According to figures just released by the CDC, the suicide rate in the male cohort 80 years plus always goes up 40% whenever Walton does a game. Some folks just need a little extra motivation

Yeahbut, htp1 lost his remote in 2013 so he can't mute.

The ESPN co-host, apparently unused to Walton, was rolling his eyes, etc., until he gave up.

bipolarbear said:

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The ESPN co-host, apparently unused to Walton, was rolling his eyes, etc., until he gave up.

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Wrong. That's Dave Pasch and they have been paired for many years.

It's all part of their on air shtick and it's getting beyond tired.

RedlessWardrobe said:

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Simple solution that I have been using for the last 3 years. When Walton is doing a game simply mute the audio. Sometimes you can enjoy a basketball game by simply observing it visually without having to listen to anybody. Works really well.

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While I don't mute the audio, I only half listen to what the TV guys have to say on both Cal Basketball and Cal Football games. They rarely have anything to add of value. I may clue in to them, but selectively. Preserving my sanity.

I mute every game unless it is Roxy or Montgomery.
I made the mistake of hitting the volume yesterday just in time to hear Walton misidentify several buildings/landmarks on the Berkeley campus.

I like the radio announcers on KGO. I used to try and watch on TV, mute the TV audio, and listen on the radio. I gave up because with the TV link to the satellite and back down, I'd listen to the radio call and a second or two later, I'd see the play on TV. Unworkable.

big dog: Thank you for your concern.

Come to think of it, Walton must be really stupid and lazy to think fans are mesmerized by his " isn't the sky lovely shtick??He never does his homework for his broadcasts. saying 'please" and aren't the cows lovely this time of year in Oregon is beyond parody. He would start doing his homework in a heartbeat if the checks started to bounce...

big Dog: You remind me of George Carlin doing his famous monologue on the "seven words you cannot say on TV. Besides 'suicide":, are there any other words I cannot say on this post??

He's not saying you can't say it, Karen. He's saying you probably shouldn't.

AunBear89 said:

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He's not saying you can't say it, Karen. He's saying you probably shouldn't.

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HTP is not trying to inform or entertain - she's just a troll. I don't think you'll have any luck improving her behaviour.

But best of luck.

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big Dog: You remind me of George Carlin doing his famous monologue on the "seven words you cannot say on TV. Besides 'suicide":, are there any other words I cannot say on this post??

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Please refrain from using the words "gaping gash." TIA

Walton's time as a Bruin coincided with the first years I really started playing basketball and following the sport. My goodness, but he was among the very very best college players I have ever seen and just played WINNING basketball, as it was meant to be played. At the time, even though I grew up in the East Bay, I wasn't as yet a Cal fan and so it was fine when UCLA kept winning national championships. I usually tune him out now, but with respect.

" Walton, who grew up in San Diego and had wanted to go to UCLA from the time he attended Wooden's basketball camps as a child, saw himself as part of the Woodstock generation and an anti-war activist.
He constantly challenged his coach's authority.
When he first arrived on campus, he'd let his red hair grow down to his shoulders. "He told me that I didn't have the right to tell him how to wear his hair," Wooden said. I said, 'You're right, I don't. I just have the right to set rules for my team. I want you to know I fully understand your feelings and we're going to miss you, Bill."'
Walton got his hair cut later that day." NYDailynews.com

bearister said:

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" Walton, who grew up in San Diego and had wanted to go to UCLA from the time he attended Wooden's basketball camps as a child, saw himself as part of the Woodstock generation and an anti-war activist.
He constantly challenged his coach's authority.
When he first arrived on campus, he'd let his red hair grow down to his shoulders. "He told me that I didn't have the right to tell him how to wear his hair," Wooden said. I said, 'You're right, I don't. I just have the right to set rules for my team. I want you to know I fully understand your feelings and we're going to miss you, Bill."'
Walton got his hair cut later that day." NYDailynews.com

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If only Rene had taken that tack with Bob Presley.

I don't endorse the tone or some of the things said by this author:

Death of an import - SPORTING CHANCE by Joaquin M. Henson - Philstar.com


https://www.philstar.com/sports/2001/04/22/107715/death-import-sporting-chance-joaquin-m-henson
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/sports/2001/04/22/107715/death-import-sporting-chance-joaquin-m-henson/amp/

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/bob-presley-playing-basketball-during-the-olympic-games-in-berkeley-picture-id1188734145

Tone??disagreed with some of the things said??

Here is a 1968 Sports Illustrated article on Presley, his life and the troubles at Cal in the two years he played. https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/02/12/collision-on-the-new-underground-railroad

The facts are different, where he was born and the schools he attended, and it emphasizes the racial strife at that time. I disagree with the article trying to show some similarity with the Underground Railroad of the early to mid-19th century to transport blacks escaping slavery to safety mostly in northern states. At the time that black athletes were being recruited and invited to play for schools in the north and the west, in the 1960's, it was a time of racial strife in the South, the time of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement and reaction to it, which was often violent. Many black families in the South sought a better life for their children, and many of them sent their children of high school age to live with relatives in the north or the west, many coming to California. They wanted a better education for their kids, and California at the time had a highly rated educational system. My impression is this was the main migration of black kids to the Bay Area in those days, a migration of students first, with some being basketball players.

Around the time when Presley was playing at Cal, I was working for a UC Engineering Lab at the Richmond Field Station, and the University had a program to hire some black high school students one summer. One was a young man, Eddie Cotton, a very athletic boy who loved basketball, but had had little instruction. He wanted to play for his school, St Marys High. I found a hoop and backboard somewhere and we mounted it outside on the side of our lab (away from the windows), and the two of us practiced there. He asked me to show him the jumpshot, and I showed him some moves to create his own shot. We worked on passing and defense, and he was a very willing pupil. I lost touch with Eddie, unfortunately.

Since the years of the Civil Rights Movement of the'60s, there has been a big migration back to the South for many Northern blacks and their families. However, there are still many black students coming to California from states like Alabama and Mississippi, for the same reasons: their parents send them to get a better education, and many come to play basketball at schools like CCSF. Brad Duggan made a living sponsoring these kids to play for him at CCSF, but what he really wanted to do was help them grow up in a better environment and become men.

One of my dearest friends is a black woman who works as a caregiver for elderly patients in their homes, for a meager salary. She spends what little money she saves in order to sponsor black kids from the South to go to CCSF. She takes 3 or 4 at most at a time, rents an apartment for them, and buys them computers for school. And of course mentors them as they mature and grow into young women and men. If these students can find the right sponsors, it can help them to succeed in school in a place far from home. Sorry for going so far OT, but I felt the need to say that the goal of parents to get a better education for their kids, whether basketball is a factor, is no Underground Railroad. These people are no longer slaves, slaves in danger, and there is no need for secrecy. It is taking advantage of the freedom to move about and take advantage of opportunities.