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interesting to speculate. When Lou first came up, putting the ball right down the *opposite* foul line was his calling card. As he got older/stronger he got pretty good at putting it right down the pull side foul line. So the skill to either way in his repertoire, but I'm not sure how much he ever did both at the same time - which of course is harder and what you would have to be able to do against a variable shift.

maybe I'm not understanding what I'm seeing, but I think I see that no IF can stand in the right angle pie wedge behind 2B? If that's the case you are forcing team's not to cover the center of the IF, which means more batters will see a better chance to go right up the middle - at the pitcher.

right - and this is exactly the part that I believe most university admins will ultimately find unacceptable. I think it's a pretty sure bet they are going to try to do something to get around it - it's just totally unknown what strategies may emerge.

Hmm - could make life even more dangerous for pitchers!

Who knows where this will shake out. Harbaugh is certainly not the only person in sports in the B10 who probably doesn't like the direction things are going, but I can't see there are anywhere near enough of those people to force the conference (or even some splinter of it) to move in a different direction - esp after the UCLA/USC announcement demonstrating that conference management is in full speed ahead into the brave new world mode. And I don't think I'm going to hold my breath waiting for MI to apply for membership to play in the Ivy league! I think the one big factor which has yet to play out, and which I would think is still vitally important to the schools, is that the one thing they fear most - esp MI, is loss of control - specifically that athletic depts, while great for PR, can also potentially produce huge headaches and liabilities when things go wrong. I tend to think that at some point the schools will get together and attempt to re-establish control over NIL in some fashion that walks back some of what the courts have done, but what form that takes remains unknown. Something like a collective bargaining bargaining agreement would be a method where the player's individual NIL rights would again be made subject to a rules based order that would still pass legal scrutiny.

this is why the long presidential search, which wasn't that big an issue for the 'U' as a whole since Coleman was willing to be a willing and able caretaker, has still really hammered the school on the fast moving conference and NIL stuff. Mary Sue was not going to make those kinds of decisions as an interim, and Ono isn't even officially on-boarded till October. Assuming sports may be something less than the very 1st thing he needs to address, seems MI is inevitably going to fall even further behind before they can start catching up.

so many ways this can turn depending on what each of the actors believes. You have Harbaugh, Manuel, Ono, and possibly individual regents who may be interested in meddling. Does Harbaugh want to be the martyr for the old traditions and not change until his program fails and he is fired? Will Ono bring some leadership from the president's office so the program gets some clarity on what the institution will and won't support? Will the athletic dept end up caught between and Admin and a block of regents that are either more or less conservative than one another? Stayed tuned for the latest installment of academic sports politics Michigan style.

Gaetz's, among others.....

In contempt of court you can be held until you comply. EDIT ---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress#:~:text=The criminal offense of contempt,%24100%2C000 or less than %24100. The criminal offense of contempt of Congress sets the penalty at not less than one month nor more than twelve months in jail and a fine of not more than $100,000 or less than $100.[9]

should have been tomorrow.

Russians using AA weapons for ground assault.

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have you considered professional help Romy?

Odd stat(s) of the day. Fangraphs has Schoop 'leading' position players on the Tigers with 1.3 WAR. BR puts him 10th at 0.0 WAR. I assume based primarily on a difference in the valuation of his defense. TBF, 1.3 is not that large an absolute number for the systems to vary by, it's the difference in his relative rank vs his teammates which is more striking. 1st to 10th is a big swing.

how bad are the Tigers when Javy's approach results in him leading the Tigers in doubles, triples, home runs and RBI?

but he's already bailed. I wonder if after way these hearings have gone he regrets that.

A10s *shouldn't* have any survivability against an enemy like the Russians. But with their lack of infantry protecting their armor, that cuts down on the manpad risk, and given that they haven't really been able to establish all that much air superiority, they might have a role.

The part that seems strange to me or that I just don't follow correctly is that apparently in China you take out the construction mortgage for the developer. From what I gather the people protesting are people paying on loans for housing that has not been delivered because the developers are in trouble - so people are stopping payments on the mortgages for housing they've never gotten, which then cascades into problems for the banks. You can certainly take a construction mortgage when you build a house in the US if you are doing or supervising the building yourself, but of course it's more common for builders to take out loans and sell houses on spec so that in the US, usually an individual is not holding a note at least until they have the property to live in. Like you I don't know what the direct COVID connection is either other than maybe developers can't do the work on the housing because of gov ordered lockdowns. From what you read there are enough problems with real estate development/over-development in China that they could be in a mess even without COVID.

No personal aspersions intended (!), but nobody should be given a gun permit for life, ever. They didn't know 20 yrs ago you might not be schizophrenic suffering paranoid delusions in 20 yrs, or that you wouldn't go soft in the head and fall for some Jim Jones type charlatan. Terrible policy. Completely 2A, but still terrible.

you wonder at what point the army cares? I suppose they could just mutiny - there has been a lot of talk about that but not much has been reported as factual. Or how long do the central asian cannon fodder take to realize there are no ethnic Russians in the foxholes with them?

But that's the thing, you don't have to think it's not bad to still believe the Chinese (or at least Xi and his team) at some level believe they are doing the 'right' thing in their approach to COVID. The Chinese are actually doing pretty much the strategy that everyone started out with - their problem is that Xi has been too rigid and his policy hasn't evolved as the understanding of the virus evolved. Originally it was hoped that CV-19 would be like SARS since they were so closely related. So if you clamped down hard you might be able to completely eradicate it. That would have been a great outcome. But reality has left that idea in the dust. CV19 isn't enough like SARS for that to have happened, instead it's going to become part of the background of ordinary circulating diseases for at least as long as anyone can predict. But Xi put all his prestige behind an eradication approach he can't back away from, (but which also almost certainly can't work) and in a close to one man rule system there is no check on him, so now what the Chinese are doing looks pretty bad - and is. But even with all that is wrong with where China is, it's still unfair to accuse Xi of not trying to save lives in China. He's a dangerous, dictatorial character, but not because he wants to stomp COVID. American's tend to only exist on two poles when it comes to international affairs. One the one side it's the God vs the Devil paradigm and every one else out there is pure evil all the time, or you get the Noam Chomsky "it doesn't matter what mayhem anyone else is responsible for, we are worse and it's all our fault" routine. Countries around the world can be evil and be right, they can be benevolent and still be wrong, and everything in between - and usually all at the same time.

I don’t know what specific posts you are referencing, but there is certainly a difference between noting that it is a Chinese *claim* that their COVID responses prove they care more for their people than we do, which was certainly done here-at least in my own case, and is certainly true, and agreeing with that claim. In any case it still a a weak argument to say that the Chinese leadership’s intents toward their own people are as corrupt as say- Putin’s are toward his. It’s easy to argue China’s Covid policies have been wrong headed and mediated by typical totalitarian tendency, but it’s also pretty clear that it would have been a lot easier to do nothing if the point wasn’t that they are trying to save people’s lives. Xi wants to do better by his people to justify his tactics. He fails because his tactics are bad, not because the base objective is flawed. Xi of course also is a fascist wannabe, so like Trump, he can’t even try to do ‘right’ without injecting a lot of ‘wrong’ into any situation.

the logical plan would be to divide the two Russian forces at Kherson - hit the Crimea rail bridge and leave the whole southern army cut off. But the Ukrainians still need a bigger preponderance of capability to do that than they have now. A Ukrainian force with more functional air power though..... Of course if the Ukrainians ever achieved enough control of the air to fly tank killers like the A10, things would be over quickly anyway,

you definitely don't have to do it for pfife, but it might be a good idea to do it for the future of your country's status as a democratic republic..... .....just sayin'.