There are a lot of games on the schedule that the Golden State Warriors should win. Games that, if they lose, you’d be annoyed and frustrated by, and feel almost betrayed over; yet you recognize that even the best teams lose a few of those games each year.
I think I am too. When I first heard it I thought the trade was so bad. But I think Jimmy Buckets is doing the things the Warriors were missing. Someone that can go get a bucket when needed. Wiggins wasn't quite there. Tends to shy away from contact rather than seek it out.
I'm curious to see how Kuminga does with the Jimmy B.
The Athletics secured another preseason win, defeating the San Francisco Giants 7-5.
On offense, the A’s got big contributions from up and down the lineup, receiving eight doubles from six different players. Shea Langeliers and Gio Urshela, both expected to be starters, each had one in the bottom of the 4th, scoring the A’s first two runs of the day.
It was another rough day for the Dodgers on Tuesday, as they fell to the Seattle Mariners by a final score of 11-5.
Blake Snell made his first pitching appearance in a Dodgers uniform and only gave up one hit while recording a strikeout in his lone inning of work. Despite getting each hitter behind in the count 0-2, Snell needed 30 pitches to work through the first inning.
The California women's basketball team (22-7, 10-6 ACC) has a chance to tie the program's record for home wins (15), set in 2012-13, when it begins its final ACC homestand taking on Georgia Tech (21-7, 9-7 ACC) at Haas Pavilion on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT.
VALENCIA – The California women's golf team had one of the best rounds in the field Tuesday at the Bruin Wave Invitational, posting a 47-over par 911 for the tournament and moving into fifth place by the end of the final round.
After starting the day in seventh place, the Golden Bears moved up two spots by carding a 9-over 297 as a team over the final 18 holes. It was their third top-five team finish in their last five tries.
The California lacrosse team will take on the Oregon Ducks for a nonconference match this Thursday at 3 p.m. PT, at California Memorial Stadium.
Cal is coming off a tough loss against Louisville last Saturday. The Golden Bears were unsuccessful in coming out on top during overtime after tying the game 9-9 in the fourth quarter.
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team is back on its home court for the first time in 18 days to host SMU on Wednesday night. Tipoff inside Haas Pavilion is at 8 p.m. PT and the clash between ACC newcomers will be televised on ESPNU.
The California baseball team will continue its historic season-opening 10-game homestand Wednesday with its first mid-week game of the 2025 campaign against Cal State Bakersfield.
Lapland is Finland's northernmost of its 19 regions. It is a sparsely populated, but large in area so it is actually 10th out of 19th in population size (176k in 2021 Census). Lapland's tourism industry tries to market itself as the frozen-tip-of-nowhere winter wonderland with Santa Claus, Reindeer, aura borealis, and ice hotels. However, most Americans probably don't realize that Lapland is landlocked and there are two Norwegian regions that are capping Lapland's northern ocean-facing side - Troms & Finnmark. Troms and Finnmark respectively have triple and double the population density of Lapland.
House bill passes with resolution to cut $2T in spending and $4.5T in taxes. Federal budget was $6.9T in 2024. The Federal deficit was $839B at end Jan 2025. The Federal deficit is about to quadruple and will be one of the highest as a percentage of GDP in the world. Burundi will have less debt.
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Poor guy noted in one of the WaPo newsletters. His vanity plate reads GOELON. The plate is a specialty plate celebrating where he went to school - Elon College. The plate notes the school in two places but not sure people see that. The car is a Honda, not a Tesla.
Elon University is less than an hour drive from me. It's a beautiful little campus plonked down in the middle of nowhere. My favorite trivia about Elon is that until 2000, their mascot was the "Fighting Christians", but they changed their mascot to the Phoenix.
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day.
Every time you call any kind of physician's office for any reason, a recording tells you that if this is a medical emergency you should hang up and dial 9-1-1. What do they think we are, a bunch of idiots?
As you may have noticed, Trump never gives much thought to side effects and unintended consequences of his ideas. In that regard, he has been a model if consistency!
PRO
Steph Curry and the Warriors handle business, destroy Hornets
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2025/2/25/24373131/warriors-hornets-recap-scores-steph-curry-draymond-green-jimmy-butler-iii
There are a lot of games on the schedule that the Golden State Warriors should win. Games that, if they lose, you’d be annoyed and frustrated by, and feel almost betrayed over; yet you recognize that even the best teams lose a few of those games each year.
perhaps i am coming around on the Jimmy Butler trade ..
I think I am too. When I first heard it I thought the trade was so bad. But I think Jimmy Buckets is doing the things the Warriors were missing. Someone that can go get a bucket when needed. Wiggins wasn't quite there. Tends to shy away from contact rather than seek it out.
I'm curious to see how Kuminga does with the Jimmy B.
A’s mash 8 doubles in 7-5 victory over Giants
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/2/25/24372950/athletics-mash-8-doubles-in-7-5-victory-over-giants
The Athletics secured another preseason win, defeating the San Francisco Giants 7-5.
On offense, the A’s got big contributions from up and down the lineup, receiving eight doubles from six different players. Shea Langeliers and Gio Urshela, both expected to be starters, each had one in the bottom of the 4th, scoring the A’s first two runs of the day.
Blake Snell shines in spring debut, Dodgers fall to Mariners 11-5
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/2/25/24372803/dodgers-mariners-game-recap
It was another rough day for the Dodgers on Tuesday, as they fell to the Seattle Mariners by a final score of 11-5.
Blake Snell made his first pitching appearance in a Dodgers uniform and only gave up one hit while recording a strikeout in his lone inning of work. Despite getting each hitter behind in the count 0-2, Snell needed 30 pitches to work through the first inning.
Snell is in mid-season form. 30 pitches for 4 batters. UGH. Each of the 4 batters started 0-2.
CAL
[WBB] Cal Begins Final ACC Homestand Against Georgia Tech
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/25/womens-basketball-cal-begins-final-acc-homestand-against-georgia-tech.aspx
The California women's basketball team (22-7, 10-6 ACC) has a chance to tie the program's record for home wins (15), set in 2012-13, when it begins its final ACC homestand taking on Georgia Tech (21-7, 9-7 ACC) at Haas Pavilion on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT.
[WGOLF] Cal Places 5th At Bruin Wave Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/25/womens-golf-cal-places-5th-at-bruin-wave-invitational.aspx
VALENCIA – The California women's golf team had one of the best rounds in the field Tuesday at the Bruin Wave Invitational, posting a 47-over par 911 for the tournament and moving into fifth place by the end of the final round.
After starting the day in seventh place, the Golden Bears moved up two spots by carding a 9-over 297 as a team over the final 18 holes. It was their third top-five team finish in their last five tries.
[LAX] Cal Continues Home Stand Vs. Oregon
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/25/lacrosse-cal-continues-homestand-vs-oregon.aspx
The California lacrosse team will take on the Oregon Ducks for a nonconference match this Thursday at 3 p.m. PT, at California Memorial Stadium.
Cal is coming off a tough loss against Louisville last Saturday. The Golden Bears were unsuccessful in coming out on top during overtime after tying the game 9-9 in the fourth quarter.
[MBB] Bears Return Home, Host SMU
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/25/mens-basketball-bears-return-home-host-smu.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team is back on its home court for the first time in 18 days to host SMU on Wednesday night. Tipoff inside Haas Pavilion is at 8 p.m. PT and the clash between ACC newcomers will be televised on ESPNU.
[BASE] Bears Host Cal State Bakersfield
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/25/baseball-bears-host-cal-state-bakersfield-wednesday.aspx
The California baseball team will continue its historic season-opening 10-game homestand Wednesday with its first mid-week game of the 2025 campaign against Cal State Bakersfield.
Go Bears!!!
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LAND
Lapland is Finland's northernmost of its 19 regions. It is a sparsely populated, but large in area so it is actually 10th out of 19th in population size (176k in 2021 Census). Lapland's tourism industry tries to market itself as the frozen-tip-of-nowhere winter wonderland with Santa Claus, Reindeer, aura borealis, and ice hotels. However, most Americans probably don't realize that Lapland is landlocked and there are two Norwegian regions that are capping Lapland's northern ocean-facing side - Troms & Finnmark. Troms and Finnmark respectively have triple and double the population density of Lapland.
i always thought Lapland was more like Patagonia, a region that overlaps multiple countries. in this case Sweden and Finland.
there ismention of a Swedish province here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_(Sweden)
Been in Finland's Lapland. Beautiful, though a tad chilly in Winter as one might imagine.
Dance
Dog
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POLITICS
House bill passes with resolution to cut $2T in spending and $4.5T in taxes. Federal budget was $6.9T in 2024. The Federal deficit was $839B at end Jan 2025. The Federal deficit is about to quadruple and will be one of the highest as a percentage of GDP in the world. Burundi will have less debt.
the dog has well and truly caught the car
Dog catches car! Gets run over! Film at 11!
OMFG. More evidence that the GOP bleating over "we're leaving too much debt to our children and grandchildren" was all performative nonsense.
Don’t worry, the gold card will get us out of our debt!
Yes, few million gold card immigrants will get us back in the black!
But then we will have too many immigrants and we can’t have that.
* - may not apply to certain models/trim packages/color options like the eastern European exotic nude model/wife and South African businessmen/Asperger patient
Poor guy noted in one of the WaPo newsletters. His vanity plate reads GOELON. The plate is a specialty plate celebrating where he went to school - Elon College. The plate notes the school in two places but not sure people see that. The car is a Honda, not a Tesla.
Elon University is less than an hour drive from me. It's a beautiful little campus plonked down in the middle of nowhere. My favorite trivia about Elon is that until 2000, their mascot was the "Fighting Christians", but they changed their mascot to the Phoenix.
DBD AV CLUB
I watched episode seven of Paradise on Hulu very late last night and cannot recommend that
Interesting. I think I finished episode 5 and can't wait to watch the next couple.
Because it wasn’t good? Or you fell asleep while watching? Or it gave you nightmares?
very well done, but also very disconcerting as a result
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day.
Every time you call any kind of physician's office for any reason, a recording tells you that if this is a medical emergency you should hang up and dial 9-1-1. What do they think we are, a bunch of idiots?
Yes.
they think we are idoits because, in fact, most people are.
They have lawyers. It's always the lawyers.
Anytime there is one of those weird disclaimers, someone did that.
This is like CAUTION labels on jarred or canned products that would be harmful to your health if taken internally.
The antithesis to a president who suggests drinking bleach to eradicate the COVID virus.
Well, if everyone had (somehow managed to) chug a quart of Clorox, we would have eradicated the COVID virus.
Destroying the village to save it?
As you may have noticed, Trump never gives much thought to side effects and unintended consequences of his ideas. In that regard, he has been a model if consistency!
Some Pentagon generals involved with planning for Vietnam also didn't give regards to the consequences of their plans. Hence, the rise of the phrase.
Similar to commercials that say “Do not take this medication if you are allergic to it”.
Testing the theory that if you expect people to be stupid, they will learn to be Stupid.
A person can be smart but people are generally dumb.