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I've always wondered what brought him back to Detroit. Maybe the Tigers just made the best offer and there is nothing more to read into it.

and zero sacks allowed. Granted the Ravens were down a pro-bowler on the Dline, but still pretty impressive.

That and 'carbon dioxide capture.' Start running away when you hear either one touted.

If I'm Flaherty, I'm looking at what the Tigers do to shore up the bullpen. His OPS against just explodes in the 6th inning, he needs to be on a team that can protect him better than the Tigers have been able to this season. Now to be serious, I doubt any player thinks that way, but if he wants to optimize his market value he should.

this is the big downside risk - the pitching could end up pretty bad next season and we don't really have the depth of position players to bring much pitching back in trade without gutting the offense. This particular team may well have peaked without ever having gotten quite good enough. OTOH, every other team has problems too.

SB - I happened across a football film breakdown podcast, and the all the commercial inserts were from an outfit called CROP America and they all featured Ohio farm families talking about how leasing some of their land for solar panels was saving their family farms. Lots of cute sheep munching grass under the installations, etc. Is this getting to be legit or it just PR noise?

Fiber in town here is mixed underground/above ground. These hurdles are not technical or even cost. Last mile/first mile, it goes back to the lack of a mandate to operate as a public utility or in the public interest - again - all bad politics and screwed up government. Somebody once wrote: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Someone did that for us once. Everyday it's more obvious that that once new gov has pretty much lost any connection to its original charter. It's incredible really that we sit here in the most technically advanced and richest country in the history of the world and we can't even do the simplest **** for ourselves anymore.

It'll keep them hungrier starting the 2nd half.

I don't know if hard hit rate and GB rate are considered predictive, but this season they are pretty much the worst of his career.

If they have electricity that means the road and the poles are already there so it's not that expensive. It's just the political will to admit that not everything paid for by taxes is bad.

yup - what they should have done in the first place.

I was forced to sit through "Bye, Bye, Birdie" 🤮 in a theater at an impressionable age, and it's just been downhill for me with Musicals ever since. 😉

would that be just Bloomington or the IU system though?

well, if it turns out to be for making false statements to Congress, I can't think of an admin more at risk for having establishing a precedent for punishing that.

He's going to have to give up something to get something back so there is lot of potential for disaster. Which goes back to the fact that the pitching pipeline that Avila built has dried up. We knew a lot of those guys wouldn't pan out, which is why we needed to have a lot of them. After Melton, AA or AAA look pretty bare of top flight arms. Last time I looked our highest ranked pitching prospect was #10 in the org (Hamm) and he's 2-5 with an almost 5 ERA. That's not going to cut it.

IDK, tour planners would be plugged into that level of detail and it might figure into what kind of recommendations they are making to clients yr to yr. Don't have any idea how many Euros use tour planners though. If I had to guess, politics would play more with Euros, cost and convenience issues with the US traveler. I was just doing a little browsing and reporting on Disney park performance seems all over the map. Looks like maybe revenue is up YOY but '24 was a bad year. Since prices are up, revenue may be better than attendance. Short term the suits don't care about that point, but long term it matters. I remember once, as CEO of GM, Roger Smith said he didn't care how many cars GM sold as long as they were making money. IIRC, he was out not too long after that.

I do know a fair number of people who have made a political decision not to spend money in Fl, but that's Ann Arbor. We did a ST trip this year so in our case fandom was stronger than politics. I also wouldn't discount the terrible traffic in Central Fl as more mundane disincentive either. You can't get anywhere and this year there has been a lot of freeway construction making it even worse.

IDK, why do these idiots do anything? To prove they can as much as anything else. Assumptions of sanity or precedent are no longer admissible. Of course, more cynically the whole episode is just a stock manipulation and RFKs buddies are already short.

He probably has a good number of players that are better than people think they are/thought they would be - So OK - I have to give you unheralded talent spotting piece. I guess the test will be if he keeps winning are his guys going to end up in the NFL or not even if they weren't heralded recruits? I'm so much an MLB guy I tend to forget a college coach is his own GM/Scouting department beside the X's and O's.

So what are the downside risks given that the pregnant female market isn't that big a segment? The PR, which can be a real hit, and the possibility they remove OTC availability? That would be pretty devastating if they could push it that far.

The only issue I take here is that it's not the monster that screams most loudly that is the biggest risk. It's always been the smooth serpent that whispers the lies we already wished were true. The craven ones that offer the easy, comfortable solutions that have us skipping down the road to perdition.

Indiana's has been selling more tickets the last couple of years, is making upgrades on the stadium and player facilities, signed a $50M deal with a local bank - they haven't been standing still. With the caveat that this an AI mined number, the IU AD revenue was $173M last year. They are playing in the big leagues now monetarily. It's not the same Hoosier program DiNardo and Cameron worked for.

Stalin had an awesomely powerful country and his 'geneticists' were still laughed at. That's the beauty of science - it's one place were truth is self reinforcing, because if you don't have it right, it just isn't going to work, and you will eventually find yourself behind everyone else. The Admin will try to throw money around to validate the use of bad science in other places, and they might well have some "success" (otherwise known as failure for the recipients) with that as long as they can find grifters in other places at the receiving end, which usually isn't hard if you look. And this admin knows how to find other grifters.

I think I'd put it the other way around - in the game today, no matter how good a coach you are you are not going to win if your school isn't competitive on resources. That is probably my biggest disappointment/worry about where college sports are going. How many schools are going find themselves net diverting student tuition into their sports programs just to keep up in a system where their sports programs cannot be self-sufficient? That's going to be a terrible outcome.

It's objectively true as catalogued in this article that some of their roster decisions on pitchers have turned out to be wrong. No org is going to get it right all the time but Harris and Co have gotten enough wrong this season that it's hurting. Add that to the pitching injuries and they just can't pitch like they did down the stretch last season. That actually doesn't bother me that much. In modern sports with every athlete trained to a fine edge, and especially pitchers in baseball, you are going to have seasons where because of injuries alone the best laid plans gang aft agley. What bothers me more is the way the hitting has gone south. Too many guys seem to be going up there without a plan or with the wrong plan or too tight to execute a plan. Doesn't seem to comport with Hinch's mantras.