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  1. 1 hour ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Someone followed them from NO and settled a score was my thinking here.

    It was reported the three men were gang members looking to rob people to raise bond money to get their gang buds out of jail.  The New Orleans men at the Grotto restaurant were wearing a bunch of "bling", in full view, and were sitting outside in front of the restaurant as to why they were seen and targeted.  Apparently, it's fairly common for gang thugs to rob people to raise bond money to get their boys out of jail.  

     

     

  2. 10 hours ago, Tom said:

     

    Agree with all except Skyfall.  Skyfall is up there with the all time best Bond themes.

    I can't even remember the Spectre theme. It was terrible and completely forgettable.

    Goldfinger, Thunderball and OHMSS.  

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  3. 19 minutes ago, bullet said:

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2021/08/30/big-12-expansion-already-has-list-applicants-2016/5647450001/

    Trammel talks expansion

     

    "The Big 12 is back in the expansion business. The beleaguered conference will not need to draw up a list of potential candidates. 

    That list already exists. 

    The Big 12’s infamous 2016 expansion process, during which the conference asked for applications from prospective members and interviewed at least 11 schools, gives the league more than a jumpstart....

    Trammel thinks BYU, UH, Cincinnati, SMU, UCF, Boise and Memphis are likely to be in the lead.

     

    Sucked then, sucks even more now....

  4. 55 minutes ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:

    Halloween in Houston.  This is generally when it feels "nice" again.  September fools the newbs in thinking that the cool down starts, but it seems September can be as brutal, or worse, than August.  Then comes October and the girls bust out a sweater because the low is 67. Starbucks makes a strong appearance while highs are 88-90 still.  Love this city from November through April though.  Especially, Nov to Dec.(*)

    * - Except last February.....

  5. Just now, SydneyCarton said:

    For another spell it was a California Pizza Kitchen too, I believe.

    I think I spent a St. Patty's day back when it was still Birraporetti's, one of the last years, drinking green drinks in that parking lot. 

    Birrapiretti's on West Gray was one of my favorite places.  Very sad when it closed.

  6. 51 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    I'll just say that I didn't do enough bar crawling in Houston when I first moved here in 1989.  Got married in 1992 and that was that.  Don't know many (any) of these places.  

    Went to Marfreless for the first time in the 90s.  Let's just say it held up to its storied reputation....

  7. 39 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

     

     


    Yes. It’s just west of Lockwood where it goes over the tracks. I have some protest photos from last year regarding the whole situation.

    Hell, I should just dump all my Houston as fuck photos in here.

     

     

    You need to publish a coffee table book of your photos.  They all remind me of iconic Texas Monthly photos.  

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  8. 6 minutes ago, Snacks said:

    I still love it... for some reason.  Probably because I don't go places often.

    Like any big city, there are some good areas and bad areas.  But it seems it's nearing 50/50 now.  

    Definitely love this city too.  Great areas and places, especially restaurants.  

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  9. 6 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Got my antibody test back. Pfizer. Second shot on 01/19/2021. Third shot 08/17/2021. Tested on 08/23/2021.

    Out of Range. >2,500. Outlier because of booster. But I will be able to track it over the next 6 months. No prior COVID infection.

    Lambda says hi....

  10. 1 hour ago, Welch said:

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    Courtesy of Mike’s Weather Page.

    Most seem to be trending more north/east.

    Euro had been pointed towards the middle Texas coast, now it’s Louisiana.

    GFS had been northern Mexico, now lower Texas coast.

    Just heard (TWC) if it hits south Texas, it will sit and not go anywhere.  

     

     

     

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  11. 5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    Are they really? Now subtract the eyeballs they got for the Texas and OU games, re-average, and tell me what their average viewers per game are? If they're still that impressive, I'll fuck right off. But I'm guessing removing 6 million eyeballs from their season and dividing by 2 less is going to be a disproportionate hit. You don't get to average in the Sooner and Horn games anymore. 

    Bingo.

  12. 1 minute ago, Tex-19 said:

    I can't remember the exact numbers but someone posted TV viewer numbers and Ok St was in the top 25, which would definitely be top half of the PAC, probably top 3rd or 4th. That means increasing the average so likely increasing the pie slices. Idk about the others though

    So, do you think many across the nation are going to mark their calendars to watch OSU vs Colorado, or OSU vs Arizona State or OSU vs Utah??

  13. 8 minutes ago, Gidnik said:

     

     

    I don't believe it.  Any remaining team doesn't increase the value of any of the Pac 12, Big 10 or ACC, or add national TV eyeballs.  I could see why the $$$ pie slices could remain the same with certain additions, but certainly wouldn't increase each slice of anyone's pie. 

    I don't think the Pac 12 will add any Big 12 members at all.  In that scenario, I have trouble seeing why adding it makes sense for the Big 10 adding any Big 12 members as well. 

    I also think this alliance is just a knee-jerk reaction.  They haven't even worked anything out yet.  

    Just IMHO.

     

     

  14. 33 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Joe Cook

     

    The proposed “Alliance” between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 will become official at 2 p.m. ET today.

    While there is a non-conference scheduling component to the agreement, do not expect those details to be fleshed out today. Due to existing contracts and a lack of certainty surrounding the expansion of the College Football Playoff, those details will have to wait.

    Today’s announcement, which will reportedly involve speeches from ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff, is largely a confirmation that the three leagues share common principles and will work together in the future.

    “The main thing to expect today is a public acknowledgement of common values between the leagues and alignment around many topics affecting athletes and schools,” ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg tweeted Tuesday morning.

    Which conferences stand to benefit the most from the agreement?

    “The Pac-12, of the three leagues, is most engaged on alliance and may make individual adjustments (i.e. reducing 9 league games to 😎 sooner than later,” Rittenberg added. “Several people have told me the Pac-12 is ‘driving this.’”

    The Pac-12, who is at a geographic disadvantage when it comes to television viewers and who has had just two teams make the playoff in its seven-year history, stands to benefit most from the agreement. Additionally, the Pac-12’s media deal with Fox and ESPN ends in 2024, and adding games with these conferences will add value.

    The ACC, which has juggernaut Clemson but has lacked a second contender since Florida State’s run in the early 2010s, could use a few more high-level games.

    As On3’s Eric Prisbell pointed out, the ACC is “uniquely positioned” in the Alliance.

    “It neither produces the revenue of the robust Big Ten (distributing an industry-leading $54.3 million to each school) nor seeks national relevance like the Pac-12 (which has just two College Football Playoff berths in seven years),” Prisbell said. “And amid a landscape in which multi-billion-dollar media-rights deals fuel college football’s engine, the ACC possesses the media rights deal unlike the others.”

    The ACC has a television deal with ESPN through 2036 that pays $17 million to each of its member schools each year. That payout is the lowest amongst the Power Five schools.

    If the ACC can schedule more neutral-site games with teams from the Big Ten and the Pac-12, the idea is to have them broadcast on Fox instead of ESPN.

    “The goal is to increase the value of the league without necessarily increasing its size, and creating more premium inventory is a step in that direction,” Prisbell said.

    Big Ten in great shape regardless

    Of the three conferences, the Big Ten is in the best shape on its own, but the move is a long-term decision. The Big Ten’s media rights deal expires in 2023. From the scheduling perspective, adding premium games with brands like Clemson and USC cannot hurt.

    As previously noted, the scheduling details for the alliance will have to wait.

    “Scheduling [out-of-conference] games *could* bring some $ but think of the logistics for ACC teams,” ESPN’s David Hale said. “Some already are scheduled out to 2026-27. If there’s not a serious $$ component to The Alliance & they’d have to buy out at least 1 opp per year, it’d cost teams a few million. What’s upside?”

    Hummm....I seemed to have missed exactly where the rest of the Big 12 fits in with all of this.

    I'm sure it's in there somewhere....I'll go back and read it again more carefully....  ;)

     

     

  15. 11 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    There are some nice spots on that corner but if you get out and walk around Westheimer at Fondren is sketch as fuck....A friend of mine has this belief that it is the hottest spot in Houston, literally. It's so surrounded by concrete and asphalt and bathed in exhaust its about ten degrees hotter there than what the weatherman says. All up and own Westheimer from the Galleria to bumfuck there are hidden colonies of bums and those apartment complexes are hives of scum and villainy, along with some nice hardworking immigrant families. It's happy hunting ground for Houston's Gypsies and their wobbly wheel tricks and other scams; sugar babies prowl the steakhouses. About half the time you are tootling around there oblivious somebody's got their eye on you to see what you might be good for. 

     

    Sounds like something Joe Friday would say at the opening of a Dragnet episode....

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