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This. And just to put the cap on this discussion - I would assume that everyone read Chafin's response to Petzold during the Atlanta series but if not, he said that he would have been glad to come back to Det if their offer had been as good.

Team looks better when 4 guys in the lineup all get on base twice in one game.

Torkelson with the concentration lapse. Scooped a few milliseconds too soon.

Torkelson getting close to 200 PA at an 800 OPS. Other than a blip 0 for Philly, he's been pretty solid since May1. But since admittedly his April was terrible, it's taking time for the season numbers to look decent.

Good one.

Dumb

McKinstrey with a quick start to that DP. Still wish he went to his right better.

The Tigers used to have a team with too many DH's starting in the field. Now we have too many middle relievers starting.

Tigers get Boyd off the hook. Does Hinch dare send him back him out there for one more?

Nice bat work by Carpenter to just serve that pitch after he probably guessed wrong. Then Javy being Javy and hitting a pitch no-one has a right to.

Same player as ever.

one more at Toledo then pencil him in.

Lineup is just too short.

yeah - we played a lot of handball up through HS - mostly because it was nearly cost free and in the city walls are not hard to find.

I wouldn't put too much stock on any comparison numbers, more interesting to see year to year changes at each institution. At least those would likely be based on the same accounting systems. The other thing to note is that these say they are revenue numbers, but profitability is the real key to program health. If a system is spending $100M on fundraising to bring in $105M, their revenue may look a lot better than another school with less income but also lower expenses.

Miggy's favorite line is 'do my job,' If he believes that then you'd think he has a sense of working within the hierarchy, and to be fair, I can't remember him ever saying word one to bad mouth any current or even past Tiger manager. I mean sure, he probably thinks, and is probably correct, that other players/coaches can't teach him much/anything, so he wouldn't look up to them in that sense = agreed there. But OTOH, he appears to be respectful of the role of his manager in the organizational sense if you take 'look up' in that meaning.

I see it as all a matter of degree. The human mind always wants to fit things into some kind of consistency. It's basically an analogy machine - sorting which things do or don't match this, and if not must match up with that. On the other hand, in the physical reality in which we exist, all defined relationships breakdown at boundaries. At one end, matter completely disappeares as you zoom into fine enough grain, while at the other end the Universe itself dissolves into contradiction at the first contemplation of its boundary. Between those limits the human mind spends its time trying to put things in boxes. Nothing ever quite fits in the boxes perfectly, but some things fit much better than others, and many things do fit at least well enough to have allowed humanity to understand enough to survive up to the present. But the limits of appliation of every human concept are always still there at all the edges, waiting for the unsuspecting to fall off the edge into error and failure, and also engendering the same terror that bedeviled 15th century sailors that should they get too far away from the seas of their comfortable beliefs, they would either land themselves on dangerous terra incognita, or worse, fall off the edge of the world.

I was surprised at Oregon. I guess they do have one of the better attendence rates in the conference, I guess Eugene is no farther to drive to for a game from Portand than Lansing is from Det - it just seems to be more in the middle of nohwere because of the geography I guess.

OTOH, the arguing is finally over in the US United Methodist Church. As of this summer's governance meetings the two sides have agreed to go their separate ways with the conservatives "disaffiliating" from the UMC to form a new denomination to be called "Global Methodist Church" Woman pastors are apparently still safe in the GMC...for now.

A plain reading of the NT would tell you that 1st person to go 'preach' about Jesus to others was the Samaritan woman at the well, who went and told her town about him - long before he commissioned any man to do the same.

There are too many of them out there in this same situation. And here is the irony: They want to dismiss GOP-Facism as abberation instead of inevitable consequene of underlying principle, because to throw those underlying political principles overboard is to jettison the exact same kind of comfortable certitude in political understanding that French argues in his column does need to be resisted in religious understanding.

Plates and screws below the elbow here. Between us we have the bionic limb Colonel Steve Austin didn't get.

Jake is sporting a 550 point OPS platoon split. When I see somehing like that I always wonder that they can't coach shifts in setup or mechanics that would help a guy improve a little against the outside pitch (the usual problem) even if costs them a little in their success rate against off hand pitching. Just more evidence to me that hitting coaching is pretty close to useless.

The title of David French's last column in the NYT: "‘Shiny Happy People,’ Fundamentalism and the Toxic Quest for Certainty"

interesting that a couple of apparently wannabe schools from SoCal don't make the top 25.