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the wave was going strong at UM (and other college) stadium at football games well before 1984, and lots of those games were on national TV so I don't know how many people didn't know about it before it hit Tigers Stadium in the 80's. But it was a college football thing. The jump to baseball wasn't necessarily natural because not all baseball stadia are particularly good for the wave, and they often are not full enough. While Tiger Stadium did have the two decks all the way around, you still need to get the place filled up, and that didn't happen much until the team got good.

Biden is the 1st Democrat since Kennedy who actually has some new ideas how to run a middle class capitalist economy. If we actually had useful public interest new programming any more, this would be big topic of discussion in intellectual circles. Instead the right's media is just in adversarial fantasy land and the left's is to busy with it's normal naval gazing self-absorption on issues of that are of peripheral importance in the real world.

take a look at this: https://www.mcafee.com/support/?locale=en-US&articleId=TS102999&page=shell&shell=article-view

Hinch needs to sit him down and tell him to back off and stop trying to hit everything 500ft. He may think he's 'sticking with the process' but his process has gotten distorted.

well, all good things come to an end.

yeah - Faedo throws that to him 10 more times he probably gets his bat on it once.

Pretty gutty by Garrett. He got out of that with pretty much nothing in his tank.

More like if he'd have been 28 instead of 35... 🐢

A little disappointed in Canha there.

Carp livin' dangerously.

Hardest hit ball was prolly the one hopper to Keith at 2nd.

Team ERA must be sitting at about 1.5 about now?

LOL - can't get Nimmo.

IDK, but if he goes 6 or more no-hit Tigers are going to look pretty silly sending him back to the minors. Not that that will stop them, but it will make for some commentary on 'Baseball Tonight'.

Fine play by Torkelson.

yeah- plenty of runs go in the books as unearned, there is no logical reason runs scored by the ghostrunner don't also.

He didn't make a big hit with TPTB the first time either, so that would be nothing new.

I saw one analysis that I thought was spot on: Emotionally, when prices go up, you process that directly, but when you get a raise, you don't see it as because wages and prices generally go up together as part of the same macro economic effect, it's because YOU, as an individual, earned IT. So even though you are keeping up, you don't process your wage increases as inflation cancellation the way an economist would tell you they really are. I think there a kernel of truth there.

The Arab world has closed its borders to Palestinians since partition. It's part of their foundational political/religious stance. The world shouldn't give them as much a pass on it as it has, but don't expect it to change.

It's getting harder by the day to take the NBA seriously.

WTF is "load management" for a player on a team that isn't within a moon shot of reaching the playoffs?

Hanifee got rocked. Two rough outings.

I think sometimes when scouts call a player 'advanced' (as Madden was) it's the kiss of death - like it really means they are as far as they are going to get. Dylan Crews was generally also slotted above Langford on the basis of being more "advanced". Wyatt says "Hi" from Texas.

All the above said, I still think it's odd optics at the least for the admin to be publicly castigating Netanyahu while simultaneously proposing additional arms sales to his government. And it's not like Israel needs F15s in Gaza, or would even get them in time for this conflict. The only way the timing of this make sense is if the Admim is setting up to get the GOP right wing committed to this and then turn around and tie it to Ukraine support. Other than that is does seem like a tone deaf FP move for Biden, and his FP chops are generally better than that.

it would seem to me that MiLB pitcher placement is going to have two factors pushing in opposite directions depending on what the development objective is for that pitcher. If you have a guy on whom you are doing major mechanical or approach modifications, new pitches etc., I think you want to put him where he can remain competitive while he works on those things, otherwise he simply won't be able to stay in games long enough to do so or will be forced back to old approaches. OTOH, if you have a pitcher who needs to hone sequencing, general command, his "compete level" as they call it in hockey, you want to promote him to the highest level of competition he can handle - where he can't skate by on stuff, and force those "art of pitching" issues to the fore. Where do we think Madden is on that continuum today? I have to think that an org that claims development as its highest priority is being driven primarily by the balance of those considerations rather than the needs of a guy it appears they brought on to be career AAA fill. But that's not to say they don't give some consideration to keeping a competitive team on the field in Toledo, it's just not very much.