Wrexham on the cusp of back-to-back promotions to EFL League One. Weirdly named "One" is actually second-division level, as "Championship" is first division
I am such a sentimentalist, I'd love to see it (we lived near Wrexham when I was a wee DCT and the only soccer match I ever got to see in person with my maternal grandfather was there)
@Shocked that Blake Snell took 72 pitches to go through 3 innings@. To be fair, it's his first live game. I think he went to a full count to the first 5 batters.
I am just amused by all the Giants fans that are surprised by this. Yes, it was his first game, but as we've talked about, Snell has been a league average SP for 75% of his 8-year career. He is at the mercy of the home plate ump's strike zone as much as any pitcher, and routinely has 80-some odd pitches with 2 on in the 4th.
Granted, those other 2 years he won the Cy Young....I am glad that signing a declining Matt Chapman did not prevent them from adding Snell, as they needed SPs...but neither player is the missing piece, and were needed simply for the club to fringly contend for the final Wildcard.
I have no problem with Farhan signing Snell. It’s the clown Johnson’s money anyways and they needed a legit starter if they’re going to at all compete because Zaidi can’t build a roster worth a shit.
But expecting a guy that’s consistently inconsistent to pitch like an elite guy is silly. He’s not that.
Starting OLB Myles Jernigan enters the portal as a grad transfer. He was an "or" co-starter with Myles Williams. He is currently a RS-Jr and has one year of eligibility left.
Christ has done many wonderful things across the campus and the college athletics landscape changed monumentally and unpredictably during her time here. The challenges she faced were not the same ones her predecessors. But it did happen during her tenure and she is the one at the top of the spear that needed to help guide us through it. There were signs that large threats were coming, and she either simply hoped things were going to stay status quo, delegated too much faith in her AD to steer us through and articulate and solve for those challenges, or was over confident that we were too big a brand/market not to find a safe harbor. In any case, there has been a reticence to make bold decisions with regards to athletics and our m.o. has been to be reactive rather than proactive as events have unfolded. It's clear that the two have been two of the smallest voices through the Pac-12 media rights negotiations. And even in catching a lifeline to the ACC lifeline and trying to coax the B1G (far too late I might add), a lot of that lobbying was seemingly lead by Drake and Furd leaders.
She got the University to assume the debt I think, but it seemed during all the conference upheaval, Furd assume control and dragged us along instead of proactively looking for a conference.
It seems like just about all the people running the Cal NIL collective are very happy about this hire, so it seems like it was the best possible result. Hopefully this means a lot of positive top-down changes will be coming soon.
Richard K. Lyons, former dean of the Haas School of Business and current associate vice chancellor and chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer, has been selected to become UC Berkeley’s next chancellor. Rich will assume his new role on July 1, 2024, when current Chancellor Carol T. Christ retires.
In reading a lot about Cal football in newspapers from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s I was struck by how often the Bears were referred to as California. The same with books, periodicals and other writings of the time.
I've always liked the Red River Shootout (Oklahoma vs. Texas). Something about playing the game at the Cotton Bowl (equidistant from both schools), with tickets distributed equally and during the Texas State Fair just seems "right" for a college football rivalry.
IU-Purdue play for the Old Oaken Bucket each year in football.
basketball rivalry was great to watch in my time there since neither team was particularly good at football.
that being said, Cal played at Purdue in 1992, the year after we graduated. we were supposed to be good (i think) coming off the Citrus Bowl season and got smoked 41-14 to open the season. i guess it was start of the Gilbertson era, so nothing good came of it ..
My first road trip as an undergrad was to that game at Purdue with the Band. 19 of us drove 3 minivans from Berkeley, to Madison, WI (to pick up another bandsman), to Chicago (across from Wrigley Field to play for alumni and pass the hat), to West Lafayette for the game, to Indianapolis (to the home of a generous alum who allowed us to use his shower), back to Berkeley. We were back in time for Monday afternoon classes.
i had some Cal signs and things inside car window. when i got back to my car someone had "decorated" my windshield with the embarrassing final score in shaving cream.
that's unfortunate, I think he caught a lot of flak from alumni over what were fundamentally coaching issues, maybe the new defense coaching group is a bad fit for him
Eva Braun was reportedly upset about having to commit suicide because, she claimed, her and Adolph were finally making real progress in couples therapy.
(All trivia verified by the International Trivia Foundation.)
some combo of couples therapy and DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) worked for my wife and i to stay together over the last couple years.
DBT = Dialectical behavior therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders and interpersonal conflicts. Evidence suggests that DBT can be useful in treating mood disorders and suicidal ideation as well as for changing behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use
Good to hear, bravo for working through that! I think so much boils down to the notion that if you care, you will put in the work, if you don’t, you won’t
Sports Illustrated. A dear friend of mine got me a gift subscription for a birthday one year. My favorite feature was "This Week's Sign of the Apocalypse".
I used to receive Muscle & Fitness, Wired, the Economist, Asian Diver, PC Gamer, National Geographic, and the Annotated DBD Letters to Penthouse Magazine. I kind of miss the Economist, but the one that always got picked up and read was NatGeo.
The Atlantic and High Country News. The latter, despite sounding like a publication for cannabis enthusiasts, is a publication of long-form, investigative journalism that covers issues affecting the West. Traditionally, the focus was on issues of public lands, the environment, and the public agencies involved in these issues. Their coverage has expanded to cover diverse culture of the West and its people.
New York Magazine and the New Yorker. I’ve never lived in NYC. Really enjoy the New Yorker but it has gotten extremely expensive. Nymag I get because I get my online news drip from their website (and the DBD).
I was a long-time Sports Illustrated subscriber. Have also gotten Mother Jones, National Geographic, The Nation, The New Yorker and Write For California Weekly. No longer subscribe to anything these days.
I don't have any anymore. For a long while I had Air and Space and a couple of car ones. When my ex-FIL died, my MIL passed all his car subscriptions to me. He had at least 3 or 4 of them. C/D, MT, R&T.
New Yorker .. a friend got some 2-for-1 deal so i am getting the free one for a while. i dont read it every week. when i pick it up and enjoy it i wonder why i dont read it more often.
Hidden Europe - only comes out 3-4 times a year. great travel writing about small towns and places that i'l probably never go
in the past - Scientific American, Velo something, Bicycling
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
A day before the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on an abortion ban, state legistlators prayed on the state Senate floor and spoke in tongues
https://twitter.com/kilday_morgan/status/1777476711514317124
Apparently the speaking in tongues worked because the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to enforce a pre-statehood ban on abortion.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/arizona-supreme-court-abortion-decision
PRO
Draymond Green? You mean Treymond Green. Dubs beat the Lakers 134-120
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/draymond-green-catches-fire-warriors-bombard-lakers-from-deep-to-bolster-play-in-positioning/
i saw most of the 2nd half. fun to watch them crush the Lakers. something like 60+% from deep, 26 for 41!
they were only up 5 midway thru the 3rd at some point. mostly it was defense that created the big lead.
Wrexham on the cusp of back-to-back promotions to EFL League One. Weirdly named "One" is actually second-division level, as "Championship" is first division
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/wrexham-promotion-permutations-league-two-b2525607.html
I am such a sentimentalist, I'd love to see it (we lived near Wrexham when I was a wee DCT and the only soccer match I ever got to see in person with my maternal grandfather was there)
Stanfurd alumnus says he can win the Masters if his score is lower than everyone else's
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/39907017/tiger-says-masters-win-everything-comes-together
Matt Rhule: I am idiot compared to Bill Belichick
https://nesn.com/2024/04/matt-rhule-admits-bill-belichick-experience-was-embarrassing/
Refs lose whistles and the Celtics and Bucks set records for fewest free throws
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39910734/celtics-bucks-combine-record-low-2-free-throw-attempts
This is the first year of Nike outsourcing uniforms to Fanatics. Let's see how the quality is.
https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1777787143328579912
Farhan Zaidi is a complete dope. Can’t wait until that clown is working in the same office as Wyking Jones.
@Shocked that Blake Snell took 72 pitches to go through 3 innings@. To be fair, it's his first live game. I think he went to a full count to the first 5 batters.
I am just amused by all the Giants fans that are surprised by this. Yes, it was his first game, but as we've talked about, Snell has been a league average SP for 75% of his 8-year career. He is at the mercy of the home plate ump's strike zone as much as any pitcher, and routinely has 80-some odd pitches with 2 on in the 4th.
Granted, those other 2 years he won the Cy Young....I am glad that signing a declining Matt Chapman did not prevent them from adding Snell, as they needed SPs...but neither player is the missing piece, and were needed simply for the club to fringly contend for the final Wildcard.
Yeah those two Cy Young years are awesome but also so different from the rest of his career, hard to know which is the real Snell
The real Snell is the non-Cy years. Otherwise, he'd be closer to Cy years than non-Cy years.
Exactly.
I have no problem with Farhan signing Snell. It’s the clown Johnson’s money anyways and they needed a legit starter if they’re going to at all compete because Zaidi can’t build a roster worth a shit.
But expecting a guy that’s consistently inconsistent to pitch like an elite guy is silly. He’s not that.
DBD AV Club
The University of California at Berkeley
Go BEARS!
Starting OLB Myles Jernigan enters the portal as a grad transfer. He was an "or" co-starter with Myles Williams. He is currently a RS-Jr and has one year of eligibility left.
https://twitter.com/Myles6ixJ_/status/1778079215277252806
New chancellor appointed. Rich Lyons. Any clue how this will affect the Athletic Department? https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/10/rich-lyons-longtime-campus-business-innovation-leader-will-be-uc-berkeley-s-next-chancellor
Can't be worse, can it?
agree that Cal athletics has been bad but didnt seem that Christ was responsible?
maybe she enabled some terrible people to stick around ..
Christ has done many wonderful things across the campus and the college athletics landscape changed monumentally and unpredictably during her time here. The challenges she faced were not the same ones her predecessors. But it did happen during her tenure and she is the one at the top of the spear that needed to help guide us through it. There were signs that large threats were coming, and she either simply hoped things were going to stay status quo, delegated too much faith in her AD to steer us through and articulate and solve for those challenges, or was over confident that we were too big a brand/market not to find a safe harbor. In any case, there has been a reticence to make bold decisions with regards to athletics and our m.o. has been to be reactive rather than proactive as events have unfolded. It's clear that the two have been two of the smallest voices through the Pac-12 media rights negotiations. And even in catching a lifeline to the ACC lifeline and trying to coax the B1G (far too late I might add), a lot of that lobbying was seemingly lead by Drake and Furd leaders.
She got the University to assume the debt I think, but it seemed during all the conference upheaval, Furd assume control and dragged us along instead of proactively looking for a conference.
It seems like just about all the people running the Cal NIL collective are very happy about this hire, so it seems like it was the best possible result. Hopefully this means a lot of positive top-down changes will be coming soon.
new chancellor announcement
Richard K. Lyons, former dean of the Haas School of Business and current associate vice chancellor and chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer, has been selected to become UC Berkeley’s next chancellor. Rich will assume his new role on July 1, 2024, when current Chancellor Carol T. Christ retires.
I think this is a superb hire. He should be pro-athletics. And he's a business professor, so he won't have his head lost in academic clouds
You mean Cal Berkeley? 😀
no, You See Berkeley
In reading a lot about Cal football in newspapers from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s I was struck by how often the Bears were referred to as California. The same with books, periodicals and other writings of the time.
I remember in the early 90s we were always listed in the top 25 as California. People in the east coast ever equated California with Berkeley.
I think he means UC Berkeley.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Texas A&M is bringing back their pre-Texas game bonfire, delaying about 2 years for every person they killed since the last one
https://www.chron.com/news/article/texas-am-university-bonfires-19393484.php
What's your favorite non-Big Game rivalry?
I've always liked the Red River Shootout (Oklahoma vs. Texas). Something about playing the game at the Cotton Bowl (equidistant from both schools), with tickets distributed equally and during the Texas State Fair just seems "right" for a college football rivalry.
St. Mary's / Gonzaga MBB and St. Mary's / Cal rugby.
UNC-Dook
IU-Purdue play for the Old Oaken Bucket each year in football.
basketball rivalry was great to watch in my time there since neither team was particularly good at football.
that being said, Cal played at Purdue in 1992, the year after we graduated. we were supposed to be good (i think) coming off the Citrus Bowl season and got smoked 41-14 to open the season. i guess it was start of the Gilbertson era, so nothing good came of it ..
My first road trip as an undergrad was to that game at Purdue with the Band. 19 of us drove 3 minivans from Berkeley, to Madison, WI (to pick up another bandsman), to Chicago (across from Wrigley Field to play for alumni and pass the hat), to West Lafayette for the game, to Indianapolis (to the home of a generous alum who allowed us to use his shower), back to Berkeley. We were back in time for Monday afternoon classes.
this is why DBD is great. (so is the Cal band)
i had some Cal signs and things inside car window. when i got back to my car someone had "decorated" my windshield with the embarrassing final score in shaving cream.
Assuming this is in college sports I'll go with Michigan-Ohio State (Go Blue!).
5-star USC DT Bear Alexander to hit the portals a year after he transferred from Georgia. One rumor is that he has work ethic problems
https://twitter.com/cfbheadlines/status/1777744813074301417?s=46&t=c4V1j51I5TI-PGKVnzpV8Q
that's unfortunate, I think he caught a lot of flak from alumni over what were fundamentally coaching issues, maybe the new defense coaching group is a bad fit for him
Rising sophomore Washington Husky RB arrested for two cases of rape
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/police-arrest-18-year-old-connected-2-rape-cases-seattle/281-c9181c7d-4b9b-4ec8-b49c-8d1d23e6e3bf
OSKI DISCIPLE’S TRIVA FUN, A DAILY DBD FEATURE
Eva Braun was reportedly upset about having to commit suicide because, she claimed, her and Adolph were finally making real progress in couples therapy.
(All trivia verified by the International Trivia Foundation.)
some combo of couples therapy and DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) worked for my wife and i to stay together over the last couple years.
DBT = Dialectical behavior therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders and interpersonal conflicts. Evidence suggests that DBT can be useful in treating mood disorders and suicidal ideation as well as for changing behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy
HSB, this sounds like a serious response, and I wish you and your wife the best.
The proximity of your comment to Oski’s Trivia Fun did make me unsure.
thx. i appreciate the humor of daily trivia. sometimes it jogs my memory of something more serious.
things are generally good currently. we just celebrated our 25th anniv that probably neither of us thought we would get to about a year ago
Good to hear, bravo for working through that! I think so much boils down to the notion that if you care, you will put in the work, if you don’t, you won’t
Magazine subs
Sports Illustrated. A dear friend of mine got me a gift subscription for a birthday one year. My favorite feature was "This Week's Sign of the Apocalypse".
I used to receive Muscle & Fitness, Wired, the Economist, Asian Diver, PC Gamer, National Geographic, and the Annotated DBD Letters to Penthouse Magazine. I kind of miss the Economist, but the one that always got picked up and read was NatGeo.
The Atlantic and High Country News. The latter, despite sounding like a publication for cannabis enthusiasts, is a publication of long-form, investigative journalism that covers issues affecting the West. Traditionally, the focus was on issues of public lands, the environment, and the public agencies involved in these issues. Their coverage has expanded to cover diverse culture of the West and its people.
New York Magazine and the New Yorker. I’ve never lived in NYC. Really enjoy the New Yorker but it has gotten extremely expensive. Nymag I get because I get my online news drip from their website (and the DBD).
Used to get Fantasy and Science Fiction. Later in life, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Your pop caught you smoking, and he said “No way”
That hypocrite smokes two packs a day
Man, living at home is such a drag
Now your mom threw away your best porno mag
You gotta fight for your right to party
Only mags I get are from organizations I belong to - National Zoo, Smithsonian, AARP, etc.
I was a long-time Sports Illustrated subscriber. Have also gotten Mother Jones, National Geographic, The Nation, The New Yorker and Write For California Weekly. No longer subscribe to anything these days.
I don't have any anymore. For a long while I had Air and Space and a couple of car ones. When my ex-FIL died, my MIL passed all his car subscriptions to me. He had at least 3 or 4 of them. C/D, MT, R&T.
New Yorker .. a friend got some 2-for-1 deal so i am getting the free one for a while. i dont read it every week. when i pick it up and enjoy it i wonder why i dont read it more often.
Hidden Europe - only comes out 3-4 times a year. great travel writing about small towns and places that i'l probably never go
in the past - Scientific American, Velo something, Bicycling