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Michigan 'self-insures' for a lot of things - nowhere in any of the reporting on the Anderson did I ever hear mention of any other financial entity - Not that means spit given the generally poor quality of press coverage!

still a reach

It still comes down to what we said all off season - it's just that they have managed to won a bunch in spite of it - more guys need to shoot better to space better. They were leaving Ausar alone on the baselne - Cade finally tossed it to him unguarded - he missed the shot -- and Duren can't back out of traffic and hit a floater. Doesn't help that Cade's 3pt% is down to .301 either. Without Robinson no-one could make a trey but Tobias. speaking of which - JB ought to suggest to Lavert that when he gets to 1 for 6 or so he give it a rest for a while. When you end up 1 for 10 you might as well have been passing the ball to the other team.

that part that caught my eye was $400M in income but losing money because it doesn't cover his hosting costs. It seem like this is an era of trying to deny limits - whether it's Tesla, Nvidia or NCAA football or this guy hawking utubes, no-one wants to hear that there is a limit of how much of anything you can sell. But there always is, no matter how big or long the party runs before the end.

haven't heard anything about Jobe, but at the time of his surgery it was reported he had the newer less disruptive procedure that SGL uderwent. SGL's recovery from the TJ was pretty fast but his other injury problems effectively distracted from noticing that.

it's pretty funny/sad when we can say 'only $9M' wasted by an athletic department and have it mean a good thing. Of course we shouldn't forget that PSU, MSU and UM have all suffered 9 digit $$ settlements of sports doctor/coach abuse scandals, none of which has helped any of them be on a stronger footing.

the people in this country are so f'ing asleep. The good people of 18th century New England would have a man in the stocks on Boston Common for that kind of crap. Talk about a fallen society.

To this this day it never fails to make me laugh when I pop the hood on my 2.4 L *4* cylinder powered car and can't see the ground anywhere, when I had 300 horses sitting under the hood of my '66 SS and almost had room to stand inside the engine compartment with the engine.

although the pitch clock was only needed to force a return to what used to be. Making guys play faster was actually retro.

LOL - yeah I remember 'desert only' on early car ACs. I had only had my license a few months and was driving in FLA mid summer with the air on 'desert only' (which was full blast) when the whole damn car fogged up. PANIC! We were trying to wipe the front windshield while not crashing into anything and finally realized the condensate was on the outside of the window - turn on the wipers dummy! I think modern cars are set up so they never blow ice cold air on the windshield like some of those early ones (1968 IIRC) could.

Yes- AMC was originally down on Plymouth just west of Schafer. (there is some kind of huge warehouse on the site now). When they moved out of that they built a kind of a blackish glass tower - 15-20 story range in Southfield near 11 and Franklin just south of 696.. After they got merged out of existence and the building went to general office rental the firm my mother worked for was in the building for a while. It was the only place she worked I never had occasion to visit because they were there when I was at school.

Oh Lord - those AMCs from that era were some kind of terrible. My BIL bought a Pacer - he had graduated from engineering school and we all told him he clearly wasn't long for being an engineer with choices like that (LOL - and he wasn't, but he ended up doing very well creating his own business!). My old man bought a hornet - probably because it was cheap - manual steering - about 10 turns lock to lock! Drive it after anything else and you were constantly short on all your turns!

Probabably $$$. Maybe not enough money in the offer pot or the admin has told the AD they can't offer buyout terms anything like they gave Franklin.

well, I don't mind the idea of 32 yr old pitcher per se, he could easily have 4 good yrs left, but no - I don't want a 32 year old pitcher on a 6-8 yr deal either, and someone will probably give him one.

yeah - wrong analysis, wrong answer. The issue is too few balls in play. With more balls in play, BaBIP takes care of XBH automatically.

With Vierling back and Torres healthy, there is still a question mark around whether Riley contact rate continues to degrade or recovers. But other than that, I'm also more concerned about the pitching than the hitting. They ranked pretty well in offense in the 1st half when Torres was healthy - granted some of that was production from McKinstry that won't likely be repeated, but I expect Keith and Dingler will show more additional upside in '26. Pitching has to improve though Thinking back - '24, the O didn't score enough but once they got out of April, when the Tigers had a lead I always felt pretty good - close games weren't traumatic. Last season in the 2nd half no lead ever felt safe.

time the is most valuable commodity for a hitter. Moving the mound back would probably fix more than things than any other single strategy, but the ball would have to be deadened as well because contact will go up.

Nice bat, but it's been years since he's spent any significant time anywhere but 2b. Last time he played CF was 5 yrs ago and his DRS was terrible over ~70 games. Hasn't played SS in something like 8 yrs, I think it would take a leap of faith to pencil him in anywhere but 2b/DH.

It's a scam, but a very successful one. There were only ever two justifications for crypto - to hide transactions from legal oversight, and to create a currency 'free' from central bank 'manipulation. Turns out crypto fails on both counts. Forensic accountants have demonstrated that with a little effort, bit-coin transactions can be traced and reconstructed, the 2nd concept was nonsense to begin with. The only value of a fiat currency in the first place (and the reason they have replaced "hard" money like gold) is that some central bank does 'manipulate' it to try and hold its value constant so it can be useful as an exchange medium over reasonable time scale (and not inflate or deflate the economy just because someone opened or closed a mine somewhere.) You can argue central banks don't always do a good job of it, or do it wrong, but the value of a dollar holds well enough for markets to function - this was never going to be true of a cryptocurrency exactly because there is no 'manipulation' for keeping it's value constant - thus it is totally useless as a pricing/exchange medium. As you note - at every moment in time the value of a bit-coin *in dollars* has to be found in order for any transaction to be possible. OTOH, as a 'greater fool' investment scam, it's outperformed anyone's wildest dreams.

Correct. When there is a clear choice Hinch has no issue giving one guy all the save opportunities e.g. Soto in '22. Nobody reached that success level in '25. Lange and Foley probably would have gotten the role just as exclusively in 23/24 if they hadn't continued to be inconsistent.

On a related note, in places where mailin voting is taking hold, things are going to get even harder to predict as mail in ballot procedures upset traditional turnout patterns. In Ann Arbor, the vast majority of voters got themselves on the permanent absentee list, and as a result, they now vote in virtually every election, regardless of whether what's on the ballot are things that used draw turn-out or not. It used to be SOP for the pols to put low interest items on the ballot in odd year elections where turnouts would be 10% or much less. There was a tiny milleage millage alone on this Novembers ballot and more than 60K votes were cast on it, many times what would have been expected in the pre-absentee days. One Ann Arbor Council member lamented that the days of 'slipping things past the voters' were over.

what kind of pick would he cost?

No doubt, Underwood has not learned anything about touch. It makes you wonder if he actually has any feel for the game. I remember years ago the Lions had a QB named Bill Munson - he was a contemporary of Greg Landry, Same thing, threw everything like a Nolan Ryan heater - even pro receivers couldn't handle it.

well, Google tells that the estimate for undocumenteds is: CA 2.3M TX 2.1M FLA 1.6M NY 0.825 IL 0.55M So calculator says that's 3,67 for Blue states and 3.7 for Red states. Pretty much a wash. I suppose if the theory is that the losers are all big states then the winners would be disproportionally small states and maybe they run more red, but if you have to reach down to 2nd tier effects the whole effort is probably a waste of everyone's time - particularly the courts -- who have already ruled on this haven't they? This is a Chuck Edwards bill, and he introduced the same bill in 2024 also.

but they are really after CA.