pepper brooks

Pinkerton and feges are the only ones I’d go to assuming you can’t go to champs place. If you go at 11:00-11:30 you won’t have much line. I hit truth at 11:30 the other day. Line wasn’t long, and moved well, but the bbq wasn’t worth the minimal wait either.

I don’t own a restaurant so i guess the answer for me is yes. I only serve guests meat straight off the smoker that day. Of course, I rehear my own leftovers, but that’s a whole other deal. When I went to Houston bbq co they had very clearly served me very shitty reheated ribs. I think you can get away with reheating a brisket if done properly, I don’t think I’ve ever had reheated ribs that were decent. I’m not the biggest pork rib fan in the world to begin with.

I will put Jucy's in Longview up against anything anywhere. it's been fantastic for 40 years.

"i'll hav'a diablo sandwich ana docta peppa, and make it quick, im inna gotdayum hurry"

Whats the difference between michael Jackson and caviar? nothing. They both come on little crackers.

I finally got around to trying it. I had brisket, ribs, sausage. It was all well cooked, but the ribs and brisket were so bland. No salt, no pepper, no smoke. The meat was moist, but just void of any flavor at all. THe lack of salt and pepper just didn't allow the meat to shine in any way. My ribs were definitely extremely moist. So moist in fact they were basically just mush, and again just a staggering lack of flavor. the sausage was fine. It was the most flavorful thing, but not from the smoke. The sausage itself was made to be fairly spicy. If not for seeing the pits, and seeing smoke and smelling smoke I would swear the place was simply oven roasting those meats. I will grant they were well cooked. They just need to introduce themselves to salt and pepper. could do wonders for their food.

yep. you can coat it in tender quick for 10-15 minutes and have the most glorious smoke ring imaginable every time.

pretty much brisket on a stick, but done in 3-5 hours rather than 8-12.

thye have clear at the Astros play off games and if you're a member getting into the stadium is a breeze. not sure if they are going to have it for regular season, but they have had it for the playoff games. Problem is it's only one location near the diamond club entrance.

Meh...nobody liked old Comiskey, although I think most actually liked it better than the new POS they built to replace it, and nobody likes new Comiskey, and frankly, nobody really likes nor cares about the white sox one way or the other. They should move to Vegas.

I'd pony up for some pitching lessons to teach him the proper mechanics to preserve his power arm, and instruct him how to throw a curve and change up properly if he really wants to do it. I would then find a select team that won't blow up his arm. There are many different ways these things are run. Our 11U AAA team we have "Saturday" pitchers and "sunday" pitchers. we don't really care about what happens in the seed games so we have our back end guys throw those games. If we are the 8 seed playing the one Sunday morning we are fine playing the 1 seed early, using our best arm for that game, and then cruising as the games get easier since the 1 seed is gone. It has served us well, but we make sure everyone pitches. We have a paid coach who is given a directive on the goals of the team and given guidelines on how it should run. There is an oversight committee that makes sure the principles are being followed. we don't let kids get over thrown. We only take 11 to tournaments, nobody sits more than one consecutive inning, everyone plays an infield position for some time on Saturday, we only roster bat (never only bat 9 with subs), and then tighten things up on sunday where the best kids at positions play them pretty exclusively, and then outfielders rotate in and out. Everyone always bats on sundays too. It's reasonably well done. Parents don't bitch about playing time nor positions and a team atmosphere is fostered. It works. I have also seen it done really really poorly. Just find a good atmosphere and program if you're going to go the tournament team route and your kid is a pitcher.

we play select ball in the fall (my son is 11 and plays on an 11AAA team, and a 12U AA team), and Little League in the spring to keep a balance. Our Little League is such a huge part of our neighborhood you pretty much have to play because all the kids from the tournament team play Little League. Our Little League is one of, if not the largest in the country despite a relatively small neighborhood. I've seen all of what you described above. It's unreal. you always know when "baseball" guy is there. He has the requisite 55 pounds of beer gut, 100% has a goatee and some form of Oakley style shades to go along with his surly attitude and no fewer than 3 tattoos. They're usually pretty friendly after the game if they have won. If you get to where you can beat them, and our team beats those kinds of teams regularly, they absolutely disparage, belittle, and chastise everyone around them. Out at BBUSA in Houston what I have just described is the RULE and not the exception. It's even worse down south at Big League Dreams where you combine an even more league City redneck version of "baseball guy" with a full bar. We won't even play down there anymore. I once saw a dude give a kid (happened to be his son) a steal sign. Kid takes off to 2nd, batter hits a smashed line drive to the 1B who catches it basically standing on the bag to double the kid off. Keep in mind they're up on us by 6-8 runs. This is a team my son plays on so he can play up in age, not his normal team. anyway, dude absolutely goes batshit, ballistic bonkers on the kid to the point where after berating him all the way back to the dug and into the dug out, he took the kids bag out of the dug out, threw the kid against the fence, and made him sit outside and think about his mistake. What the mistake was, I have no idea. It's called baseball, and the coach is the dumbass that had a hit and run on, up big IN A SEED GAME. Here he is. For those who are not aware this is the ultimate "baseball guy".

hell most of ours don't even go for the ball. Lazy fly ball to left last night. Easy can of corn fly, but LF maybe would have had to move 10-15 feet. He just kinda sat there eyeing it as though someone else should call it and catch it. He finally decided he should maybe make his move, ran about 5 steps, stopped, and let the thing just hit the ground. Unreal.

no question worth saving.

if it makes you feel any better, our majors team of 11-12 year olds looks like most of them have never played before either. I don't get how kids, most of whom have played baseball for since they were 5, can be so fucking terrible 6-7 years later.

we are playing tonight. gonna be a cold MOFO. Hard to believe these kids are going to have any fun. Luckily we played our first game already and my son isn't available to pitch tonight since he pitched that one.

agreed

so torn on this whole thing. First and foremost there is little doubt in my mind that MJ was a pedophile. That said, why as young adults did these men lie about it in court on one case, and then the other one lie again as a full adult to protect Michael from going to prison? I guess it would seem they had not quite processed how wrong it was what was done to them. maybe their defense mechanism was to believe it was real love? Seems that way. Stockholm syndrome or something along those line? Then again, aside from MJ being clearly a weird dude are we inclined to believe them now with really no evidence other than their word which is clearly a 180 change from their previous sworn testimony? I am not saying they're not credible. They certainly appear to be. Then again, they seemed credible with their denials for all these years. They are skilled at lying about their relationship with Michael one way or the other. They were very credible in their defense of him and believable when they say he did nothing. Theyre obviously very believable in their new stories about the abuse. Again, this is not a defense of MJ. Any grown man sleeping in the same bed every night with children is at best, demented. He clearly paid some very handsome sums to make things go away. There is pretty clear evidence with the kid drawing his schlong that matched up with pictures taken by LEO, censors alerting him to people approaching his room, etc. Tons of evidence, tons of smoke, and likely a big raging fire. I do believe these guys were abused, but gosh their wild change in tune from a legal perspective would seem to leave "doubt". certainly many of the MJ fan boys are using the change as a way to exonerate Jackson. the whole thing is sick no matter what.

Meh...I cannot imagine my parents ever allowing me to do that. I grew up in that era as well. A bit older than these guys, but zero shot my parents would have ever allowed me to go hang out with and sleep in a bed with another grown man. zero.

this is just sad, disturbing and sick. I cannot even imagine letting me kid hang out with a grown man like that. just crazy the parents were ok with this, and didn't think it was odd.

going to watch and see.

I just do not get the galindo haters. The guy has a good voice, is a fan of the program, and clearly has a passion for his job and UT sports. No reason to hate on the guy the way our fans do. Is he perfect? no. who is? is he a good ambassador for our programs and energetic with broadcasts? Yes. He is. It's a tier 3 dedicated network. we aren't getting the ghost of Keith Jackson.

sorry. I am staying and going tomorrow too.

uhhhmmmm...did these dudes really slice that med rare brisket with the grain? deer lowered.

he's 11, so who knows. Probably because he thinks it is cool to go see someone who is "hot" at the moment. COuld be he's got a hard on for her. Who knows?