gehringer_2

IMAX?

Somethings just come down to quality of life issues. If advertising for drugs, gambling and lawyers would all go away again, my quality of life would definitely improve.

if they cut 50% of the price of those top ten it's roughly a $25 billion savings. Now consider they should have done this at least 15 yrs ago and that's $370 billion wasted.

Yup. Grocery stores have been slow to upgrade their self checkout lanes to handle full order volumes even though corporates have clearly decided that is what they want people to use. $$$$

Bigbie plays 1st. Just sayin'

Sounds likely

I wonder, if a catcher, who pretty much plays his position alone, naturally underestimates the marginal defensive performance of you can get on a team where all the defensive players between the lines have been able to develop deep familiarity with their teammates tendencies and abilities. And of course since there is no metric for it, it won't exist in the analytics world, so it can't exist in reality either.

Manning with maybe his best fastball this season and was able to throw the curve some. He's showing more flashes.

There are a lot of perfectly reasonable arguments that '24 should be less close than '20, but the country is such a cultural wreck, polling's efficacy as a predictive tool has largely collapsed, so one is left to assume it will indeed look a lot like '20 again - which is to say much closer than a sane person in any normal country could understand it could be, and no doubt another ambiguous Congress to go with it.

I don't know how anyone could watch the Tigers regularly, observe the generally terrible throwing by almost all of their left side IFs, add to consideration that Javy Baez must make the fewest number of routine to catch throws from SS in MLB history, and not be impressed with the number of errors Tork has saved his infielders. That said, the last couple of weeks he has no-doubt been brutal misplaying the hops on some batted balls.

There are 7 figure research consortia with cooperative purchasing, joint logistics and management of major equipment at remote experimental sites. That Engin School does this stuff everyday. Legal details like potential licensing arrangements, etc, etc.. The Big U is more like a multinational corp today. University legal and logistics people could set up what they need for an alternative athletic org in their sleep. The holdup is not on the execution end, it's on the policy end. To finally separate out revenue sports will be to admit that amateur/student athletics is dead in those sports and no-one will take responsibility to finally make that admisstion.

Hope is a dangerous thing, my friend.....

Then again, you can put 100 blind artists in a room with an elephant and you still won't get a painting of an elephant. There are still big uncertainties with predicting whether a MiLB hitter is going to succeed in the Majors because some of the relevant variables, whatever they are, remain unknown and thus hidden. I think this is where there has been a big divergence between pitching and hitting. I think teams are getting better at being able to measure and predict pitchers - but then the limitation there is that injury injects so much noise into success projection for pitchers that you still get poor levels of certainty, it's just for different reasons.

well, for your information, I for one, am firmly ensconced in a Lazy-Boy which is most definitely not in any public thoroughfare.

I don't believe it's would be that hard. Universities already have more consortiums and joint working arrangements that span multiple schools for all kinds of other purposes than you can shake a stick at. They know how to do group stuff. the problem is they don't *yet* think they need to. I can guess the process is going something like this: "We aren't worried because we are going to make so much money we can afford sending guys all around the country for non-rev sports." Of course never mind that most non-rev sport competitors actually are students for whom that kind of time commitment will be a problem. But be that as it may, it won't be long before schools that are willing to beggar all their other programs to plow the most $$ back into winning the most FB games create a situation where everyone else also has to in order to compete, and all the other other actual student athletes be damned.

I would guess his 'retirement' is an some kind of 'unable to perform' designation.

I won't come back though - it's obsolete. The problem is the audience that created the demand that kind of quality news has left live television for other news sources and is never likely to go back.

'Historic' and 'Hockenson' may be an alliteration but that doesn't mean they belong together.

I was more skeptical of his comeback potential, but I also figured the new Wunderkind had some higher level of player acquisition mojo we would be seeing.

Captain Obvious takes the wheel for the Uncle Sam.

what will happen when/if more self driving cars arrive is that people won't do the needed regular maintenance and calibration of the sensor suites and you will end up with 10% lethal vehicles out there. That's the reality on the engineering end. Airplanes use autopilots (in an orders of magnitude simpler environment) and they spend more on instrument maintenance per plane in a year than any one pays for a car.

Exactly. Our brilliant city leaders have decreed that Ann Arbor must be bicycle friendly, but the pols don't seem to have a clue that physics don't care about whatever ordinances and road marking ideas they decide to put down. They are on one hand providing spaces for bicycles while busily making it more dangerous for them with the other. The problem is you have two kinds of cyclists. There are people like me, who want nothing more than to stay as far away from cars as possible when riding (and I'm probably over 20K miles as a cyclist), and you have those whose main goal in life to assert their political rights on the road. I find the 2nd group to be mostly outright crazy, basically organ donors in the waiting. But those are the folks that do most of the policy agitating, and IMO their views lead to a lot of very unsafe road design decisions. For instance, it's Quixotic at best to mandate cyclist's right of way in places where drivers can't see them, yet we now have a bunch of those situations in downtown.

The roil in football I can understand, but what I can't understand is how all these supposedly smart people cannot figure out how to separate revenue from non-revenue sports and re-establish local conferences for non-revenue competition. The cost of travel is going end up killing the non-revenue sports at these schools. The non-Rev athletes will be the losers and it's just stupid. This isn't rocket science - put together an association so the tennis team doesn't have to fly cross country to play a match. Idiots. Blithering idiots.

and he's already had TJ on that arm once. Not good.

The only Fullerton I know locally is in Detroit - runs parallel to Plymouth road but nowhere on that road could be this pic - so .... considering the source.....near the corner of Fullerton and Clybourne in Chicago not far from Lincoln Park? Block # is right, PNC Bank is there but doesn't match quite right though.......