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Some folks have known but I will make it public. My time as a full time administrator/broadcaster is up. I told my wife of 33 years that when she retired from teaching that I would retire with her to the beach. She retired last May and I told her I would finish out the football and basketball seasons of this year then I would join her. (would have joined her in May but needed to stay on after the passing of our beloved admin WOSGrad). I am so ready to be a beach bum. I have enjoyed these past 17 years here on the site. I have seen it grow from just a little message board to now be considered a valuable media outlet. It truly has been a labor of love. First of all, I want to thank Jordan Wilson, the owner of this site, by inviting me on as a staff member and eventually an administrator. He trusted me with the help of running this site and allowed me to "do my thang" and start my broadcast career. It has truly been a blessing. Thanks I want to thank Todd Broussard (WOSGrad) who is looking down on us from heaven. He has been my partner in crime for all these years and is the reason this site is what it is today. He was the man!! I dearly miss my old friend and I hope that he is up there saying "job well done my friend". Thanks Todd for everything you did for me and this site. I want to thank all the staff members here. Particularly Lucas, Mack, Robert, Terry, Matthew and all of the other staff. You have helped make this the place to be as for Southeast Texas sports. Thanks for all the support over the years. Thanks to all the coaches that I have come to know and work with all these years. Thank you for your support and cooperation and your acceptance of me and SETXsports. I am truly grateful. Thanks to all the members here who really are what makes this site so great. I have become friends with several here and I cherish all the times we have spent on and off this site. God Bless all of you. I wish all and this site the very best. I will still be around some but it will be mostly from my chair on the beach with my toes in the sand holding a cold one. Thanks again to everyone and May God Bless.

Was with TxHoops when we first met at the Evadale gym. What amazed me, with all the people you come in contact with, you still remembered me years later. So drink enough cold ones to kill a few “grey cells”, you have plenty. Kudos to you and Todd for making this site the “go to” place for SETX information. I’ve spent, and continue to spend, countless hours on here, enjoying myself, and the great folks I’ve met here. So enjoy yourself. Wishing you and Mrs AAW all the best.

Some folks have known but I will make it public. My time as a full time administrator/broadcaster is up. I told my wife of 33 years that when she retired from teaching that I would retire with her to the beach. She retired last May and I told her I would finish out the football and basketball seasons of this year then I would join her. (would have joined her in May but needed to stay on after the passing of our beloved admin WOSGrad). I am so ready to be a beach bum. I have enjoyed these past 17 years here on the site. I have seen it grow from just a little message board to now be considered a valuable media outlet. It truly has been a labor of love. First of all, I want to thank Jordan Wilson, the owner of this site, by inviting me on as a staff member and eventually an administrator. He trusted me with the help of running this site and allowed me to "do my thang" and start my broadcast career. It has truly been a blessing. Thanks I want to thank Todd Broussard (WOSGrad) who is looking down on us from heaven. He has been my partner in crime for all these years and is the reason this site is what it is today. He was the man!! I dearly miss my old friend and I hope that he is up there saying "job well done my friend". Thanks Todd for everything you did for me and this site. I want to thank all the staff members here. Particularly Lucas, Mack, Robert, Terry, Matthew and all of the other staff. You have helped make this the place to be as for Southeast Texas sports. Thanks for all the support over the years. Thanks to all the coaches that I have come to know and work with all these years. Thank you for your support and cooperation and your acceptance of me and SETXsports. I am truly grateful. Thanks to all the members here who really are what makes this site so great. I have become friends with several here and I cherish all the times we have spent on and off this site. God Bless all of you. I wish all and this site the very best. I will still be around some but it will be mostly from my chair on the beach with my toes in the sand holding a cold one. Thanks again to everyone and May God Bless.

Unless Duncanville recruit some kids in, they wont be all that.. they’ll have Holland the big kid Barnes and the guard demmings…give me BU for a 3Peat

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This is why I like Vidor playing in the Crosby tournament. Playing 5A/6A teams with 8-12 more guys on their team. Always facing a live arm and it gives you a pretty good look at your pitchers and hitters.

This is an excellent breakdown. Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since 22% of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that 22% of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?" Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car. There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals. Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them. All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery's metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill. In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly. But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs. A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for just - one - battery." Sixty-eight percent of the world's cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?" I'd like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being 'green,' but it is not. This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why. The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled. Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. "Going Green" may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth's environment than meets the eye, for sure.

Those are the two teams I have in the final, with the Zags winning it all. Not super confident in that pick though.

I actually went to get you one, but they were out of cars…chip shortage. Something about Covid, a supply chain and a moron in the White House. Not sure what that means. Oh yeah, I think they mentioned January 6th too.

“We did it Joe” We took the country straight to the sight of the crash.

It’s no coincidence that the only time we get cheap gas, no new foreign wars, and energy independence is when we elect a political outsider.

A BIG congratulations to United for their back to back. What a fantastic job. And way to represent SETX Sports. The whole Golden Triangle area should be proud.

P.S. Shout to 12 News Sports Elam/Cervantes for coverage in the "Playoffs" Thanks Cervantes for some regular season coverage it didnt go unnoticed. Special thanks to SETXSPORTS for this Format.... until next season adios to all.

My daughter plays for Trinity University Tigers, tonight in the NCAA Div 3 Sweet 16, we took out the #1 ranked team 76-71 to move on to the Elite 8!!! We took out #25 Hardin Simmons and #4 Whitworth last weekend!!!

It’s so bad Brady announces he’s coming back. [Hidden Content] I posted this in PRO/NFL thread, but thought I’d give a laugh over here. But n all seriousness, I have an Altima & it’ll take $50 to fill a hair over a half tank. Good grief, Nov should be the biggest landslide in history. I just hope whoever the R’s run can fix all the freaking damage Biden & his Merry Band of Loons have done.

If the pandemic has taught us anything it's that life is short and family matters...enjoy the beach Mike

Thanks for all you've done........

I agree with the pitching issues in tourney play, most teams are in the same boat with pitching, but it also is a good way to determine if your hitters are good enough against less talented guys to win games without your best pitchers.

Yepp. Not accounting for strength of schedule, pre-district records in baseball are a lot less telling of how good or bad a team really is when compared to pre-districts records in football and basketball because those sports don't have the pitching aspect factored in. A lot of innings have to be eaten up by less talented guys during baseball pre-district due to the amount of games played in a short timespan during the 2-3 tournaments that each team plays in.

Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of 2 weeks to flatten the curve.

The Democratic way - give everything YOU have and “we’ll” disburse it those we feel need it……after taking a lil’ for ourselves. 15.6 billion here, 240 million there……as long as there are checks in the checkbook “we” have money.

Drat! The story of my life. Still, your generosity is noted. All our posters now see you as a shining beacon of benevolence while most are consumed by greed. You’re a light to humanity. A Saint!

How could you not include No Limit Payia.. That kid is special.. Dotson, Payia, Yates, Porchia will all return.. It’s 6 juniors and 5 sophomores on this years team.. They will be tough again because those reserves came in during the playoffs and balled.. Roach, Williams, Mickles and Anderson all got action in the playoffs

I like them too if Kerr really is able to come back healthy. I also like Gonzaga. They have the right combination of young studs and seasoned vets.

They lost in the Elite 8 on Saturday night, what a ride that was. If you have a daughter that wants to continue to play basketball after High School, do not blow off Div 3 schools. Div 1 is obviously the big dogs, yes Div 3 does not pay “athletic money” but my daughter is getting an absolutely awesome education at a very very discounted price with grants and scholarships. She is having one of the best college experiences possible. My oldest daughter attends Texas A&M and tells us all the time that she wishes she was having the same experience as her younger sister.

ESPN has Holland ranked as the #4 overall player in the 2023 class, but he didn't impress me at all in the title game against McKinney. Maybe he had an off night or something.

Yates said yesterday at the arrival back to United hes coming back and going for 3 on camara so either hes telling the people one thing and contemplating doing another. The question is why would he leave?

It is definitely very rare. But with those kids, still only averaged 2 wins a season. They had a rare run that they made the playoffs 3 years in a row and actually won the bi-district round game under Carpenter and I also want to say that those are the only 3 playoff appearances in school history as well. Well 2 playoff appearances with Carpenter and 1 under Howard.

Congrats to you and your wife and thank you for all you've done, AAW!

Thank you for all the hard work and time that you put in. You will be missed! Enjoy the BEACH!

Wise words from an old hippie. New album to be released on his 89th bday next month

His dad said on Jim’s hicks and hater show he isn’t going anywhere but to BU & he said on his life yesterday prior to the championship he is not leaving !

Have fun in retirement and congratulations!! Hopefully someone steps in and fills the void.

That is the Orange County newspaper version of all district. Soon the Beaumont enterprise will put out a different version of the same.

Enjoy retirement and thanks for all your hard work to make this such a great site.

Thanks, good luck, and God bless.

Unlike The Greater Metroplex of _ _ _ _ _ _ and others no recruiting or coercing middle school players or their parents to allow their kids to come to BU is done or necessary.

Race baiter!! Just like obama, kamala, jesse, al, and any other person of color that continue the racism hoax!

Great job over the years! Thank you for the service you provided and if I see you on the beach, I’ll have a cold one waiting for you! Headed down there today as a matter of fact! As far as the site, I’m assuming this is going to leave a pretty large admin void. Let us know how we can pitch in to help. We can’t afford to lose this. This is the best site out there. Sorry Smoaky, but you just don’t compare!! Shots fired!

Y’all are sleeping on Bottley as defensive MVP, he was the one who the Silsbee coaches trusted to defend the other teams best player. Blocked shots or rebounds, no but it is a very valuable thing to have a lock down defensive player who can take the other teams best player out of the game. I’d like to get a Silsbee fans opinion but they seemed to love the effort Bottley gave them every game over there.

It would be easier these days to post those that didn’t make it .

I went to Kelly bluebook to get the current value of my vehicle. They asked if the fuel tank was full or empty.

Well remember the movie Above The Rim a 1994 movie.

Lmbo, your bias is showing. There’s a reason those two schools start with L - Loser. 😂😂🤣☠️🤣😂😂 1 - Vidor 2 - Ltown 3 - Huffman 4 - LCM Just funnin, should be a great District battle.

I would argue both the right and left focus on social issues because it gets more attention. Don't Say Gay in FL, the recent trans child abuse deal in Texas, Trump banning trans from serving in the military. I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's both ways.

THINGS YOU CAN SEE FROM SPACE THE GREAT PYRAMIDS THE AMAZON RIVER THE GRAND CANYON THE BALLS OF VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY

This is supposedly a Turkish Proverb. Whoever, it makes a good point. The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the AXE, but the AXE was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was wood, he was one of them! Now, for the few that don’t get it, the AXE is the Democrat Party, and the trees that vote for the AXE are the mindless Democrats that think their Party is still the same bunch that used to actually look out for the poor & middle class - many, many years ago (ending any pretense with Harry Truman). No comparison to today’s DNC that give every indication of wanting to destroy the Republic. For some reason, inexplicable to me, the trees today can’t see the signs that seem so crystal clear to the rest of us. I will say that the AXE is getting so blatant, even some of the trees are beginning to realize it. I hope enough do.

I just busted out laughing real tough like!