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k4kyv
10-28-2004, 03:57 AM
The Redsox won the world series for the first time since 1918. Frost conditions anticipated in Hell by the early morning hours. Freezing expected to prevail through tomorrow.
Could this be an omen for the election next week? Boston, Massachusetts won the series, beating the opponent in Busch Stadium.
add this to the "tales of the strange"..
The BUNGLES won! on Monday Night Football too!
Now, since they will not be on Mon Night again, they are going to loose the rest.
KC7HDE
10-28-2004, 01:55 PM
Maybe the Seahawks and the Mariners here in Seattle will give a good reason the for nice stadiums they over tax three counties and tie up traffic twice a week for.
Hey, maybe now the Arizona Cardinals will win the super bowl, the Chicago Cubs will win next year's World Series, and it'll snow in Tucson.
K9STH
10-28-2004, 03:52 PM
W7FI:
I have seen snow in Tucson! I have a number of relatives who live there and back when I was in the public school system we sometimes would go out to Tucson during school breaks. A couple of times it really did snow and the snow lasted for a day, or two.
It is really "interesting" to see snow piled on the various cacti around the area.
Now, when the Chicago Cubs reached the playoffs a little while back the political cartoons showed snow falling in Hell!
But, if you remember Dante's Inferno, a part of Hell is actually quite frigid.
Glen, K9STH
KA4DPO
10-28-2004, 03:55 PM
Hey what a comeback.. The Cards had the best record in the league and turned into sand lotters in the series....
WAY TO GO SOX.............
Yeah, I hesitated to mention snow in Tucson, because I've seen some flakes come down here a couple of times in the last 6 years. One time, a co-worker flew down from Seattle for a few days, and his flight was actually delayed due to snow/ice conditions! And it was springtime! Weather can be weird. But, I've never seen snow accumulate in Tucson, at least not in the city proper.
K9STH
10-28-2004, 04:40 PM
My father's uncle owned at one time what has basically become "downtown" Tucson. When I was about 7 or 8 I saw snow piled on the low wall that was around his Spanish style house. He bought quite a bit of land when it was valued in "cents per acre" (just before World War II) and built a house, or two, every year and then sold off the house and the lot to make enough money to build the next set of houses and live off of the money. By the early 1960s all of that land had become office buildings, etc., except for the "home place".
His wife would not let him sell the house. When she died my great-uncle sold the couple of acres that he had retained over the years for a goodly sum of money. Of course the house was gone in a week, or two, torn down by the developers. But, my great-uncle lived pretty high on the hog for the next almost 30 years (until he died).
I remember the very large nature museum outside of the city when it was just a corregated "tin" shack and about 20 small cages sitting on saw-horses! I also remember "Old Tucson" when the population was "3" and it was just a huddle of old movie site buildings. Now it is a large tourist attraction (even if much of it did burn down several years ago).
Glen, K9STH
STH,
Wow, I didn't know you had such a connection to Tucson.
It's a nice little city, I think. I was born up north in the Tempe/Mesa area and grew up there, but I've gotton kind of hooked on Tucson. I love the climate (yes, even the hot summers -- DRY heat IS better!), and I really enjoy the nearby mountains. There's no beach but that's ok, we've got tons of lakes for recreation if the urge for water hits. And San Diego is only about 6 hours drive away.
The lightning here can be pretty exciting in the summer. That's why I got a crank-up tower! I know that the risk increases pretty steep with tower height, and I figure I'm fairly safe at the crankdown height of 14 feet! But man, every summer we get strikes within a block or two of the house.
I also like the close proximity of everything. If you live in midtown, you have almost walking-distance access to major shopping malls, post offices, hospitals, you name it. I've lived in some other cities and it most certainly is not always like this!
K9STH
10-28-2004, 07:31 PM
I also used to go hiking in Texas Canyon with another great-uncle who had a wooden leg.
In the summer of 1960, after I had my driver's license, my female cousin and I went out to buy a Dairy Queen. Since automobiles from Indiana were not usually air conditioned at the time we had to stop at a park that was a couple of blocks from the Dairy Queen and get under some trees so that we could eat the mellorine faster than it could melt. In the car it turned liquid so fast that we couldn't even lick the cone fast enough to keep it from running down our arms.
That same summer on our way to the Los Angeles area we went through Bakersfield just after noon. The heat was something like 119 at the time! Fortunately we could roll the car windows down and do 70 mph which helped a little. But, we sure looked in envy whenever a car drove by that had one of those contraptions that you put in the right-hand side window that contained ice. As they drove down the highway the wind blew across the ice and helped cool the car!
Glen, K9STH
I will be better in a few days... Just getting over a bout of banging my head against the wall...
What happened... Did I wake up in a bad dream...
The Cards blew it big time... after a great season they came to the series looking like a bunch of sand lot kids...
The quiet in Saint Louis was deafening... I was playing poker in a bar during game 4 and the place was quiet as a tomb...
We in Saint Louis are in shock I think...
Man, Harry I am with you there. Sad day.
K9STH
10-28-2004, 08:47 PM
Just be glad that you are not "saddled" with the old Washington Senators (the Texas Rangers). First in war! First in peace! Last in the American League!
Glen, K9STH
KB5WX
10-28-2004, 09:00 PM
Glen ,
The Rangers actually had a pretty good season this year . They even made a good run toward the end and made it interesting in the Western Division . They had the A's and the Angels , both sweating the last week of the regular season . I hope they do even better next year . But I sure do miss Pudge being behind the plate .
Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Oct. 27 2004,20:57)]The Redsox won the world series for the first time since 1918. Frost conditions anticipated in Hell by the early morning hours. Freezing expected to prevail through tomorrow.
Could this be an omen for the election next week? Boston, Massachusetts won the series, beating the opponent in Busch Stadium.
Does this mean that Hell will be closed for a while?
K9STH
10-29-2004, 02:45 PM
My wife, who is the real baseball "nut" around here, has never forgiven the Rangers for letting Pudge go. She still remembers his first "at bat" in the majors where he hit a home run.
Also, he had a hard time getting into the dressing room the first time because he was so young and the guard on the door wouldn't believe that he was actually a member of the team. The manager had to be summoned and the guard was suitably chastised!
It seems that until the All-Star break that the Rangers are on top of the world. Then they start falling apart. This year they started a come-back but then lost it again in the final stretch. Also, the "bull pen" has always failed to come through. The relievers blow a lot more games than they save. Many times I have seen a reliever go in with a 4 or 5 run lead and within an inning the Rangers are 3 or 4 behind.
But, the "new" stadium over in Arlington is a real "beauty"! Designed along the lines of the old Comiskey Park in Chicago.
Glen, K9STH
I thought the "Old" Senators were the Minnesota Twins and the Texas Rangers were the "Next Generation" Senators.
The orignal Senators became the Twins in 1961. Washington then got an expansion team named The Senators which moved to Texas in 1972.
K9STH
10-29-2004, 04:22 PM
But the Texas Rangers still have the "stigma" of having once been Washington Senators! It doesn't matter if they are the first generation or the second generation! The fact remains that the Washington Senators were always
First in war. First in peace. Last in the American League!
You know it seems like anything or anyone who gets near Washington, D.C. for any length of time seems to become affected!
Glen, K9STH
Glen,
I'm only 35 miles from D.C. and I know I'm affected.
Yep. Still the 2 firsts and last but with the new team it will be Last in the National League.
Frank