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I am always skeptical of prospects, but none of those guys were regarded to be in the same class as McGonigle and Clark.

Motivation. Come here. Get better. Give us your best performance. Get paid. Instead of get paid. Eat a bunch of donuts. Show up late. Now you're injured. Harris told us his plan when he arrived and he has followed that plan. So far, they have two playoff appearances.

This is not so much stupid as it is ingeniously purposeful, because it's working as intended. Just ask our resident imbibers of trumpahol. The whole idea is to make us focus on and argue about the fake math on top and look past the bad policies underneath. Klassic Kremlin.

Would you buy a used Tesla from this man?

I think it's pretty well established at this point that this is exactly where they are and intend to stay. Team building by trade/FA will stay at the margins of the main effort.

And the saddest thing is that the one good thing we could do in Vz, which is force Maduro out, is probably not even the way Trump sees it. He'd rather have a dictator there he can pressure to line his, Jared's and other ally pockets than see see a actual popular government come to power that would tell the US to go pound sand at that kind of demand.

Why doesn’t the NFL call it a helmet?

I can think of a few tribal nations in the US that could say the same thing

So you're saying he needs just one more to tie Davenport.

That would mean the Tigers signed him since the next summer Olympics is in 2028. Bold prediction!

Now he's pitching more before the trade deadline?! Oof. More risk....... Moo to the Moo yo.

Speaking of "miss", your comparison of our top prospects like McGonigle and Clark to Jung/Malloy/Sweeney was a huge swing and a miss. 😉 But hey, maybe you'll catch a break, McGonigle and Clark will do no better than Jung and Sweeney and Malloy, and then you can lord that over me for a news cycle or two. 😉

Bunch of degenerate gamblers getting their fix.

What's the difference between Dr OZ and the Wizard of OZ The Wizard eventually admitted he was a fraud

Josh Hart's thumb is gonna have a busy offseason if that happens.

That has been going on for quite some time. I can only imagine how far it has come today (I've been retired for over 6 years). If you can automate a process and eliminate people, they will. I'll give you a couple of examples. 1) I worked for a tire company. I was in the mold division. We made the tire molds that made the tires. They were made out of aluminum (sometimes steel but those were different animals). Our raw material was a big round piece of aluminum. It was a large ring. It would come in on a truck and the shop guys would mount it on a large plate. From there it was turned, shaped, and machined with boring machines and 5 axis CNC machines. Once mounted to the plate it was never touched again by human hands until the final assembly and placed in a shipping box. This was going on in the early 2000s. 2) Assembly plant. This one happened to be washing machines. This is where the automation really pays off. Any repetitive task is target for automation, robots, whatever. They have X amount of assembly lines with workers adding parts at various stations along the line that might be a quarter of a mile long (or longer). The parts come from a warehouse on little trains pulled by a little truck like vehicle. The truck would pull 4 or 5 wagons behind it full of parts. They would go from the warehouse to the proper line, and proper line station, get emptied by a person, then return for more parts at the warehouse. This went on all day every day. There were dozens of these things all over the plant. They were driven by a person. Not anymore. They put something in the floor so the train could follow because they put sensors under the train. The sensors followed the path in the floor. The slowed them way down for safety. You could walk faster than the train but they never stopped except when unloaded and loaded. This eliminated every train driver for each train for each shift (3 a day 7 days a week). This was over 10 years ago. That was by far not the only push for automation. Anything and everything that could be automated will be automated, period. The rest of the story, and kind of funny. The workers could see the future and what this automation/robotic push was going to do. So the natural thing for them, and maybe the only way to fight back, was to sabotage the automation. By accident, they found out a simple bag of potato chips could stop a train. Turns out, a bag of chips bought out of the vending machine had a reflective (silver looking) inside. Guessing it was to help keep light out of the bag. An empty bag of chips with the bag fully open sitting in the aisle where the train ran would make it stop. The reflecting bag messed up the optics of the robot sensor and it would stop dead in the aisle. They would have to call maintenance or someone to come fix it and send the little guy on it's way again. In that world the LAST thing you want to do it stop the line. One day I was there and the process guy told me they had to tell the vending machine people to remove all the potato chips from the vending machines because it was causing too many line shutdowns. Too funny - take that automation.

So, was he a bad draft pick by Avila or not developed properly by Harris?

I see three regular position players (Lux, Busch, Ruiz), two back end rotation guys (with injury issues: Gonsolin, May), and an 8th inning guy for several years (Graterol). Not sure where that assessment comes from.

Here the top Dodgers prospects from 2020 = 1 regular; 3 guys who never got a single at bat; and a whole lot of blah in between.

Just robbing Peter to payoff Paul. The way Trump has always been doing business

Dom agrees that giving up edvinsson for a hughes without a hughes extension is too much. he also says what we were all thinking: that the addition of buium made it so the wings couldnt match without including edvinsson. the only wings alternative was asp and he's not as highly thought of as buium. he also projects to have a lower value than edvinsson. edvinsson now is projecting to a top pair defenseman. seider is now projecting to be a norris candidate and maybe even a hall of famer.

Will McGonigle, Clark and Briceno be the new age Lou, Tram and Parrish? Can Rodriguez become another Gibby? Gonna be fun to see

Basically, I've been hearing the same old Bears song for about 35 years at least. They have the old race track in Arlington Heights. Either build it there or sell the property. The song and dance of pro teams getting the cities to build there infrastructure has got to go. Build it or sell the team

They were missing some data due to the shutdown.

That amount would be one, and it wasn't even this past year. Obviously, Harris's terrible deadline moves lost Riley three wins versus 2024. That cost us winning the division!

I do agree that Avila was terrible, but I don't think Harris deserves much credit for them making the playoffs the last two years. I give that credit to players plus Hinch and Fetter who were already in place before Harris took over. I don't see any remarkable contributions from Harris to those teams. And that's not really a knock against Harris since I know he's trying to develop from within which takes time. I think we'll see big contributions from Harris in coming years. Even if Harris turns out to be a cookie cutter analytic GM, he'll still be a lot better than Avila and most of the other GMs they have had in my lifetime.

It's counterintuitive, but the arguments and lack of resolution in the old system may have produced frustration but it also drove interest. By comparison, the playoff is rigorous but boring except at the very end. The problem in the old system was that there still it had gotten to where there were too many bowl games no-one wanted to see, which is still true people want to see them even less.

Does he get to keep the golf cart?

what you are talking about is the AAU - not amatuer athletics but the American Association of Universities. Traditionally, the B10 and P10 were AAU schools that played major college football. AAU member schools was a main dividing line between the P10 and B10 and the other D1 football conferences. The screw up was that Nebraska, which had long been in the AAU though not in the B10 or P10, got bounced from the AAU in 2011 *after* they had been invited to the B10, leaving some folks with egg on their faces. AFAIK Nebraska still hasn't gotten back in but supposedly is working on it.

I missed the speech. A couple of hours of good music from Voices8 was definitely the better choice.

That's an interesting idea casimir... But could you please keep that under your helmet? I'm not certain the world is ready for this kind of thinking...

Maybe they should learn to count. 🙂

the big ten should be excited about adding ucla, usc, and washington to the conference. those are some of the best academic schools in the country. oregon? well....nebraska says hi.

I think the only new thing was his $1776 bribe for the military. Would people sell out their country for that?

Obviously I’m not watching that ****, but from what I’ve seen that was made knowing how terribly things are going for him.

Did he do an 8 ball before going out there???

Definitely not. But he isn't even a candidate so it doesn't matter.

exactly. moore's disqualifying feature was not that he cheated on his wife or that he followed onlyfans "models" or that he texted them for potential sexual relationships, it was that he had such a relationship with a subordinate, gave her a big raise, and lied to his employer about it.

No question. And after that dunk, I don’t blame him for being amped up like he was.

Does Holland have some Rodman to him? A guy that is interested in doing the unheralded stuff and maybe has a bit too much wild horse in him that needs to be refined a bit? I’m not suggesting he’ll have that career type, at least not to Rodman’s level.

I don't want him to depend on it, but I don't think what he said was wrong. There is a good chance we'll see a lot of internal improvement.

Ehhhh just because Indiana beat OSU for the first time in 40 years by 3 points doesn't make them the best team int he Big 10. Let's seem them sustain their success a bit. And it is not a small fraction of money that Michigan spent. Mark Cuban is involved with the football program. They have a billionaire donor.

Trump probably only found about Venezuela nationalizing their oil industry in 1976 less than a week ago.

Marriages are personal and often very different than what people portray to the outside world. This goes for anyone, not just public figures. I can’t comment either way on how she felt. I do know that there are many situations where couples end their relationship privately but don’t legally file for divorce. It usually is when one of them starts a new relationship where the need to officially end the marriage happens.

I agree with this. Dynasties and villain teams are great for sports. There is nothing more fun than having your favorite team beat one of them.

I don’t think they can go into the offseason counting on Decker. It’s a toss up whether he plays or retires. Need to prepare for life without him so as to be not caught off guard