Well, I felt it at my parents' place, my friends in Sacramento felt it, I see someone in LA tweeting that she felt it, but somehow my boss in Berkeley didn't feel it...
There are multiple conflagrations and multi-agency fires burning in Oregon, and its 2-3 weeks before we even begin to approach the historic peak of fire season. You would think climate change, fuels/forest/rangeland management, and increased initial attack capacity might actually matter.
Shameless self-promotion: I wrote a short story under a pen name, and it's been accepted for a romance anthology!
The other anthologies from this small, indie publisher have eventually been available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in print (on Amazon, and I was able to find them on the Books Inc website, too), but right now, the pre-order link is only for Kindle.
Some of the other stories in the anthology get quite steamy. Mine isn't THAT steamy in the grand scheme of things, but it can still be weird to read a sex scene that your friend wrote. (If we're enemies, go for it!) So, in case this is your cup of tea: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B098B8XG9Q
Not that much really. You can donate to the museum/aquarium and visit it. If you can more, you can keep them in a little aquariums anywhere, but they don't look very happy, especially the big fish.
Also, although you can give presents to your friends, you can't give or receive fish. My daughter wanted to give me a whale shark but couldn't.
The 3d animated renderings of the fish is pretty decent.
The snack bar at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia or the Pere Lachaise Metro stop in Paris (actually we were ACROSS the metro tracks and we saw someone we knew headed the other direction. This was pre cell phones, so we had to exit out and meet above ground to meet-up)
Not so much unusual as recent, but I ran into Rob twice at Berkeley Bowl recently. One was far more awkward because we were masked, so I was staring at him for awhile to make sure it was him before saying something.
New Zealand woman names her kids Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer. I am disappointed that Metallica's middle name isn't "Master of Puppets" rather than "And Justice for All". Not joking. (twitter thread, but article behind paywall)
My team at work. I have 7 direct reports and soon to have an 8th added incrementally. I recently transferred 1 guy because I felt I could significantly upgrade the talent at the position. Another just resigned this week, 3 weeks after I promoted her because "she wants to focus on her studies". Likely getting another resignation because of a job offer we cant match. Likely firing another guy because he has sucked so massively the last month, my life has been hell cleaning up his messes. Add in the new headcount and I am looking at having 3 people in an 8 person staff and even if full, we still can only do 2/3rds of the work company policy suggests we should be doing. Yay me.
In 1981, Steve Jackson Games - the creator of games like Munchkin, CarWars, GURPS, Illuminati, and Tribes - published the rules for the live-action game called "Killer: The Game of Assassination". It had a rule set that included points for methods of "killing" your target with traps, projectiles, and other methods. This spread to college campuses, including in California. The pinnacle of this culture culminated in the 1985 international smash movie "Gotcha!" starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino.
Gotcha had earned many many hundreds of dollars in the theaters and nearly had good reviews. The Assassin game was then overtaken less than a year later by Worlds of Wonder's "Lazer Tag" toy, which didn't require any explanation of rules or subjectivity in whether you were killed.
I really enjoyed Gotcha, and Linda Fiorentino was sure busy ‘85 (Vision Quest & After Hours as well). Gotcha is yet another film that doesn’t get made today...can’t go around shooting people in public with pellet guns nowadays.
Lithium batteries are in everything. and start fires when the thing gets damaged (such as when thrown away). Please take the batteries out of everything you throw in the trash and dispose of them separately (not in the trash).
Saw what appeared to be a house fire this morning on my way to Topanga on a small road above the PCH in the Palisades. Lots of smoke, but it looked like there were several engines on the scene. Gotta be scary for those residents who already had to evacuate in May for the Palisades brush/arson fire
Well Dykes recruited 5* #1 WR in the country to Cal a few years ago. He now plays for Georgia, oh wait Auburn. However he never got us any 4* DBs although many of his DBs turned out to be NFL talent.
he has a rising superstar doing his recruiting who will get poached in pretty short order I suspect. Ra'Shaad Samples. 26 years old and already named Assistant Head Coach in order to pay and hold on to him. Dude is the son of a prominent Dallas area high school coach and is dominating the Dallas recruiting scene currently
I have just made a grilled (ham and) cheese and used mayo instead of butter on the outside and friends, I am NEVER going back. It is amazing. Tangy, crispy, you would never know it's mayo and not butter except that it kicks up the excellence a notch.
Great idea. I've made garlic confit - which creates awesome slow-roasted garlic flavored oil, which is far easier to cook with than raw garlic (which burns easily and turns acrid during oven roasting or frying). Now I'm trying to expand that through other vegetables, essentially trying to replicate the cold dishes that I saw in Rome - red peppers/onions, artichoke hearts, zucchini, eggplant, and other veggies. When I first saw them, the thought of eating something sitting in a pot of oil didn't appeal to me. I think this recipe is on to something - adding the anchovy - which essentially makes a bagna cauda base might be the extra umami that my dishes is missing. Everybody says they hate anchovies, but they all love the taste if you don't tell them it's in there.
Pfizer says its vaccine efficacy drops to 64% vs. Delta variant, using Israel Health Ministry data. Pfizer says this means a booster may be needed. Pfizer and BioNTech says that booster has already been developed and should begin trails next month in Germany.
Looks like I'm going to start wearing a mask out in public again as 64% is not good enough for me.
Still very effective in keeping you out of the hospital, but the unknown variable is the long-term damage done by Covid. So that's the stakes one is playing for.
The Chinese vaccines' efficacy levels are at about that percentage in terms of keeping people covid-free, BUT its quite good about preventing serious covid, i.e. needing hospitalization, which is really the point for the majority.
CDC website: Delta variant has gone from 3% to 30% of infections in 4 weeks (72% in the Corn Belt). And that last data point is 19 days old, so its probably a LOT higher percent.
I saw a number of things that pointed to the problems with the suit, and really made it clear that it was a fundraising idea, not serious legal questions to resolve.
1) both FB and Twitter clearly state in the TOU that all lawsuits be made in federal or state court in santa clara county or sf county (respectively).
2) the fundraising stated within an hour of the press conference.
3) the SC just last year ruled that private companies are not subject to first amendment claims.
I do hope that they let it drag on enough that we get a trump deposition. Do a live broadcast/PPV of it. make some real money.
It looks like Trump launched America First Policy Institute, which is now asking for money online. The small text on their website is so loosely worded that it's essentially a blank check.
Suck money out of the gullible with a righteous sounding name they have no interest in pursuing except as a charade to collect more money, taking advantage of the ignorant (partially) by choice.
Hurricanes get 5-year lease on only local arena that can house them. Canes were a rumored relocation threat if they couldn't hammer out a deal. Better luck next time Houston, Hartford, and essentially all of Canada.
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Lightning are back-to-back Stanley Cup champs -- and they did it in a nine-month span.
"This group, no matter what happens from here on out, this group is going to be etched in history forever, and that's pretty F'ing special," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. "I'm so proud of the guys. You can't soak it in yet. It's so fresh. It's so new. You don't even realize what's going to happen. We won the Stanley Cup, and we still have the Stanley Cup. That's just amazing."
Tampa Bay defeated the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to close out the series 4-1 on Wednesday at home, becoming the first team to repeat as champion since the 2016 and 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy won the Conn Smythe Trophy and recorded his fifth straight shutout in a series-clinching game.
With the Game 5 win, the Lightning improved to 15-0 immediately following a loss over the past two postseasons, the longest such streak in NHL history. Defeating Montreal is the 15th series win for the Lightning since 2015. In that span, no other team has won more than nine series.
What's interesting is Snell hasn't been very good in SD. Not going deep in games. Although he should've been kept in against 1, 2, and 3 in the lineup who he dominated.
Fans were barred from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, following a state of emergency issued on Thursday.
The ban was announced by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers, reducing the games to a made-for-TV event.
Although widely expected, the move marked a sharp turnabout from just weeks earlier, when Olympic organizers said they aimed to hold the games with limited spectators.
"It is regrettable that we are delivering the games in a very limited format, facing the spread of coronavirus infections," Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said Thursday after talks between government officials, Tokyo organizers and Olympic and Paralympic representatives.
It was the same as yesterday, and the week before that, and the fortnight before that.
The Oakland A’s did just enough to lose against the Houston Astros, this time by a 4-3 margin at Minute Main Park. The A’s put together some rallies but couldn’t score, they pitched great but still allowed a crooked number, and the Astros played terrible defense except for the one play they needed to make at the perfect moment by the player you both most and least expected. So, a typical Wednesday lately.
There are a dozen ways Oakland could have won this game, and all they needed was just one more thing to go right. They didn’t get dominated, with all the ingredients required for a victory, but every time they had the chance to take control they just passed it up. You could even change nothing about what happened except the sequencing and turn this into a better result.
Couldn't get the big hit. Since Pinder is injured now the A's will need to call up an infielder from LV, not that he was doing much with the bat anyways.
Baseball is a sport where you routinely take the good with the bad. You might win a series against a bad team (good), but you probably still lost a game in that series (bad). You might hit a home run (good), but you probably were retired more times than you hit safely (bad). You might have won a game (good) but a player might have been injured (bad).
You get the idea.
The San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Wednesday, slightly salvaging a three-game series that they lost the first two games of. There was more good than bad in the game, as is usually the case when you win. So when I highlight the bad in the game, it’s not to be a downer or to distract from the sweet mouthfeel of victory. It’s merely to remind you of the fun journey.
The Dodgers on Wednesday surpassed their offensive output of the first two games of the series, but their flaws were laid bare in a third consecutive loss to the Marlins, this one 9-6 in Miami.
Miami scored runs in seven of nine innings on Wednesday, the cracks of a taxed bullpen widening into gaping holes. Edwin Uceta was brought into a tie game in the ninth, and gave up a two-out, walk-off, three-run home run to Jesús Augilar, after Sandy Leon singled and Starling Marte was walked intentionally.
The Dodgers, who got a home run from Zach McKinstry in the top of the ninth to extend the game into the bottom of the frame, have scored in five of 28 innings in the series.
Just don't see him making the impact he did FR year at Cal, as he struggled v. SEC DBs. A move to the pass happy Big 12 (Oklahoma/Texas/Baylor) probably made more sense if he wants to make an NFL roster. Sure, there was plenty of competition in the Bulldogs WR room, but 42 rec in 2 years in Athens after 50 in Berkeley in '16 was underwhelming.
A very UC Berkeley start-up that mixes sourdough starter, weed, and chemical engineering in an attempt to gain production advantage in the legal marijuana industry.
Plenty of media outlets out there are basing too much of their ‘21 Cal forecasts on the BS, dogshi# pandemic mess of a ’20. I’m far from a sunshine pumper, but I see 7 wins.
I know Berkeleyside is quite anti-gown, but man, that article. Here's a way we can house 300 students - it's luxurious and obviously for rich people, despite the fact that it will cost the same as other dorms and dorm assignments are random - or here's six people that the University will work to re-home.
4.8 earthquake just east of Stockton.
https://twitter.com/CAquake/status/1413269688428032001
I was in the car and felt it! Lasted a while, rolling, no jolts in SF.
earthquake!
Where?
Well, I felt it at my parents' place, my friends in Sacramento felt it, I see someone in LA tweeting that she felt it, but somehow my boss in Berkeley didn't feel it...
I felt nothing.
Looks like Kennedy, Ca by Stockton. 4.8
There are multiple conflagrations and multi-agency fires burning in Oregon, and its 2-3 weeks before we even begin to approach the historic peak of fire season. You would think climate change, fuels/forest/rangeland management, and increased initial attack capacity might actually matter.
:(
Rack those forests....
RAKE
Reno ...
anyone have food recs in Reno?
we are there for a whole week starting Sun night. since we are staying at the Atlantis i think we’ll be stuck eating out a lot.
For breakfast, Peg' s Glorified Ham n Eggs. It's on South Sierra St. IMHO, the best breakfast restaurant on the planet.
Little Nugget, get the Awful Awful with the demi-monde.
the internet says ...
Awful Awful burger ends in downtown Reno as Nugget Diner closes because of COVID-19 economy
Dang, I'll pour out a 40 tonight - you missed a true experience.
Hang out with YWC, whose birthday it is today!
@Cugel: YWC is going to be in town this coming week. Can we peer pressure you into hosting a rooftop DBD? :D :D :D
Sure, what day?
Would Friday 7/16 or Saturday 7/17 work?
Either, I guess; Saturday would be warmer.
Panagea or GTFO
careful, Cugel may be having a rooftop DBD - YWC
happy bday YWC ...
Happy birthday YWC
Happy Birthday YWC. I guess both he and Newellbany need new jobs. Along with AB.
Happy birthday YWC
Shameless self-promotion: I wrote a short story under a pen name, and it's been accepted for a romance anthology!
The other anthologies from this small, indie publisher have eventually been available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in print (on Amazon, and I was able to find them on the Books Inc website, too), but right now, the pre-order link is only for Kindle.
Some of the other stories in the anthology get quite steamy. Mine isn't THAT steamy in the grand scheme of things, but it can still be weird to read a sex scene that your friend wrote. (If we're enemies, go for it!) So, in case this is your cup of tea: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B098B8XG9Q
Is this the work that I was supposed to read *checks calendar* six months ago? 😬
Congratulations and apologies!
Thank you, no worries, and no--that was my work in progress (and is still in progress), a modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
OK good because it's still on my to do list.
What kind of dinosaur is the protagonist? I feel like T Rexs and Velociraptors have been done to death
Actually, this might be relevant to your interests: the next Violet Gaze Press anthology is Monster Love. Deadline for submissions is August 12. Maybe you should send one in! https://twitter.com/violetgazepress/status/1412137541369745409
awwwww yeahhhhh "Manhandled by the Magyarasurus" here we come!
Definitely ichthyosaur
Speaking of that kind of thing, I caught a Coelacanth while playing Animal Crossing last week! Previously I'd caught a couple of oarfish.
Oh snap--time to visit each other's islands
what happens when you catch a fish in Animal Crossing?
Not that much really. You can donate to the museum/aquarium and visit it. If you can more, you can keep them in a little aquariums anywhere, but they don't look very happy, especially the big fish.
Also, although you can give presents to your friends, you can't give or receive fish. My daughter wanted to give me a whale shark but couldn't.
The 3d animated renderings of the fish is pretty decent.
This better not awaken something in me
How icky.
How can a sex scene not include hugging?
Is it a socially distanced, pandemic-era sex scene?
Gotta wear face shields
I told you it wasn't that steamy! Hahahahaha
Also, no real pen names...
So, glory holes?
Congrats—you're such an inspiration with all that you do
Thank you! That's very kind of you to say.
pqtm
Where is the most unusual place you've run into someone you know?
The snack bar at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia or the Pere Lachaise Metro stop in Paris (actually we were ACROSS the metro tracks and we saw someone we knew headed the other direction. This was pre cell phones, so we had to exit out and meet above ground to meet-up)
Not so much unusual as recent, but I ran into Rob twice at Berkeley Bowl recently. One was far more awkward because we were masked, so I was staring at him for awhile to make sure it was him before saying something.
I went to Easter Sunday church on Guam and ran into the brother of a girl I went out with for awhile.
An old work colleague in Cairo at the classic colonial British Shepheard's Hotel...
I ran into a guy I knew from graduate school at the bar at the Lido in Paris.
i keep running into DBD'ers at out-of-conference Cal road games ...
New Zealand woman names her kids Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer. I am disappointed that Metallica's middle name isn't "Master of Puppets" rather than "And Justice for All". Not joking. (twitter thread, but article behind paywall)
https://twitter.com/davidfarrier/status/1412862767988502531
Assassinations
I don't know too much about what's going on in Haiti, but it must be such a scary and stressful time for the people there.
My team at work. I have 7 direct reports and soon to have an 8th added incrementally. I recently transferred 1 guy because I felt I could significantly upgrade the talent at the position. Another just resigned this week, 3 weeks after I promoted her because "she wants to focus on her studies". Likely getting another resignation because of a job offer we cant match. Likely firing another guy because he has sucked so massively the last month, my life has been hell cleaning up his messes. Add in the new headcount and I am looking at having 3 people in an 8 person staff and even if full, we still can only do 2/3rds of the work company policy suggests we should be doing. Yay me.
FIRE EVERYONE
I am just about there. EVERYONE MUST GO
In 1981, Steve Jackson Games - the creator of games like Munchkin, CarWars, GURPS, Illuminati, and Tribes - published the rules for the live-action game called "Killer: The Game of Assassination". It had a rule set that included points for methods of "killing" your target with traps, projectiles, and other methods. This spread to college campuses, including in California. The pinnacle of this culture culminated in the 1985 international smash movie "Gotcha!" starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9oMGJDY-8
Gotcha had earned many many hundreds of dollars in the theaters and nearly had good reviews. The Assassin game was then overtaken less than a year later by Worlds of Wonder's "Lazer Tag" toy, which didn't require any explanation of rules or subjectivity in whether you were killed.
I really enjoyed Gotcha, and Linda Fiorentino was sure busy ‘85 (Vision Quest & After Hours as well). Gotcha is yet another film that doesn’t get made today...can’t go around shooting people in public with pellet guns nowadays.
That is a fun movie.
Anthony “Ware-jun” Edwards’ father was played by Moe Greene!
Fire
F.I.R.E.
Lithium batteries are in everything. and start fires when the thing gets damaged (such as when thrown away). Please take the batteries out of everything you throw in the trash and dispose of them separately (not in the trash).
Saw what appeared to be a house fire this morning on my way to Topanga on a small road above the PCH in the Palisades. Lots of smoke, but it looked like there were several engines on the scene. Gotta be scary for those residents who already had to evacuate in May for the Palisades brush/arson fire
after living in Orange County for 13 years, I had to evacuate from fire for the first time last year.
Fox! Wyking! Dykes! Buh!
FET, but Dykes is killing it in recruiting this week. Got a four-star WR, four-star DB, and a transfer from Oregon.
Well Dykes recruited 5* #1 WR in the country to Cal a few years ago. He now plays for Georgia, oh wait Auburn. However he never got us any 4* DBs although many of his DBs turned out to be NFL talent.
he has a rising superstar doing his recruiting who will get poached in pretty short order I suspect. Ra'Shaad Samples. 26 years old and already named Assistant Head Coach in order to pay and hold on to him. Dude is the son of a prominent Dallas area high school coach and is dominating the Dallas recruiting scene currently
That makes a lot more sense than just he knows his way around Texas.
Almaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr
Larry Scott
EVERYBODY
oh wow...no 1 just drove down to visit his friend doing research in Wawona.
DBD Test Kitchen
I have just made a grilled (ham and) cheese and used mayo instead of butter on the outside and friends, I am NEVER going back. It is amazing. Tangy, crispy, you would never know it's mayo and not butter except that it kicks up the excellence a notch.
I've been on this bandwagon for a few years!
I have had them that way, and I still maintain that mayo is not a good choice for eating.
Perhaps it's my Midwestern upbringing, but I love mayonnaise.
I am an almost native Angeleno and I also love mayonnaise
I'm going to try something similar to this eggplant confit after watching the video yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfNkimr8tM
Great idea. I've made garlic confit - which creates awesome slow-roasted garlic flavored oil, which is far easier to cook with than raw garlic (which burns easily and turns acrid during oven roasting or frying). Now I'm trying to expand that through other vegetables, essentially trying to replicate the cold dishes that I saw in Rome - red peppers/onions, artichoke hearts, zucchini, eggplant, and other veggies. When I first saw them, the thought of eating something sitting in a pot of oil didn't appeal to me. I think this recipe is on to something - adding the anchovy - which essentially makes a bagna cauda base might be the extra umami that my dishes is missing. Everybody says they hate anchovies, but they all love the taste if you don't tell them it's in there.
be careful about botulism!
Yummmm
DBD Av Club
Loki continues to kill it. Best MCU series (and I really liked the other two!)
Agreed, and awesome art direction.
Today in Covid 19
Uh oh.
Pfizer says its vaccine efficacy drops to 64% vs. Delta variant, using Israel Health Ministry data. Pfizer says this means a booster may be needed. Pfizer and BioNTech says that booster has already been developed and should begin trails next month in Germany.
Looks like I'm going to start wearing a mask out in public again as 64% is not good enough for me.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/08/health/pfizer-waning-immunity-bn/index.html
Still very effective in keeping you out of the hospital, but the unknown variable is the long-term damage done by Covid. So that's the stakes one is playing for.
The Chinese vaccines' efficacy levels are at about that percentage in terms of keeping people covid-free, BUT its quite good about preventing serious covid, i.e. needing hospitalization, which is really the point for the majority.
CDC website: Delta variant has gone from 3% to 30% of infections in 4 weeks (72% in the Corn Belt). And that last data point is 19 days old, so its probably a LOT higher percent.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
Report: Delta variant has less instances of loss of smell/taste and presents more like the common cold.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/delta-variant-symptoms-similar-common-cold-flu/275-3d09fdb9-d3a8-427c-a7b6-baa59d27b628
Got a text from a friend in India. Over 6 weeks starting in April, 20% of his company caught Covid, of which 2% died. Yeesh.
Things going in the wrong direction now, cases up nationally. Thanks, Republicans.
Our Crumbling Democracy
Trump announces class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook, asks for donors to pony up
https://www.politico.com/video/2021/07/07/trump-announces-class-action-suit-against-twitter-and-facebook-290766
The Ben Garrison cartoon shows that Ben Garrison is still one of the dumber people in the world (but he can draw editorial cartoons!)
https://twitter.com/DeathMetalV/status/1413190705900662786?s=20
I saw a number of things that pointed to the problems with the suit, and really made it clear that it was a fundraising idea, not serious legal questions to resolve.
1) both FB and Twitter clearly state in the TOU that all lawsuits be made in federal or state court in santa clara county or sf county (respectively).
2) the fundraising stated within an hour of the press conference.
3) the SC just last year ruled that private companies are not subject to first amendment claims.
I do hope that they let it drag on enough that we get a trump deposition. Do a live broadcast/PPV of it. make some real money.
In reality, it's not so much a lawsuit as it is another grift.
https://i.imgur.com/RG0BS1U.gif
It looks like Trump launched America First Policy Institute, which is now asking for money online. The small text on their website is so loosely worded that it's essentially a blank check.
Suck money out of the gullible with a righteous sounding name they have no interest in pursuing except as a charade to collect more money, taking advantage of the ignorant (partially) by choice.
Anything for a buck.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-service-charges/2021/07/07/7f88043a-df2e-11eb-b507-697762d090dd_story.html
Pro
A's beat the Stros today 2-1
thank goodness
Diekman with the save.
Keenan Allen is a national treasure.
https://twitter.com/BenRossTweets/status/1413207048729202688
Hurricanes get 5-year lease on only local arena that can house them. Canes were a rumored relocation threat if they couldn't hammer out a deal. Better luck next time Houston, Hartford, and essentially all of Canada.
https://twitter.com/Canes/status/1413151935767617552
Tampa Bay Lightning close out Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 to win second straight Stanley Cup
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/31780078/tampa-bay-lightning-close-montreal-canadiens-game-5-win-second-straight-stanley-cup
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Lightning are back-to-back Stanley Cup champs -- and they did it in a nine-month span.
"This group, no matter what happens from here on out, this group is going to be etched in history forever, and that's pretty F'ing special," Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. "I'm so proud of the guys. You can't soak it in yet. It's so fresh. It's so new. You don't even realize what's going to happen. We won the Stanley Cup, and we still have the Stanley Cup. That's just amazing."
Tampa Bay defeated the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to close out the series 4-1 on Wednesday at home, becoming the first team to repeat as champion since the 2016 and 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy won the Conn Smythe Trophy and recorded his fifth straight shutout in a series-clinching game.
With the Game 5 win, the Lightning improved to 15-0 immediately following a loss over the past two postseasons, the longest such streak in NHL history. Defeating Montreal is the 15th series win for the Lightning since 2015. In that span, no other team has won more than nine series.
Seen on Twitter: When did Tampa become the new Boston? 2 Stanley Cups, a Super Bowl title, and a World Series appearance in just over a year. Amazing.
What's interesting is Snell hasn't been very good in SD. Not going deep in games. Although he should've been kept in against 1, 2, and 3 in the lineup who he dominated.
Spectators barred from Tokyo Olympics venues amid Japan's COVID-19 state of emergency
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31782801/spectators-barred-tokyo-olympics-venues-amid-japan-covid-19-state-emergency
Fans were barred from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, following a state of emergency issued on Thursday.
The ban was announced by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers, reducing the games to a made-for-TV event.
Although widely expected, the move marked a sharp turnabout from just weeks earlier, when Olympic organizers said they aimed to hold the games with limited spectators.
"It is regrettable that we are delivering the games in a very limited format, facing the spread of coronavirus infections," Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said Thursday after talks between government officials, Tokyo organizers and Olympic and Paralympic representatives.
This is perfectly on brand for Japan. Invest billions into something and get zero in return.
Is that fair? How could they predict the pandemic?
something something all asians look same so japan created covid something something
too early for that Cal-Arizona Hail Mary game
What about '90 Cal-USC when Robbie Keen (I think) kicked the ground instead of the ball on the game winning FG attempt...
I guess technically this shouldn't be under Pro
Well, partly. Many Olympians are professionals.
Game #88: A’s lose again
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/7/7/22567976/oakland-as-game-88-houston-astros-score-result
It was the same as yesterday, and the week before that, and the fortnight before that.
The Oakland A’s did just enough to lose against the Houston Astros, this time by a 4-3 margin at Minute Main Park. The A’s put together some rallies but couldn’t score, they pitched great but still allowed a crooked number, and the Astros played terrible defense except for the one play they needed to make at the perfect moment by the player you both most and least expected. So, a typical Wednesday lately.
There are a dozen ways Oakland could have won this game, and all they needed was just one more thing to go right. They didn’t get dominated, with all the ingredients required for a victory, but every time they had the chance to take control they just passed it up. You could even change nothing about what happened except the sequencing and turn this into a better result.
So many runners stranded...
Couldn't get the big hit. Since Pinder is injured now the A's will need to call up an infielder from LV, not that he was doing much with the bat anyways.
Giants play solid baseball, salvage series
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/7/7/22567872/san-francisco-giants-cardinals-darin-ruf-alex-wood
Baseball is a sport where you routinely take the good with the bad. You might win a series against a bad team (good), but you probably still lost a game in that series (bad). You might hit a home run (good), but you probably were retired more times than you hit safely (bad). You might have won a game (good) but a player might have been injured (bad).
You get the idea.
The San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Wednesday, slightly salvaging a three-game series that they lost the first two games of. There was more good than bad in the game, as is usually the case when you win. So when I highlight the bad in the game, it’s not to be a downer or to distract from the sweet mouthfeel of victory. It’s merely to remind you of the fun journey.
Pretty chippy for a guy whose MLB career is 0-8, 5.21 ERA, and 1.51 WHIP over 16 career starts.
https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1412964702393667587
Dodgers bullpen dam breaks in 3rd straight loss to the Marlins
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/7/7/22567696/dodgers-taxed-bullpen-game-home-runs-marlins-recap
The Dodgers on Wednesday surpassed their offensive output of the first two games of the series, but their flaws were laid bare in a third consecutive loss to the Marlins, this one 9-6 in Miami.
Miami scored runs in seven of nine innings on Wednesday, the cracks of a taxed bullpen widening into gaping holes. Edwin Uceta was brought into a tie game in the ninth, and gave up a two-out, walk-off, three-run home run to Jesús Augilar, after Sandy Leon singled and Starling Marte was walked intentionally.
The Dodgers, who got a home run from Zach McKinstry in the top of the ninth to extend the game into the bottom of the frame, have scored in five of 28 innings in the series.
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan upset Rams beat him out for Matthew Stafford: 'That was frustrating'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-coach-kyle-shanahan-upset-rams-beat-him-out-for-matthew-stafford-that-was-frustrating/
Other college
D-Rob transfers to one of UGA's mortal enemies.
https://twitter.com/d_rob4/status/1413166678318501894
Just don't see him making the impact he did FR year at Cal, as he struggled v. SEC DBs. A move to the pass happy Big 12 (Oklahoma/Texas/Baylor) probably made more sense if he wants to make an NFL roster. Sure, there was plenty of competition in the Bulldogs WR room, but 42 rec in 2 years in Athens after 50 in Berkeley in '16 was underwhelming.
I don't think the change of scenery will make much of a difference.
Cal
A very UC Berkeley start-up that mixes sourdough starter, weed, and chemical engineering in an attempt to gain production advantage in the legal marijuana industry.
https://www.dailycal.org/2021/07/07/berkeley-based-startup-engineers-yeast-to-produce-rare-cannabinoids/
Go Bears!!!
Odd of Pac-12 teams becoming Bowl eligible per FPI. Imma throw hands at you, ESPN.
https://twitter.com/SportsPac12/status/1413212916690522114
Plenty of media outlets out there are basing too much of their ‘21 Cal forecasts on the BS, dogshi# pandemic mess of a ’20. I’m far from a sunshine pumper, but I see 7 wins.
Swanky new dorm planned.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/07/berkeley-new-dorm-helen-diller-safier-donation
I know Berkeleyside is quite anti-gown, but man, that article. Here's a way we can house 300 students - it's luxurious and obviously for rich people, despite the fact that it will cost the same as other dorms and dorm assignments are random - or here's six people that the University will work to re-home.
Counter-point: Berkeley gonna Berkeley
https://twitter.com/dailycal/status/1412969690297733121
This happens every time the university wants to build anything. Just how it is there.
No shit, the world should revolve around the desires of 6 tenants. Berkeley is such a joke.