Much more about the Oakland Museum’s new Vinyl exhibit, also Giant Robot.
Much more about the Raiders 2014 schedule. The tl/dr: it’s tough.
Let’s have people Tweet their favorite NYPD photos #MyNYPD. What could possibly go wrong?
The test of statistical rigor (mortis): 40,000 men and women every day?
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
ok people. google shields down. they really can’t see us.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html?hp&_r=0
(moved from old gamethread to new grill.)
I find it hard to believe that more people in oakland are Giants fans than A’s fans. I’m wondering where the Zip code data comes from.
It says facebook, and they also explicitly address the giants/a’s issue … on fb the giants have more likes in all bay area zip codes.
I liked the ports and rivercats on FB, but not the A’s. I don’t need the A’s marketing in my face.
I can. It’s all based on FB metrics. So if you’re working in Oakland from else where and are a Giants fan talking about the Giants as giggly as you would, it would show up as in “Oakland” not from where you’re from. Since many people commute into the East Bay from the North, South, and West you’ll find a lot of Giants fans into the A’s territory.
I’d expect them to be using the user’s declared home zip code, not the location they’re connecting from.
I don’t think it’s just that. If we’re being real, the City of Oakland and the A’s haven’t been all that culturally intertwined for a long time, if ever. And the city is full of people priced out of SF/Peninsula/Marin who remain Giants fans. The Peter Hartlaub types. That’s why the A’s percentages are higher in places like San Leandro than in Oakland itself. Ain’t no San Francisco worshippers moving there.
It’s also interesting that SF itself has a lower percentage of Giants fans (relatively) than like the peninsula and such.
It’s also true of the yankees/mets.
I suspect it would have been true of the Dodgers/Angels and O’s & Nats if they were closer to each other.
Hmm… the interesting outlier is the Cubs & White Sox who also hold the closest distance between the two.
In Chicago there is a very black-and-white (or maybe black-and-white-and-blue-and-red) northside vs. southside rivalry that you are born into that doesn’t go away. It looks like the border is somewhere right downtown, which makes sense since so many people work there. There’s a lot more employment-related cross-bay traffic from one side to the other and vice versa in the Bay Area.
Looking at it, Both the Chicago and NY teams, while closer also have distinct geographic regions that they can cater too where they’re distinctly closer. As you said, one in the North, one in the South. It’s similar with the NY teams though the Mets have a geographic disadvantage. With the A’s & Giants, there is no “West” to work with, so they’re overlapping with the North & South.
Chicago has had those same two teams for 114 years, so the division is more deeply set.
The A’s and Giants only arrived in the 60s, and the Giants arrived first and to the trendier city. I feel like if both teams had been here since before the Bay Bridge and BART existed, it would look more like Chicago.
The Mets only arrived in the 1960s, and they arrived in Queens, which never had a team before and thus was probably pretty Yankee friendly. The only way they were going to have a geographic stronghold would have been setting up shop in Brooklyn and claiming the Dodger loyalists.
gp.
It does suggest (but in no way conclusively) that the A’s need to be further away from the Giants. But even if they did, it would still be struggle and a major long term effort to break that stranglehold.
caution, stereotypes ahead:
clear geographic distinction backed by socioeconomic, keeps each side in its place and easier to count? as opposed to nyy/m, where it’s socioeconomic not wholly backed by geographic. or bay area, where it’s more geographic and not clearly backed by socioeconomic.
I find it interesting that the giants dominate more in marin and the south bay than the city itself.
It’s a lot easier to get to O.Co from SF than from those other places.
That’s probably it. SF is also made up of a greater percentage of people from all over the bay, as opposed to places like Marin
UNFOUNDED THEORY: People in their 20s and 30s are more likely to root for the A’s than people in other age cohorts, because the A’s were dominant when they were kids. Who lives in San Francisco now? People in their 20s and 30s.
i was working on a similar unfounded theory about people in their 20-30s (possibly FB-overrepresented) drawn to SF over the past decade and more, but who hail from all over the US.
yup. But I think we are talking late 20s-40s are the fb population.
Also, there is a sample bias in people who have an account
definitely #2. maybe #1.
this is totally weighted by FB, and even their reading of FB usage. most of my 2013 posts were about games i was at. i’ve never ever hit the like button on the A’s though.
Add to #2 the youth on FB today that would indulge in the WS wins. Lots of fair weather around the bay for all sports.
The fact that this data comes from Facebook users only makes it basically worthless IMHO, except maybe for marketing through Facbeook.
Worthless? Not quite. It (at least) generally provides a look at the “prime” demographic. That being said, to put any serious value over something like this would still be a waste of time and money. As research goes, it’s poor man’s way of attempting to measure and it’s ripe with flaws.
FB is as close to a complete survey size as you can get.
That’s the DFA we know and love!
(sample) size isn’t the only thing that matters.
Yup, population representation is actually more important.
And facebook is integrated in the vast majority of people’s lives. If you are saying that the like feature makes the data irrelevant because there are a lot of fans that don’t like their team, that might be fair, but while facebook skews younger, many old folks including my grandma are active users. FB is probably more representative than a landline poll.
Dude, your grandma notwithstanding, just because FB has a lot of members does not make it statistically representative. Your assertions are almost religious in their fervor.
I still think it’s as simple as some teams being better than others at mining Facebook for likes through various methods. Plus, the Giants do have the benefit of having won a couple World Series recently, leading to a large bandwagon contingent.
his grandma is probably my age
Or you know instead of religious ferver, its backed up by stats. According to Pew 73% of the adult population is on FB.
Doesn’t change DFA’s argument much but:
Actually Pew says 57% of the adult population uses Facebook (as of 2/2014). Not everybody is online (my mother definitely won’t see this post) and of those who are online and use social networking sites not everyone has a Facebook account though that last number is alarmingly close to 100%.
I don’t know how they end up with 57%, with 960 of 1801 who were sampled saying that yes, they use FB. Perhaps adjusting for some demographic discrepancies.
They didn’t release the gender / age distribution of the sampled participants, but did of those who are on FB. The 65+ group makes for 13% of those who said yes, which means that — assuming that the participants sample reflected USA age distribution, in which 65+ make for 17% of the adult population — that age group showed ~40% usage of FB. They mention in the article that the 12-17 age group has 73% usage, so if those numbers are anywhere close to accurate, there is a definite age bias in using FB as a good representation of overall USA population.
Not everyone of every race, gender, and age group is on it. In other words, there’s a subset of the whole population that isn’t a a part of Facebook. There’s also a subset within Facebook that’s doesn’t utilize that function. And those that aren’t on it/don’t use it, aren’t properly represented by those who are/do.
I can assure you, the methodology of using Facebook isn’t anywhere near as accurate as directly contacting a person through a phone survey. You’re trying to equate a web survey to a Facebook “like” and to suggest it’s better than a CATI survey, it’s just factually incorrect.
I already acknowledge in my comment above that the like thing skews it. But saying that Facebook is a poor sample is silly when you can get a sample size from their data that is massively bigger than what you could get in a phone survey.
Also there have been numberous studies that show that mentions on social media sites are more accurate than polling in predicting election outcomes
I agree that FB has a huge sample size (regardless whether it’s 73% or 57%). But it is also a biased sample for some questions, most obvious of which would be “What percentage of people are on Facebook?”, as the answer to that would be “100%”.
I know far too little of socio-demographic representation of US population on FB to have a founded opinion of whether the bias in question skews the results of baseball fandom (in addition to the “likes” point that EM brought up), though.
The real question is how are the A’s polling in Northwest Arkansas?
Seventh. Just behind Ottawa Senators
Sounds about right.
NWA is more into the Raiders.
I mean its not like the Giants were shitty in the late 80s/ early 90s and did just as well as well as us in the late 90s early 00s
It’s the significant geographic overlap. And as GM said, it’s a lot easier/quicker to get to SF from the north than Oakland.
5% A’s fans in both the zip where I grew up and the zip I live in now. I’m such an iconoclast.
8% both where I live and work. Actually, looking at all of Novato’s zips, the percentages are all the same including the 3rd team (Dodgers).
It’s interesting that as you move north out of the Bay Area proper, the Dodgers start to creep into the picture along with the Giants and A’s. I guess Novato to the Oregon border just doesn’t have the New York/Boston transplants that the rest of California has.
My theory: the motivation for people to “like” businesses on FB is largely a factor of a) whether a sponsored ad pops up in their feed, and b) whether that ad says something like “Like us to enter a drawing for an autographed Tim Lincecum cap”. If your business doesn’t spend a lot of money advertising on FB, or fails to offer something in exchange for the like other than more ads, you’re not going to get a lot of likes. So what this says to me is that the Giants have a much larger ad budget and more competent marketing people than the A’s, which I think we all knew already.
Winner
That makes a lot of sense.
this
1) i appreciate the effort and excitement by the museum, and i almost want to go, but these things always feel so dumbed down when you’re looking at them as an insider that i want to spare my disappointment.
it’d be like an exhibit on being a sports fan and having a booth that says, here, type a “message” into a “fan board” (that you can’t actually type, but you have to choose from one of 3 pre-written messages: BOOBIES!, or GYMNASTICS!, or VORP!) and read your auto-generated “replies”… (STFU!, or TROLL!, or HIGH FIVE!). and now you know what it’s like to be an online sports fan.
I’d enter “BOOBIES!”
“HIGH FIVE!”
I feel like such a sports fan! I have goose bumps!
Well, uh, good luck with that:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/electing-this-man-mayor-of-oakland-will-be-a-disaster-f-1566662729
I love that he has so much faith in bitcoin that he immediately converts it to dollars.
Exactly.
Pretty shady not to link to the actual interview, Gawker.
This one? It’s linked:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/who-is-bryan-parker/Content?oid=3868243&showFullText=true
I mean the “Q & A with the San Francisco Chronicle.”
Ohh. Yeah, that should have been included.
I’m using a custom script for anything Gawker and the other sites like it so I can get a dark background, but the side effect of it is linked stuff doesn’t show unless I mouse over one.
Nine days to the Kentucky Derby. Time to build up the strategic bourbon reserves now.
Field is not yet final, but here’s Will Leitch’s list of the best names among likely horses. I have Hoppertunity rated much higher. Never did like Tony Danza much.
You know we’re all waiting for Primera’s pick.
I’m no expert, but that seems like an unusually lame list of names. I mean, “Bayern”? Terrible.
Agreed. However, I’m with FSU in thinking Hoppertunity is the best of the lot.
and if it doesn’t win, might be next seen served at burger king: mmmm whoppertunity.
LOL
i like vinceremos. makes me think of a che guevara teeshirt photoshopped with the face of cotroneo.
Um…I would buy the hell out of that shirt.
I have 6 handles of Bulliet in my kitchen.
Strategic Burbon Reserve is well stocked.
As a beer drinker, I’m gonna have to bet on the Hoppertunity/Tapiture exacta.
Hoppertunity scratched with a foot problem.
Yeah, I saw that. Was supposed to be a good horse too. Bummer.
Aldon Smith: possible misdemeanor charge from the LAX thing — that’s a far cry from the felony fake bomb thing they talked about.
Thanks, and go As.
Can we all over react now or should we wait until later?
I don’t see why we should wait.
That gun charge is such bullshit. I honestly hope he pays a lawyer enough to make that one go away.
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Well, I had to go to lunch. I figure that made it worth waiting. I’m outraged by the drunk driving thing. Fk people who do that with a rusted spork.
At this point I’m tired of Aldon Smith and his continued lack of maturity. As good as he is on the field, he’s fucking idiot off it.
I think he’s an alcoholic. Just about every problem that he’s had stemmed from drinking.
Thanks, and go As.
That’s very likely true.
And the treatment he got last year doesn’t seem to have worked.
apparently not.
Thanks, and go As.
Sad to see so much talent get wasted on someone who can’t keep his shit together.
I guess it’s a little sad, but I mean I have a really hard time feeling bad for the guy.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He had his chances and he continued to fk up. What’s sad is the talent going to someone who can’t handle their shit instead of to someone who may fail equally hard, but has the ability to learn and grow from it.
Yeah pretty much. I don’t know that I’ll ever feel sorry for someone who is given a talent that literally a few hundred people in the WORLD have and the ability to be set for life and throw it away.
Thanks, and go As.
Yup. Not to mention all the money and benefits thrown their way.
I think he’s manic depressive and the alcoholism is a symptom, as is often the case.
I was going to say sociopath. But you could be right.
“I’m the BOMB!”
Where do you get the signs of manic depression? Or I should more appropriately ask, what other signs aside from the alcoholism have you seen?
symptoms include, searching one’s soul, knowing what one wants but not knowing how to get it, feeling sweet feelings, dripping fingers, a captured soul… it goes on really. but the most basic sign is that unshakeable looping riff!
LOL
Doesn’t look like it’ll be good news for Griffin, per SuSlu’s latest info. Elbow’s not getting any better, going to see Dr. Thomas Mehlhoff next week for a second opinion. Sounds like this could be a UCL replacement.
Fun stuff.
Raul Alcantara was also scratched from his last start with an elbow issue.
I was reading in the last week or so about the use of ice after pitching and how that can actually cause damage and reduce the body’s natural healing process. And it got me thinking that it wasn’t until the 80s or so that ice was heavily used, the 90s in particular when kids/teens/HS/College/Pros were all using that method after pitching. And since the kids of the late 80s/early 90s are now hitting the majors, I’ve wondered now if that excessive use isn’t the/a cause of all these issues.
That’s a very interesting theory.
Before Tommy John I wonder what kinds of figures there may have been on arm injuries like this, and how many players simply had to retire instead when they tore a ligament. We may never know.
Yeah, that’s where the difficulty in studying something like this comes from. My initial response is to believe it’s no different now, only that we’re able to fix the problem. But then the surgery has been around for so long and yet each year it continues to increase. Even within the last 5-10 years it seems to have grown exponentially.
“it wasn’t until the 80s or so that ice was heavily used, the 90s in particular”
Really? I thought icing down the arm was standard dating back much father than that. There are for example a bunch of photos on Google images of Sandy Koufax with an arm in the ice bucket.
I don’t recall it being so heavily used in the lower levels like Little League/High School and such. I don’t really remember much of it’s use when I was there, but that doesn’t necessarily mean much. I figured that the heavy use with the trickle down effect to all levels of the game with it’s emphasis didn’t occur until around then. It’s reached an almost religious use now.
For the record, I don’t know any of this to be true, so I’ll happily be told I’m wrong about the time line for any of that.
I’m going to mentally append this sentence to all of your future comments about anything.
Good luck with that.
Find numbers in the side column interesting.
If you add in Griffin, the average number of TJS over the last 15 years is 17. And the numbers don’t suggest a huge pattern of going up. It has gone up a bit, but it could just as easily be an outlying trend based on a such small window. I’d love to know how many pitchers careers ended each year due to arm/elbow injury pre-TJS, because I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if that number were around 17. Given that we have more teams and use more pitchers per team than we used to, I’d think even something around 10 would be roughly the same percentage wise.
I think themed MILB jerseys have finally jumped the shark.
Yikes. That’s FUGLY.
RiverCats with Addison Russell? They from last year or just trying to market it to serious A’s fans?
Maybe hoping he’ll be there by the time they have that game.
Playing or with a heavy wrap on his hammy
Thats actually kinda cool.
wrong
I’ve never seen DFA be more wrong than that. Shocking, really.
Its so hideously amazing.
So uggly its cool
Ew ew ew ew ew ew.
that looks like the shirt that one of the (few non-tanktop-wearing) frat boys had on the day that we saw FSU in the lot.
I like the Zombie night one, but only if they wear the make up as well.
Better late than never for this one…. it’s an anniversary in ecstasy, recorded 24 years ago tonight and featuring the foremost practitioner of the Sufi art of Qawwali singing ever born. They just don’t make singers with this degree of expressive power anymore… or if they do, they are waiting in line outside a rehearsal studio in Encino right now, Christina Aguilera sheet music in hand, to try to get on “The Voice”… and you’ll likely never know their names.
Anyway, just come hither to the blog and get your Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on this evening :D
GOOD.
It’s as if logic and sense broke in and smacked them over the head
I feel a little Kool and the Gang coming on…
Now let’s hope the players know too.
And there you go. No more pitching depth this season.
Shocked, I am not.
I’m definitely concerned about their starting rotation the rest of the season. Losing Parker is bad. Losing Griffin as well, even if he’s had his issues on the mound at times, makes it even worse. As good as Chavez has been, he’s never thrown more than 130 IP in any season of his professional career.
Sigh. Well there’s a shitty turn of events.
Was waiting for this one.
It’s only April and probably half the ads on TV are political ads for our Senate and Gubernatorial races…November is a long ways away.
All right, Happy Saturday and welcome to another smashing birthday blog post, intended to celebrate 64 years of violin maestro L. Shankar, born this day in 1950. This is a never-rebroadcast concert from 1984, with a quartet so heavy on talent they had to break up because what they were doing wasn’t fair…. Shankar, Jan Garbarek, Trilok Gurtu and Zakir Hussain get down ECM style on German TV three full and eventful decades ago, and you’re invited :D
Eurojazz pioneer and legend Krzysztof Komeda would have been 83 today. Who is Krzysztof Komeda, I hear you ask? You may think you don’t know, but if you’ve ever watched ROSEMARY’S BABY, you’ve come across him. Slide on over to the blog for a Sunday celebration, featuring a half hour performance co-starring trumpet lord Tomasz Stanko, recorded for Polish television in 1967 :)
Stuff like this what makes this site such an interesting place. Come for the A’s baseball and leave with video from Polish TV in 1967.
jus’ throwin’ bananas…
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/27/dani-alves-racists-banana-barcelona-villarreal
#somostodosmacacos (we’re all monkeys)
That was awesome.
In a more perfect world, he’d have scored on that kick and then did a monkey dance yelling “DON’T FEED THE ANNNNNNIIIMAAAALLS!”
Earthquakes are hosting Atletico Madrid July 27 @ Candlestick!!!
Thanks, and go As.
Because Lew hates Oakland!!! /s
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE
Thanks, and go As.
why are you fucking with me??
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL I’LL PROBABLY HATE SOCCER AFTER JULY 13.
A’s have the best run differential in baseball and have allowed the fewest runs in the AL (4th in MLB). Oh, and they’ve scored the 5th most runs in MLB. Oh, and their bullpen leads the AL in ERA (the starters came in 2nd).
Despite two losses to Houston, somehow I think the A’s will be fine.
the loss saturday was frustrating.
#6??
I like the mets, yankees and giants TV better than ours.
I think the white sox, astros and royals are worse. I don’t really have an informed opinion otherwise. But #6 seems aggressive.
Holy shit that’s a massive amount of intrusive as hell ads
Thanks, and go As.
How the fk did they get a “B”? I’d give them a D, C at best.
Also, I’m not so sure those numbers are their ranking, the grades seem to go up and down.
Glen and Ray are awful. If they are really top 20% (and maybe they are) that’s just sad.
The best I have heard are the Cubs guys, especailly Deshaies.
Doesn’t count if they don’t address the post-game question issue.
ah yes, another scientifically conducted survey to hash the life-affecting objective truth out of. let me get back to it after a cup of SFgate’s most obsessive coffee city…
I would pay good money not to have to sit through “Music of Journey Fireworks Night.”
Take a car. Park in the stadium lot. RUN after the game ends.
I’ll allow it due to the Bill Graham Foundation tie-in. Also, there’s this bit of history involved: 1979 Day on the Green #2 with Journey headlining, also featuring J. Geils Band, UFO, Thin Lizzy and Nazareth.
if you look real closely, you can see boobies
Did you stop believing?
I looked up their tour schedule for this year, assuming I’d find stops at the Tulare County Fairgrounds and similar. They and the Steve Miller Band are playing all the big regional amphitheaters this summer. What a sad commentary about the tastes of those of us who graduated from high school in 1979.
I kind of like The Steve Miller Band. Or maybe not like them, but I’m not changing the station if “Take the Money and Run” or “Jet Airliner” comes on.
Speaking of “Take the Money and Run”: Great hook, fantastic rhymes (“Texas” with “facts is” always makes me smile), but boy does that story peter out in a hurry.
Mid State Fair BABY!!! We have a big billboard for it on the Highway a couple of miles from my exit.
I’ve been trying to think of ways they could improve that promotion. Like for an extra $50 you could get a root canal while it’s going on.
I love you guys.
Dr. Jack Ramsay photo for andeux. Ah, the ’70s.
I’ve watched this goal 50 times now, and I still can’t figure out how it took the trajectory it did.
10-4 curveball, maybe cross-breezed, looks multidirectional because camera zoom makes it seem to rise. also, too much http.
The link button puts an automatic http in now. It didn’t use to do that, right?
actually, maybe it’s not enough colon.
(just like the 2014 A’s…)
The Byrnesian route by the goalie also helps.
Ah, the pulled slice. That used to be my favorite golf shot.
The program director for 95.7 tweeted out a picture of himself wearing a Giants cap while posing with a porn star. You can’t make this stuff up.
Also, I listened to about 10 minutes of the three morning white guys talking about the Sterling thing this morning and I fear I might be permanently dumber.
That face has more mileage than my ’63 Buick. And it hasn’t held up as well.
Yesterday I was listening on my way to the dentist, and Aubrey Huff seriously said something along the lines of “Well, people are say the players should boycott and shouldn’t play the game. Well when I played, let’s say the Giants had an owner who hated people from Texas. I’m from Texas, and I sure wouldn’t let that stop me from playing the game. I don’t let what morons say affect my life…”
Uh….
Totally the same thing.
If you can’t tell how those two things are exactly the same, then maybe you’re the real racist.
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE SAID PEOPLE SHOULD BOYCOTT???
Thanks, and go As.
You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.
i’m afraid you can make it up. ’cause without makeup she’d look twice as ’63 buick.
Says all you need to know about how Damon Bruce keeps getting work and why the A’s are second-rate (if that) on their own flagship station.
So.
heh. Watch him block you
No skin off my nose.
“I make all programming decisions for 95.7 The Game in San Francisco.”
LOL
Jason Barrett got that job because a roomful of gibbons on PCP weren’t available.
Dude. One of the PAs on the Price is Right today was wearing an A’s cap.
Home? Road? Alternate??? We need details, man.
Home!
You watch The Price is Right?
Only for the Bobby Crosby appearances!
I’m expecting an A’s baserunner to try this at some point.
Well… he was able to get a hell of a jump.
makes me wonder at what point, if any, the stolen base precedes the fly ball and he’s safe at home as a separate play. like if he gets there before the ball is batted? before ball leaves pitcher’s hand? or…
like if he gets home before strike three?
didn’t he though?
No. The ball was hit before he touched the plate. But I’d imagine if he did make it before the ball passed the batter or the ball was struck, he’d be safe. Or hope at least.
I would think that anything that happens after the pitcher steps on the rubber is part of the same play.
If that were the case, you could let a guy steal third, wait, and then hit the batter to move him back to second.
Bo Porter is intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
He needs all the help he can get.
I don’t see anything that covers the exact situation, so I think it would be covered under 4.09 (a)
Incidentally a similar situation seems to have two rules that
contradict each otherseem to give different results in slightly different situations:vs.
so, billy hamilton on third, one out.
as the pitcher winds up he runs for the area just in front of home plate and is hit by the pitch, he is safe?
is the batter lefty or righty? ’cause that could be a reviewable lane violation…
no wait. i’m reading yes, safe. and anybody on base moves up. but the batter is K.
In that case, it should count if the plate is touched before the bat touches the ball, because that is the moment that the batter turns into batter-runner.
i guess i’m misunderstanding what strike three is. in my (current, but open to revision) view, strike three never happened at all. they were at strike two, and then the ball got hit for a flyout. isn’t it recorded as a FO rather than a K?
(not that i think the strike count is relevant to the situation of stealing home on a 2-out flyout. odd tangent, ed. odd tangent.)
no, I just cleared my calendar so I could think about this
me too! we could skype!
It seems like that would be a difficult thing to determine in real time
Depends.
It happened to me once, before we had batter give a sign back on a steal of home. As I was running towards the plate, I was thinking how my teammate is doing a hell of a job, selling the notion that he might actually swing at a pitch. Until he did AND pulled it foul…
Yikes. I’m guessing you weren’t stealing home on a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
Heh
You’re still alive, so at least it ended well.
Wow. They royally dropped the hammer on Sterling. Flat out nuked the dirt bag.
The 81 year old is banned for life and will be forced to sell the team he bought for 12 million dollars, but they will sell for 600 million.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah. He’ll still make a killing off this. The only “bright” side is that he’ll make less off any deal today than he would have last week.
Why is that? I doubt the franchise has gone down in value because of this.
Yeah, seems to depend a lot on whether there will be multiple bidders to buy the franchise.
I guarantee there will be, and I would expect the league to be very interested in setting a high water mark for the sale.
Yep. This seems likely. So Sterling is going to make $$$.
If they wanted him to not make a lot of money from the sale, they should have forced him out decades ago, when it was already clear what a racist miscreant he was.
David Stern was too afraid to go after Sterling because of his litigious nature.
Knowing he has to sell and the resulting sponsorship losses will cost him something. It may very well be negligible, but it’ll be a non-zero sum.
While that’s true, this piece of shit was the epitome of the kind of owner who got off on just being in “the club.” He didn’t want to move the Clippers out of LA to a place like Orange County because he wanted to be seen with Hollywood celebrities at the games. He let the team wallow in the basement of the NBA for years while doing nothing to improve them.
He’s rich as fuck, but he’s done in the league. Kudos to Adam Silver for this.
David Stern never had the guts to confront the guy. He also never had as convenient a predicate.
Is this more of a predicate than being a general scumbag?
I think so. Used to be just hardcore NBA fans and people in the SoCal housing discrimination world knew what a pile of poop he is. Now everybody knows. Unfortunately, his racist ramblings going viral matters a lot more than his actual discrimination ever did, when it comes to marshaling support among the owners’ club to oust the guy.
Boom.
Bang Bang Silver’s Max Quell Hammer.
I’ll still give him crap when the NBA starts putting ads on their jerseys, though.
This is spot on
Good stuff.
Actually, that way understates it. He completely nails it. We need a pulitzer category for sports talk radio just to honor this.
He seems to be a columnist. So he could just receive one for that.
He should get one retroactively for the column he wrote on Sterling 10+ years ago that everyone ignored. “I didn’t see this coming. I saw it happen.”
Yup.
Certainly puts it in it’s proper perspective.
Best non-apology apology ever.
too bad the talent that wrote the well written apology wan;t used for the original slogan.
Or maybe it was marketing genius, knowing that the shitty slogan would be banned and they could get more play from the snarky apology.
Why are so many people so incapable of understanding the basic concept here?
What’s worse is there are people who still don’t understand what McCarthy’s talking about, even after the RT before it (what Wohlers said).
Hell, I don’t understand. That twitter convo is a mess.
xkcd was on it recently. (I can’t remember if someone already posted that here.)
Yep, I was thinking of that in large part.
We may need to add this cartoon to the common core.
Or as a tagline.
heh.
Reminds me, an high school person in my FB feed posted a picture (not a screen shot) of something rejecting his request for password. the words on the screen said “I am sorry the word ‘jesus’ cannot be part of your password.”
his idiot friends (no I am not really a friend, but someone that wants specific information regarding my former highschool) opined that he worked for a government agency and that he should try “allah.” and that is the worst form of discrimination ever. etc.
Sounds like someone did some learning today.
Always a good thing. And to be fair, his other tweets did make it clear he did not support what Sterling said.
So basically after the twitterverse edumacated him, he retracted?
Seems so.
well the bayern-real game is primed for either a historic comeback or a total bore.
Bayern needs 4 now?
3.5! it’s never as grim as it seems.
Ï€ should do it.
oh wait. 4.5(?) (RM: 1.5 + 1.5 + 1 if away goals are weighted.)
aaaaaaand… moot.
In related news, the horse named Bayern will not be running in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby either.
Glue factory?
and… done.
Thanks, and go As.
Wow. Real is really motivated to avenge Barca.
An all-Madrid final would be wild.
it didn’t look like it was happening but it looks like it’s happening.
obv question… cholo > mou ??
Tomorrow will be great. One of my bosses is a huge Bayern fan and always obnoxious on how Stuttgart really sucks (which they mostly do, but that’s beside the point)
I imagine Bayern fans as the Yankees fans of Germany, but 1,000 times worse.
BandwagonBandwagenBundwagen?
By the by, I think Adam Silver found Jules Winnfield’s wallet.
The line on tonight’s game has apparently moved a full point toward the Clippers since Silver’s announcement. I have to admit I was hoping he would wait at least one more day to do anything.
Sure, but it really had to be done before the next Clippers home game.
With any luck the next Clippers home game will be in October.
One of these days I will read that name without my brain rendering it as “Francisco Rodriguez” and sending a chill down my spine. Today is not that day.
Well, that’s interesting, if true and not just post hoc posturing.
It’ll pay the fine and leave him half a million ahead.
(less tax benefit)
Fines are tax-deductable.
huh? my tax person won’t let me take that.
oh wait… i guess this isn’t a law-related fine. carry on.
I could stare at this for hours.
Meh, no cows, camels or elephants.
dreamy. every non-collision is a negotiation between two people. FiK prescriptive laws!!
I feel like there would be a market for this type of shirt in green and gold.
FiK? what the fuck is FiK?
What’s advanced about total batters faced?
Thanks, and go As.
I like the “attention nerds” thing
This morning I discovered the joy of sticking your head into a chest freezer full of CO2 (courtesy of 15 gallons fermenting for 3 days) … I won’t be doing *that* again in a hurry.
Good practice for when your descendants give you the Ted Williams treatment.
I prefer to use a walk in freezer when I do that.
Make your plans now for August 4-5, when the San Rafael Pacifics independent ball team will feature spectacular feats of derring-do such as the much beloved Outfielder With Hair On Fire trick!
yowza! how does he DO it?! keeps them all balanced… without ever touching the plate!!!
He will wow the fans by taking the longest, most circuitous routes to fly balls ever in baseball history. I think he has a thing planned where the ball will be hit to him, he’ll catch a cab and drive around the block, then get out and run to make the diving catch.
I posted that on Facebook and said “paging whoever has the old bedsheet with ERIC BYRNES FAN CLUB painted on it”, and of course one of my Facebook friends was friends with that person. No word yet on whether she still has the sheet.
I wonder if Sean Doolittle is up for doing a distance-learning version of his Social Media 101 class.
That’s… odd. Love Shitting and Smell Baseball.
Here’s a new piece on Jeremy Barfield and his pitching path:
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/73880474/?tcid=tw_share
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
have marcia on me?
I’m proofing a spot for tomorrow morning’s news and came across some information that explains a lot!
Nice, brief read. I enjoy seeing what baseball is like in other countries and how it’s perceived.