The good news is Ken Waldichuk is making significant progress, pitching his best outing of the year. The bad news is the A’s still lost and are on the brink of ruining their winning September record.
After working his way to a solid 4.60 ERA in August, along with 30 strikeouts and 13 walks in 29 1⁄3 innings, the rookie upped his game and pitched six strong innings of shutout ball. The last time he hit that milestone was in his last start of the 2022 season when he throw seven shutout innings and made A’s fans believe they had a burgeoning ace. This year has been a step back for the young pitcher but tonight showed his career and potential aren’t written in stone yet. Over the past couple months, as he’s been allowed back into the rotation, Waldichuk’s performed at an acceptable level with flashes, like tonight, of what the A’s hoped they when they traded Frankie Montas to the New York Yankees 13 months ago.
The Marlins hit four home runs to the Dodgers’ one, including two off Ryan Yarbrough in the eighth inning to break a tie in a 6-3 win over Los Angeles in the opener of a three-game series on Tuesday night in Miami.
Jesús Luzardo held the Dodgers bats in check, allowing but a couple of runs in a very solid quality start, lasting longer than Clayton Kershaw, who allowed three runs (and two home runs) in five innings.
We’ve been sitting here begging and praying and doing voodoo and burning various herbs (hopefully with Tim Lincecum invited) in hopes that the San Francisco Giants would remember how to hit a baseball again, and we forgot to add the qualifier that they needed to keep remembering how to pitch and field. We found a genie in a lamp and in his best Robin Williams voice he gave us three wishes, and we asked for a million dollars, the ability to run really fast, and for our dead dog to come back to life, and the genie gave us those things, laughed at us for not asking for more wishes, and then disappeared forever.
I mean, the Braves will smoke us in the playoffs if we get that far, but it is pretty sweet to be in a playoff race after sucking so hard the past few years!
They are. Bellinger was such a great pickup. I was hoping buffoon Farhan would sign him…instead he gave a part time/platoon DH a $20M QO and signed a chronically injured LF in his mid-30’s to a $45M deal. ;-)
Bellinger has certainly played his way into a big deal now! Most heartening to me though is to see the Cubs finally finally finally develop a homegrown ace in Steele. That has been a really long time coming
Bellinger is finally healthy after dislocating his shoulder during the NLCS in 2020. Good for him. Was an electric player when he was right. Gold Glove defense in the OF and at first.
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Mr. Tarrio’s sentence, stemming from his conviction this spring on charges of seditious conspiracy, was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack — and was likely to remain that way, given that no other defendants currently face accusations as serious as the ones he did.
Until now, the longest prison term connected to Jan. 6 had been 18 years. That sentence was issued last week to Ethan Nordean, one of Mr. Tarrio’s co-defendants. The same sentence was given in a separate case in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who also was found guilty of sedition in connection with the storming of the Capitol.
Comet Nishimura, discovered on August 13th will emerge from being a hidden object to one easily visible to the naked eye by September 12th, it's closest approach to the Sun.
It is projected to reach magnitude 1.8, slightly brighter than Polaris, between the 12th and 17th. I hope to see it soon in one of my scopes on the next clear morning. Check for it approximately one hour before sunrise when it is visible.
I consider it an omen for a successful Bears' season.
Same! Very well done, and my kids really like it too. One of my daughters correctly guessed the culprit and is walking around the house all high on her horse now 😀
BERKELEY – Brian Driscoll was named the Pac-12 Offensive Lineman of the Week on Tuesday for his performance in Cal's 58-21 season-opening win at North Texas on Saturday. Driscoll won the honor for the first time in his career and is the first Golden Bear to be named a Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week since Ben Coleman in Week 4 of the 2022 campaign.
Cal (1-0) will host perennial national and SEC power Auburn (1-0) in its home opener Saturday when the Tigers visit Berkeley for the first-ever meeting between the teams. The Gold Out contest will be televised live by ESPN and kick off at 7:30 p.m. PT under the lights at California Memorial Stadium, which is celebrating 100 years in 2023.
BERKELEY -- The California football team opens the 2023 home slate on Saturday against Auburn at 7:30 p.m. with a Gold Out and halftime drone show set for the primetime matchup at California Memorial Stadium. The Golden Bears and Tigers of the Southeastern Conference are set to meet for the first time in history.
On this day in 2014 in Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears defeated Sacrament State State 55-14. DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
HARTFORD, Wis. – California freshman Eric Lee won co-medalist honors in his collegiate debut at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills, sinking birdies on holes 16 and 18 to rally back for a share of the individual title Tuesday afternoon.
Playing as an individual, Lee finished 3-under-par across 54 holes (71-70-72) to finish tied with Chattanooga's Sam Espinosa-Trueba atop the 78-player field. Cal finished as the runner-up in the 12-team field, shooting 14-over-par (294-292-292) across three days of competition and placed only behind the champion Mocs (+11).
BERKELEY- The California women's soccer team (2-2-0) is set to host a pair of matches this week at Edwards Stadium. The Golden Bears welcome No. 8 Santa Clara on Thursday and Cal State Fullerton on Sunday. Both matches kick-off at 3 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Networks.
BERKELEY – After earning its first two victories of the season, the unbeaten California men's soccer team returns to the road to continue nonconference play at California Baptist on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT and at San Francisco on Sunday at 7 p.m. The games will mark the third and fourth games, respectively, in 10 days for the Golden Bears.
Cal (2-0-2) has captured two straight wins, including a 3-0 blanking of FDU on Friday and a 4-0 rout of Dartmouth on Monday (see below). Prior to the win over the Big Green, Cal was voted 29th in Monday's College Soccer News rankings.
BERKELEY – California volleyball (5-0, 0-0 Pac-12) will face its toughest test yet in the young 2023 season as it welcomes the Saint Mary's (California) Gaels to Haas Pavilion on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. PT, followed by a three-match showdown at the Bobcat Classic in San Marcos, Texas, against Southeastern Louisiana, Texas State and Abilene Christian on Sept. 8-9.
The Golden Bears are currently riding their best start since 2019, when the team won 10 straight to kick off the season. They currently rank seventh in the NCAA (No. 1 Pac-12) in opponent hitting percentage, having held teams to just .105 so far on the year, and rank among the nation's top-25 teams in assists per set (13.24) and service aces per set (2.24).
PRO
Waldichuk soars, A’s can’t score
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/9/5/23860917/oakland-athletics-toronto-blue-jays-ken-waldichuk-zack-gelof-jordan-diaz
The good news is Ken Waldichuk is making significant progress, pitching his best outing of the year. The bad news is the A’s still lost and are on the brink of ruining their winning September record.
After working his way to a solid 4.60 ERA in August, along with 30 strikeouts and 13 walks in 29 1⁄3 innings, the rookie upped his game and pitched six strong innings of shutout ball. The last time he hit that milestone was in his last start of the 2022 season when he throw seven shutout innings and made A’s fans believe they had a burgeoning ace. This year has been a step back for the young pitcher but tonight showed his career and potential aren’t written in stone yet. Over the past couple months, as he’s been allowed back into the rotation, Waldichuk’s performed at an acceptable level with flashes, like tonight, of what the A’s hoped they when they traded Frankie Montas to the New York Yankees 13 months ago.
Clayton Kershaw fighting it, Marlins out-slug Dodgers
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/9/5/23860673/marlins-home-runs-clayton-kershaw-velocity-dodgers
The Marlins hit four home runs to the Dodgers’ one, including two off Ryan Yarbrough in the eighth inning to break a tie in a 6-3 win over Los Angeles in the opener of a three-game series on Tuesday night in Miami.
Jesús Luzardo held the Dodgers bats in check, allowing but a couple of runs in a very solid quality start, lasting longer than Clayton Kershaw, who allowed three runs (and two home runs) in five innings.
Giants bats come alive at the expense of everything else
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/9/5/23860636/giants-cubs-recap-patrick-bailey-wilmer-flores-joc-pederson
I blame you. I blame me. I blame all of us.
We’ve been sitting here begging and praying and doing voodoo and burning various herbs (hopefully with Tim Lincecum invited) in hopes that the San Francisco Giants would remember how to hit a baseball again, and we forgot to add the qualifier that they needed to keep remembering how to pitch and field. We found a genie in a lamp and in his best Robin Williams voice he gave us three wishes, and we asked for a million dollars, the ability to run really fast, and for our dead dog to come back to life, and the genie gave us those things, laughed at us for not asking for more wishes, and then disappeared forever.
Farhan is a disaster.
Cubbies!!!! We’re looking good, Jimmy C!!!!
I mean, the Braves will smoke us in the playoffs if we get that far, but it is pretty sweet to be in a playoff race after sucking so hard the past few years!
They are. Bellinger was such a great pickup. I was hoping buffoon Farhan would sign him…instead he gave a part time/platoon DH a $20M QO and signed a chronically injured LF in his mid-30’s to a $45M deal. ;-)
Bellinger has certainly played his way into a big deal now! Most heartening to me though is to see the Cubs finally finally finally develop a homegrown ace in Steele. That has been a really long time coming
Bellinger is finally healthy after dislocating his shoulder during the NLCS in 2020. Good for him. Was an electric player when he was right. Gold Glove defense in the OF and at first.
OUTER
Banks
I am playing hooky again. Outer Banks is gorgeous, the weather is perfect, and hardly anyone is here now that schools are back in session.
how far a drive is that for you?
4 hours.
4 hours... 4 hrs ago
Limits
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Seems fairly straight forward:
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Mr. Tarrio’s sentence, stemming from his conviction this spring on charges of seditious conspiracy, was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack — and was likely to remain that way, given that no other defendants currently face accusations as serious as the ones he did.
Until now, the longest prison term connected to Jan. 6 had been 18 years. That sentence was issued last week to Ethan Nordean, one of Mr. Tarrio’s co-defendants. The same sentence was given in a separate case in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who also was found guilty of sedition in connection with the storming of the Capitol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/politics/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-sentenced.html
Tell the DBD about something that isn’t so obvious
While Charlotte NC is named after a woman named Charlotte, the state is not named after a woman named Carolina. It is named after King Charles II
France's longest border with one country is with Brazil.
HIDDEN
Comet Nishimura, discovered on August 13th will emerge from being a hidden object to one easily visible to the naked eye by September 12th, it's closest approach to the Sun.
It is projected to reach magnitude 1.8, slightly brighter than Polaris, between the 12th and 17th. I hope to see it soon in one of my scopes on the next clear morning. Check for it approximately one hour before sunrise when it is visible.
I consider it an omen for a successful Bears' season.
DBD AV CLUB
Finished a re-watch of season 1 of The Sopranos. So solid.
Enjoyed the end episode of The After Party - enjoyable type of show for us.
Same! Very well done, and my kids really like it too. One of my daughters correctly guessed the culprit and is walking around the house all high on her horse now 😀
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
CAL
Cal NIL collective reaches its $1 million donation goal for Labor Day weekend.
https://bearinsider.com/forums/2/topics/116449
RADICAL
[FB] Brian Driscoll Pac-12 Offensive Lineman Of The Week
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/football-brian-driscoll-pac-12-offensive-lineman-of-the-week.aspx
BERKELEY – Brian Driscoll was named the Pac-12 Offensive Lineman of the Week on Tuesday for his performance in Cal's 58-21 season-opening win at North Texas on Saturday. Driscoll won the honor for the first time in his career and is the first Golden Bear to be named a Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week since Ben Coleman in Week 4 of the 2022 campaign.
Cal (1-0) will host perennial national and SEC power Auburn (1-0) in its home opener Saturday when the Tigers visit Berkeley for the first-ever meeting between the teams. The Gold Out contest will be televised live by ESPN and kick off at 7:30 p.m. PT under the lights at California Memorial Stadium, which is celebrating 100 years in 2023.
Marshawn getting lots of love for his acting in the new high school comedy “Bottoms”.
https://kottke.org/23/09/the-tenderness-of-marshawn-lynch
Go Bears!!! And as sycasey says awesome on NIL getting to one million! Actually $1.2 million!
[FB] Cal Hosts Auburn In Home Opener
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/football-cal-hosts-auburn-in-home-opener.aspx
BERKELEY -- The California football team opens the 2023 home slate on Saturday against Auburn at 7:30 p.m. with a Gold Out and halftime drone show set for the primetime matchup at California Memorial Stadium. The Golden Bears and Tigers of the Southeastern Conference are set to meet for the first time in history.
Drone show sounds better than having to listen to the band play
Boooo- Cal Band Great! (though looking forward to the drone show too)
On this day in 2014 in Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears defeated Sacrament State State 55-14. DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
[MGOLF] Victorious Debut
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/mens-golf-victorious-debut.aspx
HARTFORD, Wis. – California freshman Eric Lee won co-medalist honors in his collegiate debut at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills, sinking birdies on holes 16 and 18 to rally back for a share of the individual title Tuesday afternoon.
Playing as an individual, Lee finished 3-under-par across 54 holes (71-70-72) to finish tied with Chattanooga's Sam Espinosa-Trueba atop the 78-player field. Cal finished as the runner-up in the 12-team field, shooting 14-over-par (294-292-292) across three days of competition and placed only behind the champion Mocs (+11).
[WSOC] Cal Hosts No. 8 Santa Clara, Cal State Fullerton
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/womens-soccer-cal-hosts-no-8-santa-clara-cal-state-fullerton.aspx
BERKELEY- The California women's soccer team (2-2-0) is set to host a pair of matches this week at Edwards Stadium. The Golden Bears welcome No. 8 Santa Clara on Thursday and Cal State Fullerton on Sunday. Both matches kick-off at 3 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Networks.
[MSOC] Cal Plays At California Baptist, USF
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/mens-soccer-cal-plays-at-california-baptist-usf.aspx
BERKELEY – After earning its first two victories of the season, the unbeaten California men's soccer team returns to the road to continue nonconference play at California Baptist on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT and at San Francisco on Sunday at 7 p.m. The games will mark the third and fourth games, respectively, in 10 days for the Golden Bears.
Cal (2-0-2) has captured two straight wins, including a 3-0 blanking of FDU on Friday and a 4-0 rout of Dartmouth on Monday (see below). Prior to the win over the Big Green, Cal was voted 29th in Monday's College Soccer News rankings.
[VB] Cal Prepares For Strong 4-Match Slate
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/5/volleyball-cal-prepares-for-strong-4-match-slate.aspx
BERKELEY – California volleyball (5-0, 0-0 Pac-12) will face its toughest test yet in the young 2023 season as it welcomes the Saint Mary's (California) Gaels to Haas Pavilion on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. PT, followed by a three-match showdown at the Bobcat Classic in San Marcos, Texas, against Southeastern Louisiana, Texas State and Abilene Christian on Sept. 8-9.
The Golden Bears are currently riding their best start since 2019, when the team won 10 straight to kick off the season. They currently rank seventh in the NCAA (No. 1 Pac-12) in opponent hitting percentage, having held teams to just .105 so far on the year, and rank among the nation's top-25 teams in assists per set (13.24) and service aces per set (2.24).
I've not heard any news on the status of SamJax or Cindric.
SG Bear, How about starting a Cal thread?
Post away. Don't wait for me.
That's what my post on Cal research was for!
A couple weeks old, but still a cool story:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/uc-berkeley-american-edinburgh-hogwarts-legacy-mnd-b2398107.html
Wow. I can see all kinds of applications, including people non-verbal forms of autism.