Baseball
Related: About this forumI Broke out My OMAHOGS Shirt this evening
Ill get to wear it for a few days, maybe weeks. I can be obnoxious in any sport.
WOOOOOO PIG SOOOOIE!

marble falls
(65,917 posts)... extra points if you aren't in cap's team's state.
BOSSHOG
(42,654 posts)Oh, my hat aint in teams state. I like it like that.
marble falls
(65,917 posts)BOSSHOG
(42,654 posts)Honey, I gotta swing by the office.
Theres a bar in Waveland Mississippi called Third Base. Ya gotta get to third base before you can go home.
marble falls
(65,917 posts)... they'd get some great hand cut french fries and an orange pop, I'd get the beer. One of the things I've loved about midwest country towns is they make had a restaurant for breakfast and lunch, but to get a dinner meant going to the town tap. Friday and Saturday nights they were filled with families until ten. It was noisy and fun. Get to see people you miss through the week, especially the farmers.
There's be a special - steak, perch, chicken, specials for Lent (I always ended up in Roman Catholic areas) and we could walk home.
John Kuhla's sister was my secretary. I just love small towns. No place uses 'networking' more than the populations of small towns. His wife was the cook. My wife worked at the small grocery next door, and the butcher there would give us a great deal on steak trimmings that made great breakfast steaks and steak sandwiches.
Once my folks had driven their mobile home in from Arizona and didn't find the hidden key. They just called the hair salon to figure out where my wife was. She was at the hairdressers getting her 'do set.
Couldn't do that in our big city stays: Phoenix, Cleveland, Akron, New London, Chicago, Austin (though right until the dot.com boom, Austin was a small town city. Not anymore).
Gosh, was my life good!
So in Mississippi you got to slide into home!
BOSSHOG
(42,654 posts)Parking was right out front by the highway. Too conspicuous. I had a nice friendly watering hole in South Louisiana on a Bayou. Everybody knew your name. By shifts. Everybody knew my name from noon to three. I truly miss that place, but most of my crowd have passed on to a heavenly bar in the sky.
marble falls
(65,917 posts)... I'm the oldest of my generation of all my friends and family. Only my mother is older than I in my family.
I'm beginning to understand how the dinosaurs felt when the small furry mammals showed up.
BOSSHOG
(42,654 posts)Im the oldest left on my Moms Side. Theres some shady characters on my Dads side. I dont keep up with them much. A young man asked me a few years ago if I wished I were 16 again. I said yes. when I was 16 in 1970. He looked offended at my answer. 68-72, pre wife years, were nothing but non stop fun for me.
marble falls
(65,917 posts)... Regarding the soundtrack - Fucking A -right! Best ever!
Up until the cancer thing over the last ten years, I've felt 35 right up till 60 - 65. I don't need to younger, just in earlier times. I seem to be over the cancer, but I lost a lot fighting it.
Xavier Breath
(5,679 posts)My Mom was a huge Arkansas fan, though mainly basketball and football. She loved Nolan Richardson. She, my aunt, uncle and grandparents lived there for some years in the '50s, and she would tell me stories about the segregated facilities. But, she never stopped loving the place and went back for football games.
Congrats to them for knocking off the reigning champs.
BOSSHOG
(42,654 posts)Was in the Navy, married a Kansas girl, moved around a lot, retired in the Land of Oz. but, Fayetteville is freaking awesome. In the 60s it was half bible thumpers and half hippies and everybody got along. MyWife and I lived Fayetteville for a while. Shes a bigger Hog Fan than me. We dont get aroun much now but the memories remain.
marble falls
(65,917 posts)... in the 60s, 70s, 80s - the ropers and dopers got along just fine. The dopers turned the ropers onto pot and the ropers turned the dopers onto Willie Nelson and 'outlaw' country.