Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is silvery with a hint of blue; it tarnishes to a dull gray color when exposed to air. Lead has the highest atomic number of any stable element and three of its isotopes are endpoints of major nuclear decay chains of heavier elements.
I was recently asked where I'd visit if I had a time machine and could see any event(s) before my birth. Naturally I said I'd like to see Cal's first Wonder Team in 1920 then the first game at Memorial Stadium in '23, the Thunder team in '37 and some of Pappy's Rose Bowl teams. I'd not only be interested in the games but in the crowd, the atmosphere etc. What Cal sports events pre your lifetime would you want to see? Or would you waste your time machine for non Cal sports visits?
I'd go back to 2010 when I had a 30 minute gchat session with my friend who was writing about crypto and bitcoin for his financial reporting job and we tried and failed to buy bitcoin after about 30 minutes of googling.
I would've put some extra time in and bought enough so I could fund giant yachts for Cal sports recruits in 2022
I might visit Pete Elliot and help him coach. Perhaps introduce RPO, modern recruiting, and training/nutrition that doesn't mirror Belushi's little chocolate donut regiment.
i guess if there was one Cal thing i would like to go back and see it would be The Play.
i lived nearby, just didnt really know anything about college football back then. one of my good friends (who ended up going to LSJU) was at the game as a Cal fan.
a couple nights ago i was driving home and 1973 live from Tampa version of Stairway to Heaven was playing on the radio. needless to say, i cranked it up and listened in the driveway until it ended.
funniest this i have read so far today (morning brew)
In 2015, Zachary Feinstein, an assistant professor at Washington University, set out to answer the question nobody asked: What was the state of the Galactic economy following the Empire’s collapse at the end of Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi?
The answer: On the brink of failure. A massive government project, the second Death Star, had just been destroyed by the Rebel Alliance, and the Galactic economy was set to enter a depression of “astronomical proportions.”
Feinstein estimates the Death Star 2 would’ve cost $419 quintillion to build ($226 quintillion in steel alone). Including R&D, the first Death Star was a bargain—just $193 quintillion.
Assuming the first Death Star had a similar cost profile to the Manhattan Project during WWII, Feinstein estimates Gross Galactic Product (GGP, similar to GDP) at $4.6 sextillion per year.
The only option: A bailout of the Imperial financial sector. The Rebel Alliance would need to prep a rescue package of at least 15% of GGP in order to prevent “catastrophic economic collapse.”
Looking ahead...the Force doesn’t awaken in Episode VII for 30 years following the Rebel victory, enough time for a U-shaped economic recovery.
I mean the economy is hinted at in the shows that are sprinkled around the movies - Rebels, Clone Wars, Mando - they talk about not accepting Imperial Credits anymore and Calamari Flan not being worth what it was back in the days of the Empire. Heck, the Phantom Menace starts out with tax policy, the Last Jedi they talk about the weapons builders and how they profit off war, despite who wins and loses, they can still go to the casino planet and live lives of luxury - the economy is pretty important in Star Wars
Dave Chappelle shrugs off tackle. Terrible tackling technique. This is why sports are important in the real world, kids, when you too want to assault a comedian.
I finished Severance. Great finale and what a cliff hanger. It will be interesting to see where this show goes. Lumon gives me big Dharma Initiative vibes.
It is basically Office Space + Black Mirror + West World.
It is incredibly well timed in its release - a scathing satire of office culture that came out right when folks are dragging their asses back to the office.
For the Audio portion of the AV club...I’m roadtrippin’ with the pups right now and am catching Jason Isbell at Red Rocks tonight in a rainy Denver...bucket list venue. Because it’s pouring, it’s a great day to binge the final Ozark episodes, I suppose....
Totally. While the second point is an absolute certainty, the Gauchos still seem a surprising choice, considering he’s a good enough ballplayer to likely have had more established and successful programs showing interest. Pencilneck’s bunch finished 5th in the Big West and lost it’s best player, though AK figures to step into that role.
That said, tough to argue with Isla Vista & SB....will be rooting for him!
Matt Gaetz prefers his “women” to have a freshly earned 8th grade education. He also feels they should be barefoot & pregnant in his kitchen at this age regardless if they gave “consent” or not.
#MattGaetzIsAChildRapist
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Figures Matt Gaetz likes his women under-educated and under 18.
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Child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz isn’t a fan of over-educated women simply because his preference are teenage girls in high school. He belongs in prison, not in Congress, not holding any office and certainly not tweeting his desires, prison.
One other thing: I think obviously a new Constitutional amendment dealing with privacy would be the most appropriate thing here. But of course getting anyone to agree to something like that would be impossible because we are clowns, so we are left to pissing up each other’s legs about the inferences inherent in intentionally broad language drafted centuries ago. Maybe when we all die our kids will do better. I can only hope.
I was thinking - I bet this causes the birth rate in red states to drop. Even for rich people, a shame filled weekend trip to Chicago to get an abortion seems undesirable. I think folks will be more proactive about birth control. In particular I bet permanent and semi permanent modes of birth control will rise - vasectomies, IUDs, and so on
I doubt all of this. Most of those forms of birth control are already accessible and being used by middle and upper class women and teenage girls.
I think you will see an increase in teenage and early 20s unplanned pregnancy and birth rates among lower class teenage girls and women due to their inability to access and afford birth control.
I don’t have the data but I would guess most vasectomies occur for married men that are done having children. Vasectomies aren’t a form of birth control for teenage/young, single and childless boys/men.
That is where IUDs and implant type devices come in. I think planned parenthood gets flooded with donations and birth control becomes super easy to access even for the uninsured, and thus the birth rate drops
It is very very difficult to get an IUD if you don't have children. I couldn't get one until I was 40, even though I was insistent that I did not want children ever.
The next most likely targets for lawsuits are Obergefell and Griswold, the people who brought you the end of Roe want to end gay marriage and legal contraception.
Nah, I think the 14th Amendment holds those up still. With abortion there is the idea that the exercise of the right by the woman is infringing upon the rights of another (the fetus). There is no similar concept with contraception, gays, interracial marriage.
You know what this made me think of — Heller and Citizens United. The legal reasoning of those decisions is MUCH weaker than that in Roe and Casey, IMO. We need a decades long project to stack the Court to shitcan those decisions - clearly if you stick to it, it works!
Maybe, but without abortions, much of that animus drops. My Cal anthro profs taught me to think about things from a phenomenological POV. Here I think of how I would react to this ruling if I was like a 25 year old in Texas or something. Basically a fallback option has been removed so I am going to be much more on top of my shit vis a vis birth control.
By law, every Dodgers-Giants game is required to be close late, and Tuesday night was no exception. Runs are at a premium this season across the sport, and the combination of two excellent pitching staffs and a deadened baseball limited the output to just four total runs between the two National League West titans. Los Angeles scored three of them to take the series opener at Dodger Stadium.
Counting the postseason in 2021, a third of the 24 games between the Dodgers and Giants were decided by one run. Five more battles saw a two-run final margin. Each team won twelve games.
Tuesday night was similarly close, with the Dodgers eking out a ninth win in 11 home games this season. They’ve allowed two or fewer runs in half of their 22 games overall.
Jaylen Brown put on a clinic in the 1st half as Celtics route Bucks in game 2. A lot of energy for the C's starting to build up here in Boston. This team appears to have legit chemistry.
One does wonder if Farhan will chase the same success as last year when the Giants won a lot of games (and the division) without the star power of the Dodgers.
So, pretty much everything went right in ‘21…they stayed relatively healthy, had career years out of 30-something yr old veterans, and had a Manager that made practically every right move with platoons/bullpen etc…and they still were unable to advance past the first round.
Apparently flush with $$$, they punted, adding a handful of journeymen and a former phenom who, while talented, has struggled with injuries throughout his career.
Again, they’ll remain competitive, but tough to see them advancing in the playoffs with this roster…
The San Francisco Giants will have their chance to Beat LA. They’ll have their chance 18 more times, and maybe even a few more after that.
They’ll succeed with some of those chances, and they’ll fail with some of them.
Tuesday was their first chance to Beat LA, and it was also their first failure.
It was a failure because the Los Angeles Dodgers looked like an elite team with all of their pieces, and the San Francisco Giants looked like an elite team with many of their pieces missing. And that is because the Los Angeles Dodgers are an elite team with all of their pieces, and the San Francisco Giants are an elite team with many of their pieces missing.
They get 13 more chances, I believe...thought MLB changed the schedule and eliminated 5 division games v each opponent.
I agree, the Giants are good...they’re an analytics-driven, Moneyball team that will be competitive. But those teams rarely win rings...elite ballplayers do, and they’re light on those, even without the current COVID mess, which is overblown. The only player of substance missing yesterday was Belt.
A play after losing Payton, the Warriors temporarily lost Draymond Green, after he was hit in the face and needed stitches, which kept him out until the second quarter. But their resilience showed in a big way. They refused to fold, and stayed within shouting distance the entire first half. They quickly fell behind by double digits in the third quarter, but again bounced back, tying the game at the end of the quarter.
They scored to open up the fourth, which gave them their first lead of the game. And from there the teams went back and forth. Golden State led for much of the fourth quarter, albeit by a very slim margin, but a Morant three with 2:27 remaining gave Memphis the lead once more, and suddenly FedExForum was popping.
The Dubs had their chance in the final minute, but their first possession resulted in a bucket that was immediately matched by Morant, and their second possession ended in a Klay Thompson travel.
When the buzzer rang the Grizzlies had won 106-101 to tie the series. Morant had dropped a stunning 47 points on 16-for-31 shooting, with 8 rebounds and 8 assists, and given life to his whole team.
Waiting to see if Dillon Brooks Flagrant 2 on GPII will get upgraded to a one game suspension. It was clearly excessive and dangerous, resulted in likely a season ending injury and can barely be considered an attempt at going for the ball. Without GPII this series gets a lot more difficult, but the Dubs shooting is greatly improved at home. If they can get back to Memphis up 3-1 I like their chances, if it's 2-2 its 50/50 at best.
They took the lead when they started going inside instead of trying to shoot 3s. Then when Memphis tied it up and took the lead it was when the Warriors were clanging 3s.
They have no answer for him, especially with GPII out...tough sledding from here on out...unlike the Championship teams, this squad can’t get stops when needed, though Ja is a transcendent player. The superstar former #2 overall pick, and Rookie of the Year that averaged nearly 20 ppg last year, is so much improved. ;-)
A's bullpen falters in the tenth inning, before a paltry crowd - giving up five runs to the Rays courtesy of Lou Trivino who now sports a 12.46 ERA. Whilst they scored 2 in the bottom of the tenth it was not enough in a 10-7 loss.
I was recently asked where I'd visit if I had a time machine and could see any event(s) before my birth. Naturally I said I'd like to see Cal's first Wonder Team in 1920 then the first game at Memorial Stadium in '23, the Thunder team in '37 and some of Pappy's Rose Bowl teams. I'd not only be interested in the games but in the crowd, the atmosphere etc. What Cal sports events pre your lifetime would you want to see? Or would you waste your time machine for non Cal sports visits?
I'd go back to 2010 when I had a 30 minute gchat session with my friend who was writing about crypto and bitcoin for his financial reporting job and we tried and failed to buy bitcoin after about 30 minutes of googling.
I would've put some extra time in and bought enough so I could fund giant yachts for Cal sports recruits in 2022
I would not waste a time machine opportunity on Cal sports. We all know how it turns out in the end.
I'd pull a Biff and bring along a sports almanac.
I said, I wish I could go back, put some money on the Cubbies!
Or Apple, or Bitcoin, or any number of tech stocks.
just buy some today. i am sure it will work out fine
I might visit Pete Elliot and help him coach. Perhaps introduce RPO, modern recruiting, and training/nutrition that doesn't mirror Belushi's little chocolate donut regiment.
Keeping it strictly to sports:
The baseball game in SF where the Axe legend was born.
The most recent time Cal was in the Rose Bowl (not the last time)
The Play
1959 NCAA Basketball Tournament
i guess if there was one Cal thing i would like to go back and see it would be The Play.
i lived nearby, just didnt really know anything about college football back then. one of my good friends (who ended up going to LSJU) was at the game as a Cal fan.
I bet if I went back in time to a game Cal had won, I'd create a new timeline and Cal would lose because I was there.
maybe go to a Cal loss instead?
But then I'd meet myself in the late 80s/early 90s.
There were plenty of losses in the late '50's and '60s. Only two winning seasons between 1953-1969.
Oh man...
A true Cal fan's answer
would waste it on non Cal sports.
i think i would rather see something like Led Zeppelin live in concert, or MLK or Gandhi speak in person.
Or the Rolling Stones' nightmare at Altamont. That night, the Hell's Angels had their way.
The I Have a Dream speech would be amazing.
Yeah, Led Zep sounds good.
a couple nights ago i was driving home and 1973 live from Tampa version of Stairway to Heaven was playing on the radio. needless to say, i cranked it up and listened in the driveway until it ended.
Maybe the last time Cal was in the Rose Bowl. Definitely before my time.
On second thought, I'd like to move forward in time to 2173, the next time Cal will make the Rose Bowl.
You mean the year Mack Brown Jr whines that his team deserves to be in the BCS, knocking Cal, lead by Jeff Tedford Jr, out of the Rose Bowl.
Jeff Tedford the Vth
Yeah, figuring out racism is a much tougher problem than figuring out how to travel through time.
Student expectations
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/29/study-says-college-graduates-overestimate-starting-salaries-by-50000.html
May the Fourth
...be with you, HSB
funniest this i have read so far today (morning brew)
In 2015, Zachary Feinstein, an assistant professor at Washington University, set out to answer the question nobody asked: What was the state of the Galactic economy following the Empire’s collapse at the end of Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi?
The answer: On the brink of failure. A massive government project, the second Death Star, had just been destroyed by the Rebel Alliance, and the Galactic economy was set to enter a depression of “astronomical proportions.”
Feinstein estimates the Death Star 2 would’ve cost $419 quintillion to build ($226 quintillion in steel alone). Including R&D, the first Death Star was a bargain—just $193 quintillion.
Assuming the first Death Star had a similar cost profile to the Manhattan Project during WWII, Feinstein estimates Gross Galactic Product (GGP, similar to GDP) at $4.6 sextillion per year.
The only option: A bailout of the Imperial financial sector. The Rebel Alliance would need to prep a rescue package of at least 15% of GGP in order to prevent “catastrophic economic collapse.”
Looking ahead...the Force doesn’t awaken in Episode VII for 30 years following the Rebel victory, enough time for a U-shaped economic recovery.
I mean the economy is hinted at in the shows that are sprinkled around the movies - Rebels, Clone Wars, Mando - they talk about not accepting Imperial Credits anymore and Calamari Flan not being worth what it was back in the days of the Empire. Heck, the Phantom Menace starts out with tax policy, the Last Jedi they talk about the weapons builders and how they profit off war, despite who wins and loses, they can still go to the casino planet and live lives of luxury - the economy is pretty important in Star Wars
NOT CANON
NERDS!
I'll add it to the stack of like 20 books I haven't read.
A giant moth is attacking the city! The Civil Defense Force cannot beat it. Who can we call on?
https://travelinyourownway.com/2022/05/04/to-repair-power-lines-a-japanese-rail-company-has-built-a-massive-gundam-style-robot/
Mothra wouldn’t hurt anyone!
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Dave Chappelle shrugs off tackle. Terrible tackling technique. This is why sports are important in the real world, kids, when you too want to assault a comedian.
https://twitter.com/abazar/status/1521735930343690242
Looks like a graduate from the Andy Buh School for Tackling
LEAD
I think when I was a kid, wine bottle foils were made of lead, used to use them to make flags for Airfix model figures.
Fun fact about lead paint: it was the expensive stuff, only used on high end jobs. Old industrial buildings used the cheap stuff, without the lead.
good lead paint is still the best stuff.
How long did the guy in the advertisement live?
Longer or shorter than the Marlboro Man?
Also the Camel guy.
DBD AV CLUB
I finished Severance. Great finale and what a cliff hanger. It will be interesting to see where this show goes. Lumon gives me big Dharma Initiative vibes.
It is basically Office Space + Black Mirror + West World.
It is incredibly well timed in its release - a scathing satire of office culture that came out right when folks are dragging their asses back to the office.
Brilliant show!
Good comp.
I will make an egg bar for your YWC
Started "We Own This City" - really good, and very Wire-y. Finished Pachinko, which was one of the better shows on TV we've seen recently.
First episode was good.
Finishing Ozark today. Nervous, excited and sad. Nervous about how it ends. Excited to see how it ends. Sad that it ends.
For the Audio portion of the AV club...I’m roadtrippin’ with the pups right now and am catching Jason Isbell at Red Rocks tonight in a rainy Denver...bucket list venue. Because it’s pouring, it’s a great day to binge the final Ozark episodes, I suppose....
I think some people I follow on twitter were at last night's show - seemed like they were having a good time.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
[FB} Transfer portal by position
https://twitter.com/farrellportal/status/1521846964459089920
Andre Kelly transferring to UCSB...I will try and go watch him at the Thunderdome.
In related news, Cal should never lose it’s best player to UCSB. Ever. Mark Fox is a disaster.
Exactly what my son texted me last night, I joked "he just wants to party".
More likely he just wants to win and have a legit chance of making the NCAA tournament. That isn’t happening at Cal with Fox.
Totally. While the second point is an absolute certainty, the Gauchos still seem a surprising choice, considering he’s a good enough ballplayer to likely have had more established and successful programs showing interest. Pencilneck’s bunch finished 5th in the Big West and lost it’s best player, though AK figures to step into that role.
That said, tough to argue with Isla Vista & SB....will be rooting for him!
If he wanted a chance to win, go to the tournament and party he should have went to SDSU.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
What a f***ng dick
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1521797001175834625
Some great replies.
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Matt Gaetz prefers his “women” to have a freshly earned 8th grade education. He also feels they should be barefoot & pregnant in his kitchen at this age regardless if they gave “consent” or not.
#MattGaetzIsAChildRapist
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Figures Matt Gaetz likes his women under-educated and under 18.
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Child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz isn’t a fan of over-educated women simply because his preference are teenage girls in high school. He belongs in prison, not in Congress, not holding any office and certainly not tweeting his desires, prison.
All quiet for the moment in front of the Supreme Court.
One other thing: I think obviously a new Constitutional amendment dealing with privacy would be the most appropriate thing here. But of course getting anyone to agree to something like that would be impossible because we are clowns, so we are left to pissing up each other’s legs about the inferences inherent in intentionally broad language drafted centuries ago. Maybe when we all die our kids will do better. I can only hope.
I was thinking - I bet this causes the birth rate in red states to drop. Even for rich people, a shame filled weekend trip to Chicago to get an abortion seems undesirable. I think folks will be more proactive about birth control. In particular I bet permanent and semi permanent modes of birth control will rise - vasectomies, IUDs, and so on
I doubt all of this. Most of those forms of birth control are already accessible and being used by middle and upper class women and teenage girls.
I think you will see an increase in teenage and early 20s unplanned pregnancy and birth rates among lower class teenage girls and women due to their inability to access and afford birth control.
I don’t have the data but I would guess most vasectomies occur for married men that are done having children. Vasectomies aren’t a form of birth control for teenage/young, single and childless boys/men.
That is where IUDs and implant type devices come in. I think planned parenthood gets flooded with donations and birth control becomes super easy to access even for the uninsured, and thus the birth rate drops
It is very very difficult to get an IUD if you don't have children. I couldn't get one until I was 40, even though I was insistent that I did not want children ever.
Why did doctors resist giving it to you? I am perhaps just a moron, but can’t you just have it removed if you change your mind?
The next most likely targets for lawsuits are Obergefell and Griswold, the people who brought you the end of Roe want to end gay marriage and legal contraception.
Nah, I think the 14th Amendment holds those up still. With abortion there is the idea that the exercise of the right by the woman is infringing upon the rights of another (the fetus). There is no similar concept with contraception, gays, interracial marriage.
You know what this made me think of — Heller and Citizens United. The legal reasoning of those decisions is MUCH weaker than that in Roe and Casey, IMO. We need a decades long project to stack the Court to shitcan those decisions - clearly if you stick to it, it works!
Somehow I'm skeptical that Republicans will stop their assault on Planned Parenthood in states where abortion is outlawed...
Maybe, but without abortions, much of that animus drops. My Cal anthro profs taught me to think about things from a phenomenological POV. Here I think of how I would react to this ruling if I was like a 25 year old in Texas or something. Basically a fallback option has been removed so I am going to be much more on top of my shit vis a vis birth control.
Also if you are a pharma company that sells contraceptives, I bet you get a nice bump
Trump settles for $750k for misappropriating funds from inauguration fund and Trump Hotel without admitting guilt
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/trump-organization-presidential-inaugural-committee-settle-dc-lawsuit-.html
PRO
Prospectores y Cardenales, Noviembre 21
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1521837013170896897
Adam Ottavino's wiffleball slider completely fools Adam Duvall
https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1521596210515255297
Known red-ass still hasn't learned that "hey, f*** you" is not a very effective rhetoric strategy when responding to authority.
https://twitter.com/umpjob/status/1521903397099745284
Looks to me like the ump was screwing with him by dragging out the hand check and MadBum fell for it.
Football to be played at Lambeau for the first time
https://www.wpr.org/lambeau-field-host-first-ever-soccer-game-summer
Heh
Runs are at a premium as Dodgers edge Giants in opener
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/5/3/23056314/dodgers-giants-julio-urias-chris-taylor-carlos-rodon-low-scoring
By law, every Dodgers-Giants game is required to be close late, and Tuesday night was no exception. Runs are at a premium this season across the sport, and the combination of two excellent pitching staffs and a deadened baseball limited the output to just four total runs between the two National League West titans. Los Angeles scored three of them to take the series opener at Dodger Stadium.
Counting the postseason in 2021, a third of the 24 games between the Dodgers and Giants were decided by one run. Five more battles saw a two-run final margin. Each team won twelve games.
Tuesday night was similarly close, with the Dodgers eking out a ninth win in 11 home games this season. They’ve allowed two or fewer runs in half of their 22 games overall.
I cannot wait until the Gigantes have some players back. This past week has been brutal.
Being an idiot is not limited by age
https://twitter.com/anthonyrigato/status/1520216614691643396
Nice form to avoid getting flagged for targeting
Freibeuter und Zeehauks @ Munchen, 13.11
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33853716/seattle-seahawks-face-tampa-bay-buccaneers-munich-nov-13
Jaylen Brown put on a clinic in the 1st half as Celtics route Bucks in game 2. A lot of energy for the C's starting to build up here in Boston. This team appears to have legit chemistry.
Giants are worth over $3 billion and Farhan is throwing a Triple AAA roster out there. Disappointing.
One does wonder if Farhan will chase the same success as last year when the Giants won a lot of games (and the division) without the star power of the Dodgers.
So, pretty much everything went right in ‘21…they stayed relatively healthy, had career years out of 30-something yr old veterans, and had a Manager that made practically every right move with platoons/bullpen etc…and they still were unable to advance past the first round.
Apparently flush with $$$, they punted, adding a handful of journeymen and a former phenom who, while talented, has struggled with injuries throughout his career.
Again, they’ll remain competitive, but tough to see them advancing in the playoffs with this roster…
They do have a bunch of players with covid don't they? I'd give Farhan a pass for that.
but...GBBR
Giants play like a team missing a large number of players, lose
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/5/3/23056297/giants-dodgers-recap-julio-urias-carlos-rodon
The San Francisco Giants will have their chance to Beat LA. They’ll have their chance 18 more times, and maybe even a few more after that.
They’ll succeed with some of those chances, and they’ll fail with some of them.
Tuesday was their first chance to Beat LA, and it was also their first failure.
It was a failure because the Los Angeles Dodgers looked like an elite team with all of their pieces, and the San Francisco Giants looked like an elite team with many of their pieces missing. And that is because the Los Angeles Dodgers are an elite team with all of their pieces, and the San Francisco Giants are an elite team with many of their pieces missing.
Yes, COVID and injuries have taken a lot of guys out lately.
They get 13 more chances, I believe...thought MLB changed the schedule and eliminated 5 division games v each opponent.
I agree, the Giants are good...they’re an analytics-driven, Moneyball team that will be competitive. But those teams rarely win rings...elite ballplayers do, and they’re light on those, even without the current COVID mess, which is overblown. The only player of substance missing yesterday was Belt.
I think the new schedule where you play each AL team in one series starts next year.
Cool...I like that wrinkle.
Couldn't be more deserved
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1521631235755307008
flopped trying to draw the foul like he was taught by the rat.
Injuries, early turnovers, and poor shooting doom the Dubs in Game 2
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2022/5/3/23056253/warriors-grizzlies-game-2-steph-curry-ja-morant
A play after losing Payton, the Warriors temporarily lost Draymond Green, after he was hit in the face and needed stitches, which kept him out until the second quarter. But their resilience showed in a big way. They refused to fold, and stayed within shouting distance the entire first half. They quickly fell behind by double digits in the third quarter, but again bounced back, tying the game at the end of the quarter.
They scored to open up the fourth, which gave them their first lead of the game. And from there the teams went back and forth. Golden State led for much of the fourth quarter, albeit by a very slim margin, but a Morant three with 2:27 remaining gave Memphis the lead once more, and suddenly FedExForum was popping.
The Dubs had their chance in the final minute, but their first possession resulted in a bucket that was immediately matched by Morant, and their second possession ended in a Klay Thompson travel.
When the buzzer rang the Grizzlies had won 106-101 to tie the series. Morant had dropped a stunning 47 points on 16-for-31 shooting, with 8 rebounds and 8 assists, and given life to his whole team.
Waiting to see if Dillon Brooks Flagrant 2 on GPII will get upgraded to a one game suspension. It was clearly excessive and dangerous, resulted in likely a season ending injury and can barely be considered an attempt at going for the ball. Without GPII this series gets a lot more difficult, but the Dubs shooting is greatly improved at home. If they can get back to Memphis up 3-1 I like their chances, if it's 2-2 its 50/50 at best.
From the little I was able to see of the game, it looked like Klay in particular couldn't buy a basket. Was he hurt a bit?
Really poor shooting in general in this game. Some of that is Memphis playing great D, but also a lot of decent looks missed.
The Warriors missed a lot of mostly open shots.
This, a 3-day rest will hopefully allow them to get their legs under them again
At some point they were 5 of 20 something shots from beyond the arc; if that ain't working for them, they're unlikely to win.
They took the lead when they started going inside instead of trying to shoot 3s. Then when Memphis tied it up and took the lead it was when the Warriors were clanging 3s.
There was a story that his knee, I think, was acting up after game 1.
It looked to me like a lot of Klay's shots were short, which is why I thought he might be hurt.
Morant was incredible. seemed like he would score whenever he wanted with his array of spinning layup moves
They have no answer for him, especially with GPII out...tough sledding from here on out...unlike the Championship teams, this squad can’t get stops when needed, though Ja is a transcendent player. The superstar former #2 overall pick, and Rookie of the Year that averaged nearly 20 ppg last year, is so much improved. ;-)
A's bullpen falters in the tenth inning, before a paltry crowd - giving up five runs to the Rays courtesy of Lou Trivino who now sports a 12.46 ERA. Whilst they scored 2 in the bottom of the tenth it was not enough in a 10-7 loss.
5-game losing streak...
Jays fan catches Judge HR ball, gives it to young lad who was holding a Judge sign earlier in the game. Apparently, there IS crying in baseball.
https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1521679375388876800
That’s awesome.
Dusty wins his 2,000th
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33852359/houston-astros-dusty-baker-becomes-first-black-manager-win-2000-games
Apropos: Go Bears!
https://twitter.com/Cut4/status/1521857832496345088
CAL
Go Bears!!!
[BVB] #11 Bears fight hard, but fall in first round of NCAA Championship to #6LSU
https://twitter.com/CalBeachVB/status/1521889483720900610
[BASE] Bears smash SJSU 10-0, limiting Spartans to 4 hits
https://calbears.com/news/2022/5/3/baseball-bears-blast-spartans-10-0.aspx