OT: Kawakami says Jed York stuck him with $2100 tab
Karma indeed. And how the hell did you find awfulannouncing.com?
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Thanks. Will have to check it out. I am only at work for about 10-10.5 hours per day. 9.5 of which is spent on MGoBlog. I suppose I could take a few minutes out of actual work to take a look.
Your priorities are in order.
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Curious how many guys on this blog (and maybe some girls) relate to your mild, spot on, hyperbole. I sure do. I'd wager a comically high number.
Awful Announcing is a pretty popular sports media information website. They do a little Deadspin-y material every once in a while but a solid website if you're into that sort of stuff.
Listen up, all you non-Bay Areans:
Kawakami was the ONLY local media member relating JH's side of the breakup with the 49ers. ALL others (local radio, newpapers, twitter hangers-on) toed the company line to insure access. Why do you think Jed stiffed him?!
This Karma you speak of - save it for people who have harmed U of M or our Coach.
Yes, he told people who visit this blog to take a walk or get a life or whatever he supposedly did to agrieve you dear people. Who cares?!
What does Harbaugh have to do with this? Kawakami posted on Twitter that he would buy York lunch if they built a new stadium by 2014. York took him up on it.
So, what does Harbaugh have to do with this?
Well, picture a world without the Harbaugh leaves 49ers for Michigan drama where this entire Kawakami-York tiff was mentioned on this blog, even in passing...
I'll leave you to ponder that, as you investigate why people here are saying "Karma" got Kawakami...
Definitely a "non-Bay Arean" (see username), but I only give Kawakami a hard time because he was so adamant that Harbaugh would absolutely not end up at Michigan.
I think most of us know the score on Kawakami. (I was actually in SJ twice to visit my wife's family when all this was going down--so very aware of the Bay Area coverage). He's not some heroic defender of truth. I mean, being confrontational with York and stepping into the role as voice of dissent kind of gets him clicks, doesn't it?
And to clarify, I don't think he did anything ethically wrong or anything, he was just so, so wrong in gauging Harbaugh's appreciation for Michigan. And he felt free to tell everyone else they were foolish for thinking he'd come to Ann Arbor. What a dumb dumb head.
Yeah, but that was only one dumba** take. Has there been any other time where he acted like a dick or didn't seem to have JH's back?
JH doesn't seem to have any issues with him, he did his podcaste during the Super Bowl. He is a Harbaugh fan or at least admirer. His oppinions are pretty solid, his reaction to Michigan fans should be tempered by the fact that he deals with 9er and Raider fans ALL THE TIME. By the way, I bet the SJMN picks up the tab.
So you're saying that Jed York stiffed Kawakami for a dinner bill in April 2014 as Karmic retribution for something he might write in a column after the 49ers fired Harbaugh in December 2014? I did not know that was how Karma worked. But, then again, I'm not from the Bay Area, so I don't know a lot of things.
182K twitter followers for whatever that's worth..
They're usually a pretty good source for news on announcers moving to different networks and such, as well as poking fun at the dumb shit people say on air.
I follow Kawakami and that's not what he's saying. What happened was they had a bet on Levi stadium opening on time or not and when York won he chose an expensive resturant and brought his wife. He didnt "stick him with the bill" but he did take big liberites in the paying of a bet.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2016/05/18/jed-york-french-laundr…
By the way - does anyone else think that the name "The French Laundry" is a bit odd for a high-end resturant?
Thanks. You're right and that context is included in the article I linked.
I just replicated the admittedly somewhat sensational title of the Awful Announcing story. Perhaps a bad choice, but we all have our crosses to bear. I can learn from this.
Good restaurant and a good place to go for a few morning pre-golf drinks. Very affordable as you say.
Pretty famous restaurant. Just googled it and apparently it used to be a french steam laundry spot in the 20s, hence the name.
York stuck him with his wife's bill after saying he'd pay for her, right?
It's a ballsack mcgee move, especially when York is a tremendously unpopular owner at dinner with a relatively influential Bay Area reporter.
If I were York I would have paid the whole thing. Let Kawakami write an article about how he is a good sport.
I think I get where York is coming from. The bet is the only thing he's won since his mother let him run the team. He's not letting go of that.
The very famous restaurant in Yountville, Napa County is housed in a 19th century building that was indeed a French laundry in its day.
I do not reacall laudries which billed themselves as French growing up in A2, but they are not uncommon in the SF area.
I do not know what it even means - I would guess it meant it was safe to bring fine garments there for cleaning and mending?
Never cared enough to Google it, and still don't...
It's been one of the consistently best restaurants in the US for over 20 years. It's a cullinary institution.
Restaurant names are weird. One of the better new restaurants in DC is called "Tail up Goat". Not sure I want to hear the backstory about that, either.
The building was a French steam laundry in the 1920s.
it's just a Eurotrash version of the "Cleveland Steamer."
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is good enough to ever justify that kind of cash. I don't have the best sense of smell so my taste isn't great either. Heck, I have a hard time justifying Zingerman's with my palate. I just can't imagine what they do to the food to make it $700 good.
Like for work or like this for a bet, food taste way better. Funny how your dining taste change with a corprate card in your pocket.
Yes, some was drinks. As long as the company card paid for it, I'd eat there again lol.
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Hell, a couple bottles of champagne could be half that bill.
im guessing booze mightve upped the bill a bit. even the rarest of dishes priced a la carte, served over 5-7 courses, etc at the "best restaurants" rarely ever equate to $700 per without drinks. ive tried expensing some pretty outrageous meals and never approached $700 per plate just for food
$1600 dinner with a mandatory tip of $500.
Yup.
I've been to some really expensive, high-end places as well(although $310 pp is the highest I've ever seen), and cannot imagine $700 pp for just food.
Hell, even Per Se (Thomas Keller's NYC restaurant) is only $325.
You've "tried expensing" them, eh? No success in getting the company to pay? LOL!!
Ha, if you had Bill Gates money you would not give a fuck. He is worth over 50 billion. It's not like you would even check the prices beforehand. For anything... ever.
I agree. I don't see how you get to 2100 without ordering a metric f^ck ton of overpriced booze as well.
Yeah, but what if you had Donald Trump's money?
He'd do it... and tweet about it
First, it shows what a spolied little bratty douche Jed is - no news here - and he deserves watching his plaything go down in flames. Secondly, why did Kawakami agree to a) dinner, and b) at the French Laundry? How did he think this would end well for him?
Read the article. He didn't agree to dinner. Jed picked French Laundry and also brought his wife along.
Read the article and listened to the podcast. Original bet was for lunch, Jed tweeted back and said let's do dinner and he accepted it.