No basketball till October :(

[rck3sactown]

 

Originally Posted by DarthSka  

Originally Posted by youngwolf  
That looks so damn groce.

 

[nelson999]

 

 

Originally Posted by DarthSka  

Originally Posted by youngwolf  
That looks so damn groce.

 

[rck3sactown]

And as for Tommy's -

- pass. Done enough damage to my body for 1 day.

well, when your body recovers someday, be sure to hit that up.... extra chili on errthang 

 

[mister friendly]

Late night buffalo mac n cheese sammy Fuggedaboutit!
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Thats looks delicious

 

[freeze]

Food of the God's.

One of my secret weapons to getting muscles and abs that can cut glass. Honey wheat bread. Organic peanut butter. Sugar Free grape jelly. Freaking crack
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Elusive photo of a wild draymondocong with his mouth closed. Never before seen in the wild.
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[earldagoat]

Bravelude looking down right now from that big meat market in the sky with a single tear and big smile

 

[MVP]

What's your vitals Freeze?

 

[sea manup]

Food of the God's.

One of my secret weapons to getting muscles and abs that can cut glass. Honey wheat bread. Organic peanut butter. Sugar Free grape jelly. Freaking crack

 

putting jam and pb on the bread then putting it in the toaster (not the vertical slot toaster of course) then making a sandwich out of it is pure greatness

you get the outside of the sandwich toasted crispy while the pre applied jam and pb block the inside half of the bread from getting toasted leaving you with a crunchy shell around soft goodness 

 

[earldagoat]

Grape Jelly is the GOAT. 

Strawberry jam & Orange marmalade can kick rocks.

Anyone ever gone w/ the  PB+J+Fluff sandwich? 

Or how about Teenage Mutant Bacon Burgers?

 

[sea manup]

that much bacon would probably kill you 

 

[earldagoat]

SAN QUENTIN, Calif.—It was an off day during the NBA Finals, and the general manager of the Golden State Warriors was in prison.

Last weekend, as Golden State’s players and coaches arrived at their arena for a light practice, Bob Myers and a team of Warriors executives, former college players and pickup basketball regulars surrendered their cell phones and checked themselves into San Quentin State Prison. The gates of California’s oldest correctional institution locked behind them.

They passed through a courtyard with the state’s only death row, down a hill with a 19th-century dungeon, into a yard overseen by watchtowers and onto a basketball court rimmed with barbed wire. An inmate serving a life sentence approached them. His name was Daniel Wright, but he went by Bear. He wrapped up Myers in an enormous hug.

“I heard you were coming,” he said. “I said he can’t be. They’re in the middle of the Finals.”

Wright didn’t have to introduce himself. Everyone knew exactly who he was: the coach of the San Quentin Warriors.

The Warriors are to San Quentin what the other Warriors were to the NBA this season. Myers’s team ran up the league’s top home record on its way to the Finals, which return to Oracle Arena for Game 5 on Sunday with the series tied at 2-2. San Quentin’s Warriors, though, have their own home-court advantage in their Saturday games against civilians.

Playing basketball in this prison can be a peculiar experience. On the outside, there are rolling hills, swaying palm trees and panoramic waterfront views. On the inside, though, the first thing visitors see is a unit with some of the 729 men in California condemned to death—one of many signs that this isn’t the same as other Saturday morning pickup runs.  But the basketball itself was as serious as any in the Bay Area. Both teams played hard. There were inmates working as a timekeeper, statistician and scoreboard operator. Three were referees with duck whistles. A play-by-play announcer named Aaron Taylor called the action from across the outdoor court.  “It’s the best team, unfortunately, that we’ve ever had,” he said.  Only the prison’s elite players are picked for the San Quentin Warriors. There are official uniforms—mesh tops with the Golden State Warriors’ outdated logo—for 14 of the roughly 50 prisoners who try out every season. The others suit up for a second-tier team named after another NBA franchise: the San Quentin Kings.  Teams from all over the Bay Area come to play the Warriors. Don Smith, a laser engineer and volunteer pastor, has been playing for the visiting team at San Quentin for 18 years as part of a ministry outreach program, while the organizing is now overseen by Bill Epling, a Silicon Valley software executive. Word of the unusual arrangement reached Ben Draa, who works in the Warriors’ business office, and he brought Kirk Lacob, Golden State’s assistant general manager. It wasn’t long before other team emissaries were tagging along.

Daniel Wright (left), the coach of the San Quentin Warriors, welcomes Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers to his home court in San Quentin State Prison. Photo: San Quentin News   Warriors players started taking team trips to jail three years ago. They don’t participate in the games, but former coach Mark Jackson did, as do several of current coach Steve Kerr’s assistants. Even on the sidelines, though, Golden State’s players came away influenced by the experience. “They’re guys who made mistakes,” said Warriors forward Marreese Speights. “Everybody makes mistakes. They got caught.”  San Quentin has a population of 3,808 prisoners, according to California’s department of corrections and rehabilitation, and that includes some of the country’s most notorious convicted killers on death row. They are not permitted to play basketball with the general population. For the thousands of other inmates at this lower-security prison, however, there are programs like tennis clubs, a monthly newspaper and the San Quentin Warriors.  The visiting team still sticks to a strict dress code. Blue, the color of inmate attire, is taboo. Last week, as the fog burned off the San Francisco Bay, the players sprayed on sunscreen in San Quentin’s parking lot, dressed in their green jerseys and carried in bags of outdoor basketballs. They were told to do whatever the correctional officers say in case of a crisis, though there has never been one.  The San Quentin Warriors showed up while Myers and the Green Team were shooting warmups. Wright came right over to Myers and reminded him he had predicted the Warriors would win the Western Conference at a time when almost no one else expected that. “I hate to toot my own horn,” he said, “but what did I tell you?” 

Bob Myers, general manager of the Golden State Warriors, at the center of a huddle before a game between the San Quentin Warriors and the Green Team. Photo: San Quentin News   San Quentin’s team had upset the Golden State Warriors the last time that Myers was here—and they hadn’t forgotten about it. The prisoners were especially chatty about assistant coach Luke Walton’s performance. They claimed the former NBA player had shied away from the post to settle for outside shots. (”Absolutely not true,” Walton said in response to the allegations.)  That win in September couldn’t have come at a better time for Wright, who is eligible for parole in 2036, serving a life sentence for a burglary under the state’s three-strikes law. Wright had been threatening to return to the court as a player, but beating the Golden State Warriors convinced him he should remain on the sidelines. Still, even with San Quentin undefeated this season, Wright’s coaching was the subject of questioning among the fans and local media. 

“Of course I’m a critic,” said Taylor, the play-by-play announcer. 

“He ain’t the only one,” Wright said. “I would not wish this job on anybody.” 

The San Quentin Warriors practice on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for their Saturday games. Last week, though, Thursday’s practice was canceled. The San Quentin Warriors were busy watching the real Golden State Warriors in the Finals.  They didn’t seem rusty when the game tipped. First there was a prayer circle in which Robert Butler, who is serving a life sentence with parole, quoted Thomas Jefferson. San Quentin shot out to an early lead with hundreds of other inmates circling the court—but the Warriors soon realized the Green Team was stacked. The road team’s rotation included former players for Claremont McKenna College, Washington University in St. Louis and the semi-professional Washington Generals.  “They come with the heat,” said Rahsaan Thomas, the sports editor of the San Quentin News, who was sentenced to life with parole second-degree murder. “But they never come with this much heat.”  Wright, though, had come up with a clever strategy. As the San Quentin Warriors huddled around him and his dry-erase whiteboard during timeouts, he decided to dial up a zone defense, which was designed to dare the Green Team to settle for outside shots in the gusting wind. He also urged his team to do the exact opposite when they were on offense. “Everything to the rack,” he said. “Jump shots ain’t going in, and Bob Myers cannot move his feet. Go to the hole on these dudes.” 

The problem with this plan was that Myers, a former national champion at UCLA and the recently named NBA executive of the year, may have been the best player on the court. At one point he even laid out for a loose ball. Myers ended up with 26 points, which Thomas said was below Myers’s prison scoring average, but enough for the Green Team’s 85-79 win.  It was the San Quentin Warriors’ first defeat of this season. Wright was off on the outcome—he had called a Warriors win—and he may be wrong again soon. He had predicted Golden State’s run to the Finals, he said, though he had stopped short of saying they would win the NBA title. It turns out he’s such a big LeBron James fan that he admitted he was pulling for the Cavaliers. “But I wouldn’t be upset if the Warriors win,” he said.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bay-areas-other-warriors-play-in-prison-1434130991

 

[Deleted member 37467]

I want lasagna.

 

[a-friend]

They lost me at Prison.

 

[earldagoat]

 
They lost me at Prison.

Too bad.  Pretty cool article.  Worth the read.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

 

[freeze]

They lost me at Prison.

100. I just reupped on a bag of dambs, but i couldn't spare eeem 1 for the longest yard: hoop time.

 

[a-friend]

They lost me at Prison.

100. I just reupped on a bag of dambs, but i couldn't spare eeem 1 for the longest yard: hoop time.

For real.
I'm not a cold heart but, you have to catch me on another day and a different bat channel to get me all worked up over a GSW prison squad.

Not today Earl, not today.
No

 

[youngwolf]

Food of the God's.

One of my secret weapons to getting muscles and abs that can cut glass. Honey wheat bread. Organic peanut butter. Sugar Free grape jelly. Freaking crack
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You're doing it wrong.

You need three slices of bread. You toast two of them and spread with peanut butter. You leave the third slice untoasted and you spread jelly on both sides. Now you layer all three and enjoy the greatest pb&j sandwich ever.

 

[earldagoat]

Not today Earl, not today.
No

Haha, fair enough.  Back to PB & Gif

 

[noblekane]

Damn so luke walton played prison ball? Talk about have it all

 

[a-friend]

Not today Earl, not today.

No

Haha, fair enough.  Back to PB & Gif
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Now, this is the real Earl

 

[a-friend]

Damn so luke walton played prison ball? Talk about have it all

He hooped with prisoners?
Or played prison ball?

I'm guessing he hoped with prisoners, ain't ****

 

[noblekane]

Oh you og triple og now?

 

[Deleted member 37467]

I got $150 on the San Quentin Kings winning a prison league chip before the Sacramento Kings win an NBA chip.

Any takers?

 

[rck3sactown]

 

[noblekane]

Lol