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Houston salvages the final game vs the Yanx and possibly even a tiny bit of their dignity.
They scored 3 in the top of the 1st and then hung on for a 4-3 win to go 1-6 in the season series.

I was surprised at the number of 3's, and even a 2, for yesterday's word given the three vowels (consecutive no less) and the rare ending S.

I think I wound up losing ground with a Par yesterday but might wind up gaining some with a Bogey today.

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I've been doing this a lot lately, getting several correct letters right off the bat but then needing three or four more moves before they wind up in the right spot.

Yanx are 6-0 vs Houston with one game to go and have out-scored them 40-18 so far this season.
The Astros now sit in last place at 12-24 overall with a -35 RS/RA differential.
Houston, you have a problem.

He was the #1/1 pick out of LSU just last June and is now slated to start on Saturday vs CHC And his girl friend is internet star LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne so there's a bit of a lower-case Taylor Swift kind of deal going on here. Pirates have had a number of highly drafted pitchers in the last 20 yea...

Phils phinally lose thanks to a nice game by Chris Bassitt and Toronto.
It breaks their 7 game win streak which also ran to 11 of 12 and 18 of 21
This plummets their record to a paltry 26-12

Oh good. The Mets were in need of more travel days in August.

It occurred to me last night that I can barely name anyone on the current Red Sox. THE RED SOX!! For most of this century I knew their positions players, their starters, at least a couple of their relievers, and, hell, half their backups too. But they've done a big house cleaning/turn-over in recent...

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 8:51 am Ranked No. 80 of 340

180

I'm guessing that when the students of F.I.T. stage campus demonstrations they at least do it with style and coordination.

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I'm usually into this stuff but it's still a ways away as the eventual moon launch is projected but still not scheduled so I'm not in full following mode yet. On the plus side it looks like they'll get back up there while there are still a few of the previous moon visitors still alive. Until very re...

Pitches tonight: Butto - 89 (or about 6 innings worth in 5 innings which, considering it looked like he was going to spend 6 innings worth in 3 innings early on, isn't too bad) Sulser - 15 SR-F - 14 Lopez - 11 Garrett - 14 Otto - 24 So Otto is cooked for tomorrow though Diaz and Diekman should be ba...

Shit, we should all get free cars!

Nice pitching from about the 3rd inning on.
On offense we had a nice inning.

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:35 pm Is Raley back soon?

He's nowhere close.

This is a first guess, not a second one, but I was wary of Mendoza cycling through his relievers a bit too fast in those mid-innings.
Could not Lopez, or Garrett, or SR-F gone an extra batter or three?

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 9:31 pm 2-1/2 good ABs from Pete tonight.

3-1/2

Add to the list of cautionary tales, one Paul Goldschmidt. - a 981 OPS/177 OPS+ season and an MVP in his age 34 season in 2022 - he then fell to 810/120 in 2023. Still good but a big fall. - and while it's too early to call this season a disaster, it's certainly a disaster so far as we approach the ...

3 HRs allowed for JV.
Astros now 0-5 vs Yanx this year.

2-1/2 good ABs from Pete tonight.
It's a start.

Give him credit, I never thought Butto would get this far tonight but not only
has he done so but he's unscored upon since that 1st inning.

A bit late for a polar bear to awake from his hibernation, but we'll take it.

Centerfield wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:51 pm Might be cuz the Mets have basically sucked for weeks but I find the games to be no fun to watch.

Bad boring baseball.

If you're still around, the game just got a bit less boring.