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I'll take The Dale in a close one. Always hard to play there.

......to socialism.... Get one of your kids to clean the bathroom. When he/she is done, pay them $10. Then take $7 back and give it to the sibling that did nothing. Tell the child that cleaned the bathroom that this is socialism. We will see how he/she grows up.

You pity the fool?

I predict..........PAIN Silsbee 88 Bridge City 65

When I say Democrats in this case, I am referring to those that make policy...Washington Democrats. I don't need anyone to portray how Democrats behave, I have been watching them for years myself...unhinged crooked fools. By the way, Fox doesn't portray them in any particular way, they simply show actual video and audio of them.

Baylor is ranked #1 in Men’s and Women’s basketball. How the hell does this happen?

Let’s see track practice is going on. Nederland Bulldog relay is Feb 14. Plus middle school track meet and the elementary track meet at the end of the year. It doesn’t take long for the turf to put in. Vidor just did theirs this past summer. It will be done in a timely manner

Common sense won't be tolerated.

Always a good atmosphere and a hard place to win.... If only they would tone down those drums. Lol

Rebels by 20

Maybe more important part of this victory. This could put an end to the judge shopping where one liberal judge can shutdown policy. Gorsuch wrote on that in his concurrence. He lambasted the idea that a single federal judge can write such sweeping injunctions, stating that if current forum shopping continues then federal regulations would essentially have to pass 94-0 through the district courts and then 12-0 on appeal to be implemented. District courts were never designed to have the authority to issue those types of sweeping injunctions that affect more than the specific plaintiffs in front of them A big part of this ruling was a statement that district courts are over-reaching in nationwide injunctions, and that the courts are over-reaching their authority in declaring how things should operate

I just assume all politicians are liars, am I wrong for that?

After that Lumberton game i think im done predicting score margins for Silsbee games, but they will beat BC.

Don't forget about R. Sosa, B. Bost, and K. Curtis. All three of these kids have hot bats too. The one thing PNG and BH have is that majority of the players on each team play at the highest level of Select Premier Baseball during the summer. Most other teams in the district don't.

I will be attending the Huntington @ Lufkin Hudson game. It will be a challenge for me. They put their full band on the visitor’s side and it’s hard to concentrate much less think. My age is showing. Lol

Just one final thought from Friday nights game that tells me all I needed to know about what type of job Coach Mitchell is doing with the Lumberton program. I attend ALOT of high school basketball games and have over the past 50 years but I was struck by the number of people in the crowd that had no ties to Lumberton or Silsbee basketball. Folks that came because they were curious as to how far the Lumberton program has come. Sometimes relevance is the biggest compliment a Coach can receive and from the looks of the crowd Friday night it looks like Coach Mitchell has made the Raiders relevant again. I can’t wait to see what the second half of the district season holds for all the members of this district.

Voted, and sent the link to more people. When does it end?

Voted!

If going 1 - 5 in district is having a bunch of ringers, then yes we have a bunch of ringers. This coach is teaching hard work, perseverance and loyalty to those boys. If he wasn't then they would quit on him and they haven't , so teams aren't getting the easy win . This wouldn't be a problem if it was the same old HF and they were getting beat by 40 or 50 like they have in the past.

There are other coaches in the district, and close proximity of the school who have benefitted from “transfers” for YEARS. And ultimately it’s not the coaches, it’s parents, who make those decisions. And I’m not justifying it, or calling it right or wrong. It’s simply nothing new. What is new is that it’s a new coach at a new school. I’m merely saying that many who are pointing fingers have 4 pointing back at themselves. You know, glass houses and all....

That makes it worse. Good job to the Montalvo family for doing it right

Normally there is more than one date set aside for college visits. I know nothing about this young man or which college he chose to visit and I have no right to pass judgment on the individual so everything I say is just a matter of personal opinion. If no school is missed what’s the difference in leaving at 8pm instead of 4pm? I know these dates are posted ahead of time and I certainly don’t blame a young athlete for taking the trip but it sure makes it tough on a small school team playing without them.

And good game Deweyville you guys played great

I get how they work, my problem is missing a district game. Whatever happened to being a team. I'm all for looking to your future, and I hope the kid has a great college career, but this left his team out to dry. There are always other times you can go visit, I asked around and it was a D3. And honestly I'm not against the kid, it's his parents I'm upset with.

SFA over Lamar 70-62. John Comeaux (Ozen HS) with 18 points in his homecoming. Hard not to root for this guy with his story...

Keep sleeping on NED................

Did that backup QB really transfer to West Brook? If so what am i going to look forward to inside Silsbee football threads this upcoming season other than the "put Briscoe in" etc......?

Good game Rebs...neither team showed an ounce of quit.

Good game pirates

I was told he went to a college visit. Dang shame too because with him it's a different game.

All jokes aside, y'all would be 2 rings short of where you are now if you'd been in the same classification as Carthage. Nobody's gonna argue that.

Not that I necessarily agree with both sides of the argument, but I do realize that complacency could trigger many "the grass is greener somewhere else" feelings. Especially considering that most teachers that do a lot of complaining (I'm assuming) can remember a time when conditions were seemingly better. A time when if a teacher had issues out of a kid all they had to do was walk outside and three on the backside would fix it. A time when expectations of their job was probably much lower. So in that regard, I understand why they are making the argument.. ya know.. "we don't get paid enough for this". Like you say and I agree with, it's not difficult to do something else. I also think that the teachers' salaries are reflective of the amount they have to deal with in regards to school size. It's true that you won't get paid the same in a tiny school as you would in a huge school... but you also won't have 40 kids in a room that may or may not include gang members (embellishment). So yeah.. maybe the grass is greener somewhere else and maybe it's not. Go find out if it's that hard to deal with. I think a good number of educators are ok with their job and are perfectly happy with the reward vs. risk. Just my opinion based on the friends/family I have in the profession.

I have friend that coached in a Houston area high school. Married a girl, had a kid... ended up going to work in the industrial field down in South Texas. He bounced from just under $60k to over $100k instantly. Fast forward two years and he quit the industrial job and moved the family back to the Houston area and actually snagged his old job back. Still hitting about $60k and non-stop whining about the salary. I get it... It's way more fun to coach up kids and not have to worry about the weather, even longer hours than coaching, job insecurity, safety in the workplace, etc... But stop whining already. He's doing what he wants to do... there are lots of other options out there. An analogy I'd use is this. There are guys that operate heavy equipment on pipelines. They usually have to move around and follow the work which means time away from home. When they actually have jobs they work tons of hours, but the pay rates are phenomenal. Those guys are subject to layoffs at any minute and production in their workplace is of the highest importance. Same thing with crane operators in the plants. Long hours, night shifts, job insecurity, sketchy benefits.... but the pay makes up for that. Then you have the guy that maintains streets for the City of Groves. He works five minutes from the house, works 4 tens and has every weekend off. He reads the paper in the crapper every morning after he clocks in and is back at the shop by 3 o'clock every day waiting to clock out at 4:30. He's just checking days off of the calendar until he can retire with benefits. Everybody knows how completely useless those guys for the 4 hours per day that they're kinda-sorta filling potholes. Now imagine the City of Groves guys moaning that he doesn't make as much money as those boys on the pipelines or refineries do.... they're all equipment operators, right? That pretty much sums up my opinion on the "teachers should make as much as everybody else" hoax.

Great answers and explanations. Like I tell all my friends, if you haven’t been in a high school from 4-6A in the past twenty years, and by in a high school , I mean sit in the library or a classroom all day (not feasible for most but more accurate than the five word explanation of school your teenager gives you while focusing on their phone) you’ll be shocked. Again, the school is a reflection of society, so hangout all day at Walmart and watch people and their actions for more shock value. The most disappointing thing is the lack of accountability by students, teachers, administrators, and schools. About ten years or more, schools (where I worked at least) stopped sending kids who would verbally assault teachers to the local judge who would fine the parents ( finally make them be parents by $). The county just said, no, we’re too busy. The really bad ones can really get away with being IDIOTS, yet they’re often untouchable because of their 501 plan. Kids know exactly what they can get away with ( just like us in the 70’s). There are still great kids, parents, teachers, administrators, and schools, but not as many. But I am excited to get back in it, definitely takes a special (demented maybe😏) to do it.

Hit the nail on the head. Lots of teachers in my family. Also, I might add, the common belief that teachers or coaches are off-work when the kids aren't in school is way off base. The state keeps adding more and more and more paperwork, trainings, etc. There are enough mandatory trainings now that the state apparently expects teachers to also be doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc. One thing that is difficult to gauge is how long a teacher should work to earn that salary. A lot of administrators don't hold the teachers very accountable, so it would be easy to treat it like a 9 to 5 (or 8 to 4) job. But a good teacher - let alone a good coach - puts in a lot more than that. You would NOT want to pay them hourly. The insurance is bad but, combined with salaries rarely making a real jump (this year was an exception) teachers in this area in particular have no real raise in take-home pay more often than not. Why does discipline stink? Mommies that don't believe Johnny's crap stinks. Administrators that don't want to deal with mommy. AND..... the state has begun to decide what is an acceptable discipline rate. Not sure now, but at one point they were essentially giving quotas that you can only have a certain number of kids disciplined in in-school-suspension or otherwise. So are you gonna send a kid for screaming obscenities in the hall? Or do you save that spot for a kid that vapes in the bathroom? Or threatens a teacher? Plus some kids are deemed not responsible for their actions due to disabilities and such - regardless of what it does to teachers and students. Academically - the state is currently judging progress more by whether the kids are graduating than anything. So a kid that doesn't get a diploma means the school failed. Doesn't matter whether Johnny can spell or if Johnny simply refuses to learn how to spell. Standardized testing should prevent that - except they keep adding loopholes around that also. Additionally, the politics can be insane. There are very few schools that do anything like merit pay to begin with and the internal politics mean that might be irrelevant anyway. Also goes for discipline. Some kids get hammered for certain things. Other kids walk for the same reason. Sometimes simply because the people in charge like that kid. So, to recap, beyond low salary (combined with insane insurance hikes), no discipline, low academic standards, expanded school year and out of school time requirements, politics and more. Gee, why might there be a shortage of teachers? The crazy thing is the state talks about being concerned about teacher shortages, yet they are making the job more difficult and unpleasant. A lot of coaches are flocking to the refineries - not because they don't enjoy coaching and the kids, but because the situation is so much better. Most parents, I believe, are good parents that want the best for their kids and all the kids. I don't think they realize how messed up things are. The bottom of the barrel parents and kids are ruining it for everyone. Things will get better when the good parents realize the corrosion of standards are hurting everyone and they start demanding that their kids be taken more into account than the bad ones.