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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!

The early 70's Orioles starting staff is what I remember. Three 20 game winners in '70. Then to top that, in '71, 4 starters, 81 wins racked: Palmer(20), McNally(21), Cuellar(20), Dobson(20) with 69 complete games. Earl Weaver hardly got his cleats dirty walking to the mound the whole season.

LOL. A young family moved in about a block to the east - far enough that we knew where they belonged but had never met. But we could not figure out what was going on - he'd constantly be walking past our house carrying things, sometimes large, and you have to understand there is really no place you can get to walking past our house carrying something. Then it started with the little boy. Way too young to be seen on the street alone in Ann Arbor (HQ for hovering helicopter parents who would consider it parental failure for their kid to be out of their sight for more than 30 consecutive sec before their 18th birthday) also running one way alone, and never returning.... The mystery was finally resolved at a neighborhood open house when it transpired that the Grandparents had moved in a block to the West. 🤣

So was there a Schwinn 'Truck Bike' involved? That was always the mark of the serious paper boy pro.

Yup - forget that completely. You handed the attendant cash and they made the change at the car. Fill the tank for $4.50 and get change back from a $5. Most often I bought an even $2 or $3 though, made for the quicker getaway. 🤣

this is definitely an issue with Comerica. Even though the upper deck is much further away than at Tiger stadium, I still prefer the upper deck boxes or at least as close to the front as is available rather than the lower bowl. No comparison to an upper deck box at the old ball park, but OTOH I don't get a pole if I don't buy early enough! Funny that in Tiger Stadium and Olympia, Detroit had two of the best upper decks ever in sports. At Olympia the front or the upper deck reached all the way the 1st or 2nd row of the lower deck.

There are roles that Stellan is so perfect for you can't even imagine anyone else doing them.

When you aren't fast enough or strong enough to get the puck back when the other team sustains pressure, what do you do? The weird thing about the NHL is that a team has a skill level, then that skill level is either diminished or amplified in each game by the energy level they bring. But over the long run that energy level also has a sustainable maximum that your team can only play above for so long. McLellan came in and their energy level went up, but as the season came to a close and other teams started raising their level, the Wings couldn't meet it. McLellan talked a lot about game management and playing to win as opposed to playing to score, but if all that's going to happen if you make the safe clear is the other team is going to be right back in your zone with sustained pressure because you can't forecheck and they beat you to all the loose pucks and you aren't fast enough to tie them up before they got off a pass or skilled enough to anticipate a passing lane or get a take away at the boards, you are still going to give up late game winners. You see it when the Wings go into 'fall back' mode and you know the game is an inevitable loss. You will never be a winning team if you have to go into turtle mode for long minutes at the end of every game. There is always a ton of discussion about how much all the things other than talent matter, because talking about talent all the time get boring, but in the end, in athletic competition talent is still what drives the outcome most of the time.

They don't want to hear it at ABC.

last season between May 8 and June 11 they were within one game of 500 either way 22 times before falling back until the August run. Also 2017 they hung around in May just under 500, got to 29-30 on June 8 then fell back.