Back in 2000, I had bought some NVDIA stock for under a dollar per share. My thesis was that the struggling chip company made good chips despite being on the wrong side of an engineering moat dominated by Intel and that killer applications like PlayStation and XBox would help grow the market. I ended up having to sell the stock in order to purchase my first condo. I eventually sold that condo for almost no profit after I moved post-dot-com-bust. Meanwhile, I just realized that the stock's value has grown nearly 500x and its market cap is almost one trillion. I guess I can't win them all.
My son and his friends were huge Yu-Gi-Oh fans back in the day. It was such marketing genius. Before Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon had swept the world with an animated series that had a strong card game tie in. Yu-Gi-Oh took it a step farther, making the card game into the animated series.
But, Yu-Gi-Oh came and went, and Pokemon is still with us.
Yui Sasaki is a Japanese free-style wrestler and Olympic gold medal winner. She is super quick and technical. If I remember correctly, she has only lost four times in her life.
With losses piling up as quickly as animosity towards John Fisher, the Oakland A’s decided to switch things up today to try to get some sort of something going.
Harkening back to the brighter days of 2018, the A’s revived the opener strategy with Austin Pruitt getting the “start” against the Seattle Mariners and Ken Waldichuk relieving him. Part of the strategy worked, the other didn’t.
With the call up of Casey Schmitt, the development of J.D. Davis’s glove at third, Thairo Estrada’s range, Brett Wisely’s support at second, with all of that rooted in Brandon Crawford’s foundational play, the Giants infield has become one of the better defenses in the league with 9 outs above average—good for fourth in the Majors and fifth when taking into account the work of the outfield.
With the ground-balliest of pitchers on staff, team and fans alike have been enjoying the fruits of a solid—sometimes even trendy—infield in their recent climb towards .500.
The Dodgers certainly had a lot of chances to secure their first series sweep in Atlanta in 35 years, on a night they out-hit the Braves 12-5. But enough missed opportunities cost them in a 4-3 walk-off loss to conclude the series at Truist Park in Atlanta.
A frustrating night of good process for the Dodgers' lineup
Through the first three innings, in every single one, the offense managed to get multiple base runners aboard against Bryce Elder, and without fail, he always got out of it.
Panthers sweep Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup finals. Canes fall in heartbreaking fashion - losing in quadruple OT, OT, losing 1-0, and then giving up the winning goal with 5 seconds left in regulation.
Two of Donald Trump’s employees moved boxes of papers the day before FBI agents and a prosecutor visited the former president’s Florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena — timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious and an indication of possible obstruction, according to people familiar with the matter.
Guilty as fuck:
Trump and his aides also allegedly carried out a “dress rehearsal” for moving sensitive papers even before his office received the May 2022 subpoena, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors in addition have gathered evidence indicating that Trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others, these people said.
[BASE] Top of the 11th, Alabama score 3 runs against Florida's reliever. Tide fans go wild. Bottom of the 11th - gators get 3 straight singles. And then...
SACRAMENTO – California track & field approached day one of the NCAA West Preliminary with high hopes on Wednesday as the first group of its program-record 36 entries prepared to compete against hundreds of the nation's best at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium.
Each regional meet comes with high stakes – only 12 athletes in each event can clinch a spot to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Field athletes only receive three attempts instead of the usual six to qualify, while track athletes (save for the 5000m and 10000m) must qualify through a first round and a quarterfinal.
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California women's rowing team is set for its 23rd straight NCAA Championships and will be the ninth overall seed in the regatta when it competes this weekend at the Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, New Jersey. All races will be streamed on NCAA.com.
"We've had a productive week and a half training post-Pac-12s," Cal head coach Al Acosta said. "We've taken the time to finalize racing lineups and work on what we learned from Pac-12s. Our last day of hard work was yesterday (Monday), so now we just work on resting, recovery and keeping things sharp and relaxed. I think we all feel like we've done everything we need to do in order to be fully prepared to let it fly on Friday."
TIL a new thing. i wonder if it was accompanied by a boom in tequila purchasing and drinking. but perhaps things were tightly controlled in the former Soviet satellite state.
DBD Street Journal
Back in 2000, I had bought some NVDIA stock for under a dollar per share. My thesis was that the struggling chip company made good chips despite being on the wrong side of an engineering moat dominated by Intel and that killer applications like PlayStation and XBox would help grow the market. I ended up having to sell the stock in order to purchase my first condo. I eventually sold that condo for almost no profit after I moved post-dot-com-bust. Meanwhile, I just realized that the stock's value has grown nearly 500x and its market cap is almost one trillion. I guess I can't win them all.
Lots of people sold their Apple stock too.
It’s gambling, SGBear! Wouldn’t sweat it
Yu-Gi-Oh
My son and his friends were huge Yu-Gi-Oh fans back in the day. It was such marketing genius. Before Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon had swept the world with an animated series that had a strong card game tie in. Yu-Gi-Oh took it a step farther, making the card game into the animated series.
But, Yu-Gi-Oh came and went, and Pokemon is still with us.
Yui Sasaki is a Japanese free-style wrestler and Olympic gold medal winner. She is super quick and technical. If I remember correctly, she has only lost four times in her life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WqVcYAl6JU
A good mother will help you move. A true mother will help you...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/gabby-petito-parents-lawsuit-letter-brian-laundrie/index.html
In a cloud of dust, a lone cowboy emerges to save the day. He tipped his hat and then rode off into the Michigan sunset
https://twitter.com/mspmetrodet/status/1660684295390806017
AI buzz
Nvidia powers toward one trillion dollar valuation based on AI impact...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unprecedented-and-unfathomable-nvidia-makes-jaws-drop-on-wall-street-as-stock-explodes-higher-9361285f
PRO
A’s use opener, Waldichuk still earns loss
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/5/24/23736982/oakland-athletics-seattle-mariners-austin-pruitt-ken-waldichuk-esteury-ruiz
With losses piling up as quickly as animosity towards John Fisher, the Oakland A’s decided to switch things up today to try to get some sort of something going.
Harkening back to the brighter days of 2018, the A’s revived the opener strategy with Austin Pruitt getting the “start” against the Seattle Mariners and Ken Waldichuk relieving him. Part of the strategy worked, the other didn’t.
Hopes of sweep miss glove
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/5/24/23736220/mlb-final-score-giants-twins-recap
With the call up of Casey Schmitt, the development of J.D. Davis’s glove at third, Thairo Estrada’s range, Brett Wisely’s support at second, with all of that rooted in Brandon Crawford’s foundational play, the Giants infield has become one of the better defenses in the league with 9 outs above average—good for fourth in the Majors and fifth when taking into account the work of the outfield.
With the ground-balliest of pitchers on staff, team and fans alike have been enjoying the fruits of a solid—sometimes even trendy—infield in their recent climb towards .500.
Wasted opportunities prevent rare Dodgers sweep in Atlanta
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/5/24/23736864/dodgers-comeback-braves-home-runs-walk-off-bullpen
The Dodgers certainly had a lot of chances to secure their first series sweep in Atlanta in 35 years, on a night they out-hit the Braves 12-5. But enough missed opportunities cost them in a 4-3 walk-off loss to conclude the series at Truist Park in Atlanta.
A frustrating night of good process for the Dodgers' lineup
Through the first three innings, in every single one, the offense managed to get multiple base runners aboard against Bryce Elder, and without fail, he always got out of it.
[NFL] Ex-Cal Bear QB Rodgers injured in practice and will miss the 2023 season. No, not that one.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/37720444/commanders-te-armani-rogers-suffers-non-contact-achilles-injury
Can he really be described as an ex-Cal Bear if he never suited up for Cal?
For the sake of pithy DBD titles, yes. But I would lose badly in a pedantry contest.
Memphis police do a welfare check on Ja Morant after he sends cryptic farewells to his family and loved ones.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37721549/police-conduct-welfare-check-grizzlies-ja-morant-posts
Panthers sweep Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup finals. Canes fall in heartbreaking fashion - losing in quadruple OT, OT, losing 1-0, and then giving up the winning goal with 5 seconds left in regulation.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/recap/_/gameId/401548434
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Two of Donald Trump’s employees moved boxes of papers the day before FBI agents and a prosecutor visited the former president’s Florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena — timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious and an indication of possible obstruction, according to people familiar with the matter.
Guilty as fuck:
Trump and his aides also allegedly carried out a “dress rehearsal” for moving sensitive papers even before his office received the May 2022 subpoena, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors in addition have gathered evidence indicating that Trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others, these people said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/
Oath Keepers leader gets 18 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/25/oath-keepers-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-jan6/
Rhodes is unrepentant. Upon release, he should be banished somewhere he cannot attract human followers.
Nice.
Lock him up! Lock him up!!
Man with smoking gun in his hand says he didn't do it.
https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-congress-mccarthy-biden-budget-850273c73ed40f4ad002fa24e50f9b40
MTG calls for the House to follow decorum. Dems laugh in her face.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1661483713773944835
Deservedly so.
DBD AV CLUB
Tina Turner passes away at the age of 83 after battling a long illness. She died in her home in Switzerland.
https://www.reuters.com/world/singer-tina-turner-dies-aged-83-2023-05-24/
ELSEHWHERE IN COLLEGE
ICYMI: ASU and U of A's mascots had a punchup last season
https://twitter.com/Nick_Borgia/status/1596267760396664832
Wazzu pulls an Enron
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/wsu-cougars/audit-of-wsu-athletics-finds-widespread-mismanagement-possible-football-attendance-inflation/
[BASE] SEC after daaaaaaaaaark
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1661600169031536641
George Washington Univ is no longer the Colonials. They are now the Revolutionaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/24/george-washington-university-picks-revolutionaries-nickname/
They could have been the Foggy Bottom Boys.
[BASE] Top of the 11th, Alabama score 3 runs against Florida's reliever. Tide fans go wild. Bottom of the 11th - gators get 3 straight singles. And then...
https://twitter.com/TreyWallace_/status/1661554049353695234
Cal
[T&F] Trio Of Bears Qualify For NCAA Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/24/track-field-trio-of-bears-qualify-for-ncaa-championships.aspx
SACRAMENTO – California track & field approached day one of the NCAA West Preliminary with high hopes on Wednesday as the first group of its program-record 36 entries prepared to compete against hundreds of the nation's best at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium.
Each regional meet comes with high stakes – only 12 athletes in each event can clinch a spot to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Field athletes only receive three attempts instead of the usual six to qualify, while track athletes (save for the 5000m and 10000m) must qualify through a first round and a quarterfinal.
[WROW] Bears Ready For NCAA Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/24/womens-rowing-bears-ready-for-ncaa-championships.aspx
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California women's rowing team is set for its 23rd straight NCAA Championships and will be the ninth overall seed in the regatta when it competes this weekend at the Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, New Jersey. All races will be streamed on NCAA.com.
"We've had a productive week and a half training post-Pac-12s," Cal head coach Al Acosta said. "We've taken the time to finalize racing lineups and work on what we learned from Pac-12s. Our last day of hard work was yesterday (Monday), so now we just work on resting, recovery and keeping things sharp and relaxed. I think we all feel like we've done everything we need to do in order to be fully prepared to let it fly on Friday."
🤦♂️
https://www.thedailybeast.com/uc-berkeley-failed-to-disclose-dollar220m-tech-deal-with-china-to-us-government
NOTED: the contract in question was signed in 2016. Nicholas Dirks was Cal's Chancellor at the time.
Go Bears!!!
Brandon Mebane returned to Cal and graduated.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsgvyJBx0Hf/?igshid=ZWQyN2ExYTkwZQ%3D%3D
That's cool 😎
[BASE] Cal gives up a lead again, including 16 runs in the second half of the game. Their season is over.
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/25/baseball-bears-fall-to-cardinal-in-2023-finale.aspx
can we please fire Mike Neu
Ouch.
I forgot to mention that we still have the axe.
We'll renew possession for another year in November.
Yu-Mex
TIL a new thing. i wonder if it was accompanied by a boom in tequila purchasing and drinking. but perhaps things were tightly controlled in the former Soviet satellite state.