Archive for September 29th, 2011

Quote of the day.

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

“Now let me tell ya,” he continued, “On television they’re always hitting the cap of the gun and fanning it real fast so it looks good.”

“I always aim before I shoot,” O’Brian answered.

“Why, that’s right!” Jennings said. “A man couldn’t hit a flock of barns shooting the way most of them movie gunmen do. He’d be jerking the gun so much that he wouldn’t be able to aim at anything.”

Actually, this is just an excuse to link this historical piece from the LAT, featuring Hugh O’Brian (who played Wyatt Earp in the ABC TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”) and Al Jennings, “an admitted bank robber, train robber and cattle thief of the 1880s”.

What I like best about this piece is the huge photo at the top of Jennings and O’Brian shooting Colts, and the equally large photo at the bottom of Jennings, O’Brian, and two police officers.

“Jennings was showing Hugh O’Brian, TV’s Wyatt Earp, how Colts were handled in the old days when neighbors became alarmed, called police.”

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Turn out the lights, the party’s over…

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

…and the Astros finish the season at 56-106.

Their .346 winning percentage doesn’t quite qualify for the list of worst teams in history, but we’re sure the Astros tried their best to make the list. We salute their efforts this season, and hold out hope for 110 losses next year.

Edited to add: We would like to point out that the Texas Rangers, our gold standard for futility in baseball, had the following records in their early years:

1972: 54-100, .350 winning percentage.
1973: 57-105, .351 winning percentage.
1974: 84-76, .525 winning percentage.

Yes, even at their most rock bottom and pathetic, the Rangers have never lost as many games in a year as the Astros did this year.

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