Frisco Del Rosario

My next question for Coach Roberts isn't "why didn't we get Gianna?" but "what couldn't we keep Coach Trammell?".

In exchange for the #3 pick in the 2026 WNBA draft, Los Angeles got one season of Kia Nurse plus a 2024 pick that turned into Rickea Jackson. Mock drafts put Gianna Kneepkens between #5 and #10, no way LA gets her at #20. With the 8th pick, Golden State takes Kneepkens, and give me a jersey number.

Jersey prices so good I'm tempted to get a Jocytè (though she hasn't suited up yet) and a Linskens (though she got half a cup of coffee).

Didn't happen. My head is in the sand.

When Utah forward Alissa Pili became a subject of WNBA draft curiosity, the common question was "who's she gonna guard?", which we answered with a question "who's gonna guard her?". I suppose the same still be said about Iowa State's Audi Crooks, though she's significantly taller and wider.

I had a season ticket for SJ Giants in Belt's last year (kept the last scorecard — a bad day: 1-for-4, 2B, R), said "he won't be here long". On to radio games in Richmond. "He won't be there long". One of my favorite players at every level.

At some point, I'll stop saying "Tony who?", but that point has not yet been reached.

Aw, man, the Orioles did not need to alter the cartoon bird!

I liked the last iteration of Chief Wahoo, heaven help me. I didn't like the caps Cleveland wore around their 1948 championship year, that C also found on Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Reds gear. (I have a '48 Indians cap, but no one recognizes it as such.)

Is the Duvall card based on his Reds output?

I'll buy a Kneepkens jersey tomorrow.

I'd wager the Liberty owners grew bored after winning then losing a championship, and a fire sale is imminent. Their free agent retention should tell us whether I'm right or wrong.

I'd feel damned by faint praise at "nice early season resume-building victory".

chess
Go
backgammon
Scrabble
Statis-Pro Baseball
Statis-Pro Basketball
Onitama
Under Falling Skies
Wingspan
Acquire

I really miss AADs Engrissei and Lantz.

Gilligan's Island: 3 seasons
Firefly: 1/2 season

Welcome to the All-Scrabble Team, with captain Doug Gwosdz.

Groveling for media credentials to Seton Hall at San Francisco and at Pacific this weekend. How times have changed — the media officials at those schools used to feed me on game nights.

Cal 20 Pacific 14 5:35 Tigers haven't scored in 9 minutes.

Pacific 12 Cal 5 4:05 During this 8-0 run, they look like the best Pacific team in 15 years.

Lenny Wilkens and Richie Adubato passed, and I wondered who'd be third if they do go in threes. Michael Ray Richardson — NBA All-Star stuck with the Knicks in his best years; even exiled to Golden State in '82— coached two CBA championship teams, twice coach of the year in the Canadian league.

Who has what would've been Los Angeles's first-round draft pick in the 2026 WNBA draft, and whom did the Sparks get in trade?

I've never found what kind of music she makes, but I'll probably buy that album in any case.

It's never gonna work completely for 60-year-old chessplayers who watched Korchnoi's defection and the first Fischer-Spassky match, while observing the rise of the Polgar sisters plus the lack of personality in every international arbiter ever. But I plan to see it on Broadway.

I swear I read "Alvin Dark".

Capital idea.

The Giants scoring enough runs in the absence of Mays and Bonds is a miracle (Tito Fuentes!!).

OF COURSE Gaylord was MVP in the SPIT.

::laughing:: Tito Fuentes and grand slam Don't belong in the same sentence.