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I guess until we hear differently, one would assume things like the progress toward degree rules are still in place, but good question. And what will happen the 1st time a guy getting big bucks loses his eligibility? You would think NIL contracts specify that it's the athlete's responsibility to maintain his eligibility. But that would be in a sane world. Are they going to demand those clauses when Sunshine State U is offering the $$ without them? Sure they are....🙄 Things change constantly, but at least relatively recently it was true that UM didn't have a lot of faculty in thrall to the athletic dept. Of course there were profs here and there that had reps for making life easy for the varsity but generally not enough that it wouldn't be hard to far a guy to dodge all the way through. Maybe that's changed/changing, I would doubt it though. Most of the faculty in A^2 have come from other places and worlds 180deg from sports, there isn't a lot of natural identification or sympathy compared to a place were you have more home grown faculty. But there has been so much trauma and upheavel in academic governance at UM in the last few years with Covid and two failed presidencies and since I'm a couple years out of the system now, I couldn't tell you anymore.

which also means they are all different. And that's the thing, you don't know what nerve you might hit with one guy which might not faze 99 other guys. So it's probably too variable to worry about that much.

the front of our house looks right out (/ in) into the street. We have a big picture window and we have always had some kind of drapes or blinds on it. But a funny thing is that a few years ago we were doing a bunch of redecorating and the we had taken down the drapery rods and had some work do to on the window, and it was probably like 18 month we had nothing on the window, and it became completely normal. Then eventually we put in a new blinds system, which we are back to closing pretty religiously when it gets dark. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this. Was true from the beginning and remains so.

yes - There was a long stretch over which either because of Mr I or DD, the Tigers didn't have any cases ever get to the arbitrator. I don't remember for sure, there might have been one late in DD's tenure, but for the Tigers it was essentially - no cases go to arb.

have to agree. Pre-arb salaries are by definition completely divorced from any connection to a player's value. It would be an odd player evaluation system that gave them any weight. But then again, what's not odd about the way baseball players are paid? 🙄

maybe also notable that Price's number was a settlement, not the arbitrator's pick. Do we know what numbers the two sides submitted in 2015?

indeed. And the numbers aren't only for the arbitrator, they set the frame for any negotiations before the hearing. Once the numbers are public, each side has to evaluate if they think the other made the more reasonable proposal and how that affects the strength of their own position on settling before arbitration.

I heard a radio report today about a Gen Z survey - they aren't bothering to save because they don't believe they can ever afford a house and the ones that do invest like stuff like cryto.......🤷‍♀️

Skubal is better now than Price was then and there has been about 25% inflation since 2015, so Price's award was closer to $25M in today's dollars.

It's not like it will be his last. I think then it would have mattered more.

Canuck aren't very good, but these are the ones you have to win.

I do always wonder what Jordan's game would have looked like if he had played in today's defensive rules. I'm pretty sure he is probably the greatest one one one player ever, but would that still get you to GOAT status in today's game against the kind of doubling Cade regulary sees?

gamesmanship. I imagine the Tigers figure Slubal wins arbitration almost no matter what he submits, to the team is going to lowball just to encourage him not to get so greedy he could lose.

one thing they have to fix if US politics is ever going to get better is Sullivan, Which tragically isn't even on anyone's radar really. It has simply destroyed any standard of responsibility in US media and politics. It's one of those relatively obscure 'process' issues that sit below any public conciousness where the general public has no concept of the havoc it wreaks on responsible civil discourse. It was a poorly reasoned decision made for short term purposes in a highly stressed environment and it needs to be fixed. Probably worst in terms of ultimate impact than even CU, though I can go either way on that.....

if they already negotiated down in 23-24 I won't be surprised if at least at least a few teams are willing to go in a different direction instead of signing on for more give backs when it was supposedly a pretty good yr for baseball overall.

depends on how far it goes before the charge is dropped or dismissed doesn't it? I suppose they could certainly deliberately try to take the case to the point of jeopardy just to force it to collapse there, if they were that clever. Can't say the legal people around Trump have been all that clever but maybe they could always get lucky, esp when you have 3 1/2 stooges for the Admin already on the SCOTUS.

It's not the MiLB signings per se, it's the fact that's the only place anything is happening. So each MiLB signing hightens the contrast to the silence on the MLB side. That's what is being mocked (at least in my case, as I definitely poked fun at the Smith signing. But there is also a bit of information in Edman's post that I don't take as so rosy, which is that the Tigers seem to have an excess of MiLB pitchers that reached minor league FA without ever sniffing the majors.

yeah - unless they messed something up and left him with a slight misalignment of his ankle or some weird thing, otherwise there aren't may injuries you would expect a more complete recovery from than a broken fibula.

I will be seriously surprised if both the DetNews and DetFreePress are both still in business in 5yrs.

I find it depressing there are enough evil people in this country to populate any agency with the number killlers and abettors of killers that something like this can take place. This is rapidly becoming the same kind of morally bankrupt, ethically exhausted population that mid war Germany was and we are seeing and will keep seeing the same symptoms. What is the dynamic that turns a society from one with a strong internal sense of morality into one so cravenly willing to lie, steal and murder? What ever it is, we are in the middle of it.

If there is a route to wining a WS by being the team to sign the most MiLB pitching, the Tigers are going to be in fantastic shape.

I think this is true, but not because of the way she was nominated per se, but because she didn't have the benefit all the things she would have learned and the support she would have developed as a candidate running a primary campaign. And of course you never know, a stronger candidate might have emerged, defeated her and then been stronger against Trump. The reason the parties started doing primaries was to make sure the people they nominated actually had voter appeal. Of course the primary process today is pretty screwed up in term of the ability to actually do that, but it was the theory. For the Dems the die was cast in 2019/2020 when Biden picked a candidate for VP who had not been a very successful campaigner and then compounded it by never setting her up as a virtual co-president so she could easily succeed him after one term.

The question I go back and forth on with Ivey is how much better will/can he get? On the one hand in terms of calendar time he's been around long enough to be pretty close to a finished product, on the other hand he has missed significant injury time and all the young players were probably wasting development time under Monty. And given that question how much more of him do we want/need to see to decide?

Note that Walz himself is NOT accused of grifting anything , he is accused of running a poorly administered program. There is an ocean of ethical distance between the two situations.