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You don't think DeSantis is a lunatic? And he'll probably be angling to replace Trump in the near future and thus on the warpath against all his usual suspects again to get himself in the news. And in Fla the Gov has the direct control to meddle that you are insulated from at Mich. The last UM pres to leave by choice before retirement was Bolinger, who never really wanted to be there anyway. It's not been a job people left by choice in the past and he had just signed a pretty rich deal. OTOH, times change and FLA probably did have to throw a really big pot of money at someone to get them to come given the situation with DeSantis.

IIRC I saw Ausar use that same behind the back dribble in a game this season but I don't remember if it resulted in a finish like that or not.

That's almost too cute to be believable of the Chinese, but it would be perfect if true.

Reese's pitches must be the hardest on the staff to pick up because he seems to get way more swings on balls that finish way out of the zone than even most good pitchers.

The proposed protest policy his office had put out last year was pretty draconian piece of work. In my view it was poorly considered and had no place in any decent institution and the push back across the University was hard. Maybe that was a point where the mismatch between the man and the institution became too obviously big to bridge. And that didn't even have anything to do with DEI.

Still, under normal circumstances you'd think a move to Florida would be a desperation move - who with a resume as solid as Ono would want go be under DeSantis' thumb in a situation as politicized a FLA? Or maybe Ono is just way more conservative at heart than he has ever let on in his previous gigs(?). I suppose he was comfortable at Cinci - which is not a school you'd consider part of the liberal elitist clique. The piece we would never hear about that could be also be in play is if he had struck out with some big donors recently. If you don't keep the $$ raining in that job that's a subtext issue that's below the public radar but could be a killer. But as you note - if that were the case the contract extension would probably not have been forthcoming.

Weirdly enough (and what wasn't about Rodman...) 91-92 season in Det he made 32 of 101 three's - but never was close to that before or after.

there are probably a couple of thousand Voodoo dolls of Ono with lots of pins stuck in them all over faculty offices in A^2. It's probably no fun working at a school once most of the faculty decides they don't like you. I haven't see any kind of rumbling that the Regents have had any issue with him - I suppose won't hear about that for while - if there were anything if might only filter out slowly.

We used to call that a Mickey Mouse outfield.

appears that way. (Yay!)

got a point there.

True, but there is still a big difference between hitting between 201/266/330 (Tork when they pulled the plug last season) and 107/286/107 (Jung now). I agree they want to give him more run, but I don't think they will/can for very long unless he can get a little further from a 2 digit BA. Hard to see what you even gain from the ABs if you are getting the bat on the ball that seldom. As it stands, I think he goes when Vierling is back, but Malloy is doing a good job of cratering also, so he could certainly still win the race down I-75.

In a perfect world it would be nice to give jace Jung 100 AB audition space, but that's going to be hard to do if he can't show at least a little more.

Tork and Sweeney with a 3-6-3

Dingler with another barrel.

and they give Riley the error. Just another example of why official scoring might as well be scrapped.

don't sell 7 beers to any one person on the same charge? Not trivially easy to set up but probably not impossible either.

Going into Denver from Det is not as bad as it was for Hinch going from Houston. Some of northern burbs, or toward A^2 and you’re already living at maybe 900ft give or take

Baez is just gold with a glove. 90% of OF would have had to dive to recover for that ball, Javy just calmly makes the old school basket catch.

Jansen is probably pretty PO'd. His manager leaves him sit until he's rusty then leaves him out there to be hammered. Not a way to win friends and influence people.

Washington not the world's most pitcher centric manager. After Roger Craig moved on, it wasn't uncommon for Sparky to leave guys in BP sitting for days at a time and it usually didn't work well for those Tiger teams either.

Tork looks like he's further from the plate, or maybe is straightnening up more. He's not reaching strikes that are low or away right now.

how many times had he put the lead-off man on tonight?

Yup - he comes in really well. He just needs to out the bat on a few.

I remember the political fight about that. We had some friends that lived around Duck Lake and all those folks in that area of Oakland county were ready to go to the wall to stop it. In the end the geography with all the lakes (and swamps!) coupled with the political opposition from people with money was enough to kill it. You wouldn't know it to see any of it today, but most of what is now Farmington Hills and many points north were all swampy. In the early seventies I remember west of Orchard Lake between say 12 and 14 mile was still pretty much empty because it needed to be drained. We had a house at Middlebelt and Northwestern in a sub that went in in the late 50's and it was all "high level" (as in they came through the basement wall 2/3 of he way up from the floor) sewer lines to keep them above the water table and sump pumps out to the culvert to keep your basement floor from getting floated!