Ten Songs Picked At Random

Real quick post because I was out late last night (on a school night!).  Enjoy!

HYPERPOWER! – Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Stack Shot Billy – Black Keys – Rubber Factory
Elect the Dead – Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead
The Golden Section – Coil – Horse Rotorvator
Meet Me In the Morning – Bob Dylan – Blood On the Tracks
Bleeder – Nothingface – Violence
Hooker With a Penis – Tool – Aenima
Bring It On Home – Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Trust in You – The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Razor – Foo Fighters – In Your Honor

Maybe a story will appear here later.  Maybe not.

Series Preview in Blog: Houston Astros

The Astros come to town finishing a nine-game road trip.  Houston lost 2 of 3 to Texas this week, which marked their first series loss in June (10-6 in the month).  That mild hot streak has not moved them up in the standings, as they remain in last place in the NL Central, six games back.

The Astros have one of the lowest run-scoring offenses in the NL (only ahead of Chicago, SF, and SD in runs scored) and a big part of that is that they’re just not hitting home runs.  That has resulted in a run-differential of -37 which makes it hard to believe this team is making a run for the top half of the division.  Normally, you would think that no power = scrappy hustling hitters (at least according to the classic baseball announcer logic).  At least in some cases that’s not true as Carlos Lee is catching some flak for not running out grounders.  Still, I’m not going to rag on the guy because he just extended my season long hit streak in Beat the Streak to 14 games last night (I might actually have to start thinking about my picks at this point).