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Pablo

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  1. 11 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    So fun story on that: nearly a century ago, we had a Great Depression.  Many are saying it was the best Depression.  It came at the end of a half-century of nearly uninterupted Republican government.  Many people don't know that.

    Anyway--I digress.

    My family has had a few tracts in Bell County for a very long time.  I didn't really know how long.  I knew it was family land and that was it.  Cotton farming, mostly.  But Cotton is hard on the land; for the last 20 years it's been corn.  And corn doesn't make very much money.  So we leased the upper tract to a solar outfit to build a solar farm.

    A few months ago, Oncor came asking for an easement to run transmission lines across the lower tract.  There was some family discussion, but at the end of it we decided to go ahead.  There was some discussion about the fact that my grandparents had kind of envisioned that as the bug-out property.  Papa worked for the DOD and figured it might be good to have a place of last resort if the end of the world came about.  And these days, . . . .

    But in that discussion, I asked how it came about that the family owned this random property (or really set of properties) in Bell County.  And it turns out that my great-great grandfather was a soon-to-be-retired teacher in the very early 1930s, and as local farmers went bankrupt he would buy their tracts for virtually nothing from the local bank (which itself was about to (and ultimately did) go bust).  

    So yeah--we leased out that tract to Oncor.  It paid for my son's first car: a new BMW.  There's plenty left over for his sister's car in a couple years.  And along with it comes a lesson in family history.  And why the family's crest ought to feature a vulture.

    Some of my family likely knew some of your family, speaking as one who also had a grandpa who farmed cotton in that area.

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  2. Just now, tx 3 putt said:

    they're going to sit jake all week 

     

    Sad Anthony Anderson GIF

    and then say he has a strained calf

    and then a month later, say it didn't respond well and send him for imaging

    and then say it was a torn calf muscle, see you next year

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  3. attended tonights game, sat down in Paredes foul ball territory.   wasn't too far back from the agswin foul ball tonight.

    excellent pitching.

    Phils feel like a shell of themselves without Bryce.

    was great to get a W against Wheeler

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Scraps said:



     

     


    Wait another week and go to Astros series?

    Higher you are at sunset looks badass. They have the purple (i think) row that is the mile high line.

    Pregame the Jack Daniels bar in upper deck CF had deals....if its still there. Been about 8 years since I went there.

     

    sorry yeah, i plan to go to the Astros games in Colorado.  just got the dates mixed up.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    from yesterday ...

    Spencer Arrighetti could start throwing off a mound by the time the Astros leave for their next road trip on Sunday, Espada said.

    Welp at least our division sucks ass and the remainder of our schedule is one of the easiest.  

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  6. Did our docs strike again?  GM Brown with the mid game update on Spaghetti that he won’t be back until August because we have to be careful with him?  Must’ve been much more than his thumb. TK & Blummer didn’t even get to mention Yordan’s name.  Yeah yeah he’s so transparent.  Gtfo. 

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  7. 11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Yordan Alvarez's live BP session at the downtown ballpark is over and he planted one in the right field seats.

    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    interdasting, so he still has a functioning hand?

  8. Pit Room has been okay my last two visits.  Last time I went, the Wagyu Beef Rib was the tits.

    The brisket had been a little overdone and was dry.

  9. 51 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    This was great! I love Olivia! (Did I hear right in the vid that she's moved to Texas???)

    haha, yeah, I went back and confirmed.  Likely she moved to Austin as well.

  10. Josh Weissman went to Tejas (go to 5:34) in this video and didn't give it high marks for brisket.  Bonus points for having Olivia Tieds in this video who is now taking YT by storm. His Top 3 are Goldee's, L&L & Burnt Bean, which is pretty on par with what most seem to say around here and the interwebs.

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  11. Maybe Yordan got a 2nd opinion and its different than the Astro's doctors and Front Office is not amused with this situation either.

    We just want the big man back healthy.  

    At least we've found some offense.

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