I was fortunate enough to meet JR back when McMullen was the team owner. I managed an invite to the Astros VIP suite at the Astrodome (long story) where JR and several other of my Astro favs from earlier days were mingling with the guests. When I shook JR’s hand my hand completely disappeared. He was a heck of a pitcher for the Astros. It was a shame his career ended way too early.
Astros were close to going to World Series in 1980. We could have won it all if JR had not gone down in the middle of the season. it would have one of the best pitching rotations of all time.
(08-08-2021 07:35 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Markie Post dies at age 70. This comes less than a month after fellow Night Court sitcom star Charlie Robinson passed away.
So sad to learn of this.
Markie's father was the noted nuclear fusion (and later flywheel energy storage) researcher, Richard Post, with whom I had the pleasure of working at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
(08-06-2021 06:17 PM)75src Wrote: Astros were close to going to World Series in 1980. We could have won it all if JR had not gone down in the middle of the season. it would have one of the best pitching rotations of all time.
100% agree - we could have won it all if JR hadn't gone down. He had a 105 mph fast ball, with movement.
(08-06-2021 06:17 PM)75src Wrote: Astros were close to going to World Series in 1980. We could have won it all if JR had not gone down in the middle of the season. it would have one of the best pitching rotations of all time.
100% agree - we could have won it all if JR hadn't gone down. He had a 105 mph fast ball, with movement.
He brought it on himself, unfortunately.
and as I recall, our catcher used to get a small steak to slide into his mitt in front of his hand, to take the sting out of catching JR's fastball.........and if it ain't true, it sure as hell sounds good. (but I think it's true)
Cameron Burrell, 26, former NCAA 100 Meter champion, and son of UH Head Track and Field Coach Leroy Burrell and former world class sprinter Michelle Finn Burrell.
(08-11-2021 01:21 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote: Cameron Burrell, 26, former NCAA 100 Meter champion, and son of UH Head Track and Field Coach Leroy Burrell and former world class sprinter Michelle Finn Burrell.
This one seems incredibly sad to me. Not much released about circumstances, except that it was unexpected.
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(08-11-2021 01:21 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote: Cameron Burrell, 26, former NCAA 100 Meter champion, and son of UH Head Track and Field Coach Leroy Burrell and former world class sprinter Michelle Finn Burrell.
This one seems incredibly sad to me. Not much released about circumstances, except that it was unexpected.
TMZ reported that medical records said he died in a parking garage.
(08-11-2021 01:21 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote: Cameron Burrell, 26, former NCAA 100 Meter champion, and son of UH Head Track and Field Coach Leroy Burrell and former world class sprinter Michelle Finn Burrell.
This one seems incredibly sad to me. Not much released about circumstances, except that it was unexpected.
TMZ reported that medical records said he died in a parking garage.
Stephen Herbert Perrin (January 22, 1946– August 13, 2021) was an American game designer and technical writer/editor, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing game RuneQuest for Chaosium.
Quote:Bradley Wayne Hughes (September 28, 1933 – August 18, 2021) was an American billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman of Public Storage, the largest self-storage company in the U.S. doing business as a REIT or real estate investment trust. At the time of his death, Hughes has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion.
In 1972 B. Wayne Hughes made a $50,000 investment to start what became Public Storage in California and made a fortune giving Americans a place to stash their excess junk.
When Hughes and his business partner Kenneth Volk Jr. were just getting started, they put up a sign on their warehouse that said “Private Storage Spaces.” Seeing that, a customer asked if the storage was available to the public, too. They changed the name of the business to “Public Storage,” and it became a success. The publicly traded company had $3.6 billion in 2020 revenues and has more than 2,500 storage locations around the U.S.
It seems people really need to learn to let go of stuff they don't use. That's a LOT of extra crap we all have. I do realize that some units are used for storing other things for business:
Tom T Hall --- iconic country western singer of the 70s and 80s.
"The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"
"A Week in a Country Jail"
"(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine"
"I Love"
"I Like Beer"
"Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)" (faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money)
Composer of "Harper Valley PTA"
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