Hello and welcome to Thanksgiving Week! ACHQ is headed to Atlanta on Monday Morning. Tuesday Morning and Wednesday Morning Hot Links should be in order, but Thursday and Friday are up in the air. If you'll be in Nashville on Wednesday-Thursday, let me know.
*In what is an extremely well-timed post, Tags has the Astros' 10 Most Comical Moments. It felt good to think about the Astros for the first time this month. God bless us, everyone.
*Greg Brown, the Nova Southeastern head coach (who coached J.D. Martinez in college) is now the Rays' hitting coach.
That's pretty much it for Astros news for today. Feel free to continue, or to go on Reddit and plan murders or whatever.
*Want to see the most useless off-season rumor tweet of all time?
*The Hardball Times: On Baseball, Game Design, and Output Randomness.
*900 bottles of booze were recovered from a 1917 shipwreck.
*Texas Monthly: A Farewell to Dairy Queens.
*Nick Brown Smelled Bull.
*This is what your overactive brain needs to get a good night's sleep.
*A Musical Selection. With apologies to Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" this is the sexiest song ever written:
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith