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Maybe they need to stop guessing.

McGonigle to SS, Baez to CF.

Kirby throws Torres 5 consecutive sliders, then gets him on an FB that is wide outside. There's no sense to that.

So the unit specified by 'gr' would be grains, but I had to look up what the 'm' stood for. In old the apothecary's units 'm' was a 'minum' which meant one liquid drop - in this case per ounce.

I have family there as well, and have been there and down town there any number of times. Portland is fine. It has/had a fairly severe homeless problem but it was hardly unique on the west coast for that.

Parenthetically, when Schlissel came to UM, one of his pet projects was to try to get the University to stop paying contractors for expertise it should already have in-house. I don't think he ever got very far with it. 🙄

Seems like a no brainer, I can't see any downside risk if either of them accept and return. The IF could get a little crowded if McGonigle is ready to come up at some point next season. That situation could resolve itself if Meadows doesn't find his bat and Javy finishes his contract in CF.

I don't know if we ever saw a full strength SGL this season, and he has now collected so many injures maybe we never will. I was at 5/3rd the night he struck out everyone and his brother for the Hens. He looked pretty exciting at that point.

it's not the money, it's the opportunity cost.

A team just needs to figure on losing 20-30% of the opening day pitching staff to injury each year. That's just average.

Are you sure they don't need the money right now? I doubt half the teams in the league are truly profitable even if the top ones are. Notable they don't mention Acker's public opposition to the early outlines of the deal. If it needs to be unanimous and Acker doesn't change his mind and the other Dems on the UM Regents vote with him, it's going to be dead.

You are correct tactically, but emotionally it doesn't get much better in the NFL today than sticking it to KC.

Underwood has incredible throwing talent, can throw back against the grain better than anyone they have had since Henson. But Henson is exactly the question about Underwood - does he have it between the ears or not? Sadly Henson didn't, though the team could have done worse than get Tom Brady as the consolation prize. Aside from his processing, Underhill needs to work on touch -he's rocketing too often on short throws where he needs to give his receivers half a chance. My interest in college football has been at an all-time low, but watching to see how Underhill develops is keeping me interested for now.

What did they expect from Hamonic - a 35 yr old coming of a season that already showed him in decline? Another signing that I imagine is going to be regretted/regrettable.

but the leadership won't put a bill on the floor that could find consensus or negotiate to consensus. That's what legislating is supposed to about. They could easily put a bill on the floor that would attract enough Dems and hold enough Repubs to pass easily, but they won't, because they are all afraid of being primaried by the fringes, whose power is amplified in primaries because of big money and that nobody votes in them. We basically get what we deserve as voters.

Debbie Dingell, Eva Peron, 🤔

and who controls it again?

same as it ever was. "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

I would actually say a lot more. Vote out his enabling article one branch and he will be largely contained.

Oddly, the guy who could be starting to run hot is McKinstry, and he's pretty good when he's on a streak. I also like Torkelson going to RF on fastballs again. Now I just wish he would stop taking 1st pitch heaters down the middle. When the Tiger O was struggling there was a lot of mention that as team they took more 1st pitch strikes than anyone. They've been falling into that trap again. In game 3 even Pierzinski noticed how many 1st pitch strikes they were taking. Driving pitch counts is good, but you can go overboard killing your O doing it. The best way to drive pitch count is don't make outs.

I think some of it has to do with having to make a throw off level ground after having been throwing off the mound. When your front foot doesn't hit when/where your brain expects bad stuff happens. You have to believe teams just don't practice hard enough or maybe don't practice it effectively - i.e. do fielding work but don't stress the transition issues with coming off the mound.

Team is a little bit too left handed IMHO. If Torres walks it will just be worse. It will help a little if Veirling can stay on the field for more than half a season next year but it's gotten to where I don't think we can count on it. They should add a RHB or two if Torres walks. McGonigle and Clark are both lefties. Max Anderson is a righty that's probably due for a shot otherwise they have to go outside. Don't see Malloy turning into a serious contributor, and Jones is purely an anti-LHP specialist.

so does Matt now officially qualify as one that got away?

You know, even Nolan Finley has apparently decided Trump needs to stop talking about Biden. 🤷‍♀️

and the Tigers had one of the worst for a while. Benoit, Just hated to see him come into a game.