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well for sure they screwed up trying to take the double TO - but TBF it was Glenn that was going bananas trying to get the TO. If you are a HC in that spot what to you do - ignore your coordinator or assume that what he sees is worse than the cost of the penalty?

I thought Gardenhire was fine - like Casey, he had been given an impossible task, but maybe unlike Casey if he had had the horses he would not have been a factor holding them back.

I've probably posted this before, but I believe the Tigers have a pretty hard set system when they go into the off season with a pre-determined budget and Avila spends right to that limit. So my take is that there are so many $ in the till and so far they have spent on Barnhardt and Rodriguez and they have to leave some for they guys they have to retain and whatever is left is going to be available for the SS. Second piece is that that is not going to cover what Correa is going to get. IMO it's all going to come down to how big the dollar drop off is from Correa as you go through the rest of the field. If they get to Baez (who by consensus seems to be the bottom of the list) and even he is going to get more than is left in the Tiger's pot, we are going to get plan B, otherwise we get one of the 4 other than Correa. But I don't see this FO trying to second-guess itself in extended negotiations, for good or ill they seem confident in their strategy. The deal they want is either there or it's not and if it's not they are going to move on spend those dollars somewhere else (pitchers?) and let the fans be PO'd.

I heard a little bit of Harbaugh Tues morning with the radio guys and heard one sort of interesting answer - they asked him why they used the pass play on the run back when they didn't 'need' it against Maryland instead of 'saving' it for OSU. The answer was that OSU's coverages weren't going to allow it to happen, and since they had practiced it, Maryland was the last time they could use it. That was a good college football answer.

OK sure, it's always nice to have a bigger lead, but Glenn still needs to be able to get his personnel ducks in a row. And Anzalone? The guy looks like he carries panic with him in his back pocket. Though even that wouldn't be so bad if he didn't overrun so many plays....

fair point. Though OTOH, Matt Stafford would not have helped with the defensive chaos on both the field and the sideline.

true. All the early hope that it was Patricia's terrible coaching that was holding back a team that *maybe* wasn't as bad as it played last season has evaporated. Now it's, "Quinn left an even worse team than we had imagined." They've been unlucky with where their injuries hit, but every team is going to lose good players to injury every year.

I wonder what soured Rodriguez on Boston? Or vice versa? In the interview quotes in the Freep he said he didn't even talk to Boston and "it was time to move on."

LOL - I don't know if he is like that all the time (I pity his team mates if he is) or if it's just his game face but for sure, no matter what it is when something doesn't go right for him on the field he's all like someone is trying to steal his manhood. The one that cracks me up is when he and the CF are close to a catch and he get called off it's like the guy took his lunch money - he usually has nothing but a scowl for his own team mate. But if that's what keeps his fire lit, so be it.

The Freep reported that Avila said again on Monday how much they liked Kriedler. Maybe they think they can land a Story or the like with an offer of a big 1st yr AAV and an option to walk after a year. I hadn't considered a guy on a short option as a particularly good move for the Tigers, but if they are upping their view on Kreidler's viabiilty signing a guy with an out route could be more attractive to them than I thought. That would represent a big leap in Kreiders evaluation though.

Seems ironic you invoke a guy with maybe the best plate discipline on the team to describe swinging wildly at pitches out of the zone. Robbie's career o-swing is better than Mike Trout's.

(or what does the signature matter? There is one voter log per precinct and once your vote is tallied your name is crossed off for that election. Signature or not multiple voters cannot vote as the same person nor the same person vote multiple times as themselves. OTOH, if people are stealing other people' ID it's not going to take very long for people to notice the scam when the correct people show up to vote and can't (or absentees show up for people that have already voted). The only way lack of ID verification matters would be if you have people setting out to vote in place of people on the roles where there is some intelligence work done to identify them as non-voters. That's going to be a large expensive undertaking that again, seems unlikely to fly under the radar of the poll workers.

That's one of the dumb things really. The long term deal is really just a glorified buy out. If they only win one or two (or none!) this season and then don't do any better next year the pressure will be bad enough that they will be fired anyway, the Lions will just have to pony up the cash to do it. It's easy for an owner to tell people they have 'x' years when it's all smiles and rainbows and hope for the future. It's also their prerogative to bail if the numbers get into the 1 or 2 for 30 range! It's only money.

So the Bears ran a play that ended at something like 2:15 and Aikman is on Campbell's case on the broadcast for not using a timeout. I turn to the SO who happened to lean in over the back of the coach to check what was happening, and said, "You know, Aikman is usually spot on in his analysis but he is wrong here and Campbell is right because burning a TO only saves 15 seconds now, it will save 35 used after the 2 minute warning." Then they come back from the timeout and the wheels fall off completely. The joys of being a Lion's fan, no positive thought comes to a good end....

yeah - it is tough to get a good enough fit to stop fogging. Since my wife makes ours, she's been able to customize the design until we got something that I liked. I go with a tie back mask and that allows the top of mask to be kept snugger. That and an aluminum nose bridge are enough to keep it snug enough that I don't fog my safety glasses, which I have to have on when in the student lab. Takes longer to put on and take off, but I find that's the solution that works for me. A lot people at the U like the 'duck bill' N95s. They also seem to give a low leak fit across the top to prevent fogging.

LOL - total chaos reigning on the sidelines. I don't know if in all the years I have watched football I have ever seen a team try to call time out coming out of their own time out.

Other than whatever is going on with Lynn they seem to be a calm ship. I suppose whether tension between a coach and GM develops or continues has a lot to do with how ownership deals with it. If you have ownership that allows the coach to have their ear to complain about the GM (or vice versa) vs one that's strong about telling folks to stay in their lanes it would likely make a difference. Obviously when there is a lot of losing there is always going to be incentive for a GM to blame it on the coach and the coach to blame it on his personnel (and thus the GM). It will be one measure of this ownership if they keep everyone pulling in the same direction through such a terrible season.

It's not like no-one noted at the time that generally the best course is to bring in a GM first and let him hire his staff.

two things: If you live in a democracy and the half the people don't agree with you, you have be content with the law not matching your version of morality. The legality of abortion doesn't require anyone who thinks it's a sin to get one. 2nd: biology has given mothers a pretty unique position with regard to bearing children. Given that historically the position of law wrt women has been more abusive than morally honest, I still trust a woman with the responsibility for the moral responsibility of whatever choice is made regarding her pregnancy more than I do the state.

A view born of necessity, if you get sick, you can't afford to live too long in America.

Well, it would be nice to have more of a handle on the vaccine behavior. Say it turns out to be like tetanus, maybe you get a booster in the 1st year and then one every ten. At this point that is still unknown. We will know eventually but it's just going to take time. But worst case? If people need to go get a shot once a year to prevent taking a year or two off the nation's general life expectancy is that so bad? Practically speaking it may end up being difficult to do given our current cultural insanity, but taken on it's own it's not any kind of terrible outcome. Half the population gets itself an annual flu shot now, and for most people flu is just an inconvenience rather than a killer, so again, taken out of this peculiar US context, there would be a lot more motivation for folks to get their annual COVID booster and so *maybe* correspondingly higher compliance. And maybe they will even be able to piggyback a Covid and Flu vaccine together. To JC's question - who the hell knows how we get the culture out of this epistemological dead end its in. Generally something that kills a lot of its people tends to open a culture to a little rethinking, but were getting close to a million and no sign of it happening here yet. If anything we are descending into even more nostalgia think. Much like the jihadi's believe if they can only be devout enough they will recapture the glory of 10th century Islam, we have the American Christian fundamentalist who thinks 'going back' in some form, or at least refusing to go forward, is where their answers lie.

Never a good time of year to hear that. Godspeed to you both.

apparently it's now official. I'll put the odds they they are regretting it by year 5 at 50/50. But we'll see.

MI case rate hit 8500 today. Up in low vax counties and high vax counties. Hospital census has matched the worst levels from last Dec or this April, deaths climbing. Everyone keeps saying "we won't go back to that again." Looks like this time we are set on letting the health care system break?

I agree he's not been sharp. But you have to think about what's been on the ice with him since he got here. As the Wings have raised the quality of Dmen on the team, Hronek has gone from being the best of bad lot down to being among the also-rans. So I would guess some of it is his quality of play lagging but maybe some of the appearance is just the change in who he compares to out there.