HoopDreams;842824006 said:
Jordan Mathews finally spoke out re: his reasons for transferring.
He didn't want to say anything that would possibly harm his teammates, so he held it in until the coaching change.
Much respect to Jordan. Now go out and win this thing.
TexWoodyGiants;842823998 said:
Absolutely certain your statement is an uninformed opinion. I have had season tickets for almost every year since KJ days (I didn't have them for a while as I've been working in LA for the past 18 plus years and even during those years I had season tickets for most of the time.). I contributed to the building of the Haas Pavilion (look in the entry way where donors are acknowledged). My wife and I and our twins had season tickets (4 chairbacks for many years). I now have 2 season tickets and attended almost every game this year. You sound a bit like Donald with your ridiculous accusations!
Shocky1;842823983 said:
read young ivee's heartfelt letter to the cal family, he truly loves his teammates & the way they stayed together (unlike the deal maker who is not mentioned) thru adversity like brothers in building 50 year friendships
young ivee, you've been a special presence in berkeley & i hope you will truly fulfill your promise to tami to earn your berkeley degree, don't want tamarik to call you a dumb azz after he graduates from college, ok?
http://www.calbears.com/news/2017/3/21/rabb-declares-for-the-nba-draft.aspx?path=mbball
https://vimeo.com/45797764
98th avenue (get minted in the nba, my friend)#
TexWoodyGiants;842823998 said:
Absolutely certain your statement is an uninformed opinion. I have had season tickets for almost every year since KJ days (I didn't have them for a while as I've been working in LA for the past 18 plus years and even during those years I had season tickets for most of the time.). I contributed to the building of the Haas Pavilion (look in the entry way where donors are acknowledged). My wife and I and our twins had season tickets (4 chairbacks for many years). I now have 2 season tickets and attended almost every game this year. You sound a bit like Donald with your ridiculous accusations!
mikecohen;842824033 said:
I'm a great fan of Shocky's; but this was unforgivable and calls for an abject apology - especially because of its reflection of the evil overtaking our society.
mikecohen;842824033 said:
I'm a great fan of Shocky's; but this was unforgivable and calls for an abject apology - especially because of its reflection of the evil overtaking our society.
joe yaks;842823493 said:
The real question is how much is enough? Given the status of our nation the answer is "more".
UCBerkGrad;842824061 said:
He did apologize
Shocky1;842824073 said:
mike no habla espaol
south bender;842824120 said:
Shocky es ignorante y grosero.
Chapman_is_Gone;842824069 said:
Uh, Mike, where you been buddy? I'd love to know why you're a "great fan" of Shocky. What has he done to earn your respect? You're asking him to apologize for a comment that is not a one-off but rather is typical of a 3+ year pattern of remarkably ingrained behavior. He insults die hard Cal fans, donors, and season ticket holders equally. My name is on the wall in the Haas Pavilion foyer as well. You think Shocky cares? Most communities would banish a person like that. I'll stop short of saying what I really want to say because otherwise 1) this post will be deleted and 2) I will be banned.
So, please, do tell what you find so admirable about the man.
I trust that Cal recruits are smart enough to see through it all. And, the funny thing is, an average 18-year old recruit to Cal (whom oftentimes is black) cares as much about golf as he does about opera.
Shocky1;842824073 said:
mike no habla espaol
Chapman_is_Gone;842824069 said:
Uh, Mike, where you been buddy? I'd love to know why you're a "great fan" of Shocky. What has he done to earn your respect? You're asking him to apologize for a comment that is not a one-off but rather is typical of a 3+ year pattern of remarkably ingrained behavior. He insults die hard Cal fans, donors, and season ticket holders equally. My name is on the wall in the Haas Pavilion foyer as well. You think Shocky cares? Most communities would banish a person like that. I'll stop short of saying what I really want to say because otherwise 1) this post will be deleted and 2) I will be banned.
So, please, do tell what you find so admirable about the man.
I trust that Cal recruits are smart enough to see through it all. And, the funny thing is, an average 18-year old recruit to Cal (whom oftentimes is black) cares as much about golf as he does about opera.
mikecohen;842824373 said:
What I don't get is why people take his whirling devil-shtick seriously (i.e., on the level of actionable defamation). I truly see it all as a kind-of one-off aesthetic, meant to entertain, with the off-perspective offering real irony-aesthetic sparks, from someone with a big heart, who really cares about what I think we all care about on this Board. I suppose people don't see that he, himself, is as much or more of the butt of his utterances as anyone else. The differences between Shocky and Trump in the crazy statements are that, although Trump's followers take them seriously, but not literally (as a kind of aesthetic, dog-whistle, Wittgensteinian, non-literal meaning), Trump takes them extremely literally, and ties them to his ego (although happily able to turn on a dime and completely contradict them for political and ego gain, if it's available), which of course is extremely dangerous for the world, the country, the economy, and government's ability to function, whereas, to Shocky, the craziness is strictly for entertainment (and has a lot of aesthetic value because of subtlety and nuance that maybe too many don't see -- I mean, aesthetic value depends on the ability to push the beholder past the limits of the beholder's own frame). I posted my thought that he went over the line with Tex Woody, because, in Tex Woody's case, the slander was so obviously false (to the point that Shocky should have known it), and Tex Woody was truly pushed to the point of truly righteous intolerance by the unacceptably blatant falsehood. Reckless. I don't find Shocky reckless. I do find his sensitivity to attack, and the quick retaliation (which doesn't always happen, but did in Tex Woody's case) below what I see as Shocky's standard of keeping it real through the shtick; and, as you have pointed out as to yourself, the particular shtick retaliation attack he threw at Woody and you (just as starkly false, as he should have known) seems to represent a bad pattern. But, all that being said, the bottom line for me is that Shocky is a BIG Spirit, with, after all, a lot of love, and good information and insight; and the bad stuff, to me, pales in comparison. Nor am I one to say that the mix in any person should be otherwise -- except when it gets to the point of real tilt toward actual harm to the world, the country, and the more important values. So, FWIW, that's how I see it.
SFBearz;842824379 said:
Exactly
Shocky1;842824393 said:
my targeted market segment wants be educated at the #1 ranked public (#3 overall) university in the world & get minted in the nba & do the hang with shocky like we're all ******* black beetles
NYCGOBEARS;842824402 said:
You got that right. You're definitely a bte noire.
Shocky1;842824385 said:
trump: republican, got bad hair & a fat azz belly, ambivalent about animals, rides in a golf cart/hasn't played the world's top 100 golf courses & doesn't attend cal basketball games in person
shocky: democrat, got good (not great) hair & a flat stomach, loves them rescue dogs/cats, walks every golf round/has played the world's top 100 golf course & watched every second of cal basketball live in person this season
mikecohen: can eloquently write really long sentences that can touch upon quite a few different topics but are usually themed in the nuances of our lives & our interactions with those around us and how that makes us feel not only in the tragic moment but also the hopeful bright rays of tomorrow's sunshine unless there are impediments that we can not overcome despite our don quixote efforts to find meaning where none exists in the condensed writings of william faulkner who assuredly could not find the love, the magic of a curvy brunette yoga female despite his living in the brutally hot and humid racist south which transforms itself into the freezing azz cold racist south in the winter in an era in which many dumb azzs are not fully enlightened regarding the midnite hotel de paris (monacco) plan which will forever change the upward trajectory of the cal basketball program
socaltownie;842824382 said:
I think our quibble is "...and good info". Lets see how this one plays itself out.
I have grown to appreciate Shocky. I agree....there is a post-modernist interpretation of this whole thread that is actually quite fun. What I don't get is how he stretches the outerbounds of belief and then attacks when people ask him essentially to "source" the "good information" he purports to report. For example, his latest missiles on me was the question the plausibility of some "package deal" being assembled between Joe P and all these former bears. Not IMPOSSIBLE but seemingly difficult at best to believe given that in some cases it would be not even just a lateral move but one that could be considered a downward move.
I got the full Shocky treatment for that.
Shocky1;842824446 said:
when i tell you that one of the best ways to get in shape & quiet your restless mind is to engage in an active (5-6 days a week) yoga/meditation practice, it's because a curvy brunette yoga female with a flat stomach told me that, it's not because i read it in some fitness or self help magazine for losers
mikecohen;842824433 said:
This is interesting, because that particular combination (i.e., Pasternack plus one or more of the hero bears [i.e., Shareef, Gates, Theo, etc. - maybe throw-in Justin Labagh and/or Lou Richie] checks off maybe almost all of the boxes I think we need (because Goldman's support would get the practice facility built, Pasternack has shown, in the face of Katrina, to be a spirited, as well as skilled, coach, and the heros (all of whom can recruit), albeit without head coaching experience, have an overwhelming amount of basketball knowledge, PLUS, and especially, the Cal spirit that brings us all to this Board and the understanding of, and appreciation for, the local culture (and the problematic administration) that is necessary to get this program into the promised land.
If you put in almost any other name being considered, rather than Pasternack, then you would have a winner!
Shocky1;842824443 said:
so cal, my sources on all things related to cal basketball are the people DIRECTLY involved in my information
in my role as arguably the foremost golf architecture critic/rankings panelist in the world when i comment about tom doak moving the back tee box further into the sand dunes on the dramatic uphill par 4 15th hole at tara iti golf club north of auckland (new zealand) to change the angles/shot values it's because i've directly spoken to master architect tom doak, not some "industry source" or **** like that, i'm not creating fake news like ben parker & the california golden blogs (which is a bunch of news aggregators with no actual sources)
when i tell you marcus lee is up from 211 lbs at the 2016 nba combine to 222 lbs now, it's because marcus lee directly told me that, got it?
beautiful now (the unvarnished truth)#:woohoo
socaltownie;842824461 said:
Well....how about reconciling what amounts to at last 165 degree variance from what you argued about 10 months ago.
Shocky- Jordan Mathews left because his dad is psycho and he is selfish
Jordan - I left because the deal marker wasn't my style of coach.
#hmmmaccessisnteverything
Shocky1;842824460 said:
cal geek, I am always more than willing to share the answers of the universe (including the latest with cal basketball recruiting) with you & anybody else at haas pavillon 60 minutes prior to games during the early warm ups, ok?...those 60 minutes are the enlightenment hour
fuchsia is the new black#
Shocky1;842824465 said:
the complete j mat story will be told after his final collegiate game, your summary above is incomplete
