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Then again, you can put 100 blind artists in a room with an elephant and you still won't get a painting of an elephant. There are still big uncertainties with predicting whether a MiLB hitter is going to succeed in the Majors because some of the relevant variables, whatever they are, remain unknown and thus hidden. I think this is where there has been a big divergence between pitching and hitting. I think teams are getting better at being able to measure and predict pitchers - but then the limitation there is that injury injects so much noise into success projection for pitchers that you still get poor levels of certainty, it's just for different reasons.

well, for your information, I for one, am firmly ensconced in a Lazy-Boy which is most definitely not in any public thoroughfare.

I don't believe it's would be that hard. Universities already have more consortiums and joint working arrangements that span multiple schools for all kinds of other purposes than you can shake a stick at. They know how to do group stuff. the problem is they don't *yet* think they need to. I can guess the process is going something like this: "We aren't worried because we are going to make so much money we can afford sending guys all around the country for non-rev sports." Of course never mind that most non-rev sport competitors actually are students for whom that kind of time commitment will be a problem. But be that as it may, it won't be long before schools that are willing to beggar all their other programs to plow the most $$ back into winning the most FB games create a situation where everyone else also has to in order to compete, and all the other other actual student athletes be damned.

I would guess his 'retirement' is an some kind of 'unable to perform' designation.

I won't come back though - it's obsolete. The problem is the audience that created the demand that kind of quality news has left live television for other news sources and is never likely to go back.

'Historic' and 'Hockenson' may be an alliteration but that doesn't mean they belong together.

I was more skeptical of his comeback potential, but I also figured the new Wunderkind had some higher level of player acquisition mojo we would be seeing.

Captain Obvious takes the wheel for the Uncle Sam.

what will happen when/if more self driving cars arrive is that people won't do the needed regular maintenance and calibration of the sensor suites and you will end up with 10% lethal vehicles out there. That's the reality on the engineering end. Airplanes use autopilots (in an orders of magnitude simpler environment) and they spend more on instrument maintenance per plane in a year than any one pays for a car.

Exactly. Our brilliant city leaders have decreed that Ann Arbor must be bicycle friendly, but the pols don't seem to have a clue that physics don't care about whatever ordinances and road marking ideas they decide to put down. They are on one hand providing spaces for bicycles while busily making it more dangerous for them with the other. The problem is you have two kinds of cyclists. There are people like me, who want nothing more than to stay as far away from cars as possible when riding (and I'm probably over 20K miles as a cyclist), and you have those whose main goal in life to assert their political rights on the road. I find the 2nd group to be mostly outright crazy, basically organ donors in the waiting. But those are the folks that do most of the policy agitating, and IMO their views lead to a lot of very unsafe road design decisions. For instance, it's Quixotic at best to mandate cyclist's right of way in places where drivers can't see them, yet we now have a bunch of those situations in downtown.

The roil in football I can understand, but what I can't understand is how all these supposedly smart people cannot figure out how to separate revenue from non-revenue sports and re-establish local conferences for non-revenue competition. The cost of travel is going end up killing the non-revenue sports at these schools. The non-Rev athletes will be the losers and it's just stupid. This isn't rocket science - put together an association so the tennis team doesn't have to fly cross country to play a match. Idiots. Blithering idiots.

and he's already had TJ on that arm once. Not good.

The only Fullerton I know locally is in Detroit - runs parallel to Plymouth road but nowhere on that road could be this pic - so .... considering the source.....near the corner of Fullerton and Clybourne in Chicago not far from Lincoln Park? Block # is right, PNC Bank is there but doesn't match quite right though.......

I am interested in how his glove ends up rating. The game we say him play he only had a couple of chances, looked good on one, didn't make the out on the other.

Yeah - I salute you who have the fortitude. While it is certainly part and parcel of a noble level of civic responsibility, I am at the point where life is too short to spend it on that

So the thing I am really curious about is who controls the Wagner bank accounts now? Did Prigozhin have them under his personal control? If so did he leave anyone some kind of lock box designed to open in case of his death. He had to anticipate that Putin would do him in and I find it even harder to believe he had made Putin his co-holder to Wagner's various enterprises.

Prigozhin apparently has two identical planes. Do we have more than the Russians' word they got the right one?

Yeah - I could imagine Costa working OK with Jansen. The should get him and Valenti apart - they are a little too much together - of course Valenti can be too much even without any help.

He's going to be one seriously unhappy camper, but the Tiger's position is perfectly defensible. Pro sports is not an accommodating workplace.

Damn. We might actually have to start worrying about them again soon.

LOL, should have know that - I was just a Hen's game and watched them making challenges. Makes me wonder then - when games get out of hand do human umps eventually start subconsciously widening the zone to slow things down?

Hard to figure what to make of Olsen. Looked great for three innings, then bam. I thought a part of it was bad sequencing though - too many sliders. I think teams/pitchers can get too hung up on spin rate. Spin is good because it make one pitch act differently than another, but it doesn't matter how good the break on your breaking ball is if you throw it so much the hitter can ignore the FB and sit on it - no matter how you spin it he will figure out where it is going to go if you give him enough chance to.

Years ago the Sox had about the most famous organist in the country - a guy named Shay Torrent (I think he might have played for the Black Hawks also). He left them to go to Anaheim. I guess loyalty is in short supply everywhere....🤷‍♂️

8 base runners in 11 outs does not exactly scream "Call me up - I'm ready" OTOH, I think it might be safe to assume that in a game where 34 runs were scored, the K zone could have been the size of a postage stamp.

Prepping for Football season.