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Jake is a pretty ideal backup catcher. I suppose if they think his bat is totally toast then maybe he's too expensive but they could do a lot worse.

Obvious alternate reading of "The new communication system is designed to improve game flow and enhance officiating accuracy" : "The new communication system will put officiating into direct contact with live odds data flow to enhance game flow for optimal outcomes" ...just sayin'

all this. The critical thing to keep it going, and the one that needs a bit of luck, is QB succession. You can't start the process too soon, and when the time does come, you have be at a point where you have enough 'capital' in picks or player to swing a trade or make the move up in the draft to get your guy.

"very fine entertainment". Remember, this is the guy that lost money running a Casino.

I guess the Wings' play had been so poor since about 17:00 in the 3rd that everyone, including Ken and Ozzy, had just booked the loss mentally. 😱

the computer looks at them all but it only 'calls' the ones that are challenged. So there is a whole unknown about whether having a lot of calls reversed will actually make the umpires that are not precise today get more precise. The league certainly has data about that from the minors but you can bet they are not going to share it. I guess my question to chasfh would actually boil down to whether it's possible for catchers to do any more 'framing' than they are doing now even if there may be some additional benefit to it on certain pitches that aren't challenged.

Tell me more about your logic here. If it's the batter who decides to challenge and he can't even see the catcher, how does his framing affect what pitches get challenged?

I don't even get the rule anymore. No goal should be allowed if a player got both skates in the crease under his own power. They might as well stop painting them blue.

pretty much

I'm guessing the Kings are thinking likewise.

bizarro. the refs giveth and the refs taketh away - or maybe that should be vice versa. They swallowed the whistle a couple of times in the 3rd that could/should have put the Wings on the power play.

before the penalty that was as poorly as I think I've ever seen the Wings play in a 3 on 3 in the Larkin era. Total lack of coordination.

couldn't buy a face-off win

someone finally found it!

QFT

I don't know if you can lose what you never really had. Teamsters have leaned GOP since Nixon.

Well at least it's a blow against the 'stubble' look.

Complicated since the players are still mostly American, or Latin, so who knows the degree to which their sympathies are or are not with their 'home' city?

actually let me correct this. These are reports - the Tigers have not announced anything.

Max Anderson leading the AFL with a 517 BA in 42 PA https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/arizona-fall-league-early-statcast-standouts https://www.mlb.com/arizona-fall-league/stats/batting-average

LOL - OK, you got me there.

The comparison isn't even fair to Marie. She was probably pretty clueless - these folks know exactly what they are doing.

These announcements dribbling out day/weeks apart instead of all at once are probably great for staff morale.

Have you seen the UM endowment? $20 billion - so maybe half of that is appreciation - that $10 billion in non-football giving. If you think university donors are all and only about sport you need to wake up and smell the rest of the green. And that's what crap like $20M NCAA fines and ridiculous coach buyouts help put at risk.

Not the point at all. It's the the opportunity cost to the overall higher education enterprise in the US. Just another case of something that used to be useful becoming another bread and circuses immateriality. Higher ed is just about the last thing in this world we are still good at in the US. Once we **** that up we will can get in line round about the level of Venezuela.