close encounter with the famous.....

I've had the famous comedian Rich Brockman at my house before...does that count?

Haha, you just want a free DVD!

Free?? I don't think so.
There better be some cash coming my way too...

Anyone a fan of amazing race?
Phil Keoghan is a serious cyclist!
Keynote lunch address today in OC

I met Ed Hochuli last week in PHX at a conference for defense and corporate counsel.  He delivered a presentation titled "Negotiating With The Big Boys."  Entertaining content, and the catchy title suggested people getting into referee faces actually influence calls.  Of course, right?  I challenged him that refs should make the calls, as they see them, when they see them, regardless of the game-turning implications, to which he demurred, refs are only only humans.  He's about 6 ft, burly, and no doubt a media ho.

http://www.jshfirm.com/EdwardGHochuli

Later, i met Jim McKean former MLB supervising ump who delivered a talk about "Making The Right Call."  I asked him how he was able to not let the history of the moment affect his calls - where calling a ball v. strike could mean the difference in someone's career, taking player from hero to zero, and vice versa.  To the opposite of Hochuli, Mckean said the historical importance of a call never affected him one bit, and that he held his integrity to a higher standard than to be influenced by others.  Yeah.  Right!   

What sports do you officiate, at what level and for how long?

I met Ed Hochuli last week in PHX at a conference for defense and corporate counsel.  He delivered a presentation titled "Negotiating With The Big Boys."  Entertaining content, and the catchy title suggested people getting into referee faces actually influence calls.  Of course, right?  I challenged him that refs should make the calls, as they see them, when they see them, regardless of the game-turning implications, to which he demurred, refs are only only humans.  He's about 6 ft, burly, and no doubt a media ho.

http://www.jshfirm.com/EdwardGHochuli

Later, i met Jim McKean former MLB supervising ump who delivered a talk about "Making The Right Call."  I asked him how he was able to not let the history of the moment affect his calls - where calling a ball v. strike could mean the difference in someone's career, taking player from hero to zero, and vice versa.  To the opposite of Hochuli, Mckean said the historical importance of a call never affected him one bit, and that he held his integrity to a higher standard than to be influenced by others.  Yeah.  Right!   

What sports do you officiate, at what level and for how long?

I believe you could say: a money sport - "Law" 

Hochuli is giving MCLE?  Details?  PM if desired. That sounds sweet.

He presented at two CLE's this year on sports law.

https://www.sfia.org/press/608_Super-Bowl-Referee-Ed-Hochuli-to-Speak-at-2014-Litigation-&-Risk-Management-Summit

http://fdccconferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CCS-2014-Bro_8-12b-14_online1.pdf

He also delivers at insurance-sponsored events.  His gig is general liability defense, with supposedly over 150 civil jury trials.  Not too shabby lol.

I went to high school with Lee Lantz.  He is the guy that renamed the Patagonian Toothfish to Chilean Sea Bass and introduced it to the US market.

I met a bunch of 49ers at a charity basketball game in Napa in the very early 90's. I remember Steve Young and Mike Cofer being there for sure, and I recall Eric Davis and Bill Musgrave too, and then lots of other backups as well. The elementary school that I had gone to (I think I was in junior high at the time) was putting on the event and I helped set up so I got to hang around backstage and say hello to the players. I remember Young being nice but Musgrave was a jerk and Cofer was a total asshole. Quite the ego for a sub-mediocre kicker !

We got to have a beer with Tony during our last trip to SCI.
He's been a paddler for almost as long as I've been alive.

http://www.islandkayaking.com/pdf/Deep_Magazine_Article.pdf

TEller of penn and teller was a latin teacher at my high school.  I didn't have him but my little brother did.

Dominus Vobiscum

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I've had the famous comedian Rich Brockman at my house before...does that count?

Haha, you just want a free DVD!

Free?? I don't think so.
There better be some cash coming my way too...

THAT is funny! 

TEller of penn and teller was a latin teacher at my high school.  I didn't have him but my little brother did.

Dominus Vobiscum

Bushy

the one that don't talk?  how in hell did he teach anything

Buckminster Fuller

Duke Ellington

Joe Montana

Dusty Baker

Walt Disney

...I am not bullsh*tting

I recently served on a jury for a civil suit. Some dumb ass tried to claim he tripped and broke his wrist on some old lady's sidewalk and was trying to sue her and the city of Santa Rosa.

Anyway, the defense attorney for the city was Mike Casey, who survived a pretty viscious GWS attack while bodyboarding at Bodega Dunes beach in 2003.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Escape-from-the-jaws-of-death-Body-boarder-Mike-2678450.php

I recently served on a jury for a civil suit. Some dumb ass tried to claim he tripped and broke his wrist on some old lady's sidewalk and was trying to sue her and the city of Santa Rosa.

Anyway, the defense attorney for the city was Mike Casey, who survived a pretty viscious GWS attack while bodyboarding at Bodega Dunes beach in 2003.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Escape-from-the-jaws-of-death-Body-boarder-Mike-2678450.php

GNAR