We had a couple over, one of whom is a vegetarian, so this was meatless.
Started with an antipasto: crostini and four Cowgirl Creamery cheeses + roasted red bell peppers, artichoke hearts and olives - paired with 2008 Philippe Lancelot
Main: spring risotto, with asparagus, peas & leeks paired with a 2016 Felsina "Fontalloro" (an IGT, but 100% Sangiovese)
Afters: Butterscotch budino with a layer of caramel sauce topped with Whipped creme fraiche - and the last of the '73 Armagnac
I really want to try his fried chicken place down the street. My friend from Sac that came down to Horn BBQ said he'd be up to come down for the fried chicken.
Redfin says the *estimated* sales price was "$4.81 M - $5.3 M". Which would make the actual sales price $705,000 to $1,245,000 over the *estimated* sales price.
Even so, the actual listing price was $4.75 million (Compass).
It hailed last year, lacrosse ball sized hail with spikes on them. Roof repair teams went house to house giving out free quotes. Our insurance was so good that we got a new roof and they actually paid us some cash. We told them that there must be a mistake and they said "nah, keep it". Amica. Best damn insurance around. Great service. They pay out without having to do the reject-first-ask-questions-later BS.
When Mrs Slug and I were going out, we took a detour to Donner Lake on our way to Reno. We had lunch at Donner and played a game of cribbage. The wind came up so we moved into the car. Within a few minutes, it started to hail. The storm lasted about 30 minutes and the hail was nearly the size of golf balls. I was certain that the front or back windows would have been cracked; amazingly, the glass was undamaged.
I once had a 6 hour layover in Denver because my original connection to Seattle was canceled after the plane was damaged by a hail storm at the airport
I have such fond memories of closing every campfire up at the Lair of the Bear with Hail to California...that week was always a highlight of the summer.
only went to the Lair once w/ another family during my senior year in HS. it was a really great experience and i am sure if i lived in CA i would have brought my family/kids there over the years.
I don't usually read the obits but a friend's stepfather recently passed so I was looking for his in the paper yesterday. The picture in the linked obit caught my eye as it looked like a Cal baseball hat. Turns out the guy taught physics at Cal and worked at LBL. I think there are some physicists on here so thought someone may have known him.
for those less familiar, it is a long 100 ft tapestry that tells the story of William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest. it is housed in a nice museum in Bayeux, in the north of France.
a trip around Brittany and Normandy just to eat oysters and cheese is well worth it as well. there are some delightful and old Gothic cathedrals scattered in all the little towns.
I saw it a few years back when I visited France. Pretty cool. If you recall, Harold spots comet Halley in the sky as an omen of Duke William's invasion.
I for one am astounded at just how bad the performance of the Russian military is in the conflict. Old enough to remember Cold War ear when it was assumed that the Red Army was so strong that the only way to stop them would have been to resort to tactical nuclear weapons.
When you have a kleptocratic government where's the funding for an army when you need to conquer a next-door neighbor? The rot from within spreads out in all directions, including your army.
I think that the Russians are a lot weaker than they seem to be, even given their failure to properly execute and storm the Ukrainians.
The only thing keeping the Russians from being overrun in return by other nations is their nuclear arsenal. If Putin weren't acting unhinged *with* a nuclear arsenal, we wouldn't respect the bastard. There would be a no-fly zone at a minimum.
EDIT: of course, if Putin didn't have a nuclear arsenal, he wouldn't have invaded Ukraine to begin with to say nothing of annexing Crimea in 2014, and propping up Assad.
From what I've read and the pundits have said is that the Russian armor is bogged down and mostly ineffectual. They are striking Ukraine with Navy-based cruise missiles and airplanes mostly flying over Russian airspace combined with long range artillery. T 72 tanks of the Iraqi Republican guard were mostly sliced through like butter with the US arsenal 2 decades ago, just imagine what NATO and or the U.S. would do to the stalled 40-mile long column with devastating air power including the A10 Warthog tank buster.
I agree. Part of it is hubris and thinking the Ukrainian army would just lay down their arms and fold like they did in Crimea, part of it seems like poor planning, but I’m genuinely shocked at how poorly they have performed.
Obviously tactics change in conflicts but it is safe to say that a conflict with NATO would not end well for Russia.
should be banned and anyone caught drinking should be immediately put to death. If thats too harsh, I am ok with forced sterilization so we can eliminate the genes that enjoy this crap
Real talk here. Last summer at the track on a hot day after about a million beers, I found myself at a bar that ONLY served hard seltzers. Too lazy to wait in line again, I got one - and I found it to be remarkably refreshing. I'm a beer enthusiast, but sometimes it's possible to drink away one's thirst for beer. Seltzer can be perfect, then.
There I said it. And I ain't afraid of your threat, Fire Starkey - I'm already sterile.
Deep Water on Hulu, with Ben Affleck & Ana De Armas...boo. Really wanted to like it, but found myself snickering at the TV multiple times, and not in a good way.
I am neither a filmmaker, nor an actor...if I were, maybe I'd have a better idea of how a movie like this comes to be made...you'd think Ben would look at the script and say "this is stupid." Adrien Lynn directed Unfaithful and Fatal Attraction, waited 20 years, and then basically re-made a combination of every film he's ever done.
Dune (HBO 19/19, WB) JFC. Denis Villeneuve has created one of the most gorgeous films I've ever seen. I was instantly swept away into that world and was on tenterhooks when it ended. The 2.5 hours felt like nothing and wished for the next one ASAP.
Yup, and I knew almost nothing going in, save for one very confusing viewing of the David Lynch movie many years ago. Not confused at all by this version.
Gonzaga-Memphis game was quite a ride too. Memphis dominated the first half, then the Zags and Drew Timme decided "enough of this s***" and dominated the second half even more.
Everyone likes upsets, but IMO there has to be a balance. If you have too many then the final rounds have a lot of teams you've never heard of and you lose stakes.
By the time that Arizona game tipped we'd already seen a 1, a 2, and two 3s knocked out by lower-ranked teams in that round, plus a 15 advancing to the Sweet 16. At that point I wanted Arizona to advance, in part because Pac-12, but mostly because we still need some big dogs looming in the tournament.
We’re 10 days into mask optional at my daughter’s HS, there have been multiple small outbreaks, and some students and teachers are already wearing masks again. The numbers aren’t crazy but it turns out that Omicron really is crazy infectious in enclosed spaces after all!
There's likely to be a new wave of infections coming soon (as we've already seen it arise in Asia and Europe). Whether or not that starts to threaten hospital capacity remains to be seen, since a lot of the US population has now already had some variety of COVID recently.
I forget to take one sometimes too. When I do a long run I usually bring my transit card so if something happens when I'm miles from home I can get the subway or bus home. In the middle of the run yesterday I realized I had the card but no mask so couldn't get on the subway or bus anyhow.
I actually think those typos are quite purposeful.
The Dems are gonna do what they do - write articles and tweets about the typos, calling him an idiot. And that's exactly what he wants because his constituents hate the dems and will think "if the libs are against Gaetz, then I'm for him."
[Rolling Stone] Jan 6 rally organizer testified that he heard Mark Meadows organize the march down to the Capitol and make it look like the White House wasn't involved.
exciting finish at the Milan-San Remo, the first "monument" of the year in pro cycling.
there are 5 extra-special one-day races that are called the monuments and the Milan-San Remo is the first.
Matej Mohorič, Slovenia, makes a daring downhill attack in the final 7km utilizing a dropper-post (from the mountain biking world) to gain a tactical aerodynamic advantage. wins by 2 seconds ..
i probably watched about 4 hours of the race on Sat morning
NBC reports that 49er's John Lynch says that they've been offered two 2nd round picks for Jimmy G. Tim Kawakami says... ehhh, maybe a bit of fibbing for positioning
Formula 1 starts the season in thrilling fashion as Ferrari finishes 1-2 while Red Bull plummets from 2nd and 4th to 18th and 19th in the final few laps due to fuel pump issues
So frustrating to watch. Terrible call on Looney especially when the same foul is not called on the Spurs on the other end in the exact same situation. TBF Wiggins should have just made that damn FT
After a lot of optimism in the early season, I'm now very pessimistic about the Warriors' ability to compete for a title this year. They just can't keep their best players on the court.
Another piece is that a bunch of other West teams seem to have improved a lot lately (Memphis, Dallas, Minnesota) which makes the road tough. And Phoenix has barely missed a beat even without Chris Paul.
only watched 4th Q and wondered where Draymond was. this is why ...
Draymond Green was in the Warriors' starting lineup for the first time since returning from a calf injury last week, but he was ejected in the third quarter after getting called for two technicals in an eight-second span.
As Terence pointed out to me on Twitter over the weekend, my other school (Iowa St) went 2-22 last year and fired their coach. New coach this year goes 21-12, and not only reached the tourney, but pulled off two upsets to reach the sweet 16.
Was wearing my Cal hat on the way up to LGA last week. I go to deplane after landing and the woman next to me stands up, looks at me, and gasps "Oh!.... Go Bears!". Of course, I fire back a quick "Go Bears" and she comments that the got her PhD from Berkeley in 2012. I told her my major, but when I told her when I graduated, she let out another "Oh", but this time a surprise at how old I am... so I got that going for me.
DBD Kitchen
We had a couple over, one of whom is a vegetarian, so this was meatless.
Started with an antipasto: crostini and four Cowgirl Creamery cheeses + roasted red bell peppers, artichoke hearts and olives - paired with 2008 Philippe Lancelot
Main: spring risotto, with asparagus, peas & leeks paired with a 2016 Felsina "Fontalloro" (an IGT, but 100% Sangiovese)
Afters: Butterscotch budino with a layer of caramel sauce topped with Whipped creme fraiche - and the last of the '73 Armagnac
73 Armagnac sounds delicious. i think the oldest i have is early 90's ...
I really want to try his fried chicken place down the street. My friend from Sac that came down to Horn BBQ said he'd be up to come down for the fried chicken.
Meats: great, sides: eh
Said the same thing to my son and he replied "Nobody goes to a BBQ place for the sides".
Baby Blues BBQ in Venice has both great meat and sides
What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?
Nebraska only has one chamber in their state legislature.
A house within a stone's throw of my home sold for slightly more than $6 million earlier this month.
This was more than $1.25 million *over* asking.
EDIT: here's the posting on Redfin.com -
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Berkeley/1314-Arch-St-94708/home/1279689
Well, only 1/2 mil above estimated sale price.
So what are asking for yours?
Where do you get only 1/2 mil over estimated sales price?
It listed at Compass for $4.75 million.
In the link
No.
Redfin says the *estimated* sales price was "$4.81 M - $5.3 M". Which would make the actual sales price $705,000 to $1,245,000 over the *estimated* sales price.
Even so, the actual listing price was $4.75 million (Compass).
🙄 in this market, houses generally are going for the high estimate, asking is often a joke.
At that listing price, houses are rarely going over asking. The over asking wars happen in the sub-$3MM space.
This is quite a nice house, but that price seems oddly inflated for what it is.
Small number at that price true, but it is still well under $1,000/foot which is what houses in good shape in nice neighborhood are going for.
That's what I've seen.
I wouldn't consider $4.75 million asking to be a joke, even if actual was a touch over $6 million.
Sounds like there's a lot of spitballing going on.
Cal used to have respectably good football and basketball teams.
At the same time?!
bullshit quit lyin
Do go on....
Kansas City is in Missouri
Well, one of them is.
Yeah, but the main one isn't
Don't I know it, lived in Kansas City MO in a house near the border, could see the storms coming in from the Kansas City, Kansas side.
Oops I meant the main one IS in Missouri. Anyway yeah it's in both states. I always like to tell people and no one seems to know.
Chinese Checkers are German
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_checkers
Careful, you might go blind if you do it too many times
Not a big risk in the Wlicox era
That was a movie title, Can I Do it til I need Glasses
Hail
Mary, full of grace
It hailed last year, lacrosse ball sized hail with spikes on them. Roof repair teams went house to house giving out free quotes. Our insurance was so good that we got a new roof and they actually paid us some cash. We told them that there must be a mistake and they said "nah, keep it". Amica. Best damn insurance around. Great service. They pay out without having to do the reject-first-ask-questions-later BS.
to California, alma mater dear. Sing the joyful chorus. Sound it far and near....
When Mrs Slug and I were going out, we took a detour to Donner Lake on our way to Reno. We had lunch at Donner and played a game of cribbage. The wind came up so we moved into the car. Within a few minutes, it started to hail. The storm lasted about 30 minutes and the hail was nearly the size of golf balls. I was certain that the front or back windows would have been cracked; amazingly, the glass was undamaged.
Did the car get any hail dents?
Very shallow dents on the hood.
Apparently it hails so much in Denver that when I rented a car there, they tried to talk me into paying extra for hail insurance.
I once had a 6 hour layover in Denver because my original connection to Seattle was canceled after the plane was damaged by a hail storm at the airport
I have such fond memories of closing every campfire up at the Lair of the Bear with Hail to California...that week was always a highlight of the summer.
Flashlights BEAMING to the sky!
only went to the Lair once w/ another family during my senior year in HS. it was a really great experience and i am sure if i lived in CA i would have brought my family/kids there over the years.
I miss it, haven't been in 10 years even though my family still goes every summer for Week 3. My sister was on staff for four summers
This article is a bit of a rollercoaster
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/20/us/south-carolina-lake-shooting-self-defense/index.html
I don't usually read the obits but a friend's stepfather recently passed so I was looking for his in the paper yesterday. The picture in the linked obit caught my eye as it looked like a Cal baseball hat. Turns out the guy taught physics at Cal and worked at LBL. I think there are some physicists on here so thought someone may have known him.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/jerome-weingart-obituary?id=33719292
Impressive life he had. I might have met him at JPL but if so, didn't know him well.
not familiar but thanks for posting. looks like he was well before my time there ..
Bayeux Tapestry
is 100% worth the trip to go see in person.
for those less familiar, it is a long 100 ft tapestry that tells the story of William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest. it is housed in a nice museum in Bayeux, in the north of France.
a trip around Brittany and Normandy just to eat oysters and cheese is well worth it as well. there are some delightful and old Gothic cathedrals scattered in all the little towns.
Somewhere I have a copy of a picture my parents took of me as a toddler wandering around some menhirs in Brittany. Celts gonna Celt.
I love that area. Saw a lot of it on a trip we took to the D-Day invasion sites.
I saw it a few years back when I visited France. Pretty cool. If you recall, Harold spots comet Halley in the sky as an omen of Duke William's invasion.
Ukraine/Russia
I for one am astounded at just how bad the performance of the Russian military is in the conflict. Old enough to remember Cold War ear when it was assumed that the Red Army was so strong that the only way to stop them would have been to resort to tactical nuclear weapons.
Well the budgets in that era weren’t being funneled through Cyprus, Malta, London, etc
When you have a kleptocratic government where's the funding for an army when you need to conquer a next-door neighbor? The rot from within spreads out in all directions, including your army.
I think that the Russians are a lot weaker than they seem to be, even given their failure to properly execute and storm the Ukrainians.
The only thing keeping the Russians from being overrun in return by other nations is their nuclear arsenal. If Putin weren't acting unhinged *with* a nuclear arsenal, we wouldn't respect the bastard. There would be a no-fly zone at a minimum.
EDIT: of course, if Putin didn't have a nuclear arsenal, he wouldn't have invaded Ukraine to begin with to say nothing of annexing Crimea in 2014, and propping up Assad.
From what I've read and the pundits have said is that the Russian armor is bogged down and mostly ineffectual. They are striking Ukraine with Navy-based cruise missiles and airplanes mostly flying over Russian airspace combined with long range artillery. T 72 tanks of the Iraqi Republican guard were mostly sliced through like butter with the US arsenal 2 decades ago, just imagine what NATO and or the U.S. would do to the stalled 40-mile long column with devastating air power including the A10 Warthog tank buster.
I agree. Part of it is hubris and thinking the Ukrainian army would just lay down their arms and fold like they did in Crimea, part of it seems like poor planning, but I’m genuinely shocked at how poorly they have performed.
Obviously tactics change in conflicts but it is safe to say that a conflict with NATO would not end well for Russia.
Russia starting to run out of precision munitions, hence reliance on dumb bombs.
Social media influencer allegedly rents a Tesla and did this early today...
https://twitter.com/chazzydawgg/status/1505463818670903297
Takeoff looked good, but I guess autopilot didn't engage.
I hope that jackass got an airbag injury and has to cover the repair bill
I don't see any way insurance covers this, especially since it's on the interwebz.
White Claw or other similar products
In all seriousness, it is terrible. In fact, I find all hard seltzers terrible tasting.
Ain’t no law when you’re drinking claw!!
The lady friend calls them bitch beer
pqtm
should be banned and anyone caught drinking should be immediately put to death. If thats too harsh, I am ok with forced sterilization so we can eliminate the genes that enjoy this crap
Real talk here. Last summer at the track on a hot day after about a million beers, I found myself at a bar that ONLY served hard seltzers. Too lazy to wait in line again, I got one - and I found it to be remarkably refreshing. I'm a beer enthusiast, but sometimes it's possible to drink away one's thirst for beer. Seltzer can be perfect, then.
There I said it. And I ain't afraid of your threat, Fire Starkey - I'm already sterile.
Meh, it's a fine option if you're trying to be low carb and a full bar isn't available. Not my first choice though.
not a fan. prefer my strong cocktails w/ bourbon, tequila, etc.
if not, would stick w/ wine or beer.
I too prefer my poor judgement to develop faster.
DBD AV Club
Deep Water on Hulu, with Ben Affleck & Ana De Armas...boo. Really wanted to like it, but found myself snickering at the TV multiple times, and not in a good way.
I am neither a filmmaker, nor an actor...if I were, maybe I'd have a better idea of how a movie like this comes to be made...you'd think Ben would look at the script and say "this is stupid." Adrien Lynn directed Unfaithful and Fatal Attraction, waited 20 years, and then basically re-made a combination of every film he's ever done.
but apparently Ben Affleck was really good with the snails, at least?
Far and away the star of the show, TBB! Them and the daughter...
Dune (HBO 19/19, WB) JFC. Denis Villeneuve has created one of the most gorgeous films I've ever seen. I was instantly swept away into that world and was on tenterhooks when it ended. The 2.5 hours felt like nothing and wished for the next one ASAP.
Oh good, it's back on HBO max. I'll have to check it out.
i think i just rented/bought it from Amazon
Agreed. Did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did, given my avoidance of the Kyle Machlachlan/Sting version from growing up.
Yup, and I knew almost nothing going in, save for one very confusing viewing of the David Lynch movie many years ago. Not confused at all by this version.
i agree. saw it in theatre when it first came out and again a few weeks ago.
the visual scenery is amazing
Elsewhere in college
Sweet Sixteen
Gonzaga vs. Arkansas
Duke vs. Texas Tech
Arizona vs. Houston
Villanova vs. Michigan
UCLA vs. North Carolina
Purdue vs. St. Peter's
Kansas vs. Providence
Miami vs. Iowa St.
Gonzaga-Memphis game was quite a ride too. Memphis dominated the first half, then the Zags and Drew Timme decided "enough of this s***" and dominated the second half even more.
That Arizona-TCU game last night was intense as hell. Loved it.
Tommy Lloyd seems fairly likeable, which bugs the f out of me.
Even though he looks like Sean Miller, he does seem the opposite of him.
TCU just couldn't get it done. Was hoping Arizona would get knocked out.
No Pac-12 pride?
i root for pac12 teams in most out of conference games, even Stanford
Me: all EXCEPT stanfurd.
Fuck no
In MM I just want upsets. Especially Furd, UCLA, and UofA.
Everyone likes upsets, but IMO there has to be a balance. If you have too many then the final rounds have a lot of teams you've never heard of and you lose stakes.
By the time that Arizona game tipped we'd already seen a 1, a 2, and two 3s knocked out by lower-ranked teams in that round, plus a 15 advancing to the Sweet 16. At that point I wanted Arizona to advance, in part because Pac-12, but mostly because we still need some big dogs looming in the tournament.
[WHockey] Ohio State wins national championship, first ever.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/33559001/ohio-state-beats-minnesota-duluth-frozen-four-final-first-ever-women-ice-hockey-national-championship
O-H!
N-O!
Pac-12 Pro Day roundup
https://pac-12.com/article/2022/03/18/pac-12-stars-boost-nfl-draft-stock-first-round-pro-days
Spot what's wrong with this tweet
https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/1504593433490456590
You don't put a verb after "would have been"
Should be "which would have tied" or "which would have been a tie"
Beast Mode is ALWAYS associated with Cal, not Stanf*rd.
Almost as bad as them wanting people to go to Cal. 1-800-BE-AT-CAL
I didn't see anything there. Good catch!
Today in Covid
is it over yet?
i know that it is not, but to be honest i forget to take a mask when i leave the house these days.
the only place i have worn a mask in last 7 days is on train or subway as required.
We’re 10 days into mask optional at my daughter’s HS, there have been multiple small outbreaks, and some students and teachers are already wearing masks again. The numbers aren’t crazy but it turns out that Omicron really is crazy infectious in enclosed spaces after all!
There's likely to be a new wave of infections coming soon (as we've already seen it arise in Asia and Europe). Whether or not that starts to threaten hospital capacity remains to be seen, since a lot of the US population has now already had some variety of COVID recently.
I forget to take one sometimes too. When I do a long run I usually bring my transit card so if something happens when I'm miles from home I can get the subway or bus home. In the middle of the run yesterday I realized I had the card but no mask so couldn't get on the subway or bus anyhow.
i got on the train (metro-north) into NYC the other day w/o one and the conductors usually have spares.
I still wear one inside, though a lot of people don't.
Same, fewer and fewer masks indoors in LA
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
The Transplant Act passed by House 415-2 to extend funding to the national bone marrow registry. The two that voted against it: Boebert & MTG
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021109
Matt Gaetz announces his re-election campaign with a nine word tweet, misspelling two of them.
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1505375506379722761
I actually think those typos are quite purposeful.
The Dems are gonna do what they do - write articles and tweets about the typos, calling him an idiot. And that's exactly what he wants because his constituents hate the dems and will think "if the libs are against Gaetz, then I'm for him."
It's calculated tribalism, and it works.
You're probably correct. Sad.
Hell has frozen over. WTF is going on? Is this Bizarro Tucker?
https://twitter.com/tuckercarlson/status/1035334044698009600?lang=en
That's from 2018
eh, not really Bezos is a target on the right, so this is just following the general plan.
money from Russia has dried up
Trump tells Washington Examiner that he's not running with Pence in 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pence-2024-running-mate-b2037444.html
Teetering with Trump, Brooks calls for McConnell's ouster
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/21/trump-brooks-mcconnell-00018786
I guess we know which 3 senate seats will have new senators after their next election.
[Rolling Stone] Jan 6 rally organizer testified that he heard Mark Meadows organize the march down to the Capitol and make it look like the White House wasn't involved.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/21/2087142/-From-Rolling-Stone-Witness-Claims-Mark-Meadows-On-Phone-Planning-Jan-6th-March-To-Capitol
[Paywall] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jan6-trump-mark-meadows-capitol-attack-republicans-1324218/
PRO
Wild Flower
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/33564088/source-minnesota-wild-acquire-goaltender-marc-andre-fleury-chicago-blackhawks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0dajgR8Ms0
exciting finish at the Milan-San Remo, the first "monument" of the year in pro cycling.
there are 5 extra-special one-day races that are called the monuments and the Milan-San Remo is the first.
Matej Mohorič, Slovenia, makes a daring downhill attack in the final 7km utilizing a dropper-post (from the mountain biking world) to gain a tactical aerodynamic advantage. wins by 2 seconds ..
i probably watched about 4 hours of the race on Sat morning
https://www.velonews.com/events/classics/milan-san-remo-matej-mohoric-goes-solo-to-stunning-monument-victory/
NBC reports that 49er's John Lynch says that they've been offered two 2nd round picks for Jimmy G. Tim Kawakami says... ehhh, maybe a bit of fibbing for positioning
https://twitter.com/JoshNorris/status/1505901739651866624
https://twitter.com/timkawakami/status/1505283917267419139
Buck Showalter & Keith Hernandez say that they pay $19/episode whenever the Seinfeld episodes show because they're members of SAG
https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1505601278419906561
[Rugby] Six Nations has been weird. Italy beats Wales. England tied for second to last place.
https://twitter.com/SixNationsRugby/status/1505214398591344647
All I care about is that Scotland beat England in Edinburgh, I assume the rest of it was a total debacle but who cares?
One must always root for France in the Six Nations because *fans self* and they dutifully took out England this weekend.
They do somehow manage to field some handsome chaps especially in comparison to the cabbage eared goons of the opposition
The winner in the WAL/ITA fixture
https://twitter.com/SixNationsRugby/status/1505215420470505473
Formula 1 starts the season in thrilling fashion as Ferrari finishes 1-2 while Red Bull plummets from 2nd and 4th to 18th and 19th in the final few laps due to fuel pump issues
https://twitter.com/F1/status/1505625219939061766
Really, the perfect ending: I got to enjoy Red Bull DNFs without anyone getting hurt in the process
And P5 for Haas!!! Welcome back K-Mag
T'was very exciting.
Warriors blow it at the end
- game is tied with 3 sec left
- Wiggins makes first of 2 FT
- Looney fouls on missed 2nd shot
- Spurs guy makes first of 2 FT to tie
- Spurs get rebound on missed FT and make basket to win!
So frustrating to watch. Terrible call on Looney especially when the same foul is not called on the Spurs on the other end in the exact same situation. TBF Wiggins should have just made that damn FT
After a lot of optimism in the early season, I'm now very pessimistic about the Warriors' ability to compete for a title this year. They just can't keep their best players on the court.
Especially after another set back in Wiseman's return. WCF is probably the best they can hope for even with everyone healthy.
Another piece is that a bunch of other West teams seem to have improved a lot lately (Memphis, Dallas, Minnesota) which makes the road tough. And Phoenix has barely missed a beat even without Chris Paul.
only watched 4th Q and wondered where Draymond was. this is why ...
Draymond Green was in the Warriors' starting lineup for the first time since returning from a calf injury last week, but he was ejected in the third quarter after getting called for two technicals in an eight-second span.
He's just making up for lost time.
Darren Baker presents lineup card to his dad, then later gets the game-winning RBI as a pinch hitter.
https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1505602039417503744
WaPo story about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/03/20/dusty-baker-darren-baker-spring-training/
CAL
As Terence pointed out to me on Twitter over the weekend, my other school (Iowa St) went 2-22 last year and fired their coach. New coach this year goes 21-12, and not only reached the tourney, but pulled off two upsets to reach the sweet 16.
there is a lot to unpack here but putting together "golden oso" and 'Iowa State" is something I never wouldve considered in a million years
I went to grad school at ISU
I used to work with Marc Porter before he left ISU for Utah State.
Do you have any Marcus Fizer, Fred Hoiberg or Kelvin Cato stories?
Maybe an old girlfriend?
"But, but, but Wyking . . . "
Go Bears!!!
Was wearing my Cal hat on the way up to LGA last week. I go to deplane after landing and the woman next to me stands up, looks at me, and gasps "Oh!.... Go Bears!". Of course, I fire back a quick "Go Bears" and she comments that the got her PhD from Berkeley in 2012. I told her my major, but when I told her when I graduated, she let out another "Oh", but this time a surprise at how old I am... so I got that going for me.
I was wearing a Cal windbreaker in MDR the other day and got a "Go Bears!" from a kid on one of the small yacht club boats as he sailed by us.
[BVB] Cal wins triple-header: 5-0 vs. Boise State, 5-0 vs. Southern Miss, 4-1 vs. Pepperdine. Man, I'll bet they slept soundly last night.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/3/20/beach-volleyball-cal-sweeps-sunday-tripleheader.aspx
[MTEN] Cal tops Cal Poly 6-1
https://calbears.com/news/2022/3/20/mens-tennis-no-32-cal-tops-no-56-cal-poly-for-seventh-straight-win.aspx
[SB] Cal wins the rubber match on Sunday 6-5 over #7 Washington.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/3/20/softball-cal-takes-series-from-no-7-washington.aspx
[BASE] Cal wins the rubber match on Sunday 3-2 over #25 USC.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/3/20/baseball-bears-win-series-at-no-25-usc.aspx