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IIRC he's gotten up and walked out of interviews in the past, so I don't see this as anything new.

You mean watching him skate 30 seconds of circles off a power play only to then pass to a team mate that was backhand to the net doesn't impress you as inspired play?

what was the old John Denver line about Toledo? "I spent a week there one day" ?

Conceivable a change might benefit him. Less conceivable a team will give you anything for him on that basis!

pretty terrible start in the 3rd

I heard they just signed a 7'2" guy...

Also fewer pitching changes. This is all so clear that it stands as incontrovertible evidence that the people managing the game today must be total morons.

actually inning breaks in games are the one thing under pretty good control. In innings when they don't sweep the IF they hold it pretty close to 2 min, you can even watch the timer in the ballpark. A number of years ago they had drifted up to 3. The big items are batter step outs, high pitch counts and pitchers that slow to a crawl when men are on base.

two issues - one is that stars move around too much so their idea as belonging a certain context with a certain team can't get as well established, and secondarily, you have a big slice of the best players in an English speaking country whose 1st language is Spanish. Look at Cabrera - he loves to talk to the press - the Spanish speaking press. Given his personality he would be much bigger local celebrity figure and that would perculate outward - if he did his media work in English. The why's get complicated but the outcomes are what they are.

zebras call intentional grounding on a Georgia flea flicker after a receiver gives up his route. Sure Bennet was throwing it away, but intentional grounding when you overthrow to the region where you had a receiver who stopped and when you had to throw it over a rusher? Seemed ticky tack to me.

Romad, you know in your heart you are an outlier, just own it.

I don't think that is how it's going to work. M may take some marginal step by itself, but they are not going to change all their SOP, coach or not. There will be a group - prob with Wisc, ILL, PSU and OSU maybe being pulled along in spite of itself, that will move to a new set of operating guidelines to together and pull the rest of conference, and maybe even the Pac12 or another conference here or there along with them. No league anywhere survives with everyone playing under different rules - if there is going to be a league/conference its members will setup a more or less uniform system for all. And that may take a lot of time and haggling before the sausage gets pushed into the casing. And Harbaugh knows full well that is how it will have to work.

this is the one will kill the game in the end. The strength of baseball was that everyone played it, the girls, the boys, the moms, the dads. This has just gone away. Empty diamonds everywhere all summer long. Most sports have to get by on pure spectator value, few people have any direct identification with what pro football, or hockey players are doing from moment to moment. More for basketball and soccer, but still nothing like the % percentage that know what it feels like to swing a bat at a ball or catch a fly ball. But that % started dropping fast with gen X, partly because their cohort was too small to field sand lot teams, and has only accelerated with the millennials

In inflation adjusted dollars he may have as much invested at UM as he does with the Dolphins. 🤔

Yes - but I'm thinking even more along the lines of the big ticket items like air defense systems and the like.

He is going or not going because it will be where he decides he wants to be, I doubt it will have much of anything to do with any contract negotiations at UM.

Vicious circle. Sales based top managements tend to commoditize both R&D and Engineering - which leads to weak R&D and engineering departments, which leads to devaluation and further commoditization of R&D and Eng. 🤔

this is spot on other than your use of the word 'seems'. 😕

this is the Achille's heel. Russia cannot afford its weapons splurge except by third party sales. But as the US could tell them, sell enough arms in enough places and sooner or later it's your troops looking down the barrels of the guns you made.

Blash says Betuzzi was - as suspected in the booth - cut on the wrist by a skate but that he is OK. No word on Larkin other a report he appeared to have hurt his hand....

Zadina is useles - almost painful to watch him play. They need Vrana badly - if for no other reason than to get one of the deadwood forwards out of the lineup. Of course if either Larkin or Bertuzzi are out long it won't really matter.

Stahl with a couple of giveaways in one shift - Ana ties the game after wings dominate the period

Larkin out - upper body. Not coming back in this one. Wings score on PP for the 1st time in 19 tries - a 5 on 3. 1 apiece in the 2nd.

LOL - who knew the thread hadn't moved in a week - ME! It was still a funny juxtaposition though....