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1988 Miami has to be it. Monsoon. Goal post damage by storm.. We got our asses handed to us. I was drenched but the following day I was at the Saints game when they crushed Denver.

Noah could have solved it way back when had he swatted those two he allowed on the ark. Damn him.

I’ve never understood how watermelon, ribs, collard greens, pork chops, fried chicken and grape soda are looked at as racial stereotypes. If you grew up like I did these foods are what we had and was damn happy to have them.

Shriners. St. Jude. Use to donate to La. Masonic Children’s Home til it closed. La. Masonic Educational fund is a good one that furnishes a ton of college scholarships. None of these have crazy high-arse “administrative “ fees.

Hawsey is close to and former high school teammate with Frederico who signed and plays for Ole Miss. But he’s probably buds with our Pearson.

Any word on Hawsey’s intentions?

Trey’s maternal grandfather was an all-stater in baseball as a sophomore then the school cut out baseball as it “interfered” with spring football practice. Go figure.

Kid comes from an outstanding family. Would love to see him at LSU.

Jake Ruppert IV, great great grandson of Jake Ruppert who owned the NY Yankees and signed Babe Ruth, is judicial hearing officer in the district court in Natchitoches Parish.

If anyone told me 4 months ago that baseball would not make a regional and softball would, I’d have called them crazy.

My dad, again a Marine at Peleliu, did not care for MacArthur..Said his ego got too many men needlessly killed.

My grandmother would fight you over Harry Truman. Said that if he hadn't dropped the bombs, my dad would probably had been killed invading Japan.

I have every letter Dad wrote home to my grandmother during the war. I've read all 100+ of them numerous times. He was so proud initially of being able to shower daily, getting three square meals a day, etc. Coming from a depressed north LA village and having a widow for a mother, I can understand how good he thought he had it. Until he went island hopping with the Marines.

In those letters, he went full circle on how great things were (boot camp) to how bad it was by war's end. You could tell by his tone that war had been hell.

By the end of his letters, he explained to my grandmother where all he'd been, the battles, etc. Said he was unable to mention even the weather conditions due to censorship. By then he said he did not care if they busted him from violating any censorship rules, as long as they sent him back to the US of A. Said he'd never leave this great nation again and if he ever had sons he'd hide them out in a swamp to keep them from going to war.

My dad (USMC) was on Peleliu for that campaign. Never talked much about any of his war service but he said it was hell on earth.

While watching a documentary a couple of years ago I actually saw my dad on there twice. Surreal, humbling, and made me proud. I actually got tears and my daughter found a copy of the documentary and bought it for me.

Ridges of Peleliu I think is the name of it.