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Craig Estlinbaum
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Co-Host at Hooks & Runs, a podcast about baseball, music & culture. Astro fan. Last concert attended - Turnstile. Any opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.

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Funny, but his message did not mention anything about the Florida game.
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I agree, Texas A&M has no biusiness playing FCS schools (other than PVAMU once a decade). But WHEN we play them, if we insist, does not matter.
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 AM
12-game schedule — what difference does it make when you play the cupcake??
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Are you asking me if teams drop in the polls after they lose? I mean, they do, but you should already know that.
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
What’s the difference between plating Wofford in Week 1-2 vs in Week 10-11?
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
No one goes up in the polls because they beat Sanford or Eastern Illinois.

It makes sense to spread out these OOC games so we don’t have a Penn State situation - 5 home games to 10/11 then 2 in November.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Whose ethnic cuisines? What exactly are you worrying about?
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How? No one talks about how.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“…and you actually lose many people in the very identity groups you think you’re talking to.”

Hispanic: Biden +25; Harris +3
Black: Biden +84; Harris +68
Women: Biden +11; Harris +7
Asian: Biden +40; Harris +17
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
She absolutely should run against Schumer in 2028.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I’m still bitter it took me so long to get invited in.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
When I was her age I did not know who Alben W. Barkley was, so that computes.
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ken Griffey, Jr.’s career WAR is 83.7. His 8-year peak WAR is 50.7. Griffey was a first ballot Hall of Famer with 99.3% of the vote.

Griffey never played in a World Series.

Trouts career WAR is 87.5 and his 8-year peak is 71.7.

Oh, Trout also hit .286 with 40 HRs and a .999 OPS in 2022.
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Baseball fans, even casual ones, very much know who Mike Trout, a 3-time MVP, is. To say otherwise is the epitome of not being serious.

Every eligible 3+ time MVP not entangled in the PED allegations was a first ballot Hall of Famer. Trout will be no different.
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What do you mean have a spine? Their fealty to Trump is what they were elected to deliver? Why expect Republicans to do the work Democrats and the left refuse to do?
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When every pitch has a reasonable chance of landing in the bleachers pitchers are going to be much more careful and put much more effort into every pitch.
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Podcast “coaches” say podcasters need to know their listeners. I ask “How?” With the proliferation of VPN, I don’t even know where they are!
October 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I do not agree. Yes, there are influences that direction, but following them is not mandatory and voters do not have to go along.
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Democratic leadership in Congress has been milquetoast since 2009. Why? What accounts for their fecklessness in the face of insurrection? Fear? What accounts for Democratic rank & file going along? I just cannot imagine.
September 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM