gehringer_2

4 minutes ago, oblong said:

FWIW, I typically leave the regent races blank on my ballot as I don't know them and I don't really care.

yup - I think most people do. And as carefully as I do vet UM regents, I almost never vote the MSU or WSA slates exacty because I don't follow the issues at those schools. There was point a number of years ago when I did make a point of voting against all the incumbent MSU Trustees because they had mad a bad enough muddle in E. Lansing that it got on my radar.

 a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶ g̶e̶t̶s̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ A̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ o̶r̶ B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ -̶ i̶n̶ f̶a̶c̶t̶

27 minutes ago, romad1 said:

the Political Science and non-aligned political campaign industry crowds seems to think a wave is happening.   What could change it from happening?   Trump suddenly much more popular?  

But beyond Wisconsin, there is little good data from full turnout elections. And Wisconsin should flip - it's a faiirly moderate state. Beyond that there is a belief that trump has managed to alienate a lot of his supporters, but so far it's all anecdote and speculation. That's OK, but it's not proof. His overall approval numbers are down, but not down enough from where they always are to indicate numbers for a major re-alignment.

23 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Getting him some work there to prepare for the inevitable vanishing of Tork.

14 BB and 12 H - seemed to be auditioning for the Justyn-Henry Malloy mantle, which won't get him very far.

don't really like Keith at 1st but that's relatively minor nit to pick. Not so bad if Javy isn't at short as he's likely to make the toughest throws for his 1B.

Eli's reviews around town have been good, I'm not surprised at his success. 

I don't know a lot of alums who have been happy with the Regents handling of Schlissel, the hiring and firing of Ono, and even if they couldn't have know Syverud was going to be sick, he was at best a caretaker hire. So it's not like the incumbents have strong resumes at the most important job they do. 

8 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

It's just going to be a partisan race. Most people will vote straight ticket Dem or Republican. If it is a bad year for Republicans, like we think it could and should be, people will plunk for the Democratic ticket, which will include UofM, MSU, and Wayne State boards.

I don't think so. Governing board elections have small turnouts  and even when Trump won MI the GOP didn't do well in regent's races, which I take as a sign that MI doesn't get a lot of straight ticket voters.  I have to believe it's mostly alums from each school that decide those races. 

If there really is a wave election, maybe. I'll believe that when I see it. Not saying it won't happen, but the Dems had this level of anticipitory euphoria multiple times now only for the election to turn out to be squib.

35 minutes ago, Stanley70 said:

His footwork is not there, too many flat footed throws. He has the arm strength to get the ball there but the accuracy suffers. 

Getting him right will be the difference between a team that can make the playoffs and one that loses 4 games in the big ten.

 

he also has lacked any sense of touch so far. Maybe better receivers solves part of that, but on too many throws he made it harder on his receivers that it had to be.

53 minutes ago, oblong said:

Maklid beat out Acker, who had his own issues to deal with....

with Acker out I'd put my money on Brown and Schostak. Epstein is apparently a Trumper and I don't see Maklid getting the support of Alumni, who do most of the voting in a regent's election.

18 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

but they get thrown out a lot too. 

I'd prefer a grading system which broke out coach decisions from player decisions. I get its all put together as a matter of team performance, but being sent into sure outs is a fundamentally different problem for a team to solve than than having runners who don't run the bases well, so as a diagnostic metric I would prefer that cases be spilt.

27 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Tigers through April 9 (4-9):

 

19th in pitching

14th in hitting

18th in base running

25th in fielding

 

Tigers since April 9 (8-1):

 

1st in pitching

12th in hitting

19th in base running

30th in fielding

They've had some dumb sends home, which is a reflection on Cora rather than the team's base running ability.

11 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I think Harris re-acquired Workman? I may be wrong because I don't really keep track of how we get talent, just that we do get talent.

But, in case anyone was wondering why we didnt bring him up, he's another LH bat. And we've been desperate for RH bats since last summer. The need was ignored all winter.

IRRC, Workman was lost to the Cubs via Rule V last off season. Played a few game for the Cubs, they traded him the White Sox but apparently that doesn't change the Rule's requirement that if he falls off the major league roster he comes back to Detroit, so when the Sox Cut him, he ended up back in Toledo. 

46 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Noticed a comment elsewhere in the Michigan Men's BB thread about U-M's regents being "anti-semitic"

I think Buddha is referring to one of the candidates running for election on the Dem side in 26, Amir Maklid - a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ h̶e̶ g̶e̶t̶s̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ A̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ o̶r̶ B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ i̶s̶ q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ -̶ ( my bad - Regents don't have to primary)- but  the guy had already lost his endorsement by the SEIU.

On the GOP side, I don't think I'd have any real lssue with Schostak, I don't know anything about Epstein but there is a good chance she's not an anti-semite.

It's a complex situation in the world right now. You have a traditionally discriminated against ethnicity/culture, which now has a nation state created in its name that has become a violent, repressive, apartheid practicing nation state. The subtlety is that unlike the case of most rogue nation states, we don't want to see them defeated, for instance as we would be happy to see happen to Putin's Russian kelpto-facist-state, we want them to be able to carry on but but just stop being a terrible national actor. That's a very murky position to be in.

2 hours ago, buddha said:

you should be more concerned with the anti-semitic candidates who will be sitting on your board soon.

says a lot about the democratic party as a whole, and the university of michigan's future.

 i don’t think there is anything like a 1 to 1 correspondence between the voting population for regents seats and the mi dem party, but we’ll see

14 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

It’s been almost 12 years since Mary Sue Coleman stepped down and the office hasn’t seen a whiff of stability since.

if grasso is willing to hang around long enough for Alec Gallimore to leave Duke without looking bad, he’d still be my guess. 

Enough of this.

EDIT  - better

If ever there was a prop bet that could motivate me to open an online gambling account, it would be "tiger reliever to walk 1st hitter he faces."😉

On 4/15/2026 at 1:19 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Sadly - University of Michigan President designate Kent Syverud is undergoing cancer treatment. Will not be taking the post. 

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/04/kent-syverud-no-longer-becoming-next-university-of-michigan-president.html

Sounds like the Regents are punting again. Grasso has had his 'interim' title removed, no word of a search underway. Grasso apparently passed his audition - though when he took it he professed no desire to keep it.

5 minutes ago, romad1 said:

This is going to be an interesting post to revisit.

no question he has fabulous physical tools.

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

He's threatening the pope? WTH is wrong with this guy?

 

those will be scheduled for release right after the unreleased Epstein files.

Tork seeing the  ball well enough to walk, but not enough to hit it.....😡

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

reaction time is baked into his physical tools.

It's true you can't change a guy's reaction time. What you can try is to shorten his approach so the same reaction time still gives him more time to get the bat to where it needs to be on time. Not a high probability endeavor either and if player is left with zero power you still might not like the result, but it is one thing you can try. And doubly hard to try and re-arrange a guy ten+ yrs into a career.

3 hours ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Underwood looked awful

It's not the final word by any means, but I don't know if I've seen such a highly touted major college QB improve so little over the course of playing his 1st season.

Hitting takes place at the extreme edge of a bunch of the body's capability. Vision, reaction time, strength to swing the bat, plus ability once you do see the ball to accurately extrapolate where the ball is going based on a the short preview before the swing decision is made. You have be an outlier in almost all of those to be a great hitter.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

He brought Javy in to make a five-man outfield when it was man on third with one out and Mayer up, with Javy positioned on the third-base side of second. Hinch kept Javy in the infield after Vest walked Mayer and positioned him on the first-base side of second for Yoshida.

excellent move even if they did lose

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That said, Hinch did have Javy on the infield at the end there, so, you did get your wish on this, kind of.

DId he? I didn't have video and it looks like the Box at MLB never updated to show it.

56 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I would bet the decision to sit Colt and Riley was matchup-based.

When game got to "close, late" esp at the end where anything to the OF wins it and DP could have saved it, I'd have wanted Javy at short and McG at 3rd - mid inning if need be.

In Hinch's defense, Fenway is a place where  the odds a of a game being won by IF defense quality are lower than most places.