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Funny you should say this. During the last broadcast Benetti was talking about being a young broadcaster and working with Steve Grilli when Grilli was doing color instead of being busy being a pitching coach, and I it think he said Grilli, or maybe someone else on the that broadcast team, gave him the advice that the best baseball broadcast should sound like you are sitting with two guys watching the game at the bar - so if that's what you hear in the broadcast, it's no accident.

this. As I think about it, the biggest threat to the status quo as we know it is not probably not the NFL, it comes if the super conference schools get greedy and want to maximize their revenue by cutting out the rest of the schools, or whether they decide they will live with less revenue for the sake of keeping more schools in the system.

I saw that, certainly possible but 255 hardly even got off the ground, this plane looked like it did have decent lift in the seconds before it went down. There is some loss of ground effect lift on take-off though.

I don't think the risk to risk to the relationship between the NFL and College football lies in the NFL trying to get a bigger piece. I think there are two outcomes that could threaten things, and I have no idea if either of them will happen to any significant degree. The first is the one I've already mentioned, the possibility that eligibility rules change to where enough of what would be mid-level NFL players decide they can make a career without going to the NFL and that both bleeds off and blocks enough of the talent pipeline that the NFL gets concerned. The second is that as the super conferences emerge they end up monopolizing the media money. I think this has a high probability of happening. But the consequence of that could mean that the 2nd tier of what is now Div1 finds themselves in an untenable financial situation and they decide to drop out of the paid Varsity Sport system. That won't bother the super-conferences, but it will reduce the ratio between the number of paid tier college programs and the number of NFL teams. As above, this outcome would effectively reduce the size of the development pool for the NFL. Could it be enough the NFL would care? Who knows? I think in the end, for a school to survive it will either have to have a deep national tradition or big local media market it can have to itself. I don't know how many of those there are but I think the number is less than the current number FCS schools. Or the other way to look at it is that schools that are currently 'recievers' from their conferences instead of generators, will end up at risk as the other schools are going to want them out of their revenue stream.

For reference, the University Budget is ~$15B, a little more than half of that is the Hospital System.

UM Regents approved a $266M budget for the athletic department, which includes $15M in subsidy from the U. The mothership is picking up most of the $21M cost of the House settlement for the first yr. (The AD normally gets no operating $ from the general budget)

It figures in an odd sort of way. Bibi wasn't going to get a go ahead from Biden, but he probably thought he could wait and he might one from Trump, but when Trump turned out not to be so gung-ho as he hoped, he decided he was going without US co-operation.

LOL - Apparently an amazing response to my email to AOC that he had to go....🤣

Hockey was a little late to the party in terms of big athletes, though they've caught up now. I remember Frank Mahovlech was considered a big guy in his day. 6'0"

maybe he was

I was worried when Gleyber didn't make the DP turn that they had opened the proverbial door, but they wedged it back shut...

500 on the road is supposed to be good enough - Tiger don't care.

He was due

Needed the long ball as they were getting BaBIP’d on everything else

Tork gets fights back into the count and Ks anyway.

another 2 out baserunner

Lot of Tigers hitters coming back to earth this series.

Tigers only seem to hit with 2 out in this series.

Tork missed the RBI by a few milliseconds.

I think Dirks is a better game analyst than Petry and his presentation skill is better as well, but that is a different question than whether he and Benetti screw around more than they should, which they do.

Like the reversal on Rand Paul's party invite. Some staffer probably did that and then Trump reversed it.

I can understand the confusion as MLB had a large story with the headline "SGL's 615 Day Journey". IDK where they got 615 days from when he had come to ST in 24 and was pitching in Toledo by May of 25.

Boeing 787 went down on takeoff in India. One survivor, several people on the ground killed. Plane got airborne and just appeared to lose power and come back down. No apparent loss of control or attitude. Multiple bird injestion being cited as a possibility

Cup of coffee with Houston and Toronto but didn't stick. His results at Toldeo have been pretty decent. Maybe he's picked up a new trick or two this season -

SGL pitched at Toledo through the end of '23 season. He went to the IL early in April or May of '24 after issues started in ST. https://www.milb.com/player/sawyer-gipson-long-687830?stats=gamelogs-r-pitching-mlb&year=2023