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the phrase is attributed (likely wrongly) to Baron Rothschild, "when there is blood in the streets, even if it's your own - BUY"

As I have thought about it, I think that whether implicitly or explicitly, the treatment of service time in arbitration is exactly what Skubal and Boras are making an attempt to change. Skubal, as a leader in the MLBPA, wants to argue about fairness and Skubal's real value. The Tigers - representing ownership, are going to argue for the status quo approach to service time cooked into current arbitration practice and that any break from that is an issue for the next CBA and not something that should be upset by a single arbitration panel decision. Personally, I think a system where players get paid more in line for what they are doing present tense and less about what they did 5 yrs ago is fine in theory, but it's not clear to me how to get there since too many teams probably couldn't afford their young stars on that basis.

true. Ed didn't give us much detail in his hypothetical - that's the kind of thing there may or may not be rules about when a real situation arises.

I kouldn't help myself.

I might not protect Torres. He's expensive and he's one and done, so he might not be that interesting to an expansion team - depending on how/what they are trying to build.

also - they noted the other night that Casper was leading the team in hits - I can understand the young guy trying to prove himself to his coach and team mates that way, especially if the points weren't coming easy, but I wonder if it became a bit of a trap for him. Probably not what he should have been spending so much of his focus on.

so are they putting charging outlets on both sides of cars as well? The only EV I've driven had its outlet on the left.

ah so it was WM that went up one. I remember they had reordered the system but forget which way. What I remembered was one group of guy got promoted to the same place they were which was pretty different, so it was WM to WM not Erie to Erie.

who swapped with west Mi? Thought it was Erie....

Didn't the Pac-10 have lousy viewership? And that's what's been imported into the B10?

He may be a great golfer but he will need sports writers who can write copy that makes more sense than that headline.

that is maybe the one part of the common perception about climate change that lacks nuance. Climate change almost certainly means things will get worse for most, but not necessarily for all. There will be places where climate may improve - in particular some places have been arid for the last cycle may become less arid - that is one chance among the generally unknown futures possible for the Pacific Southwest, and given enough CO2 production, Greenland could one day live up to its name. The problem is that the economic, social and political cost, upheaval and chaos that will accompany the migration of maybe half the population of the planet from where it is now to those places people will still be able to make a living is incalculable. The climate doesn't need to kill us, famine and disease driven by wars between winners and loser in the climate lottery will do that.

Maybe because of all the higher ed chaos coming from the gov they are too distracted, but I did expect that by now some kind of vision or leadership would have emerged somewhere in the AAU group around designing a sane future instead of just getting ping-ponged around between media demands and court decisions all the while carrying the cost load while everyone else takes home the $ they have to raise. And the current board of regents at UM lead the disappointment. The academic athletics world is swirling and they install a care-taker president and care-taker football coach when they could most use leadership that would be in place long enough to have a vision and implement it.

was Erie still A+ then? By the numbers the big production drop was going to AA so if you were seeing it at A+ he really wasn't close!

Lol- It's not like Christin Stewart had "Fail" tattooed on his forehead at UT. He still looked like a pretty good pick up through high A. You'd like to believe your system can tell those things before a guy has ever come close to seeing MLB pitching, but it's not always that easy. You probably can fault the Tigers for hanging on to him too long after it had become clear his bat wasn't going to play in the majors though.

can only do the QO once though, sadly.

when cars were cars and men were men, we didn't need no stinking arrows, you filled you tank from right in th middle, behind your licence plate. (that placement also made it convenient to get incinerated when you were rear-ended, but all in all a small price to pay for your constant confidence at the filling staion.)

at least Buffalo had to play Montreal so only one could gain ground. The Blackhawks did force a shoot out and win so Carolina only picked up 1pt.

I saw 'Tim McCormick' and did a double-take.

Whoo-hoo! -- JUST LIKE HEALTHCARE!

would appear so.

absolutely. It goes back to my point about 'fame' being a less precisely defined concept than statistical performance. If HOF voters had seen a lot more of Lou making high-light reel plays it certainly would have raised his standing. And it's almost ironic that it's only the most modern of our tools - Statcast, which can now tell us that just because a play has an acrobatic circus ending, that doesn't mean it was a better overall play than a player with better anticipation, first step, and quickness (i.e. a Whitaker) could have made without the drama. 😉 To be clear, I have nothing against a dive to make a play, but some that you see in the majors today would be unnecessary if the fielder had better -- or at least alternate, techniques in his toolbox.

He and Austin Jackson, two of the last great glove men who didn't dive to cover ground.

something seems weird. Maybe Ivey was one of those guys who was doomed to outgrow his pre-adult quickness when he got to his twenties, because a broken fibula is not an injury that should create that kind of deficit - unless there was more to it.

Well that's the thing, you can't expect a guy to quit just because he's not as good as he used to be, at least if he is still being reasonably productive. So that's going to be the story for most good players who aren't forced to quit early by injury. That said, it is getting to be more extreme with teams having given out so many contracts that run well past when the player has any real chance to still be productive. The team is then reluctant to release the non-productive player because they don't want to pay him to play out the string somewhere else, or they are still hoping for a little reprise performance season like Murray had at age 39 (2.4 WAR), or sometimes it's marketing the star chasing milestones (Cabrera), and sometimes it's just dumb all together.