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I think the unknown for JJ is where the ceiling is on his deep ball accuracy and he just doesn't have enough attempts to have a sure projection. He just wasn't asked to show it much. So maybe he goes to a team that designs the O around what he can do now, which is a fair amount, and they hope the rest develops in a few seasons and they have a top QB.

I suppose, but at least to me Kane hadn't established any expectations for what he might provide.

Time to call Mr Belvedere. (yeah - that's ancient.....)

Benetti was fine. Beautiful voice. Even told us a little about the Red Sox, something you virtually never got from Shep. Monroe had a cold or something - he snuffled into his mike the whole broadcast. Hit the mute when you have to inhale hard Craig. Hard to believe there wasn't a producer in his ear telling him to get it under control or at least getting some sibilance filter going on his mic. Lack of basic audio production competence across the Bally team there.

The Times political div is off in their own world navel gazing at themselves. I loved J. Rubin using her WaPo column to rip a Times' headline writer the other day. They've become an embarrassment to their own allies. Problem is once you get off the political stuff the rest is still pretty much the best.

same as it ever was

still can't figure what they are waiting for with Edvinsson.

I think Tigers minor league hands will be reaching their 'use by' dates earlier under this admin.

It won't be quite so bad on the purely offensive side with Kane now on the team but Kane doesn't replace the face-off, defense, PP kill and general puck possession impact of Larkin.

2 bucks a carton (10 packs!) circa 1963 and the drugstore on the corner had no issue selling them to a minor because they were for my dad (and they were).

SELL! SELL! SELL! (just practicing my panic...)

HaHa! I haven't updated mine in 13yrs and I still get inquiries from it. At this point I leave there just for the amusement.

And whether they or people they know are getting laid off or are worried about being laid off.

and you'd think that's a name with plenty of motivation to forget!

Something off about this story though. What Bacon has were apparently Sanderson's emails, and not the University's internal report? There are a couple of alternate possible scenarios - could be Sanderson had violated any number of his own conduct policies with Jace before Juwan got there and so had put his own gig in the crapper quite independently from what happened with Juwan as things progressed. Possibly the players would not corroborate Sanderson's version of the events - either because it wasn't true or because they just wanted to support their coach more than their trainer. Regardless of which, from the U's standpoint you now have a contradicted narrative. It just seems that if Sanderson had such a cut and dried case, he wouldn't have slunk away in the night with it, he would have wanted public vindication. Or maybe the U just wrote him a big enough check the make him go away. In any case, . just another example of big money high pressure sports generating crap you don't really need on a college campus.

It was depressing to here Monroe talk about him today. Not that what Greg says ever carries all that much weight, but we know he is sunshine and roses about almost any kind of positive point he can find about a Tiger player and he was downright depressive watching Javy's ABs today. Of course FWIW, in another example of Monroe's crystal ball, Vierling came up with the bases loaded and Greg immediately started in about how he had work on getting his average up against RHP by going the other way - Matt promptly pulled the ball to left against the RHP for 2 RBI.

That distinction probably should have gone to Jeane Kirkpatrick. Missed opportunity there.

He's forgotten her name, hasn't he?

LOL - Maybe horrible, but that's what they decided they wanted to do! IDK, after dealing with Harbaugh it's not hard to understand if they they were reluctant get behind the eight ball contractually with the next coach. It's maybe a poor play program wise but it's understandable human nature wise.

Oil prices are always a wild card no doubt. Another one I wonder about is if the media coverage of Trump the candidate is going to be any different from Trump the President running for re-election.

31 is on the young side for a hitter to be finished, but it does happen. That is the worst case scenario - that the pitch recognition apparatus has just aged out and he's done as an MLB hitter. Otherwise he has to get on the Schenck system - be fully loaded up before the pitcher releases the ball. It's the answer for being late and Javy is late.

The public perception always lags, but the survey data (like UM) has now started to move. Barring some reversal (always possible) the GOP is going to have a hard time running on any economy args by the time the GE campaign heats up.

And with Moore, giving him the shot is possible high reward and pretty low risk. He may be the next great young coach. if he isn't, it will be easy to move on, they aren't going to owe him $90M.

but it's not like they are going to forget all that, not to mention that unless the Dems run a totally incompetent campaign they are going to remind people. What I come down to is that Trump is a much worse candidate right now than he was in Nov of 2020 because of 1/6/2021 and Dobbs. Plus Biden has a much improved economy. Any normal political analysis would say that a losing candidate that has hurt himself since he last run and is facing an incumbent with a good economy would simply have no chance. Sure you can throw out most the rules with Trump when it comes to the MAGA, but party membership is only 20-25% the electorate. The earth hasn't flipped on its axis either, there are still political realities that don't change.

I will absolutely admit that where I live is not any indication of the country as a whole, yet even given the skewness of the my sample experience, adding it to everything I see and hear from the wider media, I just don't get the impression that the Democratic energy that brought 82M to the polls for Biden 4 years ago has faded at all. If anything it has morphed into a quiet but steely "never again" resolve. I don't know why it doesn't show in the polls but I tend to doubt the polls more than public on this one. I guess we find out in 8 months.