If we're just talking about where they were born, it's pretty boring, just CN on one side and US on the other. But if we want to go a couple more generations back we can add IE and NL.
Agreed, who knows...but it must not have been serious enough to keep Patterson away, which begs the question why he’s in a Horned Frogs uni over blue and gold...
It's a shame because Rogers was a legit 4 star that looked like a can't miss player. Elite quickness means he could be a starter for TCU if we play them in September next year. He is a dangerous mismatch for ILBs.
Eh... sometimes, but not really. It gets cold enough in winter to be in the 50s. Cold enough where you need a jacket and or a seat next to a heater. But generally uncomfortable enough where you'd sit inside if there wasn't a pandemic going on. It's the south, so it can be 18 degrees, it can 78 degrees. You don't know until the day before what the weather will be.
If you're asking WILL I go to one this winter, there's only 1 I'll go to and only if it's above 65 degrees. It's got seats really really far apart and it's Mexican, so they don't do anything more than drop off the plates .
yes. i dont mind eating outside in the cold. usually some combo or outdoor heaters and warm clothing is fine. it is usually the rain or wind that makes it challenging.
also, i would rather put up w/ eating outside than risk eating indoors, which is now also permissible in NY and CT.
Eat - probably not. Have a cup of coffee on a sunny day? Maybe. The thing is that “winter” in the mid Atlantic can run the gamut from “sunny and 45°” to “sunny and 15° with 30 mph wind gusts”
I haven't eaten outdoors at any restaurants so far, so no. The only place I've dined outside was at a giant farm brewery where there was tons of room for social distancing.
I spend plenty of time outside in the winter, so it's more of an aversion to semi-crowded restaurants (we're allowed up to 75% indoor capacity here now) than aversion to cold.
re 1) i have a lot of cousins in Sweden and i saw them putting their babies outside. so we came back to the US and started doing it too. people around here think you are nuts!!
Emphasis on the amateur. I live in the same zip code as Burkman in Arlington, Virginia and got that same robocall. I may actually have it saved. Maybe there will be a townhouse in my neighborhood for sale in the near future.
I'm sorry Scott, but that's what it took for him to lose your vote??!! And he's saying that all Trump has to do for to get his money back is to say he is against white supremacy? I guess you'll believe it when Trump tells you he has a bridge he's looking to sell you.
McEnany claims Amy Coney Barrett is a Rhodes Scholar (Oxford), gets corrected because she actually went to Rhodes College (Memphis). Not a big deal, but I think it's funny because my MiL happily tells people she graduated from Hahvahd, when she actually graduated from Hartford College. She selectively slurs the pronunciation and I sprain my eyes by rolling them so hard.
My favorite is when people I work with say they went to "school in Boston." Everyone thinks they mean Harvard and hate them for it, but they really went to one of the 2639 other schools in Boston.
There is a Georgetown College outside Lexington. During No 3's freshman year they had the senior day game and announced where everyone was going. The announcer had Georgetown College for one kid and then Georgetown University for another kid. Which I was shocked about. So I asked No 3 if he really was going to Georgetown College and he said yup. I assume it was an assumption by the announcer and the kid just put down Georgetown.
Way back in the day when University of Pacific in Stockton held some cache in the valley - American River Comm. College had a satellite campus in Placerville. And it became common to say, "I go to UOP"( 'lacerville')
Apropos: it is maddening how he prefers to give interviews in front of Marine-1 so that he can shout his answers and feign not hearing reporters questions. The man actively seeks chaos.
NEW YORK -- Fans can take themselves out to the ballgame for the first time this season during the National League Championship Series and World Series at new Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that about 11,500 tickets will be available for each game. That is about 28% of the 40,518-capacity, retractable-roof stadium of the Texas Rangers, which opened this year adjacent to old Globe Life Park, the team's open-air home from 1994 through 2019.
I wonder if this was the plan all along by choosing sites in Texas for the World Series.
Tickets sold in pods of 4 and in a checkerboard pattern. Masks required at all times except when actively eating. I wonder how they plan on dealing with people who don't put them on. I assume they'll be tossed out. And I'm sure there will be people that buy in groups of 2.
Even in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers needed a little time to warm up, no pun intended. The Miami Heat capitalized on the Lakers’ sluggish start and took a double-digit lead in the first quarter. However, their early advantage was nothing compared to the lead the Lakers would go on to take on Wednesday night.
Behind a dominant 34-point performance from Anthony Davis, the Lakers were able to comfortably beat the Heat 116-98 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. That’s a pretty comfortable margin of victory, but it’s a poor reflection of how badly the game actually went for the Heat.
The Lakers led the Heat by 32 points in the third quarter, which was 19 points more than Miami’s biggest lead. Once the Lakers crawled back from their 13-point first-quarter deficit, they didn’t look back.
In Game 1 of their Wild Card Series, the Oakland A’s played a rerun of the 2019 Wild Card Game for a ho-hum loss. In Game 2, they did the exact opposite, in a thrilling and suspenseful victory.
The A’s warded off a late rally by the Chicago White Sox to hang on for a 5-3 win in Game 2, evening the best-of-three series and forcing a deciding third contest. It’s the first time Oakland has won a playoff game since 2013, breaking a streak of six straight losses.
Everything that went wrong on Tuesday went right on Wednesday — and vice versa. The A’s got a brilliant starting pitching performance, and their lineup scored early and often, but their MLB-best bullpen nearly faltered at the end and threatened to blow a five-run lead. Finally, with the go-ahead run on base and one of the league’s best hitters at the plate for Chicago, the relievers got the job done to seal the victory and take us off the edges of our seats.
They can follow in Nats footsteps from last year. They won the WC game, game five in the NLDS against the Dodgers, and game seven in the WS. And they were behind late in all of them. Only easy series was against the Cards.
Hendriks appeared to be too energetic, he couldn't control the breaking ball meaning the hitters were looking for just one pitch, the fastball. He also threw 50 pitches but Melvin said in the postgame presser that he would available today. But he's had two poor outings in a row.
The Dodgers had their hands full with the bevy of Brewers relievers, but did just enough on offense to back a tandem effort from a pair of rotation mates to win Game 1 of the wild card series, 4-2 on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Mookie Betts doubled in each of his first two at-bats, scoring in the first and driving in a run in the second. Betts had the 22nd postseason game by a Dodger with multiple doubles, finishing one shy of the franchise record, set by Jim Gilliam in Game 4 of the 1953 World Series.
Corey Seager added some insurance with a home run in the seventh, widening the lead after seven strong innings from the Dodgers starters. Plural.
Really the Dodgers didn't generate too much offense other than the walks in the first inning. The back to back doubles in the 2nd and then the HR by Seager. There were too many hits in the middle innings. And Kenley is sitting 88/89 with a cutter that isn't moving too much.
Dave Roberts had some comments about Kenley not having his stuff last night. Wonder if he thinking of changing his closer.
Pivot. Bounce forward.
October Surprise: Borat sequel to be launch on Amazon this month. Trump administration is the target.
https://twitter.com/KazakhstanGovt/status/1311096859142664193
cue all the bros saying very niiiceee
Chase Garbers
Garbers in on the Big Game Hero list, love that guy. Shane Vereen too. Who else goes on the List?
Matt Clizbe.
Breaks up a Scott Frost 2-point conversion with 2 minutes to go to preserve a 24-23 victory in the 1994 Big Game.
Ford, Rodgers, Garner, Moen
Furd band for lead blockers
Heh
I mean, gotta be Kevin Moen.
Mikey Mo
Garber's gets third-highest grade amongst returning Pac-12 QB's
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/pff-pac-12-qb-grades
Behind Gunnell and Kedon Slovis
Gunnell? He's alright, but he's no Slovis or Garbers.
I’d put Daniels ahead of Gunnell
Using flag emojis, where were your 8 great-grandparents born? If unknown, use "?"
On my mom's side, all in Norway. Actually not sure on my dad's side
USA x 8
🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Vietnam, Vietnam
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Technically speaking that should really be 8 x 🇬🇧
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹
US US US US US US US US
I believe half were in Pennsylvania, the other half some mix of Kentucky & Missouri, though Tennessee might be in that mix.
My six Americans were all in California. The Italians were in Lucca.
Lithuania x 4, Italy x 2, England x 2...
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China
Taiwan, but it was under Japanese control at the time.
India .. all of them
Ditto
2 Ireland, 6 US
Flag emojis don't appear to work on Windows.
If we're just talking about where they were born, it's pretty boring, just CN on one side and US on the other. But if we want to go a couple more generations back we can add IE and NL.
Eh. I messed up. I assumed there would be a flag emoji set, but emoji sets vary by platform.
Can't find an emoji. I'll use this image instead for historical accuracy.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_the_Qing_dynasty_%281889-1912%29.svg/1200px-Flag_of_the_Qing_dynasty_%281889-1912%29.svg.png
Wouldn't paste...but UK, Italy, US, US, Germany, US, US, US
Elsewhere in college
DJ Rogers enrolls at TCU
One can only speculate as to why, but isn't a popular thread that he was allegedly connected to a sexual assault and therefore had his scholly pulled?
all I know/heard is that is was "an admissions issue" so could be that or any number of things
That makes more sense.
Agreed, who knows...but it must not have been serious enough to keep Patterson away, which begs the question why he’s in a Horned Frogs uni over blue and gold...
It's a shame because Rogers was a legit 4 star that looked like a can't miss player. Elite quickness means he could be a starter for TCU if we play them in September next year. He is a dangerous mismatch for ILBs.
Today in Covid19
People who live in a place with real seasons (sorry, Californians): Would you eat outside at restaurants in the winter?
Eh... sometimes, but not really. It gets cold enough in winter to be in the 50s. Cold enough where you need a jacket and or a seat next to a heater. But generally uncomfortable enough where you'd sit inside if there wasn't a pandemic going on. It's the south, so it can be 18 degrees, it can 78 degrees. You don't know until the day before what the weather will be.
If you're asking WILL I go to one this winter, there's only 1 I'll go to and only if it's above 65 degrees. It's got seats really really far apart and it's Mexican, so they don't do anything more than drop off the plates .
yes. i dont mind eating outside in the cold. usually some combo or outdoor heaters and warm clothing is fine. it is usually the rain or wind that makes it challenging.
also, i would rather put up w/ eating outside than risk eating indoors, which is now also permissible in NY and CT.
Eat - probably not. Have a cup of coffee on a sunny day? Maybe. The thing is that “winter” in the mid Atlantic can run the gamut from “sunny and 45°” to “sunny and 15° with 30 mph wind gusts”
Both beat cloudy and foggy, 34 degrees, and raining. Sometimes raining horizontally. With standing water everywhere except where its standing mud.
I would be willing to put on wellies and take my chances in Oregon over windchill of -20F
It gets chilly sometimes.
I haven't eaten outdoors at any restaurants so far, so no. The only place I've dined outside was at a giant farm brewery where there was tons of room for social distancing.
I spend plenty of time outside in the winter, so it's more of an aversion to semi-crowded restaurants (we're allowed up to 75% indoor capacity here now) than aversion to cold.
1) This makes me think of the babies who sleep outside in Scandinavia
2) The one time I went to Paris was during winter, and there were many people dining outside
re 1) i have a lot of cousins in Sweden and i saw them putting their babies outside. so we came back to the US and started doing it too. people around here think you are nuts!!
My mother used to put me outside in the pram when I was a baby but probably not in the middle of winter
Honestly, I don't even want to eat outside in the fall in San Francisco...
But that's when it's warmest!
Unfortunately you also have to breathe wildfire smoke now.
that's why bahaha
Preview
I'm making 3 cakes this weekend: cousin's 8th birthday, grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary, former colleague's son's 1st birthday: wolf, heart, and pumpkin patch (respectively)
Congrats to all, but especially the grandparents. That's a long time.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Hope Hicks has the rona.
Also, Kim Guilfoyle 👀👀👀 https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox
Wow!
Amateur political saboteurs Wohl & Burkman charged with 4 felonies by Michigan DA. Charges carry a maximum of 24 years in jail.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-ag-files-felony-charges-again-jack-burkman-jacob-wohl-for-alleged-voter-suppression-scheme
Emphasis on the amateur. I live in the same zip code as Burkman in Arlington, Virginia and got that same robocall. I may actually have it saved. Maybe there will be a townhouse in my neighborhood for sale in the near future.
They’re going to plead not guilty due to criminal stupidity
Breaking news: Trump has lost the Dilbert guy.
https://twitter.com/thejd800/status/1311735674161131520
More breaking news: never mind!
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1311777995183460353
This guy is such a baby.
I'm sorry Scott, but that's what it took for him to lose your vote??!! And he's saying that all Trump has to do for to get his money back is to say he is against white supremacy? I guess you'll believe it when Trump tells you he has a bridge he's looking to sell you.
I mean, his reasons for supporting the guy were dumb, so it figures that his reasons for dumping him would be dumb too.
McEnany claims Amy Coney Barrett is a Rhodes Scholar (Oxford), gets corrected because she actually went to Rhodes College (Memphis). Not a big deal, but I think it's funny because my MiL happily tells people she graduated from Hahvahd, when she actually graduated from Hartford College. She selectively slurs the pronunciation and I sprain my eyes by rolling them so hard.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1311695582730354690
My favorite is when people I work with say they went to "school in Boston." Everyone thinks they mean Harvard and hate them for it, but they really went to one of the 2639 other schools in Boston.
MIT for example.
There is a Georgetown College outside Lexington. During No 3's freshman year they had the senior day game and announced where everyone was going. The announcer had Georgetown College for one kid and then Georgetown University for another kid. Which I was shocked about. So I asked No 3 if he really was going to Georgetown College and he said yup. I assume it was an assumption by the announcer and the kid just put down Georgetown.
Way back in the day when University of Pacific in Stockton held some cache in the valley - American River Comm. College had a satellite campus in Placerville. And it became common to say, "I go to UOP"( 'lacerville')
So, uh, the rest of you didn't also go to Berklee College of Music?
I happened to walk by there when I was in Boston. Didn't even know I was near it so I had to take a picture of it.
Someone bought votefordonaldtrump.com after it expired. It's now a list of his corruptions.
dammit I probably should've checked the website out in incognito mode.
If he wins we may see the rise of informants and spies who check for "loyalty" to our dear president.
Trump gaslights the world by saying that he doesn't know who the Proud Boys are and kind-of walks back his comments about "stand back, stand by".
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1311379343684374528
First question at the next debate: "So now that you know who the Proud Boys are, do you denounce white supremacy?"
Why would he? It is a significant part of his support base.
Make him answer one way or the other. I mean they won't do it though
He never does.
Apropos: it is maddening how he prefers to give interviews in front of Marine-1 so that he can shout his answers and feign not hearing reporters questions. The man actively seeks chaos.
That's the M.O.
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A's SPOILERS
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A's fall behind 1-0 in the 2nd.
And win 6-4, total pitchers: 17
YAY THE CURSE IS OVER!
Not sure I believe in curses, but yes, YAY
Nice.
lol the Sox walked in 2 consecutive runs to give the A's a 4-3 lead
I didn't know last night's Brewers starter is pitching for the ChiSox
Looks like there's a good chance the Reds may lose the series without scoring a run.
I saw it was 1 run earlier. Would be hilarious if they lost two 1-0 games. Gave up a total of 2 ERs with an ERA below 2.
MLB allowing limited number of fans for NLCS, World Series in Arlington, Texas
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30011224/mlb-allowing-limited-number-fans-nlcs-world-series-arlington-texas
NEW YORK -- Fans can take themselves out to the ballgame for the first time this season during the National League Championship Series and World Series at new Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
Major League Baseball said Wednesday that about 11,500 tickets will be available for each game. That is about 28% of the 40,518-capacity, retractable-roof stadium of the Texas Rangers, which opened this year adjacent to old Globe Life Park, the team's open-air home from 1994 through 2019.
I wonder if this was the plan all along by choosing sites in Texas for the World Series.
Tickets sold in pods of 4 and in a checkerboard pattern. Masks required at all times except when actively eating. I wonder how they plan on dealing with people who don't put them on. I assume they'll be tossed out. And I'm sure there will be people that buy in groups of 2.
Lakers too hot for Heat to handle in Game 1 win
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2020/9/30/21496537/lakers-vs-heat-final-score-recap-nba-finals-anthony-davis-lebron-james
Even in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers needed a little time to warm up, no pun intended. The Miami Heat capitalized on the Lakers’ sluggish start and took a double-digit lead in the first quarter. However, their early advantage was nothing compared to the lead the Lakers would go on to take on Wednesday night.
Behind a dominant 34-point performance from Anthony Davis, the Lakers were able to comfortably beat the Heat 116-98 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. That’s a pretty comfortable margin of victory, but it’s a poor reflection of how badly the game actually went for the Heat.
The Lakers led the Heat by 32 points in the third quarter, which was 19 points more than Miami’s biggest lead. Once the Lakers crawled back from their 13-point first-quarter deficit, they didn’t look back.
Wild Card Series, Game 2: Oakland A’s flip script, win 5-3 to even series
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/30/21496185/mlb-postseason-2020-game-2-oakland-as-chicago-white-sox-score-result
In Game 1 of their Wild Card Series, the Oakland A’s played a rerun of the 2019 Wild Card Game for a ho-hum loss. In Game 2, they did the exact opposite, in a thrilling and suspenseful victory.
The A’s warded off a late rally by the Chicago White Sox to hang on for a 5-3 win in Game 2, evening the best-of-three series and forcing a deciding third contest. It’s the first time Oakland has won a playoff game since 2013, breaking a streak of six straight losses.
Everything that went wrong on Tuesday went right on Wednesday — and vice versa. The A’s got a brilliant starting pitching performance, and their lineup scored early and often, but their MLB-best bullpen nearly faltered at the end and threatened to blow a five-run lead. Finally, with the go-ahead run on base and one of the league’s best hitters at the plate for Chicago, the relievers got the job done to seal the victory and take us off the edges of our seats.
The A's are destined to always play a do-or-die game (for both teams) in every series.
They can follow in Nats footsteps from last year. They won the WC game, game five in the NLDS against the Dodgers, and game seven in the WS. And they were behind late in all of them. Only easy series was against the Cards.
That 9th inning was...something.
Hendriks appeared to be too energetic, he couldn't control the breaking ball meaning the hitters were looking for just one pitch, the fastball. He also threw 50 pitches but Melvin said in the postgame presser that he would available today. But he's had two poor outings in a row.
allowed a baserunner but otherwise was nails today! woooo
Indeed, 100mph
It reminded me of the way pitchers are used in the College WS. it is the playoffs and a elimination game.
Dodgers walk early, trot late to beat Brewers in Game 1
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/30/21496437/mookie-betts-doubles-corey-seager-home-run-brent-suter-walks-dodgers-brewers-wild-card-recap
The Dodgers had their hands full with the bevy of Brewers relievers, but did just enough on offense to back a tandem effort from a pair of rotation mates to win Game 1 of the wild card series, 4-2 on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Mookie Betts doubled in each of his first two at-bats, scoring in the first and driving in a run in the second. Betts had the 22nd postseason game by a Dodger with multiple doubles, finishing one shy of the franchise record, set by Jim Gilliam in Game 4 of the 1953 World Series.
Corey Seager added some insurance with a home run in the seventh, widening the lead after seven strong innings from the Dodgers starters. Plural.
Really the Dodgers didn't generate too much offense other than the walks in the first inning. The back to back doubles in the 2nd and then the HR by Seager. There were too many hits in the middle innings. And Kenley is sitting 88/89 with a cutter that isn't moving too much.
Dave Roberts had some comments about Kenley not having his stuff last night. Wonder if he thinking of changing his closer.
*he is
If he hasn't been thinking about changing out Kenley by now, something is wrong with Roberts.
CAL
Go Bears!