DBD 11.9.09 I'm Sorry
by TwistNHook on Nov 9, 2009 7:55 AM PST
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But I don't think I'll put a Photo Essay together for this game. I took a lot of photos of the various events and kept constructing ideas in my head. Like when they had that goddamn stupid Odwalla race on the big screen (NO JOKE!). But I just don't feel like putting them all together. Monica's Dad (who I walked by and screamed MONICA'S DAD at several time without response, oddly) and Matt Chan have taken some great photos. Like this one here from Matt Chan:
But my focus for that game has shifted. I don't much wanna think about it anymore. Seeing that horrific accident occur directly in front of me sort of changed my priorities in life. Less about hating Stanford, more about hugging my wife. But the show must go on. So, here is today's DBD:
Women's Tennis player claims Indoor Championship:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - No. 4-ranked California women's tennis sophomore Jana Juricova became the first Golden Bear to win the ITA National Indoor Tennis Singles Championship as she defeated No. 8-ranked Irina Falconi of Georgia Tech, 6-4, 7-6(4), at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center on the campus of Yale University, Sunday, Nov. 8. Juricova was just the second player from Cal to advance to the title match and prevented Falconi from becoming the first woman since 1985 to capture both the singles title at the All-American Championship and the Indoor Championship.
Juricova didn't drop a set on her way to capturing her second national championship; her first as a singles player. She secured Cal's fifth singles national championship and pushed her record against Falconi to a perfect 3-0 mark. Raquel Kops-Jones won the 2003 ITA All-American crown, and Susie Babos won the 2006 and 2007 ITA All-American championship title in addition to the 2006 NCAA singles crown. Juricova is the defending NCAA doubles champion with junior Mari Andersson. She first took out Falconi at the ITA Team Indoor Championships in a 6-3, 7-5 win on Feb. 14 before defeating Falconi, 6-0, 6-4, in the NCAA team championship round of 16 on May 15.
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Mens BBall v. Murray St tonight:
No. 12 California opens the 2009-10 season when it hosts Murray State on Monday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. at Haas Pavilion and Detroit on Wednesday, Nov, 11, at 8 p.m. at Haas Pavilion as part of the regional portion of the 2009 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer.
The Golden Bears were picked to win the Pac-10 in the conference media poll that came out on Oct. 29. In addition, Cal earned a Top-25 preseason ranking for the third time in school history (No. 12 USA Today/Coaches poll, No. 13 Associated Press). Cal was also picked No. 10 in the Rivals.com preseason poll and No. 12 in the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) poll.
Last Thursday, Cal handled Chico State, 84-42, in an exhibition contest at Haas Pavilion. Senior guard Patrick Christopher had a game-high 16 points and senior forward Jamal Boykin led all players with 12 rebounds. Tonight is Christopher’s 100th career game.
Christopher is joined in the backcourt this season by fellow 2009 All-Pac-10 first-teamer, senior guard Jerome Randle. Both Randle and Christopher were recently named to the Naismith Trophy watch list. Randle is also listed as a candidate for the Wooden Award, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and the Bob Cousy Award.
One of the major contributing factors to Cal’s 20-win campaign in 2008-09 was its three-point shooting. The Bears, who led the nation in that category all of last season, were armed with senior forward Theo Robertson (56-115, 48.7%), Randle (82-177, 46.3%) and Christopher (48-134, 35.8%) from behind the arc. Cal ended the campaign with a three-point shooting percentage of 42.7, which not only was the best in school history, but marked first time the Bears shot over 40.0 percent.
Junior-College transfer Markhuri Sanders-Frison, who averaged 9.0 ppg and 6.6 rpg at South Plains City College last season, joined the four veteran seniors in last Thursday’s starting lineup. Also getting some quality playing time last Thursday was freshman guard Brandon Smith, who comes to Berkeley after leaving De La Salle High School regarded as one of the greatest defenders in the history of the program.
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Syd receives honor:
ATLANTA – Cal DB Syd’Quan Thompson was honored Sunday by the College Football Performance Awards as one of the CFPA’s Defensive Back Honorable Mention Performers of the Week for his performance in Cal’s 31-14 home defeat Saturday at the hands of Oregon State at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley.
Thompson equaled a season-best with eight tackles in the contest and also had a career-high-tying 3.0 tackles for loss and one pass breakup. The breakup was the 33rd of his career and moved him into sole possession of second place on Cal’s all-time list.
Thompson was honored by the CFPA for the first time in his career and is the sixth Cal player to be honored by the organization in 2009. Others include P Bryan Anger, TB Jahvid Best, QB Kevin Riley, WR/RET Jeremy Ross and TB Shane Vereen.
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Men’s Water Polo beats Long Beach State:
LONG BEACH, CALIF. – The No. 2-ranked Cal men’s water polo team, led by sophomore standout Ivan Rackov’s four goals, topped No. 8-ranked Long Beach State, 13-7, Sunday, Nov. 8 in Long Beach. The Golden Bears improved to 18-4 overall and 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, while the 49ers dropped to 8-11 and 1-6 in league play. Senior captain Mike Sample and redshirt freshman Spencer White added two goals apiece as Cal won its seventh match in a row.
The Bears owned a 4-3 lead early in the second period before notching four of the next five goals to put the match out of reach. Rackov tallied three of his four goals in the third period. The second-year player from Belgrade, Serbia also paced Cal with three assists and added three steals and two ejections earned.
Senior captain Spencer Warden also had a stellar match, leading the team with four steals and adding three assists and two ejections earned.
“Overall it was a very good weekend,” said Cal coach Kirk Everist, as the Bears have now won 10 of their last 11 contests, including defeating UC Santa Barbara, 7-4, Saturday. “We played solid team defense in both matches and we got goals from eight different players, which is good to see. We are becoming a consistent team, which is important as we move into the final phase of the season.”
Cal next hosts Pacific in an MPSF match on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 10:30 a.m. at Spieker Aquatics Complex. Earlier this season, the Bears defeated the Tigers, 11-7, in Stockton, and 14-6, in the first round of the UCI Invitational.
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Men’s Tennis player takes singles crown at Invitational:
MORAGA, Calif. – MORAGA, Calif. – Third-seeded California men’s tennis freshman Christoffer Konigsfeldt took home the 2009 Saint Mary’s Invitational singles championship on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Timothy Korth Tennis Complex as he defeated eighth-seeded sophomore Nick Andrews in the title match.
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Women’s tennis compete at tourney:
EMPE, Ariz. – The California women’s tennis team completed fall individual tournament competition winning three matches on the final day of the 2009 Arizona State Thunderbird Invitational at Whiteman Tennis Center, Sunday, Nov. 8. Senior Kasia Siwosz took out Whitney Taney of Michigan in three sets, 4-6, 7-6, 6-1, and freshman Tayler Davis defeated Michelle Sulahian of Michigan, 6-3, 6-1. Davis and sophomore Stephany Chang earned a doubles victory over Denise Muresan and Rika Tatsuno of Michigan, 8-6.
In additional singles matches, Chang fell to Tatsuno, 6-1, 6-3; freshman Nelly Radeva lost in three sets to Juleitte Coupez of San Diego, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5; and sophomore Catalina Visico dropped a 6-1, 6-1 decision to Kari Wig of Michigan. Davis and Siwosz combined for a doubles match but fell, 8-4, to Christina Keesey and Paloma Escobedo of Ohio State.
The Golden Bears will begin dual matches the next time they take the court as the team travels to the islands for a Jan. 14, 2010, date with the Rainbow Wahine of Hawai’i in Honolulu. Please check CalBears.com for more information.
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Women’s Soccer loses to Stanford:
STANFORD, Calif. – The California women’s soccer team fell to the No. 1 team in the country, 4-1, against top-ranked Stanford on Sunday afternoon at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. Alex Morgan had Cal’s lone goal while the Cardinal’s Kelley O’Hara netted a hat trick to power the Cardinal (20-0 overall, 8-0 in the Pac-10) past the Golden Bears (10-8-1, 4-5-0 Pac-10) in the regular-season finale for both squads. The annual Big Game between the rival schools was played in a sell-out crowd of 2,000 with fans filling the stadium and lining the field.
The Bears took the first shot on goal in the second minute when Kevorkian powered one off after Morgan went down in the box, but the Stanford keeper Kira Maker was there for the save.
After Pellegrini had made three impressive saves, the Stanford offense poked one through at 13:40. The Cardinal took a corner kick, which was headed away by the Cal defense, but Stanford’s Kelley O’Hara rebounded the ball, and shot it to the back right from 10 yards out for her 21st goal of the season.
The Bears took off on an offensive tear when Emily Shibata passed the ball to a sprinting Lisa Kevorkian, but Maker came out of goal and fell on the ball.
Stanford scored its second goal at 31:17, again thanks to O’Hara. Rachel Quon played a ball to her from the right and O’Hara headed it in to the back post.
O’Hara earned herself a hat trick with Stanford’s third goal of the game in the 53rd minute off an assist from Alicia Jenkins.
At 58:10, heavily pressured by five defenders and the keeper in front of the box, Morgan was awarded a penalty kick.
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Diver places 7th:
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – Junior diver Thomas Henninger placed seventh in the finals of both the one-meter and three-meter competition at the USC Diving Invitational at McDonald’s Swim Stadium in Los Angeles.
Henninger, from Glenside, Penn., tallied a score of 257.15 on the one-meter board and a 291.60 on the three-meter board. Last season at the Pac-10 Diving Championships, he had placed fifth in the three-meter competition and was seventh on the one-meter board. Henninger was also the Pac-10 Diver of the Month for both November and December of 2008.
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VBall beats UW:
SEATTLE – California volleyball senior outside hitter Hana Cutura posted her third 30-kill match of the season with a career-high 33 kills (10e, 77att, .299) to lead the No. 13-ranked Golden Bears (15-8, 8-5 Pac-10) to a five-set victory (23-25, 25-18, 14-25, 25-23, 15-13) over No. 4 Washington (20-3, 10-3 Pac-10) Saturday, Nov. 7, at Bank of America Arena. Cal dealt the Huskies their first home-loss of the season and won its third-consecutive match against a ranked opponent as Cutura surpassed Lisa Arce (1987-90; 1,806 kills) and Tiffany Rochelle (1986-89; 1,814 kills) to become Cal’s all-time career kills leader with 1,825.
Cutura’s prolific performance also included eight digs and four blocks. She also moved ahead of Angie Pressey (2004-07) into third place at Cal in all-time career attacks with 4,244. Sophomore outside hitter Tarah Murrey matched her career-high with 19 digs and added eight kills (4e, 26att, .154). Senior libero Kristen Kathan dug up a season-high 23 balls and had one of the Bears’ three service aces. Junior setter Carli Lloyd dished out a match-high 54 assists and was one dig short of a double-double with nine as she added five kills (1e, 12att, .333) and six blocks (two solo).
Freshman middle hitter Kat Brown matched her career high with a match-high eight blocks and junior defensive specialist Meagan Schmitt tied her career high for digs with 11. Freshman opposite hitter Correy Johnson tallied seven kills (4e, 19att, .158) with five blocks and senior middle hitter Mindi Wiley added eight kills (4e, 20att, .200) with three blocks. The Bears put up 65 kills (24e, 163att) in the match for a .252 attack percentage while the Huskies had 63 kills (24e, 177att) for a .220 attack rate. Cal out-blocked its opponent for the 16th time this year; this time to the tune of 17.0-9.5.
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That’s it? “VBall beats UW”
This wasn’t a normal feat like going out and buying a cup of coffee. We knocked off #4 on the road, a team which had swept #5 the just night before. It was also Washington’s first home loss of the season.
This should bring us near the top 10 again with only three big matches left to play. With this win we could lose two more and still get a good seed into the tourney. Some are already saying we’re a lock for the tourney now even if we lose all three big remaining matches (Oregon, Arizona, Stanford).
I don’t have any video of this match where Hana set a new career high of 33 kills but here’s one that I liked vs the Trojans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVAxLbJ_wg
She drops a bomb. It’s an angle shot so it’s not even hitting full strength. However, when the spike is dug, it bounces off the girl’s hand and flies 100 feet in the other direction. Not much you can do to defend something like that.
I’m always rushing Monday morning to try to get all the stories up. I apologize that my heading was insufficient for the success-level of the game. Please feel free to draft a fanpost to help us better understand the amazing-ness that was this victory.
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Another diver places 4th:
LOS ANGELES – California freshman Kelsey Heiken placed fourth in the one-meter springboard final on Saturday in the last event of the Trojan Diving Invitational at USC’s McDonald’s Swim Stadium. Heiken posted a score of 253.75 in the final after finishing in second place in the preliminary round with a score of 246.85 earlier in the day. Freshman teammate Rachel Becker posted a score of 199.20 in the prelim but did not advance to the final.
USC’s Victoria Ishimatsu won the one-meter title (310.55).
Heiken finished eighth in the meet’s three-meter springboard final on Friday, Nov. 6, one day after she won the three-meter event in Cal’s dual-meet win over Fresno State in Berkeley.
“Kelsey again had a great week vs. Fresno State and then here,” Cal diving coach Ben Herdt said. "She qualified second out of prelims. That was really good. It was great experience for both the girls. This was really impressive stuff from Kelsey. She’s starting to put things together. She has an incredible ability to jump. She’s showing the other Pac-10 teams that she’s ready to compete.
“This will set Kelsey up pretty well heading into the Texas meet.”
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Stu Mandel on Jahvid Best
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/11/08/College.Overtime/index.html
The obvious asterisk to that latter stat is that Cal played the second half without tailback Jahvid Best, who suffered a horrifying fall on this touchdown run. After a scary scene in which the entire Cal team stood in a circle and watched paramedics immobilize Best and place him on a stretcher, it was a relief to find out that Best suffered a concussion and regained movement in his extremities.
I understand that Cal isn’t Florida and Jahvid Best is not Tim Tebow, but shame on you, Mr. Mandel. A situation this serious deserves more than one bullet point.
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Hey, if you’re reading much right now, buy this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812980042
I’m reading it now and there’s tons of stuff in there that you can use with your clients right away. Plus itll prob will tickle your conservative sensibilities since it’s pretty nice to Regan. I think it’s great so far and the last chapter is spot on. Politically, this book is right down the middle so you’ll prob think it’s too liberal, but compared to so many other books, I think you’ll take that.
Seems like a solid read. I have some current reading to finish up, but I might just order this right now anyway.
Also, to be honest, I’m really not as conservative as people seem to think. Realistically, I’m conservative (or whatever label to put on it) on economics and foreign policy, and pretty liberal (more, I just don’t care) on social policy.
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Dude, I ran into Zoonews with Zoonews Jr. at Sproul on Saturday. I watched him change a diaper (with his epic origama-esque) skills. I saw everything. I feel so creepy!
I’m definitely having all-girls. Honestly, I can’t wait to have kids just to get a chance to dress them. EPIC!
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Yea I’m just not feeling it today and it almost feels as if making jokes are… inappropriate
In other words, Go Bears!
Yeah, I agree, it wasn’t any good anyway.
;)
The Lack of Mack's Imposition Attacks My Disposition.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Nov 9, 2009 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
In a bit of a predicament
I used to be really superstitious with football and it caused me a lot of emotional/mental pain during our Oregon/USC games so I made a deal to break all of my superstitions and just not care starting with the UCLA game. And hey we won! Same with Wazzu and ASU.
This past Saturday I followed my superstitions a bit and look what happened. But by following superstitions I was breaking the superstitions to not follow superstitions… WTF?
In other words, Go Bears!
Blame me
I couldn’t find my blue and gold “Beat StanfUrd” wrist bands that have a Bear buggering an Indian from behind on them, and thus went into the game very unsure of myself… We lost… Best got hurt… I apologize…
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
Okay, so one step to normalcy is complete
RoyRules’s use of DBDs as Twitter. What trend is next? Me arguing uselessly with Holmoephobe? Twist making unfunny jokes? carp’s nsfw pics?
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More Sad News
The three american hikers we all criticized for being dumb…. the ones who were arrested in Iran while hiking the Iran-Iraq border, are being charged with espionage. If memory serves me, two of them were Berkeley grads.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/09/iran.hikers/index.html
Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iran is charging three American hikers with espionage, a Tehran prosecutor said Monday.
The three Americans have been detained since July 31 on charges of illegally crossing the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran. Their family and friends say it was an innocent mistake.
Well, this sucks for them, but the fact that it might get much worse doesn’t absolve them from criticism that even putting themselves in such a situation was pretty dumb.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
In the event that I was going to go hiking along the Iranian border, I’d think about buying the best maps available and making sure I had a functioning GPS unit and a ton of batteries.
Of course, the odds of me doing something like that – no showers, no crapper, likely no bars – are about nil.
I’ve heard there are some great hikes within the Korean DMZ. Rick Steve should publish a guide!
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
NEED SOME VOLUNTEERS
Here’s the Basketball sched:
http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/cal-m-baskbl-sched.html
As you can see almost all of our games will be televised this year. WOW.
Because of female-bureaucratic-resistance, PRD prob won’t get away with staying home for every one of these games. Even though h really wants to. We need someone who can backup PRD from time to time.
Requirements:
1) Need to live in bay area and get all the channels that air our regional games.
2) TV tuner card
3) High speed internet with decent up speed
I can provide you with the software you need and teach you how to stream the games to Justin.tv or UStream. All you need is the desire to contribute to the Cal community. You will coordinate with PRD to step up when he can’t stream a game, which won’t be often. As a bonus, I’ll teach you how to create a channel and stream movies, TV, animal porn etc… or if you just want to be a cam whore (male cam whore.. wtf?), then I can help you with that too… I guess.
Email Twist and he’ll forward to me.
Email is goldenblogs at gmail dot com.
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I just ate a bagel and briefly thought that I was no longer dead inside. Then I realized that I was no longer hungry thanks to the bagel, but am definitely still dead inside.
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Twist of the year!
The Lack of Mack's Imposition Attacks My Disposition.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Nov 9, 2009 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
I thought I was the Twist of the year!
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LeGarrette Blount reinstated. Will be available to play vs. Arizona State.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
The LSJUMB’s ever-so-timely and ever-so-classy halftime show response.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Update on HIMYM tonight
It actually may not suck this time. It looks like
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Barney and Robin break up. He will be fully single by next week. I’m actually kinda excited to watch it today (though they really need to stop having it at the same time as MNF)
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The actor who plays Barney Stinson is all gay. Literally. He’s gay.
Kudos to Neil Patrick Harris for pulling it off, but come on, it’s a women’s show.
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Shocking. You are the first person to ever bring up NPH’s sexual orientation.
I dunno, the premise of the show is meant for women, but Barney Stinson really echoes sentiments of, well, men. It’s why he authored the Bro Code. Not really meant for women.
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Barney Stinson really echoes sentiments of, well, men
I hope you’re being facetious. But I can’t tell with you.
dboneisloose
You know, when I say all these things, you still have to keep my age in mind.
I guess he doesn’t echo the sentiments of all men, obviously. He echoes the sentiments of your prototypical “man’s man”, if you catch what I’m saying.
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Look, as someone who has admitted to watching Coupling, I’m in no position to write “Rishi watch chick show hur hur.” Not having seen HIMYM I have no opinion about it one way or the other.
But the marketing people likely know what they’re up to.
It’s so that Twist can watch HIMYM while his wife watches MNF
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Nov 9, 2009 12:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Best albums of the decade
Note: This list lacks a lot of hip-hop and loads up on the indie rock.
Bullet-point list.
50. Bjork: Vespertine
49. Libertines: Up the Bracket
48. Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
47. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
46. Once: Music from the Motion Picture
45. Radiohead: In Rainbows
44. The Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
43. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
42. Jay-Z: the Blueprint
41. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
40. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
39. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
38. Gentleman Jesse: Introducing Gentleman Jesse
37. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
36. Pedro The Lion: Control
35. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
34. Various artists: O Brother Where Art Thou?
33. Coldplay: Rush of Blood to the Head
32. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
31. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
30. Damien Rice: O
29. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
28. Paul Westerberg: Folker
27. Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day
26. Over the Rhine: Ohio
25. Sigur Rós: Med ud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
24. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
23. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
22. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
21. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
20. The National: Boxer
19. Beck: Sea Change
18. Amy Whinehouse: Back to Black
17. Kanye West: The College Dropout
16. Rufus Wainwright: Want One
15. Patty Griffin: 1000 Kisses
14. The Strokes: Is This It
13. Josh Ritter: The Animal Years
12. Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
11. The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
10. M.I.A.: Arular
9. The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You
8. OutKast: Stankonia
7. Gillian Welch: Time
6. The White Stripes: Elephant
5. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
4. Radiohead—Kid A
3. Arcade Fire—Funeral
2. Wilco—Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
1. Sufjan Stevens—Illinois
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moar hip-hop plz. When will you white people ever learn? (says the WASP from Sacramento)
Jay-Z managed to parlay one good album into token inclusion on every best album list for the next 100 years. Simply staggering.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Neither. Reasonable Doubt.
(it also occurs to me that I basically know fuck-all about hip hop that’s actually from this decade. My contemporary hip hop collection might be limited to just People Under the Stairs, Sean P!, MF Doom, and latter day Wu-projects that I think are pretty much crap. I dunno, but there has to be better stuff out there than Kanye, Jay-Z, and one Outkast album.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Check out the “Sound Providers.” They’re kinda the American version of Nujabes-style hip hop – that is to say, jazz-inspired hip-hop.
Standout tracks are “Braggin and Boastin,” and “Autumn’s Evening Breeze.”
I’m a huge jazz/hip-hop fusion guy.
i'm here to clean your pool but i don't have a pool *bowchica bowow*
more rap than hiphop.
It’s the same thing.
But yeah I’ve listened to a couple of their tracks (in particular Carolina Agents, which has got to be the best track Kanye West never produced) and they a’ight.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I’ve thought about it – hip hop in the last decade, after a cursory look through my iTunes this is what I’ve come up with:
Jay-Z: Yeah, he’s the biggest and most mainstream, but you know what, aside from the Blueprint 2 and Kingdom Come, everything he’s done has been good.
Kanye: Yes, he’s an egotistical ass. Yes, he’s an insufferable headcase. But College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation are 3 of my favorite albums. . . OF ALL TIME! OF ALL TIME!
Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter II and III. I don’t know why, but I just like these two.
Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele, Fishscale, The Big Doe Rehab
Eminem: Look, whatever has happened to Em lately, doesn’t detract from the awesomeness that was the Marshall Mathers LP.
Nas: Stillmatic. “One hot album/ever five years average” – Jigga was right, but Stillmatic is that album.
For some less mainstream stuff:
Madvillian: Madvillian
Lupe Fiasco: The Cool
RJD2: Since we last spoke
Ah heck – just pick up some DangerDoom, Talib Kweli – and the Roots! The Roots!
by LeonPowe on Nov 9, 2009 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Great list. Would add Common, Little Brother, Brother Ali, Outkast, Jedi Mind Tricks (albeit political) and Atmosphere to that list.
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Oh god not Brother Ali. I hate that Atmosphere crap on a level I can’t explain.
Jedi Mind Tricks I avoid on the basis that if your sound in harder than the Wu Tang Clan, then you’re trying too hard. (Sean P! is an exception.)
(Also in re: Eminem, I don’t have any Tupac either. My downloading habits can be weird that way.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
It’s kind of weird how much I enjoy all forms of hip hop except the popular shit.
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Popular now or popular period? Like, do you not enjoy 36 Chambers or Illmatic or do you just think lil Wayne can go to fuck? (Because I totally think lil Wayne can go to fuck. I’d like to punch him in the throat but obviously someone’s beaten me to it, repeatedly!)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Popular now. Shit you hear on the radio, the loud crunk. 36 Chambers is the shit. Liked what I heard of Ilmatic.
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………..Picturing you say this is not jiving with my worldview and I will not stand for it.
The Lack of Mack's Imposition Attacks My Disposition.
Crunk is a little bit 2006/7 no?
I think there’s always something good in the most very popular stuff – right now at the top of the charts, I still like Jay and Kanye’s stuff. Kid Cudi is great – and I mean really great. Ok,he might not be on Hot 97, but he’s on Kanye’s label.
Seriously, check out Kid Cudi.
I’ve always like Luda too – even if he’s not partciularly a good rapper.
I love College Dropout. One of my favorite albums. Jay-Z is more of a ‘meh’ from me, although I might have to check it again.
Kid Cudi? Damn, I’ll have to check them out now.
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Peep this shit
People Under the Stairs- San Francisco Knights
This is from their first album when their technique was still pretty raw and they didn’t know how to program a bassline, but come on, that guitar sample is unassailable.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Some more good occasionally political rap/hiphop/music of this decade comes from The Coup and from Dead Prez. I can’t say I listen to them ALL the time, but they scratch a certain itch now and then. I’d never heard of Jedi Mind Tricks, I’ll try them out.
I won’t say I agree with everything JMT says, but they really know how to spit good lyrics. It’s impressive stuff.
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I’LL FUCKING KILL EVERY ONE OF YOU FAGGOTS PRAISE BE TO ALLAH ASALAM ALAAIKUM
like that, right?
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I actually like Lupe more than Kanye. I think he’s my favorite rapper right now. Some other rappers I really like: Blue Scholars (from Seattle), Cool Kids, eMC / Masta Ace, Apathy.
Masta Ace is the shit, though I haven’t listened to much from him outside of Disposable Arts. Acknowledge probably the best diss track I’ve ever heard. (Well, that or Shaolin Soldiers by King Just, but I don’t think a lot of people have heard of that one.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I’ve heard of all of these but a lot of them just aren’t my thing – Illinois or 1000 Kisses, for instance.
On the positive side: The Artic Monkeys album is good, although I think their third album might be better. Considering that the first one was released when they were still in their teens and 3 years removed from their first live performance, it’s pretty impressive. The LCD Soundsytem album is worth a listen. I don’t have that particular TV on the Radio cd, but the last one they released, Dear Science, is a quality effort – though I may be biased as an adolescent of the 80s. The Strokes and the White Stripes’ albums are good as well.
I can take or leave Merriweather Post Pavilion, it’s okay. Sigur Ros is interesting. Vampire Weekend and Death Cab for Cutie are the sort of self-satisfied hipster bands that make me want to try and punch the smug off their fucking faces – whereas The National and the Hold Steady are just kind of dull.
Kid-A on the other hand… What a fucking joke. There are a lot of ambient and trance artists who could have sued them for copyright infringement with that turgid, uninspired, derivative pile of poo. The only reason I can deduce for the critical acclaim it gets is that the people raving about it hadn’t been listening to any electronica of any kind for the previous 5 years.
Why all the Kid A hat? I really like that album, and I am very familiar with electronica. You might call Kid A’s electronica “derivative,” but I consider it “recontextualizing.” And some of the songs on there are genius, in particular “The National Anthem” is one of my favorite songs ever.
If you enjoy it, fair play to you. I have no evangelical agenda to stop people from enjoying it. I’m also not inherently dead set against derivative music, by any means, otherwise I’d reject just about everything released in the last 30 40 50 years. But for whatever reason, I can’t abide this particular instance. I remember very clearly being out in LA for a wedding when it was released, and KROQ played the whole thing on a Sunday night – I listened as I was driving from the OC to the SF Valley, and at the end of the album all I could think was “that was it? Are you joking?”
It’s not fair, and it’s not rational, even though I can give you a reason. I don’t get that reaction very often (most recently was while trying to not cut off my ears during a Fiery Furnaces set) but when I do, I roll with it.
at the end of the album all I could think was "that was it? Are you joking?"
This was my first reaction too, and I love this album.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Like I said, not fair and probably not rational. But I had been a big fan of people like Aphex Twin in the years preceding, listened to a lot of drum and bass and jungle and all that sort of crap, and I didn’t see the value.
Ah, I see. I suppose compared to Aphex Twin, Kid A hardly seemed worth it.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Actually, no. Aphex Twin is too out there for me, but I can see for someone who was into that scene, Radiohead would hardly seemed to be as radical as it was for most commercial rock radio station listeners. I think paleodan’s comment about “recontextualizing” seems to be very ‘on the mark’, however.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I am now a big fan of Aphex Twin, but I came into his music sideways…after I had already listened to (and really enjoyed) Kid A. I don’t think Radiohead’s “electronica” and Aphex Twin (and other IDM musicians like Squarepusher and Plaid) have that much in common. They fit in completely different boxes for me. Aphex Twin is extremely mathematical, like it was written by a computer, while Radiohead is more organic—dystopian and emotionally detached, maybe, but still much more human.
That’s an interesting way to characterize Aphex Twin. I had understood – and it has been a while, so I could be confusing artists here – that a lot of the sound was generated by equipment that he had built, rather than via software, so while it was extremely repetitive and machine-created, it was somehow also more human in origin.
But since Radiohead are your actual musicians, it would make sense that their work would be less… mechanistic, for lack of a better word. I’ve always enjoyed “Fake Plastic Trees” and you wouldn’t call that warmth in 4/4 time (or whatever the signature is).
“Dystopian and emotionally detached” – you mean English?
You’re right about Aphex Twin. He doesn’t use a lot of software, and uses a lot of DIY equipment, but I still think his music is very mathematical. (In fact, his most recent releases have been produced completely analog, with his huge collection of synthesizers.)
My basic thought process about Kid-A (or at least my thought process the last time I listened to it, which was quite a while ago):
i can haz riffs?
i CAN haz riffs! (see also: bleeps, bloops, melodies, etc.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Albums I own:
47. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
It’s a good album, but I’m not sure I’d immediately think of it for a list like this.
46. Once: Music from the Motion Picture
Fantastic music from a really neat movie. Rent it, you’ll probably want to go buy the soundtrack immediately.
45. Radiohead: In Rainbows
I’ve had this album for almost a year now, and I like it, but I still don’t have a firm opinion of it. At this point in Radiohead’s career, the only reference point I have for them is Radiohead’s earlier albums.
41. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Electronica for people who don’t necessarily like electronica. Melody? Song structure? What? I didn’t know what to do with it at first, but it’s grown on me.
39. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
This album should be higher. Absolutely brilliant.
34. Various artists: O Brother Where Art Thou?
It doesn’t fit in my collection at all, but it’s really, really great music, and I don’t think the movie is the classic it is without this soundtrack.
33. Coldplay: Rush of Blood to the Head
Believe it or not, there was a time before Coldplay seemed to be a bunch of pretentious U2 wannabes with an inflated sense of purpose. Which side of that time this album falls on is a matter of opinion, but I happen to think it’s pretty good (I still like their first album, Parachutes, better).
24. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
Will it change your life? I don’t know. But it’s about as good as indie rock gets.
21. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
One catchy single and some pretentious overeducated college rock. I kinda like it, actually, but I wouldn’t put it on a 50 best list.
19. Beck: Sea Change
Beck’s best album. Seriously. Better than Odelay. Not as groundbreaking, perhaps, but in it’s complete depiction of Beck picking up the pieces from a broken relationship, it’s beautiful and tragic at the same time. A masterpiece.
14. The Strokes: Is This It
Intellectually, I understand why everyone thinks The Strokes are so great, but I only think they’re pretty good. Worth giving a listen, but stylistically, there’s just not that much there. How the bass player doesn’t fall asleep from boredom is beyond me.
6. The White Stripes: Elephant
The more I listen to The White Stripes, the more I’m convinced that Jack White is a less-talented version of Jimmy Page. Which isn’t to say he still isn’t very talented. But he’s no Jimmy Page.
4. Radiohead—Kid A
Gonna have to disagree with DC Trojan on this one. A dense, scattered album that made me question everything I thought I knew about rock music, I think it slowly reveals itself to be a masterpiece.
3. Arcade Fire—Funeral
If you’re not listening to Arcade Fire, you’re missing out. I cannot say enough about how good this band is.
2. Wilco—Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I think this album has received more hype that it’s worth, but that’s not to say it isn’t a very good album. A classic.
Don’t own these, but I know the artists well:
31. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
22. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
12. Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
All three of these artists are very, very good, and if these are their best albums, I’ve been missing out. Spoon’s last few albums in particular have been brilliant in daring new ways.
Also, this list is missing plenty of obvious choices from the last decade. Three glaring examples that come immediately to mind: Green Day’s American Idiot, Muse’s Black Holes & Revelations, and Kings of Leon’s Only By The Night.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on Nov 9, 2009 2:47 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I forgot about The Shins… they don’t really do much for me one way or the other. And your disagreement re: Kid A is duly noted.
Black Holes and & Revelations was a splendid album, although I suspect that it doesn’t show up on “best of…” lists because it’s catchy and commercial. You could make the same point about Kasabian.
Muse’s Black Holes & Revelations
I think I’d put Absolution or perhaps even Origin of Symmetry above Black Holes & Revelations, although that may just be a personal preference deal. All of Muse’s albums have been of a similarly high quality that it’s difficult to order them.
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Maybe I’m a sucker for Indie Pop, but I love the Shins. Any of their albums are excellent, but the middle one which is the one listed here is my favorite of the three. Pedro the Lion is fun, as is Spoon and Wilco. Radiohead has been around forever but I never got into them, and never understood all their hype. Also agree with O Brother Where Art Thou. The other simple thing I always find I like is anything that uses simple melodic hooks with layered vocal harmonies that remind me of the Beach Boys, which is why I love The Explorer’s Club. They’’re not in that list but I will shamelessly pimp them anyway. http://www.myspace.com/explorersclub
I have a good half of these albums – it’s basically the Pitckfork starter kit.
Some quick thoughts:
The DCFC/Shins stuff is excellent. Chutes Too Narrow is one of my top 10 for the decade. But it seems like they got almost that entire Portland/northwest indie scene there – just missing Modest Mouse – maybe too concentrated with one area.
Needs more hip hop – agreed. I’d argue myself that Graduation was the better (in fact best Kanye) album – and Blueprint is a classic, but I think of the Black album as more representative of this era. I can’t think of what off the top of my head though – I’ll look through my iTunes and get back to this.
Bright Eyes is excellent. Sufjan Stevens is excellent – although the album is “Illinoise” I dunno, if you like pitchfork, then you’re going to like a lot of this music – but I feel too much of it is in the same vein.
Also – it’s missing the two Franz Ferdinand albums.
by LeonPowe on Nov 9, 2009 3:22 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Something to laugh about:
Courtesy of Springnews.com (who got it from Dr. Saturday):
13. Posted by michiganlady Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:40 pm EST
Heres what I saw today…Purdue team being cowards in the last 2 minutes by wasting 50 seconds of play time out of fear that Michigan would move the ball close enough to get a field goal and therefore beat them..
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For those of who who were posting during the game, if you noticed that I stopped posting suddenly in the second quarter…my son decided to dump a cup of water on the computer at home. It exploded.
CHILD FAIL
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
Laptop?
If so I hope you unplugged it immediately and turned it upside down.
My friend had full throttle (the energy drink) spilled on his laptop (by his careless roommate) a couple of years back. Totally ruined it.
In other words, Go Bears!
no, a desktop. It started hissing and popping right away. Total loss.
Shit happens, especially with 5 year old careless children. It just didn’t help that Cal was getting prison raped by OSU at the time
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
Ah well
You can probably salvage it depending on what parts the water hit. More than likely your mobo went bye bye.
In other words, Go Bears!
Did it literally explode? If it’s just wet, you can aid the drying by putting it on an oven door with the door down and having set the oven temp to warm. Or you can take it apart (look up the ‘field replacement unit manual’ for your laptop for guidance) and try to dry out the individual compartments. I’ve recovered a laptop that was soaked in CocaCola this way.
And the battery should be out, too, regarding royrules22 statement.
Good luck!
This is making me feel extra confident about setting my 7 year old loose on the wife’s iMac so that she has somewhere to store her digital pictures.
My parents bought her a digital camera for her birthday this summer. Amazingly, she hasn’t lost or broken it.
They’re lobbying for permission to give the girls iPod Nanos for Christmas – and the younger girl will just have turned 5 and can’t read. They’re off their heads.
You won’t be surprised to learn that there’s a line of people who have put in an application.
I’m just relieved that my parents are retired. It was worse when my father was still working.
Were they giving your yet-to-be-born children hovercrafts and pet dodos they had cloned specifically for gift purposes?
by Yes We Cannon on Nov 9, 2009 3:39 PM PST up reply actions
If a hovercraft had arrived addressed to anyone other than me, there would have been trouble. Well, sulking anyway. As for the pet dodo, there was a little miscommunication and… well it’s tastier than puffin, that’s all I can tell you.
Cal... worst 6-3 team ever?
It’s probably just my current state of mind but does anyone think the Bears are any good this year? I think 6-3 is deceiving and that we’ll be fortunate to finish 7-5. Consider:
The Oline sucks balls, ass and 14 kinds of curry
Star tailback is fortunate to not have a serious, life altering injury. Out minimum 1 game (more?)
Defense SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSS. Donde esta pass rush? Bend but dont break my frickin ass anymore Gregory, you tool.
Special Teams SUCK. ALAMARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Wide Receivers cant catch. Verran “Hands of Stone” Tucker. Jeremy “I can bench it, I just can’t catch it” Ross
We throw a screen pass 74.8% of the time (or something like that)
We’re going to the fucking Poinsetta Bowl or some equally shitty bowl game against Montana State or Eastern Nevada A&M. The only benefit of which is the extra practice time.
I’m just bitter right now. Don’t mind me.
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
Everyone seems to be taking that “1 game” comment semi-literally in the chatter about this. I thought that in context it was more along the lines of “he’ll definitely be out next week and once we know ANYTHING we’ll evaluate from there.” I’m thinking that done for the season is a VERY safe bet.
Small point, but I keep seeing “1 game” come up.
We’re definitely not worthy of our 6-3 record, with the far majority of those 6 wins coming against, well, absolutely shitty teams. Every time we played a “good” team – USC, Oregon, OSU – we not only lost, but we usually got dominated – if not in the score, then definitely in the trenches.
i'm here to clean your pool but i don't have a pool *bowchica bowow*
I disagree
6-3 is 6-3… All but the ASU game have been very decisive in outcome… So I’d say we are about where we should be… We’ve played 5 shitty teams and one mediocre team and have 6 wins, we’ve played 3 good teams and have 3 losses…
Sounds like we are just another middle of the road 6-3 team, but a 6-3 team none the less…
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
I would say we’re still probably better than some of the 6-3 teams that Notre Dame has fielded in recent years. In fact, I’d say we’re better than the following teams, all 6-3: Ohio, Northern Illinois, Nevada, Middle Tennessee State. I’d certainly like our chances against 6-3 Ole Miss or 7-2 Temple, or 6-2 Rutgers.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
and Wisconsin. For some reason, I absolutely hate them this year, its completely irrational, but I thoroughly dispise them. I don’t get me.
TWIST: AT LEAST I'M NOT TWI..oh wait, I am.
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JESUS?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
fuckin’ amateurs!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No! We're the BEST 6-3 team ever
Here’s my rationale…..we were supposed by end up like 11-1….we have all the talent. So in some senses, this is the best Cal team that has ever been 6-3!
At CGB, we whine because we care
looks like a Bear who hasn’t seen the Rose Bowl since ’59.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
The mourning bears! The two bears and the marble bench they’re on is the gift of the Class of 1920 and were dedicated to “Commemorate the Heroism of the Sons of this University who died in the Great War.” They’re pretty powerful, definitely.
by Yes We Cannon on Nov 9, 2009 5:38 PM PST up reply actions
I need a hug.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’ll accept this hug only if you’re a) shirtless or b) wearing a tanktop with a massive faux gold crucifix burried deep into your chest hair.
(throws up)
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Because wearing a tanktop would violate the definition of ‘shirtless’?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
What if its a tanktop made out of my hair?
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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truck driver drives off S-curve on Bay Bridge
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Nice pics.
Obviously I’m partial to the one you used of Mr. Halahuni giving your DBs a piggy back ride.
Glad Best is OK. And I’ll be even gladder if they stop putting that play on my television. Barf. Still amazed/thankful he’s OK.
Wilner thinks Stanfurd will hang 60 on Cal
If this doesn’t get flag’d, I don’t know what will.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
These comments are full of Big-Game-ness.
The Wisdom Cow says:
November 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
60, eh? Really? You are asking for an upset with that kind of comment prior to a Big Game. I’ll gladly give you odds.
First rule of The Big Game: The favored team should worry.
Jon, after watching Furd drop Oregon, I was dreading the Big Game. You just gave me hope. Because if you are already thinking (and joking) that they’ll drop 60 on us, then. in all likelihood, so do some of the Furd players, meaning they are already looking past us and underestimating us – biggest mistake before any Big Game.
mk92 says:
November 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Wisdom Cow is right about one thing — Big Game is notoriously unpredictable. Cal may well win, but given Stanford’s recent history, there’s no way Stanford looks past Cal.
by Yes We Cannon on Nov 9, 2009 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
Wilner is an attention whore
He doesn’t believe anything he writes, its just to promote conversation on his blog page…
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
This headline could be referring to our Bears
but it’s about the lackluster national championship race:
College Season Sputtering to a Finish
For years, college football’s commissioners and presidents have clung to their standard line about why the sport would not institute a postseason playoff model.
Those who oversee the Bowl Championship Series are so concerned by the thought of a playoff that at the B.C.S. meetings in Florida two years ago, they voted not to even discuss the issue.
Instead, they have continuously offered the idea that "every week is a playoff" and that college presidents are spooked by the notion of the sport becoming too commercial and, gulp, too professional.
But with a pedestrian Heisman Trophy field, no elite team that scintillates the masses and virtually no chance of a team outside the Big Three crashing the national title game, this college football season is sputtering to the finish.
As the regular season pushes toward its final three weeks, there does not appear to be a single competitive game left on the schedule that directly relates to the national title.
…
In the meantime, sit back and enjoy Florida eviscerating Florida International, gather around the television to watch Alabama roll past Chattanooga. And when Texas makes it to the national title game, savor the chance to see the Longhorns play a fairly matched opponent. So far, that has not happened.
The Longhorns’ nonconference schedule — Louisiana-Monroe, Texas-El Paso, Central Florida and Wyoming — is a window into the state of college football, where big-money universities apparently do not feel the need to line up competitive games.
This Is Our House. 63000±9000 Strong.
I used to think the every game is a playoff argument made some sense. I mean, college football is so exciting because every game matters. But, at the same time, one of the problems with college football is that people totally freak out after a single loss, or a couple losses. See Bear Insider.
It'll be just you, me, and Peter Nincompoop.
Well, I don’t think that’s ever going to change.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
The problem with football is that it’s played only once a week, so people have 6 days to freak out over a loss. Get screwed in baseball? There might be another game in 12 hours. Basketball might be going again in a couple days. But lose a football game? A week of agony and self-doubt.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
This season has kinda been a huge disappointment.
Either I want absolute chaos (see 2007) or at least one elite team that steamrolls through every opponent and looks invincible.
Right now, all I can hope is that Cincy, Texas, and Florida/Bama finish undefeated, along with Boise State and TCU. Then at least we can have some controversy.
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I hope we see the two mid majors in BCS bowls. Along with Cincy and Oregon (small markets), there are gonna be some loooooow ratings this time around.
The Lack of Mack's Imposition Attacks My Disposition.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Nov 10, 2009 10:28 AM PST up reply actions
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