I can’t hardly remember the last time we had so much as a few drops of rain here – seems like years ago. So I guess I had heard something or other about posssibly rain/flooding and it passed over my head, like anything resembling a rain cloud had done for the past year.
So it was Wash Your Dogss Real Good Day – Dogss don’t appreciate the wonderfulness of getting rid of Dog stink, but I do and I had em washed and dry and their fur all nice and clean and soft, just like they hate it to be. And I let them out in the backyard to do their bidness for a while.
Then I heard this funny sound, which continued for like 10 minutes – sounded familiar, like I’d heard it before, then suddenly I realized that it was RAIN on the roof. And yeah, you guessed it – wet Dogss and wet Dog smell again.
Us Texans are experiencing absolutely TERRIBLE drought – and yeah, while the northeast is practically drowning, so rain was MORE than welcome. And there was over an hours’ worth of downpour in Arlington. But unfortunately not near enough for there – and here we got a lot less than that.
As for the game, no Ex-stros played, and neither Verlander nor Wilson was pitching ace baseball when the game was interrupted in the 5th and I didn’t make it back until Feliz got the 1,2,3 out in the 9th.
And who ever thought I’d be happier to see ANY rain than to talk about baseball????
Lisa — Continuing from the last thread, that’s interesting about Kenny Friedman. The weird thing about that rumor is that Friedman has been a Houston sports insider for years and years. If he was interested in buying the Astros and had money ready to go, how or why did he manage to get outplayed by Jim Crane not once but twice (2008 and ’11)?
Friedman might have more cash in his group, but unless they’re willing to come up to Crane’s price, I can’t see Uncle D giving any big discounts. Six months ago, there were a lot of rumors that some groups were interested for $500 or $550 million, but that’s $130 to $180 million short of the current Crane deal.
Anyway, the Chronicle has done a horrible job of covering this sale. I wonder if these other people are really top secret, or if the Chron has just been too lazy to mention them. It’s hard to believe as many as three or four $500 or $550 million groups have been assembled without any names being leaked to the press (almost a year later). I hope the Crane deal dies, but I’m skeptical about who would be next in line.
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andrew friedman and gang can’t do a thing until at least nov 30 – If crane is not approved, the sale will have to be re-started and i would bet that the club is worth a LOT less. drayton can sell for what he can get or he can hold on in hope that the ecnomoy suddenly improves but if bud didn’t want a 300 mill debt load, then drayton ain’t it
i have NO idea why the chron reporters haven’t printed anything. i mean, if i can get info, they should be able to – unless they know at least as much as i do (which SHOULD be a heck of alot less than they SHOULD) and the paper won’t print it. this doesn’t explain the non-chron reporters silence
and things do NOT look good for this team’s future