Comments on: Wanna buy Jeff Bagwell’s house?

By: scottgilroy

scottgilroy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:03:20 +0000

When itvwas first bought, it was just a condo

By: badintent

badintent — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:13:53 +0000

$15 million in this market ??In Houston ? I say he take $12Million if he gets an offer for that. His real estate agent must be Boras.
It is any concidence that Bonds has put his Beverly Hills crib up for sale at the same time ???? for $25 million. just asking……………………………………………………..

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:28:11 +0000

Have you been to Houston? Shadows are the most sought after home amenity. If he had any there, they would have been included in the listing.

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:24:20 +0000

He’d probably choose fawn beige, Malibu beige, and dusty beige.

By: mrfloydpink

mrfloydpink — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:16:07 +0000

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.” – Gen. Philip Sheridan

By: waybright25

waybright25 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:46:48 +0000

Cleveland…the butthole of America!

By: waybright25

waybright25 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:45:05 +0000

It’s 70º and sunny down here in Houston. Let me guess, you’re probably freezing your balls off anywhere except Phoenix or LA.

By: kevinbnyc

kevinbnyc — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:30:45 +0000

4 story concrete parking garage. Just make sure it doesn’t cast a shadow over your saltwater pool/spa.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:37:46 +0000

I worked in MN for 4 summers doing research, a couple of those years were in counties on the Canadian border in a lot of bogs, marshes, swamps, and fens. We created a “mosquito index”. One guy would stand still for 1 minute after exiting the vehicle, the other would slap him in the middle of the back at the end of that 1 minute and carefully peel the hand away to count the mosquitoes. Anything under 20 wasn’t too bad. Any skin that wasn’t covered in clothes had to be covered in deet. The ‘skeeters would be bouncing off of your face and hands constantly, as soon as your sweat washed the deet off of a spot, the mosquitoes would let you know so you could re-apply the toxins.

The most amazing thing is how fast those things can fly. If you sprint 50 yards down the road, it only takes them a few seconds to catch up to you.

By: markofapro

markofapro — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:34:41 +0000

Yo, mud. YOU suck.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:29:55 +0000

Summer = mosquitos the size and disposition of sidewinder missiles.

And South Texas, you got a real mean streak in you. Real mean.

By: umrguy42

umrguy42 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:19:54 +0000

Oh c’mon, cur, I’m sure Alberta has lovely summers. Is it still scheduled this year for 2-4:30pm on August19th, or did they move it?

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:16:21 +0000

Yep, once you get into the NW mountains, things that way are pretty cool, diverse habitats (other than bare sand or cotton), wildlife, mountain streams. Lubbock is windy, hot, dry, bland, and a million miles from anywhere….but then, it is also a cheap place to live, relatively safe, and fairly convenient in that you don’t have to drive far in town to find what you want or need….it is just that….once you are out of town…there is nothing until El Paso, Amarillo, Albuquerque, or Dallas….depending on the direction you are driving.

By: umrguy42

umrguy42 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:16:01 +0000

Definitely a big difference – Every time I’ve had to drive through in the winter, the snow is ALWAYS a problem near Cleveland, and a mere nuisance in Columbus :p

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:13:36 +0000

Ah, yes, Boerne. The place about 23 million Texans would like to move to. It’s a good thing we don’t all do it at once.

By: mudhead123

mudhead123 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:58:39 +0000

Texas as a state sucks

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:57:43 +0000

Not to rub it in, Cur. You know I wouldn’t do that. But as I sit in my temporary office today, it is 20 degrees C in Houston under a crystal clear blue sky. Just a slight sea breeze and a humidity of 55%.

Talk to me again in August. Or June or July or September or even May most years. But the tradeoff is a climate where you can persist in most outdoor activities year round.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:57:35 +0000

Oh, they’ve got wind in Texas. It’s like walking around in a hair dryer when it’s 115* F in the summer.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:56:05 +0000

I like the summer in Austin. It’s kind of a crapshoot. If the wind is from the south, it’s Gulf weather, like Houston. If the wind in from the west, it’s desert weather, like Lubbock. Variety is truly the spice of life!

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:55:32 +0000

The official girlfriend of Hardball Talk just moved in with me after spending the past several years in San Antonio. I visited several times this past year and came to like San Antonio a lot. Yes, it was hot as hell too, but I found the town to be pretty neat. Her folks lived up in Boerne, and we did a lot of hill country stuff, which I also liked.

Wouldn’t choose to live there, but if someone said “you have to move to Texas,” I’d go down that way before Houston.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:53:11 +0000

Don’t let him fool you, paper. Bat Cave is in North Carolina — not Ohio.

By: andyreidisthegoat

andyreidisthegoat — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:51:14 +0000

I wouldn’t wish that I anyone

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why what is wrong with houston and why would someone in the media make a comment like that. you aren’t a blogger your’re the author. not professional. And I don’t live in houston and could really care less if you like it or don’t. just struck me as an odd comment.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:50:27 +0000

I had Lubbock in mind. Go about two hundred miles west into the New Mexico mountains and I like it very well. But Lubbock makes my list of not very livable places.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:33:54 +0000

Hey, no humidity in Lubbock. A bit of wind though, and you will see small bits of New Mexico regularly blowing by. But it is flat, so if you ever wanted to see the curvature of the earth personally, that might hold so interest for you. Plus, Buddy Holly was born there (I seem to remember that being mentioned once or twice or 12 gazillion times).

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:33:35 +0000

BELLY LAUGH

I’s -23 degrees Celsius today. There’s a lazy wind. You know, the kind that’s too lazy to go around you? Just goes right on through you. Managed to convince my dog to walk about 4 blocks before she sat down and refused to go on. Dragged me back home and hid under the bed, too. The air is so dry, its impossible to keep hydrated: everyone in the house has occasional nose bleeds because of it.

Its an averaged Alberta winter day, here. Winter lasts for about 8 months. The other 4 are pretty much just bad sledding days.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:30:44 +0000

My apologies for misconstruing the comment. Your closing remark appeared to be a commentary on the state of affairs in America. But yes, I think we can all agree that it is one expensive house!

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:48 +0000

Fortified compound? Does that mean that you fertilized the lawn, only buy cereals that are fortified with vitamins, and only drink fortified wine? Or do you mean that it has been fort-i-fied with the addition of spike-topped log walls and cannons?

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:20:38 +0000

My sister settled in Northern California. I like that very well, too. But her sons, who grew up there, will not come to visit Houston in the summer. They can’t manage it. Just a side comment. I’d have to say it is indeed a rare day when refinery smells reach west Houston.

If money was absolutely no object, I would consider an estate in Monterrey, or on one of those islands off of the Maine coast. However money is an object, and family is near. So we stay.

And no, humidity is not a selling point for Houston. I was challenging the assertion that there were ten places in Texas with more livable climates.

By: kirkvanhouten

kirkvanhouten — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:13:12 +0000

Hmm…my comment, instead of a moderately interesting statistic has apparently been misconstrued as a comment on class disparity due to the inclusion of a Team American World Police quote at the end. To clarify, the undertone of my comment was merely “Look how expensive that house is!”.

Let’s go back to debating politics on apparently every other Hardballtalk post.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:13:04 +0000

I might consider it, but I’d have to renovate. Hate those stupid-looking castle turrets.