Will this be our opening day 2012 lineup?
Except for Castro, could well be. The only question marks are Myers and Barmes, right?
I doubt they are just going to give Castro the job. Q has done enough this year to make Castro earn the job.
Maybe, but it was entirely likely that he'd have started 2011 as the #1 catcher.
Myers got any one out yet?
Uh, no.
He's due then.
Might be a short GZ tonight, folks. I'll be here all night, but I might be alone or with JCIII.
I'm here, but cooking.
I stuck it out until the bitter end last night. I just sort of ran out of steam in the posting department.
...Walt?
I'm here, but cooking. Give me some time.
So my rabid Yankee fan friend just texted me. He is actually rooting for the Yanks to LOSE so that the team from north of Connecticut will miss the playoffs.
Catfish sounds good.
Whatcha making?I made teal gumbo tonight. My son went hunting this last weekend.
No, catfish. Is walt any good?
Sadly, this was store bought, but still pretty dern good.
I understand. It's actually more fun to ignore JCIII.
Now that sounds great!
Ignore who?!?
Sorry, I've just been watching a lot of Breaking Bad lately.
Jose Cruz III.
That de-criminalization of noodling has really broadened the old recipe horizon, huh?
OH! I found a guy in the market the other day who was selling the prettiest little round eggplants. I don't particularly like eggplant but these were so nice I had to get some. As I'm standing there fondling them I look down and see that this fucker has several bags of fresh okra under his table. I'm like, What the fuck are you doing with that?! He says, I grow it. Fuck me, I say, let me have a bag of that. I couldn't believe it. It was like sixty cents. I found some okra, too small really to be of any use, in a Chinese fruit stand in the city and it was like four dollars for a little tray of it. So this fellow at my local market is going to get to know me as a regular customer.
Never got around to starting that series. Very much looking forward to season 2 of the Walking Dead though.
Yankees up 6-0. Red Sucks winning 3-2.
Eggplant and okra. OK, you finally sold me.
Thanks for cheering me up.(sarcasm alert for MH!)
Man, if for some reason you don't want to fry okra you can roast it and it's amazing. You can also deslime it that way and add it to stuff and bring a little of the roasted flavor.
So, now that you got you some okra, you can make some gumbo, chuck.
I love okra. Raw in salads is good. Sauteed with onions, bacon and fresh tomatoes is better.
I couldn't believe it. This is a fairly large fruit and vegetable market. There's meat in the back but I can't bring myself to go back there. Anyway, I would say there are about 50 stalls or so. Most people have a lot of the same stuff and most of it is about the same quality. Sometimes you'll see someone with some particularly pretty tomatoes or some particularly nice red onions or whatever, but it's largely pretty static. As you wander around a lot of the vendors will try to sell you. You're not hounded like you're in a middle eastern medina but they will try to entice you a lot of the time. Not this guy. He was just sitting there calmly watching the people passing by. I'd seen his eggplant on my first go-round and I returned to him after picking up some other items elsewhere. When I saw the okra I started freaking out. You NEVER see this! I say. No, not often, he concedes. Where the hell do you get it? I grow it, he says, allowing himself a small smile. When I have it I bring it in. Well, keep growing it, dude, I say, nice work.
No kidding: I started tearing up. Even though okra is easy to get here, most of the time, and I have even grown some.....my wonderful aunt had some of the best okra I have ever eaten, and I saw her for the first time in 18 years this last Saturday. Sweet story.
That's what I'm saying. The gumbo I made a while back was pretty damn good without okra, but now it will be 10 times better.Roasted okra? Fuck me, I wish I had some left and I'd go down and try that right now.
To roast it, cut it up in bite size and roll it around in equal parts balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Salt it and roast at 450 for five minutes, the toss and put it back in the oven again. Do that again so you've cooked it 15 minutes and it's ready. If you're going to put it in something else, use water instead of vinegar. It's like crack. You can eat it hot or cold.
None of you fuckers mentioned that its a no-hitter - would be a fitting end
Nice video of J.R. Richard.
My mom's side of the family has their own okra variety. Started by an aunt in Oklahoma. They've been growing it and sharing the seeds for years. It's good, grows big and fast and always tender yet crisp though not stalky.
Would you be willing to share?
I'll get some seeds mailed to me.
Okra? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?!?
You will be my hero.
Dang, mine too if I can get in on this.
Sasquatch commercials would be much better with more bloodshed.
I'll get some seeds this winter for spring time planting.
So if I get these seeds to you guys and you don't grow the best fucking okra you ever had, it's not the seeds, it's the grower. Just saying.
So imagine, all those dudes are gonna buy that Ford truck 'cuz Brett Michaels says it rocks!
I do know my Bible sir. "On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow and he shall work in her, in and again, 'til she bring him to his fall and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast."
I was celebrating Altuve's hit like a Kansas City faggot at a Liza Minnelli concert. That's how bad things are with this fucking team. I cheer the team's not getting no hit as the Thirds win the wild card. Ridiculous.
Venters just walked bases loaded with two down, up 1 in the 8th
Raw okra is seriously under-rated.
Do NOT let Pooholes get that fucking 100th RBI.
How was Liza? Was she splendid?
Do you have a garden going at the Shack?
Fabulous.
Don't remember seeing that Astros 50 commercial before - I remember going to the last game before they took down the scoreboard and crying at the end - anyone know what year that was?
You tried it?
She was fierce!
Of course. How the hell would I know otherwise? As a kid we'd have okra all the time but it was invariably either boiled or fried. As I got older and figured out there were other ways to treat it my life improved considerably. You want to know who knows how to use okra? The Japanese, that's who.
I thought she was pretty hot. In like 1972 Before electricity.
Crap, no. I was there but I don't remember the year.
My dad canned (in mason jars) some real good spicy pickled okra.
My guess was '88. It happened to be correct. Oh the good old days of cig signs n light board representation of pistol violence.
I thought she was pretty hot. In like 1972.
Haven't seen a Brown Hand Center spot in awhile. It's been Jack in the Box and messing' with sasquatch ads.
Hallucinogenics were pretty popular back then I guess...
I'll never buy a scotts product.
Long legs. Big eyes. Overbite. Pointy nose. Whaddaya want, I was 12.
At least you didn't say "voice like her mother" and "a flare for the melodramatic."
Worse, I'm stone cold sober
Family home. Gotta run. I need okra.Night all.
As my grandfather would have said, That's your own damn fault.My grandfather's name was Woodrow Wilson Echols. Until he was six he was simply called Brother, and his siblings called him nothing other than Brother until their respective deaths. Schooling apparently started at six in those days and in order to have a name of some official standing he was tasked with naming himself. He chose Woodrow Wilson. But that's not the odd part. I recently found out that he was not the only person of that era with that same name. Isn't that strange? Two Woodrow Wilson Echolses running around in the 30's and 40's.
JD is off the hook tonight.
Did you have a crush on Basil Rathbone, too?
Didn't know I was on it...
Oh, you're definitely not.
Yep, that sarc meter is still on the fritz...
Might be starting to be worthwhile to check yanks/rays
It wasn't a very fun season.
Well, well, Evan...
No. But no more Astros baseball until next spring. That sucks.
Well, I always enjoy the regular season, no matter how shitty we are.
YES!!Rays tie it up!
So, if rays win, what are odds bud calls in a postponement to delay playoff to give sox pitcher an extra day of rest, if the club can pull out a win tomorrow?
Well, this season has just sucked all the way around. It's obvious the Yankees are going to win the whole thing and then they'll announce that the Astros are moving to the AL.
WOW AGAIN!Crawford is going to catch hell in Boston forever.
I was driving home from work last night and finally managed to pick up the Astros game on 740AM. Milo was yammering along, as usual. Then another old guy started talking. Then Milo. Then the other old guy. It's about a 12 minute drive from my office to home, and I didn't know if the Astros were even playing or not until I was about a minute from the house. I appreciate that Milo enjoys interviewing Wally Moon, but holy shit, at least an occasional score/describing a play would be nice. Instead I listened to Milo waxing poetic about the old days the entire ride home only to discover after listening to 10+ minutes of blathering that the Astros were already down 6 to nothing.Needless to say, I was a little miffed.
That happened while I was driving to work. It would've been nice to get some nugget of information within that whole interview but it was pretty much Wally saying that he'd seen Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst lately and he wanted the Cardinals to win, and Milo echoing what Wally said and then pimping the book. It sounded exactly like what you'd think it was, a couple of octogenarians stumbling gamely through pleasantries and it took up the whole freaking inning.
How many more years for Milo? I stopped betting against him a long time ago.
If we go to the AL maybe he won't be able to find us.
If we move, he stays longer to make sure he checks off every park.
back to the game for a brief moment: i really believed that Myers would shut them down. that game was as disappointing for me as any this year.on a brighter note: Matt B. finished at 10-4, 3.25.
back to the game for a brief moment: i really believed that Myers would shut them down.
Matt B. had a fantastic year. Myers' last five weeks turned back into that rotten pumpkin at 7 pm Wednesday.
Tracy inexplicably left Matt in one game to absorb a 10H, 7 ER beating in one inning. it made no sense, and the Colo papers questioned his reasoning. that one game really affected his final stats.
Is Tracy a prick, or was his bullpen really that bad off?
i have no idea.
