Hornius Emeritus

Heather Thomas and Lee Majors.

I am watching The Wire for the first time and am just about through season 3. They killed Stringer? Holy crap.

Well, they did whip up on the Belgians in the 1960 Sub-Saharan Africa Championships.

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The Congo is roughly 3.5 times bigger than Texas.

Oregon always leads big ... until they visit Texas. 😃

Well, the Congo's rainforest is larger than the state of Alaska and second only to the Amazon.

Yeah, but Haller got the last laugh. Weaver died in 2013 and Haller in 2022. From Weaver's Wiki: Weaver never got along well with umpires. Palmer described their relationship: "Earl Weaver hated umpires with every fiber of his win-or-die being. He yelled at them. He screamed in their faces. He kicked dirt on them. He tore up rule books. He taunted and tortured them."[20] Weaver was ejected from games at least 91 times during the regular season (98, according to one source)[21] and several more times during post-season play. He was ejected from both games in a doubleheader three times. He was twice ejected from games before they even started, both times by Ron Luciano.[22] Luciano alone ejected him from all four games of a minor-league series and eight games in the majors.[23] Sometimes, even after Weaver had been thrown out of a game, he would phone the Oriole dugout to tell the coaches what moves to make.[24] He also received four multiple-game suspensions. He was well known for the humor that often accompanied his ejections. During one particular tirade with an umpire, Weaver headed to the dugout screaming, "I'm going to check the rule-book on that" to which the umpire replied, "Here, use mine." Weaver shot back, "That's no good—I can't read Braille."[25] He once told an umpire that he could appear on What's My Line? wearing his mask, chest protector, holding his ball/strike indicator and still nobody would guess he was an umpire.[21] Weaver had a penchant for kicking dirt on umpires, and for turning his cap backwards whenever he sparred with umpires in order to get as close to them as possible without actually touching them.[26] His rivalry with Luciano was legendary, to the point where the AL rearranged umpiring schedules for an entire year so that Luciano would not work Orioles games. A year later on August 26, 1979, in the third inning of the opener of an Orioles-White Sox doubleheader at Comiskey Park, he ejected Weaver who then publicly questioned Luciano's "integrity" and received a three-game suspension.[22] Weaver once derisively called Luciano "one of the few umpires that people have paid their way into the park to see."[27] Marty Springstead was one of Weaver's least favorite umpires. On September 15, 1977, in Toronto, Weaver asked Springstead to have a tarpaulin covering the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen area removed; the tarp was weighted down by bricks and Earl argued his left fielder could be injured if he ran into the bricks while chasing a foul ball. When the umpire refused to order the Blue Jays to move the tarp, Weaver pulled the Orioles off the field. The umpire declared a forfeit, the only forfeit in Orioles history. On another infamous occasion, in Cleveland, Weaver stormed to the dugout and returned to the field with a rulebook in his pocket. "Don't take that book out or you're outta here," Springstead warned. Weaver pulled it out anyway and was ejected.[28][29] After that game, Weaver said of Springstead, "He's a terrific guy...He's just not a very good umpire."[28] One of Weaver's most infamous tirades came on September 17, 1980, in a game against the Detroit Tigers. First base umpire Bill Haller, who was wearing a microphone for a documentary on the daily life of an MLB umpire, called a balk on Oriole pitcher Mike Flanagan. Weaver charged out of the dugout and began screaming at Haller, who was already angry at Weaver for publicly questioning his integrity by suggesting he be prohibited from working Tigers games in 1972 because his brother was the Tigers' backup catcher at the time.[23] After Weaver was ejected, he launched into a profanity-filled argument in which he accused Haller of blatantly calling the game out of the Orioles' favor. He also accused Haller of poking him in the chest, and after Haller denied doing so they called each other liars.[30] Weaver's contempt for umpires was often mutual. One night in 1973 Weaver threw his cap to the ground and began a vehement argument with Luciano. Luciano's crew-mate Don Denkinger walked over to Weaver's cap, stepped on it with the sharp cleats of both shoes, and slowly twisted back and forth

Tadej's 6:41 advantage is the biggest advantage at this stage of the race in decades. The only thing that will stop him is injury.

I mentioned this on its own thread, but if you want to laugh your butt off, watch "Chop and Steele" on Tubi. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chop_and_steele

That's some pretty good stuff re: Dorian Brew and Smith Orogbo. I was impressed with Orogbo in Gerry's interview. Hard to understand Sanchez not even looking at Texas but c'est la vie.

I am not sure why you would remember that, since it is not true. Santa Anna had his leg blown off 3 years after the Battle of San Jacinto, in the pastry war with the French. It was replaced with a wooden leg, which was captured in 1847 during the Mexican-American war. But Texans did not capture it. An Illinois regiment did, which is why it is now in a museum in Illinois.

Holy crap ... Tadej put his stamp all over the Queen stage on Sunday. He passed Quintana there at the end and just rode away from him. He didn't even look like he was breathing hard on that 20% grade. Four stage wins. He doubled his lead in the GC.

I am probably a heretic, but I prefer the Four Roses small batch to the single barrel.

Translation: we only have one million dollars and I thought it would be better to spend it on some other guys.

Only Fans, 1957 version.

NSFW, obviously.

I heard he is dirty.

I just hope that efforts like today aren't burying Pogocar's chances against Vingo in the tour. Only 10 riders have won the Giro and the Tour, the last being Pantani 26 years ago. I'd really like to see a Tour that goes down to the wire.

AI will be the death of us all.

There is a ghost town in the Texas Panhandle named Glenrio, Texas. It's on the old Route 66, right where Texas and New Mexico meet. If you look at this photo, Texas ends and New Mexico begins where the pavement changes color. It's pretty desolate there. But that white building, the only structure? That's the Glenrio smoeke shop in New Mexico. You can legally buy all the marijuana, gummies etc ... that you want right there, within about 150 yards of Texas. Texas is so dumb.

Yep. If Moore and Ffrench want to build their brands, what better place to do it than the most valuable brand in college football?

Not that I ever really did understand, but I am at a loss as to what's happened or what's happening. I have no frame of reference. I'm like a child who wanders into a movie ... It appears there are a bunch of new longhorn-related recruiting podcasts or YouTube shows or whatever you want to call them and the audience has been so fractured that, among other things, this recruiting board is dying.

Man, Julian Alaphilippe just hammered Mirco Maestri with about 12 kilometers left, didn't he? As soon as I saw Julian go and Maestri toss that water bottle I said "it's over." Maestri is just too big to stay with Alaphilippe on steep hill like that one.