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Yup. Terrible starting staff to begin with and then Wells, who was supposed to be the Ace, just went downhill all season after a hot start.

actually I was putting improved LD rate on the non-luck side of the virtual chart but wasn't clear enough.

I know you like to watch the margins but I remain unimpressed, until someone actually wins something unexpected. It's not a parliamentary system, bigger minorities don't do you any good at all.

I think it definitely comes from seeing how full the stands are on TV. I've been in that very situation talking to the SO about do we want to go to a game, do we think we need to buy now or does it look like a lot of tickets will be available etc. I'm sure that conversation is replayed in a lot of places. Now you can reasonably ask does it change the ultimate decision to buy a ticker or just when the purchase takes place - that's a tougher question.

I don't see any actual seat flips there. You know what they say about 'close'

No, there is one place where it matters, and that is if fans see the ballpark is full most of the time, it will drive better advance sales because people will suspect they won't be able to get a decent ticket as a walk up or day of game sale. The extreme case of this is what you had in Boston for along time with a season ticket sale that almost sold out the park, or the Red Wings, for many years they had a wait list for season tickets because no-one wanted to give them up even as the team started getting worse because they wouldn't be able to get a good seat again. That said, none of this relates to the seats behind the plate, but to the the ballpark as a whole. And the team has to be good and stay good for a while for the dynamic to take hold.

Treasury yield data appears to be broken at the Treasury Dept site. Hmm. Appears the data is there but the pages won't format.

That would be 8 rookie adds in 2 or 3 years, plus Seider, which all things being equal, is good organizational performance. He just has to stop torpedoing himself with his in NHL moves.

If you mean 'live TV' for sure. But unless in the absence of data to the contrary my default would be to believe total hours in front of some kind of video stream are still increasing. But I can believe that as people get more and more acclimated to watching what they watch on their own schedule it does decrease the appeal of having to meet the fixed schedule of a sporting event to watch it. Heck, I still watch most Tiger games but I'm halfway to not watching them live. I have them recording and usually start on the recording at some point after the game starts.

He is still sporting a higher BaBIP than he has ever had before and his EV has not gone up, which argues he's been lucky. OTOH he has improved his LD rate and he absolutely has made some kind of approach change that's allowing him to stand in better against LHP. So maybe some luck and some real improvement adding up.

LOL - didn't read your post carefully enough - I thought you were still talking about Milk Chutes. laundry chute it makes sense, you aren't supposed to have any open piercings between the levels of a structure. I was in a student apt next to a big two story house that went up one night so we were out there talking to the fireman. There was couch fire and they dragged it out and then just stood around. Asked them what they were waiting for and he said, "just wait, the fire is in the wall and will break out on the roof" And sure enough in about ten minutes they had an inferno to put out. Those old houses were built with 16' and longer wall studs with no fire stops on the way up the wall.

The first gas stations didn't have self metering pump stands, you'd tell them what you wanted and the attendant would turn on the pump and measure that amount as it was pumped into a big glass graduated cylinder that was at the top of the pump stand, turn off the pump when he had the right amount, and then drop that into your tank. The attendant was actually measuring the fuel you bought. So of course the operator had to have his own person doing the measuring. From the time self metering pumps were invented it was pretty easy to pump your own but by then there was a culture around it that changed more slowly than the tech - around the service part and esp around women pumping their own.

it's also has always leaned right. Not hard right maybe, but right none-the-less.

yeah - who would have picked Javy and McKinstry as two guys we had to keep in the line-up every day? At Toledo SS, Unroe is org filler, Navigato is likely on his way to release, Workman is getting most of the reps but he looks like the same guy he always was, i.e. low contract, high K and unlikely to handle MLB pitching. So I don't see any logjam in terms of him getting his work in there. I'd guess they are just more comfortable with 2 primary SS on the roster.

Sly was probably too drugged up to ever manage his affairs.

that's why I think the future of eligibility rules is an area with potential to get interesting. Extended eligibility would be one thing that could happen that the NFL wouldn't like. We're speculating way beyond multiple corners we can't see around, but it's still easy enough to imagine at least some scenarios where extended eligibility could dry up the number of guys willing to go the NFL in the later rounds of the draft where it's minimum money being paid. Parallel to the way kids turn down late round MLB offers if they can get a scholarship to college. Could such a thing ever rise to a level the NFL felt it had to respond to? Beats me!

Tigers get good and we might see a lot of change. Whenever I look recently the lurker numbers are pretty big.

Fire Hazard? I guess if your neighbors are in the habit of tossing Molitov cocktails in yours. They were made of metal - at least as fire resistant as the wall of the frame house. I can believe it though, the more codes I've run into in recent years the more I'm convinced the system is basically out of control.

well my memory is not very good, I'd forgotten that Biggs left us before the old board shut down.

the ten schools from the original B10 could still sell 60-100k tickets to games even if they all dropped back to Div2 and became amateur again. The tickets would be cheap and games would not be televised and none of the players would be on their way to the NFL, but there would still be plenty of fans.

Malloy close to a 500 OBP since arriving at Toledo.

Hurter for Guenther swap by tomorrow's game?

Saw Olson sitting with the other starters, no dressing or anything on his finger so that's good. Bad thing is that he's there at all instead of starting an MiLB game.....

if that stands it's just stupid

So in this era of re-examination of long held practice, who decides eligibility can only be 4 seasons plus a red shirt? One can very honestly spend 5-6 yrs working on a PhD. Who can argue a doctoral student is any less a student or affiliated with his university than an undergrad? So if I'm going to spend 10 yrs at the University, and I happen to be 6'5" 295 why shouldn't I be able to play for more years? In fact just as many years as the average NFL career (which I believe is 5 yrs for non QBs). Sure it seems absurd, far fetched, but what are the criteria for what's on the table and what isn't right now? More athletes ending up in academia would probably be good for it!