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Notre Dame's priests are wondering what it takes to be the best team in the State of Indiana or the ACC, much less a national champion...

i remember d rose flunking his ACT three times and then mysteriously passing it IN DETROIT on his 4th attempt. he was signed and sealed to illinois until memphis came in and gave his brother a "job" for $250k per year doing nothing. so rose spends a semester at memphis and all the records and wiped out two years later because he never actually passed his act. anthony davis famously charged schools $250k just to take a VISIT to campus. of course he ended up at kentucky.

i had a casual acquaintance who played at michigan with the fab five. he said jalen had 4 independent study classes and a cpr class. got a C in cpr but A's in the independent studies. they sat around and smoked pot and played video games all day, surrounded by huge boxes of shoes and clothes Nike constantly sent to them. had other friends who knew basketball players at michigan. traylor would show up for class on the first day but never again. then there would be a strange number of asian kids who showed up to take the final exam. willie mitchell? quite possibly the dumbest person she ever met. they would all get free cab rides whenever they wanted (pre-uber) and all the free subway they could eat. another person i know knew steve smith at state. said he had a huge SUV and lived in a nice condo in a really nice apartment complex. nice guy, but when he gave $5m to msu, he was paying them back... grant hill? really nice guy at duke. laettner and thomas hill? gay as all get out and the biggest snobby ass holes on campus.

i know this is a stupid thought, and a naive thought, but how many of these guys are actually going to class? bryce underwood is getting millions of dollars to play football for michigan, is he really going to English 101? is anyone still actually checking?

but this guy isnt 99 other guys. its your best player. that said, we'll never know because were not privy to all the information, and it is just as likely that this is driven by boras as by the tigers. its equally as likely that boras told skubal "the tigers are likely to come in at $19 to get to a number like $25, so we'll come in at $32." as you pointed out, DD and others hate this process because it makes you go in and tell your player how less valuable they are than they think they are. better to resolve it out of "court" than have to publicly denounce your talent.

i think emotion and an incredible sense of competitiveness got him there as well as incredible athletic talent. if you dont think great athletes can be petty and hold grudges over "business" and minor transgressions, i direct your attention to Michael Jeffrey Jordan. sometimes minor slights drive great athletes. im not saying this is happening with skubal, but dismissing it out of hand because "well, they know its a business" is just as likely to be false.

how do we know he doesnt? again, these guys are human. youre right, they know its a business, but we all work in business. and not everyone is mature enough to let things go. i imagine boras has told him everything that you've said, and everything you've said about it being a "business" and he's not a middle schooler is correct, but that doesnt mean he wont take offense, wont hold a grudge, and wont think about it the next time he has leverage....which should be in about 10 months.

hilman and mangum too. when you want a raise, enter the portal. i think haynes will leave. michigan picked up that kid from oklahoma because i think they knew haynes wanted more money than was in the budget for rb.

as someone who manages a lot of people, if i went into an open process like arbitration and said all sorts of things about how they didnt deserve the same salary as x, y, or z, there would be hurt feelings. no matter how much money they made. i know "its a business", but its still hard to hear that your employer doesnt think youre worth what you think youre worth. baseball players arent robots.

if the arbiyrator has to choose one or the other, then why not offer something more reasonable given the circumstances? if you really dont want to pay $32, then offer $25. you can at least make the case that this would be the largest arb award for a pitcher ever and acknowledge skubal's uniqueness. instead they basically said he's worth less than david price and told the mediator to take boras' number. in the end it wont mean anything to whether he signs here, but it could engender some hurt feelings depending upon how sensitive skubal is. but in reality, it seems they have resigned themselves to boras' number.

1k for each kid!

if healthy... they still need some DTs and more DEs....and linebackers...

not a great showcase for sherwood if he was trying to get traded...

i think the people around trump in the doj and the legal community have been very smart. i understand that the twitter idiot sycophants like kash patel, and kristi noem, and (especially) stephen miller and rfk are clowns. worse, evil incompetent clowns. but the solicitor general and the legal people at the doj are very smart and very clever. as for the supreme court, the court must consider what happens post trump. thomas and alito have always been in favor of a more powerful executive (unitary executive theory) and their writings/decisions reflect that. barrett/kavanaugh/chief are more on the fence, but obviously do not appreciate the recent trend (on both sides) of going to favorable courts to get nationwide injunctions to stop any legislation and have moved to stop it. kagan is more center left and usually correct (imo). gorsuch is a libertarian wild card. sotomayor and jackson are far left, especially jackson. and both have decided to wage their twitter battles in their opinions, bringing out the worst aspects of a tradition started by scalia of being derogatory of their opponents, without scalia's flare. in other words, the demonizing of the court on the left as "doing trump's bidding" is overblown and doesnt see the big picture. unfortunately, you have a very bad actor in the white house who uses the ambiguity of the legal world to push the boundaries. but simply pushing boundaries doesnt mean he crosses boundaries, and the court recognizes that. however, imo, the court is still wrong on occasion. most recently kavanaugh's fourth amendment writings that have basically legalized racial stops and arrests. he has tried to walk that back since then, but the mistake is out there and will need more than just footnotes to correct.

my initial thought is yes, however we dont know what the feds will do this time. it feels like uncharted territory, like most of this second trump administration.

correct, sorry for any confusion. because of the politics, i would be surprised if they didnt charge him at the state level. i dont think much of a lot of state level prosecutors who are elected and i certainly dont think much of keith ellison in minnesota. so i expect them to "do something," no matter how potentially futile it is. with that said, even if it is umtimately futile, he SHOULD be charged by someone, imo. and my armchair legal analysis may not be correct, its quite possible a judge finds that the threat was not reasonable and that he should not have immunity. one can certainly make the argument. and more facts/angles/videos/ may come out showing something different. by all means: charge him. and for god's sake, at least put him on desk duty for a bit.

i'm leery about a team in the playoffs with daniss and chaz as your backup pg/outside shooting. otoh, i dont think you'll see either of them in the playoffs. caris and ivey will be backup ballhandlers and outside shooting. which is also worrying...

Now THAT'S what we need to see from Wallinder! get mad! hit somebody! use your size, son! maybe there's hope for you yet?

i dont think we can say there were no better alternatives to paddack and morton. 1) it would hard to be worse; and 2) we dont know who else was ultimately available. part of me misses dombrowski and his ability to find quality mlb players for prospects. part of me also dreads the idea of dombrowski trading mcgonigle for a 37 year old closer with an 89 mph fastball because he has "experience" and knows how to "get the job done." and lets be honest, dombrowski would never have drafted mcgonigle to begin with...

any real officer who had multiple accusations of improper use of force in such a short period of time would be taken off the street at least until an investigation could be conducted.* but again, these arent real peace officers. theyre thugs. * (until the police union gets them reinstated no matter what happened unless it embarasses the union politically)

well....that's not ALL i said. lol. i think its true that if she had not likely panicked and followed direction, this would not have happened. if she's not parked in the middle of the road, this doesnt happen. i also think she panicked because the ICE officer was unnecessarily hostile and it scared her. again, its standard police procedure nowadays to NOT stand in front of a vehicle for this very reason. its also pretty standard now to attempt to de-escalate an emotional situation before other methods of coercion are tried. Sometimes it is impossible for the police to get people to follow direction without some use of force. i get that. in fact, i'm on the side of the police 9 times out of 10. and even if i have seen the video, i wasnt there that day and dont know everything that went on. with that said, it certainly appears that the ICE officers intentionally escalated a situation that need not have been escalated. if he goes to her and says "ma'am, i understand your position on our work. i get it. but we are going to need to proceed down this road. i need you to move so we can get through. if you do not move, i may have to arrest you." this was not a 250 pound linebacker. it was not a drugged out psychopath. this was a woman in a car. let's try talking before escalating. that's what police officers are trained to do. but these arent officers. many simply appear to be thugs with guns. that's how its been here in chicago, and that's how it seems to be in minneapolis. to pfife's earlier point, even if charges are brought, trump will pardon him immediately. because he's a federal officer acting on federal orders, federal law will govern and supersede any state law, so i dont think any state criminal action will be valid so trump's inevitable pardon will let him off.

under fourth amendment case law, whether an officer used unreasonable force is judged by an "objective reaaonableness" standard. in general, it is unreasonable for an officer to kill someone; however, where an officer has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. that's the law. does it apply here? up to your interpretation. she accelerates her car directly toward the officer. that's likely enough evidence to give the officer qualified immunity for using deadly force to stop the car. i - like i think almost everyone else on this board - think ICE officers started this, exacerbated it, handled this extremely poorly, and should not have shot her. period. the officer should not have been standing in front of the car and the other officer should not have approached her in such a belligerent manner. to me, ICE caused this. 99% (the other 1% is that she shouldnt have disobeyed the officer, no matter if he was being an ass hole or not). but legally, i think the officer is probably going to be immune from prosecution or liability. my only question is concerning the subsequent shots. the car is past him. does he have reasonable cause to fire two shots into the car at that point? his argument will be that he can use deadly force to stop a fleeing person who is a reasonable threat to others, and that since she drove her car directly at him, that gives him the authority to use such force because she continues to be a threat. i dont know if that argument is a good one or not, but i suspect it likely will be. the "shoot out the tires" argument is a non-entity. you dont shoot out the tires, you ONLY use force if you think your life or the lives of others are threatened. if not, you dont pull the gun at all. you never "shoot out the tires." shoot to kill or dont shoot at all. its different than a pit manuever or putting spikes on the road (and those are constitutionally questionable at this point too).

i'm excited to have a coaching staff that will use underwood's two legs as well as his right arm. he should be a running threat on every play.

great trade for the hawks in getting anything for young. however, the low value for young - who was once a star - isnt good. selling low on an asset just to get rid of it.

getting sprague and guanara back are big. the oline is the area where sherrone did his best work.