This one is really tough. I'm guessing the state has to be a place with relatively few immigrants, collapsing industries driving outward migration, and poor health outcomes. WV has all three.
But states with fewer immigrants may be places where they accept refugees. I'm always surprised to find communities of languages I've never heard of in the middle of nowhere in the US
errybody moving to SLC I think. Its one of those spots that was growing already and with Covid, has seen a spike from California. A guy I work with just made that move for family/home ownership reasons
Its an already well established sizable community that also has room to expand outward. In a lot of areas, not much growth is possible due to lack of available space.
The Boise area is another similar to Salt Lake City, where you have a good sized community, providing a lot of infrastructure and such, but also a perimeter that has plenty of room to grow. And limited rainfall.
This goes to my theory that Idaho will flip Blue before Texas. Smaller population so a decent influx of Californians and Washingtonians moving their to work remote or just wanting to live their in general means it won’t take many to tip it Blue.
could be... I thought Texas was a lot closer to flipping because all the growth here is in minority populations that historically vote blue. But a lot of the Latino vote listened to Trump's rhetoric and voted red last time around. Instead of the traditional 75-85% blue vote in the RG Valley, it was 57-60%, a pretty flabbergasting situation. Combined with the historically suppressed minority vote here and it may take a little longer than I thought
That Latino vote and poor showing in the RGV was both surprising and concerning. Hopefully it is an anomaly and the Dems can get back to winning that vote by 75-85%
Edinburgh Castle stormed by people citing the Magna Carta and claiming that nobody can take away their FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. This in not a repost from the 13th century.
As noted in the article, the Magna Carta predates the Act of Union, and I suspect that none of the protestors are Norman barons, so I'm not sure they're quite on target here.
50 emails in the last 20 minutes because a handful of people responded to a message sent to a listserv with hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals. That prompted 20 "DON'T REPLY ALL" messages followed by squabbling about how replying all to tell people to stop replying all isn't productive. 8 more emails since I started writing this comment. Maybe I'll take an early lunch break...
I generally don't post political type of stuff on here but I feel that Afghanistan is just a major shitshow, nothing to gain and certainly a lot to lose. I saw someone on twitter say we poured out billions of dollars, tons of soldiers and civilians, and countless resources all for the country to fall in a week. I mean people reference the fall of Troy but man this was bad. Also while in principle I agree with helping refugees and trying to get them out, I see people on social media trying for donations to them while they are in Afghanistan where I'm just sitting there like you know damn well that money will not see the light of day over there.
I recommend Ben Anderson's 2013 documentary - "This is What Winning Looks Like". It shows what its like trying to be an advisor in Afghanistan. You cannot prop up a uneducated tribal medieval kleptocracy that has no money.
We are an empire. Not in terms of direct control of government as it used to exist, but in terms of where we have our military stationed around the world, yes.
Yes, but we get "welcomed" a lot because of how much power we have (militarily and culturally). It's a soft kind of empire, a more modern concoction than the older ones held by force, but still a kind of empire.
And if you've participated in the EDSBS Charity Bowl before, New American Pathways helps refugees after they've landed in the United States. Right now they're scrambling to set-up resources for Afghan refugees - but I'm sure they would not mind money to help with the intake and refugee assistance
Ya know, I can just kinda understand the whole hydroxychloroquine nonsense BEFORE the vaccines were available, people are desperate & dumb, but after the vaccines are available? This is just fucking insanity.
Look at FL, TX, LA, and MS. I looked at the demographics of those areas that had full ICUs. Everything is going to turn out all white... I mean right there.
I went through that red patch in PA yesterday, I was struck that when I stopped at Sheetz for gasoline and a coffee, I was the only person wearing a mask not on staff, and of the staff, only one had the mask over their nose. Not saying that's representative or even meaningful, just mildly interesting to me.
Yeah, this looks about right. I remember going to a City Council meeting with my Scout troop in the 2000s and finding a similar vibe.
I distinctly remember them discussing commemorating some random day to honor La Raza's human rights efforts and some idiot citizen vehemently objecting that La Raza is RACIST because it literally means THE RACE.
A small Texas school district has made facial coverings part of its dress code, in a bid to get around Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates.
The board of the Paris Independent School District, which has about 4,000 students, said in a statement Tuesday that the governor's order does not usurp its ability to manage schools.
"The Board believes the dress code can be used to mitigate communicable health issues, and therefore has amended the PISD dress code to protect our students and employees," the district said.
The measure — which read "For health reasons, masks are required for all employees and students to mitigate flu, cold, pandemic, and any other communicable diseases" — will be revisited at every monthly trustee meeting and could be changed later, The Paris News newspaper reported.
For the large population of southern blacks who moved to the Bay Area during and post-WW2 for jobs, there's not a huge spread of soul food or barbecue around the Bay Area. (I never got to try Ivan Rabb's mom's place)
Supposedly the granddaughter (?) of the Flint's owners is trying to reopen the store. Tried to purchase or lease the original location and couldn't. I think she's trying one of those ghost kitchens initially.
There's the original and the one I went to on the edge of Berkeley way down on Telegraph. Can't remember which one burned down and which was just closed.
UPDATE: Gov. Inslee announces that all school employees will need to be vaccinated - effectively telling Rolovich to get a jab or else. [MJ_eating_popcorn.gif]
Former 5-star and current Alabama freshman DB Ga'Quincy McKinstry's nickname is "Kool-Aid'. He got an NIL sponsorship from Kool-Aid brand drink. Meanwhile, Kool-Aid has temporarily changed its twitter handle in honor of this sponsorship.
I have no idea if the NIL is a good idea or not, or the end of college sports or not, but I love seeing these kinds of things. Seems like both athletes and brands are being way more creative for this.
It's a good idea for Alabama, Ohio State, Miami...the blue bloods of college football, who now don't have to secretly funnel $$$ to 5* kids through boosters...they can just put them on the payroll.
But Ga'Quincy isn't getting a NIL from Kool-Aid if he's playing at Syracuse.
I am of the opinion that NIL won't change much - the programs that have power and money will continue to - and those that do not will continue to not. Now, those identities may gradually shift - like when I was growing up the powers were Penn State, Miami, Notre Dame - but the rise of the SEC has been pretty total, except for Clemson.
There's a great episode of the Bomani Jones show where he talks to a bunch of college football writers about bagmen and how players were and were not getitng paid.
dropped my older daughter off yesterday. Hoping that the requirement to be vaccinated to return to campus will make it possible to have a less grim year than her freshman experience.
This seems like another Tennessee and Pruitt situation where the university is going to find a way to fire an underperforming coach without having to pay his buyout.
Jack Morris, the Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame pitcher-turned-TV analyst for Tigers games, was suspended indefinitely Wednesday by Bally Sports Detroit after using an accent often used to mock Asian people as Shohei Ohtani came to bat in Tuesday night’s game.
Matt Shepard, the play-by-play announcer on the telecast, asked Morris what strategy should be used for pitchers facing Ohtani, a pitching and hitting superstar from Japan who leads MLB with 39 home runs, as he came to bat in the sixth inning of the game against the Los Angeles Angels.
“Be very, very careful,” Morris replied, using pronunciations that many found offensive. In the ninth inning, Morris said on the telecast that he had not intended any offense.
The Oakland A’s lost their game on Tuesday, but that’s a distant secondary consideration after the health of one of their players.
A’s starter Chris Bassitt was hit in the head by a line drive in the 2nd inning and had to go to the hospital. Oakland went on to lose 9-0 to the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
There’s not much more to say. Chicago led off the bottom of the 2nd with a pair of singles, and then the next batter drilled a 100 mph liner that went straight back toward the mound and hit Bassitt on the right side of his face. He went down to the ground for a few minutes, then was helped up by the trainers into a cart and driven away for medical care.
Canha is kinda hurting the A's at the top of the lineup the last 20 games...poor at-bats...it's crucial that he start putting quality AB's up there the last 6 weeks.
For a while it looked like it would be a funny game. It looked like the San Francisco Giants hitters were going to record 27 outs without a run in between them and still cruise to nine-inning victory over the New York Mets.
That’s a rare thing to have happen.
It’s rare because it requires three rare things to happen, two of which are rarer when added together, like a unicorn that speaks seven languages.
The first thing that needs to happen is you need to score runs before recording an out.
The Giants did that. The did it by having LaMonte Wade Jr. lead off the first inning with a single, and for Tommy La Stella to follow it with a towering home run to right-center field.
Matt Beaty took advantage of only his second start of August with two hits, including the tie-breaking two-run double helped the Dodgers to yet another win over the Pirates. The 4-3 win for Los Angeles is their 15th straight over Pittsburgh.
Despite intermittent playing time, Beaty has navigated his way to hitting .267/.365/.383 with a 112 wRC+ on the season. His two-out, two-run double off Cody Pence broke a 2-2 tie, and gave Beaty six hits in his last 10 at-bats.
On the season, Beaty has more starts in the outfield (27) than at first base (16), where he started on Tuesday. But since the July 22 arrival of Billy McKinney — who manager Dave Roberts said is “a couple of grades better than anyone else we could put out there” in the outfield — five of Beaty’s seven starts have come at first base.
In the most puzzling thing I've ever seen in a NASCAR race ever, a crash takes out 10 cars because.... the curb on the track breaks....and to show off my luck (much like Cal) my driver was running 4th out of 40th and was the first car to have his car shattered by the curb, just a ton of distaste for me. Listen to the clip of Dale Earnhardt Jr as he commentates the crash and urgency in inflection that arises along with pit reporter Dave Burns (who reports on what my driver William Byron said about the crash as he sat there in the grass).
At first I thought they were going to dislodge the yellow curb on the inside of the first segment of the chicane. But an entire section of curbing lining the edge of the track? I've never seen that before...
@Thankfully the infrastructure bill should make this a thing of the past@
It was a problem Saturday for the Indy cars, became a bigger issue for the Xinity series, and then became an even bigger issue Sunday. The false curb and especially the perpendicular one that became a launching ramp should never have been there to begin with.
I got invited to a last minute halloween party my final year of law school and the only thing I had in the closet that struck me was a cheap old tuxedo from a HS a capella revue like a decade earlier...I was on stage crew, tho, so how I ended up with the tux in my closet is a bit hazy...
I grabbed an oversized black picnic table cloth and made it into a cloak, and some cheap masquerade mask and voila....Tom Cruise's Bill Harford from the Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene....
No question: Zorro, in college, for a Halloween party. The cape and sword were borrowed and real, puffy shirt bought at thrift store, cummerbund & mask made by my gf.
I think my favorite was Rufio from about 7 years ago. I went to a party with a bunch of millennials, so Hook was too old for most to have ever seen. However, the one drank guy who yelled out RUUUUFIOOOOOOOOO and hugged me made it all worth while.
BTW: the pickpocket girl from Birds of Prey is the niece of Dante "Rufio" Basco.
Trying to figure out what the family will be for Halloween this year. We're thinking the missus and cf-98 will be The Dude and Walter from The Big Lebowski while I dress as a nihilist.
As a kid, my parent's made me a Dodgers jersey by hand. I didn't have baseball pants at the time so I just had blue jeans rolled up at the calf with stirrups.
As an adult, probably Mike Brito, the Dodgers radar gun guy that used to stand behind home plate when they had the dugout seats. Had a panama hat with a coat, a cigar, and a homemade Juggs radar gun.
Perhaps it wasn't exactly a Panama hat, but it was close. My ex had a Hideo Nomo jersey so she wore that and No 1 was probably 2 and my ex-MIL made him a baseball costume. We were at my roommate's mom's in Atherton so we walked and trick or treated at Willie Mays' house. Unfortunately he wasn't home and his wife answered the door.
Pops visited Panama and brought me home a cool, white Panama hat FROM Panama...I was totally pumped until I checked the label and it said MADE IN EQUADOR...
Census
According to the 2020 Census, after Hawaii and Alaska, which state has the highest percentage of Native Pacific Islanders?
Maine!
Could be Utah, maybe
Uso Cugel nails it.
Mormons.
Yeah, I went back on forth on this and went with Nevada only because I’ve heard native Hawaiians refer to Las Vegas as the 8th island.
Too bad we can't post photos here, I'd do a story about our trip to Provo in 2018. Fun times.
I would guess Nevada.
somewhere in the Pacific Northwest?
these are good questions!
According to the 2020 Census, which was the only state to shrink in terms of number of households?
California?
West Virginia?
This one is really tough. I'm guessing the state has to be a place with relatively few immigrants, collapsing industries driving outward migration, and poor health outcomes. WV has all three.
But states with fewer immigrants may be places where they accept refugees. I'm always surprised to find communities of languages I've never heard of in the middle of nowhere in the US
Did you also see the PBS special on Dearborn, Michigan's Middle Eastern population?
No, actually I haven't seen any of it. Dearborn is right by Detroit, isn't it? They have a large Middle Eastern population there?
Yeah - there were some right wing fears about sharia law starting there . . .well for the last 15 years.
Yeah large Arab American population in Dearborn, something like close to 40% of its population. BUT, I was thinking of a smaller town named Hamtramck, MI, of which I saw the special some while ago.. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2016/02/05/february-5-2016-muslims-of-hamtramck-michigan/28948/
Solid logic and you are correct. However, FS was first.
gonna say West Virginia
According to the 2020 Census, white state is the whitest (percentage)?
Wyoming?
nope, western states typically have sizable native populations
Yes but Wyoming only has one federally recognized reservation and beyond Native Americans, Wyoming doesn’t have any other significant minority group.
Vermont?
Maine?
D$ nails it.
it's been the whitest for a while I think
My adopted Asian nieces grew up there.
According to the 2020 Census, which state has the fastest growing population?
Utah isnt it?
Yup.
lol Mormons
errybody moving to SLC I think. Its one of those spots that was growing already and with Covid, has seen a spike from California. A guy I work with just made that move for family/home ownership reasons
Its an already well established sizable community that also has room to expand outward. In a lot of areas, not much growth is possible due to lack of available space.
They have quite a few decent restaurants there.
Arizona?
Idaho?
#2 fastest growing
The Boise area is another similar to Salt Lake City, where you have a good sized community, providing a lot of infrastructure and such, but also a perimeter that has plenty of room to grow. And limited rainfall.
This goes to my theory that Idaho will flip Blue before Texas. Smaller population so a decent influx of Californians and Washingtonians moving their to work remote or just wanting to live their in general means it won’t take many to tip it Blue.
could be... I thought Texas was a lot closer to flipping because all the growth here is in minority populations that historically vote blue. But a lot of the Latino vote listened to Trump's rhetoric and voted red last time around. Instead of the traditional 75-85% blue vote in the RG Valley, it was 57-60%, a pretty flabbergasting situation. Combined with the historically suppressed minority vote here and it may take a little longer than I thought
That Latino vote and poor showing in the RGV was both surprising and concerning. Hopefully it is an anomaly and the Dems can get back to winning that vote by 75-85%
Well the football field is already blue
Soon the politics will match the field.
pqtm, too bad it can't vote
By percentage or by number of people? For percentage I'd guess somewhere like Idaho. Although most of their people may be after Covid started.
Percent. Texas gained the most people. 4m in the decade.
North Dakota I thought
#4
Edinburgh Castle stormed by people citing the Magna Carta and claiming that nobody can take away their FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. This in not a repost from the 13th century.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19520277.edinburgh-castle-protesters-claim-seize-historic-site-citing-article-61-magna-carta/
As noted in the article, the Magna Carta predates the Act of Union, and I suspect that none of the protestors are Norman barons, so I'm not sure they're quite on target here.
True, I don't think the Normans got that far north.
50 emails in the last 20 minutes because a handful of people responded to a message sent to a listserv with hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals. That prompted 20 "DON'T REPLY ALL" messages followed by squabbling about how replying all to tell people to stop replying all isn't productive. 8 more emails since I started writing this comment. Maybe I'll take an early lunch break...
have you considered replying-all "UNSUBSCRIBE"?
I'm staying far upwind of that dumpster fire (which is mostly smoldering at this point with only an occasional flare-up)
I have a New York Times article which is relevant to your conundrum
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/technology/when-im-mistakenly-put-on-an-email-chain-should-i-hit-reply-all-asking-to-be-removed.html
I barely told anyone I was in Columbus on this trip because I just didn't have time to see everyone...but I did get Jeni's multiple times.
How many times did you go to Matt The Millers?
They closed :(
Because you moved away!
Our crumbling democracy (and others)
Oops. Off by just a little.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maria-bartiromo-falsely-reports-241-000-us-deaths-as-result-of-afghanistan-war-during-trump-interview/ar-AANstme?ocid=msedgntp
‘Center of the maelstrom’: Election officials grapple with 2020's long shadow
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/18/election-misinformation-secretaries-state-505756
I generally don't post political type of stuff on here but I feel that Afghanistan is just a major shitshow, nothing to gain and certainly a lot to lose. I saw someone on twitter say we poured out billions of dollars, tons of soldiers and civilians, and countless resources all for the country to fall in a week. I mean people reference the fall of Troy but man this was bad. Also while in principle I agree with helping refugees and trying to get them out, I see people on social media trying for donations to them while they are in Afghanistan where I'm just sitting there like you know damn well that money will not see the light of day over there.
I recommend Ben Anderson's 2013 documentary - "This is What Winning Looks Like". It shows what its like trying to be an advisor in Afghanistan. You cannot prop up a uneducated tribal medieval kleptocracy that has no money.
https://youtu.be/Ja5Q75hf6QI
Many empires have tried to conquer and hold Afghanistan, many have failed.
I want our government to take in as many refugees as possible, though given our political environment I'm not hopeful.
Eh, we're not an empire, nor did we try to hold it, per se.
We are an empire. Not in terms of direct control of government as it used to exist, but in terms of where we have our military stationed around the world, yes.
Only where our friends welcome us.
Yes, but we get "welcomed" a lot because of how much power we have (militarily and culturally). It's a soft kind of empire, a more modern concoction than the older ones held by force, but still a kind of empire.
Trillions.
And if you've participated in the EDSBS Charity Bowl before, New American Pathways helps refugees after they've landed in the United States. Right now they're scrambling to set-up resources for Afghan refugees - but I'm sure they would not mind money to help with the intake and refugee assistance
https://newamericanpathways.org/
Here are the 19 US cities getting Afghan refugees. Raleigh/Durham is one of them. Tough draw if you get sent to Jacksonville though.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immigrant-visas-for-afghans-and-iraqis-resettlement-options.html
Today is Covid (boy this is getting tiring for me hopefully college doesn't get cucked)
ICYMI: a horse de-worming treatment is this year's hydroxychloroquine
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1428113800432025603
Ya know, I can just kinda understand the whole hydroxychloroquine nonsense BEFORE the vaccines were available, people are desperate & dumb, but after the vaccines are available? This is just fucking insanity.
FDA & CCDC recommend third booster shots this fall for Moderna & Pfizer vaccine recipients. See ya back at the Walgreens, y'all.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-booster-shots.html
Kaiser for me.
Had to remind my dad this week that shots are free everywhere, he doesn’t have to go to Kaiser.
This outstanding heat-map of where ICU beds are full
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1427725795636785160
Look at FL, TX, LA, and MS. I looked at the demographics of those areas that had full ICUs. Everything is going to turn out all white... I mean right there.
I went through that red patch in PA yesterday, I was struck that when I stopped at Sheetz for gasoline and a coffee, I was the only person wearing a mask not on staff, and of the staff, only one had the mask over their nose. Not saying that's representative or even meaningful, just mildly interesting to me.
Rhode Island what're you doing
a question that you can ask a lot of the time about many subjects
hey I'm now a Rhode Islander! they ran out of five-digit license plates (such a Rhode Island problem) that mine's a six-digit plate
then you know I might be on to something here
I just learned about COFFEE MILK and now I seek it out
Time for "AU BEAR" or "AU URSA"
"GO BEAR"
Don't have a heart attack in Alabama
https://twitter.com/FOX6Hardison/status/1427743024877084675
Have you gotten your recommended dosage of deranged and stupid today?
No? Well watch some clips from the San Diego Board of Supervisors to get 103,483% of your recommended allowance.
https://twitter.com/TheActivatedPod
Wow, that was a whole lot of crazy. I heard about this meeting in the local S.D. news and KPBS but I didn’t see all the crazy, stupid, dumb until now.
Yeah, this looks about right. I remember going to a City Council meeting with my Scout troop in the 2000s and finding a similar vibe.
I distinctly remember them discussing commemorating some random day to honor La Raza's human rights efforts and some idiot citizen vehemently objecting that La Raza is RACIST because it literally means THE RACE.
Texas school district makes masks part of dress code to get around Gov. Abbott's order
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-makes-masks-part-dress-code-get-around-n1277040
A small Texas school district has made facial coverings part of its dress code, in a bid to get around Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates.
The board of the Paris Independent School District, which has about 4,000 students, said in a statement Tuesday that the governor's order does not usurp its ability to manage schools.
"The Board believes the dress code can be used to mitigate communicable health issues, and therefore has amended the PISD dress code to protect our students and employees," the district said.
The measure — which read "For health reasons, masks are required for all employees and students to mitigate flu, cold, pandemic, and any other communicable diseases" — will be revisited at every monthly trustee meeting and could be changed later, The Paris News newspaper reported.
meanwhile, Florida actually went ahead with sanctioning school districts for requiring masks
DBD Test Kitchen
Auntsam and I decided we're going to do a BBQ tour with C&P. They love ribs and bbq so we're gonna try and hit some localish spots. Suggestions?
One of the things Larry and I disagreed about the most was Everett & Jones. He thought it was good. . . I thought it was merely ok.
I loved Flint's. . . .but that's like 20 years gone by now.
I really want to go to 4505 Burgers & BBQ on Divisedero in SF>
I agree about Everett & Jones, pretty good, far from great.
For the large population of southern blacks who moved to the Bay Area during and post-WW2 for jobs, there's not a huge spread of soul food or barbecue around the Bay Area. (I never got to try Ivan Rabb's mom's place)
Supposedly the granddaughter (?) of the Flint's owners is trying to reopen the store. Tried to purchase or lease the original location and couldn't. I think she's trying one of those ghost kitchens initially.
There's the original and the one I went to on the edge of Berkeley way down on Telegraph. Can't remember which one burned down and which was just closed.
Flints was awesome! I think the one on Telegraph (&48th?) burned down. Hope it reopens.
Only places I've heard but haven't gone to yet. Horn BBQ in W. Oakland. Black Star Pirate BBQ in Richmond past the refinery.
A good friend says Bonehead Texas BBQ in Lafayette.
About 20 years ago he also took me to Memphis Minnie BBQ in SF. That was phenomenal.
https://goo.gl/maps/xmnf5NWwmNXCxkPi9
The wife made panzanella salad last night for the first time, served with burrata, and it was amazingly good. So good.
DBD AV
Am enjoying What If. . . ? on Disney+
Saw the first episode of Ben and Jerry's Clash of the Cones. It was pretty fun, if you like that kind of show, which I do.
Modern Love, season 2...not as good as 1st...
CAL
Moving my son into Davidson Hall (unit 2) this afternoon to begin his freshman year. It will be a proud dad moment for sure.
I'll wave to you from my office across the street
Congrats!
Good news!
Awesome!! Congrats!
Santa Cruz doesn't move in until the Thurs after the TCU game.
Santa Clara for me on Sept 17th
Go Bears!!!
Other College
Washington State amended its vaccine mandate, which now allows personal exemptions for staff and faculty.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/wsu-president-reveals-weak-hand-with-student-only-mandate/
UPDATE: Gov. Inslee announces that all school employees will need to be vaccinated - effectively telling Rolovich to get a jab or else. [MJ_eating_popcorn.gif]
https://twitter.com/ChrisGrygiel/status/1428109119152562177
So Rolovitch is off the hook.
Coug Center is still calling for him to be canned - at least calling him a coward and an embarrassment.
It's gonna be a laugh when he gets covid a few days before the season opener and can't coach the game.
Weaksauce
Former 5-star and current Alabama freshman DB Ga'Quincy McKinstry's nickname is "Kool-Aid'. He got an NIL sponsorship from Kool-Aid brand drink. Meanwhile, Kool-Aid has temporarily changed its twitter handle in honor of this sponsorship.
https://twitter.com/koolaid?s=21
I have no idea if the NIL is a good idea or not, or the end of college sports or not, but I love seeing these kinds of things. Seems like both athletes and brands are being way more creative for this.
It's a good idea for Alabama, Ohio State, Miami...the blue bloods of college football, who now don't have to secretly funnel $$$ to 5* kids through boosters...they can just put them on the payroll.
But Ga'Quincy isn't getting a NIL from Kool-Aid if he's playing at Syracuse.
I am of the opinion that NIL won't change much - the programs that have power and money will continue to - and those that do not will continue to not. Now, those identities may gradually shift - like when I was growing up the powers were Penn State, Miami, Notre Dame - but the rise of the SEC has been pretty total, except for Clemson.
There's a great episode of the Bomani Jones show where he talks to a bunch of college football writers about bagmen and how players were and were not getitng paid.
dropped my older daughter off yesterday. Hoping that the requirement to be vaccinated to return to campus will make it possible to have a less grim year than her freshman experience.
I saw -- fingers crossed, we'll be doing the same thing next week.
CHEATERS: Nebraska football program, Scott Frost, and others under investigations for violations
https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/nebraska-cornhuskers-football-coach-scott-frost-under-investigation-ncaa-violations
This seems like another Tennessee and Pruitt situation where the university is going to find a way to fire an underperforming coach without having to pay his buyout.
Pro
Cringe worthy.
Jack Morris, the Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame pitcher-turned-TV analyst for Tigers games, was suspended indefinitely Wednesday by Bally Sports Detroit after using an accent often used to mock Asian people as Shohei Ohtani came to bat in Tuesday night’s game.
Matt Shepard, the play-by-play announcer on the telecast, asked Morris what strategy should be used for pitchers facing Ohtani, a pitching and hitting superstar from Japan who leads MLB with 39 home runs, as he came to bat in the sixth inning of the game against the Los Angeles Angels.
“Be very, very careful,” Morris replied, using pronunciations that many found offensive. In the ninth inning, Morris said on the telecast that he had not intended any offense.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/08/18/jack-morris-shohei-ohtani/
I'm guessing he didn't intend any offense. And yet, he has appropriately been suspended.
Game #120: A’s loss overshadowed by Bassitt injury
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/8/17/22630190/oakland-as-game-120-chicago-white-sox-score-result
The Oakland A’s lost their game on Tuesday, but that’s a distant secondary consideration after the health of one of their players.
A’s starter Chris Bassitt was hit in the head by a line drive in the 2nd inning and had to go to the hospital. Oakland went on to lose 9-0 to the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
There’s not much more to say. Chicago led off the bottom of the 2nd with a pair of singles, and then the next batter drilled a 100 mph liner that went straight back toward the mound and hit Bassitt on the right side of his face. He went down to the ground for a few minutes, then was helped up by the trainers into a cart and driven away for medical care.
Canha is kinda hurting the A's at the top of the lineup the last 20 games...poor at-bats...it's crucial that he start putting quality AB's up there the last 6 weeks.
Saw that on TV, was a severe blow with a sickening popping sound you could hear on the broadcast.
They say his eye is ok.
I think he'll be OK after surgery. After that it's recovery and whether or not he can mentally handle getting back on the mound.
Bassitt tweet
https://twitter.com/C_Bass419/status/1428082475474038788
Despite briefly considering alternate options, the Giants beat the Mets
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/8/17/22630208/san-francisco-giants-mets-recap-logan-webb-tommy-la-stella
For a while it looked like it would be a funny game. It looked like the San Francisco Giants hitters were going to record 27 outs without a run in between them and still cruise to nine-inning victory over the New York Mets.
That’s a rare thing to have happen.
It’s rare because it requires three rare things to happen, two of which are rarer when added together, like a unicorn that speaks seven languages.
The first thing that needs to happen is you need to score runs before recording an out.
The Giants did that. The did it by having LaMonte Wade Jr. lead off the first inning with a single, and for Tommy La Stella to follow it with a towering home run to right-center field.
Dodgers finding roles, continue roll with win over the Pirates
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/8/17/22628463/matt-beaty-david-price-gavin-lux-dodgers-recap-pirates
Matt Beaty took advantage of only his second start of August with two hits, including the tie-breaking two-run double helped the Dodgers to yet another win over the Pirates. The 4-3 win for Los Angeles is their 15th straight over Pittsburgh.
Despite intermittent playing time, Beaty has navigated his way to hitting .267/.365/.383 with a 112 wRC+ on the season. His two-out, two-run double off Cody Pence broke a 2-2 tie, and gave Beaty six hits in his last 10 at-bats.
On the season, Beaty has more starts in the outfield (27) than at first base (16), where he started on Tuesday. But since the July 22 arrival of Billy McKinney — who manager Dave Roberts said is “a couple of grades better than anyone else we could put out there” in the outfield — five of Beaty’s seven starts have come at first base.
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In the most puzzling thing I've ever seen in a NASCAR race ever, a crash takes out 10 cars because.... the curb on the track breaks....and to show off my luck (much like Cal) my driver was running 4th out of 40th and was the first car to have his car shattered by the curb, just a ton of distaste for me. Listen to the clip of Dale Earnhardt Jr as he commentates the crash and urgency in inflection that arises along with pit reporter Dave Burns (who reports on what my driver William Byron said about the crash as he sat there in the grass).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCdEMJ2ogc
Because Cal
At first I thought they were going to dislodge the yellow curb on the inside of the first segment of the chicane. But an entire section of curbing lining the edge of the track? I've never seen that before...
@Thankfully the infrastructure bill should make this a thing of the past@
It was a problem Saturday for the Indy cars, became a bigger issue for the Xinity series, and then became an even bigger issue Sunday. The false curb and especially the perpendicular one that became a launching ramp should never have been there to begin with.
All true AP and Berk97, certainly the first time I've seen the track be a direct cause of chaos, especially since my driver was the first affected.
Costume
I got invited to a last minute halloween party my final year of law school and the only thing I had in the closet that struck me was a cheap old tuxedo from a HS a capella revue like a decade earlier...I was on stage crew, tho, so how I ended up with the tux in my closet is a bit hazy...
I grabbed an oversized black picnic table cloth and made it into a cloak, and some cheap masquerade mask and voila....Tom Cruise's Bill Harford from the Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene....
WAIT. Have you outed yourself as a lawyer previously? This is important info on the DBD.
Not sure, but not an attorney...just got the degree is all - never took the bar.
No question: Zorro, in college, for a Halloween party. The cape and sword were borrowed and real, puffy shirt bought at thrift store, cummerbund & mask made by my gf.
I think my favorite was Rufio from about 7 years ago. I went to a party with a bunch of millennials, so Hook was too old for most to have ever seen. However, the one drank guy who yelled out RUUUUFIOOOOOOOOO and hugged me made it all worth while.
BTW: the pickpocket girl from Birds of Prey is the niece of Dante "Rufio" Basco.
Trying to figure out what the family will be for Halloween this year. We're thinking the missus and cf-98 will be The Dude and Walter from The Big Lebowski while I dress as a nihilist.
Sounds exhausting
They believe in nothing….
Bring a cricket bat
As a kid, my parent's made me a Dodgers jersey by hand. I didn't have baseball pants at the time so I just had blue jeans rolled up at the calf with stirrups.
As an adult, probably Mike Brito, the Dodgers radar gun guy that used to stand behind home plate when they had the dugout seats. Had a panama hat with a coat, a cigar, and a homemade Juggs radar gun.
That’s a good one. I have a Panama hat…I could make the Brito one work
Perhaps it wasn't exactly a Panama hat, but it was close. My ex had a Hideo Nomo jersey so she wore that and No 1 was probably 2 and my ex-MIL made him a baseball costume. We were at my roommate's mom's in Atherton so we walked and trick or treated at Willie Mays' house. Unfortunately he wasn't home and his wife answered the door.
Pops visited Panama and brought me home a cool, white Panama hat FROM Panama...I was totally pumped until I checked the label and it said MADE IN EQUADOR...
Buzz kill.
I had an uncle who was in the merchant marine and travelled the world. He had one but I have no idea where he got it or it came from.
they're not from Panama though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_hat
This is why I DBD.
Then they should be called Equadorian Hats....
Best costume - 1/3 of the Sabotage Beastie Boys