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True, his dad let Avila go for 3M and that was easily one of the worst moves he made.

That was supposed to be last year wasn't it? Well it's not like Dingler has been breaking down the door.....

Does Tyler Alexander have enough service time to refuse assgnment? Sure seems like he must...

I still go back to the whole sign stealing thing as a tempest in a teapot. Is there any team doesn't use multiple signals? I heard a coach call in on the radio talking about what a huge advantage it is for a DB to know run/pass before the snap, but if you signal a run and a pass in your multiple, how much help is it then? Not to mention you'd think any coach worth his salt would just send plays in on player rotation if he suspected the D had his calls. Teams played football successfully for decades before play signing became a thing. It's not justification of breaking the rules but the way all these dummies are talking about this doesn't say much for the brains of the average sports commentator.

I am not one of Harbaugh's biggest fans. He's a strange dude and the fact that he could get into strange kinds of trouble follows from that. So I find it pretty easy to believe he and his staff could have been bamboozled by a guy like Stalion. They equate love of school with virtue, and despite what JH might think, they are not *quite* the same thing.

In the states like MI with citizen initiative it's been done away with the GOP kicking and screaming all the way through a series of court challenges that were all rejected.

head scratcher. Kelly seemed like a real zero.

I'd guess Acker was not one of Schlissel's bigger fans.

Maybe if he gets made enough he'll given himself a stroke and relieve us all of having to keep dealing with him

The last time the balance was close to balanced was under a Dem Admin wasn't it (Clinton). I really can't fathom all the people who think the GOP is good the debt when every single time they get in they blow it up. Make zero sense to me. Debt is the difference between income and outgo. Just because the Dems are more expansive on the outgo doesn't make them worse on the debt than the GOP because the GOP is totally off the wall irresponsible about the income side. Anyone with eyes just needs to look at the GOP House charade of cutting IRS funding in the the name of budget when every $ the IRS losses costs the Treasury something like multiple $ in enforcement losses to understand how serious the GOP is about debt.

managerial moves may be part, but I'd guess having a big drop off between the front and back of the BP, or even between the front and back of the rotation is going to have the biggest effect. Getting blown out distorts the pythagorean model because scoring is unbounded on one side but bounded by zero on the other, so scores only distribute approximately to model. if you have a decent team but a few bad pitchers, your runs against will end up inflated compared to your overall record (i.e. when you lose you lose big, but you don't necessarily lose a lot). Pythagorean is correlated to the league average run differential. So I would guess where your team sits on the 'gets blown out' vs 'still has other good pitchers' scale has a lot to do with where you sit vs your pythagorean prediction..

I'm sure the other big ten coaches are yammering for Harbaugh's head for a lot of reasons that this has become the convenient vehicle for. But honestly - teams use multiple signers on the assumption that the other teams knows their signs. Competition impact wise, I think this is pretty silly - like most modern sport controversies. That is not to say there may not still be serious consequences, but the wailing about the integrity of the game is mostly kabuki theatre. And If Stalion was acting on his own and now gone to earth, there may not be very far the NCAA or BiG can get with their investigation. They don't have supoena power and if Harbaugh and the people immediately around him were not involved, it's one big dead end.

yes - and the usury thing applied in the Muslim/Ottoman world as well. So there are a lot of historical anticedents to why Jews ended up in what are today considered 'professional' fields. Restrictions on property ownership, insecurity of citizenship, coupled to a generally higher level of education. The Torah demands that children be taught to read the scriptures. In the ignorance of both the Christian and Islamic midieval worlds that became a source of both success, and cultural resentment. In the Islamic Ottoman empire a good part of the civil service were always Christians and Jews.

I've noted before that Ono is a different generation and different history than any of the recent UM presidents. It should not be surprising if he positions the U much differently than any of his predicessors did. A Board of Regents full of law firm owners is a nice add to the mix here.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. We've owed the conference payback for Wayne Duke for a long time.....🥷

interesting inversion when Lalonde goes 11/7, you end up with the forwards leading the D men in ice time. Seems to work as this team feeds off its defensemans' energy and skating as much as that of the forwards.

I don't care if they keep him as a minor leaguer if they have room, but he has not progressed as an MLB hitter since his rookie season and you really can't live with his OBP from a corner OF. If he goes to Toledo and makes some strides in his hitting then I like nothing more than for him to force himself back onto the roster.

Seriously Tater, everything Valenti does is for the entertainment value - don't look to him to say anything attached to reality. If you think back about his predictions - proscriptions for any and all the Det teams over years he is almost never actually right about anything. But that's not what he's trying to do. I don't know where this will end up but wherever it does, it's not likely to be near where Sports talk radio thinks.

team looked night/day better than the other night. Maybe Lalonde lit some kind of fire under the #1 line - Larkin and Raymond both with big games. Sieder becoming quite the edgy player.

The risk is Canha is more is age than his resume. At 35 he might have ~3 good yrs left or he might come to ST and find its gone forever - you never know about hitters in their mid thirties.

The quoting in this doesn't make sense. You don't quote yourself when you are writing someone.

maybe, maybe not. You really have no idea how much the AI will weight your correction compared to the thousands/millions of other inputs that go into its probability matrix. After all, you can't just program the AI to accept any and all corrections because it doesn't know if people might be mis-correcting it maliciously. And it's certainly not hard to imagine malicious actors, or even just market competitors, letting loose armies of bots with the express purpose of undermining the reliability of a targeted AI service. It we can think it up, you can believe someone is trying it as we speak....

true, but the way the world works is that people with layers below them are generally innately sympathetic to other people with layers below them and since those are the people that make liability decisions, assignment of responsibility upward in our society in generally is weak, and I tend to believe JH will probably be a beneficiary of general situation. And to go back your example, I think it would be unlikely any plant manager in the US would be fired if a bunch guys on his factory floor got busted, unless his profitability was already low. T0 expand the last point, often by the time things in a management regain get to where people are being arrested, it can be a symptom of wider mis-management where there are multiple issues. Sure - a guy at the top of that food chain is going to be bounced. But when you look at whether a football program is well run, you look at wins/losses and how the players are going and by those measurement that are primary keys for a sports program, you can't call UM mismanaged in any general way. That's what will work in Harbaugh's favor. Or the TL,DR version might be: JH is no Matt Patricia.

Maybe. We don't know if Harbaugh hired him or if he reported to Harbaugh. In theory JH could still skate depending on how many layers of management insulation there are between. Two would probably be enough.

The thing that may be different now is that Ono is sort a big sports guy (witness his support of the program upgrades at Cincy) - certainly way more so than Schlissel or Mary Sue were. I don't think Manuel is running quite so unsupervised anymore. What kind of difference that makes is an unknown unknown. The BOR is also full of professional litigators, which might lead to a more aggressive legal approach.