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Brendan
Brendan
@bigb.bsky.social
Buses, boats, buckeyes, and (berkeley) bears. general sports watcher and walkable cities enjoyer. East Bay by way of LA, Mississippi, Ohio, Anaheim
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I know this is a joke buuut — the Dream *chose* a home arena that they knew can’t host Finals games. So they were never planning to win in the first place?
honestly I kind of think if you can't think to come up with a plan for an arena for a clinching game before three days out, maybe you lose that home game altogether idk
At some point, Atlanta should have to own the fact that they play in a 3,500 seat arena. G6 should be there at the normal time. Sorry ATL fans I guess but that’s not the Valks problem
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries will be played at State Farm Arena on Thursday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. ET, the league announced. nbcbay.com/1Wura3p
Content aside- do people really read these walls of text? I can't get people to read bullet points of legal advice they paid for.
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
"In baseball, results frequently bear only a tangential relationship to process" well damn if this sentence doesn't make me miss coaching this sport
Gift link to my sidebar from last night, which is about Blake Snell pitching the game of his life for six innings, unfortunately bookended by the first three home runs he'd allowed all year
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This has always been clear to fans on the west coast.
My meta take on college football is the playoff is not the biggest reason why most people are (relatively) down about the sport, and neither is NIL. The conference TV deals and their influence on disrupting historic rivalries via conferences no longer being regional are *the* problem.
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.” [currentaffairs.org]
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Couldn’t watch but have to assume this is about the 16 penalties for 147 yards I just saw in the box score
The biggest historical concern I’ve had with Cal hiring Tosh Lupoi was whether his strategic deficiencies as a coach were covered up by management from very good to elite coaches like Tedford, Sarkisian, Saban and Lanning, and the first five weeks have laid all those fears bare.
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James Bowman better keep his hands off our turtle
Vice President J.D. Vance will attend the Ohio State vs. Illinois football game on Saturday, and is expected on the field to sing "Carmen Ohio" with the team if they win. Franklin County Sheriff has requested $95K to supplement his security. Arrives on Friday.
As a member of the Oakland League, I am *beyond* disappointed in @lwvsf.bsky.social for their completely baseless decision not to oppose Prop G
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The gd Los Angeles Times man.They’ve changed the headline and have a correction up, but this shit if offensive to anyone who pays for it. BIG yikes
Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨
I know social media interns aren’t policymakers, but this is an infuriating caption from Metrolink- an agency that is doing exactly nothing to address it’s infrastructure crisis www.instagram.com/reel/DdFmymg...
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