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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time time sign.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Luck and load. Michael vari Show is on the air.
Break off the attack. The shield is still up. I
got no reading. Sure, Hold up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
All crap, Hold on, take a bas back, Green Foods.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The whole executive shove.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That we have any ships.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's like forty seven.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's a crap.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction. That's
your We have to get rid of sanctuary cities as
quickly as possible.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We're going to do it too.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We have to because it's sanctuary for criminals, releasing illegal
alien gang members onto the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested in Washington went unprosecuted.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's not going to.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Happen with the group we have standing aside and standing
behind me. No, this is liberation Day in DC, and
we're going to take our capital back.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
President Trump declaring a public safety emergency in DC, painting
an apocalyptic picture adamant crime is spiraling out of control,
but his depiction stands in stark contrast to the official figures,
which show crime in the Capitol is actually in decline.
Violent crime recently hitting a thirty year low down twenty
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six percent since last year. Burglary down nineteen percent, murder
down twelve percent, and the murder rate.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
You can't keep saying violent crime is done with the
murder rates up to the average person. The murder us
about life and death. You don't brag about a rising
murder rate.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I agree with you, Migan.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
They're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes, it's a trap.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I mean, if it's not a winner politically to say, oh,
you're wrong, look at the data. Because you know, one
violent crime happens in a very heavily popular part of
the city. People hear about it, and it's visceral. They
don't want it.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Lena had although had announsday nine to thirty press conference today,
we've been debating what that could be about. She's it
could be that she's going to vote against the law
enforcement rays that would put Harris County law enforcement on
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paritee with Houston Police Department.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That could be it.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
She maybe wanting to get ahead of that because she's
going to be criticized rather roundly over that, and she
said some pretty nasty things about law enforcement recently. Mind
seeing how law enforcement responds if she needs their services,
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considering the very nasty things she has said about law
enforcement over the last few years. And you know, these
are people that are used to dealing with folks with
a psych hold and and you know, the bipolar and
schizophrenic in the middle of an episode and their manic
and they're you know, suicide back up, they know, you
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know they're crazy. People are crazy, but they may forget that.
You know, she's also the They may forget that portion
when the county judge is just constantly insulting you.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So it could be that I polled some folks in
public life.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
In the community, including one who's very close to her,
who's said this particular person said that this particular person
would not be surprised, but didn't claimed not having inside information,
but would not be surprised if she was seeking help
for treatment because she's clearly in the midst of a
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prolonged episode. She's in a very bad way. And so
Rodney may have said, look, I got a lot of
scams I got to get done between now and the
end of the year and then beginning of the spring,
I need to reset. So I'm gonna need you to
go back to the funny farm for a little while,
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and we got to get people to lay off.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Pointing out how crazy you are.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
You've got two of your other commissioners, one of whom
I hand placed there, Leslie Bionez.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You've got Ramsey.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
That's consistently against you, and now Adrian has had joined
their group.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So we got to reset this thing.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Could be she's going to treatment, it could be she's
opposing the police officer pay. The plan all along was
that Sylvia Garcia was going to step down from her
congressional seat and that Lena was going to run for
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that and she would get the Democrat party support in
that primary, which that's as it currently is drawn, is
a Democrat district that could change dramatically. But the plan
was that's an easy job. There's no accountability. Jasmine Crockett's
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office said the other day that she never comes to
the office. She doesn't They never see her. She doesn't
show up for work. She just she'll have a you know,
she gets in front of the cameras and people think, oh,
she's so busy, she's everywhere all the time. No, no,
she's just just a few minutes a day. She does
some mass media and that's it. So the idea was
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to park Lena in Sylvia's congressional seat.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the rumor.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Has it that Adrian Garcia, who was looking at that seat,
was telling folks that Sylvia was stepping down and that
her health was bad. Well, apparently Sylvia caught wind of that.
And Sylvia is mean boy. I've known her a long time.
I had seen her in years, but she was down
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at the city when I was or was just leaving,
and she's she's a mean old coot. I mean, Sheila,
She's how best to say this, I think you get
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the point.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think you pretty much the idea. That what I'm saying.
And so apparently she was mad about that. But that
that that's how they do these things.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
They set all these things up and then they and
then they get to chronicle behind and chronicley huh.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Then they act like, oh, that's that, that's the thing
we're going to do.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
But now the Democrats don't want her in the seat,
and they don't want her in the in the county
judges seat.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So this is this is going to get interesting.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Ramon An, you guys have anything else? No, okay?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So Machico Barry.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Of the day.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
The emotion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider for the
Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no. Yes,
commissuer Garcia, porn of order.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 10 (09:02):
I did the commotion.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
I just read what it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You said no.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
I didn't say no.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (09:07):
Okay, Well I take anox.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They're coming to take me away. Ho ha ha.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This a funny farm where life is beautiful all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'll be happy to see those nice.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away.
Speaker 12 (09:27):
Can you just come to three? One, two three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the bellet.
Speaker 12 (09:37):
Okay, so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 10 (09:40):
We have one one okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They're coming to take me away. Ha ha. They're coming
to take me away.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
A happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
and basket weavers who sit and.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Smile and twiddle. There somes and toes, and they're coming
and take me away. Come on down over here.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
Come on, come on, come on, come on, because this
is none of our plays.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Is about kids, George, come on down.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I'm yes, commissioners.
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Is no commission rams, Yes, no commissioner see us. No
elisis from no George or eleven fifty one.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
I'd like to call it ten miniver extinction.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Oh ha ha, what funny farm where life is beautiful
all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Then I'll be happy to see those nice.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
Young men in the Great Wife Girls, and they're coming
to take me.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Away, happy home with the trees and the flowers and
singing birds.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
And the meeting on June twenty sixth, where she melted
down worse than usual. She was clearly in the midst
of a manic episode. You know you you see videos
on TV where the fact pattern is often a man
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who lives with his mother. He'll be early thirties let's
say with troubles and she knows it, and he'll he'll
start acting up. Maybe he's beating her up. And if
he has an adult sister, or sometimes he'll be the
mother herself, we'll call the police.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But they don't want the police to hurt him. They
just want them to come and take him away.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Well, when this happens, this escalates things worse, and when
the officers come, he's it becomes this sort of enraged
bull that you can't reason with. And those people will
often perform a little suicide by Cobb. They'll sometimes they'll
barricade themselves in the house, but become very self destructive.
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Lena is not self destructive best I can tell. She
lashes out at everybody else, and especially Adrian and Leslie
Brioni's because they're supposed to do what he does and
what she tells him. And that was what Rodney, that
was their deal. Rodney told him to do that. Now,
why is everybody turning on her? Why isn't everybody and
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the right right? And then you see her spiral. You
see it in her speech pattern. You see the frenzied pace,
you can see her brain is racing. You ever see
a dog in the middle of the highway and they
can't figure out how to get out, and they're in
a bad way. She has that, she has that look
about her very frantically. She's gonna dart at any moment,
and she did. She called it timidut recess and left.
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So at that meeting, she concluded the meeting by saying,
and this is in front of everybody on television. You
know that all of it is recorded, and there are
people at the meeting, and this is how she conducts herself.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
She says, do you guys have anything else know? Okay,
thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I hope everyone has a really effing except she says
the word awesome. Rest of the day. Leslie Brioni's who
is one of her colleagues, Democrat colleague who who Rodney
put there to replace Cactus Jack Cagel. The whole thing
was engineered. They they jerrymandered Cagle out to put Brioni's
in there. Her daughter was there in the front row.
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Tom Ramsey had a guest there. I know people who
were there who were shocked could not believe that this
had just happened. Of course we have to bleep the word,
but trust me, she says, the actual word that rhymes
with trucking ramon or bucking. You know Roberh o' keanes
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got the mother bucking song. Yeah, she she said, the
word that rhymes with ducking. Remember when when uh George W.
Bush was in Iraq and they threw the they threw
the shoe at him and he was ducking. Mh or
she said the word that rhymes with plucking, as in
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plucking a chickens feathers. And don't know if there's any
many other h she said, the word that rhymes with mucking.
It will sind Claire Lewis style of journalism. The muckreckers
could be she said, the word that rhymes with rucking. Yes,
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don't forget the use of rucking or sucking as in
the crawfish head or I guess other things could be sucked.
But sucking or tucking what a lot of the transgenders
will do before, say a modeling event.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Lill tucking going on there, uh huh? Or yucking you
know for folks who.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Like to expel projectiles from their tummy. That could be
yucking or sucking.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The act of being.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Of a pertaining to the acts of mark Zuckerberg. But
she said the F word, and yeah, well here it is.
We have to bleep it.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
Do you guys have anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Of the day.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, okay, this woman is crazy as an outhouse rat.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I mean she is, she is sh.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
She brought in school age children to manipulate the county
commissioners into adding her tax increased proposal onto the ballot.
I think in her mind they would have to go, well,
I wasn't gonna vote for it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I hadn't even.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Studied it yet. You haven't give any details. But there's
all these kids here, so yeah, okay, y, yes, I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
For it now.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
I mean, just just listen. Listen to her tone. Don't
worry about the words, just listen to her tone.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Do you guys have anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, listen to her tone as she's trying to make
this happen.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
In her mind, everything that there is complete chaos and
disorder and she can't get back control of it.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
So the motion is to set up public hearing on
August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider
for the Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty
five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Bring the kids here and ask each member.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Yes, sir, I am sounds like mister chessick in one
flow of the cuckoo's nest when he wants his cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Remember, I don't want his cigaretts.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Or his or his or his or his or his
or his or his or even yours.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Do you understand that I want my cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Miss Ratchard?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I want my cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I want mine.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Rachid, what gives you the tag.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Right to keep bar with cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
PI?
Speaker 11 (16:43):
That good?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I just please out a pair? You only want your
free like that? Huh?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Do you guys hurt anything else?
Speaker 12 (16:54):
No?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Okay with Michael Barry. Thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest of to day.
The motion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am to consider for the
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Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (17:22):
Come a sugar s yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Point of order.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Actually, I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
I just read what it's gonna be.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
You said no, I didn't say no. I didn't.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Okay, well I take it back.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Can you guys count to three? One, two, three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 10 (17:39):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the ballot. Okay, so
you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 12 (17:45):
We have one?
Speaker 9 (17:46):
One?
Speaker 12 (17:47):
Okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
And fine.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
I'm come on down over here. Come on, come on,
come on, come on, because this is none about politics,
is about kids.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Come on down. Excuse me.
Speaker 12 (18:18):
Part of education is respect.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Travis County, they spent two years working with subject matter experts,
four years.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
Excuse me, judge, please be respectful. At least education is
hazy helling. Don't give the kids this example of making
things up.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I'm we're trying to find out who's carrying Lena's nine
thirty mili down today.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We may want to dip into that, or we at
least want to be able to watch it. So as
soon as we find that out, I will let you know.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
The boys from Lamar Little League yesterday broke my heart,
not because they lost. I don't need them to win.
It's gonta make my life any better. My life's done
any worse because they didn't win. It's a game. They're twelve.
They broke my heart because I had to watch those
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kids not get the joy of winning when they played
one hell of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you didn't see it, let me set the stage.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I think the best pitchers duel.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I recall ever watching at Williamsport in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Nothing comes to mind, and I do enjoy watching Little
League World Series baseball games. This kid Graw gr awe.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He was dealing.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Shut out through four innings. I don't think they had
a hit on him yet. Shane Graw is his name.
He's a lefty. Got an interesting delivery because it's it's
almost like he's holding the ball out in front of
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him before he throws it and doesn't rare back. It's
really really interesting style. I bet it's hard to pick up.
And I can't remember how many feet it is fifty
two feet. I can't remember the distance of the pitching
mound to home plate. I knew just a few years ago.
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But these kids are throwing gas at seventy at that distance,
that's like a much faster pitch for an MLB pitcher
from a mound that's much further away. And oh, by
the way, it's not just the feat of doing it,
it's sin you're up there battling in at twelve years old.
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So he and this other kid were in an absolute
pitcher's duel through four innings. In the fifth inning, they
get a runner on he's on second, and pass ball
for the for the base on balls. As that happens,
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run on second goes to third, and the batter, as
smart teams will do, goes to first and never stops.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He runs down to first.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Catcher's going to get the ball behind him, and he
turns and just starts heading the second because what you
want to do is force the throw and then you
bring the runner home from third. And the more throws
at this age you force teams to make, the more
likely there's going to be a mistake. So you're creating chaos.
Very smart coaching, but they all know to do this
this one. So the batter drops his bat, he sprints,
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the first catcher goes back and gets the ball. Batter
turns first but doesn't go all the way to second.
It makes a hard, long turn, comes around the catcher.
Talk about good fundamentals. He immediately throws the back the
ball back to Grau, who has come off the mound
and come toward him, is approaching the return throw. Gral
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takes the catch, takes the ball out in front of
the mound, checks his runner at third, keeps him there,
turns to first, throws quickly and accurately to the first baseman.
First baseman makes the play.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Of the game.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
He catches the ball, he's off the bag because he's
trying to get closer to the runner. He turns and
rears back, fakes the throw down to second because they're
gonna they're gonna have this runner in a pickle at
this point, and that's what he's trying to cause, so
they can they can steal a run out of this.
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So he pump fakes the pitch the throw to second,
and immediately pivots and throws a rocket on a line to.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
The third baseman.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
The kid that was on second had gone to third,
and all this thing is playing out to get him home. Well,
he when he sees the first baseman turn, he sells
the throat to such an extent that he starts toward home,
but the throat didn't happen, so he has to immediately
stop and go back, whereupon he dives face first. His
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helmet comes back. You see his face hit the dirt.
Helmet is pushing back. Third baseman makes the tax sweeps
it gets him out. Ump calls him safe. They have
instant replay. He's out. It was It was such a
heads up play for twelve year old kids mentally, as
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this is happening, and remember, you've just advanced a runner
from second to third in the process of putting two
runners on in a game that you've been frustrated because
you've not been able to get a hit on the
other pitcher of the whole game. He's striking at the
end of four I think he had ten strikeouts. His
kid's been unhittable, and you're frustrated and you don't want
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to lose. And at twelve kids, it can go bad
fast for kids at this age, they can just fall
apart and the moms can't understand what is going on. Well,
the intensity broke and now it's rage and it's like
Lena Headgg goes a head. You're not You're insane in
the membrane. Can't you can't process, you can't think. So
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third baseman makes the swipe, they call him safe.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh man, he's clearly out.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I mean not clearly, but when you see the replay
you can tell that he's out. So he's going to
be out when they when they review it. But the
player on the field has gone against you. You just
had a pass ball, which is always frustrating. You put
your second runner on, you make the he's gone to second.
You make the play at third, and the rev the
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cause you out, third base, cause you out. It calls
you safe. And so now you got two runners in
scoring position. The third baseman comes up. Now they're within
a couple of minutes. They do make the overrule and say, yes,
he was out. But at that moment you think he's safe.
Everything has gone wrong for the team. What does the
third baseman do. He looks at the team and very
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sternly puts each of his index fingers on his temples.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, guys, keep your head about you. Twelve years old.
These kids are amazing.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Anything else? No, okay, Michael Barry, can you guys?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest of today.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
One lady emailed, kudos to the coaches, Lamar Lilly, they
have the kids practice those situations.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh, I'm very well aware.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
I've coached Lit League baseball and we've coached that scenario
a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And I'm gonna tell you, at twelve years old, to
execute that with a clean slate. You know, Hey, no pressure,
nobody's looking. Let's here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna
do a pass ball. I'll do it right now. I'll
roll the ball of the catcher.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Come up.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I want you. Everybody has to be in their position. Hey,
everybody has to respond. But wait, you're not responding after
something I'm just telling you is gonna happen. And everybody's
mindful of what they're gonna do. You've just put a
runner on base with a walk. That's frustrating. You watch
a lot of these kids. Their body language at twelve,
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it's they've not yet learned to control their emotions.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
They're volatile.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
So you've had these two bad things happen, a walk
and a passball. Runner on second's gone to third. Lamar
knows the best they're going to do is get one
run off. This kid, he is dealing this picture for Connecticut.
He is, he is giving it to them, and so
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they know runs are going to be hard to come by.
And now this team's about to score a run when
he so the passball catcher comes up, begins running toward
the pitcher. He doesn't throw from back there another smart move.
He gets close, starts moving toward the plate so that
he's in position should the runner on third come in.
The pitcher comes off the mound. He doesn't pout, he
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doesn't say oh drafts like it's a Peanuts episode.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
He approaches the catcher so that he's.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Shortening the distance again, great fundamental baseball catches ball, looks
off the runner on third to push him back, who
just coming around from third, and then he throws to
his first baseman. His first baseman is not on the bag.
He's trailing the runner again, so he can shorten the
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throw to second. Throws to the first baseman, he makes
the catch. All right, we've already had a series of things,
any one of which goes wrong. Another run is going
to score catcher who's surprisingly seven foot five inches tall.
I don't know, a big boy, big white kid. I mean,
he is big. It's like Toby Schultz, I want school with.
So he throws a little sidearm, very accurate, right in
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the chest to the first baseman.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
He catches, he's on the move.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
He turns to second, and he makes a very convincing
fake throw, and at that moment, the runner on third
buys it.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's sold it.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
So the runner on third starts and he gets about
four or five steps toward home and he realizes, uh oh,
just like a quarterback will pivot on his stance, like
you're on the this lad, you're on these skis. I
want you to jump up and turn those keys. He pivots,
turns and guns it and he throws it on a
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rope to get him out at third.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
My point is, I know that you practice that.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Everybody has practiced that. That at twelve years old, is
that's not just a major league baseball play. That is
a really good major league baseball play. Considering also the
mindset and then the third basement. After making the tag
he swipes him. He thinks the runner is safe because
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that was the call. He knows he got him. You
could see two inches between the kids, the base runners,
the tip of his middle finger and the bag at third.
When He hits him on the helmet with the glove
to swipe the tag. He knows they just got ripped
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off after perfectly executing it, and they're melting down. He
knows that, So what does he do?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
He doesn't.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
When a kid gets angry at that age, you can't
you can't get through to them because they go to
a bad place, because they're intense.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
These kids are so intense. So what does that kid do?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
He has the presence of mind to know, my team
is falling apart. We've got to keep our heads about us.
He pops up, He calls for time. He puts his
two index fingers on each of his temples and pokes
at his head. Hey, guys, keep your head a bite.
He conveys the message. That's that's the sign. Guys, think,
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think calm. It's very easy to think what you would
do in such a situation, and it almost never happens.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This kid is twelve. These kids are learning life less realistically.
What's this kid? Gritchick? Twelve years in? He recorded a
nice little thing for the boys. I thought that was nice.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
These kids are learning something so much more important than hitting, catching, stealing, running, throwing,
You know, realistically, and if you play college, you'll play
four more years. If you play pro, you chase that
dream for some years. But realistically, none of them's ever
going to play baseball past thirty. You might hit some infield,
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you might be in a church softball league, but you're
not going to play competitive baseball. So the life skills
are not the baseball fundamentals. The life skills you're learning
is what to do in a moment of intense pressure
where things are falling apart. This is, you know, saving
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the rest of the guys on the submarine level stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
This is figuring out the.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Plan to save the most number of life when the
building's on fire and our part of the building is
cut off.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
From I mean, this is this is impressive.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
These are life, real life skills that these kids are demonstrated,
not one of them. I've seen kids cry on the
mound at the World Series. Not not at local Lily.
At the World Series. I've seen the picture on the
mound at a moment like this, We're not even the
last inning and tears are coming down. This is not
how it's supposed to work. It's like you've stolen the
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kid's toy that they'll they'll melt down. You'll see their
body language. Not these kids, no, sir, that is a
group of kids that are well coached by what's his name, Ramon.
What's the fellow's name? Justin Pollard, isn't what's his ease?
Obviously he's got a kid on the team, Justin Carlisle.
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Justin Pollard Pollard I think is the head coach or
manager they call it. And Eric Graw, that's Grau's dad.
Eric Graw looks like he just got through hunting five
minutes ago. He just he rushed in here on time.
He still got his boots on, he got mud on him.
He's his dip has rolled down his side. Would you
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see a white boy that's carrying about twenty five extra pounds.
He's got a little half mullet in the back, and
he's got a little dip on him like that, and
he's got a beard that he just like once a
month shaved, just what you know, maybe on the first
of month he's shaves. And that dude like that is
a baseball dad. That's a base former baseball player. That
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is a baseball dad. Anyway that bespeaks volumes of their
coach because they have only been this is All Star team.
They've only had them a couple of months. They didn't
coach all these kids during the year. They were all
on different teams. It says the world about the coaches,
says the world about their parents, their fathers, who's probably
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coaching them in the back league, and their mothers. These
are kids who are cool under pressure. We need to
send Lena Hidalgo to them. Of course we need put
on lithium too, but that's a whole different show. These
kids are twelve years old demonstrating what you do under
stress and pressure of the national stage, and it all
could be falling apart, and Lena can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
If she doesn't get you a few.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
More million dollars to hand out to whoever's may cut
her the best deal under the table. There's your juxtaposition
of the sacred and profane right there.
It's that time. Time time sign.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Luck and load. Michael vari Show is on the air.
Break off the attack. The shield is still up. I
got no reading. Sure, Hold up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
All crap, Hold on, take a bas back, Green Foods.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The whole executive shove.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That we have any ships.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's like forty seven.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's a crap.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction. That's
your We have to get rid of sanctuary cities as
quickly as possible.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We're going to do it too.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We have to because it's sanctuary for criminals, releasing illegal
alien gang members onto the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested in Washington went unprosecuted.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's not going to.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Happen with the group we have standing aside and standing
behind me. No, this is liberation Day in DC, and
we're going to take our capital back.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
President Trump declaring a public safety emergency in DC, painting
an apocalyptic picture adamant crime is spiraling out of control,
but his depiction stands in stark contrast to the official figures,
which show crime in the Capitol is actually in decline.
Violent crime recently hitting a thirty year low down twenty
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six percent since last year. Burglary down nineteen percent, murder
down twelve percent, and the murder rate.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
You can't keep saying violent crime is done with the
murder rates up to the average person. The murder us
about life and death. You don't brag about a rising
murder rate.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I agree with you, Migan.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
They're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes, it's a trap.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I mean, if it's not a winner politically to say, oh,
you're wrong, look at the data. Because you know, one
violent crime happens in a very heavily popular part of
the city. People hear about it, and it's visceral. They
don't want it.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Lena had although had announsday nine to thirty press conference today,
we've been debating what that could be about. She's it
could be that she's going to vote against the law
enforcement rays that would put Harris County law enforcement on
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paritee with Houston Police Department.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That could be it.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
She maybe wanting to get ahead of that because she's
going to be criticized rather roundly over that, and she
said some pretty nasty things about law enforcement recently. Mind
seeing how law enforcement responds if she needs their services,
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considering the very nasty things she has said about law
enforcement over the last few years. And you know, these
are people that are used to dealing with folks with
a psych hold and and you know, the bipolar and
schizophrenic in the middle of an episode and their manic
and they're you know, suicide back up, they know, you
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know they're crazy. People are crazy, but they may forget that.
You know, she's also the They may forget that portion
when the county judge is just constantly insulting you.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So it could be that I polled some folks in
public life.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
In the community, including one who's very close to her,
who's said this particular person said that this particular person
would not be surprised, but didn't claimed not having inside information,
but would not be surprised if she was seeking help
for treatment because she's clearly in the midst of a
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prolonged episode. She's in a very bad way. And so
Rodney may have said, look, I got a lot of
scams I got to get done between now and the
end of the year and then beginning of the spring,
I need to reset. So I'm gonna need you to
go back to the funny farm for a little while,
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and we got to get people to lay off.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Pointing out how crazy you are.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
You've got two of your other commissioners, one of whom
I hand placed there, Leslie Bionez.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You've got Ramsey.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
That's consistently against you, and now Adrian has had joined
their group.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So we got to reset this thing.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Could be she's going to treatment, it could be she's
opposing the police officer pay. The plan all along was
that Sylvia Garcia was going to step down from her
congressional seat and that Lena was going to run for
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that and she would get the Democrat party support in
that primary, which that's as it currently is drawn, is
a Democrat district that could change dramatically. But the plan
was that's an easy job. There's no accountability. Jasmine Crockett's
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office said the other day that she never comes to
the office. She doesn't They never see her. She doesn't
show up for work. She just she'll have a you know,
she gets in front of the cameras and people think, oh,
she's so busy, she's everywhere all the time. No, no,
she's just just a few minutes a day. She does
some mass media and that's it. So the idea was
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to park Lena in Sylvia's congressional seat.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the rumor.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Has it that Adrian Garcia, who was looking at that seat,
was telling folks that Sylvia was stepping down and that
her health was bad. Well, apparently Sylvia caught wind of that.
And Sylvia is mean boy. I've known her a long time.
I had seen her in years, but she was down
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at the city when I was or was just leaving,
and she's she's a mean old coot. I mean, Sheila,
She's how best to say this, I think you get
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the point.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think you pretty much the idea. That what I'm saying.
And so apparently she was mad about that. But that
that that's how they do these things.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
They set all these things up and then they and
then they get to chronicle behind and chronicley huh.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Then they act like, oh, that's that, that's the thing
we're going to do.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
But now the Democrats don't want her in the seat,
and they don't want her in the in the county
judges seat.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So this is this is going to get interesting.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Ramon An, you guys have anything else? No, okay?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So Machico Barry.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Of the day.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
The emotion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider for the
Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no. Yes,
commissuer Garcia, porn of order.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 10 (09:02):
I did the commotion.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
I just read what it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You said no.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
I didn't say no.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
I didn't.
Speaker 12 (09:07):
Okay, Well I take anox.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
They're coming to take me away. Ho ha ha.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This a funny farm where life is beautiful all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'll be happy to see those nice.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away.
Speaker 12 (09:27):
Can you just come to three? One, two three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the bellet.
Speaker 12 (09:37):
Okay, so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 10 (09:40):
We have one one okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
They're coming to take me away. Ha ha. They're coming
to take me away.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
A happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
and basket weavers who sit and.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Smile and twiddle. There somes and toes, and they're coming
and take me away. Come on down over here.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
Come on, come on, come on, come on, because this
is none of our plays.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Is about kids, George, come on down.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I'm yes, commissioners.
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Is no commission rams, Yes, no commissioner see us. No
elisis from no George or eleven fifty one.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
I'd like to call it ten miniver extinction.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Oh ha ha, what funny farm where life is beautiful
all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Then I'll be happy to see those nice.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
Young men in the Great Wife Girls, and they're coming
to take me.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Away, happy home with the trees and the flowers and
singing birds.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
And the meeting on June twenty sixth, where she melted
down worse than usual. She was clearly in the midst
of a manic episode. You know you you see videos
on TV where the fact pattern is often a man
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who lives with his mother. He'll be early thirties let's
say with troubles and she knows it, and he'll he'll
start acting up. Maybe he's beating her up. And if
he has an adult sister, or sometimes he'll be the
mother herself, we'll call the police.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But they don't want the police to hurt him. They
just want them to come and take him away.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Well, when this happens, this escalates things worse, and when
the officers come, he's it becomes this sort of enraged
bull that you can't reason with. And those people will
often perform a little suicide by Cobb. They'll sometimes they'll
barricade themselves in the house, but become very self destructive.
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Lena is not self destructive best I can tell. She
lashes out at everybody else, and especially Adrian and Leslie
Brioni's because they're supposed to do what he does and
what she tells him. And that was what Rodney, that
was their deal. Rodney told him to do that. Now,
why is everybody turning on her? Why isn't everybody and
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the right right? And then you see her spiral. You
see it in her speech pattern. You see the frenzied pace,
you can see her brain is racing. You ever see
a dog in the middle of the highway and they
can't figure out how to get out, and they're in
a bad way. She has that, she has that look
about her very frantically. She's gonna dart at any moment,
and she did. She called it timidut recess and left.
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So at that meeting, she concluded the meeting by saying,
and this is in front of everybody on television. You
know that all of it is recorded, and there are
people at the meeting, and this is how she conducts herself.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
She says, do you guys have anything else know? Okay,
thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I hope everyone has a really effing except she says
the word awesome. Rest of the day. Leslie Brioni's who
is one of her colleagues, Democrat colleague who who Rodney
put there to replace Cactus Jack Cagel. The whole thing
was engineered. They they jerrymandered Cagle out to put Brioni's
in there. Her daughter was there in the front row.
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Tom Ramsey had a guest there. I know people who
were there who were shocked could not believe that this
had just happened. Of course we have to bleep the word,
but trust me, she says, the actual word that rhymes
with trucking ramon or bucking. You know Roberh o' keanes
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got the mother bucking song. Yeah, she she said, the
word that rhymes with ducking. Remember when when uh George W.
Bush was in Iraq and they threw the they threw
the shoe at him and he was ducking. Mh or
she said the word that rhymes with plucking, as in
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plucking a chickens feathers. And don't know if there's any
many other h she said, the word that rhymes with mucking.
It will sind Claire Lewis style of journalism. The muckreckers
could be she said, the word that rhymes with rucking. Yes,
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don't forget the use of rucking or sucking as in
the crawfish head or I guess other things could be sucked.
But sucking or tucking what a lot of the transgenders
will do before, say a modeling event.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Lill tucking going on there, uh huh? Or yucking you
know for folks who.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Like to expel projectiles from their tummy. That could be
yucking or sucking.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
The act of being.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Of a pertaining to the acts of mark Zuckerberg. But
she said the F word, and yeah, well here it is.
We have to bleep it.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
Do you guys have anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Of the day.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Well, okay, this woman is crazy as an outhouse rat.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I mean she is, she is sh.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
She brought in school age children to manipulate the county
commissioners into adding her tax increased proposal onto the ballot.
I think in her mind they would have to go, well,
I wasn't gonna vote for it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I hadn't even.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Studied it yet. You haven't give any details. But there's
all these kids here, so yeah, okay, y, yes, I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
For it now.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
I mean, just just listen. Listen to her tone. Don't
worry about the words, just listen to her tone.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Do you guys have anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, listen to her tone as she's trying to make
this happen.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
In her mind, everything that there is complete chaos and
disorder and she can't get back control of it.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
So the motion is to set up public hearing on
August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider
for the Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty
five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Bring the kids here and ask each member.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Yes, sir, I am sounds like mister chessick in one
flow of the cuckoo's nest when he wants his cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Remember, I don't want his cigaretts.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Or his or his or his or his or his
or his or his or even yours.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Do you understand that I want my cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Miss Ratchard?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I want my cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I want mine.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Rachid, what gives you the tag.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Right to keep bar with cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
PI?
Speaker 11 (16:43):
That good?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I just please out a pair? You only want your
free like that? Huh?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Do you guys hurt anything else?
Speaker 12 (16:54):
No?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Okay with Michael Barry. Thank you guys.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest of to day.
The motion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am to consider for the
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Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (17:22):
Come a sugar s yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Point of order.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Actually, I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
I just read what it's gonna be.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
You said no, I didn't say no. I didn't.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Okay, well I take it back.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Can you guys count to three? One, two, three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 10 (17:39):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the ballot. Okay, so
you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 12 (17:45):
We have one?
Speaker 9 (17:46):
One?
Speaker 12 (17:47):
Okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
And fine.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
I'm come on down over here. Come on, come on,
come on, come on, because this is none about politics,
is about kids.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Come on down. Excuse me.
Speaker 12 (18:18):
Part of education is respect.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Travis County, they spent two years working with subject matter experts,
four years.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
Excuse me, judge, please be respectful. At least education is
hazy helling. Don't give the kids this example of making
things up.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I'm we're trying to find out who's carrying Lena's nine
thirty mili down today.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We may want to dip into that, or we at
least want to be able to watch it. So as
soon as we find that out, I will let you know.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
The boys from Lamar Little League yesterday broke my heart,
not because they lost. I don't need them to win.
It's gonta make my life any better. My life's done
any worse because they didn't win. It's a game. They're twelve.
They broke my heart because I had to watch those
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kids not get the joy of winning when they played
one hell of a game.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you didn't see it, let me set the stage.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I think the best pitchers duel.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I recall ever watching at Williamsport in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Nothing comes to mind, and I do enjoy watching Little
League World Series baseball games. This kid Graw gr awe.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He was dealing.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Shut out through four innings. I don't think they had
a hit on him yet. Shane Graw is his name.
He's a lefty. Got an interesting delivery because it's it's
almost like he's holding the ball out in front of
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him before he throws it and doesn't rare back. It's
really really interesting style. I bet it's hard to pick up.
And I can't remember how many feet it is fifty
two feet. I can't remember the distance of the pitching
mound to home plate. I knew just a few years ago.
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But these kids are throwing gas at seventy at that distance,
that's like a much faster pitch for an MLB pitcher
from a mound that's much further away. And oh, by
the way, it's not just the feat of doing it,
it's sin you're up there battling in at twelve years old.
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So he and this other kid were in an absolute
pitcher's duel through four innings. In the fifth inning, they
get a runner on he's on second, and pass ball
for the for the base on balls. As that happens,
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run on second goes to third, and the batter, as
smart teams will do, goes to first and never stops.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He runs down to first.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Catcher's going to get the ball behind him, and he
turns and just starts heading the second because what you
want to do is force the throw and then you
bring the runner home from third. And the more throws
at this age you force teams to make, the more
likely there's going to be a mistake. So you're creating chaos.
Very smart coaching, but they all know to do this
this one. So the batter drops his bat, he sprints,
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the first catcher goes back and gets the ball. Batter
turns first but doesn't go all the way to second.
It makes a hard, long turn, comes around the catcher.
Talk about good fundamentals. He immediately throws the back the
ball back to Grau, who has come off the mound
and come toward him, is approaching the return throw. Gral
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takes the catch, takes the ball out in front of
the mound, checks his runner at third, keeps him there,
turns to first, throws quickly and accurately to the first baseman.
First baseman makes the play.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Of the game.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
He catches the ball, he's off the bag because he's
trying to get closer to the runner. He turns and
rears back, fakes the throw down to second because they're
gonna they're gonna have this runner in a pickle at
this point, and that's what he's trying to cause, so
they can they can steal a run out of this.
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So he pump fakes the pitch the throw to second,
and immediately pivots and throws a rocket on a line to.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
The third baseman.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
The kid that was on second had gone to third,
and all this thing is playing out to get him home. Well,
he when he sees the first baseman turn, he sells
the throat to such an extent that he starts toward home,
but the throat didn't happen, so he has to immediately
stop and go back, whereupon he dives face first. His
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helmet comes back. You see his face hit the dirt.
Helmet is pushing back. Third baseman makes the tax sweeps
it gets him out. Ump calls him safe. They have
instant replay. He's out. It was It was such a
heads up play for twelve year old kids mentally, as
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this is happening, and remember, you've just advanced a runner
from second to third in the process of putting two
runners on in a game that you've been frustrated because
you've not been able to get a hit on the
other pitcher of the whole game. He's striking at the
end of four I think he had ten strikeouts. His
kid's been unhittable, and you're frustrated and you don't want
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to lose. And at twelve kids, it can go bad
fast for kids at this age, they can just fall
apart and the moms can't understand what is going on. Well,
the intensity broke and now it's rage and it's like
Lena Headgg goes a head. You're not You're insane in
the membrane. Can't you can't process, you can't think. So
(24:44):
third baseman makes the swipe, they call him safe.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh man, he's clearly out.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I mean not clearly, but when you see the replay
you can tell that he's out. So he's going to
be out when they when they review it. But the
player on the field has gone against you. You just
had a pass ball, which is always frustrating. You put
your second runner on, you make the he's gone to second.
You make the play at third, and the rev the
(25:11):
cause you out, third base, cause you out. It calls
you safe. And so now you got two runners in
scoring position. The third baseman comes up. Now they're within
a couple of minutes. They do make the overrule and say, yes,
he was out. But at that moment you think he's safe.
Everything has gone wrong for the team. What does the
third baseman do. He looks at the team and very
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sternly puts each of his index fingers on his temples.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, guys, keep your head about you. Twelve years old.
These kids are amazing.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Anything else? No, okay, Michael Barry, can you guys?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
I hope everyone has a really awesome rest of today.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
One lady emailed, kudos to the coaches, Lamar Lilly, they
have the kids practice those situations.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh, I'm very well aware.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
I've coached Lit League baseball and we've coached that scenario
a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And I'm gonna tell you, at twelve years old, to
execute that with a clean slate. You know, Hey, no pressure,
nobody's looking. Let's here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna
do a pass ball. I'll do it right now. I'll
roll the ball of the catcher.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Come up.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I want you. Everybody has to be in their position. Hey,
everybody has to respond. But wait, you're not responding after
something I'm just telling you is gonna happen. And everybody's
mindful of what they're gonna do. You've just put a
runner on base with a walk. That's frustrating. You watch
a lot of these kids. Their body language at twelve,
(26:55):
it's they've not yet learned to control their emotions.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
They're volatile.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
So you've had these two bad things happen, a walk
and a passball. Runner on second's gone to third. Lamar
knows the best they're going to do is get one
run off. This kid, he is dealing this picture for Connecticut.
He is, he is giving it to them, and so
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they know runs are going to be hard to come by.
And now this team's about to score a run when
he so the passball catcher comes up, begins running toward
the pitcher. He doesn't throw from back there another smart move.
He gets close, starts moving toward the plate so that
he's in position should the runner on third come in.
The pitcher comes off the mound. He doesn't pout, he
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doesn't say oh drafts like it's a Peanuts episode.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
He approaches the catcher so that he's.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Shortening the distance again, great fundamental baseball catches ball, looks
off the runner on third to push him back, who
just coming around from third, and then he throws to
his first baseman. His first baseman is not on the bag.
He's trailing the runner again, so he can shorten the
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throw to second. Throws to the first baseman, he makes
the catch. All right, we've already had a series of things,
any one of which goes wrong. Another run is going
to score catcher who's surprisingly seven foot five inches tall.
I don't know, a big boy, big white kid. I mean,
he is big. It's like Toby Schultz, I want school with.
So he throws a little sidearm, very accurate, right in
(28:31):
the chest to the first baseman.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
He catches, he's on the move.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
He turns to second, and he makes a very convincing
fake throw, and at that moment, the runner on third
buys it.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's sold it.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
So the runner on third starts and he gets about
four or five steps toward home and he realizes, uh oh,
just like a quarterback will pivot on his stance, like
you're on the this lad, you're on these skis. I
want you to jump up and turn those keys. He pivots,
turns and guns it and he throws it on a
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rope to get him out at third.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
My point is, I know that you practice that.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Everybody has practiced that. That at twelve years old, is
that's not just a major league baseball play. That is
a really good major league baseball play. Considering also the
mindset and then the third basement. After making the tag
he swipes him. He thinks the runner is safe because
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that was the call. He knows he got him. You
could see two inches between the kids, the base runners,
the tip of his middle finger and the bag at third.
When He hits him on the helmet with the glove
to swipe the tag. He knows they just got ripped
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off after perfectly executing it, and they're melting down. He
knows that, So what does he do?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
He doesn't.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
When a kid gets angry at that age, you can't
you can't get through to them because they go to
a bad place, because they're intense.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
These kids are so intense. So what does that kid do?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
He has the presence of mind to know, my team
is falling apart. We've got to keep our heads about us.
He pops up, He calls for time. He puts his
two index fingers on each of his temples and pokes
at his head. Hey, guys, keep your head a bite.
He conveys the message. That's that's the sign. Guys, think,
(30:46):
think calm. It's very easy to think what you would
do in such a situation, and it almost never happens.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This kid is twelve. These kids are learning life less realistically.
What's this kid? Gritchick? Twelve years in? He recorded a
nice little thing for the boys. I thought that was nice.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
These kids are learning something so much more important than hitting, catching, stealing, running, throwing,
You know, realistically, and if you play college, you'll play
four more years. If you play pro, you chase that
dream for some years. But realistically, none of them's ever
going to play baseball past thirty. You might hit some infield,
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you might be in a church softball league, but you're
not going to play competitive baseball. So the life skills
are not the baseball fundamentals. The life skills you're learning
is what to do in a moment of intense pressure
where things are falling apart. This is, you know, saving
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the rest of the guys on the submarine level stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
This is figuring out the.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Plan to save the most number of life when the
building's on fire and our part of the building is
cut off.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
From I mean, this is this is impressive.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
These are life, real life skills that these kids are demonstrated,
not one of them. I've seen kids cry on the
mound at the World Series. Not not at local Lily.
At the World Series. I've seen the picture on the
mound at a moment like this, We're not even the
last inning and tears are coming down. This is not
how it's supposed to work. It's like you've stolen the
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kid's toy that they'll they'll melt down. You'll see their
body language. Not these kids, no, sir, that is a
group of kids that are well coached by what's his name, Ramon.
What's the fellow's name? Justin Pollard, isn't what's his ease?
Obviously he's got a kid on the team, Justin Carlisle.
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Justin Pollard Pollard I think is the head coach or
manager they call it. And Eric Graw, that's Grau's dad.
Eric Graw looks like he just got through hunting five
minutes ago. He just he rushed in here on time.
He still got his boots on, he got mud on him.
He's his dip has rolled down his side. Would you
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see a white boy that's carrying about twenty five extra pounds.
He's got a little half mullet in the back, and
he's got a little dip on him like that, and
he's got a beard that he just like once a
month shaved, just what you know, maybe on the first
of month he's shaves. And that dude like that is
a baseball dad. That's a base former baseball player. That
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is a baseball dad. Anyway that bespeaks volumes of their
coach because they have only been this is All Star team.
They've only had them a couple of months. They didn't
coach all these kids during the year. They were all
on different teams. It says the world about the coaches,
says the world about their parents, their fathers, who's probably
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coaching them in the back league, and their mothers. These
are kids who are cool under pressure. We need to
send Lena Hidalgo to them. Of course we need put
on lithium too, but that's a whole different show. These
kids are twelve years old demonstrating what you do under
stress and pressure of the national stage, and it all
could be falling apart, and Lena can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
If she doesn't get you a few.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
More million dollars to hand out to whoever's may cut
her the best deal under the table. There's your juxtaposition
of the sacred and profane right there.
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