Tell me how you would spend $500m in order to improve Cal football - but you can’t spend/donate it on anything directly related to UC Berkeley or its athletics department. What would you do?
We will be serving smash burgers with assorted fried sides (fries, tots, onion rings). There will also be bloody Mary’s, Hawaiian macaroni salad, spam musubi, and butter mochi. Drinking Song at 1:15 followed by shotgunning beers. See you there
I don't know how Carli Lloyd gets by without criticism (ok maybe not being arrested for domestic violence) but she is just as exhausting as Solo. Aside from being an American heroine
This is ridiculous. She's no threat to anyone now, as her reputation will proceed her, and reasonable parole review of any business or public dealings will close any gaps. Any gainful activity that produces even a small amount of restitution, or covering of basic costs, will stil be more than the absolute zero anyone will ever get from this strategy.
And I don't want a bill to incarcerate her, or any social services costs required for kids whose' mom is in prison because some DA wants a high profile incarceration on his resume for personal or egotistical gain.
There is apparently no longer a payroll department, which is going to get hilarious pretty quickly considering that in addition to managing regular payroll they need to build and distribute more than 5000 severance packages. Also saw reports that there is no longer a tax department or financial reporting team. It's not all engineers that you need, buddy!
Take half the money and invest it in local interest in the program. Every week choose 5000 local school children, give their families $200 to purchase 4 tickets to the game. $250m is enough to do this for every home game for the next 30-40 years.
The other half? Give Buddy Teevens a lifetime contract at $10m/year to drive LSJU into the ground.
Oh, children laundering money is definitely still a possibility - you just have to get better at laundering. How about a legal trust - the Make Athletics Great Again - that avoids any unnecessary disclosure. That trust receives some profits from the forced labor from three of the four Berk97 Orphanages, the Berk97 line of candy-flavored vapes, and the Berk97 junior league of Mozambique precious stone contract labor camps.
Scratch that. This is a terrible idea because it wouldn't help the program.
I would build a dedicated fan-zone - food court, rooftop sports bar/beer garden, band areas, picnic area, parking, day lockers, clean bathrooms, games for kids, covered shelter. A place where you could come and essentially be guaranteed a good time and take all the logistics pain out of being an in-person fan.
would buying up the in stadium advertising count? buy it up and stop it.
Other than that, some money laundering to provide tix for local folks to attend games. Set up a charitable foundation that Hires team members under the NIL for community advancement stuff.
Buy out the pac12 network and get it on everywhere, even taking lower carriage fees to get into every cable system, set up a streaming service that doesn't require a cable subscription just a monthly fee. Then also stop having any games thursday, friday or games that start after 5PM.
If your local grocery store is selling big giant bulbs of garlic, be careful. That's probably elephant garlic. It is technically not garlic despite it look very much like it. It is closely related to a leek and lacks some of the chemicals to give it true garlic flavor. It gets put onto grocery shelves because it is profitable because of its size.
Buffs will be just fine, as they answer by hanging 103 on top 25 Texas A & M this afternoon. Still, a helter skelter team, as they alternate good wins over SEC teams Tennessee and Texas A & M with losses to Grambling and UMass.
They do enjoy the best home court advantage in the P12, and will likely find themselves at least on the bubble come March. Rough early results tho for the Pac 12.
Pre-Thanksgiving basketball is a terrible predictor of how teams will look after the first of the year (which is why they should have no effect on tournament selection, NOT an outsized effect), but its still hard to fathom how the Buffs can beat ranked teams, but not Grambling or UMass.
They do, some times (April Rangers games don't matter, or example); its more the way the selection process and the ever earlier start creeping forward to Veterans Day, have placed an out-sized importance on these very early games, this in the sport that is most subject to player and team development over time. Bracketology pundits have said conference standings do not matter, and conference tournaments are meaningless unless you are a team that can only get in by winning your conference tournament. I dislike that, as I think conference games and standings, which reflect the best version of most teams, should have a weighted advantage in the seeding.
#21 Tulane (I'll never get used to that) smokes SMU 59-24 via 310 yards rushing. Meanwhile, QB Michael Pratt throws a TD on a third of the nine passes he completed
AG Garland appoints Special Counsel to investigate Trump keeping classified documents. This will slow down but intensify the investigation on this matter.
[WaPo] Wapo calls the House for the GOP at the 218 majority with three seats undecided. GOP ahead in two of the three remaining races. However, WaPo says DEMs favored in all three remaining, meaning good luck to whomever gets to be the House Majority Leader and the House Majority Whip.
CO-3. Boebert has a 551 vote vote lead out of over 300k votes. Last votes have yet to be counted, but overcoming that 551 is unlikely. Automatic recount expected. Overcoming 500 votes in a recount is unlikely. Boebert may escape with a win by the skin of her teeth.
Putting my game theory hat on…. If you’re a D, don’t you want her in office? Her seat alone doesn’t change the balance and she’s in a deep red district. Having an incompetent embarrassment to the R party in that seat is better for Ds than having an effective leader after the eventual D to unseat her is beat.
The Bundy standoff in 2014 constitutes the building blocks of the 1/6 insurrection. Rhodes played a prominent role in that standoff, as he did on 1/6. Transcending Rhode's involvement in the Bundy standoff, armed, middle-aged white guys who seek to openly oppose the Federal Government learned that they could draw weapons on federal agents with zero consequence. For those who don't follow these conflicts, who don't know about how the Sagebrush Rebellion, or who don't know how the history of federal land management and development of the West, and especially the interior West, has fueled this fire, the outcome of this trial cannot be overstated. An acquittal will have dire consequences for our democracy and will quite obviously signal that white guys with guns can do whatever they want with impunity. A conviction might actually make folks think twice, but there will be those on the far right who will still decry this as political persecution, a violation of 1st Amendment rights, and provide tacit approval to these acts.
As someone who attended a major sporting event in an authoritarian country, what is Qatar doing?! Beijing turned off the Great Firewall for people in Beijing, seeded the clouds so that it rained the week before and moved all the factories outside of town for a year ahead of time so that all the visitors had nothing but good things to say about being in Beijing.
If you're sportswashing, you try to give all the visitors a positive experience.
Haven't won a Big Game at home since Obama was president-elect, Jahvid Best was our star running back and Memorial Stadium was still a few years away from being renovated. It's past time.
Wow, that was my last Big Game as a student. Do I really need to fly out there and attend this in person for Cal to win? (I tried that in 2018 and it ended with a Big Game postponement and half the state covered in ash)
Tedford LOVED that TE Delay on the 5 yard line. Hell, Dykes ran it a couple of times to Stephen Anderson, despite us not actually having tight ends. (Inside receivers!)
[VB] Cal went up two sets to none over UCLA and was ahead 5-0 in the third. However, Cal couldn't close it out and lost. Unfortunately, the Bears are now 0-15 in the Pac-12.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Third World Liberation Front Strike Committee. On this day edition.
Cal is 7-6-2 in Big Games played on November 19th. The Bears best calendar day for Big Games (five or more played on that date) is the 22nd (9-4-1) and their worst is the 23rd (2-9).
On a personal note, tomorrow will be my 44th Big Game. I decline to state my record in Big Games as it may tend to incriminate me. Go Bears!!!
Cal football trivia fun fact appears daily during Big Game week.
Well, I didn't realize that there were 12 episodes of Andor released - the 10th had a moment I thought was a solid ending point, but the 11th was was a very good episode as well...
I'm enjoying an old show 1999-2000 Freaks & Geeks - set in 1980 - a fun silly show that has a bunch of future stars in it.
Big Game tailgate
We will be serving smash burgers with assorted fried sides (fries, tots, onion rings). There will also be bloody Mary’s, Hawaiian macaroni salad, spam musubi, and butter mochi. Drinking Song at 1:15 followed by shotgunning beers. See you there
Napoleon, give me some of your tots...
I'm bringing cookies.
Indica or sativa?
If Indica Flower were making an appearance at the tailgate, it might be worth the drive up....
Chocolate Chip
Hope
It's what rebellions are built on
beat me to it ..
…is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Springs eternal
floats?
Solo
pretty sure she is drunk right now
I don't know how Carli Lloyd gets by without criticism (ok maybe not being arrested for domestic violence) but she is just as exhausting as Solo. Aside from being an American heroine
She hit the superfecta...domestic violence, DWI, resisting arrest, child abuse...yikes.
Convicted Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes (Stanford, 2002-04) gets sentenced today.
11 years!
This is ridiculous. She's no threat to anyone now, as her reputation will proceed her, and reasonable parole review of any business or public dealings will close any gaps. Any gainful activity that produces even a small amount of restitution, or covering of basic costs, will stil be more than the absolute zero anyone will ever get from this strategy.
And I don't want a bill to incarcerate her, or any social services costs required for kids whose' mom is in prison because some DA wants a high profile incarceration on his resume for personal or egotistical gain.
My guess is she will spend maybe two years indoors, then house arrest for the remainder.
Excellent!! Worried she get off light
I'd rather that prison sentence go towards Jan 6 types myself.
11 years is a stretch...but she deserved some time inside. Fraud is fraud.
Then again, Mark Fox is probably guilty of larceny, yet he's walking around scot free.
She probably had her baby just to make her look more sympathetic.
Her voice is so bizarre, once you hear it you can’t shake the background thought that she is like some kind of alien
And it’s fake too!
US cities that are right on the state border, which means a decent part of that metropolitan area is actually in another state
Kansas City .. i have never been but i know that the real KC is in Missouri.
Yeah, the Chiefs, the Royals, airport, are all in KCMO.
Several large corporations have back and forth from KCK and KCMO because there's kind of a tax break war going on between the two cities.
I lived there for a couple of years, about 3/4 of a mile from Kansas - in a house with huge views to the north & the west.
DC
Davenport Iowa
Is Reno too far away from the rest of Tahoe?
They do share a TV market, so you could say they're part of the same metro area.
But Reno isn't really "on" the border.
Of course
Kind of a lot of major cities are like this
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington, DC (does this count?)
Kansas City
St. Louis
Portland, OR
Cincinnati
Then you've got Detroit or Buffalo where a portion of the metro area is in Canada.
Louisville
Charlotte
Memphis
San Diego
I wasn't sure how much people considered the San Diego metro area to extend into Mexico.
But on that note, El Paso.
Pour one out for El Paso...another Sun Bowl-less year for Cal.
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Omaha
Detroit
Buffalo
Twitter
A lot of people took Elon up on his severance offer and now there are not enough engineers to keep the company running
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/
There is apparently no longer a payroll department, which is going to get hilarious pretty quickly considering that in addition to managing regular payroll they need to build and distribute more than 5000 severance packages. Also saw reports that there is no longer a tax department or financial reporting team. It's not all engineers that you need, buddy!
Hard to see how that could backfire
Unfortunately, he clearly doesn't care about any negative consequences for others.
I so so so so badly want Twitter employees to leave and start some similar service that replaces Twitter
Yes, and if it were run as an, employee owned co-op that would be truly great!
If Elon Musk wanted to buy something just to make it fall apart, why couldn't it have been Stanfurd?
Even he doesn't have nearly enough cash to do that.
Hypothetical $500m
buy out the Panorama Hill Association NIMBYs
Rec'd because this is something I've fantasized about since before this century.
It started for me when 15 Canyon Rd went up for sale in the late 1990s.
Take half the money and invest it in local interest in the program. Every week choose 5000 local school children, give their families $200 to purchase 4 tickets to the game. $250m is enough to do this for every home game for the next 30-40 years.
The other half? Give Buddy Teevens a lifetime contract at $10m/year to drive LSJU into the ground.
Disqualified. Cal cannot receive any revenues from this.
You mean I can't launder the money through children? Outrageous!
Oh, children laundering money is definitely still a possibility - you just have to get better at laundering. How about a legal trust - the Make Athletics Great Again - that avoids any unnecessary disclosure. That trust receives some profits from the forced labor from three of the four Berk97 Orphanages, the Berk97 line of candy-flavored vapes, and the Berk97 junior league of Mozambique precious stone contract labor camps.
I'd build a housing block catered to off-campus students. The WriteForCalifornia Tower.
Scratch that. This is a terrible idea because it wouldn't help the program.
I would build a dedicated fan-zone - food court, rooftop sports bar/beer garden, band areas, picnic area, parking, day lockers, clean bathrooms, games for kids, covered shelter. A place where you could come and essentially be guaranteed a good time and take all the logistics pain out of being an in-person fan.
would buying up the in stadium advertising count? buy it up and stop it.
Other than that, some money laundering to provide tix for local folks to attend games. Set up a charitable foundation that Hires team members under the NIL for community advancement stuff.
Buy out the pac12 network and get it on everywhere, even taking lower carriage fees to get into every cable system, set up a streaming service that doesn't require a cable subscription just a monthly fee. Then also stop having any games thursday, friday or games that start after 5PM.
I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities.. .
Or two chicks at the same time.
Game
Big
If your local grocery store is selling big giant bulbs of garlic, be careful. That's probably elephant garlic. It is technically not garlic despite it look very much like it. It is closely related to a leek and lacks some of the chemicals to give it true garlic flavor. It gets put onto grocery shelves because it is profitable because of its size.
https://www.thespruce.com/elephant-garlic-1402622
Elsewhere in college
[MBB] #14 Arizona defeats Utah Tech (fka Dixie State) 104-77. Cal only three games out from having the best overall record of Pac-12 MBB teams.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401489069
[MBB] Washington Huskies lose to Cal 73-64. [checks notes]. Sorry, they lose to Cal Baptists. That makes more sense.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401489482
Ana we'd loose too if we played them.
[MBB] ASU offense smokes a cold-shooting #20 Michigan 87-62.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401486296
[MBB] Sam Houston hands Utah their first loss 65-55
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401483482
[MBB] UMASS holds off Colorado 66-63
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401483454
This won't bode well for the Buffs, or the Pac.
Buffs will be just fine, as they answer by hanging 103 on top 25 Texas A & M this afternoon. Still, a helter skelter team, as they alternate good wins over SEC teams Tennessee and Texas A & M with losses to Grambling and UMass.
They do enjoy the best home court advantage in the P12, and will likely find themselves at least on the bubble come March. Rough early results tho for the Pac 12.
Pre-Thanksgiving basketball is a terrible predictor of how teams will look after the first of the year (which is why they should have no effect on tournament selection, NOT an outsized effect), but its still hard to fathom how the Buffs can beat ranked teams, but not Grambling or UMass.
So then your basic beef is with the nature of competitive sports leagues and the postseason...what would your answer be?
April games matter in baseball...September ones in football.
They do, some times (April Rangers games don't matter, or example); its more the way the selection process and the ever earlier start creeping forward to Veterans Day, have placed an out-sized importance on these very early games, this in the sport that is most subject to player and team development over time. Bracketology pundits have said conference standings do not matter, and conference tournaments are meaningless unless you are a team that can only get in by winning your conference tournament. I dislike that, as I think conference games and standings, which reflect the best version of most teams, should have a weighted advantage in the seeding.
Colleges propose COO of FBS. If only there was a leader of a nation-wide college athletics association to something before this.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35047242/letter-lead1-proposes-appointing-coo-college-football
#21 Tulane (I'll never get used to that) smokes SMU 59-24 via 310 yards rushing. Meanwhile, QB Michael Pratt throws a TD on a third of the nine passes he completed
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401415658
I watched a bit of that game. Tulane logo is quite weird, had never seen it before. They had some pretty good run blocking going there.
UC Regents to meet on Dec 14
https://twitter.com/johncanzanobft/status/1593323316026408960?t=6ijcxj6KwpYItOkNLp6_Bw&s=19
#FireCarolChrist
#FireJimKnowlton
#FireJustinWilcox
#FireMarkFox
Hell, fire everyone....
https://youtu.be/KBKXu3Kg4yg
They decided to punt.
Bill Walton on the UCLA decision: https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/bill-walton-condemns-ucla-move
Not sure if this was discussed earlier in November, work obligations have greatly interfered with my ability to engage DBD this month.
Bill seems to have gone silent again after airing his views.
It was, but it doesn't hurt to repeat.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Cop goes to high school to show what it like to be a cop. He accidentally shoots a student. So, mission accomplished?
https://www.wthitv.com/news/officials-say-a-police-officer-accidentally-fired-his-gun-in-a-south-vermillion-high-school/article_626a0f58-668a-11ed-805f-b3430947aa94.html
Beware of law enforcement classes with firearms. This happened a few months ago.
https://wtop.com/dc/2022/08/family-of-dc-library-police-officer-shot-during-training-wants-answers/
JFC
AG Garland appoints Special Counsel to investigate Trump keeping classified documents. This will slow down but intensify the investigation on this matter.
[WaPo] Wapo calls the House for the GOP at the 218 majority with three seats undecided. GOP ahead in two of the three remaining races. However, WaPo says DEMs favored in all three remaining, meaning good luck to whomever gets to be the House Majority Leader and the House Majority Whip.
CO-3. Boebert has a 551 vote vote lead out of over 300k votes. Last votes have yet to be counted, but overcoming that 551 is unlikely. Automatic recount expected. Overcoming 500 votes in a recount is unlikely. Boebert may escape with a win by the skin of her teeth.
Update: Frisch concedes
https://twitter.com/Victorshi2020/status/1593674899750535170?t=kVcUAvbzIeWf9smb0EYfPw&s=19
And I bet she learns not a damn things from these results. If he loses, Frisch should run again in two years and Dems need to hammer this district.
Putting my game theory hat on…. If you’re a D, don’t you want her in office? Her seat alone doesn’t change the balance and she’s in a deep red district. Having an incompetent embarrassment to the R party in that seat is better for Ds than having an effective leader after the eventual D to unseat her is beat.
In peetyjay's distant relative news: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/18/prosecutors-seditious-conspiracy-case-oath-keepers-00069405
The Bundy standoff in 2014 constitutes the building blocks of the 1/6 insurrection. Rhodes played a prominent role in that standoff, as he did on 1/6. Transcending Rhode's involvement in the Bundy standoff, armed, middle-aged white guys who seek to openly oppose the Federal Government learned that they could draw weapons on federal agents with zero consequence. For those who don't follow these conflicts, who don't know about how the Sagebrush Rebellion, or who don't know how the history of federal land management and development of the West, and especially the interior West, has fueled this fire, the outcome of this trial cannot be overstated. An acquittal will have dire consequences for our democracy and will quite obviously signal that white guys with guns can do whatever they want with impunity. A conviction might actually make folks think twice, but there will be those on the far right who will still decry this as political persecution, a violation of 1st Amendment rights, and provide tacit approval to these acts.
Jan. 6 panel brushes off Trump 2024 in critical final sprint
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/18/jan-6-panel-trump-2024-00069275
PRO
Judge wins AL MVP, Goldschmidt takes NL MVP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/judge-wins-al-mvp-in-runaway-goldschmidt-takes-nl-prize/ar-AA14f0sa
Farhan really needs to sign this guy if he’s gonna save his job.
Can't he's too busy paying $6.1MM for Yaz.
Baffling. They’re literally just gonna run it back with a team full of part time platoon players.
Billy Beane gets "promoted"
https://twitter.com/BASportsGuy/status/1593675029870391297?t=gUGZivVfpOFvU6Hzj9RvAw&s=19
This. Is. Gold.
https://twitter.com/shannonsharpeee/status/1593410923024175104?t=fRjJ4wMp9BoAcRrldDVElw&s=19
Man U starts termination process against Ronaldo
https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/4805605/cristiano-ronaldos-man-utd-career-all-but-over-club-seeking-contract-termination-and-legal-action-sources
Cowards
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35048022/nfl-moves-browns-bills-game-detroit-due-snow-storm
Highmark Stadium looks like a fine place to play football today
https://twitter.com/BuffaloBills/status/1593650649329278976
The University of Buffalo has postponed Saturday's game. They are considering playing Sunday, however, so a post-blizzard bowl is still a possibility.
https://buffalonews.com/sports/college/ub-football-vs-akron-postponed-ub-womens-basketball-vs-princeton-canceled/article_406fe4ce-674b-11ed-952c-071c7ab6b0ff.html
Aaron Rodgers does not win. Packers now 4-7 after losing to the Titans 27-17 on the arm of Tannehill.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401437844
Packers fans boo Rodgers on some bad plays, including this 4-and-3 play. Bad pass by Rodgers. WR Aaron Lazard inexplicably gives up on the play.
https://twitter.com/thecomeback/status/1593455845836103680
https://twitter.com/JordanDajani/status/1593471741807951872
Alan Lazard is garbage.
Lazard drops all the great passes.
Yeah, it's weird - it looks like they're not on the same page sometimes, running different plays - or quitting on the ends?
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-bradys-tb12-charity-is-good-at-giving-money-to-his-own-for-profit-company
He's learning from his hero, Trump.
House Oversight Committee investigation into Commanders' owner Dan Synder will come to an end once the GOP takes over next year
https://twitter.com/MarkMaske/status/1593045121414893568
I guess they have much more important things to focus on like...inflation? No. Gun violence? LOL. Hunter Biden's magic laptop? Most definitely.
Well, it is a group that has committed quite a few oversights of currently relevant problems.
Let's check in to see how smoothly the Qatar WC operations are going
.
https://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/4805520/fifaqatar-in-talks-over-whether-beer-will-be-sold-at-world-cup-stadiums-sources
Update: https://twitter.com/fifamedia/status/1593563414596657158
As someone who attended a major sporting event in an authoritarian country, what is Qatar doing?! Beijing turned off the Great Firewall for people in Beijing, seeded the clouds so that it rained the week before and moved all the factories outside of town for a year ahead of time so that all the visitors had nothing but good things to say about being in Beijing.
If you're sportswashing, you try to give all the visitors a positive experience.
England might have a chance this year then. Will finally be sober
Aaron Rodgers takes blame for Packers' struggles in loss to Titans: 'I threw a lot of kinda wobblers tonight'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-takes-blame-for-packers-struggles-in-loss-to-titans-i-threw-a-lot-of-kinda-wobblers-tonight/
CAL
GO BEARS!!! This is the last DBD before the Big Game.
Big Game is sold out.
Only the third sellout since the Memorial Stadium renovations. The other two were 2012 Nevada and 2013 Ohio State
I'm shocked.
wow. i would not have guessed that
a lot of people are going to watch some really, really bad football
Haven't won a Big Game at home since Obama was president-elect, Jahvid Best was our star running back and Memorial Stadium was still a few years away from being renovated. It's past time.
Wow, that was my last Big Game as a student. Do I really need to fly out there and attend this in person for Cal to win? (I tried that in 2018 and it ended with a Big Game postponement and half the state covered in ash)
That game was a great time: Jahvid going off, trick plays galore . . . those were the days.
Oh was that a pass to Verran Tucker who lateraled to Best near the left sideline for TD?
I also remember Kevin Riley rolling right and throw a TD pass to wide open Cameron Morrah all alone in the endzone on the opposite side.
Tedford LOVED that TE Delay on the 5 yard line. Hell, Dykes ran it a couple of times to Stephen Anderson, despite us not actually having tight ends. (Inside receivers!)
Was that 2008?
Indeed
Wow that was a long time ago
I didn't realize that. Gotta win, baby!
Beat Stanfurd!!!
A photo of Sather Gate is in the front page of WaPo site today
[VB] Cal went up two sets to none over UCLA and was ahead 5-0 in the third. However, Cal couldn't close it out and lost. Unfortunately, the Bears are now 0-15 in the Pac-12.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/10/volleyball-bears-fall-just-short-on-grotes-career-night.aspx
[MBB] Cal is a 3.5 point favorite at home vs. winless Southern University Jaguars
Probably the only thing standing in the way of an 0-8 start.
https://twitter.com/SickosCommittee/status/1593374242233634818?t=2QaXaNCvR01rF9ZnFPcM1w&s=19
The game is currently sold out and tickets are expensive (starting at $90+ on the secondary market). We are truly a fanbase of sickos.
It's preseason. This is the year we go to the Rose Bowl
We could compete for King of the North
That was an aberration. We can win the rest of the games.
Okay, the team is who we thought it was.
JFC. Fire everyone so we can have a good season someday.
Please just give me just one tiny sliver of joy. I've bet my remaining emotional reserves on it. [<---- we are here]
Ah yes. This is a familiar feeling. Like fading into painless coma where things happen around us. It's Cal fandom.
It’s like Groundhog Day, but for Cal fans it’s Groundhog Football Season
I fear that that half/billion budget proposed to fix Cal FB may be underbudgeting. Especially given the economics and politics of the Bay Area.
Thanks for your concern.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Third World Liberation Front Strike Committee. On this day edition.
Cal is 7-6-2 in Big Games played on November 19th. The Bears best calendar day for Big Games (five or more played on that date) is the 22nd (9-4-1) and their worst is the 23rd (2-9).
On a personal note, tomorrow will be my 44th Big Game. I decline to state my record in Big Games as it may tend to incriminate me. Go Bears!!!
Cal football trivia fun fact appears daily during Big Game week.
Looking for a ticket(s) at cost if anyone has a line on any. I'm not used to pricey, sold-out Cal games.
We're just showing the Big1X that we're ready for them.
Discount code from the front page (I still wish they'd sell women's cut apparel for Cal) https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/get-your-cal-gear-from-homefield
or pants!
If Oski doesn't wear pants, I shouldn't have to either https://www.homefieldapparel.com/collections/university-of-california-berkeley-vintage-apparel/products/cal-t-003-vault
👀
Huh, there's a Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
Thinking of doing another PhD?
Marshawn interviews A Rod
https://twitter.com/shannonsharpeee/status/1593410923024175104?s=20&t=hiG1ytBZBGj4GdA0bdoQ0A
DBD A/V Club
watching Young Royals w/ my 15 yr old.
fictional Swedish show with a bunch of mostly rich kids at a fancy European prep school including the crown prince of Sweden (maybe??)
my 17 year old's summary review was "that was bonkers"
Well, I didn't realize that there were 12 episodes of Andor released - the 10th had a moment I thought was a solid ending point, but the 11th was was a very good episode as well...
I'm enjoying an old show 1999-2000 Freaks & Geeks - set in 1980 - a fun silly show that has a bunch of future stars in it.