The former CEO of Houston-based geophysical seismic company Seitel, Inc. — 58 year old Paul Frame, Jr. — was sentenced today in federal court to over five years in federal prison for converting $750,000 from the company to fund a settlement of a civil lawsuit filed by a former fiancee. Here are previous posts on Seitel and Mr. Frame’s case, and here is the Chronicle story on the sentencing.
Kevin Whited over at blogHouston.net is one of the most insightful local bloggers on matters relating to football. In this post, he observes that John McClain — the Chronicle’s main beat writer on the National Football League for many years — is a rarity among Houston media types in now suggesting that Houston Texans owner Bob McNair ought to fire General Manager Charlie Casserly along with Texans Head Coach Dom Capers for the Texans’ miserable 0-6 start to the 2005 season. Kevin notes that Mr. McClain’s criticism of Mr. Casserly is unusual in comparison to the normally fawning treatment that most local sports media types give to the personable and media-savvy Texans General Manager.
Well, for Stros fans, the end of the 2005 World Series certainly did not turn out not to be as fulfilling as the ride to get there.
Nevertheless, the past two days have been a ton of fun and filled with exciting, nailbiting baseball. This was not your typical World Series sweep as each of the four games went down to the wire and could have literally gone either way. The White Sox are the better team overall and clearly deserve to be World Champions, but the Stros certainly made them earn it.
Interestingly, the first 24 innings of the Series generated more runs than expected from these two relatively weak hitting and strong pitching clubs — the Sox scored 17 runs and the Stros 13. However, the final innings of the Series reverted to the expected form — the White Sox scored a total of 3 runs in their final 18 innings, yet won Games 3 and 4 because the Stros scored only 1 run on 6 hits (four singles and two doubles) in their final 19 innings. In the end, the Sox slightly superior bullpen depth and better overall hitting performance in the Series was the difference.