I wonder if their target audience are people that live in an area without a Asian supermarket. Seems like their stuff can be bought at a Chinatown store or something like Ranch 99/H-Mart.
I assume she means the BIggity Biggity O! (Oakland)
Nope. There is a Ranch 99 in El Cerrito just off I80 at the Central Ave exit. I wish there was an H-Mart in the East Bay but it's either SJ or SF (way out in one of he outer neighborhoods if I remember).
H-Mart just opened at Alemany Plaza (near Daly City border), iirc. so not too far from Scootie, who I believe lives in San Francisco, from what I've learned from my time at DBD ;-)
Restaurant (how come the 'aunt' part is pronounced that way but not spelled that way?). Separate (I spell it seperate 100% of the time. Thank goodness for Grammarly).
I learned to spell separate from Gomer Pyle...he was asked to spell it by Sgt. Carter and spelled it with the second "a". I thought he was wrong (I think I was like 8 yo), but he wasn't. Surprise, surprise, surprise! [I've never forgotten the spelling since then.]
Reels on Instagram. We have a younger social media expert in our sailing club now and she had been adamant about how Reels were the way to garner new attention now that posts and stories are apparently dead. Long story short, she is right and I'm now learning about how to appropriately post Reels to garner new followers. Damn Youths always changing the social media landscape, making me stay relevant in our online world.
I'm taking golf lessons. I've played for 20 years and been throughly mediocre (or worse!) the entire time. I paid for very expensive lessons from a Chinese woman who grew up in Florida (moved there at age 11 to play golf) so she can teach me in English and she can also keep her English . .. at least functional. She also grouses all the time about living in China (she had to come back for family stuff) - she misses living in the US more than I do.
I'm now hitting my irons crisply but my driver has gone very very bad. IN addition to the lessons, I have to spend a lot of time at the range to nail down when she's taught me.
Learning German online thru Goethe Institute (Covid style). took it in Intermediate and HS, but had forgotten most (since that was ~40 years ago). Daughter is starting an immersive German kindergarten (on Monday!), so decided to get a base coat so that I can help a bit at the beginning. But hoping that within a year or two she'll be way past me!
To avoid interfering with evening family time, I sacrifice 90 minutes of my work day on Wednesdays (1530 to 1700) instead of the "normal" 1800 to 1930. As a result, almost all of my classmates are back east (Montreal, DC, NY, Boston). And since it's online, I've done classes from Santa Monica, PVR, and Honolulu (1230 start for me). And the teacher did the last two weeks from Germany (0030 start for her!)
I'm learning quarterback skills. Sure, I can see if a ball is thrown to the right spot, but QB is far more about making right choices before the ball is thrown. So I am getting into different schemes, reading defenses. Like anything else in football, the more you realize you don't know anything.
For me, that's a skill that deteriorates quickly. Back when I was writing offensive previews in the Sonny Dykes era and studying his offense, I knew much, much more about reading defenses and how to attack them. Those skills are now about as sharp as a spoon. I get better at remembering concepts and reading defenses as the season goes on, but it always feels like everything is happening in fast-forward when I watch the first few games of the season. And because I devote more effort to trying to diagnose what's going on, I lose track of bigger picture things (e.g. what kinds of plays have gone well and what kinds of plays have gone poorly).
tl;dr football is a difficult, complicated game and I have a ton of respect for coaches and gameplanners
Been learning Norwegian via Duolingo. Getting to the point where I can read the emails I mistakenly get from other people with my first/last name who live in Norway.
Ghosts - The 3rd season of the BBC show just dropped recently (which one can find online), the first two seasons are on HBO Max. I also recently learned that a US version is starting on CBS this October (I don't have high hope of that being successful).
The premise is that a young couple inherited a large country mansion and an "accident" allowed the woman to see ghosts. The ghosts span different eras and it's basically an ensemble work comedy. It's also quite enjoyable with only 6 episodes per season.
I’ve been binging “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” on Netflix. Not a car guy or a racing fan at all, but I’m enjoying the strong personalities and making connections to my own professional life.
It's pretty well done and definitely got me much more interested in F1 (even though I consistently get underwhelmed by most races). It also helped that I binged the first season and was able to go to a Grand Prix a couple of weeks later because I was spending a lot of time in Europe.
The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is, by most accounts, the least-proud moment for the seven-month-old Biden administration. The situation — and the false assurances and projections that led up to it — have played into long-standing GOP arguments that President Biden isn’t up to the job.
But as Republicans continue to prosecute that case, something interesting keeps cropping up: former Trump administration officials seeking not just to bash Biden, but to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s own actions on this front.
But now the situation has deteriorated thanks to a withdrawal that Trump, by his own estimation just a couple of months ago, forced upon Biden. “I started the process. All the troops are coming home. They couldn’t stop the process,” Trump said, adding: “They couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process.”
We just started getting wildfire smoke in LA, our first red sunset on the water was tonight and coming home you could smell the smoke in the air. High coastal northerly winds for the past week have apparently shifted some of the smoke from W to E to the S
So many sad stories to this fire. I used to travel to Quincy for work once a month and would always incorporate a trail run along the PCT out of Belden in the Highway 70 corridor, just upstream from where the Dixie fire started. It is a very remote area for having a highway run through it. Unless it was thru-hiking season, I would never see anyone else on the trail. Such much solitude, beauty, and tranquility in this area. It saddens me to think about the devastation this area has undergone. Having recently driving through the Carr Fire burn scare, I imagine it is going to look like a post-apocalypse wasteland.
Republican data security expert who attended Mike "My Pillow" Lindell's symposium was invited to look at data that Lindell said proved the election was stolen. The data was bunk and the expert walked. Lindell wished him well. Wait, no. I meant, Lindell did not take it well.
Visiting my mother at the hospital today. They only allow max 2 visitors per patient per day, and you have to show proof of vaccination to enter the building. Also must wear masks at all times.
we used the duckbills in the cabs and on the flights of vacations. any enclosed spaces. funny looking, but leave more room for breathing...and my big schozz!
A's finished off the White Sox 5-4 this afternoon. There was a scary moment in the 9th when Andrus and Marte collided going after the same pop-up. Marte's arm got hooked around Andrus' neck and he fell to the ground motionless. The ball dropped and a run scored. Fortunately, the next batter lined out to Marte to end the game. Andrus' stayed in the game for the last out.
Broadcaster Jack Morris suspended indefinitely. As Japanese, I wasn't bothered at all, but I think it's about the Asian community not just Japanese. And I understand it's a bigger issue, but I can't help but think, an apology isn't enough anymore?
I think if it was, say 50 years ago, an apology would have been enough. Just a guess, but they'll probably let him back in a month after a more fulsome apology.
I think if it were 50 years ago, nobody would have given a fuck. 5 (10?) years ago, an apology – even his "sorry if anyone was offended" one – woulda worked. Today "read Ruey's reasoning below". I don't think that jobs should be lost over dumbass things like this (if used as "learnable" moments), but these also serve to (continually) show how deep and unconscious our racism and bias is.
I would be surprised if he loses his job because of this, but I think a short suspension is certainly justifiable. I don't think he intentionally meant harm by it, but that's the kind of unconscious discriminating thing that should be eliminated from society.
If this were at places I've worked, he would need (1) sincere apology; (2)an hour of diversity training. Though this guy was heard by possibly millions of people, so the ramifications are greater.
They’re finally here. After months and months of waiting, the Dodgers have finally unveiled their city connect uniforms.
The uniforms are part of Major League Baseball and Nike’s City Connect Series, which are designed to explore a franchise’s connection to its city and its fanbase’s distinct personalities, values, customs and traditions.
From the Dodgers on their uniforms:
On the 40th anniversary of Fernandomania, the Dodgers’ City Connect uniforms salute the team’s connection with its Latino fanbase with ‘Los Dodgers’ on both the uniform cap and jersey front. The design respects the tradition of the club’s uniforms with the familiar team script and red numbers on the jersey front, but boldly clads the team in Dodger blue jerseys and pants for the first time in franchise history. The uniform’s sleeves are accented by a pop of spray paint, a nod to the City’s street art culture and the murals which add color to buildings throughout Los Angeles.
I don't know if it was the Dodgers choice on the jersey or Nike. Or some other 3rd party place. I can't imagine the Giants brass proactively designed that monstrosity.
Uniform and equipment - I hear my phone ringing! (I was involved with the Rockets re-brand in 2002, and also did licensing at the NBA and also worked at Nike (in marketing but still)
So for programs like this Nike's designers will come with a portfolio and a moodboard. Here are things we think about when we think about SF or LA (at the Rockets we worked with reebok) - lots of stuff that you would stereotypically pick to rep the city. But they send the designers out to research and talk to fans and residents too - it's does get deeper than "fog" "bridges" "burritos" - what do SF giant fans or LA Dodger fans really relate to about their team.
Then they'll assemble everything into a big presentation for the team's marketing/brand team. And that team was either involved in the above step or comes to this meeting with their own ideas and from there, they start looking at key characteristics, highlights, color choices and especially stuff like logos, typefaces. It's an 18 month process and will involve a lot of printing out giant pieces of paper and taping them on a wall and having 10 people stand around and stare at them. Then looking outside the conference room and grabbing random co-workers who are walking by - from outside the marketing/brand department. Someone from sales. the owner's assistant. The Comms assistant manager. The video guy. etc. etc.
Then the apparel company goes back and spins up some new drawings and things are adjusted. then they'll call the promo factory in china (or ohio!) with CAD drawings and have them whip up some samples.
Process repeats over and over until they get to where they wanted.
Someone (HAG?) had it right last week about Josiah Gray. He had a good start yesterday against Toronto - six innings, two runs. Both runs were solo HRs. He now has four starts with the Nats and has given up eight runs on seven solos and one unearned. If he can cut back on the homers he'll be lightning.
The HRs are mostly a matter of missing his spots, which will should come with experience. He throws hard, too, so that will happen. The swing and miss stuff tho is electric. Elite.
He's the one I would've rather kept than Keibert Ruiz. I think Ruiz will be a very good catcher but the Dodgers have Cartaya waiting in the wings. Cartaya 19 (I think) that just started in AA and is projected to be better than Ruiz. He was ranked by the MLB as the 29th best prospect in the minors.
Yeah that's what he did with the Dodgers in his few starts. Gave up a lot of HRs but no real earned runs other than the HRs if I remember. He's going to be a good one.
Can't remember who the Nats catchers are but I assume Ruiz hasn't been brought up yet.
The Oakland A’s really could have used a win Wednesday night, but following the theme of their 2021 season, they fell one play short.
The A’s had all the ingredients they needed right in front of them but couldn’t quite put it all together, losing 3-2 to the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
After last night’s scary injury to Chris Bassitt, Oakland called on Paul Blackburn to make a spot start tonight. The right-hander delivered his best performance since 2018, working into the 6th inning and keeping the team squarely in the game.
Hendriks really slammed the doors on the A's in the 8th and 9th innings. Still, we had a couple of guys in scoring position but couldn't get that key hit.
Some games are not worth recapping and this is one of those games.
See you on Thursday, folks.
Ugh, fine. OK. We’ll talk about the San Francisco Giants 6-2, 12-inning loss to the New York Mets. But let the record state that I don’t want to. And let the record also state that I don’t advise you to. So if you reach the end of this article and feel like you just wasted five minutes of your life, and find yourself pining for your lost time, don’t blame me. I tried to warn you.
Let’s start with the good: the Giants almost won an extra-innings bullpen game. An inadvertent bullpen game, at that. There was no time to call up Sammy Long to pitch four innings in the middle of the game, because the bullpen game wasn’t supposed to happen.
For the second straight series, the Dodgers turned on the power in a blowout win to complete the sweep. On Wednesday, that came in the form of Max Muncy and AJ Pollock leading the offense, and Mitch White taking the bullpen out of a bullpen game in a 9-0 drubbing of the Pirates.
By the time White entered Wednesday’s game in the second inning, the Dodgers already lead 3-0. It was a perfect cushion for a bullpen game, though White provided all the relief.
The right-handed had his best major league game to date. Following opener Justin Bruihl — who got five outs, starting for the second time in three days — White allowed only two singles and two walks, and struck out six while finishing the game.
Teams traded runs in the 11th, and then the Mets got a 3 run HR from Kevin Pillar in the 12th, and then added another on back to back doubles. Giants then went 3 up, 3 down to go down.
RedHogs would be glorious, unusual and a definite differentiator. The rest of those names suck and make me want to go to sleep, just like the Cleveland baseball team whatevers that I can never remember the name of. Awful, boring name even if there is some connection to the city in some way. Its so obscure and clunky it makes it completely irrelevant
I assume the "hogs" part refers back to their O line when they were relevant. Many locals still think that the franchise is that era even though the team has been pretty bad for around thirty years.
tbh, I kinda felt that way about Under Armour's creation of the "Sather Stripe". Sure, the new uni's were/are simple and classy looking enough, but lets not romanticize how your designer came up these understated, slightly confusing dotted stripes (or exaggerate how long it took them) and try to make that a thing. Granted, anything was better than those cartoon bear Nike uniforms from the Dykes era. my own opinion, of course.
Maybe they should have included "Federals", which was the name of the Washington USFL franchise. Or even "Generals", which was the New Jersey USFL franchise.
The really obvious name that's not there is "Potomacs" as a nod to the river often associated with the DC region.
Win Win is a family owned business in Oakland.
https://en.winwintrading.online
I've never done business with the, just found them online.
I wonder if their target audience are people that live in an area without a Asian supermarket. Seems like their stuff can be bought at a Chinatown store or something like Ranch 99/H-Mart.
Are there Ranch 99s and H-Marts in the Biggity? I've never lived near one that I'm aware of.
What/where is a Biggity?
I assume she means the BIggity Biggity O! (Oakland)
Nope. There is a Ranch 99 in El Cerrito just off I80 at the Central Ave exit. I wish there was an H-Mart in the East Bay but it's either SJ or SF (way out in one of he outer neighborhoods if I remember).
H-Mart just opened at Alemany Plaza (near Daly City border), iirc. so not too far from Scootie, who I believe lives in San Francisco, from what I've learned from my time at DBD ;-)
Oh I guess it's easier to get a larger space down near Daly City.
What's a word that you still don't' consistently type correctly - even though you know how it's spelled if you thought about it.
restaurant
endeavour
I always spell it with a u for some reason rather than using the American spelling without the u
Don't.
See above.
that's a typo mulligan ;-)
tounge
Tongue?
exactly! (intentional typo above)
guarantee
oh yea, definitely this one
Full disclosure, I never know how this one is spelled even when I do think about it
Who and How - weird, I know.
Wednesday
Restaurant (how come the 'aunt' part is pronounced that way but not spelled that way?). Separate (I spell it seperate 100% of the time. Thank goodness for Grammarly).
I learned to spell separate from Gomer Pyle...he was asked to spell it by Sgt. Carter and spelled it with the second "a". I thought he was wrong (I think I was like 8 yo), but he wasn't. Surprise, surprise, surprise! [I've never forgotten the spelling since then.]
Same, though I've gotten better. Do the same with radar (rader).
radar (rader)?? is there a regional pronunciation that sounds like "raider" (as opposed to "ray-darr")?
which just brought me to "pronunciation" (which I cant help typing as "pronounciation")
I have a SUPER hard time with pronunciation. Takes me multiple tries to get it right.
Cincinatti. Cincinnati just doesn't seem right.
Oh hey, I was just there Thursday–Sunday!
Did you eat their nasty chili?
That chili is boo boo...bleh.
No; but when in Cincitucky, drink bourbon!
Tell the DBD about one way you are learning something
Reels on Instagram. We have a younger social media expert in our sailing club now and she had been adamant about how Reels were the way to garner new attention now that posts and stories are apparently dead. Long story short, she is right and I'm now learning about how to appropriately post Reels to garner new followers. Damn Youths always changing the social media landscape, making me stay relevant in our online world.
huh . . .not in my location!
I'm taking golf lessons. I've played for 20 years and been throughly mediocre (or worse!) the entire time. I paid for very expensive lessons from a Chinese woman who grew up in Florida (moved there at age 11 to play golf) so she can teach me in English and she can also keep her English . .. at least functional. She also grouses all the time about living in China (she had to come back for family stuff) - she misses living in the US more than I do.
I'm now hitting my irons crisply but my driver has gone very very bad. IN addition to the lessons, I have to spend a lot of time at the range to nail down when she's taught me.
Learning German online thru Goethe Institute (Covid style). took it in Intermediate and HS, but had forgotten most (since that was ~40 years ago). Daughter is starting an immersive German kindergarten (on Monday!), so decided to get a base coat so that I can help a bit at the beginning. But hoping that within a year or two she'll be way past me!
To avoid interfering with evening family time, I sacrifice 90 minutes of my work day on Wednesdays (1530 to 1700) instead of the "normal" 1800 to 1930. As a result, almost all of my classmates are back east (Montreal, DC, NY, Boston). And since it's online, I've done classes from Santa Monica, PVR, and Honolulu (1230 start for me). And the teacher did the last two weeks from Germany (0030 start for her!)
I'm learning quarterback skills. Sure, I can see if a ball is thrown to the right spot, but QB is far more about making right choices before the ball is thrown. So I am getting into different schemes, reading defenses. Like anything else in football, the more you realize you don't know anything.
Thinking about bolstering the QB room and backing up Garbers this season?
For me, that's a skill that deteriorates quickly. Back when I was writing offensive previews in the Sonny Dykes era and studying his offense, I knew much, much more about reading defenses and how to attack them. Those skills are now about as sharp as a spoon. I get better at remembering concepts and reading defenses as the season goes on, but it always feels like everything is happening in fast-forward when I watch the first few games of the season. And because I devote more effort to trying to diagnose what's going on, I lose track of bigger picture things (e.g. what kinds of plays have gone well and what kinds of plays have gone poorly).
tl;dr football is a difficult, complicated game and I have a ton of respect for coaches and gameplanners
x 2.5 when you also figure in reading offenses, and details from special teams.
Been learning Norwegian via Duolingo. Getting to the point where I can read the emails I mistakenly get from other people with my first/last name who live in Norway.
Win-win-win
so what's the win-win for the image above? I'm missing something. A condom and a shaggin' wagon.
Either you're prepared and you have no kids or you have a kid and you have a toy.
DBD Test Kitchen
DBD AV Club
Ghosts - The 3rd season of the BBC show just dropped recently (which one can find online), the first two seasons are on HBO Max. I also recently learned that a US version is starting on CBS this October (I don't have high hope of that being successful).
The premise is that a young couple inherited a large country mansion and an "accident" allowed the woman to see ghosts. The ghosts span different eras and it's basically an ensemble work comedy. It's also quite enjoyable with only 6 episodes per season.
the 16 year old is watching that as I type
I’ve been binging “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” on Netflix. Not a car guy or a racing fan at all, but I’m enjoying the strong personalities and making connections to my own professional life.
It's pretty well done and definitely got me much more interested in F1 (even though I consistently get underwhelmed by most races). It also helped that I binged the first season and was able to go to a Grand Prix a couple of weeks later because I was spending a lot of time in Europe.
No 1 told me about it. I watched the first one and need to watch the rest. It looks really good.
Thanks for the reminder. I follow F1 but I've never seen that show. I should check it out.
That show turned my daughter into an F1 fan, she watches all the races now.
Our Crumbling World
But of course...
The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is, by most accounts, the least-proud moment for the seven-month-old Biden administration. The situation — and the false assurances and projections that led up to it — have played into long-standing GOP arguments that President Biden isn’t up to the job.
But as Republicans continue to prosecute that case, something interesting keeps cropping up: former Trump administration officials seeking not just to bash Biden, but to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s own actions on this front.
But now the situation has deteriorated thanks to a withdrawal that Trump, by his own estimation just a couple of months ago, forced upon Biden. “I started the process. All the troops are coming home. They couldn’t stop the process,” Trump said, adding: “They couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/19/trump-officials-scramble-distance-his-taliban-deal/
More than 1/3 of Lassen Volcanic National Park has been torched...
https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Lassen-volcanic-national-park-fire-dixie-morgan-16396213.php
We just started getting wildfire smoke in LA, our first red sunset on the water was tonight and coming home you could smell the smoke in the air. High coastal northerly winds for the past week have apparently shifted some of the smoke from W to E to the S
So many sad stories to this fire. I used to travel to Quincy for work once a month and would always incorporate a trail run along the PCT out of Belden in the Highway 70 corridor, just upstream from where the Dixie fire started. It is a very remote area for having a highway run through it. Unless it was thru-hiking season, I would never see anyone else on the trail. Such much solitude, beauty, and tranquility in this area. It saddens me to think about the devastation this area has undergone. Having recently driving through the Carr Fire burn scare, I imagine it is going to look like a post-apocalypse wasteland.
Republican data security expert who attended Mike "My Pillow" Lindell's symposium was invited to look at data that Lindell said proved the election was stolen. The data was bunk and the expert walked. Lindell wished him well. Wait, no. I meant, Lindell did not take it well.
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/18/mike-lindell-lashes-out-as-cyber-expert-demands-5m-reward-for-debunking-election-data/
I'm shocked, shocked.../sarcasm.
Biden: I would have sought Afghanistan withdrawal even without Trump’s Taliban deal
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/19/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-trump-taliban-deal-506215
Today in Covid 19
My (new) plumber caught it 3 weeks ago, came by to bid a job, he was a total wreck, walking super slow.
Visiting my mother at the hospital today. They only allow max 2 visitors per patient per day, and you have to show proof of vaccination to enter the building. Also must wear masks at all times.
I have a lot of surgical masks, but given the air quality situation, I also just ordered 70 masks from here https://shop.projectn95.org/
I hope they fit!
I thought the N95 ones were supposed to be saved for first responders and the ones to get were the KN95 ones.
That was back when there was a shortage. But manufacturers ramped up. Also, I think I've heard that some people choose not to wear masks.
ahh...ok that makes sense.
Did you get the flat fold or the cup style? I usually get flat fold, but the cup seems to stay away from the nose and mouth better.
I got the fold: https://shop.projectn95.org/demetech-dtn95fh-n95-respirators-box-of-20/p
and the duck bill? https://shop.projectn95.org/gerson-n95-respirators-3230plus-box-of-50/p
we used the duckbills in the cabs and on the flights of vacations. any enclosed spaces. funny looking, but leave more room for breathing...and my big schozz!
ooh good to know!
Rates of Covid-19 hospitalizations for children and adults under 50 reach their highest levels yet, CDC data shows
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html
Pro
A's finished off the White Sox 5-4 this afternoon. There was a scary moment in the 9th when Andrus and Marte collided going after the same pop-up. Marte's arm got hooked around Andrus' neck and he fell to the ground motionless. The ball dropped and a run scored. Fortunately, the next batter lined out to Marte to end the game. Andrus' stayed in the game for the last out.
I was watching on mlb channel before going out and that was scary. Also unnecessary but glad Andrus seemed OK.
Broadcaster Jack Morris suspended indefinitely. As Japanese, I wasn't bothered at all, but I think it's about the Asian community not just Japanese. And I understand it's a bigger issue, but I can't help but think, an apology isn't enough anymore?
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/tigers-broadcaster-jack-morris-suspended-indefinitely-after-using-fake-accent-before-shohei-ohtani-at-bat/
I honestly thought the clip was going to be worse than it was.
I think if it was, say 50 years ago, an apology would have been enough. Just a guess, but they'll probably let him back in a month after a more fulsome apology.
Depends if they were also looking for a reason to let him go.
I think if it were 50 years ago, nobody would have given a fuck. 5 (10?) years ago, an apology – even his "sorry if anyone was offended" one – woulda worked. Today "read Ruey's reasoning below". I don't think that jobs should be lost over dumbass things like this (if used as "learnable" moments), but these also serve to (continually) show how deep and unconscious our racism and bias is.
I meant his on-air apology in the 9th inning would have been enough, he wouldn't have been suspended.
I would be surprised if he loses his job because of this, but I think a short suspension is certainly justifiable. I don't think he intentionally meant harm by it, but that's the kind of unconscious discriminating thing that should be eliminated from society.
If this were at places I've worked, he would need (1) sincere apology; (2)an hour of diversity training. Though this guy was heard by possibly millions of people, so the ramifications are greater.
Dodgers unveil city connect uniforms
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/8/19/22632410/los-angeles-dodgers-mlb-news-city-connect-jerseys
They’re finally here. After months and months of waiting, the Dodgers have finally unveiled their city connect uniforms.
The uniforms are part of Major League Baseball and Nike’s City Connect Series, which are designed to explore a franchise’s connection to its city and its fanbase’s distinct personalities, values, customs and traditions.
From the Dodgers on their uniforms:
On the 40th anniversary of Fernandomania, the Dodgers’ City Connect uniforms salute the team’s connection with its Latino fanbase with ‘Los Dodgers’ on both the uniform cap and jersey front. The design respects the tradition of the club’s uniforms with the familiar team script and red numbers on the jersey front, but boldly clads the team in Dodger blue jerseys and pants for the first time in franchise history. The uniform’s sleeves are accented by a pop of spray paint, a nod to the City’s street art culture and the murals which add color to buildings throughout Los Angeles.
More meh uniforms...other than arguably the White Sox ones being "good", they are all rather misses to me.
Boring. But much better than the Giants' weird fog-inspired uniforms.
We're undefeated in those fucking things so I'm trying to be at peace with them.
Basically their batting practice tops with "Los Dodgers" (should've been Los Doyers) and batting practice blue pants. Kinda boring.
That's what I thought. They just made tweaks to their blue practice jerseys and called it a day.
I don't know if it was the Dodgers choice on the jersey or Nike. Or some other 3rd party place. I can't imagine the Giants brass proactively designed that monstrosity.
Uniform and equipment - I hear my phone ringing! (I was involved with the Rockets re-brand in 2002, and also did licensing at the NBA and also worked at Nike (in marketing but still)
So for programs like this Nike's designers will come with a portfolio and a moodboard. Here are things we think about when we think about SF or LA (at the Rockets we worked with reebok) - lots of stuff that you would stereotypically pick to rep the city. But they send the designers out to research and talk to fans and residents too - it's does get deeper than "fog" "bridges" "burritos" - what do SF giant fans or LA Dodger fans really relate to about their team.
Then they'll assemble everything into a big presentation for the team's marketing/brand team. And that team was either involved in the above step or comes to this meeting with their own ideas and from there, they start looking at key characteristics, highlights, color choices and especially stuff like logos, typefaces. It's an 18 month process and will involve a lot of printing out giant pieces of paper and taping them on a wall and having 10 people stand around and stare at them. Then looking outside the conference room and grabbing random co-workers who are walking by - from outside the marketing/brand department. Someone from sales. the owner's assistant. The Comms assistant manager. The video guy. etc. etc.
Then the apparel company goes back and spins up some new drawings and things are adjusted. then they'll call the promo factory in china (or ohio!) with CAD drawings and have them whip up some samples.
Process repeats over and over until they get to where they wanted.
Had to look up how to spell monstrosity because I kept trying to do it with a "c".
even though when I looked at it with a "c" it didn't look right.
Someone (HAG?) had it right last week about Josiah Gray. He had a good start yesterday against Toronto - six innings, two runs. Both runs were solo HRs. He now has four starts with the Nats and has given up eight runs on seven solos and one unearned. If he can cut back on the homers he'll be lightning.
The HRs are mostly a matter of missing his spots, which will should come with experience. He throws hard, too, so that will happen. The swing and miss stuff tho is electric. Elite.
He's the one I would've rather kept than Keibert Ruiz. I think Ruiz will be a very good catcher but the Dodgers have Cartaya waiting in the wings. Cartaya 19 (I think) that just started in AA and is projected to be better than Ruiz. He was ranked by the MLB as the 29th best prospect in the minors.
Yeah that's what he did with the Dodgers in his few starts. Gave up a lot of HRs but no real earned runs other than the HRs if I remember. He's going to be a good one.
Can't remember who the Nats catchers are but I assume Ruiz hasn't been brought up yet.
Game #121: A’s lose a winnable game
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/8/18/22631945/oakland-as-game-121-chicago-white-sox-score-result
The Oakland A’s really could have used a win Wednesday night, but following the theme of their 2021 season, they fell one play short.
The A’s had all the ingredients they needed right in front of them but couldn’t quite put it all together, losing 3-2 to the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
After last night’s scary injury to Chris Bassitt, Oakland called on Paul Blackburn to make a spot start tonight. The right-hander delivered his best performance since 2018, working into the 6th inning and keeping the team squarely in the game.
Are you guys going to the Star Wars Light Show A's game?
Canha is killing them...his BA/OBP have plummeted in the past 3 weeks.
Hendriks really slammed the doors on the A's in the 8th and 9th innings. Still, we had a couple of guys in scoring position but couldn't get that key hit.
Lynn getting out of the bases loaded, nobody out situation in the 3rd unscored upon was the dagger. Lowrie/Harrison failed to put the ball in play.
Trashtros lose again, though so the A's are still 2.5 games behind. That is somewhat fortunate.
Assterisks lost on a great OF throw home to barely nail the runner for the last out. It was glorious.
Former Giant Kevin Pillar beats current Giants with 12th inning home run
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/8/18/22631555/san-francisco-giants-mets-final-score-anthony-desclafani-kevin-pillar
Some games are not worth recapping and this is one of those games.
See you on Thursday, folks.
Ugh, fine. OK. We’ll talk about the San Francisco Giants 6-2, 12-inning loss to the New York Mets. But let the record state that I don’t want to. And let the record also state that I don’t advise you to. So if you reach the end of this article and feel like you just wasted five minutes of your life, and find yourself pining for your lost time, don’t blame me. I tried to warn you.
Let’s start with the good: the Giants almost won an extra-innings bullpen game. An inadvertent bullpen game, at that. There was no time to call up Sammy Long to pitch four innings in the middle of the game, because the bullpen game wasn’t supposed to happen.
Yesterday was my birthday so I took the day off and went to this game. It was a good one, until it wasn't.
Happy Birthday!
Mitch White takes the bullpen out of the bullpen game
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/8/18/22631857/mitch-white-what-bullpen-game-dodgers-home-runs-pirates-sweep
For the second straight series, the Dodgers turned on the power in a blowout win to complete the sweep. On Wednesday, that came in the form of Max Muncy and AJ Pollock leading the offense, and Mitch White taking the bullpen out of a bullpen game in a 9-0 drubbing of the Pirates.
By the time White entered Wednesday’s game in the second inning, the Dodgers already lead 3-0. It was a perfect cushion for a bullpen game, though White provided all the relief.
The right-handed had his best major league game to date. Following opener Justin Bruihl — who got five outs, starting for the second time in three days — White allowed only two singles and two walks, and struck out six while finishing the game.
GBBR
GBBR
Teams traded runs in the 11th, and then the Mets got a 3 run HR from Kevin Pillar in the 12th, and then added another on back to back doubles. Giants then went 3 up, 3 down to go down.
Longoria's AB was the dagger...he failed to get it done. Tough L.
Giants have a day off to get ready for the Bay Area series with the As.
WFT narrows name list down to eight. Of course, Washington Football Team is still on the list...
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1428105960560726022
RedHogs would be glorious, unusual and a definite differentiator. The rest of those names suck and make me want to go to sleep, just like the Cleveland baseball team whatevers that I can never remember the name of. Awful, boring name even if there is some connection to the city in some way. Its so obscure and clunky it makes it completely irrelevant
I assume the "hogs" part refers back to their O line when they were relevant. Many locals still think that the franchise is that era even though the team has been pretty bad for around thirty years.
tbh, I kinda felt that way about Under Armour's creation of the "Sather Stripe". Sure, the new uni's were/are simple and classy looking enough, but lets not romanticize how your designer came up these understated, slightly confusing dotted stripes (or exaggerate how long it took them) and try to make that a thing. Granted, anything was better than those cartoon bear Nike uniforms from the Dykes era. my own opinion, of course.
Maybe they should have included "Federals", which was the name of the Washington USFL franchise. Or even "Generals", which was the New Jersey USFL franchise.
The really obvious name that's not there is "Potomacs" as a nod to the river often associated with the DC region.
Those are good ideas. I also like the idea of Monuments or Memorials seeing how we have a lot of those in DC.
Generals
Presidents
Monuments
Memorials
Fightin Mitch McConnells
The Blue Crabs. One of my favorites from the Chesapeake.
The Fighting Mitch McConnells is sooooo very snarky. I like it.
The Monuments is a great target for derision when the team plays like a bunch of stiffs. Same with Memorials.
Lobbyists
The Fighting Jack Abramoffs
This is a good one.
WTF!
None of those jump out to me as great names. I wouldn't mind sticking with Washington Football Team for its sheer absurdity.
Other College
2021 CBS Sports Preseason All-America team: Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Iowa State lead early honors
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2021-cbs-sports-preseason-all-america-team-alabama-oklahoma-ohio-state-iowa-state-lead-early-honors/
Cal
Fall Camp Day 11 -- Bequette Gets Offical OK From NCAA
Go BEARS!!!