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Storm the Field

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  1. S&P is currently up 19.8% from it's October low (3583->4292). ~7 points away from officially being back into bull market territory.
  2. Oooof, this should have been a walk off donger. 88 mph slider that didn't break at all.
  3. Damn, I got briefly excited seeing Yainer come up with 1 on and chance to be the hero. First pitch GIDP to end the game.
  4. Man, I just went down the rabbit hole on Tucker's game splits. Dude has only 2 RBI in the last 2 weeks and only 2 HR since April, the last coming 3 weeks ago. WTF?
  5. Altuve has barely played this season, Yordan's in a mini slump (4/24 with .602 OPS last 7 games), Tucker hasn't hit a HR since 5/19.....the list goes on. And yet we're winning a decent amount of games, Pena is starting to heat up, mid-season Bregman is starting to activate, Yainer might actually be a contributor if Dusty would ever let him play. It's a mixed bag.
  6. Devo comes in to a 1-1 game, gives up a leadoff double and then retires the next 5 straight batters. That ain't our day.
  7. Hard to win a game with 1 run. Gotta make something happen this inning.
  8. Welp, grounder, grounder, K didn't work.
  9. Leadoff 2B for Diaz, gotta get him home.
  10. Jobs report blows out expectations (+339K vs +190K). 14th! straight month above consensus. Nasdaq and S&P at 12-month highs. VIX falls below 15 for first time in 2+ years.
  11. Not-humble-at-all-brag but I've been kicking ass since this post. Lost exact count, but I've worked out something like 33 of the past 40 days. Coming home from the gym this morning, it hit me that I'm absolutely in the best shape of any point in a good 5-6 years, though I still have lots of work to do. Tweaked my lower back on Monday, but fortunately have still been able to do cardio and most of my lifts this week. It just gets really stiff when I go from sitting to standing or do specific movements (bending over to pick something up rather than squatting down). If I tried to do a dead lift or something similar right now, I'd keel over in pain. Heading to the beach for a 4-day weekend tomorrow morning, so I'm hoping some extended rest will get me over the hump and back to normal next week. Self-imposed Summer Boot Camp starts on Tuesday. Really want to double-down on the diet during the work week and start focusing a lot more on my core and branching out from my existing routine. I think with 3 months of hard work, I can make significant progress getting my gut and waist on par with where the rest of me is.
  12. 81 with a pleasant breeze at lunchtime in Houston today. I am quite gruntled with this development.
  13. Gary Larson did it better.
  14. One place that is actually opening soon though is Pho Fix, a Vietnamese cafe in Stomping Grounds. They just posted that their grand opening is next Saturday, 6/3.
  15. Hah. Drove by this morning on way home from the Y. Construction crews still there working. Last time I took a peak inside, the interior still needed a lot of work. Can't imagine they'll be open before end of Summer. Looks like they're actually doing a BBQ pop-up on Sunday and serving drinks out on their patio. First thing they've posted on their account in a long time. https://www.instagram.com/p/Csl9gTeJxNd/
  16. Heading down to Bolivar alongside probably 50+ hometown friends for Memorial Day weekend, as we've done pretty much every year for the past 25+ years. Stick to the quieter neighborhoods and away from the crowded sections of the beach or bars where all the SETX trash converges and you're typically fine. We usually stake out a quiet section of the beach, far away from the jacked-up trucks and tattooed trailer trash. All that said, despite having been to Crystal Beach probably 100+ times in my life and knowing plenty of folks that have houses down there, I don't know a soul that would purposely go down there for "Go Topless" Jeep Weekend. On a regular weekend, there's a healthy mix of normal folks and heathens. On GTJW, it's 95% the latter.
  17. CVX is really cornering the market in the DJ Basin. This gives them another 275K acres in Colorado on top of what they acquired when they bought Noble.
  18. Just took a quick look at the RRC website. Only thing within a few miles of Navarro Mills Lake is a bunch of dry holes. Most of the activity in Navarro has been SE of Corsicana, near the reservoirs, and that's mainly old shit, most of which has been plugged. Less than 20 drilling permits issued in Navarro Co. in the past 5 years, and not a single one since June 2022.
  19. Thermometer in my truck registered 94 on the drive home from work both Thursday and Friday. Nice little cool front rolled in overnight, high of only 79 today in Houston. Probably the last Sunday like this for 4-5 months, so enjoy it while it lasts.
  20. Seen a lot speculation that they'll "skip" June and then raise another 25 in September.
  21. Is that a full 3.5 net mineral acres? That's about $23K/NMA if so, which seems pretty hefty (without knowing typical prices). Know any landmen or people that work in mineral buying? Probably worth having someone look into it (typical offers for the area, permitting activity and production levels from nearby wells....etc.) unless of course they have no interest in selling whatsoever. From a cursory search of the area, looks like it's almost all Austin Chalk gas wells. One thing to consider is that (shitty nat gas prices aside), those AC gas units can produce at a pretty solid clip for decades.
  22. Lotta smoke out there that Fed is no longer done hiking this year: Atlanta Fed GDPNow tracker is currently at 2.9% for Q2. Jobless claims have seen no real uptick in the past 2 months despite the banking crisis and continued layoff announcements. Finally, Fed watchers are expecting a significant upgrade to the economic forecast for 2023 in next month's release.
  23. Not every place has crazy markups on wine. For example, Port A Vino. Since they're also a wine shop, they price their wines at just a little over retail price. Like maybe $48 for a bottle that would be $39 at the store...etc. The food is good too. Boar bolognese I had last time was damn near perfect. On another note, anyone been to Triola's on Main? I keep meaning to check it out. Almost every single day, there's a new review from someone in the Heights Foodies group on FB that is basically "Finally felt compelled to try Triola's to see what all the hype was about and OMG it really was the best Italian food I've ever eaten!!!!" It's also BYOB with no corkage fee. Definitely gonna try to get a table for next time wife wants to go out somewhere nice.
  24. Starting the week off right.
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