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LOL - I get it, but I have a certain amount of sympathy in that almost nothing is safe anymore. if they had said 'underage female' there are quarters from which flak would come. As noted 'underage girl' is redundant. "girl" by itself would be criticized as too unspecific. So any number of land minds. 😥. But sure - why not just say "a 13 yr old" because for that matter, the sex isn't even relevant to the criminality.

Turnabout for Mattison. TBH, I imagine only one in 10 coaches has any special bond to the school where he is working. For most of them the school loyalty is just part of the job uniform. It gets left in the old locker room when they move on.

We know that despite the Avila regime beginning to make initial foray's into getting some kinesiology expertise and force analysis equipment at lakeland, they still didn't seem to have any concrete ideas on how to use it all to help hitters - or at least none that ever showed. I wonder if the group there today has reached a point of analytical ability to have flagged Javy before the trade as likely to have been so close to a downward spiral? That said, whatever expertise they have gained has still not apparently been enough to help Javy now that he is here. But who knows if there is/was anything that could? Too many unknowns. I guess that's why sometimes coaching just comes down to hitting a personality fit where some particular person is able to teach someone things no-one else can.

Deivi is one of those guys who prolly wishes he was born a couple of decades later when they likely could have fixed his ankle to get all his mobility back. He wasn't a bad stick for a SS if he could have remained a good SS.

I am going to guess he gets ~ 100 regular season AB no matter what happens. Maybe the exception being if they lose 7 or 8 of the their first ten where they don't score enough I could imagine the pressure building sooner. It would be nice if he would at least hit LHP but for as much focus as there has been on his trouble with the slider away, he only OPS'd 659 against LHP last season. So the slider away is just the most easy to see example of a problem that extends to difficulty pitch tracking in general.

LOL Dollar General has probably built at least one new store for every one Family Dollar is going to close. Well, they say in economics that all 'Dollars' are fungible......

From Tom Friedman's column today:

The entire design process leading up the Max should become the case study for every engineering school about how to do things wrong and how mistakes at the front only drive more mistakes at the back end. But in the final analysis, what it really came down to was another American company that was too busy taking profits instead of doing adequate re-investment in itself. Boeing was caught short without a competitive design to compete with Airbus because they hadn't bothered to design a new small air frame in 20-30 yrs. Did they think Airbus was just going to sit on their rear all that time? Did they not even have enough industrial intelligence work going to know they were getting behind? And so the MAX remains a substandard air frame which only flies safely with proper computer assistance instead of being intrinsically stable like any other commercial airplane.

I guess "Malice at the Palace" has receded out of view in the league's rear view mirror.

The putsch at the RNC and this reality that Trump always and everywhere diverts all resources to himself is going to hurt GOP fundraising with a lot of traditional non-MAGA contributors. But who knows how big the effect will be? Lets hope for 'huge'

They brought Harbaugh back under a 'process improvement plan' with a positive (if short term) outcome, I can see there being support in some quarters to do the same with Howard, though he doesn't have the coaching track record Harbaugh had to support offering the option. Could also depend a lot on on the budgetary condition of the basketball program (about which I haven't a clue)

Carvey's 'Church Lady'? The Carvey/Meyers cast was probably about the most recently we watched SNL.....

Then agains, $30M is getting to be chump change in today's NFL!

Jugger-not?

Or Lalonde had them playing over their talent level to begin with and they have come back to reality. I question some of his line decisions, but that's a lot like questioning Jim Leyland's bullpen management. Hard to be critical when he never had one to manage. This team is woefully short of players that can drive possession on both ends. For a while it looked like Ras might turn into one, but his level of play isn't high enough over all. Veleno is also a bust in that regard. Maybe the best thing the team could have done would have been to get Seider a stud stay at home defender to play with and turn him loose to play a full 200 ft game - but they went in exactly the opposite direction this year -making him the stay at home guy. His skating and puck handling skill may be being wasted with that strategy.

is there a rebuttal in there that I missed? ...didn't think so.

I believe that was the fear two weeks ago. It's come home to roost.

We are seeing that the pitching could be very good and they can catch the ball well enough but with all the young hitters the run scoring could be anything from terrible to average. If they get average, they can be a good team, but so far this spring it's hard to have a lot of confidence that are going to get close to average. Several regulars that haven't shown much so far have 2 more weeks to get their act together.

I just watched the Tigers game. Am not going to lose the buzz from Jackson Jobe's debut to flip over to the rest of this one. 2nd year in a row the team has collapsed at about this time of year. Very different circumstances but same result.

You can't deny the quality of a lot of Bacon's work, but that kind of post is waste of time.

It does work. The knock has been that for some folks, it not only reduces the enjoyment of eating, it reduces the enjoyment of everything else as well.

Bergman didn't play against LHP, but Evans actually had 111 PA against them in '84. TBH, Evans didn't do all that much in '84, '85-'87 were his better years for the Tigs. But in '84 his OPS was 10 pts higher against LHP than RHP. Only one HR off a lefty though....

well, command for one inning is not proof of starting level command, but OTOH, if he's not walking people after half a dozen starts in Toledo there would be no point to keeping him there other than that a trade to move a starter hadn't been completed.

Ditto. When the original LOTTO game came out, I would buy a $1 ticket if the pot got over a certain value - $7M or something, because the stats said the odds had actually moved the game into the player's favor. But that didn't go on too long before they increased the complexity of the game enough to remove that possibility.