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I won't argue he does *look* like a SS. TBF - two of the bad plays were him just trying to do too much, he needs to heed the same advice they gave Keith - get you feet on the ground getting the routine plays down before you start testing your limits,

I always switch off after the last out lest I accidentally subject myself to the trauma of a Trevor Thompson interview. I check the game day video page later to check for the manager's post game comments.

IDK. They seem to be in love with Sweeney currently even though he booted his third ball in as many games yesterday and his OPS is <550. I'm OK with giving him a shot but so far he looks the part better than he's acting it.

IDK why they don't move him to receiver and be done with it. They would still have the option of pitching to him in the slot or running reverses where he could just run to daylight if they want to see him run from scrimmage.

There is no doubt coaching in the NFL is a different skill set than coaching in college - there are ample cases of guys successful at one that weren't at the other. That's why I said don't have a strong opinion on how good Harbaugh was in college because he didn't do it long enough anywhere to show what he could do absent a 1st round NFL pick QB. And as I said, getting that QB is part of the skill set so that's only a partial knock. But he never sustained a program to anywhere near the degree of a Saban so I don't see how you can reasonably compare them. I tend to think at this point he's becoming too much a legend in his own mind for his own good, but we'll see if he proves me wrong on this next go round.

he was 29-21 at Stanford and 20 of those came only after Andrew Luck got there. He floundered at UM until he found McCarthy. He burned his bridges and escaped Ann Arbor one step ahead of the Gendarmes. If he's your role model for a college coach that's fine. Meyer is a great college coach too, better than Harbaugh. He is also a creep. That a guy can coach isn't necessarily a good reason to like him.

Of course with 2 attempts on the night and only 5 carries, Orji is not really playing QB, he's just playing snap receiver. Pretty pointless.

Someday classy will probably make a comeback, it always does, but I'm afraid it will after I'm long gone.

Meyer shuffled QBs around one year at OSU, heck UM once tried to run Henson and Brady seriatum for too long. So it happens, but agreed the results are more often bad than good because in most cases it just means neither guy is showing enough to deserve the gig full time.

Damn good question. If there is one unintended effect of all the changes in media since the three network days, it's the loss of people/institutions in the media with proven credentials and widely accepted integrity who you could rely on to be fundamentally trustworthy. And even non-profit media like NPR, where you would assume the lack of profit motive would insulate them from the worst effects, has also gone off the rails in the last few years, though nothing on a par with commercial media. Now TBF, I think most mainline newspapers are still good sources for primary events coverage, you just have to ignore everything where they are writing opinion. Technical press in any given field is usually trustworthy. But I came across one today that just made me scratch my head. WaPo story about the US/Iraqi raid on some ISIS targets where some US personnel were wounded. It was fairly straight up news reporting right through to the last paragraph, where the writer just inserts "Iraqi's oppose the continued presence of US troops" Bang. Just an assertion of what, since there was not a shred of evidence supplied, is simply an opinion. Not even "most Iraqi's we have talked to" or anything. So maybe that is true - probably is, but maybe not - I'm sure it depends on who in Iraq you ask. I'm sure the Iraqi military doesn't feel that way. But regardless of whether they are right or wrong it just violated every rule of good journalism to not keep fact reporting and unsupported opinion assertion separate, and immediately made me question whether anything related in the paragraphs above was trustworthy. That's where we are in today's journalism.

I haven't heard an explanation to my satisfaction, but I've always assumed there was something below the table that lead to the HoJo trade. Maybe he told Sparky to stuff it one day, maybe he showed up in Sparky's office with a J. 🍄 🤷‍♀️

Yeah - Donovan is not Corum. If you try to use him like Corum, you probably won't get far.

IDK how great a coach Harbaugh is, his main talent at the college level was bringing in an NFL bound QB to lead his team. And that's not to knock him, it's the most important thing a college football coach can do. Unfortunately he didn't leave another one waiting in the wings for Moore, and if you want to knock Moore for not coming up with one, or Manuel for not coming up with the cash to get one, fair enough I suppose.

be careful what you wish for. This one seems competitive enough so far!

Chrome on Windows decided it simply wouldn't stream DirectTV tonight. Rebooted to Linux and No Problemo. Have no idea what its problem was.

a very Todd Jones like walk of O'Neill.

No long balls tonight, OK Tyler?

Oh my! Tigers can't handle Rich Hill.

Heart of the order. Score a run dummies.

There is aggressive, and then there is stupid.

Kreidler can't do anything right even when he does.

Pivetta threw two perfect pitchers on 3-0 and 3-1

I suppose Navigato isn't on the 40..... But they only have 39 now right?

Direct TV is so screwed up. I come into the game a few minutes late so I start watching the in-progress recording. I'm cutting out time on the commercials and I reach real time. Switch back to the 'live' steam and it's a fulll 60 seconds *behind* where I was watching the recording. How is that even possible?

Torkelson forgetting to swing the bat again. Stop playing for walks.