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Good column by Jennifer Rubin about why the SCOTUS AA decicsion is probably not going to make much difference in practice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/02/affirmative-action-swallows-rule/ Speaking of Roberts: "However, what he takes away with one hand he immediately gives back with the other: “At the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” Perhaps realizing the exception might swallow the rule (and usher in a flood of “Tell us something you had to overcome in your life” questions and clever college counselors to help craft replies), Roberts hastened to add that colleges shouldn’t try to do indirectly what the court doesn’t want them to do directly. But once again, his “limitation” will not stop determined admissions officials and savvy students:" This is almost as though Roberts is virtue signalling to the conservative movement that "I'm here for you" while in reality leaving a loophole that admissions officers will drive a Mack truck through.

Bertuzzi suppled some open-ice fore-checking. That may have only stood out on the Wings because the team as a whole has been so inept at it. Then again, I got the impression Blashill was less interested in guys fore-checking than just collapsing back into the zone after a change in possession. Of course that in turn could be because no-body he had could fore-check without ending up caught up ice. I liked that last season Lalonde had them playing less passively in that regard than Blashill, even if the overal season result was only marginally better.

I would guess that at many mortgageshouses there is a lot churn in the contact level employees - their incentives probably do not align long-term.

Hope they make a big push with this ad. Should really help poison the well among those suburban women for all GOP candidates.

I count Manning, Rodriguez, Skubal, Lorenzen.....and Olson. At least until Faedo is activated, and right now I would rank Olson ahead of Faedo anyway, though maybe the team will see it otherwise.

sounds like a guy that has a hell of a case of pen is envy.

started out injured

Bases loaded squeeze would be fun....

maybe...

I like 10. 10 is good.

LOL - Shreve within 2" of blowing it.

Oh Boy, Shreve. Gasoline not normally what you pour on a fire.....

no rhythm, really rushing his delivery

If you consider Carpenter should have caught the long fly, he gave up 3 at Coors on a summer day - not terrible, something to build on.

In this case I'm not gonna complain about that error because the 5 extra pitches should guarantee Manning is done.

have to feel bad for Nevin - he can't be as bad as he has played, but no crying in baseball. When the lights turn on you gotta perform.

Chafin was quoted by Petzold as saying Arizona's offer was 'better', so I guess you have to infer from that there was a Tiger's offer, but they wouldn't match/beat Az

But Manning had more when he was coming up didn't he? Actually he has picked up some velo as this game as gone on, he was hitting 95 consistently this inning but he's still not getting any whiffs on anything he's throwing.

it would have been a tough play, but Carpenter could have caught that.

There has to be more velocity in that frame than he's getting. 95+ would go a long way toward making his life easier.

Manning with nothing on his pitches so far. No velo, No break, no command.

the thing is, I don't think Hinch is managing Lange and Foley much differently because of BP days. Those two are always going to be wanted late/close, so it's more a matter of how many games the Tigers end up late/close as opposed to how the 1st 7 innings were managed. And sure you can overwork a reliever. Hinch's base rule is no reliever works 3 days in a row. Beyond that I imagine they have a load management plan for each pitcher. I think in Lange's case, recently it isn't so much he's being asked to do too much, it's that he can't get though what would be his normal workload efficiently. There's a bit of chicken/egg thing to it.

it doesn't get 'overused' so much as you just have to keep reach lower and lower in the pitcher barrell for innings until you have to start using guys who can't get anyone out like Hill/Misiewicz. It's always just a mattter of where the next level of quality is in your system. If there had been good staters at Toledo in the pipeline, they would have been pitching in those games instead of having BP days. But we've already pulled all the starters out of the Toledo rotation who had any chance of surviving ML hitters (Faedo, Olson, Wentz). Wentz wasn't up to it, Faedo got hurt, Olson is hanging in there. Holton, Englert, Cisnero, Vest, Alexander, White - are all better pitchers than any starting help available in Toledo so they got the innings up to the limit they are available. If 3 starters were not on the way back shortly the next step would have been bring back Brieske and to stretch out T. Alexander again, even knowing he's been more effective as a reliever.

This is already happening but from the direction of people claiming that some abortions - particularly to save the mother, are mandated by their religious beliefs . https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/health/abortion-religious-freedom.html?searchResultPosition=1

Sunk cost fallacy at work