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I know I can't do revisionist history like this, but just imagine had we not had the three game shut out of an offensively bad San Diego team.

We are currently ranked 33rd with a 3.80 ERA, but had we given up just 3 or 4 runs in that series we wouldn't even be in the top 50.
 
Horn6721 said:
Chop
Good thinking
Thinking out of the box here
But maybe find a former Horn Pitcher who also played in the Show
If any were around
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as long as the Horns don't hire the one who's coaching my 12-year-old (and his own kid) in little league!
 
2003,

I was called on to lead an audit of the bank in Pearland. (First State I believe, but the one on 35 about two blocks off Broadway.) I got "talked to" because in the confidential section I wrote, "the financial stability of the bank is only improved because the new bank on Telephone road has taken all the crap loans and lousy customers away. Mr **** seems to have done an outstanding job of significantly improving the scenery in the lobby."

That got me in some trouble until the bosses read the next paragraph where i discussed the ancient Chairman walking around the bank with his pants unzipped, which I wasn't going to criticize since the totally inexperienced President appeared to have only one duty, which was servicing "Mrs Chairman" and keeping her happy. The bank survived many more years.

Did you know there was a Pearland Municipal Airport just two blocks from Main & Broadway?

Friendswood had always been Quaker & Pearland was Mennonite. Then the astronauts & engineers discovered Friendswood, big lots, and large trees & chose to build there rather than do business with Exxon.
 
SabreHorn said:
2003,

I was called on to lead an audit of the bank in Pearland. (First State I believe, but the one on 35 about two blocks off Broadway.) I got "talked to" because in the confidential section I wrote, "the financial stability of the bank is only improved because the new bank on Telephone road has taken all the crap loans and lousy customers away. Mr **** seems to have done an outstanding job of significantly improving the scenery in the lobby."

That got me in some trouble until the bosses read the next paragraph where i discussed the ancient Chairman walking around the bank with his pants unzipped, which I wasn't going to criticize since the totally inexperienced President appeared to have only one duty, which was servicing "Mrs Chairman" and keeping her happy. The bank survived many more years.

Did you know there was a Pearland Municipal Airport just two blocks from Main & Broadway?

Friendswood had always been Quaker & Pearland was Mennonite. Then the astronauts & engineers discovered Friendswood, big lots, and large trees & chose to build there rather than do business with Exxon.
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That's pretty interesting. For my part I grew up in Bacliff, and then Dickinson. Bacliff/San Leon was interesting to say the least in the 80s; learned it was Banditos territory as an adult... not very diverse aside from the Vietnamese shrimpers, but it was still home. Dickinson proved to be more diverse but no one cared back in the 90s, not like today anyway. That said we still made fun of Santa Fe for being pretty much all white.
 
2003TexasGrad said:
That's pretty interesting. For my part I grew up in Bacliff, and then Dickinson. Bacliff/San Leon was interesting to say the least in the 80s; learned it was Banditos territory as an adult... not very diverse aside from the Vietnamese shrimpers, but it was still home. Dickinson proved to be more diverse but no one cared back in the 90s, not like today anyway. That said we still made fun of Santa Fe for being pretty much all white.
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Friendswood and Santa Fe were both pretty much all White back then, but some would say a rather different "sort" of White person. I have heard that the "Wood" was never segregated like the rest of the State due to the Quaker control of that town back in the old days (although it had so few black people, it might as well have been segregated). Was once a big fig orchard farming area.

Bacliff/San Leon was kinda a rough patch back then. Them dudes had a reputation for being pretty tough. Our "shrimp lady" was from there--her husband ran a shrimp boat. We'd buy lots and lots of jumbo Gulf shrimp cheap from her, put them in coffee cans, cover them with water and freeze them. And supposedly, in the olden days, the row of seafood restaurants in Kemah had casinos. But that was a long, long time ago.

Dickinson -- good sports teams, alligators, bayous, frequent flooding, and a big very popular stripper club.

Santa Fe -- I don't know what's real and what's just myth. But I've heard that David Duke himself had a lot to do with what you referenced about that town. This is also supposedly where the island mobsters recruited their "night riders" from back in the Free State of Galveston days.
 
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SabreHorn said:
2003,

I was called on to lead an audit of the bank in Pearland. (First State I believe, but the one on 35 about two blocks off Broadway.) I got "talked to" because in the confidential section I wrote, "the financial stability of the bank is only improved because the new bank on Telephone road has taken all the crap loans and lousy customers away. Mr **** seems to have done an outstanding job of significantly improving the scenery in the lobby."

That got me in some trouble until the bosses read the next paragraph where i discussed the ancient Chairman walking around the bank with his pants unzipped, which I wasn't going to criticize since the totally inexperienced President appeared to have only one duty, which was servicing "Mrs Chairman" and keeping her happy. The bank survived many more years.

Did you know there was a Pearland Municipal Airport just two blocks from Main & Broadway?

Friendswood had always been Quaker & Pearland was Mennonite. Then the astronauts & engineers discovered Friendswood, big lots, and large trees & chose to build there rather than do business with Exxon.
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Did you ever meet the Jamisons while in Pearland? They had a big farm (mostly developed now), and sold Jams, Jellies, etc.

Pearland's "Oiler" mascot probably came from their proximity to the Mykawa Field, or the giant (in historical production) Hastings Field at the border of Pearland, Friendswood, and Alvin. Both are salt dome fields with the Hastings being one of the grand old oilfields of the Texas Gulf Coast. Humble Oil's Friendswood field (which isn't even in Friendswood) dwarfed everything in that area though. Both Humble Oil and "Silver Dollar" Jim West's family made out like bandits on the Friendswood oil field.
 
And this area we're talking about--Southeast Houston suburbs, exurbs, and country towns Southeast of Houston is some phenomenal high school baseball recruiting territory--especially for pitchers. It's one of the best baseball recruiting territories in the State.

And the sentiment in that patch of the State is roughly equal between those who favor the Longhorns and those who favor the Aggies, with the Ags historically having a slight edge. LSU sentiment is also strong down there, and growing.
 
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2003,

Did you ever know a WWII vet down there named Ralph Hester? Great guy; master sergeant and tank commander at Battle of the Bulge under Patton. He had great war stories; said the Germans opened their lines to let the tanks through and then closed them for infantry fighting. Said Patton told him to roll those tanks toward Berlin until they ran out of fuel, then wait for him to get there to refuel and take off again. Told stories about never getting out of his tank for two weeks; said that every few hours a German sniper would "ping" a bullet off the hull to remind them he was still there, as if to say, "this shits about over with, don't crawl out and make me kill you". Ralph smoked like a chimney and dies of cancer in the 80s.
 
Chop,

Some of the best include:

1) Nolan - Alvin

2) Robert Oliver Baytown Lee - All State as a sophomore; All District as a junior; Starter as a senior; signed with Horns and registered for classes but I don't remember him pitching

3) Mickey McCarty - Pasadena - All State in football, basketball, & Baseball; signed with TCU, but never played football, yet drafted as a TE by Chiefs & played several years. I believe he was on that first KC Super Bowl team that was destroyed by the Packers

4) Albert Choate - Ball HS - guy had more grease in his hair than Jiffy Lube does at five stores. He got one of those NY Yankee "scholarships" to Blinn or Sam. Lost track on him until he became HC at Ball. When Choate threw that curve or change at you, you had enough grease on you uniform to lube the entire bus barn.

5) Freeport had a good one in 65, but can't remember his name

6) Randy Pryor - Pearland flame thrower. Signed with A&M. Took Chandler about three weeks to turn his 100+ fastball into an 88 mph beach ball screaming, "kill me kill me"
 
You had to live it to know how Chandler changed pitchers. He would wait until everything was set, the pitcher toed the rubber, then yell timeout. It took him what seemed like 45 minutes to get to the mound. MLB would have loved him because he would set up camp on the mound.

One year in the 80s when the Aggies came to Disch, I had seats with James Street several rows up along the first base line. It was damn hot that day, and Chandler decided to take one of his infamous strolls out to mound. I literally sent a lady to get deli sandwiches, chips, drinks, desserts. She almost got back before Chandler got back to the Aggie dugout. I had had enough and yelled, "Chandler you're too damn old to be out in the sun this long". He had started back to the dugout and started laughing so hard that he fell down before he got to the line. Crowd went wild.

I really miss Chandler screwing up all that Aggie talent - Rick Lueken & Randy Pryor being the two most memorable.
 
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Phil,

I cannot remember, BUT was David Beck on that team? Not sure why, but I've always associated David with that team and thought he played baseball at Lamar with Dan Hallmark, who was on that team.
 
SabreHorn said:
2003,

Did you ever know a WWII vet down there named Ralph Hester? Great guy; master sergeant and tank commander at Battle of the Bulge under Patton. He had great war stories; said the Germans opened their lines to let the tanks through and then closed them for infantry fighting. Said Patton told him to roll those tanks toward Berlin until they ran out of fuel, then wait for him to get there to refuel and take off again. Told stories about never getting out of his tank for two weeks; said that every few hours a German sniper would "ping" a bullet off the hull to remind them he was still there, as if to say, "this shits about over with, don't crawl out and make me kill you". Ralph smoked like a chimney and dies of cancer in the 80s.
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My mom's father may have.... he died in 95 at the age of 85, and he too was at the Battle of the Bulge, although I don't believe he was on the front lines. He was in Army intelligence if memory serves. William Jordan.

And Dickinson can at least claim Dennis Cook as one of those Galveston County baseball recruits. Not quite as famous as Alvin's Nolan Ryan, but he got a ring with the Marlins at least.
 
Chop said:
Friendswood and Santa Fe were both pretty much all White back then, but some would say a rather different "sort" of White person. I have heard that the "Wood" was never segregated like the rest of the State due to the Quaker control of that town back in the old days (although it had so few black people, it might as well have been segregated). Was once a big fig orchard farming area.

Bacliff/San Leon was kinda a rough patch back then. Them dudes had a reputation for being pretty tough. Our "shrimp lady" was from there--her husband ran a shrimp boat. We'd buy lots and lots of jumbo Gulf shrimp cheap from her, put them in coffee cans, cover them with water and freeze them. And supposedly, in the olden days, the row of seafood restaurants in Kemah had casinos. But that was a long, long time ago.

Dickinson -- good sports teams, alligators, bayous, frequent flooding, and a big very popular stripper club.

Santa Fe -- I don't know what's real and what's just myth. But I've heard that David Duke himself had a lot to do with what you referenced about that town. This is also supposedly where the island mobsters recruited their "night riders" from back in the Free State of Galveston days.
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Yes, the almost world famous Heartbreakers men's club. Both loved and loathed by the locals depending on your persuasion. Yeah, Bacliff and San Leon boasted many a grizzled, tanned, tatted and bearded wife beater wearing biker in the 80s and 90s. Lots of trailers. All the stereotypes fit.

The jokes about Santa Fe have to have some origin of fact, but Im sure the mythology is embellished. Still no Black kids on their football team all four years I was in high school, so go figure.
 
SabreHorn said:
Phil,

I cannot remember, BUT was David Beck on that team? Not sure why, but I've always associated David with that team and thought he played baseball at Lamar with Dan Hallmark, who was on that team.
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Not that I know of. There was a pitcher named David Larson. Larry is my 1st cousin. He was drafted by the Cardinals out of HS.
 
Sorry I forgot about Cookie, one of my favorite all-time players. Wasn't it Cook in the most famous "dip" in Longhorn history?
 
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