More revealed about Ed Orgeron. He wasn't just in charge of LSU's football team when Title IX violations allegedly happened, he created a shell company to reportedly try to suppress rape, sexual assault, and domestic abuse cases brought against his star player. As a result, he's getting RICO'd.
Clay Helton at 25? Mario Cristobal at 16? Those both seem very generous. The teams have done reasonably well under their guidance, but both could do much, much better based on their talent levels.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Mississippi State had the crowd. Vanderbilt had a big lead and Jack Leiter on the mound, and that was plenty Monday night.
The Commodores rode a seven-run first inning to an 8-2 victory in Game 1 of the College World Series finals to move within a win of a second straight national championship.
Fans in Mississippi State maroon overwhelmingly outnumbered Commodores supporters in the crowd of 24,052, many showing up early for tailgating and ringing cowbells in the parking lots.
Vandy chased the MSU starter after just 2 outs. Actually he did it to himself. 2 walks, 2 HBP, 1 dribbler in the 5.5 hole, and 1 oppo hit just over the 1B glove for 4 runs. He got chased, another reliever came in, and gave up a 3 run HR. 7 runs in the 1st by Vandy.
The MSU starter has started 2 games in the CWS and gotten 4 total outs. He's the first starter in the CWS finals to not complete an inning.
Vandy might throw a freshman that is still 17 today. He reclassified so he could play this spring. Could you imagine starting a potential clinching game as a 17 year old?
If you're butter says "sweet cream" butter, that's a nearly meaningless marketing term because standard American butter is not fermented/cultured - hence, "sweet cream".
On I-75 just North of Cincinnati, there is a church with a styrofoam (steel frame) Jesus in the front if the church. It was struck by lightning and burned sometime around 2010.
Black, like my soul. At work people bring in all manner of different things. Starbucks, Peet's Major D, Peerless, whatever the costco stuff is called, etc.
I am still fairly new to coffee (finally caved in the last 5 years and got addicted to coffee after all the work trips to Europe), particularly brewing at home, but I just noticed that Peet's Major D instruction on the bag suggests "cold brew". So I finally tried course ground the beans and soak them in water for a day before filtering. Honestly, I am not sure I am doing it correctly and if the blandish taste is due to the wrong coffee to water ratio or not enough "brewing".
I've found that you need significantly more ground coffee for cold brewing than you might think. The best I made last summer was probably 2x the grounds for hot brewing.
I understand the need/benefit to reopen as quickly as possible, but the unwillingness to wear masks never made much sense to me. It's such a low investment for people to slow down the spread of the disease and the rise of its mutations. I can't tell whether that benefit is just not clearly communicated to the public or if the general public just lack the basic biology knowledge to comprehend it.
a substantial portion of the population think masks don't work because the virus is smaller than the holes in the weave, because they don't get that the virus has to be _on_ something in order to get transported. Or they think they'll suffocate. Or some other damn fool idea.
NY GOP held county-level straw poll for governor, which funnels money and focus to the winner. Lee Zeldin got 85% of poll, Rob Astorino got 5%, 10% abstained. Andrew Giuliani got nada.
Danny Brown, the former president of AGrowStar, confirmed negotiations began in late 2015. But Brown said ADM wanted $4 million for the plant — 16 times what Perdue’s company ultimately paid for it.
The timing of the sale just as Perdue was about to become the most powerful man in U.S. agriculture raises legal and ethics concerns, from the narrow question of whether the secretary followed federal financial disclosure requirements to whether the transaction could have been an attempt to influence an incoming government official, in violation of bribery statutes, ethics lawyers say.
"When the Estill plant closed, local soy prices fell. That meant ADM, one of the biggest players in soy processing, could purchase beans at a lower cost.
F9 - I didn't like it, but I seem to be in the minority. I got taken way out of the movie by 3 unbelievable things - I know, it's F&F so it should be expected, but it was just too much
Either F9 or Top Gun will be the first movie I'll watch in a theater post-covid. Most likely Top Gun. I'll probably just end up watching F9 using other methods.
Switzerland scores 2 goals in the final 10 minutes to pull even with France 3-3 and force extra time. After a penalty shooting featuring 9 consecutive makes, France misses its final shot and gives Switzerland the victory.
This really felt like the game where the Suns would put the final nail in the coffin, but the Clippers just kept making shots. And now they have a chance.
After last night's home plate club seat (thanks to his wife's company) my friend's friend has only his regular third deck behind first base ticket to give away for tonight. I guess beggars can't be choosers when it comes to free tickets.
I really haven't been following much of the hockey playoffs. I am surprised that the Canadiens have made it this far since they are one of the last teams to make the playoffs. Then again, it's long overdue for a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup again (I think it dates back to the Canadiens in the early 90s).
The weird NHL playoff format this year helped Canada to get a team in the finals. They pretty much grouped all the Canadian teams into one bracket, guaranteeing that one would reach the semifinals.
That's due to Covid. The Canadians teams played the regular season against themselves due to Canada not wanting people to cross the border. Which is why the Blue Jays played in Buffalo.
The San Francisco Giants had their opportunities to Beat LA. Believe you me, they had their opportunities. They damn near had their opportunities every single inning, and they failed to capitalize on them.
I was going to highlight one or two of their missed opportunities, but it’s Monday night. It’s Monday night and the Giants just lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s Monday night and the Giants just lost to the Dodgers and there are still four more days until Friday night.
This is no time for the truncated version. No one is ordering the abridged edition. Monday nights, when the weekend is beyond the horizon and your mouth is full with the acrid taste of Dodger victories and Trevor Bauer gesticulating towards the crowd like the unpopular guy in a band walking off stage thinking he’s the most popular, is a time to look in the mirror, point out everything you hate, and sit with it.
The game was a lot of fun to attend, though we missed the first inning HRs. Dodger dogs are unsurprisingly very mediocre, but it was great to be back at a live sporting event with a full crowd.
The Dodgers now get the Dodger Dogs from someone else. I think they terminated their Farmer Johns contract after 2019. Haven't read anything about the new Dodger dogs. Also you need to get the grilled ones not the boiled ones.
grilled ones are on the club level only (he said confidently with knowledge of last having attended a Dodger home game in 1995, but I went to about 30 that summer because I interned for the team)
The unspoken unpopular opinion among the Dodgers fanbase that is probably rather prevalent is that Dodger dogs are bad, bad, bad. Though, they did just change out the vendor from Farmer John to someone else.
By rule, the Dodgers and Giants played another close game, the sixth time in eight tries this season their game has been within two runs in the seventh inning or later. Baseball, by definition, is a team sport, but Monday night was all about the solos. Home runs accounted for all five runs in the series opener, with the Dodgers prevailing 3-2.
After allowing first-inning home runs in five straight games last week — one of the main drivers of the Dodgers’ four-game losing streak — the early power shoes were on the other foot on Monday. Mookie Betts and Max Muncy started the game with two home runs, giving the Dodgers a 2-0 lead just two batters into the bottom of the first.
They were the Dodgers’ first opening-frame home runs in nine games.
Non-Cal College
More revealed about Ed Orgeron. He wasn't just in charge of LSU's football team when Title IX violations allegedly happened, he created a shell company to reportedly try to suppress rape, sexual assault, and domestic abuse cases brought against his star player. As a result, he's getting RICO'd.
https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2021/06/28/lsu-football-coach-ed-orgeron-company-named-title-ix-lawsuit/5359541001/
Illinois has eight players recently leave the program as the transfer portal closes on July 1.
Sporting News ranks D1 coaches 1-130. Wilcox is #47.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/list/2021-ranking-college-football-coaches-1-130/aucm7nf38ieq12rwz0wbezasn/13
Clay Helton at 25? Mario Cristobal at 16? Those both seem very generous. The teams have done reasonably well under their guidance, but both could do much, much better based on their talent levels.
Vanderbilt uses 7-run first to down Mississippi State in Game 1 of College World Series
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/31729072/vanderbilt-uses-7-run-first-mississippi-state-game-1-college-world-series
OMAHA, Neb. -- Mississippi State had the crowd. Vanderbilt had a big lead and Jack Leiter on the mound, and that was plenty Monday night.
The Commodores rode a seven-run first inning to an 8-2 victory in Game 1 of the College World Series finals to move within a win of a second straight national championship.
Fans in Mississippi State maroon overwhelmingly outnumbered Commodores supporters in the crowd of 24,052, many showing up early for tailgating and ringing cowbells in the parking lots.
Vandy chased the MSU starter after just 2 outs. Actually he did it to himself. 2 walks, 2 HBP, 1 dribbler in the 5.5 hole, and 1 oppo hit just over the 1B glove for 4 runs. He got chased, another reliever came in, and gave up a 3 run HR. 7 runs in the 1st by Vandy.
The MSU starter has started 2 games in the CWS and gotten 4 total outs. He's the first starter in the CWS finals to not complete an inning.
That kid will not have fond memories of his first Omaha visit. The moral, as always, is throw strikes.
Vandy might throw a freshman that is still 17 today. He reclassified so he could play this spring. Could you imagine starting a potential clinching game as a 17 year old?
No, I absolutely can not imagine being on the hill...I was 17 when I went to Omaha to watch Cal in '92 and found it overwhelming, in a good way.
Cream
Eric Clapton or Prince?
well if it's white, Clapton probably likes it
Butter
If you're butter says "sweet cream" butter, that's a nearly meaningless marketing term because standard American butter is not fermented/cultured - hence, "sweet cream".
I thought that just meant it wasn't salted.
I had wondered why we had some butter from Vermont which was specifically labeled "fermented," and now I know.
I love a fermented butter
I work in the dairy industry. Calves are really cute. They are such a curious animal.
yes please.
Big Butter Jesus. Sweet Cream Jesus.
On I-75 just North of Cincinnati, there is a church with a styrofoam (steel frame) Jesus in the front if the church. It was struck by lightning and burned sometime around 2010.
Heywood Banks wrote a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mf2u9VWAhM&ab_channel=TheBOB%26TOMShow
Land O Lakes
Coffee
Counter Culture medium roast coffee, freshly ground in a better coffee maker w/ a splash of half & half (or a mini-moo).
i usually buy Big Trouble if i can find it
or Stumptown - Hairbender
or Grumpy - Heartbreaker ...
then i badly sing some Pat Benatar themed song ...
Black. A little bit of sweetener if it's standard coffee. If it's an espresso, black and no sweetener.
"I like my sugar with coffee and cream!" - the King Ad-Rock
Tea, thank you.
That will work.
Black, like my soul. At work people bring in all manner of different things. Starbucks, Peet's Major D, Peerless, whatever the costco stuff is called, etc.
Black, strong, 2 - 3 cups.
morning espresso ritual ...
- grind beans and listen/watch the grinding (some Zen-like moment to start the day)
- make espresso(s) until i am happy with the quality, it takes usually 2-3 each morning because changing weather/humidity conditions
- steam milk and make a cortado
- repeat at least once
- watch bike race
i have been enjoying Jittery Joe's Tour de Force Espresso lately
https://jitteryjoes.com/collections/espresso/products/tour-de-force-espresso?variant=41287290189
Mocha Joe's!
Major D's, black.
I buy my beans whole, grind 'em at home. 20 grams on weekdays, 30 grams on weekends. Brewed using pour over method.
I am still fairly new to coffee (finally caved in the last 5 years and got addicted to coffee after all the work trips to Europe), particularly brewing at home, but I just noticed that Peet's Major D instruction on the bag suggests "cold brew". So I finally tried course ground the beans and soak them in water for a day before filtering. Honestly, I am not sure I am doing it correctly and if the blandish taste is due to the wrong coffee to water ratio or not enough "brewing".
I've found that you need significantly more ground coffee for cold brewing than you might think. The best I made last summer was probably 2x the grounds for hot brewing.
Thanks! I'll try that next time. I recall reading something along that line for brewing iced tea as well.
Major D's for me, too, only from a Keurig. 2 sugars, one Mini-Moo.
little bit of milk and sugar - I tend to buy medium espresso roasts for a stronger flavor without having to resort to dark roasts.
little bit of milk and sugar - I tend to buy medium espresso roasts for a stronger flavor without having to resort to dark roasts.
very very rarely. I usually do a Latte and add sugar in the raw or a frappuccino type drink. I don't think caffeine affects me too much.
Peet's
perhaps the coffee is still the same, but i liked Peets better when it was a small local brand and they had hard to find stuff.
nowadays w/ all the great locally roasted coffee i usually end up with that.
my favorite Peet's location is the one across from the Claremont Hotel. i dont think it is the original, but it has been there since i was kid.
The one on Vine street is the original. The 2nd one is on Santa Cruz Ave in Menlo Park (used to go to that one all the time).
“I still go to Peet’s/just not the one at the corner of Walnut and Vine Streets”
It's not the one on Donghu Lu off of Huaihai Lu in Shanghai?
The original is in North Berkeley, one block off of Shattuck, IIRC
Today in Covid 19
LA County recommends masks again indoors regardless of vaccine status as Delta variant spreads
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-06-29/la-county-recommends-masks-for-all-when-indoors-as-delta-variant-spreads
I understand the need/benefit to reopen as quickly as possible, but the unwillingness to wear masks never made much sense to me. It's such a low investment for people to slow down the spread of the disease and the rise of its mutations. I can't tell whether that benefit is just not clearly communicated to the public or if the general public just lack the basic biology knowledge to comprehend it.
a substantial portion of the population think masks don't work because the virus is smaller than the holes in the weave, because they don't get that the virus has to be _on_ something in order to get transported. Or they think they'll suffocate. Or some other damn fool idea.
So far the Bay Area still seems insulated from Delta-related spikes. Hopefully it stays that way.
Our Crumbling Democracy
NY GOP held county-level straw poll for governor, which funnels money and focus to the winner. Lee Zeldin got 85% of poll, Rob Astorino got 5%, 10% abstained. Andrew Giuliani got nada.
https://www.syracuse.com/state/2021/06/lee-zeldin-easily-wins-republican-straw-poll-on-ny-governors-race.html
Maricopa County forced to buy new voting machines because Cyber Ninjas took custody of them.
https://twitter.com/maricopacounty/status/1409644786588418054
some people would call that theft but I suppose, rather like asset forfeiture, it's not theft if someone else gave you permission take them
Nothing to see here, move along:
Danny Brown, the former president of AGrowStar, confirmed negotiations began in late 2015. But Brown said ADM wanted $4 million for the plant — 16 times what Perdue’s company ultimately paid for it.
The timing of the sale just as Perdue was about to become the most powerful man in U.S. agriculture raises legal and ethics concerns, from the narrow question of whether the secretary followed federal financial disclosure requirements to whether the transaction could have been an attempt to influence an incoming government official, in violation of bribery statutes, ethics lawyers say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/sonny-perdue-adm-land-deal
100% if not a direct bribe, and opportunity to curry favor in violation of the rules.
The whole story is really interesting, and distressing.
"When the Estill plant closed, local soy prices fell. That meant ADM, one of the biggest players in soy processing, could purchase beans at a lower cost.
“They bought the market,” Hankey said."
DBD Crossfit Box
today’s bike ride …
1 - it was already super hot at 600a.
2 - i thought i would go a little longer since i started early
3 - then my cable for rear shifter broke
4 - rode home in “single speed” mode although i could shift the front little/big ring
DBD Test Kitchen
DBD AV Club
Too Hot To Handle Season 2
watched 20 min of this w/ my 17 yr old daughter and her friends. it is shockingly bad and completely predictable.
probably the most interesting part was listening to the teenage commentary.
teenagers are very good at getting to the crux of why something sucks
F9 - I didn't like it, but I seem to be in the minority. I got taken way out of the movie by 3 unbelievable things - I know, it's F&F so it should be expected, but it was just too much
People on twitter definitely seem to have Strong Opinions about F9
FTFY
People on twitter definitely seem to have Strong Opinions <strikeout>about F9</strikeout>
okay well strong enough that I noticed as someone who is not attuned to the franchise
Either F9 or Top Gun will be the first movie I'll watch in a theater post-covid. Most likely Top Gun. I'll probably just end up watching F9 using other methods.
is there a date for Top Gun?
I thought it was either Nov or Dec.
Nov 19th.
Pro
Switzerland scores 2 goals in the final 10 minutes to pull even with France 3-3 and force extra time. After a penalty shooting featuring 9 consecutive makes, France misses its final shot and gives Switzerland the victory.
https://twitter.com/EURO2020/status/1409631320901394438
Crazy. I really thought France had this one wrapped up. There's been a lot of instances of teams letting big leads go in this tournament.
that whole game was WILD. I was stunned that Mbappe missed his penalty shot
Down 1-3, Croatia scores 2 goals in the closing minutes to force extra time. Spain scores two more to advance to the quarterfinals.
https://twitter.com/EURO2020/status/1409581263892135940
Paul George scores 30 in the second half to help the Clippers stave off elimination once again
https://twitter.com/LAClippers/status/1409721313875304470
This really felt like the game where the Suns would put the final nail in the coffin, but the Clippers just kept making shots. And now they have a chance.
The Clippers about to be eliminated are the most powerful team in basketeball
hahahaha
Cavendish gets his first win at the Tour in five years. https://cyclingtips.com/2021/06/all-mark-cavendish-needed-was-one-more-chance/
After last night's home plate club seat (thanks to his wife's company) my friend's friend has only his regular third deck behind first base ticket to give away for tonight. I guess beggars can't be choosers when it comes to free tickets.
England 2, Germany 0, 86 min.
@It's coming home@
😐
Not sure if anyone realized the Stanley Cup Finals are happening too. Tampa Bay took Game 1 from Montreal, 5-1.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/lightning-leave-canadiens-scratching-their-heads-after-game-1-of-stanley-cup-final-041917914.html
I really haven't been following much of the hockey playoffs. I am surprised that the Canadiens have made it this far since they are one of the last teams to make the playoffs. Then again, it's long overdue for a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup again (I think it dates back to the Canadiens in the early 90s).
The weird NHL playoff format this year helped Canada to get a team in the finals. They pretty much grouped all the Canadian teams into one bracket, guaranteeing that one would reach the semifinals.
That's due to Covid. The Canadians teams played the regular season against themselves due to Canada not wanting people to cross the border. Which is why the Blue Jays played in Buffalo.
I don’t recognize hockey as a sport. It might as well be curling.
A's beat the dreaded off-day.
Just 1.5 games behind the Astros as they were defeated by the Orioles.
For extra schadenfreude, it should be noted that these are the same Orioles that recently ended a 20-game road losing streak.
Thanks to my Blue Jays and that stupid Charlie Montoyo.
Giants waste every possible opportunity, do not beat LA
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/6/28/22555081/san-francisco-giants-dodgers-recap-brandon-crawford-trevor-bauer
The San Francisco Giants had their opportunities to Beat LA. Believe you me, they had their opportunities. They damn near had their opportunities every single inning, and they failed to capitalize on them.
I was going to highlight one or two of their missed opportunities, but it’s Monday night. It’s Monday night and the Giants just lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s Monday night and the Giants just lost to the Dodgers and there are still four more days until Friday night.
This is no time for the truncated version. No one is ordering the abridged edition. Monday nights, when the weekend is beyond the horizon and your mouth is full with the acrid taste of Dodger victories and Trevor Bauer gesticulating towards the crowd like the unpopular guy in a band walking off stage thinking he’s the most popular, is a time to look in the mirror, point out everything you hate, and sit with it.
The game was a lot of fun to attend, though we missed the first inning HRs. Dodger dogs are unsurprisingly very mediocre, but it was great to be back at a live sporting event with a full crowd.
The Dodgers now get the Dodger Dogs from someone else. I think they terminated their Farmer Johns contract after 2019. Haven't read anything about the new Dodger dogs. Also you need to get the grilled ones not the boiled ones.
grilled ones are on the club level only (he said confidently with knowledge of last having attended a Dodger home game in 1995, but I went to about 30 that summer because I interned for the team)
The unspoken unpopular opinion among the Dodgers fanbase that is probably rather prevalent is that Dodger dogs are bad, bad, bad. Though, they did just change out the vendor from Farmer John to someone else.
Guess I should've kept reading before responding...
That was frustrating. Baserunners all over the place and couldn't cash any of them in.
Dodgers win battle of solo home runs over Giants
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/6/28/22555092/dodgers-giants-solo-home-runs
By rule, the Dodgers and Giants played another close game, the sixth time in eight tries this season their game has been within two runs in the seventh inning or later. Baseball, by definition, is a team sport, but Monday night was all about the solos. Home runs accounted for all five runs in the series opener, with the Dodgers prevailing 3-2.
After allowing first-inning home runs in five straight games last week — one of the main drivers of the Dodgers’ four-game losing streak — the early power shoes were on the other foot on Monday. Mookie Betts and Max Muncy started the game with two home runs, giving the Dodgers a 2-0 lead just two batters into the bottom of the first.
They were the Dodgers’ first opening-frame home runs in nine games.
GBBR
Lions GM Brad Holmes: Ex-Cal QB Jared Goff Not Just a ‘Bridge Option’
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/goff-stafford-comparison
Other College
Cal
Go Bears!!!