Dad to Noah, Natalie, and Gabriel. Husband to Margarita. OG Yordan Alvarez stan. 2x Champion
#Astros
. IB Economics teacher. Ralph Yarborough Democrat. CT-NH-TX
@JohnCornyn
You're aware that there is nothing typical about a family with their own non-corporate business and separate business income, correct? Do you even interact with people who aren't lobbyists?
@jkelly3rd
@HotlineJosh
I’ll never understand how mask-wearing became a line in the sand about personal freedom to so many. How powerless do they feel in their own day-to-day lives they they had to rebel on *this* one?
If you want to know how the week is going, I just took a pillowcase out of the dryer, put it over my head thinking it was a t-shirt to wear to bed, spent 15 seconds inside it searching for the neckhole, and then mumbled “what is this, pants?”.
@MCunninghamAJC
@JohnCornyn
Yup. And even so, he basically took the profile of how many wealthy people make their money and reduced all the numbers by like 90%, but that's not a middle class profile of how income is usually generated.
@atrupar
The primary was a joke, come on Aaron. He was never going to debate anyone, and the same mentality you cite now - “we can’t have chaos! he already beat Trump once, it’ll be fine!” would have protected him from an actual primary.
Altuve looking for Singleton right after his HR - two guys who’ve walked different paths who were in this organization back in the Ed Wade days, and on the field for Bo Porter - is everything. ❤️
@johnroderick
@Willeth
You communicated your story in enough detail that everyone can reach an informed conclusion.
She’s 9. Just feed her when she’s hungry. Nobody needs their weirdly analytical dad conducting grit experiments on them for hours.
@NateSilver538
Watching you evolve from cutting edge data analyst to bitter middle-aged pundit who punches left is really unfortunate.
I’m sorry your liberal staff said some mean things about you over the years. But it appears they may have picked up on some genuinely reactionary instincts.
@chrislhayes
We are really underselling how bad things are going to get if he loses next November, during the 10-week aftermath where he’s still in power.
@bdjansenphd
@amberjans
The work standards of junior high and high school in no way reflect the real world. Kids work more. The hardest working people I know are all 17. The reality is we lose energy when we get older but get paid to “supervise” and “use judgment” because we’re too worn down to create.
@WalshFreedom
@SachaBaronCohen
He didn't really fool you. He posed as a lobbyist supporting exactly the idea he claimed to be supporting, and you chose to go on camera in support of it. Speaks volumes of how radical special interests own your party.
@GShaneMorris
I’m a happy husband and father of 3, but posting something like this says more about you than any of the single social 35-year olds you’re, uh, trying to warn?
@JillianBarkley
@sug_knight
@KrangTNelson
🪜
Actually, in order for something to qualify as a fear - or phobia in the more technically accepted jargon - it needs to be a persistent thought pattern or… 1/82
#Astros
dynasty update:
6 straight full-season AL West titles
6 90-win seasons
4 100-win seasons
6 straight ALCS (2023 pending)
4 AL pennants
2 World Series titles
There are no Bill Russells or John Woodens in 21st century baseball. This is a dynasty by any logical definition.
@AdamSerwer
A lot of people know their son will never get attacked by cops for playing with his friends but is probably at much greater risk of being exposed for the hateful garbage he texts to his friends.
@WillOremus
The real takeaway is that when people do bad things they instinctively know that the GOP will provide a massive psychological shelter from the morality police.
Yordan Alvarez may not have participated in the 2017 trash can scheme, but he deserves to be booed for not speaking up and stopping it from High-A Buies Creek.
Trey Mancini went from losing 110 games a year since 2018 to getting in the box and seeing Jose Altuve on 3rd, Yordan Alvarez on 2nd and Alex Bregman on 1st. Dude had to hit a grand slam.
@FauxShizzul
@lolacoaster
The problem occurs when people who were clearly handed a life of luxury talk about how hard they had to work, nothing was handed to them, etc.
Just own it. I know some trust fund types who still work but are like “yeah, I’m lucky as hell lol”. That’s fine!
The Astros were bad for 5 years straight, and then they rode a homegrown core to 7-years-and-counting of consistent winning.
The Rangers were bad for 5 years straight, and then there was no end in sight so they just overpaid everyone on the market to complete their “rebuild”.
@JoannaMang
“Are we finally collapsing as a civilization?” - me when the low tire pressure light comes on again when I just bought new tires last month
@ProfDBernstein
@jadler1969
@rickhasen
@FedSoc
“Our organization that exists solely to cement conservative dogma and political philosophy into our society for generations on behalf of right-wing elites does not take political positions.”
@YAppelbaum
@gcaw
I don’t know how to tell you guys this: 98% of college students are not remotely interested in sadomasochistic intellectual combat. They’re trying to get good grades, express/develop confident sexual autonomy, and line up a good entry level job on a strong career path.
@RosalyndMC
@BrandyLJensen
When you teach kids to negotiate and expect reasons for how they’re treated, they tend to be more confident in demanding fairness as adults. When it’s “because I said so”, they’re conditioned to accept a world where powerful people pull that shit constantly.
Alex Cora’s got a lot of nerve getting upset at Verlander for trying to fix his PitchCom considering Cora is the reason we need PitchCom in the first place.
@MrDavidAngelo
@jaketapper
Imagine thinking Donald Trump is honest and all these career FBI goody-goody types like Mueller and Comey are the *real* villains. You're telling on yourself.
Going to 7 straight LCS is not going to happen again for any team in my lifetime. Too much parity, too much randomness, too hard to build the kind of player development advantage we had in the 2010s.
This is a dynasty.
Some positivity: Rafael Montero grew up in the Dominican and was in danger of his career ending with less than $2M in career earnings in 2019. Now he has generational wealth for his family.
The Astros have played *73* playoff games over the past 5 seasons, easily the most in the Majors. Just a massive number of memories for any fanbase in such a short period of time.
Just a reminder that James Van Der Beek’s wife is an anti-vax kook and they moved to a ranch in Texas to experience moon cycles and whatnot. He’s one of those “apolitical” around-the-bend crunchy types who ended up a right-wing RFK stan:
Bo Jackson’s 1989 where he hit 32 HR, 105 RBI, 124 OPS+, top 10 MVP…
… then he joined the NFL season already in progress and rushed for 950 yards in 11 games, 5.5 YPC.
Close to the most impressive calendar year in the modern era from a pro athlete.
Bo knows hitting ABSOLUTE BOMBs off Hall of Famers. 💣 😳
Bo Jackson nearly hitting the ball out of the stadium vs. Jack Morris.
Bo hitting one of the longest HRs Randy Johnson ever gave up...
And hitting the LONGEST HR given up by Nolan Ryan in his career.
From
@brianmctaggart
: "Dana Brown... will have a say in who’s in the manager’s chair, but owner Jim Crane and Jeff Bagwell, the team’s senior advisor to ownership and baseball operations, will oversee finding the next Astros skipper."
Absolute clown show in the front office.
@CindyKatococo
@gorskon
@seanhannity
Hannity has gotten very, very rich persuading older people with no college education that the world is ending if smart liberals take power.
@AaronBlake
@nycsouthpaw
I mean, of course Tucker privately thinks Trump is a dumb failure.
People’s opinions of Trump are 98% polarized by education/ability level. People of relatively high ability who speak fondly of Trump are almost all lying.
@nycsouthpaw
People of all political persuasions who own upper middle class houses will object to more working class people living in their town/neighborhood/school zone. They will do so for the most virtuous reason they can find, but you will not appease them. They want exclusivity.
@CaseyCagle
@Delta
@NRA
Conservatives: Small government! Let the powerful businesses decide everyone's fate!
Also conservatives: This business is being mean to another business I like. I will use the government to hurt them.
Not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but today’s winning
#Astros
pitcher was the 2nd overall pick in the 2004 draft (Verlander), and the Rangers losing pitcher was the 1st overall pick in the 2004 draft (Bush).
@FauxShizzul
@lolacoaster
You seem intent on misunderstanding what bothers people: I don’t expect anyone to demonize their rich family, or refuse financial help/connections.
It’s when they want that *and* a heroic original story where they built themselves from scratch. The ones without self-awareness.
2019 Astros, and not close. Absurdly loaded. The two best pitchers in the AL by a mile, plus 6 of the top 15-20 hitters. Better than either WS champion team.
@nycsouthpaw
There is no bigger gap between real world sentiment and online sentiment than NIMBY-backed exclusionary zoning, which is ubiquitous in reality and a punching bag of greed and selfishness online.
The salaries for the two relievers who blew the season in that inning are higher than the payroll of the entire Tigers’ pitching staff.
Dumb money. The new era.
@notreallyjcm
Yup. People are engaging in addictive navel-gazing and deciding they constantly have to make CHANGES because of existential despair.
Take your Zoloft and stop doom texting your friends, folks.
@chrislhayes
The problem is that the people who think it's the greatest nation in the world often think so *because* we give people the freedom to destroy themselves rather than providing basic guardrails that a rich nation can afford. It's grotesque.
Letting Maldy hit here with Framber already out of the game is hilariously dumb and all the people who loudly said it will be different in the playoffs should feel ashamed.
Dusty Baker on José Abreu (77 OPS+): “He’s back in shape, and we got every Thursday off. We need him. We need him badly.”
Baker on Chas McCormick (137 OPS+): “Depends on what I need… depends on how a guy's doing. I mean, it’s easy if you got Julio Rodriguez…”.
It’s all vibes.
Honestly, if the Astros win this series, and they ask Correa how they turned it around, he should look right at the camera, pause, and say: “our cheating is better than ever”.
@nycsouthpaw
He wants us to believe that he feared a park ranger triggering a Pentagon investigation into a years-old bullet wound.
Tellingly, he declined to allow the treatment record at the hospital from the park incident to be released.
Can blame players for losing to bad teams, or Dusty for the lethargic victory lap season of managing nonsense, but Jim Crane fired the GM and AGM six days after winning it all, ran a terrible off-season with Bagwell as his co-pilot, and ran the trade deadline himself. It’s him.
@AFictionalGuy
@NateSilver538
Lefties I know don’t care about young, energetic, etc. They want someone to reverse the changes in post-Reagan America and restore the FDR/LBJ trajectory towards European-style social democracy.
Whether that’s an old white man from Vermont or a 30-year old Latina from the Bronx.
@jaywillis
@Taniel
You see a lot of this in certain schools, sadly. The mainstream media portrayed as “the left”, and then absolutely batshit stuff like The Federalist is the other side.
Explains why we have a far right wing party and a centrist party.
The most shocking
#Astros
win since Game 5 of the 2017 World Series, which was the most shocking win since Game 2 of the 2017 World Series. Eat it, Dodgers.
Altuve has the MVP. Bregman is the best player on the roster. Correa was the 1st overall pick of the Luhnow era. Verlander is the celebrity.
Make no mistake. The 2011-2020 story can only be told through George Springer. He’s the soul of it.
@TeddyDavisCNN
@newtgingrich
@PressClubDC
Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House when the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton for obstructing justice. You can't make this stuff up.
It’s pretty wild that we have a pitcher who has 21 consecutive quality starts, ERA under 2.7, was the winning pitcher in the All-Star Game, and he’s not even arguably the ace.
@timfromhouston
@haleyjennyc
@teddyschleifer
If a billionaire says “I could be comfortable with any candidate except this one”, I promise you it’s not personal or stylistic. It’s about his money.
@stumbalinaa
@ndrew_lawrence
Not a single person complaining about Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy cares a single fuck about the debt, nor claims to. It’s just funny to point out how it’s a pet issue for Republicans only when the money flows out to the poor.
@mitchysuch
Both of these people were so cool in 7th grade because they would kiss in the locker bay after lunch and you didn’t realize they weren’t future leaders of society but rather would live within 5 miles of that middle school their whole lives.
Can we all talk about how Luhnow’s decision to select 18-year old Kyle Tucker over polished college outfielders Andrew Benintendi and Ian Happ in the 2015 draft is now a massive home run?
@hshaban
@maggieNYT
These guys seem to be really bad at intimidating moms, maybe they should take some classes in how to save lives and protect people in danger instead?
Happy 3-year anniversary to the morning when
@DICKS
accidentally discounted all Astros’ World Series championship gear (including $150+ jerseys) to $9.97 for a couple hours and then got pressured to honor the sales.
Dusty taking a shot at “those who have never played the game” in his salty retirement quote is too perfect after he inherited a 108-win team built by guys who never played the game.
@maccabeecheese
@robbysoave
I’m a teacher who just finished paying my loans during the pandemic. I’m thrilled for people to not have to go through what I did.
Life isn’t a competition. The more people who can afford basic necessities without anxiety, the better.
Netflix has acquired the rights to a short film about the Phillies fan who helped orchestrate a standing ovation for Trea Turner during his hitting slump in 2023
The Turnaround, produced in association with Major League Baseball and directed by Kyle Thrash and Ben Proudfoot,
The
#Astros
are going to clinch the division in the next couple days, and host the ALDS, and the real story is 3 starters who were non-prospects - Framber Valdez, Jose Urquidy and Luis Garcia - have replaced Verlander, Cole and Greinke (and Morton before him).
Homegrown saviors.