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Indeed, this season will tell, but TBH, Mize at his best has never shown the kind of stuff that Jack has, so if Mize is figuring into a decision about Flaherty they better be confident he's going to do something more than he's ever done before. Big guys with power arms will get a lot of chances, but sometimes they are just Buck Farmer.

Sounds like epic family dysfunction, and then dad deciding the shooting range would be a good bonding place.....

I believe this is correct. Conversely, if a player clears waivers and ends up on another team, then that team only owes him the minimum and his old team is on the hook for any balance on his contract beyond that.

I suppose same way football has always survived title IX. Hasn't there always been recognition that the 'revenue' sports have the right to first call on their revenue? But this is going create some interesting re-alignments. In the current system football revenue doesn't go directly to all the athletes on campus - in fact doesn't go to any of them directly - yet., but it supports all their facilities and coaching. In the 'old' NIL system, it was all outside money that was just being passed through to the marketable athletes. But fund raising for NIL was also unsustainable, exhausting for the fund raisers, and an arms race with no end game. Divert $20M of regular sports revenue into direct payment to students, and those students do better personally, but that money is now coming out of the the pool that use to go to program and facilities budgets. Richer swimmers - older swimming pools.....?

if the US Federal courts signs off, they can do pretty much whatever they want! You can't take the court to court except to appeal it up, and I could see this as not being the kind of case an appeals court or the SCOTUS is very interested in taking.

Afternoon radio guys say Flaherty back to the Tigers is in play. Here's hoping.

the level of duress teams are under does vary. If a team is in a position where they know their window is closing the relatively value of those two years maybe a lot higher than for a team that has confidence it still has a lot of pieces in its system to keep adding. As long as owners are rich guys with opinions there is always a possibility one wants what you have enough to make it worth your while. No guarantee, but you should always keep the antenna up.

True, The Tigers could offer him 7@35M starting this season, which has (at 3%/yr discount) an NPV of $218M. If he got 8 yrs at $35M two years from now the NPV is $230M. $12M is actually a pretty small insurance premium to pay against a pitching injury in 2 seasons. Problem is, Boras doesn't look at it that way.

Indeed, there is very little a team can do with a player committed to going to FA other than make the best deal they can to recover value or ride it out and take the comp pick when it comes. Players and agents will always say the right things so the fans don't start booing the player whose made it clear to team management they are committed to going FA, but none of it means squat. It's just one more thing management has to deal with. If you want to win long term, you have to do what you judge will minimize the impact of player decisions you can't control.

for good or ill, no developed country in the world today will deliberately operate their central banking system to produce deflation. It just isn't going to happen, because every central banker in the world today believes deflation is far more dangerous to an economy than any impact of any typical inflation. Again, a very plain simple fact of which most Americans are ignorant because; politicians find it more convenient to lie and obfuscate than just explain/admit the facts, and the (vast majority of the) media is economically illiterate.

that's great. let see what he actually does. Trump's typical MO is talk up a real problem and then do something that makes it worse.

Boras is really pushing the Detroit angle for Bregman and the USA Today story by Nightengale reprinted in the Freep is enough for good laugh - did you know Detroit has the inside track on Bregman because he went to school with the Tiger's bullpen catcher? Who knew?

Yeah - it's just random crap - you get clusters sometimes. I remember one year not too long ago UM was supposed to have a great D and then they suffered something like 5 injuries all at LB and that was that - every TE in the league had a field day.

I still don't get how the Leafs have a better record when Matthews is hurt. Maybe if you break down the schedule of who they played there is some answer to it, but when Daniels quoted those numbers the other night they offered no theories.

they can try, but it's hard to do. No matter what they did the Soviets couldn't produce students that didn't grow up and understand the system was a crock. China is learning the same lesson. Sure, you can give up serious teaching altogether and just run a repressive regime that crushes everything the way Putin does now, but in that case your home schoolers are going to be sent to the gulag as well.

That's not a Lions thing though. Injuries are a big factor in the final success level of every NFL team and there is not a whole lot anyone can do about it. No matter how good your team and FO are, you still need some luck on the health front to get through an NFL season in any kind of shape compared to where you started it. I think Holmes recognizes this better than any previous Lion's management and he has put together more depth than any Lion's regime in my memory, but no matter what you do you can't guarantee it will be enough.

Almost any policy, but in particular to the idea that the fact that there may be some cases where home schooling is absolutely a better solution doesn't mean that on a national level the shared experience of the public school is still not going to provide a better net social outcome for any country that wants have some cohesive national shared experience, and cultural references, so better public schools and attendance there-in is what I would argue is always the better policy to government to encourage. But never to the point where you make other options impossible because those exceptions will always exist.

IDK, Chas, you don't think you may getting out on a limb there do you?

Most likey there is as much variation in management styles for baseball managers as for any other kind. Some are probably delegators to their coaches, some are probably more hands on, some are buddies with their players, some make sure to retain distance, etc.... Which reminds me of my all time favorite "Frank and Ernest" cartoon panel (lost in an office move...😢). The boss is behind the desk, the employee is standing in front - the quote was "Remember Smithers, my door is always open... So don't wander in here by mistake."

I will grant anyone's special cases all day long, but anecdotes and corner cases usually don't help make good social policy arguments - in a world of 7 billion people there are *always* cases where the best overall solution is the wrong answer in the particular case. Which is why real world policy implementations always need escape valves, which is a whole set of problems of its own.

Possible. it is a fact he went to lunch with Correa - but beyond the fact is speculation. For all we know it could as easily have been a Correa who wasn't getting offers testing the waters with Hinch. Bottom line is Correa is not here, and I wouldn't argue that Minny spent more than the Tigers could have to land him.

To me the history of the episode argues that is very unilkely Hinch would want anyone from that team/history showing up at his doorstep today, let alone one of the supposed ring leaders, and I see no way Harris would not respect that. To me that is a stronger determining factor for Bregman any analysis of whether he is a fit or will be a declining asset.

It wouldn't be a panacea but even a right to match deals for the home team would at least go part of the way.

Close on #1, but Asians hadn't gotten to Highland Park in the early 70's.

Have you seen the kind of money the cyptos put into campaign contributions? Don't take that as much of a hurdle.