Friday, August 04, 2023

Friday's podcast: The Texas report with George Rodriguez


Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative....We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....and other stories.....

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Friday's video: The Texas Report: We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....


Friday's video: 
The Texas Report: We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....

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On the street where you sleep

 


(My new American Thinker post)

It’s amazing talking with someone who lives in New York City.  They are angry at the Mets, the Yankees, and the “migrants on the streets.”

This is the story:

Images of migrants forced to sleep on Manhattan sidewalks in recent days are hammering home a point New York City Mayor Eric Adams has long been trying to make to President Joe Biden.

‘We need help,’ Adams said Monday. ‘And it’s not going to get any better. From this moment on, it’s downhill.’

Photos, videos and interviews from the street outside the midtown Manhattan hotel doubling as an intake center are circulating online and in the national media. Groups of newly arrived men resigned to sleeping on cardboard boxes have found that, as Adams has repeatedly warned the White House, there is no room for them.

We need help? I guess that they do. However, they need to do something more than complain or point out the disaster on the streets.

In other words, the Democrats are angry at the outcome but don’t have the courage to direct their anger at the source, or the Biden administration that opened the border.

Yes, they blame Governor Abbott for sending the migrants to New York City or keep calling for immigration reform, or something that is never going to happen in this political climate.

In the meantime, the locals are angry…and getting angrier.

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Happy # 61 Roger Clemens

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We say happy birthday to Roger Clemens.    He was born in Dayton, Ohio on this day in 1962.  Later the family moved to Texas, as I understand.

Roger was a high school star in Houston and then won the national title with The University of Texas in 1983.   In fact, I remember watching Texas win the title on ESPN.  

His major league career was legendary, as Richard Baehr wrote in 2007:  
Some sportswriters have argued, prior to the release of the Mitchell report, that he was the best pitcher in baseball history. 
A career won lost record of 354-184 over 24 seasons, and a career ERA of 3.12, more than one earned run per nine innings below the League Average for the years he pitched of 4.46, make for a  pretty strong case for Clemens to be considered among the best ever.  
Clemens posted his career low ERA in 2005, 1.87, less than half the National League average at age 42.  His ERA was also below 3 in 2004 and 2006.   
On paper, Roger Clemens should be a Hall of Famer. Unfortunately, the allegations about steroids will haunt him for a while.    It may take a few years before writers take a second look at his career.  Or maybe they never will.

In the meantime, we are left with some incredible memories of watching Roger Clemens pitch against the Rangers in Arlington.    He was awesome, specially those years with Boston and the two seasons in Toronto when he was 41-13 with a 2.33 ERA.

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Happy # 74 John Riggins



We say happy birthday to John Riggins, the great NFL running back born on this day in 1949.     Riggins was inducted into NFL Hall of Fame in 1992.

John started his NFL career with the New York Jets in 1971 but his greatest seasons were with Washington Redskins, 1976-85:   7,472 rushing yards & 79 TD's

Who can forget that impressive 43-yard TD in Super Bowl XVII?    It was fabulous!

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