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by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 9:40 PM CDT
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PrintTonight is a stark reminder of how badly this team needs a right handed bat off the bench.
Matt Thornton is brought in to face Josh Hamilton, David Murphy, and Justin Smoak, and there's no one who can pinch hit.
Then Bobby Jenks comes in and gets to face Matt Treanor, Craig Gentry, and Julio Borbon. Down a run in the 9th, there's no reason for Treanor or Gentry to be hitting...but because the Rangers have decided to go with a bench that is bereft of anyone who can hit (other than arguably Max Ramirez, who should have hit for Treanor or Gentry, but that's another story), Jenks has an easy path to a save.
I'll take two of three against Chicago, even losing a winnable game like this one...but once again, we see how badly the Rangers need a backup outfielder who can hit. And once again, I'm left wondering why the team feels they need two utility infielders instead of a righthanded hitting outfielder.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
It was sort of amusing
watching CJ cheer on the team via Twitter, since he’s home.
"I think I'm going to name my new car Scooter, because it dominates on the road." - mikeyoungfuturehof, 9.10.09
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
I liked the Jenny Finch comment
when oday struck the guy out.
Godwin's Law Version 2.0 (Rangers Edition)
"As a Ranger discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Danks, Volquez, or Young approaches one."
Snoozer of a game that leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.
Of course, that could be the dry Bud Light, too.
"Biggest mistake in DFW history?" - Bigger mistake in LSB history.
by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Jun 3, 2010 9:42 PM CDT reply actions
speaking of beer....
@Old Hoss Radbourn
Dear Corona, your advertisement seems to indicate that if I drink your beer I will grow a uterus. Please explain. Yrs, Hoss.
"Biggest mistake in DFW history?" - Bigger mistake in LSB history.
by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Jun 3, 2010 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions
But we might lose Joaquin Arias!
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Ha
The sad thing is that even if Garko was hitting .900 at AAA, apparently he couldn’t be brought up to help out because this manager NEEDS the Cockroach.
"Don't confuse the outcome that a decision produces with the intelligence that went into making that decision."--Tony LaRussa
by Hard8 on Jun 3, 2010 9:48 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
It's Spidey, dick
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Lowell, maybe?
"Biggest mistake in DFW history?" - Bigger mistake in LSB history.
by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Jun 3, 2010 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Ty Wigginton or Austin Kearns
Lowell, maybe.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions
ty wigginton?
I mentioned him last week. Not exactly an OF (although he’s played there before). But he’s cheap, his team is out of it, and he has been pretty good against LHP in his career.
"Don't confuse the outcome that a decision produces with the intelligence that went into making that decision."--Tony LaRussa
by Hard8 on Jun 3, 2010 9:45 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I like this gamble
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Wash hates him, cause he's not Wade's son
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Wash might not play him, but I don't think he has much control over roster moves
This is the front office’s call
Based on the way they've let him languish in OKC despite Borbon looking like shit
I think it might be more of an org-wide thing against Boggs, not just Wash.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Despite the fact that is he is hitting better than any point he had in his career above A+ ball
and they have him play CF everyday, which means they are convinced that he is able to play the position.
I am a huge Josh Hamilton fan
but I’m starting feel like it is time to package him ina deal for a starting RH OF.
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 10:58 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
why?
he playing really well this season
"Diving stab by Andrus, gets up, throws.... GOT HIM!!! An unbelievable play! From short left field!"
-Eric Nadel on 5/17/10
by Jason Brynsvold on Jun 3, 2010 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions
then they should just go to the big
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
why?
he’s playing really well this season
"Diving stab by Andrus, gets up, throws.... GOT HIM!!! An unbelievable play! From short left field!"
-Eric Nadel on 5/17/10
by Jason Brynsvold on Jun 3, 2010 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions
really, really well
heh
"Diving stab by Andrus, gets up, throws.... GOT HIM!!! An unbelievable play! From short left field!"
-Eric Nadel on 5/17/10
by Jason Brynsvold on Jun 3, 2010 11:43 PM CDT up reply actions
maybe it's not 100% ready yet (the arm)
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:05 AM CDT up reply actions
The Truth About Why Brandon Boggs Is On The "Hate List"
He smashed a homey.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 9:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Meh, won a series.
Pretty handily, too. I’ll feel okay tomorrow. Hell, I don’t even really feel bad right now.
Yeah, we just got beat tonight
It’s a lot easier to accept that than when we beat ourselves.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions
yeah I called 2-1 on this trip
just didn’t expect Mark Buehrle to be the pitcher to get rocked
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Has anyone pointed out......
Washington tries to take all thought out of managing the baseball game….
Ranger starters are going to pitch at least 100 pitches before coming out….regardless if they should be pulled….
Each RP will pitch 1 inning…
No pinch hitting unless it is Murphy for Borbon….
its like he tries to make everything automatic
by death of the cool on Jun 3, 2010 9:47 PM CDT reply actions
The RP 1 inning thing
That’s supposedly a Maddux deal, moreso than Washington.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 9:48 PM CDT up reply actions
did not know that....
it just seems like we try to take all thought out of the game….
by death of the cool on Jun 3, 2010 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah
I’m not really impressed with anyone on our coaching staff, based on the poor job they’ve done of backing Ron up this year.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
do you think Coby should have come out earlier than he did?
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions
I've been home all night
I didn’t go anywhere
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
by TxStCa on Jun 3, 2010 11:00 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
How about the sound of Meatloaf?
(definite generational gap here or he is being purposefully ignorant)
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
Legend has it that he streaked through chapel at LCU
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I'LL DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE BUT I WONT DO THAT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOO I WON’T DO THAT
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
bet we split...
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Hitting Treanor in that situation should get Wash fucking murdered.
I know AJM loves Trainer and refuses to admit Max is better cause he’s… well, I don’t wanna get banned.
Fuck Matt Trainer.
Fuck AJM for loving him.
And fuck Ron Washington.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
That's fucking hilarious.
You’re fucking hilarious.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
Wow.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
nice Mike E impression
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Jun 3, 2010 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions
No it's not.
Mike E’s not stupid, just odd.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
That's not even clever.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
You like Treanor?
I mean, I don’t expect you to be all LSJ with your irrational hatred of his existence and I know you rightfully like his wife, bu you like him?
Penis, penis, penis.
I’m going insane.
I almost ran outside and just started doing shit when I saw Trainer stride up to the fucking plate there in the 9th.
Penis.
There’s nothing else left.
PENIS.
PENIS.
PENIS.
I’m gonna climb a tree I think.
Next person to walk under the tree I’m in is getting jumped the fuck down on and fucking dry humped until the fucking police show up.
Fuck everyone.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
Did you just watch 500 Day of Summer?
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
What the fuck? No. I just watched a televised abortion disguised as a baseball game. What the fucking ass shit does that have to with mother fucking 500 days of mother fucking summer?
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
They yell PENIS a lot in that movie.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
Treanor, Tron, Treanor
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
can we make a music video of this
with nothing but Treanor, Dirk, AJM and Misty’s faces flashing across the screen from angry to confused to satiated?
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Misty May butt sweat pic
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
This comment
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
It reminds me how much I hate AJM.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Do you like anything,
but a well rounded rape?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I like how California is building an island of rapes.
Seriously.
They are.
Look at it.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Santa Rosa island.
Seriously.
Link.
Though sadly it’s only for Pedo’s.
Those guys should just be killed.
But regular old-tyme sex criminals like me should get an island, too.
Maybe a Caribean one where the government is all corrupt and fat guys fan themselves and drink Ice Tea out of glasses cause it’s “too hot today”.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Wasn't that one of the alternate sites in Jurassic Park?
Just feed them to the dinosaurs.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I....can't.....stop.....laughing
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Dirky
Wins the award for best, longest running bit on LSB. Honestly I would like to meet the guy. Not for the rapes though just the hilarity of seeing him go monkey fucking crazy on someone. Dirk A Tron, you sir are a gem.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
by TxStCa on Jun 3, 2010 11:04 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm quite friendly when I'm not angry.
I do own a fucking shed in the fucking woods, though.
Honest.
It has a concrete floor.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Ben also owns a shed
It isn’t in the woods, but it abuts against the wooded area behind his house that is by a creek.
It looks like the type of place that Saw IX would take place at.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
The shed, or the workshop?
If I were going to kill hookers, it would probaboly be in the workshop, it’s got concrete floors.
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
I've got a killing room
it’s a secret area behind my closet. Pretty large, too. It’s where I keep the missing…
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions
And a drain in the floor
"If this video was an ice cream flavor, it'd be pralines and dick." Clark
re: Matthew Wilder-Break My Stride, 4/17/09
You should make a post
entitled that, as you keep morphing into Sharky.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
no way Dirk's a Repub
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions
Or a bigoted idiot.
Basically all I’ve got is a little early onset insanity plus an all-consuming hatred for AJ fucking M and how bad he is at everything.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 10:49 AM CDT up reply actions
That's where it all started
for Sharky.
Just saying.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
the next stage
is where you start responding to your own posts, and we have threads 8 deep with thedirkatron responding to thedirkatron.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
I can't wait...
for that, honestly.
by ghostofErikThompson on Jun 4, 2010 1:35 PM CDT up reply actions
That'll be
a great day for LSB.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
cool it, SLC - just cool those engines
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 11:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I think I would have let Treanor
hit in the 9th. He has been hot this series. Gentry should not have batted. Blanco, Max and Arias would have been better options. But I am sure Wash didn’t make a move because he didn’t have anyone to replace Gentry in the OF.
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
It's still Matt Treanor
And he still had a .303 OBP at the start of the game. I don’t want a .303 OBP leading off the bottom of the 9th if I have a better option available, period. You can’t afford to put yourself down 1 out like that.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:55 PM CDT up reply actions
/Dirkatron
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
He could have gone with Max
and hope Jenks makes a mistake or Arias since he does make contact. Blanco would have given him the L/R maychup. But no way should Gentry have batted.
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
We don't have a better option though
At least one that could see out of both eyes.
Max may have the potential edge on Treanor but Max is 1-last 16 while Treanor has a 313/400/625 line over the last 10 days.
Max should have PH for Gentry and if we tied it up put Josh in the OF and lose the DH the rest of the game. But I have no problem with Treanor hitting in the 9th tonight
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
we do have a better option
about 10 probably. Most all of them being wasted on the Redhawks roster.
A BPH appearance?
Wow…this is out of the blue…
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 4, 2010 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions
He had Hamilton
He’d have lost the DH, but he made that move a week or two ago.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
He made that move last Friday when he pinch hit Nellie
And really looks like all he did that night was cost us two days of back dating the DL assignment.
What do voluntary mean?
The dude abides.....
You mean riding luck (particularly in the case of a guy like Traenor) isn't a good idea?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
are those commandment kinda like
the unwritten rules of baseball?
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
Dear Blogmaster
Please pick Arias as your “player of the week(s)” on the next podcast
Bahahahahaha, maybe it will work
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Adam is spot on about the game being a prime fucking example.
So obvious I don’t see how Daniels or Nolan can ignore the need for one.
Sad part is, we’ll win tomorrow, Oakland loses, we’re first and all will be forgotten.
Kinsler needs to move to the 5th spot
and Hamilton needs to hit 3rd. Kinsler looks lost at the plate.
"No nuts, no glory"
I agree with you on Kinsler
but Hamilton dosent look any better. Nellie needs to bat 3rd when he comes back
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:05 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
He has numbers in his name...
Another Rangers100?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Ben said they checked so far not him.
Maybe he will talk about Arlington
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Rangers100 was pompus and dumb
Not retarded.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Ewww.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 3, 2010 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Gary Matthews Jr.?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
No
We don’t need another guy on the bench who can’t hit.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
But he made that stellar catch
/Casual Rangers Fan
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
not as stellar
as that one byrd made, although it was for the cubs not us.
Speaking of Byrd..how about Marlon Byrd?
We could use some Byrd.
"There's really no way of knowing... Sometimes when I see their big eyes looking up from my lap I think, that's definitely a homeless guy in a fur coat." Betty White on SNL
by Pocket Ninja on Jun 4, 2010 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Did you hear that the Byrd is the Word
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
How much do you think he's looking for to sign? Any guesses at all?
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Right now? I dunno.. a mil?
I think he’d be much more concerned about playing time so he can build up some value, and so would prolly take less if someone offered him a full-time gig (or close to it).
Don’t know where we’d play him.
Put him in LF versus Lefty’s and slide Hambone over to center? He’s a terrible fielder, though, and that’s not many AB’s.
If I was his agent I’d be telling him to work his ass off at 1b to increase his versatility, cause there’s just not that many open DH slots and no one wants a guy who gonna cost ’em 1-1.5 runs per week in the field.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
Supposedly he wanted at least $3 million
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 4, 2010 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions
See...
and I doubt the Rangers are in a position right now to give him that.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
WHY is J-D not getting us...
this said Right-Handed BAT? Such a mystery to me. Money? Sale of the team? Surely someone is available.
"I wish to believe. But my belief is a graveyard." - Charles Bukowski
If its not Boggs
it probably has to be someone we get and the other team picks up all the payroll. I bet we aren’t willing to do the prospects for that type of move just yet.
The last couple of nights lineups look extra bad because of the freak Vlad injury. Though there really isn’t a reason for Arias to be on the team. He is better as either an extra RP or a RH hitting option.
What do voluntary mean?
The dude abides.....
Arias
must crush the ball in BP or something. Overall, this bench problem has been my first real JD grievance in awhile. His interview comments on the subject are very soothing either. They seem too patient.
"I wish to believe. But my belief is a graveyard." - Charles Bukowski
If Kalille Green had not been a nut job
would Blanco K Arias both not be on the roster? Is he more to blame than anyone? IDK? What is your thoughts?
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:08 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
If Greene where here
We wouldn’t have Blanco, but Arias likely still would’ve still made the team out of ST because of Kinsler’s injury, and we’d still be in the exact same situation.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
The bench sure would look better with
Greene & Lowell than it does with Blanco & Arias.
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:16 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I might rather have Blanco's glove than whatever Greene would've brought to the table pop-wise, actually.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
blanco
who does he come in for?
He should come in for FOF in late inning(s) of close games we lead but Warsh won’t do that.
He’s probably better fielder than Kinsler but is the difference great enough that you’d want to risk losing Kinsler’s bat if the other team ties or takes the lead? Probably not, and Warsh won’t do that anyway.
Elvis? Of course not.
So what does Blanco do for the team?
He provides a plus-glove backup at shortstop, that's what.
The real question is what Arias does for the team.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on Jun 4, 2010 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions
Unless you have a better UIF
in mind, I don’t think there is any question that Blanco is a better UIF than Arias. Arias’ arm pretty much means he can’t cover SS or 3B, and his bat isn’t enough to cover 1B. At least Blanco can field all IF positions, even if his bat is light.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
I know you guys will kill me foe this, but....
What RH OF do you thinl we could get for Hamilton straight up? I bet NYY would love to have him.
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Good plan
Let’s trade him for Brett Gardner.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:20 PM CDT up reply actions
You still hate BG, don't you?
Why do you refuse to admit he’s good?
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Brett Gardener for Hamilton would be a good trade for Texas in the long run
but here is one for you. Once the new ownership is in place, trade Hamilton to StL for Holliday. Then StL would have the money to resign Pujols & Carpenter. Hamilton would be protection for Pujols.
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:31 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
You are one stupid MFer
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Hey
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
nope browser fail
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
"Brett Gardener for Hamilton would be a good trade for Texas in the long run"
Someone post that Angrydome gif.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:31 PM CDT up reply actions
You should send that one to TR's mailbag
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Wait a second
I didn’t read the body of your post.
St. Louis just signed Holliday this past offseason.
Why would they immediately deal him for Hamilton?
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Heres one for you
suck on these nuts mutha fuckaaaaa
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:42 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
How in the world would trading a supposed cornerstone of your franchise for a better version of Craig Gentry be a good thing?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Wait, now we're trading Elvis!?!?!
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
/linedrive
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Hamilton is not a cornerstone of the franchise
or atleast should not be considered one. He has had a great half of a seaon & the greatest HR dreby of all time. since then he has been hit & miss
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:44 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Well, your first sentence is probably correct
But the second part is wrong. He had a .371 wOBA coming into tonight, which isn’t that much worse than the .385 he put up in 2008 – and still quite good any way you slice it.
He’s been the third of fourth best offensive player on the team, depending upon whether or not you want to dock Cruz for all the games he’s missed.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Here you go disphit for brains
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
This is dumb
Because there are no RH OF’s out there that would be worth trading Hamilton for.
And the only ones who potentially would be are either old, expensive, performing over their heads or all of the above.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
X
Holliday, Bay, Hunter, Braun all say HI, but yeah most of them are very expensive
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Why bring up Holliday, he's going to make more in this contract than twice our current payroll.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
if I remember
right his deal is VERY similar to FOTF it was either him or Bay, I saw it and thought shit
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Torri Hunter?
Hamilton has been better than Hunter at the dish this year and Hunter has been terrible defensively for several years now.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Tommy can judo chop a mean baseball.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Wait
He’s talking about Lindsey Hunter.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Hunter S. Thompson
"There's really no way of knowing... Sometimes when I see their big eyes looking up from my lap I think, that's definitely a homeless guy in a fur coat." Betty White on SNL
by Pocket Ninja on Jun 4, 2010 12:32 PM CDT up reply actions
I hate him so much.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Cause he was a bigger badass than you?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Hunter Thornton/Hunter Thompson... Name similarity is annoying.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
I want some of what you've been drinking
if you think Torii Hunter has played bad defense
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:32 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Torr Hunter's UZR, last 4 seasons
-2.0, -11.8, -3.4, -9.0.
DRS is quite a bit kinder, but still only has him around average save for last season.
Hunter is quite possibly the most overrated OF defender in baseball.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
but
gold gloves!
"Diving stab by Andrus, gets up, throws.... GOT HIM!!! An unbelievable play! From short left field!"
-Eric Nadel on 5/17/10
by Jason Brynsvold on Jun 3, 2010 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions
He's just been drinking.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Your both crazy if you dont think Torri Hunter is a great OF
quit looking at all these stats that you dont understand & watch the guy play
by Linedrive222 on Jun 3, 2010 11:47 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
ya when they don't respect the metrics dumb as shit or bit
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Or Angels fan
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
You'd think an Angels fan would be more angry about Hunter, not less.
He’s been pretty bad defensively for them.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Marcus Thames sends you a postcard
Although you can assert he isn’t a value for Hamilton.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 3, 2010 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
He's from Louisville, Mississippi
They have a telephone there, but it’s ring one for an operator, ring three for a party line.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 3, 2010 11:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Jonny Gomes
He’s basically the same guy as Hamilton, both age and performancewise. He’s just less interesting and famous so we should insist on Hanigan too.
It's stupid to hit Josh, Murphy & Smoak
In a row when they all struggle against lhp.
by styler27 on Jun 3, 2010 10:00 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
But Smoak is a switch hitter
/Casual Rangers Fan
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
He'd want $25mil for the rest of the year
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
And we already have a good hitting DH
What do voluntary mean?
The dude abides.....
Someone saw him at the Kentucky Derby with T.O.
Barry has shrunk back down. Said TO looked like a giant compared to him.
He looks like Robocop with that brace on
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
That's what it appears to be.
Who still wears that outside tennis players?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
the good news is Bonds to the left looks like Arias...
mustache and skinny body and all…maybe that’s the reason we’re keeping him? quick, somebody give him a shot of roids while he’s not looking
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions
they tried that
the needle went straight through his arm.
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
by jam0152 on Jun 4, 2010 10:18 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Cheating A-hole....
Greetings from the Humungus, the Ruler of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-A. I laugh at your puny plans.
by Lord Humungus on Jun 4, 2010 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions
he was
REALLY good when he was skinny also
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I bet he could still OPS .900
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Anyone ever read Rev's Top 100 Angels series?
He actually finished it, btw.
Anyway, they’re very, very bad. But not intolerably bad like most of his stuff, more like funny. You should read them. He uses Win Shares and OPS+ a lot for a guy who seems to hate “new aged stat geekery.”
Nope.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
I'll read the Sporting News before I'll read that shit.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I have a roll of that in my bathroom
But don’t like it beecause it doesn’t tear on the perforations.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 3, 2010 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
Gold Ed, gold!
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I hate to say it but the bottom of that list would get pretty damned mediocre.
What do voluntary mean?
The dude abides.....
Pudge or Nolan number 1?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Pudge. Easily.
I’d bump Nolan a couple spots more than his actual performance would probably dictate due to his place among the fans and the history he put together here, but no way would I have him top two.
Maybe 4th. Even if I think Rogers, Hough and Jenkins had better Rangers careers, none of them are quite iconic.
Not really.
I find “top 50 players of all time” lists highly tedious.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Seriously
AJM is already working around the clock.
Incidentally, that list is one of the first things I remember from this board. The past is a delicious iced tea best served with lemon.
Yeah, I remember the first time I found Adam's blog (long before I was posting here) I wanted to read his top 50 Rangers.
And then it just stopped, so I assumed he was working on it.
Um. . .
Last night I thought I might do one.
I don’t really have Rangers related blog and it seems like it would be wrong to do it here, though. Plus I’m not a high profile dude like AJM.
Your a winner
In my book!
The snozberries taste like snozberries!!
by Chrom on Jun 4, 2010 12:48 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Don't see it happening taking Colorado makes no sense, they aren't that good anymore.
I’d rather see the SWC come back, than join that fiasco
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Colorado has the Denver market though
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Cash Rules Everything Around Me
C.R.E.A.M. get the money
Dolla dolla bill yall…
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
AJM For Prez
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Yeah right.
We’re stuck out in the cold on this one unless A&M and/or OU don’t go west.
Byrne has made pretty damning statements in the past about his views on going two time zones away to play sports.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Baylor?? Ha ha.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions
They'd suck in football
Although Robert Griffin is a beast
But Baylor is pretty good in other sports. Baseball would be fucking awesome with Texas, Baylor, Arizona State all in a conference together.
Basketball would be really good as well
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
In this day and age, major conferences = football.
Because that’s where the money is.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Yeah I know
Which is why they’d take Colorado over Baylor due to the Denver market.
But it would be interesting whether they would take say Texas Tech or Baylor. Neither are in great tv markets (although Waco is closer than Lubbock to big ones), Baylor gives them better academic ratings, and is better at the secondary sports than Tech.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Tech has 2-2.5x as many living alumni as Baylor.
Though I have a hard time believing that Stanford and UCLA, which together torpedoed UT joining the Pac 10 back in the early 90s based on academics, would be too enthused about Tech joining their ranks.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
x
This is all about $$. They will forget the academic reps and just cash in.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Jun 3, 2010 11:00 PM CDT up reply actions
If the two were considered close enough in terms of monetary value, academics could sway the vote, though.
I’m not saying they are, obviously, but I think an argument could be made.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
For the most part...yes
But when it comes to Tech and Baylor, two schools in small tv markets, they may look at the entire picture which probably favors Baylor
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Are you saying Tech would get in ahead of Baylor due to alumni?
And Stanford and UCLA didn’t want UT in based on their good academics? Or were their academics not good enough?
I don’t remember how it was in the early 90s
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Tech has a larger alumni base and its lead grows every year.
In the early 90s, it was widely reported that UT wanted to join the Pac 10 upon the collapse of the SWC, and Stanford and UCLA kept them out due to academics.
But of course, money wasn’t nearly as big of an issue back then. CFB hadn’t become the business it is now, for better or worse.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Was Texas' academics bad or good in the early 90s?
Were they kept out because Stanford and UCLA didn’t want another good academic school with them or were they bad and they didn’t want that?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Texas wasn't nearly as good then as it is now.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
ok
So Stanford didn’t want another good school in I guess
I would bet now with UTs money machine they would overlook it
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
I don't think you're paying attention.
Texas wasn’t as good academically then. Not even close to as good.
Why wouldn’t a good academic school want another good academic school around?
Are you a UT fan?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I read that wrong for some reason
Sorry
Yes I am a UT fan
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
It's not that great now
Go ahead. I don’t care.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
by TxStCa on Jun 3, 2010 11:13 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
As a whole, it's pretty damn good.
Best in the Big XII by a fair margin.
And no, I’m not a UT fan.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
and 30% of them
Deliver Pizza or ask “want some frys with that”.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
They don't really add anything to the league, though.
Colorado gives you an entire region to take advantage of TV/market-wise.
I’m not saying Baylor’s horrible… they’re not anymore.
They’re more mediocre.
But why take them when they don’t really add anything you’re not already getting with UT, AAM and Tech (who I’m assuming would all be automatic adds)?
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
As a Baylor alum and diehard fan.
He’s right.
Baylor fans need to divorce their love for their school from their appreciation of its value in the college football landscape.
Being good at basketball isn’t going to get us into a major conference. Neither will baseball, track, or women’s equestrian. We’ve sucked hind tit for nearly twenty years in the one sport that matters in this equation: football.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
But now they've got Ken Starr!!!!
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:56 PM CDT up reply actions
And he will fuck. you. up.
Or tell a bunch of people about the stuff you do when no one is looking.
I can’t remember which one.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
When I first heard about that I was like, "Wow, that sucks for that dude to have the same name as that other, shitty Ken Starr."
Then I found out it was actually him and his penis and I was like, “Oh… Sorry, Baylor.”
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I talked to him at the Baylor spring game in April.
He was exactly like I expected him to be.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I've always heard he is a royal ass.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
He seemed like a more nerdy Mr. Rogers.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
who was, in fact, a badass
if you don’t read Snopes and get an email about how he was a Seal and killed 25 confirmed
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah Colorado would go before Baylor
But like I said above it would be an interesting choice between Tech and Baylor. The difference in their secondaries could cancel out Tech advantage in football.
Also Tech may want to look into joining a conference they could compete for conference titles in like the MWC
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
I've lived in Lubbock my whole life and the Tech fans
would shit razor blades if they had to become “Mid Majors.” I’m not even kidding they are so high on shit that they don’t think it stinks. They are offended when the national media makes fun of them. It’s almost childish.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Yeah the fans would be pissed initially
But if the Pac 10 merges with 6 Big 12 schools the chance of Tech having a cinderella season like they had in 08 go way down. If the MWC gets an automatic BCS berth it may make more sense for them to go there and try and get that slot.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
You mean they don't want to see a rivalry game with UNT or SMU???
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I dunno, I guess it's just the sports history, plus the larger student body (15k to about 30k).
Baylor’s been truly bad in the past at football especially, and that’s hard to shake.
Tech’s had a longer history of success and therefor a lot more name recognition around the country, plus, again, the much larger pool of alumni to draw from in terms of fans.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Quite a few years ago
When both Tulsa and Tech were getting attention for offensive stats and scoring (also Houston) I thought a new SWC made up of Tulsa, TCU, OSU, Tech, Baylor, Iowa State, Tulane, and Houston would be a pretty good conference. But now I doubt its’ credibility – larger mid majors and light majors with a lot of media backing, and only eight schools trying to compete with much bigger conferences.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 3, 2010 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions
lol
"He thinks f***ing people pay to watch him f***ing umpire."--Ozzie Guillen in regards to Joe West
"A win is a win. Kinda like banging a hogger on Spring Break. You’re glad hardly anybody saw you do it but at the end of the day you got laid."-- Josey Wales
by TooLegitToQuit on Jun 4, 2010 2:16 AM CDT up reply actions
Hmmm...interesting...
All those TV sets in Waco are very appealing.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Because that's where all of the Baylor folks are all the time.
We just hang out in Waco talking amongst ourselves.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Except on Sundays
When you go to church, then hit up the Luby’s for lunch.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Get with the times, the Luby's in Waco closed if I recall.
Everyone eats at the Woodway Country Club.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
There's a Luby's next to Wal-Mart on Franklin
I’ve never ate at a Luby’s though. Doesn’t seem like a good place for food.
And I'm certain it's not closed unless this just happened like within the last 2 months
My dad had a funny story about eating there with some friend around that time.
Lubbock has been closed for about 9 years,
Abilene at least 4 and the one in Bedford probably 4.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Luby's is closed everywhere in Texas I think.
My friend from school, that was his families.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
not in the inner cities
the brother loves some Luby’s
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
It's definitely closed in Killeen.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
I just got this.
Wow.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
There's no point going to Luby's if you don't get jello.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
SWC will never happen again, not as a major conference.
This is all about money.
Conferences want states and media markets, no conference could survive entirely within the confines of Texas nowadays.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I read an article saying that the UT athletic director was "talking" about independence.
They would be the only school that has the financial capabilities to do so. I don’t want it, but I mean if somebody pisses off UT that would hurt the Big XII big time.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
UT could pull it off now because of their enormous surplus, but that surplus is built on the back of sustained dominance.
There is no guarantee that they will continue to be as good in the future as they have been for the last ten years.
The chance of falling back even slightly is enough to keep them in line for a conference, but they will demand (and rightfully deserve) a big slice of whatever pie they are around.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I could see them
going indo and ending up with some kind of UT channel, I think they have enough going on to sustain that
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:00 PM CDT up reply actions
They'd have to seriously upgrade their schedule for that to work
No one will watch (nationally at least) a game between Texas and North Texas or LA Monroe
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
The Texas market
would carry the network, they could show old games, and all the other sports, I feel like it would do really good in Texas, although I’m not a big UT fan
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes
But to be independent you have to go national. Notre Dame is on NBC all across the country. I don’t think UT could go independent with just a regional network. It may work for a few years but once Texas has a down year or two the money will dry up quick
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Notre Dame won't get that TV contract again, btw.
They’ll join the Big10 because they have to, eventually.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
but
UT doesn’t have those ridiculous academic requirements, thats why Notre Dame is falling off they can’t get the playa’s
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions
This is not at all germane to the discussion at hand.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
it is
when you put Notre Dame up as an example, it is the reason they have fallen off so much
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions
"The" reason?
There is never just one reason.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
give me a reason
close to that, I think they have Superb facilities and have had pretty good coaching, they just haven’t had the athletes
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Prove that they have had good coaching.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
You're asking me to prove a negative.
No thanks.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Memories are short.
UT hasn’t always been as good as they are now.
Older Longhorn fans probably remember 66-3 to UCLA.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
they also
haven’t had Mack Brown recruiting for them. love him or hate him he recruits STUDS, and as long as he is getting those players they will be successful
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:09 PM CDT up reply actions
I must have forgotten the point where Mack Brown became immortal.
Sooner or later Brown will be gone. I think it will be within the next two years.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Muschamp is doing pretty damn well in his "coach in training" role
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
How do you know?
BBL just said it was because of Mack.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Muschamp has been instrumental in getting some of the defensive talent the last couple years
The 5 star LB from OHIO that we nabbed he had a huge hand in. He isn’t on Macks level yet but between Applewhite and Muschamp I don’t see a huge recruiting dropoff when Mack does decide to hang them up
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Then argue with BBL, because he apparently believes Mack Brown is God himself.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
We agree on Brown
You were the one who said Mack would soon be gone and intimated that we would go back to when we weren’t good.
Not really arguing with anyone actually just pointing out our recruiting won’t fall off the face of the earth when Mack leaves
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
I never said that when Mack left, UT wouldn't be as good.
But if you can name the last school to have a major coaching change without suffering at least a little bit, I’d love to hear it.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
TCU also
From Fran to Patterson
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
the recruiting
Mack is a recruiting genius, never said shit about him being immortal but AT LEAST like coach Calipari if you get the talent you don’t have to be much of a coach and Mack gets the talent
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions
His one national championship with possibly the best player in college football history sure was indicative of his coaching ability.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Thank You
for making my point, never said he was a great coach, but as long as you get the best players you can be an average coach and look really good
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Muschamp has gotten some key recruits,
see the LB that he stole from Ohio State’s backyard and Jeffcoat’s kid, I’m not sold on him cause I believe he wasn’t that stellar when I saw him play.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Jeffcoat's kid was always going to UT.
He’s overrated because of his lineage, though he will be quite good.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I remember listening to UT playing Rice...
…in the rain, driving on I-35, and either Bill Shoening or Craig Way whining that every time UT got the ball on offense, it started raining harder.
I think the great Shea Morenz was QB at the time.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:15 PM CDT up reply actions
A ha!
Here’s the game. I was right. It was Morenz.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I hated Mackovic
and I wasn’t that old, but I can’t hate him too much, he got UT Ricky.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Ricky is why it's impossible for me to hate Mackovic.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
This is interesting the endowments for the Big XII schools
Baylor – $1 billion
Colorado – $870 million
Iowa State – $569 million
Kansas – $1.2 billion
Kansas State – $346 million
Missouri – $1.1 billion
Nebraska – $1.2 billion
Oklahoma – $1.1 billion
Oklahoma State – $617 million
Texas – $16.1 billion
Texas A&M – $6.6 billion
Texas Tech – $792 million
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I'm about 99% sure that nobody knows exactly how much Baylor's endowment actually represents in dollars as of today.
Talk about a clusterfuck of investments.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
So basically...
…UT could stick their endowment in a 12 month CD, and earn as much in interest as the entire Kansas State endowment.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Those numbers are pre-downturn, fwiw.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Texas is now 12b, and Baylor's at slightly less than 900m
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions
It is all about money and power...
The PAC 10 would have the following markets wrapped up:
All of Cal; LA. SF, SD
Seattle
Denver
Phx
Ok. City/Tulsa
All of Texas: DFW, SA, and Houston
They would own half the country
by death of the cool on Jun 4, 2010 7:48 AM CDT up reply actions
What it shows
is that the PAC 10 has a commissioner that looks to the future, and the Big 12 has a commissioner who is waiting to be raped.
"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."-https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Big 12
It would be hard for the Big 12 to expand though.
We aren’t going to pull USC and UCLA out of the Pac 10 by themselves. LSU and Arkansas aren’t big media markets.
The only way I see the Big 12 expanding is taking Arizona, Arizona State, USC, and UCLA but I doubt those schools would ever go for it. Based on the Big 12’s geographic size it makes them easy to pick teams from
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Schools like ASU and Arizona
Will NEVER leave UCLA/USC and the LA Market.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Jun 4, 2010 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions
LSU
is a bigger media market than people give it credit for. It pretty much owns the whole state of LA.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Hate to say it, but I agree.
Pac 10 Commish has reportedly said that no offers are forthcoming, but I don’t believe him.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I kind of wanted BYU-Utah.
Just because I like the neat set of five pairs we have now. But whatever, I get that’s an irrational love of aesthetics that ignores 1,000 things more important.
Keep the pairs alive!
Take UT and A&M, and pair Baylor with …
…
…
…
TCU?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Hmmmmm.
That could work. Who does Colorado pair with? No one wants CSU or Air Force.
I also like how perfectly the current conference is able to schedule. Again, there are things that are more important. That makes me sad, but oh well.
What also makes me sad is putting more teams in front of WSU on the totem pole. :(
Welcome to Baylor's world.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Colorado...
should be paired with my Utes. =(
I’m a little upset about all this right now, I thought that Utah was going to be considered a lot more than it appears they really are right now.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
See, I understand that's what they'd do.
But that’s not from the same state or even an established rivalry. It’s just not the same. :(
Utah v. Colorado used to be a rivalry...
but that was like 40 years ago. So yeah, that probably doesn’t count much now.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Utah gets screwed over way more than they should
Karma for you MWC clubs ditching the eastern half of the WAC back in ‘97 or whenever y’all did it in that Colorado Springs Airport conference room.
Left Rice, TCU and SMU having to play against UTEP and San Jose State for fun…
Go Rice Owls!
That had a lot to do...
with the WAC watering down the shit out of that conference. They had no business expanding to 16 teams at that time.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the other Big XII teams if this happens. I think Boise is already going to the MWC. It will be interesting if the MWC tries to steal a couple of the other Big XII teams to try and expand to 12.
I really have no idea what’s going to happen right now. This whole thing is just crazy.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I know
I can’t really blame y’all. The original WAC wasn’t bad, but when a team like BYU started having to fly to Hawaii and then to Houston the next week – well… that isn’t fun for anyone. It was just too big with not enough natural rivalries. The Texas schools didn’t belong, and the random clubs out west like Hawaii and SJSU…
But I was annoyed as hell when it happened.
Go Rice Owls!
Fuck Utah.
They’re a small-time little program.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
"Now run along, my question was for Jamey and not the diminutive, sawwed off little twerp from Arkansas who no longer sees the team up close."
by Josey Wales on Jun 4, 2010 12:22 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
well apparently
MWC has a decent shot at Boise, if they can do that and add a Mizzou or Baylor and this PAC 10 stuff goes down they have to be in line for a BCS bid and more money
by blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2010 12:30 AM CDT up reply actions
Mizzou
who we were told was the “Golden Goose” of the Big 12 is supposedly going to the Big 10 with Nebraska.
I think if Nebraska & Mizzou had wanted to stay, the Big 12 could have stayed together and possibly expanded.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
"Now run along, my question was for Jamey and not the diminutive, sawwed off little twerp from Arkansas who no longer sees the team up close."
Ya,
I’ve heard the Big XII has rights to the Big 14, 16, 18 or something like that.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I can already hear Mack Brown
whining about the long flights to the west coast for a road game.
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
It would be stupid, 3 times zones for a football game,
Texas ain’t even Pacific for Dirkatron’s sake. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but the Big XII is probably done.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
then he will whine about his tough conference schedule
while he plays non conference games against the likes of Dirk State
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
that probably wouldn't happen much
there would probably be two leagues with the BIG XII teams and the two Arizona teams in one and they would only play one or two games a year against the other teams
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Not in sports like baseball or basketball, where you travel midweek and for weekend series.
Every school would play every other school in those sports.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Yeah good point
I think they can make it work though
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Football isn't what makes ADs like Byrne squirm about the travel.
It’s the sports like softball, tennis, volleyball, women’s basketball, etc. that don’t pay their own bills and have relatively large squads.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Yeah I understand that
I think the money will be too much and more than enough to support all the sports
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
and
it would be tougher for those sports but only one visit to each spot for each sport and for baseball it would probably have to be Fri-Sat trips
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 11:22 PM CDT up reply actions
So during conference play do you just not play during the week in baseball?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
You could do no interdivisional matchups during the week or something.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Would that go for all sports, including basketball, which also play during the week?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I dunno, but for baseball, which tends to play groups of games, it would definitely have to be something like this.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
You only play one basketball game at a time not a series of three games
So hotel fees would only be one night at a time which would cut down on costs
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Split into divisions
Besides, no one gives a crap about college baseball. That’s right up there with the complications of scheduling diving meets when it comes to figuring out conference alignments.
by Adam J. Morris on Jun 3, 2010 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I never said it would be determinative.
But it is something that ADs and school Presidents will consider.
Byrne from A&M has said repeatedly that he hates going west to play in any sports because it makes the athletic teams get back at weird hours and messes with their academic schedules.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
We all know that college football is the only sport that matters in these issues
The only one. Maybe if they’re deadlocked on who to admit for football reasons do they look at the basketball issues. But that is only in case of a tie. They’d go to coin flips before they paid attention to baseball.
Go Rice Owls!
Not always.
You can always do the conference a little different in different sports, a la the Big East, where they’ve got a normal football pool, and then like 217 basketball teams… Although I think some of those schools just plain don’t have football, so… yah, I dunno.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Ya they don't have football or it's D1-AA
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
The southern Pac 10 schools already have long trips
up to the Northwest schools. It’s the same time zone, but it’s a long ass trip. The schools will be making so much money off the TV deal if this happens that travel won’t be a problem.
Also, before anyone says it — it’s not like athletes missing extra classes is really part of their concern.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
Football games are once-a-week events, usually on weekends.
Easy to schedule around time zones for that.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Unlike the short ones to Denver...
I think this is a non-issue for football.
For teams like basketball and (especially) baseball where you’d be having to fly all over like 10 or 15 times a year, this could be a big problem.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions
these mega conference ideas
seem dumb to me, so you leave a conference with 12 teams and go to one with 16 and you have to win the whole conference to ensure your BCS bid? Also what are the chances they take the Big XII’s auto bid and give it to say the MWC?
by blueballlefty on Jun 3, 2010 10:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Depends on which conferences are left standing.
As far as I know, there is no procedure in place, though I’m sure one has been contemplated with particular regard for the Big East, for removing a conference’s BCS bid.
Most likely, should the megaconferences come to pass, you’d see a complete reshuffling of the NCAA itself and the dismantling of the current BCS.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
fanshot
Perryman links to an interview with OKC pitching coach Terry Clark. Some great info on Ogando, Beltre and Scheppers.
http://www.lonestarball.com/2010/6/3/1500404/good-mlb-com-piece-on-aaa-arms
Thank you Houston for drafting Jason Castro.
That's a sweet metal-framed house you've got there.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Damn your synonyms.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Damn it you stupid hateful mother fucker.
I actually really like this one.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
OT: Obama says it would be "wonderful" if Lebron stayed in Cleveland.
Why do people ask him about things like this? Who gives a shit what he thinks about professional basketball, or the potential for a college football playoff, or which MLB team he likes?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Who gives a shit about what he thinks, period.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Oh, nice. Now you're on my side. But when AJM does hate rapes on me, you're behind him yelling, "Kickizass, Seabass!"
I’m gonna be in prison soon.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions
AJM has long, long arms, my friend.
Good luck keeping the rapes going.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
AJM has short little stubby arms, cause he's a ridiculous man and a mediocre reader of books.
He has great powers of hate rapes, though.
I’m honestly afraid for the first time in my life.
This is a man worthy of battling me at hate rapes.
He might even be able to beat me.
But I no longer give a fragrant fucking rape about that.
So now it’s on, so let’s do some fucking non-consensual sex stuff to each other, you fucking fruit salad ass mother fucker.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Wait, are you talking to me, or through me to him?
About the non-consensual stuff.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
vs. 
The aliens waiting for us to destroy ourselves.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
by Aqua on Jun 3, 2010 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pay Per View cable.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Screw that ESPN Friday Night Fights!
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Wait
The Tron looks like a compressed down, shrunken, not sanforized Bill Walton? This may explain a few SE bigfoot sightings.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 3, 2010 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
You know who Dirkatron reminds me of?
The hobo from The Simpsons Tall Tales:
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
This is my favorite knife, Stabby.
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
tron would fn rape rape rape ajm
it wouldn’t even be close. ‘tron would invent some kind of new rape when ajm tries his ’kiss the baby’ move, ’tron will go HyperRape … thus leading to a rape fatality.
lol
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
I'd make it a stare-off
and I think both go blind
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions
Who cares either way?
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 3, 2010 10:53 PM CDT up reply actions
because he ran on the ticket that said "I'll fix the BCS!"
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions
3-5 road trip
Could’ve been alot better. So I’d say it was a fair trip. Tampa series is important. Really need to get at least 2
"Hell's frozen over, Pigs are flying! The Saints have won the Super Bowl"
Shreveport Captains in LSB H2H Fantasy League
This is probably going to be like the Minnesota series though
Only at home.
So brace yourself for disappointment.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
You expect to get at least two against Tampa?
Of course it’s possible, but you might need to lower your expectations.
I'm pretty confident in
CJ vs. Wade, and maybe Hunter comes up here and owns, but a four game set against TB with no Colby will be tough, although JACK IS BACK, and maybe we know how to get Hank F. out
by blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2010 12:32 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm sure it was said in the GDT
But damn Thornton would look good in our BP.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
He's an absolute beast.
Second-most valuable RP only to Jonathan Broxton last year, and most valuable in the AL (accumulated 2.5 WAR, which for a RP is kind of nuts).
He’s in a 5-way tie for most valuable so far this year so far (1.1 WAR already) and he has an FIP of 1.07 and a tERA of 1.00. I’m gonna type that again, because even I can’t believe it: FIP of 1.07, and tERA of 1.00. SHIT.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
He'd look good in every single BP on every single team in the bigs.
He’s so, so good.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
Stupid question who is UID 1?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
I believe AJM said it was Jeff Sullivan one time
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Ah I know he is UID 2 for LoL.
I know it doesn’t matter, but I was just curious.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
That would make sense.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
If you had to choose between a Hamilton Jersey and B young Jersey and B+ Kinsler jersey
Which one would you choose?
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
Kinsler
Hamilton and Young are cliches.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
when I bought mine
last year Kins was the only Jersey they had in the entire store
by blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2010 12:34 AM CDT up reply actions
You have to be careful when wearing a Kinsler jersey
Never know when something is going to pop up.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Jun 4, 2010 1:12 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
heh well played Ed.
Did you hear that Kins and a few of the boys went to Sizzler last week and when the waitress asked him what his favorite cut of meat was, he replied with “upper”.
Wash for this scene your role is to act like a manager who know's what the F he is doing. I know it's a creative stretch 'cus.....he do what he do.
Ed's rolling
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
None of the above.
Give me a Vlad jersey.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
I think the obvious choice if you where going to invest in a Ranger jersey would be Elvis, actually.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Wearing a jersey of your favorite player makes you look like an asshole!!!! You’re not playing!
/Arlington Stadium Legend
"He thinks f***ing people pay to watch him f***ing umpire."--Ozzie Guillen in regards to Joe West
"A win is a win. Kinda like banging a hogger on Spring Break. You’re glad hardly anybody saw you do it but at the end of the day you got laid."-- Josey Wales
by TooLegitToQuit on Jun 4, 2010 2:31 AM CDT up reply actions
I assumed that was also cliche.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
It might become cliche
But unlike Young and Hamilton, it’ll be for a good reason.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Teagarden heh
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Arias would be a solid choice
It’ll never go out of style, because he’ll never get taken off thee roster.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
NOBODY I've seen has Elvis. Cruz would also be a solid choice.
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
OT: Can't decide whether the A-Team movie is going to be any good.
I would normally see anything with Liam Neeson in it.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Probably not
As a fan of the original show, I suspect I’m going to be highly disappointed with any re-imagining of it.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
It looks fucking terrible.
The only way that thing is gonna be good is if it’s just so incredibly cheese dick that it becomes inadvertently awesome, and that’s a tough move to pull off.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
I think it's going to be fantastic
but I’m royally pissed it’s Rampage and not T
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 10:24 AM CDT up reply actions
How old is T? I haven'y seen a recent pic. That would've been fucking epic.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't think he looks too terribly old
to still play the role. I can’t imagine anyone else playing BA! I would have liked to see Clooney as Hannibal. I could see him with the smirk and cigar. Neeson is almost too good of an actor for the part, which they all were a bit cheesy. Jim Carrey would have made a good Murdock, but he would have been a narcissistic psycho on the set probably. Cooper is good as face. And you can’t go wrong with Biel. Hopefully it doesn’t suck. Kind of underwhelming summer for movies this year.
Just watched first five minutes of Get Him to the Greek... might be good.
Link.
Try a bit too hard in places, but whatzizface playing a weirdo is a natural.
Might overexpose it over 2 hours, though.
And Jonah Hill w/out the neck beard and Jewfro is just a fat guy. Why would anyone wanna be just a fat guy? Terrible move by him.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions
I think without Neeson I'd be MUCH less inclined to see this movie
I expect greatness from him, and Cooper I’ve come around on after seeing Hangover for the 2nd and 3rd time.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Sir Laurence Tureaud is 58
Little known fact: Mr. T managed eventually to parlay his job as a bouncer into a career as a bodyguard to the stars that lasted almost ten years. He protected well-known personalities like Muhammad Ali, Steve McQueen, Michael Jackson, Leon Spinks, Joe Frazier and Diana Ross, charging $3,000 per day.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions
God that'd've been awesome to see him in that role.
I’d’ve def seen it then.
Now… Rental.
Looks ridiculous.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
if Rocky and Arnold and Jack and DeNiro can do it
I think T can. In fact, I don’t think there’s much that T can’t do. Ever seen him and Conan picking apples together? Such a special moment
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jun 4, 2010 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
He and Conan were greatness together.
His In the Year 2000’s were always special little treats.
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
I've got nothing, that was just a tough loss.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Does Jim Joyce have the ability to turn his head at the neck, or is it the gear they wear which makes him look like a robot?
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
Sticky aren't they
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
people we could trade for?
holland and smoak + for ryan braun?
scheppers for carlos quentin?
tommy hunter for ryan doumit?
a grade B prospect for Nady or Kearns?
hell
the entire OKC roster makes more sense than either Arias or Blanco if Warsh ain’t gonna pinch-field for FOF
Boggs, German, Salty, Brown. Much more utility having one of them available to play instead of Murph or Pedro. Hell, Davis or Garko even. Fuck, i’d even take Tracy or Wes Bankston. It doesn’t make any sense.
dead space already available on the 25
for Boggs and German
vs LHP
Elvis SS
FOF 3B
Kinsler 2B
Cruz RF or LF
Vlad DH or RF
Gentry, Hamilton CF or Smoak 1B
Max C
Boggs LF or CF
German 1B or DH
Bench
Salty C
Murph OF
2 of Gentry, Hamilton, Smoak
That leaves us with no backup MI save German, but we don’t really need one. But trade Murphy for whatever and replace him with Blanco or Arias if you insist.
Pedro to AAA, Treanor released, Arias and Blanco who cares…
I don’t really care if Salty can’t throw it back to the pitcher. Why does he need to? Roll it back. Or if there’s someone on base just make sure an MIF is ready to back up the pitcher.
v RHP
Elvis SS
FOF 3B
Kinsler 2B
Hamilton CF
Cruz RF
Guerrero DH
Salty or Max C
Smoak 1B
Boggs or Murphy LF
Bench
Boggs or Murphy (or Arias instead of Murphy if you insist)
Salty or Max
Steve the German
Gentry
Hell yeah
arias for brandon boggs
would work just fine too
need.... morning.... thread....
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
can't..... speak......at.......normal.........rate.........
Greetings from the Humungus, the Ruler of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-A. I laugh at your puny plans.
by Lord Humungus on Jun 4, 2010 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
Is it inappropriate to say we need a new manager?
Greetings from the Humungus, the Ruler of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-A. I laugh at your puny plans.
If it's wrong.
I don’t want to be right.
"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty."- General George S. Patton
well
I’ll take two of three against Chicago, even losing a winnable game like this one…
TEX needed 2 of 3 because TEX failed to win a game in MINN – otherwise it’s an 0-6 roadtrip or 1-5.
TEX really needed to win 3 games on that trip, but that would have been asking a lot
ohai
The 40 trumps all!
Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.
by thedirkatron on Jun 4, 2010 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions
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