Almost made first.

Guys we’re innundated in Action Ridge. Husband is in basement pumping the sump pump (God that sounds dirty doesn’t it?).

Had to cancel bachelorette party tonight for good friend. Ironically before we knew her sister was only going to be able to be in town this weekend to do this we were going to go to Houston for this series.

If they’re cleaning up downtown Houston, how can they host a baseball game?

Howling ashore with 110 mph winds, Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas coast Saturday, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, shattering windows in Houston’s skyscrapers and knocking out power to millions of people.

Get the MN to Santo’s number.

See here.

Summary:

Minute Maid Park appears to have survived Hurricane Ike with only minor water damage at Union Station.
The stadium is ready for use whenever it’s safe enough to play a game downtown.
``I feel really relieved,‘’ said Bobby Forrest, Astros vice president of building operations. ``A lot of unknowns were answered.
``You know, if we had to play baseball tonight and the storm was gone, we would have been able to play baseball tonight.’’
Forrest and 48 other Astros employees stayed overnight to monitor the stadium.

Yeah Bobby Forest…

Gee the stadium is fine…even though 2 million of you don’t have power and some won’t for weeks oh, and the citizens of Houston can’t drink the water, but other than that lets play some ball today or tomorrow!!

Are you serious Bobby? Really???

Unbelievable. I just don’t get this guy’s density.

Are the airlines, airports, hotels and livery services going to be functioning? All of those good Texan folk who would be needed to pull this off for Bobby to get his paycheck this week might be just a WEE bit distracted by things like:

1) Massive disruption if not destruction of infrastructure that enables them to freely move around the area
2) Ongoing search and rescue operations
3) Curfews that the authorities may have in place to keep law and order
4) Contaminated water in the municipal system
5) No electricity, which means no operation of food and waste management systems at the park .. or hey, any restaurants AROUND the park .. or the hotels food for basic family problems.
6) OH, BTW, no power to the homes of the ball players. By the way .. remember them? And no power for their $10,000 SubZero refrigerators, which means they are in a full no cool situation .. and they are going to be losing food and they’ll have kids who are going to need to be fed.
7) And not to be forgotten, the Chicago Cubs are going to be expected to fly in to take on the Astros.

Yes, the little people of Houston are all just going to drop what they are doing to fatten that cat’s wallet. In a pig’s eye, I might add ..

Hey Ernie! Let’s play two … IN ATLANTA ..

and everyone is running like tina!

I’m about 3.5-4 hours away from Philadelphia, and it’s really, really cloudy over here— but that’s regular weather in State College. I say 3-4 innings and they call the game, but that’s only what I feel.

Hopefully the Cubs won’t play either.

See here.

6 year tv deal with hawk. d.j. offered the radio job

Lit’s kick evacuee’s and people who have serious damage to their homes out of local hotels so that an out of town contingent can come in and play a baseball game or two…..Make those out of town utility repair /linemen sleep in their cars…..SARCASM…….another big lack of class and consideration shown by the Astro organization.