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  1. 52 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    We're still a week away from the juiciest matchups sub-6A, but this slate is pretty damn good:

    Harlan-Harlingen  Harlan won 10 last season and is still undefeated this year, so they're no joke.  Harlingen (8-3) is not as good as they've been, so this one looks interesting.

    Ryan-Abilene  IMO, Ryan turned their season around by moving a WR to QB, which livened up their offense.  Abilene has won 7 straight.

    Spring Westfield-Klein Cain  Westfield is quietly 9-2 with an 8-game winner since losing to NS.  Cain's D is weak, allowing 388 points in 11 games, which should make the difference.

    Lamar-Ridge Point  We're all still waiting for someone in the Houston area to take over as the perennial #3 power in the area behind Katy and NS.  Westfield once looked ready to do that, and both of these teams have knocked on the door.  Lamar has outscored opponents 613-49, but that's a reflection of a baby-soft schedule.  RP lost their first two to Westlake and Dickinson and haven't lost since, with nice wins over Hightower and George Ranch.  I think they pull this off.

    Forney-Lone Star  Two really good 1-loss teams.  Forney's only L was 13-7 to Longview, while LS lost their season opener to Texarkana back in August.

    Hamshire-Fannett -- H-F's only loss was to Silsbee.  The bad news is that Silsbee looks like the undefeated Gobblers' best comp.  

    Anna-China Spring  The Cougars went 31-1 in winning state the last two seasons, but they've slipped to 8-3 so far.  Anna looked like the best team in 4A for awhile, but seems to have coasted lately.   They're bigger and faster than CS, but I cannot imagine CS going down easy in this one.  

    Boerne-LaVernia  I'll call the winner of this one to win 4AD1R4.   LaVernia is strong and tough, as usual; the Bears lost back-to-back to Sinton and PLC, but have a huge 49-0 win over a good Beeville team recently.  Boerne's on a mission to return to Jerryworld after last year's choke in the title game and I can't pick against them.

    Let's throw in Lampasas-Alice!  The Coyotes are 9-1 with a win over Calallen, and their only loss to CC Vets on 9/1.  Lampasas is good, but probably a year away with their youth.  The two best teams they've played (Wimberley and Davenport) really smacked them around.  They won't be out-talented, but I think they'll get out-experienced.

    West Plains-Graham  Both 10-1.  The second-year program from Canyon lost their season opener 47-41 to 3A power Bushland, but has slaughtered everyone else.  Graham's only blemish is a 27-26 loss to Hirschi where everything went wrong.   This one could be REALLY good.

    Stratford-Stamford  I always get these two confused.  Undefeated Stratford (located NORTH of Dumas) are the Elks and they're usually the team to beat in this region, with a state title in 2021 and a couple of Jerryworld appearances in 2019 and 2017.  The Stamford (N of Abilene) Bulldogs have one loss (Hawley) and they had a great 3-year run at Jerryworld (2-1) back in 2011-13; that coach returned to Stamford this season after 8 years at Lubbock Monterrey, but unfortunately, his kid who dominated at QB did not.

    Edna-Jourdanton  Cowboys-Indians!!!  The Indians are 11-0, the 4th time they've won double figures in the last 5 seasons.  Enda has a 2-OT heartbreaker to Refugio, a 21-6 loss to Goliad and a disappointing rainout with Sinton on their slightly underwhelming resume.  But they got hot about this time last year and ended up winning the region, so I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see them send J-town home. 

    Hawley-Panhandle   Really excited about this one!  Hawley has a hell of a program, with a state title last season and a runner-up in 2021.  They've lost to Albany and Jim Ned this season, but there's zero shame in that.  Their program is built on defense, which should be handy with Panhandle coming in.  The Panthers have scored 629 points, including 294 in their 4 games since their only loss (34-22 to Stratford).  

     

     

      

     

     

    Great stuff, thanks, Beau!

    Hoping to find a link for the Forney-Lone Star tilt and the West Plains-Graham game.  And keeping a good thought out for Helobious and his Cardinals.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    It's the Prairie View A&M students that will be eating the cost. 

    You might be partly right, but it would be the entire system.  Running a diploma mill is difficult when you have to raise the costs of attending school.  Even as they stride proudly in the commuter school direction.

  3. 5 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

    The only coach of the last 4 they did not deify was Sherman.  So he did not get albatross and undeserved extensions like Frantastic, Kevin "The Cobra" Sumlin, or Don't Care, Got Jimbo.  Sherman also left their roster in really good shape.

    If they weren't Aggies, I'd be worried they might learn something

    Sherman always seemed to me to be a fish out of water there.  I really don't know a lot about him, but he seemed more normal.

  4. 48 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    He was my first favorite.  At the time, I thought he was really good because he made the All-Star team.  

    He wasn't a good hitter, but he was an elite baserunner and pretty good defender.  That used to play before teams caught up to the new realities of baseball.  I remember Gaylord Perry was with Cleveland and had a scoreless streak at work; he walked Nelson to open the game, who proceeded to steal 2nd, 3rd and home.

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  5. 45 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
    Dad took me to my first Rangers game in their inaugural season in 1972; I was 5.  I don't remember the date or the opponent, but looking at b-ref, I'm pretty sure it had to be May 21st against the Twins because that was a doubleheader and dad was insanely cheap and if he was going to spend $2/ticket for a MLB game, he was going to get two games for it.  The Rangers swept the Twins that day behind pitching from guys named Jim Panther and Jim Shellenback.  WHO?  Exactly.   Anyways, there were a lot more doubleheaders back in those days, and we'd always go to doubleheaders, especially on the annual Farm and Ranch Night.  Farm and Ranch Night featured sponsorship and advertising from farming businesses, and -- this sounds too absurd to believe, but -- between games, players from both teams would compete in "ranch games" -- there was a cow-milking contest, a hog-calling contest, an egg toss, and a couple of more I can't remember.  The Rangers were an extremely inept and dismal franchise back then, so winning the Farm and Ranch Night games thanks to the hog-calling skills of pitcher Jackie Brown seemed like kind of a big deal.  And when the Rangers traded for Gaylord Perry in 1975, the thing that no  analysts evaluating the trade picked up on was that Perry was not only a future Hall of Fame pitcher, but he also ran a farm in NC, which allowed him to absolutely dominate Farm and Ranch Night for three glorious years.  That's how shitty it was being a Rangers fan when I was a kid.

    Anyways, about the time I started counting outs remaining last night, Farm and Ranch Night memories got stuck in my head and I spent most of the last few innings trying to make sense of this and trying to imagine Max Scherzer milking a cow between games, and Seager and Semien tossing an egg in the outfield, and Nate Lowe screaming into a microphone to attract pigs.  And it hit me how absurd all that would be and how much life had changed.  Though I did decide that Evan Carter would somehow either be good at the Farm and Ranch games or at least try 10 times harder than anyone else to win.

    I was at the Twins doubleheader in '72, sitting in the right-center bleachers.  I was 12.  We gave the Twins CF Bobby Darwin all kinds of shit.  A just-turned 21 Bert Blyleven started one of the games for Minnesota.

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  6. 2 hours ago, tokamak said:

    So appropriate that this pic includes someone dropping a 5 spot on the Rangers in the top of the 2nd. We've all sat through a bunch of long ass nights like that. They probably lost this game like 13-7.

    And the wind knocked three Jeff Burroughs home runs back into the LF's glove.

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  7. 37 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I cannot see any circumstance that would get Saban to A&M.   Who the fuck knows about Urban; the dude is a complete wildcard, imo.

    Now, I could see Dabo at A&M with all his good 'ol boy Jeeezus shit.  They'd eat that act up.  

    I mean what could go wrong w/ hiring another national champeenship ACC corch whose program seems to be back-sliding?  

    They've already built a church of iniquity that is straight out of Dabo's playbook.

  8. 19 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

    No shit.  Seems like the CFs just keep running and running and running until they finally run the balls down.  And the sign says 407??  Can't be right

    The original Cleveland Municipal Stadium was 470 to CF and 322 down each line.  In 1947 they moved CF to 440 and then in the 1970s (I think) to 410.

    ClevelandStadium1931.jpg

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