When Random Jibberish is riding in a time machine way far into the future...

Goodsport · May 23, 2023

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Wassup, bizziches? Life is good - reffing some games (girls HS season pretty much done) and playing some pickleball, yo! played seven matches in a tournament today. I'm having issues with double vision from myasthenia gravis, but managed to win three and lose four, and I hadn't played since April so I'm cool with it.
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Are you currently training for the upcoming MLP season?

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Goodsport · May 23, 2023

24-24.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

mjlee22 · May 23, 2023

bsman said: ↑

Wassup, bizziches? Life is good - reffing some games (girls HS season pretty much done) and playing some pickleball, yo! played seven matches in a tournament today. I'm having issues with double vision from myasthenia gravis, but managed to win three and lose four, and I hadn't played since April so I'm cool with it.
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Yikes, you can still referee with myasthenia gravis? Or maybe you need to keep reffing in order to stave it off? More power to you, Bobby!

bsman · May 24, 2023

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Yikes, you can still referee with myasthenia gravis? Or maybe you need to keep reffing in order to stave it off? More power to you, Bobby!
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For as long as I can. Use it or lose it!

don gagliardi · May 24, 2023

Wore Chance Cowell's number!

Happy Birthday Pete Metzelaars, TE Buffalo Bills 1985-1994. 302 receptions for the Bills! Born #OTD in 1960 pic.twitter.com/KTo03a37Ns
— ThisDateInBuffaloSportsHistory (@BuffSportsHstry) May 24, 2023

Goodsport · May 24, 2023

“Tina Turner, Iconic Singer and Music Legend, Dies at 83” (Variety.com - Wednesday, 5/24/23)

don gagliardi · May 24, 2023

RIP, St. Louis gal, Tina Turner.

. . . At 16 her grandmother died so she moved to St Louis to live with her mother. She graduated from Sumner High School in 1958 and immediately began working as a nurse’s aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital . . .
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https://vocal.media/beat/tina-turner-formerly-known-as-anna-mae-bullock

A quarter century later, while in college, I worked in the alumni office at Wash. U. Medical Center, which included Barnes-Jewish, and Turner's tenure there was still discussed with pride.

JazzyJ · May 24, 2023

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“Tina Turner, Iconic Singer and Music Legend, Dies at 83” (Variety.com - Wednesday, 5/24/23)

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Totally unique style, great singer / song stylist. I'm sure there have been others, but off the top of my head I can't think of another female African-American singer who sang with a rock & roll sensibility like that, other than blues singers but even that is a little different style.

falvo · May 24, 2023

Goodsport said: ↑

“Tina Turner, Iconic Singer and Music Legend, Dies at 83” (Variety.com - Wednesday, 5/24/23)

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Was just thinking about Tina Turner yesterday as I heard this song.....

Goodsport · May 24, 2023

24-25.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Goodsport · May 25, 2023

Today my mother would’ve turned 86.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Scott Rohde · May 25, 2023

Goodsport · May 25, 2023

25-25.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Goodsport · May 26, 2023

Goodsport · May 26, 2023

Goodsport · May 26, 2023

26-25.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Goodsport · May 27, 2023

27-25.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

don gagliardi · May 28, 2023

Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT
A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence to help prepare a court filing. It did not go well.

. . . There was just one hitch: No one — not the airline’s lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief

That was because ChatGPT had invented everything . . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html

don gagliardi · May 28, 2023

This is … not going to end well. pic.twitter.com/eVIJjJV2z7
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 27, 2023

Goodsport · May 28, 2023

27-26.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

Goodsport · May 29, 2023

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!

Speaking of which, I posted this question over half a year ago here but, in honor of today’s holiday, will post it again here:

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Of the five major pro sports leagues in the U.S., three of them have taken an already-established holiday and made it “their own” in the eyes of American sports fandom.

The NFL has long had Thanksgiving, for the longest time broadcasting two games in succession on that day (the first usually hosted in Detroit, the second in Dallas) and now broadcasting three games in succession on that day.

The NBA has been doing the same thing in more recent years on both Gregorian Christmas Day and MLK Day, particularly with the showcase game on Gregorian Christmas usually (but not always) being a rematch of the previous season’s NBA Finalists.

Even the NHL had gotten into the act for the last decade or so with its New Year’s Day Winter Classic.

While MLB does something special for the presentation of its games played on summer’s three unofficial beginning, middle and end days (Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day, respectively), I don’t recall the league ever really claiming any specific established holiday as “its own” to the extent that the aforementioned leagues have.

Which brings us to MLS: would it work for MLS to choose an established holiday during its season to fully make “its own”, perhaps a lesser known holiday so as not to compete for the sporting public’s attention with MLB? If so, which holiday could/would that be? Arbor Day? Flag Day? National Hot Dog Day? Something else?

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

don gagliardi · May 29, 2023

Goodsport said: ↑

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!

Speaking of which, I posted this question over half a year ago here but, in honor of today’s holiday, will post it again here:

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Of the five major pro sports leagues in the U.S., three of them have taken an already-established holiday and made it “their own” in the eyes of American sports fandom.

The NFL has long had Thanksgiving, for the longest time broadcasting two games in succession on that day (the first usually hosted in Detroit, the second in Dallas) and now broadcasting three games in succession on that day.

The NBA has been doing the same thing in more recent years on both Gregorian Christmas Day and MLK Day, particularly with the showcase game on Gregorian Christmas usually (but not always) being a rematch of the previous season’s NBA Finalists.

Even the NHL had gotten into the act for the last decade or so with its New Year’s Day Winter Classic.

While MLB does something special for the presentation of its games played on summer’s three unofficial beginning, middle and end days (Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day, respectively), I don’t recall the league ever really claiming any specific established holiday as “its own” to the extent that the aforementioned leagues have.

Which brings us to MLS: would it work for MLS to choose an established holiday during its season to fully make “its own”, perhaps a lesser known holiday so as not to compete for the sporting public’s attention with MLB? If so, which holiday could/would that be? Arbor Day? Flag Day? National Hot Dog Day? Something else?

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G
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Quakes are adopting Cinco de Mayo at Levi’s.

Goodsport · May 29, 2023

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Quakes are adopting Cinco de Mayo at Levi’s.
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But how about the entire league?

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G

don gagliardi · May 29, 2023

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But how about the entire league?
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They'll catch on eventually.

Goodsport · May 29, 2023

28-26.

GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!!

-G