Gilbert Quinonez
@gqgilbert.bsky.social
Post mostly about sports and board games. Love all kinds of games, from light to heavy. Root for mostly disappointing sports teams. Big Ten alum. Not my cat in the photo but I like him!
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Who is asking for this
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Who is asking for this
Halfway to perfection.
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Halfway to perfection.
My MLB wrapped is telling me I have a problem, I watch way too much baseball. Note that this mostly doesn’t include Angels or Dodgers games in my home market.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
My MLB wrapped is telling me I have a problem, I watch way too much baseball. Note that this mostly doesn’t include Angels or Dodgers games in my home market.
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my annual list of my all-time top 100 board games is now up, a bit later as I removed Amazon links in favor of smaller vendors: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...
Top 100 board games, 2025 edition.
meadowparty.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
my annual list of my all-time top 100 board games is now up, a bit later as I removed Amazon links in favor of smaller vendors: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...
I keep wondering when a program will try a Moneyball-like approach and intentionally hire a lower-paid coach (promoting a coordinator or hiring from G5/FCS, etc.) while putting the extra money into NIL.
I’ll keep saying this but this still feels nuts to me. That CFB coaches are making $10 million regularly and 5-star QBs — surely the most valuable assets in the sport — are at around $1 million
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I keep wondering when a program will try a Moneyball-like approach and intentionally hire a lower-paid coach (promoting a coordinator or hiring from G5/FCS, etc.) while putting the extra money into NIL.
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UCLA did something smart?
I’m suspicious
I’m suspicious
SOURCE: UCLA is hiring James Madison head coach Bob Chesney to be its new head coach, @theathletic.com has learned. He just told the team he's leaving.
Chesney has been the top focus of the search for weeks. He's led the Dukes to an 11-1 record this season, 20-5 in two seasons.
Chesney has been the top focus of the search for weeks. He's led the Dukes to an 11-1 record this season, 20-5 in two seasons.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
UCLA did something smart?
I’m suspicious
I’m suspicious
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The Kickstarter for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes has just a few days left before it closes. @flatoutgames.bsky.social sent me a preview copy and I think it measures up to the original Cascadia, one of my favorite games ever. Here's my review: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Kickstarter for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes has just a few days left before it closes. @flatoutgames.bsky.social sent me a preview copy and I think it measures up to the original Cascadia, one of my favorite games ever. Here's my review: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...
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and this is how i learned the us catholic bishops have a tiktok account
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
and this is how i learned the us catholic bishops have a tiktok account
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I’m an Angels fan who agrees with this. I’m still a fan, but the days of me pouring all my energy into this team are over until Arte sells or they’re competitive. There’s a difference between supporting a team when it’s down and supporting the literal worst playoff drought in American pro sports.
Angels fans, it’s OK to stop. Trust me. As someone who did it, it’s perfectly acceptable. You don’t have to stay. You’re not required to. You can come back when they’ve earned it. You owe it to yourselves. It doesn’t make you a fair-weather fan. It makes you rational.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m an Angels fan who agrees with this. I’m still a fan, but the days of me pouring all my energy into this team are over until Arte sells or they’re competitive. There’s a difference between supporting a team when it’s down and supporting the literal worst playoff drought in American pro sports.
Trading sheep for a bigger audience
Netflix acquired the screen adaptation rights to the Catan board game franchise, but not its gaming rights.
Netflix Can Now Make a Settlers of Catan Movie and Series, but Not Its Own Catan Game
Netflix acquired the screen adaptation rights to the Catan board game franchise, but not its gaming rights.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Trading sheep for a bigger audience
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Previously winless UCLA upsets Penn State
October 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Previously winless UCLA upsets Penn State
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UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
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A deep dive with @danwolken.bsky.social on one of college sports' most puzzling mysteries: Why does UCLA struggle so badly to get it right in football?
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What's wrong with UCLA football?
How can a school that sits in one of America’s most desirable zip codes, with one of the most well-regarded brands in college athletics, struggle so badly to get it right in football?
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September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A deep dive with @danwolken.bsky.social on one of college sports' most puzzling mysteries: Why does UCLA struggle so badly to get it right in football?
sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
Joey Aguilar at a school with a Spanish broadcast is fitting. I don't believe UCLA has one.
As called by Carlos Lopez on Tennessee Volunteers Spanish Radio:
September 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Joey Aguilar at a school with a Spanish broadcast is fitting. I don't believe UCLA has one.
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The stakes for UCLA: they have to decide if they want to compete in football or whether they’re going to fold the program.
If they don’t choose to compete in the next few years then they’re going to choose to fold when they get left out of the super league one day.
If they don’t choose to compete in the next few years then they’re going to choose to fold when they get left out of the super league one day.
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The stakes for UCLA: they have to decide if they want to compete in football or whether they’re going to fold the program.
If they don’t choose to compete in the next few years then they’re going to choose to fold when they get left out of the super league one day.
If they don’t choose to compete in the next few years then they’re going to choose to fold when they get left out of the super league one day.
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Never seen the first down line chase the runner before, couldn't keep up
September 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Never seen the first down line chase the runner before, couldn't keep up
Still losing despite two stops on 4th and goal and a muffed punt. Life, but at what cost?
UCLA HAS LIFE
September 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Still losing despite two stops on 4th and goal and a muffed punt. Life, but at what cost?
I just watched UCLA not call a timeout when New Mexico had a 4th and goal under two minutes left, letting the clock run all the way down. Then with :01 left from midfield, UCLA runs instead of throwing a Hail Mary.
Listening to the announcer try to make sense of DeShaun Foster’s clock management and not call it horrific is the most entertaining part of the UCLA football season
September 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I just watched UCLA not call a timeout when New Mexico had a 4th and goal under two minutes left, letting the clock run all the way down. Then with :01 left from midfield, UCLA runs instead of throwing a Hail Mary.
Somehow not high enough. If I could add UCLA football to this, would be epic.
August 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Somehow not high enough. If I could add UCLA football to this, would be epic.
August 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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What worries me about (quote)AI(unquote) isn't that it will do a better job... it's that it will do a worse job and corporations (and audiences) will see that as "close enough".
I'm holding out hope that most of us want better than that in our books, music, movies, tv, and yes, tutorial videos too.
I'm holding out hope that most of us want better than that in our books, music, movies, tv, and yes, tutorial videos too.
July 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What worries me about (quote)AI(unquote) isn't that it will do a better job... it's that it will do a worse job and corporations (and audiences) will see that as "close enough".
I'm holding out hope that most of us want better than that in our books, music, movies, tv, and yes, tutorial videos too.
I'm holding out hope that most of us want better than that in our books, music, movies, tv, and yes, tutorial videos too.
Flip 7 has a really good rule book, I learned it in a couple of minutes. Using AI to generate a rulebook is completely unnecessary!
"If you flip a 7, things get interesting. The 7 card has a special power: the player who flips it has to draw another card from the deck. If the new card is also a 7, the player has to draw another card, and so on."
Can we please stop with the AI 💩? kthx.
Can we please stop with the AI 💩? kthx.
OMG... Flip 7 is so complicated, Asmodee UK decided to let AI take a crack at the rules...
(the screenshot is only the start of this.. this... this.) #Boardgames
AI will screw us all
www.asmodee.co.uk/blogs/news/h...
(the screenshot is only the start of this.. this... this.) #Boardgames
AI will screw us all
www.asmodee.co.uk/blogs/news/h...
July 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Flip 7 has a really good rule book, I learned it in a couple of minutes. Using AI to generate a rulebook is completely unnecessary!
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my first feature story at @endlessmode.bsky.social looks at how Trump's arbitrary tariff regime and economic uncertainty are upending the board game industry: bit.ly/40xzyD0
How the Trump Tariffs Are Impacting Board Game Publishers
We talk to four board game publishers about how Trump's tariffs are impacting the industry, whose games are largely printed in China.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
my first feature story at @endlessmode.bsky.social looks at how Trump's arbitrary tariff regime and economic uncertainty are upending the board game industry: bit.ly/40xzyD0