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Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on July 6, 2023

Corn on Cobb showed up big time exactly when we needed him. Now he’s just gotta do that for 13-14 more starts. Straight. Well, kidding. Sort of.

If was great hangin’ out with this dude on the 4th.

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  1. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:00 am

    Where’d you golf? Moffett Field?

  2. djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:12 am

    Great picture, although I wouldn’t know if you were golfing or farming.
    Want to give out the results?

    • Flavor's avatar Flavor said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:48 am

      I was 1 over after 6 and ended up shooting a 92. Had a rough patch on holes 10-14. Diggity shot an 89

  3. xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:33 am

    Good beer

  4. willedav's avatar willedav said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:53 am

    AL Central, oy. A’s took 2 of 3 from ChiSox at home over weekend and then headed into Detroit and took first 2 there, 1-0 July 4 and 12-3 yesterday. 25 Ws for them now, same as last place Royals who were shut out by Twins 5-0.

    • djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:04 am

      62 Mets look safe I guess…

  5. snarkk's avatar snarkk said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:38 am

    From the look of the land, I wondered if you were in a golf cart or a CalTrans median mower. Pliny bottle tipped the answer…

  6. Locojuan's avatar Locojuan said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:51 am

    Good friends enjoying a tasty beverage. Although, I’m not sure why the theme song for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly popped into my head when I first saw the photos.

  7. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 10:17 am

    Yep, recognize the mudflats.

  8. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Only broken 100 once. But it was at Cypress Point. My cousin used to work at Lockheed down there and we played Sunnyvale muni, shoreline, and Paly a lot.

    • snarkk's avatar snarkk said, on July 6, 2023 at 10:57 am

      I shot 41 on the front at Pebble years and years ago. Legit 41.
      The greens fee was $80 or something ridiculous compared to now, and you didn’t need to be staying at the Lodge — that’s how long ago.
      Unconscious with putts, 5 one-putts on the front.
      Put my second shot (4 iron) within 12 feet at the famous over-the-ocean #8, lipped out the bird. Maybe best second shot I ever hit given the circumstance, and that includes a hole out 2nd shot for eagle 2 at a bastardly uphill Bayonet par 4. The Pebble back nine wasn’t so good for me, I had dreams of an 85, lost my confidence and blew to a 91. Golf humbles you.
      Now, I haven’t even handled a golf club since Nov 2011 playing the Prince course at Princeville.
      If I swung one now without stretching or gradually preparing, I’d probably pull 5 muscles and blow out a rotator cuff…

      • unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 11:14 am

        My buddy used to live in Carmel and we would walk up the beach, pick up a bunch of balls, and sneak on after the last group passed and play the water holes 7-12 and go as far as we could till we got thrown off. The 7th hole one time, I put 5 shots in the water, and reached the green with my putter.

      • snarkk's avatar snarkk said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:45 pm

        Yeah, iconic #7 looks EZ ‘cuz it’s short, but it’s got a small green, so there’s not a lot of margin for error even if you’re whacking a wedge or a 9. Plus, you pressure yourself to get off a good shot because it’s so “short”. The #3 at Spyglass is kinda the same, short shot, but it’s over barranca and a longer downhill than Pebble #7, and that plus wind, makes it a tough MFer to gauge the club and swing. First 5 holes at Spy are great seaside holes. Spy always tougher than Pebble, but front nine at Pebble obviously incomparable for golf eye candy. I first played Spy when it cost $40 to play, and I thought that was outrageous. That’s how long ago it was…

  9. xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 11:36 am

    Serious question: any of you dealt with torn meniscus cartilage in a knee? I’m inclined to try PT and steroid injections before getting arthro surgery. I can still walk three miles a day and pump on cardio machines at the gym. Pain and swelling seem to appear randomly. MRI was definitive.

    • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado said, on July 6, 2023 at 11:59 am

      I swear by glucosamine-chondroitin xoot. It has helped me with knee issues, as well as shoulder injuries (and surgery recovery). I am now using it for my wrist (both) osteoarthritis issues. Right one is fine now due to combination of exercise and glucosamine-chondroitin. Ironically, per X-rays it is the worst one, yet it has already recovered due to PT and glucosamine-chondroitin.

      • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:06 pm

        Thanks.

    • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:08 pm

      Costco has the cheapest glucosamine-chondroitin supplements (2 a day).

  10. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado said, on July 6, 2023 at 11:51 am

    Use to play Moffett a lot when I worked at NASA. Mostly after work with buddies that worked at the Mountain View Fire Department. Same deal with Sunnyvale Muni golf course. Also played at San Jose’s Rancho del Pueblo Golf Course with my uncle and cousin. After I got married and got a job at Monterey’s Naval Postgraduate School in 1989, I never played, mostly due to cost and other priorities (Pebble wasn’t the only expensive course as snarkk pointed out – they all were in that area or so it seemed to me).

    Anyway, a few years later I moved to Shasta/Redding area, and still didn’t pick up a club, this time due to the unbelievable heat (kidding – just lost interest, but moreover, skiing was my thing back then. Ex-wife was a champion skier and every free time we had, was skiing at Shasta or Lake Tahoe). I finally picked up a club again in 2003 or 2004, when I lived in Colorado. I played with this guy that loved the game and he convinced me to give it another shot. We would usually hit the range and course at Fox Hollow in Lakewood. Man, had I gotten bad. So bad, that I quit within a year. Haven’t picked up a club since. Pfffttt!

  11. Macdog's avatar Macdog said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    Great pix, cool choice of beverage, and laughing at the reactions to the background. I play a few times a year, I’m not very good so that’s all I can handle. My 88-year-old mom plays at least once a week, sometimes twice, at a nearby club and still does well, doesn’t hit far but goes straight every time.

  12. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:43 pm

    Yeah, golf is an on-again-off-again thing. I go years we/o playing. Never had a lesson and just wing it out there. Thing is, I can drive pretty well and putt good, but everything else is shit. Chipping and hitting from the fairway is simply too much for me. I guess I should follow the Trump rule and tee up my fairway shots. And my chips.

    That one 98 I shot was definitely the outlier. I was driving great that day and not gurfing my fairway shots. Funny thing is, my oldest daughter is a natural at it. She had a half an hour on the driving range w/me and made varsity as a freshman. This was Woodcreek in Roseville.

    Last time we played (at Tilden), she drove up on the group in front of us that was over 300 yards away. The cart path helped, but it was still an impressive drive. She played 4 years varsity in HS but hasn’t played much since then. She was shooting high 70s-low 80s by the time she was a senior. She’s still damn good tho.

    • snarkk's avatar snarkk said, on July 6, 2023 at 12:51 pm

      Golf is a harsh mistress, as I co-opt Heinlein a bit. One round or one hole and you’re on top of the world and you can’t wait to keep playing. Next round the sticks swing like mideavil battle clubs in your hands — no feel, nothing works. In my 20s I shot my best round ever, a 76 at Tilden. Dry, windless day up there, and I just felt all day like I was going to hit a good shot every time. Completely out of the blue to have round that complete, and never got that low again, maybe one more at a 79 or something, as I played less and less and life beckoned me away from playing and practicing. I got down to a legit 9 back then, I really had thoughts of playing a lot and really getting after it, to get down to a really low single digit, but that takes commitment I just didn’t have. Back then I played Wilson 1200 blades, and you had to hit them really solid to get good results, but boy when you did hit the sweet spot, you could barely feel the ball hit off the club. After I stopped playing so much, I had to give ’em up because I couldn’t hit ’em anymore at all with a wonky swing — it was a damn sliceapalooza…

  13. djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 1:25 pm

    Golf is just one of many things I’ll never get…

  14. xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 2:07 pm

    The Bad Ass has really turned into a meaningless cliche.

  15. mrsprtdude's avatar mrsprtdude said, on July 6, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Great pic! I shot an 85 hungover Sunday. Best round in years!
    @Xoot. Try PT, cortisone 1st. Since you are on here I’m guessing you are not in your 20’s. Meniscectomy removes a small part of the meniscus. As an ortho PT I tell my patients I have a tear, and function fine. Avoid some things that aggravate (like running for me) and manage those times where it flares. Removal of the meniscus (think of a gasket in a car) brings more bone on bone in to play, and can (not will) increase your path to a knee replacement some day.
    Only consider surgery if you have pain every step, or if the things you must avoid are at the very top of your list of things you like to do.

    • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 4:12 pm

      Thanks. I’m 72. I intend to do a lot more on this knee. More bone on bone I don’t want.

      • Winder's avatar Winder said, on July 6, 2023 at 6:05 pm

        cortisone is a gift from God.

  16. James's avatar James said, on July 6, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    Is anyone else seeing [1] in place of the commenter’s name?

    • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 4:18 pm

      Yes.

      • James's avatar James said, on July 6, 2023 at 4:29 pm

        Good to meet you [1]

  17. djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    It’s the loneliest number…

  18. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    I am number 2. You are number 6. Who is number 1?

  19. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    Same thing on my blog. Even the old posts and threads

  20. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    My buddy in Napa bought 8 pint bottles of Pliny the Younger (11.5% ABV) for game 7 of the Sacto Warriors game and 3 of us drank all of them. Got fairly pied. Good times.

    • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:57 pm

      Massage therapist I went to (pre Covid) was a beer aficionado. Every year, at her favorite brew pub, she traded an hour of drawing Pliny the Younger at the bar for the rest of the day relaxing with her friends drinking goblets of it. She gave me a reasonable explanation for the dramatic annual release of the kegs: Pliny the Younger must be fresh to be at its best. Pubs who contract to receive kegs of the Younger from refrigerated trucks on release day promise to place it in cold storage immediately and to pour it all within a very short time. Next morning, usually. (I think they bottle a small amount of it and sell the bottles, max two per customer, immediately.)

      I love Pliny the Elder, even bottled (but check the bottling date on the label). Pliny the Younger, the triple ipa, is of course better, completely different, really, but I would never stand in line for it. Luckily, I wandered into Cato’s Ale House in Oakland one Monday morning in February when they were pouring the Younger from a “secret” keg they’d received. Best early beer(s) and a burger lunch I’ve ever enjoyed.

  21. zumiee's avatar zumiee said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    We’re number [1]!!

  22. PaulinAsia Banh Bao's avatar PaulinAsia Banh Bao said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:44 pm

    Without being able to see your names or icons, it’s been kinda fun trying to guess who is posting what based on writing style and opins… “I can name that Flapper in 3 words…”..

  23. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 said, on July 6, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    1 is the loneliness number that you ever heard.
    2 can be as bad as 1 it’s the loneliness number since the number 1..

    • PaulinAsia Banh Bao's avatar PaulinAsia Banh Bao said, on July 6, 2023 at 6:48 pm

      New game: Name That Flapper (without clicking on the icon). I say it’s AK!

  24. snarkk's avatar snarkk said, on July 6, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    I like Pliny the Elder a lot, I’d drink Racer5 and Lagunitas IPA and a Lost Coast Revenant IPA just as well. Never had the Younger, not waiting 2 hours in line for a beer. But, up here in the PNW I’ve got 5 brew pubs in a town of 12K people, another half dozen within 15 miles or so. I’ve tried about 8 or 9, including all 5 in town. They’re all serving very good to fantastic beer and ale in many different styles fresh out of their kegs with product made on site. All 5 made really super Oktoberfests last fall in the proper Bavarian Marzen style. About 2 months ago at the brewpub I thought would be the least accomplished, I started with a pint of their nitro porter (yeah, some of you purists may not like nitro) with some notes of chocolate roast barley — friggin’ orgasmic. All around here typically charge $7 a pint or $5 on happy hours on Mon-Thurs. All but one (which has a kitchen) have just snacks, but encourage BYOF bring your own food, and sometimes they have guest food trucks and local bands. I spent too much time early on here checking a lot of them out and a lot of beers, but had to ratchet that down so I didn’t end up gaining 25 lbs. One of the brewpubs up the road a bit in the sticks a little near Kingston, WA is a brewery with a woman owner/brewmaster. Last time I was in there she was about 5 months pregnant still taking care of the place, didn’t plan on standing down until close to the due date. Good beer there, too…

  25. James's avatar James said, on July 6, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    I always thought “Two can be as bad as 1” was a really great line about having a second child.

    • James's avatar James said, on July 6, 2023 at 7:21 pm

      For the non-fathers, I don’t mean the child per se.

  26. Macdog's avatar Macdog said, on July 6, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    Mets lead the Snakes 7-0 in the 3rd inning.

  27. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 7:39 pm

    Elder I don’t like. Not an IPA guy. Younger just doesn’t taste as hoppy at Elder even. And it doesn’t taste like a super high alcohol beer. Very nice. Stumbled into Santa Rosa one day after wine tasting and asked what the gigantic line was for. People were waiting up to 6 hours for 2 10 oz pours. No thanks. This was like 10 years ago? No idea really.

    4 years ago went to some bar in Rockridge and waiting an hour for 2 10 oz pours. Now I just wait for my friend to buy the bottles.

    Mets up 7-0 in the 3rd over the dirty snakes.

    • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:10 pm

      RR brewing bottles little of it and that turns mediocre within weeks. I think they bottle it in February.

  28. djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    I’ll still take mass produced crummy sub 5% ABV over any of that fancy stuff that they shouldn’t call beer.
    To me, beer will always be cheap cold suds that you guzzle and don’t really think about the taste too much…

    • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:14 pm

      It the beer’s cold enough and I’m thirsty, I’ll guzzle coors.

      • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:18 pm

        Hitchhiking in Tenn., early 70s, young redneck, gave me a ride and asked a thousand questions about California. After a pause, he said: “And you all drink Coors, right?”

    • James's avatar James said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:27 pm

      The shame of that is that you’re describing a typical German Pils, except that it tastes good. We have shitty tasting mass produced beer for no good reason.

  29. willedav's avatar willedav said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    Schedule this weekend bound to help SF in standings–Marlins vs. Phils and Reds- Brewers. All 4 currently slightly ahead or close to Giants in WC chase, but someone bound to lose a couple while Giants get Rox at home, whom they’ve owned. One team will win NL Central, other after WC. Even Cubs aren’t out of it; saw Stroman got lit up last time out.
    Pirates leave LA for suddenly reeling AZ, Mets come to SD. Dogs vs. Angels.

  30. zumiee's avatar zumiee said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:43 pm

  31. zumiee's avatar zumiee said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:45 pm

    • djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:56 pm

      A lot of older guys with aches and pains.
      And a couple of farmers pretending to be on a golf course…

      • xoot's avatar xoot said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:15 pm

        Medicare turns aches and pains into big business. I may get trainer workouts, expert massages, and powerful meds out of this.

  32. zumiee's avatar zumiee said, on July 6, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    Lindor: 2 singles, two triples, and an HR.
    Not the cycle, but better than the cycle.

    • djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:29 pm

      Helluva a SS but strikes me as a complete phony.
      Still hasn’t won over Met fan base after the thumbs down
      debacle with Baez in ’21 (thanks, Mac)…

  33. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck said, on July 6, 2023 at 9:45 pm
  34. djloo27's avatar djloo27 said, on July 6, 2023 at 10:06 pm

    Flavor: The Boney One might find this interesting…

    https://www.secretariat.com/askin-haskin/07/03/2023/has-flightline-been-forgotten-already/


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