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pepper brooks

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  1. I don't even believe the Ford Bronco exists. The thing was announced as coming back in 2017 or something. you telling me it takes them that long to produce an SUV on a truck platform from the company that has the top selling truck in America? I don't buy it.
  2. in a pinch on Sunday and was more or less forced to pick between Blood Bros and Goode Co for bbq. Obviously, went with Blood Brothers. I had ribs, brisket, sausage and some of their special of the day pork belly burnt ends. I have been pretty unimpressed with their que the previous times I have gone. YEsterday was much batter. Meat has more smokiness to it, and they are getting their ribs dialed in pretty well. Their sausage has generally been very good. It's not the greatest, but they do seem to be getting better. WIsh champ was still close, or Feges had reasonable hours, or pit room was on my side of 59.
  3. kegales, I think.
  4. sausage is almost burnt, and it looks like they dragged that corn through a porn film set as a biological container.
  5. cool article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/autos-suvs/super-stupid-suv-showdown-porsche-vs-lamborghini-vs-jaguar-vs-bentley/ar-AAEl5gG?ocid=spartandhp
  6. that is one badass machine. Congrats and enjoy!
  7. no. it was that bad. damn near every scene was cringeworthy bad dialog, acting, etc. literally top 5 worst movies ive ever seen. My expectations were extremely low going in, and they blew them out of the water.
  8. Went to brunch at the new Loch bar in river oaks district last weekend. All the food was fantastic. Definitely will go back for dinner seafood driven place. They have all the van winkle bourbons available.
  9. Kiddo talked me into taking him to see stuber. Holy fuck. Everyone associated with this abortion should be deported to fallujia.
  10. I forgot we even had Joe Smith. Suspension is BS to me. You simply cannot put base runners in the position where they have no option to try an be safe. He appeared to try and avoid him, and Lucroy seemed to move into him. I do not think it was intentional on the part of either. just one of those things.
  11. I am not a fan of moving the mound back. I might be interested in seeing a study of splitting the difference on the mound, i.e. move it back one foot, BUT raise it back up a few inches too. that might be interesting to see in a test case.
  12. I am all for this 100%. They have the ability to get this right at an almost 100% rate. Not even the very best human umpires can get close to that. As a former tall player who often got wrung up on pitches mid shin and away, I welcome anything that makes this more accurate. Would love to see the high strike called more, and the low strike actually be within the stated range rather than mid shin.
  13. I got mine a drop 5 Cat 8 Marucci aluminum alloy yesterday for summer workouts. He cracked his Demarini CF Zen -8 USSSA version on Tuesday. The new USSSA CF isn't out until August 1 so I bought him one size up and drop 5 to train, build strength, and have a bat he cannot crack to use for practice. He cracked/shattered 8 bats last year. the one he busted on Tuesday was a replacement of a replacement of a replacement. Demarini usually will replace 1 bat, but they made an exception on this one. He had a nice CF Zen Custom in -10 that he cracked last summer. He got a replacement, and cracked that one literally on his 3rd swing with it. I called them up, and they agreed that was absurd so they offered to replace it again while recommending he go to a drop 8 that would hold up better. It did. He made it through last fall and spring tournament ball with it. It was a great bat. He hit 6 bombs with it in 10 tournaments. not bad. IT is frustrating how delicate their bats are, but damn if they don't have great customer service, warranty, and of course those things are freaking rocket launchers.
  14. I think we only had 7 or 8 in WU majors this year, and one kid hit 5 of those (he used wood 33/30).
  15. Doesn't seem to. We have two pretty nice wooden bats as well. They're great when hit dead on the screws, but any mishit is terrible. They're like the baseball version of hitting the old Hogan Apex blade golf clubs. We did have one 12 year old in our league this year who had to use wood. They didn't make a USA bat in anything bigger than 32. This kid swung a 33/30 which is what I used in pro ball! He led our league in home runs, but the kid is an absolute beast. At 12 years old he looks like an D1 defensive end.
  16. Easton bought Combat and incorporated their barrel tech into the last great bat Easton made which was the 2017 Mako Beast XL. My then 9 year old could take it out of the yard with that thing.
  17. Heard today that for 2020 they will tweak the USA bats. I don’t know if that is true or not, but it was what I’d consider a decent source. I hope that is the case. We’ve run the freaking gauntlet on USA bats trying to find a food one. In 2018 we started with the Easton ghost x. That was a f*cking turd. My god that bat sucked. Canned it way before the season started. Got a USA axe. It was shit. Settled on the Mizuno Ghost and it was good until he shattered it halfway through all-stars last year. Picked up a Demarini cf zen USA to finish off the season. It was his favorite. 2019 we started with the 2019 Demarini cf zen in 31/21. It was good for about 1,000 swings and then went stone freaking dead. Wasn’t cracked but you could absolute nut one and it would go nowhere. He then Used his 2018 Demarini from last year. It was good for about 1,000 cuts and the same thing, just went dead as hell. Bought a Louisville 919 and it was great, but it will crap out early next season. These things are all some version of dogshit. I’m convinced Easton will never make another decent bat. They’ve conceded the composite tournament bat market to Demarini. Marucci owns the aluminum/alloy market. Easton’s tournament bats are pure trash and their little league USA bats are worse. Anyway, I hope they relax these things a bit. They don’t need kids playing 46 foot mounds using tournament bats, but the shit sticks they now use are killing the game. Find a happy medium. Fingers crossed this news is true.
  18. yep. That was the year district for majors was at Westbury. That was the time our team that ultimately won district had beaten post oak to send them to the losers bracket to face our other west u team. Post Oak had zero pitching available. I mean nothing for the game the next day. Our team had some. This is now at the semi finals game where the winner would advance to the finals and have to beat us twice. Somehow, for a tournament that had been being played for 6 days at that point had mysteriously forgotten to schedule umpires. Both teams are there waiting to play, no umpires show. Someone ahem, "forgot" to schedule them. We filed a protest saying the pitching should be frozen as if the game would be played that day. of course, they ruled against us, it rained the next day, they deemed it unplayable, and the following day all their pitching was back. They beat us to make it to the finals. That extra day ended up helping our team that was awaiting their opponent, they got all their pitching back, and took down post oak in the finals. They then went 0-2, bbq in the regional held in pearland that year.
  19. we won district two summers ago too (the will ryals team). This would have been summer 2017. That was a really good team, but lost out to pearland who then lost to the great Lufkin team at state (which we hosted at south campus that year).
  20. pearland is big enough they are "two leagues" like WULL. I think more of their better kids are not really playing little league anymore. theyre just not as strong now as they used to be. not sure if it is an overall talent deficit, or more of them are simply going the tourney ball route. We play some damn good Pearland teams in USSSA ball, and those guys have mentioned most kids are playing tourney ball. no idea if that is fact. The teams they send out to BBUSA in our age group are damn solid so maybe there is some validity to it.
  21. my son pitches with the dad of one of the tampa bay kids. his other son has signed with baylor. great guy. You probably know the woodcox boys who are just dominate type kids. one is in seniors this year. The older one has signed with tech. We simply do not have enough top tier talent to split it and compete with the other bigger leagues who have one team in the 9-12 age groups. we never have enough quality pitching depth to make a serious run in district due to that set up. If we did one team we could do it. post oak as roughly the same registration, but they do not have tee ball so they stay just under the cut line for being required to do two teams. they have a great program over there. won district in majors again this year. beat what many thought was our slightly weaker team in the finals. turned out our alleged weaker team was better, but again, ran out of quality pitching in the finals. if we had one team we would have had 3 more arms available. Our group of 11 year olds is probably the deepest and most talented group we have had in a vey long time. If we could do one team with them in majors we'd be heavy favorites, and would have a legitimate shot at Williamsport.
  22. Yeah. Most of our kids keep playing and we go from having to field two equal teams in majors down to being able to have one team. We pretty much own the 13-15 space in Texas east section. Most of the teams are completely terrible.
  23. when I spent 5 minutes in pro ball in 1990 the ball was very different than it is today. it actually had seams on it. The avg fast ball was 86 mph, and there were very very few guys who threw over 94. in my short stint I faced one guy who threw 95, and I knew there was no f*cking chance I could hit it. I couldn't even see the damn ball. I was good to about 93-94, but anything over that was like a line of demarcation for my eyesight that I simply couldn't pick up. I love where the game is today, honestly. more offense, more round balls, wound tighter, lower seams, and thrown harder = more offense and more entertaining. Watching those guys at the HRD last night was a freaking show.
  24. the intermediate, junior and seniors from our league are all still in, and expected to go pretty far. Once we are allowed to go to one team vs two all-star teams we pretty much dominate district, state and sectionals. We regularly send teams to the world series in Bango, Maine in the 13-16 age group. We have a kid in seniors throwing mid 80's.
  25. les miles is their coach. of course he was coming back. that was never in doubt.
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