You killed my brother. Prepare to receive a strongly worded diplomatic message.
(Come on, do you really need a hattip?)
(Sipsey Street Irregulars has been on Gunwalker like a fat man on an all-you-can-eat buffet, but I want to be sure to keep this in front of you, my regular readers. Also my irregular readers; as I often tell you, I find Dr. Pepper and Cherry Coke Zero tend to…get things moving, for those of you in that group.)
Grantland has an interesting piece up: “Rock Bottom in H-Town”, about the decline and fall of the Houston Astros.
I commend the entire article to your attention, but this portion jumped out at me:
Really? That is what’s holding up the sale? Because if you’ve been reading the coverage in the team’s hometown newspaper, you’d get the impression that the sale is being held up because MLB has issues with Crane. Take this Richard Justice column from today’s paper:
So if the real issue is that Selig is putting pressure on Crane to support realignment, why hasn’t there been more reporting of this by Justice or the rest of the HouChron sports staff? The only time I’ve seen this mentioned is by Crane, in an interview with the HouChron, and the extent of his mention is this:
Significant to me is that:
And if Selig is putting pressure on Crane, and Crane says “Screw it” and takes his offer and money off the table, who is going to step up and buy the Astros? And if Selig drives away a potential buyer for the team, is that good for the Astros? Or MLB?
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Minnesota
Carolina
Seattle
St. Louis
Also, the Astros now sit at 53-100.
I forgot to stick this in the loser update update, but it may merit a separate post anyway.
Someone (I forget who; it may have been the bloggers at Jimbo’s old site) alerted me to Taylor Branch’s “The Shame of College Sports” in the October issue of The Atlantic.
I think this is worth your attention, even though it is long. I’m still digesting the article, but there’s quite a bit of interesting material in it about the NCAA’s past (and current) legal battles; the information Branch brings out makes me more convinced that we’ll see the end of the NCAA in the next decade.
The Monday night game is between two 0-2 0-1 teams, so look for the loser update tomorrow.
In other news, the Astros hit the 100 loss mark, but not 101, over the weekend. They’re currently at 52-100, which means 110 losses is still in play: if they lose all ten of their remaining games.
I started to blog the 100th loss over the weekend, but Reno (and some other things) had me too upset and distracted to be able to blog. Sorry.
Dakota Meyer has been awarded the Medal of Honor.
Meyer is credited with killing at least eight attackers despite being wounded in his arm by shrapnel.
By the way:
Meyer also recovered the bodies of four friends killed in action.
At the time of his actions, Meyer was a corporal. He
(Post title borrowed from LaRue Tactical.)
Bill Muehlberger, longtime geology professor at UT, and the man who trained the NASA astronauts.
Back in 2009, WCD linked to the Statesman‘s profile of Professor Muehlberger. The Statesman website is acting hinky at the moment, and we’re not sure the original piece is still up. If we find a link, we’ll update this post.
(Apologies to Weer’d for stepping into his territory.)
To be clear, that’s worst Astros team ever, not worst baseball team in general.
Last December, TMQ Watch responded to TMQ’s assertion that “Favre’s 297-game streak will never be broken”, offering Peyton Manning as an example, and stating
TMQ never contacted us to agree on terms. However, we are honorable people, and we clearly lost that bet. Accordingly, in lieu of paying TMQ $5 directly, we are making a donation to A Call To Men, an organization TMQ praised in that same column.
Ranger Up is one of my preferred clothing vendors. (As I may have noted previously, I am partial to my “Mr. Grenade” shirt, since that phrase gets a lot of use around the office.)
Anyway, I was poking around the site this morning (looking at the new MAC-V SOG shirt) and ran across Nick’s Rules on Leadership. I think these are linkworthy. There is a lot of overlap with other entries in the leadership series, but this is the kind of thing that’s good to have in one place, maybe so you can print it out and drop it on someone’s desk.
(I would like to note, for the record, that I do not currently feel any need to print this out and drop it on someone’s desk. I note this because certain someones have mentioned that they read this blog. This is also one of the reasons I do not talk very much about my work life.)
(I would also like to note, for the record, that I haven’t abandoned the leadership series, even if there haven’t been any recent updates. I post stuff when I find it, and when I think it is worth posting.)