Texsox

This is fun. One reason those electric bills are so high is until Governor Abbott blocked the shipments, Texas producers were shipping gas up north for higher profits. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-21/gas-traders-pleaded-for-cash-as-texas-cold-upended-their-market

Ignore the rest if his track record. I get it, that doesn't fit your narrative. What team's fans would be excited about getting the White Sox front office? 28th place in wins over the past 10 years. Sign Rick Hahn and in 2032 we'll have a winner? It's not my narrative, it's the results of the teams he's put together.

"Mr Hahn it says here on your resume you negotiated the largest contract in franchise history. We're a very aggressive franchise so that's interesting. How much was that contract for? " "74,000,000 MILLION dollars!" "I see. That is a lot of zeros. Digging into that I understand that ranks your team 30th of 30 teams for largest contract in their franchise's history." "I'm loyal" "Next!" Those three are the prettiest pigs in the stye. They are meant for each other.

During his time here only two teams have lost more games than the Sox. Or on a positive note the Sox are 28th most winning franchise over the past decade! He might have to settle for Lowes. Actually he'd be more at home at Dollar General.

Those folks all seem to be customers of the same company, Griddy. The plan they signed up for is $9.99 per month plus the wholesale price of the energy they consumed. It didn't matter where the electric was generated. Even if Texas was on a much larger grid the company would pass along the highest prices. The plan wasn't built with consumer protections in mind. In normal times prices fluctuate with demand. So encouraging people to reduce demand during peak usage is considered by national experts in these things a good thing. Much like Uber's surge pricing. Obviously here in this unique situation, it was very bad for the consumers with Griddy. But from our Governor on down it appears as if some help with arrive. Griddy was even telling customer prior to and during the storm to cancel their plans and go with someone else. But many didn't listen or had no where to go. In Illinois you have the choice for example to go with IDT Energy Smart Flex which offers cheap rates but allows unlimited price increases. Roll the dice if you like. If you live in a state that shows flexible rates and you don't want this to happen now would be a good time to talk with your elected leaders. But you probably think it couldn't happen by you. PS. It appears that the wholesale price actually dips to the negative at times (night during spring and fall) paying those customers to actually use electricity to keep the grid in balance. One story I read from Houston the unlucky Griddy customer was an energy trader. So it's not just the poor or uneducated that sign up for these plans.

Perhaps you don't have utility choice where you live. Through most of Texas and 16 other states people have a deregulated choice. I don't know what fucked up electric plan that woman has. Here in San Antonio my bill from Feb 3rd until today for gas and electric is $87.00. I suspect my total bill for February will be around $120. San Antonio has a city owned monopoly for electric, gas, and water. It's one of the few spots in Texas you are forced into an electric plan. If someone signed up for an open rate plan, that was a really dumb decision. That has nothing to do with the power generation or grid. That is on a private company selling a predatory plan to a person who probably didn't understand the possibilities. Ambit for example sells plans in Illinois and Texas. They are the ones that set the price, not the grid. I just noticed Illinois also has deregulated utilities. If someone is paying more than their neighbor for electric is that the grid's fault?

Yep. But it won't happen. I wish more people from up north would understand what a horrible state this is and stop moving here. Now water is out. Move here and there is a great chance you will die from something that is perfectly well handled elsewhere. The grass isn't greener, in fact we don't have grass at all. I know feel shitty about my state, my country, and my baseball team. Do you want to fucking attack my family also?

It's a polarizing state. Way too many people moving here from other states to believe everybody hates us. This may slow down the growth even more but somehow I doubt it. My family is well prepared so it was an unexpected vacation. Now that we're mostly out of the woods we're thinking it was fun. We read, played some games, had the family over, slept later. But if your best survival tool is a cell phone it was a nightmare. It's a historic weather event. In the past four days I saw more snow than the past 25 years combined, and by a wide margin. We usually have one or two hard freezes a winter, this has been five consecutive nights. Unlike tornadoes or hurricanes this impacted every country in the state at the same time. We're almost six times larger than Illinois. To me it's like Chicago being ready for a hurricane. Imagine if Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa got together and formed their own energy grid. No one would think twice. Now have that size, but with more energy resources than any other state. It's not as wacky as some want to think. But it's built for Texas not Canada.

Love it. I do appreciate how much he values his HoF credentials. He mentioned in one interview he wouldn't have returned if it meant giving that up.

I'm just happy to have electricity for 24 hours straight. I restocked my tequila, picked up some IPAs, and learned our largest contract in team history is the smallest contract of any MLB team largest contract. Fuck, wait, I don't want to be a buzz kill. Jose will be even better this year, Grandal can play 150 games, a 5th star will appear like the blessed virgin Mary, Vaughn will live up to his potential, and Tony will learn how to use the Uber app.

Definitely better than anything in the past 10 years when we had fewer wins than 27 other teams.

Yep. Definitely wouldn't advise anyone to move to Texas. Stay in Illinois. Our water supplier just announced they are cutting our bill at whichever is lower our bill to date this month or last month's bill. That won't make national headlines.

This squad might be equal to last year's which grabbed the 7th seed.

This reminds me of buying a car and having your friendly sales person who is "on your side" take your offer and fight the sales manager. Those three are thick as thieves.

No. It's not even an option we could turn on in the board software.

Buried behind a paywall is an Athletic article that TLR claims he was upfront about his SECOND DUI early in the interview process and told all three of these guys. Someone is lying and covering their asses. Hahn and Williams aren't going anywhere because they are as guilty as JR in this bullshit. https://theathletic.com/2395134/2021/02/18/white-sox-tony-la-russa-rick-hahn-mlb/ for those of you with subscriptions. BTW, if you are on T-Mobile they offer free subs it seems like every year.

That's a win. Louisiana is nice this time of year. ?

The best news in all this is maybe all this will slow down the population growth that Texas has received from folks fleeing high taxes and no jobs. https://www.statesman.com/news/20181224/us-census-texas-again-leads-in-population-growth all those folks that have fled Illinois https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/2020-census-projection-illinois-one-of-four-states-losing-population may finally go back.

YOLO. I was a part of a group that sponsored a golfer on the mini tours back in the early 2000s. Same principle. In one of the articles on the Tatis extension they characterized those advances as predatory. I'm guessing the adjectives could range from charity to predatory.

"Being that I'm a Hall of Fame manager that the front office can't touch, and I could bench your ass, before kneeling during this anthem or flipping that bat, you better ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?" Yeah, that could work.

I guess rape-n-pay isn't as frowned upon there.

And everything is a mod

Huge difference. I'm not certain it's even possible to put both on the same scale.

I feel like I'm watching Atlas Shrugged played out in real life.

We had President's Day as a remote professional development day which became partially cancelled. Tuesday through Friday are snow days.