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Can't throw major league hitters pitches in the center of the zone if they are still above the knees.

do we get good Tyler or evil Tyler? A trip to the ALCS hangs in the balance.

Naylor hit a good pitch.

The founders hoped to build a system where competing interests could produce good results even when the good will to produce them for altruistic reasons was not there. If it's works I'll take it.

He made a decent step up from last year up until the trip to the IL, but he's been pretty crappy since coming back. Has not found his stroke again.

IDK, it's your field 😉, but I would guess they can finagle a lot of leeway as long as is isn't real or tangible property that's involved. The other thing is that with MSU and UM at least, the boards of regents are constitutionally pretty strong. Not sure who could stop them. I mean the state gov has leverage in terms of threatening to withhold funds, but they can't do much else to immediately order them not to do something.

any time line on Shai?

This is hard to enjoy. I think I'm going to go put another coat of varnish on a cabinet I'm building. Then I can watch paint dry.

Keith called out on review. All the more reason McK should have swung at that 1st pitch cookie he took.

LOL - Kirby saves Keith from an otherwise terrible AB by hitting him.

tork with 106mph out.

Maybe they need to stop guessing.

McGonigle to SS, Baez to CF.

Kirby throws Torres 5 consecutive sliders, then gets him on an FB that is wide outside. There's no sense to that.

So the unit specified by 'gr' would be grains, but I had to look up what the 'm' stood for. In old the apothecary's units 'm' was a 'minum' which meant one liquid drop - in this case per ounce.

I have family there as well, and have been there and down town there any number of times. Portland is fine. It has/had a fairly severe homeless problem but it was hardly unique on the west coast for that.

Parenthetically, when Schlissel came to UM, one of his pet projects was to try to get the University to stop paying contractors for expertise it should already have in-house. I don't think he ever got very far with it. 🙄

Seems like a no brainer, I can't see any downside risk if either of them accept and return. The IF could get a little crowded if McGonigle is ready to come up at some point next season. That situation could resolve itself if Meadows doesn't find his bat and Javy finishes his contract in CF.

I don't know if we ever saw a full strength SGL this season, and he has now collected so many injures maybe we never will. I was at 5/3rd the night he struck out everyone and his brother for the Hens. He looked pretty exciting at that point.

it's not the money, it's the opportunity cost.

A team just needs to figure on losing 20-30% of the opening day pitching staff to injury each year. That's just average.

Are you sure they don't need the money right now? I doubt half the teams in the league are truly profitable even if the top ones are. Notable they don't mention Acker's public opposition to the early outlines of the deal. If it needs to be unanimous and Acker doesn't change his mind and the other Dems on the UM Regents vote with him, it's going to be dead.

You are correct tactically, but emotionally it doesn't get much better in the NFL today than sticking it to KC.

Underwood has incredible throwing talent, can throw back against the grain better than anyone they have had since Henson. But Henson is exactly the question about Underwood - does he have it between the ears or not? Sadly Henson didn't, though the team could have done worse than get Tom Brady as the consolation prize. Aside from his processing, Underhill needs to work on touch -he's rocketing too often on short throws where he needs to give his receivers half a chance. My interest in college football has been at an all-time low, but watching to see how Underhill develops is keeping me interested for now.

What did they expect from Hamonic - a 35 yr old coming of a season that already showed him in decline? Another signing that I imagine is going to be regretted/regrettable.