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  1. April 18, 2006, Astros reach .500 for first time in franchise history (since their inaugural season) at 3507-3507.

    May 4, 2006, the astros reached 4 games over .500 for franchise history at 3516-3512, the high-water mark for franchise history.

    May 14, 2006, the Astros began the day at 3523-3523 all-time, but would lose and fall below .500. They've been below .500 since.

    Minor edit:

    Last day at .500 was May 13, 2006 (3518-3518).
  2. The Astros are 4663-4723 all time- 60 games below .500. If we play .600 ball the rest of the way we will end the year with 95 wins and win the division. 
    we will be 39 games under 500 for the franchise record. 
    go 100-62 next year (layup, naturally) and we are 1 game under 500. Opening day- 2023- the year this team finally gets back to 500 again as an organization. 
    had a 10 minute break and wanted to share that. 

    April 18, 2006, Astros reach .500 for first time in franchise history (since their inaugural season) at 3507-3507.

    May 4, 2006, the astros reached 4 games over .500 for franchise history at 3516-3512, the high-water mark for franchise history.

    May 14, 2006, the Astros began the day at 3523-3523 all-time, but would lose and fall below .500. They've been below .500 since.
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  3. What are the best craft beer bars around Austin these days? If I was considering making a one-off delivery trip to town, which places should I reach out to? Could probably only fit kegs for 5-6 joints in our modest van. I’ve got a couple of buddies that are investors in Great Heights who live in Austin, plus I just think it would be cool to put some of our stuff out there and I could expense a quick trip.

  4. If he has a good and healthy year he will make more than that. He’s really ducking good. 
    he might be incapable of staying healthy and throwing 160-180 innings. My bet is he can be healthy. 
    it’s a bet he can be a 6 war guy over the next 3 years. 

    i don’t disagree, but that’s a huge “if” for a dude who’s never thrown more than 128 MLB innings in a season. handing out $18M x 3 right now seems like a huge overpay. He knows the risks, too.
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  5. The Last Blockbuster: Documentary.

    Probably a bunch of nerds on here would like it, but definitely a stupid movie. I thought it would lean in more on the business and financial mechanics and timelines of Blockbusters demise, but it was a bunch of D list celebrities and video store nerds reminiscing about going to Blockbuster as a teen. The creators of this stupid show should have taken a hint and passed on the premise when Quentin Tarantino wouldn't return their call for a 30 second comment about working in a video store.

    The crotchety old man who created the swamp thing movies and his unhinged zaniness was the best part of this show...and that was about 3 minutes of air time.


    it was bad. way too long. i finally turned it off when doug benson was touring the store. i just couldn’t anymore.
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  6. I know that restaurant group Treadsack was in serious financial trouble, but was there any explanation given? I haven't eaten there in some time, but there was also a line out the door for weekend brunch. 
    Fingers crossed for Johnny's Gold Brick and D&T Drive Inn. I believe they're the only locations left standing. 

    pretty sure neither D&T nor JGB have been part of Treadsack for quite some time.
  7. just for a little more perspective, we’re at about $0.50 per can in packaging costs (can+lid+label+paktech holder+cardboard case flat). that doesn’t include the cost of canning machine, CO2, spillage, labor, designer, or any of the actual beer costs. so there is an enormous difference in selling a $12-16 four pack of IPA to-go ($3-4 per beer) compared to $6-7 pints in glassware we can use hundreds of times. our business built on margins of draft beer isn’t really feasible on margins of canned beer (at a small scale).

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  8. Just saw an online ad for a service called HopDrip that apparently delivers Dallas beers to Houston and Houston beers to Dallas. Heard of it? Any thoughts on joining it?

    yeah we’ve participated with HopDrop in the past, but we have no issue selling all of our own cans. it’s the slowed taproom and distributed keg sales that have tanked. obviously i understand why that is and we’ve been very cautious in our own taproom with reduced capacity, no bar seating, one-use plastic cups only (which i despise), only table service (no lines), and zero events. we may jump back on with HopDrop just to move a little more volume. the production capacity of our canning line and the (lack of) availability of actual cans really limit the amount of volume we can put into cans vs kegs. it’s probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 30/70 right now.
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