DBD 8-29-11 A Visit to the Seventh Circle of Hell
by Cugel on Aug 28, 2011 7:07 PM PDT
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PrintThe 2011 football season is almost here! It's so close I can almost taste it! But before the season starts, one last look back at the past and my trip to the Seventh Circle of Hell, AKA as Reno, Nevada. Friday September 17th 2010 I fired up the M5 and drove up I-80 to watch the Bears take on the Wolf Pack. Well, we all know what happened in the game action, so I won't bother rehashing that frustrating experience. Instead I'll focus on the "sights" of Reno.
We hiked up to the stadium from Circus Circus (the most depressing and weird hotel I've ever stayed in; the creepy game room would make a fantastic set for a slasher/torture-porn movie), and following the advice on this site, we went to the "Wall" for a little pre-game libation. Excellent place, packed with fans of both teams, good, cheap eats and plenty of quality booze. There were a couple of pleather hot-pant wearing chicks trying to sell something but I never saw what it was. I looked for someone from CGB who said he would be there with his buds in gold, but I never found them.
I attended this game with my son, who wasn't sure if he could get away from his job, so I bought the game tickets and hotel accommodations at the last minute, which explains why we were sitting in Section, 9, Row 28, seats 17 & 18, the absolute worst possible seats in the stadium, but at least surrounded by fellow Cal fans.
Great seats or what?
The odd thing about these seats, the row holds 18 seats, but for some reason there were at least 24 people in that row as the game went on, it was nuts - a stampede to the worst seats? There was a Cal couple nearby with their 6 month-old with them, they had filled their large insulated milk bottle with Jack Daniels, and were happy to share, and as the game went on, we really needed this.
I didn't think Reno was a bad looking place, in fact the topography was quite nice:
But I was somewhat surprised by what I found after the game was over. First off, the Nevada fans who seemed so friendly before the game turned into obnoxious pricks after the game. Yeah I know we lost, do you really have to scream "Cal sucks" or "Your team is as broke as your f-ing state" at me? Classless.
So it being 10:00 PM at this point and feeling pangs of hunger, I did what Rachel Ray always says to do, and asked some of the locals where we should grab a bite to eat. He suggested the Little Nugget for the best burgers in town, which is inside the Nugget Casino, one of the older (and crappiest) casinos on the strip. After walking past the pimps, hos, drunks, methheads and numerous pawnshops maybe I should have been clued in to what to expect, but I wasn't quite prepared for the squalor that is the Nugget. Penny slots, and fat barflys so drunk only their bar stools were keeping them from collapsing. Hey! Dollar shots! At least my trip to hell would be well lubricated.
As we were waiting for our Awful Awfuls (that's what they call the burgers) a shirtless dude bleeding from his head stumbles into the into the casino, and the nerdiest bouncer I have ever seen (headset & red polo) yells at him that he can't come in without shirt on - I guess bleeding from your head is OK. It takes bleeding dude a little while to figure this out, he seems rather dazed - if he played football, he'd be sitting on the bench.
Well, the guy who steered us here was not wrong, the burgers were great, served in a box on top of 2 pounds of fries, these 1/3 pound old-school bad boys sure hit the spot (only $6.23, such a deal!), as we were wolfing them down, the casino was invaded by a dozen or so teenage skate punks in Nevada gear.
My son was so angry at Cal losing the game, he wanted to leave first thing in the morning - I had to make do with instant hotel coffee (shudders). As bad as driving to Reno to watch Cal lose, the horror wasn't over for many Cal fans - CHP was feasting on speeders as soon as we crossed the California line - and every vehicle pulled over had a Cal sticker; doesn't the man have a heart? Haven't we suffered enough?
I insisted that I needed some real coffee so we pulled into Colfax for the Starbucks there. And in a coincidence that only seems to happen in the movies, one of the referees from the game was there as well, and my son proceeded to badger him about a missed holding call. Sure it was a really bad miss by the refs - but one holding call wasn't going to change the outcome of the game. I felt like I was pulling off a pit bull as I said we needed to leave now.
A note from Cugel's son: After seeing another customer talking to three middle aged white guys, I overheard one of them mention that they reffed the previous night's game. I figured this was one my chance to ever tell a ref that they blew a call so I approached them and kindly asked "How about that blown holding call in the 2nd quarter?" The ref, who looked quite dismayed that I dare hold him accountable replied "Well, different people see different things." What a dick, the least he could do was give me some satisfaction and admit to his mistake, but no, instead he pleads ignorance. As I received my coffee I walked out and said "Yeah, well 30,000 fucking people saw it, I don't see how you didn't." Moral Victory.
And when I pulled into the parking lot of my loft in Oakland, the odometer read 60066; coincidence? You be the judge.
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California wins World Championship
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — An American flag draped around his shoulders, Braydon Salzman couldn’t contain his glee when he found California teammate Nick Pratto to give him a postgame hug.
The boys from Huntington Beach are headed home with a Little League World Series championship.
Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of sixth inning, and Salzman pitched a complete-game three-hitter in a 2-1 victory Sunday over Hamamatsu City, Japan, and the tournament title.
“USA! USA,” yelled fans before Pratto’s single.
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Go California and Huntington Beach! :)
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Coaches Corner set to Return
BERKELEY – The Cal Coaches Corner returns to the airwaves Monday on KNEW Radio (910 AM) and will once again be broadcast live from the Paragon at the Claremont Hotel, Club and Spa from 6-7 p.m. Golden Bear fans are invited to listen in person to a lineup that features football coach Jeff Tedford, Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour and volleyball coach Rich Feller among the guests.
In addition, senior linebacker Mychal Kendricks will join host Todd McKim, who will wrap up the show with a football round-table discussion with Cal radio announcers Joe Starkey and Troy Taylor.
The Cal Coaches Corner runs through late March and offers interviews and features with Golden Bear coaches, student-athletes, alumni and many others to highlight all 29 of Cal’s intercollegiate athletic programs each week.
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Women's Volleyball Sweeps the Weekend
BERKELEY – The No. 3 California volleyball team ended its season-opening weekend in the same manner in which it was begun – with a sweep. On Saturday night, the Golden Bears (3-0) made quick work of a feisty FIU team (2-1) in three sets (25-23, 25-16, 25-15) to win the 2011 Cal Molten Classic as the only team to go undefeated.
“With three good wins, it was a great weekend for us to start the season,” Cal head coach Rich Feller said. “We’ve got to tighten up our serve and receive a little and do some things on defense that will make us better. We’re looking forward to getting back into the gym to practice on Monday.”
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Let's not pass over the fact...
….tht Oregon (!) beat Penn St. THAT streak is over….
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
Are their volleyball uniforms as ridiculous as their football unis?
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They are so ridiculous, they wear football uniforms on the court!
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NOOOOO, You missed the joke... It should have been...
Their volleyball uniforms are so ridiculous the football team just announced they’re going to wear them for the Wazzu game.
Whoa! That’s huge. Does this say more about Oregon or about Penn State?
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No. 7 Men's Soccer wins their Opener
SAN FRANCISCO – John Fitzpatrick scored No. 7 California’s first goal of the season to lead the Golden Bears to a 1-0 nonconference victory over San Francisco on a cold Friday night in both teams’ season opener at Negoesco Stadium. This also marked the first game of the Bay Area Classic for the Golden Bears (1-0-0) and Dons (0-1-0).
“It’s always a very tough game playing your local rivalries and local derbies like with USF,” Cal head coach Kevin Grimes said. “USF is in the same circumstances as we are – we both have a lot of new players. It was a great game tonight; both teams played very well, and we were very happy to come away with a 1-0 victory.”
At 21:29 in the first half, junior midfielder Tony Salciccia set up the goal, lofting the ball into the Dons’ penalty area to Fitzpatrick, a junior forward who headed past USF goalkeeper Brendan Roslund.
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Women's Soccer Wins Big Over North Dakota
HONOLULU – Thanks to two-goal outings by Katie Benz, Mekenna DeBack and Miranda White, the California women’s soccer team breezed by North Dakota State, 7-0, on Friday evening. In all, the Golden Bears out shot the Bison, 19-3.
Cal moves to 2-1-0 on the season while NDSU is now 1-1.
“We played very well tonight with great ball circulation and off the ball movement,” Cal head coach Neil McGuire said. “Our girls were hungry to create chances and it paid great dividends.”
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19-3? Good God, that’s like a 133-21 football (American) score! What a beatdown!
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That’s just the shot differential. The score was 7-0 though, and that’s still a huge beatdown.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 28, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I was thinking the same.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 28, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Cal football: the two-deep chart is out for the Fresno State game
In case you didn’t see it on the front page
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Prepare to get your mind blown by some of the pronunciations in the pronunciation guide, especially Sofele.
I think the pronunciation guide is bullshit. Madueño has an ñ but supposedly his name is pronounced ma-DWAYNE-oh.
Uh huh.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 28, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe it was written by the priest from The Princess Bwide.
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by Kodiak on Aug 29, 2011 2:33 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
TwistNHook's photos from Saturday's Cal football Fan Appreciation Day
If you haven’t seen Part I of this series, check it out here. Prime front page content!
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I dont know if its prime, really
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What about DBD 8.29.11 A Visit to The Seventh Circle Of Hell?
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It doesnt even make me want to post Part 2! Arent the sequels always better????
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Are you saying that Kodiak’s “Is Tedford’s playbook too complex Part 3” the Godfather 2 of blog posts????
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Yeah, something like that, maybe your 2nd Cal Fan day post will be like Cars 2.
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Almost always, but in this case Cal Fan Appreciation Day 2011 8.27.11 Part 2 is going to ruin CGB, destroy the community, and cause SBN to lose millions of dollars.
I knew my post would one day take the whole system down. I’M DOING IT FROM THE INSIDE!
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Sure it is. I thought it was a nice job. And those photo essays take some time to put together.
Don’t sell yourself short, man! It’s sure as heck not ground round!!!
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They dont take that long. First, I just C+P the photos in. Since Im importing them from another online location and not uploading them from my computer, that quickens the pace. Then, I scroll through and write up the little blurbs. I often feel after Im done with one that it will be poorly received, bc there isnt much there besides the photos.
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Why do you hate Monica’s Dad?
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It’s prime. Prime time. Prime time. Prime time…
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"Some people watch adult videos on their computer - I go to YouTube and watch Jahvid Best highlight clips. That’s what gets me going."- Jim Schwartz, Detroit Lions head coach
by Berkelium97 on Aug 28, 2011 8:28 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
everyone except locals
have him on the hot seat.
they clearly don’t know shit.
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by Rocksanddirt on Aug 29, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Do I have to bring out the “gunning down toddlers” analogy again?
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
It was an analogy? Hang on, I have to return a few things to the store.
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
Don’t you have to ask Jeff Tedford to return them first?
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I'm not saying you're wrong
but since the 10-2 Cal team with Aaron Rodgers, Cal has been an average, middle-of-the-pack team — in both the conference and the country — and I suppose their 2008 season when they beat Miami as an exception too.
Granted, this was coming from a USC alum, but he recently said,
Him: “Why does Tedford still have a job?”
Me: What do you mean?
Him: What has Cal done?
Me: Um, like 6 consecutive bowl games until last year.
Him: Bowl games? Yeah, at Christmas time. What do you guys want to be? A 7-8 win team every year? Or do you want to be a premier program that battles for conference and National championships every year?
Also keep in mind the program has been clean, as far as we know, which I can’t say for every if not any recent National Championship or conference contender.
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But according to carp, future facts could emerge that could potentially be bad!!!
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Imma tryin to get free airfare x 5 RTFN. 1-800-CAL-OTIS isn’t working tho.
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Its 1800CALLOTI. Thats your mistake.
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agreed.
I guess my point is Tedford, by the current standards of college football, shouldn’t be so comfortable. He’s had great recruiting classes but it hasn’t come to fruition yet. Cal peaked in 2005 or so, and they’re back down to the middle of the pack — which is basically obscurity.
i think we peaked in 04, trough in 05, then another smaller peak in 06.
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Thus, we technically averaged our peak in that amazing 2005 season! JOE AYOOB 4 LIFE!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
"or so"
The only way we bring Cal to the next step of perennial contender is if we get a Carrol/Tressel clone to run the program.
What an odd thing for a Cal fan to say.
Here is what will bring Cal to the next step of perennial contender. We’ve gotten past some of the bad recruiting classes of the later aughts. Now, in the last year or os weve had much better recruiting classes. So, over the next several years we should see massive improvement. Perhaps not in 2011, I agree, but in 2012 etc. And things of that nature.
I agree that if things start to go south in 2012 and beyond, Tedford could def be on the hot seat.
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How many programs are perennial contenders? That is, they reload year after year. That, for the most part, take some serious scumbagging, as we are seeing in the last few months.
Cal can reach an elite level again — like Pac-10 champs — but to sort of duplicate, more or less, year in and year out what they had in 2005, is hard to do anywhere, especially if you follow the rules, and do not create a culture of celebrity around the program.
Their top recruits are defenders, by and large, so we’ll see what kind of team Tedford has in 2012/2013. Tedford going with a fringe-type transfer, who isn’t a pocket passer like he likes, says something about Tedford’s desperation offensively, in that he is starting to understand that his recruits haven’t panned out.
I agree 100% that his QB recruits have not panned out. Mansion. Sweeney. I get that.
But thats only one part of the offensive scheme, so I dont know if despeartion is the right word.
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I think he knew he would have a QB issue in 2011, which is why he took on Maynard as a transfer last year — something he normally doesn’t do. In that sense, I think desperation is accurate.
More so the package deal for KA, methinks. If Maynard is good it’s all upside, but there’s no way to know that before camp.
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I think it was mostly a lucky situation that worked out. Tedford knew QB was a question mark and wasn’t opposed to taking a transfer with starting experience who shredded Pitt’s D at a young age, knowing it just increases the odds of one of the QB’s being good. Throw in the recruiting angle, and you have yourself a lucky situation!
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
9 years isnt enough, OK? Give the man some time!
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he deserves at least until 2017 as long as he doesn’t get all kinds of crazy and start playing Quinn Tedford and punting on 2nd down.
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…and something about machine guns and toddlers, right?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think middle of the pack with the potential to do better than that is a negative at all for Cal. Compared to historical standards, he’s doing a fantastic job. I gotta agree with GoldBlooded on the ridiculousness of the notion that it’s that easy to turn a school into a power. Cal isn’t exactly sitting on the most fertile recruiting ground in the country or anything, actually has academic standards, doesn’t have an unreal fan support/atmosphere or anything, doesn’t have SEC quality girls, doesn’t treat football players like kings like they do at some school, is working with limited resources (at least recently, Cal had the lowest assistant coach pay in the conference if I remember right), etc. I’m not saying Cal is bad at these things or anything, but it’s not like the school is sitting on some ridiculously untapped potential that’s just screaming “we should be winning national championships!”….
I think there was a dropoff in recruiting for a few years there, and now it looks like Tedford & Co are making big strides on that end. It’ll be interesting to see what the program can accomplish in the next few years.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think middle of the pack with the potential to do better than that is a negative at all for Cal. Compared to historical standards, he’s doing a fantastic job
It’s nothing to be ashamed of sure, and by Cal history, Tedford is God. But, I’m pretty sure everyone in that athletic department — to a man — is not striving to hang out with the “middle of the pack.” Cal fans don’t either. It’s the culture of college football. Alums want stature and recognition for their shools, and success in big sports is one way of doing it (aside from raking in lots of dough for the school and administrators). In the landscape of college football, Cal is an afterthought, and the only way to become a thought is to be one of the best teams out in the west at the end of the season — not at the beginning, as they have so often.
I mostly agree, though I think Tedford has earned himself plenty of time to try to make that happen. As close as they were in 2004….it can happen again! I’m still confident Tedford will get to the Rose Bowl.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I think more and more it’s becoming evident that the only way to regularly contend is to cheat, and I think the majority of Cal fans would rather hang out in the middle of the pack than cheat.
In my opinion, all we’re seeing right now is the NCAA actually going on a little investigative spree where they find stuff at a few programs. Plenty of other traditional powerhouses haven’t been hit with anything, and the stuff schools are getting busted for is stuff that’s been going on for a long, long time…
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I strongly suspect that in fact there are all sorts of shenanigans that aren’t getting investigated. I would be amazed if, for example, many large programs were not using hookers to lure susceptible recruits, and if dollar handshakes weren’t happening. But I also think that those are so common, and in the case of small dollar cash transactions, sufficiently pervasive and difficult to prove that the NCAA doesn’t want to touch them.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Hell, I’m convinced all those southern schools who have legions of hotties in their hospitality organizations are organizing mass orgies on recruiting weekends.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I talked with teammates
of D.J. Williams when he was going to De La Salle, and they told me his recruiting trip to Miami was pretty much like Jesus Schuttleworth’s recruiting trip in “HE GOT GAME.”
For those of you who remember Mick Barsala, an LB who transferred to Cal from Miami during the Snyder reign (Jerrot Willard and Mick Barsala killed everyone in those days) and I knew a friend of his who said he described similar things.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
there's no way around the fact
that schools make too much money to just sit back and accept NOT getting the best players. Even allowing players to accept endorsement $ etc., won’t change this. Too much $ at stake for schools.
Never saw that movie. Whats the scene?
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Twist, please don’t come back here until you get a good dose of Jesus Shuttlesworth. Great movie.
I cant believe that that is the name from a non-comedy movie.
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I guess my point is Tedford, by the current standards of college football, shouldn’t be so comfortable.
And, thus, the reason I hat college football.
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Hate is a strong word. But I hate the culture of big-time sports also, which is what I think you’re getting at.
Yup, that’s basically it.
There’s actually a long list of things I dislike about CFB, mostly off field stuff (e.g., the fraud of amateurism, the inherently uneven playing field, the stupid way of crowning a national “champion”). But somehow, I always come back to Cal football. Without my rooting interest in Cal football, I don’t think I’d watch that much CFB.
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I like the pageantry, the variability in talent and effort and execution that means exciting random unexpected things can happen, the fact that in some strange way we are celebrating academic institutions (yeah, even if the players aren’t all gonna graduate magna cum laude or anything, if at all), I like the huge culture differences that these campuses and alumni and fans represent, even at places as geographically close as Palo Alto and Berkeley. These things make it exciting and interesting and the best sport to watch. Plus there are so many random teams from all sorts of places, urban to podunk, that get mixed and matched in random ways every year. It’s endlessly fascinating and entertaining.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well said Atoms, this is how I feel. I know there are issues with big-time athletics, but when I’m at a game, this thought never crosses my mind. And I for one think the way the championship is determined gives CFB it’s special taste. Games like Cal vs Oregon last year are electric like no other sport.
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right
when you’re in the moment and the GAME is the focus, it’s wonderful, especially if you’re invested in the one of the teams. But all the hogwash and superficial drama, hypocrisy, etc., is what Ohio and I dislike. It almost ruins it for me (well, the BCS does ruin it for me, actually. A profound joke that is)
Every sport has hogwash and superficial bullshit though.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Immensely
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree w you. Pretty much everything said by any talking head about CFB makes me dislike it more and more. I ignore them as much as possible.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions
only an SC alum would think that the coach is the ONLY thing preventing teams from being national champs every year
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
He doesn't think that,
but yes, he’s spoiled, and his judgement is clouded. We don’t pay players and run a shady program. “What do you want?” I said to him.
We don’t pay players
And look at how well that’s been going!
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Is it illegal to pay voting media members? Maybe that should be Cal’s strategy (or should have been in 2004)….
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
And by illegal I mean against NCAA rules. I feel a need to make that distinction because of how stupid NCAA rules generally are.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate these looks back...
WE WON A SHARE OF THE CONFERENCE TITLE IN 2006!!!! OK!!!! We finished the season ranked #12. THAT IS NOT MIDDLE OF THE PACK
And you’re USC alumn can go F himself. Seriously, why do you give a crap about what he says? It’s a f’in cheating, crooked, corrupt program. That’s what you want?
YES YES IT IS!
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Some of that is pretty funny
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The Paul Wulff Farmville updates are the best part.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 28, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the BYU and aTm friend requests.
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It’s a pdf. Try this.
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For Saturday
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
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It’s best that Tiny introduce him to the immense cruelty of football before he gets to the NFL and ends up like his brother, I think.
"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
Dennis Erickson > Dennis Erickson
Buahahahahahahahaha. Old people can be so cute!
Fire Starkey. You... complete me.
Yeah. Just wait until ol’ Dennis starts mis-tagging his friends in photos. Hilarity!
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Las Vegas pumps the sunshine
Cal favored by 10 over Fresno State.
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dooooooooooooom
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 7:23 AM PDT up reply actions
TAKES CAL!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
One for the Yelp discussion
What’s with the two stars Abe? I get shot somewhere, and that place is getting ONE STAR.
Our opponent this week end
Since coming to Fresno State in 1997 Pat Hill has posted 11 winning seasons in his 14 years with the Bulldogs. If you take out his first two years then he has 11 out of 12 winning seasons. In that time, only once did Fresno State take a piece of the WAC Championship as they finished in a three-way tie for the title in 1999 with Billy Volek at QB. The time is now for the Bulldogs as the WAC has been abandoned by the big boys and Nevada, Hawaii and Fresno are left at the top of the conference to battle it out.
Fresno State losses it’s starting QB but a familiar name steps up in his place as Derek Carr, brother of David Carr, will be the man this year for the Bulldogs. Along with RB Robbie Rouse it could be a pretty good combination for the Bulldogs. Last year the Bulldogs got flattened by Hawaii by 22 points and lost to a Colin Kaepernick led Nevada team by a single digit. This year the Bulldogs play both of it’s primary WAC competitiors on the road. The Bulldogs also have a very formidable non-conference schedule as they play at Cal, at Nebraska, host Ole Miss, host Boise State and play at San Diego State. This is an important year for Fresno to reach up and grab the WAC by the throat, can they do it?
Hey and thanks for the links, guys.
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Reno
My friends and I didn’t buy tickets thru the Cal ticket office, so we were a few sections over from the official Cal section. The stadium in general felt like an overgrown high school stadium to me, right up to the aluminum bleachers. And the Nevada fans were an odd combination of either really nice or huge jerks.
The section of California covering the Sierra to the foothills by the Central Valley— regardless of which highway you take — is a permanent speedtrap, designed to fund local municipalities by ticketing out-of-towners.
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100% agree about the stadium, man, maybe CMS had some seismic issues, but it felt solid. Being 200 feet up in the air with only a chainlink fence to stop you falling off a overgrown erector set? Slightly unnerving.
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maybe CMS had some seismic issues
There is a three inch crack in Section JJ. That’s some serious shit.
Move 2 sections closer to the South Tunnel
Now, you’ll see the 3-inch crack.
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rec’d for Cugel, Jr. bitching out the ref.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 28, 2011 10:25 PM PDT reply actions
This.
Thanks for the DBD, Cugel. It reminds me that the time I drove my friends to Reno so that we could gamble after finals…My parents’ mini-van broke down in Vacaville on the way home. Transmission shot. My roommate’s dad picked them up and took them to a fancy steakhouse winebar in Napa. I got to ride in an un-airconditioned tow truck with a very large, spooky, and fragrant man for a couple of hours back to Fremont. Eesh. Must be the curse of Reno.
And for chowder, et al for the links!
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Agree. In my ne’er do well teen years, some friends and I decided at 2am one evening that we needed to have coffee at Carrow’s in Reno. So I got to drive (in my fresh ‘77 Ford Granada pleasure wagon) and ended up having to buy chains (it was January). We got to Reno, had crappy coffee at Carrow’s at about 6:30am or so, then drove back. On the way back, I got pulled over for speeding in Fairfield and then blew my muffler.
The trip seemed like a good idea at the time. Lesson learned: Reno is never a good idea.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 7:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, seriously
Last time I went to Reno, I doubled my money in blackjack and won tons of stuffed animals from Circus Circus!
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BTW
Were they WAC or Pac refs? Since it was a WAC home game I’m guessing the former.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
So what you’re saying is, it could have been worse.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Have I ever told you about Pat Flood?
One day I’ll tell you kids my story about running into basketball ref Tom Harrington and the follow-up…
Please do!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
EPL
Gunners humiliated by unstoppable United
Manchester United shattered Arsenal by slamming eight goals past the shell-shocked Gunners to secure an astonishing 8-2 victory at Old Trafford.
Four-star Dzeko, five-star City
Edin Dzeko scored four times as he and debutant Samir Nasri helped Manchester City put Tottenham to the sword with a ruthless display of attacking football that secured a 5-1 win at White Hart Lane.
Grim day for Arsenal but Arsène Wenger says he will not be leaving
City produced the day’s first statement of intent with an emphatic 5-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur where Edin Dzeko, so often maligned last season, scored four times for the richest club on the planet. United responded to their local rivals’ declaration as they often do, putting them in the shade and Arsène Wenger under further scrutiny with an remarkable 8-2 rout of Arsenal. It was Arsenal’s heaviest defeat since 1896, when Loughborough Town inflicted a record 8-0 loss, United’s biggest victory since an 8-1 win at Nottingham Forest in 1999 and their greatest at Old Trafford since routing Ipswich Town 9-0 in 1995. It was a result that raised the question to Wenger of whether he would consider his position at the club after 15 years.
i was shocked when i saw that score. i didn’t even think MU could hang 8 on QPR, let alone the gunners. sad times for Arsenal… hope they splash some of that sheikh-cash and grab someone over the age of 25
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think it's a case of
a poor version of arsenal
after cesc and nasri made a run for it…
and united knew the score of the city game…
I saw Arsenal here in China and they drew with CSL side Hangzhou Green Town. And while they peppered the Hangzhou goalie with shots, none of them were exordinarily tough saves. Yeah the goalie was solid and very good, but he didn’t make any Keller-point-blank-against Brazil type saves. And really Hangzhou were very unlucky not to have two since their forward had an open goal and missed a header high. Ares looked really bad.
I watched / dozed through the first half last night and it’s pretty shocking until you watch the game. It seemed like half the time, the Arsenal players just weren’t paying attention to where they were relative to their team mates – so you’d have a good run from Arshavin or van Persie, and if they got closed down or their shot went awry, there was no one there to pick up the pieces.
I’m also not sure how Arsenal managed to leave large swathes of the midfield empty for Manchester United players to run through, and still didn’t have up to 8 players in the box. I’m not saying that as a criticism, I mean I genuinely don’t understand where 1/3 of the team was at any given time.
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I saw it, the backline was accurately described as “shambolic” on several occasions.
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Was it a traveshamockery?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Usain Bolt false starts, eliminated in final
DAEGU, South Korea — Still fuming from his false start that knocked him from the 100-meter final, Usain Bolt crouched on the line and waited. Then he zipped off the blocks into the darkness of a deserted practice track.
There, only a short hike from the main stadium, he didn’t have to worry about jumping the gun.
Bolt missed out on defending his 100-meter title Sunday when he jumped from the blocks early at the world championships. He was disqualified by a highly debated zero-tolerance false start rule enacted last year.
“He’s human, isn’t he? I always knew he was human,” said his coach, Glen Mills. “He will pick himself up. He’s a champion.”
Just not on this night.
Bolt knew instantly it was his error, too. Soon after the gun went off, soon after taking a few steps out of the blocks, another gun blasted — the knot-in-your-stomach sound for any sprinter.
Bolt’s eyes grew big. He pulled his shirt over his face, then ripped it off and whipped it around in his hand. Grudgingly, Bolt left the stage he has dominated since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Instead, it was left to another Jamaican to wrap himself in the country’s flag — Yohan Blake, a 21-year-old up-and-comer that former Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene predicted to win.
Also, a guy with no legs is doing very well in the 400m.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Raiders
lose 40-20 to the Saints at the Coliseum.
Taiwan Jones looks fast.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d821cc65b/Jones-streaks-for-TD
Tracy Porter likes getting stiff armed.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d821cc2b9/Hagan-35-yard-TD
I own that Bruce Lee jumpsuit. Well not that one, I own my own – I went 2 years ago as bruce for Halloween. Here in China I bought it off Taobao (China’s ebay) – for just about $20 USD – made to my size and everything (although I measured it a bit wrong and the inseam was just a bit shorter than it should have been.
Anyone been to Matrix Fillmore?
I went there Sat… pretty fun. No cover is always a big deal for me, and drinks were in the $8-10 range so not terrible at all. It’s like 75% lounge / 25% club so that also works for me
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It’s aite. Were you there for an Indian girl’s bday party?
I had another birthday party at 620 Jones that night, otherwise, I may have been there too.
And then the world would have exploded.
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I heard Priya Patel’s party was epic!!!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
haha I have no idea, I’m just making it up.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know how Priya Patel sounds. And tbh if I’m watching Priya Rai, it would likely be on mute so the neighbors don’t hear.
lol
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Dont you mean PRaj Patel?
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drinks were in the $8-10 range so not terrible at all
I read this statement and realize how old I am because paying $8-10 for a single drink FUCKING SUCKS
Just sayin’
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 7:23 AM PDT up reply actions
no, it sounds like a lot because it would take $50 to even start feeling a buzz.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions
This is true; which is why I’d support both pre-gaming and bringing a flask in.
Also, if you show up to a bar sober, AMFs are a good way to get there quickly. Or just taking two shots of whiskey and chasing it with beer.
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 7:41 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
These are all very good suggestions (that have been tested to be true).
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Flask served me really well Saturday night. I spent less than $20 the entire night and I bought the birthday boy a drink.
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I don’t know man… BYOBing to a bar… it’s not the image I had of you…
So non sequitur… I felt VERY poor this weekend… I was staying at hotel which shall remain nameless lest I be… anyway… They’re setting up for a wedding… and I’m told there will be 524 guests… And that they’ve taken 250 rooms at the hotel… That was some serious bank for the father of the bride.
Not only do I not know 524 people to invited to any event, I don’t think I could do 262 “+ ones” and except to fill it.
I have a REALLY high tolerance, so getting a buzz at a bar would cost serious bank that I don’t have. I still buy drinks, just not as many.
Also, between friends, family, and friends of family, 500 people can totally happen!
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went to a wedding of 750+ people once in San Antonio… my uncle commented that it would have been over 1000 if they could have found someplace big enough.
Yeah not so much… it was my cousins’ wedding… I couldn’t figure out which girls I could hit on and which ones were family. Ugh.
What an interesting problem to have. Hmm.
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Umm, hello. Unless we’re talking first cousins, is it really that big of a deal? It’s not like you grew up with them or anything.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
why?
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Genetically, it’s not that big of a deal. But many cultures have ingrained taboos against incest. But other cultures encourage the marrying of first and second cousins. So there’s that.
We all come from the same seed...
…if you believe the world started with one man, and one woman…so….
the girlfriend your banging is like banging your sister, in the sense that you share ancestry.
This took a turn for the Ohio.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Clearly this is more West Virginia and other points south.
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
So, incest is only for believers in the Adam & Eve theory, is that what you’re saying?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, in principle, yes. If you believe there wasn’t any single beginning, then you respect and follow the normal assumptions about incest. But if you believe the A & E story, the safest play is not to fuck anybody.
Yeah, you don’t want to get banished out of paradise for sticking your snake in the wrong pomegranate.
I don’t think that is the issue. The point is that, for believers, in a literal sense, they’re all “relative” with one another, so you avoid fucking in order to keep from that icky feeling and spawing retarded and deformed children — not to avoid hell or enter heaven.
For us, we can fuck pretty much most everyone without having to think twice. What pretense is more compatible with creating a civilizition.
Man, Concord tom is right, I’m never gonna get a ‘good’ job writing these things on CGB.
I thought that for believers it’s their duty to populate the planet, and that all human life is sacred and we are all made in the image of the creator and such…
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
This isn’t the first time you’ve seen theological/religious assumptions about the nature of the universe contradicting have you?
Anyways, I’m speaking more to the common views on incest and intra-family sexual relations. People are freaked out at the though of banging their first cousin on the basis that they are “related,” when we could all be related to one another.
And yes, believers do value reproduction; they’re just all, at bottom, having sex with themselves.
Totally legal to marry your first cousin in California (and half hte states in the union) and every country in Europe, FYI.
That being said, I totally didn’t google that on my work browser!
C’mon Rishi, cousin marriage was the primary way of keeping land in the family back in the day.
That said, I can’t explain the Ozarks.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
You may be comforted to know that in North Carolina, while first cousin marriage is legal, double-cousin marriage is prohibited. I have not yet wrapped my mind around how I could be first cousins with someone on both my mom’s and my dad’s side, because I think that might be gross.
Scootie, you seem to know an awful lot about this. Remind me I have some questions for you on Saturday.
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Why would they have to be twins?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
That being said, I totally didn’t google that on my work browser!
So, in other words, it’s knowledge that you’ve poured over and memorized?
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I wouldn’t be surprised. She has said in the past that a lot of her relations are Furdies, and you know how she feels about those…
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Reverend Moon congratulates you on your nuptials!
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by sec119 on Aug 29, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
hanging out with my co-workers/fraternity bros that get paid a lot less than me served me well this weekend…. until they ran out of money…
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I hear ya, dude.
I’d toast you in sympathy….but apparently I need to hit an ATM first.
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I'm not that old
and I classify $8-10 drinks a rip-off. This is SF, no place should demand Vegas prices.
I support the NBA player's union.
8-10 is cheap for vegas.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Granted I haven’t been in the area in two years, but I went many places where beers were 5 and drinks were 7-8.
I support the NBA player's union.
well, I’d have issues paying $10 for a gin and tonic or some mass produced bar drink like that. I gladly pay $10 for a quality cocktail.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I mean, you can still go to dive bars and get drinks at those prices or cheaper.
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I know a place that’s really cheap, but it’s a bit of a drive….
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Don’t explain it for him. Even I got it.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think I’ve had a $7 cocktail in the two years I’ve been back here (and I include the ’burbs in that analysis). Drinks are freaking expensive in the bay area.
Thank you for being honest. I wouldnt want anybody to lie in this DBD!
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I’ve only ever seen you at happy hour!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I am differentiating “after work drinks” from “2 for 1” type deals. I do after work drinks, just not usually at somewhere that runs a special for that sort of thing. It’s more coincidence than snobbery though (cue gasps of disbelief, I know).
I’m too old to care about cheap drinks, I’m not looking to get hammered. I’d rather pay a little more an enjoy a quality beverage.
/getoffmylawn
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
by turkey on Aug 29, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I haven’t actually been hammered in… hell, I don’t even remember the last time.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait, what’s the challenge? Who can go longer without getting shitfaced, or who can drink the most… quality beverages?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
get atoms shitfaced, that’s all.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
…Three beers? Maybe if I skip a meal and shotgun them. Or are they high alcohol content craft beers or something.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
oooooo lookie at mr tough guy!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I know! I can totally handle three. Four might be pushing it though.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
In order to make it a true challenge (though admittedly not much of one), you’ll have to match me drink for drink.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
At least turkey is old. I don’t think I’d have a prayer going up against you.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh atoms. I think your mouth is writing checks your liver can’t cash.
/sezthelightweight
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My mouth has already admitted probable defeat to turkey and definite defeat to boomtho…
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I am old, it’s cool.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
i’m old enough to know that hangovers are silly :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I thought he was a spring turkey.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re old
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Aug 29, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
So, does that mean you don’t drink Milwaukee’s Best?
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I think it means he does! It’s the Best, after all!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Is there any drink better than Milwaukee’s Best?
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I hear Pabst has a Blue Ribbon-winning lager….
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I hear that place isn’t officially open yet.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Every time you mention that place I briefly think somebody is talking about Rush, and I get excited. Then I realize it’s another drinking thread and Z on.
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I’m trying to remember who made that old joke the last time I mentioned the greatest Canadian prog-rock trio ever.
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They’re very good, but they’re not a trio I don’t think.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Aren’t the members of Rush diehard libertarians with Ayn Rand motifs in their songs and stuff?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope. One song off of one album was influenced by her writing, and it’s become a misnomer since then. You’d like Geddy he’s a huge baseball fan.
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Interesting. Also I associate them because my crazy libertarian cousin is the only Rush fan I know (besides you, evidently).
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Is he crazy because he’s libertarian or crazy because he’s your cousin?
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I love the guy, and he’s one of the most intellectually capable people I know, but his views are batshit insane. He’s almost in anarcho-libertarian territory.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I bet you know a bunch of Rush fans! They’re probably just too embarrassed to admit it. So gutless!
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I think cocktails from the well are $7 at a few places in Oakland/East Bay. Nicer ones though are still $10+.
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I think most of the places I frequent in the East Bay are $5-7 craft beers, and $7-8 cocktails. I’m sure you can get cheaper, but why would you want to? But I don’t drink to get drunk ever.
You know how when you work out at the gym, on occasion your muscles get sore? And that helps them get stronger and healthier?
Your liver is like that.
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My liver must really suck at eerything ever
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That’s why I don’t lift weights, b/c who wants to get cirrhosis of the biceps?
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by sec119 on Aug 29, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
lol I knew there was a good joke in here. I’m glad you found it.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Twist has been to Matrix Fillmore before, when he was stalking Barry Zito.
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I dont even know what Matrix Fillmore is. But I assure you Ive done most of my Barry Zito stalking elsewhere!
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It’s in the Marina! I know you followed him there that one night!
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I find it amusing the way Cow Hollow people try not pretend it’s really not the Marina.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I’m not a Cow Hollow person, but the Marina starts at Lombard. Cow Hollow runs from the north side of Green to Lombard. It drives me crazy when people call neighborhoods by the wrong name.
I know you’re not CH, I just like watching people squirm about being labeled ‘marina’ :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
So, you live in the Sunset, then?
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If you have a good crowd you’re with, I think the Matrix can be fun. Also, dunno if they still do this, Thursdays they used to have a “live music” dealio… saw a few smaller acts there that were pretty damn awesome.
I really like that place. That was I think the 4th birthday party I’ve been to there, starting with my own. That and I discovered Saturday they make a killer sazerac. My friends and I had a blast (pretty much culminating 2-3 days of birthday partying for many of us)
I love that outdoor patio. Nice and breezy out there. I surprisingly love that place a lot considering there’s no music.
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On a nice day, I think that’s one of the best places to have a day-party… one of the birthdays was a Sunday thing, we hung out there for a few hours, it was gorgeous.
Glad you liked it, it’s the “hot spot” right now so there will be a bunch of parties over there for like another 3-4 months, until something else gets popular.
I feel as long as we have decently pleasant nights, it’ll be fun. Maybe not so much after September. The place, btw, must have been about 75% desi that night.
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Just like Hanzel. Hes so hot right now!
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In an unexpected turn of events, I think I’ve been there before.
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matrix can get a bit too ‘marina’ but the place itself it nice.
620 jones is solid, need to go on a summer day that doesn’t require a winter coat.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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Only when he was booting as a result of consuming $108 worth of beverages.
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There’s really nothing quite so depressing – at least when you’ve had time to think about it – as booting an expensive amount of drink. Worse yet if a decent dinner was also involved.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
canned peaches when you know there’s boot’n involved.
taste as good coming back up.
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by Rocksanddirt on Aug 29, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a friend who had brutal morning sickness throughout her entire pregnancy — threw up until the day she delivered, and had to have IVs for hydration etc. After a few months she started drinking chocolate milkshakes every day because they were the only thing that tasted just as good coming back up.
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This comment just got worse and worse as I read on!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
japan's new prime minister
Yoshihiko Noda
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-japan-prime-minister-20110829,0,6685869.story
In a now familiar political ritual, Japan’s ruling party on Monday picked a new prime minister — the sixth in five years — to lead the nation past a host of domestic ills, including a stagnant economy and lingering nuclear crisis.
In a tense runoff vote, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, known as a tight-fisted fiscal hawk, defeated his closest rival, Trade Minister Banri Kaieda, even though Kaieda’s had the backing of a powerful but publicly disgraced party boss.
prepare for a bunch of curious statements.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/08/japans-prime-minister
Yoshihiko Noda, the finance minister, is the favourite to replace Mr Kan if, as expected, he steps down later this month. But as he gets nearer to the top office, Mr Noda is already showing a similar talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
On August 15th he aroused the ire of South Korea, a country that Mr Kan has steadfastly and sensitively courted, by reaffirming a nonsensical argument he aired six years ago. It claims that Japan’s 14 Class-A war criminals who are buried enshrined at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo were not, in fact, war criminals.
Some legal commentators have made a similar point in the past, arguing that Japanese law does not recognise the verdicts of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which convicted them. Legal hair-splitting aside however, Japan’s government accepted the verdicts as part of the 1952 San Francisco peace treaty, Article 11 of which begins: "Japan accepts the judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan, and will carry out the sentences imposed thereby upon Japanese nationals imprisoned in Japan."
The bizarre part of Mr Noda’s argument is that he says the San Francisco treaty "restored the honour" of all Japan’s war criminals. When he made this point to Junichiro Koizumi in 2005, in response to the then-prime minister’s controversial visit to Yasukuni, even Mr Koizumi said he did not know what Mr Noda was talking about.
No-duh.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey Guys !!! Look what SBNation has posted !!!!
HOT COUGAR ACTION
Oh wait, it’s about WSU Football. Nevermind……
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
What are the TV deets for the Fresneck game? Need to plan my viewing options.
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Good point
It’s at 4 PM, right? Interwebs says it’s on CSN (California).
They’d better have it at the Venetian sports book!
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They’d better have it at the Venetian sports book!
They have everything at the Venetian sports book
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions
True story. Two years ago, I bet on Charleston Southern to cover the spread against Florida (70 point spread). And they had THAT on tv.
Most exciting blowout I’ve ever seen (not involving Cal on the winning end)
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Can you bet on cricket there too?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions
What about the IFL?!? Go Skykings!!!!
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I saw that afterwards… :(
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Im on the EFLI’s mailing list and got this message in an email:
It is with great honor that the EFLI announces the official signing of Mr. Brandon Chillar as Executive Vice President of Coaching and Game Development. Brandon Chillar, one of the only Indians to play in the NFL, will now bridge the international gap that lies between India and the United States for the first ever, professional American style football league in India. Brandon Chillar, recently showcased in Sports Illustrated India, was a standout athlete in both college at the Univerity of California Los Angeles, and as a professional player and member of the 2011 Superbowl champions, the Green Bay Packers. Mr. Chillar’s financial investment solidifies his commitment.
“I am looking forward to the full support of the Indian government and India’s top broadcasting company to bring forth the perfect game of football for the country, it’s people and the TV viewership audience. Without doubt, this is relatively a fundamentally simple game to perfect and I am fully committed to champion to fruition. It wasn’t until my recent visit to India that I realized the real opportunity that exists here as well as its wide-open availability.I have wanted to coach since I first started playing football as a boy”, said Chillar. “I am very excited about this opportunity.” Chillar is already forming a team of coaches and is bound for India in September to attend several orientations and begin practice for players.
Brandon’s father, Ram Chillar, will also join the company. “When I was first introduced to this concept, I thought it was a great idea, but being a very conservative business man and of Indian descent, I initially delayed. However, after witnessing a year of hyper development, I am more than convinced that this is an idea thats time has come.” Ram also stated, “I experienced the gift of football first hand and how it effected my son’s life through scholarships, education, athletic prowess and career. I am delighted to partner in bringing this opportunity to the children of my homeland.”
“This is another monumental day for the EFLI,” said CEO, Richard Whelan. Brandon’s participation in the EFLI will markedly touch the lives of India’s children. Brandon is a loving, intelligent and gifted man. I am very appreciative to have him on our team. Special thanks to Ram Chillar."
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Well, that was a massive failure.
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I love what Ram Chillar has to say:
"When I was first introduced to this concept, I thought it was a great idea, but being a very conservative business man and of Indian descent, I initially delayed. However, after witnessing a year of hyper development, I am more than convinced that this is an idea thats time has come." Ram also stated, "I experienced the gift of football first hand and how it effected my son’s life through scholarships, education, athletic prowess and career. I am delighted to partner in bringing this opportunity to the children of my homeland."
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I love that a post mentioning Sri Lanka is pretty much guaranteed to draw you out of the lurker shadows. :)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
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I was quite proud of Cal fans’ road attendance, and I really enjoyed the view of the Sierra’s from our seats.
Nevada fans’ craziness was epic. A Friday game, we got up there a full 3 hours before gametime and all parking lots were stuffed with RV’s and tailgating so good that it made me envious. And I like to tailgate. Kaeppernick was awesome. Jones and Vereen were studs, and I think we all learned a lesson that game. We stayed at a friend’s cabin in Truckee, and that was a lot of fun. They had a buy-booze-for-the-SPCA-event at Squaw Valley which a few Cal fans attended and saved the weekend. Also, can’t go wrong cycling from Squaw to Tahoe City along the Truckee River.
In my opinion, I thought it was extremely stupid scheduling (Friday, good WAC opponent, roadie). However, it’s not as dumb as UCLA scheduling a game at Houston…4000% humidity + Keenum. If the Bruins win it’ll be a miracle.
If I were commish, I’d really encourage more games like ASU-Georgia and stay the hell away from the Houstons and the Iowa Sts, and the Marylands. If you must, don’t make it with an opponent that will make you play in their yard in September humidity.
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Wilner says Cal has the 4th hardest sked in the 12-Pac
4. Cal: You could make the case that Cal has the toughest schedule in the conference given that 1) the Bears will play their home games away from home (at AT&T Park in San Francisco), and 2) they’re the only team that plays both Stanford and Oregon on the road. But the non-conference lineup is hardly daunting with Fresno State (neutral site), Presbyterian and Colorado.
Playing Stanfeit at home is just as challenging as playing Stanfraid on the road, meaning I don’t think the 12th man lives in Palo Alto. Playing at either Oregon school and at USC is always hard. As a plus, at least we don’t have to travel up north or out East in November. The game with USC will be a challenge for Cal’s OL, but perhaps Cal’s DL will have a chance to gel and dominate. Me thinks Clancy has Oregon’s zone read figured out and I’m not afraid of their OL whatsoevs.
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Anybody watch the Louie ep where he goes to Afghanistan?
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Yes
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions
What did you think?
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Here have some of this banana.
You’re talking about this visit to the dentist right?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 8:05 AM PDT up reply actions
No, the episode where he went to Afghanistan. I mean I doubt 100% it was filmed in Afghanistan, prolly somewhere east of LA where its desert-y. But the episode takes place on an USO tour in Afghanistan.
I found it to be one of the most amazing episodes of TV I’ve ever seen. It was just so different from anything else I’d ever seen. Funny. Moving. Interesting. His whole show is so different from any other standard show. Its hard to describe. You have to just watch the episode.
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I really really liked that episode too. He is very creative with the show and always seems to bring something new. Agreed that its hard to describe, but he just has a very funny way describing both everyday and not so everyday things so that everyone understands
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
understands… relates… laughs… take your pick
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Giants lose to Astros:
There have been a lot of this-just-might-not-be-our-year-fellas losses already. Not losses that make you give up, necessarily. Losses that make you think, yeah, I’m pretty sure this isn’t a good enough team to make the playoffs. The Giants lost to the Astros because they can’t score more than three runs in a single game. They won two games in the series, and that’s more than they deserved. This might be the most this-just-might-not-be-our-year-fellas series of the season.
My evidence: the Giants were beaten in two of these games by Henry Sosa and Matt Downs.
Well, and an umpire at second base, most likely. That’s pretty not-our-year right there. A wretched, inane offense will always shoulder most of the blame, sure, but only until the shoulder gets sore and falls off. Oh, and they were beaten by the Astros, a team with four wins on the season, all against the Giants. That’s very not-our-year. And Jose Altuve. Always Jose Altuve. Maybe if Mike Murphy grabs him before he can get on the Astros’ team bus, Altuve could tell us where to find enough gold to sign Prince Fielder. This offense could be saved after all.
But if you’re looking for messages in the tea leaves, Henry Sosa and Matt Downs combine for a pretty unmistakable message from the cosmos. Not time to give up. But let’s just allow those names to rattle around in our brains in a while.
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Every year is not the Giants’ year, and last year was just the exception that proved the rule.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Interview with Ray Fosse:
There isn’t a whole lot that the casual fan knows about Ray Fosse; save for the time Pete Rose invaded his personal space at an exhibition game in 1970. Oh, and apparently he enjoys Dibs ice cream.
My memories of Fosse’s career run a bit deeper than that, having watched him contribute to two World Series-winning ball clubs in Oakland. Those first-hand experiences came in handy during my conversation with the former catcher last Sunday, as part of Comcast’s Xfinity Couch campaign.
Ray Fosse would have fit right in with the A’s of recent years. That is, he was oft-injured. The infamous collision with Pete Rose left him with a separated right shoulder, a prelude to a long list of ailments Fosse would endure throughout his 12-year playing career. Still, he earned two All-Star selections and as many Gold Gloves during the 1970-71 seasons, all while playing in the purgatory that was Cleveland, where the Indians averaged nearly 89 losses in Fosse’s first six years in the Majors.
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Good news! Missing Barry destroyed the fuck out of the GRE’s this past weekend. They’re still probably traumatized from the experience. Now….what should I go to grad school for?
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 8:03 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Congratulations. Is it common for somebody to take the GRE without really havinga n idea which grad school program they want to enter?
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Well, the GRE’s are the general test that are accepted by many different programs, so that was kind of the point. I have a 5 year window where they’re valid, too. So yeah, definitely helps keep my options open and makes sense.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 8:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, you seem to like economics. What about doing an economics degree?
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I’m actually trying to get out of economics. I generally don’t like economists much…
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Take that, Paul Krugman!
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My dad loves your shit.
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Confused by your statement.
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“Are you Meredith?”
“Yes…”
“My mom loves your shit.”
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Is this related to the office?
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Forget his Times column. Screw his Pulitzer Prize. Paul Krugman has finally done something noteworthy: cameoed in a comedy.
The rock star economist honed his acting skills on the set of the new Russell Brand-Jonah Hill film “Get Him to the Greek”, and he’s getting rave reviews.
We’re not sure why he’s in the film, but check out Krugman’s star turn below
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Ah, I see. Thanks.
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It is true, I am not a huge fan of Paul Krugman.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Something that makes you employable afterward. No fooling.
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MBA?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Cal does not. Stanford does. Wharton does, however, it looks like their SF campus is only an executive MBA?
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
What about hte Minnesota Institution Of Technology?
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I’m not sure I’d have enough experience for it right now. Isn’t their typical student usually higher level with 10 years of experience kinda profile?
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I think so, but that’s not because it’s what they’re looking for.
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Hmmm, interesting, I’ll look more into it then.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Elaborate please?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
whatever he does, getting his Ph.D. is ill-advised unless he has mad connections in the particular area he’s applying to and/or wil werk in China/India.
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True that, and you’re just talking about technical PhDs. Humanities PhDs are even worse. (Link to Chronice of Higher Education)
As things stand, I can only identify a few circumstances under which one might reasonably consider going to graduate school in the humanities:
You are independently wealthy, and you have no need to earn a living for yourself or provide for anyone else.
You come from that small class of well-connected people in academe who will be able to find a place for you somewhere.
You can rely on a partner to provide all of the income and benefits needed by your household.
You are earning a credential for a position that you already hold — such as a high-school teacher — and your employer is paying for it.
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Is chemisty a humanity?
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Oh the humanity!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
No, humanities comprise the ‘arts’ in ‘arts and sciences.’
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So, you are saying that you have no humanity and are an inhuman robot capable of pure destruction?
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Dodgers lose:
From the moment Kevin Kouzmanoff’s would-be inning-ending pop fly to right field bounced off the forearm of a diving Trent Oeltjen, helping to turn a 1-0 deficit into a five-run, 41-pitch inning, Nathan Eovaldi and the Dodgers faced an uphill battle. The Dodgers got close, but there was no Sunday cigar as they fell to the Rockies 7-6, snapping their win streak at five games.
As for the Andre Ethier knee controversy, Ethier backed off comments made Saturday to T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times which implied that the team was forcing him to play hurt. It turns out that wasn’t the case at all, and that Ethier never told anyone with the club that he was too hurt to play. Ken Gurnick has the details at MLB.com:
“I got kind of blindsided by this,” said Mattingly. “That’s taking a shot at my integrity, at the organization and training staff and Ned — and personally that I would put a guy out there that was hurt and risk his career. I’d never do that. That’s not in my DNA.”
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by TwistNHook on Aug 29, 2011 8:04 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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Harbaugh talks Niners-Texans:
49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh spent a half hour chatting with Bay Area media on a conference call today. I had a chance to listen in on the call (didn’t ask any questions) and while it’s only a single call, Coach Harbaugh did not radiate enthusiasm. Given the struggles yesterday, that’s not particularly surprising. And seeing as it was over the phone and not in person, we can only take so much from it. You can listen for yourself over at 49ers.com. What do you take from his tone?
There weren’t a whole lot of wild revelations from the conference call. Coach Harbaugh indicated it was possible Michael Crabtree could be activated from the PUP list, but I also think he was answering that in the context, is it at all possible, as opposed to, “Is it likely?” He’s been quite positive about Crabtree’s classroom work, but I would be surprised if we saw Crabtree playing this coming Thursday.
Coach Harbaugh did say there was not a “winner” yet in the center position battle between Jonathan Goodwin and Adam Snyder. We saw them mixed and matched, with Snyder even getting some playing time at right guard when Goodwin came in.
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Hard to say, our line was atrocious; all we have really learned so far is that the Raiders must be really, really bad.
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On 95.7 this morning…What’s worse: The Giants offense or the Niners O-line?
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--Coach Clark
Crabtree comes back, does it matter?
In a 30-7 loss to the Texans on Saturday, the 49ers’ front five was dominated, marking the second time in three preseason games that the unit was comically outclassed.
San Francisco allowed three sacks, and quarterback Alex Smith, who was hit five times, endured a pounding despite dropping back to pass only eight times.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/SP241KT43G.DTL#ixzz1WRP1ktmF
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lawl
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh fuck Telebears. Seriously I remember being waitlisted for every single fucking class that I actually wanted to take. I had to fill it up with bullshit until I got into those classes.
In other words, Go Bears!
FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK SHIT
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I would sit there like 3 minutes before my time and just keep hitting refresh. It would be like 3:29 PM and Id be allREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESH. Then, when my time came, Id quickly type it all in and be done by like 3:32. Thats the single minded determination I nnow bring to trolling!
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i would usually sloth around and would manage to get into my classes every semester, even without frantically refreshing the second i got my appt. but then again, i was PEIS. hooray non-impacted majors?
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
i had to take econ 1 and that was it! i phase-I’d that too.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
whaaa?! it was fun when i took it! which prof?
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
prof romer, of white house fame. i also hated her, whereas everyone else couldn’t quit fawning over here.
but seriously, since you cover micro and macro, it was harder than all the other classes i took. even econometrics
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hmmm, i took it w/ olney and i thought she was fantastic.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I had only for a couple of econ history classes, and she was very good.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
whoops
*Olney
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Econ 2? That was an easy class! I took it with Romer as well!
Econometrics was my toughest Econ-related course.
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econ 2?! what happened to econ 1?!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
oh no! i’m under attack by smart people!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
you see, “epidermis” means “hair”, so technically it’s true.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it’s really intuitive.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I used to take my add punch card to the instructor and beg to be let in ahead of all the other kids on the waitlist.
by Scootie on Aug 29, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
someone remembers teh
good olde days.
punch cards…long lines at sproul…..not knowing what you were actually enrolled in until the 3rd week or so…..
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by Rocksanddirt on Aug 29, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
It was glorious when one emerged victorious.
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With one keg of beer for the four of us?
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
One of my proudest classroom moments ever was getting added into an upper division class on deserts taught by Oberlander (a great guy). A class that I was only taking because I needed the credit. He let me add on the spot (the only person to get to do that though he did let others add later) because he knew me from my front rowness of Harmon…
Further, when I totally choked the midterms because 1) I had no idea what to expect and 2) it happened the day after CAL played Indiana in the tourney he totally told me not to worry about it that he would just count the final as my final grade. Amazingly, I earned an A in the class. I remember it because it was one of the only A’s i ever earned.
The Cal professors who also “Go Bears!” and support the athletic teams are great. I took a few anthro classes, and Meg Conkey was probably my favorite anthro professor. I was very happy to see that she is also a big Cal women’s basketball supporter. Laura Nader on the other hand (who hates all Cal athletics)…well I never took her class, but my wife disliked it.
By far my favorite professor was Steve Miller in classics… In addition to teaching the great Classics 180, Ancient Athletics, he was just an awesome professor who cared about his students… he would have us all up to his house to watch games and BBQ… he had these wild Greek Easter parties… He put up with many of us in Nemea, Greece during digs…. The absolute personification of what you would want in a college professor.
It was automation, I know.
That was what was making the factory go.
It was IBM, it was Univac.
It was all those gears going clickety-clack, dear.
I thought automation was keen,
Till you were replaced by a ten ton machine.
It was that computer that tore us apart, dear.
Automation broke my heart.
There’s an RCA 503
Standing next to me where you used to be.
Doesn’t have your smile, doesn’t have your shape.
Just a bunch of punch cards and light bulbs and tape, dear.
You’re a girl who’s soft, warm and sweet.
But you’re only human, and that’s obsolete.
Though I’m very fond of that 503, dear,
Automation’s not for me.
It was automation, I’m told.
That’s why I got fired, and I’m out in the cold.
How could I have known, when the 503
Started into blink, it was winking at me, dear.
I thought it was just some mishap,
When it sidled over and sat on my lap.
But when it said “I love you” and gave me a hug, dear,
That’s when I pulled out
its plug!
-Allan Sherman
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
At least I never had to beg to be admitted to a class in the Dutch department. In fact, they would call me up and beg me to take their classes.
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overrated
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Overrated doesn’t = bad, it just = not as good as people claim.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
But I was just thanking him for “Shady Lane” because otherwise I wouldn’t know what going Dutch meant!!! I wasn’t claiming any kind of goodness!
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true!
That’s fine. I just wanted to add my 2 cents anyway :)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually, they also gave me the Princess Beatrice scholarship every quarter which was only $250, but more than covered my $212 quarterly tuition. So I didn’t have to Go Dutch!
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What’s a telephone? Is that like a cell phone?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
What a depressing building. I hate Evans with a passion. It’s almost as bad as Cory
In other words, Go Bears!
both my majors were housed in Evans, you watch your mouth!
actually, they renovated Cory recently I think. not so bad anymore.
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Cory > Evans.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
EE150. I kinda wanted to take that class but because I bombed EE40 I didn’t trust myself to do well
In other words, Go Bears!
I worked at the library in Wurster. Also a very depressing building.
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and the currywurster library is delicious!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
All the architecture people argued that ‘sure, it’s ugly on the outside. But it’s functional!’ I’d respond: ‘But it’s so ugly.’
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I disagree, you just have to compare it to Evans, that’s ugly, boring and hulking. Not everyone (obviously) likes Wurster, but it’s a 1,000 x better than Evans – it has interesting massing, and it fits in it’s environs nicely. And yes, it’s functional. And a bit Brutal, but it’s suppose to be.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
It’s worse than Evans.
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Well, I understand it’s reviled, but I respect it, I can see what the architect was aiming for, and he succeed on his own terms. It’ll never be a fan favorite, so to speak.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL INSANE!!!
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I’m guessing you look better with makeup on, no? I’m not saying you’re the female equivalent of Wurster…
I’m with you CB81. I’ve said before, the only thing Wurster is good for is as an object lesson for architects in what not to do.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Even as a Brutalist structure, it’s not bold and dramatic enough to make a real statement or impact. It’s just ugly. So fail on all counts.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I had an awesome time in Reno
even though we got our brains smashed in. And I didn’t think the fans we’re that obnoxious…we had some fun banter all night on the craps tables. Not nearly as bad at dealing with $C fans after we inevitably lose.
I actually found a $20 bill walking into the stadium. I should have known it would have been a jynx and just left it there.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:16 AM PDT reply actions
Also, they sell beer in the stadium. I was pissed I didn’t realize till the 2nd qrtr
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
I blame Twist.
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Damn Groupon
All my friends who don’t really care about football are getting $15 tickets!?
On one side I’m stoked we’re filling up the seats.
On the other, I feel like a dumbass for paying face value months ago.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:32 AM PDT reply actions
Paying face value
You are the hero Cal athletics deserves.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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eh, I paid face value last night. I didn’t feel like sitting in an end zone.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Is that where the Groupon seats are?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
based on my quick look at the offer yesterday, they are.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Alright, I really hate that view for football games. A 3 yard run up the middle looks the same as a 10 yard run up the middle. And I can never tell first downs unless they move the sticks. I guess its kinda fun to see lanes open up….for a minute or two.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, i’m not a huge fan. i’m at the goaline with my seats, it’ll be like qq which is fine by me.
plus, this game is all about the tailgating :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Agreed
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not a vegetarian and I’m thinking about hiding that.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
It looks like what would fall out of a cow’s insides if you gutted it.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
graphic!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, it is.
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, I’d rather sit in the endzone than in a corner.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Sincey and I got upper box seats on the 50 for $50 (approx half price) from StubHub. There were about 30 available in our section (sec 24, IIRC). No idea whether that’s the Cal side or not, it’s the side opposite the temporary seats. Join the partay!
Lets make every side the Cal side!
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By buying from StubHub, you are slapping the face of Cal Athletics and taking money from Cal babies.
That said, thanks again for offering to drive me to the game! You’re great! XOXO
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Dude, someone already bought the seat from Cal Athletics! I am just ensuring that it won’t be empty!
Stop making Cal babies cry with your black-market, no-new-money-to-Cal-athletics, you’re-letting-the-stanfurdites-win ticket-purchasing behavior.
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m buying tickets not to lose!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
stub hub didn’t have anything fancy like that when I was looking the other night, oh well.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Ooooh, interesting, it does appear that entire section (and the one next to it, which also had a lot of seats) has sold. There are currently 10 tickets in upper box 18 for $50, which is at about the 15-20 yard line.
feh, didn’t see those last night either. Whaaaaaaaaaaa
At least I did the right things supporting Cal Athletics?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Darn tootin. You didn’t slap Cal babies’ faces like Scootie did.
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
sec24? He sounds much better than sec119!
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I don’t mind paying value thru ATO, I figure it helps Cal Athletics.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I ask the ATO to just funnel my money to Otis Yelverton
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
$26 tickets.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
tha1 post-MJ
Will be Treggs
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Explain it to me like I’m AE Rose.
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Bryce Treggs wants to wear the number 1. And everything ever sucks.
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Watch The Throne represents everything that is wrong with hip-hop these days. Sure, Jay-Z has been popular for over a decade and Kanye’s production is innovative, but they’re both too mainstream to be any good. I prefer to listen to hip hop by artists who send their songs via e-mail.
Also, life has no point since you’re going to end up depressed and alone anyway.
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pshh email is so mainstream, I only get music from bands that send me trained hawks carrying record players in their talons
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
i only get music from UNtrained hawks. it’s more underground that way.
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t see how the untrained hawks will get under ground, but I’m willing to go with you on this.
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
One to light the candle and twenty to agree how this is better than mainstream artificial light.
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oh….you don’t know?
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Kanye’s production is innovative,
snort
"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 “explain it to me like I’m AERose” thing threw me because I thought I had cultivated enough of an air of haughty arrogance and indifference that I would never stoop so low as to have something explained to me.
"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."
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Momentary Panic
Calbears.com seems to be running headlines from last December at the moment, and are loudly and proudly promoting a basketball game vs. Kansas at Haas on the site. I was completely dismayed that we’d have to deal with their asshole fans again this year until I saw the Christmas card photo that was next up in their rolling stories…
Did someone put the new intern in charge of the top stories this AM?
I just went and it looks like the recent stuff now. So, they changed it back in the last 10 minutes there. How odd.
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Surely that would mean she 1) hadn’t visited calbears.com since last December and 2) hadn’t cleared cache since then? That seems unlikely, though by no means impossible.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I dunno, sometimes my browser pulls its display from old cache for no reason.
Hitting F5 solves that problem.
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That’s because software is evil and the IT people are trying to drive you insane.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Sadly, it’s because we’ve all gone mental as well.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Actually, in this case, it really isn’t. No costs are assessed to Twist in this matter.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
This is somehow royrules’ fault.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Asshole fans?
People from Kansas are the nicest people on the planet IMO
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought that was Mizzou fans?
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh man, those Jayhawks basketball fans were almost exclusively assholes. Such bandwagoning, such aggression, such entitlement.
I missed the game at Berkeley…what specifically happened? Just bad vibes? Most likely KU transplants who have turned smug living in the Bay (happened to me!)
The game in Lawrence we were treated very well as Cal fans, but we weren’t really obnoxious. Except for when we made the first bucket to go up 2-0, and I stood up and started chanting, “OVER RATED clap/clap/clap OVER RATED clap/clap/clap”
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Like bandwagon fans of any really successful teams (like the people who showed up for the Oregon game last year). I’m from Oregon, a lot of Oregonians are really nice, but fans who are really aggressive, talk shit about Cal (even when their team wins) it’s not cool.
Also it was super annoying how loud the Kansas fans were in Haas. When I go to a school for an away game, I keep my mouth shut (or say things quietly under my breath to my wife). I’m not looking for a fight, or yelling out ROCK CHALK JAY HAWK or whatever in the middle of Telegraph.
If we win in Boulder I might be persuaded to participate in a “Bear Territory” chant :)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Only when the game is safely under control (crosses fingers). Should be a fun trip either way, although I realized I’ll be flying back on 9-11-11.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Yeah, me too. I’m not worried though.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
No, in the stadium should be fine. But don’t get any ideas when you’re walking down frat row. THAT’s where the bandwagon fans are looking for trouble.
Fair point. In the stadium it’s just being a good fan.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
The funny thing for me is I tend to defend Kansas when I’m out here in the Bay and I tend to defend Cal when I’m in the Midwest. I’m aware that I do it, but I always do.
Growing up, I actually could not stand KU fans. Not that they were “dickish”, but more that they are the most blind-to-the-world oblivious homers ever. Watch a game at Allen Fieldhouse, they go ape shit over any call against them. Against Cal, a guy fouled on purpose and they STILL booed.
But when I’m chatting with you guys, I feel like I have to rock them because I figure none of you guys give a shit about KU, Kansas City or Kansas in general. But if this many people are agreeing they were douches…than screw those punks.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I know a Kansas fan IRL! He’s a pretty nice guy.
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
I generally agree with that assessment of people from Kansas, but the Jayhawks basketball fans at Haas last year were the most dickish opposing fans I have ever encountered at a Cal game. Horrible.
Yeah, this unfortunately, was my experience too.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, 3 of you guys concur? What happened? I feel oddly responsible.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, I feel like my mom was randomly at that game and had bad things to say about it, too.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
One example: It was a really physical game and at one point Jorge got into a tussle over the ball with a KU player on the ground. Something happened in the scrum (a cheap shot?) that sent him over-the-top Captain Insane-O pissed off. After that, the KU fans loudly booed Jorge every time he got the ball.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
If I remember correctly, we were playing them reasonably close until that fight. After, the game got away from us.
by Yes We Cannon on Aug 29, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
We’re they saying Boo or Boo-urns?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
See now I was saying Boo-urns, but I suspect they weren’t.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it was either Tyshawn Taylor or Thomas Robinson, and whichever it was, fuck that guy. And Marcus Morris too.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh I forgot about all the extra-curriculars. That almost certainly made things worse in terms of fan interactions. Whenever a game ends with both fanbases referring to players on the other teams as ‘thugs’ it’s inevitable that there will be clashes in the stands.
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Moneyball premier at the Paramount
Brad may or may not be there with or without his claymation (Greg Papa!) lover Angelina
I hope billy takes that Cubs job. His heads been out of it for sometime, although I am liking the Brandon Allen deal.
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The Brandon Allen deal is just a ‘like?’ What would be a ‘love?’
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I was watching a rom com with the mrs…can’t remember what it was called but SJP and Matthew McCoughaanehehe were in it. Also in it was Terry Bradshaw, and I unfortunately saw his butt cheeks in what was otherwise a funny scene in his nakid room.
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Ugh, Mrs. B97 was watching that movie on tv and I happened to catch the same scene. Why?!
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by Berkelium97 on Aug 29, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Failure To Launch
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pump pump pump
Bears W/ Fangs discusses our d-line
Talented underclassmen Coleman and King are the first off the bench, and there may be no dropoff. In fact, based on potential alone, opposing offensive lines might have more on their plate when facing off the mammoths that are Coleman and King.
I highly expected Mustafa “Moose” Jalil to redshirt this season, but he showed up to camp in excellent shape and has been very strong in practice. The fact that the point was made to show him as a backup right up there with King is indicative of something.
I am very high on true freshman Brennan Scarlett, and think he will sneak up on people this year. He has the size and athleticism to play the predator, hybrid DE/OLB position that the coaching staff has sought after with previous recruits Devon Kennard and Chris Martin. When you have a player who can put his hand down as an end and then drop back as a backer the next down, then you give opposing offenses huge issues. I think Scarlett will excel in this role.
Very exciting. Anyone have info on Whitesides devlopment this fall?
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--Coach Clark
not much has been mentioned about him. I assume he’s still progressing nicely, but sounds like McCain/Campo are ahead of him at this point.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Scarlett? It sounds to me like he might be used as a rush end just in passing situations, but he’s not really a LB, so I doubt he could play the position full time at this point.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s a lot of potential, but I’m not optimistic they’re ready to play at a high level right now.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Uncle Ted's Week 1 rankings have the Bears at 9th (behind UCLA!)
California: See what we typed for UCLA, only in the North Division. Further, the Bears look like they are going to play a lot of their talented true and redshirt freshmen classes. That should at least be very interesting.
Not sure why anyone would put UCLA ahead of Cal and Oregon State.
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The only team UCLA will surprise is Colorado, if the Bruins manage to climb to 5th place in the division.
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by Berkelium97 on Aug 29, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Trendy, really? Not that I’ve been reading a lot of UCLA stuff, but the only people pumping the Bruin sunshine seem to be Uncle Ted and Neuheezy.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Herbstreit picked them to go to the Pac 12 title game (since SC is ineligible).
I chortled
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
LOLOL what???
That’s also not a “trendy” issue though, that’s a “Herbstreit doesn’t pay attention to anything east of Texas” issue.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
LA is east of Texas, Mr. Geography Major from LA????
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
It’s not east of Texas, but it IS the center of the known universe.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s west, but he’s obviously not paying any attention if he thinks they’re going to go to the title game. Or if he is paying attention, then he’s a moron.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, of course it is.
You just have to go the long way round the globe to get to LA from Texas by traveling east.
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BOOM! globe’d.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like I'm going to be in CA this weekend...
… my parents convinced me to fly over this weekend since they haven’t seen me in a while. $400 flight tickets… ugh.
But this means I might be able to go to the Fresneck game!
In other words, Go Bears!
yayayayayy!!!! CGB TAILGATE IN FULL EFFECT
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
start generating it, then!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
royrules is buying beer for the entire CGB tailgate
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
seconded
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
royrules is cooking a gourmet meal for all of us arranging a pyrotechnics display in the Candlestick parking lot!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
thirded and agreed, thanks royrules!
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Check the front page, Roy.
Berkules was trying to coordinate a CGB Tailgate. It’s a rec’d fanpost.
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speaking of tailgate, is there a CGB HH this friday?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
well, it was more of a general conversational topic so I wasn’t specifically asking you :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I hope so, as CALumbus Bear will be in tha citay!
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
using the third person simply means the next round is on that person :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Someone had to pick up where 33SS left off.
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by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
could be worse, there’s always the third-person plural format.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
They would never do that.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
also, I should see if he can join the party on Friday.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Am I not allowed, then?
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GRADE A FRONT PAGE CONTENT. WE TALK TO GRANT!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
More like Grant talks to us!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
So I went to Golden Gate FIelds for dollar day yesterday and had a lot of fun… I won a couple races betting between $2-$5 per race (I only bet on the live races, not the video feeds from Del Mar, etc), but ended up about -$20 all things considered at the end of the day.
Anyone got any suggestions on maximizing the fun on my next visit to GGF?
The dollar days set up for a nice Sunday if you don’t have anything planned. I was just a complete noob to the gambling aspect and was only picking “winners” bets.
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
was one of the horses named
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
DENTAL PLAN!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe, I did not bet on that one though if so. I did however make money of Irish Rainbow before Driven By Dollas screwed me over on the last race
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I want to go! Never been. What’s it like? Worth going?
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
definitely worth going, and the dollar days are very much geared for the newbie crowd. I went with one friend who had never gone either and we were able to figure out basic betting by the second live race that we saw. $1 hot dogs are miserably bad, $1 10oz high lifes were not too shabby, though we went up to the club level and get a couple bloody marys and a better meal later.
Not gonna lie, lots of sad looking people at GGF too, but you see that anywhere you find gambling addicts. Just find a booth near another young group and you are good to go.
I’d recommend it and if the weekend works out, would be more than happy to meet up with you there some time in the future so we can both learn and enjoy haha
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
hoodies
both of my orders from the finishline deal have shipped, thanks Rishi!
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
lol
i put this up at my (IT) desk at work
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Netflix Update
I watched two really good programs recently via netflix that I thoroughly recommend.
The Good the Bad the Weird, knock off of The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, just not nearly as long, slow or boring. Instead of the old west, its set in 1940’s Manchuria with a mix of Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Doesn’t take itself too seriously, has plenty of violence, and I love the spanish guitar used throughout.
The IT Crowd, a British comedy about socially awkward IT guys, I originally started watching because I wanted a half hour show with cheap laughs without thinking too hard. The second season just came available on, and I have to say, the second season has been killing it.
I support the NBA player's union.
just not nearly as long, slow or boring
You’re long, slow and boring! :(
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Yo Goldblooded I heard you like shirts so I made you a shirt
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 11:21 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
Instarec
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by Berkelium97 on Aug 29, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
o snap pedo bear!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
needs moar urinating on Ft. Port
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
do u mean fort point?
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
can u make me a shirt so i can shirt in my shirt
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
yes yes
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
lolololol
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
There have been a few DBD posts recently where Redonkulous has been kind enough to provide a tutorial. Just look for DBDs by him in the FanPost section.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Retarded answer:
NGGHHUIURRRRRRR
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A grizzly bear killed a Michigan man whose body was found by hikers last week in Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday.
I didn’t know there were any Grizzlies left in the lower 48 states.
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The population has tripled since getting put on the endangered species list.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh wait, that’s just in Yellowstone NP.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
LIKE A BOSS
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
via r/CFB
Yep, gotta side with them Dawgs as well.
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by Swamphunter on Aug 29, 2011 12:07 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I’d rather the SEC would STFU than Boise State.
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah. pretty much.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I’m not supporting Georgia in this one. Not out of hostility to them, just because I’m done with the SEC.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Cheering for your conference is like being proud of your time zone.
/notmyanalogy
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PDT all the way!!!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
PDT BITCHES
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
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we have a shield? can we get a sword? if we add BYU we’ll have missionaries in a foreign field!!!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
This is how I see it:
SEC fans are SEC fans.
Did they stop when we beat Tennessee? Did they stop when an AWFUL UCLA team beat Tennessee?
You can’t fix SEC fans, that ship has sailed.
Boise fans, however, have yet to know their roll and shut their mouth. They need to face a threat on a regular basis to be deemed worthy of all the talk.
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So what’s their roll anyway? Tootsie? Buttered dinner? Fruit Up?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
*role
Sorry, posting kinda slightly under the influence right now.
And if I had to choose, probably dinner, because that’s what a lot of Georgia fans are probably thinking.
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I was just being silly. You think Georgia fans are really gonna take the Broncos lightly?? Really? After their track record the past several years? That seems surprising. Especially since Georgia hasn’t been nearly that good lately themselves.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
No Way.
I’d way rather see Boise State win than stupid old Georgia.
Best game I ever saw: BSU over OK in the Fiesta!!!!
I burned a DVD of it for posterity, even though I have no reason to follow either team. Just a great finish!
I downloaded a bit torrent of it. Still have it.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions
So I turned 20 today.
Damn….no longer a teenager….slowly evolving into….a responsible adult….
*Insert something witty here*. Oh, and Stanfurd Sucks.
The last milestone is turning 25, when you are then able to rent a car without paying an extra daily fee.
After that, there is NOTHING to look forward to!!!!
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…retirement?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
…a painless death?
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U feeling Loco?
…being able to afford all the USC football players you’d ever desire?
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Were you in the Village People?
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I didn’t have time, what with being in Abba.
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There was something in the air that night?
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What about turning 21 and being able to legally drink?
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Damnit! You tricked me with your legal mumbo jumbo.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck I still haven’t done that yet, I’m such a worthless 25 year old!!!
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I think years 25-35 are the best years of your life… old enough to be making some real money… still young enough to blame mistakes on being young… it is a great time of life.
and your wife somehow gets hotter as she ages…
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--Coach Clark
Life begins at 40!
So said John Lennon! And then he got shot. Very sad. =(
Where was I going with this?
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Hey, this isn’t me you’re talking to here!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Life begins when the kid gets a job and moves out.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
and if life begins at conception, which is a fair hypothesis, why is do I celebrate my birthday in May, when it should be in August/September
Birthday = May.
Lifeday = August/September.
Happy Lifeday!!!!!!!!
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But why would we celebrate a “birth” day at all? It’s like treating an anniversary better than the day one actually got married.
And if we must, why isn’t our “Life” day more important and worth of much greater celebration? Just asking for some consistency from mass society here.
because life day would be a transparent attempt to further an anti-abortion agenda. that shouldn’t open any can of worms
that’s not why, and abortion has little to do with, say, concluding how “old we are.” I keep telling people I’m 27, but really, I guess, I just turned 28.
Some cultures consider you already a year old when you’re born, if that helps.
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Life Day happens every three years and is celebrated by the Wookies!
by Yes We Cannon on Aug 29, 2011 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Because it’s your birthday, not your dayyourmomanddadhadsexday.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Lifeday sounds better and has less disturbing mental images!!!!!
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Parentfuck day for short! It has a ring to it.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions
but then why do even bother celebrating our birthday? It’s clown shoes compared to the beginning of life.
I agree. Birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
YOU THINK JERRY’S DISTURBED??? IM DISTURBED!
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Okay salary_cap. What day did your parents conceive you? How can you be sure of the day? Did your parents have sex every day for a week or two? How do you know which day they succeeded? What if they had sex a couple times in one evening and into the morning? How could anyone know when sperm met egg? PM one day or AM the next day?
Normal people are far too disgusted by the thought of their parents having sex to sort out the logistics for celebrating Lifeday. Birthdays are a close enough marker.
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If it makes you feel better, I shall promise to never celebrate your birthday. Or your ParentsWhoopsieDay.
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I hate birthdays.
As Seinfeld put it: “it’s a terrible day. You sitting there in front of a cake, lookin around at these people, sayin to yourself ‘these are your friends?’”
[starts crying]
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Wow, grim satisfaction ain’t what it used to be.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 7:58 AM PDT up reply actions
My birthday is right before Christmas, I don’t even get a bloody cake or a party.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
When I was a kid, I always felt bad for kids with a b-day right before or after Christmas – but we’re adults now, does it matter?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I’m not DC Trojan, but I’m sympathetic to the simple injustice of others ignoring or lumping your birthday with a major holiday because your birthday simply falls close on the calendar.
Not everybody likes birthdays. But birthdays are, for many, the one time in the year in which the birthday boy/ birthday girl gets recognition and attention as their special day. Even as adults, we often crave that special attention or recognition. I think this is especially true of people who, as kids, lacked that special attention or recognition that only a birthday brings because it fell in close proximity to a major holiday (like Christmas or Thanksgiving).
I’m somewhat keen on this because my birthday falls within three days of Thanksgiving every year (sometimes it falls on Thanksgiving). My mother made sure my birthday was recognized each year (I think it helped that I was the first-born). As an adult, I’ve been fortunate that we’ve typically hosted Thanksgiving: it meant that I was able to celebrate my birthday at Thanksgiving each year with an extended group, even though my b’day is not the focus of or reason for the gathering. The birthday celebrations have always come at the end of Thanksgiving Dinner and the focus of the day has been on family, not on me as the Birthday Boy.
I’m good with that, as I actually prefer it that way. But one year, there was no such celebration, no such acknowledgement even though there was a small crowd of people in my home. And after people had left for their respective long drives home, I felt as if I had been punched in the gut. I missed not having the 5 or 10-minute celebration of my birthday.
So, yes, I can empathize. I understand that it matters, even as an adult.
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…wow
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 30, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
My mom was born on January 2, and by then everyone was always completely burned out on the holidays, so she never got parties and got the dreaded “combined presents.” She was 67 when she died, and this still upset her.
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Ms. Atoms is a January 2nd too, and I don’t think she likes the holiday hangover thing either.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
For me, no. Actually, as a kid, especially when my family lived in Holland and went back to the UK for Christmas, a party would have been impractical, and I made out like a bandit on presents anyway from visiting various family in sequence.
I did feel a bit bad for two friends (one from high school, one from college) whose birthdays are on New Year’s Day, because there’s really no way to re-purpose New Year’s Eve and everyone’s pretty much either too hung over or too focused on bowl games to care about another party the next day.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Wait, why can’t you re-purpose New Year’s Eve? Everyone wants to party then anyway, and your birthday is official at midnight. Makes perfect sense.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 31, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
me too! i just get combo presents :)
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 30, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 30, 2011 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I think there’s a pretty glaring reason why we don’t celebrate ‘Day in which our parents had sex’ day.
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I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but in my case it’s because MY PARENTS NEVER HAD SEX. I was immaculately conceived, as were my siblings.
/my story and I’m sticking to it
Incorrect usage of y’all.
In that particular context, it should be all y’all as you were referring to more than one person.
One person=y’all
More than one person=all y’all.
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Hah, y’all isn’t bound by anything as silly as rules.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Unlike you!
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Just wait for the new version of me: Atoms Unbound!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Nah, y’all works fine in that scenario.
by Missing Barry on Aug 30, 2011 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Look, you are from Walnut Creek. You dont know shit about conjugating y’all, ok??? Im from a rural city!
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I did go to college in the former capital of the confederacy…
by Missing Barry on Aug 30, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
All you need is love, John Lennon, smart man, shot in the back very sad.
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Happy birthday kid! So where’s the party?
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Which unit did your daughter just move into?
AWKWARD!
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Unit 1
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This is going downhill fast.
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that’s the general idea.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Even I didnt want to go there!
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How are you aware????
PS Dont you wish you were unaware???
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Do not watch it. I repeat do not watch it!!!!!!!
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DBD 2011.09.05 Turkey brings a video to CGB HH, DBD posting will decrease in volume as posters are in psychiatric care.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I’ve seen it. Titillation factor = zero, patheticness factor = off the charts
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m feeling much better
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U feeling Loco?
It’s good on the “life lesson” score, though. So many epic mistakes to learn from.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Ooooh – is this about some amateur video shenanigans?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
And you talked me into this!
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U feeling Loco?
I most certainly did not. Besides, I’m sure that Agrippina is pure of heart and discreet in temperament, so there’s nothing to worry about.
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Sorry, it must have been Twist.
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U feeling Loco?
What did I do in all this?
Besides being the gaffer and in charge of craft services!
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So you are below the line?
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Thats why I told Donnie
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But keeping it secret from Marie, huh?
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Yes it is, indeed.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
So you’re saying royrules was right about Priya Patel?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Now FrankCohen is going to wander aimlessly through Unit 1 going “M. AGRIPPA, DOES ANYBODY KNOW A M. AGRIPPA??? IN SPECIFIC, THEY ARE YOUR FATHER.”
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that would be all kinds of awesome.
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Is this your first kid off to college?
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Yup
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Is it like reading your first DBD?
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First he laughed, then he cried, then he got really confused before going to the hospital because his eyes were bleeding?
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Far more painful than that. Especially since FrankCohen is prowling Unit 1
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U feeling Loco?
It's alright your daughter is safe
I’m far too lazy to make the 10 minute walk to Unit 1.
*Insert something witty here*. Oh, and Stanfurd Sucks.
So you’re up on the hill? Hopefully not in Bowles! Now get yourself some cake and beer.
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DONT INSULT BOWLES!
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LOL U R!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha not even up on a hill
It’s actually a pretty reasonable walk from my house to Unit 1. I just didn’t want to scare you into giving your daughter a warning before I made the trek over!
*Insert something witty here*. Oh, and Stanfurd Sucks.
I’m not worried, she’s already got your mug shot and rap sheet courtesy of uncle Twist.
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Wasn’t this supposed to be a CGB Love Connection a while back? Or did we set your daughter up with someone else?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 7:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Referring to me as “Uncle Twist” only makes me sound more creepy. That doesnt help the sitch!
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Doubtful, Levar Burton was there for that.
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
Do I have to take your word for it?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE
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by norcalnick on Aug 29, 2011 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Such a funny ep!
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dewd ur OLD!
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
We’re gonna learn how to fly! High!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Happy B-Day. I remember my Cal b-days fondly. Sigh
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s your answer to everything. And I agree.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey Rishi, whats 2 plus 2
Go get drunk!
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Happy birthday, bud.
Like they say…You come into this world naked, wet, and screaming….and it just gets worse from there.
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Except for that brief stint in college where your whole world is wet, naked and screaming of course…
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
nnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
congrats.
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by Rocksanddirt on Aug 29, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
If quantum physicists are so smart, why can’t they get the neutrino theory of light to work?
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If quantum physicists are so smart, why couldn’t they just be bankers?
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Or getting laid more? Hah. Dumbasses.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Fu*ck neutrinos
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Oh snap! IT IS ON!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Donna Shalala speaks
“These past two weeks have been quite painful for me,” Shalala wrote in a letter published in Sunday’s editions of The Miami Herald. “It is way too early to know all of the details … but the allegations alone cause serious concerns.”
She added: “Here’s my commitment: I will do, and we will do, everything possible to find the truth, learn from any mistakes and take measures to prevent any such behavior from happening again.”
Yeah, like shut down Miami’s football program.
LINK
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Oh, let’s not be too vindictive now. Five years of crippling sanctions would be perfectly adequate.
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Agreed, ban Miami’s football team, assess all costs to the trojan$.
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by CruzinBears on Aug 29, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
We’re waaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of you.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Which begs the question: What the hell does Harvard need any more money for? Must be that $26 Billion isn’t enough when you’re smart enough to invest with Bernie Madoff.
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So, do you USCers think that Miami will get shut down?
I dont, bc I think there is a lot of money to make and that is the NCAAs bottom line. I was kinda stunned they even did anything to USC, tbh.
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Better question
If Miami’s football program gets shut down, would anyone in Miami notice?
I support the NBA player's union.
lulz true story
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
YOU THINK YOUR QUESTION IS BETTER THAN MINE?!??!?!?
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I doubt that the NCAA will shut Miami down. I think the SC sanctions will end up being an anomaly.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I think one thing that will help Miami is that this guy seemed to be a rogue agent. The former football coach was actively trying to keep him away.
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Hahahahahhaha oh that’s rich. The dude was a booster. He had a suite, he met Paul Dee and Donna Shalala. Rogue agent, comedy!
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Cussed out the compliance official in the press box!
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
That was my favorite part!
“Uh, excuse me sir, we’d like you to stop leading our program down the path towards the death penalty please?”
“NO IMMA PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE”
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I read the former football coach said he would fire any asst coach found meeting with the guy. I dunno.
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Yeah, that was one coach. Shapiro was around longer than that.
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Oy, raises the question. Happy :-)
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Slottman
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M. AGRIPPA
Two things: 1) Please click the “open new window” box when posting a link, and 2) You USC types are going to drive yourselves crazy if you pay attention to every scandal, big or small, and compare the punishment you received. Get over it now, you got screwed, everyone knows it, but nothing’s ever going to change that.
Let it go, you’ll feel better.
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Maybe we’ll feel better if “the U” gets hit by a Cat 5 hurricane followed by an 8.8 earthquake and tsunami, and Paul Dee is swept into the Atlantic never to bee seen again :-)
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Anybody else...
getting the strange Golden Bears-only articles results at the PAC-10 blog? Every time I link to articles at Uncle Ted’s Blog, I get redirected so that I get all the Cal articles from the last 2 months or so on the page and nothing else
Bill Watterson Writes, Illustrates, Shreds New ‘Calvin And Hobbes’ Strip Each Morning Out Of Spite
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH—Despite not having published a new comic strip since December 1995, cartoonist Bill Watterson has reportedly taken the time every day since to write, pencil, hand-ink, and, out of spite, destroy a new installment of Calvin And Hobbes. “Wow, this might be one of the best yet,” Watterson said as he completed his 5,689th strip of the past 16 years and then immediately fed it into a paper shredder. “I bet my millions of fans would really love this whole new direction for Spaceman Spiff. Oh, well, fuck them.”
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I dont understand the backstory tot his joke.
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I think they’re referring to how he stopped doing the comic at the height of its popularity.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
And also refused to merchandise any of his characters in any way, no matter how innocuous.
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Which goes to the heart of Watterson’s beef with United Press Syndicate. UPS wanted him to water down C&H by pushing the merchandising end. He was having none of it. And it was a constant battle that wore on him as the strip progressed.
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"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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It’s like he’s become the window decal of Calvin, urinating on his fans…
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
For once, I have difficulty finding humor in an Onion article.
I don’t think I could explain it well, but this does not sit well with me.
I’m not outraged, but I am disappointed at what I find to be a cavalier attitude towards Bill Watterson’s actions with regard to stopping Calvin & Hobbes. I think the issues of control over one’s work is more serious than the article implies.
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"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
Jamie Moyer aint giving up:
Jamie Moyer is giving baseball one more shot.
He is going to be continuing his rehab from Tommy John surgery at the Phillies’ Bright House Field in Clearwater, Fla. The Phillies have not signed Moyer to a contract, so he remains a free agent, but he asked the Phillies if he could use their facilities.
"We’re providing him our space in Clearwater and our expertise," Ruben Amaro Jr. said.
Moyer, 48, went 9-9 with a 4.84 ERA in 19 starts in 2010 before he injured his left elbow in July. He tried to rehab the injury without surgery, but it did not go as planned. He had Tommy John ligament replacement surgery in December.
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Anybody watch Green Room with Paul Provenza?
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P*** P*******?
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by MR.F. on Aug 29, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Arian Foster delivers it straight
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 2:09 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
hahah, thats hilarious.
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A slighy more scathing indictment of fantasy football
I’ve been asking people in and out of the game about fantasy football this summer. It’s just so big, and so odd because of its ability to change rooting habits from teams to individuals. For Kurt Warner, fantasy football actually played a small part in his decision to walk away from the game. "You just get tired of having a good game, and your team winning, and someone coming up to you and saying, ‘Nice win. How come you only threw for two touchdowns?’ It gets old,’’ he said.
Todd Haley, in last week’s MMQB column, said he got tired last year of being harangued by fantasy players about how he used his running backs, though the Chiefs had the top-rated running game in the league.
When I was in Houston the other day, I asked Foster his feelings about this national obsession. "It’s good for getting the people who aren’t normally into football — they watch the games,‘’ he said. "But I think it’s changing the way people watch the games. They’re more interested in stats … That kind of takes away from the reason we play this game, and that’s to get a ring. Don’t get me wrong — I love my fans. I love our fans of the game… But don’t get mad at a player because he doesn’t perform for your [fantasy] team.’’
Seems to me the NFL loves the multiplying numbers of people playing fantasy football. Sunday afternoons and evenings in many homes are spent in man caves, with a laptop out with the fantasy game in real time, and the TV playing either the local game or a bunch of games, or a bunch of touchdown plays. I wonder if more fans in a generation will root for their fantasy teams than the home teams.
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
There’s a difference between playing fantasy sports and going overboard. Your problem appears to be with people who go overboard, and yet you hat on fantasy sports in general. Can’t you accept that there are people who enjoy playing in fantasy football leagues with their friends or whomever, but also know how to prioritize it in their sports fandom?
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Can’t you just accept that different people have different interests?
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People I expect nothing good from: Missing Barry, Rishi.
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But you expect good things from Spazzy Mcgee? Ouch.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
POINT SPAZZY!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually I work for Domino’s! POINT SPAZZY!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Aw, I thought you were The Mailman, Karl Malone
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Can’t you accept that those interests suck ass?
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
No. Fantasy football sucks.
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by Rishi on Aug 29, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
NO, FRIENDS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 29, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
(Goldblooded was kidding)
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
(Goldblooded was kidding)
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m sorry that you recently experienced head trauma. You should seek immediate medical attention.
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at least he’s no pigman!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
(this is an inside joke about how Rishi <3’s Friends and how everybody else except fiatlux makes fun of him for it)
/atoms’d
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and atomsing is when you explain a joke
/mehta
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
(Goldblooded was kidding)
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I would a million bajillion times rather have the Dodgers win the World Series or the Packers win the Super Bowl (!!!!) than win my fantasy league.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
And there are enough casual players who are on the opposite side.
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Actually, you were concluding that because annoying people like something, the something is therefore bad.
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Wait what? Okay, that’s it, I’m taking a poll of Cal people and if I find that even a plurality are annoying, it’s on.
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I’d help you. But apparently I’m too busy writing lazy analysis and soft commentary.
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I’d settle for a cold beer.
How old do your kids have to be before you can teach ’em how to bring you a cold one?
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About 6, just so they’re old enough not to drop it and make a mess.
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your time on the IR is taking it’s toll
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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Imma beat the carp outta you!
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Should I ask permission? Hey, some all-thumbs dentist broke a root canal file in my tooth. Should I sue?
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Finally! Something that involves me and Kodiak!
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So I got me lawyer and expert witnees!
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Not sure if serious...
Hardly an expert. I haven’t done a root canal in 12+ years.
It can happen to anyone at any time, even to a root canal specialist like an endodontist. Without seeing the x-ray or knowing which tooth/how curved were the canals/how calcified(hard), it’s hard to say whether this was a case he should have referred out before the file broke.
The important thing is that he/she: 1) Told you immediately, 2) Referred you to an endodontist to fix it. First, get the tooth fixed and yourself out of pain and out of any immediate danger.
After you’re settled, that’s when you can talk to him/her about making things right. A broken file is a hard one to sue over because that type of thing can happen randomly. Hopefully, you already have a good relationship with this dentist and it’ll work out.
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Fortunately not in pain but can’t really chew on it. I heard the thing crunch inside my tooth and he freaked so I asked what happened. Methinks he wouldn’t have told me and now he says he’ll have to extract it and put in an implant someday. One thing is for sure, I’m going to an endodontist for a 2nd opinion!
No matter, it sounds like me tooth eventually ends up in the ash can.
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Uh…That’s less than ideal. Definitely talk to an endodontist first to see if it’s salvageable. Sooner is better than later if the root canal wasn’t completed properly – that thing can get re-infected if not sealed properly. The endodontist is the better guy to talk to about what happened, is it fixable, and what your long-term prognosis is.
Root canal teeth are tricky. Without the nerve inside, they can turn brittle over time. They usually need a crown to protect them, and it’s really an unknown how long they’ll last. Sometimes for your lifetime. And sometimes they just fail for no reason.
Fortunately, implant technology has greatly improved if it does come to that. But that’s getting ahead of things. For now, don’t chew on it and get to a reputable endodontist ASAP.
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Thanks Kodiak, I figured as much after going on the ADA and AAE’s websites. I’m gonna miss old toofer! Meanwhile Dr. Thumbs is lucky, I’ve never sued anyone and don’t plan to start now. But we’ll just keep that to ourselves for now!
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Look, if you want to play fantasy football, that’s your choice. Sure, it hurts the actual sport of football in the long-run, but that’s a separate argument.
Just… please don’t talk about your fantasy team ten times a day. Or complain out loud when your favourite team’s WR scores the game-winning TD because he’s on your opponent’s fantasy team.
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Sure, it hurts the actual sport of football in the long-run, but that’s a separate argument.
u lost me on this one
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The focus becomes on individual players and not on the team sport.
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do not understand how this translates to “hurt[ing football]”
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The premise being, football, when best executed, is a team sport. Individual players attempting to garner stats and attention has the potential of undermining the team aspect of the game.
i still don’t see how something like fantasy football could affect the game. it’s fantasy football.
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This is only one aspect/view of this, but the potential influence this has on kids playing the game right now and being influenced by the notion that the individual is greater than the team.
The NFL also has a habit of changing rules/aspects of the game to make it more marketable. If they start pursuing rule changes that bend towards those individual accomplishments, the game is diminished.
B/c people won’t buy merch/watch games/root for teams if they don’t care. I’ve heard you say sports fandom is inherently irrational, and I totes agree. You gotta be a little bit stupid to support a bunch of dudes hitting each other just because they wear some clothes with the name a big city near you on the front. With fantasy sports, people have no team rooting interests, no local/team pride, no “love” for players, and no irrationality. All they care about are numbers of HRs and TDs and RBIs. With that lack of irrationality comes a lack of “caring” about a team enough to support them, in any way, financially. I think this will become more of a reality in the future.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
i do not see this carrying over in practice. i doubt one even begins to think about fantasy football without an initial interest in the game, and to start football fandom, one is a fan of a team for any number of given reasons. this is just my personal observation. do you know of people who began with fantasy football? it seems to me that people like that would not choose football as an outlet for their needs to play RPGs (which is exactly what fantasy football is, all you fantasy football fanatics are nothing but RPG nerds!!!!)
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I enjoy football, but almost ended up picking a team arbitrarily, as there were not any “home teams” to root for. Had FF been as popular as it is now, I’d be very tempted to have been a FF fan first, as opposed to any team.
I suspect this might be true for many but not all or most.
(Disclosure, I do play FF)
so do i – i just find it difficult to believe that someone could play fantasy football without first supporting the NFL in some way
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I mean I have a friend who’s lived his whole life in the Bay Area, plays fantasy football and NBA and premier league and as far as I know has never been to a single game and watches it very sparingly (and when he does, only to specifically see his fantasy players, according to him). Actually I have several friends like this.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean they are EECS majors, so you may have a point…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Unfortunately, I’ve had way too many personal experience with friends where this does hold true. My former roommate would constantly switch around channels to watch his fantasy player play, rather than pick a game we were interested in watching and sticking to it. Pretty much any of my friends that a.) are into the NFL and b.) play fantasy football have fallen into a similar trend to some degree or another. It’s quite annoying.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
(And this is with people who were football fans first, it definitely gets in the way of their football loyalty)
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
but he’s watching multiple games, absorbing more channels of advertising – this sounds like the perfect fan to the NFL
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It very well may be, however, it destroys the actual football experience.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
AATTTTAAAAAAAAACK!
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Actually, that’s exactly what I do! I stopped watching the NFL entirely.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
The focus of all NFL coverage becomes on players and their stats and fantasy value and not on teams winning games.
And that’s not good for the sport.
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I watch ESPN quite a bit, and I’ll ditto that sentiment. It’s stupid. For the snid bits of breaking info and real journalism reported, there is pseudo-analysis and big graphics that just are overload stimuli and perpetuates the sort of spectacle making of sports.
Also, just to highlight the influence of fantasy football, watch the ticker on a fall sunday sometime. It’s pretty much entirely about updating people on their fantasy teams performance these days. Bleh.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
That's not all bad....
perhaps I’m watching the game i really want to watch, and I can see how my ffl team is doing at the same time.
I'm gonna chime in here a littl
…and say that fantasy sports has actually made me a BETTER fan of well, mostly baseball… but it’s made me a better sports fan in general because it was a launching point for making me think about the underlying stats (not just the counting stats that win fantasy games, but the analysis of underlying performance that is used for projection) that really get at how players contribute to the team. I was already a baseball fan, but having a fantasy team made me want to read sabermetric types of articles and learn more about how to evaluate players, which made following my team and the GM’s decisionmaking and the prospects in the minors that much more interesting.
I’d say it’s enriched my experience as a baseball fan considerably compared to before.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t read through all the comments but one of the many things I dislike about it is it gives another reason for people to not be happy with a victory… or to be mad at coaches etc.
I’m better than you because I didn’t need that fantasy baseball to push me that way. Also, I’m a Giants fan.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I didn’t need it, but it happened concurrently because I got into fantasy baseball almost a decade ago and sabermetrics sites were gaining steam at about the same time. Before I was interested in baseball but there was just stuff less out there.
Also you being a Giants fan means you have very questionable judgment.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
What was that?
(In chronological order)
by Missing Barry on Aug 30, 2011 8:44 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988
(in chronological order)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m sure you had a wonderful time celebrating those!
by Missing Barry on Aug 30, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, technically I only celebrated one of those as it happened, but that’s just as many as you’ve celebrated in your entire life, plus I have the 53 years of beautiful tradition, from Clayton Kershaw to Sandy Koufax :)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
“WELL TECHNICALLY” <—-STOPPED READING THERE!
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by GoldBlooded on Aug 30, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
by atomsareenough
started reading here
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 30, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Why stop at 53? I have 128 years of winning tradition to celebrate! 10,507 regular season wins. 6 world series victories. 55 HoF players. :)
by Missing Barry on Aug 30, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I also celebrate the Brooklyn era, from which there is plenty of wonderful history, but the LA Dodgers vs. SF Giants comparison provides a lot of satisfaction, and I don’t have to think about fucking Bobby Thomsen or anything.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I CELEBRATE MY FREAKISHLY WHITE ANCESTORS LEAVING AFRICA AND GOING TO GO LIVE IN CAVES! EVOLUTION WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Aug 30, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
3000 YEARS OF BEAUTIFUL TRADITION FROM MOSES TO SANDY KOUFAX, YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I’M LIVING IN THE PAST
"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 is, now.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
yes, cling to your hatred of the giants, it is even stronger than your a’s fandom…how sad!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Aug 30, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
haha you know I don’t hate the Giants (or the 9ers for that matter), in fact you are much much more adamant about talking trash about the teams across the bay than I (rec’ing losses, bad mouthing AN and Silver/Black Pride, etc).
But you have 2 more months to gloat about the World Series win before going back down to NL West mediocrity (1. isn’t that redundant 2. yes, just like the A’s)
"Remember the Maine! TO HELL WITH STANFORD!"
i root for the a’s whne they aren’t playing the giants, and i disparage AN because i want to overtake them in SBN usage statistics. the other things, you are putting words in my mouth. i don’t care about the raiders and i attack the a’s in defense of the giants! and i don’t rec losses, again w/ the battle of the bay exception
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
I rec your pain as well.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 30, 2011 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Every time something bad happens this year, I just think of this, and the pain is gone.
by Missing Barry on Aug 31, 2011 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, at least you’ve got something to hold onto now.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 31, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey Rishi, did I tell you that I drafted LaMichael James in the recent CGB College FF draft? Now I can say “LaMichael means ’The Michael” like 7 times a day!
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
If he were a real man he’d be named LeMichael.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
true dat
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
dumbest name ever.
I can only imagine if my parents named me LaTom!
Actually, that would be totally cool, in a totally stupid kind of way!
Then THAT would be the dumbest name ever!!
Would be even cooler without the L in front :)
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Who is talking about the fantasy team ten times a day???
We couldnt fit in between all the conversations about drinking, being Indian, and dressing well.
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I made such a killing in my fantasy draft! lol my opponent took Tony Romo wayyy too early and that totally opened the door for me to pick up DeAngelo Williams as my RB2. It was such an intense fantasy picking session and now I’m going to tell you how my fantasy team, which is exclusive to me and only me, did because everyone cares so much.
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What’s more annoying:
1) Fantasy dorks hyping their league/moves/draft
2) Burners who never shut up about how Burning Man changed their life
6 1st round draft picks, 2 Super Bowl Champions and counting
by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Here’s how a rite of passage works. It’s the same the world over, Ndembu and Trobriand and Kwakiutl. They take you away from your ordinary life-your online banking, your myspace.com, your commute. They bring you to a place set apart. They give you a new name and they don’t let you bathe. As the dirt rubs into your skin, you return to the earth in a symbolic death. And in the words of Mircea Eliade, a scholar with a poet’s name, then comes “a time of marvels.” Masked figures and sculptures, dancers. Grotesque or beautiful beings that teach you the things you need to know. This is the liminal period. When you leave, you are ready to be the next version of you.
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WTF did that all mean? It was like an endless string of words that have meaning by themselves, but none when put together in said fashion
You obviously don’t have many Burner friends. This is how they talk ALL THE TIME
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Aug 29, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
There is an upside to Burning Man, in that the city will be blessedly free of assholes all this coming weekend!!
by Scootie on Aug 29, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
For someone who makes fun of hipsters, you sure care a lot about other people’s interests and take pride in your smugness.
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Don’t you mean, “The worst ARE hipster fantasy players!”?
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I still think MRF had correct grammar. Because “players” is plural, is must become “ARE”. I could tell you meant it as a singular concept, but I don’t thin your usage is correct. Pretty sure, not totally.
I think it’s borderline. He can make an argument that he meant “The worst [phenomenon] is hipster fantasy players”
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
But hipster fantasy players are the worst.
by Yes We Cannon on Aug 29, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, are we talking about Friends again here?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
100% Agree
I hate fantasy football, hate hate hate. I got talked into doing it by some friends one year, and yeah, you end up knowing more about some football players you otherwise wouldn’t care about, but it ruins football for me. All I want to care about is whether my team won or lost, nothing else.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
by Cugel on Aug 29, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I’ve never played NFL fantasy football, but last year I had a lot of fun doing the NCAA league.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the problem is most people take fantasy sports way too fucking seriously.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, for something called “fantasy” a lot of people are acting like it’s life or death; the most important thing in the universe.
Is this from the school of fantasy = letters to Penthouse?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
“I have always reads Penthouse letters but never thought anything like that could ever happen to me…”
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Some do, I really don’t hold it against anyone if they want to participate, I just hated it. I found it really distracting.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
…it’s meant to be an enjoyable distraction.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I, like Rishi, find the conversations about it to be its most terrible aspect. No, I don’t care about your fantasy team. No, I don’t care how many points you need Devin Hester to score while not scoring a TD because he’s playing against your fantasy team defense. No, I don’t want you to change the channel and watch a game nobody cares about just to see what your fantasy player is doing. So, so terrible.
by Missing Barry on Aug 29, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Most people take
sports too seriously. You could argue everyone here has an unhealthy interest in Cal and collegiate football/sports. Its just Fantasy geeks are super annoying — there is the difference
You could argue everyone here has an unhealthy interest in Cal and collegiate football/sports.
No, I could not.
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I find it to be very healthy!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the real problem is that modern American men have vague, shitty jobs, dead-cat marriages filled with whiny, useless kids and meddling, effeminizing spouses, and in general are cognizant that their lives will go nowhere in order to fulfill nothing, therefore any and all shots of dopamine their brain receives, such as those brought about by the meaningless “victories” achieved in fantasy sports, are like accomplishment orgasms and provide the last flickering vestige that their lives will amount to anything more than fuck-all.
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
Spazzy, I didn’t know you had kids! Congrats, man.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I assume he means “no pussy.”
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
KY intense
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Actually, I didn’t at all. I just wanted a more colorful way to say “awful” but I think I ended up with a colonialism (a misstated colloquialism) instead.
…but no pussy works!!!!!!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
from the old wall street term of ‘dead cat bounce’ when a crash is happening.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Aug 29, 2011 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I dunno, I thought Spazzy’s post was pretty funny!
"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
SOMEONE gets it
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 30, 2011 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions
nice
epic rant.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
This may not be too far off the mark. From a slightly less cynical standpoint, I think it’s also difficult for guys in a household with 2 working adults to be able to go and spend time with other males of the species, and fantasy sports is something they can do remotely to interact with their friends.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I do enjoy fantasy sports as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. I used to take it far more seriously than I do now, but its still fun.
I agree with Rishi that its a fun diversion and a great way to keep in touch with friends, but if it gets too intense, its fairly lame.
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fuck u miked my shower!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
_+_+_
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Recd!
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The closed captioning really adds something special to the mix.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
lol I didnt even really notice that!
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I would hate to be the person who finds this to be true.
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relax I’m just being hyperbolic!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds like someone finished 10th in their league that year!
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
So he’s saying I should pick him in the first round?
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
What happened, happened.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matthew-fox-arrested-assaulting-woman-228878
Matthew Fox was arrested early Monday morning, Aug. 29, after allegedly punching a woman in the chest and stomach.
According to a police report obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is accused of attempted to hitch a ride to his hotel aboard a private party bus. The driver, a 29-year-old female, blocked the entrance and informed Fox that he could not board, as the bus had been rented out.
Fox then allegedly punched the driver in the chest and stomach, before receiving a blow to the mouth in return. The woman suspected she may have broken her hand and would be seeking medical attention if needed.
Sounds like he really needed to go back!
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It's shocking when celebrities
feel entitled enough to behave like degenerate sociopaths.
No, its not.
Oh, fuck
spare me that. I’ve been on the blog for months, its my day off, I don’t care about Fresno State sports,come on ConcordTom!
I actaully lived in Concord for a minute before I transferred to FS.
Ah, ha!
You swore!
And we know who you REALLY are!
Might as well just throw that resume in the trash….
I don’t know what you’re saying…unless concordtom is an alter ego of mine and I’m logged in as two different pseudonyms, I don’t know WTF you’re talking about
Rishi....
I’d like to report an infiltrator. Salary Cap is a Fresno State infiltrator trying to gain an advantage to beat our football team this weekend.
I hear Dave Carr, Joey Harrington, and Trent Dilfer are running the scout team offenses for Fresno
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yeah, cause Pat Hill can’t find that on his own. He doesn’t even have a computer. The Valley is about two decades behind.
My best friend went to Fresno State and has an ortho practice there right now.
He wasn’t so happy with me when in the end of the year slide show, his read: “Things he’ll miss most about UOP: Indoor plumbing.”
Old Toothwrangler
the indoor plumbing thing was just an odd attempt at jabbing Fresno. Could have gone with numerous other digs that were true and funny.
Why don’t you share these with us? We’ll put them to good use.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
We need them to prep for this weekend’s game!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Petition for hearing deined.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Er, I deign to have denied.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
That is why I make an excellent Self Appointed Chief Ultra Justice of CGB.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t make me assess costs against Twist. I’ll do it.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
And that would be? Who?
Ask Thoroughbred.
He knows me!
Although, whatever the hell happened to him?
Did he get a real life?
well, an infiltrator is someone who sneaks into a different group, not his own. An informant is someone who does the talking – whether initially part of that group or not. So, I guess you are an Infiltrator Informant.
Either way, you’re in deep doo-doo. You have violated one of the sacred oaths of CGB’s…
Okay, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
(or)
Just don’t ever let me see your email address on a job application that hits my desk. I’ll tell the staff you once typed the F word on a public blog! That’ll be your scarlet letter! F !
Ha ha
CT if my resume was on your desk you should hire me as long if it didn’t require killing spiders or having sex with ugly but busty women. No, wait, I’d do the latter.
What the fuck is wrong with cursing?
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s an inside joke, atoms…
we could tell you, or you could simply go back to our conversation from last night and read.
Oh, I read it.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
But I read it last night anyway.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
watch your fucking language.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I’m fucking watching it come right the fuck out of my damn mouth!
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Why are you reporting this to Rishi??? He has no power!
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SOMEBODY STOP RISHI! HE IS A ATQ AGENT TAKING US DOWN FROM THE INSIDE!!!
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All I know is that even if I (or you) disagree with salary_cap, he is a fairly reasonable reader. I dont care who he roots for as long as he is reasonable bout it.
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We have the same icon,, I just noticed!
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Oh wow.
I just, JUST, updated mine from the MSF Scowl. I somehow found myself watching ML highlights from a link on someone’s post and I decided, “Man, he was THE MAN”. I always thought he’d break a leg by now b/c he never goes down. I thought someone would hit his knee while he was standing there with 3 guys draped all over him. I glad that hasn’t happened yet.
Anyways, I figured I needed to move on from MSF, since he graduated (I hope). You must have missed my grand new icon announcement and presentation for Salary Cap over on the other page.
I have to say, Twist… Sorry, but mine is better.
But, I’ll let you borrow it if you like. I spent an extra 30 minutes darkening the background BS out.
LOL, yours is better.
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Thank you, sir.
If you would like to claim first dibs, you are entitled.
But only because I hear Mrs. Twist is hot!
and, I only used this image b/c it has to go down as the all time best TD pose. Ever.
Grabbing your crotch at the end of that run? Are you kidding me?!?!?!?
Who thinks of shit like that after running thru a buffalo herd?
I’d be like, “oh, thank god. The end-zone. It’s over. I’m going to live….”
I know!
…and some people would argue that Marshawn isn’t intelligent. Tsk, tsk.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
No wait...
Grabbing your crotch while doing a back dive to show all the guys you just ran past, thru, over.
There should have been a swimming pool of water for him to splash in.
It’s PRECISELY like, “Eat that, you mother fuckers!”
I know! He said a lot with one small gesture.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, Marshawn. Why'd you do it???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstyGL7U-RM
He just likes doing things like that.
by concordtom on Aug 29, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
rec’d for one of my favorite movies.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
STOP IT
I don’t like FS, and I wouldn’t be apprehensive about saying I did, if I indeed actually did root for the dogs. CT has some grand scheme to demolish the SCap. Some self-loathing perhaps.
But Fire Starkey’s got Thunder and Lightning! I wouldn’t say I don’t like him.
by Yes We Cannon on Aug 29, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah! That pansy ass Okie, Toby Keith, had to learn the hard way!
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
WTF did I do?
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
awww man, I thought I was going to be able to break out the gun show!
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by Fire Starkey on Aug 29, 2011 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Actually Salary Cap.
Just always remember the great chuckle you gave me last night regarding Amateur Hour.
That will live with me and this blog forever!
I couldn’t hate you.
I love you!
I felt like I could have put it better
but what could I do? AErose was out of line, and I didn’t want to turn it into a nightmare, so I went with it.
Yeah
What was up with AERose? Out o’ character, don’t U think?
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
Matthew Fox was detained by cops in Cleveland, Ohio Saturday night after allegedly assaulting a woman outside of a bar … TMZ has learned.
Goddamn it, Ohio must really drive a man to drink. Maybe Matthew was just having flashbacks.
It does. Frankly, this was pretty tame by Ohio standards. No motorized barstools were involved.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Aug 29, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
To be fair to Fox, Cleveland can do that to a man.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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I seriously thought this was about Michael J. Fox for a second there, which was all kinds of weird.
"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
WHY
WHY IS MY SCREEN SHIFTING UP EVERY TIME SOMEONE POSTS A NEW COMMENT?? IT DOESN’T NORMALLY DO THIS. I THINK SALARY CAP HAS PUT A HEX ON CONCORDTOM, DAMMIT!!!!
Seems like mine finally stopped. Er, maybe 30% of the time now.
Yours ALWAYS does that?
It’s happened to me before.
Total pain in the ass.
What causes it.
I think...
….it’s just posts getting added to the DBD above so the whole thing has to shift down. OUR OWN POPULARITY IS DESTROYING US !!!!!
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
FIRE TEDFORD!!!!!!
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
What is arrested development?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s what happens to your social skills when you’re home-schooled.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
It’s also what happens when you’re in the real estate business and your project comes to a halt.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, it’s what happens when someone suddenly is taken into custody by the police.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
What if you can never be naked and have to wear jorts all the time? Does that count?
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, but not toward the amazing triple-pun.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking it could be the infamous Mr. F from Sense and Sensabilities, Edward Ferrars.
I guess that would be too distinguished for you, though, huh?
You’re questioning my distinguishedness?!?!?!?! I am offended!!!!!!
I chose my SBN handle based on the reference to the TV show Arrested Development as well as my last name. I didn’t choose my name with a sole focus of distinguishedness, especially if the reference would be entirely random/irrelevant.
I chose it because it:
-references my last name
-references in interest (Arrested Development)
-adds some level of humor to the people who get the reference but works as a name if people don’t get the reference
-is team-neutral
That said, I have never read Sense and SensibilitY. I managed to avoid reading any Austen/Bronte books in school and haven’t felt compelled to go read some/have been busy reading other books.
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true!
ha ha ha
Okay, what the hell does “team neutral” mean?
As for Jane Austen… if you are with it, then you know I have daughters. I can’t avoid that shit….
I occasional post on other team blogs (though not really lately), so I didn’t want to have a name that said “CalSportsFan” while posting in a professional baseball/basketball team blog.
Note: I have absolutely nothing against that. I myself would just feel weird doing it.
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true!
Trying to guess the name of Mr. F...
“Fonstesque??? Hahahahahahahaha…….”
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
me thinks concordtom needs to pass a breathalyzer before entering the dbd.
Actually, screw that. Flag me.
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--Coach Clark
by carp on Aug 29, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
when you read kenneth walker commits to cal, did it somehow made you to check your cache of Johnny Walker Black?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yes. If he were asian,
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No, it’s okay, his name is Black.
/30 rock
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
My BAC might be too low to enter right now.
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by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually, carp, back in the day….
If I HAD gone to Cal, and if YOU HAD been on my dorm floor, I would have drunk your ass under the table. Not that I’m proud of that.
But you have to actually attend a party school to acquire such talent!
Let’s put it this way…. Mexico was a mere 30 minute drive south.
Not BART protests, HAT H8
Bunch of haters protesting Maynard and Wilkerson wearing hats from professional sports franchises on Saturday.
I think they want Tedford fired too.
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
How many jacks will Brandon Allen hit tonight?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I hope a lot because he’s on my fantasy team, er, and because I root for the A’s!
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
will he hit more HR’s than runs scored by the Giants?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yes.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
avi baby's fine ass to have Pac12 job?!
Your Pac 12 Enterprises Chief:
"I think there’s an understanding of the value of our unique content,’’ Stevenson said.
"We’ve got rabid fans and an audience that’s coveted by advertisers, and we can reach them through any medium: phone, digital, television. From a marketing standpoint, this is a rare opportunity. We’re not just trying to sell 30-second spots.’’
* Stevenson’s priorities are 1) Hire heads of the various business units; 2) Secure a location for the network and Enterprises office, and 3) Sign distribution agreements with carriers prior to the network launch next Aug/Sept.
(And it all must be accomplished, as he said, "in a manner that’s consistent with the brand of the conference and its universities.")
* Stevenson said that staffing levels for Pac-12 Enterprises "will eventually exceed 100 employees."
* While the Pac-12 networks must have the ability to produce content at the local levels, there has been no decision on where the regional studios will be based and what form they will take.
My sense is that the conference wants each campus to provide a studio, as opposed to the league having to buy/rent office space in downtown Portland or Phoenix, for example.
* Because the Enterprise unit will oversee major league events, I asked if there has been any decision on the future of the men’s and women’s basketball tourneys – whether they will remain in Los Angeles or rotate through cities in the league’s footprint.
"Discussions are ongoing,’’ Stevenson said.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
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Even better than Cars 2
The reviews are in! The critics are raving!!! Raving crazy loons, but still.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Look at those hats!
If you don’t like them you must hate AMURICA!
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Tedford has AMERICA HAT
U hate Tedford?
THEN U H8 AMURICA!
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
um, I think that’s coach Tedford!
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 29, 2011 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Front page content
We’re #1! We’re #1!
VBall is top ranked team in the country. Thank you, Ducks; thank you.
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
by BTown85 on Aug 29, 2011 3:40 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Rec’d motha uckers!
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
That's not to say...
….that we’d mow down Penn St. if we played them, but HEY! It’s exciting.
As long as we can beat ‘Furd consistently, I’m a happy guy.
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
Rivalries are what's wrong with college sports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They shift the focus from the goal being “to be #1 in the country” to be “beat your rival.” So selfish!!!! How ANNOYING!!!!!
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true!
Ahhhhh, but perhaps you misunderstand.....because I didn't explain fully
If we’d BEAT Penn St. to become #1, I’d be freakin’ extatic. But we beat three marshmallows while the two teams ahead of us lost, so we benefited just like football did in 2007 when we wond the OSU game and became #1. Since we did NOT beat them and aren’t scheduled to play them in the regular season, are best upcoming opponents are ’Furd and USC. I want to beat them both because they are good and arrogant, and I like when arrogant people lose. SNAP!
But if I had to choose between which one of those to beat, ‘Furd wins every time (that’s part rivalry and part “they’ve had our number for SO long….” thing). Now, if we’re poised to win the Pac-12 with a win over USC that would be different, but our last game o’ the regular season is against ‘Furd and we have to get through them to be in a position to win the Pac anyway. If they were a marshmallow, it would be different, but they’re not. So it’s not a rivalry thing as much as it is a good competition thing. Same would go for women’s bball, but not men’s bball (UW and UCLA are more important wins there….).
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
I was just trying to be lame, actually. I’m totally cool with what you originally said.
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Wise? Man?
You cant be talking about me.
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My ears are burning!
No, my ears are really burning. I wanted to see inside, so I lit a Q-tip.
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by CalBandGreat on Aug 29, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Heckle Tiger Woods in the (far) South Bay this fall
El Tigre is playing the frys.com open at Corde Valle in San Martin, Calif. in October.
For those not familiar, San Martin is south of San Jose, north of Gilroy. I like to think of it as a suburb of Gilroy.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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If I lived within walking distance I’d totally go and boo him, thus reliving the 2nd best Cal football game I’ve ever attended.
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Epic
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by Ohio Bear on Aug 29, 2011 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bonus points if you copy pasta that fanpost at rule of tree lol.
Alright, and after it's all over, you say "Ooh, what a lovely tea party"
by Redonkulous Bear on Aug 29, 2011 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I totally read that article when it came out. And then forgot about it…or did I?
BTW, we’re definitely going to be watching the Fresno St. game at some such bar in downtown Sacramento. And it’s sort-of likely that BearStage will be there, too. So…what are your recommendations for where we should go?
From Pat Forde's column
OHIO. Roy Miracle’s last act before being buried was to be the I in an Ohio spellout.
DAMN
I am going to Chicago in the AM. Just remembered I need to pack. Then realized I need to do laundry before I can pack. Sob.
DAMN
I am going to LA in the PM. Just remembered I need to pack. Good thing I realized that I needed to do laundry yesterday. Not as big of a sob as Scootie.
Scootie, I give you the “=/” emoticon as a sign of solidarity.
Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true!
HEY DON’T CALL SCOOTIE AN S.O.B., THAT’S NOT NICE
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Aug 29, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
(also anatomically inaccurate.)
"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 would suggest a bomb shelter or a good sturdy bank vault.
"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
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