gehringer_2

You need to be doing both. It's true there will be some guys who maybe weren't ready but still have the potential to bloom, but you still have large numbers of top guys who go to good programs and win starting jobs and they mostly are not going to show up in the portal. Once you lose them you aren't going to get another shot at them.

I'm not saying it's likely, but I now I do wonder a bit if when the Tigers decided not to set up their own RSN, part of the reason was the possibility they could end up buying the this one at firesale prices. You don't need to be a Warren Buffet level investing guru to know that a lot LBOs end in failure.

Larkin and Bertuzzi seem to have lost their chemisity - maybe it comes back if Bertuzzi's game comes around, but I'm looking for Lalonde to do some more line shuffling quickly if the #1 line doesn't pick up quickly after the break. You can't keep wasting Larkin's setup ability on guys who aren't using it.

If he doesn't get the nomination running as an independent is all upside. I'm sure he believes the GOP can't win without him, so that means another Democratic DOJ pursuing him, running and winning is still his best chance to put an end to that. Plus running allows him to keep on living for months on the proceeds of political fundraising and that's a valuable ticket for him.

I don't think not using double-negatives won't ever either.

Re:McCosky story: You notice that the success he pointed to was Fulmer - a pitcher. It's a whole different mental approach for a pitcher than a hitter. A pitcher is an initiator. He controls the action - he has time to deliberate - to bring his thoughts about what he wants to do to some kind of closure, then make his pitch. Hitting is purely reactive, once a pitch is coming you have to be 100% on pure reaction and the 'mental/muscle memory' of what your body knows how to do. Any thought process a hitter attemps once a pitch is released dooms him. Hitters are going to be far more affected by potential mental overloading than pitchers and if teams don't recognize that difference and tailor their approach for hitting and pitching differently, they are going to fail.

I would say the difference is that economic decay in rural areas while real, is less politically 'deliberate'. Its part of a much more inevitable historical trend. Increasing urbanization has been a constant ever since the first tractor was invented, but in the immediate post WWII era in the US you had a couple of big factors that temporarily held back the trend - the interstate freeway system and incredibly cheap gasoline. That allowed a lot of light and medium manufacturing to move out into the country side and boosted rural economies. But China, higher fuel prices and 'just in time' production systems have pretty much put an end to the influence of those factors. And as a matter of fact - a lot of Biden's re-industrialization initiatives are being pushed out to the country side to try to ameliorate those declines - Why? Because rural areas have gerrymandered fortified (small d) democratic influence that insure their concerns are eventually heard, while the black urban poor have managed to neuter the strength of their democratic leverage by for falling for the illusory "progress" of super majority minority districting.

Harbaugh threatening to walk might be higher leverage than Brady Hoke threatening to walk - no doubt, but that leverage is still pretty limited to the athletic dept and possibly what ever Regents are sympathetic to sports (and this is probablty the biggest key to what and how much happens). Beyond that the AthleticDept at UM is pretty completely siloed from the rest of the Unversity and you could re-incarnate a composite of Knute Rockne and Bo and the rest of the University would probably give you a big shrug about it.

I think the cleverness of today's American institutional forms of racism is that they operate mostly at the economic level so it's relatively easy to defend American social outcomes as strictly class based and not specificially race based. But the truth is that by segregating blacks geographically and then reducing resources to urban black areas, you effectively segregate a larger portion of the black community into lower economic status. So American society has reached a condition where people don't need to be racists in their personal conduct, the hidden hands of majority rule, private investment and government resource distribution maintain their priviledged status while we can remain 'pure' and 'colorblind' in our everyday personal conduct.

This is absolutely correct. The urban poor realize that crime prevents economic redevelopment in their areas, prevents appreciation of property valules that allows people in other places to build family economic equity etc.. But they want *better* policing, not just more violently aggressive policing. At one time the assumption was that if police depts better reflected the make-up of the community that would happen organically, but we are finding that police culture becomes an entity all of its own, regardless of who makes up the force so that hope is not necessarily realized in too many places.

I think what would be instructive would be to look at the percentage of the black population that lives in economically depressed urban areas as compared to whites. That is going to explain part of that 2.5 disparity. I would say if whatever residual percentage difference remaining after normalizing for the prevalence of urban poverty, that can be more clearly assigned to endemic/institutional racism factors.

so if you put a piece of meat on rack in a convection oven at 425 would it come out any differently than air 'fryer' would do it?

If I had to guess he'd be good at everything execpt making trades - and that just because his up tight personality might make make him a poor negotiator -- but IDK. He seemed like a decent guy - just wasn't cut out for the job when he was here.

Yeah -glide angle is a big deal for the pilots. Over the years designers have tended to design planes of all kinds with very similar landing glide angles and when you take an experienced pilot and give him airframe that basically lands like a rock, they really have to fight years of 'muscle' memory to keep their 'experience' from messing them up. When Boeing introduced the 727 tri-jet, it had a slightly steeper landing glide angle and there were several early accidents when experienced pilots put them down short of the runway.

I think people tend to overestimate how much a pitch moves while it's over the plate. even a 65mph 'Epheus' pitch has enough linear velocity to be moving mostly straight across the plate so I don't think the instrumentation should have any trouble with that. To give the extreme case, when I was playing slow pitch softball , we had people who firmly believed a pitch could hit the back of the plate and still be a strike. I put it into a simulator once to show some folks that even in slow-pitch that's nearly impossible.

Harbaugh can stay or go, it doesn't solve the U's bigger problem of how to position itself wrt and manage NIL. Harbaugh is simply the catalyst forcing the issue, but any other coach in his place would undoubtedly be trying to pull all the same levers of his institutional clout in the same ways to get the same things.

if you can't trade a D at a profit, just waive Hagg or Lindstrom...

If he's not in Det on March 4 I'm going to be deeply disappointed. 😠

It was so bad one the Bengals on the side lines could see it coming and practically tried to step in front of the guy.

When I watched the film I said to a buddy that it looked like the cockpit survived the conflagration intact. I don't think NASA admitted that was true till years later.

Well that one pretty much made up for what a snoozer the NFC game was.

Yuo, - An NFL game with only one team playing a QB is definitely not going to win any viewing prizes.

From what I've seen most sets still come with some kind of feet or leg stands, but they are removable. When you start getting wider than about 50" it does get more convenient to hang it on the wall just because you may not have any kind of furniture wide enough to stand it on if you wanted to.

No, the State fans were only interested enough to blow up the college forums a few years back. Once that was done they all left.

yes - you definitely want to keep a sense of the ranges given there in mind when trying to decide if you need to believe what you are seeing.