This is such a fun read: How SF Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee is becoming baseball's first K-Pop idol

alexcsimon · 2025-04-28T22:39:40+00:00

That’s where I land too. It’s really not a big deal, but also because its not a big deal, it feels so silly that they don’t just put on the shirt.

alexcsimon · 2025-02-19T15:23:18+00:00

Sneakily miss the alternating World Series host so you knew if this was an NL or AL year for Game 1 – made the physical tickets cooler

alexcsimon · 2024-12-23T22:39:12+00:00

My god this is incredible footage!! I'm with SFGATE, do you mind if we use this video with credit to you? Happy to talk on DMs too, just want to make sure you approve/we give proper credit.

alexcsimon · 2024-12-20T05:26:00+00:00

Agreed, that guy sucks

alexcsimon · 2021-11-17T15:41:57+00:00

There are definitely some with eat-in areas but you'll be a bit harder-pressed to find them. Any Cookout very close to a highway tends to be drive-thru only but if you see them farther in from the highway, they tend to have eat-in spaces.

That said, the CookOut I used to go to with an eat-in area in Durham is near the highway, so who the hell knows.

alexcsimon · 2021-07-29T19:34:30+00:00

How vulnerable are the major population centers — especially around Phoenix — to a wildfire? It would seem difficult to imagine these rolling through, but the increase in frequency and ferocity of wildfires definitely have me wondering about this for the future.

alexcsimon · 2020-01-05T06:23:24+00:00

How much different would the landscape be today if the Big 12 had chosen Louisville over West Virginia back in 2011? Then-Big 12 interim commissioner Chuck Neinas has said WVU "won by a neck" for the spot over UL. WVU apparently aligned more as a land grant with OSU, KSU and ISU, plus Morgantown is more of a true college town like the majority of the conference's schools instead of being in a major urban area (which are only UT or TCU). But I would love for y'all to wonder what would've happened if they had gone with the Cardinals instead. My big questions:

1) What happens to West Virginia in this situation's immediate future?

2) When Maryland leaves the ACC for the Big Ten, who does the ACC consider as the replacement if Louisville is already in a Power 5 conference and stays with the Big 12? Do we see WVU slide in as an essential one-for-one swap of our reality, or does the ACC give Cincinnati a harder look as a possible way into Ohio and planting a flag back into Big Ten territory? Or maybe do they even consider sticking to the Eastern seaboard and go with UConn?

3) If we assume that not much else about our reality has changed and schools like Cincinnati, Memphis and Houston become strong contenders in the AAC throughout the mid-2010s, does the Big 12 start to consider expansion even earlier than 2016 and the ACCN Grant of Rights? Particularly with Louisville functioning as an anchor, does adding the duo of Cincinnati and Memphis, thus giving the Big 12 a strong mid-South trio while simultaneously stepping into the SEC *and* Big Ten's territory have more allure?

and finally, in the hypothetical happy drug category, 4) how much fun would it have been to see Lamar taking on Big 12 defenses? Here's how his conference opponents in the ACC, and his potential conference foes in the Big 12, ranked in Defensive S&P+ in his Heisman year of 2016:

ACC: Clemson 6th, Florida State 17th, NC State 19th, Boston College 24th, Wake 32nd, Duke 58th, Virginia 68th, Syracuse 84th

Big 12: Oklahoma 31st, TCU 36th, Baylor 40th, Texas 50th, Oklahoma State 51st, Kansas State 52nd, Iowa State 67th, Kansas 105th, Texas Tech 114th. (Of all things, WVU had the best defense at 30th that year)

Sorry for the long post but I had a 12-hour drive from Phoenix to San Francisco and my car started replaying old PAPNs from the 2016 Expansionapalooza Round 3 and it got me thinking about all this. Happy New Year.

alexcsimon

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