gehringer_2

speak of the devil....

I suppose BA is more meaningful with 2 out and man on second. A walk is nowhere near as valuable as a hit in that particular situation unless you have a really good hitter on deck.

actually, as a real time/in game stat, while watching I'd rather see OBP than OPS. The only value to me of a stat when a guy comes to the plate is seeing the probability of him making an out vs extending the inning - thus OBP. If I'm a PBP guy I'd talk about a guy's OPS, but I don't care in the moment about how he keeps a rally going, only if he will or won't. The other thing I think would be an actually addition would be more use of real trend stats. Here is a guy's OPS, and this is his dOPS/dt over the last month say. This would clearly take a lot of fan training of course! But now you have some idea if he's trending hot or cold or holding steady. They sort of approach that when they talk give streak stats, but saying a guy OPS's 895 in the last month still doesn't tell you which way he's trending. Maybe he's a career 900 OPS hitter......

yeah - this is becoming more and more a pain. >Don't trust ChatGPT yet. There are structural reasons that kind of AI may not be capable of being trustworthy. It's a regression in a sense. Before the internet, you generally wanted printed matter when you wanted to know something for certain, as opposed to asking a person, who might well be intelligent but give you the wrong answer without even knowing their own knowledge was flawed, whereas depending on the source, your confidence in what had been committed to print (say the encyclopedia) had been vetted to your satisfaction. AI is like your intelligent but untrustworthy friend, it doesn't and in current systems can't, know when it's wrong either.

from whatever. just that while whatever sanction Harbaugh might face will depend on whether he knew what was going on or not, whatever sanction if any, the U is hit with, likely won't. The institution can be penalized for lack of control even if no-one at a pay grade above Stalion is held responsible for him individually.

I don't mind hearing "we like out team" from a GM as long as his team is better than it was last year. When it's getting worse each for several in a row, not so much.

Don't hate Buck but he would be deep into the bottom third of my 'like to listen to' rankings. I guess I'd turn it around, what does he bring to a broadcast? Obviously he works for a lot of people or he couldn't have kept his gig but for me he's just not a very engaging guy to listen to.

that may help Harbaugh survive but won't spare the program.

I don't care if it's not the whole loaf - half a loaf would still be a big improvement.

Either Manuel knows a lot more about the parameters of the Stalion situation and knows its full scope it limited, or they are whistling past the graveyard - or maybe they will build in an escape clause if it turns out he was more involved in this mess. Or else Ward will have to find his version of Branda Tracy....

A few of those I saw were sloppiness, but some were because has to give up the ball sooner before he's triple/quadruple teamed. So the combination of Cade passing sooner and his teammates getting somewhere that they are reasonable targets to pass to.

Weird game for Sieder, some good plays, some bad ones. He was beat like a drum on short handed goal, Ozzie said you can’t blame him because he was gassed. If that was the case then put it on Lalonde for pushing his shifts too far. You can’t have d men out there less than one rush from being spent.

Team looks like a lot less than the some of its parts so far. I guess that's so not unexpected with sometimes 4 guys on the court that could still be in college but it makes for some unentertaining games.

Sieder looking very flatfooted tonight. Nursing an injury?

This has nothing to do with what does or doesn't happen to Harbaugh and UM, but in general all I can say is if Stalion was the reason the D was getting the results it has, then there are a lot of coaches out there that should be fired for being too stupid to change up their signs!

Harbaugh doesn't seem the type to out and out cheat, but he's eccentric enough he may have persuaded himself that since scouting was a long held practice that hadn't been illegal in his era, there is nothing wrong with it today, or the alternative is that he was oblivious to what Stalion had going. Until I see something that shows Harbaugh knew what was going on, I think that is most probably the case. But from the enforcement standpoint, that doesn't matter because if he didn't know then you get the 'lack of institutional control' hammer, which can be one of the heavier ones.

I think the connection is that since there has been an increased political alignment between liberals and more pro-palestinian groups, which inevitably contain antisemetic factions/connections, that those factions feel they have achieved some level of standing or 'cover' or license to express the antisemitism present in their orgs. There is a certain parallel to the way US conservatism has increased the license felt by American racists.

Agree- don't really see the Weber comp outside of the passing either.

Antisemitism is one thing, but Israel has also lost a lot of left wing political sympathy apart from that based on their treatment of the Palestinians under Likud. I don't know any liberal person who has been to Israel in recent years that doesn't come back with increased sympathy for the Palestinians' cause. Hamas' barbarity now forces people to make another re-calibration in their assessments.

Jalen Duren could hit a free throw at 19. That puts his development 8 yrs ahead of Drummond.

yeah - the relaxation in the strict MtoM defense rules and 3 point shooting mean we're not likely to see a come back in that style of center play so those comparisons to players from that era aren't very apt anymore. Even if a guys comes up that looks like Ewing physically, he's not like to play the same kind of game. A star at that size today is going to have to play more like Embiid.

salt water crocs for the playoffs!

Duren with a shot would be something. Duren with a shot and Cade with high level 3pt % and you'd have your two requisite anchors for a championship team. We can only hope.

a new definition of a 'squeeze' play.

don't disagree in general, but there is a still a difference between a coach's public personna and his team personna. Hypothetically if he was a highly validating coach in the locker room, his players might not care what he 'performs' for the media. Not saying I have any reason to think that is true for Dieon, but it's the kind of thing that's always possible, and we know in general that it is very common for coaches to be Jekyll and Hyde wrt who they are in the media vs who they are to their players and their players know that perfectly well. As media gets more pervasive I think generally it's more common for people in all fields that have public media presence to have some intentionality in creating public personnae that optimize their marketability. How much connection those public personnae have to who they really are tends to be incidental. If Deion's players stay with him, that's the only way to know really. To your point about Narduzzi being panned for what Deion is lauded for, it's no different that different actors being appropriate for different roles. I wouldn't care for Humphrey Bogart as Hamlet, nor Olivier as Sam Spade, and watching either of them in either role tells me nothing about whether I'd want either as a mentor. Everywhere there are cameras, people eventually become actors.