Category: Sports
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The Final Days of the A’s in Oakland & the Team in Sacramento
As regular viewers of this blog knows, I am long suffering about the A’s move to Las Vegas. During this period, I have posted many videos of Brodie Brazil, the NBC Bay Area Sports announcer. Well, that’s ending as well, though Brazil may still be around, but not as an…
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Climate Change is Changing Sports
This was posted recently and deleted by this butterfingered blogger. Climate change has affected a lot of parts of life. The one that is close to my heart is someone I worked with for many years who lives with his wife in a wooded area in Grass Valley, California. He…
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Big head. Balding big head. Overweight with a balding big head. Overweight with a balding and graying big head: My life in a few unflattering pictures
As a toddler, I might as well have worn a hat that said, “C-Section Baby” to remove all doubt from anyone who cast their eyes upon my giant head and thought, “How did mom birth that kid?” On second thought, I would have to wear a T-shirt–they wouldn’t be able…
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Horrible Sports Team Names
It will be nice to see the Chief Wahoo logo finally phased out since the initial removal of the offensive logo from the players’ caps and batting helmets back in 2014. Here’s a timeline from Mother Jones of offensive sports mascots. Some of them are quite unbelievable. Before the Washington…
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Joe Marty’s (Version 4.0)
Along with Selland’s Market-Cafe, Sampino’s Kitchen at Joe Marty’s is an excellent new addition to the Greater Broadway District in Sacramento. This bar & grill is not new. It’s a storied place working under different names. It was originally opened by its namesake, who played for the Chicago Cubs and later…
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The Triple – Redux
It’s the Post Season, and while my A’s aren’t in it, I am still excited. Excited in hoping the Cubs or the Nats do well. Excited in hoping the Yankees go down in flames. Excited in hoping the Astros do well. Excited in hoping the Indians go all the way,…
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Baseball, booze, and sacrifice zones
IFC’s Brockmire IFC‘s new comedy Brockmire is the perfect storm of raw comedy, baseball mythology, rust belt economic depression, chronic substance abuse, corporate malfeasance, desperate sex, and–ultimately–redemption. I can’t get enough of it. And considering there are only eight twenty-two minute shows in this first season, it is very frustrating. Hopefully,…
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MEATUP. Finally, a good reason to visit a CrossFit gym
When he is not busy kicking my ass in chess, Angus creates websites. Recently, he shared with me a website he created for someone who creates and sells food for Paleolithic (Paleo) diet customers. MEATUP is a Northern California business that creates Paleo dishes and delivers them to CrossFit gyms (Surprise!) in…
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The Triple (or, Why Running is Not My Exercise of Choice)
I didn’t remember hitting the three-bagger until Erik, an old college buddy and leader of the slow-pitch softball team the Dead Seagulls, reminded me in our first communiqué since those days. I hadn’t spoken with any of my old American River College or Sac State buddies for years, but lately…
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In Appreciation of Tall Women
This post should be titled “In Appreciation of Volleyball,” but because I have, until recently, thought of the pastime as a woman’s sport, and perhaps deep inside I was a sexist when it came to women in sports, the title will stay with apologies to follow. I never liked volleyball;…
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