SGBear is off in vacationing/celebrating in CDMX so it is left to the rest of us to contribute. only a site admin can start the DBD though, or at least that is how i understand it
Been away for 2 weeks. Was in Paris visiting No 1 who is there for a 3 month fellowship sponsored by Penn for doing research for his PhD in Art History. He also has another one next Jan to May, which I'll probably also make a trip there to visit him. My aunt lives in Paris with her daughter and grandkids so my mom went out with me and is staying for a month. I also have another cousin (mom's older brother) there with her partner and daughter.
No 1 is also being nominated by Penn for a 3 year fellowship sponsored by the National Gallery of Art which will be 2 years in either Paris or the Met and then 1 year at the National Gallery. He kind of doesn't want to do it since it means 2 years in Paris away from friends and family.
Then on the way back I visited HSB for a few days, which he probably mentioned. Went to World Series game 3 thanks to HSB. Was going to watch WS game 5 on the plane last night but decided I wouldn't in case I would jinx it. Boy I missed a good one!
I mean the Yankees that did that twice over the last week. Couldn't have happened to a better team. Although I did watch the NC State game in Paris early Sun morning so I did see a game get pissed away.
Such piss poor baseball in the World Series by the best team in the American League is bad for the sport, tho I am not bummed the Yanks came up looking like frauds.
Our best was when No 1 was maybe 2 or 3 and a baseball. I was the radar gun guy behind home plate and my ex had a Nomo jersey. Was at a friend's mom's home that lives across the street from Willie Mays so we trick or treated there. He didn't answer the door, though I was told sometimes he does.
i am in Orlando for one night only. missing Halloween in the neighborhood for the first time in 20 yrs. we generally have a fun operation w/ 100+ kids who come by.
i personally like to be home and see the cute little ones.
Hoping we get some now that the house across the road has kids when a new family moved in this summer. Used to be a busy night, but then all the kids on the road turned into adults, and we haven't had any in years.
Idaho students came marauding through your neighborhood?
HS & College students can and do those sorts of things, but they sometimes go off, usually after an excessive amount of beer, has been consumed, on any other given weekend.
We're far enough from campus that I doubt any of the marauders were college aged. Or, at least, my observations have been of HS aged kids walking through the neighborhood on Halloween night.
When I was in college, the one time I lived in town for Halloween, I remember the high school kids coming around about an hour after the littler kids tapered off, and they were trick or treating, complete with costumes/make up, and pillow cases for their haul. Fortunately, we had some leftover that we hadn't eaten yet!
I don't know when it started, but there haven't been trick or treaters in our part of town since I moved back in 2018. Our part doesn't have as many kids and we're up a small hill. i assume down by the middle school there are more kids with families and it's flat so that's probably where they all are.
Glad I passed on going to the Kamala rally the other night. I had the local news on before going out that afternoon and the lines to get in to the rally were outrageously long.
California redshirt sophomore quarterback Fernando Mendoza has been selected as the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Mendoza won an online fan voting contest over seven other Stars of the Week named by the Manning Award.
Well deserved. I've rarely seen in years a more dramatic display of what a difference a quality QB makes than last Saturday compared to recent results, the first time OSU played a team with one since the Oregon game.
I was impressed with Fernando since he came on the scene, and all he does week after week is improve and confirm those early impressions.
Despite the efforts of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers were never in the game and lost 134-110 to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
AD and LeBron tried to shoulder the load, but it wasn’t enough. AD scored 22 points with 13 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 assists and a block. LeBron had 26 points with six rebounds and three assists.
There are probably a couple G-League Laker players looking up and seeing a potential spot on the Lakers being taken by Bronny. He's going to see what it means to be a rookie when he gets down there.
In a game they had no business winning in a World Series they had no intention of giving away, the Dodgers came back. Using every pitcher they reasonably had available and then some, Los Angeles capitalized on just enough chances to stun the Yankees 7-6 in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium and win the championship.
The back-and-forth game was a sloppy mess at times, but in the eighth inning the Dodgers trailed by a run. But they got two singles and a walk off Tommy Kahnle to load the based with nobody out. In came closer Luke Weaver, working his third day in a row, and the Dodgers got two sacrifice flies, mixing in a walk and catcher’s interference in between.
The body language from Gerritt Cole after he failed to cover 1st base in the 5th inning with the bases loaded was telling. And as much as you could tell the other Yankees on the field were trying not to show it, mentally, the jig was up. Everything just spiraled out of control in that inning after that.
Freddie Freeman set records during the 2024 World Series, hitting four home runs with a record 12 RBI in the Dodgers’ win over the Yankees in five games. That made the first baseman an easy choice for the World Series MVP.
Freeman homered in each of the first four games in this series, just the second player to homer in four consecutive games in one World Series, and the first to do so on a team that wasn’t sanctioned for illegally stealing signs. His four total home runs in this Fall Classic matched Duke Snider (1952 and 1955) for most by a Dodger in one World Series.
My wife calls our son the Dodgers' good luck charm. The first sign where I thought that might have been true was when Teo won the Home Run Derby for the Dodgers for the first time. That was the first time he had been watching the Derby; I joked that I had to wait 35+ years for that.
Dodgers scored 5 runs in the 5th inning of Game 5. #5 for the Dodgers scored the fifth run. Our son was born on 5/5.
FFF as he’s known around here. He was always a Nat killer when he played for the Braves. You can guess what the first F stands for. Much grudging respect for how good he is.
The California men's tennis team will send Golden Bears to two tournaments this week, with one group playing at the Dennis Rizza Intercollegiate Classic in Southern California and another competing in the Ralston/Neufeld Coaches Challenge, hosted by SMU, in Dallas.
Seniors Carl Emil Overbeck, Mikey Wright and Derrick Chen along with sophomore Alex Aney are set to play in the Dennis Rizza tournament at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates. Overbeck is the defending singles champion at the event, with the top-seeded Dane defeating USC's third-seeded Karl lee, 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-3, in last year's final. In four singles matches last year, Overbeck lost just one set.
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Senior Kaylyn Noh closed out the Nanea Invitational with her best round of the season, carding a 3-under-par 70 to help lift the California women's golf team to a fifth-place finish in its final tournament of the fall Wednesday at Nanea Golf Club.
Within a field that included three top-10 nationally-ranked teams, Cal earned its second top-five finish of the year with a 15-over 891 team score.
The regular season comes to a close for the California men's soccer team (5-7-2, 1-4-2 ACC) in the Big Clasico at No. 22 Stanford on Friday at 7 p.m. PT.
The game makes the former Pac-12 rivals' first match against each other as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
California volleyball is set to kick off the final month of its 2024 season this weekend with its fifth consecutive top-25 opponent, facing No. 23 Florida State at Tully Gymnasium in Tallahassee, Florida, (Friday, 3:30 p.m. PT) before traveling to Coral Gables, Florida, to square off with Miami at Knight Sports Complex (Sunday, 10 a.m. PT). Both matches will be broadcast on ACCNX.
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2024-25 regular season when it hosts Vanguard on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. PT.
The Golden Bears last played Vanguard on Nov. 3, 2019, in a 79-55 exhibition win.
BERKELEY - California's men's and women's cross country teams will start their postseason run with their first ever ACC Championships in program history. The race will take place Friday in Cary, North Carolina at the Wakemed Soccer Park. The men's 8k race will start at 6:30 a.m. PT followed by the women's 6k at 7:30 a.m. PT. Both races will be broadcasted on ACCN also available on ESPN+. Graduate student Carrick Denker has been Cal's top finisher on the men's side in his last three races, including winning the title at the USF Invitational. He has also earned top-20 finishes in each event he has competed in this season. Garrett MacQuiddy has cemented top-35 finishes in each of his last three competitions, including a second-place finish at the USF Invitational.
Happy Halloween everyone. Obviously California does not have a football game today but they have played on October 31st fourteen times compiling a record of 9-5. In Memorial Stadium the Bears are 4-4 on Halloween and are an impressive 5 -1 on the road. One of those road wins was 27-0 against Cal Poly Pomona in 1925, the last of four games Cal played against the Mustangs, all Bear wins. The Sturdy Golden Ones also had a rare win at U$C on Halloween 1970, 13-10. The Trojans had gone into the game ranked 18th in the nation while California was sporting a 3-4 record. Randy Wersching’s 46-yard field goal with 4:36 left in the game providing the winning margin. It was the Bears’ first victory over SC since 1958.The Sturdy Golden Ones notched their first ever road win under Bruce Snyder on this day in 1987, 20-6 in Oregon. Jeff Tedford’s 2009 team won a thriller on Halloween at ASU, 23-21 with Giorgio Tavecchio converting a game-wining field goal twenty-one seconds before the final gun.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by Count Dracula. I literally suck.
(Because there was no DBD that I could find yesterday. Wednesday's scheduled post will appear here tomorrow.)
Jeff Tedford’s 2009 team won a thriller on Halloween at ASU, 23-21 with Giorgio Tavecchio converting a game-wining field goal twenty-one seconds before the final gun.
oh to have a FG kicker that can make last second FGs. (ignore 2010)
Glad DBD is back. I was concerned we had another unannounced termination of a useful service, which is an all to common occurrence anymore.
SGBear is off in vacationing/celebrating in CDMX so it is left to the rest of us to contribute. only a site admin can start the DBD though, or at least that is how i understand it
DBD hiatus
Been away for 2 weeks. Was in Paris visiting No 1 who is there for a 3 month fellowship sponsored by Penn for doing research for his PhD in Art History. He also has another one next Jan to May, which I'll probably also make a trip there to visit him. My aunt lives in Paris with her daughter and grandkids so my mom went out with me and is staying for a month. I also have another cousin (mom's older brother) there with her partner and daughter.
No 1 is also being nominated by Penn for a 3 year fellowship sponsored by the National Gallery of Art which will be 2 years in either Paris or the Met and then 1 year at the National Gallery. He kind of doesn't want to do it since it means 2 years in Paris away from friends and family.
Then on the way back I visited HSB for a few days, which he probably mentioned. Went to World Series game 3 thanks to HSB. Was going to watch WS game 5 on the plane last night but decided I wouldn't in case I would jinx it. Boy I missed a good one!
Nice. Trip looked awesome.
Certainly a good one if you like seeing teams piss away sure W’s! ;-)
I mean the Yankees that did that twice over the last week. Couldn't have happened to a better team. Although I did watch the NC State game in Paris early Sun morning so I did see a game get pissed away.
Exactly…very palpable Cal vibes.
Such piss poor baseball in the World Series by the best team in the American League is bad for the sport, tho I am not bummed the Yanks came up looking like frauds.
;-)
ELSEWHERE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
HALLOWEEN PLANS
First time trick or treating with the 1.5 year old.
Nice. What's his costume?
Our best was when No 1 was maybe 2 or 3 and a baseball. I was the radar gun guy behind home plate and my ex had a Nomo jersey. Was at a friend's mom's home that lives across the street from Willie Mays so we trick or treated there. He didn't answer the door, though I was told sometimes he does.
He's Peter the Rabbit with a carrot in hand. I'm going as a carrot, holding a rabbit that is holding a carrot.
Lights off, blinds drawn.
i am in Orlando for one night only. missing Halloween in the neighborhood for the first time in 20 yrs. we generally have a fun operation w/ 100+ kids who come by.
i personally like to be home and see the cute little ones.
Turn off the porch lights and hide.
Mrs Slug doesn't want to deal with trick or treaters. Can't say that I particularly want to, either.
We got none last year so expect none this year. Also, we are becoming more nutritionally conscious and so less keen on passing out candy.
If someone comes by maybe we'll give them an orange.
We also have misgivings about passing out candy. It's feeling less and less responsible as time goes by.
Fraidy cat!
Hoping we get some now that the house across the road has kids when a new family moved in this summer. Used to be a busy night, but then all the kids on the road turned into adults, and we haven't had any in years.
That's what happens when you have your carved pumpkins destroyed by marauding vandals. Sometimes, you give up on the holiday.
Idaho students came marauding through your neighborhood?
HS & College students can and do those sorts of things, but they sometimes go off, usually after an excessive amount of beer, has been consumed, on any other given weekend.
We're far enough from campus that I doubt any of the marauders were college aged. Or, at least, my observations have been of HS aged kids walking through the neighborhood on Halloween night.
When I was in college, the one time I lived in town for Halloween, I remember the high school kids coming around about an hour after the littler kids tapered off, and they were trick or treating, complete with costumes/make up, and pillow cases for their haul. Fortunately, we had some leftover that we hadn't eaten yet!
I don't know when it started, but there haven't been trick or treaters in our part of town since I moved back in 2018. Our part doesn't have as many kids and we're up a small hill. i assume down by the middle school there are more kids with families and it's flat so that's probably where they all are.
DBD AV CLUB
POLITICAL STUFF
Back in 2016, during a trip to DC, I bought a Hillary bobblehead at Reagan National.
This week I was at BWI. Kamala bobbleheads were sold out, but there were a few Trump bobbleheads available.
Possibly a portent of things to come.
Let's hope.
Glad I passed on going to the Kamala rally the other night. I had the local news on before going out that afternoon and the lines to get in to the rally were outrageously long.
PRO
[FB] Mendoza Selected As Manning Award Quarterback Of The Week
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/football-mendoza-selected-as-manning-award-quarterback-of-the-week.aspx
California redshirt sophomore quarterback Fernando Mendoza has been selected as the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Mendoza won an online fan voting contest over seven other Stars of the Week named by the Manning Award.
Well deserved. I've rarely seen in years a more dramatic display of what a difference a quality QB makes than last Saturday compared to recent results, the first time OSU played a team with one since the Oregon game.
I was impressed with Fernando since he came on the scene, and all he does week after week is improve and confirm those early impressions.
oops
Lakers fall to Cavs, lose second game in a row
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2024/10/30/24283786/lakers-vs-cavs-final-score-recap-stats-box-score-anthony-davis-austin-reaves-lebron-james
Despite the efforts of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers were never in the game and lost 134-110 to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
AD and LeBron tried to shoulder the load, but it wasn’t enough. AD scored 22 points with 13 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 assists and a block. LeBron had 26 points with six rebounds and three assists.
But what about Bronny?
i think he first scored his first NBA points .. or maybe that was in the last game
I can't wait for him to go to the G-League where he belongs.
There are probably a couple G-League Laker players looking up and seeing a potential spot on the Lakers being taken by Bronny. He's going to see what it means to be a rookie when he gets down there.
Dodgers improbable Game 5 comeback makes them World Series champions
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/10/30/24283828/dodgers-comeback-game-5-blake-treinen-walker-buehler-world-series-champions
In a game they had no business winning in a World Series they had no intention of giving away, the Dodgers came back. Using every pitcher they reasonably had available and then some, Los Angeles capitalized on just enough chances to stun the Yankees 7-6 in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium and win the championship.
The back-and-forth game was a sloppy mess at times, but in the eighth inning the Dodgers trailed by a run. But they got two singles and a walk off Tommy Kahnle to load the based with nobody out. In came closer Luke Weaver, working his third day in a row, and the Dodgers got two sacrifice flies, mixing in a walk and catcher’s interference in between.
lots of people wearing Yankees gear at LGA this morning and on my flight to Orlando. somber moods, as you would expect.
I saw quite a few Dodgers fans when I went up to Central Park. Probably quite a few of them leaving this morning as well.
The body language from Gerritt Cole after he failed to cover 1st base in the 5th inning with the bases loaded was telling. And as much as you could tell the other Yankees on the field were trying not to show it, mentally, the jig was up. Everything just spiraled out of control in that inning after that.
I'd say it was spiraling long before that. Other Yankees defensive miscues had already given away two free outs in that inning.
i was never sure if it was "the jig is up" or "the gig is up" .. so thanks
You're welcome.
Freddie Freeman wins World Series MVP with 4 home runs, 12 RBI
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/10/30/24283252/freddie-freeman-world-series-mvp-home-runs-rbi-dodgers
Freddie Freeman set records during the 2024 World Series, hitting four home runs with a record 12 RBI in the Dodgers’ win over the Yankees in five games. That made the first baseman an easy choice for the World Series MVP.
Freeman homered in each of the first four games in this series, just the second player to homer in four consecutive games in one World Series, and the first to do so on a team that wasn’t sanctioned for illegally stealing signs. His four total home runs in this Fall Classic matched Duke Snider (1952 and 1955) for most by a Dodger in one World Series.
My wife calls our son the Dodgers' good luck charm. The first sign where I thought that might have been true was when Teo won the Home Run Derby for the Dodgers for the first time. That was the first time he had been watching the Derby; I joked that I had to wait 35+ years for that.
Dodgers scored 5 runs in the 5th inning of Game 5. #5 for the Dodgers scored the fifth run. Our son was born on 5/5.
I'm a believer now.
You know what you need to do! 8 more kids, all induced on the right day.
He could field his own baseball team, then.
Does that work for Cal as well?
It would work better if there was a Guggenheim Investment Group behind Cal..
FFF as he’s known around here. He was always a Nat killer when he played for the Braves. You can guess what the first F stands for. Much grudging respect for how good he is.
Fantastic?
Facetious?
Formidable?
Fearsome?
Fearless?
Frosty?
Frumpy?
Fierce?
Friendly?
Fabled?
Flipping?
Freaking?
Fornicating?
Friggin'?
Isn't anyone hitting >= .250 by definition a Nat killer?
Ooooh, brew-tuhl.
Freddie had a key 2 RBI single last night, and then hustled around to score on the next hit. Played brilliant defense all series too.
CAL
[MTEN] Cal Sends Bears To SoCal, Dallas
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/mens-tennis-cal-sends-bears-to-socal-dallas.aspx
The California men's tennis team will send Golden Bears to two tournaments this week, with one group playing at the Dennis Rizza Intercollegiate Classic in Southern California and another competing in the Ralston/Neufeld Coaches Challenge, hosted by SMU, in Dallas.
Seniors Carl Emil Overbeck, Mikey Wright and Derrick Chen along with sophomore Alex Aney are set to play in the Dennis Rizza tournament at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates. Overbeck is the defending singles champion at the event, with the top-seeded Dane defeating USC's third-seeded Karl lee, 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-3, in last year's final. In four singles matches last year, Overbeck lost just one set.
[WGOLF] Cal Finishes 5th In Fall Finale
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/womens-golf-cal-finishes-5th-in-fall-finale.aspx
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Senior Kaylyn Noh closed out the Nanea Invitational with her best round of the season, carding a 3-under-par 70 to help lift the California women's golf team to a fifth-place finish in its final tournament of the fall Wednesday at Nanea Golf Club.
Within a field that included three top-10 nationally-ranked teams, Cal earned its second top-five finish of the year with a 15-over 891 team score.
[MSOC] Cal Battles No. 22 Stanford in Big Clasico
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/mens-soccer-cal-battles-no-22-stanford-in-big-clasico.aspx
The regular season comes to a close for the California men's soccer team (5-7-2, 1-4-2 ACC) in the Big Clasico at No. 22 Stanford on Friday at 7 p.m. PT.
The game makes the former Pac-12 rivals' first match against each other as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
What’s the deal that their only conference win was against the team ranked number one?
[VB] Bears Head East To Play No. 23 Florida State, Miami
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/volleyball-bears-head-east-to-play-no-23-florida-state-miami.aspx
California volleyball is set to kick off the final month of its 2024 season this weekend with its fifth consecutive top-25 opponent, facing No. 23 Florida State at Tully Gymnasium in Tallahassee, Florida, (Friday, 3:30 p.m. PT) before traveling to Coral Gables, Florida, to square off with Miami at Knight Sports Complex (Sunday, 10 a.m. PT). Both matches will be broadcast on ACCNX.
[WBB] Bears Host Exhibition Against Vanguard On Thursday
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/womens-basketball-bears-host-exhibition-against-vanguard-on-thursday.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2024-25 regular season when it hosts Vanguard on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. PT.
The Golden Bears last played Vanguard on Nov. 3, 2019, in a 79-55 exhibition win.
[XC] Bears Head To ACC Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/30/cross-country-bears-head-to-acc-championships.aspx
BERKELEY - California's men's and women's cross country teams will start their postseason run with their first ever ACC Championships in program history. The race will take place Friday in Cary, North Carolina at the Wakemed Soccer Park. The men's 8k race will start at 6:30 a.m. PT followed by the women's 6k at 7:30 a.m. PT. Both races will be broadcasted on ACCN also available on ESPN+. Graduate student Carrick Denker has been Cal's top finisher on the men's side in his last three races, including winning the title at the USF Invitational. He has also earned top-20 finishes in each event he has competed in this season. Garrett MacQuiddy has cemented top-35 finishes in each of his last three competitions, including a second-place finish at the USF Invitational.
It’s time again for Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts.
Happy Halloween everyone. Obviously California does not have a football game today but they have played on October 31st fourteen times compiling a record of 9-5. In Memorial Stadium the Bears are 4-4 on Halloween and are an impressive 5 -1 on the road. One of those road wins was 27-0 against Cal Poly Pomona in 1925, the last of four games Cal played against the Mustangs, all Bear wins. The Sturdy Golden Ones also had a rare win at U$C on Halloween 1970, 13-10. The Trojans had gone into the game ranked 18th in the nation while California was sporting a 3-4 record. Randy Wersching’s 46-yard field goal with 4:36 left in the game providing the winning margin. It was the Bears’ first victory over SC since 1958.The Sturdy Golden Ones notched their first ever road win under Bruce Snyder on this day in 1987, 20-6 in Oregon. Jeff Tedford’s 2009 team won a thriller on Halloween at ASU, 23-21 with Giorgio Tavecchio converting a game-wining field goal twenty-one seconds before the final gun.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by Count Dracula. I literally suck.
(Because there was no DBD that I could find yesterday. Wednesday's scheduled post will appear here tomorrow.)
Jeff Tedford’s 2009 team won a thriller on Halloween at ASU, 23-21 with Giorgio Tavecchio converting a game-wining field goal twenty-one seconds before the final gun.
oh to have a FG kicker that can make last second FGs. (ignore 2010)