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  1. 2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    The Rice alumni and fan obsession with hiring Berkman is wild. Forget politics, the guy doesn't deserve a D1 head coaching gig just because he was a MLB all star. He seems to actively be avoiding actual college coaching and hoping someone will just hire him to a head spot. Contrast that with Tulowitzki's approach.

    Berkman was the hitting coach at Saint Thomas this season, he has his much head coaching experience is Tony Gwynn did before San Diego State.  Berkman is mentioned as in the mix at Rice ,but he's likely going to take the HBU job( a much better cultural fit). Theres no surprise that Braggas gone, some surprise it was now.

    As mentioned Hallmark has a lot of support from former players and some donors ,Again with Berkman theres a chance maybe as hitting Coach. Childress was unexpected but from what we hear the is mutual interest 

     

     

     

  2. 13 hours ago, torre said:

    Agree !

    Are you familiar with the Rice program ?    Does the AD control, alumni, Berkman, anyone or there divisions  ?      Good for the State if they return to prominence.

    Our resident Owl,  @OWLVIS had some health issues.    Hope he is doing well.

    Thank for the thought, I'm improving but as with a stroke it's very slow progress. 

    As to the issue at hand. The falloff with baseball preceded Bragga, and it was predictable. He wasn't a fit  to the culture. The donor base wanted a Rice guy and those that fit the criteria either weren't available ( Piece) or lacked enough experience ( Hallmark) or the PC police would object ( Berkman) . Add Childress in the mix because he's proven and available  now might explain the suddenness of the move. Or it could be an assistant that they had their eye on and the AD feared the window was closing.

     

    They need to get this right, the frmr players seem to rallying to Hallmark/Berkman. Maybe Petite joins as pitching Coach

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  3. 13 hours ago, Lobo said:

    FWIW, someone told me about 10 years ago that he and some colleagues felt, that if they could get some local help, they could make an MLB franchise work in Austin-San Antonio.  With the stadium somewhere in between.  This was also during yet another rumored phase of expansion for MLB.  This man has strong ties to Texas (particularly the City of Houston and the University of Texas System).  I spoke with him 2+ years ago and he had changed his tune.  They felt that a city-centric stadium would make the most sense (somewhere near Central Austin, but not the Domain) and that relocating a struggling franchise (TBR, PIT, MIA, KCR, MIL, CIN) was the preferred route rather than wait 10-15 years for another expansion phase.  He hasn't said a word about it again...but he should know...he owns a large chunk of the Washington Nationals.  

    FZ?

  4. 30 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    One of the Riciest things ever is that Larry McMurtry is so strongly associated with Rice (one of its top 5 most famous alumni, easily) but could not get his undergrad there (because of math; he did get a Masters there), and also that the school now has a McMurtry residential college....which is named after one Burt McMurtry, no kin to Larry. It's like of New Orleans named their airport after Louis Armstrong, obscure parish commissioner, rather than the jazz superstar. It was only today that I learned that about McMurtry College. 

    Yeah ,Rice mathematics has taken many a lesser mind but none greater that McMurtrys . I know a few older Alum that recall drinking at Kays with him when he was teaching. The old Texas shaped table there had all the Mercury astronauts names scrawled into it .When I would drink there i was easy to imagine them or a drunk Dave Ward at the bar.

    Well didn't have the imagine Dave

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  5. He just wrote " Texas women" so well. And not just Jacy although who of us  haven't  known a Jacy. But others in countless books. That  can shoot a gun, skinny dippin' getting drunk, and washing up to wear an evening gown all in the same day kinda gals that are as Texas as BBQ and two-steppin

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  6. On 3/19/2021 at 2:28 PM, Gourmand said:

    You koala brains spinning the idea that the Texans had something to do with this clearly haven't thought this through. This story is bad in every way and helps absolutely no one (except maybe Tyrod Taylor heh). 

    I read six of the complaints filed and I think it's safe to say Watson is done as a Texan. Dude is a weirdo massage fetishist who sexualizes it on the regular and is probably going to be writing some big ass checks. 

    unless the contract has a morals clause and allows the Texans to void, and get rid of a player that refuses to play for them thus saving face.

    I tell you the front office IS that sick.

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  7. They need to do a bowfinger sequel with Kit desperately trying to get back in the game using his brother Jeff Jefferson who is now an international star in Daisy is leading the me too movement bowfinger wants to make a strong woman movie  to get kit back in the game. for his misdeeds Mind Fuck Church attempts to use the movies to cover its members  philandering ways ..getting the old crew on the same team

     

    Can totally have fun with Hollywood hypocrisy keep the thing that made Bowfinger great

     

     

    can end when Bowfinger manages to film his film instead of Around mind fucks bloated Bullshit with separate filming, hidden cams catching studio heads in the act of wierd sex / political hypocricy ... at the premiere slips his movie in  and the Directors cut is a hit

  8. Rick went to New England Music Conservancy with my ex' wife's oldest brother   its not like i know him They and a friend played at our Cape Cod reception summer after the wedding. When I first saw his videos I wondered why he looked so familiar,  wish I had paid more attention at the time, I would have asked him questions

     

     

    now the ex's family hates me and I hate to bring it up and ask him a question

  9. On 1/28/2021 at 11:56 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

    Tears of joy and relief tonight.

    FMLA and short term disability insurance approved. I'm damned good at my job when I'm sane, but the med cocktail that's been working for three years finally gave out under the combined strain of all the stresses of 2020. I won't cloak room it for you, or I'd likely trigger every damned reader in this room.

    I will say, in the spirit of unity, GHW Bush pushed through the single most impactful piece of mental health legislation ever to impact our family, so I can forgive him for a half dozen banana republic fuck ups from his days at CIA in the 70s. On a day like today, we can all raise a Clonazepam to the President who quite probably saved my family this winter.. God bless you, you randy old bastard.

    how long from initial request? I'm at 9 months since i filed , initially declined but everybody says the first one in always declined

    post stroke... btw FINALLY  got into therapy 2 week ago

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  10. I worked closely with the Harris County Houston Sports  Authority and was privy to enough  interactions with the McNairs.

     

    They are of the  prosperity gospel mindset, they think they are rich because they are more moral than others. And therefore the better you are morally the more successful you will be. Hence why Cal loves Easterby , " immorality" is why the rid themselves from Nuke, its why theyve made several personnel decisions  not just football.. its reached a breaking point and many inside the organization current and former just want to blow the whole thing up

     

    people have been fired for affairs, being gay even having a gay family members... when they left  they were given a generous pay out because the Texans have no problem spending$$. Much more to come

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