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we had a deluge here for about 40 min just now. Street in front of my house looked like a river for about 1/2 hr. Now the Sun is out. 🌧️☀️

I think there was also a "Metro Detroit Buick" spot with the cars lines up in front of the Griffiths observatory. It does make a nice picture looking out ever the basin, but it ain't our "Metro". A couple others that have shown up in Detroit ads from GM was one I recognized that was shot along the Wharves in SF, and another with a car tooling down the street in LA near the Disney Concerthall.

This team hits well enough - barely, has decent L/R balance and catches the ball pretty well. As usual, they go as far as the pitching. Skubal and Mize will be OK as long as they stay healthy. Flaherty is wild card #1. Can he get back to sustaining his command? And then you have three wildcards in the bullpen in Hurter, Holton and Kahnle. For them, downside risks are that Kahnle's lane for success is so narrow he can't get back on it, risk two is that Holton is just not as good a pitcher as last year's results, risk three is that Hurter can't clean up his mechanics and stop hitting LH batters, To the degree those three don't perform, Hinch faces pressure to push Paddock, Morton, Merton too far and it snowballs downhill.

For years it has frosted me the the ads "brought to you from your local Chevy Dealers" were always scenes shot around CA. OTOH, for a long stretch at least the aerial shot of the dealership lot that ended the local Ford dealer assoc ad was of Varsity Ford in Ann Arbor, which is at least the right state.

He didn't get a called strike on Wallner that would have been a K and then can't come back with another strike to Wallner and loses Lee.

Hurter gets an out on a HBP. Somedays you just aren't going to lose the game. EDIT: followed by a walk.

so what does that mean practically, that the US is done trying to pressure either side? Seems like typical Trump. Make a lot of noise, back one side, change your mind, make more noise, then when it turns out to actually be over his head, just declare the whole thing is not his problem.

you wouldn't think that throwing fastball for a strike in the bottom 3rd of the zone would be that difficult to do, but apparently it is/has become for Kahnle.

Tork's takin' it easy. Walk, don't run. https://youtu.be/owq7hgzna3E?t=29

McK had Tork divin' in the dirt on that last DP

It's self defeating strategy for Putin though, because nothing PO's Trump more than getting shown up, and if the narrative sticks that that's happened, Zelenski will have a new ally.

this one is going in the books

Trust no-one. I lived in Minneapolis for all of 3 yrs. In that span we had 2 "100 year" rains.

The Record reported that the University made a one-time appropriation of (IIRC) $16M to balance Warde's budget this year. The AD usually returns some (usually nominal) excess to the U general fund and is solvent overall, so yeah - they will fight over another $20M.

I'd rather they tell the kids: "There is one spot open, compete for it", than "well maybe if you give us enough reason to dump this vet we will, but you already know we usually don't."

that - absolutely. And they may get exactly that anyway. Though the interim status of the current University President argues that a move that bold might not be on the table -- for now.

Whose going to fill Petry's role as old. slow, ineffective 2nd paring anchor? A guy with a 4:1 giveaway/takeaway ratio sounds perfect.

it should be clear at game time but future radar showing another storm forming by 9:00 central. Don' get behind in this one....

Since their promotion, McGonigle has maintained a BB/K >1 in his Erie PAs. Clark has fallen below 1 in his AA PAs, he'll need to pick it up a little if he's going to finish the season >1 overall.

what does cheating mean in the pro college sport era? Most of what a compliance office used to do was police the kind of penny ante financial stuff like Harbaugh's hamburgers. That stuff doesn't even parse any more for pros being offered 7 figures. I think in the future most penalties are going to be individual as opposed to institutional. The future will all look more like Hinch's Houston Astros pitch tipping case - i.e. mostly individual penalties. Professional leagues don't punish member teams as teams very much.

Tork still has a long way to go to ever win a gold glove, but his decision making is pretty good.

yup. Trumps opponents need to understand once and for all, crystal clear, that the things they find are so horrible about Trump don't bother Trump voters at all. They'd do better to forget all the moral outrage and just hammer him on inflation - and they should really be hitting a "Tariffs are Taxes" arg - repeat it every single time they can find a microphone, because the only the right hates more than libs are taxes. This is an attack vector that they are completely missing, but it's one of the few that would actually play to the right. Don't even uses the word "Tariff", ALWAYS call them "IMPORT TAXES!!"

probably on his way to an injured arm. Instability and loss of velo or control often starts before any explicit diagnosis can be/is made.

yup. need to do some damage on a 2-0. Dirks always says if you are looking fastball ahead in the count, don't try to adjust to the change in that situation and end up not hitting it hard, just swing through it and miss and take your shot at the next pitch. Maybe good advice. Dirks was actually a pretty good hitter until his back gave out.