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Did you catch the 'live performance' of the movie at Hill a few years ago? Very cool.

actually I thought the ball was thrown exactly on line to where the receive was - just way short. If I were Maryland I wouldn't like to lose a game on that call.

but to your exact point, involvement in for what are becoming for all intents and purposes professional sports, is simply one more step in the wrong direction from where they need to be going.

it would be risky thing to be caught doing, but it could also be almost impossible to detect given the tech available to do it.

they need to work with Greene on learning to make more catches on his feet. Greene has a good glove hand and he could probably turn some number of the dives he currently makes into safer basket catches if he worked at it. The extreme ones are just going to take some maturity to decide if the game situation warrants it. The problem for a low scoring team is that it too often will... I would note that Austin Jackson could put up +20Rdrs seasons and he refused to dive for anything! You don't have to spend a lot of time on the ground to be a plus fielder.

and young players can become better fielders. For instance, in Tork's case the skills are fine, but he gets sloppy. That's exactly the kind of thing that a good work ethic can help. It can be frustrating but if anything the previous regime pulled the plug on guys too soon (Adames, Paredes, etc).

Either this is a conventional garden variety institution caught in the act story that someone is trying to come up with an outre cover story for, or the guy was pretty cracked. Story has bounced in both directions but plenty of popcorn to munch until it becomes clear which. Buddha always gives me grief about it but in the end I really have trouble seeing how the thing that major NCAA revenue sport is turning into, is compatible long term with the institutional objectives of a modern University. The management objectives and values are so alien to each other that I think University management systems will only have increasing problems handling oversight of their revenue sports programs as the sports get more professionalized.

There was never a question that the NIL system was guaranteed to produce this kind of outcome. i.e. once you give un-regulated people permission to start tossing $$ around, the odds of keeping it between the lines ain't gonna be good.

I think it's just as likely neither Tiger situation has any buzz among players in general because 1) like everyone else, probably none of them have much of a clue what was going on with ERod an thus likely have no opinion about it one way or the other - in the end he's just a guy with an opt out that took it. Nothing to see there. 2) With Turnbull non-tendered, no-one actually had their service manipulated in the end. No player is going to hold it against a team that they cut somebody loose who appears to have wanted just that.

Depends on who washes out. By the 2nd half of this season, Keith, Jung, Torkelson and Baez are potential everyday IFs, Greene, Meadows, are holding down 2 OFs. Canha, JHM, Carpenter, Vierling, left to fill 2 roster spots plus the bench has to play enough to stay sharp. So - yup, it's pretty crowded already. Of course the jury is still out on whether Parker's bat will hold up and Jung could falter at AAA, but the rest look like fairly sure things to be in their spots. Catcher is the obvious play for a new body but we already know there probably won't be one out there to be had.

I think with Turnbull there was a potential for his case to have gained some traction with players - if the Tigs had gone to arg, won a relatively low salary for him and then he had pitched well - becoming a high performance bargain and not gotten paid only for the difference between a rehab assignment and a option assignment. But the non-tender has short circuited any potential issue in that direction.

yeah - being in a hurry to make another bad move isn't an answer either. At this point it's hard to believe Weaver actually has some clear idea about how to put together an NBA team, so there's no optimism in having Gores force him to do more. More of what?

On one hand Spencer gets what he wanted - he's going to be a FA. OTOH, his value is down to where he won't do any better than he would have in arbitration, almost certainly worse. So bottom line at best he signs a one year prove it deal somewhere, and at the end of the season is pretty much exactly where he would have been after pitching his last controlled season in Det, other than being out a chuck of cash. Anyone think Boras will reimburse him the difference?

I don't know if I'd say it was for nothing. It was responsible for creating an outcome.

I think this pretty close. It reminds me of A Conan Doyle, in his 1st story where he introduces Sherlock Holmes, Holmes tells Watson he doesn't want to know anything about anything not related to his work because it would just push something he does need to know out of his brain. Harbaugh probably doesn't see the world except in whatever aspects are reflected somehow by football, and as I've said before, I strongly suspect that he is far too credulous toward anyone who professes to be a fan of his program because he doesn't see past that being a fundamental virtue in a person. I don't know if I would call him dumb exactly as much as narrow. At least since Don Brown he's done pretty well picking coaching talent, which is the head guy's most important asset.

Larkin and DeBrincat have sort of disappeared. If I had to guess., it would be that Larkin is still having issues from the shot he took in the back.

I thought it was interesting that Stalion had not turned in any expense reports. Now maybe that was because a 55K/yr staffer didn't have expense account privileges in the first place, and on one hand you could can say that's evidence he was doing everything he did on his own........Or someone was just being sure to any reimbursements were sub rosa 🤔

ATT has been upcharging $5/mo for Bally for several years already.

End game announced for Diamond Group RSNs (Bally). Bankruptcy Judge approves them closing their doors at the end of the '24 baseball season. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/2023/11/16/bally-sports-detroit-diamond-sports-group-parent-company-bankruptcy/71608374007/

well, it appears to be decreed (or as Sparky would say, cast in stone) that Jace Jung is a 3b and from the testimony of Trammell and he AFL coach, he is apparently channeling the reincarnated arm of Brooks Robinson. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/11/16/alan-trammell-sold-detroit-tigers-prospect-jace-jung-third-base/71603368007/

It's beating a dead horse to say it, but whatever talent is in the group he has assembled doesn't include enough shooting for any of the rest of the talent that is there to create a functional basketball team. You can break down each player for all their strengths and weaknesses but bottom line - as a team they can't shoot the basketball. One player on the court now and then that can is not enough. Nothing really changes until that does.

30 min TOI for Seider on the front of a back to back? Really? Petry - 3 in 14 min? Are these things related?

did the A's do that once? I though the WhiteSox always had the market cornered in really dumb unis.

The acrobat elephant swinging the bat is the best logo in baseball. They better not lose that!