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yeah - if the theory is that relievers are the most unpredictable players, then there is potential profit in trading them for more predictable players at other positions and backfilling with the unknown as some of them will turn out to be unpredictably good. That's the theory anyway. Harris is arranging for us to find out if it holds.

LOL - I'm sure a point a minute blowout was just what ESPN was hoping to broadcast. It's marker for how far UM is from playing in Georgia's league. The may have Ryan Day's number, but their chances of winning out this year were never what the fans wanted to believe they were on Nov 27th. But that's what fandom is about - so it's cool.

I'd rather they hire Harbaugh!

Unfortunately Al Avila has proven that is no recipe for pro sports success.

I don't know how workable it is anyway. Whether it's in person, remote, or hybrid, you set up a system/plans for that mode. Once you are in it, it's not like you can just switch it up a day here or there and expect to accomplish much.

The Pistons have lost 75% of their games. That's a fair argument that none of players on the team have been able to prove long term viability.

I hope Rasmussen eventually ends up back with Larkin. I liked that combination of size and skill.

The Wings still have a shot at '500 point rate' season, but not if they don't get out of their current funk soon.

First finish above 500 for any Detroit pro team in 6 yrs.

Weird how much different this team feels from Schwartz's or Caldwell's teams. This team feels like it's building toward something more. Even when those teams won, it felt like they were playing over their heads. I suppose if this team fails to get better next year we'll have to chalk up the feeling to fool's gold like in the past, but Holmes' drafts and the draft capital he still has to spend make me doubt we will.

Hellofva call to go with a pass into potential traffic. I figured the obvious call was the option run earlier where Goff handed it off, but would have been wide open if he had kept it. I guess Campbell decided GB would have thought the same thing. 😉

go for it. GB can win on a TD either way.

to run the play again and burn more clock. Collingsworth just called Campbell brilliant.

In the *long* run, electric vehicles should result in a lower manufacturing cost - but that's still a long way off, and the hybrids, which are the intermediate gas saving bridge, cost more to build so it gets worse before it gets better.

saw an acquaintance over the holiday who works at a local GM dealer. Said inventories were coming back into decent shape but no-one can afford what they have to sell.

that drive was too easy.

O-Line needs a 2nd half adjustment that's going to give Goff a little more time.

People who work at home don't put miles on cars....

FIFY! 😉

Maybe. There seems to be a fair amount of reporting that word around the league is that he was too off the wall in the Vikings interview - that could put him off the table for some ownerships.

I believe J.U. Bacon has reported that Ross "would not be responsible for Harbaugh leaving UM." I think what that means is that Ross will not initiate an offer to Harbaugh to come to the NFL, but if Miami were looking for a coach at the time and another team had already made Harbaugh an offer, Ross would feel free to make a counter offer.

agree on relievers. Regardless of the inning or game situation it's the same batters with the same bats and you are going to get them out (or not!) the same way.

It's also such a soft target. G. Will wrote a column about a Princeton movement to take down a stature of an early founder which, if Will has his facts correct, is a pretty clear case of reinterpreting the past through a completely inappropriate lens of the present. Likewise U Wisconsin recently had it panties in a bunch over the contributions Frederic March (a progressive for his day) made to their drama program because of some sin in his early life. This kind of stuff fails the smell test with most people who have gained some wider perspective on human existence. I think even within a University community, I'm not sure how many people are out in the wokeness vanguard, I'd guess the majority take a more 'this too shall pass' attitude toward activist excess. But while that lenience is probably good pedagogy in terms of students working out what they believe for themselves, it's clearly not the best national politics for liberals to leave the rational middle on some of these things wide open for critics on the right to occupy. Luckily, so far at UM the historical targets for erasure actually were pretty bad guys and so not very controversial.

I think that skill wise, it's certainly possible to move people around more than teams do, but I think the reason they don't is that skill is not the only factor - familiarity with who you are playing with on a baseball diamond matters. You are more effective when the tendencies, preferences and capabilities of the guys next to are second nature to you. There is an irreducible overall defensive advantage to good defensive players playing in consistent line-ups.

more reporting today on the Ticket that Harbaugh now has an interview with the Broncos. You have to assume he wants to get out of Dodge in a pretty serious way to want into that train wreck. Additional reportage that he also tried to talk to the Panthers but they weren't interested.