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  1. 18 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    csb/ As a kid at Wrigley or watching at home on WGN, I used to wonder why Harry would 'disappear' for the middle 3 innings of each game and usually Dwayne Staats or somebody else would come on with Stoney.  I figured it was because Harry was old.  But he was just in his late 60's which isn't that old for a baseball broadcaster.  One game, my dad says I'm old enough to go get my own hot dog and soda by myself.  So I'm walking up the ramp and in the mezz level during the bottom of the 6th, this door to this little windowless room opens.  And it's Harry coming out, and there's about 6-8 empty Budweiser beer cups at this little table with a folding chair and TV.  That was his green room.  That's what he did during those innings.  

    In 2008, can't remember our opponent in Regionals at Disch-Falk (to tie it back to Texas baseball).  I'm sitting under a tree with a guy who used to post on HF & Shaggy.  And I'm telling him about growing up listening to Harry and how it's been 10 years since he died.  And out of the corner of my eye, one of my favorite Cubs and Longhorns is walking towards us.  Keith Moreland (I think he was doing 1300 at the time, maybe LHN color, dunno).  Anyway, turns out my buddy used to date his daughter in college or after college (he was married to another woman at the time).  But Keith walks up and says, "You guys talking about Harry?"  And he knew my friend obviously from when he was banging his daughter.  But I tell him I musta seen him play at Wrigley 50 times as a kid.  I was actually headed back to Chicago a few weeks later for a guy I grew up with there and Keith gives me his info and says he'll hook us up with tickets.  And he tells me a great story about some fundraiser in the mid 80's he did with Harry.  And then they go out afterwards with Bob Dernier and got cut-off at a bar on the North Side, which is not easy to do in Chicago.  He had a couple of other doozies about Harry that I can't remember, but Keith was so genuinely happy to reminisce about Harry.  Usually players find the broadcasters annoying or just somebody to deal with to get on to the next thing, but all the Cubs players I ever met loved Harry.  I bet many Longhorn players feel the same way about Moreland and Craig Way.  A few times a year, I pull up that Budweiser video "For You, Harry" when the Cubs finally won the Series a few years back.  Gives me the chills the way Craig Way called the winning moments in Omaha for us over the years.  There are some guys who love the team.  There are some guys who love the game.  And then there are the select few that love both and actually know what they're talking about and you can hear it in their voice.  May we hear that again one day soon in Craig's in a little place called Omaha.  

     

    I'm not surprised, given how many times I heard Harry slobber, "It'sht time for athnother Budth!" and even these nuggets about Harry as well.  Lulz.

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  2. 6 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Miller was Pierce’s right hand guy. He was one of the few in the circle of trust and has been with him for over a decade.

    Was more a culture guy than anything specifically with hitting or fielding or whatever.

    He's still listed on TexasSports as on the coaching staff.

  3. 7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    These dudes are bad. How many errors is that?

    Their live stats say only 1 little-red-riding-hood error, which is Bullshit because there's at least 2 errors from the dropped keystone-cops left-center fly ball in the 1st, followed by a throwing error on the blown-blind-ump out call at 3B, that was reversed on review, because it wasn't even close.

  4. Grand Salami for Galvan!

    This ESPN+ broadcast "Gus" whatitsface fuckstick "color commentator" needs to shut his piehole telling everyone his strategies to "spoil Texas pitching" for the rest of this weekend into mid-week games this next week. 

    This goddamned jihad Bullshit is why we are SO HAPPY to end the Gravy-Train and leave these Shits behind, Forever!

    Enjoy Oblivion, Fuckfaces!

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  5. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    737 Max 8 gear collapse in Houston this morning:

    United-Airlines-Boeing-737-MAX-8-suffers

    I gotta tell ya, the execs at Boeing prolly oughta visit a curandero to enlist his curse-removal services, because....someone definitely put a curse on Boeing.

    Did some voodoo shaman perform a curse ritual and point an animal bone at the Boeing HQ in Arlington, VA?  Cursed!  Lulz.

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