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Someday classy will probably make a comeback, it always does, but I'm afraid it will after I'm long gone.

Meyer shuffled QBs around one year at OSU, heck UM once tried to run Henson and Brady seriatum for too long. So it happens, but agreed the results are more often bad than good because in most cases it just means neither guy is showing enough to deserve the gig full time.

Damn good question. If there is one unintended effect of all the changes in media since the three network days, it's the loss of people/institutions in the media with proven credentials and widely accepted integrity who you could rely on to be fundamentally trustworthy. And even non-profit media like NPR, where you would assume the lack of profit motive would insulate them from the worst effects, has also gone off the rails in the last few years, though nothing on a par with commercial media. Now TBF, I think most mainline newspapers are still good sources for primary events coverage, you just have to ignore everything where they are writing opinion. Technical press in any given field is usually trustworthy. But I came across one today that just made me scratch my head. WaPo story about the US/Iraqi raid on some ISIS targets where some US personnel were wounded. It was fairly straight up news reporting right through to the last paragraph, where the writer just inserts "Iraqi's oppose the continued presence of US troops" Bang. Just an assertion of what, since there was not a shred of evidence supplied, is simply an opinion. Not even "most Iraqi's we have talked to" or anything. So maybe that is true - probably is, but maybe not - I'm sure it depends on who in Iraq you ask. I'm sure the Iraqi military doesn't feel that way. But regardless of whether they are right or wrong it just violated every rule of good journalism to not keep fact reporting and unsupported opinion assertion separate, and immediately made me question whether anything related in the paragraphs above was trustworthy. That's where we are in today's journalism.

I haven't heard an explanation to my satisfaction, but I've always assumed there was something below the table that lead to the HoJo trade. Maybe he told Sparky to stuff it one day, maybe he showed up in Sparky's office with a J. 🍄 🤷‍♀️

Yeah - Donovan is not Corum. If you try to use him like Corum, you probably won't get far.

IDK how great a coach Harbaugh is, his main talent at the college level was bringing in an NFL bound QB to lead his team. And that's not to knock him, it's the most important thing a college football coach can do. Unfortunately he didn't leave another one waiting in the wings for Moore, and if you want to knock Moore for not coming up with one, or Manuel for not coming up with the cash to get one, fair enough I suppose.

be careful what you wish for. This one seems competitive enough so far!

Chrome on Windows decided it simply wouldn't stream DirectTV tonight. Rebooted to Linux and No Problemo. Have no idea what its problem was.

a very Todd Jones like walk of O'Neill.

No long balls tonight, OK Tyler?

Oh my! Tigers can't handle Rich Hill.

Heart of the order. Score a run dummies.

There is aggressive, and then there is stupid.

Kreidler can't do anything right even when he does.

Pivetta threw two perfect pitchers on 3-0 and 3-1

I suppose Navigato isn't on the 40..... But they only have 39 now right?

Direct TV is so screwed up. I come into the game a few minutes late so I start watching the in-progress recording. I'm cutting out time on the commercials and I reach real time. Switch back to the 'live' steam and it's a fulll 60 seconds *behind* where I was watching the recording. How is that even possible?

Torkelson forgetting to swing the bat again. Stop playing for walks.

Sweeney has hacked two in two days. He's got to clean it up or he's not competing for anything.

And I remember not liking the trade at the time, I had thought Glenn Wilson was going to have lot more upside than he ever actually did....

I have some sympathy if you bought a long time ago when the number of people who came into town was a lot smaller. I have known a few people who thought it would be 'fun' to live near by and then found out it wasn't. The out of towners are always good for a few laughs though. We were just down at Busch's to pick up some things and the classic domestically incompetent male with teenage son had come from a tailgate and was trying to buy something just to get some cash back. So he has a single pack of gum and he can't get any of 4 different credit cards to work (cashiers gets an A+ for patience), he finally gives up and goes over to customer service, and then a person in line two spaces back has to save his butt's day by finding all the rest of his ID on the floor before he had gone out the door. 🙄

because even though Stewart has gotten to be a bit of a head case himself now, he is at least interested who he is interviewing and what they are saying. For the typical Cable or Network news interviewer, that's way down the list below their career ambitions their own political agenda the agenda for the show rating the agenda in the memo from the corporate brass the hope to be able to put a 'gotcha' moment on their resume. You have to have a foundational interest in your subject - view the interview as more than just a means to your own ends, for any interview to ever get off the ground and that's completely missing in just about all of today's talking heads. Until the interviewee senses the interviewer seriously wants to know and understand and begins to respond to that, it just stays adversarial and guarded and all you will get are talking points.

I just want to know what idiot decided the first game of season should be at night. Poor folks that live around the stadium will have get out their hoses in the morning and wash down all the drunk kids asleep under the privets.

I think they were also hoping he could still play a little 3rd because they didn't really like any of the current cast there. But that ended before ST was even over. My memory is skewed as I remember him more as the regular 1B vs Bergman but Bergmann had the Lions share at 1b with 114 games. Evens only played 47 games at 1st, another 20 at 3rd late in the season (Brookens hurt?), the rest at DH.

CNN bungled the whole thing anyway with all the extraneous production time - and the fact that they ran so many commercials. The actual interview was so chopped up and had such long breaks that it was pretty much guaranteed to keep anyone from getting much of a focus on Harris - which was probably fine by Harris but just highlights CNN's incompetence as a new org. CNN was more interested in marketing themselves in that hour than actually doing the 'news' thing, which would have been to run at least a 1/2 hour interview uninterrupted. But that's the corporate reality. But to a degree it's always been this way. The very best interviews before the 1960 election weren't done by Cronkite or Murrow or Huntley/Brinkley, they were done by Jack Paar on the Tonight show.