Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Trevor May ripped owner John Fisher (MBA - Stanford) while announcing his retirement:
"Sell the team, dude. ... Sell it, man,'' he said. "Let someone who actually, like, takes pride in the things they own, own something. There's actually people who give a s--- about the game. Let them do it. Take mommy and daddy's money somewhere else, dork."
Rangers jump all over Houston's Framber Valdez for a 5-1 lead. The Astros then claw back to 5-4 on Alvarez's bat. Jose Leclerc was shaky in relief, but ended up getting the save. Rangers now lead the Astros 2-0 in the series.
Yup. And if Bochy wins the World Series this year, the cries to #FireFarhan become louder.
I'm already on the #FireFarhan bandwagon. Have been essentially since mid-September. But it seems to me that having run off Bochy to replace him with Kapler, Zaidi should pay the price. The 2021 season (107 wins) was a total fluke.
Not being a Padres fan, I know even less about that team. But I get it that Bob Melvin isn't terribly popular in San Diego. Hiring Melvin was actually a good move on Preller's part. Melvin knows how to do more with less; his record with Oakland is testament to that. Problem is that Preller isn't a very good GM. Look at the Padres record since 2014.
2015 - 74-88, 4th
2016 - 68-94, 5th
2017 - 71-91, 4th
2018 - 66-96, 5th
2019 - 70-92, 5th
2020 - 37-23, 2nd (COVID shortened season)
2021 - 79-83, 3rd
2022 - 89-73, 2nd
2023 - 82-80, 3rd
Melvin has managed the last two seasons (2022, 2023). Those are the best seasons the Padres have had under Preller. Melvin is doing the Giants a favor by returning to the Padres and not being a candidate for the Giants opening. My theory is that Melvin would actually do more to extend Zaidi than Kapler ever could and this would not be a good thing for the Giants.
On a side note, Herbert has not looked very good this season and he certainly doesn’t look clutch at all. All 3 losses, Herbert had the last position of the game with a chance to win each and he has lost them all.
Been very disappointed with Herbert. Missing throws elite QB’s make and was never really comfortable at all last night in the pocket. Staley continues to lean on analytics rather than taking the points. Take the points, you analytics geek.
The Bolt passed on Zay Flowers to take Quentin Johnston, despite having a roster full of big guys that can’t stretch a D (Keenan, Williams, Parham). Herbert hardly even looks QJ’s way, and the rookie’s route tree is about as extensive as Chase Claypools - no nuance whatsoever, basically just GO routes, ostensibly to clear things out underneath for Keenan or Josh Palmer.
It’s amazing the number of rookie WR’s that come in and can’t run routes.
Johnston is looking like a bad pick. At first I figured his lack production was due to Mike Williams, Allen and Palmer getting all the snaps and he would slowly get worked in to the offense but with Williams injured and him getting extensive snaps he hasn’t done anything.
Nick Bosa is also playing poorly and isn’t having much an impact on defense. I would look at trading him.
I thought Herbert would look better in Moores offense than he did Lombardis but he looks to be about the same and maybe even a little worse.
Rivers actually played better than Herbert and led a bunch of 4th quarter comebacks and game winning drives, especially earlier in his career. Herbert hasn’t led many game winning drives during his time with the Chargers, despite plenty of opportunities to do so. Whenever he has gotten a chance, he has failed.
- thin Norwegian ones that you have w/ lingonberry jam
- the Liege wafels w/ the pearl sugar in the batter.
as a family tradition i make the Liege wafels on the morning of the Liege-Bastonge-Liege bike race in the spring. it is one of the 5 "monuments" in the pro cycling world of prestigious 1-day races.
for regular every day eating the Belgian Wafel trucks in NYC are pretty good too.
ICYMI: The Colorado State vs. Boise State game was bananas. With 7 minutes left in the game, CSU throws a pick, which is then followed up by a Boise State TD - capping a 13 point run by Boise State in the Q4 to go up 30-10. Then CSU scores. Then CSU recovers the onside kick w/ 4 minutes to go. CSU marches and gets a favorable PI call on 4th and goal with 2 minutes to go. They score to close to 30-24 with fewer than 2 minutes to go. CSU gets the onside kick AGAIN, but gets called for illegal block so have to try the kick again. Boise State recovers the ball, but goes 3 and out. CSU gets the ball back with 26 seconds to on on the own 12. Two passes later, they're at the BSU 33 with 7 seconds to go. They clock it, which takes another second off. Then a Hail Mary to tie the game with no time left. CSU gets a celebration penalty on their bench. CSU then sends in their 31 year old kicker to try a 35 yard extra point in an attempt to beat Boise State for the first time in program history.
If the receiving team was smart, I think they should call for a fair catch. It allows essentially anyone to have an unimpeded catch otherwise it's an automatic penalty.
Wow! What a finish. The defense did a good job of knocking the ball down on the Hail Mary but the CSU player was in the right spot and reacted quickly to catch it.
North Texas smashed Temple 45-14 for their first AAC win, which proved that Temple is awful and UNT is merely kinda bad and Cal's big victory was appropriate as they are a tier better than the Mean Green.
#3 Idaho lost 23-21 to #10 Montana 23-21. It was a solid game proving that - while a really good FCS team can threaten to beat a mediocre FBS team, Cal rightfully beat them with a huge second half.
Auburn lost 48-18 to #22 FSU a week after falling short to #1 Georgia 27-20. This hints that Cal and Auburn are 3rd quartile FBS teams.
Last Saturday in the ACC: FSU smashed Syracuse 41-3; #12 UNC beat #25 Miami 41-31; #17 Duke beat NC State 24-3; Virginia Tech beat Wake Forest 30-13; #14 Louisville's Jack Plummer has a Jack Plummer day as he goes 29/52 for 350 yards and 1 TD and 2 INTs (one being a Pick-6) and 1 lost FUM to seal a 38-21 loss to Pitt and their second string QB.
[VB] Cal upset USC 3-1, their first victory over the Trojans since [checks notes] 2014. The Pac-12 is quite unbalanced with #3 Stanford, #4 Wazzu, #8 Oregon. #17 Arizona State is a step behind. Then there's the third tier of USC, Washington. Then there's everyone else, which includes Cal. Freshman Maggie Li from China has turned the program from a doormat to competitive. Maggie's mom was on China's national team.
On this day in 1964 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Navy, 27-13 in a duel between all-American quarterbacks Craig Morton (Cal) and Roger Staubach (Navy). Morton prevailed throwing two touchdown passes and running for one score. The Bear defense set a school record with five interceptions. The contest was played before a crowd of 63,000. It was subsequently announced that Cal fans could watch game films at the Cal Quarterback Club meeting at Torino’s restaurant in San Francisco on Monday evening. The guest speaker would be former Bear All-American running back Johnny Olszewski.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Roger Staubach won the 1963 Heisman winner as a junior. Staubach is colorblind and this condition was detected in his junior year. Consequently, he was commissioned directly into the Supply Corps. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he served a tour of duty in Vietnam, supervising 41 enlisted men.
The Dallas Cowboys drafted Staubach in the 10th round of the 1964 draft with a future selection. After his tour of duty was over, Staubach resigned his commission in time to join the Cowboys training camp. The Cowboys' starting QB? A guy named Craig Morton. In 1970, the Cowboys won the first ever NFC title (post-merger with the AFL), but the Cowboys lost to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl IV, 16-13.
In 1971, Morton was the starter at the beginning of the season. After a loss to New Orleans, Staubach became the starter. In a Week 7 game against Chicago, Landry alternated Staubach and Morton on each play, sending in the play with the QB. The Cowboys racked up over 500 yards in offense but committed 7 turnovers, losing to a mediocre Bears squad, 23-19. In Week 8 Staubach was the starter and remained in that position for the remainder of the 1971-72 season, culminating in a Super Bowl VI victory over the Miami Dolphins and earning Super Bowl MVP.
In 1972, Staubach missed most of the season with a separated shoulder. Morton led the team to the playoffs, but Staubach relieved him in the playoff game against the 49ers. Staubach threw 2 TD passes in the last 90 seconds and the Cowboys beat the 49ers, 30-28.
In Super Bowl XII (1978), Staubach's Cowboys defeated Morton's Broncos, 27-10.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) allegedly went on a trip with her friends Virginia Beckett and Hannah Stone to Paris in June. Sanders paid Beckett's event firm $19,029, reportedly for a lectern and just below the $20k limit for stricter documentation. A blogger issues a FOIA request over the expense. Sanders calls a special session to block this type of activity. The governor's office then shows a picture of the lectern - an Amplivox Falcon lectern that typically sells for about $7k. An invoice is then shown to the public. Then a whistleblower comes forward and says that she was instructed to tamper with the invoice to make it seem like it was supposed to be reimbursable when everyone knew it wasn't supposed to be. Then Amplivox company says that lectern is a counterfeit. Then someone identifies the lectern as the same lectern in other pictures that predate the alleged purchase, making the chance of having two knock-off lecterns that much more improbable.
These are at least two felonies - one for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one related to the cover up. This issue is now being investigated by a State audit, called by a Republican.
More Buck: "The Republicans who are going to vote against Jordan on the second ballot, which will be more Republicans, want the cover of saying I voted for Jim Jordan, but now it's time to move on. The problem is they are afraid of a primary."
He's not wrong. We wouldn't be in this mess except that alleged GOP "moderates" are afraid of being primaried. The GOP no longer has electeds like Cheney and Kinzinger who have the courage to say the emperor has no clothes.
it's funny, I know that by virtue of being south of the Mason Dixon line, and also a slavery state, Maryland is a southern state, but you'd never know it where I live (rather like the northern VA suburbs of DC in that regard)
Question: I've been watching streaming through the hardware in my TV. I've come to the conclusion that the TV just cannot handle it and I should switch to some form of add-on hardware to handle it. For example, my second TV has a PS-4 that easily handles this task. I'm thinking Roku, but want to hear your recommendations.
Our big set is a smart TV with multiple apps available or built in. We also have Roku and Chromecast. We use Roku almost exclusively when we're not on OTA channels. Our Roku apps include YouTube TV, Max, Brit Box, Acorn, Peacock, PBS among others.
The connection I have with apps is generally better through Roku than it is through the same app on the smart TV. We bought a Roku for three TVs and use each of them.
I've noticed a significant lag when viewing an OTA channel on YouTube TV vs. viewing the same OTA channel through the TV antenna. As much as 30 seconds.
the lag on YouTubeTV is weird. during the Super Bowl or other bigger sporting events when i find myself cooking, i usually have the game on in both the family room and the kitchen, there is often a 2-5 sec delay between the two which makes it somewhat annoying for suspenseful moments.
on the other hand, if you hear some excitement coming from the family room, you can look up in time in the kitchen to catch the exciting moment ...
At the W4C watch parties, there's both a projector TV and a standard HD tv and they run independently of each on different devices(?)/ apps(?). So if both TVs have the game on, the standard TV is always a head by a play and a half-ish.
Reverse problem - I was watching a 49ers game earlier this season in the kitchen on the OTA channel (don't remember which game); Mrs Slug was watching the same game on YouTube TV in the living room. Big play happened, I cheered. I walk into the living room: "Thanks for the spoiler."
I think it depends on what you subscribe to. For example, if you have Amazon prime, I think the Fire TV stick works well enough. If you're Apple then the Apple TV is good. There is a google TV chromecast thing but I haven't used it. My TV has roku and the roku works pretty well. No 1 has a TCL Roku TV and it has all the apps for all the streaming and he can use the XFinity login to watch it all.
I think all add-on devices have apps that you can download to watch streaming if you subscribe to that individual streaming system.
I think HSB has a chromecast..?. I believed he mentioned it at the TCU game when FS and I couldn't get any channels to watch games at our airbnb and said he travelled with it just for such things.
yup. there was the old Chromecast that was good for just casting what was on your laptop.
the not-so-new-anymore Chromecast TVs are optimized to have apps that work w/ all the streaming services, especially YouTubeTV, which is our primary form of watching live sports and traditional TV channels.
we have generally been quite happy w/ it and have 3-4 of them around the house. they are pretty cheap, as things go.
I think that's about right. My mother & my mother in law are happy Roku users, my brother is a long time Chromecast user & seems to like it fine, and I have an Apple tv unit which works well (and this is for reasons of simplicity to me as tech support an Apple device household, so I'm pretty embedded in that ecosystem)
Pricewise the Fire stick is probably the cheapest, especially during prime days. I think Apple TV is the most expensive, and I think the Google TV chomecast is in between. I don't know how much the Roku box is.
I worked with a guy years ago who had been at Mobil for a long time when it had the HQ in Fairfax VA (I think his job was one of those roles that got "rationalized" with the Exxon merger in 1999). IIRC he said that Mobil had a tendency to cede a lot of operational control to their various international subsidiaries whereas Exxon was very much top-down, so it was kind of an ugly merger experience in a variety of ways.
My dad worked for Mobil for years. He was part of the architecture design team who was converting all the old service garages to mini marts. At least in CA.
I remember seeing lots of Sinclairs (Dinosaur!) from Nevada into the midwest. I think I've starting seeing them in Ca. I always associated it with flyover states.
PRO
Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Trevor May ripped owner John Fisher (MBA - Stanford) while announcing his retirement:
"Sell the team, dude. ... Sell it, man,'' he said. "Let someone who actually, like, takes pride in the things they own, own something. There's actually people who give a s--- about the game. Let them do it. Take mommy and daddy's money somewhere else, dork."
King 👑
He went yard!!!
Belgium/Sweden Euro qualifier abandoned at halftime because a terrorist shot and killed two Swedish fans
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38674467/belgium-sweden-euro-qualifier-abandoned-shooting
Don't know how I missed that, dreadful stuff.
Rangers jump all over Houston's Framber Valdez for a 5-1 lead. The Astros then claw back to 5-4 on Alvarez's bat. Jose Leclerc was shaky in relief, but ended up getting the save. Rangers now lead the Astros 2-0 in the series.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401581150
Classic Bochy-managed game. Or at least it reminds me of the Giants circa 2010, 2012. and 2014.
If Bochy wins the WS with the Rangers, he is the greatest MLB manager of his era.
Yup. And if Bochy wins the World Series this year, the cries to #FireFarhan become louder.
I'm already on the #FireFarhan bandwagon. Have been essentially since mid-September. But it seems to me that having run off Bochy to replace him with Kapler, Zaidi should pay the price. The 2021 season (107 wins) was a total fluke.
It’s also fire AJ Preller. He could have offered Bochy the Padres manager job but he decided to hire Bob Melvin instead.
Not being a Padres fan, I know even less about that team. But I get it that Bob Melvin isn't terribly popular in San Diego. Hiring Melvin was actually a good move on Preller's part. Melvin knows how to do more with less; his record with Oakland is testament to that. Problem is that Preller isn't a very good GM. Look at the Padres record since 2014.
2015 - 74-88, 4th
2016 - 68-94, 5th
2017 - 71-91, 4th
2018 - 66-96, 5th
2019 - 70-92, 5th
2020 - 37-23, 2nd (COVID shortened season)
2021 - 79-83, 3rd
2022 - 89-73, 2nd
2023 - 82-80, 3rd
Melvin has managed the last two seasons (2022, 2023). Those are the best seasons the Padres have had under Preller. Melvin is doing the Giants a favor by returning to the Padres and not being a candidate for the Giants opening. My theory is that Melvin would actually do more to extend Zaidi than Kapler ever could and this would not be a good thing for the Giants.
I caught the last couple innings. I'm not a fan of the Astros so was yelling at the TV for Leclerc to throw an effing strike.
I identify with that last sentence. Especially the yelling part.
I thought for sure after he couldn't throw a strike that he was going to groove one and the Asstrisks were going to hit it out.
Phils build a 5-0 lead on the Diamondback and then hold on to win 5-3 to win Game 1.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401581108
Colts QB Richardson out for the season
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38675826/colts-anthony-richardson-probably-done-season-irsay-says
Cowboys defeat the Chargers 20-17 on the road as somehow Dak Prescott doesn't throw a pick
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401547482
Chargers gonna Charg.
On a side note, Herbert has not looked very good this season and he certainly doesn’t look clutch at all. All 3 losses, Herbert had the last position of the game with a chance to win each and he has lost them all.
Been very disappointed with Herbert. Missing throws elite QB’s make and was never really comfortable at all last night in the pocket. Staley continues to lean on analytics rather than taking the points. Take the points, you analytics geek.
The Bolt passed on Zay Flowers to take Quentin Johnston, despite having a roster full of big guys that can’t stretch a D (Keenan, Williams, Parham). Herbert hardly even looks QJ’s way, and the rookie’s route tree is about as extensive as Chase Claypools - no nuance whatsoever, basically just GO routes, ostensibly to clear things out underneath for Keenan or Josh Palmer.
It’s amazing the number of rookie WR’s that come in and can’t run routes.
Johnston is looking like a bad pick. At first I figured his lack production was due to Mike Williams, Allen and Palmer getting all the snaps and he would slowly get worked in to the offense but with Williams injured and him getting extensive snaps he hasn’t done anything.
Nick Bosa is also playing poorly and isn’t having much an impact on defense. I would look at trading him.
I thought Herbert would look better in Moores offense than he did Lombardis but he looks to be about the same and maybe even a little worse.
He's clearly got tons of talent, but at some point he has to actually cash in on one of these drives.
Kind of amazing that this was also the story with Philip Rivers. What is it about the Chargers?
Rivers actually played better than Herbert and led a bunch of 4th quarter comebacks and game winning drives, especially earlier in his career. Herbert hasn’t led many game winning drives during his time with the Chargers, despite plenty of opportunities to do so. Whenever he has gotten a chance, he has failed.
WAFFLES
Waffles with bacon cooked into the waffle. My mom did this often enough that chicken and waffles doesn't quite make sense.
EDIT: and, yes, maple syrup works beautifully on bacon-laced waffles.
Mmm… bacon. 🥓!
" and, yes, maple syrup works beautifully on bacon-laced waffles."
Of course! After all, maple syrup goes great with bacon and waffles separately.
i am a big fan of the both
- thin Norwegian ones that you have w/ lingonberry jam
- the Liege wafels w/ the pearl sugar in the batter.
as a family tradition i make the Liege wafels on the morning of the Liege-Bastonge-Liege bike race in the spring. it is one of the 5 "monuments" in the pro cycling world of prestigious 1-day races.
for regular every day eating the Belgian Wafel trucks in NYC are pretty good too.
I have a nephew who was born on Dec.25 and we have Norwegian background, so my sister makes a special Christmas breakfast of Norwegian waffles.
Please enlighten me about Norwegian waffles. I love waffles, but married to a Swede I only know of Swedish pancakes with lingonberry jam!
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
ICYMI: The Colorado State vs. Boise State game was bananas. With 7 minutes left in the game, CSU throws a pick, which is then followed up by a Boise State TD - capping a 13 point run by Boise State in the Q4 to go up 30-10. Then CSU scores. Then CSU recovers the onside kick w/ 4 minutes to go. CSU marches and gets a favorable PI call on 4th and goal with 2 minutes to go. They score to close to 30-24 with fewer than 2 minutes to go. CSU gets the onside kick AGAIN, but gets called for illegal block so have to try the kick again. Boise State recovers the ball, but goes 3 and out. CSU gets the ball back with 26 seconds to on on the own 12. Two passes later, they're at the BSU 33 with 7 seconds to go. They clock it, which takes another second off. Then a Hail Mary to tie the game with no time left. CSU gets a celebration penalty on their bench. CSU then sends in their 31 year old kicker to try a 35 yard extra point in an attempt to beat Boise State for the first time in program history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdyuQhBGUU
If the receiving team was smart, I think they should call for a fair catch. It allows essentially anyone to have an unimpeded catch otherwise it's an automatic penalty.
I thought on an onside kick that bounces you can't call fair catch. Only if they pooch kick it.
This is why college football keeps people coming back for more. Great story, great game. Fun, fun, fun.
True!
Wow! What a finish. The defense did a good job of knocking the ball down on the Hail Mary but the CSU player was in the right spot and reacted quickly to catch it.
Last Saturday for OOC teams that played Cal:
North Texas smashed Temple 45-14 for their first AAC win, which proved that Temple is awful and UNT is merely kinda bad and Cal's big victory was appropriate as they are a tier better than the Mean Green.
#3 Idaho lost 23-21 to #10 Montana 23-21. It was a solid game proving that - while a really good FCS team can threaten to beat a mediocre FBS team, Cal rightfully beat them with a huge second half.
Auburn lost 48-18 to #22 FSU a week after falling short to #1 Georgia 27-20. This hints that Cal and Auburn are 3rd quartile FBS teams.
Last Saturday in the ACC: FSU smashed Syracuse 41-3; #12 UNC beat #25 Miami 41-31; #17 Duke beat NC State 24-3; Virginia Tech beat Wake Forest 30-13; #14 Louisville's Jack Plummer has a Jack Plummer day as he goes 29/52 for 350 yards and 1 TD and 2 INTs (one being a Pick-6) and 1 lost FUM to seal a 38-21 loss to Pitt and their second string QB.
CAL
[VB] Cal upset USC 3-1, their first victory over the Trojans since [checks notes] 2014. The Pac-12 is quite unbalanced with #3 Stanford, #4 Wazzu, #8 Oregon. #17 Arizona State is a step behind. Then there's the third tier of USC, Washington. Then there's everyone else, which includes Cal. Freshman Maggie Li from China has turned the program from a doormat to competitive. Maggie's mom was on China's national team.
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/15/volleyball-cal-earns-first-win-over-usc-since-2014.aspx
FIGHT LIKE HELL, COACH BEE!
https://twitter.com/_coachbee1/status/1714100733019378075
On this day in 1964 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Navy, 27-13 in a duel between all-American quarterbacks Craig Morton (Cal) and Roger Staubach (Navy). Morton prevailed throwing two touchdown passes and running for one score. The Bear defense set a school record with five interceptions. The contest was played before a crowd of 63,000. It was subsequently announced that Cal fans could watch game films at the Cal Quarterback Club meeting at Torino’s restaurant in San Francisco on Monday evening. The guest speaker would be former Bear All-American running back Johnny Olszewski.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Thanks for doing this series this year! I never knew that Staubach played a game in Strawberry Canyon. So cool.
Thanks, I'm enjoying it.
do you have some Cal football historical site or archive?
I own three books on Cal history, I use the history section of the Cal football media guide, I utilize my subscription to Newspapers.Com. I sometimes rely on my memory and I use this website https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/california/
Roger Staubach won the 1963 Heisman winner as a junior. Staubach is colorblind and this condition was detected in his junior year. Consequently, he was commissioned directly into the Supply Corps. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he served a tour of duty in Vietnam, supervising 41 enlisted men.
The Dallas Cowboys drafted Staubach in the 10th round of the 1964 draft with a future selection. After his tour of duty was over, Staubach resigned his commission in time to join the Cowboys training camp. The Cowboys' starting QB? A guy named Craig Morton. In 1970, the Cowboys won the first ever NFC title (post-merger with the AFL), but the Cowboys lost to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl IV, 16-13.
In 1971, Morton was the starter at the beginning of the season. After a loss to New Orleans, Staubach became the starter. In a Week 7 game against Chicago, Landry alternated Staubach and Morton on each play, sending in the play with the QB. The Cowboys racked up over 500 yards in offense but committed 7 turnovers, losing to a mediocre Bears squad, 23-19. In Week 8 Staubach was the starter and remained in that position for the remainder of the 1971-72 season, culminating in a Super Bowl VI victory over the Miami Dolphins and earning Super Bowl MVP.
In 1972, Staubach missed most of the season with a separated shoulder. Morton led the team to the playoffs, but Staubach relieved him in the playoff game against the 49ers. Staubach threw 2 TD passes in the last 90 seconds and the Cowboys beat the 49ers, 30-28.
In Super Bowl XII (1978), Staubach's Cowboys defeated Morton's Broncos, 27-10.
I suppose I lied by omission in today's On this day as I chose not to mention that Staubach was playing that day with an injury.
Interesting. What injury did Staubach have?
All I could find is that he had a gimpy leg.
That’s some good sports history.
Love the Space Center thing at Moffett!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-unveils-plan-huge-south-bay-space-18418418.php
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) allegedly went on a trip with her friends Virginia Beckett and Hannah Stone to Paris in June. Sanders paid Beckett's event firm $19,029, reportedly for a lectern and just below the $20k limit for stricter documentation. A blogger issues a FOIA request over the expense. Sanders calls a special session to block this type of activity. The governor's office then shows a picture of the lectern - an Amplivox Falcon lectern that typically sells for about $7k. An invoice is then shown to the public. Then a whistleblower comes forward and says that she was instructed to tamper with the invoice to make it seem like it was supposed to be reimbursable when everyone knew it wasn't supposed to be. Then Amplivox company says that lectern is a counterfeit. Then someone identifies the lectern as the same lectern in other pictures that predate the alleged purchase, making the chance of having two knock-off lecterns that much more improbable.
These are at least two felonies - one for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one related to the cover up. This issue is now being investigated by a State audit, called by a Republican.
So this whole cover up was to pay for a trip to Paris?
...and to use state funds to pay for the trip, apparently.
If the funds used to pay Beckett were Sanders' own funds, then what does it matter?
Trump hit with limited gag order
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/trump-election-case-judge-weighs-dc-gag-order-bid-by-jack-smith.html
Don't threaten me with a good time
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-willing-go-jail-gag-order-judge-chutkan-1835227
More than half of Trump's Save America PAC has gone to pay his legal fees
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawyers-millions-payments-2024-campaign-2e06de2a8a90b3752e7758dfea56a509
Meanwhile, Biden's PAC spends about 90% of its money on media buys and none explicitly on legal fees.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/future-forward-usa/C00669259/expenditures/2020
Trump vows - if re-elected - would try to ban Muslims from coming to the US. Again.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/trump-immigration-crackdown/index.html
Repetition is a big thing with this guy.
Gym Jordan falls well short of the votes needed for the speakership. He got 200. He needed 217.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4260442-jim-jordan-fails-to-win-speakership-first-ballot/
This clown show just writes itself.
NOTED: The person with the most votes for Speaker was Hakeem Jeffries.
I found this interesting (after Buck said that Jordan needs to admit the TFG lost). A revenge/hate/spite vote.
Buck...cast his Speaker ballot on Tuesday for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.).
“I don’t like Tom Emmer, I figured this would be the worst job in America,” Buck later said on CNN.
Really encapsulates the idiocy of the GOP shitshow
More Buck: "The Republicans who are going to vote against Jordan on the second ballot, which will be more Republicans, want the cover of saying I voted for Jim Jordan, but now it's time to move on. The problem is they are afraid of a primary."
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1714379859231699418?s=20
He's not wrong. We wouldn't be in this mess except that alleged GOP "moderates" are afraid of being primaried. The GOP no longer has electeds like Cheney and Kinzinger who have the courage to say the emperor has no clothes.
There are 22 states with obesity (BMI > 30%) rates above 35%
https://www.voanews.com/a/7312757.html
There are 3 states Midwestern States and 3 Southern states not in that list:
MN, IL, MI
NC, FL, MD
it's funny, I know that by virtue of being south of the Mason Dixon line, and also a slavery state, Maryland is a southern state, but you'd never know it where I live (rather like the northern VA suburbs of DC in that regard)
One can't help but note that the vast majority of these are red states.
DBD AV CLUB
Question: I've been watching streaming through the hardware in my TV. I've come to the conclusion that the TV just cannot handle it and I should switch to some form of add-on hardware to handle it. For example, my second TV has a PS-4 that easily handles this task. I'm thinking Roku, but want to hear your recommendations.
Our big set is a smart TV with multiple apps available or built in. We also have Roku and Chromecast. We use Roku almost exclusively when we're not on OTA channels. Our Roku apps include YouTube TV, Max, Brit Box, Acorn, Peacock, PBS among others.
The connection I have with apps is generally better through Roku than it is through the same app on the smart TV. We bought a Roku for three TVs and use each of them.
I've noticed a significant lag when viewing an OTA channel on YouTube TV vs. viewing the same OTA channel through the TV antenna. As much as 30 seconds.
the lag on YouTubeTV is weird. during the Super Bowl or other bigger sporting events when i find myself cooking, i usually have the game on in both the family room and the kitchen, there is often a 2-5 sec delay between the two which makes it somewhat annoying for suspenseful moments.
on the other hand, if you hear some excitement coming from the family room, you can look up in time in the kitchen to catch the exciting moment ...
At the W4C watch parties, there's both a projector TV and a standard HD tv and they run independently of each on different devices(?)/ apps(?). So if both TVs have the game on, the standard TV is always a head by a play and a half-ish.
Reverse problem - I was watching a 49ers game earlier this season in the kitchen on the OTA channel (don't remember which game); Mrs Slug was watching the same game on YouTube TV in the living room. Big play happened, I cheered. I walk into the living room: "Thanks for the spoiler."
luckily (or not) there is only one football obsessed person in this house.
I think it depends on what you subscribe to. For example, if you have Amazon prime, I think the Fire TV stick works well enough. If you're Apple then the Apple TV is good. There is a google TV chromecast thing but I haven't used it. My TV has roku and the roku works pretty well. No 1 has a TCL Roku TV and it has all the apps for all the streaming and he can use the XFinity login to watch it all.
I think all add-on devices have apps that you can download to watch streaming if you subscribe to that individual streaming system.
I think HSB has a chromecast..?. I believed he mentioned it at the TCU game when FS and I couldn't get any channels to watch games at our airbnb and said he travelled with it just for such things.
yup. there was the old Chromecast that was good for just casting what was on your laptop.
the not-so-new-anymore Chromecast TVs are optimized to have apps that work w/ all the streaming services, especially YouTubeTV, which is our primary form of watching live sports and traditional TV channels.
we have generally been quite happy w/ it and have 3-4 of them around the house. they are pretty cheap, as things go.
I think that's about right. My mother & my mother in law are happy Roku users, my brother is a long time Chromecast user & seems to like it fine, and I have an Apple tv unit which works well (and this is for reasons of simplicity to me as tech support an Apple device household, so I'm pretty embedded in that ecosystem)
Pricewise the Fire stick is probably the cheapest, especially during prime days. I think Apple TV is the most expensive, and I think the Google TV chomecast is in between. I don't know how much the Roku box is.
I like AppleTV but I also have an iPhone so I’m sort of in that ecosystem and they all sync together.
New Lupin is pretty great, at lease to us.
The Majestic finally came up free on the Roku channel - one of my favorites, and Jim Carrey’s finest non-comedic work, IMO.
With all the shit going on in the world right now, gimme more movies with happy endings.
I watched Totally Killer on Amazon Prime. I found it to be a fun time travel, murder mystery movie set in the 80’s. I would recommend it.
Say what!!!!
Wasn't some gasoline named Eggo?
Esso. The trading name for Exxon (Standard Oil of New Jersey)
"Put a tiger in your tank." Geez, that takes me back a few years.
TIL ..
i somehow thought Mobil was mostly in US and Esso was mostly in Europe
I worked with a guy years ago who had been at Mobil for a long time when it had the HQ in Fairfax VA (I think his job was one of those roles that got "rationalized" with the Exxon merger in 1999). IIRC he said that Mobil had a tendency to cede a lot of operational control to their various international subsidiaries whereas Exxon was very much top-down, so it was kind of an ugly merger experience in a variety of ways.
My dad worked for Mobil for years. He was part of the architecture design team who was converting all the old service garages to mini marts. At least in CA.
Esso is big in Canada. As evidenced that it shows up regularly in the crossword in the Post
Esso went Exxon when I was a kid, but I still nail the ESSO x-word clues!
I remember seeing lots of Sinclairs (Dinosaur!) from Nevada into the midwest. I think I've starting seeing them in Ca. I always associated it with flyover states.