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and it's also doubly good if your big man can make those late FTs as it's a lot easier to inbound the ball to size against pressure.

Is there any evidence about smaller pitchers being more fragile? In the past regime the Tigers almost had a fixation about not bringing in anything but big pitchers - 6'3" and up and I've wondered if that was their reasoning, but that didn't help Faedo, Skubal, or Fulmer - all on the bigger side and TJ victims anyway.

I think I have to disagree with the premise. The quality of NCAA football has always been miles below that of the NFL, but that never kept schools from filling their stadiums. So the key in college football hasn't been how good the players are, it's the draw of the ties to the schools that people are attached to - either by direct relationship, geography or just general fandom. Back in the Bo/Woody days of the B10, they were clearly playing an inferior brand of football than what was appearing on fields in the South and West, didn't affect the popularity of the product in the midwest at all. No M fan moved his allegiance to UCLA because they had figured out how to pass the ball. The beauty of football is that you get exciting games as long as teams are well matched at whatever level that is. The rest is all in the legacy allegiances. As I argued to Buddha the other day and still believe, if you took all the players in the NCAA and put them in a 'AAA' minor football league, that league with the same players playing the same game would only be worth only a fraction of what they are attached to their Universities.

I've seen some OSU folks complaining in social media (for what that's worth of course....) that the top leadership at OSU right now are political hacks and looking for leadership there is futile. But I'll state I've not personally done nor do I plan to do any research into the quality of the OSU leadership. 🎓

I get the idea, but I think you are being idealistic. If the Dems had it as program plank and then introduced any such thing in a GOP state, the GOP would immediately amend the proposal in to an effective suppression format and the Dems would be left holding the bag politically. I think that is the much more probable political reality. And in any case, the idea that lack of state ID is holding back people from accessing services (other than voting) is a presumption not actually in evidence. I've yet to hear any chorus from county social workers that they are being impeded in their work by lack of client documentation. This is about voting, and I'll stand with the all the arg's above that state ID for voting is a red herring that Dems have no good reason to get behind.

Their GA is good, but part of that is Gibson and there is always the question of whether a goalie will sustain good play over a season. They still don't clear their zone well, but are doing better keeping the other team in safer places in our zone - so less SOG etc. I think the biggest question is how ASP and Danielson do. Are they going to sustain or grow or are they going to hit a rookie wall and have to be sent back to GR. If they don't have to dip back into weak depth to replace those two I'm optimistic. And I'd still rather see Solderblom playing than Rasmussen. At least Elmer makes enough plays you know his is on the team.

but a long standing problem for the Wings is that with this team 'lock down' is never far from becoming 'turtle' mode, meaning the goalie having to save the game single handedly.

there is one thing that could save Sweeney, which is if they think they need Baez in CF - IOW I'm not so sure Meadows is a lock. And even if Meadows doesn't make it, they also have Vierling, so still a long shot for Sweeney.

right. And not borrowing for operational expenses is a pretty good rule of thumb for anybody other than a start-up. And didn't PSU issue LT bonds for the stadium? Have they got weird rules in PA or something?

One not to bright sign about NVidia - their SW people have been screwing up recently. Now I'll state upfront it's a totally insignificant part of the overall business, but I hate to see lack of attention to detail anywhere in an org. The last release of their Linux drivers had to be pulled back for some pretty basic QC misses. Gamers also complain they have fallen behind AMD in the SW implementations of some of the better features of their cards.

32 yr old OF who was already a late bloomer whose contact and OB have been dropping and his K rate rising, whose productivity is only sustained by his increasing HR numbers? Not a profile I find appealing. Maybe Rodriguez' rehab hasn't gone well.....

Congress should have stepped in after the 1st NIL court ruling and decided which genies needed to stay in which bottles, Legislation is probably the only thing that can fix it all now, but without getting political about it in more than the most general way, this is the kind of stuff that can run off the rails for years when the government stops functioning.

And Duren solid at the line at the end

at about the 5 minute mark they were already starting to be back on their heels and the Krakon hadn't even put the extra man out yet and it was looking like another goal would be given up late, but they managed to pick it up. Talbot almost gave away with a sloppy play where he turned his back thinking he was leaving it for ASP behind the net but a Krakon got there first.

sounds like another one the where the injury deficit is looking permanent. Or at least the Tigers feel the news has been bad enough no-one will pick him up.

and they probably knew M would be a point of resistance so they sweetened that pot a much as they dared. But the real answer was further down the thread. M's revenue for a single year is estimated at $142M, which sounds pretty close to me. You're being asked to give away a 10% interest for a third more than one year's rev? Just not a good deal anyway.. Perception fallacy of large numbers. $2B doesn't go that far when you divide it 18 ways and then put it up against current budgets.

'Sealed Beam' headlights. DOT mandated them for decades. They had the one great advantage that they were all glass, so they did yellow or go opaque. And because there were only half a dozen standard designs, they were cheap. Of course they didn't light the road for **** either....

I can't tell you what particular properties make for good paving asphalt, but I can tell you that the asphalt available on the market for pavers has changed a lot in recent years. The drive to recover more from every barrel of crude, and the pumping of lower and lower quality crudes, plus products like Canadian tar sands, have resulted in big changes in the composition of the 'bottoms' product from crude stills that used to be the traditional source of asphalt, And increasingly refineries have installed cokers - which consume the steams that would beome asphalt within the refinery, so little or no asphalt is produced at all. Since there is less around, you are perforce going to get less choice of quality. I suppose if and when the EV reigns supreme and oil production drops by large percentages, paving with asphalt may become a rarity altogether.

I know people are generally pretty irrational, but I don't get why they would call the boyfriend over to witness this scene.

I can't tell exactly where the red ends going south toward LA, but for as often as I have been out there, I still can't get used to the warn days tuning so cold after dark. I just don't acclimate to remembering to take a jacket with me when I leave the house at 3pm in 80 degrees.

he was a 3 WAR ( and I will bravely use this term fully cognizant of all that has gone on above!) even with a bad lower half for half a season. I think any GM would be crazy to be disappointed that was coming back.

And just to add on the topic of 'getting IDs to folks'. You come here speaking as an honest agent that if the poor had IDs it would be easier for them to vote and access services. The problem is that GOP elected officials who you advise the Dems to work with have no interest in either of those things happening, and are not going to create anything like the kind of programs you envision without being forced by a counterweighting political force, which in the end is only going to be Dems winning more elections/seats. This is just a true about getting rollbacks of excess dumb idea liberal politics in blue states. Not going to happen until the Blue side loses seats over it if it's stuff they believe in, and the sad truth is that much of the current GOP believes just as deeply in suppression of the other side's voters.

well, that raises the bar for Keith.

can't even imagine how empty NA was with 4M total inhabitants.

IDK, In the abstract this is true, but I think in reality the ability to match does in general depress offers, though of course it won't in every case, and it does save teams risking bidding against themselves at the front end of the process.