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I like it. Now talk 5/3 into it!

IDK. I wouldn't use bluetooth for something like that. Aside from the latency, with 40K phones in the stands all with their BT's on, getting anything to pair reliably could be an issue. There are other self-pairing 2.4gHz protocols that do ID based binding. As for hacking, that's a lot harder to do if you can't be there listening when the pairing takes place, so if the units come pre-paired they could be pretty secure - but I have no idea how hardened they actually are.

Skubal pitched very well in his last start against the M's. The M's haven't done anything to 'solve' Skubal. The Tigers just need to score, which they would need to do in any game. The Skubal vs the Ms narrative is a nothing burger. EDIT: ditto to LordS

Yup. There are no signs to steal any one describing it that way is being ignorant. At best Naylor trying to pick up Dingler's positioning, but the catcher can easily be feinting on that and the batter knows it, so I bet most batters aren't going to treat the information as actionable anyway. Naylor was almost certainly hoping to get in someone's head though, and if the Tiger's fell for it, that's their fault. Not to mention that If he really was stealing anything, he certainly would have a more subtle system of tipping his hitter than waving has arms like a windmill. It was a good show and the booth fell for it.

it always was to my old man too.

So far so good, but this has been the easy part. Let's check back in when Hamas turns in its first weapon.

Pretty bad when it's the business entity telling the local gov that not enough public communication was done. But the other possibility is that Cloverleaf is just being euphemistic about a realization that more of these things went to the drawing board than will actually need to get built.

Intel announces volume production of 'PantherLake' (18A) to begin before year end. INTC sitting at about $37 right now. I'm guessing some shorts got burned.

After they deal with that they can fix that *a* run-batted-in is *an* RBI.

If Det is going to be 5/3 they need to rename Toledo 4/5, Erie 3/5, WM 2/5, Lakeland 1/5.

After the win over the Ravens, beat KC and they can look at the game at Philly as playing with house money.

interesting stuff. On the transmission congestion topic, I guess it stands to reason in any transition from one set of generating sources (steam/coal plants) to anything and everything else, all those transmission lines built to service those big coal plants that are being shut down are now in the wrong place - and building new transmission capacity in a more litigious/NIMBY society is a lot harder than it ever was. I'd love to put in solar, but not enough to cut down the trees around my house. The biggest one that shades most of the roof is not much longer for this world though. When it has to come down we'll do a little 'sun on the roof' audit.

of course not - In my OP on this suject up the page a bit the topic is about team construction, not day to to day operations. For better (hopefully) or worse, the current Tigers are what they are. But I will stand by the argument that loading your team with lefties is a dubious strategy if your lefties are all going to fall off against LHP the way Riley has or more generally, have much worse splits than the typical RHB. Riley's case is esp disappointing because when we drafted Riley, there was a lot of ink spilled on how hard he had worked since grade school to make sure he could hit LHP, and which he was doing reasonably well up until this season. Of course he hit a HR against a lefty today just to make a liar of me . I can live with it.

Athletic depts at the big schools are silo'd. What goes on there goes on in its own world. Academic ties between between b10 schools are very strong, and tenured research faculty are a lot closer to their peers at other institutions than they are to anyone in their own Athletic Depts.

I remember one of my kids read Foundation, I forgot which. I think the only thing I ever read by him myself was 'Fantastic Voyage'. That would have been about JHS for me and that's about the lit level it felt like. Of course, in retrospect I have to believe that was a screenplay pitch/commission that was fleshed into a full novel semi after the fact but in those days we didn't know such things were done. Not that there is anything wrong with that. At any rate, while it was fun (and Raquel made the movie fun as well) it didn't motivate me to find anything else of his. I also remember he had something to do with a very weird early puzzle style sci-fi video game called RAMA, which both my teen kids and I got too bored with to ever bother successfully figuring out at all. LSS - not a fan either.

Not sure what you are referring to - with respect to things like admissions?

Win or go home game coming up.

What is this? Offense? I guess I need to miss more game threads.

I have to think the traditional top Big10/Pac10 legacy schools would love to combine to do something on their own (meaning separate from the SEC etc) *if* they can figure it out - which may in the end be unlikely, but that doesn't mean they won't try But as you note, it comes down to the question of where the cut-off line falls for who gets left out and what they estimate the goodwill cost would be be to just break the conference. When I saw the terms of the 'House' settlement the first thing I thought is that sure, it can work for the top 20 or maybe even 40 teams, but it's not going to work for anyone below that tier. So there are about 100 D1 teams out there facing a future they really can't afford.

apparently not everyone one board - last thing in the article - (and an interesting choice of potential allies to mention.)

I've never been very conversant in tag font- is that supposed to say something or is it just random defacement?

LOL! I think the years have been good to AJ, or maybe he just gets top notch make-up work from Fox, but he looks better today than he did as a player.

does seem odd. OTOH, in both baseball and football, replay has cut down on home field advantage from what it used to be.

I don't see it either. He's the team's union rep is he not? And he's a Boras client. That's just not the profile of a guy that isn't looking beyond his rookie team. And why shouldn't he? That's the system - he didn't write the CBA or the baseball media set-up and he's not responsible for the fact that the system it creates mean guys that can move on to the big markets to get paid.

I'm also going to assume that part of the shift in the willingness to bring the young guys up is McLellan being more on board with playing them. I'd have to guess the two previous coaches being newbies probably were more risk averse than McLellan - (for what good it did them).