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Welch

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  1. 35 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:
    41 minutes ago, BigXII said:
    It's seriously still weird for me to say that the Astros have been to multiple world series, period. It stuns me that they're the current kings of baseball. The fucking HOUSTON ASTROS. Honestly never thought I'd see the day.

    Same here. Always dreamed and hoped id see them win just 1. Thats why im so happy for the die hard fans of Astros. I know what this means to them, thier families. There are family members that i wish were here to celebrate and enjoy 2017 and tonight.

    I was eight when I got to go to Game 6 of the ‘86 NLCS, and I didn’t think anything would ever top Billy Hatcher’s homer in the 14th.

    Now it seems like these guys top it multiple times every year.  What a team.

  2. What an absolutely shittastic performance by Greinke.

    I understood the whole “wait all season, can’t judge the CFM move in July before the annual injury” argument, but we can judge it now.

    Gave up Chuck and four prospects for the right to pay Greinke ~$3M more per season.  Yay.

    Still, Astros in 4.

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  3. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    While I respect the whistleblower more because he took a definitive stand, I thought the way Mueller wrote the report was clever.  He laid out enough incriminating facts but left it up to everyone else to decide what to do with those facts.  People got pissed at him because he didn’t want to be the judge, jury, or some minister of truth.  

    The Mueller report to Congress was like Bobby three sticks saying, “I can tell you what happened but y’all are going to have to do your fucking jobs.  I’m not here to save you.” 

    People can view that as cowardice but the real cowards are the folks in power that did nothing with the facts Mueller handed them. 

    I get it.

    I just think that the gravity of the situation deserved a little more than bureaucratic i-dotting and t-crossing.

    If my house is on fire, I don’t want my smoke alarm to quietly send an obscure notification to an app buried somewhere on my phone.  I want it to wake up the whole block.

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  4. 1 hour ago, CrownKing said:

    Other games scores were displayed all night. 

    Minor complaint, but the home teams were listed first.  What is this, the Premier League?

    Glad to see more replays than I remembered last year.  I still think the random crowd shot-to-replay ratio is too high, but it’s getting better.

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  5. 2 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    is it outrageous for people to be polite about it, since they have his ear and he's professional enough to read and respond to the Tweets? the students are barely more juvenile than the parents

    When people get in line at 5:15 and can’t see a 6:40 kickoff, there’s a problem.  Whether that happened on the students’ side or the alumni’s, there would be complaining about it, and it would be justified.

    CDC gets plenty of praise, as he should.  He needs to be able to handle valid criticism, too.

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  6. 40 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    Whatever their plan was today it was a fucking disaster. 3 Student sections went from 100% empty to 80% empty by halftime. 

    This.

    I’m willing to pat the guy on the back for working to improve things after LSU, and he sure seems determined to get it right eventually so I’m sure he will.

    But I don’t think it’s outrageous for people to upset with what happened tonight.

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  7. 5 hours ago, WBT said:

    Poor Seattle.  They led 7-0 after 1.5 innings Thursday night and were then outscored 41-8 over the rest of the weekend and got swept.

    It’s like the way they started the season 13-2 and have put up a sterling 45-84 since.

  8. 5 hours ago, phdhorn said:

    The first models had Harvey staying way south and making landfall in Central America.  In fact, up to 72 hours before it even made landfall in Texas, almost no one was giving it much thought... it was supposed to be a weak storm that flamed out mildly somewhere around Belize/Costa Rica.

    So those early models were, shall we say, a tad off.


    As for the Bahamas, it's quite possible that this storm will permanently alter the shape of a few of those islands enough to force map updates.

    Sure, but I don't think that's analogous to the situation we're in now, with a fully developed storm.

    I'm thinking more about things like this NHC statement just before Harvey made landfall as a major hurricane, while anticipating a similar breakdown in steering currents:

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    The initial motion is 325/6, a little slower than before. The eye of Harvey should continue this general motion for the next several hours, which would bring it inland over southeastern Texas. After 12 h or so, the hurricane should become embedded in an area of weak steering currents and become nearly stationary. The track guidance is in good agreement that Harvey will move slowly through at least 72 h, and the new forecast track shows a slow cyclonic loop during that time. After 72 h, an equally slow motion toward the north or northeast appears likely.

    I remember seeing it drift northwest towards San Antonio, wondering if the city could withstand low-end Cat 1 wind speeds.  But even local meteorologists never even mentioned it as a possibility.

     

  9. 19 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    They keep saying it will turn north but I have seen no movement north at all.

    I find it interesting that everyone seemed to have faith in the models during Harvey, and those models largely nailed the stall and retreat back to the Gulf.

    I was in San Antonio and Harvey was heading straight towards S.A., but no one thought it would actually make it to the city because the models said it wouldn’t.

    It feels as though there’s a lot less trust in the models this time.

  10. 24 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    It seems inevitable that the Astros win 100+ games this year. .500 ball in last 30 gets us there. Current pace is  104.3 which would be the club record. Do you take over or under 104? I'm taking the over as we have an easy ROS schedule and will be in a dogfight for home field advantages, minimizimg rampant rest days. 

     

    On a side note, i doubt there has ever been a team with three 100+ win seasons and three 100+ loss seasons with a 9 year time frame. Amazing to think about.

    Also amazing to me:

    Cubs’ last three 100-win seasons were in 2016, 1935, and 1910.

    Red Sox in  2018, 1946, and 1915.

    The fact that we have a shot at three in a row is crazy.

    (Having a hard time finding the Rangers’ last three, or even last one, but will keep looking...)

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    2 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    I’m not a Nancy fan, and I could very well be wrong but I’m guessing she waits until the bipartisan spending bill is in the books before doing anything else.  Otherwise the traitors would scuttle it and blame the democrats for a shutdown.  

    This has been my thought as well.  And it wouldn’t just be a shutdown, but a default.

    I don’t think the administration would want a debt limit breach even in the face of an impeachment, but I’d be happier if it weren’t even an option.

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