John Loner

@AdamSpolane Can’t have continued success when your developmental staff is getting poached every year. Also, I believe Crane cheated out on some of their contracts which caused a few to jet.

Last spring I asked Astros Assistant GM Gavin Dickey why the team has struggled to develop position players from their Latin American program

@AdamKinzinger Kirby Dr. flex.

Bragging about $4 gas is a new flex I’ve not expected

@LeftyTravis Another issue is that this team has no real quality at minor league levels that they can call up and fill the void when someone goes on the IL. This team was on a downslope after 2023, we just didn’t fully see it yet.

Gonna be a long post so buckle up. I understand the frustration surrounding the team. I understand the knee jerk reactions I'm seeing on the TL. This is not a good team. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we were ever meant to truly compete this year. You can blame Joe. You can blame Dana, but the buck stops with Jim Crane. If he did truly send down a mandate this year, that they would have to stay under and reset the tax, then what could we truly expect? Dana is hamstrung with a hard cap on what he could spend and Joe is hamstrung with the players Dana brought him. Injuries have for sure been a big concern and an issue that needs to be remedied sooner rather than later. Alas, I think this year what we're seeing now is pretty much what we can expect throughout the entire year. Mediocre baseball. Hard decisions will have to be made at the deadline on which direction this team wants to go. Jim will need to decide if Dana truly is his GM of the future, or if he wants to continue on with Joe. All while keeping in mind the upcoming draft and if we'll even have baseball next year. It's a horrible mess that I'm glad I'm not the one that has to make the decisions. I just feel for us fans that this is the product we get for the moment. 😢

@jannnelss I didn’t even have to look at your profile to know that you’re from Houston.

So Texas is the only place with feeder roads? Y'all don't have feeders?

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

@LHJoshuaWrites @InvestingAddict Rumor is that PEMEX already does.

@InvestingAddict lol that’s what they did in landman

I watched both seasons of Landman and know what this means. This is very bad.

@vikare06 90’s MTV was the best thing on.

This is peak animation when I mention peak animation

@anishmoonka @Cherelynn It was great movie and they did a really good job adapting the book.

@Cherelynn Agree, they fought for it

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@mymixtapez His real name is Kurt Jantz and his family owns Auto Trader.

New song “White N*gga” is currently trending and has social media going off. 👀

@DavidRHooper @SaraForTexLege @oheardintherapy Sorry, OG all the way.

@SaraForTexLege @oheardintherapy Big Schlotzky's fan here! The Original with no black olives.

Y’all. Discovery of WHAT?! I am a 45 year old mom who decided to run for office. I have a DWI on my record from when I was 19 and learned a really important lesson. Like what? You gonna pull up my old divorce records and validate my story that I left my ex because he beat me when I was pregnant? Wanna see if I really worked At Schlotzky’s when I was 15? Because I still have my name tag. What on God’s green earth are you trying to discover lmao? I’ve laid every single detail out for the world. With the exception of my place of employment. And that, my dear, is where you effed up. 😉

@Brian_196c @Nguyen_anime3 @saquon @mookiebetts @SHAQ @SnoopDogg I remember when Bill Maher was sued over saying that Trump’s mom fucked an orangutan. cnn.com/2013/02/06/sho…

@Nguyen_anime3 @saquon @mookiebetts @SHAQ @SnoopDogg Trump is projecting. His father was an orangutan.

Still going to golf with him @saquon ? Still going to the White House @mookiebetts ? Still think he’s “cool” @SHAQ ? Are you going to go visit him @SnoopDogg ? This is what he thinks of you 👇🏽

@SouthForkStro @michaelschwab13 Don’t disagree about Caserio and the OLine, but you don’t see Mills out there losing his confidence and started behind those lines before Stroud got here.

@michaelschwab13 That might be part of it but Nick Caserio and his budget Olines have destroyed CJ’s confidence and he’s lost his courage/ will to stand in the pocket and step into throws.

I truly think that when Stroud lost Tank Dell it completely changed his game. Dell as a deep threat was a game changer

@MS_Heavyarms @michaelschwab13 Same.

@michaelschwab13 I remember him being pretty average last season before Tank went down

@michaelschwab13 Not even close.

The Boutte catch felt like this

@BurgerGink @michaelschwab13 Totally agree it’s all those. Not balking you, I’m just tired of the OC talk while CJ’s position coach skates year after year.

@JTLoner @michaelschwab13 Yeah sure, everyone from GM to player development needs to be blamed for the terrible offense. Terrible O line, no run game, one good receiver, no TEs, bad QB

Texans could have easily won that game, no question. Unfortunately CJ Stroud lost this game. The front office needs to address this.

@RayRetiz @AdamJWexler Sure, for the league minimum.

@AdamJWexler How bout Casario throw a left curve and sign Kyler Murray after he gets cut by the Carnials would be a good wake up call and challenge for CJ next season

#Texans C.J. Stroud in postseason: 🏈 2025: 41-79 (51.9%), 462 yds, 2 TD, 5 INT, 5 fumbles (2 lost), 51.8 rating 🏈 Career (6 games): 117-194 (60.3%), 1438 yds, 6 TD, 6 INT, 2 fumbles lost 🏈 Passer rating by season (2 games each): 2025: 51.8 2024: 92.7 2023: 109.3

@BurgerGink @michaelschwab13 We going to toss any blame on the QB coach?

@michaelschwab13 a real fucking offensive coordinator might help

@JarrodMQuinn17 @AdamJWexler @SportsTalk790 ☝️this guy gets it.

@AdamJWexler @SportsTalk790 At what point is Caserio held accountable for the poor offensive personnel scouting?

#ImmediateReaction - the season is over postgame video. Stroud terrible, looked uneasy, skittish from the jump. Run game invisible. Super Bowl caliber defense, but season ends in divisional round again. No progress for #Texans, season ends in same spot for 3rd straight season.

@LanceZierlein Honest question: What is Jerrod Johnson doing to help Stroud when it comes to cleaning up poor decision making?