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Recent opponents have been the Cards, the Cubs, Cleveland, the Royals, the Giants, and the White Sox. All those teams other than the White Sox have better than average Team ERA's, with KC and the Giants being in the top 5. Two of the games against the Pale Hose were cool days. Not to worry.

As long as when both feet come back down they come back down in play, right? He's played 118 innings (~13 games) and has 4 Rdrs. Probably 5 after tonight.

still probably only a matter of when, not if. I don't know how the last couple of seasons went for them but I remember a couple of years ago the program at UCLA was reported to be in pretty dire financial shape. I assume the B10 revenue share must have helped.

Maybe he just overestimated how far away they were. I think that was pretty easy. Going into the COVID year I thought they were a lot closer than they were too. If he had understood how far they had to go, maybe he doesn't spend at all on those mid-level FAs and he gets to this year or even last year with a war chest big enough to bring in a couple of difference makers to go with the kids. Now they are stuck - the only hope being that next year's rookie crop is enough to turn the tide because they don't have the money to seriously compete for more than one top level FA.

I hope the ump said "It will improve with you gone" as he tossed him. The least a bad ump can do is have a good come back.

I have apparently gotten on to AOC's fundraising list. I think I will email back that I'm not sending any more $ to any Democrat until they have the sense to fire Hogg.

LOL - Maybe my reading comprehension is just gone, but this article appears to contradict itself from paragraph to paragraph, including statements from both PSU and UCLA that they are not involved in any equity arrangement with Elevate immediate following the paragraph that appears to report they are. I guess I just don't care enough about where colleges sports is on its way to to try and parse any sense out of it.

This is true. It just goes to show the drive to grub for the last $ since before the Tigers set those seats up they had the example of them being half empty during play in other stadia, so the despite their protestations about whatever isn't ready, they had to have anticipated what it was going to look like and they didn't care. So if Valenti et al want to hammer them, they can't say they shouldn't have expected it.

I don't think players aren't better today, but that is a slightly different question than whether the pool is bigger. A smaller pool could still produce the same or a even larger number of players because of training, tech, more effective scouting within the pool etc. At any rate, that said, what are the numbers? The population of Central America, the Carribean, Mexico and Venezuela together is a bit more than the US, so if you take a starting date - say 1960, with a US pop of 180M which has grown to now to 340M and assume the utilization rate of boys in the US is down even by 50% (which I would not doubt for a minute), but that the utilization rate of ~380M Latin players has at least doubled, you've added 190 million in Latin America, and gone from 180 to half of 340 million= 170 million, I'd say it;s probable that MLB is still easily ahead of the game - without even considering Asia.

I only half agree. I think it does look pretty terrible when you have a sold out venue and the best seats in the house are sitting empty because some corp or high roller did show or is isn't interested enough in the game to watch. That's what lux boxes are for, the camera doesn't have to look at them. To me it's just another drip, drip of the social rot we live with. The rich waste stuff other people would love to use but we can't have that. Sure, its been the human condition since the Pharoahs but my baseball team doesn't have to rub my nose in it for 9 innings every night.

Someone up thread (Buddha?) noted that the Wings are caught in the mediocre middle. I think that is exactly the case. If they have to get worse in order to build the payroll space to do something a year or two further fine, but if I'm the Wings I want to stop spending money on stop gap guys because all it does is cut off options to make the kind of moves they have to make to get over the hump.

TL;DR version. They overpriced the seats.

LOL - didn't notice the wandering foul pole. But it goes to the main issue with AI, which is how do you verify reliability? With the image it's easy enough to tell it what it got wrong and let it use you as its auditor, but in some kind of complex analysis result where you want to use it exactly because you don't know the right answer from the wrong one, you are in a deeper dilemma.

with bumper pool sized cues. Actually not sure what Trump is assembling there. Maybe a two piece blow gun to dart Powell as he leaves the scene.

Top's not bad, but what's with the guy coming through wall below the grandstand? All look better than Chasfh's but for some season she's not in the batter's box in 3 of 4. If you think about it that's a funny error to make because there aren't going to be many training images of guys hitting standing on home plate to extrapolate from. Also curious how the dugout is or isn't there. What made it change its mind?

The Tigers do have a couple of hundred million to work with, they don't have to let let everyone walk. My strategy would be to try to lure pre or early arb guys into extending just 2 or 3 years past FA with big AAVs. I don't mind giving guys big money for their age ~26-31 seasons. But odds are you are going to be better off letting someone else pay for whatever else they do in their career after that. Maybe you let a guy go who plays to 40 and makes the HOF, but you will have avoided 10 other roster crippling mistakes. A lot of guys won't be amenable, but some will believe they will still have a big payday score remaining.

LOL - that is one messed up swing. STB was right handed, she does have the correct hand on top for a RH hitter, but if she's standing in the RH hitters box, who knows where her lead leg went, and she's looking at the umpire, who is about to get clocked in the noggin' by a high pitch the catcher apparently isn't going to come close to getting.

not the popular opinion but I wouldn't. To me his scoring is like a band-aid. The team is too deficient to have the luxury of a guy like Kane who doesn't do enough of the things they need to do better.

It wan't like they blew a lead in any of the games - although the Crow-Armstrong overrun was probably the biggest single screw-up of the series for either team.

I have NYT and WaPo via academic subscription which are discounted. NYT now asks me to upgrade on every login (You'll get 'Athletic' access, WooHoo!") so I have to close that dialog every time now.

I doubt if in the course of history, there has been any bigger impediment to progress and the improvement of the human condition than the enforcement of orthodoxy.

We subscribe to the Freep and MLive. Dropped DetNew this year for reasons that need not be stated here.

Leadership will help if the talent is there - McLellan argued the talent was there - I'm not so sure. We've just got too many guys with what are basically low hockey skill levels. Sure - they won some games over a medium stretch when the new coach showed up but I really think that was a mirage. Rasmussen hadn't turned into a better skater etc. The other frustrating thing was how the guys that went to the world games all came back flat.

Yup. I don't know if Hoerner meant it or not. He was sort reaching down, maybe to straighten his jersey even but regardless of why, he ended up facing the ump in what looked a lot like arms akimbo posture, and that is absolutely 'challenging' body language if that is what the ump saw too. Maybe Hoerner meant it or maybe it was an unintentional outcome, but that's what struck me immediately.