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Storm the Field

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  1. The stretch ahead from 7/28 to 8/13 is historically the hottest period of the year in Texas, based on daily average high temperature. Gonna be hot and muggy out there for quite while, but still not seeing any triple digits in the forecast. Interestingly, even though it seems like it's been a rather mild Summer this year, the guys on SCW were talking the other day about how 2025 will end up as the 7th hottest summer of the last ~150 years in Houston based on daily average temperature. This is because although daytime highs have not been extreme, we're not really cooling off much at nights. Can definitely confirm this was the case last night, when I went outside to grab a drink out of the patio fridge around 10 pm and I'm sure the heat index had to still be above 90.
  2. FYI, you can find off-brand rechargeable batteries for Spypoint cams on Amazon that will last several months between charges. I've replaced the disposable batteries in almost all of the cameras at our lease. About $15-25 each depending on the model. Most use LIT-22 batteries and you can get a pack of 2 for $45. They charge with any standard USB-C cable.
  3. Yep. You can't trade your way out of a situation where the majority of your rotation starts are going to minor-league JAGs and 1/3 of your lineup is negative WAR Replacements in the 3rd Degree (i. e. guys playing in place of the first and second waves of injured replacements who were brought in to replace injured starters). You especially can't do it with a barren farm system and an already-maxed-out payroll. The fuck we gonna trade? Hummel and Chas for a bag of dicks?
  4. I think I saw that Melton is likely to be activated tomorrow. Maybe our long Hummel nightmare finally ends? Our luck this season, he'll slip and fall, tear an MCL walking down the steps of the bus dropping him off at Daikin.
  5. Trot this exact lineup & SP combo out 162 games a year and I think we'd finish 45-117 or thereabouts.
  6. Good looking young studs. Whereabouts is your place? Edit to add: May wanna think about propping up that feeder a little better. Looking more than a little shaky.
  7. Another thing that sucks with our roster at the moment is how many guys are having to be used significantly above what they're ready/suitable for: Cam is obviously MLB-ready but should be batting 7th or 8th on a healthy team. Brice clearly has athletic talent but should be be in Sugar Land until mid-'26. A guy like Walter should be on call in the minors as late season pitching depth, not getting worn out as a main piece of the MLB rotation. Hummel/Gusto/Alexander are names none of us should recognize. Neris and Singleton are names we should only recognize as former Astros.
  8. Was thinking of starting the new thread on Friday but I see you beat me to the punch. 36 days until Dove Season, 97 until Deer Season and I'm already getting antsy. Got my first couple of bird hunts booked for September earlier this week. Getting in an afternoon dove hunt on the Thursday of Opening Week out near Sealy. Little place we've hunted the last few seasons that's been pretty reliable but you gotta get there the first few days of the season before it gets completely shot up. Final weekend of September heading down to my buddy's fishing and hunting club near Rockport to try and knock down some teal that Friday morning. Maybe do a little night fishing under the dock lights the night before. Gotta run up to my deer lease for a short trip next weekend. My buddy's UTV is finally finished getting worked on at the repair shop so we need to go grab his trailer and haul it back down to the lease. While there also gonna charge camera batteries, bug bomb a few deer stands, and do a little bit of brush clearing. Got a new mini chainsaw and new string trimmer that I've been looking forward to putting to use. Got a ton of rain this Summer and I can see from the cameras that it's crazy overgrown. Will head up again sometime probably late August for a full-on work weekend to fill feeders and start feeding. I'm so ready for Summer to give way to Fall. Wish we could just forward through August. Already planning several pre-season trips once the weather cools off a bit to top off feeders, drink beers out by the fire, and put a barely-noticeable dent in the local hog population. One of the nice parts of having a place that's only 2 hours away.
  9. The AZ series was fun, but it was fools gold. We've got a rotation with just 2 legit MLB-caliber starters and a lineup that routinely has more spots occupied by AAA dreck than MLB regulars. A spare tire should ideally only be on you car long enough to get to a tire shop. You shouldn't be driving around with 2 regular tires and 2 donuts for several months. Hummel starts several games a week and is arguably the worst-hitting OF to ever don an Astros jersey. He and Chas have made a combined 170 plate appearances and produced 7 RBI, accounting for -1.5 WAR. Neither should be anywhere close to an MLB roster in the Year of Our Lord 2025, much less taking 7-8 ABs a night on a team with its sights on the playoffs. There's not really any feasible scenario where this team is fixable via trade in the next few days. In some alternate fantasy world where Jake and Paredes never get hurt, Yordan comes back mid-Summer and is starting to heat up, and Pena's return is imminent, sure, go out and grab an OF and an SP and try to make a run. That ain't reality. We have probably 5 or 6 spots on the 25-man roster spots that need to be replaced, not 1 or 2.
  10. Yep, as much as we did to win, the Snakes definitely helped themselves lose. NOBLETIGER in the 9th last night taking the cake. They had numerous AB's with bases juiced this series and only scored 1 run total in those situations.
  11. Were at 14 straight now. Last time we scored first was on the 4th of July.
  12. It's been close to 3 weeks since we last scored in the first inning, or scored first at all.
  13. I suppose $1.5B over the next 5 years would be enough for me to bury the hatchet.
  14. Gotta get off my chest: Just heard from my Dad that my Mom's 93 year-old mother passed earlier today. She was in a nursing home for the past 12 years or so, with the last 5+ years of that in a state of almost complete mental and physical incapacitation. I'm of course sad for my Mom, but relieved more than anything that it's finally over. My Mom, her siblings, and my Dad have been driving up to the nursing home constantly and dealing with god knows how many medical emergencies for over a decade. I have to imagine there were at least 2 dozen times over the past decade they were thinking she was not gonna make it. My parents are in their 70's now, been retired for a long time, and I know they expected to be able to sell their house and move away a long time before now.
  15. I can only imagine hearing a banger like this in 1981 compared to what was considered "hard rock" at the time.
  16. Making my return to the Roaring Fork Valley for the first time in a few years in about 3 weeks. My wife's childhood best fried has lived in Aspen for a while and we used to go up for a week every Summer from about 2015-2022 to escape the heat and would stay with her and her husband (who I really got along with), but they had an ugly divorce a few years ago and I haven't been back since. She's moved on with a new boyfriend now who seems pretty decent and I gather that she and the ex are relatively amicable again. Gonna go spend a few days at the small ranch property her Uncle owns up in the hills near Glenwood Springs and then the ladies are heading down south to a horse show near Montrose. I'm gonna head back into Aspen and spend 2 days biking and hiking with the ex-husband and his buddies before everyone gets back to town. Can't wait!
  17. Gonna be uncomfortably warm this week. Forecast high of 98 today (heat index ~110) would be the hottest day so far this year in Houston.
  18. Mariners started celebrating the sweep a little too early. They've been less than stellar in the OF today. Banged-up team that's now 40% minor-league replacements comes in on a week+ long losing streak after a brutal loss the night before. Ace pitcher can't deliver and leaves after 4 with the offense doing jack shit yet again. Staring down a 3-run deficit against an All-Star, ragtag group of misfits proceeds to score 11 straight unanswered. It's either (i) the plot to a forgettable baseball flick featuring Dennis Quaid strictly in it for a paycheck, or (ii) just shit that happens in a 162-game season.
  19. Sure, he's rocking a .725 OPS and has looked rough in CF today, but his eyes are so piercing!
  20. Long stretch of hot, dry, sunny days ahead this week, which has actually been the exception to the rule so far this Summer. Oh well, at least it hasn't been anything like 2023. Anything you might call "Fall" is still a long ways off. First noticeable cool front of the year typically doesn't make it to Texas until sometime between 9/20 and 10/15 and usually doesn't stick around for more than a day or two.
  21. Ugh. Facebook-grade AI Slop.
  22. Paredes is gonna be out for at least a month. I dread seeing the AAAA lineup we roll out against Woo tomorrow.
  23. Possibly the shittiest loss of the season to date. Had multiple chances to pull off miraculous win despite our washed starter only going 2.2 and losing one of our few remaining heathy infielders. Outhit them 12-7 but it didn't matter. Our best relievers failed in tandem with the game on the line once again.
  24. Goddamn we needed more than 1 there. Welp, Hader won't be able to rely on his usual routine of giving up a solo shot but still getting the save.
  25. We don't have many options. Okert, King, Sousa, Abreu all used.
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