Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. At the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, it received nineteen nominations and won for Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Writing, while Harris, Skarsgård, and Watson received acting nominations. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the series won for Best Miniseries or Television Film and Skarsgård won for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
I think I already told this on the DBD. Driving home on a four-lane divided boulevard and I'm just about to turn into my road. I hear and then see an old pick-up truck accelerating as fast as it can go on the opposite side of the boulevard. For an instant, I'm thinking it is red-neck racing. But it only takes a fraction of a second to see that the path is not straight or controlled. Someone has passed out at the wheel with their foot on the accelerator.
It is about a quarter-mile away. It hits the outside sidewalk, veers back the other way, swipes a car, launches into the air when it hits the center divide, tears through some bushes, lands in my lane coming directly toward me head-on. There is another car in front of me, so I'm checking to see what they will do while I measure my own options to where to swerve but decide that I'm going to go wherever the car in front goes.
But the car in front of me doesn't swerve. It crashes head on into the truck, the front end disintegrating and the whole engine block being torn from the car. The cab of the car comes to a halt. I stop my car, grab my first aid kit (which I keep in my car after watching another car accident a few weeks earlier) and run to the BMW. The crumple zone worked marvelously. The engine and the whole front of the car is gone, but the cab is nearly intact... the windows only cracked. This is the moment I dreaded because I don't want to be looking at brains or intestines smeared everywhere.
When you arrive at a car accident, the first thing you notice is the car bags go off and there is a cloud of desiccant that looks like flour everywhere. You can even see in the windows the cloud is so thick. It looks like smoke, but it isn't. The driver comes out dazed, covered in powder. I pry open the back seat and help out her son, who is also dazed/powdered but otherwise unhurt. The woman looks into the backseat and sees she freaks out even though her son is fine.
MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER! OH GOD MY MOTHER. DON'T LET MY MOTHER DIE!
I peer in. The mother used to be in the backseat, but was thrown through the seat and under the crumpled dash, where she's wedged because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
This is the part that made me angry. People gladly stopped, took out their phones, and took pictures, but did nothing.
"YOU!!!", I yelled at lady across the street who I've locked eyes on, "CALL 911"
I start pointing and yelling, telling people to take care of the hysterical woman, one to accompany the son and make sure he just lies down, a guy to redirect traffic, a guy to try to pry open the passenger side door. I go run to check on the truck driver.
When you knock out a man cold, they snore. He was snoring short shallow breaths. He is pressed against his wheel because he also wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I figured he was not too badly hurt, so I go back to get to the grandmother.
At this point, the driver's husband shows up. He's crying and starts to scream as he walks toward his wife with his hands on his head. I grab his arm and hiss in his ear "Listen. This is the moment that your wife needs you. You need to be her rock. So pull yourself together and be that person right now." His face instantly changed. He took his hands down. And then calmly spoke with his wife. I am so fucking proud of that guy.
I tried to get the grandmother. I couldn't pry her out and I was afraid to hurt her further. I can still hear that woman's sceams in my head, begging me to not let her mother die. I have to hand it to the police and fire department. They were there in mere minutes.
I don't think I've seen one unfolding. Probably the biggest sinking feeling was driving past a car that had a 200 year old oak land on it (talk about shitty luck) or driving past motorcycle fragments, state troopers looking down into the median, and an ambulance with the lights off (I91 in VT)
Back when my family just moved to the US and lived in Florida, a block outside the apartment complex that we lived at, my family was at a stoplight when a speeding car went by and hit a barrier to an artificial lake. My dad said something about maybe we should go check on the guy but we hesitated for 1-2 minutes. That was quite fortunate because a cop car showed up and a gun shootout occurred. The hesitation saved us from accidentally being human hostages.
I dunno....Cal basketball last few years or A's 2021...is it coaching or players for the A's. Just seems like they don't have much talent. And the talent they did have they didn't want to pay to keep, like Semien.
Really, too many to count, there's no intrinsic reason the intersection where I live should be dangerous, but there have been tons of accidents here; when the ambulance drives away slowly with just the lights on, no siren, it ain't good.
One time, unlocking the gate in the morning, I witnessed a black Jetta flying through the air, turning over sideways, and crashing into the EBMUD fence. For the life me, I could figure out how on earth it got airborne.
Westbound Woodside Road off of 280. A motorcycle passed me and going at a pretty good clip. A car going the opposite direction in front of us was making a u-turn and didn't see the motorcycle coming. The motorcycle couldn't stop in time and ended up t-boning the car. The cyclist flew across the hood of the car and landed about 20-30 feet away. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet and full leathers, but he was still hurt pretty bad. Police came about 2-3 minutes later.
Unfortunately, I was on my way to court for a hearing in Redwood City that didn't turn out too well. The police officer at the scene was very sympathetic and let me go once I gave him my business card. I still don't know what ultimately happened to that guy.
I was a passenger on a bus. We were meeting another oncoming bus that was coming up a slight rise and around a curve. A motorcyclist attempted to pass the other bus coming out of the turn (because of the incline and curve, couldn't see an oncoming bus). The road was also wet, and when the motorcyclist tried to swerve back in behind the other bus, it skidded out from under him. The left front wheel of the bus I was on ran over both the bike and the rider, who was still on it.
Fortunately, the rider survived, though with serious injuries, and a totaled motorcycle. The bus driver was understandably really shook up. He wound up retiring, but my testimony saved him from any responsibility.
Pedestrian getting struck by a car on College Avenue. The individual went flying through the air, tumbled across the roof of the car and fell down unconscious on the asphalt. EMT and Police came within a couple of minutes and stabilized the person who was taken away in an ambulance.
07I've only seen a couple and they weren't very bad at all.
I did almost see someone die if they weren't so lucky. Driving on I-71 from Louisville to Cincy in a midwestern storm and someone hydroplaned into the grass median that was maybe 70 feet wide. The grass dips down maybe 20 feet and then up maybe 30-40 feet into the other direction. The car goes into the grass, driver clearly has no control, goes into the left lane of the other direction with an 18-wheeler bearing down on them. After maybe .5 seconds, the car swerves back into the median and then the truck goes by maybe 1.5-2 seconds later. Guy got lucky his car got traction and was able to swerve into the middle median.
Finished Halt and Catch Fire - I thought it was very good, 17/19; not quite as good as say The Americans, but very good. Re: G.O.'s comment, yes Justified was a solid show, and in a way sort of old-school, in that it had no bigger point to make other than to entertain you. I'd say a lot of great TV shows these day are trying to be about something more than just entertaining.
I recorded the Mario Puzo Godfather Coda, but I haven't gotten around to watching it. I know that it's mostly Godfather III (which didn't actually happen). Is there anything in it that improves Godfather III that would make it worth my time?
My experiences with my 2 shots and 2 more for another family member are that the clinic time seems to consistently be ~ 1 hour, maybe 1 1/14, considering you have to check in to park, go que up to check in again (quicker if you pre-registered and pre-entered insurance info), then queue up to get your shot (1st & 2nd shots were delivered by different groups, why I'm not sure), and then they had a 15 minute standby in case of immediate reactions, and then exit traffic.
It wasn't the smoothest and quickest process, but that was largely because, like everything, they were WAAAAYYY understaffed (its the American way to do everything), but overall, it was far from the worst experience I've had with large diverse crowd management events.
Arriving early definitely helps, and it was frankly better than I had expected, or hoped.
The Kaiser set-up downtown Oakland CA was amazingly well-run, no insurance issues (you're on the plan) appointment on-line, wait of maybe 7 minutes for the shot, 15 minutes hanging out, and then on your merry way. I have never seen health-care workers as relentlessly upbeat.
All the folks, including the non-health care workers, were amazing when I got Shot 1. Saw a friend on my run this morning and she just got Shot 2. Her first comment was about how upbeat the volunteers were.
What was it that took so long? The drive there? Waiting once you got there? All of the above?
The missus was able to get the same appointment block I have, fortunately. They're only doing 15 appointments per 5-minute block at the facility where we're going and most of the afternoon before us is empty, so hopefully there won't be much of a wait.
Yesterday they were taking appointments for today for 16 year olds. Late yesterday they realized that they were switching to J&J for everyone who arrived today. I got an email late yesterday - last night the central help desk thought it was a mistake, this morning they could see the record changes but not what the site had on hand... so I took a chance and went. They had some Pfizer left, so they had all the teenagers re-register as walk-ins and had one pair of nurses administering the shots... plus someone passed out in line... etc. etc. Just took a lot longer than I expected on site. Plus I hadn't been expecting to need to stop on the way home to get some food, and I always forget how bad the backups are on the Bay Bridge coming west.
No 1 said that UPenn is about to get all the grad students. So between that and Vandy giving them out at the medical center, hopefully 1 and 2 will be done soon. No 3 has to wait until Apr 15 to make an appt.
the MD governor basically threw open the doors with almost no warning on Monday afternoon, so I jumped. My older girl got her appointments just before NYS opened up to everyone, she qualified as an educator b/c she's going to be a camp counselor, which is just silly. As a card carrying liberal, it pains me to say this, but I think we almost had too many stupid exceptions - better luck next time maybe
Stress-baking and panic shopping. Vegetable regrowing and crafting. Now we can add another hobby to a year of quarantine trends: backyard maple sugaring.
Among the many indicators that it’s on the rise: a run on at-home evaporators and other syrup-making accouterments. A surge in traffic and subscriptions to syrup-making websites and trade publications. And, of course, lots of documentation on social media. (The Facebook group Backyard Maple Syrup Makers added some 5,000 members, almost doubling the its community, in the past year.)
I guess Politico still has a few maga's working there. While i didn't read the article, I'm guessing it's a fawning look at how wonderful trump is handling retirement.
Since he's saying he doesn't remember the drive or the crash, I wonder if he passed out with his foot on the accelerator, or if it was just temporary amnesia due to the accident.
That would explain why he only slowed about 9mph between wherever they estimated his road speed and the tree that he impacted at 75. Someone in a right state of mind (or at least, paying attention) would have hit the brakes at some point.
"Detectives did not seek search warrants for the athlete's blood samples, which could have been screened for drugs or alcohol, or his cellphone. Sheriff's officials said Woods told deputies that he had not ingested medication or alcohol before the crash."
So why would you trust the driver that previously said he didn't remember the crash?
The Golden State Warriors outscored the Milwaukee Bucks 16-5 over the final four minutes and hung on for a massive 122-121 victory.
Stephen Curry was his usual amazing self, leading the Dubs with 41 points (30 in the second half), while Kelly Oubre Jr. chipped in with 19 points, including the game-winning free throws with 7.7 seconds remaining.
There were two interesting things that happened in the San Francisco Giants 3-1 loss to the San Diego Padres. Two interesting things if you’re invested in the Giants, that is. If you’re a Padres fan, then go home, you’re either drunk or lost, and yes, more than two interesting things happened for you. Good for you. Whoop-de-freaking-doo.
The first interesting thing that happened is that Brandon Crawford hit a home run. It was a solo home run, naturally, as 90% of the Giants homers this year have been (this is not hyperbole — the Giants have hit 10 home runs, which have scored 11 runs).
At least it wasn’t quite as bad this time. They even held a lead for a few minutes!
The Oakland A’s lost again, for the sixth straight time to open the 2021 season. The score against the Los Angeles Dodgers was only 5-1, which is an improvement over their previous defeats, but moral victories run thin the longer it takes to get a literal win.
The first bright side came in the 1st inning. It took until the sixth game of the year, but for the first time the A’s took a lead — Jed Lowrie and Ramon Laureano hit back-to-back doubles to put Oakland on top 1-0. But that turned out to be all they got for the evening, as three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw was in full form.
The contrast between Clayton Kershaw’s first two starts of 2021 is like night and day, and not just because of the time of game. The Dodgers left-hander was in full control on Tuesday night, pitching seven strong innings in a 5-1 win over the A’s in Oakland.
Though the A’s got to Kershaw right away, with consecutive doubles by Jed Lowrie and Ramon Laureano in the first inning giving Oakland a 1-0 — believe it or not, that was the A’s first lead all season, in their sixth game — that was the high point for the home team on Tuesday.
Working around those doubles, Kershaw struck out three batters in the first, and eight on the night, giving him 2,743 strikeouts in his career in the regular season and postseason combined, surpassing Don Sutton’s 2,739 for the most in Dodgers history.
Cal 2021 recruit Kaleb Elams Orr tears ACL via Darren Sabedra (SJ Mercury) tough loss on that front hopefully he recovers well!
Also rank this years March Madness in terms of all time tournaments: This was a top 5 March Madness in history for me with all the new stars that were made, upsets that happened, and secondary story lines that were interwoven into the tournament.
National Beer Day https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1379803948660494346
Ukraine....is weak
Elsewhere in college
UW's starting OLB medically retires due to neck injury
https://twitter.com/mikevorel/status/1379855821605982209?s=19
Arizona finally sacks Sean Miller
https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1379833965339631620?s=19
Bye Felicia
We should hire him as an assistant. (jk)
do we need corruption training?
If we did, he'd be our go-to guy.
Worst car accident you've seen
Turned over truck (semi) with a body under the cab on the 57 heading north from Diamond Bar
I think I already told this on the DBD. Driving home on a four-lane divided boulevard and I'm just about to turn into my road. I hear and then see an old pick-up truck accelerating as fast as it can go on the opposite side of the boulevard. For an instant, I'm thinking it is red-neck racing. But it only takes a fraction of a second to see that the path is not straight or controlled. Someone has passed out at the wheel with their foot on the accelerator.
It is about a quarter-mile away. It hits the outside sidewalk, veers back the other way, swipes a car, launches into the air when it hits the center divide, tears through some bushes, lands in my lane coming directly toward me head-on. There is another car in front of me, so I'm checking to see what they will do while I measure my own options to where to swerve but decide that I'm going to go wherever the car in front goes.
But the car in front of me doesn't swerve. It crashes head on into the truck, the front end disintegrating and the whole engine block being torn from the car. The cab of the car comes to a halt. I stop my car, grab my first aid kit (which I keep in my car after watching another car accident a few weeks earlier) and run to the BMW. The crumple zone worked marvelously. The engine and the whole front of the car is gone, but the cab is nearly intact... the windows only cracked. This is the moment I dreaded because I don't want to be looking at brains or intestines smeared everywhere.
When you arrive at a car accident, the first thing you notice is the car bags go off and there is a cloud of desiccant that looks like flour everywhere. You can even see in the windows the cloud is so thick. It looks like smoke, but it isn't. The driver comes out dazed, covered in powder. I pry open the back seat and help out her son, who is also dazed/powdered but otherwise unhurt. The woman looks into the backseat and sees she freaks out even though her son is fine.
MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER! OH GOD MY MOTHER. DON'T LET MY MOTHER DIE!
I peer in. The mother used to be in the backseat, but was thrown through the seat and under the crumpled dash, where she's wedged because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
This is the part that made me angry. People gladly stopped, took out their phones, and took pictures, but did nothing.
"YOU!!!", I yelled at lady across the street who I've locked eyes on, "CALL 911"
I start pointing and yelling, telling people to take care of the hysterical woman, one to accompany the son and make sure he just lies down, a guy to redirect traffic, a guy to try to pry open the passenger side door. I go run to check on the truck driver.
When you knock out a man cold, they snore. He was snoring short shallow breaths. He is pressed against his wheel because he also wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I figured he was not too badly hurt, so I go back to get to the grandmother.
At this point, the driver's husband shows up. He's crying and starts to scream as he walks toward his wife with his hands on his head. I grab his arm and hiss in his ear "Listen. This is the moment that your wife needs you. You need to be her rock. So pull yourself together and be that person right now." His face instantly changed. He took his hands down. And then calmly spoke with his wife. I am so fucking proud of that guy.
I tried to get the grandmother. I couldn't pry her out and I was afraid to hurt her further. I can still hear that woman's sceams in my head, begging me to not let her mother die. I have to hand it to the police and fire department. They were there in mere minutes.
Whoa, that's intense.
I don't think I've seen one unfolding. Probably the biggest sinking feeling was driving past a car that had a 200 year old oak land on it (talk about shitty luck) or driving past motorcycle fragments, state troopers looking down into the median, and an ambulance with the lights off (I91 in VT)
I've spent plenty of time on the roads but I've never seen anything bad. I don't think I've ever even witnessed a collision where someone was injured.
Back when my family just moved to the US and lived in Florida, a block outside the apartment complex that we lived at, my family was at a stoplight when a speeding car went by and hit a barrier to an artificial lake. My dad said something about maybe we should go check on the guy but we hesitated for 1-2 minutes. That was quite fortunate because a cop car showed up and a gun shootout occurred. The hesitation saved us from accidentally being human hostages.
the 2021 A's season so far
I dunno....Cal basketball last few years or A's 2021...is it coaching or players for the A's. Just seems like they don't have much talent. And the talent they did have they didn't want to pay to keep, like Semien.
Cal has a basketball team?
maybe Cal BB should be relegated to a club team.
i thought it was just a bunch of dudes playing pick up ball at RSF already
I dunno, some of the hard core RSF teams could probably give them a run or even beat them.
Really, too many to count, there's no intrinsic reason the intersection where I live should be dangerous, but there have been tons of accidents here; when the ambulance drives away slowly with just the lights on, no siren, it ain't good.
One time, unlocking the gate in the morning, I witnessed a black Jetta flying through the air, turning over sideways, and crashing into the EBMUD fence. For the life me, I could figure out how on earth it got airborne.
Westbound Woodside Road off of 280. A motorcycle passed me and going at a pretty good clip. A car going the opposite direction in front of us was making a u-turn and didn't see the motorcycle coming. The motorcycle couldn't stop in time and ended up t-boning the car. The cyclist flew across the hood of the car and landed about 20-30 feet away. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet and full leathers, but he was still hurt pretty bad. Police came about 2-3 minutes later.
Unfortunately, I was on my way to court for a hearing in Redwood City that didn't turn out too well. The police officer at the scene was very sympathetic and let me go once I gave him my business card. I still don't know what ultimately happened to that guy.
Rough day.
I meant eastbound Woodside, not that it really matters...
Are we counting only ones actually witnessed, vs those responded to? And do those on the race track count? Or only in general transportation?
I meant ones you witnessed on the roads not on the racetrack.
I was a passenger on a bus. We were meeting another oncoming bus that was coming up a slight rise and around a curve. A motorcyclist attempted to pass the other bus coming out of the turn (because of the incline and curve, couldn't see an oncoming bus). The road was also wet, and when the motorcyclist tried to swerve back in behind the other bus, it skidded out from under him. The left front wheel of the bus I was on ran over both the bike and the rider, who was still on it.
Fortunately, the rider survived, though with serious injuries, and a totaled motorcycle. The bus driver was understandably really shook up. He wound up retiring, but my testimony saved him from any responsibility.
I don't recommend getting run over by a bus.
"I don't recommend getting run over by a bus."
I'm going to cancel that job application to the Trump 2024 campaign then.
good advice re: getting run over.
Pedestrian getting struck by a car on College Avenue. The individual went flying through the air, tumbled across the roof of the car and fell down unconscious on the asphalt. EMT and Police came within a couple of minutes and stabilized the person who was taken away in an ambulance.
07I've only seen a couple and they weren't very bad at all.
I did almost see someone die if they weren't so lucky. Driving on I-71 from Louisville to Cincy in a midwestern storm and someone hydroplaned into the grass median that was maybe 70 feet wide. The grass dips down maybe 20 feet and then up maybe 30-40 feet into the other direction. The car goes into the grass, driver clearly has no control, goes into the left lane of the other direction with an 18-wheeler bearing down on them. After maybe .5 seconds, the car swerves back into the median and then the truck goes by maybe 1.5-2 seconds later. Guy got lucky his car got traction and was able to swerve into the middle median.
DBD AV Club
Starting Le Bureau. It's slow but intense. It's like Bourne without the actual action - just like the back room stuff.
Finished Halt and Catch Fire - I thought it was very good, 17/19; not quite as good as say The Americans, but very good. Re: G.O.'s comment, yes Justified was a solid show, and in a way sort of old-school, in that it had no bigger point to make other than to entertain you. I'd say a lot of great TV shows these day are trying to be about something more than just entertaining.
Rewatching Justified. 19/19WB. Still a solid show
I recorded the Mario Puzo Godfather Coda, but I haven't gotten around to watching it. I know that it's mostly Godfather III (which didn't actually happen). Is there anything in it that improves Godfather III that would make it worth my time?
I DVR'd the Ken Burns documentary about Ernest Hemingway but have yet to watch the episodes. Is it any good?
Since the sun also rises, I too will watch out ....some day.
Today in Covid-19
2nd shot done today (Pfizer).
Same. 2nd shot of Pfizer today. No side effects (yet). However, the 6-hour roundtrip appointment was a drain.
I had minimal side effects yesterday (got it late Monday), limited to fatigue and some passing weird temperature flushing (but no fever).
Give it about 8 hours for the effects...and take some tylenol.
A local vaccine administration site had some open appointments so I was able to grab one for Friday afternoon!
I expected to need ~5 hours to deal with my 16 year old's appointment in Salisbury, I was under by 2 hours... but she's one down, one to go.
My experiences with my 2 shots and 2 more for another family member are that the clinic time seems to consistently be ~ 1 hour, maybe 1 1/14, considering you have to check in to park, go que up to check in again (quicker if you pre-registered and pre-entered insurance info), then queue up to get your shot (1st & 2nd shots were delivered by different groups, why I'm not sure), and then they had a 15 minute standby in case of immediate reactions, and then exit traffic.
It wasn't the smoothest and quickest process, but that was largely because, like everything, they were WAAAAYYY understaffed (its the American way to do everything), but overall, it was far from the worst experience I've had with large diverse crowd management events.
Arriving early definitely helps, and it was frankly better than I had expected, or hoped.
The Kaiser set-up downtown Oakland CA was amazingly well-run, no insurance issues (you're on the plan) appointment on-line, wait of maybe 7 minutes for the shot, 15 minutes hanging out, and then on your merry way. I have never seen health-care workers as relentlessly upbeat.
All the folks, including the non-health care workers, were amazing when I got Shot 1. Saw a friend on my run this morning and she just got Shot 2. Her first comment was about how upbeat the volunteers were.
What was it that took so long? The drive there? Waiting once you got there? All of the above?
The missus was able to get the same appointment block I have, fortunately. They're only doing 15 appointments per 5-minute block at the facility where we're going and most of the afternoon before us is empty, so hopefully there won't be much of a wait.
Yesterday they were taking appointments for today for 16 year olds. Late yesterday they realized that they were switching to J&J for everyone who arrived today. I got an email late yesterday - last night the central help desk thought it was a mistake, this morning they could see the record changes but not what the site had on hand... so I took a chance and went. They had some Pfizer left, so they had all the teenagers re-register as walk-ins and had one pair of nurses administering the shots... plus someone passed out in line... etc. etc. Just took a lot longer than I expected on site. Plus I hadn't been expecting to need to stop on the way home to get some food, and I always forget how bad the backups are on the Bay Bridge coming west.
Nothing bad, positive end result, just looooong.
It's also 2 1/4 hours best case from my house.
and my 18 year old got her first shot in NY state today, so we're well on the way to being.a one family firewall for the 'rona
Santa Barbara is such a clusterfock...so far behind. Just getting to 55+ now
No 1 said that UPenn is about to get all the grad students. So between that and Vandy giving them out at the medical center, hopefully 1 and 2 will be done soon. No 3 has to wait until Apr 15 to make an appt.
the MD governor basically threw open the doors with almost no warning on Monday afternoon, so I jumped. My older girl got her appointments just before NYS opened up to everyone, she qualified as an educator b/c she's going to be a camp counselor, which is just silly. As a card carrying liberal, it pains me to say this, but I think we almost had too many stupid exceptions - better luck next time maybe
Nice!!
Stress-baking and panic shopping. Vegetable regrowing and crafting. Now we can add another hobby to a year of quarantine trends: backyard maple sugaring.
Among the many indicators that it’s on the rise: a run on at-home evaporators and other syrup-making accouterments. A surge in traffic and subscriptions to syrup-making websites and trade publications. And, of course, lots of documentation on social media. (The Facebook group Backyard Maple Syrup Makers added some 5,000 members, almost doubling the its community, in the past year.)
Got my second Moderna shot yesterday. Roughly 14 1/2 hours later, only arm soreness and no other side effects.
Got my first Pfizer shot yesterday. A bit of right arm soreness but that's it.
Whatever is left of our democracy
Out on the eastern shore there were still some Trump Pence signs - my daughter's response was "are we still on that? Might be time to get it go."
What a photo of Trump’s new office reveals about how he wants to be remembered
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-office-479412
I guess Politico still has a few maga's working there. While i didn't read the article, I'm guessing it's a fawning look at how wonderful trump is handling retirement.
Not really.
Pro
Monkey removed from back, A's win 4-3 in the 10th
Thanks to Dave Roberts replacing Victor Gonzalez for Kenley. Maybe it's his way of letting Kenley playing himself out of the closer role.
Tiger was driving nearly double the 45 mph speed limit when he crashed
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/31209160/excessive-speed-caused-tiger-woods-suv-crash-sheriff-says
That's a REALLY dangerous area to be going nearly 90. Wow.
Since he's saying he doesn't remember the drive or the crash, I wonder if he passed out with his foot on the accelerator, or if it was just temporary amnesia due to the accident.
That would explain why he only slowed about 9mph between wherever they estimated his road speed and the tree that he impacted at 75. Someone in a right state of mind (or at least, paying attention) would have hit the brakes at some point.
"Detectives did not seek search warrants for the athlete's blood samples, which could have been screened for drugs or alcohol, or his cellphone. Sheriff's officials said Woods told deputies that he had not ingested medication or alcohol before the crash."
So why would you trust the driver that previously said he didn't remember the crash?
And he was going 75mph when he hit the tree. He's fortunate to have escaped serious injury.
Warriors hang on for huge win over Bucks
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2021/4/6/22371145/warriors-hang-on-for-huge-win-over-bucks-nba-curry
What a win!
The Golden State Warriors outscored the Milwaukee Bucks 16-5 over the final four minutes and hung on for a massive 122-121 victory.
Stephen Curry was his usual amazing self, leading the Dubs with 41 points (30 in the second half), while Kelly Oubre Jr. chipped in with 19 points, including the game-winning free throws with 7.7 seconds remaining.
Giants play baseball game, but do not win baseball game
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/4/6/22371143/san-francisco-giants-padres-recap-victor-caratini
There were two interesting things that happened in the San Francisco Giants 3-1 loss to the San Diego Padres. Two interesting things if you’re invested in the Giants, that is. If you’re a Padres fan, then go home, you’re either drunk or lost, and yes, more than two interesting things happened for you. Good for you. Whoop-de-freaking-doo.
The first interesting thing that happened is that Brandon Crawford hit a home run. It was a solo home run, naturally, as 90% of the Giants homers this year have been (this is not hyperbole — the Giants have hit 10 home runs, which have scored 11 runs).
It was majestic.
Gotta mention it - A's drop 6 games in a row. Score was closer than in previous games.
Game #6: A’s lose again, but by less this time
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/4/6/22371259/oakland-as-game-6-los-angeles-dodgers-score-result
At least it wasn’t quite as bad this time. They even held a lead for a few minutes!
The Oakland A’s lost again, for the sixth straight time to open the 2021 season. The score against the Los Angeles Dodgers was only 5-1, which is an improvement over their previous defeats, but moral victories run thin the longer it takes to get a literal win.
The first bright side came in the 1st inning. It took until the sixth game of the year, but for the first time the A’s took a lead — Jed Lowrie and Ramon Laureano hit back-to-back doubles to put Oakland on top 1-0. But that turned out to be all they got for the evening, as three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw was in full form.
What amazing prospect are they tanking for?!?
Kyler Murray
Clayton Kershaw dominates A’s, backed by Dodgers home runs
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/4/6/22371119/clayton-kershaw-slider-dodgers-home-runs-max-muncy-athletics-recap
The contrast between Clayton Kershaw’s first two starts of 2021 is like night and day, and not just because of the time of game. The Dodgers left-hander was in full control on Tuesday night, pitching seven strong innings in a 5-1 win over the A’s in Oakland.
Though the A’s got to Kershaw right away, with consecutive doubles by Jed Lowrie and Ramon Laureano in the first inning giving Oakland a 1-0 — believe it or not, that was the A’s first lead all season, in their sixth game — that was the high point for the home team on Tuesday.
Working around those doubles, Kershaw struck out three batters in the first, and eight on the night, giving him 2,743 strikeouts in his career in the regular season and postseason combined, surpassing Don Sutton’s 2,739 for the most in Dodgers history.
SOme great defensive plays by the A's in the 2nd inning as well; and then the wheels come off.
The one Moreland made on the 1st base line off Seager saved a run
Good to see things are back to normal in Dodger land and in the A's area.
Cal
Go Bears!!!
Cal 2021 recruit Kaleb Elams Orr tears ACL via Darren Sabedra (SJ Mercury) tough loss on that front hopefully he recovers well!
Also rank this years March Madness in terms of all time tournaments: This was a top 5 March Madness in history for me with all the new stars that were made, upsets that happened, and secondary story lines that were interwoven into the tournament.