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At most academic institutions the football coach is likely as not going to be an intellectual embarrassment. You can only hope he doesn't do exactly what Harbaugh often does in making his lower candle power ruminations (Chicken for dinner anyone?) a focal point for the University's public image.

Yeah - if the question is who is most likely to ever see COPA from inside the white lines, Perez has probably risen to at least top 10. If the question is purely max possible ceiling YMMV.

it is/will be a measure of what kind of team they are. Of course if this year had gone to plan, then the plan would have been that next year they would not have wanted to carry an 80 OPS+ DH. Given the results this year have demonstrated that contending for anything next year is probably fanciful, then there is no dilemma to carry a sub-replacement DH.

55% more votes cast in the Dem Maryland gov prim than in the GOP, but all I’m seeing reported is that the Trump cand is the big story…..

How often do you get half way into a season without a single positive surprise from any position player? When the rookie who was out half the season and is just holding his own is the high point of your offense, it’s a painful world. Even the Cabrera narrative is pure frustration. Miguel, you can still hit almost 300 but you can’t figure out even once in a while how to hit it hard anymore?

Managing expectations? Part of the job nowadays.

It will never happen, but I think in the end, sex is genetics and gender is ultimately genes intersecting with social construct. If we understood it that way, most of this kind of dilemma goes away. You compete in the physical class your musculoskeletal-skeletal genes put you in, you live however you want gender wise or your brain happens to be wired by the genes that drive that. this requires a recognition that sex and gender are not necessarily coincident. I don’t think this is a widely held view, but I think it is reality.

No, I can’t imagine him being in any official hot water. I don’t think UM has reached a point of censorship academia is sometimes accused of, it just helps make him a marginalized force and bigger headache for Warde Manuel.

His money and fame don’t interest me, his beliefs don’t interest me. The program he is responsible for does. I grant him no right to torpedo the latter with the former.

In his case what he needs to do. His responsibilities in his role go beyond himself. You have no idea the kind of hornets nest he has just bought himself with 90% of the the institution he has to function politically within. He had every right to speak, but he can’t expect to also remain effective in his chosen role if he decides to tilt at the very windmill that grinds his grain. if he wants to be a conservative crusader against US academic liberal values, more power to him, but you can’t undertake that role from the one he is in without hurting the players you are there to serve. Freedom doesn’t mean free lunches.

The other thing for Harbaugh here is that he thinks in his own ego he is being courageous saying this in public given the context of his employer, but in reality he is just being a fool, giving ammunition to all the forces at the U that would deny him resources and prerogatives he is going to need to fight for in order to position his program to have a seat at the table shaping the future of his sport. short version, if he cared about his program he’d keep his mouth shut about his personal beliefs.

Mother wouldn’t approve taking the low road.

But that’s the rub isn’t? The top schools can’t cash in if they can’t dump the school’s that don’t pull ratings. The whole point is to cut the pie into fewer, bigger pieces. I’m still waiting to see what mechanism the top 40 are going to come up with to jettison the bottom 90. To me that’s the big dog that hasn’t barked yet.

Ditto. The stuff he showed that first Sept he came over from Toronto was electric. Fabulous spin on his 4 seam. Hard to know if he is one of those guys who accumulated a bunch of micro injuries that just ground the edges off all his stuff, or he just never could develop a sound pitcher’s mind, or both.

At 1b Schoop’s value will be utterly negative. Of course that’s what they’ll do.

Miguel has a fair shot at finishing this season (or early next) in the top 20 all time for hits. It's unlikely he could improve that to top 10 even if plays another full season similar to '22 in '23 so that's about the maximum expectation he can have for his legacy. While he continues to collect hits, he cannot maintain enough power to be even an average net value hitter any more. I hope he decides to call it quits at the end of this season, but I'm afraid there are 40 million reasons he will force the Tigers to cut him next year after he arrives at ST, which will be sort of sad but a necessary move. Who knows, maybe he will accept less in an arranged buy out, though honestly I don't know why he should.

maybe the biggest problem in this particular conflict for either side trying to surprise the other is the number of sympathizers on the ground able to provide intelligence to the other side via common cellular and the ease of doing that because of common language competence. Certainly a bigger problem for the Russians but still not a non-trivial one for the Ukrainians either.

As just a bit of a strategic thought experiment - what if HIMARS has given the Ukrainians the capability to cut though and cut off the Russian forces in the west? If they then also dropped the Crimea bridge... That would certainly be an opening negotiating position to get the russians out of some/all of eastern Ukraine. In a sane world that might be the basis for a settlement, but I don't think sane world assumptions can be applied as long as Putin is alive/in power. But if that were to change, other things might also of course.

Russian in the video could be Spencer Turnbull's brother by another mother.

Rick Riley wrote a column about the USC-UCLA move to the B10 that quoted USA today as claiming the UCLA Athletic Dept was $100M/yr in the red and will immediately improve that by $60M per year by moving to the B10. He also predicts a 20 team B10/20 team SEC super league with everyone else left out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/18/ucla-usc-college-football-lunacy/

This is a clip of a captured Russian special forces solder. He is 14yr seniority specialist whose unit was assigned to do basically grunt infantry work where it got shot up and he was taken wounded. The Russian army is consuming itself and it's future ability to retrain and regenerate.

In the satellite age, neither side can hide troop movements of any significant scale from the other.

Seems like the obvious course. Al seems to have the right instincts, his execution has less than stellar. Let him task someone more able to do the things he has tried to do but not done well enough.

To be fair, I suppose it can be a tricky business for an owner to research a new GM when most of his baseball info comes to him filtered through his current FO. Interestingly, Avila is about the same distance into his tenure with Chris (5yrs) as the 6 yrs it took Mike to fire Randy Smith.

Yeah, I doubt dementia would even be much more of a disqualifier to those that haven’t figured out that narcissistic sociopathy is already enough. 🙄