I think Cal Bears Beer should be called “Cal Beers”. Bear Republic would be best, but I think they were sold to Drake’s and I’m not sure if the brand will be retained
Wander Franco's young career seems to have stopped developing after a second minor comes out to accuse him of having sexual relationship. Sources are still pretty sketchy, so some time should be taken before passing judgement.
A prison team featuring Wander and ex-Pirate Felipe Vazquez, now serving a billion year sentence for having a relationship with a 13-year-old, would probably beat the A’s.
19 yo Jackson Holliday (Matt’s kid) started at low A this year, moved up to high A, then got called up a few weeks ago to AA. His slash line in 20 games in AA is .361/.419/.554. Seems legit! He also looks like he is 12 to me: https://www.milb.com/player/jackson-holliday-702616
The Oakland Athletics continued their road trip in St Louis with the second game of this interleague series against the Cardinals tonight. The A’s dropped the first game yesterday but hope to rebound against a Cardinals team that surprised baseball by being sellers at the trade deadline and have underwhelmed their fans this year with a 53-66 record, landing them in last place in the National League Central Division.
Thirty-year-old righty Spenser Watkins made his first start for the A’s after being picked up from Houston on waivers August 8. His career record is 7-13 with a 5.85 ERA in thirty starts over 39 career appearances. He faced righty Dakota Hudson who is 3-0 in 9 appearances this year with a 4.31 ERA.
In the fourth inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night, Wade Meckler took a first-pitch fastball about one copy of Infinite Jest above the strike zone.
Home plate umpire Chad Whitson called it a strike.
Joc Pederson sliding across home making the safe sign, looking at the ump with a huge grin and telling him he got the call right was the highlight of the game for me.
Doing virtually all of its damage in the sixth inning, the Dodgers took care of business on Tuesday against Brewers, backing an outstanding outing by Bobby Miller in a 6-2 win in the series opener at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers’ rookie arm pitched the majority of his outing, trailing on the scoreboard. That is about the only negative thing one can say about Miller’s start on Tuesday.
Edwards Stadium is named after Col. George C. Edwards, who was born in 1852 in Spencer, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He moved to the Bay Area when he was 10. He was the third student to ever register at the University of California. Thereafter, he was continuously connected to UCB - student, professor, professor emeritus until his death in 1930. The stadium was named after him two years later when it finished construction.
Ex-SJSU director of sports medicine pleads guilty to two misdemeanor counts of touching students on the butts/boobs without a reason. This whole saga already took down the Spartan's President and AD in 2021.
With the new configuration Cal has a much better championship chance than going 4-8 with a 2-7 conference record like last season. Would we ever beat Utah again?
There are 11 full time members of the MWC. Seems logical to assume that a vote of 6 would dissolve conference. So can we do a PAC 4 plus MWC 6 composed of:
No kidding. This is what the best case for relegation looks like.
My take would be to add 8 MWC schools, if possible, not just 6 -
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
Fresno State
Nevada
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV
The greatest travel distance is probably Washington State to San Diego State. That's about as compact a grouping as you're going to find among West Coast FBS programs, even if its dominated by mid-majors.
The key thing I can’t wrap my head around: why would anyone sign on with a conference led by the people who presided over its implosion? If I were a president of a MWC school, I’d not want to bet the farm on the pac4 administration
Which brewery would you like to see be the official brewer of Cal Bears Beer?
Anchor
At this point it could only be Anchor, no?
I think Cal Bears Beer should be called “Cal Beers”. Bear Republic would be best, but I think they were sold to Drake’s and I’m not sure if the brand will be retained
Russian River
Well, some one from the Bay Area... why not?
Lahaina sounded like hell on earth
https://apnews.com/article/lahaina-maui-hawaii-wildfires-deaths-survivors-8a8bf7e4257c1cedaa161e4002b3e7fd
PRO
Messi scores again, putting Inter Miami into the finals. Six games, nine goals.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/report/_/gameId/685765
my bro in law in Philly has season tickets to the Union but did not get his act together in time to get seats for the game vs Messi
Wander Franco's young career seems to have stopped developing after a second minor comes out to accuse him of having sexual relationship. Sources are still pretty sketchy, so some time should be taken before passing judgement.
https://www.totalprosports.com/mlb/wander-franco-second-relationship-minor-investigation/
A prison team featuring Wander and ex-Pirate Felipe Vazquez, now serving a billion year sentence for having a relationship with a 13-year-old, would probably beat the A’s.
OOOoooOOOOoo.. I don't like THAT thought.
Angel Hernandez loses appeals against MLB for racial discrimination.
https://sports.yahoo.com/angel-hernandezs-lawsuit-accusing-mlb-of-racial-discrimination-rejected-in-federal-appeals-court-154840021.html
Dude, the fact that you suck is not racist.
Imperials beat Convicts 3-1. Two first-time finalists - Lions vs. La Roja - for WC final
https://www.espn.com/soccer/report/_/gameId/622588
Some Dodger fan bet his daughter
https://twitter.com/mookiebetts/status/1691470451158257664
19 yo Jackson Holliday (Matt’s kid) started at low A this year, moved up to high A, then got called up a few weeks ago to AA. His slash line in 20 games in AA is .361/.419/.554. Seems legit! He also looks like he is 12 to me: https://www.milb.com/player/jackson-holliday-702616
Like no way he can grow a mustache!
Athletics drop another in St. Louis 6-2
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/8/15/23833944/athletics-cardinals-st-louis-butler
The Oakland Athletics continued their road trip in St Louis with the second game of this interleague series against the Cardinals tonight. The A’s dropped the first game yesterday but hope to rebound against a Cardinals team that surprised baseball by being sellers at the trade deadline and have underwhelmed their fans this year with a 53-66 record, landing them in last place in the National League Central Division.
Thirty-year-old righty Spenser Watkins made his first start for the A’s after being picked up from Houston on waivers August 8. His career record is 7-13 with a 5.85 ERA in thirty starts over 39 career appearances. He faced righty Dakota Hudson who is 3-0 in 9 appearances this year with a 4.31 ERA.
A turning tide
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/8/15/23833908/giants-rays-recap-wade-meckler-sean-manaea-joc-pederson-wilmer-flores-jakob-junis-heliot-ramos
In the fourth inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night, Wade Meckler took a first-pitch fastball about one copy of Infinite Jest above the strike zone.
Home plate umpire Chad Whitson called it a strike.
Umps are just terrible this year. Justin Turner got called out the other night on a pitch that was about three balls outside.
Angel Hernandez says hold my beer
But yes, they have been very bad
Joc Pederson sliding across home making the safe sign, looking at the ump with a huge grin and telling him he got the call right was the highlight of the game for me.
Love Joc. Got Kiké back. Could use Kenley.
Dodgers rally behind Bobby Miller, Ryan Yarbrough to beat Brewers
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/8/15/23833995/dodgers-rally-bobby-miller-ryan-yarbrough-brewers
Doing virtually all of its damage in the sixth inning, the Dodgers took care of business on Tuesday against Brewers, backing an outstanding outing by Bobby Miller in a 6-2 win in the series opener at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers’ rookie arm pitched the majority of his outing, trailing on the scoreboard. That is about the only negative thing one can say about Miller’s start on Tuesday.
Ed
Edwards Stadium is named after Col. George C. Edwards, who was born in 1852 in Spencer, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He moved to the Bay Area when he was 10. He was the third student to ever register at the University of California. Thereafter, he was continuously connected to UCB - student, professor, professor emeritus until his death in 1930. The stadium was named after him two years later when it finished construction.
http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1489n6xv&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00006&toc.depth=1&toc.id=
Saw some great track and field there.
Also the blue-gold spring scrimmage when memorial was under construction. The walk on TE Stephen Anderson then a freshman had like a 90 yard TD catch
Gray
Mr.
TV…filmed in San Francisco back when San Francisco was San Francisco…
A lot of random stuff got filmed in SF during the Willie Brown days.
Nash Bridges
The Game remains an all-time favorite.
Bowling alley lawyer TV show.
I forgot about that show, with the blonde from Modern Family. It was cute.
DBD AV CLUB
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
A little bathroom mat to remind your guests and residents to keep the powder room tidy
https://gear.lincolnproject.us/products/classified-documents-cross-stitch?_pos=1&_sid=89d1cfecc&_ss=r
Suitable for framing and displaying at Thanksgiving. Especially if you have family who are MAGA.
(I can be an ornery ol' cuss)
Without any intentional irony, MTG suggested that the Fulton County AG should be going after rapists
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1691591073313755592
Drunk Uncle Rudy may be broke. Has he considered using the Public Defender?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/giuliani-money-lawsuits-trump
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Welcome, Baby Bears!
https://twitter.com/Oski/status/1691640783269769278
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Auburn down to only 1 person from their 2021 recruit class. However, they succeeded in the portal
https://twitter.com/JFergusonAU/status/1691639564119482837
Apropos - Cal's 2021 recruiting class:
Jermaine Terry ❌
J Mike ❌
Mavin Anderson ✅
KEO ✅
Akili Calhoun ✅
Bastian Swinney ✅
Kaleb Higgins ❌
Kai Milner ❌
Femi Oladejo ❌
Hunter Barth ✅
Lu-Magia Hearns ✅
Keleki Latu ❌
Ieremia Ieremia ✅
Dylan Jemtegaard ✅
Ryan Lange ❌
Darius Long ✅
Fatu Isosefa ❌
Tuoy family: this is an Oher's extortion attempt
https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/15/tuohy-family-claims-michael-oher-attempted-15-mil-shakedown-before-court-filing/
Sonny Dykes to SMU: "New phone. Sorry, you're not in my contacts. [block]"
https://twitter.com/brett_mcmurphy/status/1691810541935976690
Ex-SJSU director of sports medicine pleads guilty to two misdemeanor counts of touching students on the butts/boobs without a reason. This whole saga already took down the Spartan's President and AD in 2021.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38201808/ex-sjsu-official-pleads-guilty-inappropriately-touched-female-athletes
ACC presidents met again this morning. It's looking bleak for Cal and Furd https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38198507/acc-florida-state-college-football-2023-conference-realignment
Sun Belt conference anyone?
With the new configuration Cal has a much better championship chance than going 4-8 with a 2-7 conference record like last season. Would we ever beat Utah again?
i am sure it will be discussed much more, but i read somewhere Stanford is still in the running for ACC by itself?
I saw that, but have also seen that refuted and apparently Condi plugging both.
I just saw a story linking Furd and SMU to the ACC.
There are 11 full time members of the MWC. Seems logical to assume that a vote of 6 would dissolve conference. So can we do a PAC 4 plus MWC 6 composed of:
Cal
Stanford
Oregon St
Wazzu
SDSU
Boise
Fresno
UNLV
Nevada
Colo St
Quite a come down from playing the LA schools, UW, Oregon, Utah and ASU.
No kidding. This is what the best case for relegation looks like.
My take would be to add 8 MWC schools, if possible, not just 6 -
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
Fresno State
Nevada
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV
The greatest travel distance is probably Washington State to San Diego State. That's about as compact a grouping as you're going to find among West Coast FBS programs, even if its dominated by mid-majors.
The key thing I can’t wrap my head around: why would anyone sign on with a conference led by the people who presided over its implosion? If I were a president of a MWC school, I’d not want to bet the farm on the pac4 administration
That would be a huge barrier to gaining acceptance from those added (former MWC) schools.
It only makes sense if those same added schools can designate the new commissioner.
Indeed, but is that cake not already baked?