we are planning a 2 wk trip to Japan in Aug. we are well aware of the heat, but going anyways w/ a group of 9 people, 2 families, kids of ages 7, 10, 13, 16, 19.
if anyone has any thoughts or ideas of what to do or see. any experience w/ Japanese baseball games? i think that would be super fun and i have never been.
current thoughts are
- Tokyo for 3-4 days, baseball, sushi market, general touristy stuff and shopping
- Kyoto for a few days
- day trips to Kamakura and Hakone
- something in nature or countryside. i have been to Nikko/Yumoto just north or Tokyo but would love to get out a bit farther, maybe even Hokkaido.
There's a Facebook group called "Japan trips and planning" that I joined recently. It's actually quite interesting and very helpful. Everyone asks a lot of questions and there are many helpful answers. I joined to see what tourists like to do in Japan. It might help you with the rest of the plans.
Not in the tournament but maybe to get to the tournament, some pitchers at non powerhouse schools may end up pitching alot. But it has improved a lot in recent years
I'm Japanese and I watch my team Hiroshima Carp play almost every game. We lost to Trevor Bauer last night.
Japanese baseball games are fun. There's 2 teams in Tokyo plus 3 more teams in the vicinity, so you should be able to catch a game while in Tokyo. I would recommend Jingu Stadium or Yokohama Stadium for the best atmosphere.
The Hokkaido Fighters just built a new stadium this year so you can visit them too if you are in Hokkaido.
George Raft, film actor. Raft was born September 26, 1901 in Hell's Kitchen. He died November 24, 1980 in Los Angeles.
He often played gangsters in movies, and was also known to have associated with gangsters early in his life. But he claimed never to have worked for them.
our most recent whitewater rafting experience was last summer in Iceland. while Iceland is generally known for other things, this guided trip down some glacially carved river was fun and scenic and the best thing we did on our weeklong vacation. https://www.vikingrafting.is/
we wore "dry suits" to keep us mostly dry and warm in the otherwise frozen waters. the photographer clearly hangs out in the best locations to capture the action. i am already underwater and not visible in this photo. but we all ended up in the water on this sequence.
So the fella that just flew to the Netherlands to attend an extreme metal/experimental rock music festival did not like a Zach Braff/Natalie Portman rom com? Shocker.
Bent Pawn has absolutely become a grumpy old man though if after liking it on first watch he has changed his tune considering the entire movie is about self-reflection and introspection by a couple of damaged people falling in love. The characters are literally finding themselves.
I find there are a lot of movies I enjoyed while I was younger but upon rewatch, just found the story to be implausible or found the characters to be completely unlikeable. I don’t know if it’s just getting old and grumpy or having different mindset, or being of a certain age with whatever wisdom comes with that to see things I may have glossed over the first time.
It was fine on first watch. I tried watching it again sometime last year, and could not stand how self-absorbed all the characters are. I've turned into a grumpy old man.
People always have trash. Though the growth in useless reporting we have to do is a hassle. Flip side is CalPers retirement. Probably at least 5 or so more years.
I did see a job advertisement for the State Geologist, which by the book I'm qualified for, but by temperament probably not suited for.
What I do for work and has changed over the past 10 years. While there was a race for healthcare facilities to hire full time dietitians, the opposite has happened in the last 1-2 years where facilities are trying to do more with less. With that, I find myself with two part time jobs at the moment which is kinda awesome in a certain way. It keeps me engaged and the change of scenery in the week is good, plus having a day off in the middle of the week rules. I work two days, have a day off, work two days, then it’s the weekend.
Meh. I guess as long as I'm able to travel to the testing events it's worth it. Seattle in June (though the SIG is cutting costs so I'm the only one going), Budapest in Sept, Sydney in Dec (hopefully), and some interim ones probably in Seattle unless someone volunteers to host.
But, if I quit, not sure what I would do. I really want to pivot and do something totally different, but probably need to wait a few years until No 3 is done with college. And I don't even know what I would want to do.
While I survived the layoffs and I felt confident that my job is not replaceable, I now feel that nobody will give a shit that I'm not easily replaceable and wont' give a second thought to insourcing my job to India. While I'm certainly re-energized to do crank out more deliverables, I've demotivated and have accepted that I'm just trying to buy time until hopefully I can retire on my own terms. I fear being laid off and being involuntarily aged out of the workforce. I think it's time to prepare my fourth act, which I will either do if I get laid off or do in my semi-retirement phase.
I just finished a year of semi-retirement. Maybe more than a year, depending on how you define it. Now fully retired. For the time being anyway. I have more time to read and post here!
the semi-retirement phase is interesting one that we are approaching at this age (early to mid 50s). last of kids will be out of house in 2-3 years. even if we want to settle down next to future grandkids and all that, there is at least a 10-15 yrs period before that happens.
also, luckily, we are in decent shape w/ retirement savings. as in, we cant afford not to stop working, but we can afford to take the foot off the gas a little. as long as we are not depleting the retirement stash during semi-retirement (55-70ish), we should be fine.
pretty good. i started about 6 months ago at IonQ, quantum computing co. the main thing i would say is that i am not really doing what i was hired to do, but it is possibly better.
the original plan was to use data and machine learning to improve system performance. in our case, system performance is literally "uptime".
now i find myself managing a rather large project that cuts across a lot of departments that also improves system performance, but mostly from a software/hardware perspective. i am mostly a go-between communicator between physicists and software engineers that seemingly speak different languages but working on the same thing.
i am basically a smart bus driver who can speak many languages as you drive from one end of LA to another and i force people to talk/listen to each other.
Caught up on the latest two episodes of Barry (HBO) last night. A couple LOL moments, I liked them more than the first two episodes of this new/final season.
Also caught the latest episode of Succession and thought it was real good.
*But I'm not completely sure if these later episodes were actually better than the earlier episodes of the same season, or if it was just because my viewing experience was "herbally enhanced" for these ones and not the earlier ones. Need to run a controlled experiment.
Beef (Netflix, 8/19, WNB). The show undeniably has very good acting and has some very good scenes and some clever writing at times. But I did not enjoy this. The whole series is tough to watch as two people's lives unravel. The season finale was a weird fever dream that wasn't necessary.
Yeah, the main difference between this and Night Agent is that the actors in this are major leaguers, and the actors in Night Agent were like A ball level
If he puts his name in to officially run, he's going a) maybe do ok in early Primaries b) get hosed when the Disney suit gets to some discovery releases. c) should Trump somehow not be the nominee, get the un-lubed dildo of consequences in the general election.
The Golden State Warriors failed to hold onto their home-court advantage in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers, losing 117-112 in front of the Chase Center crowd. There were some positives for both teams to take away from the matchup, but the biggest question facing Golden State is what they can do about Anthony Davis.
While the Dubs entered the Western Conference Semifinals as gambling favorites, the Lakers had a massive rest advantage heading into Game 1 having finished their first-round series two days before the Dubs. With just one day of rest, the Warriors looked to lack the energy they needed to slow down the Lakers.
I dunno, seems a pretty even match to me. It’s also a series of old guys with few days off between games. I think the team that best avoids injury will win
Ya, AD and Vanderbilt in the post makes the W's completely one-dimensional, and they have no one that can guard the Brow...only way W's win is if they hit >45% from 3...gonna need Wiggins to get hot for that, and Poole to stay hot for the entire series, both of which are unlikely. Bad matchup.
Poole Party is fun to watch when it is going well.
i think the W's will have trouble because they are having a hard time converting the layups they normally get. everyone was is on the Block Party for the Lakers
Mason Miller, the A’s rookie phenom, in just the third start in the majors and the thirteenth starts of his professional career pitched the game of a lifetime. Over seven efficient innings, the young righty threw exactly 100 pitches to strike out 6 batters and hold the Seattle Mariners completely hitless. Of his 6 Ks, 3 were on his wicked slider, 2 on his flaming four-seamer, and one on his infamous Demon Cutter.
A funny thing happened at the start of the San Francisco Giants Tuesday night game against the Houston Astros. The Giants were facing off against young righty Hunter Brown, a 24 year old who entered the game having not allowed a single home run in his 50.2 career innings.
Zero. Zip. Nada.
Brown had faced 200 batters. 37 of them had gotten hits, but none of them had hit home runs. 13 of them had scored, but none of them had hit home runs.
Julio UrÃas got back on track, carving through the Phillies with 10 strikeouts in the Dodgers’ 13-1 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. The second straight blowout of Philadelphia ran the Los Angeles win streak to five games.
Ten strikeouts are a season high for UrÃas — the most by a Dodgers pitcher this season — who rebounded from a personal three-game losing streak, including 11 runs allowed in nine innings over his previous two starts.
SANTA CLARA – Cal scored a run in the sixth to cut the deficit to one but Santa Clara responded scoring two in the sixth and four in the seventh to put the game away, winning 8-1 on Tuesday evening at Stephen Schott Stadium.
Cal (18-23) got a two-hit performance from Max Handron. He also had the lone RBI of the evening for the Golden Bears. Nathan Manning, Rodney Green Jr., and Kade Kretzschmar also had a hit. The hit for Manning was his 16th in the last 10 games.
BERKELEY – The postseason just got busier for California women's tennis sophomores Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm. On Tuesday, the 55th-ranked Alsola earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Singles Championship, while the 12th-ranked pair of Alsola and Wiersholm was named to the NCAA Doubles Championship field.
Both individual postseason tournaments will take place from May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida. That site will also host the quarterfinals, semifinals and final of the NCAA Championship from May 17-20
BERKELEY – The California men's tennis team made more postseason news when Yuta Kikuchi earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Singles Championship, the NCAA announced on Tuesday.
The Golden Bear graduate student is one of 64 student-athletes in the field, which will compete from May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida. The USTA courts will also host the NCAA Championship quarterfinals, semifinals and final from May 18-20.
SAN FRANCISCO – California's Maya Lawliss and Amanda Morse were selected to the 2023 All-Pac-12 Women's Lacrosse Teams, announced Tuesday as voted on by the league's coaches. The fourth-year seniors both earned second-team recognition and were honored with All-Pac-12 honors for the first time in their career.
Former California football punter and Australian native Jamieson Sheahan was selected Tuesday by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers with the eighth overall pick in the 2023 Canadian Football League Global Draft. The event is a selection of non-Canadian and non-American players.
BERKELEY – California student-athletes registered high marks in the latest Academic Progress Rate data released by the NCAA on Tuesday, with 18 of the department's 26 measured programs tallying multi-year scores of 990 or higher.
Cal had seven of its programs record perfect multi-year marks of 1,000 or better – men's cross country, men's water polo, men's gymnastics, field hockey, women's gymnastics, women's golf and women's tennis. Another 11 teams scored 990 or higher.
Cal also achieved its second-highest overall single-year (2021-22) score ever at 990, bettering last year's mark of 989.
Now let's see how much revenue these strong APR marks generated for the University and Athletic Department....meanwhile, football was disappointing and MBB was non-competitive...
Well high APRs are great they will be meaningless in the nil and portal environment. Either you decide to be competitive in the revenue sports and bite the bullet or you don't. Half measures are unacceptable anymore, which is bad news for the Cal bureaucracy and it's ennui.
With the advent of AAPI Heritage Month, I can't help but reflect on HAUPIAA – Cal Athletics' AAPI employee-engagement group – and what it's meant to me over the past few years.
Our mission has been to educate people about the diversity of AAPI cultures, celebrate our accomplishments and build community among our staff and student-athletes. In this year's AAPI Heritage Month, we're putting together a panel discussion, scheduled for May 31, along with content headed to CalBears.com and social media, including Instagram (@HAUPIAA_at_Cal) and Twitter (@HAUPIAAatCal).
BERKELEY – California rugby was well represented at the annual Cal Academic Honors Luncheon on Monday afternoon. The event was hosted at the Field Club at California Memorial Stadium to celebrate the top academic performers from across all 30 Intercollegiate Athletic teams.
Throughout the 2022-23 school year, 35 Cal rugby student-athletes have been recognized for their term and cumulative academic performance. At the end-of-year tally, 21 players met the threshold for scholar-athlete distinction and were invited to the luncheon to celebrate their accomplishments in the classroom.
BERKELEY – Three days removed from setting a new collegiate discus record at the 128th Big Meet, California track & field sophomore Mykolas Alekna once again earned both the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I Men's Athletic National Athlete of the Week and the Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week awards on Tuesday. Alekna, who became the first Cal man to win the national honor and second overall athlete to win it twice, now has earned four USTFCCCA weekly nods and seven weekly Pac-12 accolades in his career.
The star Lithuanian's mark of 71.00m (232-11) was also a new unofficial U23 world record (World Athletics keeps no official list for U23 entries). It was the first world record set at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley since Henry Rono of Washington State ran 13:06.4 in 1978, and the first by a Cal student-athlete since Grover Klemmer's 440y time of 46.6 in 1941.
Baseball and Japan
we are planning a 2 wk trip to Japan in Aug. we are well aware of the heat, but going anyways w/ a group of 9 people, 2 families, kids of ages 7, 10, 13, 16, 19.
if anyone has any thoughts or ideas of what to do or see. any experience w/ Japanese baseball games? i think that would be super fun and i have never been.
current thoughts are
- Tokyo for 3-4 days, baseball, sushi market, general touristy stuff and shopping
- Kyoto for a few days
- day trips to Kamakura and Hakone
- something in nature or countryside. i have been to Nikko/Yumoto just north or Tokyo but would love to get out a bit farther, maybe even Hokkaido.
There's a Facebook group called "Japan trips and planning" that I joined recently. It's actually quite interesting and very helpful. Everyone asks a lot of questions and there are many helpful answers. I joined to see what tourists like to do in Japan. It might help you with the rest of the plans.
very helpful. thanks
Oh, August! You gotta go to their HS baseball tourney, is a big deal:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_High_School_Baseball_Championship
Do the pitchers still get abused? I thought I remember hearing pitchers throwing like 300 pitches over like 4 days.
Not in the tournament but maybe to get to the tournament, some pitchers at non powerhouse schools may end up pitching alot. But it has improved a lot in recent years
I agree. And these kids get to play in what's like a Wrigley or Fenway Park of Japan.
I'm Japanese and I watch my team Hiroshima Carp play almost every game. We lost to Trevor Bauer last night.
Japanese baseball games are fun. There's 2 teams in Tokyo plus 3 more teams in the vicinity, so you should be able to catch a game while in Tokyo. I would recommend Jingu Stadium or Yokohama Stadium for the best atmosphere.
The Hokkaido Fighters just built a new stadium this year so you can visit them too if you are in Hokkaido.
There was some great discussion of Japanese baseball on a previous DBD. More info would of course be welcome.
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/dbd-06-20-2022-recycle/comment/7240838#comment-7252345?utm_source=activity_item
I've never been, but I hear if you sit in some places, they spray you with water (it's hot!) so wear the right stuff.
Raft
George Raft, film actor. Raft was born September 26, 1901 in Hell's Kitchen. He died November 24, 1980 in Los Angeles.
He often played gangsters in movies, and was also known to have associated with gangsters early in his life. But he claimed never to have worked for them.
A raft is a support structure used in 3d printing to help enable good adhesion of the first layer to the bed, while still being fairly easy to remove.
our most recent whitewater rafting experience was last summer in Iceland. while Iceland is generally known for other things, this guided trip down some glacially carved river was fun and scenic and the best thing we did on our weeklong vacation. https://www.vikingrafting.is/
we wore "dry suits" to keep us mostly dry and warm in the otherwise frozen waters. the photographer clearly hangs out in the best locations to capture the action. i am already underwater and not visible in this photo. but we all ended up in the water on this sequence.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ksMJXsGDEMei5n6Z9
Looks like a great trip!
On our most recent trip to Iceland, we saw the offers to raft the Austari-Jökulsá and thought "who is crazy enough to do that?"
hahahahaha
It's raining now! WTF?
I get the news I need on the weather report
Oh, I can gather all the news I need on the weather report
Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile
De-doh-n-doh-de-doh
And here I am
The only living boy in New York
Jesus, I should have guessed - not a fan of this band.
Alrighty, then.
Great tune...a solid addition to the Garden State soundtrack.
Did not like that movie
So the fella that just flew to the Netherlands to attend an extreme metal/experimental rock music festival did not like a Zach Braff/Natalie Portman rom com? Shocker.
Bent Pawn has absolutely become a grumpy old man though if after liking it on first watch he has changed his tune considering the entire movie is about self-reflection and introspection by a couple of damaged people falling in love. The characters are literally finding themselves.
;-)
I find there are a lot of movies I enjoyed while I was younger but upon rewatch, just found the story to be implausible or found the characters to be completely unlikeable. I don’t know if it’s just getting old and grumpy or having different mindset, or being of a certain age with whatever wisdom comes with that to see things I may have glossed over the first time.
It was fine on first watch. I tried watching it again sometime last year, and could not stand how self-absorbed all the characters are. I've turned into a grumpy old man.
How is your job going?
I'm in healthcare so my answer should be obvious.
People always have trash. Though the growth in useless reporting we have to do is a hassle. Flip side is CalPers retirement. Probably at least 5 or so more years.
I did see a job advertisement for the State Geologist, which by the book I'm qualified for, but by temperament probably not suited for.
What I do for work and has changed over the past 10 years. While there was a race for healthcare facilities to hire full time dietitians, the opposite has happened in the last 1-2 years where facilities are trying to do more with less. With that, I find myself with two part time jobs at the moment which is kinda awesome in a certain way. It keeps me engaged and the change of scenery in the week is good, plus having a day off in the middle of the week rules. I work two days, have a day off, work two days, then it’s the weekend.
After being laid off in January . . . still need to get one.
Meh. I guess as long as I'm able to travel to the testing events it's worth it. Seattle in June (though the SIG is cutting costs so I'm the only one going), Budapest in Sept, Sydney in Dec (hopefully), and some interim ones probably in Seattle unless someone volunteers to host.
But, if I quit, not sure what I would do. I really want to pivot and do something totally different, but probably need to wait a few years until No 3 is done with college. And I don't even know what I would want to do.
While I survived the layoffs and I felt confident that my job is not replaceable, I now feel that nobody will give a shit that I'm not easily replaceable and wont' give a second thought to insourcing my job to India. While I'm certainly re-energized to do crank out more deliverables, I've demotivated and have accepted that I'm just trying to buy time until hopefully I can retire on my own terms. I fear being laid off and being involuntarily aged out of the workforce. I think it's time to prepare my fourth act, which I will either do if I get laid off or do in my semi-retirement phase.
I just finished a year of semi-retirement. Maybe more than a year, depending on how you define it. Now fully retired. For the time being anyway. I have more time to read and post here!
the semi-retirement phase is interesting one that we are approaching at this age (early to mid 50s). last of kids will be out of house in 2-3 years. even if we want to settle down next to future grandkids and all that, there is at least a 10-15 yrs period before that happens.
also, luckily, we are in decent shape w/ retirement savings. as in, we cant afford not to stop working, but we can afford to take the foot off the gas a little. as long as we are not depleting the retirement stash during semi-retirement (55-70ish), we should be fine.
pretty good. i started about 6 months ago at IonQ, quantum computing co. the main thing i would say is that i am not really doing what i was hired to do, but it is possibly better.
the original plan was to use data and machine learning to improve system performance. in our case, system performance is literally "uptime".
now i find myself managing a rather large project that cuts across a lot of departments that also improves system performance, but mostly from a software/hardware perspective. i am mostly a go-between communicator between physicists and software engineers that seemingly speak different languages but working on the same thing.
i am basically a smart bus driver who can speak many languages as you drive from one end of LA to another and i force people to talk/listen to each other.
That sounds like you're being pretty useful. I often found myself in the role as translator or facilitator between groups of biologists and engineers.
DBD AV CLUB
Caught up on the latest two episodes of Barry (HBO) last night. A couple LOL moments, I liked them more than the first two episodes of this new/final season.
Also caught the latest episode of Succession and thought it was real good.
*But I'm not completely sure if these later episodes were actually better than the earlier episodes of the same season, or if it was just because my viewing experience was "herbally enhanced" for these ones and not the earlier ones. Need to run a controlled experiment.
Beef (Netflix, 8/19, WNB). The show undeniably has very good acting and has some very good scenes and some clever writing at times. But I did not enjoy this. The whole series is tough to watch as two people's lives unravel. The season finale was a weird fever dream that wasn't necessary.
i watched a couple episodes and found it to be well done but felt repetitive very quickly.
Thanks, it's weirdly hard to find good & enjoyable shows to watch now - anyone have some good recommendations?
I really liked Night Agent and The Recruit. Not sure if you've seen those.
Or if you want KDrama, Iris.
I thought Night Agent was really good. I still have to watch The Recruit and Diplomat.
Diplomat (Netflix) w/ Keri Russell is better than average (16+).
i may not be the best judge because i dont watch that much and i give up on shows quickly. but i am 3-4 episodes in and still enjoying it.
Agree! Am hooked! Up there with Slow Horses
Russell and Rufus are so good together.
Yeah, the main difference between this and Night Agent is that the actors in this are major leaguers, and the actors in Night Agent were like A ball level
I binged in one night last Sat...Keri Russell is fan-f-ing-tastic.
Highly recommend.
is gud show
This is what I'll probably watch next on Netflix.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
The DeSantis people are rookies, even Trump critics say he is running circles around DeSantis.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/trump-critics-desantis-gop-primary-00095011
If he puts his name in to officially run, he's going a) maybe do ok in early Primaries b) get hosed when the Disney suit gets to some discovery releases. c) should Trump somehow not be the nominee, get the un-lubed dildo of consequences in the general election.
PRO
Randall Cobb signed with the Jets.
Who's next?
Maybe the Raiders should trade Devante Adams to the Jets.
Warriors fall short in Game 1 against Lakers, lose home-court advantage
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2023/5/2/23709205/warriors-lose-lakers-game-1-steph-curry-lebron-james-anthony-davis-klay-thompson-jordan-poole
The Golden State Warriors failed to hold onto their home-court advantage in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers, losing 117-112 in front of the Chase Center crowd. There were some positives for both teams to take away from the matchup, but the biggest question facing Golden State is what they can do about Anthony Davis.
While the Dubs entered the Western Conference Semifinals as gambling favorites, the Lakers had a massive rest advantage heading into Game 1 having finished their first-round series two days before the Dubs. With just one day of rest, the Warriors looked to lack the energy they needed to slow down the Lakers.
LAKERS! Honestly, they are just better, and yes Anthony Davis is a big part of that. And D. Green can be such an issue for the Dubs.
I dunno, seems a pretty even match to me. It’s also a series of old guys with few days off between games. I think the team that best avoids injury will win
That's the thing, AD is very much an off-and-on kind of player. Next game he could be off, you never know.
Or hurt.
Of the teams left, I think AD is the one player that the Warriors have no answer for. I think they can handle Jokic.
AD is a nice player, but man, Joker is another level. I would take him over AD any day!
AD but with Jokic's durability, now you've got something
I agree. But I think the Warriors "front" court matches up better with Jokic than AD.
Ya, AD and Vanderbilt in the post makes the W's completely one-dimensional, and they have no one that can guard the Brow...only way W's win is if they hit >45% from 3...gonna need Wiggins to get hot for that, and Poole to stay hot for the entire series, both of which are unlikely. Bad matchup.
it was looking bad when W's were outplayed in 3rd-4th quarters and were down by 14 and playing rather listlessly.
then it was looking good when W's tied it back up w/ 2 min or so to go.
and then the execution in the last minute favored the Lakers, unfortunately.
The Jordan Poole Experience is quite a ride.
Poole Party is fun to watch when it is going well.
i think the W's will have trouble because they are having a hard time converting the layups they normally get. everyone was is on the Block Party for the Lakers
Almost seems like they need to start driving with a guy always following because damn was everything getting swatted inside
Kerr is going to have to do some of that coaching schitt in tomorrow's must-win to account for the AD effect.
A’s botch Miller’s seven no-hit innings
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/5/2/23709229/as-botch-millers-seven-no-hit-innings
Only the 2023 Oakland A’s could lose this game.
Mason Miller, the A’s rookie phenom, in just the third start in the majors and the thirteenth starts of his professional career pitched the game of a lifetime. Over seven efficient innings, the young righty threw exactly 100 pitches to strike out 6 batters and hold the Seattle Mariners completely hitless. Of his 6 Ks, 3 were on his wicked slider, 2 on his flaming four-seamer, and one on his infamous Demon Cutter.
Number of wins by an A's starter this season: 0
Like, immediately. Go to the pen, and Lovelady blows it in 2 batters. Sign of a bad team.
Anthony DeSclafani stops the Astros and the bleeding
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/5/2/23708993/giants-astros-recap-anthony-desclafani
A funny thing happened at the start of the San Francisco Giants Tuesday night game against the Houston Astros. The Giants were facing off against young righty Hunter Brown, a 24 year old who entered the game having not allowed a single home run in his 50.2 career innings.
Zero. Zip. Nada.
Brown had faced 200 batters. 37 of them had gotten hits, but none of them had hit home runs. 13 of them had scored, but none of them had hit home runs.
Julio UrÃas, Miguel Vargas lead another Dodgers rout of Phillies
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/5/2/23706246/julio-urias-strikeouts-miguel-vargas-doubles-mookie-betts
Julio UrÃas got back on track, carving through the Phillies with 10 strikeouts in the Dodgers’ 13-1 win on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. The second straight blowout of Philadelphia ran the Los Angeles win streak to five games.
Ten strikeouts are a season high for UrÃas — the most by a Dodgers pitcher this season — who rebounded from a personal three-game losing streak, including 11 runs allowed in nine innings over his previous two starts.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge
https://twitter.com/followtheh/status/1653464005040586768
CAL
Geoff McArthur's health is struggling
https://twitter.com/CoachMcArthur6/status/1653091946628546561
cancer sucks!
Yes, yes it does.
Indeed
[BASE] Broncos Pull Away Late
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/baseball-broncos-pull-away-late.aspx
SANTA CLARA – Cal scored a run in the sixth to cut the deficit to one but Santa Clara responded scoring two in the sixth and four in the seventh to put the game away, winning 8-1 on Tuesday evening at Stephen Schott Stadium.
Cal (18-23) got a two-hit performance from Max Handron. He also had the lone RBI of the evening for the Golden Bears. Nathan Manning, Rodney Green Jr., and Kade Kretzschmar also had a hit. The hit for Manning was his 16th in the last 10 games.
[WTEN] Alsola, Wiersholm Named To NCAA Tournaments
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/womens-tennis-alsola-wiersholm-named-to-ncaa-tournaments.aspx
BERKELEY – The postseason just got busier for California women's tennis sophomores Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm. On Tuesday, the 55th-ranked Alsola earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Singles Championship, while the 12th-ranked pair of Alsola and Wiersholm was named to the NCAA Doubles Championship field.
Both individual postseason tournaments will take place from May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida. That site will also host the quarterfinals, semifinals and final of the NCAA Championship from May 17-20
[MTEN] Yuta Kikuchi Named To NCAA Singles Field
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BERKELEY – The California men's tennis team made more postseason news when Yuta Kikuchi earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Singles Championship, the NCAA announced on Tuesday.
The Golden Bear graduate student is one of 64 student-athletes in the field, which will compete from May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida. The USTA courts will also host the NCAA Championship quarterfinals, semifinals and final from May 18-20.
[LAX] Lawliss, Morse Named Second-Team All-Pac-12
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SAN FRANCISCO – California's Maya Lawliss and Amanda Morse were selected to the 2023 All-Pac-12 Women's Lacrosse Teams, announced Tuesday as voted on by the league's coaches. The fourth-year seniors both earned second-team recognition and were honored with All-Pac-12 honors for the first time in their career.
[FB] Sheahan Selected By Winnipeg In CFL Global Draft
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/football-sheahan-selected-by-winnipeg-in-cfl-global-draft.aspx
Former California football punter and Australian native Jamieson Sheahan was selected Tuesday by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers with the eighth overall pick in the 2023 Canadian Football League Global Draft. The event is a selection of non-Canadian and non-American players.
Cal Posts Strong APR Marks
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/athletics-news-cal-posts-strong-apr-marks.aspx
BERKELEY – California student-athletes registered high marks in the latest Academic Progress Rate data released by the NCAA on Tuesday, with 18 of the department's 26 measured programs tallying multi-year scores of 990 or higher.
Cal had seven of its programs record perfect multi-year marks of 1,000 or better – men's cross country, men's water polo, men's gymnastics, field hockey, women's gymnastics, women's golf and women's tennis. Another 11 teams scored 990 or higher.
Cal also achieved its second-highest overall single-year (2021-22) score ever at 990, bettering last year's mark of 989.
Now let's see how much revenue these strong APR marks generated for the University and Athletic Department....meanwhile, football was disappointing and MBB was non-competitive...
Well high APRs are great they will be meaningless in the nil and portal environment. Either you decide to be competitive in the revenue sports and bite the bullet or you don't. Half measures are unacceptable anymore, which is bad news for the Cal bureaucracy and it's ennui.
[DEIBJ] One Year Of HAUPIAA
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/deibj-one-year-of-haupiaa.aspx
With the advent of AAPI Heritage Month, I can't help but reflect on HAUPIAA – Cal Athletics' AAPI employee-engagement group – and what it's meant to me over the past few years.
Our mission has been to educate people about the diversity of AAPI cultures, celebrate our accomplishments and build community among our staff and student-athletes. In this year's AAPI Heritage Month, we're putting together a panel discussion, scheduled for May 31, along with content headed to CalBears.com and social media, including Instagram (@HAUPIAA_at_Cal) and Twitter (@HAUPIAAatCal).
[RUGBY] Rugby Collects Academic Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/rugby-collects-academic-honors.aspx
BERKELEY – California rugby was well represented at the annual Cal Academic Honors Luncheon on Monday afternoon. The event was hosted at the Field Club at California Memorial Stadium to celebrate the top academic performers from across all 30 Intercollegiate Athletic teams.
Throughout the 2022-23 school year, 35 Cal rugby student-athletes have been recognized for their term and cumulative academic performance. At the end-of-year tally, 21 players met the threshold for scholar-athlete distinction and were invited to the luncheon to celebrate their accomplishments in the classroom.
[T&F] More Awards For Alekna
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/2/track-field-more-awards-for-alekna.aspx
BERKELEY – Three days removed from setting a new collegiate discus record at the 128th Big Meet, California track & field sophomore Mykolas Alekna once again earned both the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I Men's Athletic National Athlete of the Week and the Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week awards on Tuesday. Alekna, who became the first Cal man to win the national honor and second overall athlete to win it twice, now has earned four USTFCCCA weekly nods and seven weekly Pac-12 accolades in his career.
The star Lithuanian's mark of 71.00m (232-11) was also a new unofficial U23 world record (World Athletics keeps no official list for U23 entries). It was the first world record set at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley since Henry Rono of Washington State ran 13:06.4 in 1978, and the first by a Cal student-athlete since Grover Klemmer's 440y time of 46.6 in 1941.
Go Bears!!!