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I think with Turnbull there was a potential for his case to have gained some traction with players - if the Tigs had gone to arg, won a relatively low salary for him and then he had pitched well - becoming a high performance bargain and not gotten paid only for the difference between a rehab assignment and a option assignment. But the non-tender has short circuited any potential issue in that direction.

yeah - being in a hurry to make another bad move isn't an answer either. At this point it's hard to believe Weaver actually has some clear idea about how to put together an NBA team, so there's no optimism in having Gores force him to do more. More of what?

On one hand Spencer gets what he wanted - he's going to be a FA. OTOH, his value is down to where he won't do any better than he would have in arbitration, almost certainly worse. So bottom line at best he signs a one year prove it deal somewhere, and at the end of the season is pretty much exactly where he would have been after pitching his last controlled season in Det, other than being out a chuck of cash. Anyone think Boras will reimburse him the difference?

I don't know if I'd say it was for nothing. It was responsible for creating an outcome.

I think this pretty close. It reminds me of A Conan Doyle, in his 1st story where he introduces Sherlock Holmes, Holmes tells Watson he doesn't want to know anything about anything not related to his work because it would just push something he does need to know out of his brain. Harbaugh probably doesn't see the world except in whatever aspects are reflected somehow by football, and as I've said before, I strongly suspect that he is far too credulous toward anyone who professes to be a fan of his program because he doesn't see past that being a fundamental virtue in a person. I don't know if I would call him dumb exactly as much as narrow. At least since Don Brown he's done pretty well picking coaching talent, which is the head guy's most important asset.

Larkin and DeBrincat have sort of disappeared. If I had to guess., it would be that Larkin is still having issues from the shot he took in the back.

I thought it was interesting that Stalion had not turned in any expense reports. Now maybe that was because a 55K/yr staffer didn't have expense account privileges in the first place, and on one hand you could can say that's evidence he was doing everything he did on his own........Or someone was just being sure to any reimbursements were sub rosa 🤔

ATT has been upcharging $5/mo for Bally for several years already.

End game announced for Diamond Group RSNs (Bally). Bankruptcy Judge approves them closing their doors at the end of the '24 baseball season. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/2023/11/16/bally-sports-detroit-diamond-sports-group-parent-company-bankruptcy/71608374007/

well, it appears to be decreed (or as Sparky would say, cast in stone) that Jace Jung is a 3b and from the testimony of Trammell and he AFL coach, he is apparently channeling the reincarnated arm of Brooks Robinson. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/11/16/alan-trammell-sold-detroit-tigers-prospect-jace-jung-third-base/71603368007/

It's beating a dead horse to say it, but whatever talent is in the group he has assembled doesn't include enough shooting for any of the rest of the talent that is there to create a functional basketball team. You can break down each player for all their strengths and weaknesses but bottom line - as a team they can't shoot the basketball. One player on the court now and then that can is not enough. Nothing really changes until that does.

30 min TOI for Seider on the front of a back to back? Really? Petry - 3 in 14 min? Are these things related?

did the A's do that once? I though the WhiteSox always had the market cornered in really dumb unis.

The acrobat elephant swinging the bat is the best logo in baseball. They better not lose that!

LOL - sure, but that's only a symptom, not really a cause. While success may be accidental, sustained success seldom is - it represents a commitment of effort and resources by large numbers of people and a sustaining internal culture. They do that at OSU, just like they do it a Michigan, but I don't think we quite match their priority level for football as an institution, which is actually OK with me. I don't think football needs to be quite as important to a University as it is to OSU, but it's their school and it is what it is.

That program has so much institutional inertia that Brutus Buckeye could probably coach them to 11-1. Jon Cooper had to have been a really bad HFC to have struggled like he did.

they've stayed the A's though 2 previous moves - I guess I'd go for 3. They can tie the Braves that way.

Gun deaths in America distribute in a severe dumbbell with the worst areas around 40 and most everywhere else at or below 1.5 to 3. This is why as bad as the numbers are, gun deaths are not a political liability for gun rights activists - for those mostly rural and suburban people, guns deaths are something that happen somewhere else. As mass shooting incidents just keep getting more widespread that is not quite as true as it used to be, but it's still pretty true because total numbers remain dominated by street crime numbers, which remains highly localized.

Maybe. For my money PSU on the road was the tougher game than OSU at home. Franklin does make it a fair argument of course. There is certain pressure that builds just with being undefeated, but on the 25th both teams are likely facing that.

I don't think I'd call an 87.5% completion rate a bad day. He didn't have a bad game, they just didn't use him.

More likely his wife. But otherwise correct.

I wouldn't argue he benefits from the DC regime being more player supportive, but don't undersell the OL. If you look at the time this OL gives him, any QB would be in hog heaven in Det right now.

bottom line though - he's not been on the sideline 4 times and they haven't really missed a beat.

If it were a full suspension, it would be a stiffer penalty. But a head coach in a system program like UM is 90% spectator on game day. He will still be the one putting it all into motion before the bell. If a game comes down to one 4th down call, they'll wish he was there, but otherwise I don't see Harbaugh carrying any great increment of strategic brilliance over Mintor and Moore in terms of real time decisions.