Texsox

Wait for them to put up five meaningless runs at the end of the game to lose 16-5

I wonder if Tony has any recordings of when he could actually manage. Maybe play a couple of them to motivate these guys? Gather the team around the old Victrola.

I may have been too optimistic when I predicted third place.

Even when Tony is almost right he pisses me off. Here in a game we have zero chance of winning he puts out a decent lineup. Games we might actually win, he puts out crap lineups. I must have missed that in old school baseball 101. Not since Ozzie have I seen a manager trying to lose games.

Every under achieving, overvalued, slacking, player on the team, which is basically everyone, should thank TLR for being so inept he covers for them.

Do you really think grown men need a rah rah speech? That shit is for movies. They need to their damn job. Everything this organization has to say is on the field sucking ass. They can't hit, they can't stop swinging at first pitches, they can't run bases, they can't hold the rare lead they get. But the right golden words from a manager will change everything. Changing the manager is a nice start but sending the rest of the roster packing and waiting another ten years is the reality.

Because the entire organization can't evaluate talent. Meanwhile today teams like the Astros keep locking up their top young players to five and six year contracts. This game will be unwatchable by the third inning. The Rays haven't been hitting, we counter with an emergency arm. We haven't been hitting, they counter with a Cy Young candidate. Start drink early.

Worst in baseball. It's probably too late to fire him to save this season.

I was expecting the major Texas cities to have a much higher rate than Chicago. I'm a little shocked by some of the cities on the list. Peoria? I didn't see that one coming.

What's crazy to me is Chicago has almost double the murders of Houston despite very similar populations.

I think an even better point is once something is illegal the police can take action. Like that picture posted earlier making it illegal allows the police to confiscate and arrest the owner.

That looks like a red flag to me.

I agree with every point. My guess is 90% of Americans would agree. It's the bought and paid for politicians that have a problem with them.

Most everyone here lives in a city or large suburb with police forces that in theory can respond in minutes. Gun advocates are strongest in rural areas where the response could be hours. People there need to be self reliant. I'm also thinking of a real estate agent who spends time in vacant properties with strangers. She feels better carrying and would quit immediately if she couldn't. I'm thinking of a trucker who necessarily sleeps in remote locations and had a gun safe installed in his sleeper. I have a lot of friends and family who own guns of all sorts. They are good, law abiding, people who have managed for decades to never break a law. They have all the same jobs as posters here. The same hopes and dreams. They grieve for victims just like non gun owners. I know we can do better. Demonizing all gun owners doesn't really help. Many even vote Democratic.

Yep. See you tomorrow. It's expensive to be an Astros fan. I'm not finding ultra cheap tickets at the Juice Box.

@southsider2k5 The GOP gun culture is more at the politician donor level than the individual voter level ( although there are folks on the extreme). Most current or former GOP folks I know support some common sense (to me) changes. Raise the age to buy to 21. Limit magazine sizes. Federal background checks. Limits on advertising. I'd like to see the assault weapon ban reinstated, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

We have over 100 schools and a police force I have a lot of faith in. We're bigger, better equipped, and better trained than most regular police departments around the country. But sadly that's not the case elsewhere. It makes sense to focus on the 99.99% of the school situations by deploying your cops at middle school and high school where the risk of violence from within is greatest. Most elementary students aren't violent. Having a trained marshall on campus seems reasonable. Having a teacher slaughtered by a police officer is bad, but they wouldn't be out there if their or other's lives weren't already at risk. I don't see the situation as everyone being safe and a marshall unlocks their gun. I see the choice as getting murdered or watching others be murdered or unlocking your gun. If I was a marshall, I'd be hanging with the local police and not missing any trainings so they recognize me.

I generally agree. But here's the difference, I have to work at following this team. I plan part of my vacation to see games in person. I'm three hours away from Houston, my daughter and her family live there. I feel like I'm working harder at this team than half of the roster.

Same set up as Robb Elementary.

Why root for these DUI driving assholes?

There is a perfectly fine team just down the road from me in Houston. I've ignored them for 25 years. Why not enjoy life? Most of the board here wanted one of their people hired for manager so it's not like anyone really cares how they win. Plus they have changed.

He does. But a different manager isn't suddenly going to raise the team average a hundred points or get Harrison to run faster. They suck. They are not a good baseball team lead by an even worse manager, all the result of a shitty owner and front office

I wish he'd quite playing. He's got to take himself out of the lineup. Bottom line, these guys suck. They have the manager they deserve. They only have jobs because the worse owner and front office in baseball signed them.

I think teachers getting slaughtered by anyone wouldn't help. I know that's both of us. School marshalls in Texas are a recognized police presence on campus, most often at campuses that have no other police. Local police train with the school marshals on a regular basis. It's basically having an undercover cop on campus. It's kind of crappy some schools have to combine being the campus cop and teaching a class. In most school shootings multiple agencies respond. Some in very recognizable uniforms, some off duty. Shooters are wearing police looking tactical equipment. It's already chaos. So if your child is watching her classmates get murdered, do you want a school marshal on campus or no one?

We have two armed police officers on our campus of 2,700 students. We probably should double that. We could also look into school marshalls. The School Marshall program in Texas trains teachers to backup the police officers in an active shooter scenario. From what I learned any weapons are locked in a gun safe and only taken out if there is an intruder on campus. That's probably safer than the guns that police have holstered but unlocked. Obviously being locked in a safe isn't ideal if a shooter is in campus, but balances the safety issues of more guns on campus. My teacher organization reported that there may be a district or two that has open carry marshalls on campus. They believe all had prior military police or civilian police experience before becoming teachers. From the looks of it districts that have allowed the marshall program into their schools are all rural and most did not have their own police departments. They generally only allow one or two per campus.