DBD 7.29.2009 Welcome to SEC Country!
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SIX MILE, S.C. -- A Pickens County woman was ticketed over the weekend for riding a stolen horse down Main Street in Six Mile, S.C. -- but police said the woman blamed the horse for the ticket.
Tracy Nadine Ellenburg, 40, was given a ticket for disorderly conduct after a pedestrian flagged down an officer on Saturday and told them Ellenburg was riding down the center yellow line and was barely able to stay on the horse.
The sheriff's report said an officer found a large tan horse tied to a bench at a convenience store and found Ellenburg trying to use a phone inside.
The officer said Ellenburg's speech was slurred, she had an aroma of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet.
She told the officer she was riding the horse to her boyfriend's house.
Who's in the mood for some college football?!?!
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Dana Vollmer continuing to dominate:
ROME – Former California All-American Dana Vollmer swam an American-record and personal-record time of 1:55.29 to qualify for the 200-meter freestyle final at the 2009 FINA Swimming World Championships on Tuesday night in the Stadia del Nuoto. Vollmer won the second 200-freestyle semifinal with her American mark, which is the second-fastest time of the eight swimmers who reached the final. Golden Bears sophomore Sara Isakovic, swimming for Slovenia in the same 200-free semi as Vollmer, posted a time of 1:57.04 but did not advance to the final.
Italian Federica Pellegrini broke her own world record with the fastest 200-free semi time (1:53.67).
In the 200-free heats earlier on Tuesday, Vollmer became only the second U.S. woman to break 1:56.00 when she posted a then-personal record of 1:55.98, the fastest time of the morning. Katie Hoff held the previous American record of 1:55.78. Isakovic swam 1:56.99 in the 200-free heats.
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Start time set for Cal-SJSU womans vball game:
BERKELEY – The California volleyball team will host San Jose State on Saturday, Sept. 12, in a 6 p.m. PT match at Haas Pavilion, head coach Rich Feller announced today. The match will immediately follow the conclusion of the Cal-Eastern Washington football game taking place at Memorial Stadium with a kickoff time of 2:30 p.m. Fans with tickets to the football game will receive free admission to the volleyball match.
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I really hope some of you can attend some games this year...
Because Rich Feller, just like last year, was able to pull three more FAB50 recruits this year, including the #1 Setter (aka Quarterback) recruit in the country. (Our current Setter, Carli Lloyd, was also the #1 setter recruit in the country in 2007). Plus there’s also a good chance that Correy Johnson (6’4"), our new FAB50 Middle Blocker will see some playing time this year.
Almost every Sat game will be after the football game (and free) so it would be so easy for any of you to have a nice air-conditioned, cool-down at Haas and see some world-class volleyball.
Here’s the 2009 FAB 50 (in alphabetical order):
I have only one minor complaint about Rich Feller this year…. he lost Charlotte Brown to the farm… a local girl from Los Lomas in Walnut Creek. Yup, he screwed that one up. Had he not, we would’ve had the #1 recruiting class in the country this year. As is, we’re just top 5… oh well.
by danzig on Jul 29, 2009 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh my Lord
You’re trying to keep carp from working, ever again, right?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, Stanfurd has an amazing volleyball program.
But, it’s a rivalry, so fairness be damned!
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Of course… they’ve been the #1 program in the country this decade. However, losing a girl from Walnut Creek that used to hang out at your gym and practice with your team is just embarrassing. Coach Feller shouldn’t be losing easy battles like that.
How come nobody told me about this?? I woulda leaned on her to come to Cal.
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hahah… exactly. Los Lomas grads are retards anyway. Wait, what HS did you go to Twist?
She was all over the place. First she was coming to Cal… then Oregon, then Stanford. Who knows what these girls are thinking. But bottom line, if she attends Cal’s camp each year… hangs out with the coaching staff… and Feller makes living room visits with the parents… he’s gotta close the fucking deal!!!D#$#
I sure like fuck did NOT go to Las Lomas. Although I have had like 1,000 friends graduate from there over the years. I had at least 2 friends in her class.
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Touche. I stalked at least 2 people in her class who aren’t her.
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No, Twist is clearly an offline predator as well.
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
What about that time you wouldn’t let me come to your Channukah party because I was too Indian?
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
Chanukah party? Why wasn’t I invited? I LOVE Chanukah!
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Hook me up with an invite to a Diwali with lots of Indian hotties and you’ll be frying latkes and sufganiyot at Casa Spazza this very December…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 30, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
How about a high school dance? Can that get me into Casa Spazza, the hippest spot in the east bay?
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I think there are laws against that.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 30, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Minors aren’t allowed in your house?
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
That was the exact same reason he turned me away. And because his probation officer was there.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
OMFG my heart stopped.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
That’s what carp loves about these high school girls, man. He gets older, they stay the same age.
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I got a facebook invite regarding this and the official webpage doesn’t fully reflect it, but the UC Summer Symphony is doing MY FAVORITE SYMPHONY!!!
Hertz Hall. 8.7 and 8.8. For free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please join the UC Berkeley Summer Symphony for its 31st annual concert series on Friday and Saturday, August 7th and 8th at 8:00pm. Music Directors Gene Chang, Hoh Chen, and Henry Shin present this summer’s incredible program, which features exciting works by composers from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Program
Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccia Espagnol, Op. 34
Dvorak, Symphony no. 9 in e minor,‘From the New World’, Op. 95
Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5 in d minor, Op. 47
Price: FREE!
Both nights will open with Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, an orchestral showcase, displaying the talent and virtuosity of the orchestra. Before intermission, the Summer Symphony will display a great range of orchestral color and thematic excitement in Dvorak’s thrilling 9th Symphony, inspired by the composer’s visit to America near the end of the 19th century. Finally, the concerts will close with Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, a dark yet beautifully introspective response to Josef Stalin’s public condemnation of the composer’s music. It is truly a masterpiece with a finale you will never forget.
The UC Berkeley Summer Symphony is comprised of musicians from all around the Bay Area and beyond. This summer’s orchestra features musician’s from UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, San Francisco Conservatory, SF State, The University of Michigan, San Francisco Youth Orchestra, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, Oakland Youth Orchestra, the Young Musician’s Program, and various other performing groups around the Bay Area. Doors open at 7:30pm on both nights. Admission is free to the concerts, but donations will be accepted at the entrances. Do not miss out on this amazing opportunity to see and hear some of the best young musicians in the area perform works by these three great composers.
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YO won't be at Pac-10 media day
Due to cost constraints, I won’t be traveling to L.A. for Pac-10 Media Day on Thursday. The good news is you don’t need me to tell you what happened. The Q and A portion of the program will be streamed live on the Pac-10 website.
Praise be to Tedford!
wow
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
how ‘bout the effin a’s game last night! The small guys (Kennedy, Cabrera, Davis) carried ’em! That was fun.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I know. Also, Red Sox fans apparently know NOTHING about baseball. I laughed at some of the stuff they booed.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Oy, don’t get me started on when the A’s play the Sox here at Oakland and all the clueless ones come out of the woodwork. Funny how they didn’t seem to come to games pre-2004…
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by CalBandGreat on Jul 29, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
we call ’em New England transplants…
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I call them soulless front runners.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
by CalBandGreat on Jul 29, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
YO picks us 2nd in Pac-10
Until the Bears find a passing game, it will be hard to call on the offense to bail them out if the defense is having a bad day or they are facing an explosive offense. Cal may indeed find that passing game, and if that happens, it will become a serious contender. But as we stand right now, the Bears aren’t much different from last year’s team. They will have more experience and their defense might be even better, and that’s why they will climb a couple of notches up from fourth place. But until they find a balanced offense to complement their dominant defense, it is difficult to pick them as champions.
Praise be to Tedford!
South Carolinians are people too yellow fever!
Haven’t you ever wanted to eat fried chicken at a gas station?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 8:57 AM PDT reply actions
Interesting article on Moneyball and Billy Beane.
“It was a movie, for god’s sake,” Beane says. “What do you think I was going to get out of it? You think it was going to help me score chicks? I read in one scene I was at an Applebee’s and ordered a mojito. I don’t even know what’s in a mojito.”
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Hilarious.
I know very little about baseball — but two things stood out to me in that article:
1. People mistaking Moneyball for a strategy that helps teams win (rather than a strategy to get better value for money)
2. The fact that the use of statistics/sabermetrics has a totally different impact on a team with a large payroll (like Boston) than on a team with a small payroll (like Oakland)
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I think it’s sad how personally invested people are in Beane’s system failing. It’s one thing to take satisfaction that another team is less successful (which means there’s more wins out there for you), but to be extra satisfied that it’s the A’s and not some other, non-Moneyball team? Seems kind of weird to me.
People take offense at the idea that he didn’t follow the status quo and succeeded. Although it’s my belief that the Big 3 had far more to do with the team’s success than the other personnel that he managed to find during the period in question.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I read that the other day. For some reason I decided to take a look at the comments. The ignorance of some people made me want to bang my head on my desk repeatedly.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Cal-Michigan is on the respirator
Although there have been some reports from inside sources that something has been finalized, based on what the coaches are saying (Tedford denied it in yesterday’s chat too), it isn’t going to be a Cal-Michigan home and home.
It won’t be a Pac-10 team [that Michigan faces], and 2011 is not necessarily the return game. Mark Snyder:
The coach (Rich Rod) expanded a bit on the game to be added for next season’s opener, saying it may not be returned by Michigan for a couple of years, one of the criteria of making it work. He also ruled out playing a Pac-10 school, saying U-M doesn’t need to do that. That leaves Virginia and Pittsburgh as primary BCS school candidates with an open date early next year.Cal and Oregon State are dead, then.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:11 AM PDT reply actions
I always confuse MGoBlog and MZone
http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2005/12/matt-leinart-pictures-real-story.html
But I posted this anyway.
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
2010 schedule
calbears.com shows us needing one more game in 2010. Given that we’re already playing UC Davis in the opener, an “A” or “B” opponent would seem to make sense:
2010 (need one game)
Sept. 4 – UC Davis
Sept. 11 – Colorado
Sept. 25 – Washington
Oct. 2 – at Arizona
Oct. 9 – UCLA
Oct. 16 – at USC
Oct. 23 – Arizona State
Oct. 30 – at Oregon State
Nov. 6 – at Washington State
Nov. 13 – Oregon
Dec. 4 – Stanford [sic]
Praise be to Tedford!
Is Colorado an A or B? I look at it like Maryland, which I would posit is an A. Maybe not an A++++ like Tennessee, but still.
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Colorado should be an A opponent by 2010.
A good B opponent would be a mid-tier SEC team, Mississippi State maybe?
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
The Colorado coach claimed they were going to win 10 games this year. Last year they were 5-7, but suffered 10 season-ending injuries and were relying on a lot of underclassmen at the end of the year. That should bode well for them this year, and us next.
Actually, I paraphrased that from the preciously linked Stewart Mandel article, I was seeing if anyone would catch on.
That’s why I said “A” or “B.” I could understand the thought process of categorizing CU either way. They’re a Big 12 opponent with some track record of being good, but not so much in recent years. Frankly, I’m not sure how to categorize Michigan for 2010.
Praise be to Tedford!
Call me crazy (and I am), but I would be okay with playing at Michigan in 2010 without requiring a return game in Berkeley. I wonder if our athletic dept would consider that to revive the discussion (assuming they’re not completely dead).
Praise be to Tedford!
Isn’t that the reason the 90s deal was killed? 3 road games and 2 home for us wasn’t equal?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
respectfully of the craziness....
we are getting to be to big of a program to not home and home EVERYONE, no matter what.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Jul 29, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I tried getting into the CU stadium on Sunday to get some pictures, but it was locked up tight – all I got were a few shots from afar. I see a couple of places to potentially sneak in, but I also don’t want to get busted. I’ll try again during the week to see what’s open on a regular day, and then see what’s what what on a weekend.
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I remember that we reported Tedford is very much a proponent of the A-B-C format, although I’m not sure if he meant C was D-1AA.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, I’m familiar with that approach, but, come on, let’s not embarass ourselves.
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
The only way we embarrass ourselves is if we lose said C game at home. You see that happening?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
We embarass ourselves if we don’t win by at least three touchdowns.
That said, I think even scheduling a D1-AA team is embarassing.
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
by Rishi on Jul 29, 2009 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
[Steve] Holton [Cal’s Deputy Director of Athletics] said that coach Jeff Tedford has "an A-B-C philosophy’’ about scheduling. That is, each year he wants to play a school from the A list — a BCS-caliber team from a major conference. He wants a B team from the Mountain West or the Western Athletic Conference. And he wants a C team, or, as Holton said, "somebody you think you have a pretty good opportunity to beat.’’
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
STEVE HOLT-on.
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by TwistNHook on Jul 29, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Rec’d for great catch.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I dislike having Big Game in December, even if it is the last game of the season.
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
You want us to have a Big 10-style layover till bowl season?
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
It makes the bowl season feel all fresh and new. However, I realized that my reasons for disliking the late Big Game only had to deal with weather and shit that came up while I was a student. I only have to care about one of the two, now!
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Davis, eh? I wonder what happened to the LaTech game scheduled for 2010?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
NCAA Football 10 has LaTech, Colorado, and a random D-II school on the schedule for 2010.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
D-II? We’re playing Chico State?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
That sounds suspiciously like someone from BN is involved.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Mandel on Pac-10 scheduling
His mailbag:
Should the Pac-10 reduce its conference schedule by one game?
— Todd, Mission Viejo, Calif.
That’s a tough one. On the one hand, I find it admirable the conference goes its own way and settles its champion on the field, thus avoiding controversies like the Oklahoma/Texas Big 12 situation last year. On the other hand, the ninth game is probably hurting the league more than it helps. As Pac-10 aficionado Ted Miller recently pointed out, the conference guarantees itself five extra losses than other leagues, thus making it that much harder to produce a BCS champion, or even a second BCS team (which the league hasn’t done since 2002).
From a purely on-field standpoint, it would probably behoove the Pac-10 to take the SEC approach and replace those 10 extra conference games with 10 games against I-AA foes. Voters don’t seem to put much emphasis on non-conference scheduling; if you lose, you drop, as much of the conference did last September. However, there’s one challenge most Pac-10 teams face that their SEC counterparts don’t: filling their stadiums. LSU fans will turn out whether the Tigers are facing Alabama or Arkansas State, but that’s not the case at Arizona State, UCLA or Stanford. Those teams need as many meaningful home games as possible.
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Mandel wasn't kidding about the seating
Here’s a link to an analysis the National Championship Issue did comparing average attendance and quality of opponent by conference. It’s pretty striking to see the drop-off and makes as good a case as any why the MWC isn’t ready to go primetime:
Abstract:
Attention all college presidents, AD’s, and wussy coaches – I’ve got a deal for you.
Us fans will acknowledge the fact that in order to be prudent stewards of your college or university, sometimes you have to do what’s fiscally sound (aka, schedule cupcakes in order to make money, get an easy win, and go to a bowl game). Sometimes.
But if we accept that, you have to acknowledge the fact that a lot of us fans think that despite the money, this is a cowardly and bullshit path that leads to uncompetitive games that none of us want to watch. (You can’t ignore the fact that when playing non-BCS opponents your attendance drops an average of -14%, and when playing I-AA teams it drops an average of -22%.)
Deal?
So Bill Simmons's movie of the decade is...
Yeah, really. Has there ever been another good drama about the dynamics of a rock ‘n’ roll band? Think about how much time we spend listening to music. Think about how much time we spend wondering about bands and individual artists. Now, think about your favorite movies about fictional bands. Give me your top 10. (I’m waiting.) Give me your top five. (Still waiting.) OK, give me one other good one. You can’t.
The degree of difficulty for “Famous” was off the charts. It was a 10 out of 10. A period piece about a rock band? Cameron Crowe pulled it off and even won an Oscar for “Best Original Screenplay.” He crafted a masterpiece loaded with memorable moments, elite performances, a believable band and meticulous detail. It has a salient theme — namely, that 1974 was the exact time when music lost its innocence and started to go corporate. It has a few iconic scenes, one iconic performance (Billy Crudup absolutely crushing the role of Russell Hammond), as well as a final 10 minutes that are as good as any movie I can remember. It has a director’s cut DVD (“Untitled”) that’s somehow better than the released movie (a rarity). And best of all, of any movie of the 2000s, it has the best quotes. A treasure chest, if you will.
I mean, it was a very sweet film, but it’s not like I’m going to watch it over and over again. The Dark Knight, Gladiator, No Country for Old Men, even those three with the hobbits seem like films that’ll last beyond this decade.
What’s your movie of the decade?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 10:54 AM PDT reply actions
I think Cameron Crowe’s other film Vanilla Sky was MUCH better and more meaningful.
Crash is also at the top for movies this decade.
I heard Vanilla Sky was a dreadful bore.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I hated Vanilla Sky
with a passion unknown to mankind!
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I really liked Vanilla Sky, but I’m told that the original, Abre Tus Ojos, was even better.
My favorite Cameron Crowe film, CLEARLY his best, is Singles.
But don’t forget, Cameron Crowe also wrote and directed Jerry Maguire, and wrote the book and screenplay for Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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I actually think Gladiator was overrated and it could have been so much more but they missed their opportunity. Of course, as previously discussed on these forums, I am the worst person on earth to watch “Historical” movies with as I get really distracted by historical inaccuracies that are on screen for dramatic effect.
Don’t get me wrong, Gladiator was still quite good, certainly better than that shitstorm Braveheart.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
The worst historical movies for me
1) Pocahontas (Disney)
2) The Patriot (this movie made me physicially ill)
3) The Thin Red Line
4) Pearl Harbor (watched 30 minutes before I wanted to destroy things)
5) 300 (it was good to look at, but some of the stuff was totally ridiculous—can’t people just tell the story straight???)
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
*Never saw Pocahantas thankfully
*Agree re: the Patriot
*What was wrong with the Thin Red Line? Interesting movie I thought (My WWII Pacific theater history knowledge is pretty spotty admittedly)
*Pearl Harbor was awful but the attack itself was really well done. The rest of the film was absolute shit. Reminded me of Titantic (awesome where the ship is going down, the rest is total suckage)
*300 was virtually unwatchable, a huge disappointment (Good book to read is Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield)
Braveheart was the worst though. It still remains the only movie where I yelled at the screen and it was totally involuntary. After the 9,347th historical inaccuracy in that movie, I said “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” a little too loud apparently. Didn’t even realize I had done it until my friend loudly shushed me with 50 or so people turning around in their seats staring at me.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The only upside was that Disney gave us another female character for horny teenagers to dream about at night…family network my ass.
Thin Red Line had some ridiculous scene where the Japanese started getting on their knees and surrending. No hari-kari at all. The number of Japanese who surrendered at Guadanacal could not have been more than a mere handful. Death before dishonor. That scene really bothered me, although I guess Japs killing themselves in mass suicide would have scarred me.
I was too young when I watched Braveheart. What were the biggest transgressions?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
A lot of the stuff in Braveheart is inaccurate. They basically wrote a generic “historical” plot and then slapped names from the period on it.
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Where to begin? The myth of William Wallace is almost entirely based on a poem by a 15th century poet named Blind Harry, almost 200 years after Wallace was killed. So accepting that, some leeway can be given to the early parts of Wallace’s life and marraige for example. That said, the following really bothered me:
In the movie, the reason the Scots rebelled was because of the English using the Droight de Seigneur rights of the nobility (local noble screws the peasant wife before the husband does on wedding night). There is some doubt this custom was ever real but Edward I certainly never instituted it.
The portrayal of Isabelle. Basically, she was 10 when Wallace died and didn’t come to England until she was 13. She certainly never met him and/or get impregnated by him.
Edward I died 2 years after Wallace.
Edward never killed any of his son’s boyfriends by chucking them off a castle wall. He exiled them instead.
The battles were ridiculous, especially the one where the Irish rush the Scottish lines, suddenly change sides and go and rout the English. Also wish the “Battle of Stirling Bridge” had actually featured a bridge since it was critical to the success of the Scots in real life.
the scene where he and his brother as children find the clan chiefs murdered by the treacherous English is also complete tosh.
It has been many years since I’ve seen the film so there are plenty more there but these have always stuck in my mind.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Mind you, the bridge could well have been a few planks over a stream, these things tend to get blown out of proportion over time.
Maybe so but the fact the English crowded the bridge and could only cross 3-4 abreast completely undid their 6-1 numerical advantage. Didn’t hurt that the bridge collapsed either. Pretty crucial if you ask me.
Mel admitted he butchered stuff in the name of “watchability”. Whatever.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Iconic in the sense the film revived Scottish nationalism and led to them forming their own parliament? Agree. As quality filmmaking? No.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that absent a sympathetic Labor government trying to placate the base, Braveheart might not have been enough.
True but it certainly inflamed the masses to support it.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Four words: Margaret ThatcherPoll TaxPole Dance.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
This response is being dictated to one of my workers because my eyes melted.
by DC Trojan on Jul 29, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
aaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
rec’d.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Jul 29, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
300 wasn’t meant to be an accurate historical portrayal – it was based on the Frank Miller graphic novel. In terms of being an accurate to the graphic novel, it was balls-on perfect except for the stupid gratuitious rape scene which totally ruined the movie and is the only reason why i will never buy it.
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The Thin Red Line suffered from following in the wake of Saving Private Ryan.
Although “The Pacific” is coming out next year. (Think Band of Brothers but with the USMC)
That just looks sweet. I love Marines.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
The books it’s using are brutal. Check out “With the Old Breed” (also quoted a lot in the Ken Burns documentary)
Brutal as in horrific tales of violence? Or brutal as in boring?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I have also been told that I’m a bad person to watch historical movies with – I expect them to be reasonably accurate. But a lot of the inaccuracies in Gladiator (as far as the main characters went, at least) were somewhat necessary in order to make the plot compelling.
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I have also been told that I’m a bad person to watch historical movies with – I expect them to be reasonably accurate.
Same here. That is why I couldn’t stand Iron Man.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Q: In the Greek army, how did you separate the men from the boys?
A: With a crowbar…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 30, 2009 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the reason the degree of difficulty was so high for a period piece about a rock band is because NO ONE CARES.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Anchorman.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Followed by Step Brothers and Talladega Nights.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Where does Semi-Pro rank on your list? Incidentally, I saw that with Marcus and Sean Williams of the Nets. I think they picked up their idea of maturity from watching Will Ferrell movies.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Semi-Pro was really funny, but not as memorable or quotable as the 3 I mentioned. Step Brothers is a movie you have to watch multiple times (which isn’t the norm for comedies). I was kind of lukewarm about it when I first saw it, but when you think about the ridiculous number of quotable lines in it you realize how funny it is. You also have to watch it with friends.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Gotta disagree. Te3am America World Police FTW.
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That movie didn’t do much for me. I watched it on Comedy Central, so maybe I need to watch it again unedited.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Still though, even edited I probably would have liked some parts about it. I am not the biggest South Park fan, either.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Thats like putting a condom on before you jack it.
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I don’t understand what you mean by those funny terms. Care to explain?
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahaha, love that movie. “I’m So Ronery” is a classic
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
That comment made me laugh more than Step Brothers and Talladega Nights combined.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I am going to repeatedly kick you in the balls!
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Name better movies that fall in the ‘dumb frat boy’ genre.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Haven’t seen it yet.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Well we are talking about this decade.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I don’t usually consider movies from ‘dumb frat boy genre’ as the movie of the decade.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Anchorman.
In actuality, it is probably The Dark Knight. Followed by The Lord of the Rings. Followed by Step Up 2: The Streets.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh. The balcony scene was one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen. Nothing else was too great.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Flagged for not having appreciation of Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Snoop Dogg, and Jeremy Piven in one film.
The The is above souls.
How could I forget Tropic Thunder! That moves up to number 2. Doesn’t have great rewatchability though.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, basically.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t say so. Just because a movie has dumb humor doesn’t automatically make it a frat-boy movie. Tropic Thunder has nothing to do with frats or college.
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Refers to the actors in them. I guess by frat boy I mean ‘Judd Apatow is involved somehow’. He wasn’t involved with Tropic Thunder, but if someone told you he was, you wouldn’t think twice.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
What Judd Apatow people had a major role in Tropic Thunder? Ben Stiller doesn’t count – he hasn’t worked with Judd Apatow since ‘The Ben Stiller Show’. Downey Jr? Jack Black? Tom Cruise? Matthew McConaughey? It’s not an Apatow movie – and I actually would be surprised if it were an Apatow movie, because it’s funny.
I don’t consider Anchorman an Apatow movie, ‘cause he didn’t write or direct it. There has yet to exist an Apatow-written-or-directed movie that I have any inkling to see.
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Walk Hard is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
You’ve never seen a single Mel Brooks movie?
Or a Monty Python movie?
Too bad. You’re missing out.
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I have seen 3 Monty Python movies and 6 Mel Brooks movies.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to undresand how limited his context is. Many of these older movies are not going to appear funny to him, because they have been surpassed by the very movies that wouldn’t exist WITHOUT said older movies.
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Or he’s going to like every comedy thrown his way, because he’s a teenager and teenagers like almost anything remotely funny. I know I did.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 30, 2009 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Meh, not necessarily true. There are plenty of comedies I don’t find funny.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions
This ain’t no picnic bitch!
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
??? When did I say I don’t like the older movies? I have liked basically every Mel Brooks movie I have seen (except I thought Blazing Saddles was overrated). I have liked the Monty Python movies I have seen.
Does Twist secretly know me better than I do? Do I actually not like these movies because Twist says I don’t.
It really isn’t a problem of limited context. It is the fact that Walk Hard is a hilarious movie.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions
You’d do yourself better credit if you would change “It is a fact” to “It is my opinion”. It makes it very hard to discuss with you.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 30, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Well it is a fact in my head. Which makes it an opinion. My bad.
You didn’t find it funny?
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
(except I thought Blazing Saddles was overrated)
You, sir, are dead to me.
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My experience has been that Blazing Saddles does not hold up well.
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Another one that doesn’t hold up: Dr. Strangelove.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Now you’re just being a troll.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 30, 2009 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
In what manner is he being a troll?
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I appreciate the movie, but it is a generational movie, and that really isn’t my generation.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. Guilty as charged.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
How so? The only dated joke is the Hedley/Hedy Lamar bit, and hell that was almost dated when they made it. Besides, it’s the way he says it that makes it funny anyway. How do you feel that it does not hold up well? I am curious.
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How so?
Because I watched it, anticipating laughter, and did not laugh. That’s how so.
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Well now I got zero supporters here.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Namebettergood movies that fall in the ‘dumb frat boy’ genre. Oh wait, you can’t, because there aren’t any.
Fixed.
I don’t consider Anchorman to fall into the ‘dumb frat boy’ genre – it is genius.
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I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead more, but Hot Fuzz had hilarious/crazy deaths.
Shaun of the Dead > Hot Fuzz.
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
That last one… dear lord. Thank god I didn’t see it in theaters.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll agree with Gladiator.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 30, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Quick Question for the Mods
Would linking some craigslist furniture I’m trying to sell into the DBD be uncool?
Yeah, it's fine.
We know you well enough. At least I think we do.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Little did Avinash suspect that the mild-mannered Cal fan he knew as “chowder” was actually a psychopathic villain known as…the Dildoer.
by HolmoePhobe on Jul 29, 2009 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
JShufelt, is that you?
This time, the Bear got Chung’d.
Everett Skinner grabbed his shotgun and went to the den, where he and the bear saw each other at about the same time. He said the animal stood up and headed toward him, so he fired.
Praise be to Tedford!
I'm Selling Furniture
I think I have good taste, and I have a love affair with glass. I’m selling a coffee table, end table, two other end tables, an entertainment center, and a shelving unit (they are all glass). The craigslist links are below, if you care to take a gander, or….. just want to be a voyeur into my life. If you mention you found it via CGB I’ll knock $5.00 off the price. I’m moving the weekend of the August 8 & 9, so I’m looking to sell these items this weekend.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/fuo/1295283266.html
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All my furniture is glass too!
Except my dildos. Like chowder.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I had an ex-gf...
who swore by glass dildos. She said they were the best thing ever. Which doesn’t say much for me, I suppose.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
i'm also told that putting it in the
referigerator first is an interesting variation….
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by Rocksanddirt on Jul 29, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I wonder what Joe Starkey would have to say about glass dildos.
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by yellow fever on Jul 29, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Haha
my ex used to heat hers up a bit
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Indeed, she liked it all warm.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe some do. I’m not a woman. I can’t speak for all women. There might be some out there.
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a reliable source tells me that glass dildos
are good stuff.
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by Rocksanddirt on Jul 29, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
that chick was something else, I learned a lot from her. Completely crazy though.
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by Fire Starkey on Jul 29, 2009 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I have no idea if this is for real or if it's a gag for The Onion... just watch the demo video
You won’t be disappointed.
Did somebody say, "intentional hilarity?"
Because this video – albeit of USC players as opposed to California ones – is definitely that.
Ricky Kalmon Hypnotizes USC
I’m thinking I’d like to go to a hypnotist’s show.
Updates on NFL-bound bears.
Speaking of Cal rookies, Will Ta’ufo’ou is signed with the Chicago Bears for a cap figure of $311,666 for the 2009 season. That’s not bad for a rookie undrafted free agent, who happens to play a position that is going the way of the dinosaurs in the NFL.
Ta’ufo’ou is a longshot to make the final 53-man roster this season, but according to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times, “If the Bears go with just one fullback there’s almost certain to be one on the practice squad. Keep an eye on Ta’ufo’ou. Maybe he will carve out a niche for himself.”
After being released in June by the San Diego Chargers, Anthony Felder agreed to terms on another contract that will have him playing for the team in training camp. Don’t read much into his release from the team. Undrafted free agents sometimes are released by the same team several times before making the roster or the practice squad. It’s how NFL teams maximize their talent — even if it comes at the cost of multiple signing bonuses.
After losing their long snapper to the New Orleans Saints this offseason, the Panthers’ open position has better odds for form Cal long snapper, Nick Sundberg. Sundberg’s chief competition for the job is J.J. Jansen, who spent his rookie season on the disabled list for the Green Bay Packers. Both players competed for rival schools back in high school, so they are both familiar with each other.
Andrew Mason from Panthers.com explains, “Long snapping jobs don’t open too frequently around the league, and success at the gig often leads to a lengthy career.” Right now, Jansen is the favorite to win the job, but Sundberg still has a month to change that perception.
If there is any undrafted Cal rookie with a good shot of making an NFL team, it’s definitely Rulon Davis. For one, his nickname ‘The Beast’ fits him on game day. Secondly, and probably more importantly, the Denver Broncos’ defensive line jobs are completely up for grabs this year.
Brian Howell of timescall.com, doesn’t think that the Broncos upgraded their woeful defensive line. Maybe he’ll change his tune after a couple of preseason games, or a couple of Rulon Davis sacks — whichever comes first.
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by Berkelium97 on Jul 29, 2009 12:10 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Could be a really fun preseason
For Cal fans to follow. Maybe I’ll throw up an NFL preseason thread and point out the games where Cal players will be featured. When’s the Hall of Fame game?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Another important update:
Nate Longshore signs with the Miami Dolphins
Former Cal QB Nate Longshore today signed a $500,000 contract with the Miami Dolphins. It seems unlikely he can make the final 53-man roster this season, with Chad Pennington starting, Chad Henne being groomed as a future starting quarterback, and Pat White’s being drafted in the second round of the NFL draft this year. It seems likely, however, that Longshore could get a spot on the practice squad.
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by Rishi on Jul 29, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would play on the practice squad for $500,000.
Did the article say that how much of that money if any was guaranteed?
Honestly, the best thing for Longshore was probably to get as far away from Berkeley as possible. Whatever effect the injuries had on his mechanics, the pressure of having to prove he really could cut it, that he was worth being Mel Kiper’s #1 Junior QB prospect in 2007 had to have affected his play making ability.
I can’t tell if this is an ongoing joke or you people just don’t actually click links.
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My computer was unable to open the link. I don’t know if that was the yoke you were looking for. Voided of the facts, I assumed you were honest, truthful, and virtuous.
When have I ever posted anything that was honest, truthful, and virtuous?
And honestly, I'm down like the economy
rollonubears, I love you like a son.
And honestly, I’m down like the economy
by Rishi on Feb 14, 2009 5:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t worry about me guys, I’m fine. Not hurt at all. Just gonna sit in this corner and weep. Nothing to see here. My feelings remain undamaged.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s the emotional detachment of a man!
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to quote it for it to be true!
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
FLAGGED
DON’T JOKE ABOUT LONGSHORE ANYMORE. I WILL BAN YOU ALL.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, I just got here. What happened?
Oh and what happened all summer? Can someone sum it up in bullet points?
by CalBandGreat on Jul 29, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
- CBKWit died
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Despite my misgivings and best attempts to sabotogue it, we, stunningly, became kinda sorta a eensy teensy weensy professional.
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LOLZ THIS. FURD SUX!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I get a twitch whenever there is a serious topic. I need to stop it.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
More professional? But what about the dank, Moe? The dank?
by CalBandGreat on Jul 29, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
What about when you crushed CBKWit and ate his bones?
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No, this news story does.
AR Rahman has decided to conduct the soundtrack to Alvin & the Chipmunks sequel.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Defensive linemen Brandon Willis liked his time at Cal. Still might be tough to land him.
Need Scout subscription to read the whole thing.
Duncan (S.C.) Byrnes defensive lineman Brandon Willis remains high on Cal’s board. He just returned from California after checking out the sights, scenes, and some of the GOlden Bears’ campus.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 12:20 PM PDT reply actions
Sadly do not.
But Moraga Bear of the Bear Insider (their recruiting reporter) said he enjoyed his time.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Rose Bowl and the BCS
Ratto’s take on a topic discussed on Monday’s DBD.
Rose Bowl gets bent over by the BCS
Praise be to Tedford!
FML
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Carp is butthurt that if Cal comes in second in the Pac 10 in a season where the first place team goes to the national championship game, and it just happens to be the one year out of three that the Rose Bowl is obligated to take a mid-major team, Cal once again goes to the Rose Bowl.
In other words, is about a dozen things happen, we’ll miss the Rose Bowl! Oh no!
Sarcastic lately?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 30, 2009 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Has he ever posted a non-sarcastic post?
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Aha!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 30, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Really? I hope not. 2007 was too recent to go back to names.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
They aren’t, but I think not having the names has some meaning to it. Plus, think of how much money they save by not putting on names!
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Rollonubears, are you still in Modesto?
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 29, 2009 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope, left Sunday.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
to give carp your roasted duck with the mango salsa recipe!
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--Coach Clark
Can a brother get a down payment, Part II
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Not to be a buzzkill.
Not mentioned:
1) 330 days of cold, fog, and unbearable wind rendering the beach, sun deck, patio, garden and jacuzzi useless.
2) Old style floor plan —→ nook and cranny orientation of spaces leading to poor circulation patterns and wasted floor space.
The covered deck does look cool though.
Plus the residents of Bolinas, shall we say, are a little cooky.
Are you an officially licensed architect? I ask because my wife and I own a sloped lot in the E. Bay and we have some hot shot architect come out and say it will cost $220/sq ft to build and he wants 6% of the total building costs as his fee and wants 8k up front. I kicked him kneed him in the nuts and said, “Fuck you and fuck your boat shoes.” Okay, maybe that last part is a bit of stretch, but we’re not exactly pleased with our current status quo.
Plus he left his wife for his secretary.
If you are or envision becoming an architect within the next 4 years or so give me hollar.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Actually, I’m moving to London in a few weeks, so I will not be around. The AIA used to set up fee guidelines, but it was subsequently sued. Now there is no set fee structure. This answer is delves into the subject a bit more: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Architecture-2369/2008/7/Architect-Fees-USA.htm
Basically, ask around and do your homework to see what the bids specify, but also have a good idea of what you want prior to meeting with the architect (number of rooms, square footage, etc). Its a headache to get started, but will save you pain and money later in the process.
At the present moment Architecture has been hit hard, so it might be a good time to look around and find some desperate people. My girlfriend’s firm went from 50 to 13 people, and her old firm in OC of about 60 completely folded.
by chowder on Jul 29, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
At the first chance you get, visit the Churchill Museum and the War Cabinet Museum right in the heart of London. Then spend a week in the Imperial War Museum.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh. Check out the topless?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
dating an architect = hot possibility I never considered.
rev’d/
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How about a Lebanese girl? We all know Lebanese are the new half-asians.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Season 1, HIMYM.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
However, I am flattered that you expect me to make sense.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
You see that flower? Its blossoming HolmoePhobe. There is nothing you can do to stop it.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I feel like an idiot. I first read that as:
“How about a lesbian girl?”
"It’s spelled S-H-U-F-E-L-T-M-E-U-P"
You kicked AND kneed him simultaneously? Impressive.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Hydro
You seen Tepper’s latest blog post? He gives a nice shout-out to HydroTechs. His blog is really good so far!
Alright, fine, I admit it! "Hydration Technician" really DOES just mean "water boy!"
A Nifty Little Recruiting Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112350890349891055052.000463578b1137ef06b8a&t=h&ll=37.509726,-105.117187&spn=31.945054,56.513672&z=4
I like it because they have the schools logos.
Question for Cal-Minn game-goers
Are any of you going to the CAA tailgate? Just wondering.
Also, where are y’all staying? Any recommendations for something inexpensive. I’ve already got some ideas from the Golden Gophers blog, but I was just wondering what y’all were doing.
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Any idea what the deal is with the Athletic Ticket Office (ATO) stating that there were
only 1000 tix left to the Cal v. $C game? Now said message has disappeared and there appears to be plenty of tix left to this game. This leads me to believe the ATO was involved in some deceptive advertising. Any idea on how many tickets are left?
by 33SwisherSweet on Jul 29, 2009 3:46 PM PDT reply actions
His wife just had thousandoptuplets.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I want a sell out. It's pathetic this game has yet to sell out and the ATO is playing games
with their remaining tickets.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jul 29, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought I saw somewhere that there were 400 left. I have no idea, though.
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That whole ticket office is run by a bunch of morAns.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jul 29, 2009 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
and then it went to 1,000, as advertised on calbears.com. Now that 1,000 tix left thing is gone
and you can still buy tix.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jul 29, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Im sure between now and the date of the game all tickets will sell out.
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Right, but not 400, as previously mentioned.
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Now it might be 0
I’m repeatedly getting the “unable to find tickets in this area” message.
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It compares various college football teams to similar national teams in soccer.
http://www.dawgsports.com/2009/7/10/939400/why-georgia-is-a-lot-like-germany
The only Pac-10 entry:
USC – Brazil – The juggernaut powerhouse who always seems to lose at least one game a year that they shouldn’t. They never really go away, though, and they almost always step it up big-time in big games. It doesn’t hurt that both places are surrounded by women with unreal bodies and bronzed tans that would make even the Pope fidget nervously.
Listen to or read JFK’s speech at Memorial Stadium on March 23, 1962 (Charter Day).
In its first graduating class it included a future Governor of California, a future Congressman, a judge, a State assemblyman, a clergyman, a lawyer, a doctor—all in a graduating class of 12 students!
This college, therefore, from its earliest beginnings, has recognized and its graduates have recognized, that the purpose of education is not merely to advance the economic self-interest of its graduates. The people of California, as much if not more than the people of any other State, have supported their colleges and universities and their schools because they recognize how important it is to the maintenance of a free society that its citizens be well educated.
Today you carry on that tradition. Our distinguished and courageous Secretary of Defense, our distinguished Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Director of the CIA and others, all are graduates of this University. It is a disturbing fact to me, and it may be to some of you, that the New Frontier owes as much to Berkeley as it does to Harvard University.
Wilson and JFK would be shaking their head right now…
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
At our current state of commencement speakers?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
How does ASU get Obama and we get the guy who played Huggy Bear in the old Starsky and Hutch TV show?
by CalBandGreat on Jul 29, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I said a hip, a hop, the hippie, the hippie
To the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
The rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
it would be nice to see more political discussions/speeches at major universities…might actually get the young people to vote.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
…wasn’t young voter turnout the highest it ever was last year?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re saying young voter turnout was the highest it ever was because of Jim Harbaugh’s recruiting tactics????
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jul 29, 2009 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
That was a Twistian typo on my part
But enthusiasm and hope are pretty similar, right?
The people of California, as much if not more than the people of any other State, have supported their colleges and universities and their schools because they recognize how important it is to the maintenance of a free society that its citizens be well educated.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Not commencement, though. Charter Day. There is no event on campus centered around the University that comes close to rivaling what Charter Day used to be, or what it could be.
by Yes We Cannon on Jul 29, 2009 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants aquire Sanchez for Tim Alderson.
Are they declared Sanche?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Oh my god. If I were a Giants fan, I would punt a kitten right now. Bad trade.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
selected kwote from McCovey's Chronicles
FUCK YOU BRIAN SABEAN brians sabean is officially mentally retarded, why would u give up TIM ALDERSON!! im so pissed off right now. our rotation was freakin set with lincecum, cain, bumgarner, alderson and zito. goddamit sabean u suck
by sfoakbay on Jul 29, 2009 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/7/29/968331/freddy-sanchez-traded-to-the-giants#comments
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I am talking to my Giants fan friend right now, and he is basically in the same mood. Has Sabean proven he can tie his shoes? Let alone run a major league baseball team.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
that’s tough company…if alderson turns into Lincecum 2.0…it might be the worst.
trading’s always a hit/miss game (beane traded huddy for meyer, thomas, & cruz which still pisses me off today).
of course…we don’t know if Alderson’s more Jesse Foppert than Lincecum. In fact, until they hit on Lincecum and Cain…it’s been a lot of talk (Foppert, Ainesworth, etc).
The scary thing is at some point I think the Giants need to move either Cain or Lincecum as they could become 150-200 mil players (each) and they already have one Barry Zito.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Alderson is good, but he’s no Lincecum. He was projected to be a 3rd starter type.
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[3rd starter] on which team? The Giants [w/ Cain & Lincecum – 2 of the 5 best pitchers in baseball] or a team like the A’s [Braden was opening day starter – FML]?
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--Coach Clark
Braden was almost an all star, y’know.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
He was going to be a good 4th starter or a great 5th starter in that future Giant rotation, because Bumgarner is better.
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by rollonubears on Jul 30, 2009 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I’d say right up until the Giants meltdown in Game 6 in the WS (2002), he was one of the best in the game.
Then, he thought the Giants success was due to “veterans” who were really really old and/or not as good as they used to be.
The youth movement has been intriguing but inconsistent.
Sanche, while a fine player, definitely isn’t what they needed offensively as he’s a singles hitter. Garko’s a below average offensively and a tank defensively. Plus he’s a furd grad.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
The fact that Sabean is still employed defies logic.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
They now have the rare, yet prestigious, double Sanchez.
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by rollonubears on Jul 29, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Not a great trade, but Giants fans are overreacting big time.
Sabean, for all his faults, has employed one strategy to great success: Trading away pitching prospects for proven commodities. The Giants have traded away Boof Bonser, Jason Grilli, Nate Bump, Damian Moss, and Kurt Ainsworth. None of them has had a significant impact in the pros. Here’s the list of Giants pitching prospects who have had a significant impact:
Francisco Liriano (injuries have since seriously limited his value)
Joe Nathan
Now, having said that, the Pirates were desperate to get rid of Sanchez to save money, and the Giants could have gotten more for Alderson. BUT – I’m not going to lay awake in bed worrying about Alderson becoming a dominant starter. Maybe it will happen, but the Giants have traded away enough pitchers who fail for me to have confidence in their ability to predict who will have success at the major league level. Credit needs to go to Sabean for holding onto guys who DO make it as pros – guys like Russ Ortiz, Shawn Estes (for a few years, anyway), Matt Cain (ERA at 2.12 now) and of course Tim Lincecum.
Still, I wish we had gotten somebody else from the Pirates, gotten the Pirates to pay more of Sanchez’s salary, or given away a less highly touted prospect. But freaking out about it is an extreme overreaction.
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Keith Foulke…was a pretty good closer for awhile there. I believe he was in the famed Alvaraz, Darwin, Hernandez deal that made the ’97 (is that right?) Giants magic(k)al. You know…Brian Johnson going deep off the Dodgers in extras.
Here’s a question I have for you and other Giants fans.
Lincecum and Cain are both a) fantastic, b) cheap currently (relatively) and c) will become VERY rich either on the Giants or for some other team.
What if they could fetch the hottest up-and-coming hitter for one of these guys. A true dynamic 3/4 hitter (Josh Hamilton?) that could potentially be so good that he has a shot at the Hall of Fame. Would they do it knowing they could only afford one of these pitchers, have a need for a dynamic offensive player, and have a plethora of pitching prospects?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Keith Foulke played for both Bay Area teams? That I did not know.
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Foulke was a Giants farmhand…I don’t think he ever made it to SF
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--Coach Clark
I don’t know if they make the trade, but I don’t think money would cause it to happen because any hitter that good would cost just as much if not more than Cain or Lincecum.
After these trades the Giants aren’t very deep in pitching prospects anymore, so trading Cain (which the fanbase would hate) would be practically impossible
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http://mvn.com/aroundthemajors/2009/07/brian-sabean-fleeced-in-freddy-sanchez-trade.html
interesting article. would have loved this trade if it didn’t include Alderson OR if you guys really think Alderson’s not that good.
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