Dana Brown's Josh Hader update (for @booksandbows.bsky.social): "Moving in the right direction. ... I feel confident in it." That said, he cautions that they won't entirely know until he starts throwing, which will be this winter. Obviously, should the pain then return, it all changes

Dana Brown: "With Alvarez, more imaging may have helped us." Gee, I wonder who is in charge of recommending that

I asked Kevin Durant if Houston currently has a championship-level roster: “I never talk about championships on any team I’ve been on. You just put your head down and work.” But, KD does see the #Rockets having several important attributes that meet the modern NBA formula to win. Full exchange:

Local man is happy

Kevin Durant isn't going anywhere. #Rockets

You know who he is. Kevin Durant says he expects to sign a contract extension with the Rockets

Clint Capela is back

Steven Adams on Kevin Durant as a teammate: "He wasn't a dick, or anything." 😂😂 Calls him a really good dude.

Jabari Smith Jr. on Year 4 with the Rockets: “The expectation should be a championship.”

And so it begins. #Rockets

Sources (and by that I mean my eyes): Brian Windhorst is in the building. That’s when you know it’s serious business.

Happy 37th birthday to our world’s most important person

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL 0:00 OT This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.

Imagine if they had that guy

The original

Team I love: Blue Jays Teams I have at least some soft spots for: Tigers, Red Sox, Padres Team I respect and kinda want to get a ring because they deserve one: Phillies Teams I don’t care about either way: Brewers, Reds, Cubs, Guardians Teams I despise: The three I’m not even gonna mention

As a reminder, tomorrow is (effectively) the #Rockets introductory press conference for Kevin Durant. Starts at 11 with Ime Udoka and Rafael Stone, and I suspect KD will be shortly after. They’ll have a live stream at Rockets.com and on the team YouTube

This is going to be far closer than it should be

Man, I wonder which of these time slots will go to Tigers/Guardians and which to Red Sox/Yankees

#Astros announced that both Joe Espada and Dana Brown will meet with media Tuesday for their standard end-of-season availability. I don't think that necessarily means anything about 2026 and beyond, other than no one is getting dismissed in the next 36 hours. Which is logical, no need to rush.

Bret Boone randomly has two 35+ HR, .900+ OPS seasons and these idiots want you to believe that the trash-can system was a bigger advantage... for a team that literally hit better without it!

Correct. Even as conspiracy theories go, this one was particularly absurd. If the Rangers were tanking to screw the Astros, outscoring the Guardians 9-5 in the first 17 innings of the series is a weird way of doing it

The Rangers just gave up 4 runs in the bottom of the 10th at Cleveland to blow a 3-run lead and lose. We going to see tons of celebratory viral posts about how it was on purpose, or maybe are random relievers playing out the string just not particularly good?

Party time!

Shoutout to Kaleb Ort for not being able to lob in a strike

Led by a career year from 2017 World Series MVP George Springer, the Blue Jays finish as the No. 1 seed in the American League. Baseball fans everywhere are outraged… wait, never mind. All they object to is laundry.

Salute to all the fans who devalue the sport they claim to love by doing the “it’s only (insert month here)” routine because they can’t handle criticism of their team

Sounds promising

Europe about to pull off the biggest collapse since the 2025 Astros?

Sad!

Shoutout to those dweebs in Oilers jerseys. Got to watch their team get shut out in Houston, and they "trolled" the winners by wearing uniforms from a different city that honor a team best known for losing. Sounds like a fun afternoon

"Asked twice whether Espada will return, Brown avoided giving a definite answer."

Probably a game-clinching INT by Derek Stingley Jr., playing through an oblique injury. This man advised otherwise

Happy to see that Mizzou jumped the cheaters, but nothing is sufficient until the championship is revoked and they're banned from postseason play for years.

Texans-Titans in the fourth quarter: 3 missed field goals, 2 made field goals, 0 plays run from the red zone

The QB sneak is so lethal if you're willing to use it in those spots

Smart drop by Woody Marks because it would've lost yardage

The Texans should've been putting themselves in 2nd and 34 situations all year, tbh

2nd and 34, right where you want them

Titans signed Randy Bullock again?

That hit on Stroud was well after he released the ball, and yet no mention of that from the same analyst who was apoplectic about the AAS contact on Ward earlier in the game

Will be fascinating to see if Seattle fans hound Hinch. (Narrator: They will not.)

"How exactly did they achieve that dominance?" It's funny that this clown attacks McTaggart and other media members without addressing the most basic, fundamental question of all for her argument: Did the "cheating" help? Not hard to find out, if you actually care. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

It is week 4 and the Texans still can’t pick up a stunt. Bailed out by a Tennessee flag

"No position player prospects within Houston’s barren farm system are ready for prominent roles on the major-league team." Almost like they were severely punished (to the maximum extent, actually) and had zero high picks in multiple recent draft cycles

Lol at these dweebs lasering in on the AAS contact after moving on from the blatant Cam Ward fumble in about 2 seconds

If that's an incomplete pass, it's intentional grounding. Mind-blowing that football officials still can't grasp that concept