Zebras (zee-bras, or zeh-brahs if you’re Pommie or Commonwealth) are one of the three surviving members of the equines - along with horses and asses. Heh, I said ass. Zebras have three different distinct species - plains, grevy’s, and mountain zebra. There also used to be quagga, but those were hunted to extinction in the 19th century. Nice going, humans. As far as I can tell, this is a Burchell plains zebra, due to the intermittent grey stripes on the haunches. Chapman zebras also have that pattern, but they have bold stripes below their “knees”.
Tony Dow has died from liver cancer at the age of 77. He was the actor who played Wally opposite of Jerry Mather's (UC Berkeley, BS Philosophy '77) "Beaver" Cleaver
I'm a high school basketball referee, going on 7 years now. I've reffed a couple high-level girl's games with multiple D-I players, nothing yet at that level on the boy's side.
The highlight for me so far is working the Special Olympics National Games when they were held at UW in 2018. 2 weeks of nothing but good vibes, while working games to packed houses on the Huskies court. Got to meet Gary Payton and Detlef Shrempf as well.
Sean Marks. GM of the Nets for 6 years and counting- definitely did not see that coming. Still can't shake my last in-person sighting of him when a friend of mine was trying to hit on him at the bar in Henry's, very amusing.
I thought about him before answering Elson earlier in the thread. Marks had an 11-year playing career before moving into admin roles, though only 230 games over that timeframe. Still, he got a ring from one of his stints with the Spurs.
Kyle Boller and every highly drafted Tedford QBs from Oregon were a complete bust in the NFL. This led to many scouts and teams to doubt Rodgers and was part of the reason for him falling so far in the 1st round.
Surprisingly well when compared to previous Tedford QBs who were bust, since many people expected him to fail like Akili Smith, Joey Harrington and Kyle Boller before him.
Chris Conte. Multi year starter at Chicago and Tampa Bay. Had some highlights of spectacular interceptions and being stiff armed tumbling on the field.
Craig Stevens...enjoyed an 8-year NFL career thanks to his blocking prowess as a TE.
Honorable mention...Jaylen Brown. After developing a more consistent outside shot, something that was sorely lacking in his one season in Berkeley, Jaylen has been a much better pro than a college player. Brown had more player control/offensive fouls than 3’s as a FR. Him going 3 surprised a lot of people though, given his inconsistent game film...he’s a stud now...what a talent.
The Dodgers’ opener against the Nationals didn’t go as planned, with the team with the best record in baseball losing to the team with the worst record in baseball. On today’s Leading Off with True Blue LA podcast, we delve into a few pitchers from Monday’s game.
Tony Gonsolin suffered his first loss of the season, though in doing so showed his growth this season. He also set a record of sorts, thanks to the folks at STATS:
Then there was the wild eighth inning from Reyes Moronta, who completely lost the strike zone, throwing two wild pitches in a row, including one to the backstop. He also hit a batter and walked two in the inning, throwing 31 pitches.
A's have beaten Astros 3 out of the last four games, including last night, home runs by Tony Kemp and Skye Bolt. Adam Oller achieved his first big league win as the A's cruised to a 7-5 victory. In fact, Sean Murphy is doing so well recently that he is subject to trade talks, which is the A's way. As soon as one leaves mediocrity they are trade bait.
The A’s took the first game of the series against Houston, beating the Astros by a final of 7-5 on a cool night at the Coliseum.
One big inning from the lineup was just enough for the pitching staff. A solid performance from one of Oakland’s many rookie starters led the way on a day the bullpen had some uneven performances from the arms. They bent at the end but didn’t break, though, doing enough to walk away with the win tonight.
One weird thing about that game was that the announcers have clearly been told not to describe the Astr*s as cheaters - which the temp announcer had an issue with.
The Giants are playing terribly right now. After a building some momentum heading into the All-Star break, San Francisco has returned from the hiatus lifeless. After losing 7-0 on Monday to the Diamondbacks, they fell to .500 (48-48) for the fourth time this season and extended their losing streak to five games.
Every game gives me a paragraph of Giants defensive mistakes. Austin Slater misplayed a flyball that was ruled a double. He also overthrew the cutoff man several times, allowing runners to advance to second on singles. Joey Bart dropped a foul popup. Austin Wynns, who replaced Bart halfway through the game in a double-switch, was tricked into trying to back pick Josh Rojas at second base, which allowed Rojas to steal third.
Offensively, Merril Kelly shut down the Giants in 8 brilliant innings, allowing just a handful of baserunners. Luis Gonzalez ended Kelly’s perfect start with a perfectly placed grounder down the right-field line for a leadoff double in the sixth inning, but with one out, he was doubled up on a soft linedrive by Mike Yastrzemski. He reached again a few innings later on a well-executed bunt single but was picked off.
Not that's been detectable. Unless it was mild and hid under "normal" fall cold and spring allergy episodes. But I know some who were vaxed and boosted per recs and still got it. Experience suggests keeping most extended and extensive mingling outdoors makes a big difference.
Yes to the last sentence. I still am only indoors mostly in three places. Every couple weeks I go to the bookstore and there tends to be not many folks there. The Kennedy Center dropped its vax requirement but still requires masks at performances. The only place I'm at that has a relatively lower mask percentage is the grocery store.
Not sure, but leaning towards yes. I had congestion and a sore throat for ~10 days but tested negative twice with antigen tests, towards the end of it my wife tested positive on her PCR for work and an antigen one at home. We mainly isolated at home and wore masks around each other until she tested negative ~7 days later. She had mild symptoms but got lots of headaches, was (and still is) easily fatigued and dealt with COVID brain fog throughout. I remained testing negative with the at home tests.
Possibly had very mild one day weird scratchy throat case in March of 2020 (pre test availability) after several business travel gatherings with people who were from or recently been in NYC, Seattle and Milan. We definitely did not lock down soon enough in 2020. We've been pretty bunkered due to family health situation, but pushing it lately with some traveling family events.
Not yet, but the next week or two are going to be a running of the old viral gauntlet. My cousin is arriving from Scotland with her family tomorrow, and while they're diligent by UK standards with masking, her kids never had to wear them at school or anything, I can't and don't reasonably expect that a not quite 5 year old is going to be able to cope with wearing a mask across three airports and 2 flights for example, not having had to spend the day that way before. And we're definitely going to do some touristing so god only knows what scrofulous types we'll encounter.
More pertinently, my daughter's boyfriend came home from a family vacation last night - tested negative this morning (he's been testing daily since his dad went home early with the 'rona) so he came over and then had to leave 20 minutes later because his sister just tested positive.
Twice. Also, long Covid, twice. First time, I was exhausted (like couldn't walk a block exhausted) for about three months, and could not taste or smell for 16 months. Both eventually resolved.
Second time, I have very significant cognitive disfunction, and have lost a lot of short term memory capability.
Ditto. Sorry you’re going thru this. You’ve posted about it a couple of times. I note that because I keep forgetting and there’s nothing in the quantity or quality of your posts (including about food) that gives any hint that you’ve had this suffering.
Kudos for being a mensch! As I think I’ve noted before, if I stub my toe, the world will know about it due to my whinging and moaning!
Scootie thank you for sharing. The more long covid real experiences that get shared, the better to educate those who think it will be just a cold for all. I will be thinking of you, hope you are treating yourself well.
Definitely. My best friend’s wife got it early in pandemic and got Pott’s as a long Covid symptom (basically cannot stand for more than a few mins). She sent a blast email about it, and that definitely affected me more than anything from the CDC, WHO, or whatever other confused alphabet soup agency is supposed to be doing something
No, unless I had it at some point but was totally asymptomatic. I haven't had any day where I felt I needed to test. I recently realized the test kits I have around the house expired earlier this month.
When I was at Costco they had a note next to the tests that the expiration date has been extended. I assume they do some random tests to see if they're still good?
I read somewhere that the initial batches had very short expiration dates because they were EUA'd, but that the real usefulness expiry was like a year past that.
I'll check the govt website. The tests I have are the ones the govt sent out. For some reason my nephew gave them to me when he visited earlier this year.
I get the impression that going to Europe is a great way to get it, since so many people have stopped masking and you wouldn't say their large building ventilation is the best.
I see some ebb and flow on the accounts I follow on insta that are coming out of Portugal, France, and Germany. As far as I can tell, when there's a surge, people mask up according to their sense of necessity - which is reasonable enough, considering the number of loons in France, Germany, and The Netherlands who apparently think mask requirements are a literal holocaust.
Japan was 99.9%. As was the flight home and SFO. And cabbie. Went to grab dinner at nearby restaurant (in Castro) and didn’t see a mask. Including mine, as I’d inexplicably forgotten it.
Yes. Early Jan 2022. Very mild cold symptoms for a day. Small sore throat in an afternoon and small body aches the next day. That's about it. Tested positive with an at-home nasal swab test. Finally tested negative after, maybe, 7 days.
Not certain, although I think I may have had it very early in the (US) pandemic: March 2 through 6, 2020. My symptoms were consistent with a low grade flu and I slept most of the time. But I wasn't terribly sick, and there was no way to test for COVID at the time.
ICYMI: Tony Ornato, Robert Engel, and another agent (reportedly Trump's driver on J6) were reportedly ready dispute Cassidy Hutchison's testimony. Hutchison's testimony was illustrative of Trump's mindset of wanting to actively participate in J6 with the insurgents. The three men have reportedly lawyered up and have since declined to come in to testify under oath.
Just saw an 80-some odd year old man walk into the Moraga Safeway just down from Miramonte HS…he was wearing a USC Trojans hat.
I almost pushed him down and beat him until his eyes bled, yelling “do you see what happens, Larry, when you F a stranger…” like Walter in The Big Lebowski….
I walked pups with my cousin out through the tunnel…I am in Oakland.
I’m game to do something Thursday? I head back South Fri a.m. I actually need to pick up uncooked Top Dogs so if anyone wants to meet at Henry’s Thurs eve I’m game….
Remember that we are still in an exclusive window right now. So ESPN is basically negotiating against itself and has incentive to lowball. We'll see what happens after the window closes and other networks/streamers can make offers.
Not exactly a new story but a group of Penn State players are demanding a slice of TV revenue sharing for players in their conference., something which could spread to other conferences, in which it would be a case of the rich getting richer.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said further expansion beyond USC and UCLA is possible, if done for the right reasons, and the league will take a "bold" approach toward major changes in college athletics.
USC and UCLA, which are set to join the Big Ten for the 2024 season, will receive full revenue shares from the league immediately, Warren said, unlike the three most recent additions: Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers. The Big Ten is nearing a new media rights agreement, which reportedly will bring in more than $1 billion annually and that Warren hopes to announce "sooner than later."
"I get asked every single day, what's next?" Warren said Tuesday to open Big Ten football media days. "It may include future expansion, but it will be done for the right reasons, at the right time, with our student-athletes' academic and athletic empowerment at the center of any and all decisions that we will make.
"We will not expand just to expand. It will be strategic; it will add additional value to our conference."
That's a best case scenario for adding Cal (and maybe Stanf*rd). The Bay Area and Sacramento media markets are big enough that they almost certainly add value to the B1G. But it is not a certainty.
I would also point out that adding the UW and Oregon becomes less likely if it requires also taking Oregon State and Wazzu. Neither OSU or Wazzu add anything to the B1G. They become something of a drag in terms of revenue sharing among the B1G conference membership.
That's both great and also troubling. If they add Cal, that would be awesome. If they pass Bay Area and head to the Pacific Northwest and add Oregon/Washington, then that's really doom for us.
Yeah but do we even have the capacity to deliver the Bay Area market? Not really tbh. I think the Big Ten fell for the nonsense that Rutgers would deliver it the NYC market and so now scrutinizes those type of assertions
It's not about being able to deliver that market - it's that the Big Ten can put on their presentation deck to advertisers that they have the NY market and the ads will reach there. No one cares about Rutgers football - but people care about advertising reach.
I think the B1G is still bragging about now having the three largest markets in America, so yeah I think it does still matter that they have Rutgers.
Just being in the Bay Area market means they can get more carriage on the local cable/satellite systems, which would mean a lot. Why take both schools rather than just Stanford or just Cal? So they block other conferences from getting into the territory.
Not saying it definitely happens, but the logic is there.
Oregon and Washington likely have an advantage in terms of recent success, viewership, "brand," etc.
Cal and Stanford have the TV market advantage, plus academics if the B1G still cares about that (they probably do, to some degree), and are more natural rivals for the LA schools.
At this point I might expect all four to be added at once if and when the B1G decides to further expand in the west.
And then we form a Pacific division of 6 teams, which would be kinda boring and defeats the purpose of Big 10 adding west coast schools if we are only playing each other, but logistically it works and we'll be with the big brothers.
I think they recently said it's not strictly a "requirement" (Notre Dame isn't in the AAU), though yes, I think they still strongly prefer AAU schools.
Population of Washington is about the same as the Bay Area. Just imagine the extent of Cal's following if they could market to all parts of the state and also draw in non-alums other than just alumni that happen to live in the Bay Area or Sacramento. As pointed out many times before it is a marketing/branding problem that Cal (or UC-Berkeley or Berkeley) has never fixed. A friend of mine (and mentor) who taught at both Stanford GSB and Haas wrote a book:
Simplicity Marketing:
End Brand Complexity, Clutter and Confusion
Cal should have hired him as a consultant. There's a lot of untapped eyeball value in this the country's largest state.
Some good new for East Bay roller skating fans. This is one of my happy places. Been going here since I was dipping Big League Chew. Place has not changed one iota in 40 years since I've been going. https://www.ktvu.com/news/golden-skate-to-remain-open-after-receiving-overwhelming-support
Tony Dow has died from liver cancer at the age of 77. He was the actor who played Wally opposite of Jerry Mather's (UC Berkeley, BS Philosophy '77) "Beaver" Cleaver
Not so fast my friends…
Giving a tour in Mandarin at work today. Google Translate don't fail me now!!!
When the conversation switches to food, you can tag me in.
I can't converse, but if you need someone to sing Yue Liang Dai Biao Wode Xin, I can do that.
I appreciate your assistance in my time of need.
你問我愛你有多深 我愛你有幾分 ...
Ni wen wo ai ni you duo shen
Wo ai ni you ji fen...
If you need somebody to help order beer or tell your guests that I have diarrhea, then I'm your guy.
Thank you for your support.
Referee
I'm a high school basketball referee, going on 7 years now. I've reffed a couple high-level girl's games with multiple D-I players, nothing yet at that level on the boy's side.
The highlight for me so far is working the Special Olympics National Games when they were held at UW in 2018. 2 weeks of nothing but good vibes, while working games to packed houses on the Huskies court. Got to meet Gary Payton and Detlef Shrempf as well.
Cal player who did surprisingly well in the pros
CJ Anderson. Gale Gilbert became a pretty reliable NFL backup. He went to 5 Super Bowls, although he never took a snap in one.
Sean Marks. GM of the Nets for 6 years and counting- definitely did not see that coming. Still can't shake my last in-person sighting of him when a friend of mine was trying to hit on him at the bar in Henry's, very amusing.
I thought about him before answering Elson earlier in the thread. Marks had an 11-year playing career before moving into admin roles, though only 230 games over that timeframe. Still, he got a ring from one of his stints with the Spurs.
Collin Morikawa
L. P. Ladouceur
Was a scholarship player but only started 2 years for Cal.
Went undrafted but ended up playing 253 games over 15 seasons, including 1 pro bowl.
Maybe the metric should be -
Cal player who very obviously exceeded expectations in the pros.
Aaron Rodgers.
Kyle Boller and every highly drafted Tedford QBs from Oregon were a complete bust in the NFL. This led to many scouts and teams to doubt Rodgers and was part of the reason for him falling so far in the 1st round.
I don't know if I would categorize Aaron Rodgers as "well."
Good point. But would you say that Rodgers very obviously exceeded expectations?
I would.
Of course. He would be the best QB ever if not for Tom Brady.
Surprisingly well when compared to previous Tedford QBs who were bust, since many people expected him to fail like Akili Smith, Joey Harrington and Kyle Boller before him.
Yeah I agree with that. I just think he's way beyond "surprisingly well"
the "surprising" part I totally agree with.
Dave Binn, obviously!
Francisco Elson, somehow played in 500 NBA game over 10 seasons. He was good at Cal, but not 10-year NBA career good.
Great call. I might add Yogi too.
I stood next to him on Sproul once and I swear my head came up to like his belt, was crazy
Justin Forsett
Nah.
Chris Conte. Multi year starter at Chicago and Tampa Bay. Had some highlights of spectacular interceptions and being stiff armed tumbling on the field.
Worked out next to him at RSF a few times. Worked out hard, but didn't look like an NFL player, just a buffed frat type.
Marvin Jones
And he's still playing!
Craig Stevens...enjoyed an 8-year NFL career thanks to his blocking prowess as a TE.
Honorable mention...Jaylen Brown. After developing a more consistent outside shot, something that was sorely lacking in his one season in Berkeley, Jaylen has been a much better pro than a college player. Brown had more player control/offensive fouls than 3’s as a FR. Him going 3 surprised a lot of people though, given his inconsistent game film...he’s a stud now...what a talent.
UDFA CJ Anderson.
Stripe
Fruit stripes, quite possibly the worst gum ever
OK as a payments platform.
(s). Great movie. Many quotable lines, just from the scene in the barracks where they meet each other.
That's the fact, Jack!
Lighten up Francis.
Anyone touches my stuff, I’ll kill ya...
Also I don't like people touchin me. So keep your me-hooks off me.
*meat-hooks
Zebra
Pac 12 refs are an embarrassment
Glasses Ref disagrees
PRO
Reyes Moronta’s wild ride, Tony Gonsolin finally loses
https://www.truebluela.com/podcasts/2022/7/26/23278509/dodgers-podcast-tony-gonsolin-reyes-moronta
The Dodgers’ opener against the Nationals didn’t go as planned, with the team with the best record in baseball losing to the team with the worst record in baseball. On today’s Leading Off with True Blue LA podcast, we delve into a few pitchers from Monday’s game.
Tony Gonsolin suffered his first loss of the season, though in doing so showed his growth this season. He also set a record of sorts, thanks to the folks at STATS:
Then there was the wild eighth inning from Reyes Moronta, who completely lost the strike zone, throwing two wild pitches in a row, including one to the backstop. He also hit a batter and walked two in the inning, throwing 31 pitches.
A's have beaten Astros 3 out of the last four games, including last night, home runs by Tony Kemp and Skye Bolt. Adam Oller achieved his first big league win as the A's cruised to a 7-5 victory. In fact, Sean Murphy is doing so well recently that he is subject to trade talks, which is the A's way. As soon as one leaves mediocrity they are trade bait.
Game #99: A’s win, beat Astros 7-5
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/7/25/23278224/game-99-as-win-beat-astros-oller-coliseum
The A’s took the first game of the series against Houston, beating the Astros by a final of 7-5 on a cool night at the Coliseum.
One big inning from the lineup was just enough for the pitching staff. A solid performance from one of Oakland’s many rookie starters led the way on a day the bullpen had some uneven performances from the arms. They bent at the end but didn’t break, though, doing enough to walk away with the win tonight.
One weird thing about that game was that the announcers have clearly been told not to describe the Astr*s as cheaters - which the temp announcer had an issue with.
Put a fork in the Giants. Time to rebuild.
"SELL! SELL! GET BACK IN THERE AND SELL!"
Randolph...RANDOLPH....
And yet people are discussing the Giants going after Soto.
They’re not one player away...
Lifeless Giants shutout by Diamondbacks in 7-0 loss
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/7/25/23278407/giants-lose-diamondbacks-jakob-junis
The Giants are playing terribly right now. After a building some momentum heading into the All-Star break, San Francisco has returned from the hiatus lifeless. After losing 7-0 on Monday to the Diamondbacks, they fell to .500 (48-48) for the fourth time this season and extended their losing streak to five games.
Every game gives me a paragraph of Giants defensive mistakes. Austin Slater misplayed a flyball that was ruled a double. He also overthrew the cutoff man several times, allowing runners to advance to second on singles. Joey Bart dropped a foul popup. Austin Wynns, who replaced Bart halfway through the game in a double-switch, was tricked into trying to back pick Josh Rojas at second base, which allowed Rojas to steal third.
Offensively, Merril Kelly shut down the Giants in 8 brilliant innings, allowing just a handful of baserunners. Luis Gonzalez ended Kelly’s perfect start with a perfectly placed grounder down the right-field line for a leadoff double in the sixth inning, but with one out, he was doubled up on a soft linedrive by Mike Yastrzemski. He reached again a few innings later on a well-executed bunt single but was picked off.
What happened to Longoria? I saw he was out (again).
Kyler Murray's contract hints that his work ethic leaves something to be desired
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1551661427949174784
Have to parse: is his work ethic just fine (I mean he’s a starting QB in the NFL) or is it just not toxic-workaholic-NFL level?
ICYMI: Chase Elliot wins the Pocono 500 by coming in third but not cheating
https://apnews.com/article/sports-michael-jordan-nascar-denny-hamlin-joe-gibbs-3f3d1d56427215fe3ce6cfa1c84934b5
Neymar still gotta Neymar, even in a friendly
https://twitter.com/SirLuchoSuarez/status/1551554418826481667
TODAY IN COVID
Unscientific poll: have you had Covid 19 yet?
Not that I'm aware of.
Not that's been detectable. Unless it was mild and hid under "normal" fall cold and spring allergy episodes. But I know some who were vaxed and boosted per recs and still got it. Experience suggests keeping most extended and extensive mingling outdoors makes a big difference.
Yes to the last sentence. I still am only indoors mostly in three places. Every couple weeks I go to the bookstore and there tends to be not many folks there. The Kennedy Center dropped its vax requirement but still requires masks at performances. The only place I'm at that has a relatively lower mask percentage is the grocery store.
Not sure, but leaning towards yes. I had congestion and a sore throat for ~10 days but tested negative twice with antigen tests, towards the end of it my wife tested positive on her PCR for work and an antigen one at home. We mainly isolated at home and wore masks around each other until she tested negative ~7 days later. She had mild symptoms but got lots of headaches, was (and still is) easily fatigued and dealt with COVID brain fog throughout. I remained testing negative with the at home tests.
Possibly had very mild one day weird scratchy throat case in March of 2020 (pre test availability) after several business travel gatherings with people who were from or recently been in NYC, Seattle and Milan. We definitely did not lock down soon enough in 2020. We've been pretty bunkered due to family health situation, but pushing it lately with some traveling family events.
Not yet, but the next week or two are going to be a running of the old viral gauntlet. My cousin is arriving from Scotland with her family tomorrow, and while they're diligent by UK standards with masking, her kids never had to wear them at school or anything, I can't and don't reasonably expect that a not quite 5 year old is going to be able to cope with wearing a mask across three airports and 2 flights for example, not having had to spend the day that way before. And we're definitely going to do some touristing so god only knows what scrofulous types we'll encounter.
More pertinently, my daughter's boyfriend came home from a family vacation last night - tested negative this morning (he's been testing daily since his dad went home early with the 'rona) so he came over and then had to leave 20 minutes later because his sister just tested positive.
Anyway, the streak is at risk.
Yikes!
Yeah, I shall be pleasantly surprised if I don't catch it in the next week
No, but wife tested positive today. :(
Ugh...sorry to hear. Can you try a “pandemic separation....”?
We sort of did that and it may have worked. I slept on the couch after crashing on the boat for the first two nights.
Twice. Also, long Covid, twice. First time, I was exhausted (like couldn't walk a block exhausted) for about three months, and could not taste or smell for 16 months. Both eventually resolved.
Second time, I have very significant cognitive disfunction, and have lost a lot of short term memory capability.
Ditto. Sorry you’re going thru this. You’ve posted about it a couple of times. I note that because I keep forgetting and there’s nothing in the quantity or quality of your posts (including about food) that gives any hint that you’ve had this suffering.
Kudos for being a mensch! As I think I’ve noted before, if I stub my toe, the world will know about it due to my whinging and moaning!
So sorry to hear this Scootie.
Scootie thank you for sharing. The more long covid real experiences that get shared, the better to educate those who think it will be just a cold for all. I will be thinking of you, hope you are treating yourself well.
A woman in our club developed type 2 diabetes with her long covid and had some major hormone problems as a result as well
Definitely. My best friend’s wife got it early in pandemic and got Pott’s as a long Covid symptom (basically cannot stand for more than a few mins). She sent a blast email about it, and that definitely affected me more than anything from the CDC, WHO, or whatever other confused alphabet soup agency is supposed to be doing something
that sucks, I hope it gets better
Sorry to hear that Scootie. I hope your long COVID symptoms resolve soon with no lasting effect.
Long COVID is why I'm not cavalier about getting it. That and possibly passing it to Mrs Slug, although she's had it at least once, possibly twice.
Oh wow. Sorry to hear Scootie.
Damn that sucks, sorry to hear! Has the memory thing from the second go-round improved at all?
No and it's really starting to worry me. I'm about 14 weeks past the infection.
Yikes!
No, unless I had it at some point but was totally asymptomatic. I haven't had any day where I felt I needed to test. I recently realized the test kits I have around the house expired earlier this month.
When I was at Costco they had a note next to the tests that the expiration date has been extended. I assume they do some random tests to see if they're still good?
The ones I bought from Hong Kong have expiration dates two years into the future - so I think the ones in the US should be fine for a while.
I read somewhere that the initial batches had very short expiration dates because they were EUA'd, but that the real usefulness expiry was like a year past that.
I'll check the govt website. The tests I have are the ones the govt sent out. For some reason my nephew gave them to me when he visited earlier this year.
No, but my best friend, dad, and brother all got Covid in the past week so it feels like the walks are closing in!
Yes, once in January of this year. 3 days of actual sickness, 10 more days of lingering. No apparent long term effects. Fully vaxxed and boosted.
Daughter has had it twice this year, while son and wife have avoided it so far.
Same for me and fam. Altho I had an extra week of post-negative covid brain.
Not me, but some relatives have had it twice.
I was pretty sick in December 2019, but supposedly Covid wasn't in the country until January 2020.
@I think we found patient zero@
I was thanksgiving 2019. After a couple of massages in October from a woman from China. Maybe Patient -1…
Knocked on my ass for four or five days. Worse than my actual covid this past April. But without the covid brain.
No
Nope, in my family only my son had it, but only while he was in France in March this year.
I get the impression that going to Europe is a great way to get it, since so many people have stopped masking and you wouldn't say their large building ventilation is the best.
Yeah, he was a bit shocked that NOBODY was masking, compared to the Bay Area, that's really different. Luckily, his wife didn't catch it from him.
According to Nick and his wife - when they were in Portugal, everyone was masking.
I see some ebb and flow on the accounts I follow on insta that are coming out of Portugal, France, and Germany. As far as I can tell, when there's a surge, people mask up according to their sense of necessity - which is reasonable enough, considering the number of loons in France, Germany, and The Netherlands who apparently think mask requirements are a literal holocaust.
Honestly, it seems like pretty much nobody is masking outside of the Bay Area period.
Japan was 99.9%. As was the flight home and SFO. And cabbie. Went to grab dinner at nearby restaurant (in Castro) and didn’t see a mask. Including mine, as I’d inexplicably forgotten it.
I see it regularly in LA, especially with elderly folks indoors
Yes, in late Feb/early March. Swept through my whole household (wife and two kids all had it).
It was basically an annoying cold, with symptoms that passed after a week.
Yes. Early Jan 2022. Very mild cold symptoms for a day. Small sore throat in an afternoon and small body aches the next day. That's about it. Tested positive with an at-home nasal swab test. Finally tested negative after, maybe, 7 days.
Not certain, although I think I may have had it very early in the (US) pandemic: March 2 through 6, 2020. My symptoms were consistent with a low grade flu and I slept most of the time. But I wasn't terribly sick, and there was no way to test for COVID at the time.
Biden says he's "Feeling great" as Covid symptoms start to wane
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/joe-biden-covid-monday/index.html
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Yup.
https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1551731018838712322
My issue is they missed a few:
Cucker Tarlson
Large Marge
The Lyin’ Laura/Lauren sisters
They should all be on that list as well.
ugh oh- I've been calling my increased-self Large Marge. Am I accidentally saying I am (also) some crazy Fox News personality?!
"Large Marge" always makes me laugh. Great callback.
ICYMI: Tony Ornato, Robert Engel, and another agent (reportedly Trump's driver on J6) were reportedly ready dispute Cassidy Hutchison's testimony. Hutchison's testimony was illustrative of Trump's mindset of wanting to actively participate in J6 with the insurgents. The three men have reportedly lawyered up and have since declined to come in to testify under oath.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/22/trump-aides-at-heart-of-jan-6-secret-service-claims-hired-private-lawyers-lofgren-says.html
Funny how they talk big in the media but when it comes to saying it under oath...crickets.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Just saw an 80-some odd year old man walk into the Moraga Safeway just down from Miramonte HS…he was wearing a USC Trojans hat.
I almost pushed him down and beat him until his eyes bled, yelling “do you see what happens, Larry, when you F a stranger…” like Walter in The Big Lebowski….
Almost.,,
Wait you're in Moraga and didn't even propose a WFCEBHH?
I walked pups with my cousin out through the tunnel…I am in Oakland.
I’m game to do something Thursday? I head back South Fri a.m. I actually need to pick up uncooked Top Dogs so if anyone wants to meet at Henry’s Thurs eve I’m game….
Thoughts?
I'm in. Since it's late in the day, we should repost this in tomorrow's DBD.
Afraid of Twist showing up
Seriously. Just 1.5 miles from me.
247Sports' Jason Scheer claims that ESPN offered the Pac-10 $24.5m per year.
https://twitter.com/SicEm365Radio/status/1551674031379828740
So that's $5.5 million less than current rates per team? Need another source if that's the case or we may need a conference merger.
Remember that we are still in an exclusive window right now. So ESPN is basically negotiating against itself and has incentive to lowball. We'll see what happens after the window closes and other networks/streamers can make offers.
Good point streaming might be the saving grace
Not exactly a new story but a group of Penn State players are demanding a slice of TV revenue sharing for players in their conference., something which could spread to other conferences, in which it would be a case of the rich getting richer.
4-star DB Jasiah Wagoner, who had narrowed it down to Cal, Oregon, Texas, and Oklahoma commits to Sooners.
CAL
There's still hope! Who am I kidding...
Big Ten could expand beyond additions of USC, UCLA, says commissioner Kevin Warren, if it adds 'additional value' to conference
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34297535/big-ten-expand-additions-usc-ucla-says-commissioner-kevin-warren-adds-additional-value-conference
INDIANAPOLIS -- Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said further expansion beyond USC and UCLA is possible, if done for the right reasons, and the league will take a "bold" approach toward major changes in college athletics.
USC and UCLA, which are set to join the Big Ten for the 2024 season, will receive full revenue shares from the league immediately, Warren said, unlike the three most recent additions: Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers. The Big Ten is nearing a new media rights agreement, which reportedly will bring in more than $1 billion annually and that Warren hopes to announce "sooner than later."
"I get asked every single day, what's next?" Warren said Tuesday to open Big Ten football media days. "It may include future expansion, but it will be done for the right reasons, at the right time, with our student-athletes' academic and athletic empowerment at the center of any and all decisions that we will make.
"We will not expand just to expand. It will be strategic; it will add additional value to our conference."
That's a best case scenario for adding Cal (and maybe Stanf*rd). The Bay Area and Sacramento media markets are big enough that they almost certainly add value to the B1G. But it is not a certainty.
I would also point out that adding the UW and Oregon becomes less likely if it requires also taking Oregon State and Wazzu. Neither OSU or Wazzu add anything to the B1G. They become something of a drag in terms of revenue sharing among the B1G conference membership.
That's why UW and UO would be the pair, not UO/OSU and UW/WSU
And yet politicians in both states have said that the better known school must take along its state school brother/cousin/whatever.
It isn't a slam dunk.
Oregon and Washington are about as likely to make UW and Oregon take WSU/OSU as the regents are to force UCLA take Cal to the Big10.
That's both great and also troubling. If they add Cal, that would be awesome. If they pass Bay Area and head to the Pacific Northwest and add Oregon/Washington, then that's really doom for us.
If it's strictly media rights money, you'd think Cal and Stanford would be way ahead of Oregon/Washington.
Yeah but do we even have the capacity to deliver the Bay Area market? Not really tbh. I think the Big Ten fell for the nonsense that Rutgers would deliver it the NYC market and so now scrutinizes those type of assertions
It's not about being able to deliver that market - it's that the Big Ten can put on their presentation deck to advertisers that they have the NY market and the ads will reach there. No one cares about Rutgers football - but people care about advertising reach.
I think the B1G is still bragging about now having the three largest markets in America, so yeah I think it does still matter that they have Rutgers.
Just being in the Bay Area market means they can get more carriage on the local cable/satellite systems, which would mean a lot. Why take both schools rather than just Stanford or just Cal? So they block other conferences from getting into the territory.
Not saying it definitely happens, but the logic is there.
With the Raiders gone, we need to market as local football strongly.
Oregon and Washington likely have an advantage in terms of recent success, viewership, "brand," etc.
Cal and Stanford have the TV market advantage, plus academics if the B1G still cares about that (they probably do, to some degree), and are more natural rivals for the LA schools.
At this point I might expect all four to be added at once if and when the B1G decides to further expand in the west.
That would be the best case scenario for us.
All 4 schools go to Big 10.
And then we form a Pacific division of 6 teams, which would be kinda boring and defeats the purpose of Big 10 adding west coast schools if we are only playing each other, but logistically it works and we'll be with the big brothers.
I think they must still care, somewhat, about academics since they still have the AAU accreditation requirement.
I think they recently said it's not strictly a "requirement" (Notre Dame isn't in the AAU), though yes, I think they still strongly prefer AAU schools.
Population of Washington is about the same as the Bay Area. Just imagine the extent of Cal's following if they could market to all parts of the state and also draw in non-alums other than just alumni that happen to live in the Bay Area or Sacramento. As pointed out many times before it is a marketing/branding problem that Cal (or UC-Berkeley or Berkeley) has never fixed. A friend of mine (and mentor) who taught at both Stanford GSB and Haas wrote a book:
Simplicity Marketing:
End Brand Complexity, Clutter and Confusion
Cal should have hired him as a consultant. There's a lot of untapped eyeball value in this the country's largest state.
Yeah, despite being named "California" we barely have a backing fan base throughout the state.
Yeah, this is so depressing. Cal branding is about as successful as Democratic messaging.
Go Bears!!!