gehringer_2

Two words: Microwave cannon.

That's Canada geese, lest you ruffle some ornithologist's feathers.

the question is was he fleeing the current coach?

If you are even a fair (and by no means great) pool player you can make hard shots, you just need to be able to repeat on your misses, which you can when you are shooting a movie. 😊 Of course when playing straight pool, the trick is not to have to make hard shots - putting the ball in the pocket is normally the easy part, it's getting the cue to where the next shot is easy that is the art. Gleason did a small number of 'serious' films. I've seen a few. He probably had more talent than ambition.

yeah - a system full of guys that end up topping out at 4A could look like it's running circles around other systems. The only real measure is how many major leaguers make your team in X yrs.

I really don't know MC. I think most big donors want to leave a mark - some kind of legacy - brick and mortar, building with their names, plaques on the wall, a fellowship they come as award every year. I really do wonder how excited they are going to be about putting a porsche in the next Neon Deion's parking space. That was my question up thread. I think places that already have a well developed booster culture around them are going to do a lot better at having people ready to spend on that kind of expense. The Tucker funding was a black swan, much like Ross's 100M. Those are one time - you aren't going to be able to run an onging program on that kind of basis. (Dept of useless information: People in Europe and the US use 'black swan' as a metaphor for a rare event, but black swans are actually quite common in Australia)

He might not have too much to say about the left handers in the box, but he'll probably have lots of commentary on the right-handers.

knew of a linebacker once, talked a really great game. Impressed a lot of people....I heard it eventually got him a job with a team.... <g,d&r>

As long as that's not just a deeper hole.....

I kid just because so many people just seem to assume there is a money press just sitting unused in the basement of Schembechler Hall. To paraphrase Dave Dombrowski "You try to raise that money!" 😱

have you sent in your check yet?

LOL People won't want to see it, but don't forget that one possible outcome is that the Big Ten does not try to become the 2nd super conference to the SEC but instead is building size and adding Pac schools exactly so they don't have to. Maybe they are trying to go back to where things were in the 60's and 70's where they simply didn't play or compete with the Southern conferences. With enough big popular traditional programs they can make a lot of money sticking to internal scheduling and running up winning records internally. Then as long as the playoff invite is wide enough they still get their playoff invites, take their losses (and football being football, they will win a few) and on it goes with all the 5*s going where the big money is but not very much to the B1G. Could be that is the kind of difference in the future seen by Warde Manuel and Jim Harbaugh. Now don't everybody get your panties in a bunch - I'm just spitballing - but just to make the point that none of us know where college revenue sports are going to be in 5-10 yrs -- there could be lot of outcomes that no-one today is imagining. But you can bet that while the prospect probably doesn't bother coaches much, a lot of ADs around the country are trying to figure out some kind of future that does not involve teams with NFL sized payrolls! And add to the mix Buddha's probably correct prediction that some kind of collective bargaining is in the future for college players which would be another source of new organizing principles that no-one today can see yet.

You need to be doing both. It's true there will be some guys who maybe weren't ready but still have the potential to bloom, but you still have large numbers of top guys who go to good programs and win starting jobs and they mostly are not going to show up in the portal. Once you lose them you aren't going to get another shot at them.

I'm not saying it's likely, but I now I do wonder a bit if when the Tigers decided not to set up their own RSN, part of the reason was the possibility they could end up buying the this one at firesale prices. You don't need to be a Warren Buffet level investing guru to know that a lot LBOs end in failure.

Larkin and Bertuzzi seem to have lost their chemisity - maybe it comes back if Bertuzzi's game comes around, but I'm looking for Lalonde to do some more line shuffling quickly if the #1 line doesn't pick up quickly after the break. You can't keep wasting Larkin's setup ability on guys who aren't using it.

If he doesn't get the nomination running as an independent is all upside. I'm sure he believes the GOP can't win without him, so that means another Democratic DOJ pursuing him, running and winning is still his best chance to put an end to that. Plus running allows him to keep on living for months on the proceeds of political fundraising and that's a valuable ticket for him.

I don't think not using double-negatives won't ever either.

Re:McCosky story: You notice that the success he pointed to was Fulmer - a pitcher. It's a whole different mental approach for a pitcher than a hitter. A pitcher is an initiator. He controls the action - he has time to deliberate - to bring his thoughts about what he wants to do to some kind of closure, then make his pitch. Hitting is purely reactive, once a pitch is coming you have to be 100% on pure reaction and the 'mental/muscle memory' of what your body knows how to do. Any thought process a hitter attemps once a pitch is released dooms him. Hitters are going to be far more affected by potential mental overloading than pitchers and if teams don't recognize that difference and tailor their approach for hitting and pitching differently, they are going to fail.

I would say the difference is that economic decay in rural areas while real, is less politically 'deliberate'. Its part of a much more inevitable historical trend. Increasing urbanization has been a constant ever since the first tractor was invented, but in the immediate post WWII era in the US you had a couple of big factors that temporarily held back the trend - the interstate freeway system and incredibly cheap gasoline. That allowed a lot of light and medium manufacturing to move out into the country side and boosted rural economies. But China, higher fuel prices and 'just in time' production systems have pretty much put an end to the influence of those factors. And as a matter of fact - a lot of Biden's re-industrialization initiatives are being pushed out to the country side to try to ameliorate those declines - Why? Because rural areas have gerrymandered fortified (small d) democratic influence that insure their concerns are eventually heard, while the black urban poor have managed to neuter the strength of their democratic leverage by for falling for the illusory "progress" of super majority minority districting.

Harbaugh threatening to walk might be higher leverage than Brady Hoke threatening to walk - no doubt, but that leverage is still pretty limited to the athletic dept and possibly what ever Regents are sympathetic to sports (and this is probablty the biggest key to what and how much happens). Beyond that the AthleticDept at UM is pretty completely siloed from the rest of the Unversity and you could re-incarnate a composite of Knute Rockne and Bo and the rest of the University would probably give you a big shrug about it.

I think the cleverness of today's American institutional forms of racism is that they operate mostly at the economic level so it's relatively easy to defend American social outcomes as strictly class based and not specificially race based. But the truth is that by segregating blacks geographically and then reducing resources to urban black areas, you effectively segregate a larger portion of the black community into lower economic status. So American society has reached a condition where people don't need to be racists in their personal conduct, the hidden hands of majority rule, private investment and government resource distribution maintain their priviledged status while we can remain 'pure' and 'colorblind' in our everyday personal conduct.

This is absolutely correct. The urban poor realize that crime prevents economic redevelopment in their areas, prevents appreciation of property valules that allows people in other places to build family economic equity etc.. But they want *better* policing, not just more violently aggressive policing. At one time the assumption was that if police depts better reflected the make-up of the community that would happen organically, but we are finding that police culture becomes an entity all of its own, regardless of who makes up the force so that hope is not necessarily realized in too many places.

I think what would be instructive would be to look at the percentage of the black population that lives in economically depressed urban areas as compared to whites. That is going to explain part of that 2.5 disparity. I would say if whatever residual percentage difference remaining after normalizing for the prevalence of urban poverty, that can be more clearly assigned to endemic/institutional racism factors.

so if you put a piece of meat on rack in a convection oven at 425 would it come out any differently than air 'fryer' would do it?

If I had to guess he'd be good at everything execpt making trades - and that just because his up tight personality might make make him a poor negotiator -- but IDK. He seemed like a decent guy - just wasn't cut out for the job when he was here.