Dear protesters on Market Street: shutting down the entire city’s bus service and downtown SF traffic isn’t a way to gain sympathy. I hate you.
Dear A’s “defense”: shutting down ground balls WOULD BE a way to gain sympathy. I hate you.
Dear A’s bullpen: You’re a lost cause. I hate you.
Grrrrrrr.
So the A’s need to protest ground balls?
Recruiters of the world: I hate you. When you open up positions that basically say “we are looking for 5aces” and you dont even call it is just rude. I get that you receive 1000000000000 people, but seriously my resume almost looks like I take their desired qualities and just made it match because I did exactly what they are looking for.
I have no reason to complain, I haven’t put in real hard work yet on the job search. But it still pisses me off.
Related-I have a friend who did a FB post yesterday about how much better things can be if you just go 24 hrs without complaining. I think I need to comment with the Wash speech to Hatte, and then unfriend him.
First thing we do, let’s
killinconvenience all the lawyers.What were they protesting?
let the record show NM hates… bare boobies.
boobies matter, NM. boobies matter.
That was it yes. Caused it to take me ~20 minutes to do the last 6 blocks of my commute.
(and, of course, the cause itself is worthy though I think the comments at AV’s link are right that their spin on it is bizarre and possibly counterproductive in that it focuses on much weaker illustrations of a very real problem)
Three awesome things happened so far at work:
— I arrived for my 12:30 PM shift start just as my colleague whose shift ended at 12:15 PM was pulling out of his parking place.
— When I got upstairs, my colleague who I share a desk with whose shift ends at 12:30 PM was actually leaving on time, instead of farting around for half an hour while I sit at the newsroom table and read Twitter on my phone.
— There was free food left over from a lunch meeting AND there will be free food tonight for pledge.
OF course, the actual work part…not so much. But hey.
Anyone want me to get them tickets for the ManUre/Earthquakes friendly (“International Challenge Cup”) at Cal Stadium at 8pm on Tuesday, July 21.
Tickets start at $45 each and as staff I get to pre-order on 5/28.
Tuesday at 8pm, PRIME TIME.
Thanks, and go As.
A 30 for 30 short about one of the few cool things the Giants have ever done. Love that Crazy Crab!
(especially if you ever wanted to hear Duane Kuiper say “Five feet, the wiener is hitting the target. From 25, that wiener’s not gonna make it.”)
is harden punching/elbowing people and draws the foul? (50 secs remaining)
and now he’s tearing up the set! fuck that guy.
That was wild. Man.
is there cause for concern? seems like the playiffs have been not quite as dominant.
i’m not concerned. i mean, it’s too early to say. but i think the warriors might just be over .326 this year.
I’m certainly concerned about what happens when (or IF – knocking on wood) Harden gets upgraded to LBJ
i see they’ve played twice this year, and traded ~110 / 90+ scores. sadly, lebron wasn’t on the floor the time the Ws won, and he scored 42 when they lost.
yeah… go ‘tlanta!
I’m not even sure how much of an upgrade that is at the moment. Harden is unbelievable right now.
Harden is good, and probably had the best season of anyone. LBJ is the better true talent.
I actually think that at this stage of their careers, Harden is the better offensive true talent. LBJ tops him when you take defense into account, but I’m less worried about that because the Cavs’ defense is overall worse than the Rockets’.
Lebron this season hasn’t brought the effort on defense. And he seems to love dribbling out the 24 second clock and shooting a long jumper. If he decides only to shoot jumpers, Harden is better than him.
But I still think LBJ could blow by any of the Warriors defenders. Iguodala has lost a step, Draymond (remarkable as he is) isn’t quite quick enough, and Klay/Barnes will struggle against him.
A full effort Lebron is by far the scariest thing left for the Warriors, although Harden has been playing phenomenally.
Not really. Can’t expect to blow the doors off of good teams every night. The Rockets have played about as well as they are capable of the last two nights, and still came up short. As heart-stopping as the last few second were last night, it was a little fluky the way the Rockets even got back into it with the Warriors screwing up against the full-court press and then missing a wide open three that would have sealed it.
Also a couple of very frustrating ref decisions cost the Warriors 5 or 6 points down the stretch. Curry got called for one of the worst charges I have ever seen wiping out a basket (the defender slid under him after he had not only jumped but released the shot) and then a 3-pointer was wiped out when Brewer tackled Green who had set the screen. Weird stuff.
First was definitely a very bad call. Second was just bad luck.
Agreed. I’m only angry about the first one, not only because it was a bad call but because it incentivizes dangerous undercuts.
On the second, I just wish the ref could have “played advantage” a la soccer there. Not really an option under the rulebook, but just extremely frustrating to see the defense get rewarded for a bad basketball play.
This exactly.
Come to think of it, apart from soccer, three of the four major American sports have some sort of “advantage rule”. In hockey, two minutes do not come into effect as long as the wronged team has the puck. In football, you can throw the ball down the field on offside. And in baseball, you can have a base hit on a balk.
penalty declined.
that, as well.
And Harden has played as well as Houston could possibly hope. But so has Steph. The Warriors need to stop the sloppy turnovers and Klay needs to step it up. They do those two, they’ll win. I predicted W’s in 5 pre-series and I still think that’s the most likely outcome.
The fact that the Warriors aren’t playing perfectly and still winning 10-2 in the playoffs (!) is cause for celebration, not worry. They’ll lose at least a couple more by the end of the year. But they only need to win their home games the rest of the way. Any road win is gravy. And they’re the best road team in the league.
nvrmnd
:)
Thing about the Warriors is they are incredibly smart, both players and coaches. They figure teams out as games and series go along.
This is a song that I don’t hate. In fact, I’ve been not hating it like 5 times a day for the past week (this sounds like a masturbation reference, but it’s not).
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I don’t have5 minutes right now!
It’s so good. Makes me want to fly to Melbourne and buy all the post-punk records.
it’s like a new joy d’ultravox single!
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dies. every day. 5 times a day. for a week. not a masturbation reference.
OH COME ON!
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naughty.
germany answers back for the borussia dortmund UXB a few months ago by planting one of their own at wembley.
WWII bombs are found around here all the time
I like your attempts to foment a take-over of the broadcast booth.
we can make it happen
maybe bryan can just change the name of that fire bob geren facebook page.
The list of forbidden car licence plates in the UK runs to 46 pages but doesn’t include PEN15.
Why would anyone object to a license plate commemorating this year’s campaigns of PEN?
PEN15 is allowed, but only on a mini, a tiny, or a swallow.
African or European swallow?
I… I… I don’t know! Ahhhhhhh!
Is Oakland really going to try to enforce a policy of no marching in the streets after dark? And is that really the intent of California Vehicle Code Section 2800 (which is what last night’s SayHerName protesters were threatened with arrest under)?
1) apparently. but libby says it’s for their safety, so it’s OK. 2) for walking? how can it? it says vehicle code right there on the title!
It’s presumably not legal to walk down the middle of the street in the flow of traffic at any time of day, right? In theory I don’t have an issue with a city trying to use existing legal authority to maintain a standard of order, which Oakland protests have obviously had big problems with in recent years. And the sidewalk thing makes sense tactically for groups of, say, 200 or fewer, which is what the vandalism-heavy marches have mostly been since Occupy receded. But as a practical matter I imagine this will be hard to maintain.
i understood it to be, do what the officers say or you get arrested. sure, a law in the books since day 1, but a weird card to play at a march protesting the police. and apparently the police didn’t have the previous intelligence or the ability to observe and decide on the spot, that the march they pulled this on was a stroller mom bloc, not the car smashers they said they were targeting.
i just don’t think it’s a very smart way to go about it. it’s only going to provoke the obtuse kinds of kids who, say, break the windows of the dogwood because they see it as a gentrifier bar. they get off on the cat-n-mouse, and treating it as a crowd control issue rather than individualizing and pursuing the vandals only plays into their hands.
OTOH, drawing a line at nighttime is OK with me. but that should be obvious to the protesters. the whole point of a demonstration is to be seen, and you can’t be seen in the dark.
The crux of the enforcement problem Oakland is grappling with is how to stop the vandal/provocateurs in real time while not cracking down on the 90% of protestors who are peaceful. It’s easy to say they should individualize and enforce against the vandals only, but I have yet to hear a good model articulated by anyone to do that. Having a dozen cops clad in riot gear wade into the crowd to single out the ostensible perps ain’t gonna work. My assumption is that the stay on the sidewalk tactic is meant to contain the provocateurs’ ability to spread out on the wide fringes of a demo to wreak havoc.
i think i’m with you in that the tactics are important and there needs to be a better way to ride that line between allowing protest and protecting the city. when i follow these in real time on twitter, i hear the POV of the provocateurs, and their mentality leads me to think that this tactic won’t work. it’s going to frustrate and madden the protestors who don’t go to the fringe (which isn’t what the police wants), and not directly pursuing the vandals
only[simply] plays into what they have fun doing.you’re right that i can’t provide a model on how to do that though (i’m just a blogger spouting off, with no tactical training at all). so even if in your link i see the faces and bikes of some of them in the act, i don’t know how the police would be able to use that after the fact. and though i’ve seen dozens of cops stage right in front of my house during these things, as well as seeing that during protests much of the time the vandalism happens during the isolated moments rather than the thick, crowded parts of demos, i don’t know how they’d put it together to be able to send two SUVs in to the right spot to grab isolated vandals in the act.
i just think of these things as following the laws of action-reaction, and that particular action by the city makes me wince at the upcoming reaction.
I agree that no-one has come up with a good solution to the problem, but I’m also sure as hell this isn’t it. How about requiring protesters stay *in* the street, so you’d have to step out of the crowd to smash a storefront?
Schaaf isn’t even close to Quan territory yet, in terms of political fallout, but it’s a step on that path.
neat. i just learned that the reporter character in treme is based on a guy i lived with for a year at the warehouse in SF. nice guy. sharp mind. punker too.
this was at the place where we were both roommates with the video backpack guy from slacker. selfish guy. kind of a dolt. lech too.
They made him a metalhead in the show.
and you wonder if sofi would still be interested if she knew about the rubber nurse fetish.
That subplot weirded me out because the actress looks like she is maybe 14 years old.
nah, that was the point. he is being big-brotherly. she has the crush. and the line is never crossed.
but keep your eye on that musician guy because he might not have the same moral fortitude!
chau xavi.
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May 24th is like Christmas morning for music birthdays, so forgive me if I took some time getting this happening. Yes, it’s Bob Dylan’s 74th today, as well as Patti Labelle’s 71st. Those luminaries, though, shall wait for another day, cuz this May 24th I am going with the man some call The Malcolm X of Jazz. Let’s blog up a mighty tasty 2CD compilation — featuring unique edits of longer cuts not sold in stores — plus a sweet 2011 Coltrane tribute from German TV of the inimitable Archie Shepp, born this day in 1937 :P
Color me shocked
This is so stupid.
I totally agree. It’s meant to be spelled “Kriss.”
That appeal sure looked like a balk
Bases empty though.
A ball nonetheless.
Good to know Sean has been having important thoughts while rehabbing.
In particular note #6. I had to make sure to ask if he had seen a certain youtube video before coming up with that one.
Excellent
“How great would it be…” The Ray is seeping in…
Shocked, version 2.
sometimes I really enjoy reddit comments.
“You know you’re really fucked when the Swiss won’t even protect you.”
Thanks, and go As.
DOJ! DOJ! DOJ!
and just when we thought the US had never made any cultural contributions to the game, it pulls up in a mininvan and goes full soccer mom on their asses.
30 for 30
What if I told you the country that didn’t really care about soccer was the one that saved it?
Thanks, and go As.
people know the US won the world cup in 99, right?
this is so lucid, i’m going to guess you meant to write something about brandi chastain and cups, plural.
1 girl, 2 cups?
By not specifying a sport, he’s given himself some leeway on his correctness.
Why in the world is Manchester City doing an exhibition in Canada today? Didn’t their season end a couple of hours ago? Surely the money would still be there in a month.
While I’m at it with non-indictment soccer, AV bait:
holy… with players like that, who needs fans to ruin a game??
SWEEP THE LEG!!
Sickel’s site reminding me of all that is great about SB Nation
And this comment from someone who writes there:
IBWAA (Internet Baseball Writers Association of America) gives lifetime membership to anyone who is willing to pay $35. Oh, vanity…
and yet, and yet, people will willingly sign up.
Journalism are dying because people are willing to give it up for free, and others are OK with suspect content because we don’t want to pay for it.
now excuse me while I click on slusser’s column from my twitter so I can bypass
the chronicle’ssfgate’ subscription.Plus you get unlimited votes for the Lobby of Pretty Good.
I don’t use my votes because I’m a “small lobby” guy.
And, if you work for free for years, maybe..just MAYBE you can force people to email you and get your very own banhammer.
I was never in it for the money. It’s all about the unjustified feelings of power
and the sabbaticals. those sweet, sweet sabbaticals.
I am taking a sabbatical from pinterst
NOTICE ME! NOTICE ME!
SIX HUNDRED TWITTER FOLLOWERS THOUGH!
Thanks, and go As.
I guess im just not wired that way. In fact, when someone follows me on Twitter, I usually think “are you a bot? if not, whats wrong with you?”
Nowadays, it’s more than commonplace for all kinds of music folks to play in Russia. Why, half of the commercially-released concert DVDs of the last 15 years have been shot there. But it weren’t always this way! Blog with us now in our trusty time machine back to the Spring of 1979, when a certain Elton John decided he’d kick off his big comeback tour by asking to play the USSR. To his astonishment, they let him tour behind the Iron Curtain for a week, thus providing us with today’s beastly FM remaster of what happened — hint: he leveled Red Square — the very first time a Western rock star played Moscow… 36 years ago tonight!
I’m doing a pretty good job of hating myself right now. I tried to sedate myself enough to get through it but we’re at “large angry lion” dosages right now and I work the next four days.
Why are you hating yourself? You are awesome and having a fantastic year/soon to be summer of Jennifer.
Dont be a hater.
It’s too personal.
I’ve worked 20 out of the last 22 days, and we’ve been so busy. Today was the first day in almost a week that I’ve been home before 10 PM. A lot of it is exhaustion, but I just got a raise and I’m working a lot of ER time. ER is $2 more an hour, plus it’s time and a half. I really love money. And Intern left today, so I’m sad about that. And one of my nursey friends didn’t get into RN school, while a lesser nurse I work with did. And I have plantar fasciitis and tendinitis in both legs and it hurts.
That’s what I don’t mind sharing. You probably know the rest.
I’m sorry. rest your legs. Dont love money. In the end it wont love you back the way you want it to.
You are valuable and loved. At least youre still posting. Go look at your awesome concert posters.
There are so many people living with us right now. I just want to sit in the recliner in my underwear watching television without anyone around.
Holy shit, I feel so much better this morning. Spoke to a good friend last night and they fixed a lot of the problem. :)
Got cut today because of over staffing and got a good night of sleep.
Sleep is awesome.
Glad to see this and find out that you’re feeling better :)
Hmm, that would be a bummer.
Super Dick!
http://gawker.com/classic-wall-street-villain-to-haters-bite-me-1707657559
Ah, Sepp … still got it. Negotiate a deal with the Palestinians to withdraw their call to suspend Israel in return for an amendment calling on the UN to investigate the Israeli teams based in illegal West Bank settlements, and then pull a quick switcheroo so that the amendment actually voted on replaces “UN” with “FIFA subcommittee”! What a scallywag!
in tonight’s episode of house of balls…
but first, some highlights of the next game of moans,
then stay tuned to the 11 o’clock news, when in slightly less morbidly creepy stories about people wearing false smiles…
Best wishes and go Bribery!
I trust you Berkeley folks, but now you’re allowing THIS to happen?!?! There were quite a few days when that between-classes run down to Oscar’s provided my only meal of the day. No FKing salad would have been an adequate substitute.
Aw, dammit. I lived around the corner from there in college and went all the time. I’ll have to stop in for one last burger and a chocolate malt.
I have never been to Oscar’s, will have to stop in at lady once before the end, if for no other reason than de riguer Berkeley credibility.
I’ve never been either. I’ve been on a kick lately of going to places that I’ve been by a million times and not eaten at, but have still missed this one.
I went there on Wednesday for one (probably) last cheeseburger and fries.
They were out of lettuce, which somehow seemed perfect.
Blatter out!
Of course he could just have withdrawn from last week’s election, but I guess he’s got some of Thatcher’s “undefeated” complex going on.
i’ve quickly moved from joy to othershoedrop impatience/anxiety.
“i renounce the presidency because… as the new life-long FIFA kaiser i’ve dissolved the presidency.”
I.e. a LOT of money is about to change hands.
“If you’d like to buy the next hosting location, now is the time to do it.”
Mostly by his insistence on standing for term after term!
just speaks to his selflessness, how he had to continue the fight again and again.
…
Speaking of bullpens:
so, basically, one porn device per person, and a drum of lube to share.
yeah that’s a really terrible list, and not only because ipads are FKing terrible devices.
Thanks, and go As.
$5k or an ipad may be the dumbest on the list.
I’ve actually (FINALLY) found one thing I use an iPad for. They’re great video streaming devices to drape over a treadmill to achieve the double goal of (1) entertainment; and (2) blocking the stop button for laziness counteracting.
kindle fire does that for 1/4 the price!
Probably true. But this is a 1st gen iPad that Mrs. N wanted those many years ago. So I’m glad to have found something it does.
i have 2nd gen ipad hand me down. can’t put anything new on it, but hulu and netflix work
Minecraft. So much Minecraft.
Yep. Netflix and Youtube are the “killer” apps for me.
Add HBO Go.
Wouldn’t do me much good.
Can I borrow HBO Go from a subscriber? Just log in or anything special?
Yea, just log in after you send lots of boob pics.
Thanks, and go As.
Why does HBO need boob pictures?
#GoT
the face behind the FIFA investigation.
also, anybody know how to catch this programme?
Someone should have told Atlanta that Jim Johnson isn’t the man to protect a 1-run lead.
Thoughts on the Belmot, FSU?
American Pharoah drew the 5-spot in an 8 horse field and is sitting at 3/5 now.
Have not had time to consider yet. Given the ultra low price and the long trend of Triple Crown fails the smart play is probably to go with someone else. But I don’t want to root against the triple Crown bid. So conflicted.
Delightful article about the British reporter credited with starting FIFA’s downfall.
If the Irish FA got $5 million from FIFA not to pursue their complaint over Thierry Henry’s handball in the 2010 qualifiers, I wonder how much England got for “the hand of god”?
couple kilos
Thanks, and go As.
if only we had access to rocket propelled grenades instead.
hand of god < thumbs of claudia.
This is a great read.
I’ve always been annoyed that the current arguments being used against it to account for what has changed in the MLB business format since the last time it was upheld. It’s not the same business in any way.
The Supreme Court’s reasoning has long been that the original ruling of an exemption was wrong, but that it’s now a wrong that MLB has built its business on so Congress has to fix the mistake. Because Congress is oh so likely to go after baseball owners, or for that matter, pass any substantive antitrust law anymore.
I get that. But it’s also in part because the circumstance of how their business hadn’t changed. As long as their business was fundamentally the same, ruling against them would open them up to that retroactive liability. But now that MLB so vastly changes their circumstances, they shouldn’t assume that they have carte blache to act as if it the old ruling doesn’t apply. In many ways, when MLB chose to merge their leagues and start up heavily on their internet/international presence, it would stand to reason that SCOTUS no longer needs to protect MLB as while Congress hasn’t acted specifically to them, they’ve specifically acted in a way that makes the original and subsequent reaffirmations no longer apply. MLB has no reason to think that that original ruling should be held in perpetuity. Think of it this way, SCOTUS could now say “up until the point the leagues were merged and you didn’t have that international presence, that old ruling does and should protect you from liability. But from that point on, you had the responsibility to follow the law. That keeps former players, etc. from having legal standing and potentially opens up possible liability that technically already does exist now. So there’s really no harm in SCOTUS conditionally removing it based on that.
Nothing quite like being screwed by “plausibly justifiable” and “arguably defensible” legal decisions. A “historical accident” oughtn’t be able to defy common sense just through the accretion of time. Feh.
by this time today, i really wanted to get nas’ doo rags filked into an epic poem on the good and bad of when a championship comes to your town. but i’ve been too busy (and it’s a pretty hard song). only got as far as:
the douche flags are back, licensed or knockoff, i wanna support.
the fan bandwagon is packed, um… what’s the sport?
anyway, what’s everybody doing for the game tonight? i’m torn. should i go out and feelz the fever at a bar? or should i abuse the probable emptiness of the pool, then threaten mrs AV not to tell me what she sees on FB while i wait for the watchESPN replay to come on?
fever. i said fever.
I think I have to watch by myself. I get too anxious to being around people during these games, especially drunk bandwagon people, unless I am in the arena.
most cases, yes. for this, i’m having mild curiosity and could possibly stand the fools and their beer, at least for game 1. if it gets tight toward games 6, 7… forget it.
i think i’m missing that sense of fellowship from knicks playoffs spent at the bar around the corner in the late 90s. though as soon as i feel it i might think it smells like stale beer and want to leave.