Nice Ring

Swifties and many others throughout the planet celebrated the huge engagement news yesterday. It was joyful and great.

Of course, we have two bozos running in the Texas MAGA primary next year for U.S. Senator. One of the bozos used the big engagement announcement to go after the other bozo in a classless move. See this tweet:

@TeamCornyn

Congrats @taylorswift13 & @tkelce. May your marriage never end on biblical grounds.

Taylor and Travis are two of the best America has to offer. For the bozo incumbent senator to use their engagement to bash his opponent is a total lack of class, but you already knew this about the incumbent bozo.

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That is a nice ring in the featured photo. An editor for People Magazine was on “Today” this morning and described the ring as “modest” for celebrity standards and “humungous” for folks like Commentary.

“Today” meteorologist Al Roker suggested the Swift-Kelce rehearsal dinner should be held at Cracker Barrel.

So now we wait on the wedding date and location. It will happen after the upcoming NFL football season. Then who will get invitations to the wedding of the year. Stay tuned

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The 2026 Astros schedule was released yesterday.  We open the season against the Angels on Thursday, March 26. The Red Sox visit us on Monday, March 30. The Yankees are at Daikin Park the last weekend of April and Dodgers on May 4-6 including Dollar Dog Night on Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo. We are in New York from August 25-30 to play the Yankees and Mets. We are in Sacramento on Easter Sunday, in Arlington on Memorial Day, host the Rays on the Fourth of July, and have Labor Day off.

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This play from last night cost us the game. See this from the Chron:

The sinker bore in on Ryan Ritter and produced the desired effect. Ritter swung and splintered his bat. A weak bouncer left his bat as a possible double-play ball. Second baseman Mauricio Dubón fielded it and flipped to Jeremy Peña at the bag, looking to get at least one out.

Instead, the play yielded none. Peña, the surehanded shortstop, was ruled to be off the bag. Kyle Karros collided with his glove in passing, dislodging the ball, which bounced into center field. Karros ran to third on a miscue that derailed a starter’s rhythm and incited a rally.

“Dubón going to second is the right play, getting the lead runner,” Astros manager Joe Espada said later. “And the umpire called that (Peña) was off the base. We couldn’t handle that play there. And then after that, things kind of go out of control a little bit.”

It sounds like the manager doesn’t want to be publicly critical of Dubón. Dubón should have thrown to first base for the easy second out. Instead, he made the flip to Peña who could not handle the toss. We would have had two outs with a man on second base. Instead, we got runners on first and third with one out and things quickly fell apart. It was not good baseball.