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  1. If somebody pries Hugh Freeze away from Liberty, that'll be Urban's next destination.
  2. (1984 was the year I moved in with my grandparents, so I played LL in Nashville and made it back to Houston for good in time for September.)
  3. That was the year my cousin Michael -- who lived with me and our grandparents and his mom, sister and our aunts in our shabby wreck of a mansion in the Museum District -- starting sneaking into the clubhouse. He was 8, and I was 14 The two of us would go like four hours early to games and I would catch foul balls in BP while he would sneak off with his little crew of Astro-hooligans and just kind of wormed their way into the clubhouse and stayed there for years....I think at first everyone assumed they were somehow connected to players and by the time they found out they weren't, of if they ever did, the organization just didn't care, because they hung around in there until the got bored with it years later. Michael ended up a pretty good player but one of his running buddies did him better by going on to become Andrew Friedman.
  4. I guess I missed how all this unraveled? Was it that the hit team was recognized on tape? That seems like a long shot given the crime was in TN....Or did they get a license plate or something?
  5. Correct on both counts. Dude was Lee.
  6. Similar story from my HS right before the UT frat incident...There may even have been some dudes involved in both episodes -- they came from the same circle of westside Houston boys. I knew the girl pretty well....the most infamous scene was how after the dude went to go take a leak, she was on video toweling herself off. She's fine now, well-respected mom in the community and such.
  7. Friend of mine's grandfather would mangle everyone's names and nicknames. Lopez was "El Smoko"
  8. I was playing shortstop for my LL team in Nashville and wore #10 in his honor -- I'd made the pick before he got beaned. Up until that year I'd been a mediocre little league player but I sat out the previous year because of grades and my dad took me to this rickety batting cage in this ramshackle old fairgrounds in Nashville day after day after day.....And then again right before the 1984 season started, by which time I had calluses on my hands and was incredibly dialed in to 75 mph heat, lol. And I crushed it that year -- unanimous MVP of the team, a terror on the basepaths and a slugger at the plate. I cannot thank my dad enough for taking the time to maximize the talent I had.....I played on for a few more years....I hit .333 every single year, with a pretty good OBP. I could handle breaking balls pretty well (thanks to wiffle ball) but when I hit the level when fastballs were touching 90 and coming in with movement, I realized I was not going to the bigs.
  9. Shouldn't the victims have said, "And if anything happens to us, my attorney will go to a safe deposit box in an undisclosed location and remove the dossier we've placed there for safekeeping. He will then hand over that dossier to a trusted reporter, and all your little secrets will be exposed...." Maybe for once these are two people who did not watch enough TV.
  10. I grew up ping ponging back and forth between Nashville and Houston...parents were from Houston but we moved up there for....reasons. Dad was an Astros fan but not hardcore yet because they had always been mediocre and he had been a Cardinals fan as a kid because of their tie with the Houston Buffs....So my earliest memories of MLB are of listening to the Big Red Machine on the radio out of Cincinnati. Joe Nuxhall was the color guy. Nashville is pretty much equidistant to Cincy, St Louis, and Atlanta, but those last two teams sucked in those days so Nasjvillle was kind of a lukewarm Reds town....It got hotter when they brought back minor league ball in about 1980 and the Nashville Sounds became the Reds AA club. The BRM was toast by then, though, and that was the year my grandparents starting taking me to games in the Dome/ They had season tickets up in the yellow section and I got in free. Ushers / ticket-takers didn't care -- if some seniors wanted to bring in a kid with them for free, that's just beautiful, that's America. Long way of saying I am staking out 1980.
  11. I was 17 or so and these dweebs in their 30s were talking about advanced stats and I was like, dude, 47 homers and 149 RBIs, or whatever. I now realize it was one of the dumbest selections of my lifetime.
  12. Bomar'd is near the end of this but the whole video is gruntling. I love everything about Bomar'd -- particularly hated player, savage but very clean hit from Robison, perfect bounce to a big DT who rumbles to the end zone with Keith Jackson on the call and Bomar rolling around dazed and confused.
  13. Aw man, I wish he would have done the Maceos....their story really does have everything, including the kind of doomed romance you need in one of these sagas. Rose Maceo's first wife ran off with another man and both were found murdered....Really hard to find details on that online now, other than it happened. I am sure it was just a robbery gone wrong. These things happen.
  14. I am seeing an eagle scream....and a flyover...oceans of aggy tears....
  15. Middle school on kickoff team I kept knocking the shit out of the guy who was blocking me so on the last kickoff the game he kind of backpedaled ten yards and then came charging at me. My friend's dad told me I knocked the chinstrap buttons out of his helmet....some hillbilly team in Tennessee so it was probably just a cheapass Rawlings helmet. A few years later I would try to repeat that feat against a linebacker for CE King....did not go so well for me, but at least I held on to the ball, lol. The first game I played after i moved back to Texas was against Channelview, whose freshman QB was like a slow Tim Tebow. He ran an option keeper and I came flying over from LB and took him on head to head....He had about 40 pounds on me but he went down and stayed down. And so did I. I was stuck in deja vu, laying there in the grass smelling the refinery stench, thinking I remembered that same exact moment...or was it in my future? That would happen to me again and again when I'd crack my heaad badly, once in bicyle accident but mostly in football. Somebody told me once deja vu is caused by a hitch between what you take in with your senses and your brain's ability to process it, and that makes sense. (But I used to also get it without a violent crack to my dome.) We played in a game like the one above -- little White kids against bigger Black kids in junior high -- and that happened to our star RB. That was the first severe concussion I was ever around. Our RB was just addled out of his mind on the sidelines for most of the second half. Looking back, I am surprised they didn't put him back in the game; today, he would have been hospitalized.
  16. Voters just get bored of writing the same name....not logical but that's the way it is. Bill James has said that nobody but Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle of Barry Bonds would have won MVPs for years at a stretch if the voters acted like Vulcans. Welch's Cy Young season was like Andre Dawson's MVP year in Wrigley.
  17. Dude is a mentally ill (probable) tweaker who just happens to be famous....these kinds of bitchmade "false report to a police officer" cases happen all the time under the radar and the orchestrator gets maybe a week in the pokey on a plea bargain with no fuss because they are not famous and it's not political, or if it is, the politics is limited to that ghetto. (All politics is local -- 'hood, barrio, trailer park.) The media did okay with it. Dem politicians did not. Sooooo tired of the outrage machine but it does seem that some lessons were learned during the UVA rape debacle.
  18. I'll take Oregon's 115-33 over our 83-70 since 2010 any day.
  19. Basically an offseason excuse to show a bunch of your favorite hits from years gone by. I think this would be called targeting even though it isn't just because the hit was so incredibly violent...Sometimes I think force of the blow gets the penalty whether or not the letter of the rule was violated. Clearly leads with the crown, but it is not head to head, and the concussion seems to come from the back of poor Joe Ferguson's head bouncing off the Silverdome Astroturf. Targeting, or not?
  20. It makes sense because Oregon's program has been successful for years while ours has not, so their decisions should be respected today. They plucked Chip Kelly from fucking New Hampshire and after two years as their OC made him head coach. Bold decision.
  21. I am glad for our sake that Oregon hired Lanning, but could someone please show me how his resume begins to compare to Traylor's? Bullet points: Played at William Jewell College. IDGAF about a coach's playing career, but there you have it. Three years as a position coach -- in high school. Two years as a GA for Todd Graham at Pitt and Az St One year as "on campus recruiting coordinator" for the Sun Devils Hired away to be recruiting coordinator and receivers coach at....Sam Houston State? Yes, Sam Houston State. GA at Bama for one year. Yes, a GA, this deep in his career. Three years at Memphis as inside LB coach / recruiting coordinator OLB coach at GA, rising to DC, and now HC at Oregon There is no way in hell we would hire a guy with resume like that...Maybe with good reason. But if a program like Oregon is bold enough to believe in a guy like that, as opposed to a more traditional resume, there should be no reason we should scoff at the idea of hiring a Jeff Traylor.
  22. ND is in no mood to hire another asshole after all those years with Kelly. For being so successful, there was very little if any outrage or sadness in South Bend when he bolted and something like euphoria in promoting Freeman. His next job might have to be somewhere a cut below what he's accustomed to. Urb'srep has taken some serious hits on and off the field so if he does come back it will in my opinion be at a second-tier power with no morals whatsoever. Auburn, aggy, Tennessee...somewhere along in there.
  23. Speaking of the Angels, and the Bandidos, remember this idiot? Not only did this Benesh guy defy the Bandidos for months, but the Hell's Angels leadership told him in no uncertain terms he was on his own... So a message was sent: As Benesh was walking out of Saccone's Pizza in Anderson Mill with his old lady and his two kids, a sniper's bullet literally blew his brains out. HIs entire skull had been blown to pieces. I feel bad for the kids having to see that, but damn, what a fucking moron. The feds cracked the case after they got a member of the hit team to snitch when they had him on a drug charge. Eventually all of this indirectly caused the downfall of the US president Jeffery Fay, under whose watch ties between the European and Australian chapters were severed. Fay was working on expanding into Central America at the time of his arrest....The idea of Salvadoran Bandidos is pretty nightmarish.
  24. He looks like Leonard Smalls just rolled up to tell him quit copying his style.
  25. Same I ruined the collector value of all of mine but it was worth it. I'd follow recruiting like a hawk in the local paper, and then I'd write in their school on that big double page with all the recruits listed by rank and position. And then also on the page with the Super Team. I started this hobby in 1984, continued through '88, and then after living elsewhere for nine years, picked back up in '97 and kept that run alive until 2011. It was depressing as fuck writing "AM" and "Colo" and "MIA" and "ND" and on and on next to so many of the names of the five-stars, and such a genuine honest-to-god thrill when the Good Mack came in and enabled me to put UT there instead. I continue buying one for my dad every year for Father's Day. As he lives in Nashville and Internets suboptimally, it is still a solid resource for him I wish more places ran that feature they'd do grading recruiting classes four or five years down the line. It was a cool little stroll down memory lane remembering all the busts (you remembered the stars w/o having to be reminded) and also teaches a valuable lesson. Winning NSD or coming close to it was no guarantee of future success, and Gary Patterson proved star rankings meant a shit-ton less than most people think .
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