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Storm the Field

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  1. La Mex should be open at Stomping Grounds within the next 2 weeks, per a post yesterday on their IG page. Perfect timing with the weather finally cooling down in the near future. Looking forward to some hangover brunches with a michelada outdoors.
  2. Sometime a little after 6:00 this evening quite possibly will be the last time the temperature outside starts with a 9 at any point in the next 2 weeks in Houston. Rain clouds expected to start rolling in around lunchtime tomorrow. Doesn't look like we'll see the sun again until the end of the weekend. DFW and Austin look to get 1 extra day of hot, muggy Summer weather tomorrow, but as a trade-off for us getting an extra day of rain, y'all get significantly more of a cooldown. Just looked at latest forecast and seeing 69/56 on Saturday in Austin, 73/55 in Dallas. That's stronger than I was expecting. Houston going to be 78/63. Can't wait for the usual knee-jerk reactions that always happen when a front is on its way but hasn't made it far enough south yet to be noticed. I'll be kind of upset if somebody isn't posting tomorrow morning that "it still feels like August outside, all that cold front talk was bullshit!"
  3. You just proved my point. Yankees fans expect to routinely sign multiple franchise players that cost several hundred million dollars a piece. If someone else decides to give half a billion to one of those guys, Yankee Nation will excoriate the front office for not topping it.
  4. The problem is the NYY fanbase will never accept that. If there's a player available, they want him, regardless of the cost. If not, they'll say Hal and Cashman are cheap and not doing thing the way George used to.
  5. I know I should let this go, but this kills me. Earlier today, Rags thread was calling us "Houston Aggy". You know when this board thinks of Aggies, it definitely thinks of routine dominance and multiple recent national championships. Astros just won the division for the 6th time in 7 years. The Rangers have 0 in that span. Astros won the AL 4 times in that span. Rangers 0. Astros won the WS twice in that span. Rangers 0 (ever). Astros have utterly dominated the head to head series during that span (79-34 since '17). We just had our shittiest season in years. The Rangers had their best and shit the bed on the final weekend. We won the division, again. So, I ask, if you were looking at this shit on paper, which team would you think is "little brother"?
  6. Not that you'll have an actual answer, but, even if I stipulate that we cheated in '17, how exactly were we cheating in '22? I've seen all this shit lately from Rags trolls about our "illegitimate ring." Emphasis mine due to the fact they seem to go out of their way to not make it plural. In the alternate universe these goobers live in, we cheated our way to a title in 2017 and haven't done shit since. I know 2022 was a season that most fans of the team from South Oklahoma chose to flush down the toilet, but here's a refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_World_Series
  7. Sidenote. That gif always kills me. It's the perfect encapsulation of the goonish-ness of Yankees fans. Gotta be at least 6 different versions of guys named "Joey" in a single frame. Big Fat Sal pulling up his size 48s that are falling off, yelling "fuuuuuuug you's" Puerto RIcan Derka giving his girl the most awkward high 5 in history.
  8. Helo cheering on his newfound Rangers buds.
  9. Nostradumbass
  10. Of all the many, many, many, many, many, many AL West titles the past 7 years, this one definitely tastes the sweetest. The drizzle of Ranger tears really sends it over the stop.
  11. Being in first after Game 162 is the only day it matters. Bout time for Sparky to get wet again.
  12. Tucker's agent literally just jizzed in his pants.
  13. It's Houston, aggy of pro sports. Preemptive bitching is what they do best.
  14. Dude. Get help. Seriously, go outside and touch burnt-up grass. This Summer sucked fucking balls. No one is happy about it. Climate change is real and is a problem that needs to be addressed. Our state has ongoing problems with governance and utility/resource management that don't bode well for the future. None of that has any bearing on breathing a sigh of relief that this giant middle finger of a Summer is finally running out of gas.
  15. Feels pretty damn good outside. Warm and sunny, but low humidity and there's a nice dry breeze. So used to it being oppressively muggy at this point of the day. Gonna take advantage of one last hot, sunny Summer Sunday watching Stros game from the pool. Water temp has come back down to a very refreshing 85. Was getting up around ~91 during the worst stretch in August. Felt like hopping from a sauna into a lukewarm bath. Looks like we've got one more warmer than average, sunny day in the mid-90's tomorrow leading into a gray, wet mid-week. Colder temps should start arriving sometime between late Thursday and early Saturday (depending on how far south you are) after the rains pass and dewpoints start to plummet. I will of course wait for the forecast to actually pan out, but pretty good chance that we can soon declare Blastfurnace 2023 kaput. A full 150 days (5/5/23-10/2/23) of the hottest, most miserable Summer most of us have ever experienced (so far). Pause for a moment, if you will, to remember the HVAC units, lawns and landscaping we're left to mourn. There will still be plenty of warm days ahead, and this thread will linger into November as always, but fellas, we're here, gasping towards the finish line of one of the shittiest marathons ever run.
  16. Thank god. Most frustrating Astros team of all time finally does what seemed like a tap-in 2 weeks ago. Let's fuck around and be that team that sneaks its way into the ALCS and then pisses the entire country off by making it to yet another WS.
  17. See you there at the Camelia Bowl in Montgomery!
  18. 21-0 with 6:53 left in the 1st. Already been texting with old TXST fraternity brothers. We're definitely travellling to whatever mediocre bowl game we end up in this year. Gonna enjoy the 1-2 years max that we have Kinne while it lasts.
  19. Front late next week starting to get pretty locked in to forecasts. ~90 more hours of Longest Summer Ever and then things should start shifting. Only big change I've seen since rumors of a front first dropped has been that the window to get some rain seems to have has widened. Earlier this week, slight chance of rain on Wednesday and good chance on Thursday as front passes through. Currently pretty solid rain chances Tues-Thursday and then still a decent shot to get a little more over the weekend. "Coldest" part of the front looks like it will be next Sunday and Monday after things dry up. Warms back up a little after that, but nowhere near these recent unseasonably warm days. Closer to seasonal average temps for the 2nd week of October.
  20. One more weekend of "not much else to do but jump in the pool with a beer and watch sports on the outdoor tv" Next weekend I swear I'll finally tackle those nagging household chores I've been putting off since May. Promise.
  21. OMG, these projected dewpoints for next Saturday at noon. Temperature ~80 with a dewpoint in the 40's?
  22. DISCLAIMER: ANALYSIS, NOT PREDICTION!!! Last 5 GFS model runs all staying consistent, and extended weather forecasts are now starting to buy in on a "better late than never" arrival of Fall's first front a week from today, coming on the heels of some possible rain Wednesday. Unfortunately, gonna continue to feel like Neverending Summer until then. Doesn't look like temps are expected to come down drastically, maybe ~10 degrees off current highs and ~5 degrees off current lows, but dewpoints look to plummet a good 30 degrees, meaning that it would feel exponentially more pleasant. Also nice to see that, AS OF NOW, this appears to be more than a 2-3 day flash in the pan. Forecast after next weekend doesn't immediately revert back to hot and swampy. 7 days out is when you just barely get a toe over the line of usefulness, so I'd put maybe 55/45 odds on things panning out at this point. If models are still producing similar runs by the end of this weekend, I'm going all in. This late in the year, it has to happen eventually (or does it?)
  23. Probably correct. ~240 hours out, it's little more than statistical noise. Previous run from 7 hours ago didn't pick it up at all. That said, if we get to the end of this weekend and are nearing the 120-hour range and there's something still showing up, I'll allow my hopes to start building.
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