Warriors up 3-1 after a tight back-and-forth game. once again Butler was a stabilizing presence down the stretch and everyone did their part, including Draymond doing Draymond things and nearly getting himself kicked out of the game. to his credit, he played amazing D down the stretch all while carrying 5 fouls.
strangely (or not)... W's are the 7 seed and up 3-1 while Lakers are 3 seed and down 3-1. i guess all the teams seeds 3-9 were only separated by a few games in the standings so there might not be as much difference as the seeds imply.
The Golden State Warriors took a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Houston Rockets on Monday night in a tightly-contested 109-106 victory. While the Rockets were able to hold Steph Curry to just 17 points on 6-for-13 shooting from the field, the Warriors supporting cast stepped up. The closer, of course, had to be Jimmy Butler III.
The surprise is that the Dubs are up 3-1 on the Rockets, a team that won 52 in the regular season. But this is probably indicative of the difference that Butler makes to the Dubs, re-shaping the postseason in a way that is... unusual.
The Rockets won during the regular season on the strength of their D and I don't think their O was that great. Warriors are playing much better D than most of the teams they played all season so I think that's why Vegas had the Ws as the favorites.
The Dodgers and Marlins seemingly played a few different games on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Though it took longer than they would have liked, the Dodgers won the opener 7-6 in the 10th inning for their third victory in a row and third walk-off win of the season.
The Dodgers and Marlins seemingly played a few different games on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Though it took longer than they would have liked, the Dodgers won the opener 7-6 in the 10th inning for their third victory in a row and third walk-off win of the season.
What's weird to me is OKC played 4 games when the Ws/Rockets played 2. With the 2 days in-between it was weird. Probably some of it is OKC and Memphis are relatively close together so travel didn't take that long. Also they probably wanted the Warriors in primetime just about each day.
Isn't that kind of a scheduling bug of the first round? There are 8 matchups in the 1st Round, so having 4 of those matchups on a weeknight is probably unavoidable at some point. Wednesday's schedule has only two games (GS vs. HOU and MIN at LAL), but Thursday and Friday nights have three games each scheduled.
I like the walking bear logo. On the state outline, maybe not so much. I think with the state it makes the logo too vertical. If only had a more E/W state than a N/S state.
Careful, now. You probably do have cousins, even if you don't have a first cousin. A second cousin, for example, would have common great-grandparents with you.
To be clear, the Conservative Party had a 27 point lead just four months ago. Trump tried to help the Conservative party, plus did his own shenanigans and turned around one of the most massive political swings in Canadian history
Anyone going to the Papal Conclave? I just checked on Ticketmaster and mezzanine seats are $100, a bit pricy IMO. Had orchestra seats for the last one for half that.
i am bisy that week. i have a couple concerts in NYC to go to.
plus, i'll be in Rome later this year as both kids are studying abroad during the fall semester - complete coincidence.
older one will be senior at UW and had been planning this for a while. younger one starts first semester of freshman year at Northeastern in Rome as well. they will be a 10 min walk from each other.
Wife's on a business trip. I've got finals in culinary school, so I'm already doing a shit ton of cooking/cleaning - so the last thing I want to do is cook for just myself. I think I'm taking the time to drive 30 minutes to Ole Time BBQ.
✅ Terrible location - ideally next to railroad tracks
✅ Usually full with overflow parking on gravel
✅ Roll of paper towels sitting on every beat up table
✅ Counter ladies call you "hon" or "sweetie"
I already know what I'm having: bbq, puppies, fried okra, and collards. Oh, and a banana pudding to go.
In San Diego for work, so fish tacos every night. I guess except last night when I went to BW3 to watch the Warriors game. I've got about 3 or 4 regular places I go so maybe tonight will be Oscar's Tacos at Pacific Beach.
I'm lactose intolerant, so when eating out I tend to prefer Asian options. (I'll pop a Lactaid for cuisines with a lot of cheese and butter in them, but would prefer to avoid if possible.)
i would have picked Italian if it was on the list. however, now that i picked Chinese, i am sort of in the mood for Chinese or something Asian.
last few days of just younger child and i at home while wife has been in Italy for 2 wks on a fun trip. maybe we'll get sushi or go to our favorite Chinese place.
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE
News about hugging vegetables, a festival for indigestible noodles, and your face on a weiner
https://soranews24.com/2025/04/28/venture-into-some-of-japans-tastiest-theme-parks-this-golden-week/
Why it's so hard to translate food from Chinese to English
https://www.cnn.com/travel/chinese-food-translations-english-menus-intl-hnk/index.html
Manami Sasaki, toast artist
https://www.boredpanda.com/toast-art-stay-home-manami-sasaki-part-2/
Due to DOGE-imposed budget cuts the Great American Music Hall will henceforth be known as the Very Good American Music Hall.
PRO
Dame Lillard has a torn achilles
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44903786/sources-bucks-damian-lillard-torn-left-achilles-tendon
I saw the video and that looked familiar. I imagine that's how I looked (without the in shape body) when I tore mine both times.
i looked mostly the same too AND i am in good shape like Lillard!
Cavs let off the gas and only win by 55 over the Heat
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44909736/cavaliers-cap-historic-sweep-55-point-win-heat
It's still April and the Rockies (4-24) are 14.5 games back. This guy says the White Sox (7-21) will still end up worse than the Rockies.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/besting-the-2024-white-sox/
George Kittle (31) signs a four year $76.4m extension with the Niners
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44915439/49ers-te-george-kittle-says-signed-4-year-764m-extension
[Rubbing temples and eyes] Oh, Rob Manfred...
https://apnews.com/article/pete-rose-reinstatement-00a2532eeb4f1aa3dd81530260de44b8
As if he couldn't possibly sully the game any further. It's all a set-up when Manfred says he met with Trump.
What a maroon.
Pete Rose is exactly the type of athlete that Trumpy would champion.
Don't I know it!
Warriors up 3-1 after a tight back-and-forth game. once again Butler was a stabilizing presence down the stretch and everyone did their part, including Draymond doing Draymond things and nearly getting himself kicked out of the game. to his credit, he played amazing D down the stretch all while carrying 5 fouls.
strangely (or not)... W's are the 7 seed and up 3-1 while Lakers are 3 seed and down 3-1. i guess all the teams seeds 3-9 were only separated by a few games in the standings so there might not be as much difference as the seeds imply.
Seeds 2-8 were very tightly packed (52 wins down to 48). There was a pretty big gap from there to 9 (Sacramento at 40-42).
Brandin Podziemski, Jimmy Butler III lead Warriors to 109-106 Game 4 victory over Rockets
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2025/4/28/24419964/nba-playoffs-warriors-rockets-game-4-brandin-podziemski-jimmy-butler-steph-curry-draymond-green
The Golden State Warriors took a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Houston Rockets on Monday night in a tightly-contested 109-106 victory. While the Rockets were able to hold Steph Curry to just 17 points on 6-for-13 shooting from the field, the Warriors supporting cast stepped up. The closer, of course, had to be Jimmy Butler III.
The surprise is that the Dubs are up 3-1 on the Rockets, a team that won 52 in the regular season. But this is probably indicative of the difference that Butler makes to the Dubs, re-shaping the postseason in a way that is... unusual.
The Rockets won during the regular season on the strength of their D and I don't think their O was that great. Warriors are playing much better D than most of the teams they played all season so I think that's why Vegas had the Ws as the favorites.
Also the Warriors clearly have the best player in the series. Maybe the best two.
Giants and the A's both had an off-day. What did they do to get better?
Tommy Edman didn’t start Monday, but he did end a Dodgers win over the Marlins
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/4/28/24419382/tommy-edman-walk-off-dodgers-marlins
The Dodgers and Marlins seemingly played a few different games on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Though it took longer than they would have liked, the Dodgers won the opener 7-6 in the 10th inning for their third victory in a row and third walk-off win of the season.
Tommy Edman didn’t start Monday, but he did end a Dodgers win over the Marlins
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/4/28/24419382/tommy-edman-walk-off-dodgers-marlins
The Dodgers and Marlins seemingly played a few different games on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Though it took longer than they would have liked, the Dodgers won the opener 7-6 in the 10th inning for their third victory in a row and third walk-off win of the season.
4 overlapping NBA playoff games tonight. that is sort of strange scheduling for the NBA on a weeknight.
What's weird to me is OKC played 4 games when the Ws/Rockets played 2. With the 2 days in-between it was weird. Probably some of it is OKC and Memphis are relatively close together so travel didn't take that long. Also they probably wanted the Warriors in primetime just about each day.
Isn't that kind of a scheduling bug of the first round? There are 8 matchups in the 1st Round, so having 4 of those matchups on a weeknight is probably unavoidable at some point. Wednesday's schedule has only two games (GS vs. HOU and MIN at LAL), but Thursday and Friday nights have three games each scheduled.
CAL
What do you think of the Bear Walking on State Outline helmet sticker?
I like the walking bear logo. On the state outline, maybe not so much. I think with the state it makes the logo too vertical. If only had a more E/W state than a N/S state.
Haven't seen it yet.
I just noticed Tobias Merriweather is in the transfer portal. Here's hoping Harsin is good at scheming with what we have left.
I'm fine losing Merriweather.
Go Bears!!!
Brennan Scarlett 2.0
https://www.si.com/college/cal/football/cal-lb-hunter-barth-enters-transfer-portal-01jsyr5w9vrw
POLITICS
Amazon donated $1m to Trump's inauguration in order to appease him. He went after Amazon yesterday. Congrats
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html
I saw another story where an administration official questioned why a multibillion dollar company would pass costs on to its customers.
just thanks how bad it would be if they didnt donate!
I can marry my cousin in Utah in about 12 months, if I had a cousin
https://www.abc4.com/news/politics/utah-marriage-laws/
Careful, now. You probably do have cousins, even if you don't have a first cousin. A second cousin, for example, would have common great-grandparents with you.
Look who is about to become the DC Attorney General
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-federal-prosecutors-d-c-sign-memo-opposing-ed-martin-as-d-c-u-s-attorney/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Martin_(Missouri_politician)
Trump does away with Posse Comitatus Act and deputized the military to go after American civilians as the police
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/
Trump wants to create a police state. There should be no doubt about that.
This EO will be used to put down protest. Bank on it.
This could have horrible ramifications.
Trump goes after Blue States' sanctuary cities and will RICO act politicians
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/
Trump repeats that he wants Canada to be the 51st state ahead of Canada's election. The Liberals won, partly because of Trump
https://dailyboulder.com/trump-pulls-shameless-stunt-in-effort-to-influence-canadas-election/
To be clear, the Conservative Party had a 27 point lead just four months ago. Trump tried to help the Conservative party, plus did his own shenanigans and turned around one of the most massive political swings in Canadian history
Turns out that promising to absorb their country might have some negative impacts.
DBD AV CLUB
Happy 70th, Captain Janeway
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000550/
Live long and Prosper
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Shaq becomes the unpaid GM for [checks notes]... Sac State
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44908348/sources-shaquille-oneal-agrees-sacramento-state-gm
I feel this is like Steph being GM for Davidson. More just for the name than actual GM duties.
Trump goes after his alma mater for having a trans swimmer
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/44906340/penn-violated-laws-transgender-swimmer-competed
Anyone going to the Papal Conclave? I just checked on Ticketmaster and mezzanine seats are $100, a bit pricy IMO. Had orchestra seats for the last one for half that.
i am bisy that week. i have a couple concerts in NYC to go to.
plus, i'll be in Rome later this year as both kids are studying abroad during the fall semester - complete coincidence.
older one will be senior at UW and had been planning this for a while. younger one starts first semester of freshman year at Northeastern in Rome as well. they will be a 10 min walk from each other.
Americans are still welcome there?
what i want for dinner ..
Wife's on a business trip. I've got finals in culinary school, so I'm already doing a shit ton of cooking/cleaning - so the last thing I want to do is cook for just myself. I think I'm taking the time to drive 30 minutes to Ole Time BBQ.
✅ Terrible location - ideally next to railroad tracks
✅ Usually full with overflow parking on gravel
✅ Roll of paper towels sitting on every beat up table
✅ Counter ladies call you "hon" or "sweetie"
I already know what I'm having: bbq, puppies, fried okra, and collards. Oh, and a banana pudding to go.
No collards available. So I went with mac + dark quarter of fried chicken. If you need me, I'm having a nap.
In San Diego for work, so fish tacos every night. I guess except last night when I went to BW3 to watch the Warriors game. I've got about 3 or 4 regular places I go so maybe tonight will be Oscar's Tacos at Pacific Beach.
isnt there other good Mexican food in SD aside from fish tacos? or maybe the fish tacos are so exceptional, why would you get anything else ..
I'm lactose intolerant, so when eating out I tend to prefer Asian options. (I'll pop a Lactaid for cuisines with a lot of cheese and butter in them, but would prefer to avoid if possible.)
i would have picked Italian if it was on the list. however, now that i picked Chinese, i am sort of in the mood for Chinese or something Asian.
last few days of just younger child and i at home while wife has been in Italy for 2 wks on a fun trip. maybe we'll get sushi or go to our favorite Chinese place.