Biden admin weighs complete block on offshore oil drilling as gas prices keep rising. Meanwhile at Rowan Marine Services located in Sabine Pass is still busy reworking off shore rigs. I took this picture a couple years ago. The Christams tree on the right has since been stripped down and re-out fitting the platform is moving along.nicely thank you.
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I’ve see a lot of those rigs at Port Aransas over the years. It’s something to watch the doddering old fool in the White House going all over the world begging for oil after shutting down a lot of domestic production. Places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Iran, you know, those places with impeccable human rights and booming democracies. I’ve said it before but knowing Biden that would be bad, I had no idea he could destroy almost everything in less than 2 years. But it’s Tuesday and time to get moving.
Mornin’ Gang
A little over 3 hours and this place is Graveyard Dead! Dayaam I’m good. 😀
Lol SD. Maybe er’body is still swooning over Angie Dickinson.
G’Morning Gang… I’m moving slowly under the weight of a ton of allergens in the air… But I now have coffee which gives me hope I’ll be able to keep my eyes open…
GJT, way to go! You saved the place just before it sunk out of sight. 😉
Angie was certainly swoon-worthy in her day.
Re: OC pic
This is probly common knowledge but the rig to the left is called a jack-up, those three towers are actually legs that go down to the ocean floor and jack-up the platform.
I only went offshore a couple times in my oilfield days, the units the company I worked for manufactured mostly self propelled land rigs but there were special applications. The first time I went out the crews quarters was on a jack-up, it was pretty small as it’s only use was crews quarters, the legs went up and it was a boat. This was in January and we were in the Gulf, about 25 miles out of Grand Isle. The second night we were on it, a big storm came through and that spindley thing bobble and wobbled all night long and I just knew one of those legs was gonna break off and dump us off into the water. We survived lol.
I can’t remember the reason but the platform we were doing a rig up on did not meet the requirements to be inhabited so we went back and forth each day to the crews quarters on the jack-up. We went down by crane in a basket to a crew boat to transport us. The weather was really bad several of the days and one time a storm snuck up on them and by the time we were getting dropped down via basket to the crew boat the swells were up fifteen feet, meaning the crane operator had to time his drop of the basket to the rise and fall of the crew boat, else the basket would slam onto the rising boat. Dicey. The crane operator being the last on the platform had to board the boat at sea level, that was incredibly dangerous to him as the boat rose then fell with the swells, we’d see the man disappear and then be fifteen feet above us. He made it, and we abided by the gubment restrictions, no one stayed on the platform that night!
#10 GJT:
The weather was really bad several of the days and one time a storm snuck up on them and by the time we were getting dropped down via basket to the crew boat the swells were up fifteen feet, meaning the crane operator had to time his drop of the basket to the rise and fall of the crew boat, else the basket would slam onto the rising boat.
Been there, done that. I worked on a platform about 180 miles off from Intracoastal City and we flew out in helicopters. When it was time to swap out the drill pipe after a cement job, I was the one on the boat hooking/unhooking the pipe with a choker sling. When it was rough, the pipe would roll back and forth across the deck (port to starboard) and at times I had to cross on top of the rolling pipe. To call it dicey would be a bit of an understatement. Fortunately, I never got hurt. I was always the one on the boat. Every. Time.
Looking back, that was one of the most interesting and dangerous jobs I ever had.
I’ve managed to crack up the Catholic group over yonder with my post from yesterday:
From today’s C&C:
First off: if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. Florida’s top doc is now in the cross hairs after Florida has changed guidance on young men receiving the jab due to increased heart problems. Said guidance is based on real studies of the issues:
After almost three days of completely ignoring the story, corporate media has finally chosen the form of its destructor for Florida’s new guidance recommending against the jabs for men under 40, and finding a +84% chance of DYING from cardiac arrest using a well-established scientific method for establishing vaccine causality.
They’re going with trying to discredit Florida’s exceptionally well-credentialed Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
/snip
Dr. Ladapo is pretty feisty. Late yesterday he’d already tweeted his responses to the “substantive” criticisms:
I love that the good doctor is doing a DeSantis style comeback. Maybe someday he’ll be Surgeon General. That would certainly be an improvement over the current one…but then, that’s a low bar. L’il Darlin’ could do a better job than what currently holds office.
This part of the C&C ties to a story I read a day or two ago. It seems that a Disney princess actress has contracted Bell’s Palsy from the jab and has not been able to continue her career. She is hopeful, though, as she has been assured that this facial paralysis is “temporary” and she should be able to continue her career in a matter of months. Justin Bieber is also a victim of Pfizer’s BP – and he is still unable to work.
A new study published in the Annals of Medicine and Surgery this month with the timely title, “Development of Facial Palsy Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review.” It is a meta-study — a study roundup, if you like — of 38 other studies of Bell’s Palsy and related vaccine-induced illnesses. In total, 58 patients were included. The researchers compiled some interesting statistics.
The majority (53.45%) of cases had bilateral (both sides) facial palsy. Significantly, they happily reported that 76% of patients had “partially recovered.”…
What that number means is that THREE QUARTERS of jab victims failed to completely recover from their vaccine-induced facial palsy. In other words, they have what appears at this point to be a permanent injury. And, it need hardly be said, but faces are kind of important. Especially to actors like Justin Bieber. And everybody else. The study reported that only 22% of patients in the surveyed studies had fully recovered.
…Don’t start with me about how partial recovery is okay, … The point is, he was injured by a defective, dangerous product, and it never should have happened. Even taking the rosy assumption of a successful partial recovery, just try to estimate the dollar value of a single lost year in Justin Bieber’s career.
Whatever that number is, it would be the lawsuit value, if Justin weren’t prohibited from suing the manufacturer of the defective, dangerous product that harmed him.
Disney princess lives in Never Never Land, it seems, where no one has to grow up and everything turns out well. I think that they have flying pigs there as well.
I hope that someday they all recover fully, but I have doubts. Their lives will never be the same, as their facial features will be changed, possibly forever. Humans relate to each other through our faces, our expressions. This will change how people react to them, the kind of jobs they can hold. This actress may never be able to perform again, as her ability to vocalize has been affected, or to emote visually through her facial expressions. Maybe her hopeful statements are her only way to cling to hope that someday she can return to what she loves.
But, Pfizer can’t be sued.
And from the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department:
The Post Millennial ran a story yesterday about a giant setback in trans rights, headlined “Biden admin requires trans women to register for draft if they were born male.”
Hahahahaha! The article’s subhead expands the humor, explaining ”US citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register.”
…It’s contradictory because one of the first executive orders Biden signed when he occupied the White House directed the U.S. military to pretend that cross-dressing soldiers were the sex they are imitating, . … That’s a nice skirt, but if you have — or ever had — the berries and the stem, you gotta sign up, Loretta.
That makes sense, because you don’t want people gender-bending just to evade mandatory service. Sorry, Klinger. The more curious part, to me, is why provide an exception for trans men (women) from the requirement? That’s the part that gives away the reality this is all make-believe.
Why not make women sign up for the draft if they want to wear pants and be called ‘Bruce’ and change their birth certificate?
Let’s just say we’re not making friends.
Ukraine is trolling Russia with new postage stamps commemorating the blown up bridge. I don’t know if I should laugh or just be in awe of the size of those brass ones being put on display.
#11 BC
I wonder how they do it these days. After I left the oilfield, quite a few years later I would occasionally go out on calls to rigs when I was in the equipment rental industry. I hardly recognized the operation with all the new updates and renovations in safety made, first off, having man lifts and forklifts (equipment I worked on) on site. None of that was around back then, crews had to do everything by winch line or climbing.
WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD
TULSI GABBARD HAS SEEN THE LIGHT
Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday her departure from the Democratic Party.
Gabbard said Twitter video that the Democratic Party is controlled by an “elitist cabal of warmongers” promoting division and “anti-white wokeism.”
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that’s under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly woke-ness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that enshrined in our Constitution, who are hostile towards people of faith and spirituality.”
Welcome to the club Tulsi. Now I can spend the rest of my day waiting for someone to say they already posted this.
One story that isn’t going away is that of nurse Tiffany Dover, who infamously collapsed on camera early in the pandemic while giving a press conference at her hospital about how much she appreciated her Pfizer shot she just got.
Shortly after that, she was seen — motionless — in one distant, masked photo op with the hospital, again promoting the jabs, and since then she has been 100% missing in action.
LOTS of people have been looking for her ever since, without result. Jordan says it has been 650 days since anyone saw Tiffany, that we know of.
There are denials that she’s died from the jab. There is speculation that she is alive, but permanently injured, and had to sign an NDA to get a settlement from the hospital. Her nursing certificate is due for renewal soon, and if she’s well enough to get recertified, we’ll at least know she’s alive and well enough to nurse.
If not…
Even if Tiffany only turns out to be vaccine injured, and not dead, CHI Memorial Hospital and its managers will still be exposed as the biggest frauds since Bernie Madoff. The scandal could put the hospital out of business.
As it should.
Hmmmmmmmmmm – will She turn out to be a RHINO or not?
(either way She is pretty easy on the eyes)
Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she’s quitting the Democratic Party and asked fellow “common sense independent-minded Democrats to join” her.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tulsi-gabbard-quits-democratic-party/2022/10/11/id/1091326/
CRAP – so solly Squawkster – flog me accordingly 😉
And for the Catholics and those interested – the modernists say the quiet part out loud:
It’s been said by more than one person: Modernism is the synthesis of all heresies.
I pray for my Church.
Squawk @9:53 AM
Hey, I was going to post that in comments, but I got distracted so I’m claiming I was first because I was thinking about it.
This commenter from C&C, Squawk, and I are on the same page:
Between the jabs, the draft, the stock market, and food issues, if you’re not good with God now is a really good time! I think we are in a battle between good and evil.
It’s a good thing overall Tulsi is leaving the demon party, first, it removes one from their rolls, second, she will vote with the GOP on some issues important to us. But, RINO will be best case.
Katfish
No way am I floggin you for what I am “guilty” of myself.
Texpat
Hey, I was going to post that in comments, but I got distracted so I’m claiming I was first because I was thinking about it.
I get the residuals anyway so go ahead.
It is astonishing to be accused of anti-Americanism by longtime denigrators of America, and even more astonishing to be accused of divisiveness by people who casually throw around the term “Nazi.”
The above is the pull quote from a rather lengthy piece by Michael Anton.
RTWDT
I found this in the comments as well.
My adult adopted daughter has been treated for bipolar and anxiety all of her life… She is on a cocktail of medications and was still having significant symptoms…Six months ago I finally talked her into trying a low carb/low inflammation based diet. Within 2 months she was symptom FREE. It has to have a basis in inflammation. When she eats something that causes inflammation she will feel it coming back. We are now in the decreasing of medications phase. It is truly amazing. Sadly, her psych said the results were just that she was feeling healthier.
Diet is the key. I healed my pre-diabetes, fatty liver, and insulin resistance just by changing my diet. I am at a normal bmi for the first time in my life. Processed foods, fast food, sugar, seed oils……they are killing us.
So, yes, I believe the vaccine could cause an increase in mental health disorders. It seems to cause a lot of issues that are inflammation based.
I hadn’t heard of this, nor even thought of this, before. There are so many health disorders linked to inflammation, and I hadn’t made the connection between the spike proteins and inflammation inside the body. But if the proteins are stressing blood vessels, etc., it would probably cause an increase in inflammation levels as well.
But Pfizer can’t be sued. Yet. (As Childers would say.)
#12 TT
People also ask
What is a scapular in Catholic Church?
The scapular (from Latin scapulae, “shoulders”) is a Western Christian garment suspended from the shoulders. There are two types of scapulars, the monastic and devotional scapular, although both forms may simply be referred to as “scapular”.
Tedtam #24
At the risk of being labeled a fear monger by some folks we are in a spiritual battle the likes of which we have not seen in a long time. The good news is Jesus is going to win in the end and events are going by the book. Things are only going to get worse.
I have been studying Bible prophecy for +-30 years and from the Biblical point of view prophetic events are lining up like crazy. People call me crazy and that is okay. I am doing what the father asks of me and that is warn of the coming storm(s).
If you ain’t trusting God for everything, now is a real good time to start.
Morning, chickadees.
Tedtam: One morning after I had fed the cats and was starting to eat my own breakfast, sitting in front of the laptop on the breakfast room table, just as I am now, I thought I felt something on my leg, down low at the ankle. I thought it was a cat tail brushing up against my ankle, but it continued so finally I leaned over and looked down. I screamed when I saw the biggest cockroach I’d ever laid eyes on. It appeared to have easily climbed up my ankle-hjgh sock, but wasn’t able to transition to the leg above the sock. So it was just reaching around with its disgusting front legs, trying to find something to connect to.
Just now, I felt something touching my leg under the table and quickly looked down, gathering my breath for a scream. Whew, it was Millie, brushed against me, just passing by. What a relief!
This is the scapular that I wear daily:
It’s heavier duty than those I’ve worn in the past, and it has pockets front and back. I have a Miraculous Medal in one, and a St. Benedict in the other. All blessed. I had a priest admire mine before. If you’re not aware of who St. Benedict is, let’s just say that in the history of demon butt-kicking, he’s among the baddest of a$$es in that department. His medals are commonly attached to rosaries and worn as necklaces.
The problem with scapulars is that as I go through my day, they tend to ride up in front and hang down far in the back (that’s why I felt “something” on my back). I try to bobby pin them to my bra or my shirt to keep that from happening.
I’ve had flimsier scapulars, but the strings tend to break. This one – it’s holding up really well. I rarely take it off. As the site says: “Don’t be caught dead without one!” 😉
Squawk:
Things are only going to get worse.
Yeah, that’s the part I’m not looking forward to. And why I’m preserving food. If I get to eat it.
Mharper – did you do the happy bug dance? Scream like a girl?
Those are my go-to responses in situations like yours.
I just took a small tour of my garden while praying my rosary. I discovered a group of rather healthy-looking tomatoes that I’ve totally missed ’til now. They’re hiding on the backside of the plant, up against the “back wall” of one of my totes. I found some other new ones on another plant, too.
They obviously were stressed by the summer heat. Here’s to hoping I get a decent fall crop. For me.
Again, that’s a low bar.
Paging El Gordo.
Pfizer is going to get sued, mark my words. The plaintiffs will have to go after the Trump administration’s liability waivers for vaccine makers first, but it’s coming. Hospitals and doctors are in the on deck circle. The absolute macabre practice of intubating Covid patients with ventilators when many hospital personnel suspected or knew it was killing them isn’t going to go away either.
From Michael P. Senger at Substack:
“For political reasons, these deaths were all generally been lumped together as “Covid deaths,” but this coding was appallingly sloppy. According to the World Health Organization’s initial coding guidance, if a decedent had either tested positive—using a PCR test later confirmed by the New York Times to have a false positive rate over 85%—or been in contact with anyone who had within several weeks prior to their death, then the death should be classified as a “Covid death.” This enormous number of “Covid deaths” was obviously belied by the fact that many places reporting those “Covid deaths,” such as Maine, actually had no excess deaths to speak of.
Thus, this article reexamines data from the US CDC on all-cause excess deaths by state during peak lockdown in April 2020 using the information we now know to determine what actually caused them.”
and this,
“Given we now know that patients over age 65 were more than 26 times as likely to survive if they were not placed on mechanical ventilators, it’s not hard to see how this hysteria for mechanical ventilators in the New York area accounted for the particularly high excess death rates in that region.”
plus,
All told, this data indicates that some 30,000 patients in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts were killed by mechanical ventilators or other medical iatrogenesis in April 2020.
RTWDT.
Re #35
Texpat says:
October 10, 2022 at 7:59 am
I think El Gordo was going in for his first cataract surgery this morning.
Uh oh, does anyone have a phone # for EG? I don’t think he gave us any details on how long he would be away from home for that…
Wow!
NYC sheriffs are refusing to enforce new gun law
https://rumble.com/v1nisp2-nyc-sheriffs-are-refusing-to-enforce-new-gun-law.html
And in other NON political stuff……………
T-minus less than 2 hours to commence ALDS vs. Seattle Mariners game #1
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ‘STROS!!
#39 – BwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
An unhackable internet ? Maybe.
“CHICAGO — The secret to a more secure and powerful internet — one potentially impossible to hack — might be residing in a basement closet seemingly suited for brooms and mops.
The 3-foot-wide cubby, in the bowels of a University of Chicago laboratory, contains a slim rack of hardware discreetly firing quantum particles into a fiber-optic network. The goal: to use nature’s smallest objects to share information under encryption that cannot be broken — and eventually to connect a network of quantum computers capable of herculean calculations.
The modest trappings of Equipment Closet LL211A belie the importance of a project at the forefront of one of the world’s hottest technology competitions. The United States, China and others are vying to harness the bizarre properties of quantum particles to process information in powerful new ways — technology that could confer major economic and national-security benefits to the countries that dominate it.”
So I am wondering if EG went in for the eye surgery yet or not??? Texpat said yesterday that he thought that would be yesterday Monday.
Texpat says:
October 10, 2022 at 7:59 am
I think El Gordo was going in for his first cataract surgery this morning.
But I am wondering based on this from last Thursday…
El Gordo says:
October 6, 2022 at 6:41 am
All these cloudless, bright sunny days just makes me more anxious to go get my new eyeballs installed, and the sooner the better. Next Wednesday for the first one, the following Wednesday for the other one.
See why I am getting worried???
Something noted this past weekend by a political observer in New York state was the fact local and statewide candidates were not mentioning and avoiding Governor Kathy Hochul. It appears the internal polling indicates she is a lot more unpopular than the media let on.
The same thing goes for Tim Ryan in the Ohio senate race against JD Vance. The big money Democrats seem to have abandoned Ryan due to some bad numbers in their polling. Good.
Tim roused EG Over Yonder, he is at home, resting up for Surgery #1 tomrrow.
#42 – One wonders HOW anyone at U of Chi could possibly concentrate on this level of technical stuff with all of the gunfire in the background?
/sarc OFF 😉
Barrett Jackson
Lot #443.1 MICKEY GILLEY’S 1977 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL MARK V
This Lincoln has a story to tell that changed the history of country-western music and pop culture in the United States. The story begins in 1973 in Pasadena, TX, where club owner and session musician Mickey Gilley was in the studio recording singles for a local jukebox company. As a joke, he recorded a take on a classic country western song in the style of his more famous first cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis. The song, “Room Full of Roses,”…..
Per Michael Berry, Barrett-Jackson is coming to Houston in a few weeks.
Just got my old-folks flu shot.
I usually wait a little longer but I want it in full force by the end of the month.
You never know what you might catch in New Jersey.
Maybe I need a rabies vaccine, too.
Watching the Astros Rube Goldberg style. Got the game on TV in Spanish (muted) and listening to the game via radio via internet via 790AM. The radio is about 20 seconds ahead of the TV. Verlander pitches a strike and 20 seconds later I get to see it. Awwwww the joys of cord cutting and being a cheapskate. I refuse to pay for a subscription for a week or so to watch the games. Oh well it is like watching a game full of instant replays.
All of the TV stations have been doing a story warning about gridlock at Bush Airport for the next thirty days. They’re going to have intermittent lane closures on the road near the terminals.
So I figure I’m going be there about 3AM for a 6AM flight.
What streaming channel is carrying the games Katfish?
I’ve about given up on the flu shot. The international group in charge of the custom formula each year has been well under 50% effectiveness the last 3 years.
I do have the pneumococcal vaccine, though, which is a lot more reliable.
#51 Shannon: !?!3am!?!
That is way before the butt-crack of Dawn, that’s all the way up to the appendix.
Maybe we should just turn the radio part “off” and listen in Espanol… It might be less painful… At least the hotdogs, and German chocolate cake will be good…
#52 – I don’t speaky ‘streaming’
On Comcast ch 651 = TBS (Atlanta)
I could sign up and cancel later to either youtube TV, hulu or sling to get TBS but i just don’t wanna. I do not mind radio broadcast it is like the olden days for me. Kinduh quaint.
#56 KF
You said you were a cheapy, I assumed you were off the grid. Cable is not cheap! I found it on TBS.
Good Afternoon Hamsters,
Interesting stuff here today coming from all directions.
Good news that more and more dirty info on the Covid shots front is coming out to the public, and the LSM can’t ignore it because too many folks are aware of it from other sources they trust. Sources that actually have investigated various aspects of the Covid rock and roll since it became not only big news, but in some times just about the only news from every insane angle anybody could think of. Let the lawsuits begin, despite that the companies who make the Covid shots are supposedly protected from lawsuits regarding its manufacture. That protection is likely to be shot down in court given the disasters their product has caused.
Spouse and I got our seasonal flu shots last week at our nearby Randall’s pharmacy. No mention by the pharmacist who took care of us about the Covid stuff, and notification that it was available was barely noticeable. When I mentioned we wanted to confirm it was the seasonal flu shot when he came to administer it, the look on his face was pretty much said “yea, these folks understand the issue.”
GJT
I cut the cord some time ago. I do pay $60 a month for FUBO TV and it is a good service, carries what I want to watch 1/2 the price of SatTV. Cable is not available here. I could cut that price down to $30 a month thru Sling but it does not carry a couple channels the Mrs. likes. My fiber optic inet is $60 a month.
#57 – I have a hate/hate relationship w Comcast – that being said for me to acquire access to all of the various TV stations we actually do USE – would be real close $$$ wise to what I pay Comcast.
only ONE bill instead of several
Tedtam,
Thank you for the green ink. It works very well for me. 🙂
Today in an [EU Parliament] hearing, A Pfizer director told me: “The vaccine had never been tested on stopping the transmission of the virus…
See My #36 today.
I don’t know that Pfizer is indemnified all over Europe and what about countries not members of the EU ? They are going to get sued.
Incredible.
I wish I could have seen it.
The big guy smashes a 3 run walk off homer.
Just frikkin incredible.
Katfish tells me the TBS announcer had barely just got out the words, “The most feared hitter in the American League”.
Wham.
Now I guess I can go put the icing on the cake, and start the hotdogs cremating 😉
GO ‘STROS
Astros behind the entire game.
With three outs to go, I texted, Come on, guys. Let’s pull this one out of the hat.
Well, it was magical. Credit Peña with a clutch base hit, too.
Thanks, SQK. I can’t stop watching it.
Jordan Alvarez. Baseballs October surprise
That’s uncanny crowd roar as that ball heads out.
Like every low male voice in the crowd went whoa.
The only other homerun I have seen that was as devastating was Albert Pujols blast against Brad Lidge.
Yeah. I thought of him, too.
Two words lololol
I watched a bit early on but missed the end. We are spoiled by this team, and deserve every bit of it.
Three things – I don’t watch much regular season baseball and since I got a forced retirement, not on the road much and don’t get to listen to sports talk much.
#2 most probable MVP? Never heard of him.
Cleveland Guardians?? That’s just ridiculous.
Air Yordan
Is that a thing or did I just see somebody come up with it on FB?
GJT
The announcers both radiot and televicous have been calling him Air Yordan from the firsticus homerun he hit.
72 GJT
I tried but couldn’t figure out a way to watch the game today.
We are spoiled by this team, and deserve every bit of it.
You are damned right about that. My father, my brother and I suffered through decades of disappointment with this team. Our maternal grandmother in Bellville and paternal grandfather in Beaumont would listen to every single game on their radios. They didn’t miss one of them and were the most loyal fans ever no matter how badly they played. When the Astros win their division, their league and go to the World Series – win or lose – I think about them and wish my grandparents were here to see it.
Texpat
Yep, my PaPa and especially my wife’s grandpa. He would have been on cloud nine, I can see him slapping his knees now just a laughing.
And my parents, can’t believe my mom is a sports fan of any kind but she’s grown to love her Astros, can rattle off everyone on the team. Baseball season gives them something to enjoy together and look forward to.
Fay’s mother and her two best friends listened to Gene Elston every single game. And discussed it the next morning.
Unless, of course, she was on the road watching Fay kick ass on the basketball court.
The one thing my dad did as a CEO of his company was buy season tickets for the Astros in the third base box seats every year for I don’t know how long. Shannon and I both went to many games via those tickets and I can’t remember if I ever saw them win a game. The Astros in those days were pitching and defense kings, but couldn’t get a base hit to save their lives. It used to be Opponents 1/Astros 0 or Astros 1/Opponents 2 game after game after game – the whole season. Houston might have had one of/or the best pitching lineups in the NL, but they couldn’t hit a ball with a bat for nothing.
Squawk @6:29 PM
I’m watching the Astro players and coaches empty the dugout on the Alvarez homerun and then lastly, an HPD cop ambles out, as if he going to do or stop anything.
The question comes to mind: As an HPD officer, what exactly do you have to do to get assigned the Astro dugout in the American League playoffs ? You gotta have some serious stroke or some kinda blackmail on your boss.
1986 loss to the Mets in the NL Championship Series was particularly hard on me.
Mets won 108 games that year.
They haven’t won squat since.
The 1986 Astros included
Ashby, Glenn Davis, Bill Doran, Craig Reynolds, Denny Walling, José Cruz, Billy Hatcher, Kevin Bass, Phil Garner, Dickie Thon, Terry Puhl
Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Bob Knepper, Jim Deshaies,
And the lovable Charlie Kerfeld
Wife 2 had a friend with access to Astro games in ‘86 at the Dome. We went to a lot of games that year, and what a year. Saw many Mike Scott games, including the division clinching no hitter against the Giants. What a party that was, the Dome was rocking as much as the Luv ya Blue days. Manager Roger Craig cracked me up always having the umps check Scott’s ball for scuffing. Nolan was great as always, even that team never gave him any run support.
Yeah that one was a heart breaking loss, couldn’t have asked for a better hitter on the final out as Kevin Bass though.
I was thinking Ken Caminity was on that team but he came on in ‘87. Was there on the night of his major league debut where he hit a triple and a home run and made some incredible fielding plays at third base.
About a month ago my oldest was at a game at Minute Maid and ran into Jose Cruz coming out of the bathroom, got pictures with him, Lil Ricky along side.
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