I used to like to go out and watch batting practice at the Nats games. There was a guy who was there most games acting like this fool. Running around hawking batting practice homers. I got a few but only if they came to wherever I was sitting. And I usually gave it away if there was a small kid nearby who hadn’t gotten one by time practice ended.
NFL suspends alleged moral shitbag Justin Tucker for 10 weeks due to him allegedly Deshaun Watson'ing all over Baltimore massage joints. I mean, he'd be suspended if anybody signed him.
The most difficult thing about being a Giants' fan has not been losing seasons or heartbreaking losses, but having that jerk on our team (and this is exclusive of any steroid issues). Never showed up for a team photo. Maybe he won't show up for the unveiling of his statue.
See, I actually think this is wrong about Bonds. He hasn't done much (if any) attention-seeking behavior since his playing career ended. I don't think this was a big motivator for him. He wanted attention for being the best at the sport, that's it. He didn't care to interact with the media very much, which I think is where a lot of his surly reputation came from.
Okay maybe he's a reformed man, but as a player I'm sticking with the adjective jerk largely because I've heard so many ex-players, team staff, fans and passersby describe him that way -- with details.
The Athletics faced off against the Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit today, hoping to take the series finale and the series from the Detroit Tigers before continuing this road trip in New York. Jefferey Springs got the call today against Dietrich Enns for the Tigers.
Spencer Torkelson got the scoring started with a solo homer to left center. At the end of two, the Tigers led 1-0.
BOISE, Idaho -- The Ballers continue to score runs in bunches, plating 10 or more runs for the sixth straight contest on Thursday. Oakland bested the Boise Hawks 15-2, bringing home six in the third and adding four in the sixth in a blowout victory.
We knew as early as last night how today would begin. The San Francisco Giants suffered another dispiriting loss on Wednesday and made no attempts to hide their intentions for Thursday. Casey Schmitt, upon becoming the third Giant to get hit by a pitch on Wednesday, slammed his helmet to the ground and yelled multiple NSFW words before the production team at NBC Sports Bay Area had time to cut the mic. Logan Webb, before heading home for the night, told reporters that, “the game finds a way to even itself out.”
Relying on an outstanding performance from Clayton Kershaw, inching his way closer to 3,000 strikeouts, the Dodgers didn’t even need to do much offensively to secure a fourth straight win, beating the Rockies 3-1 on Thursday to complete a sweep at Coors Field.
Yesterday was apparently Cal day on the ACC Network. Turned on the tv while eating dinner and the Auburn game was being shown. Turned it on again while getting ready for bed and it was the fourth quarter of the Big Game.
California track & field alumnus Mykolas Alekna, who was honored with his second U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) West Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year last week, was named a semifinalist for The Bowerman on Thursday. The award recognizes the top men's and women's collegiate track & field athlete each year. Ten men's and 10 women's semifinalists were determined by consensus from The Bowerman Advisory Board, which will select three from each list to advance to finalist status.
I was going to post a link to their 1982 Song "I Want Candy". Then I did a bit of background research and found some upsetting information. The band was essentially Adam and the Ants without Adam and putting Burmese-English singer Myant Myant Aye (aka Annabell Lwin) as the front, who was 13 year old. This set off alarms for me. Then they recorded a few albums and Lwin's own mum had several nude photos taken of her 14-year-old daughter so they could be put on albums covers. If you remember the video of "I Want Candy", Lwin is bouncing around braless in a wet tshirt on a beach with her bandmates, bewbs a-swinging and nips a-pokin'. At the end of the video, they showed a picture of one of the nude photos. I didn't know it when watching it in 1982, but she was 15 years old in that video and now it strikes me as gross.
Breaking news: The Trump Tariffs have not narrowed the trade deficit. They've widened them as export volumes dropped nearly 10%. Looks like we got to economically punish some South Pacific penguins more.
It seems to me that SCOTUS is saying that have all the judicial power to make such decisions and not lower courts. So they simply took more power for themselves at the expense of the lower courts
... which is patently unconstitutional. After all, the Constitution specifies that Congress can create inferior courts. SCOTUS doesn't have the power to limit the power of those inferior courts: only Congress can do that.
Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to join. Texas regents meet Monday, approval and acceptance anticipated. This gets the 8th FB team and an additional baseball team.
Pretty sure this wasn't the FIRST bomb. Lightyear did pretty poorly.
I would also be careful here: the article mentions Elemental, but that movie opened poorly and yet kept trucking along with solid weekly returns to finish with a respectable haul. That could happen with this one too.
Poor production can wreck anything, and waste talent, but great production and talent can't always rescue really poor content concepts. This is a much wider, and widening, problem, now that its easier for anyone to produce and distribute poor content.
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s quote of the day.
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis
PRO
TIL: That there is a baseball fan who is so toxic that he has his own Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Hample#Controversies
Imagine being that kind of person and realizing on your deathbed that you could have been so much more.
I used to like to go out and watch batting practice at the Nats games. There was a guy who was there most games acting like this fool. Running around hawking batting practice homers. I got a few but only if they came to wherever I was sitting. And I usually gave it away if there was a small kid nearby who hadn’t gotten one by time practice ended.
A's All-Star SS Jacob Wilson attributes some of his success to Fortnite
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45581690/mlb-2025-jacob-wilson-athletics-all-star-voting-shortstop-fortnite-video-games
NFL suspends alleged moral shitbag Justin Tucker for 10 weeks due to him allegedly Deshaun Watson'ing all over Baltimore massage joints. I mean, he'd be suspended if anybody signed him.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591537/ex-ravens-kicker-justin-tucker-gets-10-week-ban-nfl
I can’t wait for him to follow in kicker Jay Feely and run for congress as a MAGA politician.
And the KC kicker Butker will follow them.
Barry Bonds was more than excited to hear that the Giants are going to honor him with a statue. He was juiced.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45592779/giants-honor-barry-bonds-statue-oracle-park
The most difficult thing about being a Giants' fan has not been losing seasons or heartbreaking losses, but having that jerk on our team (and this is exclusive of any steroid issues). Never showed up for a team photo. Maybe he won't show up for the unveiling of his statue.
He seems pretty happy to be part of the organization these days. He'll show.
Of course he will, he'll be the center of attention.
See, I actually think this is wrong about Bonds. He hasn't done much (if any) attention-seeking behavior since his playing career ended. I don't think this was a big motivator for him. He wanted attention for being the best at the sport, that's it. He didn't care to interact with the media very much, which I think is where a lot of his surly reputation came from.
Okay maybe he's a reformed man, but as a player I'm sticking with the adjective jerk largely because I've heard so many ex-players, team staff, fans and passersby describe him that way -- with details.
Athletics drop finale 8-0 to Tigers
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/6/26/24456600/athletics-lose-to-tigers-8-0
The Athletics faced off against the Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit today, hoping to take the series finale and the series from the Detroit Tigers before continuing this road trip in New York. Jefferey Springs got the call today against Dietrich Enns for the Tigers.
Spencer Torkelson got the scoring started with a solo homer to left center. At the end of two, the Tigers led 1-0.
St. Pierre Throws Six Scoreless, Tatum Keeps Homering in 15-2 Beatdown
https://www.oaklandballers.com/sports/bsb/2025/releases/2025062731gvxj
BOISE, Idaho -- The Ballers continue to score runs in bunches, plating 10 or more runs for the sixth straight contest on Thursday. Oakland bested the Boise Hawks 15-2, bringing home six in the third and adding four in the sixth in a blowout victory.
Giants hurt themselves in 12-5 loss to Marlins
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2025/6/26/24456613/giants-marlins-recap-hayden-birdsong-otto-lopez-agustin-ramirez-rafael-devers
We knew as early as last night how today would begin. The San Francisco Giants suffered another dispiriting loss on Wednesday and made no attempts to hide their intentions for Thursday. Casey Schmitt, upon becoming the third Giant to get hit by a pitch on Wednesday, slammed his helmet to the ground and yelled multiple NSFW words before the production team at NBC Sports Bay Area had time to cut the mic. Logan Webb, before heading home for the night, told reporters that, “the game finds a way to even itself out.”
Clayton Kershaw shuts down Rockies, earning fourth win in a row
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/6/26/24456659/clayton-kershaw-dodgers-rockies
Relying on an outstanding performance from Clayton Kershaw, inching his way closer to 3,000 strikeouts, the Dodgers didn’t even need to do much offensively to secure a fourth straight win, beating the Rockies 3-1 on Thursday to complete a sweep at Coors Field.
CAL
Yesterday was apparently Cal day on the ACC Network. Turned on the tv while eating dinner and the Auburn game was being shown. Turned it on again while getting ready for bed and it was the fourth quarter of the Big Game.
[T&F] Alekna Named The Bowerman Semifinalist For Third Time
https://calbears.com/news/2025/6/26/track-field-alekna-named-the-bowerman-semifinalist-for-third-time.aspx
California track & field alumnus Mykolas Alekna, who was honored with his second U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) West Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year last week, was named a semifinalist for The Bowerman on Thursday. The award recognizes the top men's and women's collegiate track & field athlete each year. Ten men's and 10 women's semifinalists were determined by consensus from The Bowerman Advisory Board, which will select three from each list to advance to finalist status.
Go Bears!!!
BOW
Wow Wow
I was going to post a link to their 1982 Song "I Want Candy". Then I did a bit of background research and found some upsetting information. The band was essentially Adam and the Ants without Adam and putting Burmese-English singer Myant Myant Aye (aka Annabell Lwin) as the front, who was 13 year old. This set off alarms for me. Then they recorded a few albums and Lwin's own mum had several nude photos taken of her 14-year-old daughter so they could be put on albums covers. If you remember the video of "I Want Candy", Lwin is bouncing around braless in a wet tshirt on a beach with her bandmates, bewbs a-swinging and nips a-pokin'. At the end of the video, they showed a picture of one of the nude photos. I didn't know it when watching it in 1982, but she was 15 years old in that video and now it strikes me as gross.
bow, bah, bo
On another chat board, "...Down To Washington!" would get a Woof! Unlikely the response will be quite the same here.
WOW WOW
Dug a dug a dut
Dug a dug a dut
Dug a dug a dug a dug a dut and close
Rest
BOW
Two, three
Rest
Up
Two
Rest
Two
Up!
POLITICS
Brainworm rules that all Covid vaccines must have warning labels for a nearly non-existant risk after literally hundreds of millions of tests.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccines-heart-myocarditis-warning-07103a53236cb715400aac0608e27dab
Brainworm's USDA recommends banning flu shots that contain thimerosal in it. He might recommend unpasteurized milk and essential oils instead.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-recommends-flu-vaccines-thimerosal/story?id=123224218
AG Pam Bondi pleads ignorance whether ICE agents wear masks. I mean, it's not like that information can be found, like, everywhere.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1938626702373994788
Breaking news: The Trump Tariffs have not narrowed the trade deficit. They've widened them as export volumes dropped nearly 10%. Looks like we got to economically punish some South Pacific penguins more.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-goods-trade-deficit-widens-may-exports-fall-2025-06-26/?
We're about to enter the golden age of VPN
https://gizmodo.com/supreme-court-says-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites-are-constitutional-2000621265
SCOTUS rules for partial defeat of birthright citizenship
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-rules-nationwide-injunctions-trump-birthright-citizenship/story?id=123034189
Pretty sure they didn't rule on birthright citizenship, they ruled about district judges being able to do national injunctions.
This is true. They abdicated the power of the courts- we no longer have balanced checks and balances.
It seems to me that SCOTUS is saying that have all the judicial power to make such decisions and not lower courts. So they simply took more power for themselves at the expense of the lower courts
... which is patently unconstitutional. After all, the Constitution specifies that Congress can create inferior courts. SCOTUS doesn't have the power to limit the power of those inferior courts: only Congress can do that.
Norway crown Prince Haakon's (BA Poli Sci 1999 UC Berkeley) stepson charged with multiple counts of sexual assault
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/norway-crown-princess-son-marius-borg-hoiby-suspected-offences
What are they going to teach them? That NATO will run out of ammunition if they're absorbed by all their soldiers?
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-train-china-troops-beat-us-nato-western-weapons-systems-2090569
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
South Carolina's Colin Murray-Boyles expresses on live TV how excited he is to be drafted by the Toronto Raptors
https://x.com/cjzero/status/1938043956312306007
Tight End University Swiftly Hits Zenith
https://x.com/NFL/status/1937942358760329695
Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to join. Texas regents meet Monday, approval and acceptance anticipated. This gets the 8th FB team and an additional baseball team.
DBD AV CLUB
Pixar suffers its first bomb: Elio
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/pixars-elio-is-emblematic-of-a-bigger-headwind-for-hollywood.html
Pretty sure this wasn't the FIRST bomb. Lightyear did pretty poorly.
I would also be careful here: the article mentions Elemental, but that movie opened poorly and yet kept trucking along with solid weekly returns to finish with a respectable haul. That could happen with this one too.
Poor production can wreck anything, and waste talent, but great production and talent can't always rescue really poor content concepts. This is a much wider, and widening, problem, now that its easier for anyone to produce and distribute poor content.