Meet Mr. Ed Poray, a baseball player who mostly bounced around the minor leagues and only briefly played for the major league's Buffalo Buffeds in 1914. He was a negative WAR relief pitcher who is mostly known for being the only player born in international waters.
Unpleasant surprise: the dryer stopped generating heat a few days ago
Pleasant surprise: the culprit was a $6 fuse and the job was fairly easy despite requiring disassembly of the entire dryer (turns out dryers are pretty simple: just a big barrel being spun around on a belt driven by a little motor that also diverts some power to a heating element).
I went to work for a family friend when I moved to Phoenix in 2010 and I was assigned to manage a restaurant there. Worst thing ever… admittedly I am not the demographic but living there for 18 months really soured me on the place.
Then we met the former Mrs Jimmy Chitwood, and the fun really began…;-) ;-)…Phoenix is the Devil’s playground…haha
Gimme another few years and I’d probably love it tho, at least as a snow bird!
Trump Org CFO Weisselberg treads lightly in his testimony, alternating between giving some evidence against Trump family members, but also not willing to throw them under the bus
Good. Some fresh blood and energy might be good in the But-What-About-Hunter-Biden Era. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) expected to take over as House Minority Leader.
This is true, but I recall the 2018 challenge to Pelosi, led I believe in party by the left leaning members of the Dems, and in hindsight, it is difficult to point to a member of the House that performed better than she as House Speaker and as opposition to the party in the executive office.
Final decision is kicked to Dec 14 meeting. Reading tea leaves, it feels like UCLA will ultimately be allowed to move, and that there is some sort of subsidy being worked out for us.
Per Canzano: "Cal Chancellor Carol Christ told the UC Regents that a lot of attention is focused on football/basketball. Said consolidation of major conferences is 'not to the benefit of all student athletes, particularly women's sports and Olympic sports.'"
Carol Christ and Jim Knowlton are a big reason why Cal is in last place in both football and basketball...they will likely remain as such until these two are replaced, unfortunately.
I've said it before here: I think Christ is a good chancellor overall and even quite excellent in certain areas. But athletics is showing to be huge weakness for her. She thinks in purely idealistic terms and not with respect to athletics as it relates to brand, and student and alumni experience. Nor does she seem to have a good grasp of the economics of it or how college athletics are changing. It's a noble, but not very realistic or healthy vision for athletics. I would encourage you to watch some of that session and hear her talk next to Gene Block, who is also a very excellent chancellor. He every bit the idealist, but also pragmatic and proactive.
In hindsight, the first quarter between the Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns told us everything we needed to know. Steph Curry went ballistic, with a patented Curry Flurry. The team was spirited, and clearly played hard. And the defense, after about three interesting minutes, decided to hibernate.
Curry scored 17 points and only missed one shot. And the Warriors were losing when the buzzer rang.
That ended up being the entire game. The next 36 minutes of action followed the exact same blueprint. Curry playing like an MVP. Everyone else playing with energy, but forgetting how to play defense.
BERKELEY – The Cal women's basketball team defeated Idaho, 84-71, on Wednesday evening behind its most balanced scoring performance of the young season, with five players scoring in double figures for the first time all year. The Bears are now 2-1 and remain perfect at home while the Vandals dropped to 0-2. The win also improved Cal to 3-1 in the all-time series record.
Cal was led by Kemery Martín, who had her best performance as a Bear finishing tied for a game-high 19 points, including 3-of-6 from three-point range, four assists and three rebounds. Peanut Tuitele also had her best outing in a Cal uniform totaling 11 points, including a perfect 3-of-3 from deep, and adding five assists and three rebounds. The three three-pointers marked a career-high for Tuitele. Rounding out the Bears in double-figures were Evelien Lutje Schipholt with 14, Leilani McIntosh with 12 and Ugonne (Michelle) Onyiah with 10 (on 5-of-5 shooting).
Biggest crowd against a nondescript OOC foe that I can remember. Given the recent form of the men's team, maybe fans will turn to the women for their basketball fix.
Suggestion inspired by OD's post - if you attend a Cal home basketball game, go to women's games and avoid the men's games.
By switching attendance from the men's program to the women's program, Cal fans can highlight the vast difference between the coaching acumen of the two coaches and provide a shove to Jim Knowlton to do what's right with regard to Mark Fox.
This. Even though they haven't been much better in the standings over the past couple years, the women's team is much more enjoyable to follow than the men's team.
Yup. Chop down the trees. Derail the train! Leland Stanford Sr. was not only governor but also founder of the Southern Pacific railway, which used Asian workers mostly to dynamite a right of way across the Sierra Nevada and onto Promontory Utah where the golden spike was hammered in. The legacy of this is the infernal train whistle heard after Stanford scores, which fortunately is not too often.
Giving me strong WVU vibes. I would have gone traditional blue top/helmet, gold pants for Big Game and brought these out for UCLA or an opponent earlier in the season.
DALLAS – Matthew Cindric was one of 20 of the nation's top leaders in college football to be named a semifinalist for the 2022 Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year on Wednesday. The semifinalists were selected for demonstrating a record of leadership by exhibiting exceptional courage, integrity and sportsmanship both on and off the field. The award, presented by Albertsons and Tom Thumb, is the first college football honor to focus primarily on a player's leadership both on and off the field.
Cindric was selected despite suffering a season-ending injury at Colorado on October 15.
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team saw three Golden Bears – Nonso Adimabua, Wyatt Meyer and Fahmi Ibrahim – claim All-Pac-12 Honors when the conference announced its annual awards this week.
The Pac-12 named Adimabua, a junior forward, and Meyer, a junior midfielder, to its second team and awarded Ibrahim, a senior forward, with honorable mention. These are the first All-Pac-12 honors for the three Golden Bears.
A product of Asaba, Nigeria, Adimabua ranked third at Cal in goals (2) and point (5) and had one assist in his first season in Berkeley. He scored the gamewinning goal in the Bears' 2-0 victory over San Diego State on Sept. 15 in Berkeley. Named to the United Soccer Coaches' list of Forwards to Watch prior to the season, the striker also drew plenty of defensive attention from opponents to open up space for his teammates.
BERKELEY – California volleyball (7-19, 0-16 Pac-12) hopes to continue its upward trajectory this week as the team returns to Haas Pavilion for its final home weekend of the season, hosting Arizona (14-13, 4-12) and Arizona State (11-17, 5-11). The Bears have participated in three straight five-set matches and are looking to ride that competitive momentum into the last four matches of the season as they seek their first conference win since Spring 2021.
Arizona currently leads the all-time series against Cal, 46-27. The Wildcats swept the Bears, 3-0, in their last meeting on Oct. 16; however, they are just 2-7 as the visiting team this season. Senior Zyanna Fellows leads Arizona with 132.0 total blocks, 21st in the NCAA, while classmate Kamaile Hiapo tops the conference with 411 total digs.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Weather Underground. Coaches edition.
Cal’s best Big Game coaches (three or more Big Games) are Pappy Waldorf 7-1-2 Andy Smith 6-1-1, Pete Elliot 2-1 Stub Allison 5-3, Jeff Tedford 7-4, and Joe Kapp 3-2. Worst are Tom Holmoe 0-5, Sonny Dykes 0-4, Nibs Price 0-4-1, Bruce Snyder 0-4-1, Marv Levy 1-3 and Ray Willsey 2-6. Justin Wilcox can even his record at 3-3 with a win on Saturday.
Cal football trivia fun fact will appear daily during Big Game week.
Since posting this I've noted the only coaches missing are Bill Ingram 1-2-1, Mike White 2-4, Roger Theder 2-2 and Keith Gilbertston 2-2 (including only coaches from the time of the permanent switch back to football in 1915 thought today).
Buck Shaw coached Cal in 1945, but never coached for Cal against Stanfurd. Shaw was at Cal for one year before becoming the first head coach of the 49ers.
Went to see the SF Opera last night, a very great performance of La Traviata - one of my wife's favorite operas (not one of mine, however) very good performances by the vocals, good new sets. Ate before at Monsieur Benjamin, which is quite good, and very French, but kinda jumped in price recently - $150/per person without even a dessert.
Chef's Table - Pizza (13/19, WB). Netflix's Chef's Table series is a foodie's dream show that shows what drives a chef to become the best of their profession and describes what it costs to get there - which is inevitably "almost everything". Chefs run the spectrum from tortured genius, self-righteous peacocks, workaholics hiding from reality, and accidental revolutionaries. The show's formula is starting to get a bit tired and predictable, but it's still very good TV.
Sooooooo, interested in hearing if anyone else watched/is watching The English on Amazon Prime, a 6-ep limited series featuring Emily Blunt, Stephen Rea and Ciaran Hinds set over a 30 year period around 1890.
Finished it yesterday and…wow. Haunting, beautiful, a little silly and unbelievable, exciting, gory, tragic, uplifting. One of those series that I was kinda scratching my head as it went on, thinking there are so many irons in this fire that it’s gonna fizzle out and I may just bail…but I kept watching, and it all comes together. A somewhat somber story, with quality dialogue…but great storytelling. Recommended.
International waters
Meet Mr. Ed Poray, a baseball player who mostly bounced around the minor leagues and only briefly played for the major league's Buffalo Buffeds in 1914. He was a negative WAR relief pitcher who is mostly known for being the only player born in international waters.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=porray001edm
Perrier
Han
The 13th most numerous family name in Korea. The top 4 make up about half of Korea.
shot first.
Nah.
Solo
Dynasty
Bruce Lee's foe in Enter the Dragon
Surprise
Unpleasant surprise: the dryer stopped generating heat a few days ago
Pleasant surprise: the culprit was a $6 fuse and the job was fairly easy despite requiring disassembly of the entire dryer (turns out dryers are pretty simple: just a big barrel being spun around on a belt driven by a little motor that also diverts some power to a heating element).
! Oh we're having another one?
, Az
Surprise in Surprise
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/11/13/driver-goes-around-rail-crossing-arms-hit-by-train-surprise/
Where fun and old people go to die.
Dreadful f-ing city.
I own land there. But I agree. It's pretty depressing.
Did you buy the land from Ricky Roma or Shelley Levene?
Roma was in line to take home that Cadillac El Dorado…
Ohhh I'm gonna have your job sh!t head. I'm goin downtown and I'm gonna talk to Mitch and Murrray. I'm going to Lempkin!
I went to work for a family friend when I moved to Phoenix in 2010 and I was assigned to manage a restaurant there. Worst thing ever… admittedly I am not the demographic but living there for 18 months really soured me on the place.
Then we met the former Mrs Jimmy Chitwood, and the fun really began…;-) ;-)…Phoenix is the Devil’s playground…haha
Gimme another few years and I’d probably love it tho, at least as a snow bird!
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump Org CFO Weisselberg treads lightly in his testimony, alternating between giving some evidence against Trump family members, but also not willing to throw them under the bus
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-organization-trial-fraud-scheme-allen-weisselberg-testifies/
Gov. Noem (R-SD) hops off the Trump train.
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/17/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-donald-trump-doesnt-offer-best-hope-gop/69655818007/
Let's check in to see how the new GOP House majority is doing. It's definitely a preview of the next two years.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1593264381432840192
And if you think it's just some dope saying dumb stuff, check out the official GOP House twitter account
https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1593253229747265545
I'm too late. By time I checked in the tweet is no longer available.
Pelosi's stepping back from leadership
https://apnews.com/article/nancy-pelosi-house-future-plans-updates-3839ff31c605efa0ec1ee4ff004b72d2
Good. Some fresh blood and energy might be good in the But-What-About-Hunter-Biden Era. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) expected to take over as House Minority Leader.
This is true, but I recall the 2018 challenge to Pelosi, led I believe in party by the left leaning members of the Dems, and in hindsight, it is difficult to point to a member of the House that performed better than she as House Speaker and as opposition to the party in the executive office.
Elsewhere in college
[MBB] Down go that Zags. Texas wins 93-74
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/texas-gonzaga-202211160585/
Let's check in to see how that game at Buffalo is shaping up.
https://sports.yahoo.com/buffalo-could-get-several-feet-of-snow-which-could-disrupt-bills-vs-browns-on-sunday-154347714.html
pls pls pls let us enjoy a blizzard bowl (same with the University of Buffalo game on Saturday)
EMU beats Kent State in a close game 31-24
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401416644
I checked in at one point during the 3rd Q and the Kent St QB was 1/8 with ~10 yards. They looked to be running the ball reasonably well, though.
Miami (OH) beats Illinois del Norte 29-23
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401416646
Another glorious mid-week MAC snow bowl
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1593047894814138368
Starting QB combined to complete 10 passes. Come from behind safety + FG is the difference as CMU beats WMU 12-10.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=401416645
UC Regents open session on the proposed UCLA B1G move here: https://youtu.be/QjLZAKHHSkA
Final decision is kicked to Dec 14 meeting. Reading tea leaves, it feels like UCLA will ultimately be allowed to move, and that there is some sort of subsidy being worked out for us.
Per Canzano: "Cal Chancellor Carol Christ told the UC Regents that a lot of attention is focused on football/basketball. Said consolidation of major conferences is 'not to the benefit of all student athletes, particularly women's sports and Olympic sports.'"
Carol Christ and Jim Knowlton are a big reason why Cal is in last place in both football and basketball...they will likely remain as such until these two are replaced, unfortunately.
Christ has been a decent chancellor, her failure is not firing Knowlton
I've said it before here: I think Christ is a good chancellor overall and even quite excellent in certain areas. But athletics is showing to be huge weakness for her. She thinks in purely idealistic terms and not with respect to athletics as it relates to brand, and student and alumni experience. Nor does she seem to have a good grasp of the economics of it or how college athletics are changing. It's a noble, but not very realistic or healthy vision for athletics. I would encourage you to watch some of that session and hear her talk next to Gene Block, who is also a very excellent chancellor. He every bit the idealist, but also pragmatic and proactive.
She's gonna wrap that porch around our necks.
PRO
NBA teams banned from wearing off-white unis because it interferes with ads
https://twitter.com/dgodz/status/1592538332201877504
Warriors waste a Curry 50 piece, continue to be useless on the road
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2022/11/16/23463770/nba-scores-warriors-suns-steph-curry-devin-booker
In hindsight, the first quarter between the Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns told us everything we needed to know. Steph Curry went ballistic, with a patented Curry Flurry. The team was spirited, and clearly played hard. And the defense, after about three interesting minutes, decided to hibernate.
Curry scored 17 points and only missed one shot. And the Warriors were losing when the buzzer rang.
That ended up being the entire game. The next 36 minutes of action followed the exact same blueprint. Curry playing like an MVP. Everyone else playing with energy, but forgetting how to play defense.
They don’t defend. Cal could maybe hang 70 on the W’s.
Maybe.
Seems like Curry is burning a lot of mileage carrying the Warriors this year.
And he's not even carrying them.
CAL
[WBB] Cal Team Effort Takes Down Idaho
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/16/womens-basketball-cal-team-effort-takes-down-idaho.aspx
BERKELEY – The Cal women's basketball team defeated Idaho, 84-71, on Wednesday evening behind its most balanced scoring performance of the young season, with five players scoring in double figures for the first time all year. The Bears are now 2-1 and remain perfect at home while the Vandals dropped to 0-2. The win also improved Cal to 3-1 in the all-time series record.
Cal was led by Kemery Martín, who had her best performance as a Bear finishing tied for a game-high 19 points, including 3-of-6 from three-point range, four assists and three rebounds. Peanut Tuitele also had her best outing in a Cal uniform totaling 11 points, including a perfect 3-of-3 from deep, and adding five assists and three rebounds. The three three-pointers marked a career-high for Tuitele. Rounding out the Bears in double-figures were Evelien Lutje Schipholt with 14, Leilani McIntosh with 12 and Ugonne (Michelle) Onyiah with 10 (on 5-of-5 shooting).
Biggest crowd against a nondescript OOC foe that I can remember. Given the recent form of the men's team, maybe fans will turn to the women for their basketball fix.
Suggestion inspired by OD's post - if you attend a Cal home basketball game, go to women's games and avoid the men's games.
By switching attendance from the men's program to the women's program, Cal fans can highlight the vast difference between the coaching acumen of the two coaches and provide a shove to Jim Knowlton to do what's right with regard to Mark Fox.
This. Even though they haven't been much better in the standings over the past couple years, the women's team is much more enjoyable to follow than the men's team.
They promise to be very good this year. Outside shot at the tourney, probably a WNIT berth.
Great points. Humbled to be the inspiration.
Go Bears!!! Beat Stanfurd!!!
Yup. Chop down the trees. Derail the train! Leland Stanford Sr. was not only governor but also founder of the Southern Pacific railway, which used Asian workers mostly to dynamite a right of way across the Sierra Nevada and onto Promontory Utah where the golden spike was hammered in. The legacy of this is the infernal train whistle heard after Stanford scores, which fortunately is not too often.
Cal going with gold helmets, blue tops with bumblebee shoulders, and gold pants.
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1593289052597338112
I like the combo. Love the helmets.
Admittedly, first time I saw that earlier today I thought "Why is Michigan carrying an axe around?"
We think it's fun and cool.
Awesome! Love the helmets
Ehhh.
Giving me strong WVU vibes. I would have gone traditional blue top/helmet, gold pants for Big Game and brought these out for UCLA or an opponent earlier in the season.
That's my take. Not a bad alternate uniform, but for the Big Game the traditional look is better.
Wilner: The only Week 12 game with zero postseason implications is Big Game, the 125th meeting between Cal and Stanford.
I don't believe this is an unprecedented development.
[FB] Matthew Cindric Named Jason Witten CMOY Semifinalist
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/16/football-matthew-cindric-named-jason-witten-cmoy-semifinalist.aspx
DALLAS – Matthew Cindric was one of 20 of the nation's top leaders in college football to be named a semifinalist for the 2022 Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year on Wednesday. The semifinalists were selected for demonstrating a record of leadership by exhibiting exceptional courage, integrity and sportsmanship both on and off the field. The award, presented by Albertsons and Tom Thumb, is the first college football honor to focus primarily on a player's leadership both on and off the field.
Cindric was selected despite suffering a season-ending injury at Colorado on October 15.
[MSOC] Three Bears Earn All-Pac-12 Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/16/mens-soccer-3-bears-earn-all-pac-12-honors.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team saw three Golden Bears – Nonso Adimabua, Wyatt Meyer and Fahmi Ibrahim – claim All-Pac-12 Honors when the conference announced its annual awards this week.
The Pac-12 named Adimabua, a junior forward, and Meyer, a junior midfielder, to its second team and awarded Ibrahim, a senior forward, with honorable mention. These are the first All-Pac-12 honors for the three Golden Bears.
A product of Asaba, Nigeria, Adimabua ranked third at Cal in goals (2) and point (5) and had one assist in his first season in Berkeley. He scored the gamewinning goal in the Bears' 2-0 victory over San Diego State on Sept. 15 in Berkeley. Named to the United Soccer Coaches' list of Forwards to Watch prior to the season, the striker also drew plenty of defensive attention from opponents to open up space for his teammates.
[VB] Bears Host Arizona, ASU In Final Home Weekend
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/16/volleyball-bears-host-arizona-asu-in-final-home-weekend.aspx
BERKELEY – California volleyball (7-19, 0-16 Pac-12) hopes to continue its upward trajectory this week as the team returns to Haas Pavilion for its final home weekend of the season, hosting Arizona (14-13, 4-12) and Arizona State (11-17, 5-11). The Bears have participated in three straight five-set matches and are looking to ride that competitive momentum into the last four matches of the season as they seek their first conference win since Spring 2021.
Arizona currently leads the all-time series against Cal, 46-27. The Wildcats swept the Bears, 3-0, in their last meeting on Oct. 16; however, they are just 2-7 as the visiting team this season. Senior Zyanna Fellows leads Arizona with 132.0 total blocks, 21st in the NCAA, while classmate Kamaile Hiapo tops the conference with 411 total digs.
An article popped up on my Google feed and says Frost's name has been connected to Cal OC candidate. Then I read the article and the source was Avi.
https://athlonsports.com/college-football/scott-frost-named-potential-candidate-for-notable-college-football-job
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Weather Underground. Coaches edition.
Cal’s best Big Game coaches (three or more Big Games) are Pappy Waldorf 7-1-2 Andy Smith 6-1-1, Pete Elliot 2-1 Stub Allison 5-3, Jeff Tedford 7-4, and Joe Kapp 3-2. Worst are Tom Holmoe 0-5, Sonny Dykes 0-4, Nibs Price 0-4-1, Bruce Snyder 0-4-1, Marv Levy 1-3 and Ray Willsey 2-6. Justin Wilcox can even his record at 3-3 with a win on Saturday.
Cal football trivia fun fact will appear daily during Big Game week.
Since posting this I've noted the only coaches missing are Bill Ingram 1-2-1, Mike White 2-4, Roger Theder 2-2 and Keith Gilbertston 2-2 (including only coaches from the time of the permanent switch back to football in 1915 thought today).
You forgot Frank Wickhorst 0-1 (1946).
Buck Shaw coached Cal in 1945, but never coached for Cal against Stanfurd. Shaw was at Cal for one year before becoming the first head coach of the 49ers.
In parenthesis in the first sentence I said three or more Big Games. This excluded Wickhorst, and Mariucci.
Mooch 0-1. 42-21 in front of 70,500 fans.
Same score as the 1981 Big Game. Yuck.
I thought that applied only to Cal's best Big Game coaches.
Why would it apply to one group and not the other?
DBD AV Club
Went to see the SF Opera last night, a very great performance of La Traviata - one of my wife's favorite operas (not one of mine, however) very good performances by the vocals, good new sets. Ate before at Monsieur Benjamin, which is quite good, and very French, but kinda jumped in price recently - $150/per person without even a dessert.
That place has always been way, way more spendy than it is good.
So more like Monsieur “quatre a cinq” Benjamins
Chef's Table - Pizza (13/19, WB). Netflix's Chef's Table series is a foodie's dream show that shows what drives a chef to become the best of their profession and describes what it costs to get there - which is inevitably "almost everything". Chefs run the spectrum from tortured genius, self-righteous peacocks, workaholics hiding from reality, and accidental revolutionaries. The show's formula is starting to get a bit tired and predictable, but it's still very good TV.
Drink Masters: Pretty entertaining, the biggest disappointment being that I can't try all of the amazingly-delicious-looking drinks made in this show.
i fell asleep despite my fondness for mixed drinks of this sort
I find the MC/judge annoying.
Heh, since I only drink un-mixed drinks of Scotch, whisky and occasionally bourbon, I'm not sure I would enjoy this one.
Sooooooo, interested in hearing if anyone else watched/is watching The English on Amazon Prime, a 6-ep limited series featuring Emily Blunt, Stephen Rea and Ciaran Hinds set over a 30 year period around 1890.
Finished it yesterday and…wow. Haunting, beautiful, a little silly and unbelievable, exciting, gory, tragic, uplifting. One of those series that I was kinda scratching my head as it went on, thinking there are so many irons in this fire that it’s gonna fizzle out and I may just bail…but I kept watching, and it all comes together. A somewhat somber story, with quality dialogue…but great storytelling. Recommended.
it looked interesting, havent watched.
i try not to click on what is "recommended for me"