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Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by rhester, Aug 27, 2003.

  1. rhester

    rhester Member

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    Where have all the insiders gone, doc rocket , oilepere etc.

    I may have missed the announcement, but I miss the scoops
    during the offseason.

    Could Clutch, Jeff or others in the know please bring me up to date on this.

    I think they really made the BBS special.

    Thank you
     
  2. A-Train

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    I think they're taking a little time off from their job as BBS insiders to see their wives and kids. Personally, I think that's pretty selfish of them. Their first priority is ALWAYS to pamper us and get scoops on Rockets moves. Their families will just have to be put on hold...
     
  3. RocketBurrito

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    I agree - and when your "scoops" are all dead wrong, consist of general crap that any poster could make up, or were tied to people who are no longer with the Rockets - it makes it a hell of a lot easier to stop posting them...
     
  4. Sane

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    I think they have UNDERSTANDEABLY layed off giving us insider info because the BBS has become humongous, and there are most definietly way too many reporters who will put any "scoops" immediately in the Chinese papers.

    Unless we're looking for news like "Griffin has bulked up" or "MoT is fat" is which case, I'm eager to hear that harmless news too.
     
  5. RocketBurrito

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    What the crap do Chinese newspapers have to do with Doc Rocket & oeilpere not posting "scoops?" If anything, the Chinese papers are more credible scoop sources than the vaunted insiders here are/were.

    Here's a "scoop" - someone who does work for the Rockets told me that we haven't been able to trade - and not for a lack of trying - b/c no one wants our players. Ewwwww, I guess that's a scoop...

    Please. This & 99.9% of the "scoops" have been things that any perceptive fan could have made an educated guess about.

    I think oily is/was having some health issues - his last prediction post was dead wrong though. Doc Rocket was most likely getting info (if he really was at all) from the Rudy administration, which has now been deposed, almost everything he said was wrong too.

    As far as I can see, the closest thing to a Rockets insider right now is Berman w/ Fox 26...
     
  6. rhester

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    Thanks,

    I enjoyed their posts right or wrong.

    If they weren't insiders (privy to someone in the organization who counts) then they at least made their posts interesting.

    I wish Berman would post here.
     
  7. JoeBarelyCares

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    There is not a lot to scoop when the Rockets aren't doing anything. :)
     
  8. xiki

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    Not doing anything or not getting any movement accomplished. Different things.
     
  9. mulletman

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    right or wrong, scoops is what we are here for. it keeps this place interesting.

    if i only wanted to read people's crazy trade proposals all day, i would go to real gm message boards or something.
     
  10. knifejc

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    It seems like this is the 100th thread asking where have the insiders gone this summer.
     
  11. giddyup

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    How do you know I don't?.... :cool:
     
  12. rhester

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    giddyup- Prove it, what is stashed away down at the bottom of Jeff Van Gundy's right hand desk drawer underneath the tylenol pm?
     
  13. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    rhester

    The Colt .45s never played at Buff stadium. They opened the 1962 season in Colt stadium and Buff stadium was eventually torn down (1964?).

    "The Houston Colt.45s, because it was impossible to complete the Harris County Domed Stadium in time for play in 1962, constructed Colt Stadium for use during the first few seasons of major league baseball.
    The stadium is located in the mid-northwest section of the 240 acre domed stadium site, approximately one-quarter of a mile southeast of the junction of South Main and Old Spanish Trail. The stadium is southwest of the downtown area, directly out South Main. "
     
  14. rhester

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    bobrek- Thank you for the correction, as a little boy what I remember was going to see the Dodgers. I still remember they sepgregated the players on different buses. I got to meet Maury Wills, John Rosboro and others. It was great.
     
  15. giddyup

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    Pat Riley's book? :D
     
  16. A-Train

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    rhester's sig reminds me of Grandpa Simpson in the Strike episode...

    "We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like that time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickle, and in those days, nickles had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war; the only thing you can get was those big yellow ones...."
     
  17. rhester

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    A-train, You can tell my age by how I ramble...
    I am turning 50 this year and I already forget what I did yesterday.

    Thought I would change my sig and just got off on a tangent.

    I have alot of fond Rocket memories... Love the BBS...
    And I love to hear something new...

    I am a sucker for "scoops".

    Other than that I just ramble, ramble, ramble
     
  18. Deckard

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    I remember the mosquitos were unbelievable.
    That place was sold to some club in Mexico and moved, I think.

    Back on topic... ;)
    Has there ever been a summer quite like this? It's been deader than a doornail. I could come up with more, like, "slower than a canary in a mine shaft" but what's the point.

    Like many have said over and over, which I will add to, will the offseason ever end????




    (happy b-day, A-Train :) )
     
  19. ragingFire

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    Rhester,
    Would u pls tell these young ones. They don't believe we paid $1 to watch the Rockets played in Hofheinz Pavilion back then!
     

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