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Pause agricultural, and hospitality. OK, you just took maybe 7 of the supposedly 11 million undocumenteds off the table. Now Miller will have to deport every roofer and carpenter in America to make his target.

Manning should study the bio of another tall thin Tiger high draft pick. Andrew Miller was the No 6 pick in 2006, it was 9 years later he finally emerged as a top reliever for the Yankees.

Manning is getting regular relief work now and he's seems to be doing better than he was as a starter, but he hasn't proven enough/been good enough, to get a call-up. They have nothing to lose leaving him where he is for a while.

yeah - that was pretty much the one mistake they made as a team tonight. Montero is interesting. He doesn't seem to have particularly great stuff but he sure hangs in there.

these people are just so dumb. "No reason to keep all these pinko language specialists around, probably all closet Democrats, after all nothing ever happens in the world."

be interesting to see if how far they let Hurter go. He threw 44 pitches in 3 IP 3 days ago. I would think only one inning today.

To improve the effect you could always just drink more when you watch the game at home.

C'mon Lee. Fabric pizzas on a spear was not enough?!

LOL -But Hawk had Stone. I used to hear them sometimes and I always thought that Hawk was a good analyst - as long as the Sox were losing and he was in 'down' mode. Once they they were ahead the was such a fan boy that analysis sort of went out the window. 😂

Sewell and Giamatti had just worked together in "the Illusionist" with Ed Norton before this series was made.

And this is exactly what Shepherd still refuses to believe. He made a conscious choice not to be 'in' his broadcast because he thought his was the way it should be done. But the opposing view has prevailed for now.

Funny you should say this. During the last broadcast Benetti was talking about being a young broadcaster and working with Steve Grilli when Grilli was doing color instead of being busy being a pitching coach, and I it think he said Grilli, or maybe someone else on the that broadcast team, gave him the advice that the best baseball broadcast should sound like you are sitting with two guys watching the game at the bar - so if that's what you hear in the broadcast, it's no accident.

this. As I think about it, the biggest threat to the status quo as we know it is not probably not the NFL, it comes if the super conference schools get greedy and want to maximize their revenue by cutting out the rest of the schools, or whether they decide they will live with less revenue for the sake of keeping more schools in the system.

I saw that, certainly possible but 255 hardly even got off the ground, this plane looked like it did have decent lift in the seconds before it went down. There is some loss of ground effect lift on take-off though.

I don't think the risk to risk to the relationship between the NFL and College football lies in the NFL trying to get a bigger piece. I think there are two outcomes that could threaten things, and I have no idea if either of them will happen to any significant degree. The first is the one I've already mentioned, the possibility that eligibility rules change to where enough of what would be mid-level NFL players decide they can make a career without going to the NFL and that both bleeds off and blocks enough of the talent pipeline that the NFL gets concerned. The second is that as the super conferences emerge they end up monopolizing the media money. I think this has a high probability of happening. But the consequence of that could mean that the 2nd tier of what is now Div1 finds themselves in an untenable financial situation and they decide to drop out of the paid Varsity Sport system. That won't bother the super-conferences, but it will reduce the ratio between the number of paid tier college programs and the number of NFL teams. As above, this outcome would effectively reduce the size of the development pool for the NFL. Could it be enough the NFL would care? Who knows? I think in the end, for a school to survive it will either have to have a deep national tradition or big local media market it can have to itself. I don't know how many of those there are but I think the number is less than the current number FCS schools. Or the other way to look at it is that schools that are currently 'recievers' from their conferences instead of generators, will end up at risk as the other schools are going to want them out of their revenue stream.

For reference, the University Budget is ~$15B, a little more than half of that is the Hospital System.

UM Regents approved a $266M budget for the athletic department, which includes $15M in subsidy from the U. The mothership is picking up most of the $21M cost of the House settlement for the first yr. (The AD normally gets no operating $ from the general budget)

It figures in an odd sort of way. Bibi wasn't going to get a go ahead from Biden, but he probably thought he could wait and he might one from Trump, but when Trump turned out not to be so gung-ho as he hoped, he decided he was going without US co-operation.

LOL - Apparently an amazing response to my email to AOC that he had to go....🤣

Hockey was a little late to the party in terms of big athletes, though they've caught up now. I remember Frank Mahovlech was considered a big guy in his day. 6'0"

maybe he was

I was worried when Gleyber didn't make the DP turn that they had opened the proverbial door, but they wedged it back shut...

500 on the road is supposed to be good enough - Tiger don't care.

He was due

Needed the long ball as they were getting BaBIP’d on everything else