Spain Reeling
Spain losing is a bad omen for them winning the whole thing. I am starting to question whether I know enough about soccer to bet on it……
Had a buddy text me last night asking if I remember the Matt Cain perfecto. LOL. Yeah, I would say I remember that one. One of my greatest predictions of all time.
Unlike Spain who appears to be rolling over like a dog.
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I have the US at 150-1. Go America!!!
Normally catch as much Pac 12 b-ball as I can, but oy both locals Cal and Stanford men are really bad. Cal is 0-8 and lost to one of the HBCU teams at home. Stanford last night vs. #21 UCLA could not score in first 5 minutes and got down 17-0, and trailed 50-29 at half, at home. Rallied to make it look close losing 80-66 but like Cal can’t shoot (other than best player senior Spencer Jones who went 7-10 and hit 3-5 from 3) and turn ball over a lot. Yikes
Ha, Monmouth also is winless at 0-8, the latest an 88-62 blowout to in-state rival Rider at the always raucous Broncs Zoo. This was so bad Hawks coach King Rice said “I will never play in this building again.” Quite a downturn from last year when MU narrowly lost to St. Peter’s in MAAC final.
Ouch. Indiana comes to RAC vs. Rutgers I think tomorrow. They (IU) look pretty tough (though maybe Carolina not near as good as everyone thought going in) but winning there ain’t easy for anyone in Big 10, great competitive league.
Cal lost home opener of season to UC Davis by 10 and lost Pac 12 opener to USC at home 66-51 2 nights ago, shooting 18-65 from floor. Only once have they lost by more than 10 and they fight hard but just cannot put ball in basket. tough to watch.
Survive and advance, Flav. The Spain group was apparently one of the toughest ones in the tournament. Next up is Morocco on Tuesday in the knockout round of 16.
hmmnn one of the local football programs is still playing–Sacramento State Hornets, #2 seed in FCS playoffs host Richmond this weekend. Coached by former Cal QB Troy Taylor they score 40 points a game and run Air Raid passing attack. They have won Big Sky 3 times and he recruits (and keeps) local players. Successful HS coach too. Too good to be true–one of Cal or Stanford have to snap this guy up before another Power 5 team does.
Ha loved Loo’s story end of last thread.
Here’s one from Harolyd Reynolds: “I was in ST and I got a ground ball playing behind Gaylord. It felt like a dog had the ball in his mouth. I threw the ball away and (Perry) turns around and says ‘You’ll get used to it kid. Don’t worry about it.'”
One more mystery solved. DJ Loo is 65 years old . . .
Speaking of mysteries, a lot of formerly good TV networks, like the Sundance Channel, have completely abandoned their original reason for existence, and are just showing old TV show reruns, to try to drum up some ratings.
I happened upon that network the other night, when they were showing episodes of Columbo. The episodes were a little cheesier than I remembered, but the character Columbo was a great creation. The episode and a half that I watched were pretty good. The premise for the show was an interesting one. The viewer is shown at the beginning who has committed the murder. It just becomes a battle of wits between Columbo and the killer. The killer generally starts off confident and cocky, sure that they can outwit the frumpy Columbo. But Columbo keeps pestering and pestering, and the killer’s facade of confidence starts to crack and eventually fall apart.
The Brit lady who plays “Vera” on PBS series of same name reminds me of Columbo, kinda stocky and frumpy and wears an old hat. Different format as she has full staff of assistants (at whom she occasionally rages) and works out of rural Northumberland area of England, but series is really good. Someone else who shows up repeatedly to question same people til case cracks open.
I cut the cord again earlier this year after 2 years of cable television. Consequently, I found Tubi and Youtube to be my “go to” free apps for my movie and television fix. Tubi is particularly good with not only “almost new” movies being featured monthly, but also old TV shows like the Rifleman, which I loved watching. Interesting that Lucas McCain ALWAYS tried to resolve issues peacefully and was probably the most respected person in North Fork, but managed to kill 120 people over the show’s 5 year run. lmao . . .
https://www.riflemanconnors.com/casualtylist.htm
The series was created developed by Sam Peckinpah, easily my favorite director for Westerns, e.g., The Wild Bunch, Ride The High Country, Major Dundee, etc. I also loved “The Getaway,” a very good action film with Steve McQueen.
Those kill numbers are a little better than his MLB stats.
Wasn’t that the first move where the criminals actually got away with the crime?
Movies like Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry or Vanishing Point you spend the whole movie rooting for them only to see them get crushed by a freight train or some horrific death. Susan George (and mystery dirt-bike chick) was excellent in that.
I like the Columbo series also I am on the last episode of year 10 right now. Columbo and the Rockford files were must see for me when they first came out.
Rockfish was great. McCloud was decent. The Sunday Night Mystery Movie? Night Stalker was awesome.
Rockfish!! James Garner was my fav.
The Getaway? No, many films broke the Hays Code (one of the Tarzan films was the first I believe). The Hays Code was officially replaced in 1968 by the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA), a parental advisory ratings board rather than a censorship board, which is still in place today (Kroon, “MPPC”).
I think I have just about every book that Jim Thompson ever wrote. Great stuff.
Yeah, great writer and his book, The Getaway is totally different from the ending of the movie. Been years since I read it, but I seem to recall cannibalism being part of the ending. lqtm . . .
Blade..Getaway was great,Steve McQueen &Ali McGraw had such great chemistry in that movie.Strage though u get a doofus like Howard? (Mayberry) hooked up with hot Sally Struthers as his wife, but she turns on him quickly for Rudy a bank robber and Howard couldn’t take all the shit and hang’s himself.
Lot of action, clever moves my McQueen through out, like the con man at the train station that Ali fell for the switch key locker move, and McQueen had to hunt him down to get they’re money back.Also spotted in this hick town he goes into this sports store gets a shotgun, brown bag special and makes the cops duck squat in the dirt as he getaways with Ali only to return to town after they dumped their car and hopped on a Greyhound that was brilliant..
And yeah getting away with some help from Slim Pickens in his PÓS pickup which loaded with junk and he just says at the Mexican Border “It’s building materials “.. The 2 give him like a 100 grand? to walk away as he puts in his grungy cowboy 🤠 and just says god damm..
Movie was excellent AK and I can’t recall too many bad guys as badass as Al Lettieri (excellent in the Godfather too).
#6 for USC is Austin Jones who transferred in from Stanford. Played HS ball at Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland for Coach Napoleon Kauffman.
Rangers sign deGrom to 5Y $185M deal.
How many starts will he miss over 5 years?
1/2 of them?…
Boch is building his staff.
Insane, man Rangers love to blow money like with Seager &Semien, what’s that over 500 mil tied up in 3 players?
Insane giving that much coin to deGrom. Less than 225 innings pitched the last 3 seasons due to injury.
Great opening paragraph on column about Perry . . . “In 1974, in Cleveland second baseman Duane Kuiper’s first month in the major leagues, he started for the first time behind veteran star pitcher Gaylord Perry. Seconds before Kuiper ran to his position to begin the game, Perry looked at him and said, “If you make an error behind me today, you’ll never play another day in the big leagues. Do you understand?!”
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35157761/remembering-gaylord-perry-great-spitballer-legendary-mlb-character
blade- thanks for the post.
Wow Utes tie it up. SC defense or lack of it could let Bama or Buckeyes back in
And boom just like that Utes take the lead on a 3rd and 19 catch and run for 50 yards!
Bad Moon Rising in Vegas!
Beautiful INT by #11, and then Utes are right back in end zone. Tremendous comeback from being down 17-3, to up 40-24.
Bozo/Loco was talking about front-loading contracts. I’ve often wondered about this. Is there a limit on annual salaries that teams can pay? Some kind of percentage increase that’s allowable every year? Judge wants to be the first 40m/year player, so I’ve heard. Could a team that has ample money but doesn’t want the millstone of super-long contracts pay whatever they want to pay per year to shorten the contract? I don’t think it’s the guaranteed years that players care about, it’s the guaranteed money. So a Judge or anyone else would obviously take a contract, say, 6 years at 53m/year instead of 8 years at 40m/year, and a cash-loaded team would certainly prefer 6 years to 8 years. Just not sure what’s allowable. Obviously a 50m-plus annual paycheck would raise some eyebrows, at the least….
Hey I’m all for front loading the whole contract P/A!
Let’s just give Judge 4 years 180 million.He’s happy at 45 mil per season and the Giants still get mostly his best years locked in before he walks again back to the Yanks to finish out his career..
Well, the Yanks offer to Judge of 8/300 ain’t gonna do it.
Same AAV as deGrom (37.5M)…
Well just about…
QB noticeably limping off field after another 3 and out.
Trojans in trouble.
Yep that TE Yasmin was not going to be denied.He just laughed at #7 pushing him around at the goal line..
Ballgame as Utah just put the dagger on USC with that electrifying TD run! 40-24 Utes
Just stupid of USC letting QB Williams finish this game with a leg so messed up..
Williams stock draft is taking a hit as well..
Loo, I hadn’t heard the specifics of NY’s offer to Judge. I thought it was pretty clear he wanted 40m/year, so yeah, 8/300m wouldn’t work, but would 8/320m? How about 6/300m? Or AK’s 4/180m? I just don’t know if there are limits per year as set by MLB…
I love the idea of 6 or 7 years at $300M.
But I think he’s set on 8 minimum and I don’t think the Yanks would lose him over a “lousy” $20M more ($320M).
I think Judge hits a fair amount of homers to right center.
That ain’t good at ATT…
It looks like he might have lost 6 or so HRs in SF. 10 percent of his overall contact goes to right center. I don’t think how the ball park plays will determine his decision.
Front load it so he can go be Pujols for someone else!
lmao . . . What you said is spot on.
Go USA. Dutch aren’t THAT good. US has outplayed the other team for the most part in all 3 games. They will again tomorrow. I’m betting (I actually did) that Gio Reyna scores and we win 1-0. Reyna will sub in for Pulisic!
I think security of years does matter to ballplayers. Carlos Correa couldn’t get deal he wanted a year ago when he left Astros (who did well enough without him) so he signed for 3 years with Twins @$35 mil per, but with opt out he is now exercising. So to him I guess, years on contract is deciding factor.
Probably won’t get that much per year, but someone will give him a longer deal.
If nothing else, maybe deGrom signing gets ball rolling. What do Mets do with rotation? How will this deal affect market for Verlander Rodon and those SPs in tier below them?
The Mets buy someone else. What’s the Bassett deal gonna be?
That Mets owner (Cohen?) likes to blow thru cash like the Rangers owner, he’ll just sign Verlander&Rodon no big deal..
Dammit.
Ah bummer, U.S. lost.
USA played like crap 💩 lucky to even get to the knockout rounds which they deserved to get knocked out..
Only drama left is who wins the famously famous are not : “The Gold Boot” for the player who scores the most goals in the World Cup..
Yeah, the defense on those 3 goals was atrocious.
I’m no soccer fan, but looking at highlights — at least 2 of those 3 Dutch goals the scorer was wide open, the goalie had no chance to stop the shot. I guess the term is somebody didn’t “mark” the scorer? Kind of like the free safety not picking up a receiver on a post route, and even Jimmy G makes the play to a wide open WR. Not sure how that can happen at this level of play…
John Velasquez and Mind Control win Cigar Mile for Todd Pletcher at Aqueduct by a head maybe. Great race.
Florent Geroux riding at Del Mar today in final weekend with Flavien Prat and usual locals. Weather doesn’t look too bad down there, unlike rainy day here in NorCal.
Snarkk 100%. Super annoying. Pulisic not putting it in the net 3 min in when wide open took some of the air out too.
Green Wave!
I’d make one offer to Judge: 7/300M
Take it or leave it…
Agree Loo, although I don’t know if you mean the Giants (hoping they tell him to take a hike) or Yankees. Regardless, I am betting that’s exactly what the Yankees are going to do a la St. Louis Cardinals with Pujols – tell Judge 7/300 or fuck off.
I meant Giants, but I go back and forth with wanting him or not…
It would be my response to the Yankees 8/300 offer…
Me? I am on record of not wanting the Giants to get involved with Judge. Besides, I think Turner is a far better player.
Cashman strikes me as very unemotional and he will likely do the 7/300 or 8/300 per what you said. He admired (and said as much) about St. Louis regarding the Pujols contract negotiations, where he subsequently went to the Angels. Steinbrenner may get involved though and overrule Cashman.
The Kings played a very injury-depleted Clippers team today, and took care of business well, and won by 30.
At 12-9, it’s still hard to know how for real the Kings are this season, but they are generally winning games that they should win on the schedule.
Watching the credits on Columbo episodes can be a fun thing. The episode where Jack Cassidy portrays a guy who kills his business partner portrayed by Martin Milner who starred in Adam-12, was directed by….wait for it….a young Steven Spielberg! And one of the screenwriters of the episode was Steven Bochco, who went on to create several TV shows, including Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue.
Columbo episodes, of course, were about an hour-and-a-half long TV movies.
According to Wikipedia there are 69 episodes.
I also recently saw the episode where Eddie Albert guest-stars as a Korean War hero who murders his illegal business partner, and the murder is witnessed by a somewhat unreliable witness portrayed by Suzanne Pleshette. So cool to see all the different guest-stars.
Fun fact: Columbo’s first name is Frank.
“You’re a sanctimonious hypocrite of a Bible-spouting blackmailer and I’ve given you your last chance to be fair!”
That’s a line in a Columbo episode (“Swan Song”) I just watched via rerun, five minutes ago, while killing time toward SNL. Johnny Cash, dressed in black, shouted it at his overbearing wife, played by the great Ida Lupino (dressed in white). Cash’s character kills Lupino’s (I think I’ve seen every Columbo), but those two giants really enjoyed their time on the screen together. Then Peter Falk does a pretty good job bobbing and weaving with Johnny C for the next hour. Over the top, but entertaining.
Prime Time coming to Pac 12, as Deion Sanders accepts Colorado head coaching job. They’ve been awful for couple years so nowhere to go but up. Unfortunate for Jackson St. kids he recruited, who won the SWAC 2 years in a row with him at helm.
I think I saw him play for Reds at Stick before he played for Dusty and SF in 95.
The kids can move with him to Colorado through the portal…
You are right, but likely only a handful off entire team if that. He’d built a culture there for community and how he’s off to brighter lights. Guess it was inevitable but I wish he’d stuck around and maybe drawn other athletes back to coaching at that level for other HBCUs.
Fuck it. The goddamn Giants can spend $100 million in contracts this year and not get close to the big spenders. Give judge 8/$320. Get Bassett and Bell. Throwe in finding Nimmo and we’ve got a better team. For as shitty as the team ended up, what were we? 6 games out of the playoffs? Thinkl those guys would give us 6 more games?
Of fucking course
I think this is gonna be an expensive Winter meeting for a lot of teams.
Deion was starting corner on that ’94 Niners SB winner for Seifert where they went 13-3 and then thrashed everyone in playoffs and lit up Chargers. Merton Hanks of Iowa was free safety on that team, and years before I’d played against him in charity softball game (with mush ball) in fundraiser for Little League. Gad what a blur he was running to 1b.
Big Ted Washington was there too and needed to borrow my LH glove to play. Really nice guy.
Deion was fast, maybe not Cool Papa Bell fast, but still quickest guy I ever saw get down the line. When he was playing for the Giants, I saw him push a sac bunt towards 1b, the first baseman glanced at 2b but realized that Deion was moving down the line so fast that he had to hustle to 1b just to barely beat Deion to the bag. Never saw anyone do that before or since.