Thursday Open Commentary
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35 degrees here on the Farm shooting for the mid 60’s but we’re on a warming trend and highs will be in the 80’s by the weekend.
Mornin’ Gang
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El Gordo posted this yesterday afternoon;
Afternoon update. Procedure went well.on second eye today, and all reports are that both eyes are doing well. The new surgery has a patch on it, and vision in the one done last week is still fuzzy, so overall vision is not real good today. But all reports are good, and I’ll get a couple of days with an excuse for being lazy. Thanks for all you all’s support and prayers. More later after I finish my nap.
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Third!
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So I know my new flip phone spies on me but why am I seeing ads for 55 Gal Drums of Denatured Alcohol?!
Oh and I can also get a 270 Gal container.
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It was 48 on my driveway this morning and 57 here at the office according to the digital readout on the display of my totally bitchin F150.
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WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD
Gone Birding
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One of my favorite coffee mugs.
wash, rinse, repeat
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The Alex Stein video on this mornings C&C message is really funny.
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Squawkster, beautiful Scissor Tail. I still think that they should be the state bird, Mocking Bird?! BTW; the Scissor Tail is the state bird of Oklahoma. Oh and we (Alabama) have a unique State Bird; the Yellowhammer.
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Super Dave
See if we opened the SUPER DAVE EATERY AND TRACTOR EMPORIUM I would be there and able to get pictures of that great looking bird.
Welp gotta go now, see y’all tonight.
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The best chart on Biden’s economy.
Via Stephen Moore.
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I remember getting up early in the morning and walking barefoot through the dew covered grass. I’d look back at my footprints and listen to the sweet sound of the meadowlarks and watch the scissortails fly.
Some of my favorite memories.
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Before I start with the C&C, John Schneider is on with Chris Salcedo (radio show, not Newsmax) and John has a new movie out, “To Die For”. Sounds very patriotic. He said he filmed it with a crew of ten folks. I may go look it up later.
Anyway, this is how CoffeeandCovid.com starts out today:
Good morning, C&C, and Happy Thursday! Today’s roundup: the CDC committee’s odious vaccine schedule decision; another covid coincidence; Biden’s next pandemic plan breaks records; New York is like Hogwarts, it’s fun and then you die; Russia tries again to get the UN to investigate US biolabs in Ukraine; AOC hears from some more constituents; a good example of dressing down the school board; and Alex Stein’s wife’s boyfriend won’t share the breadsticks.
Onward, with coffee in hand…
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C&C: Of course the CDC voted to include the clot shot in the list of required childhood “immunizations”. I put that in quotes because the clot shot doesn’t immunize at all – it decreases immunity. Among other things. One thing Childers found amusing, and which I find somewhat distressful – there were CDC officials on camera – WEARING A MASK. Does the viral critter crawl through the internet wires and ride the signals? Is it THAT contagious? Or, as I found distressing, have these people so brainwashed themselves that they are not capable of clear thought and find the mask to be a daily security blanket? If they are that mentally weak, they should not be part of the decision making process that can affect millions of kids.
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More on the vaccine vote: Florida and (future governor) Kari Lake of Arizona said they won’t require it. Here’s hoping Texas follows suit.
There’s a lot about this vote that is unique in American history. For one thing, it’ll be the first time a brand-new, unproven EUA drug will be mandated for kids. But in at least one sense, there’s nothing new about this.
For example, although Hepatitis B is almost always sexually transmitted, the CDC says it is necessary for infants. Infants! What does the CDC think is really going on in nursery school?
The CDC’s recommended schedule also includes a tetanus shot, even though tetanus is not infectious. The oral polio vaccine is actually a source of viral transmission, but it was still approved by the CDC for the school schedule. Neither measles nor mumps are fatal to children but those vaccines are also required to attend school.
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And that illegal gain-of-function research coming out of Boston? The one where the newly jigged-up virus is 80% lethal? C&C has this:
In another one of those wild covid coincidences, ACIP member Camille Nelson Kotton, who just voted to including the covid jab in the childhood schedule, is married to Darrell Nelson Kotton, one of the researchers on that new study explaining how to create an 80% lethal Omicron variant.
It’s a cozy little covid family! Like the Brady Bunch, on mRNA.
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Remember the first honcho in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Board was Elizabeth Warren who wielded her power like the totalitarian bimbo that she is.
Ed Morrisey at Hot Air:
” This decision by the Fifth Circuit is, to quote our current president, a “big f***ing deal.” And that’s not just because it vindicates Republican opposition to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Board, although it certainly does that. And it’s not just because it dismantles — for now — a bad policy that the CFPB was pushing at the moment, although it does do that, too.
No, this decision has far-reaching consequences in reminding everyone that the executive branch and its subordinate agencies cannot constitutionally generate its own funding separate from Congress. And that will be a very big f***ing deal in a matter just getting into the courts at the moment:
[Quote from the WSJ]:
” A federal appeals court found the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded through an unconstitutional method, a ruling that threw out the agency’s regulation on payday lenders and struck a blow against how the agency operates.
The decision, by a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, found the CFPB’s funding structure violated the Constitution’s doctrine of separation of powers, which sets the authority of the three branches of government. Congress has the sole power of the federal purse, and the bureau’s funding structure undercuts that authority, the court said. “
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And then, things happen just because the government says so (not enough facepalm in the world):
Bloomberg ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Biden’s Plan for Next Pandemic Eyes Vaccine Supply Within 130 Days.” According to the story, the Biden Administration produced a new National Biodefense Strategy outlining how the United States will react to the “next” pandemic. They used to come every 100 years, but the next one is likely right around the corner, because climate change. [snuffle snort!]….
… Biden signed National Security Memorandum-15, directing government agencies to implement the new National Biodefense Strategy, which nobody’s seen yet in its full form, and to incorporate its $88 billion-dollar objectives into future budgets.
Summaries of the new Biden strategy say it requires the U.S. to come up with a test for a new virus within 12 hours after first discovery, to develop a vaccine within 100 days, and to manufacture enough vaccine to protect the entire nation within 30 days after that.
Because just by saying “do this” it happens. Like telling the oil companies to increase production while locking production down. It’s MAGIC!
But … why so slow? The strategy should have required a test within ONE hour, not 12 hours. And, let’s have a vaccine for everybody within a WEEK, not three months. We need to move at the speed of science, not the speed of Biden. This lumbering strategy is an outrage! [/sarc not off ]
According to the press release on the White House’s website, the ambitious new plan and its vast new budget will balloon federal public health staffing, by “recruiting, training, and sustaining a robust, flexible, permanent cadre of essential critical health infrastructure workers,[etc.] in our territories and all 50 states.”
It also helpfully includes a substantial media budget for U.S. intelligence agencies to “counter disinformation.” [emphasis mine]
There is so much scary wrong in this. The idea of a new, heavy handed government bureaucracy willing to chew up billions of taxpayer dollars is bad enough, but then add the “disinformation” INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES!
What I read: “Sit down, shut up, open your wallet, give us your arm. Or else.”
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More from C&C:
Project Veritas’ crack team of investigative reporters has done it again, this time catching New York Mayor Eric Adams’ advance team leader Chris Baugh telling some wicked home truths. In the clip, Baugh drinks beer and discusses the City’s odious vaccine mandates.
I’m not going to give the conversation, you should jump over to C&C or go to Project Veritas for yourself. Let’s just say that Mr. Baugh had a big shovel and knew how to use it. I saw the PV release yesterday that Baugh’s employment had been terminated. A polite way of saying he got his wiss fired for telling the truth.
When it came to being a NYC cop, Baugh thought it was a cushy job, except for getting shot at. As for the city employees who refused the jab and got fired? “[expletive deleted] them. ” The guy is a real piece of work.
Baugh seems to deeply resent fired city workers, saying, “I have no sympathy for them.” He cheerfully noted that “for a while … you just had to move out of New York, which was great.” Baugh admitted that the lack of police made the City more dangerous, but he seems to think that’s kind of exciting, including a crazy Harry Potter reference: “New York is sort of like Hogwarts … it’s a lot of fun, great opportunities, and people die.” -
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after less than 2 months in office.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday after less than two months in office amid pressure following a reversal of economic policies that led to economic instability.
Truss made the announcement a day after she defiantly declared that she is “a fighter and not a quitter.” Ultimately, however, she said that circumstances have changed.
“Given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” Truss said. I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.”
Truss said that a leadership election will take place “within the next week” and that she will stay on as prime minister “until a successor has been chosen.”
Truss’ announcement came soon after Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned via a letter that slammed the prime minister.
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Childers also reports on Russia’s renewed complaints and requests for investigations of US biolabs in the Ukraine. So far, crickets from TPTB.
It’s also super regrettable that we — the American people — have never received an explanation from our OWN GOVERNMENT about what we’ve been up to in Ukraine. Why did we need all those biolabs over there? What were we trying to accomplish? Why were our tax dollars spent on all these high-tech facilities, and were we following U.S. and international law while we were doing … whatever we were doing?
Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a single reference to Russia’s complaints anywhere in Western corporate media, not even an article rebutting Russia’s claims. Not one. Weird!
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And then Childers links to this awesome parent’s video to his school board.
He’s a black man arguing for black children, so if the school board refutes him, are they racist?
Or does his stand against “diversity” at the expense of education, his rant against Marxism and other politically correct stances make him no longer black? Does it drain the pigment from his skin?
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Here’s the Twitter link to Alex Stein’s address to the Denton TX council.
The blonde lady is trying to keep from cracking up.
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Hubby and Handyman are back at it again. Today, they reinstall the skylight after making the roof repairs and adding flashing. Hubby needs to make some brackets for the new gutter system that will feed water into the rainwater tank. Then we have to figure out if we need some stabilized material on which to set the tank before completing the installation. Said installation will include a port at the bottom of the tank and a pump to allow me to pressurize the water flow so I can water the garden, wash cars, etc., with it.
But tomorrow, Hubby is going to let Handyman work on fabricating a kitchen area at the shop, on the lot that we are retaining for our use. Currently, Handyman lives in a trailer on our property rent free – but his being there has kept us from getting burglarized, so we like having him there. We already have sewer and water lines on that lot, since there was a kind of outhouse structure on it when we bought it. Hubby’s going to make him a proper bathroom and kitchen area. When all of that is done, we can complete clearing out our plumbing shop and get it ready to rent. We recently put in a heavy duty driveway, suitable for large trucks. We also installed a new roof. Now, we just need to get all of our stuff out of there so new tenants have space to put their stuff.
Clearing it out is going to be the challenging part. Hubby has a shipping container in there, in which he stored his copper and expensive parts. I don’t know if he’s going to leave it or not; moving it out would be challenging. The new tenants may want an indoor vault for their tools, too.
BTW – our drunk next door neighbor was the impetus for us to buy this property many, many years ago, when Hubby was just getting started with his plumbing business. Hubby and the banker found what became our plumbing shop at auction for $22,000. We thought we were buying three lots. The day after the auction, they went out to look at it again, and found the next three lots freshly mowed by the city.
We’d bought SIX lots. We sold one for $26,000 some years later. Built a warehouse with residence area inside on another one. It is a rental. Next to that is our personal space, where Hubby keeps our apartment stuff and is building his car. Handyman lives there. Our plumbing shop is on the next two lots, with the nice new driveway, and then there’s the vacant land that Hubby wants to develop and rent out.
It turns out the witch next door actually did us a favor.
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FINALLY – the story I’ve been waiting for!
And Hubby’s going to love that it’s in a VW factory. CORRECTION: It’s at the Porsche pavilion at what looks to be a car show in Germany.
They chose to be glued down. It’s not the factory’s responsibility to care for them. Or release them.
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#21 – Now THAT fellow is a sho nuff WARRIOR!!!
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There was a story of an 18 year old college freshman football player who died, “suddenly and unexpectedly”. Today, it’s a 17 year old high school choir student.
So sad.
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Your link didn’t work for me.
Try this one….
https://twitter.com/kingojungle/status/1582791184384397314?s=20&t=HRWOPlUSpu-_3uqDsDuKSA
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In the new Scooby Doo movie, Velma is Lebesion.
H/T Michael Berry
https://twitter.com/scoobyhistory/status/1577287683079954432
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RE my #24
One of the comments pointed out the irony of a climate warmonger complaining about having no heat.
heh heh heh
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I’m loving the comments on Daily Wire from my post #24. Suggestions that while the protestors are being held captive by their own design:
- Show them documentaries about the BS on their cause
- Play them conservative shows. Constantly.
- Play “Baby Shark” over and over. And over. And over.
- there’s a song called Make Poop
And many, many other delicious comments and observations, many of them on the hypocrisy of using a petroleum based product that requires another petroleum based product to release them, while fighting the use of petroleum.
This escapade perfectly sums up the world’s left, incapable of figuring out what comes after their temper tantrum.
Just so we are all on the same page, the same activists that believe they can fix the world didnt plan for going to the bathroom after they glued themselves to the floor? That’s a commie for you.
Why turn off the heating? They’re all in jackets. Turn the heat UP. Then watch them try to take the jackets off with one hand glued to the ground.
Did you know the German word for constipation is ‘farfrompoopin’?
I find commenters just as delightful as the column writers, quite often.
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Morning, gang. I had a hard time separating myself from my warm bed this morning. Several weeks ago, I had decided that 3 years indoors was long enough for little JoJo to be safe behind closed doors overnight, so the hall door is always left open now. This means there is some incursion from the 5 boys, and Tyler in particular has started sacking out with JoJo and myself. This morning, I woke up with 3 of the boys plus JoJo asleep on the bed. That made it especially warm and comfy.
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#24 TT: I think that Porsche should charge the protesters rent for occupying their space without permission. IF the protesters want to be released from the floor, I suggest handing them a rusty knife or a hack saw. Further, Porsche should bar anyone else from coming to their aid; let those miscreants wallow in their own feces and starve. It is way past time to get serious about those who trespass on other’s property to make a political statement.
My field of ‘damns’ to give about these protesters is completely barren.; I’m fresh out.
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#24
That’s freakin hilarious!
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I think the CDC’s mandate of the jab will cause problems for the vast majority of folks who are pro Vax, but anti jab. How do they claim an exemption for one “vaccine”, but not the other dozen plus vaccines children receive before they start kindergarten? On the other hand you have people like liberal sis who is anti Vax but all three of her children have been jabbed. It all makes no sense.
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Cute wildlife story of the day. Videos at the link.
“ Oct. 20 (UPI) — The Houston Zoo announced it successfully hatched Chilean flamingo chicks for the first time in six years, and the hatchlings were named in honor of the Houston Astros.
The zoo announced the two chicks were hatched on exhibit behind the Flamingo Terrace and can be seen online via the Houston Zoo Flamingo Cam.
The chicks were dubbed Astro and Orbit in honor of the city’s baseball team and its mascot.
The zoo said flamingo chicks are gray or white at hatching and will develop the species’ distinctive pink color in about three years. “
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This case of this Houston mother abandoning her 16 year old twins and leaving them hand-cuffed and naked in the house while she flees the state with 5 or 6 other kids is mind-boggling.
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Finally got a breather. I started canning early today, since I had a full crock pot of chicken veggie stock. I overestimated the room in the canner, and had extra winter squash half baked which I was planning to use to finish filling the canner. I prefer to run a full canner than half empty, because – why burn twice the fuel and twice the time? So I also had to scoop out seeds and freeze the remaining squash in my vacuum sealed bags. Then wash dishes. Then put stuff away. Then sweep the floor. Then take out the trash.
So here I am, down into my last 20 minutes of the canning cycle. I’ve brought my computer downstairs, so I am getting ready to do at least a little bit of bookkeeping while I’m being so domestic. But soon, I’ll have to prepare dinner…./sigh
No Latin class tonight, but I still need to block out some study time.
PS: Having the squash ready in the freezer will be helpful later. Hubby likes it, so I can whip out one of my frozen squash without having to do all the baking and cleaning. It’ll be a time saver later on.
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Where is everybody? I’ve had my nap and I was ready to catch up on the Couch news.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dances, Mocks Constituents As They Protested
Scroll down to watch the short video, where she is doing the boogaloo or some such, sitting on the edge of the stage.
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Texpat @ 2:51
ABC13 reporting that the mother appeared in a Baton Rouge courtroom today in a straight jacket.
Bond denied for her and her boyfriend.
Harris County has started extradition process.
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She must be pretty combative if they put her in a straight jacket.
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Could someone tell me how I can listen to the game tonight on Astros broadcasting network while watching it on TBS ?
Trying to navigate this ridiculous, confusing crap online is enough to drive anyone crazy.
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Texpat IHeart radio has 790AM streaming the game.
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Framber is hitting his groove, now.
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It’s been a lovely day… not overly hot… lots of blue sky… lots of birdies at Anahuac – including black bellied whistling ducks, some raptors who stayed out of my lens range (but no snow geese yet), stopped by Pizza Hut on the way home to pick up supper, and now am relaxing with my after dinner coffee, and Astros baseball… GOOOOO ‘Stros…
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Its not that I object to a “homer” Yankee broadcast team; it’s just that these people are so bad at what they do.
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I guess they’re gonna throw McCullers to the wolves in NYC.
Here’s hoping he shines.
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#43 Shannon – prayerfully, the ‘Stros will be up 2 games to 0 by then
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Off to watch the Astros game. Please have some scoring within the first hour….
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Nothing like hearing “It is BACK, and It is GOOOOONE” when it’s the Astros up to bat!!!
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Miss Adee – I think they must have heard you LOLOL
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42 Shannon
I have always loved Valdez. He threw a pitch last inning I’ve never seen before. I swear nobody could that thing.
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What is this weird thing thing in the Yankees’ outfielder Bader’s mouth ? Is it a dental retainer ? He looks very weird shoving it in and out of his mouth.
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Pacifier
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Could be his grillz
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Valdez is the King.
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Bite guard
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50 Squawk
At bat, maybe.
But who wears a bite guard in the outfield, in the dugout and running the bases ? I mean, really now…
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Maybe he just had all his teeth capped and he ain’t taking no chances
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It’s a habit from when he was a kid, and his Mama told him, “I told you – I ain’t payin’ to get them teeth fixed TWICE… You better take good care of them…” and ever since…
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What a way to win a game!!!!!
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Is it just me or has this tv outfit intentionally not shown the catcher signing??
That was pretty funny earlier when they showed Maldonado staring up at that one batter when giving signs.
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It has to be embarrassing to lose a game striking out swinging on a pitch that bounces over home plate. I didn’t even do that as a kid.
My neighbors are going to be sad.
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Watch out !
Those Astros have the stands full of lip readers and they have a secret app to send every word you say to the dugout.
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2 / 0 ! GOOOOOO ‘STROS!!!!!!!!!!
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Good to see Bregman having a good post season.
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Yea Astros! Rest up well before traveling to New York (or Nuevo Ork) 🙂
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