Over the past year+, Sling, Hulu, and Youtube have all lost Bally Sports West, after contracts ended and they couldn't agree to a new one.  I would expect the same to happen to ATT/DirectTV streaming service, whenever their contract runs out.  Fuck Sinclair I hope they go bankrupt.

Here  the last article I read on the subject:

https://thestreamable.com/news/how-will-the-bally-sports-standoff-end

Not a lot of progress on the streaming platforms and Angles games.  Seems only DirectTV's crappy streaming service still has Bally Sports West, wouldn't be surprised if they lost it soon like all the others.  Fucking stupid.  I have a VPN through work so I suppose I'll try that + MLB TV.  

First I remember must've been '86, I was 10.  I remember my Dad saying my favorite player Reggie Jackson was coming up, but I had to correct him that Wally Joyner was my favorite.

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

WTF?  2 adults, an infant and a dog all die from hyperthermia and "probable" dehydration?  Might as well say alien deathray.  

Cause of death revealed for California family found dead on hike near Yosemite

 

I've been waiting for the outcome of this too and it's pretty hard to comprehend, considering how close they were to their car, can't believe one of them couldn't make it out of there to save their child.  I think they were from the bay area originally so maybe the steep route combined with unexpected 105+ heat and direct sun was just something they'd never experienced.  Happens all the time in the desert but this seems highly unusual.  The dog is a head scratcher too, considering they weren't far from the river.   Here's a map of their route I found in a separate article.  

I'd be angry if that call to end the game went against us in a meaningless game in May, geez.

Annoyingly slanted article.  I hope poor old mistreated "Tio" ends their season and his career with his signature GIDP.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/sports/baseball/albert-pujols-dodgers.html

On 4/16/2021 at 6:07 AM, Jay said:

Similar experience here. About 12 hours after the shot started getting chills. Rough night and then the next morning I felt like I had a bad case of the flu. Spent most of the day in bed. Today I feel much better. Obviously superior immune system.

Same experience.  Got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday.  No reaction to the first, but this one hit me like a ton of bricks about 12 hours later.  Fever, chills, headache, bodyaches.  Didn't sleep much, feel like absolute garbage today.

13 hours ago, Φαήλος said:

I went to pick up some Angels gear on Sunday at Dick’s Sporting Goods and saw some Shitty ass Doyers fans (and Clippers fans).

I'm calling bullshit on this story, we all know there are no Clippers fans.  

Thought I could fight the good fight but spent last week at the in-laws and they had MLB package so watched a ton of Angels.  Realized I'm not going to go the whole summer without the Angels on every night.  Got home and signed up for AT&T TV.  Seems pretty similar to Sling/YoutubeTV/Hulu etc.  $85 a month is ridiculous but it does have the Lakers station and HBO Max is free for a year, so price-wise it's pretty similar to what I've been forking over every month.  

2 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Cool.  We have a place in big bear and we’re thinking about coming up Saturday but I don’t feel like shoveling 2-3 feet of snow just to get to the front door.

I'd either come up tomorrow before the next storm or not at all, the roads are already a shit show, can't imagine how backed up they'll be on Saturday.

10 hours ago, calscuf said:

Where you at?

Arrowhead.  Bunch more coming on Friday, not sure how I feel about that.

Got about 30" of snow this past weekend, woke up to a balmy 18 degrees this morning.  Hope we get mostly rain out of this next storm but looks like we could pick up another foot or so.

38 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Four of the next seven days =

Latest runs are showing LA area getting absolutely destroyed by rain on Thursday, we'll see.

Well, the other shoe has finally dropped.  Now Hulu has lost FSW too:

Starting on October 23, 2020 Hulu will no longer have the rights to distribute certain Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) that are currently included with your Hulu + Live TV plan.

While we were unable to reach an agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to continue offering channels like your Fox Sports RSN, YES Network, and Marquee Network, the good news is that you will continue to have access to a wide variety of sports from other popular channels including ESPN, TNT, and TBS, as well as FS1 and FS2.

the action is the juice

my cat's weapon of choice is vomit.  they are insidious bastards.

On 9/10/2020 at 11:53 AM, PattyD22 said:

So we are doing structure protection in the Forest Falls/Mountain Home Village area off Highway 38.  The fire jumped Highway 38 yesterday and is making a run north towards Angeles Oaks.  As far as Mentone, I’m not sure how far South it’s going because we are not on that branch of the fire.  I’d suspect since Mentone is flatter, they would be able to make a stop on that branch pretty easily.  Yesterday, we were battling the wind as well as topography.  Today, there is significantly less wind which should help.

I hope your daughter is safe and her property survived.

Been following this fire closely since I live in Arrowhead, so unfortunate it couldn't be stopped at the 38 near Forest Falls.  Sounds like last night it spilled over the ridge near Angelus Oaks and they are expecting it to run up to the 38 again further north.  Seems like this could get real bad if it gets established north of the 38 toward Big Bear or into the Santa Ana River drainage toward Running Springs.  

That was impressive

What a terrible pitch

oh lord

They think the same guy killed an attorney up here.  Similar details in both murders and strange men's rights / anti-feminism court cases that link them.  

https://abc7.com/crestline-murder-may-be-linked-to-shooting-at-nj-judges-home/6326666/

i vaguely remember hearing about the "guy on 2nd to start extra innings rule," but i definitely wasn't aware that now if the 10th ends at 3-1 you gotta just keep playing.

hopefully people will get creative with this