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Does your family have an Easter tradition?

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Still color some eggs and eat some chocolate eggs. No reason at all for that tradition to end.

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We dye eggs the day before and start the day with treat baskets and an egg hunt. Then we usually spend a good amount of time outside: this year we went to an Orioles game where a special guest showed up (and received an enthusiastic response on the jumbotron): https://www.instagram.com/p/C5MPphWu4Q-/?utm_source=ig_embed

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We used to do egg dying, little baskets of treats, and ham. Now that we are empty nesters, those things have all gone away.

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Apr 1Liked by SGBear

same. we used to make up a multi-clue scavenger hunt for the kids where they would eventually find one or two big presents. it was fun when they were < 10 yrs old and had to look all over the house for the next clue, etc etc ..

last year i was being a little lazy (and funny) and the kids are not little kids anymore so i came up w/ this abbreviated scavenger hunt.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7dhboGfdBXHgndus8

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pqtm nice work

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pqtm

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this year i told the 16 yr old, that their scavenger hunt could be to go get me a beer from the fridge downstairs.

i had put a nice bottle of Belgian beer in the fridge for the Tour of Flanders yesterday.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ByFhRpJNt91AxJHi6

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Do you know anybody who is a huge fan of a college program but isn't an alumnus/almuna?

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Me and Newellbany.

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Fire Starkey!

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Yes, me. I am an almost lifelong fan of Cal football and am not an alum.

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Apr 1Liked by BentPawn

Yes, many in Nebraska

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Yes, lots. I'm a lifelong fan of Columbia football (imagine Cal and Columbia being your favorite college football programs). My mother did her graduate work there and my favorite writers went there (Kerouac and Ginsberg). The Lions most famous victory was over Furd in the 1934 Rose Bowl, 7-0.

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That qualifies as Oski Trivia of the day.

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TIL: Columbia is at 116th and Broadway. The football stadium is on 218th. It's a 10 minute walk to the 110th street entrance, take the northbound 1 and exit at 215th street exit and then walk 8 minutes. All things considered, that's pretty convenient for Manhattan.

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I'm a HUGE fan of UNC BB. Back in the early 80s, the only MBB game on TV was Sat morning, and the only teams that played were UNC, fUCLA, Indiana, and ND I think. So somehow I chose UNC around 81 or so.

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Go Heels! Thoughts on Caddeau and Trimble spending so much time on the bench for the second half of the Alabama game?

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My big thing in the middle of the 2nd was that Wojick was getting destroyed by Nelson when switching. Yeah he has a threat of an outside shot, but Trimble has proven to be a much better defender, and he can shot when he's all squared to the basket and can drive. I would've rather played him tham Wojick. Cadeau runs the O better than when RJ tries to go 1 on 1 on a pick. He tried to play too much hero ball and draw the foul. I think that's on the relative inexperience of Hubert Davis.

Disappointed, but I had them beating Arizona (more for the matchup with Caleb) and then losing the U Conn. I don't see anyone being U Conn.

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Overall the team still played with a short bench, but I think they played about as well as they can with the limited bench. I hope Jalen Washington doesn't leave but I think without Bacot he's the started next year. He's more an outside threat and less a banger inside. I wonder if RJ Davis will leave or stay. With NIL, just like Bacot, he can make probably just as much staying as playing overseas.

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I like them too and Michigan football which was tough while Hairball was there.

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OSKI DISCIPLE’S TRIVA FUN, A DAILY DBD FEATURE

The signers of the Declaration of Independence received commemorative tote bags.

(All trivia verified by the International Trivia Foundation.)

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I wonder what swag they received inside the totes.

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Powdered wigs were a thing because of syphilis

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/head-tilting-history/rise-and-fall-powdered-wig

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One of the reasons that coffee is popular in the US is because drinking tea made you a pariah because it was seen as a loyalist drink. That being said, coffee didn't eclipse tea until the American Civil War because it was a standard ration for the Union

https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/the-american-plate

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Ixtapa / Zihuatanejo

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isnt this the beach where they meet up at the end of Shawshank Redemption ??

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Yes. At least, that's what was in the movie. In the book, it's different.

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The missus and I vacationed there once. Lovely area. Great food. Enjoyed the beaches. Relatively inexpensive.

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it is on my list too. so is Sayulita which is not all that close

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Amy Coney Barrett - SCOTUS' champion for women

https://ballsandstrikes.org/very-serious-ideas/amy-coney-barrett-april-1/

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DBD AV CLUB

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CAL

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Professor Hassner ends his sit-in protest.

https://jweekly.com/2024/03/21/its-over-uc-berkeley-prof-ends-his-sit-in-protest/

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Go Bears!!!

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

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Bronny James transferring to Penn State, in search of a starting job.

Alert...LBJ getting traded to the 76ers!

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@I am so tired of seeing Alabama play Clemson in the playoffs@

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Dook Sux. Wolfpack beat the Blue Devils 76-64

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401638641

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The 3-point line at Moda Center (Portland OR) were mismatched for an Elite Eight game. And not by just a little. Both coaches knew, but one player claimed that they weren't told of the difference. NC State won by 10 and now both their women's and men's BB teams are in their respective Final Fours.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401637607

https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/1774518652039049361

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I read about that. I truly wonder why anyone should accept that it was a simple mistake.

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PRO

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Steph Curry, Draymond Green lead Warriors in 117-113 victory over Spurs

https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2024/3/31/24117553/steph-curry-draymond-green-lead-warriors-defeat-spurs-victor-wembanyama

The Golden State Warriors narrowly avoided defeat against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night. Racking up their 40th win of the season 117-113. Now 40-34, the Warriors are two games ahead of the Rockets for the 10th seed in the Western Conference.

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they were winning somewhat handily for a while it seemed. i guess SA made it an interesting game by the end.

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Warriors got sloppy in the last 3 or 4 minutes of the game.

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shocking!

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Max Muncy completes comeback as Dodgers find late offense to beat Cardinals

https://www.truebluela.com/2024/3/31/24117317/max-muncy-home-run-dodgers-comeback-cardinals

The Dodgers offense couldn’t get anything going for five innings, but then they got rolling, erasing a four-run deficit to beat the Cardinals 5-4 on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium.

The winning blow came from Max Muncy, with a two-run no-doubter home run by Max Muncy in the eighth inning, giving the Dodgers their first lead of the game.

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The A's took a 3-0 lead, blew the lead in the 8th, and then capped the 9th with one of the finest ways to win a game: a walk-off walk.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401568513

All that in front of a whopping 4,118 fans

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A's fans of the DBD: what you're feelings/loyalty/fandom like now that they're moving to Las Vegas?

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Apr 1·edited Apr 1

I continue to despise John Fisher, Rob Manfred, and all the owners for voting to allow the A's to move to Slots Vegas.

I will always carry my fandom, but it effectively stopped when Vegas became the primary target last year. Ironically, that was on our 37th wedding anniversary.

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i live out of town and have not been to an A's game in forever. i still like them as my first favorite baseball team. i have no hats or gear or anything. maybe i should get some Oakland stuff while i still can

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Zero. I gave away all my A’s gear which included 2 jerseys, 5-6 hats, a few bobble heads, and my prized official green and gold flannel. Fuck them. MLB is dead to me.

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Waning rapidly, although the team's woeful performances lately make it easier to let them go

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FOOL

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My step-grandparents lived just over the NV border. They had a creek that flowed down the mountain in their back yard. I remember sitting in that creek and finding lots of sparking gold. I collected it and was disappointed to find out that it was pyrite.

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