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From what we hear, they have exhausted all medical options on the knee. But then again, despite our assumption that players are always getting the best medical advice available, we know sometimes they are not (Magglio having been an example). Or there may be some 50/50 option Cabrera has refused that he might change his mind about that might work. Still I would judge the odds of any of that to be vanishingly low. He'll probably have to have it replaced before he reaches 50.

IDK if Harold thought it was going foul, it was a HR or it was going to be caught, but he didn't run out of the box like he thought it mattered.

Harold is the one that surprises me. I really thought playing more would end up with him being exposed by more pitchers, but he's raised his game.

LOL - Three Tiger base runners all on the 3rd baseline at the same time there.

Riley going to be sad to leave Texas.

I assume I can configure an audio compressor on the Mac I use for streaming but I haven't run it down yet as I had dropped back to the live broadcasts. That other thing with gameday that has reduced its appeal is that they are about 45 sec delayed this year. I suppose the delay may be my provider instead of gameday's fault, but that makes no difference in the end.

It took many years, but I believe the FCC finally forced radio stations to stop broadcasting commercials at higher audio levels than their regular programming - but now the practice has just moved to steaming services. The commercials in the Tiger game day stream are running at least 12db higher than Dan's mike in the booth, to the point where if I the cut the volume to 'bearable' for the spots, I literally can't hear Dan at all. The increasing severity of this practice has actually driven me back to listening on broadcast radio despite the greater convenience of using the stream. However today's game on AM an my house is out of range for 1270 AM. 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

It's funny how Victor generates so much opinion. He's just your basic utility OF. Yes, he is a major leaguer, no he won't be a multiple WAR player. You'd think a guy that was neither a bum nor a star would be less controversial.

It's hard to see what the end game is. He is not accomplishing anything, nor is he helping his team, nor is he taking any final bows. That last one seems to make it plain he plans to come to ST next season - why not just call it a year and take the last month off and get an early start on whatever rehab might be possible?

You have no GM, so no-one is going to pull the trigger on that decision. Whatever your opinions on AJ Hinch for good or ill, he's a 'players coach' plus I think it's clear he is not the kind of guy who has a lot of strong opinions he will go to the wall for, or even rock the boat hard. So a decision like that seems unlikely to come from him either.

I tend to believe the RW heat is getting to Judge Cannon. There is really no earthly reason a 'special master' is needed this case. The specifics of the documents are not even the real issue. A special master is used when a case presents technical or scientific issues complex enough that the judge doesn't have the competence to understand and evaluate the relevance or truthfulness of the testimony she is hearing. That's nonsense in this case. Any well educated person can listen to people from the intelligence community tell you the significance of a document in an understandable way - this ain't quantum physics. She is just bailing out.

First time since mid July they have won 6 in a ten game stretch.

Verlander might be the last to get to 250, let alone 300.

IDK if it even matters if JJ has the higher ceiling. Cade is a pretty good game manager and in the NCAA as many game are won with steady competence and decision making as off the chart talent. It goes both ways, M is under no obligation to give JJ the chance to turn into the QB he could be but isn't yet if that isn't what gives them the best chance to win. The very fact that a kid can go somewhere else now reduces the obligation on BOTH sides.

Nice outing for Bryan Garcia as well. 6IP 1H 1BB 7K. At 27 he's a little old to turn into a big prospect but he's in contention as a back of the rotation guy.

LOL - I wish JH luck, this is a tough needle to thread.

It's his job to try, but I don't think in the end Harbaugh can do much that makes a difference, all that is going to (or should) matter to JJ is whether he starts games or at least gets half the in game reps. Maybe if Urban Meyer were coaching M I could see him keeping two guys conned for a whole season, but I don't see that as Harbaugh's strong skillset. This is just the reality of college football today. The system gives guys the opportunity to go find a place to be a starter, and there is no reason they shouldn't use it. There is no reason to spend your life prepping to do something, finding yourself in a situation you can't do it, and not taking an open door out. It's no moral victory for anyone's life experience for JJ to miss the chance of being a multi-year NCAA starter somewhere if he has the talent. JJ doesn't owe Michigan being Cade's injury safety valve if Harbaugh decides he's going to start Cade. And I actually would give credit to Harbaugh as being a coach who in the past has been willing to let guys go seek a better situation without hard feelings.

we can rag on Edwards but he's spot on. Cade is not going to be a guy the NFL ever loves enough to go early and JJ is not going to sit behind Cade for 2 more years - and I sure wouldn't advise him to.

If Riley has a weakness in his super powers it's his arm. The assist was there for the taking at third and he pretty much spiked his throw short into the ground. Eduardo manages to strand the runner.

Jace Jung with his 1st professional HR in the first inning for the Whitecaps. Solo shot

analysts beginning to wake up to the fact that McCarthy can't stay at UM if he doesn't take the starting job from Cade. https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-football-jim-harbaugh-jj-mccarthy-cade-mcnamara-big-ten-ncaa-nil

and the non-sense about the 'unitary executive' and sitting president doesn't even come into play. He's violated the law since he left office. He's a frickin' civilian who mishandled and concealed his illegal retention of classified material. That's about as close to a slam dunk as Capone's taxes ever were.

I don't disagree but Good luck with that.

I had to laugh a little when Powell noted that inflation was high in a lot of places like Europe, it isn't just a US thing. Well of course, they've all been pursuing the same policies in lockstep. Why would the Euro outcomes be any different? Still and all, I do believe a lot of this is transient dislocations and things will crash back to low demand pretty quickly. Old people don't buy a lot of stuff and nothing that has happened has made the country (or EuroZone) any younger. If anything, putting the screws to immigration is making us older as a country even faster. A new virus or the Ukraine war going global are still wildcards of course. If we finally do start spending serious bucks to get off fossil that should heat things up a bit - but I'll believe that when I see more of it.