I kept looking for our DH.

Not unless they write a check for $10 million.

Well played, sir.

I'd bet that Sanders and/or the Old Man buys his interest to avoid even the appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest.

Does Nolan not have financial interests in the Hooks? Appears he does.

Use whatever euphemism you like, but the success of the Express depends to some degree on the players provided by and the success of the parent club. If Reid Ryan has any interest in the Express, I don't want him employed by the Astros.

As for my theory falling apart, I have no idea what point you're trying to make. Again, the old man is irrelevant. This is about Jr running the Astros.

The link was from Hooks.com and described Nolan Ryan as principal owner of Ryan-Sanders baseball and the Corpus Christi Hooks which we know to be an affiliate of the Houston Astros.  In his bio, he is also described as, also, CEO/President of the Texas Rangers. Your point made earlier was that it would be a conflict to run a ML club while running a MiL club under a different organization. Apparantly, it is not viewed as such by the baseball powers to be. And, yes, the success of the Express, at least in the W-L column, is wholly dependent on the talent they are sent. I don't think anyone disputes that.

I don't if the Old Man still owns a piece or not and don't care. But if Reid is hired by th Astros, he better fucking give up his other job of pimping the fucking Rangers organization.

Pimping the Rangers? So promoting your baseball team is pimping the parent club? That's salesmanship. And here's where your theory falls apart. http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?sid=t482&ymd=20100223&content_id=8118026&vkey=roster

I would assume that Ryan the Younger will have to give up his interest in the Express, no?.  Being president of one major league club and being an owner of a minor league team affiliated with another Major League club is definitely a conflict.

I didn't think of that.

2019.  Do you think the Express would automatically come back into the Astros fold?

No. But I think the chances would be better than they were last week.

Footer's a fan:

Sounds good to me. When is the Express deal with Rangers up?

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Ok. Good.

untrue.

which part, Jim? All of the above?

Just thinking out loud; does that mean the old man's days in Arlington truly are numbered? Would it be some sort of conflict for each to be in the same division competing against each other? I would think so. At least some tense moments during family gatherings. There was rumors here in NoTx when all the Nolan drama was swirling that he was looking for a job within the Rangers for one if not both of the boys as part of his exit strategy.

Wonder if this is the end of the line for Humber?

When you can't pitch for the worst team in baseball....

Guessing he'll be moved to second for a while

Altuve says he'll be in lineup tonight.

Another nice outing by Jake Buchanan. Pretty impressive run. The lines for his last three appearances:

IP.....pitches...strikes...hits.....BB...runs
3.2.....23..........18.......0.........0......0
5.0.....55..........43.......2.........0......0
4.0.....44..........28.......1.........0......0

His ERA on the year is 1.04

I saw the first one.  He doesn't throw hard at all (high 80s), but he obviously throws a ton of strikes that hitters don't square up. 

Sinkerball pitcher, right?

I'm sorry for your loss, JG. I still have my mother, and I've tried to imagine life without her one day and have had trouble doing so.

Thanks for the sentiment, Hap.

I just lost my mom in January so this has been a more somber M-D for me. Fortunately, daughter is up from Austin to be with her mom and that makes it more joyous.
And, yes, happy M-D to any and all of you out there.

I'm here, but the volume on my fucking iPhone has stopped working again, so I can't listen to the game. Anybody else had this problem?

yes, but it passes in a couple of minutes and I get sound back.

Figure that is what we will do, it is vacation I don't want to mess around with public transportation to save 30 bucks.

We did ride the monorail though. It only goes a mile or so.

Like the Mets did for Zack Wheeler. 

And the Astros did for Bourn. We have plenty of fringe prospects....don't need more.

Thanks for the inputs.  Any advice on getting from the Airport to the hotel?  How is the train, would it be a huge pain with luggage?

We took a cab. It was a reasonable charge. Probably 15-20 minutes. Never took public transportation there.