Everything posted by Ojo Rojo
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Back during the height of the pandemic my wife applied for and received unemployment. She has a little bit of a weird job where her pay is not hourly or salary and shit got complicated. She also applied for some that she probably wasn't entitled to. I told her not to do that, even though money got a little tight around that time. I didn't really understand everything, I didn't want to know, but I just told her "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" and not to push it. Anyway, we're two years on now and she's still fucking with it. The state is trying to recover the money they say she shouldn't have gotten, but from what I understand they are overreaching and trying to take back money she was entitled to. I was sort of disgusted by the whole thing when it first started and I have largely stayed out of it. It's been her thing to deal with. In my opinion, she has fucked it all the way up, it's her fault and I'm not fixing it for her. It pisses me off even thinking about it. At some point, maybe she got scared or I had a moment of weakness, I made an appearance during one of her hearings with the TWC. (I am a licensed attorney.) I have handled a few wage claim issues with TWC in the past and it is a very aggravating process. This morning my wife had an appeal hearing. She had asked me to stay home with our kids and dog while she had this hearing. Sure, no problem. The hearing was at 8:30. I'm downstairs tending to the kids and the dog and scrolling the news on my phone. At 8:30:30 she comes running downstairs and I can hear the hearing officer on speaker asking about her personal representative. Something like, "Do you want your personal representative on this call?" She's looking at me with this deer in the headlights look. She doesn't know what to do. So I finish slinging breakfast at the kids and haul ass upstairs to my office. I say that I'm present and that kicks off a series of exchanges with the hearing officer where he's berating me for not being present when the hearing started, my wife already said she didn't want her representative present, do not leave the phone again, etc. Dude is ordering me around and berating me and shit. When I ran up, before I even said anything, he was asking my wife if she'd received certain documents. She was flipping through them in front of me and she said she'd received something that wasn't there. I was like, "Hold on, hold on. She doesn't have that document." Guy tried to shut me down again and told me to be quiet and stop interrupting the hearing. It sort of went downhill from there for a while until I finally figured out what was going on. She had missed the deadline to file an appeal and it was very clear. The whole hearing was just a dog and pony show. No substantive issues were reached at all. If the fucking guy had just told me that from the beginning I would have just walked out of the room, probably. So, my wife didn't ask me to be part of the hearing or tell me anything about it other than it was happening and then drags me into it while the hearing is in progress with zero preparation. Let alone the fact that she fucked this whole thing up and cost our family thousands of dollars because she tried to fuck around with unemployment.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
I think they are giving Yuli all the rope. It's out of respect for him and what he's done. I think everyone is hoping that he's close to what he's been come playoff time. With Meyers, he is still an unknown with too few at bats and coming off an injury. They need to give him playing time and ABs to see where he's going to be in October. I also think the front office really wants him to succeed to prove they were right. I don't really GAF about the lineup during the regular season any more. Part of me wants to win every game, sure, but I'd rather win the World Series.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
For like the 1,000,000th time over the last few years I've thought to myself, "What's crazy is..." The latest one: "What's crazy is that a bunch of people think that going after Trump for criminal acts is a purely political act on behalf of the Democratically controlled government, regardless of the fact that it certainly appears that he did commit multiple actual crimes. Meanwhile, these same people literally chanted "lock her up" about Hilary Clinton over the emails that she mishandled, which would have been an actual politically motivated criminal investigation." What is true is derided and dismissed while what is fake is celebrated and treated as truth. It's like everything is upside down. Hey, wait a minute... Did someone piss off a telekinetic kid and open a portal to another dimension?
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Fascinating stuff. I'm liking the current trajectory. Biden peaking right before midterms. Evidence of crimes seemingly mounting against Trump and the walls slowly closing in. I hope he goes down in a terrific ball of flames and it is slow and ugly and we hear his screams until his last breath. That would be nice. I really hope the low point for the country was January 6, 2021 and that we are on the rebound.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
I think it's like a big cat with no dick.
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Men's fashion. The dumb stuff.
Maybe Californians too.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
GIDP to end an inning has got to be my least favorite play in baseball when it happens to my team.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
The lineup decisions are not based on a single goal: to win today's game. There are all kinds of factors. Some days guys need rest. Some guys need ABs, some guys need to be tested, some guys need to be tested against certain teams/pitchers for one reason or another. It could be a personality/fit thing or an acclimation thing. A lot of ins and outs and what have yous. These regular season games with a big division lead are less important, so they have some flexibility to experiment with some things; work on some things. The lineup decision is about more than just that day's game.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Dear brother, you wound me.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Forgive me, then. In light of all of the other idiotic things you've been saying lately it was hard to tell.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Or Javier.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
I'm beginning to think you might be a dumbass.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Question out of curiosity - Do y'all think Dusty (with or without the input of the FO) put Yuli at second in the order in front of Alvarez to help boost his BA and save his job?
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
The fickleness of fans never ceases to amaze me.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Nothing is fucked here, dudes.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Prudent moves, all. Nothing Earth-shattering. My concern is that we basically just replaced Brantley with Mancini. That's fine and needed to be done if they know Brantley ain't coming back or even just as insurance. But we still have a pretty big hole in CF. You can't have All Stars at every position, I guess.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Wow.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Potato, potahto.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
All we need now is a badass centerfielder with a monster bat. Juan Soto is a badass centerfielder with a monster bat. Coincidence? Meyers, Urquidy or Javier and another 10-20 level prospect. Do it.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Plus, it gives more flexibility to play Yuli and hopefully he gets right throughout the rest of the season and the playoffs.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Siri was expendable. Good trade.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Now lets get Vasquez.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
I like it. He can play both OF and 1B. Basically, Chas, Jake, Siri, Yuli - death match for playing time/playoff roster. Kick ass or die. Pretty big motivation.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
I don't understand how the platoon thing works. You can only play one guy at a time. The trendlines make this trading deadline crazy. I was ready to say Yuli was done, then he goes out and has a really good month. Playing for his life? Regardless, makes it hard to give up a bunch of value to replace a guy who is showing signs of life. Same for CF. Meyers sucking, but Chas making a bid to be the every day guy. Based on today, assuming Brantley is out, I'd get an OF bat, Ian Happ maybe, and a backup catcher - Contreras or Vasquez - so we can pinch hit for Maldy when we really need a run in the playoffs. Just for morale's sake, I hope the FO does something, anything to upgrade the roster at least a little bit.
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2022 Houston Astros Thread
Fucking Toro.