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Victor Lazlo

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  1. Hey, what’s the deal with several of you apparently thinking that a quality start is SEVEN innings and allowing three or fewer earned runs? A quality start has always been SIX innings. I may be reading it wrong, but several times in the last couple of weeks I see guys seemingly gripping about whether our pitcher will get through the 7th without giving up a 4th run. Just like tonight. Seth Martinez getting out of that 7th inning jam had no effect on whether Framber got credited with a quality start. Framber already had it by getting through 6. Unless I totally missed something and they changed the definition this year. I agree that it’s kind of a meaningless stat.
  2. My 3rd draw was February 23, so a little over 5 months, and I got a text yesterday saying they were extending it and asking if I would continue.
  3. Astros baseball on ATT Sportsnet is the deciding factor for me in the Houston metro area . FuboTV is the only streaming service that carries the Astros. I ditched Xfinity cable, just went with their internet, bought a modem and Google Nest Wifi, subscribed to FuboTV. Have saved at least 40% since the switch. Drawbacks- Fubo doesn’t have CNN, PBS, or the Turner channels. No big deal for me until March Madness. So, for March Madness last year, I used my son’s login for YouTubeTV, and when he wants to watch the Astros, he uses my Fubo login.
  4. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Second Helping” album. Track one
  5. I was a big fan of Beltran when he was playing for the Astros, both times If he said the Astros’ title was tainted, he is a hypocrite and a piece of shit, taking no responsibility. He is the one that instigated all of the bullshit, and everyone knows it. Unbelievable how the New York press gives him a pass, with no blowback. Edit to say: I didn’t hear what he said, maybe he took responsibility. But I doubt it.
  6. Astros are still the Yankees’ daddy.
  7. This really belongs in the @Steel Shankthread, but here is some gravy that I made last week from pan drippings. Had leftover mashed potatoes and gravy from fried backstrap pan drippings the night before, the next day fried up a burger patty, patty went on top of the potatoes, then covered in the gravy. This is the proper gravy for homemade CFS, IMO. It slammed. And is very easy to do. How the fuck did Brat get into my photos and turn them sideways? FML
  8. The IRS has their collective heads up their asses. No telling what you are going to hear from them. For example, my wife died in early 2021, and later I filed our 2020 taxes jointly as I’d done for many years, and which was perfectly legal and correct to do. Couple of months later I get a letter from the IRS, “Hey, you filed a joint return with a person whose SSN belonged to a someone that is deceased.” Well, no shit, assholes. Can’t you look at your records and see that we’ve filed together for the last 25 fucking years? I had to fill out forms explaining why I filed that way and I included a copy of the death certificate. Got a refund a few months later. This year tax season rolls around, I file jointly for the last time - as is my right - and a few weeks later get the exact same letter as last year. They couldn’t be bothered to update the file last year. So I have to fill out the same bullshit forms and send another copy of the death certificate. Sorry to hijack your thread, but this is all to say that the IRS doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing, and your friend is probably going to have find a competent attorney that can walk the IRS through exactly how he did everything correctly. It is disgusting just how bad that organization is. Good luck to your co-worker.
  9. Yeah, and most importantly, he should be someone that elicits ground balls. Fuck the fly balls in that bandbox. Edit to say: I like it when our routine fly balls turn into home runs.
  10. I admit I haven’t watched softball Texas Gameday all year. But, csb, years ago when our daughter had just started playing softball, I read in the Chronicle a story of a great high school pitcher that was dominating everyone at Cy Springs HS and she was pitching that night. We lived in Cy Fair, so I loaded up the family to go watch her pitch. Cat was incredible, hard to describe how she dominated those girls. Been a big fan ever since.
  11. Cat is really, really good on the pregame. Texas Gameday. LHN
  12. Over/under on this game is currently at 16 according to a friend that bets this stuff. Give me the over.
  13. Yeah, he made it 250 miles in 3 weeks. If he’d had a bunch of help, I’d have to believe that he would have been long gone by now.
  14. Hinckley released? That’s insane. Guess we won’t be getting that True Detective season 4 after all.
  15. Doesn’t sound like you were a bad teammate to Ace.
  16. OK, that’s just straight up you knew what was going to happen. That’s not some bullshit voodoo “I figured it out from context clues” stuff. Feel free to PM me the rest of the season’s plot points so that I don’t have to wait around to watch it all.
  17. Ha ha. It didn’t work for Jack Nicholson.
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