First present about to arrive, for those who celebrate:
Hearing The City of Oakland will be releasing the Howard Terminal EIR tomorrow morning. It will be 3500 pages.
— Casey Pratt (@CaseyPrattABC7) December 16, 2021
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Cool
Question for FSU: Is this likely to go to the voters for referendum?
No. There’s no requirement for one, so it would have to be by citizen petition, which is tough in Oakland.
Am I justified in feeling optimistic about this?
That seems like the logical way to feel. I expect plenty of speed bumps and setbacks still to come, but there’s a lot of political momentum behind this project that we’ve never seen the likes of.
I’m listening to Kaval talk now, and it really sounds like they are close to a final agreement with the City, or at least not so far apart that he feels the need to stamp his feet and take a trip to the Strip.
Agreed, the City hasn’t been this close to a new ballpark deal since, well, 1966. Hopefully the A’s actually have the money their part of it.
Melissa Lockard ranks The Atheltics’ Top 30 in The Athletic. Pretty grim list after the top few, as evidenced by AJ Puk still being in the top 5.
#2 Zack Gelof isn’t someone I’ve paid any attention to:
It is shocking that Puk has only pitched 24 MLB innings. I mean not THAT shocking since I’ve seen all the transactions moving him to the DL, but still.
I read that as Melissa Lockard ranking the A’s as one of the 30 best MLB teams.
I mean…she’s not wrong.
I’m worried about relegation.
Fangraphs also has their Top A’s prospects out.
#3 Pedro Pineda is another new one for me.
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Chron:
Hilarious
I almost have to respect the shamelessness.
In post-factual America, shamelessness respects you.
this is giving me vertigo
Sir Paul is a genius, as we’ve recently been reminded, but I hate everything from Wings ever.
Not for nothing is “Mull of Kintyre” designated cruel and unusual punishment in the UDHR.
Wings did one great song (“Jet”), one OK song (“Live and Let Die”), and a whole bunch of songs I never need to hear again.
But one thing I will argue to the grave: Paul’s Christmas song was a million times better than John’s.
agree
I third this though the bar is set so low that you actually have to dig a bit to get it in place.
Agreed on all.
jet is a masterpiece
It’s not even the best song about suffragettes.
Hey, man…
White Elephants
Take, my bobbleheads, please!
I have duplicates of the following, mostly from 2018-19, a few older.
Free to a good home.
I will deliver or send, just take them off my hands.
Matt Chapman (gold glove)
Matt Olson (gold glove)
Ramon Laureano (laser arm)
Campy Campaneris
A’s sugar skull
Tony LaRussa
Tejada mvp / Zito Cy young dual bobblehead
Coco Crisp chia head
A’s rally “candle”
And on the off chance there is great demand, I might give away both copies of some of these.
Ooh I’d take Tejada+Zito! And if demand allows Campy also.
I would be super interested in Olson or Laureano.
(No I am not the Yankees GM).
FSU: I’ll leave yours on your porch some time. Maybe tomorrow.
vignette: Send me your address and I’ll get yours in the mail at some point (probably not this week).
I sent an email to a sonic email I found from way back when. Possibly giving away all my personal info if it’s not you. Thanks man!
Thanks andeux! Campy and Zito/Tejada have now joined the front row of my display, with Rickey, Mark Ellis, and Perfecto Braden. Lesser lights toward the rear (sorry Duchscherer, Milton Bradley, and G-Eazy).
Cool. Thanks for taking them off my hands.
Next time anybody needs a gift for FSU…
I was looking forward to some light taunting tomorrow, but it looks like the Eds got COVID-adjacent, so it’ll be Carolina vs Kentucky to see whose blood is bluest. Meanwhile the NFL and NBA are desperately rejiggering their schedules to avoid cancellations during the top regular season viewing windows of the year.
I’m starting to come around to the view Nate C expressed this morning, that increased exposure plus decreased virulence, along with the intractable 30% anti-vax idiots, are going to push us toward dealing with this as endemic regardless of whether that’s actually the best public health approach.
I’ve been wondering if these sudden increases in numbers are a sign that omicron (or some other more transmissible variant) is here in bigger numbers than we’ve been led to believe, or if it’s just the seasonal effect from people being indoors more.
On the latter point, I thought we were very close to getting back to normalcy (anti-vax idiots notwithstanding) in May/June with vaccination rates reasonably high and case rates low, then delta came along, and then I again thought we might be on the right track with boosters available and case rates back down in October/November, and omicron came along, so I’m a little wary of my own expectations now. We’ll have to see what happens in the next couple of months to see whether treating it like the flu is really a realistic approach. Meanwhile the bay area remains a relatively healthy bubble, so at least we have that going for us.
I expect it’s both proximity and omicron, which is why we’re seeing spikes in sports teams who spend lots of time together indoors, and many breakthrough infections. I’m not saying we should move toward handling it like a flu, just observing that the public behavior is likely to force us that direction regardless. Apparently that was the dynamic in the waning part of the 1918 pandemic, as a more infectious but less severe varient took hold and people just stopped trying.
Of course, turns out the flu vaccine this year isn’t a good match for the strain most commonly circulating, so…
NFL fans now get games on eight of the next ten days: Sat Sun Mon Tues Thurs Sat Sun Mon. After that horrific injury last night I’m not sure I’ll have the stomach for any of them.
Seems to me the biggest problem is unvaccinated people overloading the mainstream health care system during the surges. Anybody unvaccinated who requires hospitalization ought to be sent to a separate facility, probably operated by the military. In California I nominate Manzanar and Tule Lake as appropriate sites for the temporary facilities.
I was at a casino in soakerville this weekend and was very surprised at how many people were masking, even a guy in a lets go brandon hoodie
Out here in Ohio there has been a noticeable increase in masking over the last week at grocery stores, etc.
Bob Wachter is now predicting along those lines as well:
Jerry Blevins is letting his freak flag fly.
He’s… not wrong.
It’s hard out there for us genetically-blessed lefties.
This is a really interesting listen. What a character.
I think Ignacio’s time is past and I doubt he’ll be much of a factor in the Mayor’s race. But things are definitely more lively when he’s around.
Dagnabbit, another opportunity the A’s front office lets get away.
AV sighting.
Fine. Whatever.
122 consecutive seasons of white managers and counting.
Of the Bay Area’s major pro and college sports teams, I believe the only ones who have not had a non-white head coach/manager are the Sharks (which I’ll allow), the A’s and Cal football.
very uninspired
edited to fix tyop
I still think Ron Washington was available.
If we’d hired Wash we’d be #1 on The Most Attractive Managers list instead of #23. https://cupofcoffee.substack.com/p/baseballs-most-handsome-managers-555
(checks to find out why “Angel Hernandez” was trending on Twitter on December 20)
Matt Nagy is so fired.
Happy Solstice, FKers.
Gift giving of Renown!
Super cool of Seth.
Nice guys may be the new hidden value of the post-competitive era.
Mitchy four-bags? Really, Jeopardy?
I realized I had already gladly forgotten that he ever wore Green and Gold.
What’s with John Grisham and the sandwiches?
According to Ngram, relative frequency of the word “sandwich” in published books over last 30 years hovers between 0.0003% and 0.0007%. This means that, using 100,000 words as a baseline for a novel, the word “sandwich” should appear about once in every two books out there.
I have three Grishams on my Kindle. In “Camino Winds” it appears 8 times. In “Sycamore Row” 12 times. And in “Time For Mercy” 23 times. That’s about 30-fold of normal.
He’s in the pocket of big-sandwich.
What a PITA.
Mmmmmmm, sandwich.
Of all the jobs in baseball where a coach seems a likely candidate to be a scapegoat at some point, “assistant hitting coach for the Yankees” probably ranks near the top.
Above or below hitting coach for the Mets?
Well when you have an opportunity to work for a genius like Buck Showalter you don’t want to pass that up. That does not sound like a good career move.
Nice.
OK< I'm that one guy who doesn't get it
Can someone enlighten me, please?
I can’t. This is some meme that qualifies me for the DFA “whoosh”.
It looks like there are endless tweets like this and there are at least two of us who don’t get it.
To me the joke is the absurdity of a Twitter bot combining a random number generator with predictions of Athletics doom in December.
I just found out that Philadelphia’s police commissioner is called Danielle Outlaw.
Former deputy chief in Oakland, California, the Capital of Earth!
She’s turning into the Lane Kiffin of police chiefs.
In government upper management, the people who are really strong ascend and change jobs often. You find a good manager in a mid-level job or city, chances are close to 100% they’ll be gone for something better in two years.
Damn, just about all scheduled New Year’s concert runs are being cancelled due to Covid.
Phish has rescheduled theirs for April 20-23 with the “New Year’s” three-set show on April 22. Looks like the Rangers are still in regular season at that point, and I guess the Knicks maybe suck enough they are not likely to need the arena for a playoff game.
My 13th winter at Tahoe and I think this is the most snow we have had on the ground at Christmas. I have seen much more snow than this, but in January or February. We’re expecting another foot or so by tomorrow night and then maybe even more than a foot on Sunday. The Sunday night holiday weekend departure for those headed back over the Sierra has spectacular clusterFK potential, but the skiing FKers haven’t had it this good for several years.
Have a great Christmas or Grillmas or whatever you are celebrating.
was just there. very good fortune last weekend. crystal clear warm and fresh snow and an easy drive up and back
This weekend, “Sunday night holiday weekend departure” not actually happening at all with 80, 50 and 88 all closed all day today and likely through the night and well into tomorrow. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
While the quantity will be less, the potential for snow over the Grapevine has me looking for hourly updates for the week to try to time my trip into and out of the ‘No just right. The prospect of a 6-7 hr drive down the 101 through SB to get back in time for my new hearing aides Wed afternoon is not pleasing..
SLF’s bandmate is still in reno after a “weekend ski trip.” She may try to get back today but probably not in time for practice
About a 25-mile backup on 50 right now trying to get out of Tahoe going westbound, way past my house and it looks like all the way back to Spooner Summit (between the lake and Carson City).
she gave up the idea
I usually don’t ever walk along 50, but the alternatives are under many feet of snow and I didn’t want to drive into that traffic. Walked down to the beer store, picking a car as I got to the highway. Browsed the beer selection, made my purchase and when I came out that lady was still well short of the store. Reports are it would take me about 6 hours just to get to the start of the climb to Echo Summit; that usually takes 20 minutes and I can get to the Coliseum in about 3 hours 45 minutes. The City of South Lake Tahoe has activated its Emergency Operations Center because of the traffic debacle.
left at 630 this morning, got back before 5. don’t know how long before 5
Related, I have lost 8 pounds since returning from the Big Island.
My need to visit Hawaii is ramping up sharply. We were tentatively looking at June but may bump it up to February, air fares are enticing.
We have our twice-deferred trip coming up again at Easter, but the likelihood of the Australians being able to join us seems slim. Third time’s a charm?
There’s still a rental car shortage. I got an OK price by checking 2-3 times a week; it looks like I made that reservation 2 months before I went, then the prices went back up. Then on arriving at the desk, they assigned me a car but there were almost no cars in the lot, and when I went outside the previous renters were still removing their luggage from my assigned car so I had to wait around nearly an extra hour for the cleaning.
Otherwise the Big Island at least seemed fairly normal. That time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a short off-season; I know the price of the condo jumped the night after I left which is why I picked those dates, and then it stays busy and expensive until snowbird season starts to wane in March.
Maui is a pretty low-scoring stop on the PGA Tour anyway, but the three top scores of -34, -33 and -32 this weekend indicate how gorgeous the weather was relative to usually-windy early January.
Headed to Heavenly for the MLK weekend. Hope that (1) conditions stay good; and (2) theres no highway clusterFK again.
Merry X-mas, FKers!
Happy Rickey’s birthday!
Joyeaux FKing Noel!
That is what you get when you semi retire?
Kyler Murray wore an A’s jersey before his game today, then got outplayed by Carson Wentz.
An A’s jersey with his name on the back.
First place!
That felt good
Diggs is the best.
Nice win, Billches
Christmas Covid Handicap Hurdle
Fantastic
A fairy tale signing if there ever was one.
Damn, RIP John Madden, one of the greatest Raiders ever.
If he didn’t want that to happen, he should have lived longer.
He seemed like a very nice man. I’ve got that Bill King call about him getting his big butt off the field running through my head. Hopefully they are sharing a nice reunion.
I watch very few of these college bowl games, usually only the ones involving the Pac-12. Was going to watch one tonight but the Eds have succumbed to Covid and backed out at the last minute.
have not been following college american football except through you guys. It seems like a disaster
But we’re all watching Cincinnati vs Alabama, right?
Cincinnati vs Alabama sounds like one of those “could the best college team beat the worst team in the NFL” hypotheticals.
I suspect Cincinnati has 99.9% support of non-Bama fans.
At least at the start, though I will probably save most of the energy for the hoped-for humiliation of Jim Harbaugh in the nightcap.
Yes, if I can contain my excitement from tomorrow’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl first.
Mack Brown is wisely going to avoid the celebratory dump of gallons of mayonnaise.
I’ve heard that’s some good mayo.
Is that one of the ones that’s only available in the South?
Yep. Apparently it has more yolks in it.
As the resident Pac-12 fan, did you forget to send Oregon the memo about there being a “defense” side of the football too? Was hoping for a better game against the Mrs. Ns than I got.
Yeah, that should have been a decent matchup but it was unwatchable beyond midway through the second quarter, as far too many of these bowl games are, particularly with so many of the best players begging off
so as not to risk injury in their final college game“in order to prepare for the NFL draft”.(I can’t say I blame them. There was some lineman years ago who was going to be a very high NFL pick who had his leg destroyed in one of those gruesome injuries in his bowl game, and that’s what started it. It has, however, given all the bowl games other than the four-team playoff the feel of NFL exhibition games.)
Harry Reid and John Madden make for a formidable obituary page.
Somebody check on Clint Eastwood.
Another candidate for the trifecta seems well.
Vin scully called college football games pacing on the roof of fenway park. I think he knew a thing or two by the time madden came along
Also Jimmy Carter belongs on this list. Anyone who has him in their 2021 Celebrity Death Pool still has a moderately decent chance.
I’m calling Desmond Tutu the third and closing the book on this week.
My side gig radio program has a tradition of airing an archival program from a former guest the week after they die. This year some of them are having to wait a bit because five guests – bell hooks, Joan Didion, Desmond Tutu, Wayne Thiebaud, and E. O. Wilson – all joined the great majority within a couple of weeks.
Any or all of Eastwood, Scully and Carter would be tremendous additions to that library if you don’t have them already. I’m not sure Carter is up to it anymore, but certainly Vin (just turned 94) still has plenty of energy.
Betty White reminds us that 2021 still has at least one gut punch left to deliver.
Indeed
A thing I don’t like about soccer broadcasting: the way they update the standings (“table”) using the scores of games in progress as final (“if results hold”). It’s 1-0 at halftime, anyone could win, why post standings that assume it’s over?
In related news I’ve been watching way more Premier League this winter. Partly because college sports are harder than ever to countenance, and partly because I started watching Ted Lasso.
Absolutely – they could at least italicize the teams involved in games in progress.
I mean, given a game as high-scoring as 1-0, you have to assume it’s over. Park the bus!
I had not heard this story: The Rangers fired Billy Martin in 1975 partly because he insisted on having “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” played during the 7th inning stretch.
This weekend will see the brewing of my annual batch of Russian Imperial Stout, ready for next winter. I’m using my own recipe this year, and will age it on toasted American oak cubes that have been soaked in Glenlivet for a month (as a proxy for whisky barrel aging).
As a ~13% RIS-on-whisky, Risky Business seems like a good working title.
good luck, that sounds delightful
PrincetonFree Kraut can use a guy likeJoelptbnl.I’ll take a sample taste of that but as a rule 10% is about my limit for beer.
The strongest I’ve had is 20% (2016 Black Tuesday). The challenge is to keep it from being a throat-burning hot mess; the danger, when you’re successful, is that the taste then belies the strength. Last year’s Black Is Beautiful knocked a couple of people off the New Year zoom-party well before midnight.
Brewed on Monday and beat my expected mashing efficiency, hitting an original gravity of 1.125 (off the scale of my refractometer!)
Pitched a massive dose of yeast freshly pulled off a fermentor at Drake’s Brewing on Tuesday, fermented cool to prevent the production of fusel alcohols (associated with burning alcohol heat and hangovers), and it is now at a gravity of 1.038 and 11.4% ABV and tastes spectacular – like boozy dark chocolate.
I’m hoping it’ll go lower still, though from the current taste I’m not sure it needs to.
I think this game is close late in the first half because Alabama has tried to be a little too cute on offense. Just hand the ball off and run it straight down their throats; it doesn’t look like the colins can stop that.
Alabama’s offense has never really dominated as expected, so a respectable performance by Cincinnati’s defense, but Alabama’s defense has not given Cincinnati a chance to breathe at all.
Yeah that was probably Cincy’s best-case defensive showing and they still had no chance. I’ll be pulling for Michigan in the nightcap, then for whoever wins that vs Alabama for the title. Set up nicely for an 0-3.
I’m not “rooting for Georgia” at all but Jim Harbaugh has always struck me as a jerk going back to the Furd days, so my rooting interest is seeing him kicked in the teeth.
Now, however, I’m solidly rooting for Georgia.
Michigan has never won a game between top-3 ranked teams, that’s amazing.
I grew up in the midwest as a Big-10 fan, always Michigan never OSU, Gophers usually pretty bad, occasionally some good teams from Illinois, Purdue, MSU, whoever. But I think even as a kid I knew that those teams were considered better than they were because of the old school, rust belt, rough and tough image they conveyed. It seems that with all the realignment of conferences, new power schools, etc., they still get the benefit of the doubt. I doubt I’ll ever bet on college football but if I did it would be hard to bet a Big-10 team against a quality opponent.
Happy FKing New Year, FKers!
And to you and yours!
I also figured out the proper way to do resolutions this year … make it something you can achieve before midnight on NYE and go into the new year already a success. For me, it was writing the article I’ve been promising CERN for the last 2 years.
And also to you!
For 2022 my 1st suggestion is-if you suffer from hearing loss you should definitely check out the options for hearing aids at Costco. Finally got mine this week and they are great. Night and day better than the pair I had before at about half the cost. (I think out the door these were about $1500 for the pair). And an ironic twist is the technician who helped me with these worked at my audiologist 4 yrs ago when I got my last pair. So I even have the personal variable accounted for.
But yeah-great sound and all the bells and whistles: Bluetooth, an app to create specific sound profiles, rechargeable batteries. And I get to bother the little Aces because now I can hear the stuff they are mumbling at me behind my back.
NHL “Winter Classic” about to drop puck outdoors in Minneapolis in crisp -8° nighttime air.
Yow. At least the ice should stay in good shape.
I have to to go work tomorrow. First time in my working life I took 2 weeks off in a row. I like it
I only took a week off and re-entry is…hard.
sure work is the best idea?
Well, the Raiders still have a shot at the playoffs going into the last week. Wasn’t expecting that.
They’re such frauds, its testament to how bad the NFL is now that they could get in and even win a playoff game (they won’t).
Parity run amok. A few plays go different ways and they could have 11 wins-or they could have 3.
And yeah-given that if they make it their reward will probably be a game in KC or Cincy I wouldnt bother packing for 2 weeks.
Raiders gonna Raider though
Tonight’s MNF game is a reminder of what games without a cromulent QB look like. Mayfield is 4/15. Roethlisberger is 23/40 … for all of 121 yards. Yuck.
I’ve been watching the MNF games lately on the feed with Peyton & Eli, and the small part of the game I watched last night had Aaron Rodgers on as a guest. They asked him what he had behind him on his bookshelves and he had a couple of bobbleheads, “and some books, you know, Ayn Rand and stuff”. He’s an entertaining interview but jeebus, that explains a lot.
Embarrassing enough when these guys go through an Ayn Rand phase as a teenager. Going through one in your thirties is truly sad.
Not a great endorsement of the Cal education.
As Rodgers reminds us every time the Packers are on Sunday Night Football, he associates with Butte Community College, not the University of California.
Butte CC is just outside the recently self-anointed “Constitutional Republic City of Oroville”.
Two football seasons at Cal just weren’t enough, evidently, to enlighten him after being raised for 20 years in the State of Jefferson culture. One can only imagine how odious he must have found some of the classes he had to attend, and the Berkeley environment in general.
Stealing Old Hoss’ bit.
Seriously though, while I don’t doubt either that remote learning is somewhat less effective than in-person, and that lack of socialization can be tough on children (as on all of us), I’m pretty skeptical about the lasting harms of those things that people like Silver are claiming. I’m curious as to what the parents here think.
And while I’m not trying to rehash the whole complicated debate about school closures, it’s also not at all clear to me exactly when these people think schools should (or even could) have been open last year. The big surge in cases went from the beginning of November to mid-March. And as we’re seeing now, even when the risk to children of serious illness is low, staffing issues can create a logistical nightmare.
My kids can be left independently at home and have been for a few years, so grain of salt. Also, Kid 2 is a self starter and will do anything he is told, grain 2 and grain 3 is older kid, while not a slf starter is way more comfortable at home.
I think doing january remotely would be a good idea. We were getting weekly ovid notifications up to december, now I have gotten one everyday. we are on day 4. i thik I have 6 notifiations.
My own personal experience at school makes me think that a break from in person school will be negative, but not the difference between finding the cure for cancer and flipping burgers.
Also, both my kidshad covid before it was cool, they were probably sick feb/march 2020. The elder has ongoing helath issues that aren’t a huge deal now, but he is 15 and still growing and strong.
We’ll see I guess
and I got my first close contact memo, neat
Last night we (parents and students) got an email from one of my kids’ teachers through School Messenger saying there would be a sickout today, and that we could send the kid, but, ya know, there may not be teachers there. We kept her home.
No word from the administration until a letter just now (i.e., after the school day) from the principal:
End of letter. I just…come on, people.
I didn’t know your daughter went to school in Croatia
my 8th grader told me he’s had 1 regular teacher this week
Could be worse?
I think it’s complicated. I also think there is no universe in which it could possibly be an “invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.”
Thanks. So kind of what I thought, just wondered if I was missing something.
What is the actual deal with guys named Nate who think running decent election stat models makes them the real expert in everything?
Orange County doin’ its thing.
FYI: Orange County Superior Courts have petitioned the CA Supreme court to suspend the right to a speedy trial during the current outbreak.
Many jurisdictions are doing this because jurors are refusing to come in. For the sake of humanity it’s the right thing to do, but I am objecting to it on behalf of my clients.
The CA Supreme Court granted emergency petitions in 2020 for most of the year.
So am I getting a discount on my subscription to either the Times or the Athletic?
The Sabres may be terrible, but Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen is a good bet to lead the NHL in Ks.
In Finnish scrabble there are 5 x K, worth 2 points each, and 1 x C worth 10 points (the only tile of that value).
The Sharks are juuuuust not bad enough to beat the woeful Sabres. I will make my periodic comment of Fire Doug Wilson (once he’s back from medical leave).
lol good luck with that
Cannot wait for the substack piece
Brad Ausmus: The Bob Geren of a New Generation
Was he Forst’s best man?
I’ve seen a lot of bad tech startup ideas, but this one really takes the cake.
I look forward to seeing Sam Alito’s head explode trying to grasp an amicus brief from the blockchain investors backing, say, some Texas anti-abortion vigilante.
Pro tip, and I am being totally sincere, if you look like a 12 year old wanna be tech bro, don’t use your photo in your company’s pitch material.
Should have found a way to have Joe Starkey call this from the visiting radio booth.
Newcastlole
I just noticed the NFL added another game to the season. What a hilariously shameless money grab.
To 17, which is a really weird number. Also added a wild card to create two more games in the first playoff round.
A prime number season is a crime against nature.
A MNF playoff game is awful.
The Super Bowl has been played between February 1-7 every year since the 2003 season. It has gradually been pushed back; Madden won his Super Bowl on January 9, 1977. It’s on February 13 this year and it looks like the dates will be February 8-14 going forward under this format.
Looking up pitchers and catchers reporting dates, almost everybody is “TBA” but the two I saw listed were February 15.
The AFC is so bad that we’re going to have another week of Big Ben’s revolting swan song inflicted upon us.
I don’t think it is so much the AFC being bad as those extra playoff slots.
Philly and whichever of SF/NO gets in aren’t much better.
Also, I guess I should be happy that the only team to beat Buffalo by more than 1 score (Indy) somehow choked away their own playoff bid.
With the Raiders now the #5 seed, I take back what I said about the AFC.
I dunno. We choked a bit in some winnable games, but we’ve got a LOT of talent on both sides of the ball.
Yeah, I was being too harsh there. Kittle and Samuel are both scary hard to stop (similar pairing to Kelce and Hill in KC), and the run defense is good. They’re a worthy playoff team, and may even knock off Dallas tomorrow, though I don’t think they’ll get farther than that.
It’s mostly the two #7 seeds that we could do without. The Raiders are marginal.
I don’t suspect GB was rooting for us, actually. We came pretty darn close in the regular season, and we’re a better team now.
That said, JG’s second-half drop off worries me about his hand.
It’s been nice to hear Bill King’s voice in all the Madden montages, in particular of course the Holy Roller. Let’s do the Chargers like that again tonight.
I’ll be rooting for the Chargers tonight because the sooner this Marriage From Hell of Jim Harbaugh and the Raiders is consummated, the better from my view.
I’m not sure what I’m rooting for. As I understand it, Buffalo (#3) would face either the Chargers or Pats, but unfortunately not the Steelers or the Raiders, who would somehow move up to #5 if they win.
Do I want to face the good quarterback for the historically inept franchise, or the mediocre rookie QB and Belichick?
In any case, forecast for Orchard Park, NY on Saturday night. Currently
That seems like another argument in favor of facing the SoCal team. That’s how I’m leaning.
Also, scheduling a night game in January in Buffalo is stupid, unless they do end up facing the SoCal team, in which case it is great.
However…
In part because…
(Buffalo News)
Just need to get the blood flowing and they’ll be fine.
When you go for it on 4th and 1 inside your own 20, even if you get the first down so much else has to go right for the drive to produce a score. Just punt the damned ball there. Getting away with a FG and keeping it a one-score game is real lucky.
The Raiders have gotten a sleigh full of gifts tonight, maybe even enough to win this game.
Wow, Carr almost gifted it right back.
Turns out giving the other guys 20 extra last chances was one too many.
I’m kind of emotional about Klay playing tonight. It’s been so long!
I have it on screen #2, just to hear the intro.
I thought it was very cool how Curry not only wasn’t the final name called for the first time in god knows how long, but he also followed Looney into the huddle before his name was called so that Klay would be alone in the spotlight for his moment. Also that Draymond started the game even though injured (which hurts his per-game stats) just to be there for Klay. The bond they all have as teammates for 10 years is touching.
And made some huge money for the quick bettors
Klay’s dunk was a thing of beauty, and will be highlight reel material for years to come.
It gave me goosebumps
Seriously. I was in a particularly vulnerable emotional state post-niners, but that just seemed like SUCH a good sports moment.
Holy fk, third OT game of the day, with 5 of the 6 teams involved facing elimination with a loss.
Now I’m rooting for the Harbaugh marriage to be delayed a week and seeing Ben Roethlisberger burn in hell.
Yes, a tie would be wonderful.
Boo.
Letting the clock run out there would have been John Madden’s revenge for the Immaculate Reception.
Well, yay for the Raiders fans, enjoy the Green and Gold Postseason Cameo.
I can’t argue with preferring a matchup vs Cincy next week over a trip to KC. WOuld have been great to screw the Steelers though.
Never in doubt.