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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.......

I am interested in how his glove ends up rating. The game we say him play he only had a couple of chances, looked good on one, didn't make the out on the other.

Yeah - I salute you who have the fortitude. While it is certainly part and parcel of a noble level of civic responsibility, I am at the point where life is too short to spend it on that

So the thing I am really curious about is who controls the Wagner bank accounts now? Did Prigozhin have them under his personal control? If so did he leave anyone some kind of lock box designed to open in case of his death. He had to anticipate that Putin would do him in and I find it even harder to believe he had made Putin his co-holder to Wagner's various enterprises.

Prigozhin apparently has two identical planes. Do we have more than the Russians' word they got the right one?

Yeah - I could imagine Costa working OK with Jansen. The should get him and Valenti apart - they are a little too much together - of course Valenti can be too much even without any help.

He's going to be one seriously unhappy camper, but the Tiger's position is perfectly defensible. Pro sports is not an accommodating workplace.

Damn. We might actually have to start worrying about them again soon.

LOL, should have know that - I was just a Hen's game and watched them making challenges. Makes me wonder then - when games get out of hand do human umps eventually start subconsciously widening the zone to slow things down?

Hard to figure what to make of Olsen. Looked great for three innings, then bam. I thought a part of it was bad sequencing though - too many sliders. I think teams/pitchers can get too hung up on spin rate. Spin is good because it make one pitch act differently than another, but it doesn't matter how good the break on your breaking ball is if you throw it so much the hitter can ignore the FB and sit on it - no matter how you spin it he will figure out where it is going to go if you give him enough chance to.

Years ago the Sox had about the most famous organist in the country - a guy named Shay Torrent (I think he might have played for the Black Hawks also). He left them to go to Anaheim. I guess loyalty is in short supply everywhere....🤷‍♂️

8 base runners in 11 outs does not exactly scream "Call me up - I'm ready" OTOH, I think it might be safe to assume that in a game where 34 runs were scored, the K zone could have been the size of a postage stamp.

Prepping for Football season.

He'll join the starting rotation in '24 and should be ready for the HOF in about '45

Too many Tiger pitchers fall too much in love with their sliders.

TB: In Chrome, when you hit "embed post", manually copy the link it puts on the top of the page labeled "What would you like to embed" and paste that into here as plain test, and voila!

Interestingly enough, Torkelson has hit 20 in *his* last 82 games. (Spencer's AB early this season were forgettable.) But nice to be throwing around positive data for a change!

What MAGA really means is "Memory Always Goes Away. Their world is like one big Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

LOL - I have to agree with LLM that you're a tough audience for Skubal - his stuff is pretty good, but one can't argue (as per Edman) that the health risk will be high for him - esp in the the next year or two. But as a general proposition, the pitching is a really big question Mark. The high optimism of 2-4 yrs ago has largely evaporated. Mize had not been dominant before the surgery, Skubal is a health risk, Manning is plateauing at a level still too inconsistent, Turnbull is....who knows? Faedo may stick but he's going to be a middling kind of guy. Wentz similar but even less. Olsen might turn into something. And the guy I'd try as a starter next Spring is Tyler Holton. In any case - too many question marks.

Yeah - JD is still a terrible defensive OF but that hasn't stopped the keening for him ever since he was traded. Moving Tork for magic beans because we think we need a defensive upgrade anyway? For me that is too much in the direction of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The hopeful part is that they did a good job of finding undervalued pitchers in ERod and Lorenzen. If we can assume that was at least part skill and not 100% luck, and they can reproduce that accomplishment again at least in part, then that alone is a big piece.

gee, "only" 2.36? We knew this one would be bad. The eye test is substantiated.