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Storm the Field

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  1. Were at 14 straight now. Last time we scored first was on the 4th of July.
  2. It's been close to 3 weeks since we last scored in the first inning, or scored first at all.
  3. I suppose $1.5B over the next 5 years would be enough for me to bury the hatchet.
  4. 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.
  5. I can only imagine hearing a banger like this in 1981 compared to what was considered "hard rock" at the time.
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sure, he's rocking a .725 OPS and has looked rough in CF today, but his eyes are so piercing!
  10. 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.
  11. Ugh. Facebook-grade AI Slop.
  12. Paredes is gonna be out for at least a month. I dread seeing the AAAA lineup we roll out against Woo tomorrow.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. We don't have many options. Okert, King, Sousa, Abreu all used.
  16. What do we do in the 10th? Hader again?
  17. Hader hates clean innings.
  18. Walker having a solid game at least
  19. 4th time this season Abreu failed to hold a lead against M's.
  20. Epitome of a journeyman replacement infielder. Appeared in almost 1000 games since 2012 with half a dozen teams.
  21. Hey, he didn't strike out swinging. Tough luck on an athletic catch by the 2B.
  22. It's getting almost hard to fathom how spectacularly this team has fallen apart in the span of 2 weeks. We're basically down to 2.5/5 of a competitive starting rotation (Framber, Brown, and Walter gets partial credit) and 4/9 of the lineup we expected to see this year. Jesus Christ, due up next inning is Dubon, Matthews, Short. Is this early on in Spring Training before roster cuts start? It seems pretty clear that a team can ride things out for a while held together by Elmer's and popsicle sticks, but you finally reach a point where any further instability causes the whole thing to come tumbling down. It's difficult to really zero in on which aspect sucks the most right now, but the abysmal job we've been doing with RISP has got to take the cake. It's getting so fucking old how many games we have a double digit combo of hits and walks and end up with 2 runs or less. So many fucking innings with 2 on, 1 out and we end up with jack shit. When's the last time we hit a bases clearing double?
  23. I've bought it before. Should come as little surprise that it's just 1 lb of ground pork mixed with 1 lb of ground beef. Convenient option for meatloaf, meatballs...etc.
  24. Obviously depends on the job, where you live, whether you have kids...etc.. Neither D nor E would seem to work for a professional office job. All that said, I personally don't want A, B, D, or E. The best option is actually 10-6, assuming you need to put in 40 hours M-F. I'd gladly do 4 days a week from 9-7 if it meant I could take a 3 day weekend every week. I could also tolerate an early 7-3 type schedule if I lived somewhere like a mountain town and could go hike/fishing/golf...etc after getting off. Hell naw if I'm here in Houston. The fuck I'm gonna do for the next 7.5 hours before bed while it's 100+ heat index outside?
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