NorthHawk wrote:Phil Niekro passed overnight at age 81. The master of the Knuckleball. He was probably the first pitcher who I noticed threw it and as a kid I thought it was so cool.
NorthHawk wrote:Floyd Little died today. He was diagnosed with cancer in May. Although he played for the Broncos I always thought he was a real good player. It turns out that he was an even better person from what I’ve read.
RiverDog wrote:Ah, crap! Hank Aaron died. Another one of my childhood heros.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/base ... K-A10uQEk4
I can remember a Little League baseball coach trying to get me to break my wrists when hitting and to watch Hank Aaron, of whom he said was the best "wrist hitter" in the game, and that was before Aaron was seen as a threat to break Babe Ruth's record.
RIP.
RiverDog wrote:Ah, crap! Hank Aaron died. Another one of my childhood heros.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/base ... K-A10uQEk4
I can remember a Little League baseball coach trying to get me to break my wrists when hitting and to watch Hank Aaron, of whom he said was the best "wrist hitter" in the game, and that was before Aaron was seen as a threat to break Babe Ruth's record.
RIP.
NorthHawk wrote:Another one of the good guys that are now gone. I never thought of him as getting old, but I guess that's what happens with our heroes.
c_hawkbob wrote:Rip Marty Schottenheimer. Condolences Brian.
c_hawkbob wrote:RIP Chick Corea, one of my favorite Jazz musicians.
c_hawkbob wrote:Sorry no.
I'll extend my sympathy to his family left behind but I hope he's tormented by all the evil he's helped to create as one of the pioneers of the politics of hate that has such a death grip on this country right now.
Good riddance.
Hawktawk wrote:I dont dance on a lot of graves and this won't be one either . I was drawn to Rush as a late 20s eastern washington redneck. He said a lot of things I liked, things that were true about the liberalization of america, the left wing bias in the MSM and so on. He was witty, funny, bombastic to be sure but a new perspective I hadn't heard. I was a fan for decades, through "america held hostage"( the Clinton years) to his incessant bashing of Obama for 8 years. Somewhere along that line he became too abrasive and shrill for me and I tuned in less and less. The clincher for me was his slavish devotion to and promotion of Trump the candidate over all others. He and Fox went off for the final time mid 2016. My disappointment in the end was his utter hypocrisy defending to the nth degree the actions of this evil man.
Still an iconic man, A pioneer in talk radio who spawned many careers of wanna bes in radio and on TV. I won't be the judge of the conversation he will have with the god Im sure he will see, already has. That's the son of man's job sitting at the right hand of the father.
Hawktawk wrote:I guess it’s a window into the way I thought for decades growing up in eastern Washington never seeing a black person in my town ever . I’m not proud . I feel I have been delivered from a cult . Better late than never . It took trump to strip away the mask of the far right cult
Hawktawk wrote:I guess it’s a window into the way I thought for decades growing up in eastern Washington never seeing a black person in my town ever . I’m not proud . I feel I have been delivered from a cult . Better late than never . It took trump to strip away the mask of the far right cult
RiverDog wrote:Are you referring to Moses Lake? I lived there for 11 years, from 1978-1989 and worked with several blacks.
Although they've always been very small minority, blacks have lived in eastern Washington since at least the late 1800's. Pasco, in particular, as always had a significant black population, I guess due to railroad construction in the latter half of the 19th century. And in case anyone is under the impression that Jim Crow was limited to the south, there was a time up until the mid 1960s's when blacks from Pasco visiting Kennewick had to be back across the river by sundown or else they were subject to immediate arrest.
Sorry to divert the thread.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Because of laws like you listed, I hope someday no one is referring to another person by a color because some ass decided a long time ago defining people by skin color was a good idea. It wasn't. It was a terrible idea that has led to nothing good.
Hawktawk wrote:I lived in coulee city from 7 nth grade till graduation in 77. There were no blacks and only one Hispanic , no Asians . A town of white Protestant evangelical Christian leaders . It’s my understanding a black family moved to town and was treated to classic KKK style harrasment , crosses burned and nooses on the lawn in the early 70s in America . They left town soon after as the local cop had no interest in protecting them . I’m still not sure any blacks live in coulee city .
I grew up in church where leaders would drop the N word casually . I recall a Seahawks game at a church leaders house . Curt Warner went down with an ACL in the season opener and this upstanding man , millionaire wheat farmer said “ since he’s a n%%%%r he will probably be just fine.” This family still financially supports the Assembly of God Church in coulee city 40 years It wasn’t till I spent time working in Georgia I ever had interaction with blacks and it changed my perspective some . I still bought the cops are 99.9% good , don’t resist and you’re fine , racism doesn’t exist in America anymore , blah blah blah. As recently as 99 when we moved to Moses I was concerned about all the Hispanics as they were portrayed as criminals and gangsters in news I’d read . I’ve come to realize they are some of the finest people in the world, that good and evil are in every race . As I’ve said I had grown tired of Rush and his big mouth and really had quit listening much but it really did take Trump to let me see where my party was headed and it’s only gotten worse . Free at last .
RiverDog wrote:
Ahh, Coulee City. The star of our basketball team when I was going to college at Eastern, a guy by the name of Ron Cox, was from Coulee City. One of my best college friends was from just up the road in Grand Coulee.
The city I grew up in, Walla Walla, was quite a bit different than the backwater towns like you are describing. I had black, Hispanic, and Asian classmates that I've remained friends with. In high school, there were several Japanese exchange students that graduated with us that I still maintain contact with. There were two colleges, too, so the demographics were quite a bit different than you would find in your home town.
My point is that not all towns in eastern Washington share the same cultural characteristics, then as they do and now.
Hawktawk wrote:Wow. You know Ronny, the legend. His scoring record at Eastern was only broken a couple of years ago. As you know when he went to Eastern he suddenly was playing guys taller than him for the first time. So he developed that baby hook that was indefensible.I saw him play in college a couple of times. He was Evergreen conference player of the week over ten times in his career. Somehow on a Coulee City roster with Chris Henderson who was an inch shorter but whose arms were so long he had more reach,so athletic at 6'6" he was a pro rodeo athlete calf roping and steer wrestling, the Evans brothers, especially Jimmy who played QB in high school and college and could shoot from 30 feet, man I could go on but we never won a state title with that team. Lost to Curlew in the championship on a half court heave in 1972 or 3.
Ron Cox was an all star in every sport, a baseball pitcher, a star football player all along the roster. He was offered a free agent contract by the Seahawks to play tight end but signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the only athlete from Coulee City ever to make the pros. He blew his knee in training camp and in those days that was a career death sentence. He spent the rest of his career as a high school basketball coach. I did have the dubious honor of having my cheekbone cracked by one of his massive elbows playing pickup basketball once. A great guy and one of the most solid muscle tall guys I ever saw.We are friends on FB.
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