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Sounds like a great guy. Hope he still has the energy. My first impressions from the two videos was that he looked a little drawn and tired. Maybe that's just his natural look, or the last week may have been a bit of whirlwind. Mark Bernstein remarked in his intro at the Regents meeting that Syverud was the Prof in his 1st class on his first day at Michigan Law.

I think we have seen both the pinnacle and the death valley of Hinch's managing. The way he managed the pitching in the '24 run was unprecedented creativity, nobody's come close other than maybe Maddon. OTOH, he clearly had to be tearing his hair out not being able to find ways to pick-up a team in such a collective slump and pressing as at the end of '25. You can't blame him for them slumping the way you have to credit his pitching management, but OTOH, if there is anyone who can do something for a clubhouse vibe gone bad, you hope it's the manager. A+ tactician, maybe B- inspirational clubhouse guy.

It appears so. ESPN's baseball page has an off season progress report paragraph or two on each team. The Tigers' begins with "I'm not sure I get the passive Tigers." and ends with "The time is now, folks" 🐌

It can be more than that. A profit making venture has a positive obligation to generate an excess to make a return to its owners/investors. This also generally generates an imperative for growth. Missional non-profits are a) not specifically seeking income above their operating expenses b) are often quite content to sustain their mission at status quo scope - i.e - they are much less driven by growth imperative - though without question there are plenty of non-profit operators with growth ambitions - religious orgs commonly! But in the rest of the charitable service world I've worked around, it is absolutely a different operational mindset. As a more concrete case with college sports, the tradition at Michigan was that profits from the revenue sports were not only plowed back into those sports, but were directed to fund recreational facilities for the general student body, faculty and staff. If you have PE guys waiting for their cut, they're not standing still for that kind of 'extravagance.'

even with the OT, McLellan managed to keep all the forwards' TOI under 20min, but Simon and Seider were at 26 and 28.

We just got another one today. This one has even been to independent ball and back. https://www.freep.com/sports/tigers/ I know, I know, Edman will tell me I shouldn't be snide about refilling the minors, but they keep tossing raw meat to my cynical side. 😉

It's been raised before, but oddly enough this morning I just came across a news story about how non-profits in North Dakota have a special federal carve out from paying taxes on gambling income (so called rifle shot legislation aimed at a single case) that noted that under federal tax law, income to tax exempt organizations from profitable activities not connected to their core non-profit mission are fully taxable. When does the shoe drop on that? Maybe when someone finally actually makes money out of this mess?

if you were to try the most Machiavellian take on this, it would be that Boras would just as soon lose in arbitration if that loss strengthens Skubal's resolve to refuse any offer from the Tigers and go to FA as an aggrieved party because that's where the payoff is for Boras. To me, Skubal gives the impression of young man unlikely to manipulated even by his own agent, but I can't deny that's in Boras' interest to have a deep understanding of what makes his star clients tick and Boras is pretty good at looking after his interests. 🤔

Syverud made an intro video that went up on the staff newsletter today. Didn't mention sports. 🤷‍♀️

lIf we can believe that figures here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nhl/comments/1imymae/deep_dive_on_backtoback_games_in_nhl_is_rest_day/ That's a pretty substantial differential.

I could as easily say, be serious. If you don't think that is how the system works, fine, but it is. 😉

Class continues to be dead. Celebrating yourself when you're still playing is what we would have called bush league once. Not to mention he is already wearing a big '23' on his jersey - so even weirder.

It is what its is, every dollar they borrow to day is worth 2% less (minimum - more like 3% now). It's been the secret sauce that combines with growth to prevent the debt from completely eating the debt as % of GDP figure, which is of course still rising now faster than ever because all the budget controls are gone completely with this admin - so no arg there. But that is why for the 70 yrs since WWII no-one has ever cared if the number of $ of the debt goes down. 2-3% inflation, a couple % of growth, and they've kept debt as % of GDP under control (which is how they judge it), but they are trying damn hard to completely lose control now, which is why your gov wants cheap money more than they care about inflation.

Funny thing is on the opening Canes' penalty I was going to post about how aggressively the Canes attacked the Wing's powerplay, which I would like to see the Wings do more, but of course then they gave up the PP goal so it didn't actually work out for them. 🤷‍♂️ I don't know how much of that late/leading passivity is McLellan's idea of game management or if they just don't execute what he actually has in mind, but their late/leading play is leaving a lot to be desired. I also wish we had a quicker player to use in the penalty kill than Rasmussen.

we are all very concerned.

the ref didn't miss it, he was right there looking straight at it. He decided not to call it. Sucks to give up a point to Carolina after leading by 3 but at least they got the 2.

Ghost didn't get the call because he dove as soon as he felt Cat's stick - you can see the way his weight was distributed he was helping push himself forward to go down.

WTF was Raymond doing there

this has been the challenge for Wing teams for at least a half dozen years now. Too often they can't match another team's push.

it's what we always do. At 2% inflation the debt cuts itself in half (in real $) every generation (20yr)

Uncle Sam is the only debtor that has the option of deliberately inflating his way out of debt. I guess if that is what is going to happen - go buy a house on 30yr fixed rate mortgage even if it's a stretch. One of the few ways for a middle class person to survive inflation is hold an inflating asset and a deflating loan.

I doubt it. I think it came down to Chris I and Yzerman and Sergei were all youngish together in those years and Chris knew all those guys in a different way than his father did and so didn't have those hang-ups. It was inevitable but it had to work its way through.

Nobody could have predicted it, but somehow it has turned out much more fitting for Federov to have his number retired by a team in 1st place.

Igor still lacing 'em up.

Ironically, the money and contract terms are leverage the schools could use to force them to tow the line - but do they? I imagine it's not different from the way it was before. There are schools that let prospects know they aren't expected to do anything and schools that are more interesting to guys who still want to go to school and that sorts itself out. Social media lets the players communicate the ins an outs of their programs with other to a degree never possible in the past, so few guys probably pick programs whose expectations don't line up with what they want to do in the first place.