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Anyone watch the new Netflix show Murderville? It's not very good but the guest star in episode #2 is Marshawn. Will Arnett stars as a detective that each week gets a new partner to help solve a murder. The running gag (I guess) is that the guest star doesn't get a script and has to ad lib with all of the other actors that got a script. Conan O'Brien was the guest in episode 1. Not recommending based on the first episode but looking forward to watching Marshawn tonight

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Gangnam Style turns 10 years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZYYwCYi6_I

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My only trip to Seoul, specifically the Gangnam district, was in April 2012. Needless to say Psy was HUUUUUGE while we were there.

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I was there for work in 2018 or 2019 and stayed at the InterContinental in the Gangnam District. Just down the street from the two large hands and the video playing 24/7.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34744836

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Exam question: It is called the Daily Cal but does not come out daily. It is called the Daily Bear Dump (or DBD) but does not appear on weekends. In fifty words or less explain these two Cal-related contradictions.

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Weekend DBD is only for W4C Platinum subscribers

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Makes sense because it sure isn’t in any of the Cal mens basketball game threads. Those are largely ghost towns.

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I have conversations with myself in the threads....

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Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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when were we ever mighty?

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Pac-12 champs last decade?

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so that's where the party's at!

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rift in the space-time continuum

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I was about to write a note about a non-Star Trek show where that just occurred, but then thought it might be a spoiler for anyone watching. which, based on the (lack of) response to me pimping the show, might not really be a worry...

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What show?

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Beforeigners. Norwegian show on HBO Max. Two 6-ep seasons. About folks from the past (eg., 1800s, 1200s) mysteriously showing up and integrating into modern society. within the construct of a crime procedural. Parallels to things like integrating E German society into the west after reunification, seems to me.

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Lack of funding

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Drive on a parkway, park on a driveway?

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Certain rules and conditions apply

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Weekend constipation?

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

Thanks for the explanation ... maybe keep this post in an site intro somewhere

Suggestion/request: instead of only linking to some old post about the genesis of DBD which is interesting and good to link, how about adding just a little more description about how to post here ... for example, when someone posts a new topic, I see some just type of word or short phrase, yet others preface it with DBD ... is there any difference?

Also, some posts seem to be repetitive such as "Today in Covid" and "Our crumbling democracy"

On other forum-type boards these kinda of ongoing topics have one continual discussion thread. In this blog format, comments from the day before get lost quickly ... but I'm I understanding how to think about these repetitive topics?

Signed, the uninitiated

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At some point in the heyday of the DBD on CGB, you might have 2000-comment days. Though the SBN platform highlighted new comments, it was still easy to lose your place. So, we started having headers for recurring conversations in each DBD, so people generally threaded their comments in one place for each topic (Cal, other college, pro - these were the early ones).

In terms of finding where you left off, I learned this trick from HeyAlumniGo: ctrl+F (or command + F) for N E W R E P L Y (without the extraneous spaces) to jump to new comments. This only works if there aren't posts with that combination of words that get put up to confound your process (AHEM WIATA)

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New Reply! New Reply!

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do need a space between "new" and "reply"

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just tried, and that's the case...so TBB should have had extra spaces in their N E W R E P L Y ;-)

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1) That's why I specified *extraneous*

2) My double space got removed

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I'd say so, since the little box has a space

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Which sort option do you use? Chronological or New Reply? (I'm assuming that nobody uses Top First.) I start with Chron, and then change to New Reply once I get thru the first wave...altho it doesn't seem to sort New Replies in a way that I think it would.

I also make generous use of clicking on the vertical bar on the left to hide any threads (or subthreads) that I'm not interested in. Which allows me find new stuff more quickly.

Also, for threads that I commented on, I get emails when there's a reply or like to my comment. And when I click View, it (sometimes) sends me to the relevant comment.

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Just checked--mine's on New First. I also haven't done anything with the vertical bars, and I'm not subscribed (sorry, friends!)

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I do new first and don't refresh throughout the day (unless I get the new post hang). I keep today and yesterday's DBDs open, deleting the previous yesterday when opening up the new day.

I can scroll to the top to see new threads, because those aren't tagged as a new reply, but then can hit "CMD-G" to find all new replies.

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Dammit...now I'm going to be finding these and giving me false hope of actual new replies.

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yeah, sorry. when I did the test, I found mine. which is why TBB wisely did what they did!

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sometimes being subscribed when all one does is like one post on a popular thread can feel like email spam ;-)

I wouldn't want to be *your* inbox if you were subscribed!

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As a relative noob here – Ii would read sports stuff back in the CGB days, but "discovered" the DBD at some point early in the pandemic – and sporadic DBD poster, I'll chime in:

0. (Adding this at the top, but don't want to renumber) There is a small cabal of folks who seem to get the page set up each day. SGBear being the one I've noticed the most lately, but it's mostly folks who are "not" in the WFC home time zone, and largely folks in Asia, if I'm not mistaken. Therefore, the DBD often goes live in the middle of our (Bay Area) night, but doesn't get fully active until the West Coast Bears arise.

1. Many of the people that you "meet" here have known each other for a LONG time! ;-) So there will be things you don't understand because they'll be working off a Borg-like shared memory.

1b. To help, there's also a CGB link to many (but far from all) of the acronyms and shorthands that get used here. That would be a good permalink...I think someone suggested that a few months ago?

2. For me, I like the "repetitive" topics starting over each day. I don't see each as an historical document, but rather a day's meanderings. A slice of time, as it were.

3. HAG answered your DBD prefix Q. That was interesting; I'd not noticed that before.

4. Go Bears!

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Same in terms of readership on CGB and DBD participation. I never participated or commented on DBD while it was on CGB but started participating in DBD during the pandemic.

I think I didn’t participate before because they had so many comments and it was a bit overwhelming.

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Same here

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I want you guys to know that I'm glad you're here now :)

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Ah, gee, shucks!

I want *you* to know that you provided a warm welcome, inviting me to the Pi Day shindig last year (was it?). It was interesting, being a group of people who've known each other for decades, with all the comfortableness and inside jokes that comes with that. So trying to balance "joining" with "giving y'all your space". But it was fun :-)

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No need to give us our space! The DBD participants are ever changing -- I think I've been here 12 years, some are longer than that, and many are newer. Most of the people here 12 years ago are no longer participating, so it's nice to have more people joining in along the way.

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I agree. I looked at DBD during the CGB days once or twice but couldn't really figure out what was going on. So I kept to myself just commenting on the sports articles. It changed with WFC and Covid.

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I used to go to CGB for Cal content and then found myself lurking anonymously on the DBD being like "who are these people whose conversation might seamlessly cover both a French duck recipe and former Cal shooting guard Randy Duck?" Then one day I chimed in on a thread and then stayed on for like ten thousand more CGB comments.

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Randy Duck stories are the best stories. The man was a campus legend.

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His hair alone was a campus legend

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I wasn't on campus then, but enjoyed watching him play

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I remember his first Late Night at Harmon and he won the slam dunk contest with a 360, as a freshman. And then he had a chase down rejection on an attempted dunk. Everytime there was a breakaway and he was chasing I was already out of my seat anticipating a chasedown rejection.

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yeah, when I tell people that I read something on the Cal sports blog that I follow, I have to add a lot of qualifiers.

there's a lot of brain power here, with a lot of diverse experiences.

I recall seeing a few of you getting WAY into the weeds on Civil War minutiae (and other similar topics), and feeling that perhaps I'm not quite as bright and well-read (and well-rounded, as an engineer who took a lot of humanities classes) as I like to fancy myself!

Oh, and on WFC, "former Cal shooting guard" is not necessary! ;-)

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...that would have been moi + some others

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"...and covid" FTW!

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One other thing I find interesting is that the long-time residents here know each other IRL (like actually going to football games together), but refer to each other by their usernames almost exclusively. There are people here who seem to have gone to HS (or earlier) together, but never use each other's real names :-)

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You all & your rules!

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I know most everyone here personally. I sit at the FB games with Twist, Avi Nick, Nam, HAG, Roy Rules, and others. For road trip games we usually hang out with and/or stay with/ share AirBnB with HAG, HSB, SGBear, FS, Cugel.

There were a lot of "breaking" of online rules in the early DBD days, namely meeting IRL. It started off with people who all worked in the financial district getting coffee or ice cream together which morphed into happy hours. Soon enough, numbers get exchanged, and people started hanging out IRL. There are CGB/WFC people whose birthday parties I've gone to, baby showers, weddings, etc.

I had lunch with Cugel, Atoms, Twists, and sec119 last saturday and as we left, Atoms and I hung out a little longer talking about going to shows together.

Is it weird? Only when I have to explain to people how I met DBDers.

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Small detail to flesh out.

When g.oso says "FS" above I think he refers to Fire Starkey and not me (FiatSlug).

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we also had fiatlux so we used fiat for fl and Fiat for FiatSlug.

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The BBQ was good, sides not so much.

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Plenty of brisket, white bread, and jalapeños for white man tacos.

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My wife calls y'all my "internet friends."

I love seeing everybody in person and I wish I could do it more often. Next up: South Bend!

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I’m going to do GB 49 impersonation here and a make a suggestion. How bout a DBD homecoming FB game where DBD participants new and old, and particularly those like me who have not met any of you in IRL, tailgate? Probably not much different than what happens already with those of you who know each other, but with an understanding that the uninitiated would be officially welcome.

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the tailgate is open to all. We usually set up about 4-5 hours before kickoff in the Dwinelle lot.

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Doesn't involve writing an article so can't be too GB49ish.

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Don't forget SGBear's epic tailgates at the away games!

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The one in the Grove was delightful....

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Speaking of which, Pi Day is coming up. When HSB and I went skiing a couple of weeks ago, on the way up we stopped by Ikeda's and picked up a cherry pie for dinner. Was super good.

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(Sometimes spoken) rule from CGB: no real names!!!

This did change when some people needed to be on the masthead under their real names, but we try to keep some semblance of privacy when we all overshare...

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And a fair number of people are brutally honest about stuff at their work, so anonymity is good for that. But I wonder if someone's co-worker were to join the party here, if they'd be able to figure out that their colleague is dissing their firm ;-)

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

Like Scootie, it's pretty easy to figure out where I work. Not sure anyone would be able to identify me even if the pool of employees is less than 1% of 250K.

Although if I started to give details about my division, another person at EBMWU would probably figure it out.

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It's pretty easy to figure out my firm, but less easy to figure out which of the 250K employees I might be!

I tell y'all things I would not tell you in written form under my real name, so I like the nicknames. Of course, I end up using them with most of these folks in real life too which gets confusing for their actual friends who are not here.

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The topics prefaced with DBD are typically topics where commenters are posting first hand experiences. Like DBD AV would be any movie/tv show we're watching. Or DBD Kitchen is what we're eating for lunch or dinner.

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Oof, that sounds boring. Somehow, the DBD manages to turn such bromide into glorious amusement. Dive in, new friends - a fabulous, whimsical world of sitcom references and meticulously described fusion recipes awaits!

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The beauty of the DBD is that you can do (almost) anything you want.

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Memories of the DBD

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Map of the East Bay/Bay Area

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RIP gifs & pictures

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I used to post a lot of photoshopped images. Miss those days.

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And @Oracle gif me

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the animated gif of Turkey throwing a pot of sausages out of the window

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Where did Turkey go?

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he and i hung out a few weeks ago. He no longer has a desk job and therefore cannot dbd.

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Good to know he's alive

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...and still paying rent.

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Well sounds like he needs a new job...

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he hasn't had a desk job in like 5 years. He randomly pops up on the Rivals boards though

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From the various DBDPiHHs I've seen him at it's been at least 2 or 3 years.

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Turkey? I think that was spazzy?

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Or was it Redonk?

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Double-e air honk

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I guess that makes a little more sense. Though I'm not sure Twist's honks ever had a modicum of sense...

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Looking at the comments, so many old friends. And RIP CBG!

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And #08gang had their first desk job and had just found the glory of DBDing on company time

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What Rishi loves. Twist's fashion posts.

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The drive to 1000 seems like so long ago.

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Don't forget the drive to 2,000. That happened more than once.

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Dark Kraftika is seared into my brain for life. Damn you, Twist, damn you

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Fuck that shit.

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Today in COVID

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Reported last week that my 6 year old son had tested positive for COVID. As of the weekend it had spread to my wife and daughter as well, thus far sparing only myself (no symptoms, and at-home tests have all turned up negative). My son is still testing positive 6 days later, so no school for him.

No one has anything worse than typical cold/flu symptoms, but the quarantine is not fun.

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Our crumbling democracy

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Andrew Cuomo "vindicated" won't rule out run for governor...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/andrew-cuomo-says-he-s-been-vindicated-won-t-rule-out-run

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he really needs to fuck off

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Can't blame him for wanting to keep his love letters from Kim Jong-un.

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In related news, everybody knows that Trump tore all his papers. Per WaPo, he went further - shredding and burning lots of other documents - knowing full well about the Records Act but not caring.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-ripping-documents/

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This thread about the WI governor race.

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1490707721225654277

And the cherry on top of this is that the financier for the ultra-right causes is Dick Uihlein (Stanford BS History '67), founder of Uline and Schlitz Beer heir.

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DBD AV

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

So I am all caught up on BoBF and all I can say is episode 6 was perfection.

IMO: Mando Season 2 finale + BoBF episode 6 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SW: Episodes 7, 8, 9.

Disney should just retcon episodes 7, 8, 9 or assign them to Legends status and start over.

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Meh, I love the version of Luke that's in Ep 8 and wouldn't want to lose that. Nothing against the depiction in the current series either, as they're clearly different time periods.

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

I don’t mind the version of Luke in Episode 8 and the kamikaze scene is awesome. The rest of Episode 8 and all of Episodes 7 and 9 can go away forever.

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Ep 8 left me excited about the possibilities of the series, but Ep 9 definitely pissed it all away. JJ Abrams does not know how to end a story.

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

He didn’t know how to start the new trilogy, as episode 7 was just a reboot of episode 4.

What possibilities in episode 8 did you like?

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1. That anyone could become the next great Jedi. It didn't depend on bloodlines. Rey came from nobody, but she was clearly the one to take on Luke's mantle.

2. That simply becoming the big hero of the saga (as Luke did) doesn't mean your journey stops. There is always something new to learn, growth to achieve.

3. That there could potentially be a merge of the dark and light sides of the Force, rather than continued divide. That's what the Kylo/Rey relationship was suggesting to me.

That's just off the top of my head. And I thought Ep 7 was at least a decent introduction for some likable new characters, even if the plot was definitely a rehash of the OT (as was Ep 9).

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yeah, not having someone in charge of continuity and allowing JJ to dump all the progress of E8 was not good.

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Literally the opening crawl of 9 was just, "LOL never mind! The Emperor's back." I knew it was going to go badly once I saw that.

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

ST --> SW?

If so, many things can be used on the left-side of those >>>>>>>

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

My bad, yes, I meant SW.

Editing now.

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I'm 1 week behind. Just watched episode 5 on Friday.

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I started and caught up to The After Party and I am really enjoying the show and it’s format.

Also started season 2 of Raised by Wolves. I really enjoyed season 1, with the exception of the finale. I hope season 2 starts answering some of the questions from season 1.

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Watched episode 3 last night, lot of fun, also Rez Dogs & Girls5eva - watching Rez Dogs my wife said that the only time she's eaten at Sonic was in Oklahoma.

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Rez Dogs is so good and as someone who has worked in Indian Country since 2006, it is very true to life on the Rez and really well written. All my tribal friends and colleagues love that show.

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I can believe that, my wife worked in Indian Country for 7 years (public health).

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I watched E1 of the after party and liked it, but haven't watched the others yet.

S1 of RbW, I sometimes liked it, but didn't like did the end...perhaps I'll watch S2, but not high on my list.

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I really liked RbW season 1 but really did not like that finale. The first 2 episodes of season 2 have been good.

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good to know

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Apple TV+ has some very good content. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the shows and movies on it.

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lots of good stuff there! but yeah, might as well wait til TAP is done

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I wish I could still watch FAM for the first time! way underrated...it should be a show that gets people to subscribe.

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Swan Song good.

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good to hear!

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"The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window." Over the top and thoroughly entertaining. Not sure how to describe this genre, not simply dark comedy. The scene where Kristen Bell's character finds someone on the internet, decides to look for a related individual, then states, "hmmm...how am I going to find you."

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Heh, like G-1 we went back in time and watched Foreign Corespondent (Hitchcock, 1940) - and the parts of the movie that were great, are truly amazing, but the MacGuffin is unbelievable and the romance is never really established. Still 16/19 WB

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Watched the Maltese Falcon (Bogart, etc.) over the weekend.

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Murderville (16/19). An American copy of the BBC show "Murder in Successville", starring Will Arnett. It's a who-dunnit mystery where one guest-star tries to solve the mystery all while being given no script and has to improv the whole thing. The concept that everybody knows that it's improv makes it delightfully imperfect. I've seen the Conan and Marshawn episodes. Some parts that would be a 9/19 moments on a scripted show become laugh-out-loud moments because of the improv. Marshawn doing the mirror bit had me in stitches.

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Agree on all counts. I also watched the first two episodes and the missus and I look forward to the rest. Marshawn is a treasure and I look forward to whatever he does next.

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What network is that on? It sounds great!

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Netflix

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Reacher, on Amazon Prime. Good show, and unlike 5’6” Tom Cruise, who played him in 2 movies, relative newcomer Alan Ritchson looks the part of the massive, 6’5” Jack Reacher.

Fans of the book should definitely enjoy, but will find subtle differences between the book and series characters, though it definitely doesn’t ruin anything.

You can also enjoy without having read the book.

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I’m looking forward to watching this. I never read the books but I did enjoy the Tom Cruise movies despite all the criticism that he wasn’t big enough to play Reacher. I suppose the criticism didn’t bother me because I didn’t read the books.

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I've read a couple of the books. They are DARK...way more effed up than the Cruise movies

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Reacher books are fantastic...check out Gone Tomorrow & Bad Luck and Trouble...two great antagonists...

Lee Child does great research into the areas that Reacher travels too....pretty cool.

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crazy that he's a Brit! he writes about places all over the US

I can't remember most of which title = which plot. read them too much one after another, but One Shot(?) was good (the basis of the first movie). The recent one about the couple driving in New England and stopping at a motel wasn't.

The one about the people drowning in paint was really good (and had a great twist).

Chitwood can prob give you titles to go with these...

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yeah, I recall one (where they find a colonel dead in a motel bed in TX?) where Reacher goes to a nearby bar and smashes some guy's knee, thinking he was involved in something bad. Oops, wrong about that, but dude's knee is still fucked up.

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I'm the same. #2 I think I only saw once, but I like #1 and have seen several times. but hadn't read the books yet. reading them after the fact and having TC as your mental image of JR (with his dinner plate-sized hands) is disconcerting.

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agreed on all counts, I enjoyed it a lot.

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Kinda been waiting for this. The whole season is available? Just finished Beforeigners last night (which went in a direction I did not see coming), so could have Reacher as a filler show between shows that drop weekly. (And hopefully not weakly.)

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DBD Kitchen

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This isn't Kitchen (rather Restaurant), but went with MoriBear2038 (if I did the math correctly for my 6-yo daughter) to Willkommen, which is a German place on Market St. Got the beet rueben that I had the previous time. It's all online ordering, so when I got the "which wurst do you want to add", I just started scrolling past that (being a vegetarian), but then saw a couple of Beyond sausages as options, so added a veggie brat. was yums!

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Last night we had an excellent tomato and sausage ragu over fettuccine, paired with an ok 2012 Brunello, chewy Chai brownies for after (tasted a bit like gingerbread).

She's made the ragu many times, but Saturday she made vegetable Biryani for the first time, with raita & samosas (store bought) - very tasty.

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Pro

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Kyler Murray scrubs his IG acct of all Arizona Cardinals content and unfollowed the entire Organization.

https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1490774867121168391?s=20&t=qxuQfAv39BY0db8K0k2OjA

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Wants to go to Tampa.

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Why? What happened?

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No one knows.

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gonna play for the A's finally!!!

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Yay!

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Las Vegas will be happy to have him.

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When you have a wonky rim but happen to have a 7'4" guy on hand

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1489805139422502916

Note: 7 seconds in, you can see that his feet are on the ground.

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Haha, we were watching that game, totally goofy.

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Ugh.

Shouldn't the bolts be tighter, so that the rim doesn't move when a ball hits it or a player contacts it? Who does facilities maintenance for that arena, anyhow?

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Apparently, Islanders will wear the "Gordon's Fisherman" jerseys again for retro night next season.

https://twitter.com/pac_racing/status/1489925046676115456

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Saudi Invitational 2022. For an extra half million dollars, you only have to make a 120-foot putt across an undulating green for Eagle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLzC5k1eAA

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Jordan Spieth's location... Yeesh.

https://twitter.com/GOLFonCBS/status/1490066544113729541

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That clip gave me anxiety

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Doesn't the ball look out of bounds? Is that what the red line is?

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NASCAR raced inside the LA Coliseum yesterday

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It was actually a very good example of what a typical short track late model race is like. Found the new latest next gen cars impressive in my first look at them. Was hoping Tyler Reddick would snatch the win, but a shifting error broke the car and ended what had been a strong run. You don't see Kyle Bush lose the lead and get it back multiple times, and then get it back, and still lose, but Joey Logano probably improved his car the most of anyone, and earned the win. These tracks tend to separate "drivers" from "racers". Enjoyed it more than I probably will the sum total of the races on 1.5 mile tracks.

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So dumb, so silly, but OTOH roped in some of my family to watch.

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I checked on it a few times, including once when there was a comical full-course caution. It looked like a track designed by people who think arena football offers too much room to roam.

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2 hand touch Pro Bowl happened

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I also happened across a women's flag game. Only saw a couple plays as I surfed through the sports channels.

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How new is the 2 hand touch part of it?

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lame

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is it really two-hand touch? or is that just editorializing on lack of D (like the NBA ASG)?

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I watched half a drive and it seemed like as soon as the D made contact, the whistle was blown.

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Other College

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The Schedule-Cal-as-Your-OOC-Opponent-and-Suffer-Your-Program-Nadir Curse is intact and is ripe for its next victim.

https://twitter.com/BMattAU/status/1490737419653627907

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This is an unsubstantiated rumor, but if true - cannot be helping the situation

https://itsgame7.com/auburns-bryan-harsin-clesi-crochet-scrutinized-amid-affair-rumors/

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I know this will sound like Acela corridor elitism but wtf is going on with her name? (She's very attractive, which presumably explains the alleged wildly inappropriate behavior on Harsin's part)

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sounds like its straight out of the Waterboy, doesnt it? haha

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Went and looked around re: this rumor...lawdy. Side piece is an ex Boise State cheerleader who is a "special assistant to football operations". He gone

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He had the side piece on paths payroll? Yeah, he gone.

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Harsin is an odd guy and not well liked down there. Buhbye. And yes, Dan Mullen is just waiting for that job to open

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So is Dan Lanning.....hahaha;-)

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for people who watch march madness and the bubble: what's the lowest ranking in regards to the NET and Kenpom that a team would get into the tournament. I'm looking over Santa Clara resume where they are 69 in Kenpom and 69 in the NET and with 3 resume making games coming up (2 of them being winnable) and seeing if they have any chance of making it at large. I'm also coming to realize that not having Josip Vrankic for a month will inevitably screw us, especially where he could've been needed against teams like Cal

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That’s a good start TD_24!

SCU beats St Mary’s & USF with a horrible home loss to Shantay’s Pilots as 18 pt faves.

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Well how bout it. I knew St.Mary's was overrated but don't tell the committee that they play as slow as molasses. Have to take advantage of USF grueling 3 games in 6 days schedule on Saturday then we can really make some noise.

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

It’s tough to say because the committee has made so many changes over the years to the formula. But ideally you want to get up into the 40’s...SC is light on quality wins, tho...in typical Cal fashion due to the state of the program, that loss to Cal hurts because their profile is so bad....even a win wouldn’t help much, because Cal is so bad. Sigh.

They’re probably going to need to win out, save for the 2/19 game in Spokane, and have USF stumble with some bad losses. That close loss to USF at the hilltop would’ve been nice. Then a deep run in the WCC tourney, while playing the Zags relatively tough would help...the 4 straight roadies pose a challenge, but road W’s mean more....

Also need other bubble teams to start losing, and to avoid Conf Tourney upsets.....

Incidentally, Lunardi on ESPN Bracketology, who is usually on top of this pretty well, has USF in as 1 of the last 4 BYES...SC gets hot, maybe they can squeak in...but gotta win.

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There is that new Q1 to Q4 ranking system and I'd imagine Cal is probably a Q3 team. The Pac-12 probably only has 3 Q1 teams? UCLA, SC, and Arizona. Losses to Q3 and Q4 teams look real bad when you don't have many wins against Q1/Q2 teams.

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Depends on what you mean by Q1 Team, since the NET ranks wins differently whether they're home/neutral/away. USC, Arizona, and UCLA are Q1 no matter where you play them, Wazzup is Q1 unless you're on your home court, and Oregon is Q1 in Eugene.

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its in the 30s or 40s I think because of all the autobids. Could be worng since I havent paid close attention to NCAAB in years but thats my recollection

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

That's about right, though teams in the 69 range HAVE been selected before, it's just that they need to have a very tough strength of schedule or multiple wins over higher-ranked teams likely to make the tournament. Santa Clara seems to have only one of those wins: at home over BYU. MAYBE Stanford also becomes one, but that would require the Cardinal making a run too.

They'll need to collect wins over the top WCC teams remaining: St. Mary's, USF, Gonzaga. That's a tall order.

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The autobids, and who gets them, can have a big impact. Every time a team with a low ranking gets the autobid from a league with 1+ teams with a high ranking, and is going to get an at-large bid if they don't get the auto bid. it effectively raises the floor.

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Two members of the Cal community honored. Beloved/reviled football broadcaster Joe Starkey has been voted the "Voice of College Sports" award https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/voice-of-college-sports.

Meanwhile women's Bball guard Jayda Curry has been named conference freshmen of the week for the fifth time. https://calbears.com/news/2022/2/7/womens-basketball-jayda-curry-earns-fifth-pac-12-freshman-of-the-week-honors.aspx

Congrats to both and Go Bears!

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Oh Noes! What will happen to our tailgating spot!

The building will be built on the Dwinelle parking lot, as specified by campus’s 2021 Long Range Development Plan, and the site will experience brief closures for soil sample testing.

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Twist is already working with our ticket rep on replacement sites. Personally I want the lot next to Sproul/Barrows, but it will be a pain in the ass to get in and out of pre/post game.

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The Dwinelle parking lot doesn't seem big enough for a building.

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Memorial Glade and its surrounding areas will look much better without it, but I can't help feeling a twinge of sadness that Evans will be no more.

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I'm not sure how I feel about the hollowing out of the center of campus. It's nice to have open space, but there's such a thing as having too much all in one place, impacting the vibrancy of the central campus. Maybe it's fine I'm not really sure, but it seems like campus is becoming a donut.

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Not I, hated it.

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Same, I can’t wait for it to go. I believe two people committed suicide at Evans during my freshman year. One jumped or maybe accidentally fell to their death. The other died by wrapping a plastic bag around their head.

It did have a nice view from the top floor but that building was ugly. Felt like an old Soviet central design building.

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Tolman (psychology) was another weird concrete building, demolished a few years back. I had a section in there even though it was a history class with the main lecture in Dwinelle.

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I'm not sure the new building is an improvement -- I drove by there today and said to myself, "oh I thought they were tearing down Tolman." 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Was that the one on the NW corner of campus? I remember there was a building on the corner that had a raised section you could walk under. I think I noticed that building was also torn down when I drove by.

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It was 1,000 times better looking than Evans though, even though it was roughly the same style.

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Oh interesting. That's a lot of offices to relocate. I assume they don't have the WEB there anymore. And an old CGBer will have to change their name.

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Oh wow! Good riddance.

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Cal gets boatraced by UW, comes up just short against WSU

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

Then Jekyl & Hyde Stanfurd runs them off the court...Cal is bad. Fox has gotta go.

What you’re probably gonna see is Knowlton keeps him another year, excusing the last 2 years away for various reasons or another.

Then he gets fired after ‘22-‘23 season, and Alajiki, Celestine, Anwanyu and Okafor all enter the portal & they’re starting from scratch, again, only this time after 6 years of ineptitude...

As a Cal hoops fan, this is so hard to watch.

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his buyout after this year isnt too bad ($1.5M or something?) but if they wait another year, its down under $500K

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The longer-term price tag might be more costly if we wait another year. On the financial side, we would be committing to yet another year of fan apathy. How are we going to convert any Cal students into donors or season ticket holders when they have no positive memories or experiences with the program to draw from? We've lost a generation. On the basketball side, we'll have a lame duck coach who is already challenged on the recruiting front. We run the risk of actually getting worse. I pray we take the long view and cut bait.

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Honestly, there is no path to being better next year under Fox. None.

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This is maybe the worst five-year stretch in the history of the program with no end in sight. I started watching Cal in 80. Those teams were not good, but they would have owned these Fox teams. The program was awful in the seventies, but still mostly better than 8-9 total wins each season we are averaging nowadays.

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Just awful.

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Without Kelly, I was kinda surprised Cal was so close against Wazzu.

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Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022

Right handed shot by Joel just wasn't going to go in. With 5.9 seconds he should have kicked it out to Shepherd or Grant for a 3 point attempt and a chance at a W at the horn. But nope. Another close loss. But at this point moral victories are non-existent.

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Exactly. Moral victories are useless. Absolutely the last guy on the court you want taking that shot, and with his off hand no less.

Ratcheting up the half court D with some pressure got them back in it...where has that been?? This team is legit 10-12 deep...use that as an advantage...he hasn’t.

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Didn't he try full court pressure when he started at Cal and teams broke it with ease? Or maybe that was Wyking.

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Wyking

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