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Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread
Bullpen obviously didn't work out as intended. I'm sure a lot of us (me included) thought that Pressly/Abreu/Hader was gonna be a lockdown back end. Figured we'd rarely ever drop games if leading late. All 3 recorded ERA over 3.0 and took a combined 16 losses. OF was a mess. Jake and Chas combined for a whopping 1.1 WAR over 700+ AB. Our one good true OF started out playing like an MVP and then a freak injury cost him the entire Summer, and he's still obviously not back up to snuff. We had to give several hundred additional AB to cast-offs or prospects not ready for primetime (Cabbage, Gamel, Heyward, Loperfido, Leon). Yordan's knee decided to crap out just in time for the playoffs. 1B was such a black hole for the first 2 months of the season that Singleton filling in with 0.3 WAR and .700 OPS was a massive upgrade. Starting pitching was really the one surprise strength, given how many innings had to be pitched by rookies, and the fact that 4 or 5 guys we figured would feature heavily either barely contributed or missed the entire season. Got a lot of work to do in the offseason. Get a real 1B, get a real CF, upgrade 1B, replace Bregman somehow.
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Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread
Yeah, it sucks. Will be really weird not having 2-3 weeks of stressful nights pacing around my living room, refreshing Twitter. My liver will enjoy the break. I gotta dig up my post from a few weeks back, but this was a disappointing, yet fitting end to a very mediocre season. We only made the playoffs due to being in a shit division. Aging, injury-riddled team that was more frustrating than fun to watch. Zero grand slams, terrible with bases loaded, terrible in extra innings, dropped something like 30 1-run games. Just not a very exciting on-the-field product and a poor imitation of the quality we got spoiled watching for most of the past decade.
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2024 Celebrity Death Pool
- Blastfurnace 2024
Looks like about 5 more days remaining in this stretch of NeverEnding September until October finally shows up. Though yesterday's voyage into the high 90's was likely the highest temperature we'll see this week, we'll only drop down 2-3 degrees today through Friday. Weak front looks to make its way down late Monday. Highs next week stay around 90 but lows drop back down to the low 60's.- Video Game Deals
Dead Space Remake is one of the free games for October if you have PS Plus.- 2024 Celebrity Death Pool
Those bastards at McDonalds finally got to him!- Blastfurnace 2024
Average high for Austin on 10/1 is 87. All time high is 99. It's not unprecedented, but a high of 96+ on 10/1 occurs very rarely. This isn't "same old shit, it's hot in Texas until December." This is prototypical La Nina. Not what I want, but it's likely to be a warm and dry Fall/Winter.- 2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
Don't get me started on all the dumbasses bitching about "maybe if these people were in Ukraine rather than NC they'd get help." I'm sure the folks in Asheville have a lot of use for HIMARS launchers, a couple hundred thousand artillery shells, and mothballed F-16s right now.- 2024 port workers strike
Here's another CR wrinkle:- 2024 port workers strike
I usually strongly on the side of the unions in these situations, but "No automation at all, ever. We want guarantees that our jobs will always exist exactly as they are" is not a particularly sympathetic asking point. And having the Union Chief sitting there in his gold chains sounding like a guy in a bad mafia movie talking about shutting down the entire country is less than endearing.- Hey Oil Barons.......
Hess CEO gets the Sheffield treatment. Will not be allowed to join the CVX board in order for the merger to proceed.- Blastfurnace 2024
Significantly warmer than average temps this week to start October. Average high/low for this week is 88/66. We're gonna be ~94/72 for a good chunk of the week. Next weak front looks to arrive late weekend. Daytime highs next week look to stay elevated in the low 90's, but lows should get back to the low to mid 60's. TL;DR: At least 2 more weeks of highs in the 90's. Little chance of rain any time soon.- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Would get me too. They a tribute to Def Leppard?- Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Successful trip. Rang up a 2-for-1 special Saturday evening. 1 shot, 2 pigs down. Can't say I was trying to do so, but there were about 8 or 9 of them packed in very tight under the feeder so not terribly surprising. Spent Sunday morning doing a bunch of work at another stand. Cleared out a ton of brush and set up a new camera at the feeder. Already started getting pics last night around 8 of a big group of hogs. Fuckers are everywhere out there.- Shall we talk about heavy music?
New album from Black Dahlia Murder, first since Trevor died. Good shit. Brandon Ellis might be the most technically proficient shredder in death metal.- 2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
- All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Looks like refinancing applications have really started to pick up, but purchase applications are still dragging ass. Makes sense, IMO. People who had no choice but to buy at 7.5% or 8% can currently do better. A lot of prospective buyers probably waiting to at least get back closer to 5.5% or so.- Blastfurnace 2024
Getting hot again next week, but at least the lows stay in comfortable territory. Highs of 94/96/94 Mon-Wed, but humidity stays at 50% or less, so it won't be miserable.- 2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Core PCE 2.7% YOY, running at 2.1% over last 3 months. Headline PCE is down to 2.2% YOY.- Heights/Garden Oaks/Oak Forest
Yup. Rendering:- Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Man, this front rolled in just in time for a quick trip to the lease on Saturday. Should be damn nice for it still being September. Hoping to head back to camp that evening with at least one less hog drawing breath and then sit out by the firepit. Before I leave, gotta go do some repair work and mowing at one of the feeders and set up a new game camera I bought recently. Will be nice to get out there in the morning when it's still barely 70 and not just be totally drenched in sweat the whole time.- 2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Let's all not forget that ZH is owned by a former member of the Soviet-aligned Bulgarian Communist Party. He also runs a similar website in Bulgaria that frequently pushes conspiracy theories, anti-semitism, anti-LGBT, pro-Russia/anti-Ukrainian crap. Sound familiar? "Tyler Durden" is essentially his son, who is the primary editor of the site, which is pretty much his full time job, because he got barred by FINRA for insider trading and lost his career in investment banking.- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
A real Nostradamus.- Blastfurnace 2024
I don't quite think the low 80's call for that yet.- 2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Isn't there a poster on here who earnestly posts ZH stuff? - Blastfurnace 2024
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