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Storm the Field

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  1. Not a great way to go, albeit quick, but worse for the poor tarmac workers who had to watch. The worst of it is blurred out. Engines were idling so not a full-on shred job.
  2. Reversion to the mean, IMO. This patched-together MASH unit of a roster where the bottom 4 spots of our lineup is often AAAA scrubs is not nearly as good as the record indicated from mid-June to 7/6, and we're not as bad as we looked at home this week. Couple of thoughts, some which come from being there in person today: 1. Brown is gassed. HIs 2 worst starts of the year came in the past week. He's laboring and leaving pitches up in the zone, leading to lots of balls, long ABs, and 25+ pitch innings. For fucks sake, he struggled against their 8 and 9 hitters that are both deeply sub-Mendoza. 2. It's a long season and every team has shitty stretches. We're in one now, and it's fairly team-wide. Lot of guys that were hot the past month/week have come back down to earth. Aside from Brown, Hader has faltered twice in a row, Cam's on a multi-game hitless streak, Walker has Abreu's bat speed again...etc. 3. Based on limited sample size, but also eye test: Short might actually be a worthwhile utility piece that can be a replacement-level 0-1 WAR guy on an MLB roster. Hummel and Trammell are never-was dreck. 4. We need rest and recovery like the desert needs rain. And we better be working on at least 1-2 trades before the end of the month. We need a LHB somewhere in the lineup and another starting pitcher.
  3. Phew. That would have been possibly worst loss of the season so far. Valdez outbattles DeGrom and we take a 3-1 lead into the 8th. Abreu and Hader both cough up 2-out solo shots. We then waste a perfect 10th from Sousa...
  4. Short-off!!!!!!
  5. If you're the home team and mange a scoreless top of the 10th, you simply gotta put a run across. Fucking terrible.
  6. Already getting antsy for hunting season. Just a little over 7 weeks until North and Central Zone dove season. I propose we start the '25-'26 thread when we get down to under 30 days. Gotta run up to East TX sometime later this month to pick up my buddy's UTV and trailer from the repair shop and drop them back off at the lease. When I do, think I'm gonna go ahead and fill and start running the feeder my camera is on, just for shits and giggles. We'll head up again sometime before Labor Day with a bunch of the guys for an official work weekend to get ready for the season. Earlier this Summer, I bought a small 2-seat cross between a golf cart and a UTV so I'll lug it up there and leave it for the Fall. Will be pretty damn useful for getting around the place without scratching my truck up.
  7. Alert, alert, mineral buyer detected.
  8. Not a single HR for us this series, right?
  9. Watching our AAA outfielders strike out AB after AB sure is fun. Edit: Not even AAA starters. These guys are replacements of replacements. Jake, Yordan, Chas ---> Melton and Dezenzo --> Hummel and Trammell.
  10. "Right calf tightness" for Jake. Same issue as before. Obviously wasn't ready to come back.
  11. M's lose again. Not losing anything off our division lead so far.
  12. Aside from season-worst showings by our ace starter and all-star closer, our franken-lineup left way too many guys on base. We really need to get Walker and Meyers back ASAP, and hopefully have JP rejoin sometime in August. Can't get away forever with having 3/9 spots in the lineup filled by guys that would be lucky to sniff a bench spot (short, hummel, trammel), especially when your normal bench options (dubon, caratini) are forced into taking on everyday roles.
  13. Damn, saw that earlier. Went to the same HS as her parents, though I'm a little older. I have classmates whose daughters were friends of hers.
  14. Fun show. Almost 3 years since Season 2 ended. Wife and I will probably have to re-watch previous seasons.
  15. After a 3-day weekend of gluttony and too much beer I'm taking a breather for the next 10 days and trying to drop a few lbs. No booze, healthy meals as much as possible...etc. Not entirely sure how it happened, but woke up yesterday with what feels basically like turf toe on my left foot. Gonna have to get creative doing cardio next few days. I'm hoping I can tolerate the elliptical machine this afternoon, b/c treadmill seems out of the question for a bit.
  16. Insensitive asshole here, but there's a thing I've seen the last 48 hours I just can't quite wrap my head around: I've seen god knows how many "prayer warrior" posts the past few days, 99.9% from women, including a lot by women I know, that seem convinced if they post on social media that they're praying hard enough, they can literally cause rescue to occur. Like Stringer said in his post earlier, it's as if here's a finite prayer threshold that must be met before a miraculous outcome can be granted. I absolutely understand the benefit (and inherent goodness) of having friends express genuine, heartfelt sympathy, but this ain't it.
  17. Update? Now, let me go ahead and take a swig of this piping hot coffee and check the standings.....
  18. Brother and his family were staying with some friends at their place on the water in Barton Creek Lakeside. Just talked to 'em and they're high and dry, but he said his buddy's dock and boat are nowhere to be seen this morning. Some close friends of ours are at their place on the other side of the river in Muleshoe Bend. House is high up on a cliff, so no danger there, but might be stuck for a bit. Also missing a dock.
  19. As they say, today is the last day on which several thousand Americans will have 2 hands/all 10 fingers.
  20. Astros press release on Yordan. Nothing about a ligament.
  21. Getting tired of having 9th inning drama against the worst team ever, but a W's a W.
  22. Hey, a clean inning from Ort. Good to see.
  23. Both nights so far Rockies have had 1 guy we are completely incapable of getting out. Last night it was Beck 5/5 and tonight Estrada is 3/3
  24. Hunter's got the redass, just threw the hardest pitch of his career on that last K.
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