Well, since nobody else on this blog seems to want to mention the story that the nation is now talking about, here ya go. "Cell phone video shows a ball park snow cone vendor sitting on a toilet in a stall with an entire box full of the products he’s about to sell. They sit on the bathroom floor right next to him."

Grantland had a great article on the Astros. I've been "things will get worse before they get better" mode for quite some time that's its hard to imagine them getting better any time soon. But this article gave me a tiny sliver of hope.

Sometimes when things are bad you have to laugh at what the team can do.

Mind-blowing Notes, statistics, comparisons regarding the Houston Astros strikeout problems entering Saturday's slate of games.

Sorry for the plug, but I was asked to do a short interview for Tomato Nation about what it's like being an Astros fan and thought others might relate. Hopefully I didn't embarrass us too much, though I'm sort of regretting my 67-win prediction already.

Wrote this for my blog on Bud Norris, who showed the good and the bad on Sunday.

Using a consensus top 100 prospects list between Baseball Prospectus, Keith Law and Baseball America, I added where each prospect will be beginning the 2013 season. Well, almost all of them.

Not a lot of details, but in stable condition at this time.

Andy Martino of NYDN suggests that the Yankees may look at Pena to fill their 1B void.