The great Carli Lloyd will retire after the South Korea v. USWNT match in St. Paul tonight.
22 thoughts on “October 26, 2021: Friendly”
AFL report:
Glendale 7, Scottsdale 6.
Not a good day for the Twins:
Andrew Bechtold was 0-for-3 with two walks.
Matt Wallner was 0-for-4 with a walk.
Zach Featherstone pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up four runs on three hits and two walks and striking out one.
The only thing more predictable than the Wolves laying an egg as soon as some optimism starts developing is a NBA game officiated by Ed Malloy being poorly officiated. That guy is a clown.
this surprises me. I'd always thought of Malloy as fairly reasonable ref. Statistically, he sits in the middle of the pack in terms of both overall whistle-happiness and home-team bias in calls (very little empirical bias).
Oh he has a well-known Anti-Wolves bias. They don't call him Ed F*ckface Malloy for nuthin.
Needed one more flight this year to qualify for SWA's A-list next year, but I didn't have anything else scheduled. I got a $49 fare alert, but after digging, the only flights I could find at that rate were to Omaha. Welp, looks like I do have one more work trip this year...
Sometimes happy accidents happen. Mine today was searching Austin events the weekend I am travelling there. It just so happens that they host a Food and Wine Festival while I am there. I love it when things like this happen. I love food. I love wine. I love food and wine paired together. Nice!
Serendipity, FTW.
which Austin?
because I know there is some sort of festival coinciding with the proposed "All-80s" multi-class reunion event planned for next August in Spamtown (my 40th would have been this year but was COVID-delayed).
Texas, not Spam. Although for years I had a good friend in Austin, MN and made many trips to see him and his family.
I am told that the midbrow culinary scene in Spamtown has become much, much more diverse and interesting in the last couple of decades. Which may not be saying all that much.
Plus, George's and the Tendermaid still stand.
Looks like I'm going to have to dust off the Epley Maneuver again :/
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) October 26, 2021
A great moment, but I've always thought a rather lame call. In my opinion, Gordo's call was much better.
Co-sign. Gordo’s call was iconic and reveled in the moment. By not mentioning Puckett (but inexplicably name-checking Keith Mitchell, who clearly had no play!) and immediately focusing on “tomorrow night,” Buck’s call effectively drew attention away from the player & his moment. The only thing he did right was let the waves of crowd noise come through. Gordo surfed those waves with his call:
The verbal equivalent of the Selig shrug.
More Manfred on the Braves name: "We don’t market our game on a nationwide basis. Ours is an everyday game. You’ve gotta sell tickets every single day to the fans in that market. And there are all sorts of differences between the regions in terms of how the teams are marketed.”
Sounds like Manfred is basically saying, “The team simply can’t afford to alienate a market full of racists with disposable income who like to lampoon the culture of people forced from that region by an act of ethnic cleansing.”
I'm reminded of the description of a character in Bang The Drum Slowly as "The World's Only Living Human Spineless Skunk."
I just saw the quote this morning, what an absolute weasel. At this point I'm expecting baseball's official NFT partner to be offering up an NFT of The Chop by the end of the World Series, Bally's might even be taking odds on it.
So many former Twins on these WS rosters.
Justin Morneau is giving commentary from the studio on [my feed's version of] the game.
AFL report:
Glendale 7, Scottsdale 6.
Not a good day for the Twins:
Andrew Bechtold was 0-for-3 with two walks.
Matt Wallner was 0-for-4 with a walk.
Zach Featherstone pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up four runs on three hits and two walks and striking out one.
The only thing more predictable than the Wolves laying an egg as soon as some optimism starts developing is a NBA game officiated by Ed Malloy being poorly officiated. That guy is a clown.
this surprises me. I'd always thought of Malloy as fairly reasonable ref. Statistically, he sits in the middle of the pack in terms of both overall whistle-happiness and home-team bias in calls (very little empirical bias).
Oh he has a well-known Anti-Wolves bias. They don't call him Ed F*ckface Malloy for nuthin.
Needed one more flight this year to qualify for SWA's A-list next year, but I didn't have anything else scheduled. I got a $49 fare alert, but after digging, the only flights I could find at that rate were to Omaha. Welp, looks like I do have one more work trip this year...
Sometimes happy accidents happen. Mine today was searching Austin events the weekend I am travelling there. It just so happens that they host a Food and Wine Festival while I am there. I love it when things like this happen. I love food. I love wine. I love food and wine paired together. Nice!
Serendipity, FTW.
which Austin?
because I know there is some sort of festival coinciding with the proposed "All-80s" multi-class reunion event planned for next August in Spamtown (my 40th would have been this year but was COVID-delayed).
Texas, not Spam. Although for years I had a good friend in Austin, MN and made many trips to see him and his family.
I am told that the midbrow culinary scene in Spamtown has become much, much more diverse and interesting in the last couple of decades. Which may not be saying all that much.
Plus, George's and the Tendermaid still stand.
Looks like I'm going to have to dust off the Epley Maneuver again :/
A great moment, but I've always thought a rather lame call. In my opinion, Gordo's call was much better.
Co-sign. Gordo’s call was iconic and reveled in the moment. By not mentioning Puckett (but inexplicably name-checking Keith Mitchell, who clearly had no play!) and immediately focusing on “tomorrow night,” Buck’s call effectively drew attention away from the player & his moment. The only thing he did right was let the waves of crowd noise come through. Gordo surfed those waves with his call:
The verbal equivalent of the Selig shrug.
🤡🤡🤡
Sounds like Manfred is basically saying, “The team simply can’t afford to alienate a market full of racists with disposable income who like to lampoon the culture of people forced from that region by an act of ethnic cleansing.”
I'm reminded of the description of a character in Bang The Drum Slowly as "The World's Only Living Human Spineless Skunk."
I just saw the quote this morning, what an absolute weasel. At this point I'm expecting baseball's official NFT partner to be offering up an NFT of The Chop by the end of the World Series, Bally's might even be taking odds on it.
So many former Twins on these WS rosters.
Justin Morneau is giving commentary from the studio on [my feed's version of] the game.
Nice shot of a Parasitic Jaeger there.