D-League

[MdWIldcat55]

Solid game for the young Cats. Team shot 40 percent from 3 on a bunch of attempts. Very impressed by Shep, Wagner, Mitchell, Edwards and especially Reeves who was on fire -8 threes on 11 attempts I think.

Not overreacting to these games. But it is a fun summer diversion and I think we can clearly say the freshmen are major D-1 caliber players. That’s the only takeaway I was hoping for.

 

[warrior-cat]

Solid game for the young Cats. Team shot 40 percent from 3 on a bunch of attempts. Very impressed by Shep, Wagner, Mitchell, Edwards and especially Reeves who was on fire -8 threes on 11 attempts I think.

Not overreacting to these games. But it is a fun summer diversion and I think we can clearly say the freshmen are major D-1 caliber players. That’s the only takeaway I was hoping for.

Reds needs to step it up now. Blanked last 2 games and now dowm 2-0 in the 5th

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and cloudy. Clearing later for another 105°F high.

BAL Select closed within 6 last night. Cats responded well. Reeves is an amazing shooter. Tonight vs Canada, eh? Bet Canucks play hard on their home floor. Go Cats!

Wishing all another Happy Sunday.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning D-League gray and rainy in the east.

Well it has now been OVER ONE Week since my Cincinnati Reds have scored a single run. Shutout Sunday, All Star break, shutout Friday and Saturday.

The weirdest part? That happens immediately after the team sets a franchise record of 22 straight games with a home run.

Baseball is a crazy game.

Hope the Cats have one more good performance in them. I suspect they’ll be playing the Canadians, the refs and the crowd this evening.

Have a good day folks.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Heading back to the barn. 670 miles worth. Enjoy this Lord's day. God Bless you all 🙏

 

[berniecarbo]

dog catching fish video - Search Videos

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This is for Warrior.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Bernie - (and others) We were talking Friday about journalists like Bernard Fall killed in Vietnam.

A friend sent this to me -- I'd somehow missed it.

The bottom line -- there has been a push for a memorial on the National Mall to honor journalists killed doing their job. They've got a site approved now, and it is expected to be open in about five years. This being Washington, make it ten. I hope I can hold on that long. I'd like to see what they come up with.

Location - Fallen Journalist Memorial Foundation

The Fallen Journalists Memorial will be located in the heart of our nation’s capital with the U.S. Capitol building in its backdrop. In December 2022, the foundation received congressional approval, with an endorsement from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, to locate the memorial in an area of...

fallenjournalists.org

 

[warrior-cat]

dog catching fish video - Search Videos

www.bing.com

This is for Warrior.

Yeah, I need me one of those. Thanks, that was funny. He was a patient dog.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

85° this morning with a high to be in the low 90's.

Went fishing early this morning at Rattler and caught three. Largest was 2.1lbs. There was another guy there and he caught a couple of three pounders. He was in a kayak and fished area's I could not reach wading.

Come on Reds, at least show us you can still score. Salvage this one game so we can at least share the lead in the NL Cental.

OK folks, sit back, relax, and enjoy the day the Lord has made.

 

[UK82]

Gotta admit. I love watching UK basketball in the middle of July.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Go Cats!!!

 

[UK82]

Impressive week for the Cats. No the competition isn't Duke or Kansas. Still, these guys are legit.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 80°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect until 9 pm tonight. Today's high may hit 107°F.

How about them Cats!?!? Canada pulled within 4. Cats responded. Antonio Reeves = MOP and deservedly so.

Monday, Monday... Co-worker out this week. Hope we're not too busy. Wishing y'all a good one.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Made it. Actually had a good time and was able to rest.

Heading inside. Let's see how my gumption is functioning. 😉😁

Have a God blessed day...

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

71° this morning with a high around 100°. Next few days are supposed to be over 100° and sunny.

The Cats looked good and seemed to play better defense than they have in the past couple of years, but they looked good in the Bahamas last year too. Hard to really say though without a big in the lineup. It looks like Ugonna will be out longer than originally stated according to a new report. Perhaps they are trying to make sure he will be fully healed and strong enough to take the pounding the other bigs will be dishing out.

Not much going on other than the norm today so...You folks be careful out there and try to enjoy your day even if it is Monday.

God Bless.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Cloudy and cooler in the east.

Great to see Kentucky basketball win a gold medal in a FIBA world competition, especially with a largely freshman team. The competition wasn’t NCAA Top Ten, but it wasn’t as bad as some are saying. The same caliber of teams manhandled Baylor last summer.

And while my Reds didn’t win, the team scored! It had been over a week since a Cincy player touched home plate. Baby steps.

Hope you all have a good day.

 

[vhcat70]

While I haven't seen official confirmation, I believe the two teens killed in the Lake Cumberland boating accident over the weekend are from here in Villa Hills and grandsons of a good acquaintance of mine. I last spoke with her a couple weeks back. Her husband is quite prominent around here. Sad regardless of whose kids they are, but hurts more when you know their ancestors.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

It is 72.5°F and sunny at the moment even though we had a thunderstorm move through earlier and gave us .04" of rain. We are supposed to get to 86° today and a good chance for more rain.

I enjoyed the game last night. We need a big man, but without a big man Tre Mitchell is ready to shine. I like the young man. Also Edwards found a slot where his length can really show his talent.

I like a bunch of these kids.

 

[vhcat70]

Good morning folks. Cloudy and cooler in the east.

Great to see Kentucky basketball win a gold medal in a FIBA world competition, especially with a largely freshman team. The competition wasn’t NCAA Top Ten, but it wasn’t as bad as some are saying. The same caliber of teams manhandled Baylor last summer.

And while my Reds didn’t win, the team scored! It had been over a week since a Cincy player touched home plate. Baby steps.

Hope you all have a good day.

Read where the Reds not scoring in three straight games with fewer than nine hits total is a first in the last 130 years of MLB. Maybe that means ever since I wonder what records exist from before 1893. The AL didn't even exist a 130 years ago.

 

[vhcat70]

While I haven't seen official confirmation, I believe the two teens killed in the Lake Cumberland boating accident over the weekend are from here in Villa Hills and grandsons of a good acquaintance of mine. I last spoke with her a couple weeks back. Her husband is quite prominent around here. Sad regardless of whose kids they are, but hurts more when you know their ancestors.

Now have confirmation that they are Cole & Chase Fischer, grandsons of builder Henry Fischer & Elaine whom I know. Fischer builds homes in five states after starting in NKy 40 years ago.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Now have confirmation that they are Cole & Chase Fischer, grandsons of builder Henry Fischer & Elaine whom I know. Fischer builds homes in five states after starting in NKy 40 years ago.

That's a heartbreaking story.

I went to one of the online versions and they say the father witnessed the accident that killed his two sons. Whatever the circumstances, and there is no reason to believe he was careless in any way, he will never have a moment of peace from second guessing himself for letting them be out there on a jetski around larger boats. That's just human nature. It is impossible to protect your children from every vagary of life, but you still think you should.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

What a day, what a day. Not good and not bad. Despise days like that until you view your day retrospectively when you have a horribly bad or bad day. (I had my issues with some events of today but no day is normally perfect.)

Have a great afternoon...

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear. Dry. Excessive heat warning remains in effect. Today's high projected around 107°F.

Happy to still be counted amongst the living. Wishing all a great day.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and warm on the east

Just woke up from a crazy dream in which I found myself at a fancy home closing ceremony. At first I was excited —a new house! —but then it occurred to me I had no idea where this house was, and more importantly how much it cost. Turns out my wife had spotted a mansion she loved in the most expensive section of DC and somehow I’d gotten all the way to signing the contract without knowing how much the payments were and how I was going to sell the house we are in. And I like my house!

After a nightmare like that whatever happens today should be a breeze.

Reds didn’t lose. Didn’t win. Suspended game.

Hope you all have a good day.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Heading inside. My Grandson will be leaving from the Austin airport this morning to come home. At least he got close to meeting ATXC... 😉

All have a great day.

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and warm on the east

Just woke up from a crazy dream in which I found myself at a fancy home closing ceremony. At first I was excited —a new house! —but then it occurred to me I had no idea where this house was, and more importantly how much it cost. Turns out my wife had spotted a mansion she loved in the most expensive section of DC and somehow I’d gotten all the way to signing the contract without knowing how much the payments were and how I was going to sell the house we are in. And I like my house!

After a nightmare like that whatever happens today should be a breeze.

Reds didn’t lose. Didn’t win. Suspended game.

Hope you all have a good day.

Funny. Had a similar dream last night but going the other way with it. We had lost the house we live in now and returned back to our old house (which by the way was dozed and replaced with apartments after we sold it so...). There were big square holes cut in the floor with water under the house and a bunch of leaves on top of the water. Back yard had been turned into a garden with all sorts of fruit bearing vines. Some I did not even know what they were so, I started trying them. The dogs were running around enjoying themselves and the next door neighbor was in his truck in his driveway playing Scotland the Brave.

How is that for weird.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Funny. Had a similar dream last night but going the other way with it. We had lost the house we live in now and returned back to our old house (which by the way was dozed and replaced with apartments after we sold it so...). There were big square holes cut in the floor with water under the house and a bunch of leaves on top of the water. Back yard had been turned into a garden with all sorts of fruit bearing vines. Some I did not even know what they were so, I started trying them. The dogs were running around enjoying themselves and the next door neighbor was in his truck in his driveway playing Scotland the Brave.

How is that for weird.

I’ll take your dream over mine Warrior. Fishing without leaving the house! Free fruit! And From the sounds of it you weren’t going to be on the hook for a $9,000 a month mortgage payment!

 

[blubo]

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Sunny and 81.0°F on our way to 85° with an 80% chance of rain.

I watched the Canada game again yesterday and then Sherry and I went to have dinner with some of her high school classmates. Good Mexican food. I only had one beer (Miller Lite). I usually have a Michelob, but not since March.

You all enjoy your Tuesday.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I have to post this, it got me chuckling.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Today's MLB trivia -- from the hated steroid era...

Sammy Sosa has three of the top six single-season home run totals in MLB history.

How many of those seasons did he lead the National League in home runs?

(No cheating with Google.)

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Today's MLB trivia -- from the hated steroid era...

Sammy Sosa has three of the top six single-season home run totals in MLB history.

How many of those seasons did he lead the National League in home runs?

(No cheating with Google.)

I have no idea because the 1994 strike made me leave baseball.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I have no idea because the 1994 strike made me leave baseball.

Sosa has three of the Top Six HR seasons in the Major Leagues of all time -- and finished second in the National League all three years:

1998: Mark McGwire 70. Sammy Sosa 66
1999 Mark McGwire 65. Sammy Sosa 63
2001 Barry Bonds 73. Sammy Sosa 64

What a wreck steroids made of the hallowed baseball record book.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Sosa has three of the Top Six HR seasons in the Major Leagues of all time -- and finished second in the National League all three years:

1998: Mark McGwire 70. Sammy Sosa 66
1999 Mark McGwire 65. Sammy Sosa 63
2001 Barry Bonds 73. Sammy Sosa 64

What a wreck steroids made of the hallowed baseball record book.

In 1994 I lived in Jacksonville, FL.

The Chicago Cubs catcher, whose father worked with me, was using my Country Club membership to play golf. At three million a year he did not need me but he may not have been accepted to the club. So he used me.

He supported the strike. He was only making about 3 million a year playing on my membership. He sure needed to use my membership as it was a whopping $500 a month.

I stopped him using my membership and I quit watching baseball.

What a bunch of spoiled assholes.

Of course all pro-sports folks are the same, but that was so close to me that I quit the sport.

 

[BBUK]

Waiting at DCA to pick-up the BB...❤️

 

[MdWIldcat55]

In 1994 I lived in Jacksonville, FL.

The Chicago Cubs catcher, whose father worked with me, was using my Country Club membership to play golf. At three million a year he did not need me but he may not have been accepted to the club. So he used me.

He supported the strike. He was only making about 3 million a year playing on my membership. He sure needed to use my membership as it was a whopping $500 a month.

I stopped him using my membership and I quit watching baseball.

What a bunch of spoiled assholes.

Of course all pro-sports folks are the same, but that was so close to me that I quit the sport.

Bert -- next thing you know you are going to be criticizing Jane Fonda, Whoopie Goldberg, Mark Ruffalo and the other Hollywood manual laborers who are out on strike, seeking humane treatment during their $15 million movie shoots.

 

[BBUK]

Bert -- next thing you know you are going to be criticizing Jane Fonda, Whoopie Goldberg, Mark Ruffalo and the other Hollywood manual laborers who are out on strike, seeking humane treatment during their $15 million movie shoots.

Whoopie makes you puke.

Liked her in sister act though...

 

[warrior-cat]

Sosa has three of the Top Six HR seasons in the Major Leagues of all time -- and finished second in the National League all three years:

1998: Mark McGwire 70. Sammy Sosa 66
1999 Mark McGwire 65. Sammy Sosa 63
2001 Barry Bonds 73. Sammy Sosa 64

What a wreck steroids made of the hallowed baseball record book.

As soon as I read those names, that was the first thing that came to mind.

 

[warrior-cat]

Whoopie makes you puke.

Liked her in sister act though...

She, like some others, was actually good before they let politics and anger drive their show. David Letterman being another that comes to mind.

 

[berniecarbo]

Sosa has three of the Top Six HR seasons in the Major Leagues of all time -- and finished second in the National League all three years:

1998: Mark McGwire 70. Sammy Sosa 66
1999 Mark McGwire 65. Sammy Sosa 63
2001 Barry Bonds 73. Sammy Sosa 64

What a wreck steroids made of the hallowed baseball record book.

Being a Cardinal fan, I was a big McGwire fan. I still like him as he is a really nice guy by all accounts, but it did take him down a bit in my estimation. I recall a story on Mark. An opponent was on the Cardinal pregame radio show following a game the previous day where a brawl broke out. I forget the guys name, but he was a large man and power hitter. He was on first base when the brawl started. He said he started to join the brawl when Mark grabbed him on both biceps from behind and said, "let's just stay here and watch." He said Mark wasn't trying to hurt him and was just trying to hold him tight enough to keep him in place. He said he had bruises on both biceps in the shape of Mark's fingers.