where Reddick ends up playing a significant amount of first base. Next year would be more likely than this year, but this year is a possibility too.
Kind of weird to pluck a near elite defensive player out of the outfield and give him a first baseman's glove, but I guess that's what happens if you have tons of bats trying to get in the lineup.
Kind of weird to pluck a near elite defensive player out of the outfield and give him a first baseman's glove, but I guess that's what happens if you have tons of bats trying to get in the lineup.
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Talk Zone / Re: Alvarez
« on: June 15, 2019, 11:55:22 pm »
My tentatively offered suggestion of Álvarez at cleanup might not have been as reckless an idea as I'd feared.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Blue Jays @ Astros, June 14, 2019
« on: June 14, 2019, 09:37:31 pm »Not hotels, mind you. I'd never be so crass as to defile the GZ in that way.
Plus, you're going to sleep on the boat.
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Talk Zone / Re: Astros scout behind the trade for Alvarez
« on: June 14, 2019, 08:46:43 pm »Yordan Alvarez For Josh Fields Trade Threatens To Top Astros’ Jeff Bagwell Steal
I like Yordan about as much as anybody but let's tap the breaks a bit here, huh?
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Brewers @ Astros, June 12, 2019
« on: June 12, 2019, 10:06:25 pm »
At first I thought he was out af but he tagged the ground rather than the runner.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Brewers @ Astros, June 12, 2019
« on: June 12, 2019, 09:56:17 pm »
Turns out two games was exactly the right amount of Berkman. After the 18th inning he goes off the rails.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Brewers @ Astros, June 12, 2019
« on: June 12, 2019, 09:00:30 pm »I wasn’t sure the kid would want to report after listening to Lance. “Your best days are behind you. Good luck buddy”
Good news is, you're a catcher so even if you can't hit, maybe you can make it to the big leagues anyway.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Brewers @ Astros, June 11, 2019
« on: June 12, 2019, 02:43:18 pm »
I never liked Berkman as a player and I especially disliked all the Berkman stans of which there was no lack, but I will happily admit that I enjoyed him last night and look forward to tonight. He's not a color guy (unless white's a color); he's a story teller, which is just fine for a couple of games.
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Beer and Queso / Re: Bushwick Bill
« on: June 10, 2019, 07:26:51 pm »Really? Roky Erickson dies, not a peep. But Bushwick Bill...
You're gonna miss him.
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Talk Zone / Re: Alvarez
« on: June 10, 2019, 02:21:31 pm »
If over the next month or so he demonstrates that he is not overmatched at this level you can bat him 4th or 5th with either Correa or Gurriel behind him and then Brantley.
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Talk Zone / Re: Alvarez
« on: June 10, 2019, 12:14:20 pm »
Where's he going to bat in the lineup once everyone is healthy? Everyone gets on base for the most part so he should have plenty of chances to drive runs in wherever he hits, but you really need to make teams think twice about walking him.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros June 9, 2019
« on: June 09, 2019, 02:28:36 pm »
That's the thing, from everything I've gathered and from the very little I've seen, this lunatic is just a great hitter who happens to be a giant human that results in his hitting the ball a goddamn long way.
I mean, just now, that was a pretty good pitch. He didn't crush a mistake, he hit a good pitch where the pitcher wanted to put it. And rather than try to pull it he just went with it. It seems like that's what he always does, and that's an incredible level of maturity and wisdom for someone with that kind of natural power.
I mean, just now, that was a pretty good pitch. He didn't crush a mistake, he hit a good pitch where the pitcher wanted to put it. And rather than try to pull it he just went with it. It seems like that's what he always does, and that's an incredible level of maturity and wisdom for someone with that kind of natural power.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros June 9, 2019
« on: June 09, 2019, 02:21:23 pm »That's ridiculous. Those seats were in Chicago.
Well, ok. Have him scream something again so we know where you are. Or you could just give your location relative to the two Geico cavemen masquerading as ZZ Top circa Rio Grande Mud.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros June 9, 2019
« on: June 09, 2019, 02:13:05 pm »
So with two swings this guy ties White's hr total on the season.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros June 9, 2019
« on: June 09, 2019, 02:09:16 pm »What was Crane thinking when he hired him? What has he ever done? I want McClane back!
You post this right as they announce that Berkman will be doing color in Blum's place over the next series.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros June 9, 2019
« on: June 09, 2019, 01:54:46 pm »I'm sitting behind the plate today - he's a big dude
Wait, are these the same seats from which your father screamed something everyone could hear on the tv broadcast? Do I have that story right?
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Talk Zone / Re: Alvarez
« on: June 09, 2019, 12:42:43 pm »
I'd just come here to say that I saw his spray chart somewhere and it is absolutely ridiculous.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros- June 8, 2019
« on: June 08, 2019, 11:31:24 pm »NAILED IT.
Man, it's almost like you have some inside information or something.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros- June 8, 2019
« on: June 08, 2019, 05:02:58 pm »
Yeah, amazingly Cionel didn't go deep into too many counts, either.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles at Astros- June 8, 2019
« on: June 08, 2019, 04:48:46 pm »
Man, Brantley fucked that inning up every way he could.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles v. Astros 06/07/2019
« on: June 08, 2019, 12:31:12 am »
I think Pettis was going to hold him up but somewhere between second and third he remembered who was in the on deck circle and said Fuck it.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Orioles v. Astros 06/07/2019
« on: June 07, 2019, 11:28:50 pm »9.5%
Yeah, we remember his caught stealing percentage, thanks.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: June 07, 2019, 10:48:19 pm »
I'm not advocating sympathy, dude. It's clear that he misplayed his hand. I just think the Schadenfreude is a bad look. And, also, the unbridled joy that he's not an Astro any longer. I don't get that at all.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: June 07, 2019, 10:06:08 pm »Yes, it's totally normal for a player to reject the QO (and other offers) and not sign until mid June.
Why do you care? You goons are cheering what you perceive as his misfortune and celebrating his absence. It's just ugly and unnecessary.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: June 07, 2019, 09:44:42 pm »
The animus is totally unnecessary, unwarranted and, frankly, unbecoming.
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Talk Zone / Re: Keuchel
« on: June 07, 2019, 05:04:39 pm »
You necks are out of control. The guy won a fucking Cy Young award with the team. So he has an opinion. Who cares. Christ, at least he didn't do something unforgivable like protest police brutality.
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The Bus Ride Discussion Forum / Re: Round Rock 2019
« on: June 07, 2019, 03:42:45 pm »Who in the world were they playing?
Las Vegas. Who are no longer aliens but aviators for some reason.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners - 6 Jun 2019
« on: June 06, 2019, 07:49:40 pm »
Whoever gave that idiot the green light 3-1 should be fired in the dugout.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners - 6 Jun 2019
« on: June 06, 2019, 07:47:07 pm »
I wonder what Verlander's doing right now.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners - 6 Jun 2019
« on: June 06, 2019, 03:49:09 pm »
When White swings he usually raises his back foot which I find ludicrous and if I tried it I would fall on my ass.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros at FishTossers 06/05/2019
« on: June 06, 2019, 02:06:36 pm »Get out.
I've been sorely tempted to make any number of last straw comments but as you will appreciate I am known for my discretion.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ Mariners, 04june19
« on: June 04, 2019, 10:48:49 pm »Seattle is a good town to catch an Astros game. I'm gonna take a Northern trip late this summer. Might go to Seattle or more likely, Toronto. Any hotel recs?
Airbnb. I was in Toronto last September coincidentally when the Astros were there. My trip was an unqualified success, but not really baseball oriented although I did see a game.
The Blue Jays would be a far more interesting team to see, obviously.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A's June 2
« on: June 02, 2019, 05:25:57 pm »I tend to agree. He’s real valuable, but who would you drop? White, Kemp, pitcher?
It wouldn't take too much to argue that Straw is more valuable than Kemp or whoever the last pitcher on the roster is. He's unquestionably more valuable than White.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A's June 2
« on: June 02, 2019, 05:09:44 pm »
Stubbs' mom is probably getting pretty good at Candy Crush.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A's June 2
« on: June 02, 2019, 05:02:29 pm »
I know they will, but I don't see how they can send Straw back down.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A’s - 6/1/2019
« on: June 01, 2019, 11:57:14 pm »
I should mention that the pitching was pretty good, too.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A’s - 6/1/2019
« on: June 01, 2019, 11:56:29 pm »
There was some pretty decent defense tonight.
Also, Chirinos was fucking smoking balls all over the yard all night long.
Also, Chirinos was fucking smoking balls all over the yard all night long.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Astros @ A’s - 6/1/2019
« on: June 01, 2019, 09:53:47 pm »
Called it. Easy call, but still.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Cubs at Astros May 29th 2019 version.
« on: May 29, 2019, 09:21:15 pm »And, often, your kids are the ones who divert your attention from the game and thus protecting them from sharply hit foul balls, compounding the risk of the situation.
My kid would never try to distract me from something he could plainly see I was engaged with.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Cubs at Astros May 29th 2019 version.
« on: May 29, 2019, 09:13:37 pm »
You can bring kids, I think, you just have to know that they won’t be paying attention and so you need to, always, and you need to sit between them and the batter.
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Game Zone 2019 / Re: Cubs at Astros May 29th 2019 version.
« on: May 29, 2019, 08:27:55 pm »
Past the net. According to some friends who’re at the game it was a young girl, 4 or 5 years old. Pretty bad news.
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Beer and Queso / Re: NCAA Div. I Baseball Tournament
« on: May 29, 2019, 07:36:43 pm »Fuck off, douche bag.
Now wait a damn minute. Where did I say I wore a fedora?
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Beer and Queso / Re: NCAA Div. I Baseball Tournament
« on: May 29, 2019, 02:59:25 pm »Conference fandom is one of the strangest things about college sports. You'll see plenty of trucks sporting around with an "SEC" sticker but I simply can't bring myself to root for the AL West on pure principle.
Going simply with A&M or LSU hurts the resale value.