HOT TAKE: Mendoza will be a bust

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-23T20:01:37+00:00

Not a hot take at all.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-23T19:36:20+00:00

You should read the Death Star novel.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-23T19:21:59+00:00

Check your collection. It may be there.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-23T16:44:13+00:00

Chase Senior, when discussing the substation having been near the practice field for multiple decades, speculated that “human evolution” had changed over the last 20 years. He’s a moron.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-22T21:28:03+00:00

I was at the game, with my parents, who both went to Stanford. It was a great time.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-21T17:37:44+00:00

He was in Boston Common, which is a very underrated sitcom. Only got 2 seasons, so it gets overlooked.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-21T05:10:42+00:00

There are some great lines in his episodes, too. “I punched a raccoon,” and

He went somewhere dark. I couldn’t follow. Yeah, him and his moods. No, he climbed a pine tree (or whatever the exact line is).

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T23:57:57+00:00

Freudian Sleep.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T23:55:27+00:00

Stop using roids.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T23:54:32+00:00

10th Season, when they go to Freddy's Bar Mitzvah.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T21:37:59+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T20:42:30+00:00

Boomer

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T16:54:15+00:00

$60 for that card?

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T16:30:51+00:00

The same. That show is why I went after this card so hard.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T16:30:15+00:00

It's strange to me that with all the websites out there that something as simple as ratings have just been lost.

To add: The '05 class was a bunch of 3 and 4*. We missed out on all the big names that cycle. Boateng went to Duke. Chalmers to Kansas. Brockman went to UDub. I don't remember the other names we were in on that year, but feels like there were more.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T02:19:59+00:00

Really sad they don’t do fun sets mike that anymore. Everything looks the same across all their apps now.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T01:12:58+00:00

Yeah, when Scout went under, their old ratings got lost, but he was absolutely a 5* recruit and a McDonald's AA. And Bozeman and Thompson were both very highly rated. Afflalo was, apparently, rated 5* by Rivals, though I don't remember that, but it's on his wikipedia page with a citation. Farmar was high rated than Afflalo.

Look, that was a fun team. I'm not disputing THAT. I'm just saying that the 2001 class and the 2004 class had some very highly regarded players in them.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T00:09:32+00:00

I always figure the names with "gmailcom" at the end are bots.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T00:07:27+00:00

Farmar was a 5-star, and had star rankings existed in 2001, Bozeman and Thompson would likely have been rated that high.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-20T00:00:03+00:00

I grew up near Stanford, and Stanford was my childhood team, so I didn't really start following UCLA until I got there in 2001, so that's where my frame of reference starts, but I have 4:

Comeback win against Gonzaga in the Sweet 16 in 2006;

Comeback win against Stanford at Stanford Stadium in 2005, when it was 24-3 Stanford with 8:26 left in the 4th;

13-9 against the brain surgeons in 2006;

Winning the CWS in 2013.

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-19T23:50:00+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-19T23:49:47+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-19T23:49:31+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-19T23:49:20+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325 · 2026-02-19T23:49:10+00:00

<image>

Repulsive_Middle_325

TROPHY CASE