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Bert you have me one-upped. I'll up on the west shore the Keewenah this weekend. I'll get the trees and sky, but no mountains . Lake Superior is cool (literally - it's already snowed up there once), but hard to say anything new in a water under sky picture (at least at my level of graphics skill!)

this reminds me of a the column Brooks wrote this week. He defended that he 'can't' be a liberal even now because he doesn't agree with liberal welfare policy. What total naivete in a grown-ass man. If you don't get on the lib side now you aren't going to have the option to debate welfare policy in the future. Idiot.

It was murder on the high seas. I would be nice if every American could take off their Jingo glasses long enough to see a little reality.

and have to say Newsom isn't helping in that regard. Started out clever but the quality of the gibes is fading.

Other things being constant, BaBIP will correlate to EV and LD%, but since other things aren't constant and since it's really LD% (or launch angle distribution if you want to be modern) and EV that are the 1st order inputs that tell you something. and since they are now more available, you can look at those things directly.

One game isn't enough to mean much - yet. But it's just to highlight that there are so many wildcards now that didn't exist in the past.

No sacks today.

All bankers hate inflation, it transfers wealth from the banks to the borrowers. If that's the pool of people most of the candidates start from, the result isn't surprising.

They need to rebuild pitching depth. Too many guys either hurt - Brieske, Gunether, Olson, Jobe, Foley, Lange , Madden, or pitching like the DL is their likely next stop - Hurter, Flaherty. The extra starting depth we thought we had at the end of 23/24 (Manning, Wentz, Faedo) has evaporated to thin air. The pitching staff is last year's Lion defense.

read the docs. The Athletic department had to get $16M from the general fund to close their deficit. You can believe what you want, that's the budget that was actually approved at the Regent's meeting. Sure they make money, and they burn through it like Beasley with his rent money. With more money now due to the players, they have been thrown out of balance in a way they haven't been in my memory. The Athletic department almost always returns at least some money to the GF or else funds some kind of project for the general student body like IM facilties. That buys them goodwill North of Hill Street. It's pretty much the same deal at most BiG's. As long as the Athletic dept turns a profit, everyone is happy. When they can't do that, nobody is happy.

LOL - I suppose one man's reason can be another's foolishness, and a third might argue that reasonableness is never the correct measure of moral imperatives. But whatever -- whether the Astros won or lost those games had no real impact on me, or the price of tea in China, so I'm not a person to whom he has anything to answer. Thus my forgiveness, freely given, is both cheap and easy.

Good column about baseball and gambling by JR Moehringer in the NYT. (NYT supposedly still allows non-subscribers to view some variable number of stories per month) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/opinion/gambling-baseball-ohtani-pete-rose-fanduel.html?searchResultPosition=1

thinking back on the comparison with Leyland, one comparitive weakness in Leyland's teams is that they weren't drilled on the little stuff the way the Tigers are now. I don't think we would have seen the total PFP failure we had in the WS from a Hinch team.

I want to see what he has when he come back next year, two years out from surgery, but can't disagree that so far on his return his pitch mix isn't enough

Bottom line is all he could have done is quit, and if he had done that unexpectedly, it very likely would have produced enough scrutiny on the team that someone probably would have gotten the story and the result is he would have thrown all the players on his team under the bus. So sure he could have, but not exactly a decision that's in the same ball park as rocky road or rainbow sherbet.

I wonder if lack of activity on the portal was budget driven. I know people don't believe that a program like M ever worries about money, and big donors not withstanding, Manuel having to beg $$ (16M) from the general fund this year is sort of big deal in terms of historical precedent. The program is not supposed to cost the rest of the school money. That's the bases for maintaining peace between the jocks and the gowns.

and what if Underwood starts doubting that playing in this regime meets his career plans and bolts?

two games in, 21 posts? Sic transit gloria mundi

Urquidy with a good outing for the Hens tonight - 3IP, 0H, 0R, 3K. Unfortunately Brant Hurter got lit up for 4 runs on 4 hits in 1 IP and took a blown save and the loss. Doesn't appear close to figuring it out.

Your in the neighbourhood - that's close enough.

Did Haynes miss a blitz pickup or drop a pass or something?

And the truth is, Americans buy illegal drugs voluntarily. We 100% create the market and then accuse the people of filling it of being the problem. So the whole premise is at best a half-truth. Can anyone argue that the Venezuelans are responsible for more US addiction than Purdue pharma? How many Sacklers has JD or his boss dropped any bombs on? I'm sure that family has at least one Yacht our erstwhile drug enforcement wannabes could have blown out of the water.

this is the thing. Can you imagine Murrow and what used to be CBS rolling over for a demand even from a Pres as popular as Ike?

I would have liked to see Leyland manage with some halfway decent arms in his BP. You just can't do much when your GM gets you one 38 yr old guy that used to be good and calls it a day.

poor play by Riley to give up the extra 90 ft EDIT: Skubal says "I got your back"