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I was all ready to go eat out on Saturday but chickened out at the last minute. Ordered Schlotzkys thru their app instead. I was just thinking... what if the guy that sat in my chair before me was sick? Couldn't shake it. We'll see what happens to the number of infections over the next week or so and then I'll jump back into the pool. I literally ate at the Chick-Fil-A on Downlen Road at about 7:45pm on the last day that they were open before their 18 workers tested positive. It spooked me... not gonna lie.

Six? Oh, you're counting "kickoff" and "punt."

Who was it that said that? It wasn't Santa.... Might have been Tiger85 or somebody... I honestly can't remember.

I'm not making fun of Mackey.... I'm just reminding the Silsbee Fan(s) that proudly proclaimed him as the "the best wide receiver to ever come out of Southeast Texas" after his junior year. And no, it never gets old.

Colton Mackey, WR.

Silsbee and Carthage are pretty much guaranteeing that WOS won’t be back to Dallas until they drop 3A D1.

Easy, there.... I didn’t take his statement as particularly rude or aimed at the h-town kids. The fact is that a lot of the Houston schools don’t have community support. Sorry if the truth offends you.

Y’all can just climb a tree across the road.

We’re a smaller 4A school with limited participation and we have had couple of freshmen and more than a few sophomores called up for varsity duty with some decent levels of instant success. It typically comes later in the season when varsity needs arise or the young ones just really outdo themselves early in the season on the sub-varsity squads. Honestly, though, it kinda seems like we’ve been kinda snake-bit lately because the two kids that I distinctly remember starting as freshmen and having success ended up with mediocre careers. Kinda makes me wonder if the early success kinda killed their drive to improve. Dunno.

I’m too lazy to list out ten. I gave five or so... I’d have Silsbee around six or so, with WOS in the same class. I’ve always liked the concrete stands at WOS... the seating is roomy. It’ll be neat to see how Ned s shapes up after the upgrades. I’ve always liked Newton’s tiny field and I miss the Alamo in Jasper. Favorite non-SETX stadium would be Lobo in Longview. Buna is bad. Orangefield sucks (and so does their stadium). There are a bunch of schools in the middle. LCM isn’t top ten, but there isn’t a bad seat in the house. My problem was with the statement that Silsbee had the best stadium in SETX when they don’t have turf or a video scoreboard, the actual playing surface is widely recognized as the worst, and parking stinks. Nice, but not the best in my opinion.

I doubt anybody will confirm it because “he” is pretty widely known. You’re just gonna have to assume I’m right if nobody disputes it. But they know, lol.

Baseball is KING in BC. The Coronavirus and that crybaby coach from LiCk’eM are the only reasons we haven’t picked up our 27th and 28th District Championships. Anybody that gets in the way of Baseball’s dominance will get run out of town by “the powers that be.”

It couldn’t be done because Mrs. Dauphin exchanged her earthly troubles for a crown and the guy handling her money isn’t a football fan. You’re talking about a community that can’t get together and get a sign to recognize their back-to-back basketball state championships.

Is this a joke? The only label Silsbee’s stadium has is for having the most jacked-up playing surface in SETX. That’s the reason why (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) Silsbee has never hosted a playoff game. Jasper, PNG, The Butch, Huffman, and probably even Lumberton, are all nicer football facilities than Silsbee’s. Livingston is the only local school that I can think of with worse parking. Plus Silsbee’s lighting is bad. I like the dirt pile, though. Except that’s not dirt, it’s a big pile of dashed hopes, unfulfilled dreams, and excuses. Even Bridge City gets a flyover by the Mosquito Control plane. Silsbee is downwind of Evadale on a bad night.

No... a slave by definition was the property of another, not the government. There were few (if any) rights that were afforded to the enslaved. I do, however, think that we have ceded too many of our personal freedoms in exchange for “safety” and “the greater good.” My take on modern slavery is totally different. I think it was outlawed in the 1860s but definitely exists. Our urban areas are modern plantations.... they just don’t require anybody to get up and head out to the fields and nobody realizes that they are free to go. Dependence on our modern welfare system has ruined the lives of millions of Americans.

Jumbo Fisher was talking about the possibility of A&M playing their games in empty stadiums this fall. I still think we’ll be fine by the fall, but this thing has defied my expectations all of the way around.

The Legend of Jack Dallas. Three straight SC games with 2 rings. Plus a much deserved Willie Ray Smith award. Nobody else even comes close to those stats

I forgot about Jamaal Charles. He should be in the conversation.

I'll start at the bottom. 1. Silsbee (tie) 1. Newton (tie) 3. Jasper 4. Bridge City 5. Orangefield 6. Cleveland 7. Newton JV 8. Brock 9. WOS 10. PNG

Personally? That's not a good start. Somebody wrote early on that practically all of us will be exposed. A lot of us will get sick. We will all know someone who died from this. It's kinda sobering.

Well, I wouldn't go that far..... The thing to remember is that the news media's first priority is generating revenue by selling ads. More eyes, more ratings, pricier ads. That's what they're concerned about. However, that doesn't mean that they're totally wrong. "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody is out to get me" is a good way of looking at it. However, this thing has been totally over-hyped for the most of us. The media is literally creaming their panties over the fact that they have a constant stream of bad news to send our way. This is in red print on Drudge today. [Hidden Content] Big news... experts and Trump's advisors doubt white house figures is the headline. So I read it. It basically says that "we don't like the predictions put out, but we don't know if they're high or low... We just know that we disagree" with a heavy dose of "Trump bad." I also read a similar article a few days ago that predicted 100,000-240,000 American deaths due to Coronavirus... Within hours I was seeing headlines that read "Experts predict 240,000 American deaths." I'll be the first to admit that there's some bad things going down in NYC and NOLA right now. I think it'll continue to get worse, then get better. When you go back over time, you can see Black Plague, Bubonic Plague, Swine Flu, SARS, Spanish Flu, etc.... the one thing that they all have in common is that the human race persisted. Sometimes we just need a little reminder that we're still a part of the animal kingdom and disease (regardless of how far modern medicine advances) is still a fact of life... and always will be. My opinion is that a year from now we'll all be fighting off some nasty bugs that were forced to adapt based on our new obsession with antibacterials. I expect that we can all expect a ferocious round of stomach bugs and common colds next winter.

[Hidden Content] I don't know, man... any time that they start loading the bodies in semi-trailers I get a little concerned. But that's just me.

So who was last years' six man or TAPPS champion? Nobody can answer that without looking it up. Everybody knows who the big school champions were.... because they obviously matter more.

I’ve heard the same.