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Storm the Field

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  1. M's lose again. Not losing anything off our division lead so far.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Fun show. Almost 3 years since Season 2 ended. Wife and I will probably have to re-watch previous seasons.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Update? Now, let me go ahead and take a swig of this piping hot coffee and check the standings.....
  8. 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.
  9. As they say, today is the last day on which several thousand Americans will have 2 hands/all 10 fingers.
  10. Astros press release on Yordan. Nothing about a ligament.
  11. Getting tired of having 9th inning drama against the worst team ever, but a W's a W.
  12. Hey, a clean inning from Ort. Good to see.
  13. 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
  14. Hunter's got the redass, just threw the hardest pitch of his career on that last K.
  15. Just assumed he'd been dead for at least a decade. He's so firmly entrenched in the "only relevant to the 1980's" quadrant of my brain, it might as well have been the latest news on Yakov Smirnoff or Steve Guttenberg.
  16. Bunch of fuckery going on with streaming rights to the show. Sounds like Parker and Stone may end up suing Paramount and Skydance.
  17. Can't wait to see the betting odds with Brown taking the bump tomorrow.
  18. Hader becoming the master of coming in with 2-run lead, surrendering a solo shot, letting at least one more get on base, but striking out the final batter and still getting the save.
  19. I know it stays hot long past Labor Day, but there are usually some short-lived cool fronts in late September and October to provide some relief and the mornings and evenings become a lot more tolerable. And it's football season, dove season....etc. For the next 2 months, it's just punishing heat and humidity 24 hours a day and there ain't much to do beyond go to work, hop in a tepid pool, or watch baseball indoors.
  20. The stretch from yesterday through Labor Day has quickly become my least favorite time of the year in Texas. If I could make it work financially, I'd absolutely love to spend basically the next 10 weeks living out of state somewhere with a more desirable climate.
  21. 50-34. We didn't get our 50th win until July 12th last year, at which point we were 50-44. At no point were we ever 16 games over .500.
  22. LMJ clearly strugling, and Espada leaves him in after HR, HR, BB, 1B, 1B, to face Tucker, allowing a 3-run HR and a follow-up 3B. That's just straight up forfeiting a winnable game where we're hitting the other starter well.
  23. Well, that's one way to waste a momentum shifter.
  24. i think Cam might have a future in baseball. He already got that veteran swagger.
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