Welcome to Fall and the beginning of the holiday season. Depending on when you’re reading this, there are 90 shopping days left before Christmas! And I’m sure you cussed me as you read that sentence. So time to move on!
WOS grad Toby Foreman is the head football coach at Killeen Shoemaker and they had a big game this week against Temple, a team they haven’t beaten in 21 years. With the game tied, his kicker Joshua Torres came out and made the biggest kick of his life, or maybe it was Toby’s life. Coach gave Torres the game ball, the first time in his career that he’s ever awarded a game ball. Now the backstory. During the first half of the game, Torres found out his grandfather had passed away. He told coach he was going to be leaving at halftime of the game. But when they went to leave, his mother’s car would not start. And the rest, is history.
Many of you probably didn’t know that the elevator at the Orange County Courthouse has been out of service for the last six months. I promise you all of the suits and high heels that work on the upper floors know all about it. Well we’re happy to say that The Juice has learned it is in operation again. Couldn’t help but laugh at the post that if Judge Gothia’s office was on the second or third floor, it would’ve been fixed sooner. Or that the same people who fixed it must be in charge of the swing bridge. LOL.
Yours truly will be getting the chance to interview former Astro Lance Berkman in October. Similar to what I did with Jay Novacek but this time it will be for the Boy Scouts. Looking forward to it and will let you know how it goes if you’re not there. And we are thinking ahead this time and will record it to use for an episode of Behind The Mic podcast.
Congrats again to former LCM baseball coach Steve Griffith who will be inducted into the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January. Those are the kind of stories we love telling on KOGT.com. I told coach when I interviewed him, “You know, besides your parents, the only other person that’s been with you your entire career at LCM is the old radio guy.” Which he agreed and hadn’t thought about. I said, “I remember your first game. I went behind the dugout to get your lineup and you were back there throwing up.” He said, “Well hell Stelly, that’s because I was starting four freshmen!”
Another person I’m proud of is my wife, Angie. Years ago during one of the Bassmaster Elite events in Orange, I watched Gerald Swindle’s wife whip around at the boat ramp and back his boat in the water like a boss. I didn’t realize it at the time until I saw it but I said, “Fellas, that’s one of the sexiest things I’ve seen in a while.” Since then I’ve been trying to encourage Angie to give it a shot. She tried one time, just about ruined my transmission from getting mad and jamming it into forward and reverse, and vowed never to do it again. Last week with no one at the ramp but us, I talked her into trying it again and she did it! And two more times since then. So proud!
I think we’ve all looked online for something, whether it’s product or information, and we end up going down what is known as The Rabbit Hole. Well I did that the other day and boy did I come up with a gem that I couldn’t wait to share with you. Had to look twice before busting out laughing. I was looking at Google Maps in Orange County and sometimes business names will pop up. Sometimes they pop up in residential neighborhoods and you wonder how they got there or they have a business located in a spot that you 100% know is the wrong location so you begin to question everything else they tell you. But that has nothing to do with this find. I located a business. It’s a business where they do spray tanning. The name of the business? The Glowjob. You can’t make this stuff up. Sometimes it just writes itself!
Make it a great week!
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born… and the day you find out why.”
~ Mark Twain
-Gary Stelly-
gstelly66@gmail.com
Volume 1 No. 31
The Juice is a weekly column where Gary Stelly discusses things that happened the past week and mixes it with 40 years of being involved in the Orange County community. (If we think of a better way to explain it we’ll change it) You can also check out his podcast by clicking on the Behind the Mic banner on the KOGT.com front page.
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