This year is the emergence year for cicada Brood X, a 17 year cycle. They emerge after long periods with prime number years all at once as an evolutionary step to outlive any predator's reproductive cycle.
I'm glad I'm not in Louisville this year (though cicadas are not the only reason I'm glad). I will have to say that when I visited in about May of 2004, I was driving around and heard this buzzing sound. I had to stop my car to see if it was the car making the sound. We ended up living in the same neighborhood and holy hell it would drive me crazy hearing all those cicadas.
I think it's a silly vehicle but if they can convince the dudebro coal-rolling crowd that electric vehicles are cool, then that's a win.
Also, they need to stop saying that thing has 11,000+ lb-ft of torque. They never say that it's WHEEL torque, not torque measured at the engine. You could have an engine with very average specs exceed 11k lb-ft of wheel torque if it has the right transmission ratios (e.g. if first gear tops out at 10mph). In fact, several Jeeps have ultra-low gears for rock crawling that help them generate in excess of 11k lb-ft of wheel torque.
I remember volunteering at an event at Dean Lesher's widow's house (A bay area newspaper publisher). She was this little old lady driving a Hummer H2. Never understood why.
"The Hummer EV pickup goes into production at Factory Zero in Detroit and Hamtramck this fall. GMC has about 10,000 preorders for the pickup, which starts at $112,595. Subsequent editions will come out starting in 2022, but the cheapest edition still starts at nearly $80,000."
It was too long ago to remember even where did I get that cariacature done. But I do remember that the likeness was quite good. It looked more like me that I did, which of course was the intent.
We were headed towards spiral cut baked ham, mac and cheese, and asparagus but mid-afternoon we got bored and hungry so we pivoted to ham sandwiches on King's Hawaiian Rolls, with Sunset magazine's whole orange cake for dessert. https://www.sunset.com/recipe/whole-orange-cake
Deli sandwich. My son in law is in prep for surgery tomorrow, so even social-distanced and precautioned family Easter had to be foregone this year. (I did make some hard boiled eggs with breakfast, and ate a Reser's egg during the basketball game!)
Has an intestine issue that needs attention. It cropped up once before, and after they took care of it, he was good for several years. I'm hoping it doesn't become an every 5 years or so deal, but I'm concerned. He's already had to make some pretty significant diet adjustments regarding some but not all dairy, and yet here we are again.
If it goes as planned, he'll be home by evening, and back to work in a couple of days, but this time we need to carefully put ~35 lbs back on him.
(Pro tip: Try to avoid having other significant health issues, especially those that might involve invasive procedures, or significant trauma [even with a vet for an animal, never mind a person], during the Covid pandemic if you possibly can. It seriously complicates things! DC can probably attest to that in dealing with his parents,)
Roasted pork loin with apples & onions, mashed sweet potatoes, rolls washed down with 2008 August West Pinot; Olive oil cake with whipped ricotta & strawberries - a touch of the 1995 Chateau de Briat Bas-Armagnac (my last bottle)
Had a Mexican wrapped beef w/standard veggies & cabbage at a hidden hole in the wall type place Saturday that had a name I can't spell or pronounce, but it was great.
I went to an elementary school that was connected with a church, so I did a fair amount of bible study in that time. I don't remember this part about Jesus crushing the skulls of the old gods.
All white, or white but with a nike/adidas logo in a different color? I guess I used to get white tennis shoes with some color in the logo, but now I'm getting more colorful shoes. Just all depends.
I actually own a pair of white bucks, you might be surprised to learn. I don't wear them very often mostly because I'm not 100% sure how to clean them.
I had a pair of white bucks 100 years ago (lol). I thought they were cool but no one else did, so I guess they weren't. Best advice I could give on cleaning them is not to get them dirty. I had a bag of white powder to cover any scuffs.
Speaking of which, how many people use sneakers vs tennis shoes. I always use Tennis shoes (except for above since I think he uses sneaker). Not sure if it's a regional thing like pop vs Coke vs soda.
the side effects of the second shot arrived for me late on Friday. You know how sometimes you've been drinking and you stand up and you're like "oh dear" because it's all going wrong now? That was me at 11 pm but with no booze - I'd been watching a film with the missus, got up, and kind of... swayed. Like an on / off switch. Anyway, felt much better by late Saturday afternoon. And it was all in a good cause!
It didn't last very long - all of a sudden my temperature went up, and I felt queasy and lightheaded. The queasiness and lightheadedness subsided very quickly, took until much later on Saturday for the fever to drop off.
Pfizer. I know this is the nature of "anecdotes," but I've been hearing all sorts of variations. My wife got the Moderna vaccine and felt a bit crappy after the second one, but nothing too bad. I've heard of people feeling nothing either time, people finding the first one harder, etc., etc.
1st shot Pfizer for me was a ~24hr mild head/neck ache, 2nd was nothing besides a sore arm. My wife however had a 72hr headache after the first shot and was wiped out with fatigue for one day after her second.
We are WFH until at least Labor Day. After that, I expect we will come back location by location, with phases within each location. Decisions will be made based upon local transmission rates (less than 1 new case/100K people daily, must have been declining for at least two weeks) competitor practices and local regs. I expect to be in the last tranche, since I have zero need to be in an office and probably will be home until next year.
They are already planning for everyone to come in only 2-3 days a week for the rest of time.
Though honestly, we already had an "open office" plan and a fairly liberal policy towards being physically in the office even before COVID, so this seems to just be advancing the same trends.
work from home til 8/30 when additional guidance will be given. Expected to be a phased in approach on an office by office basis. They're already looking at "essential" roles coming back in a limited capacity. My role is nowhere near "essential" from the perspective of needing to be onsite so I might be home til January. We'll see
Actual guidance would require actual planning, which usually requires actual understanding of relevant factors. I don't expect to hear anything until sometime this summer when someone in management will come up with something completely out of the blue, and with no consideration of any of the logistics. They have demonstrated that they can accomplish this repeatedly in a dispersed environment, so no urgency.
None yet. The customer agency isn't pushing too hard because vaccination rates aren't there, and I think they'll be trying to account for how local districts re-open. I assume that when 11 year olds and up are vaccinated and schools are fully back in the swing of things, all the leeway will end.
I'm frankly amazed that our direct customer hasn't been asking for a list of who has been vaccinated so they can force them to start coming in again, however.
Per several UNC media sources, Bubba Cunningham and all the other decision-making forces at play have decided to hire Hubert Davis as the next head coach of UNC Men’s Basketball. Davis, who played at Chapel Hill from 1988-1992 and followed that with a 14-year NBA career, had been Roy Williams’ assistant since 2012.
Probably the right choice in the short term. Supposedly they interviewed a handful of people over the weekend including the current asst coach Robinson, ex UNC players current Head Coaches Wes Miller (UNC Greensboro), Jerry Stackhouse (Vandy), King Rice (Monmouth), and Jerod Haase among others. Supposedly 2 were not from the UNC family so I'm not sure if Jerod Haase counts there since he was an asst coach there for many years with Roy Williams.
Depends on how he recruits and the results (obviously). I don't think he's the long term solution, like Roy was (18 years ish). I think he's the one that satisfies the our family pick and then if he doesn't succeed (like Matt Doherty) then they'll go outside of the family. Not sure what other coach in the Carolina family could be the long term pick. Not sure if Wes Miller will get there.
[Ipsos] 55% of Republicans either thought that the Capitol insurgency was pulled off by Antifa. Also, 60% of Republicans thought the election was stolen by Democrats.
Watched the game. So disappointing he couldn't get one final out to end the inning and giving up 2 runs on a strikeout which should have ended the inning, then getting injured at the plate.
There are good starts to a baseball season, there are bad starts, then there’s 50 feet of crap, and then there’s what we saw from the Oakland A’s in their opening four-game series of 2021.
After being thoroughly overmatched in their first three games against the Houston Astros, the A’s lost again Sunday by a decisive 9-2 score, sealing a four-game sweep at the hands of their top division rival at their own home ballpark.
Did you see the first three games of the series? Sunday was that again, but even worse. It was the complete divergence of poor play by Oakland plus everything possible going wrong even when they did play well.
They will pull out at least one game against the Dodgers, while one win by the Dodgers will be an absolute blowout so the pythagorean will love the Dodgers even though the A's may very well win the seires.
At least in his first outing he's only throwing 90-91 on his fastball which is too close to his slider (similar to 2019). And he was missing location so he only had like 5 swings and misses at Colorado. Last year he was 92-93 on his fastballs.
Hopefully he gets better as the season goes on or the offense carries him.
I do not know how many games the San Francisco Giants will win in 2021. If I did, I would not waste my time writing about the team, but rather spend it it betting enormous sums of money on their win total.
But what I do know is that, when every win is over, and the chat box sends you a survey to fill out that they somehow advertise as though it’s your benefit, and the first question asks you “Why did the Giants win this game,” and gives you a bunch of boxes to choose from, more often than not you’ll click the box that says “offense,” hit “submit,” and then wonder why you wasted your time doing that.
Julio Urías decided to change things up on Sunday, and pitched the longest outing of his career, helping the Dodgers to a series win, 4-2 over the Rockies on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field.
Urías was a brilliant, strike-throwing machine on Sunday, throwing 59 of his 79 pitches for strikes, striking out six while walking one. He pitched seven innings for the first time in his career, only removed after a leadoff infield single by Ryan McMahon in the eighth, just the fourth Rockie to reach base against Urías.
“He attacked the zone. He was going after them with his heater. His changeup was filthy today, that’s the best I’ve ever seen his changeup,” catcher Will Smith told Kirsten Watson on SportsNet LA. “He was constantly ahead in counts, and putting guys away with two strikes.”
Going to have to say McKinstry. It actually would've been over the fence and Tapia made a hell of a play to bring it back. Actually he also made a hell of a play on Bellinger's as well, just popped out instead of back in.
McKinstry's was not a little league inside the park HR.
Gonzaga vs UCLA holy shit game of the year for 2021. UCLA gonna be a problem for the nation if everyone decides to come back (only Juzang and Jaquez in my opinion have the ability to go to the NBA right now).
National Championship predictions Gonzaga vs Baylor: who wins and why
I've been rolling with the zags and will die on that hill. Also a good spot for Matt Bradley to go to would be Oklahoma, since they lost their man in Austin Reaves along with a new coach in Porter Moser who will be damned if they don't make the tournament under his great coaching ability.
Definitely up there among the greatest college basketball games ever. The whole time I though UCLA was eventually going to fade away and stop making tough shots, but no . . . the whole team was nailing turnaround jumpers and tough floaters all night.
Juzang may have played himself right out of the conference. (As in into the Association.)
Other than having to deal with them next year, I'd like to see them all come back. With what else they have, I think they have a chance to be another generational program that would be a lot of fun to watch.
That charge that Timme took was ballsy, especially with 4 fouls. Though he had enough time to eat a sandwich after getting set before Juzang got to him.
Gonzaga was the first team I filled out in my bracket and had them winning it all.
I have Gonzaga over Baylor because I think Timme will feast on Baylor inside. If Gonzaga had him instead of Karnowski back in 2017 they probably would've beaten UNC. They abused Karnowski because he was slow. I only watched the last few minutes + OT of the game and Timme's footwork is really good.
i had the same. On the plus side, in the massive pay pool I do, I went for 3393rd (out of 3871 total) place to 752nd place with their final 4 wins. If the Zags win, I should get in the top 4-500. Not bad considering my absolutely miserable picking this year
Cicadas
This year is the emergence year for cicada Brood X, a 17 year cycle. They emerge after long periods with prime number years all at once as an evolutionary step to outlive any predator's reproductive cycle.
https://earthsky.org/earth/17-year-cicadas-broodx-2021
I'm glad I'm not in Louisville this year (though cicadas are not the only reason I'm glad). I will have to say that when I visited in about May of 2004, I was driving around and heard this buzzing sound. I had to stop my car to see if it was the car making the sound. We ended up living in the same neighborhood and holy hell it would drive me crazy hearing all those cicadas.
coming soon!
(figuratively and literally)
Not here, I think. But man, it was nuts the year it happened in Alabama.
It was happening during the Cal @ UT game in 06 and boy was it loud.
Happy National Library Week!
https://twitter.com/Oliviawitherite/status/1379105993414545420?s=20
@Oliviawitherite This dude @evanmanivong sticking the landing and then whipping out his vaccination card is the ultimate flex.
LOL
https://twitter.com/Oliviawitherite/status/1379122214251995145?s=20
[if i'm gonna go semi-viral for this tweet, can someone at least ask him if he has an older brother thank u]
DMX on life support.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/dmx-hospitalized-life-support-heart-attack/index.html
[Paywall] NYT has a remarkable article - essentially a curated art history lesson about a single tiny painting.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/02/arts/design/shah-jahan-chitarman.html?action=click&module=At%20Home&pgtype=Homepage
I'll have to forward this to No 1.
Why? Why? Why are they making this? It's over double the cost of a Tesla Cybertruck.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2021/04/03/gmc-hummer-ev-suv-2024-price/7049858002/
Because it's 10x better looking than that Tesla monstrosity?
I think it's a silly vehicle but if they can convince the dudebro coal-rolling crowd that electric vehicles are cool, then that's a win.
Also, they need to stop saying that thing has 11,000+ lb-ft of torque. They never say that it's WHEEL torque, not torque measured at the engine. You could have an engine with very average specs exceed 11k lb-ft of wheel torque if it has the right transmission ratios (e.g. if first gear tops out at 10mph). In fact, several Jeeps have ultra-low gears for rock crawling that help them generate in excess of 11k lb-ft of wheel torque.
They'll get people that want the Hummer because it's a Hummer.
I remember volunteering at an event at Dean Lesher's widow's house (A bay area newspaper publisher). She was this little old lady driving a Hummer H2. Never understood why.
"MAH FREEDUMBS"
"it can drive crabwise!"
because they know people will buy it?
No shit:
"The Hummer EV pickup goes into production at Factory Zero in Detroit and Hamtramck this fall. GMC has about 10,000 preorders for the pickup, which starts at $112,595. Subsequent editions will come out starting in 2022, but the cheapest edition still starts at nearly $80,000."
Koala
Close relatives to the vicious drop bears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
Double-decker
better than an upper decker
What Trump probably left in the Oval Office bathroom before he left the White House.
you're thinking of an upper decker and no way Trump could pull that off without falling and breaking multiple bones
HIs rolls of fat protect him from said injuries.
dammit...yes I was.
with the amount of constipation he has, it could very well, after a long period of time, be a double-upper-decker.
The top front bus seats are the best way to go to the southern beaches in Hong Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxPARAJNkzI#t=11m40s
Tell the DBD about what you were doing in that novelty portrait you got at some tourist site (big head, tiny body, accentuates your personal flaws)?
I never got one of these, buy my wife once did at a comic con, just for fun.
The resulting image looked nothing like her.
Getting married (we hired a caricature artist for our reception at the Ariya hotel in Vegas).
I was waterskiing and a woman with big chi-chis in the background was saying "hubba hubba" to me, a nine-year old with a bowl cut.
It was too long ago to remember even where did I get that cariacature done. But I do remember that the likeness was quite good. It looked more like me that I did, which of course was the intent.
Easter dinner
We were headed towards spiral cut baked ham, mac and cheese, and asparagus but mid-afternoon we got bored and hungry so we pivoted to ham sandwiches on King's Hawaiian Rolls, with Sunset magazine's whole orange cake for dessert. https://www.sunset.com/recipe/whole-orange-cake
It is delicious and SO easy (as long as you have a food processor).
we're not old enough to cook things from Sunset magazine...
Trader Joe's fried cod filets with kale salad.
Shepherd's pie
Deli sandwich. My son in law is in prep for surgery tomorrow, so even social-distanced and precautioned family Easter had to be foregone this year. (I did make some hard boiled eggs with breakfast, and ate a Reser's egg during the basketball game!)
also, "Reser's egg" ISWYDT
Good luck and hopefully he has a quick recovery! What kind of surgery?
Has an intestine issue that needs attention. It cropped up once before, and after they took care of it, he was good for several years. I'm hoping it doesn't become an every 5 years or so deal, but I'm concerned. He's already had to make some pretty significant diet adjustments regarding some but not all dairy, and yet here we are again.
If it goes as planned, he'll be home by evening, and back to work in a couple of days, but this time we need to carefully put ~35 lbs back on him.
Thanks for the thoughts!
(Pro tip: Try to avoid having other significant health issues, especially those that might involve invasive procedures, or significant trauma [even with a vet for an animal, never mind a person], during the Covid pandemic if you possibly can. It seriously complicates things! DC can probably attest to that in dealing with his parents,)
it's inconvenient to say the least
Roasted pork loin with apples & onions, mashed sweet potatoes, rolls washed down with 2008 August West Pinot; Olive oil cake with whipped ricotta & strawberries - a touch of the 1995 Chateau de Briat Bas-Armagnac (my last bottle)
Yum!
It really was, and that Olive oil cake is one of the favorite desserts my daughter makes.
i made nachos with the leftover pork adobado
carry out "street tacos" and elote
Had a Mexican wrapped beef w/standard veggies & cabbage at a hidden hole in the wall type place Saturday that had a name I can't spell or pronounce, but it was great.
Spanakopitah plus artichoke and garlic sausages with a Greek salad.
don't invite these guys https://twitter.com/mandolakes/status/1378774578768474112?s=20
Fans of Son O' God comics...
https://flashbak.com/read-national-lampoons-jew-busting-islam-bashing-catholic-chastising-son-o-god-comics-from-1972-1976-3857/
I went to an elementary school that was connected with a church, so I did a fair amount of bible study in that time. I don't remember this part about Jesus crushing the skulls of the old gods.
yeah we didn't cover this kind of hyperbolic WWE angle on Christianity in Catholic HS
I mean, this would have made Religion class a lot more awesome if any of that were in there.
Stone Cold Steve Austin 3:16 would've made it more interesting that's for sure. I remember seeing him in a few episodes of Nash Bridges.
White shoes
Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOAN0iSXblQ
Reno Hightower in The Best of Times....
Way too difficult to keep clean. Not worth it.
I learned yesterday that they're required in the South starting on Easter: https://twitter.com/deannaraybourn/status/1378831215550156803?s=20
This is a topic because my teenage son and his friends are wearing all white tennis shoes. I cannot get behind this trend and prefer to be uncool.
I wear white Jack Purcells all the time.
All white, or white but with a nike/adidas logo in a different color? I guess I used to get white tennis shoes with some color in the logo, but now I'm getting more colorful shoes. Just all depends.
All white.
I went the other way. I bought all black Chuck All-Star hi-tops to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
https://www.converse.com/shop/p/chuck-taylor-all-star-unisex-high-top-shoe/M9006MP.html?pid=M9006MP&dwvar_M9006MP_color=black%20monochrome&dwvar_M9006MP_width=standard&styleNo=M3310&pdp=true&cgid=chuck-taylor-all-star-shoes&vgid=M9160
all black is grandpa shoes. Well done
pqtm
i cannot get behind black soles personally.
Vans doesn't make 'em?
never
A "white shoe" investment bank...
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/whiteshoe.asp
I actually own a pair of white bucks, you might be surprised to learn. I don't wear them very often mostly because I'm not 100% sure how to clean them.
You need this little kit. It contains an eraser that gets all the marks off the bucks, and then a brush to get the nap all going the same way again.
https://www.target.com/p/kiwi-suede-nubuck-shoe-care-kit/-/A-13994828?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012767055&CPNG=PLA_Shoes%2BShopping_Local%7CShoes_Ecomm_AA&adgroup=SC_Shoes&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=c&location=9061268&targetid=pla-981269199831&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1248099&ds_rl=1241788&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3cCs96To7wIVTT6tBh0H_gqXEAQYBSABEgKHMvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I had a pair of white bucks 100 years ago (lol). I thought they were cool but no one else did, so I guess they weren't. Best advice I could give on cleaning them is not to get them dirty. I had a bag of white powder to cover any scuffs.
I'm pretty sure that they were never cool, but what the hell, I live very slightly below the Mason Dixon line
Seinfeld's goto sneakers.
Speaking of which, how many people use sneakers vs tennis shoes. I always use Tennis shoes (except for above since I think he uses sneaker). Not sure if it's a regional thing like pop vs Coke vs soda.
I always called them tennis shoes (and as I got older I realized that sounded weird because they had nothing to do with tennis).
ditto
Today in Covid
Just got back home from my 2nd shot. There were far more people at the hospital than when I got my 1st shot (which I think is a good thing).
Getting 2nd shot this afternoon!
the side effects of the second shot arrived for me late on Friday. You know how sometimes you've been drinking and you stand up and you're like "oh dear" because it's all going wrong now? That was me at 11 pm but with no booze - I'd been watching a film with the missus, got up, and kind of... swayed. Like an on / off switch. Anyway, felt much better by late Saturday afternoon. And it was all in a good cause!
that's orthostatic hypotension aka lightheadedness
It didn't last very long - all of a sudden my temperature went up, and I felt queasy and lightheaded. The queasiness and lightheadedness subsided very quickly, took until much later on Saturday for the fever to drop off.
Glad you're feeling better!
It wasn't that bad and very much in a good cause
You being alive and health is definitely a good cause.
the whole "not inadvertently catching and spreading a plague" angle is pretty compelling
Which shot?
Pfizer. I know this is the nature of "anecdotes," but I've been hearing all sorts of variations. My wife got the Moderna vaccine and felt a bit crappy after the second one, but nothing too bad. I've heard of people feeling nothing either time, people finding the first one harder, etc., etc.
it would seem that the whole purpose of DBD was "anecdotes"
I just meant that I won't extrapolate from them.
I've heard the second shot of Moderna is rough.
i heard the same about Pfizer and I had zero side effects. The missus had mild nausea and an unsettled night of sleep but was fine after that
1st shot Pfizer for me was a ~24hr mild head/neck ache, 2nd was nothing besides a sore arm. My wife however had a 72hr headache after the first shot and was wiped out with fatigue for one day after her second.
At 11 PM, its time to get a night's sleep anyway.
hmmm maybe.
Getting first shot tomorrow, 4/6. Pfizer.
We didn't die of suicide as some predicted, but more people died because of gluttony
https://twitter.com/TheAngryEpi/status/1378837935689146368
If you're temporarily WFH, what is your work's guidance on coming back to the office?
We are WFH until at least Labor Day. After that, I expect we will come back location by location, with phases within each location. Decisions will be made based upon local transmission rates (less than 1 new case/100K people daily, must have been declining for at least two weeks) competitor practices and local regs. I expect to be in the last tranche, since I have zero need to be in an office and probably will be home until next year.
They are already planning for everyone to come in only 2-3 days a week for the rest of time.
Though honestly, we already had an "open office" plan and a fairly liberal policy towards being physically in the office even before COVID, so this seems to just be advancing the same trends.
work from home til 8/30 when additional guidance will be given. Expected to be a phased in approach on an office by office basis. They're already looking at "essential" roles coming back in a limited capacity. My role is nowhere near "essential" from the perspective of needing to be onsite so I might be home til January. We'll see
Actual guidance would require actual planning, which usually requires actual understanding of relevant factors. I don't expect to hear anything until sometime this summer when someone in management will come up with something completely out of the blue, and with no consideration of any of the logistics. They have demonstrated that they can accomplish this repeatedly in a dispersed environment, so no urgency.
None yet. The customer agency isn't pushing too hard because vaccination rates aren't there, and I think they'll be trying to account for how local districts re-open. I assume that when 11 year olds and up are vaccinated and schools are fully back in the swing of things, all the leeway will end.
I'm frankly amazed that our direct customer hasn't been asking for a list of who has been vaccinated so they can force them to start coming in again, however.
We have WFH until 9/30 at the earliest. While no guidance has been given, I am going to assume that we're back to the office on 10/1.
Our management seems increasingly content with a "come back if you want or feel free to continue working from home indefinitely" plan.
win win
Elsewhere in college
UNC will hire Hubert Davis as its next head coach for Men’s Basketball
https://www.tarheelblog.com/2021/4/5/22368511/unc-tar-heels-basketball-mens-head-coach-hubert-davis-roy-williams-assistant-recruitment-future
Per several UNC media sources, Bubba Cunningham and all the other decision-making forces at play have decided to hire Hubert Davis as the next head coach of UNC Men’s Basketball. Davis, who played at Chapel Hill from 1988-1992 and followed that with a 14-year NBA career, had been Roy Williams’ assistant since 2012.
Yawner
Probably the right choice in the short term. Supposedly they interviewed a handful of people over the weekend including the current asst coach Robinson, ex UNC players current Head Coaches Wes Miller (UNC Greensboro), Jerry Stackhouse (Vandy), King Rice (Monmouth), and Jerod Haase among others. Supposedly 2 were not from the UNC family so I'm not sure if Jerod Haase counts there since he was an asst coach there for many years with Roy Williams.
Prediction: Davis lasts less than 3 seasons.
Depends on how he recruits and the results (obviously). I don't think he's the long term solution, like Roy was (18 years ish). I think he's the one that satisfies the our family pick and then if he doesn't succeed (like Matt Doherty) then they'll go outside of the family. Not sure what other coach in the Carolina family could be the long term pick. Not sure if Wes Miller will get there.
No way 'furd is ranked here, even when both their fans are cheering.
https://twitter.com/coach_cristobal/status/1378847550178914305
Loyola-Chicago coach Porter Moser takes the Oklahoma job. Good get for the Sooners.
2021 Pac-12 spring football: Key questions and storylines to follow as practices get into full swing
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2021-pac-12-spring-football-key-questions-and-storylines-to-follow-as-practices-get-into-full-swing/
[WBB]: All Pac-12 Championship. Arizona gets second place (53-54)
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31195627/stanford-holds-arizona-first-ncaa-women-basketball-championship-1992
Another excellent game. It was great to see an all-Pac-12 championship game.
Agreed. (Thought SGBear's take kind of buried the lead though.)
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
GA GOP state legislators complain about corporate cancel culture by requesting the removal of Coke products from the GA Senate offices
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1378491232155021316
irony free zone
[Ipsos] 55% of Republicans either thought that the Capitol insurgency was pulled off by Antifa. Also, 60% of Republicans thought the election was stolen by Democrats.
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/oakvelbwlpr/Topline%20Reuters%20Ipsos%20Trump%20Coattails%20Poll%20-%20April%2005%202021.pdf
[NY Times] Trump donation campaign was an elaborate scam of opt-out shenanigans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html
Yes, but the most frustrating thing reading that: Those stupid Repubs don't blame Trump personally, just WinRed. Morons.
Justice Thomas grumbles over Trump's social media ban
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/05/justice-clarence-thomas-trump-twitter-ban-479046
Justice Thomas' "liberals can be racist too so I'll shape my entire judicial philosophy to cater to conservative racists" schtick is horribly bad.
PRO
Shohei Ohtani is ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/AlexFast8/status/1378875292849213441
Watched the game. So disappointing he couldn't get one final out to end the inning and giving up 2 runs on a strikeout which should have ended the inning, then getting injured at the plate.
He's worth the time to watch whenever you get the chance. Not all that many in baseball even approach that.
Game #4: A’s swept by Astros to open season, but there are 158 games to go
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/4/4/22367327/oakland-as-game-4-houston-astros-score-result
There are good starts to a baseball season, there are bad starts, then there’s 50 feet of crap, and then there’s what we saw from the Oakland A’s in their opening four-game series of 2021.
After being thoroughly overmatched in their first three games against the Houston Astros, the A’s lost again Sunday by a decisive 9-2 score, sealing a four-game sweep at the hands of their top division rival at their own home ballpark.
Did you see the first three games of the series? Sunday was that again, but even worse. It was the complete divergence of poor play by Oakland plus everything possible going wrong even when they did play well.
I feel like every time I tuned in to one of those games the A's were down 5-1.
I can't think of any team more annoying to be swept by to open the season than Houston.
Could be a long season with <gulp...> an 0-10 start.
They will pull out at least one game against the Dodgers, while one win by the Dodgers will be an absolute blowout so the pythagorean will love the Dodgers even though the A's may very well win the seires.
I'm sure the A's will now sweep the Dodgers. At least Kershaw looks beatable. We'll see about Dustin May tonight.
"Kershaw looks beatable."
is he in mid-october form?
He was certainly in Coors field form.
At least in his first outing he's only throwing 90-91 on his fastball which is too close to his slider (similar to 2019). And he was missing location so he only had like 5 swings and misses at Colorado. Last year he was 92-93 on his fastballs.
Hopefully he gets better as the season goes on or the offense carries him.
Giants find out the hard way that you cannot win if you do not score
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/4/3/22366356/san-francisco-giants-mariners-recap-shutout
I do not know how many games the San Francisco Giants will win in 2021. If I did, I would not waste my time writing about the team, but rather spend it it betting enormous sums of money on their win total.
But what I do know is that, when every win is over, and the chat box sends you a survey to fill out that they somehow advertise as though it’s your benefit, and the first question asks you “Why did the Giants win this game,” and gives you a bunch of boxes to choose from, more often than not you’ll click the box that says “offense,” hit “submit,” and then wonder why you wasted your time doing that.
Julio Urías changes things up to dominate Rockies
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/4/4/22366989/julio-urias-changeup-dodgers-walks-rockies-recap
Julio Urías decided to change things up on Sunday, and pitched the longest outing of his career, helping the Dodgers to a series win, 4-2 over the Rockies on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field.
Urías was a brilliant, strike-throwing machine on Sunday, throwing 59 of his 79 pitches for strikes, striking out six while walking one. He pitched seven innings for the first time in his career, only removed after a leadoff infield single by Ryan McMahon in the eighth, just the fourth Rockie to reach base against Urías.
“He attacked the zone. He was going after them with his heater. His changeup was filthy today, that’s the best I’ve ever seen his changeup,” catcher Will Smith told Kirsten Watson on SportsNet LA. “He was constantly ahead in counts, and putting guys away with two strikes.”
Jomboy does his thing on McKinstry's HR on Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptl7DB5PsT0
Oh nice. I wonder if he did one for the Bellinger HR/Single?
What do you consider the first home run of the year for the Dodgers?
A) Bellinger (actually over the fence, but negated by rule).
B) McKinstry (counts as home run but not actually over the fence).
C) Smith (actually over the fence and nothing by rule negated it)
Going to have to say McKinstry. It actually would've been over the fence and Tapia made a hell of a play to bring it back. Actually he also made a hell of a play on Bellinger's as well, just popped out instead of back in.
McKinstry's was not a little league inside the park HR.
Yes he did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpR3Z6lRi84
Former Raider gets his jaw broken in a fight at Walmart. Likewise, you should be wary of a guy who volunteers to fight a 6'7" 300+ pound guy.
https://twitter.com/woodwardsports/status/1378884124132409347
That was a surprisingly one-sided fight.
CAL
Go Bears!
Gonzaga vs UCLA holy shit game of the year for 2021. UCLA gonna be a problem for the nation if everyone decides to come back (only Juzang and Jaquez in my opinion have the ability to go to the NBA right now).
National Championship predictions Gonzaga vs Baylor: who wins and why
I've been rolling with the zags and will die on that hill. Also a good spot for Matt Bradley to go to would be Oklahoma, since they lost their man in Austin Reaves along with a new coach in Porter Moser who will be damned if they don't make the tournament under his great coaching ability.
Definitely up there among the greatest college basketball games ever. The whole time I though UCLA was eventually going to fade away and stop making tough shots, but no . . . the whole team was nailing turnaround jumpers and tough floaters all night.
Juzang may have played himself right out of the conference. (As in into the Association.)
Other than having to deal with them next year, I'd like to see them all come back. With what else they have, I think they have a chance to be another generational program that would be a lot of fun to watch.
"Juzang and Jaquez" getting flashbacks of the Rodgers bros from OSU.
Was an awesome game - instant classic. When UC L.A. tied it, I assumed they would win in the second overtime - what a shocker of an ending.
That charge that Timme took was ballsy, especially with 4 fouls. Though he had enough time to eat a sandwich after getting set before Juzang got to him.
Juzang needed to pull up in the lane there...that’s his game.
Gonzaga was the first team I filled out in my bracket and had them winning it all.
I have Gonzaga over Baylor because I think Timme will feast on Baylor inside. If Gonzaga had him instead of Karnowski back in 2017 they probably would've beaten UNC. They abused Karnowski because he was slow. I only watched the last few minutes + OT of the game and Timme's footwork is really good.
Way to go out on a limb there w/ Zags over Baylor! ;-) ;-)
i had the same. On the plus side, in the massive pay pool I do, I went for 3393rd (out of 3871 total) place to 752nd place with their final 4 wins. If the Zags win, I should get in the top 4-500. Not bad considering my absolutely miserable picking this year
Unfortunately so did the 2 people in front of me in the pool. I'd say 75% of the brackets had Zags winning.
Ours too...I went Baylor over Bama...had a shot if UCLA had won...
Zags are so tough...
I usually never have any sympathy for UCLA fans, but that was a devastating way to go out. What a game.
Yeah it was a thrilling game down to the wire. Looked like a 2nd OT but alas it didn't happen.
I have no sympathy for UCLA. At all. A little for their fans.
Yeah, there are good folks who are UCLA hoops fans and that had to be a kick in the ass. At an institutional level, it was HI-larious.