The Coffee House

[SquarePeg37 8]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Everybody out here is stunned ... completely surprised. We all thought it was in the bag. The only thing between us and the title was the Astros ... who can't beat the Astros ... (best hitting team in baseball, a team who had beaten us three times in the last six games), piece of cake.

The baseball Gods must have felt we were too big for our britches ... starting our worse pitcher against the league's best team is certainly condensating and disrespectful. The baseball Gods rewarded us appropriately and convincingly. Gary will sacrifice a sheep, (or a puppy that looks like a sheep), to the Gods thanking them for a great season, a terrific six game series and in atonement for stupidly suiting up for the last game in the wrong britches.

How is the team set for next year? Anyone on their way out? What's the general feeling about Roberts managing in the series? Monday morning quarterbacking being what it is, I'm sure there are a lot of "I would have started Kershaw" posts out there... When the Sox lost in the ALCS in game 7 in 2003 I was completely devastated and very mad at how the game was mismanaged. It did, however, make 2004 all the sweeter. Here's to Sox vs. LAD for the 2018 WS!

 

[Gary A.]

On the plus side ... dinner was excellent (per the opinions of the guest). It was possibly Gary's best pizza. Gary has recognized that the single biggest ingredient in any food/drink needs to be top-notch. In pizza that will be the dough/crust. His crusts are now being made with 75% whole wheat 25% bread flour augments with tons of herbs and peppers. It was a good day for food. A guest brought a nice Bordeaux with very good numbers, which needed aeration. Gary opened some Zin from Paso Robles which kicked the Frenchy's butt. Everybody was full from dinner, so the watermelon Sorbet remained in the freezer and dessert consisted of coffee, some snack cheese and gaping mouths of disbelief ... wanting not to believe what was coming across the Tv.

 

[waday]

Everybody out here is stunned ... completely surprised.

I, too, was quite stunned that they didn't go to 20 innings with a rain delay. There's always next year.

 

[jcdeboever]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Everybody out here is stunned ... completely surprised. We all thought it was in the bag. The only thing between us and the title was the Astros ... who can't beat the Astros ... (best hitting team in baseball, a team who had beaten us three times in the last six games), piece of cake.

The baseball Gods must have felt we were too big for our britches ... starting our worse pitcher against the league's best team is certainly condensating and disrespectful. The baseball Gods rewarded us appropriately and convincingly. Gary will sacrifice a sheep, (or a puppy that looks like a sheep), to the Gods thanking them for a great season, a terrific six game series and in atonement for stupidly suiting up for the last game in the wrong britches.

How is the team set for next year? Anyone on their way out? What's the general feeling about Roberts managing in the series? Monday morning quarterbacking being what it is, I'm sure there are a lot of "I would have started Kershaw" posts out there... When the Sox lost in the ALCS in game 7 in 2003 I was completely devastated and very mad at how the game was mismanaged. It did, however, make 2004 all the sweeter. Here's to Sox vs. LAD for the 2018 WS!

Darvish was a rental. lots of young, controllable players. Roberts didn't lose the series, the players decided the outcome. If they get rid of Roberts, their stupid. They are gonna be tough for years. I think if the upper management would have nabbed Verlander, this would be different. Gary and I talked about that at the deadline and were very bummed. It reareded it's ugly head.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary thinks that LA's 2016 was your 2003 year.

We all feel for Kershaw. He deserves a WS ring. The starting fielding team is pretty young. Roberts made many more right decisions across the year than wrong. Most feel that Roberts did more to get the team to the WS than any single person. (The exception maybe Magic getting the owners to back the huge payroll.) Overall, Gary thinks the team is mmmhhh, 50:50 on youth to old farts ... but JC has a lot more expertise than Gary on that. Gary is merely a cheerleader, JC is a baseball scholar. (Fortunately, Gary has played enough ball to understand all the nuances JC tosses at him.) What is remarkable is the versatility of many of the young players who are able to play so many positions with confidence. That gives the chessmaster Roberts so many moves which makes it damn near impossible for the opposing team to anticipate/make changes during the game, in their game plan based upon an expected lineup.

 

[Gary A.]

On the plus side ... dinner was excellent (per the opinions of the guest). It was possibly Gary's best pizza. Gary has recognized that the single biggest ingredient in any food/drink needs to be top-notch. In pizza that will be the dough/crust. ...

In coffee that would be the water.

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave confirmed via Facebook.
Dave believes it is DVRd.
Dave did 4 hours at work.
Dave took Dad and a working pressure washer to Houston. Far from what he is sure is a madhouse downtown.
Now Dave is checking Tapatalk and next up is email. Carry on peeps.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

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[vintagesnaps]

It's a heckuva thing when you're in your darkroom, got a good record playing, enjoying your can of Coors under the glow of a safelight, and in comes Blacula and turns you into a vampire.

Or the time the mummy being reflected in a tray of chemistry comes in, you try to whack him with a big wooden tripod and that didn't work out too well either. It'd be nice in these cheesy late night movies if Halloween monsters would quick interrupting photographers, makes the darkroom seem like a spooky place to be.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Seems like in sports about the time you think it's in the bag, it isn't. Bummer your team lost.

 

[snowbear115 47]

The game started without Gary wearing his Dodger cap. He is wearing it now!

I think you may want to get a different hat.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Hey, baseball fans! The movie just starting on TCM (6pm EDT) listed the Brooklyn Dodgers in the credits. It's some Red Skelton movie... which I think I've seen but not sure when 'dem Dodgers might come into it.

Looked it up, the movie is Whistling in Brooklyn, kind of a giveaway isn't it? lol

 

[smoke665]

Wow, the chance randomness of this world smacked me again today. Walking on a downtown street in a town 30 miles from my old hometown, middle of the day, and not that many people even out. I look up to see a couple my age coming toward me. The man made eye contact, nodded his head and I did the same, but strangely the woman avoided eye contact. Had the strangest feeling I knew the woman, hadn't gone 10 foot before it hit me who she was, the woman was no less than my first and only steady girlfriend in High School. The years had been kind to her, plus I'd seen a few pictures of her over the years on friends FB pages. We didn't break up on the best of terms (I met what is now my ex wife), so not sure if she recognized me, or is still carrying a grudge, after 50 years.

Told my wife who the woman was, and that there was a reason she could actually thank my ex. That if the ex hadn't broken up that high school romance, there was a good chance I would have married that girl, then she and I would have never met. I'm not quite sure what my wife mumbled but I pretty sure it wasn't very nice Funny how life's choices change the pathways we follow.

 

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It me.

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Wow, the chance randomness of this world smacked me again today. Walking on a downtown street in a town 30 miles from my old hometown, middle of the day, and not that many people even out. I look up to see a couple my age coming toward me. The man made eye contact, nodded his head and I did the same, but strangely the woman avoided eye contact. Had the strangest feeling I knew the woman, hadn't gone 10 foot before it hit me who she was, the woman was no less than my first and only steady girlfriend in High School. The years had been kind to her, plus I'd seen a few pictures of her over the years on friends FB pages. We didn't break up on the best of terms (I met what is now my ex wife), so not sure if she recognized me, or is still carrying a grudge, after 50 years.

Told my wife who the woman was, and that there was a reason she could actually thank my ex. That if the ex hadn't broken up that high school romance, there was a good chance I would have married that girl, then she and I would have never met. I'm not quite sure what my wife mumbled but I pretty sure it wasn't very nice Funny how life's choices change the pathways we follow.

I wonder how many of us would choose the other path if we could see alternate events in our lives.