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MaybeACoordinator

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  1. Could it be that Elmo is actually trying to run off all employees who do have a choice? Thereby leaving him with a slavelike workforce whose lives in America are contingent on Twitter-based work visas? I mean, could the man possibly be such an authoritarian dick as to exploit foreign workers like that? Eric Berger, a guy who runs a blog called Space City Weather, and who is based in said Space City, should consider what entity iefort was that earned Houston that name before he goes stanning for Musk, especially in direct comparison to NASA. Dear God I hope not.
  2. Maybe they know a rich goblin with no morals.
  3. A while back the sign outside of the DQ in W. Columbia said "Dumplins Is Back." Not sure if that was in reference to the manager or a menu item.
  4. Ex is a psycho but she would pull some good pranks on our son. A longass time ago, when we still watched Simpsons reruns, kindergartener junior MaC left the room for some reason and ex hit the SAP button on the remote. He was wondering WTF and she said “Didn’t you hear? The mayor changed Houston’s language to Spanish today. Permanently.” At first it looked like he was going to cry. And then he raged the fuck out.
  5. Showalter was a dick to me when I went in the Nashville Sounds’ clubhouse in 1979. I was nine years old, looking for autographs. And he flat out told me no and glared at me like Mean Joe Greene did to that kid in the beginning of that Coke commercial, only Showalter did not suddenly soften and toss me his game worn jersey. Tl;dr Buck Showalter was a dick to me 45 years ago and probably should be banned for life like Pete Rose. I mean, dude was about 30 and a .280-hitting 1b/DH with warning track power at best sitting there big-timing little kids. And haha that Sounds team had two future MVPs in Mattingly and Willie McGee, neither of whom were dicks. As for Buck, his name should be xxxxAlter because he never made the Show, not for the Yanks or anyone else. And he’s from a Florida panhandle shithole that isn’t even on the beach. Tl;dr II: Showalter ain’t shit.
  6. Musk is a new version of pre-politics Trump. The Donald was not a real Big Apple property mogul but instead the avatar for same — a name and image capable of reeling in gullible investors and customers. Musk is the nerdy high tech version, but he is rapidly and irrevocably immolating in a way Trump never did. And so there will be no coming back from this the way Trump managed to dig out of what seemed like his reputation’s tomb back around 1990. Once Elon is dunzo he will stay that way, and that day is coming soon.
  7. I hated Rose as a player on teams that were rivals of and better than the Astros, and some “casual fans,” or “idiots” as I prefer to think of them, overrate his resume tremendously. (These are the people who think he was the best player of all time.) No he was not. He was overrated. The positives: He was an incredible singles hitter and define top-of-the-order pest. That’s about it for his plus qualities as a ball player, those and an ability to play defense adequately at third, first and corner outfield. And to string together good but almost never great seasons for a long time. IIRC per WAR he was never the MVP of his own team in any given year. Granted he spent so many of his peak years as a teammate of guys like Bench, F. Robinson, and Morgan, all of whom were on a while other tier of greatness, but also some others like Vada Pinson and George Foster who had monster years while playing with Rose. Throw in the other key cogs in the Big Red Machine like Perez, Griffey and Concepcion and Rose’s inability to be the best in any season is understandable. What makes people remember him as better than he was was his flamboyantly gritty style that made old school sportswriters involuntarily touch themselves but that many of his fellow players thought was show offy. I think it was Mantle who dubbed him “Charlie Hustle” and it was not meant as a compliment. It was sarcastic, similar to how journalists will dub an overzealous, suck-up colleague as “Johnny Deadline.” For a guy whose rep hinged on being a team player, he selfishly clung to a job with whoever would take him to not produce at the plate and play a shitty first base for seven years as he chased Cobb’s record. So he’s much closer to Lenny Dykstra than the GOAT. And that extends beyond the diamond, but at least Dykstra never got caught betting on baseball. And that is the one sin you just can’t commit. So while I hate Curt Schilling and believe the Legend of the Bloody Sock is a ridiculous myth to burnish a HoF career with, I believe he amassed stats worthy of the Hall and my distaste for him as a person should not interfere with my thinking on the subject. Same goes for many another asshole who did not bet on baseball.
  8. I knew that’s what you meant but everyone is saying crew…Saw that on the news too. I might have boarded that bomber in a tarmac in NW Houston a decade or so back. My daughter and I and some of her cousins got to take a quick tour and I asked my self if I’d like to fly I’m her and decided no, no I wouldn’t. Seems like the older I get the more of a chickenshit I become about flying. Walking through it was sort of cool but it was cramped and hot as fuck that day.
  9. Doubt that was all crew in the big bomber — you don’t need gunners and a bombardier etc…Probably guests of the crew living out a dream.
  10. True but he was also committed to us at one point too, right?
  11. As the delegated spokesman for the peer review, I am pleased to inform you that your straightforward conclusion — “OU Sucks” — has been approved by our board.
  12. He is yet another painful reminder to me of how this reminds me of the late ‘80s until the founding of the Big 12. The truly elite Texas HS recruits are all winding up out-of-state. It double sucks because it weakens our team and you have to see all these guys we whiffed on and once would have had absolutely ripping shit up for other teams.
  13. I’ve already begun preparing my anus for tonight, There is just no way they will allow us to spoil the undefeated season of a loyal Big 12 member. Mainly just interested in seeing how they try not to be incredibly obvious.
  14. Oh good grief. It’s reasonably funny and these kind of shirts go at least back to my time on the 40 when somebody posted up on the Drag and made a made a mint hawking “OU Sucks But A&M Swallows.” Or “blows,” can’t remember which. On the other hand they ran about $10 and their creator did not sully the sacrosanct bounds of Surly with tawdry commercialism.
  15. No that was the Chicago South Side Lil’ Sluggers Card Collectors Club Committee. I hear Ron Kittle and Rich Dotson are this year’s locks. As for the real task at hand: Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro. I can see all of these guys plus Sweet Lou going in eventually, with Mattingly the least deserving. There are a shitload of guys you could say “What if he hadn’t gotten hurt” about who did not have a cool nickname and play for the Yankees.
  16. Dear God I hope this is not the moment we look back on in a few years and say “That is where it all started to go to shit” but for numerous reasons already cited here, I am not a huge fan of this deal, not even a little bit.
  17. Like a gnarly wound barely staving off a lethal infection
  18. Though I’m not really a fan of even the newest and biggest Walmarts, tge stores themselves are not inherently depressing, and the clientele varies with the locations — there’s a pretty wide gulf between the old, dingy, and cramped Walmart in West Columbia and the spacious new one in the Houston Heights. Even so they both fall in the “Things that I Don’t Enjoy” box.
  19. OMG well I assume you had a stockpile of Narcan to resurrect them from the Fentanyl Skittles.
  20. Ol’ Dave and MAGA Mack and other olds were pissed when she rightly went after CrimeStoppers of Houston for becoming a GQP cutout and bloated salaries for the CEO. Yet another aspect of the Chris’s idiotic Mealer endorsement: they’d recently done some great reporting in CSoH only to blow it off months later
  21. He was on Mark Maron a few years ago, claiming to be clean and sober but audibly high as fuck on pills. Maron even said so at one point. Oh and Dykstra said he was servicing rich old women for cash. And they probably have the best prescriptions too. I mean, it was almost implied he was trolling hospices for dates.
  22. In her most recent ad — the one where she talks about growing up in Colombia— she’d finally gotten rid of all traces of that girly whininess tone she’d lapse into when (usually unfairly) attacked. She didn’t sound like she trying too hard to be butch or tuff or whatever; it came across as very natural.
  23. Especially if she has a Mezkin-looking maiden name for the yard signs. Same name also proves her rich white backers are most def not racist
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