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Four Halls Bayou Detention Ponds Recently Completed; Four More Virtually Done

If you saw the recent front page article in the Houston Chronicle about Halls Bayou, you would think that Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) relegated residents in the watershed to “the back of the bus.” Even before the bond, Halls received four floodwater retention projects, three of which are major. HCFCD is trying to […]

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Weird Request

I’m looking for a large quantity of regular printer sized scrap paper, was thinking maybe someone in here worked at a school or office or something that had boxes of old newsletters, homework assignments, paperwork etc thats just gonna get thrown out.

Why? I use them to package things. I buy and sell sports cards on Ebay for a hobby and that market is freaking unbelievable right now and I cut sheets of paper in half and fold it around the card protector for better protection. I ran out of all my scrap paper and I don’t want to use clean printer pages as i feel it’s a waste so might as well recycle something that was gonna get thrown out anyways

Just make sure it has no personal information on it, like names or addresses or phone numbers (old invoices etc). I can come pick it up. I’m in Missouri City, so I can travel within a reasonable radius and if you’d prefer to meet at a public place that’s fine with me and if you go to any sort of trouble to help me out with this I’ll gladly give you a few dollars

Disclaimer: If you’re going to set me up to rob me, you’re barking up the wrong tree by trying to rob someone that’s gotta ask reddit for scrap paper lmao and also I can kind of fight. I know this because when I was in 2nd grade I pushed a 3rd grader down and now I’m tough

And, since I’m on the subject, if you got that box of cards from your childhood or your grandad left in the attic now is the time to sell. The prices are crazy- cards of prospects that haven’t come close to even minor league are selling for thousands thanks to speculation- but I think this market will crash like it did in the 90s. Never sell to anyone who appraises – including me – because they know you don’t know what you have and will lowball the eff out of you. Because I love my Houston people, if anyone happens to have anything they’re wondering about the price, send me a PM and I’ll tell you what you can sell them for and where. Also I consign if you don’t want to deal with the trouble.

Oh, and by “large quantity” I drive a mustang, so like a small/medium sized moving box or two full.

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Post Game Thread (Apr 26, 2021): Mariners (13-10) @ Astros (11-11)

Line Score – Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
SEA 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 7 1
HOU 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 5 14 0

Box Score

HOU AB R H RBI BB SO BA
2B Altuve 5 1 3 2 0 1 .347
LF Brantley 4 0 2 0 0 0 .342
3B Bregman 4 1 1 0 0 1 .311
DH Alvarez 4 1 3 1 0 1 .308
1B Gurriel 4 0 3 1 0 0 .354
SS Correa 4 1 1 0 0 0 .282
RF Tucker 2 0 0 1 1 1 .176
CF Straw 4 1 1 0 0 0 .213
C Maldonado 4 0 0 0 0 1 .102
HOU IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Urquidy 6.0 5 2 2 0 2 96-67 4.67
Abreu, B 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 16-12 5.40
Stanek 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 29-17 2.38
Pressly 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 20-13 0.90
SEA AB R H RBI BB SO BA
RF Haniger 4 0 0 0 0 1 .280
DH France 4 0 2 0 0 0 .325
3B Seager, K 4 1 2 1 0 0 .247
CF Lewis 3 1 1 1 1 0 .158
1B White 4 0 0 0 0 0 .175
LF Trammell 4 0 1 0 0 2 .161
2B Moore, D 2 0 0 0 0 0 .113
PH Haggerty 1 0 0 0 0 0 .263
C Torrens 3 0 0 0 0 1 .167
PH Marmolejos 1 0 0 0 0 1 .179
SS Crawford, J 4 0 1 0 0 1 .240
SEA IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Sheffield 5.1 12 5 4 1 4 97-60 5.32
Vest 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 5-3 1.46
Dugger 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 28-17 0.00

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
B1 Yordan Alvarez doubles (6) on a line drive to center fielder Kyle Lewis. Jose Altuve scores. 1-0
B1 Yuli Gurriel singles on a sharp ground ball to left fielder Taylor Trammell. Yordan Alvarez scores. Yuli Gurriel to 2nd. 2-0
T3 Kyle Lewis homers (1) on a fly ball to center field. 2-1
B4 Jose Altuve singles on a line drive to left fielder Taylor Trammell. Carlos Correa scores. Myles Straw scores. 4-1
B5 Kyle Tucker out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Taylor Trammell. Alex Bregman scores. 5-1
T6 Kyle Seager homers (4) on a fly ball to right center field. 5-2

Highlights

Description Length HD
Yordan Alvarez’s RBI double in the 1st inning 0:47 HD
Yuli Gurriel’s RBI single scores Alvarez in the 1st 0:54 HD
Kyle Lewis goes to center for first homer of 2021 0:27 HD
Jose Altuve hits a two-run single in the 4th inning 0:34 HD
Kyle Tucker’s sacrifice fly in the 5th scores Bregman 0:21 HD
Kyle Seager’s solo home run in the top of 6th 0:00 HD
Ryan Pressly’s final out 0:17 HD

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Urquidy (1-2, 4.67) Sheffield (1-2, 5.32) Pressly (2, 0.90)

Game ended at 10:20 PM.

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Daily dose of Yordan (Game 22)

At bat 1: 5 pitch double to right, RBI

At bat 2: 3 pitch single to center

At bat 3: 5 pitch strikeout swinging

At bat 4: 5 pitch single to center

Overall another great day for Yordan. Today was just overall a perfect game fundamentals wise, as he was locating and taking the outside pitches for strikes, and taking what the pitchers gave him (low fastballs on both of his singles) and dumping it into left center for a hit. Even on his one strikeout I was pleased with how he was fouling off the pitches high in the zone with a two strike count before missing on his one kryptonite zone low and away, if you can even call it that. I also was really impressed with his double to deep right, it definitely looked gone of the bat and he did a nice job running on the hit. In total it was a masterful night for Yordan both fundamentally and in the box score, hopefully soon he hits home runs to go with his strike zone mastery, but you can’t really ask for more than what he did today.

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