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Feds hand down sealed indictment of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Fox will no doubt have a field day.

Olsen is due to round back into shape. Hard to say if formal elimination will mean the Rays are more relaxed or won't care - but it's also a getaway day for them. Nothing is a sure thing but things are aligned decently for the sweep.

Nope. Wheels fall off for Miami. Santana with bases loaded 2 out double. 8-3

Washington just hacks another throw to 1st base to give Minny a lead. EDIT sorry MARLINS

26 man roster got younger by 5 mo.

Holton, Vest, Brieske, Mize, Meada, Hurter, Madden all likely available tomorrow.

OTOH, If are parked under a ball, the other guy really shouldn’t be trying to call you off.

Well AJ has certainly shifted into hard core mode. Krieder had gotten two soft contacts, I’d probably have let him go a little longer. But you have all those guys ready, might as well use’em

No problemo

Wenceel trying to climb that depth chart.

Littell not fooling anyone.

well, Krieder should be good and loose now....

wouldn't you also think there will have to be a new league formed to be the other half of that CBA? I can't see it being the current NCAA (too broad a target) or any of the current conferences (too narrow a target). Not to take the thread into politics - but just a scenario: There could be Congressional action but it depends on the election outcome. If one party gets enough control (i.e functional working majority) that everything is not constantly in knots, there are a few people in Congress that might have interest in the issue. But it's not the kind of thing that has a chance of emerging from another contentious session - which is why we haven't seen anything in that direction that yet.

well, I might like to think so, but Randy Smith apparently could not.

and the other question is that just because it has to change, doesn't determine how much damage is done before TPTB finally act. Some kinds of institutional losses can become irrevocable if you go too far down the wrong road.

What can't go on will come to an end, it's just a matter of how long it's going to take until some adults impose some kind of order.

nothing in there we haven't rehashed here a dozen times. There is nothing wrong with holding that Avila did not do a bad job acquiring young talent but that that is only one - albeit important part, of a GM/POBOs job and that Avila was bad at almost all of the of the rest of those parts. His FA signings were on balance bad, he got his clock cleaned as a trader, and while he may have known what direction the franchise had to go coaching/technology wise, he lacked sufficient energy/urgency about getting there.

Everybody's always looking to leave here for better gig. The place 1st went to hell when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac banked his promotion to Louisiana.

There are three Ann Arbor voices, the passing of which encapsulate the transition of the American State University from a genteel center of education to just another big business enterprise: Fred Hindley, Tom Hemmingway, and Carl Grapentine. Change may be inevitable and necessary, but it's never cost free.

absolutely hated Ufer. To me he was epitome of all the things that have gone wrong with modern college football - which stem from the appropriation of what should be a piece of youth culture by a bunch of old men and gamblers.

and it begins...

That was the grin of an evil dude. Aurelio would field the ball and then sort of loaf until the runner was starting to hope he might beat it out, then gun him down.

Ernie was unique in a lot of ways that may be pretty much lost. 1st and most importantly I think, since he mostly worked alone he was always talking directly to you, the audience. It changes the dynamic when a 'conversation' is directed to you, vs overhearing a conversation between two other people. A lot of complaints in this thread are exactly about the guys in booth being too distracted with each other and not nurturing their connection to the the audience. Ernie worked harder than any other broadcaster I ever heard at being interesting to the audience all the time. His work ethic to find all the things he talked about, stories he related, broadcast to broadcast puts today's guys to shame. He was probably better because he worked harder at it. The other thing he understood better than Dickerson is that over 162 game too much emotion is fatiguing to listen to. If I have one critique of Dickerson it's that he could stand to dial it down a notch - e.g. Jon Miller. (that and stop talking so much about pitch counts in the 1st inning!).

Rules committee in pro sport never seem to miss an opportunity to shoot their sports in the foot.

Sure, and parenthetically, I heard a lecturer once expounding that the difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin was that for some reason a bunch of Massachusetts Puritans had gotten to Minnesota before the Scandinavians and had set a different tone. Migration patterns do leave a mark but I think in general they are more regional than state by state, which was my nit to pick with the original contention. The Scandinavian influence is the same across the whole upper mid-west - didn't make any of those states unique in particular the way I think Detroit/auto industry created an ethos particular to Michigan or Hollywood does for CA. But of course everything is in the mix to different degrees.