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Party Hearty

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Every year on the Sunday closest to my birthday, we throw a party and guess what, a Super Bowl breaks out. This year they called it XLIV. All the regulars showed up minus Leslie (we missed her) and plus Brian (welcome to the tradition!). Food was prepared and consumed; money changed hands. It was a beautiful day and a great good time was had by all. Not only that, the Saints triumphed over the mind numbingly boring team from Indianapolis, faux Colts. WHO DAT! WHO DAT! Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints!

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We swapped last year’s Bacon Explosion for piles of veggies. That stuff in the jars is my home made pickled cauliflower and carrots. Here they are on their way to the dining room… betting central.

Not that we didn’t have meat, we had plenty. That’s a Burgers’ Smokehouse “City Ham” from Missouri. I made a K-Paul Meatloaf and macaroni salad with a barbecue flavor. Now that was good, and it’s a good thing because we had enough to eat for a week.

We didn’t make everything… here’s Paula with her deviled eggs and Sarah with her chili. After a taste of Sarah’s chili, one need an egg to cool down one’s palate. Continue reading “Party Hearty” →

Red Sox at A’s

April 17, 2009

Monday was cold and not so nice, but the weather was supposed to improve during the week. I opened the Chronicle and there was a full-page ad for A’s vs. Red Sox… only time the Sox will be in Oakland this year. Hmmm. My calendar says I’ve got nothing scheduled this week, before the onslaught of SF International Film Festival and AIA Convention. Wednesday afternoon would be perfect.

I went to the A’s website and found a seat in the second deck, dead behind home plate in section 217, row 7, seat 5. A couple of clicks and I’m there.

I was hoping to see Dice-K but he pitched last night and got knocked out in the first inning of a game played in cold, windy, drizzly weather that consumed over 4 hours in its 12 innings. A’s prevailed 7-5 to threaten a sweep of the three game series. Continue reading “Red Sox at A’s” →

Let The Games Begin

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In honor of the kickoff of March Madness today, I donned my appropriate swag. The Rector dudes are participating in the bracket wars on the NYTimes site in the “HilltopGang” Group — email me if you want to join (this year you have to be “invited” from the program to join). Of course, I picked Duke to go all the way, although I’m aware that they’re “not big enough down low” and depend too much on three-point shots to win it all, but Coach K just won the Olympic gold medal with a smallish team, so I figure he knows what he’s doing. And the Big East teams have been beating each other up, North Carolina’s point guard is injured, Memphis has gotten fat on marchmallows in their conference, so it’s not like the four headed monster of top seeds that stormed the Final Four last year. Enjoy the show and play-along if you can.

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Who is David and Who is Goliath? Last year Greg Oden helped pound the Buckeye’s basketball team into the paint of the NCAA tournament; this year the Oden-less OSU hoopsters will be watching at home. Therefore I would understand if there is much less enthusiasm for this group going head-to-head on brackets as we did last year thanks to the NY Times new-fangled and easy to use tool that lets us compete as a group, as well as to measure ourselves against the larger world, including their own sports writers. The Times is offering this feature again this year, and I thought I’d roll out the ball again to see who picks it up.

I should be more interested in this year’s tournament because the hated Tar Heels are the top-ranked team, while Duke has beaten them once, and been highly ranked during the regular season, but then lost to the upstart Clemson Tigers in the ACC Tourney, so they do not have the highly regarded “MO” going into this thing. Luckily they will be playing near-by (in Washington DC) so should have little to distract them through the first round, but that’s no guarantee that their very young and very small team won’t get bounced early as has unfortunately happened in the past few years. I also wonder if Coach K has been distracted a bit lately by his USA Basketball responsibilities. I know little else about the rest of the tournament teams, having only watch portions of a few games in the last few weeks, though I did get to glimpse the much hyped Mayo kid at USC, playing the Twin Towers of Stanford (USC won comfortably). I look forward to finding out what the Beasley wonderkind has done to deserve his hype; and I’m glad that I won’t have to watch Joakim Noahs public paroxysms of pleasure after every layup…

Here is the link to the game site.

Our Group Name is “RectorSite” (how original…)

Our Group Code is “991ec2a2278MwfK007sLrp3M7l1EE23yA” which you enter into “Enter Group Code” field on the “Groups and Top Scorers” page. Needless to say, you must be a registered reader of the NYT website to play — there shouldn’t be any problem there.

It’s a simple process; perhaps I’ll see you there.

Love a Parade

I heard about the parade on the morning of the All Star Game. It was to start at Pier 31 and traverse a red carpet on the Embarcadero to the Willie Mays Statue at the main entrance to AT&T Park. How on earth could I resist?

I got a prime spot on the rail near the Second Street entrance to the ballpark. I had a good view toward Pier 31,

as well as down the front of the ballpark.

A local TV reporter interviewed one of the many mascots on hand for the occasion… this is the Indians whozis. Continue reading “Love a Parade” →

Summer of Wierdness Starts Early

Ray Ratto —

Glad to have you back from the hockey death march. I personally don”t think hockey should exist in places where you can”t find ice outdoors, but that’s just me. And even though your writing could do nothing but enliven the seemingly moribund sport, I found myself passing on your columns.

But I”m delighted that you”re back to more worthy subjects, such as “,the gathering storm of manic bloviation on the many facets of Bonds,”

Priceless.

So welcome back, Ratto.

Mock The Draft

Pieces of Meat

With the draft upon us, it’s time for Doc B’s quasi-annual mock.
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Brackets Schmackets

The following is a commentary by Sean Uyehara on the progress of our Film Society bracket game. Sean is Programming (creative) Associate. Noel is CFO, the others, it doesn”t matter. This is NOT a group of rabid sports fans.

Posted by s uyehara, to Everyone
Mar 29, 07:01 pm ET
Off the Wire:

FESTIVAL GAMBLING FIX HQ
San Francisco Bureau — SF, CA

With just a few games left, venerable sage Marcus Rector clings to a lead in the hotly contested SFFS Festival Gambling Fix college basketball brackets. Says Rector, “With a little luck, with a little patience, with a little rah rah siss boom bah, my team will prevail.”
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Tourney Time

It’s impossible to resist filling out a bracket for the Enceedubelay Mensmarchmadness event, and the big web sites have caught on and are offering their own ways to do it on-line. (I also couldn’t resist using the kih-kass graphic I put together last year at this time…)

It would be nice if all the Rectors who were similarly inclined would use the same tool so we can easily compare and contrast. I look at the NYTimes every day, so I’d prefer to use theirs — the NYTimes site always seems to load very quickly on my cussed dial-up line, while the SI, ESPN and CBS sports sites take FOREVER to load, probably because of the million little ads they sprinkle around. I have gone ahead and picked my bracket on the NYT site, and also created a “group” called HilltopGang (see below for group code) if you should decide to join me there. (Their bracket page is actually VERY cool because you just click and drag your picks, and you don’t have to wait for the page to update each time because they’re using Shockwave in a very clever way…sorry, but this geek is impressed.)

NYT Bracket Group Code: 99369b0cecCJtW9063K1BdQ2FcdeAJnUoQ51

The Duke men, alas, will probably not go far this year (they look pretty slow, though the ladies are going to be #1 seed on their bracket), but there are seven ACC entries, and I’m going to root for them all, except for UNC.

Meanwhile, the Buckeye mens BeeBall team better play as a better favorite than their EffBall brethren, and the only way they can exact some revenge on the Gator team would be in the final game. I know that Celtic fans will be watching young (but elder-looking!) Mr. Oden while he’s still in the mix.

Good luck gentlemen — may the upsets be “obvious” and your biases not blind you.

Let’s Rock

Hard Rock This morning, the Morning Show on KFOG interviewed a woman who runs a women’s band camp (unlike the band camp featured in American Pie), catering to women of all ages and backgrounds that want to start a rock band.

The question of band names came up, something unusual, catchy and band-like.

“Here’s one way; pick up any book at hand, go to page 62, third paragraph, third line, first two or three words, you”ve got your name.”

The book I”m reading just now is My Life in France by Julia Child. The name of the band:

JULIANNED CARROTS

Let’s hear your names.

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