Seasick Sailor

We are a stupid organization now, so I fully expect them to hold and tell us how the back of the baseball card shows that we will turn it around.

Easterby and Co 2.0 would be a better scenario than what I fear we have: Jerry Jones 2.0.

Brown may not be a good GM. I am not sure we can say one way or the other at this point. He's definitely a world class bullshitter. But the real problem is Crane has decided that he and his cadre of "baseball guys" who only care about the back of the baseball card know how to build a roster better than the analytics guys . Until that changes, you can rotate guys in and out of the FO all you want, the results will be the same. At this point, why would someone like Mike Elias even want to work for this organization?

Started this one last night:

Libby is great. Lots of audiobooks available too.

It's that time of year again:

Risking your career for less than $30 seems dumb.

Any day Abreu isn't in the lineup is a good day I guess. Meh, he can hang out with Pressly all he wants. Edit: Merging is fucking dumb and should be removed.

Searched for a thread and didn't find anything. Spring Branch / Memorial seems to have a burgeoning food scene to go along with the Korean and Latin places that have been around forever. I'm a fan of Bori on Witte for Korean and Stuffed Belly for burgers. Feges and The new Pit Room location provide some decent BBQ options. As for Mexican / Tex-Mex, I have been meaning to try Tacos Dona Lena and Juarez, and Goode Company Cantina always hits the spot and has the best tres leches in the city.

To be fair, Pressly does look about like he has over the last year or so:

Finishing up The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's good, but not really on the same level as Les Miserables. I plan to start The God of Small Things next.

Fucking painful how accurate this is:

I guess it could be that simple. Maybe they just hit a wall late last season and haven't been able to recover, but, to go from trouncing the Rangers in that early September 2023 series to what we've seen since, makes me wonder is there isn't something fundamentally wrong in the clubhouse.

This makes the Nico deal look even better. Waddle is nowhere near as valuable as Nico, imo:

We have been a sub .500 team over the last 162. Something went seriously wrong sometime in September last season. The Rangers collapse at the end of the regular season and our drawing a middling Twins teams in the ALDS masked it. But the truth is, this team was very close to missing the playoffs last season, and, so far, this season has just been a continuation of that. The worst part, imo, is that there doesn't seem to be any real hope it will improve near term. There is no reason to believe this team is a player or two away from competing, so buying doesn't make any sense, not that we have much in the farm to trade. And I have no faith in the FO (and realistically it's Baggy, Reggie, and Crane anyway) to navigate a rebuild, so trading Bregs, JV, or Framber would probably just result in us getting fleeced. The real kicker is I live too far from the stadium to enjoy what inevitably will be cheap tickets and nearly empty sections of the stadium. That was at least one bonus of the 2012-era team.

Here's what it looks like:

Have to hand it to him. Lots of folks have spent a year eating fast food all day and getting hammered, but few have gotten rich for doing so.

I know some of you hate the WBC, but I can't wait for this:

Just started the latest installment in the Joe Pickett series:

I recently read something that resonated with me. It was in the context of the decline of punctuation and rise of abbreviation in common communication. Basically, it said that given that native English speakers often speak and write only one language, the least we can do is speak and write it well and correctly.

So Dana announces Abreu is likely to return and we immediately start losing again. Cool, cool, cool

soft-tossing lefties remain our kryptonite. At least we cleared Bregs' spot before the 9th.