The Weekend
So just wait till Boogie starts playing!! Lol, man, I don’t know what’s wrong with the Warriors. I think it’s reasonable to assume they just don’t care much about the regular season anymore but that’s a dangerous tact to take. This is not the same team of the last couple of years though, not even close….
Franny, who sucks, was trying to sell this take on KNBR last night: Because teams don’t let players practice as much in the off season as in the past, the Niners are JUST NOW coalescing as a team and that’s why they beat Denver (and he gave them a shot to beat Seattle). Uh Franny, wouldn’t that same amount of practice time apply to ALL the teams? Why were most other teams not a 2 win team going into Week 14? All the practice they’ve done this year just finally kicked in? It was the dumbest, simplest take I’ve heard from a KNBR host recently and that’s saying something with Radnich still employed there….
Zaidi is doing nothing. There aren’t even any good rumors to dig into….
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Yeah great ballgame, first Q was fantastic. surprised Giles never got in. For 34 minutes Bogdanovich wasn’t very productive. Game of runs, Warriors got last one in. Kings shot selection at end left lot to be desired and they stood around and stopped moving.
They need some new blood as Robt. Cray put it.
Jones is hurt again, Bell is useless, McKinnie I like Cook pretty ordinary Jerebko liability on D Igs/Livingston almost done. Core 4 + Cousins fine, not much beyond that…how many stay open to ?.
Didn’t J Will play b-ball with Randy Moss at W Va?
Hank had same take as SanDog–Z not doing a deal just to do one. Wants to add 2 starting OFs back up C pen and rotation help. Expects young guys he picked up to challenge ST and be ready in Sac to fill in if necessary.
Yeah, they played b-ball in high school together.
This is pretty cool. J Will is all over this.
https://www.courtsidefilms.com/news_article/show/574281-highlights-of-high-school-teammates-randy-moss-and-jason-williams-in-the-1994-state-championship
From Flav’s Dub list yesterday, I’d have Thurmond and Attles on that list. They were insane defenders. And you gotta love player/coaches,
Barnett was harping on the fact that Fox was on fire, and other Kings were jacking up 3s. A very good point. Feed the hot guy. Something the Warriors understand. I don’t really know how Shumpert is working out for the Kings, but he looked like a non-entity last night.
https://nbacrimelibrary.com/?s=bernard+king
hey, the 70s were a tough decade for everyone.
Thx Unc gotta run to work but that was pretty cool. Loo too that was pretty funny.
Yahoo has the vid with the moon stuff Kings put up during Warriors intros last night, pretty funny. I think even Steph was clapping and his buddies were yukking it up. Intro guys nowadays are awful yelling and screaming.
Would have loved to be PA guy, ala D Callaghan.
“In his 8th year from the University of Iowa at 6-8 number 42 the Hawk Connie Hawkins.”
Used to give number too after a hoop…”Double zero is Johnny Moore.”
Didn’t get to see Kings game. Or Chiefs game. Or anything today. Crazy busy with high school basketball, but my team is playing better and has a chance to take 3rd place in Day 3 of a tournament in Warner Springs today, so that is cool. Beautiful drive right over the top of the Laguna Mountains to get out to this tourney each day from my school in Pine Valley. Cool to see the reaction of my kids to some of the forrest areas and great views of the drop down to the Anza-Borrego Desert floor. They’ve been pretty good about enduring my tunes as well. Royal Blood went over well with a few of them.
Shumpert, surprisingly, has been damn good for the Kings. Playing well, and sounds like a great teammate.
And I have no problem having MB3 earn his minutes. We don’t get to keep our draft pick after this year, so let’s try to win some games. Bjelica has for the most part, played great for SacTown.
is this the team of kids you like or the asshole group? lqtm
Something that was exposed again for the Kings last night is the lack of a decent back-up point-guard. When the coach’s options off the bench are Yogi Farrell and Frank Mason, those are grim options.
Speaking of bench players named Mason, who remembers this guy who passed away without fanfare earlier this year?
As Zumiee would say he was a grim option.
His middle name was “Stetson”…
I don’t remember him. His cap seems too big.
Kruk and Kuip are appalled anytime they see a batter using a double-earflap batting helmet. They sometimes refer to the Great Gazoo.
David Wright got the Great Gazoo mocking after the Cain beaning…
Cuz there’s nothing funnier than a major brain injury.
Vaguely remember Mason. He must have played sometime around 1969-70 cuz that’s when I started following all the team not just the stars.
He actually played a lot in ’69…
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masondo01.shtml
.540 OPS in 1971, while coming in 3rd in the league in errors for second basemen!
Not exactly Farhan’s kind of player.
(We lost by 3, for those who care) We did at least get up a pretty good look from 3 as time expired.
Anybody feeling a young Don Criqui look alike with that Don Mason card?
You’re uncanny with this stuff!
Oklahoma has a player that looks like Larry Bird’s inbred son.
I remember watching this guy last year. He can stroke it pretty well from outside.
He’s grown his hair longer since that photo, and it’s a better look for him. Although he might get tired of hearing about Bird every time people meet him.
Zum and others—where you at on Mad Men? I’m kind of hooked on the reruns after never watching it before. I don’t love it love it, but I think its pretty good and it is giving me another thing to talk about with my daughter—which is always a plus.
I haven’t seen the show yet. I’ve heard good things from people, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I liked Mad Men (saw most of it during its primetime run), especially as I worked in the ad/PR business for years in the US, and also loved the cultural references of that time. Oddly enough, I do binge-watch reruns for some shows (Breaking Bad, Ozark, etc.) but that’s one I don’t think I’ll rewatch, but liked it first time through.
We listened to “Don’t Say No” by Billy Squier in the van on the way home. Solid hard rock album IMO, though I never really cared much for “The Stroke,” which was the big hit on that record.
I only had 2 players in the van with me. We stopped at a place called Dudley’s Bakery, which is a bit of an institution in the greater San Diego area—located out in the middle of nowhere . They make like 20 different kinds of bread. I told both players to pick out a loaf they thought their family would like and I’d buy it.
One went for the Jalapeno Cheddar and the other for the Julian Apple Bread. I had to drag them in there, but once they saw all the choices on the shelves, they got really into making their selection.
I went for their Hawaiian Sweet Bread, which I have earmarked for some French Toast in the morning.
I was wondering if you had driven the whole team in Harvey…..
HA! Harvey has his winter coat on these days.
So what’s the end game here for Pence? Is this literally just a love of the game move by him? Why is he doing this?
It totally has to be a love the game deal. I wish him the absolute best and am curious to see if he changes his swing and can hang on. I think it is a real longshot.
Over/under on MLB at-bats for Pence next year?
I will go with 37—and that is probably 37 too high.
What team is that? Some of those guys look familiar, but I don’t know what Pence is up to here…
Winter Ball–Puerto Rico maybe?
Q. Why would anyone do it?
A. To get away from their wife.
“We’re gonna come around at 12 with some Puerto Rican girls that’s just DY-IN’ to meet you!”
I’d bet anything she’s down there with him. She is ALWAYS there.
Dawg, if you and any other Flappers have a handful of days this summer (I’ll be back in the US for a bunch of it this year), we should do a Harvey/Flap road trip mini-palooza. Late June Giants play in LA then go to AZ then back home and then back down to SD. Unfortunately, as fun as that might be, you’d need a couple of weeks off…
Would be awesome! Harvey doesn’t stray too far from home, but an SD Flapalooza featuring Harvey would be outstanding.
Billy Squire had his time in the sun. He hit it big about the same time Foghat did, but I liked Foghat more for some reason.
How come no one ever mentions Boston? (The band)
Cuz they are overrated.
I don’t know. Boston, Foghat, Kansas, Journey after steve Perry were all hard rock lite. Or maybe it was just cuz I got over those bands in like 8th grade, and moved on to Blue oyster Cult, Ozzie, talking Heads and Iron Maiden. Billy Squier had cred. Until this. This video literally killed his career.
I don’t know if this was some kind of misguided flashdance joke , but this killed him. Kind of a shame.
I remember this controversy. Heard an interview once where he tried to explain what he was thinking at the time. It wasn’t super convincing.
Hey Kings fans—is Bagley OK? he only played about 5 minutes vs. GS. He went up for rebound and landed awkwardly in 2nd Q and never returned. Warriors announcers (who were very high on Kings btw) said knee sprain.
I’m hearing bone bruise and to be re-evaluated in 10-14 days.
Oh that sucks. Hella coaching job my man with 5 only kids who had played multiple games last couple days going against full squad.
Pence probably winds up in Independent league somewhere. Feels he can rebuild his swing doesn’t want to go out like he did and still has something to offer at ML level.
Maybe whomever signs Machado attaches the Rev to him and he learns to run out dribblers.
Never seen this video before. Literally laughing. I liked this song and seeing this may have ruined it for me:)
SD Flappaloza sounds good.
@ SanDog..My wife was crazy about Mad Men. Always trying ti get me to watch. I guess i never got it. Watched 3-4 times. Didn’t grab me…
Yeah, unreal to even consider what was going through everyone’s heads on this,
Joe Mixon out of Freedom HS in Oakley with second TD of game and 117 yds rushing that should doom the Raiders to lose to Bengals who had lost 5 in a row coming in. Raiders hit FG to cut lead to 23-16 with 5 minutes left then give up 77 yd KO return and TD two plays later.
Gad both locals are bad.
Haven’;t seen Mad Men or Orange is the New Black. Watching Poldark. 18th century English deal. Semi interesting.
I’ve been watching DVRed episodes of the latest season of Better Call Saul. This season kind of lost me, but I’ll keep watching. Pre-quels are always a dicey proposition.
Hit and miss this year.
I kind of drifted away from dramas for a while. There are lots of comedies I watch.
Loudermilk
Mom
Modern Family
Big Bang Theory
Brockmire
I was a big MF fan, but it’s been dreadful for at least 2 years now.
Sooner or later they all “jump the shark”…
YAH! F the MFing Seachickens!
Good to see our 3rd string QB beat the fucking Hawks. Yeah, baby!
Niners win! Horrible reffing all around that game. The one thing you have to say is the team hasn’t given up or tanked it.
Shanahan didn’t exactly stick up for Wilson but that was big time run to set up FG and a defender did try and swat ball out of his arm too. Great W for Saleh and his D too to shut down Wilson last 3 times he had ball.
Lakers got scalded by the Wizards. It’s a beautiful thing.
Kings defeat the Mavs.
Fox, 28 points.
First win over the Seahawks since 2013.
The one and only Bill Walton….in one half-court possession he managed to reference Bruce Springsteen and the Bill of Rights.
I can’t stop watching this.
I watched it live.
The real beginning of the decade of the ’60s.
I wonder how many people made themselves a cup of Nescafe after Cronkite’s first bulletin…
No.
“The Oakland Raiders don’t currently have a home for next season, but may end up playing across the Bay at AT&T Park, according to a report by Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports.
Following last week’s lawsuit by the city of Oakland accusing the Raiders and the NFL of an illegal move to Las Vegas, the team is no longer certain to play their games at the Oakland Coliseum next year, especially considering their lease with the stadium authority runs out at the conclusion of the 2018 season. The Raiders’ new home in Vegas won’t be completed until 2020, leaving where the team plays next season up in the air.
Though the Raiders could still work out a deal with the Coliseum for a new one-year lease, it’s very possible they will end up playing elsewhere in the Bay area, in Southern California, or even out of state. According to LaCanfora, one of the potential venues is the San Francisco Giants’ current home, which has never before hosted an NFL game.”
Walter Cronkite, considered the most trusted man in America at that time. A member of now fake media. Amazing how things change. Who would be the most trusted person in the US at this point? Endless choices for least trusted….
Douglas Brinkley wrote a good biography of Cronkite. I thought it would be a big seller, but it wasn’t. He’s pretty forgotten these days.
I still sometimes “sign off” my classes with “And that’s the way it was, …..” …. My parents always watched Huntley/Brinkley but I was completely a Cronkite guy growing up…
Assuming he acted alone, I think the argument can be made that Lee Harvey Oswald had the greatest impact on US history from 11/22/63 until 9/11/01…
Then again to paraphrase Twin, you can make any fuckin’ argument you want…