November 11, 20223 yr Popular Post love these articles and comments from the mlb media about marring a world series or how the baseball world will be critical of the astros for this move. get. the. fuck. out. with. that. nonsense. i just spent 3 days at fucking epcot with my in-laws and wore my bright orange trucker hat on purpose because we won the world series the night before. i got some high-fives and plenty of grown adults yelling "cheaters" or "trash-tros" like we were on twitter or something. my father-in-law and i almost came to blows with some drunken idiot who yelled at us for supporting a team that cheats. he shut up pretty quick when i said, "i've been rooting for this team for 40 years, what kind of shitty god-damned fan abandons their team over buzzer rumors and sign-stealing half the league was also doing?" he was like, "what about the illegal bat?" i said, "you mean the same bat the dodgers took turns hitting homers with?" i'm done with optics. we just won a 2nd title. we're not the braves, we're not the chiefs, we're the fucking patriots. let's go.
November 11, 20223 yr @Wulaw Horn is awfully quiet on this topic, assume he is moving his shit into Click's office?
November 11, 20223 yr 43 minutes ago, henrygandorf said: love these articles and comments from the mlb media about marring a world series or how the baseball world will be critical of the astros for this move. get. the. fuck. out. with. that. nonsense. i just spent 3 days at fucking epcot with my in-laws and wore my bright orange trucker hat on purpose because we won the world series the night before. i got some high-fives and plenty of grown adults yelling "cheaters" or "trash-tros" like we were on twitter or something. my father-in-law and i almost came to blows with some drunken idiot who yelled at us for supporting a team that cheats. he shut up pretty quick when i said, "i've been rooting for this team for 40 years, what kind of shitty god-damned fan abandons their team over buzzer rumors and sign-stealing half the league was also doing?" he was like, "what about the illegal bat?" i said, "you mean the same bat the dodgers took turns hitting homers with?" i'm done with optics. we just won a 2nd title. we're not the braves, we're not the chiefs, we're the fucking patriots. let's go. Other fan bases are trying to dismiss this championship with talk of illegal bats and sticky stuff
November 11, 20223 yr 11 minutes ago, tx ind said: @Wulaw Horn is awfully quiet on this topic, assume he is moving his shit into Click's office? Dude I bought a power ball ticket because if I won the 2B I was going to give 1/4 of it to Crane for the right to be the GM. I’ve never been a Click fan, view him as a pussy with a middle reliever fetish that the Astros won in spite of rather than because. The Odorizi deal was trash. The Baez deal was trash. He probably overpaid Neris if we are being honest, Maton deal was trash (straw is a gold glove CF- Diaz better hit or that deal kind of sucks) and he allowed this team to have multiple holes in the lineup that were easily foreseeable that thankfully didn’t sink our battle ship because the pitching was ungodly. Montero was a good deal (along with Graveman), Stanek was a heist. He was probably right to let Correa walk but some creativity could have kept him around and they could have worked Pena in since we had, you know, 3 gaping holes in the lineup.
November 11, 20223 yr Fairly certain Crane knew he was going to move on after no deals were made the next day.
November 11, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, Gourmand said: Well that answers my question Look forward to the Rome article tomorrow explaining how the guy who has been here for 9 months was the secret key to our championship.
November 11, 20223 yr Fuck the media. When we win again next year it will just piss them off more. Can’t wait. Let the hate flow.
November 11, 20223 yr I don’t give him near enough credit for not ducking up a good thing. There’s probably some ego maniacal shit heads that would have done that so thanks for not fucking it up Jimmy Click. This off-season is Uber important. It was time for a caretaker Gm to leave and get someone with the vision to keep this going without the training wheels of JL turning over superstar pitchers making minimum wage. Crane has the right to pick a guy he’s comfortable with. Click is probably a fair GM. It’s not Like JL getting fired as far as impact goes and I guess form an internal political sense he learned a lesson not to shit on his manager if the owner likes the skipper more than he likes you.
November 11, 20223 yr i just listened to a segment of mlb radio on sirius, and at the beginning, it was all, "what type of credible gm is going to go to houston if they don't have the control they want? the theo epstein types aren't going to want an owner meddling with every move." then, after about 3 min, they start in with, "well, honestly, this is a hell of an opportunity for a talented asst gm or a soft landing spot for someone who maybe could use some seasoning, can work with a successful owner/franchise, and it's a really good situation - it's not like you need someone in there to take control of a teardown or rebuild." no fucking shit.
November 11, 20223 yr Sports media is pure manufactured controversy. I’m getting The Athletic now with my NY Times sub and I hadn’t realized how some of the most egregious offenders had all migrated to the same place. It’s only missing a Jose de Jesus Ortiz to really hit rock bottom.
November 11, 20223 yr Author Elias is my choice, young and hungry. If not him, someone young and hungry
November 11, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, LCHorn said: Sports media is pure manufactured controversy. I’m getting The Athletic now with my NY Times sub and I hadn’t realized how some of the most egregious offenders had all migrated to the same place. It’s only missing a Jose de Jesus Ortiz to really hit rock bottom. Fucking this. Hell, practically all media these days is pure manufactured controversy. It's what sells ads.
November 11, 20223 yr Plenty of candidates for plenty of positions have made similar comments before taking another gig, but who knows.
November 11, 20223 yr Author 3 minutes ago, The Dog said: I saw a 5 year deal for $25mil. Craziness, cashman has zero clue how to assemble a roster
November 11, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said: I saw a 5 year deal for $25mil. Craziness, cashman has zero clue how to assemble a roster I think it is an excellent contract and a very wise move for them to hold onto him.
November 11, 20223 yr The Yankees have to have a GM named Cash-Man, unless they can find a guy named Astrosbitchman.
November 11, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said: I saw a 5 year deal for $25mil. Craziness, cashman has zero clue how to assemble a roster me see 6 foot 5 muscle head. me want. me don't care if I have room in field. me play 9 giants. me may resign Gallo cause I love giants so much.
November 11, 20223 yr 19 minutes ago, The Dog said: your ideas are intriguing to me but i do not wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
November 11, 20223 yr Click wants the power to be a normal GM but Crane and Dusty don’t want that type of GM. I don’t blame Click for wanting to move on. good for crane and the Astros to say nice things about Click during the WS run and today.
November 11, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, henrygandorf said: your ideas are intriguing to me but i do not wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Not even a premium insider newsletter for the low low price of $1200?
November 11, 20223 yr I just love losers in the sports media, who have no experience in business and success opining about how horrible Crane is. Crane is cutthroat and hellbent about winning. That’s all I want from an owner. Darth Astros.
November 11, 20223 yr Per someone near everything, Click pissed Crane off with however he fucked up things with Oz Ocampo to the point that Ocampo left pissed recently. That was the final straw. Take the one year deal or get fucked. Click went out and shit on him in public while effectively claiming that this title doesn’t happen if he’s not the guy making it all happen.
November 12, 20223 yr 28 minutes ago, Scraps said: So can we get Oz back now?? We do have an assistant GM opening.
November 12, 20223 yr i think the rumblings over the past month or so let click know he was likely doomed. he thought if we won the world series, it would probably save him, since it would be a bad look to let your gm go right after a title. then crane did it anyway. cold-blooded. i love it.
November 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said: this is pretty damn good, never thought about this .. Apparently Schwarber never trained this way. lulz
November 12, 20223 yr Side note, I love the FAFO emoji we now have and how awesome it ties into this past WS. My new "go to" rep icon is Griddy lol. Yes, I'm driking
November 12, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, closetojumping said: Per someone near everything, Click pissed Crane off with however he fucked up things with Oz Ocampo to the point that Ocampo left pissed recently. That was the final straw. Take the one year deal or get fucked. Click went out and shit on him in public while effectively claiming that this title doesn’t happen if he’s not the guy making it all happen. I’d love to hear the specifics on Oz, that was a big loss that should have never happened. If Click chased him off I’ve moved from wish him well and grudgingly giving him some respect for being just smart enough to have the self awareness not to fuck with JL’s beautiful machine to taking the view of fuck that dude- may he rot.
November 12, 20223 yr Author Crane failed not stepping in BEFORE campos left. It falls on him as much as click
November 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said: i think the rumblings over the past month or so let click know he was likely doomed. he thought if we won the world series, it would probably save him, since it would be a bad look to let your gm go right after a title. then crane did it anyway. cold-blooded. i love it.
November 12, 20223 yr 59 minutes ago, Mez2 said: Side note, I love the FAFO emoji we now have and how awesome it ties into this past WS. My new "go to" rep icon is Griddy lol. Yes, I'm driking gritty drinking
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