It was a pleasant night over at the baseball field, where we watched the Brazos Valley Bombers defeat the Acadiana Cane Cutters by a score of 8-5. Until about a week before the game, I’d never even heard of the Brazos Valley Bombers, but this iteration of them has been around since 2006 (“On August 25, 2006, the Brazos Valley Bombers sprung to life at a press conference in the courtyard of the LaSalle Hotel* in downtown Bryan.” is the not-at-all over the top way the team’s website states it.), but there were previous versions of the team from 1947-1950 and from 1953-1954.

Bryan, Texas
photographed 6.14.2024

*Yes, you HAVE heard of the LaSalle Hotel before, in the “Front Porch Song” by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen:

This old porch is just a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas
With lots of cheese and onions and a guacamole salad
You can get at the La Salle Hotel in old downtown
With iced tea and a waitress who will smile every time
Yea, she will

(And this concludes today’s session of What I Know About Texas Music. Thank you for joining me.)