Brad Stanhope

Dear Toronto, you were soooooo close to finally earning my forgiveness for trying to steal the Giants when I was 13. Alas, there's still work to do. #neverforget

How dare fans have fun after paying to watch a game!

Eddie, Lacob, Finley? Ranking the top Bay Area sports owners It's easy to be a solid professional sports owner. For the rich people who buy the teams we love, there are three requirements: Spend your m...

The list you didn't know you needed: Ranking the Bay Area's best professional team sports owners. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/08/eddi...

Spoon, known are the epitome of semantic satiation Spoon. That was the word. Spoon. The longer my friend Liz studied it, the more wrong it looked. And sounded. Spoon . Is that really a word? ...

"Semantic satiation" is the process of repeating a word over and over to the point where it temporarily loses meaning to the person saying it, who then perceives it as meaningless. A not-so-deep dive: bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/08/spoo...

Player or team option for the extra year?

Good call. Not sure Moody can stay in front of Ja, but maybe Knox could. Kind of, at least.

If Kuminga is out (or when he's resting), who guards Ja?

Talking turkey: How AI may help us understand animal speech I don't like artificial intelligence language models. While they're effective for helping people write emails or memos – particularly those ...

An AI program that identifies animal speech? Amazing! Hear what some animals near me said, including a hilarious turkey joke! bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/02/talk...

Beginning of 2025–sleeping in a kitchen chair, ER visit, appreciation for breathing I knew I was really sick long before I was in the emergency room with concern about congestive heart failure. The realization came on the fi...

More than two weeks of sleeping in a kitchen chair, multiple rounds of antibiotics, a scary visit to the ER and more. DRAMA IN REAL LIFE (or "here's how sick I was"). Read on. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/01/begi...

Grocery store study shows need for connection in bananas Want attention? Act sad, which will make people more likely to choose you. At least that's the conclusion based on how we treat bananas. Ser...

"We rarely buy a single banana. No, you want a bunch. You want four or five. You don't want Tito Jackson; you want the Jackson 5." See what a banana study teaches us about humanity. Kind of. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/01/groc...

My biggest concern about the new emphasis on "masculine energy" in the workplace is that I hope it doesn't jeopardize my ability to explain the latest "Bachelor" episode to female co-workers who don't watch the show.

Toilet paper equations make no sense in any math style When I was a kid, adults railed against "new math," which focused on students showing their work and using their deductive skill...

How toilet paper math is confusing, with some side trips to New Math, Common Core and the words "roll" and "ply." Read and "learn." bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/01/toil...

An ancient, revolutionary goal to make 2025 a memorable year Why will we remember this year? I have a bold proposal, but first, let's set the stage: Today is the first Sunday of a year for which we'll ...

A revolutionary goal for 2025, inspired by Don Henley and Jesus. Not in that order, though. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-a...

Survey of why we don't have dream job reveals men are simpletons Never really getting a shot at your dream job – being the lead singer of a rock band or playing professional sports or being a m...

Survey says . . . men are dopes who think they would have a job as a professional athlete or as the lead singer of their favorite band if only they had a fair chance. My column: bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/12/surv...

Masking? Electrical? Scotch? Ranking the top eight types of tape As we near the end of Scotch tape season (Christmas, the high holiday for the Scotch tape industry, is Wednesday!), there are two things I'v...

The holiday column you didn't know you needed. Where did masking tape end up? What is the true GOAT tape? My groundbreaking rankings. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/12/mask...

Infinite monkey theorem debunked, so a monkey typed my column The old adage says that if you give typewriters to an infinite number of monkeys and give them enough time, they will eventually re-create t...

My column about an important probability theory, Air Supply, Mickey Dolenz, Bananarama and more. Read and "learn." bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/12/infi...

Best Christmas traditions, from hanging lights to movies and more Thanksgiving is behind us and so is Black Friday. We've already gone beyond Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday is looming....

Christmas music? Hanging lights? Egg nog? Kids meeting Santa? It's my top-10 list of Christmas traditions!!!! (including using four exclamation marks) bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/12/best...

Teenagers aren't the only people who don't finish the job It was a recurring problem when our sons were teenagers. After taking a ridiculous amount of food into their rooms to eat – cere...

Why don't we put the new toilet paper on the roller? Why not immediately empty our suitcase? It's a mystery! My column:
bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/11/teen...

Why we don't need to give our autographs anymore In the early 1990s, I was working as a Daily Republic sports writer, covering an Oakland A's-Minnesota Twins baseball game at the Oakland Co...

Scott Erickson, Navin Johnson, Visa cards and me. An exploration of things that might not be connected. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

An invaluable lesson learned as a young McDonald's employee The good folks at McDonald's say that one in eight Americans will work at one of their franchises at some point of their lives. ...

You deserve a break today (GET IT???), so read about a shocking lesson I learned as a young McEmployee. bradstanhope.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-i...