For fans of Texas culture, politics, sports and, well, the Lone Star State in general, today is a big day. Texas Monthly's revealed the nominees for the 2014 Bum Steer Awards. While you have to wait until next week to read the full report, TM did announce that 2013 was the "fourth-bum-steeriest year in Texas history."

So, who was named the Bum Steer(s) of the year?

Texas Monthly's steertisticians (using undoubtedly highly-scientific methods) honed in on Houston for 2014, lauding the Houston Astros, the Houston Texans and Lt. Gov. David "unruly mob" Dewhurst with a very special triple Bum Steer Award.

The Texas magazine notes that the winners were selected because of the "unfathomably horrible baseball team, a phenomenally bad football team [and] a lieutenant governor prone to embarrassing moments on the telephone."

(While he doesn't have an official share in this year's award, Ted Cruz did receive an honorable mention for being "prone to shutting down the federal government while reading nursery rhymes from the dais.")

Though the awards were announced just hours ago, Texas Monthly is already getting flack for its January 2014 awards cover depicting old Astros uniforms rather than the ones they wore the entire 2013 season.

The notoriously cheeky Texas Monthly Twitter staff responded to the criticism with:

Not to be outdone, the Bum Steer staff also gave kudos to Dallas for its bad behavior this year. The magazine says that while the city usually has Jerry Jones to blame for its Bum Steer kudos, this year Dallasites had no one to blame but themselves.