Órale, thanks for the vacation last month, raza. I enjoyed it de amadres. I did the vuelta y came back with lots of new words and a special onda that used to be a big huato in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico: a semi-pro baseball league. We’re gonna ponerle with this onda the rest of the year. No doubt there’s still raza out there who used to play in this league. Y pos, since baseball’s not really a Caló onda, the episodes are gonna be more about the romance and drama that moved around with this league than the game itself. The featured words are gonna be the placenames in the region.This first place we’re gonna talk about is Tarilas, AKA, Pecos, which is next to Bastos (Barstow) and Cremitas (Kermit) and Monitos (Monahans).
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