It’s Baaaaaaaaack!

Here we go. Got my first sighting of the reanimated talking helmet hair head of Mel Kiper Jr. Must be draft hyperventilating time. I mean, really, all these prognosticators go south after the first 6 picks anyway. But there’s plenty of money and plenty of clicks to be had, so carry on, Mel.

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43 Responses to It’s Baaaaaaaaack!

  1. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Ahhhh, man. This really sucks. Bud Cort passed away at 77. He was insanely gret in Harold & Maude. One of my all-time favorite movies.

    I saw it in the theaters when I was 10 and my older sister took me. It was basically a home movie as everywhere it was filmed was in my back yard. The Burlingame courthouse. OLA church. The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. The National Cemetery in Colma, the Dumbarton Bridge. Woodside hills. Emeryville mudflats/kinetic sculpture field next to 880. The Filoli Estate where Harold lived. The train car parked in Belmont where Maude lived. Peninsula Hospital. On and on. The XKE.

    It blew my 10 year old mind. I watch that movie with my kids every 5-10 years and it is crazy how much is the same and how much is different.

    If you haven’t seen the movie, please do. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon both should have won Oscars for their perfomances. As it was, they both did win Golden Globes for best actor/actress in a comedy.

  2. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Excellent soundtrack by Cat Stevens as well. He wrote some of the songs for the movie.

  3. Berger's avatar Berger says:

    I’d like to see OG Ola Ioane with our first pick. Most mocks have him going to the Charger, 6 picks ahead of us. If he is gone, an OT. For my round 2 choice, the other OL we didn’t get, a CB or a pure pass rusher. (Don’t care if he can stop the run).

  4. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    They don’t go after ALL Interior Offensive Linemen in this draft as possible then you can kiss any future SB championships away! To me behind the QB the next important part is a SOLID OL in the Trenches!!

  5. bakkentom's avatar bakkentom says:

    https://www.ninersnation.com/san-francisco-49ers-news/156157/mapping-out-a-realistic-offseason-for-the-49ers-to-climb-back-into-the-contenders-chair

    FS for $8 million that Raheem Morris drafted for ATL in 2020

    DT 3-technique for $8 million . John Franklin-Meyers last 2 seasons 7 sacks each.

    WR Romeo Doubs as an X.

    C from CLE

    How much would all 4 cost. Let Matt Hennessy backup. Trade C Brendel to Titans which they have a bust there right now.

  6. Winder's avatar Winder says:

    Chuck- Nice post about bay area sites.I know most of em really well also. Just read where we are playing in Mexico City also this year as the home team. This is probably a PR move by Jed to get a large share of people in Mexico which I think we already have. It should also bring our AZ and Ram rivalry games into Mexico too maybe even including Dallas and the Chargers since all have large Mexican populations. Probably a real smart business move.

  7. blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

    Agree Harold & Maude one of the best LOL comedies of all time. The eccentricities of both; age differences; numerous known SF Bay Area sites where it was filmed; and, kooky friend and loveship, made this a sleeper hit.

    I’ll be frank – I would not have gone to the theater for this movie if it had been my choice. However, back then my mom, brother and I were still doing a “family night,” where we went out to dinner once a week and saw a movie, usually at the Sunnyvale multi-plex on El Camino. My late mom was pretty hip back in the day, e.g., took my brother to a Led Zeppelin concert at Kezar; we saw a Joe Cocker movie at the same theater I mentioned above (umm, the Woodstock movie too); and, A Clockwork Orange, which at first, they would not let my brother and I into the theater for. Mom raised a ruckus and we got in. lmao. Miss her a lot.

    • unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

      Were those the Century Theaters? The ones that looked like spaceships? Saw Tommy there, and it was like going to a rock concert at the time.

      Yeah, my mom was the same. Tiny little Irish woman who was feisty as the day was long and could drink sailors under the table. She took my older brother and older sister to see the Beatles at the Cow Palace. Sadly I was only 5 and didn’t get to go.

      She loved movies and took me and us kids to all kinds of crazy ones. Catch-22 being one of them. I was 8 for that one. But my older older sister took me to Harold & Maude.

      • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

        Yeah, right near the Odyssey Room (regular hangout when I was in my early 20s). Same with my mom Chuck, she didn’t like something, she would say what was on her mind. Surprised my stepdad was able to handle her. Secret? Her rants would go in one ear and out the other.

        He owned the gas station on that island (forgot the bar at the other end, but another hangout for me) near Rick’s Swiss Chalet, where my mom worked and get this – he was in a Catholic seminary for 4 years (again, the reason why he was able to love my mom for 40+ years, despite her feisty nature).

        Mom was a waitress, supporting 2 kids, bought her own home in Sunnyvale. It was hard enough back then to do that. Today? No freaking way with how much homes cost and all the tech millionaire bros/sisters being able to outbid everyone that has a “regular job.”

        She went back to college after she married my stepdad . . . Fast forward after graduating, she got a job at NASA, Moffett Field. Her and I would go to lunch frequently because I was an OSH manager with NASA at the time and later, the Department of the Navy, before I moved to Monterey (again, working for the Navy, but at their Naval Postgraduate School).

      • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

        Saw some really good bands there, Animals, Elvin Bishop, Edgar Winter, Tower of Power, Buddy Miles, etc., etc. My cousin was a bouncer there too. lol

      • unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

        Wow. That’s great stuff. I never hung out down there much, but they did have some great shows.

        My cousin ended up at Lockheed and worked there for 40 years, and dear old dad lived in Los Gatos (he was at Farichild) but we were in San Mateo.

        Dad’s favorite place (and we had our wedding reception there) was Renzo’s. Total old-school Italian restaurant.

        That and L’Auberge in Redwood City when my folks were together.

  8. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Mexico AND Australia? Wow. We will be hitting the Inca Roads.

  9. 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

    I could get with that, I agree no Brown, risk/reward doesn’t pencil.

    • bakkentom's avatar bakkentom says:

      adhere to the bill walsh philosophy of moving skill players one year before their prime

      I also got cold feet on aiyuk after the 1300 yard season and got our OT then

    • unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

      Walsh’s philosophy wasn’t to move players one year before their prime. It was one year after their prime.

      Aiyuk’s 27 and nowhere near being washed.

      But he fucked his own self out of here. Dude will have a rude awakening when he goes to Washington.

      Shanny just has to stop drafting WRs and RBs in the first 4 rounds.

  10. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Missing NJ right about now.

  11. Winder's avatar Winder says:

    I lived in sunnyvale for 3 years and I love it but a lot of those time are hazy. I know I hit everywhere that played music but can’t remember the names of em. I do remember a friend of mines brother was in the house band at Cowtown. I used to love going there not so much for the country music which was pretty good but there were usually really pretty girls that loved to dance.

    • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

      Winder, I loved growing up in Sunnyvale. Entire South Bay was an outstanding experience growing up in. Same deal as a young adult. Sheesh, 45 minutes to the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. My girlfriend lived deep in Woodside, but still only a half hour, despite the windy mountain roads via the 285 turn-off. San Francisco Sunset district, where I had relatives and friends, again – was only 40-45 minutes.

      The operative word is “was.” Today, the entire San Francisco Bay Area is a shithole. A piece of shit real estate in Sunnyvale goes for at least a million dollars. Count on that being a fixer upper. ALL PARKING SPOTS at malls, big box stores, Safeways, strip malls, etc., have been shrunk to ONLY fit a compact car. God forbid you have a truck or SUV, much less a full size truck. Back to traffic . . . A recent trip from my old home in Pollock Pines, 14 miles outside of Placerville, took me 5 hours and 30 minutes to drive to Sunnyvale! I hit 5 traffic jams, including one in Milpitas (H237) that took me almost an hour to get to the Maude Ave turn off!

      I think people only stay because they have become numb or programmed to the bullshit that they face daily. Not certain, but I think Unca is thinking about moving to Montana . . . Good move if you do Chuck. Sheesh, when I left CA in 1997 due to a job promotion (in Colorado), it was still a good place to live. The only reason I returned is due to concern about COVID and my parents (they didn’t have it, but they were elderly and I thought I should be there). Ironically, cancer (as I said previously) took them.

      • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

        End of rant . . . lol

      • Winder's avatar Winder says:

        blade- totally agree on the bay area now. I spent most of my growing years on willow rd between the 101 and middlefield rd. I went back in2017 and I couldn’t recognize anything my dad had bought our house for 15,000 in 55 and now the property taxes for that house is over 23,000 a year. They did remodel some of it but the front still looked the same. I also had family all over San Francisco, the Haight, sunset, and the avenues, also had some off balboa. Traffic always sucked but I guess now its even worse. But it was an interesting place to grow up. I almost bought some land at Pollock Pines in 1967 and took helicopter ride to see it. But life was just a little to chaotic for me at that time and I passed it up. I regretted that later.

    • blade3colorado's avatar blade3colorado says:

      Knew all those places well, as my aunt and uncle lived on the Avenues (11th). Born and raised in San Francisco for my first 5 years . . . Still recall the “Fun House” (Playland at the Beach I think it was called???) on Ocean ave., where I would spend all day on that freakin’ slide and round thing (forgot the name) that spun around and through you against the wall if you couldn’t hold on. Grandfather introduced me and took me regularly to the Giants games. Saw a Niner game at Kezar too.

      I hunted, camped and fished (Jenkinson Lake) at Pollock Pines. I bought there because of fond memories growing up as a kid and a young adult. More importantly, I bought there because the SF Bay Area priced out everyone except tech millionaires. Unfortunately, that’s turned mostly into a shit show too, with too much traffic between Pollock Pines and Folsom/Sac area. Likewise, meth heads stealing for their fix, coupled with driving at night, as these fucks are high as a kite by dinner time.

      When I bought my home in WA, I think I physically and mentally started to decompress when I drove pass Redding (lol), last major city in California. Sheesh, by the time I hit Bend, Oregon, I was amazed how everyone literally was driving like they had a clear understanding of physics (not tailgating/speeding), and everyone was polite at the stores and rest stops. lol

      • Winder's avatar Winder says:

        blade I don’t know what they called that round thing either but I never got tired of going to playland or the Zoo/pool. I believe it was the the family dog that move to playland for awhile. I was born in the mission district and I remember when I was 4/5 years old walking down market street with my grandma in the middle fifty’s and all these black jacket greasers were yelling at everybody walking by and they were there for years doing that. There was a lot of Character in SF before all the dot com’s got there some of it not so good. But I love it, just like the Niners.

      • Winder's avatar Winder says:

        Love the Giants just as much as the Niners but with a 162 game season you just can’t get to involved with wins or losses it will make you crazy.

  12. bakkentom's avatar bakkentom says:

    https://www.ninersnation.com/san-francisco-49ers-rumors/156217/what-swing-for-the-fences-move-should-the-49ers-make-this-offseason

    Need to think hard about this trade.

    A.J. Brown for Piersall plus our 3rd.

    Brian Thomas Jr and 3rd for our 1st rd.

    This would leave our 2nd for LG. Spencer Burford stays as backup LT.

  13. 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

    Seahawks hired 49ers TE coach Brian Fleury as their new OC.

    Inside info on steroids.

  14. alleykat69's avatar alleykat69 says:

    Robert Duvall has passed away at a remarkable 95 years old and a 7 decade film achievements such a tremendous actor!
    Nothing like the smell of “Napalm in the Morning “! RIP to a true legend 🙏👏

  15. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Yeah, just saw that. Damn. So many great movies.

    New thread is up.

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