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I’ve said this before, but Altuve should round the bases on a HR like Crash Davis in “Bull Durham”. Let’s hope those bats stay healthy for the home crowd. They deserve a series win.

I may have already posted this elsewhere, but it deserves another look, and it fits here perfectly. Dems lie to the people they represent.

Very nice 3 hit 7-1 series win. Alexander had 1 hitter thru 6. Sousa comes in gives up dinger. King strikes out the side in the ninth. Almost evero contributed. We reall needed that. Altuve 1st inning dinger again.

Democrat congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is projecting a false persona. She acts ghetto and talks with that finger point, yet she is from a very upstanding neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kingwood Park leads the way with six Thursday night games. In fact, KP plays all six of their Thursday games in the last 7 weeks of the season. Do not play Thursday in Week 7. Hardin plays five while Porter, Anahuac and Joaquin play four Thursday games. According to the current schedules we have, these following teams do not have Thursday games: Atascocita Channelview Beaumont United Galveston Ball Lufkin PA Memorial Dayton Huntsville Nederland PN-G Bridge City Huffman Livingston Lumberton LC-M Vidor Hamshire-Fannett Jasper Shepherd Silsbee WO-S Crockett Diboll Fairfield Westwood Teague Kountze New Waverly Trinity Colmesneil Deweyville Sabine Pass West Sabine Apple Springs Chester Burkeville High Island 40 of our coverage area teams has at least one Thursday game scheduled for this season.

I have compiled a composite Thursday schedule for our coverage area teams based on the schedules we have. I will post the Saturday schedule tomorrow. Here is the Thursday schedule (57 total games): Week 1 Aug. 28 Clear Creek at Kingwood CE King at Spring Westfield Beaumont West Brook at Aldine Eisenhower Galena Park at Porter Evadale at Huntington Warren at Hardin Waskom at Garrison San Augustine at Beckville Week 2 Sept. 4 Houston Lamar at Summer Creek Barbers Hill at Manvel Porter at Pasadena Memorial St. Thomas at Lake Creek Huntington at Frankston Woodville at Anahuac Waskom at Hemphill Beckville at Joaquin Week 3 Sept. 11 Clear Brook at Goose Creek Memorial Stratford at Kingwood Summer Creek at Spring Fort Bend Kempner at Houston Wisdom Joaquin at Tenaha San Augustine at Price-Carlisle Shelbyville at Waskom Alto at Hull-Daisetta Week 4 Sept. 18 Tarkington at Hardin Orangefield at St. Louis Catholic (Westlake) Grand Saline at Joaquin New Waverly JV at West Hardin Week 5 Sept. 25 North Shore at Humble Kingwood Park at Fort Bend Kempner Wolfe City at Timpson Week 6 Oct. 2 La Porte at Kingwood Park Barbers Hill at Baytown Sterling Splendora at West Fork Hardin at East Chambers Week 7 Oct. 9 CE King at Summer Creek Porter at Pasadena Week 8 Oct. 16 Angleton at Kingwood Park Crosby at Fort Bend Kempner Splendora at Montgomery Anahuac at Buna Timpson at Shelbyville Week 9 Oct. 23 CE King at Kingwood Kingwood Park at Pasadena Montgomery at West Fork Hardin at Anahuac Week 10 Oct. 30 Friendswood at Kingwood Park Splendora at Lake Creek Warren at Newton Hemphill at San Augustine Week 11 Nov. 6 Porter at Kingwood Park Hardin-Jefferson at Liberty Anahuac at Coldspring Buna at Orangefield Hardin at Kirbyville Anderson-Shiro at Warren Garrison at Joaquin

Yes it’s early and time will tell. That’s my initial observation , because I don’t think Prescott will make the entire season without getting injured and even though they are playing players trying to make the team, the defense was not good

Who’s Yankee Daddy? Lol

VYPE's choices lean toward the SETX area as it should be I guess, nothing new for Lufkin, we deal with it all the time. It sort of adds incentive to the plate. Think the Panthers were picked 4th last year too and to be fair the Panthers have some substantial holes to fill this season. Anyway, you have to play the games and we will see in November how things turnout. Still think PAM has the edge to win the district with a talented senior laden team. They have been talking about that group for two years now. VYPE likes the McNeese commit QB transfer from 3A Anahuac to Barbers Hill, except I noticed Anahuac did not make the playoffs the past two seasons. BH has plenty of talent though from last year to make a lot of noise in district. Abseck left a good group there. West Brook is the team I think will surprise the most, watchout for those guys. Ball might be rated too high, Woodbury is good but the supporting cast might not be enough, even with a new coach. Lufkin has half the team back that went 10-2, and many new players have come out that previously did not want to play for the previous coaching group, plus 3 or 4 transfers in the offseason from Grand Oaks, Abilene and Jasper. It all starts in 19 days, so let's see where this ends up in November. There's going to be some very good district games.

Even if they won, that would be his post.

That was the only call I questioned in the Regional Finals last year. The toss vs. a sneak. May have cost them a trip to the State Semis. The staff played to win all year (vs. not to lose), so I appreciated that aspect. But, when on the 1 yard line, trying to ice the game, a long toss type play seemed a little strange with the speed of Angleton's D. But, the staff knows more about the matchups they were facing than I do. They made the call they thought would work best. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I still have great faith in the LP staff. They've done an outstanding job bringing the program back in a very short time, and I think it's only going to continue to improve. Coach Berneathy and staff have gone 5-5, 8-3, and 10-4. Improve by 2 more games again this year & they're at the Promised Land. I'm ready for this season, and this rivalry to start. Seems like it's been a long off-season. Probably the anticipation of the new stadium & some true home games again.

One thing I was thinking on last night was an EO. Most of this money is actually funded via data from the census directly from a specific government department. It would only be a temporary fix if an EO was used to modify funding, but I don't see why one couldn't be used. Seems a liberal San Fran judge blocked this Administration from stopping some funding earlier this year. But, that was because it had already been allocated. (That, and just being anti-Administration policies of course.) If an EO was used--early enough--that said funding would only be tabulated based on 'permanent, legal residents calculated by such & such numbers', I'm not sure it wouldn't work. It would be challenged. But, I know of no legal reason it may not be upheld if appealed. May need to research more...

Seattle has won 6 in a row. Astro lead down to 1/2 a game.

Precisely. It's a freaking glorified scrimmage. Anyone predicting season results off the first preseason game is delirious.

Cowboys went 0-4 in 1977 pre-season and won the SB in Tony Dorsett’s rookie season against the Denver Broncos 27-10. None of those players were starters yesterday. Landry, on the other hand, played his starters 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and a full game for the pre-season. Now, they ride bicycles or walk the sidelines padless. Landry cared nothing about winning pre-season games because he knew he had to cut players. I did, however, like Grier over Milton, even though Milton had to scramble 90% of the time. Jaguars kicker made a 70 yard FG, but being pre-season, it’s not recognized as an NFL record. Nothing counts. Go Cowboys.

Exactly. A majority in the Senate requires 60 votes to end the filibuster and allow a bill to come up for a vote. It only takes 51 votes to win an issue but 60 to allow the vote. In the House where there is no filibuster and limited time to debate, a one vote majority is actually a majority because the opposition can’t stop a vote. In the Senate the Republicans (or Democrats) could have a huge 59 - 41 advantage and yet can’t pass a bill without support from the opposition. In the House if one party has 218 representatives, leaving the other party with 217, they have an effective majority of in order to allow a vote. In the Senate an effective majority is 60 in order to allow a vote. So when I see comments on, “why don’t we just pass a law”, the answer is that they can’t without at least some bipartisan support from the opposition. They don’t have the required 60 vote majority.

My observations on the 1st preseason game defense - absolutely zero pass rush and not much better vs the run DL and Secondary looked like they need a lot of work. Couldn’t tell how the LB’ers performed offense - not much of a run game OL didn’t look very good QB - since we know that Prescott gets injured every season, the Cowboys are going to be in trouble this season If Milton is the backup, things look dim. His performance was not good at all After watching this game I am predicting anywhere from 0-17 to 5-12 and a possibility of being last in the east Way to go Jerry

That would make me want to talk! LOL!

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Not exactly. I'll try to gather them up for you and get them to you. We have one of our mods here that is putting together the schedules.

IMHO, Trump’s tariffs are hurting some and helping others. Typical. Overall, needs more time for tariffs to work through the system. Setting the final tariffs (basically the high end for most anyway) should be a big help for business. Now, they can plan. They just need lower borrowing rates until they can get their supply chains worked out where everything isn’t passed to the consumer. I’d say—from my perspective as an economic data watcher & investor—the economy is ‘okay’, but could really take off with a benchmark rate of around 3.5. I picked up some select buys for the long term this last business week. NLR is a nuclear ETF that also includes Constellation. Wanted to buy earlier, but didn’t pull the trigger as I got busy doing other things. But, I expect it to be a solid growth/divvie option. It’s gone up over $33 in 3 months with a lot of room to run. I wouldn’t be buying if I didn’t feel decent for long term. I’m a retired investor. Not a trader. Mainly a dividend investor at this stage with some select emphasis on growth. I buy solid companies at a decent price & hold them. To me, if they’re good enough to buy, they’re good enough to hold. I do the same with my REIT’s and ETF’s.

Thanks for agreeing?

Right now, we need to circulate a little more cash. Benchmark 30 year notes are running at ~4.85%, and have hit 5% in the last 2 weeks. Not good news. The job market is slowing. Inflation is running about 2.8% with the benchmark a full 200 basis points higher. Too big a gap. I’m afraid the Fed is a little behind the 8 ball. Employers need lower rates to be able to offset some tariff costs while refinancing debt, and still be able to keep/hire. IMHO, the Fed should lower rates by 50 basis points in September. The gap between inflation and benchmark needs to come down.