Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and the area was fully built by around 1900
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Davis Drewek smacked an opposite-field tater, the first home run of the season for the Ballers, on Wednesday night against the Ogden Raptors. It was one of the few bright spots for Oakland in the 12-5 loss to Ogden.
With two outs in the second inning, the left-handed hitting Drewek stung a ball to left field for a two-run bomb. Not only was it Oakland's opening long ball of 2025, but also Drewek's introductory dinger in his professional career.
Hoping to end the losing streak at seven games, the Athletics took on the Los Angeles Angels tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. The A’s 29-year-old lefty JP Sears faced off against Jack Kochanowicz for the Halos.
The good news from Wednesday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals is that Patrick Bailey hit his first home run of the season and Giants pitchers didn’t issue a single walk. The bad news was almost everything else in a 8-4 defeat.
It was the Dodgers' turn to come out on the winning end of a pitchers’ duel between Corbin Burnes and Dustin May, and that’s what happened, as Los Angeles beat the Diamondbacks 3-1 thanks to Teoscar Hernández.
This was stunning. The Knicks' defense against three-pointers (at a time when that was probably the only thing that could beat them) left a lot to be desired. Of course, I also don't think anyone expected Aaron Nesmith to make six straight threes.
California women's tennis doubles duo Jessica Alsola and Mao Mushika claimed doubles All-America honors to cap the season when the Golden Bears earned a No. 4 ranking in the last ITA poll of 2024-25.
The Cal duo finished the year with a 15-4 record, including a 12-2 mark in the second half of the season, as well as a spot on the All-ACC Second Team for doubles.
California men's tennis star Carl Emil Overbeck completed a stellar Golden Bear career as a singles All-American on Wednesday when he finished 15th in the final ITA singles poll of the season.
BERKELEY – California is back at the NCAA Men's Golf Championship for the second straight year and 17th time ever as the first 18 holes of stroke play begin Friday morning at Omni La Costa's North Course in Carlsbad. The Golden Bears, ranked 49th nationally, enter the championship as the 29th seed in the 30-team field after finishing fifth at the NCAA Reno Regional last week
DURHAM, N.C. – The California baseball team came up big again Wednesday at the ACC Championship with a 14-12 win over Wake Forest in a second-round game at the Durham Bulls Athletic Center. The No. 16 seed Golden Bears (24-30) advance to face top-seed and No. 16 ranked Georgia Tech (39-16) in the first ACC Championship quarterfinal Thursday at noon PT. The contest will be televised on ACC Network.
BERKELEY – Eight accomplished Golden Bears have been elected into the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2025 features:
Layshia Clarendon (women's basketball, 2009-13) – Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year led the Bears to the only Final Four appearance in program history
Hana Cutura (volleyball, 2006-09) – Pac-12 Player of the Year is the program's all-time kills leader
Damir Dugonjic (men's swimming & diving, 2007-11) – Seven-time NCAA champion swam in three Olympic Games for Slovenia
Donna Fong (field hockey head coach, 1976-94) – Program's first-ever head coach was a three-time conference Coach of the Year
Alex Mack (football, 2005-08) – All-American center went on to 13-year NFL career
Ivan Rackov (men's water polo, 2008-11) – National player of the year and three-time All-American led Cal to the NCAA title match in 2010
Jeff Tedford (football head coach, 2002-12) – Program's all-time wins leader led the Bears to seven straight bowl games
Michael Weaver (men's golf, 2009-14) – All-American was Cal's first men's golfer to play in The Masters
Cellphone background is black, so no photo. My lock screen is also black. My Mac background is the live background of the Bixby bridge that was the Monterey OS background. It changes the background to dark when it's nighttime.
Background and lock screen are the same - a photo of the porch at Casa de Slug. IIRC, this same photo appeared on a post I authored on the CGB website under the headline, "Friday Happy Hour at the Slugs".
US House passes "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (HR1) - the Federal budget reconciliation, by a single vote. It is likely to be passed. In summary, Trump gets what he wants - more funding for his tentpole low-ROI programs (Golden Dome, hiring more gestapo to go after immigrants), tax cuts for the rich, and lots of benefit cuts - especially Medicaid and Food Stamps.
I've heard France, I think it is, is woo-ing all the medical research becuase of what's going on with the NIH. Used to be the NIH research grant was the best in the world. Probably not anymore and I can see someone else becoming the medicine leader of the world.
BACK
BAY
I dig this part of Boston
i didnt realize it was built on reclaimed land
Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and the area was fully built by around 1900
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston
same. great food, fun to walk around. we try to stay near Commonwealth Park and i like to go for a nice walk in morning or evening after dinner.
looks like we will be going there a bunch over the next 4 yrs since younger is going to be at Northeastern.
Sexy___
Baby back rips, BBQ sauce
. . . in the High Life Again
To the future.
I wonder when we will be a Hollywood reboot of this movie.
If they're doing a reboot, then the car needs a reboot as well. What car? Keeping with the stainless steel theme, a Cybertrunk (hope not).
I would think it would be a cyber truck. Just like the Delorean, the cyber trucks design is very polarizing and it is stainless steel.
PRO
Ballers opening day game on Tues went ended 4-4 tie after 9. So they go to a home run derby.
https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/posts/markkahn2_sold-out-crowd-3-run-rally-in-bot-9-to-tie-activity-7330969809855139841-LK2P
Drewek HIts First Homer in 12-5 Loss (Ballers lose to the Ogden Raptors)
https://www.oaklandballers.com/sports/bsb/2025/releases/202505222uwiew
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Davis Drewek smacked an opposite-field tater, the first home run of the season for the Ballers, on Wednesday night against the Ogden Raptors. It was one of the few bright spots for Oakland in the 12-5 loss to Ogden.
With two outs in the second inning, the left-handed hitting Drewek stung a ball to left field for a two-run bomb. Not only was it Oakland's opening long ball of 2025, but also Drewek's introductory dinger in his professional career.
Athletics fall again to the Angels, 10-5
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/5/21/24435007/athletics-fall-again-to-the-angels
Hoping to end the losing streak at seven games, the Athletics took on the Los Angeles Angels tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. The A’s 29-year-old lefty JP Sears faced off against Jack Kochanowicz for the Halos.
Asking the group if we still want Oakland A's results. I'm going to start adding the Ballers results.
No interest in the A’s for the foreseeable future. But I’m pissed at the entire league.
Well we already aren't getting Oakland A's results, since they are just now the A's with no city.
I guess as long as they're still in NorCal it's fine. Not sure how many actual fans they have left, though.
I guess I still say Oakland A's, just like I still use Pac Bell Park, and the Stick vs whatever it became.
LET'S GO PHILADELPHIA, I MEAN, KANSAS CITY ATHLETICS
Parade of hits, relievers sinks Giants against Royals (8-4)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2025/5/21/24434797/parade-hits-relievers-sinks-giants-against-royals
The good news from Wednesday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals is that Patrick Bailey hit his first home run of the season and Giants pitchers didn’t issue a single walk. The bad news was almost everything else in a 8-4 defeat.
Teoscar Hernández home run makes a winner out of Dustin May in Dodgers’ finale with D-backs
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/5/21/24434980/teoscar-hernandez-dustin-may-corbin-burnes-dodgers-diamondbacks
It was the Dodgers' turn to come out on the winning end of a pitchers’ duel between Corbin Burnes and Dustin May, and that’s what happened, as Los Angeles beat the Diamondbacks 3-1 thanks to Teoscar Hernández.
Knicks blow 4th Q lead and lose in OT. Haliburton does the classic Reggie-Miller-choking move in front of everyone at the Garden.
that shot to tie the game and sent it to overtime was nuts. hits the rim, bounces high off the rim and goes right through!
he stepped on the line so it was only 2 points, otherwise they would have won it right there.
https://www.nba.com/pacers/videos/haliburton-sends-it-to-overtime
This was stunning. The Knicks' defense against three-pointers (at a time when that was probably the only thing that could beat them) left a lot to be desired. Of course, I also don't think anyone expected Aaron Nesmith to make six straight threes.
CAL
[WTEN] Mushika, Alsola Claim Doubles All-America Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/21/womens-tennis-mushika-alsola-claim-doubles-all-america-honors.aspx
California women's tennis doubles duo Jessica Alsola and Mao Mushika claimed doubles All-America honors to cap the season when the Golden Bears earned a No. 4 ranking in the last ITA poll of 2024-25.
The Cal duo finished the year with a 15-4 record, including a 12-2 mark in the second half of the season, as well as a spot on the All-ACC Second Team for doubles.
[MTEN] Overbeck Earns Singles All-America Honor
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/21/mens-tennis-overbeck-earns-singles-all-america-honor.aspx
California men's tennis star Carl Emil Overbeck completed a stellar Golden Bear career as a singles All-American on Wednesday when he finished 15th in the final ITA singles poll of the season.
[MGOLF] Bears Return To NCAA Championship
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/21/mens-golf-bears-return-to-ncaa-championship.aspx
BERKELEY – California is back at the NCAA Men's Golf Championship for the second straight year and 17th time ever as the first 18 holes of stroke play begin Friday morning at Omni La Costa's North Course in Carlsbad. The Golden Bears, ranked 49th nationally, enter the championship as the 29th seed in the 30-team field after finishing fifth at the NCAA Reno Regional last week
[BASE] Bears Notch Another Big Win To Advance At ACC Championship
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/21/baseball-another-big-win-bears-advance-at-acc-championship.aspx
DURHAM, N.C. – The California baseball team came up big again Wednesday at the ACC Championship with a 14-12 win over Wake Forest in a second-round game at the Durham Bulls Athletic Center. The No. 16 seed Golden Bears (24-30) advance to face top-seed and No. 16 ranked Georgia Tech (39-16) in the first ACC Championship quarterfinal Thursday at noon PT. The contest will be televised on ACC Network.
Update: Bears season is now over after giving up 3 homers in the first inning and losing 10-3.
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/22/baseball-bears-season-ends-at-acc-championship.aspx
I was thinking about watching for awhile but when I saw 4-0 after the first I went about what I needed to do.
[HOF] 8 Golden Bears Elected Into Cal Athletics Hall Of Fame
https://calbears.com/news/2025/5/21/athletics-news-8-golden-bears-elected-into-cal-athletics-hall-of-fame.aspx
BERKELEY – Eight accomplished Golden Bears have been elected into the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2025 features:
Layshia Clarendon (women's basketball, 2009-13) – Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year led the Bears to the only Final Four appearance in program history
Hana Cutura (volleyball, 2006-09) – Pac-12 Player of the Year is the program's all-time kills leader
Damir Dugonjic (men's swimming & diving, 2007-11) – Seven-time NCAA champion swam in three Olympic Games for Slovenia
Donna Fong (field hockey head coach, 1976-94) – Program's first-ever head coach was a three-time conference Coach of the Year
Alex Mack (football, 2005-08) – All-American center went on to 13-year NFL career
Ivan Rackov (men's water polo, 2008-11) – National player of the year and three-time All-American led Cal to the NCAA title match in 2010
Jeff Tedford (football head coach, 2002-12) – Program's all-time wins leader led the Bears to seven straight bowl games
Michael Weaver (men's golf, 2009-14) – All-American was Cal's first men's golfer to play in The Masters
https://x.com/ACCBaseball/status/1925243779457462348
Letter Game: a Cal-related thing starting with B
A: Axe
B: ___________
Bear (duh)
Beastmode
Big Game
Berkeley (duh)
Bitches (16-0!) (duh)
What's your cell phone screen background/lock screen?
Cellphone background is black, so no photo. My lock screen is also black. My Mac background is the live background of the Bixby bridge that was the Monterey OS background. It changes the background to dark when it's nighttime.
i dont have anything like a photo on lock screen or regular background.
the lock screen just has a big analog clock so i can quickly check the time.
the home screen has an app called Sectograph that gives me a graphical look at my calendar.
https://sectograph.com/
Visual planner for visual people
Sectograph is a visual day planner that displays your calendar events on a pie chart in the form of a 12/24 hour clock face.
It's a different way of looking at the day
Lock Screen is an album of photos of daughter. Can cycle thru them by tapping on screen.
Background is said daughter wearing the first of the HSB Cal T-shirt donation package!
Three years ago, I think? She’s about halfway thru the collection. Wears a Cal shirt to school about once/week.
They will be passed on!
Golden hour sunset at Tahoe, with some nice rolling wave action. Every time I see it, “aaaahhhhh.”
Background and lock screen are the same - a photo of the porch at Casa de Slug. IIRC, this same photo appeared on a post I authored on the CGB website under the headline, "Friday Happy Hour at the Slugs".
Lock screen is me with the family (a picture taken at the marine reserve in Moss Beach).
Background is a photo taken by me of a 49ers game at Candlestick Park, before it was torn down. In 2012 I think.
Lock Screen is a picture of my family.
Background screen is a picture of my two kids.
POLITICS
US House passes "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (HR1) - the Federal budget reconciliation, by a single vote. It is likely to be passed. In summary, Trump gets what he wants - more funding for his tentpole low-ROI programs (Golden Dome, hiring more gestapo to go after immigrants), tax cuts for the rich, and lots of benefit cuts - especially Medicaid and Food Stamps.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/committee-advances-trump-megabill-full-house-after-aimed/story?id=122059925
The Bill passed by a single vote despite one GOP rep missing the vote because he overslept
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-missed-key-one-big-beautiful-bill-vote-because-he-fell-asleep-2075721
If they really cut Medicaid, I think the GOP can kiss their Congressional majorities goodbye.
Well, this political assassination in DC of Israeli embassy staff is going to cause problems
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-shot-fbi-field-office-washington-dc/story
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1925406413800583378
DBD AV CLUB
We won an Emmy
https://x.com/avinashkunnath/status/1924992762031821294
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
FIRE LARRY SCOTT AGAIN
https://x.com/wilnerhotline/status/1923438405951652163?s=46
Trump blocks enrollment of international students at Harvard. They are 27% of their student body.
I think Harvard should move to Cambridge, England and take all the students, money, IP and jobs with them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/harvard-trump-foreign-students-00365908
Five percent of Harvard's team now no longer can play
https://x.com/reddit_fcs/status/1925625294062309859?s=46&t=WFlljYbkN_q0KuOdwshW6g
I've heard France, I think it is, is woo-ing all the medical research becuase of what's going on with the NIH. Used to be the NIH research grant was the best in the world. Probably not anymore and I can see someone else becoming the medicine leader of the world.
Illinois finally sells out of tickets. Apparently, people don't mind if you hire a jerk HC if you win.
https://www.wandtv.com/sports/illini/illini-football-season-tickets-sold-out/article_186e79f8-7d34-42b6-9e6d-607812ef56f2.html
It's not as if other strategies they have tried have won all that many games at Illinois.
QB rankings in FBS. Hint: Cal is in the middle of the pack
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45145716/ranking-all-136-college-football-fbs-quarterbacks-tiers-2025-season
Cal's 2025 opponents:
Oregon State: Tier 11 - presumptive starter Malik Murphy
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4685497/maalik-murphy
Texas Southern: n.a.
Minnesota: 12 - Drake Lindsey (5 passes in college)
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5144959/drake-lindsey
SDSU: 18a - Jayden Denegal (5 passes in college)
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4685311/jayden-denegal
BC: 12 - Dylan Lonergan (8 passes)
Duke: 3 Darian Mensah
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5121169/darian-mensah
UNC: 9 Gio Lopez
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4920227/gio-lopez
VA Tech: 10 Kyron Drones
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4678010/kyron-drones
Virginia: 7 Chandler Morris (on bench behind Max Duggan when we played TCU in 2021)
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/4692530/chandler-morris
Louisville 3 Miller Moss. He's lost to us before.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4431580/miller-moss
Stanford: 12 Elijah Brown. He loss to us before
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4715474/elijah-brown
SMU: 3 Kevin Jennings. He beat us before.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5084084/kevin-jennings
Illinois is in Tier 7, Consistently Consistent.
Cal is in Tier 8b: Fresh starts: untested edition
Also, Tier 7 is Indiana. Screw you, Mendoza. 98 yards with my boys, my ass.
sorry..meant Indiana. Not sure why I typed Illinois.
Billichick lowers academic standards at UNC
https://x.com/on3sports/status/1925188085228228954?s=46&t=fwgmryeTanENut7u28ScCA