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Human nature. I'm on a committee currently where a few folks want to change a policy that will have an obvious, inevitable, bad result, and they refuse to see it (they are trying to send a virtue signal instead of actually achieving virtue). It's not a end-of-the-world issue but one where the aims they hope to accomplish will actually be set back. Magic thinking? Lack of thinking? And of course you are the bad guy who must be the evil side of the issue.

MLB page says make-up on the 8th. Are they going to play at 11:00 am?

It's getting complicated for all these guys. Ilitch is hiring hiring the Tiger people directly so that when/if FDSD disappears they have their own broadcast staff, but that complicated life for a guy like Kane who doesn't want to leave the pistons and give up the chance to take over Piston's PBP.

and/or Boras isn't interested in those players as clients!

I don't even think the salary cap is the issue as much as it is revenue nationalization and I don't see how you get there. What good will it do to have a cap if half the teams can't afford to get to it? There are some concepts out there that I think do work - capping single salaries at a % of a team total or a cap figure it good for any team sport, and simply fixing a total revenue % to go the salaries league wide is a core concept in winning long term labor peace. Right now the players will not give any ground on max salaries because they see big max numbers as what eventually pull everyone else up. I sort of doubt that is actually true but the if fixed the % of total revenue going into the salary pool it would break the tie between max and total salaries. It's not for lack of workable concepts - the problem is the haves have gotten themselves into such an advantageoud position it's going to be impossible to get them to come back to the pack.

Doesn't look too promising right now. There is rain pattern centered just South of Denver that is pretty stationary right now and the circulation is dropping light right rain on Denver. Forecast is >75% chance of light rain continuing right through 11pm. Not to mention only 44 deg F.

Appropos of this - I believe in a recent interview Tony Clark specifically mentioned Skubal as a guy on the Tigers who was 'engaged' on MLBPA issues.

True. He is more 'of the moon'.

Do you think Boras Venmo'd or direct deposited the gratuity?

Good post but I would take issue generalizing too broadly on this one. In my experience with freshmen, at least a fair number of kids were not particularly liberal - maybe liberal compared to today's GOP, but a lot of them well right of their faculty.

In all the years I've been connected to UM (which is a lot) the only UM pres who I saw force real transformation was Harold Shapiro. He came in and kicked a complacent institution in the rear and put it on the path to being world class. I think Schlissel - in his first few years, was pretty good also, but then he went off the rails.

So just to close the item I left hanging, I have now seen the Nolan Finley op-ed. Short version is the Dems Regents were unhappy with Ono since the election - felt his leadership was AWOL. They penned an OP-ED (which in the end was not run) which he felt was an insult and attack on him and wouldn't sign on. Supposedly he had wanted to stay at M but the relationship had simply collapsed.

against Tx, but not in Tx. but either way they have to travel Thursday night.

I put him an Amash in the same category. Nuts, but honestly nuts.

no doubt cost discipline is terrible, which is big shift from my undergrad days when people were still pretty cost conscious., but when you have 115K applications, 9000 applications just to the Law school, it's pretty clear the discipline isn't going to come from the customers!

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I get the point but I think Ono had lost the confidence of a lot more than the lunatic fringe. I tend to think the protest policy proposal was a big misstep - I mean the draft could have come from the Nixon White House. Which points to there being two different questions here - one is DEI and one is the larger question of civil society. DEI at UM needed to be fixed but that's one issue in a much larger context. And DEI may not have been the only issue at play if he had lost the Regents - it remains to be seen. In any case, you can't lead unless you give people a belief in where you are going - if what is dribbling out in the local papers is correct, Ono had lost his audience. So maybe he stays and tries to lead them to where he thinks a better place is? It is just as much capitulation to simply duck out? if you are going to turn an institution at all, I guess you have to be a little bit of a visionary and that is certainly not a vibe I ever got from Ono - or Schlissel for that matter. I think they were both more caretakers than movers. Maybe he was just the wrong guy in the wrong place once the political tide had turned. And so we wait to see what if anything leaks out from the Regents. Even if they weren't going to cry about DEI reforms they might applaud in private, he may have stepped on toes there if they ended up being blind sided finding out about the changes on twitter. To be honest, I think that had as much to do with Schlissel's dismissal as anything - him not paying adequate attention to the Regents that is. e.g. he might have survived the personal issues if he wasn't already in the dog house over ignoring/fumbling the Ilitch/Gilbert efforts to build more presence in Detroit.

which IIRC, wasn't even what it was once you panned back and saw the whole graphic.

the problem with this approach is that if you are wrong, by the time you realize it any hope of winning the battle will be over. I think the lesson if history is pretty clear that you oppose what is wrong when you have the chance. Granted, the issue is that the Uni's had gone over the edge on identity is destiny, but the Universities' transgressions are small potatoes to Trumps attempts destroy any civil society barriers to his whims. You can put your own house in better order without capitulating your obligation to provide institutional leadership. As the little girl says "Why not both?"

while they are at it they could do the same for the whole NBA.

If anyone at DOGE actually knew what they were doing, they could tell DJT that running a prison on an island is a very big waste of money - which is why it's not a prison anymore.

right - LaLoosh was good in spite of all the reasons he shouldn't have been,

So I only had access to a bit of the article, will track it down somewhere - but the crisis came when the Ono was asked to sign on to something (op-ed?) in opposition to something - no doubt some aspect of Trump policy, and he refused, which put him on the wrong side of the Dem regents and almost the entire University community.

article in the DetNews this AM makes it sound like there was a growing division inside the Regents about Ono's dismantling of the DEI program, which he apparently did without much consultation with the Regents. The Dem majority appears to have wanted the U to take a stronger leadership role in defense of academia against the Trump admin. Obviously hard to know what level any of this actually rose to. Also worth noting that the contract extension came before the election, which certainly changed the landscape out from where everyone expected. Maybe the Dems on the Regents have come to believe he wasn't the leader needed for a fight they now have on their hands. On the money side, the October deal was apparently about the best ever given to a public University Prez, second to the one given out by --- you guessed it - U Florida to Ben Sasse. That didn't end well - depending on whether you believe Sasse resigned by choice or not. Nolan Finley also has a take on what lead to Ono's departure but it's paywalled and I stopped contributing the DetNew's profitability a while ago.

aka Street clothes.