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Press can't seem to decide if Victor has decided to stay or go...

yeah - just like that. In a perfect world a middle majority of folks from both parties could coalesce and elect an outside non-partisan speaker - the Speaker need not be a member of the House, (maybe a retired Federal judge for instance..), but I'd rate the chances of that too close to zero to worry about.

Strong statement by Jake Sullivan on US position on negotiations in this thead(sorry the formatting sucks):

It been a few years since I've been to a Rose bowl, but unless they've made big changes, getting in an out and parking are all pretty horrible in Pasadena. Nice venue if you live walking distance away - otherwise pretty terrible. Without a few new roads and parking structures it's got problems as a regular season venue.

I wouldn't doubt this is true but I think it has as much to do with the current Zeitgeist. The culture celebrates a sort of faux discontent attitude today - and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with that. It's no better or worse than the Gary Cooper never say anything bothers you attitude of the 1930's but it is different. So I think when you ask a superficial question like the President's approval, you are just more likey to get a snap 'it's horrible!' kind of response, because that's our social skew for everything today. But when someone goes into to cast a vote, that is not the controlling logic. So I would put as just another case like the change in phone tech and usage, where the cultural assumptions that have underlain the polling industry are shifting under their feet. Just because you are asking the same question that you did 40 yrs ago doesn't mean the question signifies the same meaning to the listener.

unlikely. At least vs the poster. The argument would be that any reasonable person would know it was parody. Whether Chiquita would have a case againt Twitter might be more interesting but I would guess also difficult - besides they are going to be broke soon so blood from a turnip and all.....

He's modest. "Stepping Out" did pretty well....

While this seems like a reasonable approach, I'm going to guess (though it's only that) that ownership is pushing for results on the field because the "trust me, we are fixing the machine but it's not really going to be working until the day after tomorrow" was more or less what we got from Avila for the last 5 yrs, and it did finally get Al fired.

meaning not enough or that Masto will inevitably overtake?

You may say it's cowardice, I may say it's rational, but those are by no means mutually exclusive.

You're preaching to the chior. Cardinal and I have already stipulated they schedule not to lose. The only question is why, and there are probably a lot of answers to that.

The other thing with UCLA is that their attendance is cratering. I don't know what kind of gate deal teams make on these agreements but UCLA is averaging under 40k per game now. IDK - Maybe UCLA also made representation whens the deal was signed they couldn't keep?

what else? mostly $$. They don't want to play non-conference games with teams that demand a H&H as long as they can find enough teams willings to come to A^2 without demanding a return date. You can blame the fans for showing up no matter who they play and reducing the pressure to schedule better.

they are not separate issues. You have a program that just got up off the mat for one year. I love your confidence but you are postulating a Michigan program that fans only dream may exist after a few more defeats of OSU and trips to Indianapolis. Compare the depth at UM vs OSU. At Columbus they run through QBs like water and each one steps in and plays like the 5 star they were. If JJ goes down what do you think UM looks like? Not much I'd say. Down an interior lineman last week and the O made Rutger's D look like a real team for half a game until the D made some plays. The program has had one year of success, still has little depth and still faces institutional uncertainty about what their role in the brave new semi-professional world is. They should be scared of losing more - they'd be fools not to be.

No fact to face, but the twitter reports were that last night the Ukranians shelled the retreating RU troops pretty mercilessly at the river.

I tend to agree. It is an undisputed fact that pitchers used to survive throwing a lot more innings than they do today. The caveat is that back in 50-60s the number of guys that washed out injured with no fanfare because there was little coverage about it was probably also huge and now pretty much unknowable. For all we know maybe we could pull a large enough subset out of the population of todays pitchers to find enough guys able to throw >250 innings on 4 man staffs for 14 teams. I personally doubt this but I can't prove it.

Almost not news, but FTX files for bankruptcy today https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/sam-bankman-frieds-cryptocurrency-exchange-ftx-files-for-bankruptcy.html

because anything that requires forgoing present reward for future reward is hard to sell to the human animal. What was the story that dominated baseball all last season again? ..( hint - "have you guys seen Mark?)

Yup. I've had pretty much the same reservation. The fact that you can now teach a pitcher to get the absolute maximum performance pitch out of his arm doesn't mean it's a good idea to throw a lot of them!

also good point.

Not into NFTs?

I would also guess that part of it is farm vs tourism in the rural areas. My impression over the years is that agriculture is more conservative than tourism. In tourism areas, there is always a lot of social contact with people from all the other places in the state.

well, they have another brain, they haven't had time to turn that into a program and it hasn't been long enough to know if the program is going to make a difference. And it depends on someone actually knowing why these guys were all going down in the 1st place, which seems to be a $64,000 question throughout baseball. I will be curious to see if the Tigers pitchers begin to cut down on the % of breaking balls they throw. IIRC, Fetter and Hinch actually wanted guys like Skubal throw fewer FBs when he was up around 60%. I could see that as being part of the 'program'. Or not.

The Freep seems to have reported that Reyes opted to become a FA, though two different paragraphs in the story don't necessarily agree. They didn't report on the others.

It's huge city geographically, population in the city limits is still under 1M and it's mostly white.