GUESTS:
Draymond Green:
-Says who he is has gotten him this far
-Durant recruiting
-Team USA
-New Warriors / Old Warriors
Giants pregame:
Giants (57-36)
1. Denard Span (L) CF (12-32 .375 career vs. Porcello)
2. Angel Pagan (S) LF
3. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
6. Jarrett Parker (L) DH
7. Conor Gillaspie (L) 3B (10-24 .417, HR, 6 RBIs career vs. Porcello)
8. Mac Williamson (R) RF
9. Ramiro Pena (S) 2B
P. Jake Peavy (R) (5-7, 5.09 ERA)
Red Sox (51-39)
P. Rick Porcello (R) (11-2, 3.66 ERA)
Pitched at AT&T June 7th vs. Giants: 6 IP , 3 ER, 6 K's Boston won 5-3. - Parker homered, had 2 hits. Boston won 5-3 in 10 innings , Casilla took loss, 2 ER, 3 hits in 1 1/3.
-Porcello today said he wants first time PED users suspended for life from MLB
-Peavy going back to whrre he helped Boston win 2013 title
Peavy has gone 3-3 with a 4.47 ERA in 14 starts at Fenway -- his seventh-most at a single ballpark. In two seasons with the Red Sox, Peavy owns a 5-10 record with a 4.48 ERA in 30 starts.
-Giants have only played once in Boston since interleague play began in 1997 - Swept in 2007 in Bonds final season
Conor Gillaspie is 10-for-24 (.417) with a homer and six RBIs against Porcello. Denard Span is 12-for-32 (.375) with four RBIs against him, and is 16-for-53 (.302) lifetime at Fenway.
San Francisco and Boston split a two-game set June 7-8 at AT&T Park. The Red Sox took the opener 5-3 in 10 innings, but lost a 2-1 pitchers' duel the following day.
TOPICS:
WHO YA GOT IN THE TEAM USA SCRIMAGE TODAY?:
Team one:
Kyrie, DeMar, Durant, Paul George, Draymond, DeAndre
Team Two:
Kyle Lowry, Klay, Jimmy Butler, Harrison, Melo, Cousins
DURANT OPENS UP ABOUT FREE AGENCY CHASE: (SAM AMICK):
-After he made decision he stayed inside for two days and played video games:
What do you do when you know there’s a storm coming?
You stay inside – and play video games.
That was Durant after his decision on July 4, when he took shelter from the widespread criticism in that rented house in the Hamptons where his family, friends and associates had stayed after his meetings with six teams.
“I didn't leave my bed, because I was like, 'Man, if I walk outside somebody might just try to hit me with their car or say anything negative to me,’” Durant said. “I just stayed in. I was trying to process it all. I wanted to be around family, and positive support. It felt different.
Says Westbrook was not a factor in leaving:
“Nah, it wasn't (a factor in him leaving),” Durant said. “I mean obviously (that alleged subplot is) coming out now (that) I'm gone, all these reports are going to come out. I can't really control it, but I just made a decision based on where I wanted to go, man. It was as simple as that. We can think about all the reasons and the factors and what factored in, but it was simple. That's where I wanted to play basketball.”
Warriors knew he was frustrated in offense:
As one Warriors person had described it even before Durant came their way, there are no hockey assists with Westbrook – the pass that leads to the pass that leads to the shot. More often than not, he’s either scoring on the possession or assisting. All season long, the Warriors’ intel that Durant had grown frustrated with that aspect of his Thunder experience was the root of their free agency confidence.
Durant on how he will be received back in OKC for first game there:
“I haven't even thought about it, but I'm sure you'll have ... I don't know,” Durant said while pausing. “I'll just wait and see. I mean, what do you think?”
To which I joked that it would all depend on what Slater wrote in the days leading up to the reunion.
“Yeah, exactly,” Durant said with a smile. “They're reading whatever you write, so it's in your control now.”
On his meeting with the
“I was ready to just say, 'Alright let's go. I'm ready to go,' seeing Tom Brady there. Seeing someone so successful at his craft, and just a great ambassador for the game of football and the city of Boston, it was great to be in the presence of greatness. But at the same time, I knew I couldn't let that distract me. (But) he was great. It was great to see him.”
On whether his concerns over the backlash of signing with the Warriors nearly led him to re-signing with the Thunder:
“I thought about (being perceived as the proverbial villain), but in life when you make decisions based on everyone else, I think it's the wrong decision. I can't make a decision on my life because everybody else is going to be upset about it. I just told myself to put me first, to really think about what I wanted, and that's what I wanted. We'll see what happens.”
Durant’s most poignant statement of the day may have been his very last. Having answered every inquiry that came his way, he rose from his chair with a smile and said, “Who's going to give a (expletive) when I'm 49 years old?”
DRAYMOND: "BEING ME HAS GOTTEN ME THIS FAR"
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green does not believe he must take a new course in light of recent incidents.
"Being me has gotten me this far," Green said with a smile Monday at Team USA practice.
Green has a pending misdemeanor assault and battery charge stemming from a July 10 altercation with now former Michigan State football player Jermaine Edmondson outside a restaurant in East Lansing, Michigan.
"My attorneys are handling everything," Green said. "Leave it in their hands, and I got an opportunity to compete for a gold medal. You don't let any type of distraction get in the way of that. This [is] not about me. It's not about anyone on this team. It's about going out and defending our country the right way, so everything else is kind of secondary to that."
WARRIORS JUMP A MAJOR HURDLE FOR NEW ARENA "CHASE CENTER" (Rick Weltz on with Murph and Mac today)
-How an they make sure it's AT&T Park and not Levi's??
A San Francisco Superior Court judge has ruled against a group seeking to block the Golden State Warriors’ proposed arena project in Mission Bay neighborhood, clearing the way for the project to proceed, according to city officials.
The ruling by Judge Garrett Wong on Monday rejected without comment lawsuits filed in December and January by the Mission Bay Alliance challenging The City’s environmental review and approval process for the event center and mixed-use development at 16th and 3rd streets.
In particular, the group — reportedly comprised of University of California at San Francisco donors, stakeholders, physicians and faculty members — argued the 11-acre project would create major traffic and emergency access issues for the nearby UCSF Medical Center, especially on game days. The lawsuit was joined by the group Save Muni and Jennifer Wade, the mother of a UCSF patient concerned about emergency access for her son.
The Board of Supervisors in December unanimously approved the project, which will include an 18,000-seat event center and 600,000 square feet of office space, in December. The project was also certified as an Environmental Leadership Project by Gov. Jerry Brown, indicating it met economic stimulus and environmental building standards.
Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob said earlier this month that the team expects to break ground “late this year, early next year.”
CRAZYIEST NBA OFF SEASON CONTRACT?:
-Miles Plumlee....of the Bucks got 4-$52M today: 61 games played 14 MPG, 5 ppg / 4 rpg last season,
Career: 18 MPG - 5 PPG / 5 RPG
Tom career: 18 MPG 6.5 PPG / 4.0 RPG
FA CONTRACT MADNESS:
MIKE CONLEY 5-153 (30.5 PER)
DEMAR DEROZEN 5-139/ 27 PER
NIC BATUM 5-120 / 24 PER
HARRISON BARNES 4-94 / 23 PER
ALLEN CRABBE 4-75 / 18.7 PER
BISMACK BYOMBO 4-72 / 18 PER
KENT BAZEMORE 4-70 / 17.5 PER
EVAN TURNER 4-70 / 17.5 PER
TYLER JOHNSON 4-50 / 12.5 PER
MYERS LEONARD 4-41 / 10+ PER
DELLY 4-38 / 9.6 PER
LOCAL:
READING MMQB TODAY: HOW MUCH HAS ALDON SMITH LOST?:
2011 NFL draft: Miller #2, Aldon #7, Watt #11
Von Miller: 6-$114M / 70M guaranteed - 60 sacks / 35 first 3 years
JJ Watt 6-$100M / $52M guaranteed - 74.5 career sacks - first 3 years 36.5
Aldon Smith: 2 years $1.5M Zero gurnateed - 47.5 career sacks / 42 in first 3 years in 43 games
Meanwhile, the player taken five spots after Miller and four before Watt at one point seemed on track to be the best of the three. Former 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith had 33.5 sacks in his first 32 games, an average of 1.04 per game. After his third season, which featured 8.5 sacks in 11 games, the average was still at 0.976 per game.
But for an inability to stay out of trouble, Smith currently could be making as much or more than Miller or Watt. Smith, now with the Raiders, remains suspended by the league, with the ability to apply for reinstatement in November.
Other defensive players in 2011 draft::
Marcell Darius (3): 6-$96M / $60M guaranteed
Patrick Peterson (5): 5-$70M / $47M guaranteed
Robert Quinn (14): 4-57M / 41M guaranteed, 2 years left.
Muhamad Wilkerson (30) 5-86M / $53M guaranteed
Justin Houston (70) 6-101M / $52M guaranteed
NATIONAL:
Tiger won't play in PGA....Yawn. Hardly worth a mention anymore.
INTERNATIONAL:
WILL RUSSIA GET KICKED OUT OF THE OLYMPICS?
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has warned that the Olympic movement could “wind up on the edge of schism” after a damning report found that the country’s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across “a vast majority” of winter and summer sports.
The International Olympic Committee, whose executive board will discuss the fallout from the report by the Canadian law professor Richard McLaren on Tuesday, has promised it will not hesitate to take the “toughest sanctions available” against those implicated. The IOC president, Thomas Bach, called it “a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games”.
In light of McLaren’s report the World Anti-Doping Agency has urged the IOC to consider banning Russia from the Olympics altogether while also suggesting Russia’s government officials should be denied access to Rio 2016. Wada does not have the authority directly to ban a country from the Olympics but can recommend sanctions to the IOC.
Putin has doubted the validity of the findings, however, questioning the integrity of the whistleblower Dr Grigor Rodchenko – who worked as head of anti-doping for the Moscow laboratory between 2005 and 2015 – and dismissing the demands for Russia to be thrown out of the Olympics as politically motivated.
In a statement Putin warned: “Now we’re observing a dangerous relapse into the interference of politics in sport. Yes, the form of that interference has changed but the essence is the same, to make sport an instrument of geopolitical pressure and the formation of a negative image of countries and peoples. The Olympic movement, which plays a colossal unifying role for humanity, could again wind up on the edge of schism.”
Putin also criticised the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which has called for Russia to be banned from Rio. “What is behind such haste?” he asked. “An attempt to create certain media coverage, to apply pressure? The impression is forming that the Usada experts at the very least had access to the unpublished report and maybe themselves determined its tone and contents. In that case a national structure of one government is again dictating its will to the whole international athletic community.”
FUN STUFF:
Study: Getting drunk together is the key to a happy marriage
Audio: Jim Harbaugh Who's got it better than us rap
Audio: Trump's wife rips off Michaelle Obama's speech (Mel-on-ya)
Social media outlets lit up Tuesday with jokes surrounding the Melania Trump plagiarism allegations, as people mockingly attributed to Mrs. Trump such famous lines as Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" and parts of the Gettysburg Address.
The hashtag #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes popped up on Twitter soon after it was pointed out that a few lines in Mrs. Trump's speech from Monday's Republican National Convention were almost identical to ones delivered by Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
Tweets on the topic ranged from rap lyrics to jokes to lines from historic speeches, all attributed to Mrs. Trump.
Jesse Williams, the outspoken "Grey's Anatomy" actor, was one of the most active users of the hashtag. In one tweet, he mockingly quoted Mrs. Trump as saying, "I have a dream." Tweets from other users joked that Mrs. Trump thanked her speechwriters, "Copy and Paste" and Milli Vanilli, a reference to the R&B duo exposed for lip synching others' vocals.
Audio: Another version
Is the tradition of ignoring the first time HR the best in baseball? (Ji Man Choi Angels)
Daily Pokémon GO: Home owner shoots at players, mistaking them for burglars
Own Kenny Stabler's gold 84 ounce belt buckle
A question in the Deadspin mailbag today:
Someone dropped “I remember my first beer” on me the other day. Got me to thinking, I DO remember my first beer - in 5th grade, my friend and I took Rolling Rocks from his father’s Chesapeake Bay house fridge, and drank them on his dock as the sun went down. I remember taking a mental note that “this tastes horrible” - but without a doubt, it was an overall positive experience, maybe even optimal. 1. What % of first beer experiences are actually horrific (probably involving vomiting) 2. Do you remember your first beer?
What does a team owe you when they trade you?:
According to Scott Agness of Vigilant Sports, Hill got out of a workout and checked his messages, one of which was from Pacers President Larry Bird telling Hill that he had been traded. "After a workout, Hill first learned he was traded when he listened to a voicemail from...Larry Bird saying 'we had to trade you to Utah.'" Sounds pretty rough, particularly since Hill wanted to retire as a Pacer (he's from Indianapolis),
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