The Big Game where all the dummies ran onto the field too soon, the Furd somehow managed to get a shot at a (winning) field goal to snatch away the win. There were several friends I did not speak to for a while after that game.
Grant Wahl's wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, reports autopsy results show the journalist died of an undetected aortic aneurysm, not the reasons espoused by various folks (including this one) with conspiracy theories...
No offense to you but I thought all the conspiracy theories surrounding his death were dumb and short sighted. Trying to make his death fit a pre conceived narrative.
The death being caused by COVID, or the vaccine theories, definitely were BS….I never bought those….but then his critical report of Qatar’s leadership surfaced re: all of the worker deaths…that didn’t sit well with them.
I had a friend die of hemopericardium too. Stood up from his couch and then dropped dead at age 39. I am looking at his cabinet right now. His wife sold it to us because she had to get rid of everything in her house due to her grief.
No material change, although there are those in the media that would have you believe this is on par with flinging the doors open; no one has been executed while on death row in Oregon this century. They will continue to sit until they die, which is what was going to happen anyway.
Working through my picks for the pick'em contest, I realized I need to figure out which teams will be impacted by players entering the portal or the draft and not playing in the bowl game or coaches leaving. What also sucks is that your picks are locked in after the first game starts this Fri which means you can't account for any players deciding not to play or coaches leaving after that.
Cincy vs UofL will be interesting since Cincy poached the UofL head coach and will be coaching against UofL in the bowl game
I've also heard from several inside the business that there are a non-trivial number of players who are going to play their bowl game (some of them intending to put an audition tape on the field in a game against opposition of some fair amount of quality, and with a greater than usual number of people watching) and then transfer, so there will be an additional flow starting after this weekend, and ramping further up during and immediately after bowl week.
The flow is also somewhat dependent on how the negotiations are going with interested destinations.
more Cal exits expected. The current number of portal guys makes the current incoming frosh class covered but they're expecting 5 or more incoming portal guys so more will leave. Should see a big wave of announcements nationwide after Bowl season and semesters end
It’s the nature of college athletics now. It’s about roster management, trimming the fat (players who probably won’t see the field, etc), and adding/replacing with quality depth. I’m not worried about losing some scholarships who were buried on the depth chart and probably wouldn’t have seen the field in any meaningful capacity.
havent heard of anyone we would really be bothered by, frankly. Some graduating guys, some JAGS. As of now, Ott, Sturdivant, Anderson and Hunter staying put barring a Brinks truck getting backed up to their dorm room
In terms of length, horrible. AAV isn't as bad as I initially thought. almost 27M/year. I think the back end of this contract will be bad. My son said that he'll be 40 when this contract is done.
So what do the Giants do with Brandon Crawford? Convert him into a 3rd baseman? Then what about Longoria?
I have complete confidence in Gabe to mis-manage the shuffling and manage to not have all of the best talent available on the field far too much of the time.
That season was fun, though it came to a premature postseason end. But the seasons that preceded and followed it were frustrating and underwhelming, where a lot of wins got away in the midst of moves that made no sense, and as a result, all too often backfired. There is agility, and then there is fiddling for the sake of fiddling.
Bucks went on a big run in the 1st, Warriors kept it around single digits, Bucks went on a run in the 3rd Q to around 17. Warriors cut it down to 6 in the 4th (I think) with Curry taking a fairly open 3 that he missed. Then the Bucks immediately got it back up to around 14 and that was that.
I missed the big run in the 1st. I had it on for the first couple minutes, saw the Dubs go up 7-0, thought "this is going well for a road game," checked back a while later and they were down big. Late in the fourth I heard the announcers say that five(!) players for the Warriors received technical fouls. It must have been a frustrating game.
Qron Rodgers no longer, like, fears death, man, because shrooms and ayahuasca have allowed him to see the other side. [Doors "Riders on the Storm" starts playing]
IMO only Tyranny and Mutation (2) & Secret Treaties (3) are really good - their first was not great, and they doubled the speed of one song there on (2) to improve that song. I only have the double live album (4) and whatever (5) is that talked me out of following them any more - and I'm that kinda guy, always looking for what's new and best, rarely following any bands at all, which is sometimes a mistake (see below) but usually the right move.
More about the Revolution by Night. I actually bought it at a record store in the Stanford Shopping center after the Big Game in Palo Alto in 1983 as my parents wanted to shop after the game and I paid with funds from my paper route. It was a game played in pouring rain, where the Cal band famously didn't show up until the 2nd quarter, the Bears flustered John Paye and ultimately won 27-18. My older sister was a freshman at Cal that year and a Chi O. She has almost no memory of the game because of strawberry daquiris they were serving on their bus.
...and the weirdness looking back on me is about all the bands that I really liked back in the day, I never read anything about.
Just two examples: Loved what I thought was Young Fresh Fellows "first" album - it wasn't their first! (The Men Who Loved Music). Was listening to Topsy Turvy last night and liked (sure the other one is better, but Topsy is still enjoyable). Also listened to Lolita Nation last night by a band I really liked: Game Theory, but only bought one album back in the day that I assumed was their first as well, but I'm 100% sure that though it's very good, Lolita Nation (4th) is even better.
What was weird was I never read any magazines about any artists at all.
Okay. It opened his third eye I guess. Some scientists believe that stimulation of the pineal gland in the brain creates visions and hallucinations. One man's intense spiritual experience is another man's chemical cocktail.
Yeah, that article is telling the winner's (UCLA) side, not the loser's (Cal and the rest of the Pac-12) side. Can somebody please tell the other side of this story?
Bruins win, Bears get some $s after the Pac-x media deal is known, so Cal wins too, and the rest of the conference loses. UC regents look out for their own, which is their responsibility.
Compensation, eh? Good for Cal then. With Cal getting something out of this, and the Regents now allowing it to happen, this starts to look more like the UC (the system) dipping its toe willingly into the more lucrative waters of the big changes in college football and looking less UCLA running away on its own. I believe UCLA will pay dearly for this move. While it was looking dire for the Pac-12 for a bit there, things (like upcoming new media rights agreement and intriguing coaching hires, etc.) could have its fortunes looking more rosy by 2024.
I cannot support the gross assertion. Oreos have a place at my table on a semi-frequently basis. (We freeze them). Quite good - like a mini ice cream cookie.
This is an outrageously bad take. Still as delicious as ever, especially in the original size. I am also a fan of the thins, but not so much the multiple-stufs.
I actually am a fan of a lot of packaged cookies: Nutter Butters, Bisco Wafers, Pepperidge Farm Gingerbread Men and Mint Milanos (RIP Brussels Mint, the best of the PF cookies), Mothers Iced Oatmeal/English Tea/Circus Animals...
those IKEA cookies are good. i have been having the chocolate and the strawberry ones alternate days w/ my morning coffee lately.
we dont live too close an IKEA, so we only stop by every 6-9 months depending on the road trip. but there is one in College Park right near the new office, so once a month is not a bad frequency
DBD AV Club
30 Rock thought of it first, but Hulu made it happen 20 years later...
https://twitter.com/FedeArielS/status/1595258395115798530
RIP Coach Mike Leach.
Yes. May he rest eternally in peace. Interesting hagiography in the media so far.
Unexpected death leads to atypical grieving, I would suppose.
2022 revenue sports
Fire Fox. Offer the HC job to LeBron and a scholarship offer to Bronny.
I would take figure head and part time LeBron HC at Cal over what we are getting now from Fox.
I would take a literal Firefox Browser over what we are getting now from Fox.
Fire all coaches with a name ending in ox.
But not coach Dickinabox. https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-d-in-a-box/3505985
We already had a coach that thought with his dick.
Pierre Ingram
Yann Hufnagel
Fire Coach Smallpox
Monkey
Pox. That was a thing for like two weeks. No one talks about it now
That's what good public health work looks like. Been largely contained, thanks especially to an existing vaccine.
My year!
Brass
Brass _______ Weather
Disappointing games
The Big Game where all the dummies ran onto the field too soon, the Furd somehow managed to get a shot at a (winning) field goal to snatch away the win. There were several friends I did not speak to for a while after that game.
Pat Fucking Flood. 90 I think.
Honorable mentions:
1988. Tuan Van fucking Le
2020. Slater Zellers doesn't block anyone during the XP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NaA0lR45LY
I was sitting right around where we do now for Tuan Van fucking Le. That was brutal.
Yup. '90. My freshman year in the Cal Band. That one hurt.
Only the '74 Big Game was worse. A total gut punch.
That was 1990, my senior year. I was still in the stands, telling the people I went with that the game wasn't over.
All the one score games lost.
We need some clutch repair.
'22 Colorado, '21 Arizona obviously
The Wilcox Special?
WORLD CUP
MOROCCO VS. FRANCE
France up 1-0 after only 5 min. That's the first goal Morocco has conceded to an opponent in the WC so far
I have meetings scheduled throughout the entire match, outside of my control alas.
That was me yesterday during the Argentina-Croatia match. Today my calendar is thankfully wide open from 2-4
same. just going to leave the TV on in the background.
one of the best perks of working from home.
Grant Wahl's wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, reports autopsy results show the journalist died of an undetected aortic aneurysm, not the reasons espoused by various folks (including this one) with conspiracy theories...
https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4831879/soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-died-of-undetected-aortic-aneurysm-wife
Since Wahl's death, two more journalists have died.
Well so that’s something…
No offense to you but I thought all the conspiracy theories surrounding his death were dumb and short sighted. Trying to make his death fit a pre conceived narrative.
The death being caused by COVID, or the vaccine theories, definitely were BS….I never bought those….but then his critical report of Qatar’s leadership surfaced re: all of the worker deaths…that didn’t sit well with them.
So sad.
I had a friend die of hemopericardium too. Stood up from his couch and then dropped dead at age 39. I am looking at his cabinet right now. His wife sold it to us because she had to get rid of everything in her house due to her grief.
that's awful
frantic googling of "drugs that cause aortic aneurysms"
nothing. It just happens.
I was just coming to post this. What shitty luck.
DBD gift ideas
matcha tea set - got one for my wife who whisks up some matcha tea many mornings
college themed colorful running shoes - UW for my freshman daughter (i think HAG told me about these)
https://www.adidas.com/us/ultraboost-1.0-washington/HQ5867.html
need to get some vinyls for my 15 yr ofd .. maybe a better record player too.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Respect for Marriage Act signed into law, which voids the Defense of Marriage Act.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/white-house-same-sex-marriage-signing-ceremony
Gov. Kate Brown commutes all 17 of Oregon's death row prisoners' sentences to life in prison without parole.
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/12/13/gov-kate-brown-empties-oregons-death-row/
No material change, although there are those in the media that would have you believe this is on par with flinging the doors open; no one has been executed while on death row in Oregon this century. They will continue to sit until they die, which is what was going to happen anyway.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
FiveThirtyEight develops a measure for ranking the bowl games from most to least watchable
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-college-football-bowls-you-should-watch-according-to-our-highly-scientific-ratings/
Best: tie between Fiesta (Michigan-TCU) and Peach (Georgia-Ohio State) Bowls
Utterly unwatchable: Music City (Kentucky-Iowa)
Very helpful. There's only so many hours in a day/bowl season.
Working through my picks for the pick'em contest, I realized I need to figure out which teams will be impacted by players entering the portal or the draft and not playing in the bowl game or coaches leaving. What also sucks is that your picks are locked in after the first game starts this Fri which means you can't account for any players deciding not to play or coaches leaving after that.
Cincy vs UofL will be interesting since Cincy poached the UofL head coach and will be coaching against UofL in the bowl game
Pac-12 players who have entered the portal regardless of reason since 11/24/22:
U of A: 16
ASU: 14
Cal: 8
CU: 7
Oregon: 17
OSU: 3
Stanfurd: 14
UCLA: 3
USC: 7
Utah: 3
UW: 4
Wazzu: 12
there was enough of a rush from SC players that I am surprised it's only 7 tbh
I've also heard from several inside the business that there are a non-trivial number of players who are going to play their bowl game (some of them intending to put an audition tape on the field in a game against opposition of some fair amount of quality, and with a greater than usual number of people watching) and then transfer, so there will be an additional flow starting after this weekend, and ramping further up during and immediately after bowl week.
The flow is also somewhat dependent on how the negotiations are going with interested destinations.
So the sky isn't falling!
more Cal exits expected. The current number of portal guys makes the current incoming frosh class covered but they're expecting 5 or more incoming portal guys so more will leave. Should see a big wave of announcements nationwide after Bowl season and semesters end
Wow. This is why we can't have nice things.
It’s the nature of college athletics now. It’s about roster management, trimming the fat (players who probably won’t see the field, etc), and adding/replacing with quality depth. I’m not worried about losing some scholarships who were buried on the depth chart and probably wouldn’t have seen the field in any meaningful capacity.
havent heard of anyone we would really be bothered by, frankly. Some graduating guys, some JAGS. As of now, Ott, Sturdivant, Anderson and Hunter staying put barring a Brinks truck getting backed up to their dorm room
Also hope Brett Johnson stays.
Terry, Millner and Hearns are about the only other players I don't want to lose.
Terry was my most disappointing player of the 2022 season….maybe he picks it up, if we even use a TE.
Also think Mason Starling could have a helluva year if he can get on the field.
Would be shocked if Johnson left after missing 2 years…how effective he’ll be is another story.
So true. No cause for panic, yet, and, hopefully, new hires will settle down the diaspora.
PRO
Max Homa, good guy. Unfortunately, article doesn't mention the greatest public university ever created. ($)
https://theathletic.com/3967918/2022/12/13/max-homa-golf-sportsperson/
Sirie A Monza AC's new owner Silvio Berlusconi offers his players a bus load of whores if they beat big teams like Juve. I have questions. ✋
https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1602960141988597760
SF Giants lock up Carlos Correa in a 13-year $350m deal.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35249116/san-francisco-giants-carlos-correa-agree-13-year-350m-deal
In terms of length, horrible. AAV isn't as bad as I initially thought. almost 27M/year. I think the back end of this contract will be bad. My son said that he'll be 40 when this contract is done.
Yup, but who cares, it's not my money. The Giants wanted to get a big name free agent and they got one.
So what do the Giants do with Brandon Crawford? Convert him into a 3rd baseman? Then what about Longoria?
I have complete confidence in Gabe to mis-manage the shuffling and manage to not have all of the best talent available on the field far too much of the time.
They probably try him at 3rd or 2nd and he still plays short sometimes (Correa can't play every game).
I don't understand the reflexive anti-Kapler sentiment here. Seems like he managed the shuffling brilliantly when they won 107 games.
That season was fun, though it came to a premature postseason end. But the seasons that preceded and followed it were frustrating and underwhelming, where a lot of wins got away in the midst of moves that made no sense, and as a result, all too often backfired. There is agility, and then there is fiddling for the sake of fiddling.
IMO this is really just a consequence of the rosters he had.
And he will be torturing Dodgers fans for the next several years, so Giants fans should be happy.
We Dodger fans do enjoy a good opportunity to stretch our booing muscles.
Warriors lose on the road @ the Bucks 128-111.
https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401468565
Also, Draymond had a fan ejected for saying threatening things to him:
https://twitter.com/ericjerseyvill/status/1602848540581105664
Game was pretty much over by time I remembered it was on and turned on the TV.
i saw it go from "down by 6" to "down by a lot more before halftime" and didnt watch after that.
by all accounts the defenses is spotty, but it seems connected to when things are going well offensively.
Bucks went on a big run in the 1st, Warriors kept it around single digits, Bucks went on a run in the 3rd Q to around 17. Warriors cut it down to 6 in the 4th (I think) with Curry taking a fairly open 3 that he missed. Then the Bucks immediately got it back up to around 14 and that was that.
I missed the big run in the 1st. I had it on for the first couple minutes, saw the Dubs go up 7-0, thought "this is going well for a road game," checked back a while later and they were down big. Late in the fourth I heard the announcers say that five(!) players for the Warriors received technical fouls. It must have been a frustrating game.
Qron Rodgers no longer, like, fears death, man, because shrooms and ayahuasca have allowed him to see the other side. [Doors "Riders on the Storm" starts playing]
https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/12/14/packers-aaron-rodgers-explains-why-he-no-longer-fears-death
Must be a fan of Michael Pollan.
Or BÖC's "Don't Fear the Reaper"
That was after they were good, frankly. 2 & 3 are the only ones worth playing, which brings me to another comment.
The last album I bought, Revolution By Night, sucked. Fire of Unknown Origin was OK.
IMO only Tyranny and Mutation (2) & Secret Treaties (3) are really good - their first was not great, and they doubled the speed of one song there on (2) to improve that song. I only have the double live album (4) and whatever (5) is that talked me out of following them any more - and I'm that kinda guy, always looking for what's new and best, rarely following any bands at all, which is sometimes a mistake (see below) but usually the right move.
More about the Revolution by Night. I actually bought it at a record store in the Stanford Shopping center after the Big Game in Palo Alto in 1983 as my parents wanted to shop after the game and I paid with funds from my paper route. It was a game played in pouring rain, where the Cal band famously didn't show up until the 2nd quarter, the Bears flustered John Paye and ultimately won 27-18. My older sister was a freshman at Cal that year and a Chi O. She has almost no memory of the game because of strawberry daquiris they were serving on their bus.
...and the weirdness looking back on me is about all the bands that I really liked back in the day, I never read anything about.
Just two examples: Loved what I thought was Young Fresh Fellows "first" album - it wasn't their first! (The Men Who Loved Music). Was listening to Topsy Turvy last night and liked (sure the other one is better, but Topsy is still enjoyable). Also listened to Lolita Nation last night by a band I really liked: Game Theory, but only bought one album back in the day that I assumed was their first as well, but I'm 100% sure that though it's very good, Lolita Nation (4th) is even better.
What was weird was I never read any magazines about any artists at all.
Okay. It opened his third eye I guess. Some scientists believe that stimulation of the pineal gland in the brain creates visions and hallucinations. One man's intense spiritual experience is another man's chemical cocktail.
[The Athletic] Mariota may have left the Falcons after his benching
https://sports.yahoo.com/marcus-mariota-reportedly-leaves-falcons-after-benching-to-have-knee-evaluated-team-unsure-if-hell-return-183430084.html
CAL
UC Regents approve UCLA move to Big Ten
https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2022-12-14/uc-regents-finally-bless-ucla-move-to-the-big-ten
Not sure about any compensation for Cal...
Yeah, that article is telling the winner's (UCLA) side, not the loser's (Cal and the rest of the Pac-12) side. Can somebody please tell the other side of this story?
Here's one from the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/sports/ncaafootball/ucla-big-ten.html
This article reports $2-10M compensation to Cal: https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/regents-ucla-declaration
Bruins win, Bears get some $s after the Pac-x media deal is known, so Cal wins too, and the rest of the conference loses. UC regents look out for their own, which is their responsibility.
Compensation, eh? Good for Cal then. With Cal getting something out of this, and the Regents now allowing it to happen, this starts to look more like the UC (the system) dipping its toe willingly into the more lucrative waters of the big changes in college football and looking less UCLA running away on its own. I believe UCLA will pay dearly for this move. While it was looking dire for the Pac-12 for a bit there, things (like upcoming new media rights agreement and intriguing coaching hires, etc.) could have its fortunes looking more rosy by 2024.
Go Bears!!!
Jackson Sirmon confirms return for next season
https://twitter.com/jackson_sirmon/status/1603082547990175744?t=oMWlK3u25_93tN1jLSJs4w&s=19
Oh wow I thought we would only get one year from him. Nice surprise
From the Front Page: c/o '23 RB Jaivian Thomas commits to Cal.
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-football-receives-commitment-c39
What about the other 3 commits from the last 4 days?
pqtm
https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1602708249370820609
DORITOS
Don't really like them, prefer real chips with salsa & other dips.
I love the Doritos tacos from Taco Bell.
Spicy Nacho Doritos (NOT Flamin' Hot). I slight spicy step up from original Nacho Cheese without losing the original Nacho Cheese flavor. Yum!
Agreed, this is probably my favorite Doritos flavor.
1. Spicy Nacho
2. Cool Ranch
3. Nacho
of all the classically American junk foods, nacho cheese Doritos are up there among the best for me.
other things on the short list - Oreos and Froot Loops
My hot take: Oreos are gross. Eat one now. I dare you. It's a sugar, Crisco, and baking cocoa slider.
I cannot support the gross assertion. Oreos have a place at my table on a semi-frequently basis. (We freeze them). Quite good - like a mini ice cream cookie.
This is an outrageously bad take. Still as delicious as ever, especially in the original size. I am also a fan of the thins, but not so much the multiple-stufs.
I actually am a fan of a lot of packaged cookies: Nutter Butters, Bisco Wafers, Pepperidge Farm Gingerbread Men and Mint Milanos (RIP Brussels Mint, the best of the PF cookies), Mothers Iced Oatmeal/English Tea/Circus Animals...
Oreos are still delicious.
the gluten free Oreos are much better than the regular ones, I have discovered.
They taste stale imo
I had one recently and was surprised at how not good it was.
Trader Joe's chocolate/peppermint-covered Joe Joes, however, just hook it to my veins!
Deep fried twinkie with embedded Oreos. Yumm. Something you can get on the dessert menu in a Vegas casino.
yes those specific Joe Joes are good.
the Halloween Jo Jo's are my favorite.
in fact i was would go so far as to say it is my single favorite item that i can buy TJ's.
Your problem is not an isolated one!
I had 2 double stuff Oreos yesterday. MMMMM
And I just had one now along with one Ikea Kafferep oat chocolate cookie.
those IKEA cookies are good. i have been having the chocolate and the strawberry ones alternate days w/ my morning coffee lately.
we dont live too close an IKEA, so we only stop by every 6-9 months depending on the road trip. but there is one in College Park right near the new office, so once a month is not a bad frequency
i prefer the ratio of cookie to creme filling of the originals.
but generally happy w/ most variations, despite SGBear's challenge to "eat one now"
Some of the holiday flavors are bad, like peeps.
Cool Ranch Doritos for me. Spicy Sweet chili is also good.