This document is an early 20th-century piece of Russian fiction that was trying to pass itself off as real. The document was wildly anti-Semitic and was famously reprinted by Henry Ford in the 1920s. Hitler was aware of it and adopted as a part of the German Nazi party’s propaganda as justification to the persecution of Jewish People.
And the premise of this document?
A secret deep-state Jewish-led cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.
Sound familiar? Nazis are alive and well in America via Qanon.
I don't have a Reddit account, so I don't know how much this is customized, but on the front page, there's usually a "top broadcast," (which I also don't get..like where is this broadcast?) but just now, the top broadcast was a band from my area! Some people I went to high school with are involved, so I follow them on Fbook, and I thought I recognized someone in the still, clicked, and was like WHOA IT REALLY IS THEM! Not sure if this link will work: https://www.reddit.com/rpan/r/pan/iyet0z?related=home
Yup. Like people are going to curfew at 9 PM. It's BS. The Attorney General said the cops knocked and announced themselves even though some said they didn't.
Like I told my coworkers that live in Louisville, I think the mayor's office already knows the announcement since they put the city in a state of emergency, boarded up the govt offices, and are asking people to stay away from downtown. The National Guard has been staging across the river in S. Indiana. Why would you do that? Because you know the announcement is that the cops are getting off. Which is unsurprising for Kentucky. As another coworker said, when the police dept gave her family 12 Mil, that's basically hush money. Also the Attorney General is a black Republican so he's probably waiting to see what Trump is going to do for him.
You don't need that much boiling water to reheat luke-warm coffee; yes it does slightly dilute it, but if it's been sitting around a while, that's not a bad thing.
But what's the argument against microwaving the coffee? It's too hot right away because I think the risk of it superheating is low since it has stuff other than water.
She's basically just an obstacle for the whole movie. The devolution of the female leads in the original Indiana Jones trilogy is interesting. The next one is a literal Nazi.
Love it Cugel...actually had this discussion at dinner this weekend during the quarterly Indiana Jones marathon on Paramount TV...I’m partial to Raiders (Forrestal was good...he was very good.), tho Crusade was just the slightest of ticks behind...up there with the all-time great follow ups - Newellbany and I caught it opening night at the Grand Lake.
But for as good as Raiders and Crusade were, Doom and Skull we’re shockingly disappointing....
Raiders is the best, though I do like a lot of Last Crusade. It's just that the filmmaking is far and away the most superlative in Raiders. It's a gorgeous movie.
So I watched Last Crusade last night (thanks for letting me borrow the DVD, Cugel!) and it turns out I actually had only seen bits and pieces before, and not the full movie. It was very good, but not as good as Raiders. I agree with sycasey.
I have a soft spot for Temple of Doom but objectively it's not as good.
Heh, last time I watched it I noticed something I doubt many have thought of - when the camera pans back to show you just how big the warehouse is where the Ark is left - the ceiling on the warehouse is ABSURDLY high, no warehouse was ever built like that.
There is a small blooper when Indy falls face first by the snake. You can barely see the snake's reflection on the glass that separates Indy and the snakes.
Yeah, it's also more true to spirit of the source material, I give the nod to Last Crusade due to a better, more complete story/plot, and a more satisfying ending.
I do really like Indy's father as a character: kind of unexpected that he turns out to be a big dork, but it's fun to see how that plays off the Indy persona. I'm not as big a fan of how it makes the formerly nuanced, intelligent supporting characters like Marcus and Sallah into cartoonish comic relief.
Temple of Doom, like most second movies of trilogies from the 80s suffers bc it moves away from the original, whereas the 3rd movie always seemed to tie back into the first.
Doom has some great action set-pieces and the PG-13 horror elements are fun too, but I just can't get past how sexist/racist the whole thing is. It's not like the rest of the trilogy is free of racial stereotyping, but ToD seems to take it to a whole other level.
I realize they are paying homage to old-fashioned action serials from the 30s, complete with their old-fashioned orientalism . . . but isn't that why you update? Bring the fun stuff into a more modern age, not just keep it all stuck in the past?
Even that's not the only flaw - the whole plot is pointless, they randomly land in someplace in India, Indy isn't searching for anything, and they get roped in to helping some villagers - it's dumb.
The opening sequence is the best part, all downhill from there.
One thing that I didn't really get in Last Crusade was at the end... what group of people was it that comes in and disperses the Nazis and palace guards from the seal room? Sallah's friends? The crescent people? How was it that everyone else simply disappeared but the final 4?
Fun fact: the original cut of Raiders didn't have Marion showing up at the end of the movie. Then when they showed the movie to their inner circle of friends and advisors, George Lucas' wife at the time, Marcia, said that the ending had no emotional heft because the girl disappears. They shot a new ending with Marion meeting Indy outside the government building (SF City Hall used as a stand-in).
Marcia Lucas was also a talented film editor in her own right, so those "movie brat" directors all listened to her. She can also be credited with helping to save the trench run sequence in the original Star Wars.
Marcia Lucas is quite an interesting Google deep-dive. She was hugely instrumental to a lot of the movies of that era. Star Wars probably wouldn't be what it was without her editing chops and the notes she gave to George, same with American Graffiti. She also edited Scorsese's early work, including Taxi Driver. Then she and George divorced shortly after Return of the Jedi, and I wonder if it's no coincidence that his work wasn't the same after that.
The Weasley family is an important perspective. But Ron individually doesn't bring a lot to the story because he's usually relegated to best friend/comic relief.
Fineprint says that it's just the house that she lived in until she died and NOT the place where the murders were committed. No wonder it's under $1M in price.
I'm sick of Pelosi & Schumer bringing pillows to a knife fight. Don't they realize what and who they're up against? You don't need to do illegal things to play hardball.
I mean it is problematic - maybe it should be illegal. Pretty sure that if anyone ever actually digs into Trump’s finances the findings will show actual factual law breaking
In Game 2, the Denver Nuggets showed that they’re a force to be reckoned with, but the Los Angeles Lakers were still able to escape with the win thanks to a game-winning 3-point shot from Anthony Davis. In Game 3, the Lakers needed more than 2.1 seconds of magic, and they got it in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, there just wasn’t enough for them to get the win this time.
After trailing by as much as 20 points — the most they’ve fallen behind by in any game during the entire NBA playoffs — the Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter and closed the gap to just three points. That was the closest they’d get, though, as the Nuggets outlasted them in the fourth to beat them 114-106. The series is now at 2-1.
Denver went nuts with turnovers in the 4th quarter. I took the dog out when they had a 16 point lead and came back in maybe 5 minutes later and the lead was down to 3.
Yeah I was shocked. I went to cut some watermelon and came back and saw Seager hit a HR and the Lakers went on a run. No 1 said that the Nuggets had 5 TOs. If it weren't for Davis' 3 the Nuggets would be up 2-1.
The Oakland A’s acquired Frankie Montas from the Los Angeles Dodgers back in 2016, and on Tuesday he got his first chance to pitch against his former team. Unfortunately, the Dodgers also happen to be the second-best scoring club in the majors this year, and they came out on top in this matchup.
Montas was knocked out after four innings, and the A’s lost 7-2 in a game where little went right for them in any department. With the win, plus a loss by the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers officially clinched the NL West division crown, joining the A’s as Western division winners.
The game began well enough for Oakland. Their second batter, Robbie Grossman, went yard on a 98 mph fastball, fighting it off for what looked like a harmless popup to left field or perhaps a foul ball. However, it kept carrying until it surprisingly bounced off the foul pole for an opposite-field dinger.
Like so many great works of our time, the San Francisco Giants 5-2 win over the Colorado Rockies had three acts.
Let’s look at each.
Act 1: Hope and growth
The Giants 7-2 loss to the Rockies on Monday got off to an ominous start. Johnny Cueto allowed runners on the corners with just one out in the first inning, and only a few minutes into action, the game was on the line.
Cueto struck out Trevor Story, and a scoreless inning was within reach.
The Giants are horrible this year. They are winning not because they are good, but because of the short season and the bottom of the barrel of the NL and AL West divisions are even worse. The Padres are going to sweep them in the Giant's final 4 game homestand. I mean, hell man, they've got a rookie catcher, a rotation of nobodies, a bad pen, a SS at CF because they ran out of outfielders including the RF that is a minor-league journeyman who struggled with 0.250 batting mostly at single-A ball.
"because of the short season and the bottom of the barrel of the NL and AL West divisions are even worse."
I mean, this basically sounds like the makeup of a .500 team, which is what the Giants are. They only have a shot at the playoffs because of the expanded field. .500 is still much better than I would have expected.
Basically you have the A's, Dodgers, and Padres. @Shocked the Astros are struggling offensively@. Although the Padres are much better than I or anyone thought they would be. They sure are going all in. Giants are definitely much better than I thought they would be.
For the eighth year in a row, the Los Angeles Dodgers are the National League West champions.
The best team in baseball clinched the division and the No. 1 seed in the National League on Tuesday night with a 7-2 win over the Athletics at Dodger Stadium, coupled with a Padres loss at home to the Angels a little earlier in the night.
“It’s been really bizarre,” manager Dave Roberts said on a postgame conference call, his 55th in a pandemic-shortened season. “I recall a time a few months ago where I didn’t know if we were going to have a season this year.
And this season with the 3 game playoffs it's a crapshoot. The Reds may be the toughest team because they have 3 tough pitchers. They're the one team in the bottom 4 I would not want to play in the first round. And maybe the Brewers with their bullpen. And no real home field advantage.
One of the current grad students in my group, who graduated from UCSB and not a college sports fan, just "said" (in the group slack channel) that there is no clear flagship campus for the UC (she's looking for postdoc jobs and was confused by the location of some of the other state schools). I don't know how offended I should be about this.
Alameda County got the go-ahead to open more things by moving to the red tier, but they are not doing it. I wonder if they're going to agree to this plan.
Hopefully they have the votes....it will be tough to be the only conference in the country not playing football...that should do wonders for recruiting.
Looks like Alameda County will be "opening up" some of the covid restrictions in about 2 weeks, which may provide Cal the ability to conduct practices and fall camp,
I don't have a Reddit account, so I don't know how much this is customized, but on the front page, there's usually a "top broadcast," (which I also don't get..like where is this broadcast?) but just now, the top broadcast was a band from my area! Some people I went to high school with are involved, so I follow them on Fbook, and I thought I recognized someone in the still, clicked, and was like WHOA IT REALLY IS THEM! Not sure if this link will work: https://www.reddit.com/rpan/r/pan/iyet0z?related=home
Catapult
...eh... dogapult
https://i.imgur.com/3F4IjrR.gifv
Breona Taylor announcement today.
Update: Only 1 officer on a lesser charge of endangerment because he discharged his weapon. Oof. L'ville is going to burn tonight.
https://apnews.com/66494813b1653cb1be1d95c89be5cf3e
Yup. Like people are going to curfew at 9 PM. It's BS. The Attorney General said the cops knocked and announced themselves even though some said they didn't.
Like I told my coworkers that live in Louisville, I think the mayor's office already knows the announcement since they put the city in a state of emergency, boarded up the govt offices, and are asking people to stay away from downtown. The National Guard has been staging across the river in S. Indiana. Why would you do that? Because you know the announcement is that the cops are getting off. Which is unsurprising for Kentucky. As another coworker said, when the police dept gave her family 12 Mil, that's basically hush money. Also the Attorney General is a black Republican so he's probably waiting to see what Trump is going to do for him.
Give the DBD a lifehack
I have mentioned this: don't reheat coffee in the microwave, add boiling water to re-heat.
What? Doesn't this dilute the coffee? I'm confused.
You don't need that much boiling water to reheat luke-warm coffee; yes it does slightly dilute it, but if it's been sitting around a while, that's not a bad thing.
But what's the argument against microwaving the coffee? It's too hot right away because I think the risk of it superheating is low since it has stuff other than water.
It makes it bitter and undrinkable.
adjustable steel cabinet legs from IKEA + melamine covered board + screwdriver = adjustable computer stand for $23
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/capita-leg-stainless-steel-60263574/
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bergshult-shelf-brown-black-30426285/
Qanon
The fact that the GOP is going to elect Q true believers is terrifying
Name a prominent fictional character that was unnecessary, in your opinion
Betty Rubble.
Sadly, every new Star Wars trilogy characters that's not related to original trilogy characters (so everyone that's not Rey or Kylo Ren).
JJ Abrams: good at setups, can't stick the landing.
Willie Scott - the love interest from the Temple of Doom. Didn't really do anything. Didn't even have a romance.
She's basically just an obstacle for the whole movie. The devolution of the female leads in the original Indiana Jones trilogy is interesting. The next one is a literal Nazi.
Speaking of those movies, which is your fave? I'm partial to Last Crusade.
Love it Cugel...actually had this discussion at dinner this weekend during the quarterly Indiana Jones marathon on Paramount TV...I’m partial to Raiders (Forrestal was good...he was very good.), tho Crusade was just the slightest of ticks behind...up there with the all-time great follow ups - Newellbany and I caught it opening night at the Grand Lake.
But for as good as Raiders and Crusade were, Doom and Skull we’re shockingly disappointing....
Raiders is the best, though I do like a lot of Last Crusade. It's just that the filmmaking is far and away the most superlative in Raiders. It's a gorgeous movie.
So I watched Last Crusade last night (thanks for letting me borrow the DVD, Cugel!) and it turns out I actually had only seen bits and pieces before, and not the full movie. It was very good, but not as good as Raiders. I agree with sycasey.
I have a soft spot for Temple of Doom but objectively it's not as good.
I agree that it's the best of the four. Last Crusade was OK but pales in comparison. II and IV sucked.
Heh, last time I watched it I noticed something I doubt many have thought of - when the camera pans back to show you just how big the warehouse is where the Ark is left - the ceiling on the warehouse is ABSURDLY high, no warehouse was ever built like that.
There is a small blooper when Indy falls face first by the snake. You can barely see the snake's reflection on the glass that separates Indy and the snakes.
Yeah, it's also more true to spirit of the source material, I give the nod to Last Crusade due to a better, more complete story/plot, and a more satisfying ending.
I do really like Indy's father as a character: kind of unexpected that he turns out to be a big dork, but it's fun to see how that plays off the Indy persona. I'm not as big a fan of how it makes the formerly nuanced, intelligent supporting characters like Marcus and Sallah into cartoonish comic relief.
Raiders, Last Crusade, Temple of Doom.
Temple of Doom, like most second movies of trilogies from the 80s suffers bc it moves away from the original, whereas the 3rd movie always seemed to tie back into the first.
Doom has some great action set-pieces and the PG-13 horror elements are fun too, but I just can't get past how sexist/racist the whole thing is. It's not like the rest of the trilogy is free of racial stereotyping, but ToD seems to take it to a whole other level.
I realize they are paying homage to old-fashioned action serials from the 30s, complete with their old-fashioned orientalism . . . but isn't that why you update? Bring the fun stuff into a more modern age, not just keep it all stuck in the past?
Even that's not the only flaw - the whole plot is pointless, they randomly land in someplace in India, Indy isn't searching for anything, and they get roped in to helping some villagers - it's dumb.
The opening sequence is the best part, all downhill from there.
One thing that I didn't really get in Last Crusade was at the end... what group of people was it that comes in and disperses the Nazis and palace guards from the seal room? Sallah's friends? The crescent people? How was it that everyone else simply disappeared but the final 4?
They brought some of the humor back in 3. Temple of Doom was dark. I like it but just not as much as the other two.
I guess I should put the 1st half of Skull 4th. I should've stopped watching halfway through. The 1st half was so promising.
Yeah it really falls apart when they get to the jungle.
But she's great! I think Temple of Doom might be as much sexist as it is racist
Oh, most definitely.
Agreed...it was Marion Ravenwood or bust...
Fun fact: the original cut of Raiders didn't have Marion showing up at the end of the movie. Then when they showed the movie to their inner circle of friends and advisors, George Lucas' wife at the time, Marcia, said that the ending had no emotional heft because the girl disappears. They shot a new ending with Marion meeting Indy outside the government building (SF City Hall used as a stand-in).
Marcia Lucas was also a talented film editor in her own right, so those "movie brat" directors all listened to her. She can also be credited with helping to save the trench run sequence in the original Star Wars.
I didn't know that
Marcia Lucas is quite an interesting Google deep-dive. She was hugely instrumental to a lot of the movies of that era. Star Wars probably wouldn't be what it was without her editing chops and the notes she gave to George, same with American Graffiti. She also edited Scorsese's early work, including Taxi Driver. Then she and George divorced shortly after Return of the Jedi, and I wonder if it's no coincidence that his work wasn't the same after that.
Only thing she brought to the table was a bride for Spielberg....
He married her?
Yes, famously he and Kate Capshaw had a romance coming out of this movie and have been together ever since.
Yep, one of the very rare Hollywood successful marriages.
Well ok then.
Ron Weasley
I dunno, I think Ron and the Weasley family bring a lot to Harry as a character.
They're the family he never got to have. He's the brother he never had. Although I guess then it's like he married his sister.
Harry marries Ron Weasley's sister? (I never watched past the first movie)
The funny part in the films is watching all the blocking to try and gloss over the fact that she’s taller than him by the end of the series
Yes, Ginny who had a crush on Harry early in the books.
You only know about it in the epilogue of book 7 and the last 3 min of the 8th movie.
True, but it becomes pretty obvious before then that this is where the story is going.
That's true.
Well, that's one way to officially enter a family for legal purposes.
The Weasley family is an important perspective. But Ron individually doesn't bring a lot to the story because he's usually relegated to best friend/comic relief.
I suppose that's true on a plot level (most of the time, not always). On a character-development level I'd say he's important.
I guess I can see that.
As in “this book should never been written” or as in “you could remove this character and it would be fine.”
the latter
Ben
Dover. /sophomoric joke
https://media.giphy.com/media/l1J9sNmwisd59FmA8/giphy-downsized.gif
Same company, still tasteless, updated name
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/uncle-bens-rice-original-new-name-mars-b548428.html
Elsewhere in college
The bottom 25 rankings:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-duke-sinks-after-boston-college-loss-louisville-debuts-in-the-bottom-25/
this might be the first time in my life I've watched every team of the bottom 25 play on tv
Just curious, have these players that are opting back in been attending classes?
hahahahahahahaha
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
Six score more trips 'round the sun
You can now buy where 'twas done
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/306-French-St-Fall-River-MA-02720/55984161_zpid/
Fineprint says that it's just the house that she lived in until she died and NOT the place where the murders were committed. No wonder it's under $1M in price.
The real crime is charging nearly $900k to live in Fall River MA
It's a nice house though. I'd enjoy redecorating it.
It did seem very much your style architecturally but it needs someone to calm down the decor
Seriously! I got slammed with the remnants of Hurricane Isaias in Fall River on the road trip in August...quite a delightful experience...
SMALL TRIUMPHS
I've biked to work three days so far this week.
https://bit.ly/30240Gh
pltm I was going to post the same thing
I borrowed a neighbor’s pressure washer over the weekend and it looks like I have a new deck now. Well, new-ish.
https://bit.ly/2G6UTN2
OUR RICKETY REPUBLIC
Pelosi tables anti-corruption bill, which probably won't pass but will force GOP Senate to defend obviously evil practices.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000174-b872-d7ec-a17f-bcf259790000
Fortunately that’s the name of their game!
I'm sick of Pelosi & Schumer bringing pillows to a knife fight. Don't they realize what and who they're up against? You don't need to do illegal things to play hardball.
Johnson (R-WI) and Grassley (R-IA) issue Hunter Biden report. Fox News pops a boner.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-gop-report-calls-hunter-bidens-board-position-problematic-but-offers-few-specific-examples-it-changed-obama-administration-policy/2020/09/23/4b66d41e-fd44-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
I mean it is problematic - maybe it should be illegal. Pretty sure that if anyone ever actually digs into Trump’s finances the findings will show actual factual law breaking
PRO
Jamal Murray, Nuggets punch back in Game 3
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2020/9/22/21451989/lakers-vs-nuggets-final-score-recap-stats-game-3-nba-playoffs
In Game 2, the Denver Nuggets showed that they’re a force to be reckoned with, but the Los Angeles Lakers were still able to escape with the win thanks to a game-winning 3-point shot from Anthony Davis. In Game 3, the Lakers needed more than 2.1 seconds of magic, and they got it in the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, there just wasn’t enough for them to get the win this time.
After trailing by as much as 20 points — the most they’ve fallen behind by in any game during the entire NBA playoffs — the Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter and closed the gap to just three points. That was the closest they’d get, though, as the Nuggets outlasted them in the fourth to beat them 114-106. The series is now at 2-1.
Denver went nuts with turnovers in the 4th quarter. I took the dog out when they had a 16 point lead and came back in maybe 5 minutes later and the lead was down to 3.
Yeah I was shocked. I went to cut some watermelon and came back and saw Seager hit a HR and the Lakers went on a run. No 1 said that the Nuggets had 5 TOs. If it weren't for Davis' 3 the Nuggets would be up 2-1.
Oakland A’s Game #54: Frankie Montas roughed up by former team, A’s lose 7-2
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/22/21452074/oakland-as-game-54-los-angeles-dodgers-score-result-clinch-nl-west-division
The Oakland A’s acquired Frankie Montas from the Los Angeles Dodgers back in 2016, and on Tuesday he got his first chance to pitch against his former team. Unfortunately, the Dodgers also happen to be the second-best scoring club in the majors this year, and they came out on top in this matchup.
Montas was knocked out after four innings, and the A’s lost 7-2 in a game where little went right for them in any department. With the win, plus a loss by the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers officially clinched the NL West division crown, joining the A’s as Western division winners.
The game began well enough for Oakland. Their second batter, Robbie Grossman, went yard on a 98 mph fastball, fighting it off for what looked like a harmless popup to left field or perhaps a foul ball. However, it kept carrying until it surprisingly bounced off the foul pole for an opposite-field dinger.
I was surprised that Grossman's ball went out. But it hit high up on the foul pole.
Giants find their groove late, beat Rockies 5-2
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/22/21451922/san-francisco-giants-rockies-final-score
Like so many great works of our time, the San Francisco Giants 5-2 win over the Colorado Rockies had three acts.
Let’s look at each.
Act 1: Hope and growth
The Giants 7-2 loss to the Rockies on Monday got off to an ominous start. Johnny Cueto allowed runners on the corners with just one out in the first inning, and only a few minutes into action, the game was on the line.
Cueto struck out Trevor Story, and a scoreless inning was within reach.
The Giants are horrible this year. They are winning not because they are good, but because of the short season and the bottom of the barrel of the NL and AL West divisions are even worse. The Padres are going to sweep them in the Giant's final 4 game homestand. I mean, hell man, they've got a rookie catcher, a rotation of nobodies, a bad pen, a SS at CF because they ran out of outfielders including the RF that is a minor-league journeyman who struggled with 0.250 batting mostly at single-A ball.
"because of the short season and the bottom of the barrel of the NL and AL West divisions are even worse."
I mean, this basically sounds like the makeup of a .500 team, which is what the Giants are. They only have a shot at the playoffs because of the expanded field. .500 is still much better than I would have expected.
Basically you have the A's, Dodgers, and Padres. @Shocked the Astros are struggling offensively@. Although the Padres are much better than I or anyone thought they would be. They sure are going all in. Giants are definitely much better than I thought they would be.
Dodgers power their way to yet another National League West title
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/22/21451881/los-angeles-dodgers-national-league-west-division-champions-2020
For the eighth year in a row, the Los Angeles Dodgers are the National League West champions.
The best team in baseball clinched the division and the No. 1 seed in the National League on Tuesday night with a 7-2 win over the Athletics at Dodger Stadium, coupled with a Padres loss at home to the Angels a little earlier in the night.
“It’s been really bizarre,” manager Dave Roberts said on a postgame conference call, his 55th in a pandemic-shortened season. “I recall a time a few months ago where I didn’t know if we were going to have a season this year.
Looking forward to the postseason collapse, as reliable a marker of fall as pumpkin spice lattes.
And this season with the 3 game playoffs it's a crapshoot. The Reds may be the toughest team because they have 3 tough pitchers. They're the one team in the bottom 4 I would not want to play in the first round. And maybe the Brewers with their bullpen. And no real home field advantage.
The crowds isn't as important as having the last go.
I think relievers, closers especially, are having troubles getting up for games without the crowds.
Yes, and the traditional October image of Kershaw hanging his head in the dugout after giving up another lead.
I don’t like either of them but I have plenty of practice ignoring both
It does seem to be a pretty reliable indicator.
GBBR
CAL
One of the current grad students in my group, who graduated from UCSB and not a college sports fan, just "said" (in the group slack channel) that there is no clear flagship campus for the UC (she's looking for postdoc jobs and was confused by the location of some of the other state schools). I don't know how offended I should be about this.
Very!
Go Bears!
Report: Pac-12 meets today to start 7 game season starting on Halloween
https://twitter.com/BriAmaranthus/status/1308756674602242050
Alameda County got the go-ahead to open more things by moving to the red tier, but they are not doing it. I wonder if they're going to agree to this plan.
I want my gym and tattoo shop to open back up. Fuck everything else.
i think gyms are orange tier. you have a month or so yet for that if everything goes well.
* Thursday
Hopefully they have the votes....it will be tough to be the only conference in the country not playing football...that should do wonders for recruiting.
Looks like Alameda County will be "opening up" some of the covid restrictions in about 2 weeks, which may provide Cal the ability to conduct practices and fall camp,
I mentioned this before, I think City of Berkeley PHD has sole, local jurisdiction on all matters Cal, since the campus is in the city limits.