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I think more to provide some PR that they are not suppressing service time while still leaving owners free to suppress service time for 90% of players.

If he is re-elected he will quash all the federal prosecutions and no-one will/can stop him. And he'll sit in DC and dare Georgia to send someone there to arrest him on any state charges.

Who knows. To me, it seems like the only possible outcome in the end is a 30-36 team super league under a whole new constitution and *everybody* else ends up dropping virtually to non-revenue status. Looking at it globally, I think it's inescapable that high cost/high revenue programs will only be able to exist in the same kinds of markets that pro-sports teams today do, and that is a pretty limited number of markets around the country. Certainly nothing like the current number of FCS teams. I can see maybe a few exceptions of teams with no local market but national brands like ND, Penn State and LSU, but not enough to keep anything like the current system alive. But again, Congress is the wild card. They could - at any time - end NIL, make college athletes non-employees, recreate the system any way they like.

Apparently UCal did not want to see the two schools in different conferences but UCLA was in such dire need of more $$ they had no choice but the let UCLA make the initial move. Now they are going to have to find a away to split to differenct conferences for revenue vs non-revenue sports. Track and swim programs (etc) can't afford to fly cross county for meets, not to mention a lot those athletes really are students and don't need the extra time committment. But what will probably happen instead is that more non-revenue sports will end up being downgraded to club status.

Cal, Stanford, W State and OR State left holding the bag. UCal regents find themselves in a funny position, one foot on each side the outcome.

Turnbull with a so-so outing at Toledo 3.1 IP, 3H 2ER 2BB 2K. He left the game after hitting a batter with 1 out in the 4th and that man came around to score, so 1 ER while he was on the mound.

I think it should be a relief from the down beat of this season to see if they have anything in P Meadows, but to be honest. even best case I'm doubting he's going to be a player whose clock setting is going to be a big deal. Of course I hope I'm wrong about that!

I love the comments that the SS woudn't allow him to be incarcerated. If it did ever come to it, they have zero authority to prevent it. They can guard him standing outside his cell as well as anywhere. In fact the government would save a ton of money if he made it that simple for them! 🤣

I don't think there is much question he hasn't been unlucky when he's been hit this season, he hasn't been able to throw stikes. The episodes when his blreaking ball command has just disappeared have been almost painful to watch.

Nice catch. The kick is smaller than Denny's and Jackson 'sits down' a little lower but there is definitely an echo there.

yes - I don't know what else he's been doing beside selling property but you'd think he's been doing Radio for years.

the rest of this season is going to turn in a musical chairs of who is worse: Olson, Faedo, Manning or Wentz.

too bad JHM can't play 3rd.

Isaac is not going to let the Tigers forget

For tonight, In Dickerson I will trust.

IIRC, one of the reason they were never high on Paredes is that they though he'd never hit of any power. Bigbie's HR rate has picked up this season, granted he is a couple years older than when Isaac's power finally began to emerge.

Coaching can be key here. If you have QB with lots of physical talent and not much else, your offensive coaches may have to swallow their pride and just redesign an offense the QB can run instead of the one they want to run.

I think for now it's all in a holding pattern waiting to see if Congress does something to put the genie back in the bottle, and who knows, they might do something to push the current systems back into viability. But since Congress is a mess (can anyone in college sport be thrilled knowing their future is hanging on Tommy Tuberville's legislative chops?) and 2024 is like a wall beyond which the shape and function of the Congress can't be guessed, everyone is just muddling along with deck chair rearrangement on the USS NCAA-Titanic.

I'm mostly surprised how many years the 'system' of keeping numbers down - which is mostly subtle and largely underground, has persisted. OTOH - In general I don't begrudge docs their money that much - I'd rather see them be well paid than Ad men or banksters, and TBF when you look at Docs' raw income numbers is that before or after the cost of their malpractice ins and all the debt a lot of them end up carrying? Just in the last few years an older pediatrician friend of ours was looking to drop back to a part time practice, but just retired instead because she couldn't cover her ins costs working part time.

Even they are all healthy, Skubal strikes me as the only one with Ace level stuff and you do have to wonder if his arm stays together. I'd put Mize as a solid #2 level guy. Unless his FB comes back better after the surgery I don't see #1 level in his future. Manning appears to be OK but middle of the rotation also. Turnbull could surprise to the upside. He didn't look good this year but he might once he has some innings in post TJ - just don't know with him. So I'd agree, enough arms but not necessarily a dominant staff without more help. They do have depth of back of the rotation depth with Faedo, Wentz, Brieske, Olson. The deep bench is nice.

A righty that is not a strictly pull hitter is probably your best bet for a player with no platoon split. I know, he's not a fair comparison to anyone - but Cabrera, with the ability to use an inside out swing when he wants to, has a negative career platoon split. More down to earth - Torkelson's is pretty moderate so far in his young career, and he also knows how to take the outside pitch to right when they are throwing him away. He really should do it more than he does. I think this is also a place where you want to look at OBP as well as OPS - at least for LHH. I wouldn't care too much if a LHH gives up his power going the other way against LHP in order to avoid making outs. That's not a guy I'm going to worry about platooning even if his OPS split might be >150 because no HRs. Can he still keep the line moving? Riley is an example here. 130pts on his OPS split but less than 20 on his OBP. (because Riley hasn't hit a HR off a LHP this season)

US Medical schools colluding to supress enrollments goes back a long way before Reagan. Not an excuse but realize that that was just another play from the same deck the AMA has been dealing from for much longer time. If I had to guess it goes at least back to their realization that the WWII GI bill was a threat to grease the skids for the creation of a lot more Docs than they wanted to see.

The conundrum for the UMs and OSUs is that they want to keep the market value of "Big Ten" but the conference bylaws don't allow for expelling members so if they want a new org, they can't remake the B10, they have to leave it behind. In the end, the only way the top schools in the power 5 can maximize their income is to stop sharing it with teams that do not suppport the value of their conference income shares and create a new league of more evenly matched schools, leaving the rest behind. The system survived the situation for a number of decades, but as noted, the diversion of income to the athletes has turned a situation that in the past was only a strain into one that is untenable.

TBF, the Tiger FO *might* have made ERods conduct appear worse than it was - we don't know one way of the other. The normal assumption would be that no matter what is going on, he should have kept the team aware of things at least to the point where they were not out there in public saying they had no idea what the situation was. That part was pretty absurd. Again, maybe the Tiger FO was only acting cluless as a matter of PR choice - who knows? The other choice being "Yes Eduardo is in communcation with the team but we won't/can't talk about it." Doing the former might be a lazy way to avoid continually being asked any more questions on the topic. All seems rather unlikely but if you want to give a person the benefit of the doubt you can usually find a way.

Wenceel, Parker and JHM need some MLB audition time -- even if they don't think any of them are slam dunks to make the team out of ST next spring.