gehringer_2

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. 

Max is not the weakest link.

Don Drysdale says, “Hold my beer”

8 hours ago, Screwball said:

These things are a bad design to start. You will never crimp a pretty looking thin gauge chromed part (which is why they do this - pretty - marketing) around a lugnut. The thin metal can't go smaller because of the size of the nut, but will eventuality try to revert to the mean, and expand. But we must satisfy marketing; chrome wheels, chrome nuts, look pretty, sell cars.

Didn't they used to just chrome plate them? For a fricking lugnut that's gonna last probably 10yrs and by then the rest of the wheel won't look so hot either. IDK  - I'm out of the loop now - maybe plating is too much enviroment risk overhead anymore.

bring Baez to the IF

people haven’t figured out yet that these weekly negotiation ‘breakthrough’ announcements are biggest market pump and dump going?

>. He probably had one bad lugnut
I’m sure they can quote you a ‘spec’ that says they all have to match. 🙄

29 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I thought of all this especially the other day when I read that something like 42% of all men in their 20s now state that religion is very important in their lives, up from 28% just two years ago; whereas for other men importance is up only slightly, and for women of all ages importance went down. What can explain this surge in religiosity for just this particular group of people? 

The easy answer that doesn't really answer the question - just move it up a level on the 'meta'-scale, is that this group hasn't found meaning, or maybe is more focused on finding meaning, than the generation of young men that went before them. To me a number like that is a double-edged sword. I think in general it's great if any group of people are approaching life a little more seriously. OTOH, young men searching for meaning are usually the willing clay for all kinds of radical movements and irrational/disastrous results.

Or it could be as simple as that they are unable to find fulfilling relationships with the opposite sex because relationship culture for the young in the US is really screwed up today.

5 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

The people I grew up with in NH were mostly traditional conservatives. When they said they wanted government out, they meant it-and would take it upon themselves to make sure those who needed help got it from other community members. 

And religion was a private, personal subject that you only discussed in church. 

So we didn't agree on how to accomplish some things, but we often wanted the same things.

 

there are some places where I would agree it's better not to get tied up with the gov in the first place. For instance I think NPR is  better off being fully independent. Turns out the public is willing to support them. Now they can stop looking over their shoulder all the time and do their thing.  But I think when it comes to services for the indigent, public/private is often a good mix. The private charity is usually is a lot more disciplined with money than a purely public one would be, the labor force is generally available at much lower costs (no-one volunteers to work for government agencies for free!), and services for the poor don't have appeal to middle/upper class donors that something like NPR (where they get a lot of the direct benefit) does.

we are now a winning team again.

53 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I assumed it was because sometimes play would start up again sooner than expected, so the radio folks would hold up the feed this inning to allow the commercials to play all the way through, then eventually they would match it up in a later inning.

Chasfh - Yes,  I *do* absolutely believe that the radio broadcast has done time compression/expansion to lengthen the commercial breaks in the past, but I do not know if they are doing it now because I haven't checked this season at all. There have certainly been times when I've had MLB audio going with the gameday cartoon or even the video broadcast that I had previously synced and the cartoon has made a pitch or two or the video returns before Dan comes back, and then magically the radio catches up. Using the gameday cartoon is not really definitive proof since we know that has random buffering or entry glitches all the time, but I've seen enough in the past to be reasonably persuaded that on the audio side they are playing games in the time domain. IIRC I even stop watched the radio breaks and they where exceeding 2min at innings when they should not have. I had forgotten about that in the earlier discussion  - since as I noted, I don't have enough of an issue with the current videocast to be doing what you are doing anymore. That makes me wonder if they only do it on the audio fed to web-stream, or if it's in the OTA source as well?. I suppose if it's the same commercial grid it must be in the original broadcast, but I don't know for a fact if the commercials OTA are the same as in the stream feed.

It's a huge temptation since with digital audio It's trivially easy to speed up or slow down audio while holding the frequency distribution perfectly constant or just slicing silence, making it very hard to detect by ear.

9 hours ago, oblong said:

I do not have a plugged in over the air radio in my house so this was the first time in a long while I've checked a broadcast vs TV. I bet if I had the radio feed on my phone thru the app it would be closer?  

I used to listen to Dan on Gameday when I watched on DirectTV because because I really didn't like Shep - and  I could adjust gameday until it matched. But I had to stop doing that and now I don't remember if it was because gameday started being *behind* the video, which there was no adjustment for, or if it was just because they dropped the adjustment tab from the interface - I'd have to try setting up again during a game to check which it was. In any case my direct TV is always way behind, usually 2 pitches behind the gameday cartoon, which itself is usually behind OTA radio, which traditionally had at least a couple of seconds of delay for bleeping things they wanted to bleep.

this will be an interesting tension. Game is already delayed and KC maybe has a plane to catch - OTOH they will really, really hate to take runs off the board.