White Sox sold... kind of. Sold via an unusual put option agreement to an Ishbia brother. Having two brothers who are self-made billionaires must be weird.
And the Giants only got their two after a big roster shakeup, DFAing some vets (including Late Night Lamonte) and promoting from the farm. The guys they promoted had major contributions to the wins.
In a game full of anomalies and weird plays, it was only fitting that Michael Conforto would get his first signature Dodgesr moment, driving in the winning run in the top of the eighth. Los Angeles trailed nearly from start to finish, but an outstanding job at stranding runners by the bullpen, in particular, kept this close, allowing for a late comeback win, 6-5 over the Mets.
Another reason to avoid CONCACAF. The Vancouver Whitecaps traveled to Mexico to play a Concacaf game, and half the traveling group (players, coaches, game ops staff) all came down ill within a day of losing. Now they may not be able to play their MLS league (and Cascadia Cup) game at the Seattle Sounders Sunday.
KALISPELL, Mont. -- The Ballers collected a whopping 19 hits in their 11-5 triumph over the Glacier Range Riders on Thursday. Nineteen is the most knocks in a game this season, and Oakland's four-game win streak is also a season best.
Davis Drewek paced the offense with a career-high four hits, including a two-run double in Oakland's four-run second inning. Michael O'Hara crushed a run-scoring double in the second, too.
Well it happened, folks. The Athletics won a game. They snapped their nine-game losing streak in a big way on Thursday afternoon, avoiding the dreaded four-game sweep at the hands of the Minnesota Twins by clobbering them 14-3 to get the A’s back in the win column after over a week.
I actually like the current OKC team, but I'm still kind of salty about how that franchise got stolen from Seattle. Indiana has a passionate fan base and has never won a title (in the NBA anyway). This would be a hell of a way to get it.
I think the Knicks deserved criticism for not guarding the three-point line well in their big collapse. This time, I dunno. Looked to me like the Thunder were pretty aggressive about it, but the Pacers just made a lot of shots.
We had another memorable commencement last month at California Memorial Stadium, and our student-athlete reception that followed was once again a huge hit. We had around 500 graduates and their friends and families in the University Club, and it is always so gratifying to hear their reflections about their time at Cal, and the impact it will have on the rest of their lives.
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Thursday that California track & field's Mykolas Alekna, who owns the world record in the discus, has appeared on The Bowerman Watch List for the 23rd time in his career. This is the last watch list to be released this season for The Bowerman, which is awarded each December to the top collegiate men's and women's track & field athletes of the year.
I had plans to go to the Cal @ Virginia Tech game since it's in easy driving distance to me. I was really looking forward to the Virginia Tech team entering to the sound of Enter Sandman from the Bay Area legends Metallica, who once had their practice studios in Berkeley and Albany. However, it looks like I have instead commited to go drink beer in Georgia at the Oktoberfest in Helen Georgia. Looks like I'll be hanging out with a lot of drunk white deep southerners.
Helen's Oktoberfest is a good time- but when you need a sobriety break, you aren't far from my favorite GA lakes- Lake Rabun and Lake Burton. Google has a good Lake Burton slide show on initial search-- it is like a slice of the Adirondacks at the southern tip of the Appalachian mountains. Rent a boat from one of the marinas, or drive Lake Rabun Road from one end of Lake Rabun to the end of Lake Seed- could do this on way to or from NC/Helen.
I cannot forget my parents coming home from a campaign party in the early hours of June 5, 1968, and my mother was in tears. That was the night that Bobby Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel.
A Maryland State Trooper proactively reached out to a drug dealer to sell the name of an informant knowing full well that the person would likely be murdered. The judge apologized to the trooper for sentencing him to six years in jail.
I was in a Greek restaurant last year with my wife. Our waitress had her whole arm bandaged up, swaddled in giant white gauze like a mummy. She struggled using only one hand. We lightheartedly asked if she was okay. She leaned in and whispered "no" as her eyes flicked over to a table across the room. We could another waitress lifting up a shallow fajita-style platter up above her head with her arm stretched out and clearly wincing away in fear. Her colleague then lit the platter on fire as the alcohol burned in a tall blue flame. It was not a small amount of fire. It was a lot. She then slowly brought the platter down and served it. We were aghast as we clearly got her gist. "Can't you just light it on the table?".
"The owner makes us do this move. Another girl went to the hospital last week."
We were furious and found the manager in his office but stayed outside hemming and hawing about whether to confront him on this practice. We decided that no person, when confronted with the obviously terrible choices, would ever willing admit that it was wrong and change their ways. We decided that we would call OSHA instead. Well, it turns out that you must be an employee to file an OSHA complaint.
The Commander in Chief is adding another 20,000 national guardsmen to the Southern border to join the 10,000 who are already there. This doesn't count a proposed 3,500 strong national guard team team to go after "fugitives"
I'm not sure what's worse - DHS Noem shutting down an anti-terrorist travel watchlist program or publicly announcing the previously secret program to terrorists that we're no longer tracking them. And despite Secretary Noem's claims that it doesn't work because it's never caught anyone, I would say that it works perfectly because it's never caught anyone.
Head of Medicare/Medicaid [checks notes] Dr. Mehmet Oz criticized abled bodied Americans receiving benefits and said that they should "prove that they matter"
Trump and Musk fall out and start an online flame war. We knew that two mega-egos couldn't work together for too long and five months is longer than I expected.
A 22-year-old who has never held a full-time job (if you don't count mowing his neighbor's lawns) was put in charge of an $18m Homeland Security program to counter grassroots terrorism
My wife forwarded what I call a microgram of hope: A bona fide epidemiologist has been having rationale conversations with the MAHA (make america healthy again) community. She says "we still haven’t killed each other". You can read more here:
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s quote of the day.
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” — Alan Watts
I hearted this comment in no small part because there's truth in the hyperbole. Two or three years ago (?) the SF chronicle did a longform article about the impacts of migrant labor on school calendars. One of the notable facts is that some school district in the Central Valley will start their school year in mid- to late-July. I find this insane, although given the facts cited at the time, it made sense.
i used to work at an ed-tech company where back-to-school was effectively our "black friday." it is like SGBear says, across the country there is almost a 5 wk window in which schools start up again.
i used to stretch hardly any or a little. nowadays (im my middle agedness) it is essential. if warm up and stretch about 10 min before some activity, things go much better.
PRO
Q.Ron Rodgers agrees to only suck for one year at the Steelers
https://x.com/espn/status/1930708817295339992?s=46
It's Bob Kraft's birthday. Let's give him a hand.
https://www.si.com/nfl/patriots/news/new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-celebrates-84th-birthday
White Sox sold... kind of. Sold via an unusual put option agreement to an Ishbia brother. Having two brothers who are self-made billionaires must be weird.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/white-sox-owner-jerry-reinsdorf-reaches-agreement-with-justin-ishbia-for-future-controlling-stake-171235928.html
WNBA investigating a coach for [checks notes]... swearing.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/storm-assistants-alleged-use-profanity-former-player-prompts-wnba-review-report
Giants beat the Pads 3-2
No paragraph write-up for the Bay Area team whose manager when to Cal. Hmmm.....
For some reason, McCovey Chronicles doesn't write up every game. Most, but not all.
I believe all four games in the series were decided by one run with each team winning a pair.
And the Giants only got their two after a big roster shakeup, DFAing some vets (including Late Night Lamonte) and promoting from the farm. The guys they promoted had major contributions to the wins.
Dodgers come back late to beat Mets 6-5
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/6/5/24444023/dodgers-mets-michael-conforto-bullpen
In a game full of anomalies and weird plays, it was only fitting that Michael Conforto would get his first signature Dodgesr moment, driving in the winning run in the top of the eighth. Los Angeles trailed nearly from start to finish, but an outstanding job at stranding runners by the bullpen, in particular, kept this close, allowing for a late comeback win, 6-5 over the Mets.
Another reason to avoid CONCACAF. The Vancouver Whitecaps traveled to Mexico to play a Concacaf game, and half the traveling group (players, coaches, game ops staff) all came down ill within a day of losing. Now they may not be able to play their MLS league (and Cascadia Cup) game at the Seattle Sounders Sunday.
Ballers Notch Fourth Straight Victory in 11-5 Win
https://www.oaklandballers.com/sports/bsb/2025/releases/2025060633pflb
KALISPELL, Mont. -- The Ballers collected a whopping 19 hits in their 11-5 triumph over the Glacier Range Riders on Thursday. Nineteen is the most knocks in a game this season, and Oakland's four-game win streak is also a season best.
Davis Drewek paced the offense with a career-high four hits, including a two-run double in Oakland's four-run second inning. Michael O'Hara crushed a run-scoring double in the second, too.
A’s Win! Homers Power Athletics Past Twins 14-3
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/6/5/24444058/as-win-homers-power-athletics-past-twins-14-3
Well it happened, folks. The Athletics won a game. They snapped their nine-game losing streak in a big way on Thursday afternoon, avoiding the dreaded four-game sweep at the hands of the Minnesota Twins by clobbering them 14-3 to get the A’s back in the win column after over a week.
Haliburton does it again!
hits go ahead shot w/ time winding down to give the Pacers 1-0 lead and complete the 15 pt 4th quarter comeback.
i dont know who is going to win. it should be a great series
My favorite stat is Pacers committed 19 turnovers... in the first half.
https://bsky.app/profile/olliemcclellan.bsky.social/post/3lqvuoprvrk2n
I'm glad it's two small market teams. I don't really care who wins.
i am definitely rooting for Pacers after having lived in IN for 8 yrs during the Reggie Miller days.
i remember going to games at Market Square Arena and a few at the newly built Conseco Fieldhouseoo in Indi.
luckily we got to go to some of the Bobby Knight era college games in Bloomington as well
I actually like the current OKC team, but I'm still kind of salty about how that franchise got stolen from Seattle. Indiana has a passionate fan base and has never won a title (in the NBA anyway). This would be a hell of a way to get it.
I wish TNT had the finals and Reggie was able to broadcast. Though Mike Breen is the best. Maybe replace Richard Jefferson with Reggie.
You would think opponents would figure out the need to prioritize defending Haliburton at the end of games.
I think the Knicks deserved criticism for not guarding the three-point line well in their big collapse. This time, I dunno. Looked to me like the Thunder were pretty aggressive about it, but the Pacers just made a lot of shots.
CAL
NEEEEEEEERDS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjpA3toInRc
But the ball is spiraling, so does it go in a straight line or does it curve just a little bit, like a slider.
As a non-math person, my head is spinning.
[NEWS] Knowlton's Notes: Another Memorable Year In Berkeley
https://calbears.com/news/2025/6/5/athletics-news-knowltons-notes-another-memorable-year-in-berkeley.aspx
Cal Family –
Greetings from Haas Pavilion!
We had another memorable commencement last month at California Memorial Stadium, and our student-athlete reception that followed was once again a huge hit. We had around 500 graduates and their friends and families in the University Club, and it is always so gratifying to hear their reflections about their time at Cal, and the impact it will have on the rest of their lives.
It's memorable for being another year in which Knowlton wasn't fired.
[T&F] Alekna Earns 23rd Berth On The Bowerman Watch List
https://calbears.com/news/2025/6/5/track-field-alekna-earns-23rd-berth-on-the-bowerman-watch-list.aspx
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Thursday that California track & field's Mykolas Alekna, who owns the world record in the discus, has appeared on The Bowerman Watch List for the 23rd time in his career. This is the last watch list to be released this season for The Bowerman, which is awarded each December to the top collegiate men's and women's track & field athletes of the year.
Go Bears!!!
Bruh
https://x.com/calmbball/status/1930756050778730571?s=46
I had plans to go to the Cal @ Virginia Tech game since it's in easy driving distance to me. I was really looking forward to the Virginia Tech team entering to the sound of Enter Sandman from the Bay Area legends Metallica, who once had their practice studios in Berkeley and Albany. However, it looks like I have instead commited to go drink beer in Georgia at the Oktoberfest in Helen Georgia. Looks like I'll be hanging out with a lot of drunk white deep southerners.
Helen's Oktoberfest is a good time- but when you need a sobriety break, you aren't far from my favorite GA lakes- Lake Rabun and Lake Burton. Google has a good Lake Burton slide show on initial search-- it is like a slice of the Adirondacks at the southern tip of the Appalachian mountains. Rent a boat from one of the marinas, or drive Lake Rabun Road from one end of Lake Rabun to the end of Lake Seed- could do this on way to or from NC/Helen.
POLITICS
57 years ago, RFK was assasinated. He was 42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
I cannot forget my parents coming home from a campaign party in the early hours of June 5, 1968, and my mother was in tears. That was the night that Bobby Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel.
I haven't studied as I have the JFK assassination but there seems compelling evidence that he was killed as the result of a conspiracy.
Let's check-in to see how the international student visa issue is progressing.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lqap44gwdp2p
I remember as a child believing that you had to be really smart to be president. Turns out.... not so much.
A Maryland State Trooper proactively reached out to a drug dealer to sell the name of an informant knowing full well that the person would likely be murdered. The judge apologized to the trooper for sentencing him to six years in jail.
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/maryland-state-police-trooper-justin-riggs-bribery-sentencing-TJX5ZSH3XBHG5GUD7AKSRHR3YE/
Bill in Congress to permanently disband OSHA.
I was in a Greek restaurant last year with my wife. Our waitress had her whole arm bandaged up, swaddled in giant white gauze like a mummy. She struggled using only one hand. We lightheartedly asked if she was okay. She leaned in and whispered "no" as her eyes flicked over to a table across the room. We could another waitress lifting up a shallow fajita-style platter up above her head with her arm stretched out and clearly wincing away in fear. Her colleague then lit the platter on fire as the alcohol burned in a tall blue flame. It was not a small amount of fire. It was a lot. She then slowly brought the platter down and served it. We were aghast as we clearly got her gist. "Can't you just light it on the table?".
"The owner makes us do this move. Another girl went to the hospital last week."
We were furious and found the manager in his office but stayed outside hemming and hawing about whether to confront him on this practice. We decided that no person, when confronted with the obviously terrible choices, would ever willing admit that it was wrong and change their ways. We decided that we would call OSHA instead. Well, it turns out that you must be an employee to file an OSHA complaint.
The Commander in Chief is adding another 20,000 national guardsmen to the Southern border to join the 10,000 who are already there. This doesn't count a proposed 3,500 strong national guard team team to go after "fugitives"
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-06-05/senate-southern-border-national-guard-18021583.html
I'm not sure what's worse - DHS Noem shutting down an anti-terrorist travel watchlist program or publicly announcing the previously secret program to terrorists that we're no longer tracking them. And despite Secretary Noem's claims that it doesn't work because it's never caught anyone, I would say that it works perfectly because it's never caught anyone.
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5335538-noem-ending-tsa-quiet-skies-traveler-surveillance-program/
Head of Medicare/Medicaid [checks notes] Dr. Mehmet Oz criticized abled bodied Americans receiving benefits and said that they should "prove that they matter"
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/
Trump and Musk fall out and start an online flame war. We knew that two mega-egos couldn't work together for too long and five months is longer than I expected.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/god-help-us-all-maga-melts-down-after-musk-implicates-trump-in-the-epstein-files/
Such sick entertainment. But it was entertaining.
A 22-year-old who has never held a full-time job (if you don't count mowing his neighbor's lawns) was put in charge of an $18m Homeland Security program to counter grassroots terrorism
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention
My wife forwarded what I call a microgram of hope: A bona fide epidemiologist has been having rationale conversations with the MAHA (make america healthy again) community. She says "we still haven’t killed each other". You can read more here:
https://substack.com/@yourlocalepidemiologist/p-165129290
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE
A follow-up to the car driving onto the O'Hare tarmac. It was a DoorDash driver. Someone ordered something at the airport. I have so many questions.
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5334050-door-dasher-ohare-airport-security-flaw/
SHE BLINDED ME WITH...
DBD AV CLUB
81 years ago last night, a lot of people were alive who did not make it thru the next day. And probably didn't sleep very well.
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s quote of the day.
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” — Alan Watts
i like Alan Watts. i have a few books by him
The alternative is insane, and that has proven to not work out so well either.
Also, sanity is NOT inflexible.
last day of school
i am sure it is different in different parts of the country. today, our youngest went off to school for the last time (sob).
this weekend we drive to summer camp where they are working. then they will be back for a week before college starts.
Awwww. Congratulations/consolation on your impending empty nesterdom.
My kids were done last week.
Used to be a huge deal, but now any given day over a 3+ week span depending on the local district/institution.
It's a conspiracy created by Target to have a four month long back-to-school sale.
I hearted this comment in no small part because there's truth in the hyperbole. Two or three years ago (?) the SF chronicle did a longform article about the impacts of migrant labor on school calendars. One of the notable facts is that some school district in the Central Valley will start their school year in mid- to late-July. I find this insane, although given the facts cited at the time, it made sense.
i used to work at an ed-tech company where back-to-school was effectively our "black friday." it is like SGBear says, across the country there is almost a 5 wk window in which schools start up again.
First day of school in our district is July 31 this year!
School's Out for Summer. https://youtu.be/2Oo8QzDHimQ?si=GslUMTD4MPaOAc52
Stretching ...
I stretch everyday, it's one of the most important things you can do for your body.
i used to stretch hardly any or a little. nowadays (im my middle agedness) it is essential. if warm up and stretch about 10 min before some activity, things go much better.
Yes, warm up first, then stretch, then the activity. Even though I read that Michelle Yeoh does the splits before she gets out of bed in the morning.