ARE YOU SICK OF NONSTOP BAY TO BREAKERS COVERAGE? I am.
The human cesspool --known as a "wacky" SF-centric footrace lost its shimmy a long time ago. It's a pathetic picture of moistly drunk, obnoxious, putrid yuppies with nothing better to do on a Sunday morning then pee on someone's grass and yell out loud obscene nonsense --what a treasure to civilized society.
But get this: I blame the SF Media, notably TV News which might as well be charged with aiding and abetting the drunk morons who use the race as an excuse to get inebriated and act and sound like fools, enter TV cameras and radio mics --what a complete disaster; what an embarrassment for SF and its sickening, drug-infused, feces-laden streets. The epitome of asininity and then some.
Bay to Breakers was unique around the time of the Carter administration. It lost whatever charm it ever had long ago pre-Internet and only now serves as the perfect metaphor for SF's banality. First off, it's NOT really a serious race anymore. It's not a marathon. It ain't no funny race either. The costumes suck and public drunkenness and nudity isn't even original anymore. Plus those that are showing off their drunk, naked bods usually resemble Japanese sumo wrestlers.
TV news reporters perpetuate this disgusting theatre of the absurd. The actualities from the miscreants are embarrassing. The chirpy masses with mics are almost as moronic as the running lunatics. Just what I want to see on a rainy Sunday? Mass tortilla throwing. Oh, I just can't have enough of it! (Barf)
You know what would be cool? One of the TV stations just ignores this pathetic ritual. It is lame; it is stupid; it has no charm; it has zero creativity; it smells like bad urine; it is human feces with a pound of wretched excess. It STINKS, period --literally and figuratively. There's no law that says, hey, Bay Area media, it's the DUMB Bay to Breakers infested with stinky millennials and their human waste, lets us cover it! Just Shut Up!
You call me scrooge? Then go walk through the urine and tortillas on city streets. And then ask the neighbors near this silly abomination what they think.
It's an outrage with SF Media participating; their reporters and news people should be jailed for many years. Tortured even. What insipid bastards.
LOL, Lieberman (who can't get dressed without sweating) is critical of the event because it "it's not a marathon"
ReplyDeleteYes Rich. Please be kind to this gathering of Democrat voters in the most liberal syringe infested/poop on sidewalk infested city on the planet.
Delete"their reporters and news people should be jailed for many years."
ReplyDeleteStarting to sound like 45* there Rich!
Amen, Rich! And it always seems like the ones that prance around naked in public are the same ones no one wants to see naked in the first place.
ReplyDeleteBorn and raised in the City. Have run the B2B many times.
DeleteThe naked folks don't bother me that much, aside from the fact that those who run naked should cover those awful bodies in public. My biggest gripe is the naked runner that mills around the finish line where kids are waiting to meet their loved ones. Those perverts should definitely be arrested.
Why is it that the only runners who dress up in costume for the Bay to Breakers race, are White?
ReplyDeletehow would you know? Many of the costumes conceal skin color
DeleteThey are the only ones that can afford costumes?
DeleteI'm sure if there was a Medi-Costume program in California you'd see costumes all over!
4:38, don’t give the “nanny” city S.F. any ideas. The city politicians love to tell people what they can and cannot do, I’m sure they’d like to have control of PC costumes.
Deletethey aren't yuppies..yuppies are now old..they are millennials(also getting long of tooth) and gen Z...
ReplyDelete*Democrat voters.
DeleteI run in this every year with a group of friends, it is great fun. Why don't we cancel all A's games because they are a pathetic group of sorry ass baseball players?
ReplyDeleteGo pound sand. We native San Franciscans should run you and your friends out of town.
Delete12:20, why so grumpy little guy?
Delete"We"? Who is "we"? What would give you the right to? More importantly, what do the A's (who are in another city across the bay, btw) have anything to do w/the Bay to Breakers in SF? Stay on point. You're probably watching old, long-ago Giants games. They lost today, BTW. Talk about sorry asses.
DeleteFWIW, the SF Cumulus cluster completely ignored Bay To Breakers again this year. We ran promos for the "Bridge to Bridge" run. It got no coverage on any of the stations. At all.
ReplyDeleteKNBR The Only Sports We Feel Like Covering Leader.
DeleteGood they ignored it. Playing the taped stuff on weekends probably helped too!
DeleteI did not see any Bay Area TV station cover it live. Used to be start to finish on KRON or TV20. So the news ran a minute of the story ... big deal.
ReplyDeleteI was born and raised in San Francisco. What a disgrace the city has become. I use to be proud that I was from San Francisco however not anymore. What a s$##hole it has turned into. What the hell is the tortilla toss all about? What a mess. Here's a link that I hope Rich will put on his blog.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/#105e2295ea58
San Francisco has been a long running freak show, except it's worse now. No accountability. No responsibility. No respect. It has become "The City that knows how to do the absurd." We spend $$$ on these sideshows while downtown San Francisco smells like a sewer because of human waste. What are we spending $$$ on? Politicos pet projects that do absolutely zero for the population? Clean the damn streets. Clean up the population. They think they can run an energy company yet they can't run the Muni or the city properly. Who's kidding who?
ReplyDelete"Long running freak show"--San Francisco, the Bay to Breakers, or both?
DeleteI am a native of the city that was once the crown jewel of the west coast. Not any longer. My heart is broken on how far she has fallen into the trash heap of oblivion. Until the ge government running this mess gets their heads out of their asses it will continue to spiral downhill. So very, very sad.
ReplyDeleteI've never cared about this race, going way back to seeing insipid news stories about KPIX's coverage with Wayne Walker and that idiot Ann Fraser. KRON did a similarly barfy job of it afterwards. I wish S.F. had a real marathon, not this Festival of Dopey Naked People.
ReplyDeleteLooks like another bullshit post by Rich who has no clue.
ReplyDeleteTell us what he has no clue of. Or perhaps you can list all the "bullshit" items in his post with bullet points refuting each?
Delete...Oh, didn't think so.
BTB ceased being a "family event" when the inappropriate lack of attire increased tenfold. Sumo wrestlers? More like The Walking Dead. Maybe that explains the marketing appeal, which is the bane of the BTB existence more than the Bay Media. Horrifying thought if any of the nude runners turned out to be the sickest predators. Uh, social fun? Well, there is Wine Country and lots of parks, diners, and attractions, all without most of the over-commercialization and substance abuse, let alone attention desperation. I'll take a day at the ballpark every time (both were on the road this weekend), albeit without the inane Amy G if the ballpark is Oracle.
ReplyDeleteBorn at the Presidio when it was the most meticulously kept property in San Francisco and every street sparkled. Of course, in later years we had to traverse taudry Broadway to get there for medical care, but that pit of dismay was an isolated one. My feeling is that the crass and lack of self-respect apparent on Broadway infected the city from that one street and spread outward, eventually turning San Francisco into the proverbial sewer we see today.
ReplyDeleteI, too, used to take pride in being born in what was once a beautiful city. That came to an end hastened by the likes of Willy Brown. I don't think Breed has the fortitude to make any changes, sorry to say. What a disappointment. The lowest common denominator rules the day in San Francisco and it would take a major cultural shift to change it. A shift that I don't believe the politically correct, who appear to rule the city by fiat, are willing to make.
You know nothing https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-to-Breakers-arrests-2019-rain-San-Francisco-13863058.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
ReplyDeleteI would have been excited to see the lead up to the race if KRON hadn't been OFF AIR for most of Saturday.
ReplyDeleteI don't call you Scrooge. I agree with you 100 percent. Most of the "celebrations" in SF and environs that the media promotes I don't get. A lot of people behaving badly and getting drunk/stoned and performing vandalism and destroying property. And we CELEBRATE it. One of so many reasons I want to get out of the Bay Area. Another is we worry more about the rights of criminals than of victims. We go crazy if someone uses a straw or paper bag, but cars can be broken into and "it's not a high priority" with the police. We are completely, totally ass-backwards about everything.
ReplyDeleteWish these drunken exhibitionists would take a run straight into the Bay. Hopefully, that would put an end to this yearly crapfest and also get rid of most of the drunks who'll be clogging the sidewalks dressed in Santa suits around Christmas.
ReplyDeleteIt really does make no sense to cover. I guess Sunday being a slow news day makes it easy to plan and cover for the Sunday evening news - but nobody watches local news Sunday mornings, people that are interested are IN THE RACE or AT THE RACE so live coverage is pointless.
ReplyDeleteOh, was the Bay to Breakers yesterday??
ReplyDelete@AnonymousMay 20, 2019 at 2:43 PM That's because the Police in San Francisco have just given up! They look the other way and who can blame them?
ReplyDeleteI can blame them! We would not have this beautiful country called America if everyone looked the other way and just gave up! Hopefully we are still a Nation of winners, not "losers."
DeleteYesterday was Armed Forces Day. Never saw or heard a word about it. Not surprised knowing more people attend the Gay Pride parade than the Veterans Day parade in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteIn Singapore if caught crapping in public you get to spend the next 30 days cleaning public toilets. In San Francisco you can shit anywhere you want and someone else will clean it up...what a great Country we have created!
This Country needs one gigantic "enema" to flush out the social decay. Inserting the probe in San Francisco would be a great place to start.
The " moistly drunk " typo in the original posting was apropos.
ReplyDeleteI only watched KTVU last night, and I didn't notice them giving the race anymore attention than I thought was warranted.
It was cool to read at sf gate today that there was only one arrest and that the race seemed much more mellow than in years past.
I have lived in the bay area all of my life, born in Oakland. Moved to SF and then migrated to the burbs when we couldn't afford to raise our daughter in the city.
I love San Francisco and always will. My husband works in the embarcadero and it's still a joy to share what still is positive and unique there with a new generation when we meet as a family for his lunch hour or in the evening.
The housing crisis, the homeless crisis, the incredible disparity in incomes all make me so sad...but I haven't given up hope yet that things can get better.
For once I actually agree with the overbearing horse's ass that is Rich Lieberman. The Bay to Breakers sucks big time.
ReplyDeleteBay to Breakers is irrelevant unless one lives in SF. Not newsworthy at all.
ReplyDeleteHey, 11:30--
ReplyDeleteThe A's are doing better than the Giants...and they also have more promising minor league prospects.
The Giants are D-E-A-D...and have few prospects. Now HERE'S your "pathetic group of sorry-ass baseball players." If any team needs to be cancelled...or relegated (a la the English Premiere League), it is the GIANTS.
Too bad the A's ratings don't reflect that. There are Ukranian radio stations and shopping channels on TV with better ratings than their games.
DeleteHey, does anyone out there know what color Natasha's going to paint nails this week ?
ReplyDeleteFeels blue and gold to me.
DeleteSan Francisco should take a year off, say 2020, and just clean the place up and then slowly start again. That is all.
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time you were in SF?
DeleteOne good thing about the running biz these days -- no more KPIX and KCBS fawning over Roberta Gonzales' training regimen.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Roberta was painted as a world class runner, but she ran her fastest when she saw a margarita!
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