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It'll keep them hungrier starting the 2nd half.

I don't know if hard hit rate and GB rate are considered predictive, but this season they are pretty much the worst of his career.

If they have electricity that means the road and the poles are already there so it's not that expensive. It's just the political will to admit that not everything paid for by taxes is bad.

yup - what they should have done in the first place.

I was forced to sit through "Bye, Bye, Birdie" 🤮 in a theater at an impressionable age, and it's just been downhill for me with Musicals ever since. 😉

would that be just Bloomington or the IU system though?

well, if it turns out to be for making false statements to Congress, I can't think of an admin more at risk for having establishing a precedent for punishing that.

He's going to have to give up something to get something back so there is lot of potential for disaster. Which goes back to the fact that the pitching pipeline that Avila built has dried up. We knew a lot of those guys wouldn't pan out, which is why we needed to have a lot of them. After Melton, AA or AAA look pretty bare of top flight arms. Last time I looked our highest ranked pitching prospect was #10 in the org (Hamm) and he's 2-5 with an almost 5 ERA. That's not going to cut it.

IDK, tour planners would be plugged into that level of detail and it might figure into what kind of recommendations they are making to clients yr to yr. Don't have any idea how many Euros use tour planners though. If I had to guess, politics would play more with Euros, cost and convenience issues with the US traveler. I was just doing a little browsing and reporting on Disney park performance seems all over the map. Looks like maybe revenue is up YOY but '24 was a bad year. Since prices are up, revenue may be better than attendance. Short term the suits don't care about that point, but long term it matters. I remember once, as CEO of GM, Roger Smith said he didn't care how many cars GM sold as long as they were making money. IIRC, he was out not too long after that.

I do know a fair number of people who have made a political decision not to spend money in Fl, but that's Ann Arbor. We did a ST trip this year so in our case fandom was stronger than politics. I also wouldn't discount the terrible traffic in Central Fl as more mundane disincentive either. You can't get anywhere and this year there has been a lot of freeway construction making it even worse.

IDK, why do these idiots do anything? To prove they can as much as anything else. Assumptions of sanity or precedent are no longer admissible. Of course, more cynically the whole episode is just a stock manipulation and RFKs buddies are already short.

He probably has a good number of players that are better than people think they are/thought they would be - So OK - I have to give you unheralded talent spotting piece. I guess the test will be if he keeps winning are his guys going to end up in the NFL or not even if they weren't heralded recruits? I'm so much an MLB guy I tend to forget a college coach is his own GM/Scouting department beside the X's and O's.

So what are the downside risks given that the pregnant female market isn't that big a segment? The PR, which can be a real hit, and the possibility they remove OTC availability? That would be pretty devastating if they could push it that far.

The only issue I take here is that it's not the monster that screams most loudly that is the biggest risk. It's always been the smooth serpent that whispers the lies we already wished were true. The craven ones that offer the easy, comfortable solutions that have us skipping down the road to perdition.

Indiana's has been selling more tickets the last couple of years, is making upgrades on the stadium and player facilities, signed a $50M deal with a local bank - they haven't been standing still. With the caveat that this an AI mined number, the IU AD revenue was $173M last year. They are playing in the big leagues now monetarily. It's not the same Hoosier program DiNardo and Cameron worked for.

Stalin had an awesomely powerful country and his 'geneticists' were still laughed at. That's the beauty of science - it's one place were truth is self reinforcing, because if you don't have it right, it just isn't going to work, and you will eventually find yourself behind everyone else. The Admin will try to throw money around to validate the use of bad science in other places, and they might well have some "success" (otherwise known as failure for the recipients) with that as long as they can find grifters in other places at the receiving end, which usually isn't hard if you look. And this admin knows how to find other grifters.

I think I'd put it the other way around - in the game today, no matter how good a coach you are you are not going to win if your school isn't competitive on resources. That is probably my biggest disappointment/worry about where college sports are going. How many schools are going find themselves net diverting student tuition into their sports programs just to keep up in a system where their sports programs cannot be self-sufficient? That's going to be a terrible outcome.

It's objectively true as catalogued in this article that some of their roster decisions on pitchers have turned out to be wrong. No org is going to get it right all the time but Harris and Co have gotten enough wrong this season that it's hurting. Add that to the pitching injuries and they just can't pitch like they did down the stretch last season. That actually doesn't bother me that much. In modern sports with every athlete trained to a fine edge, and especially pitchers in baseball, you are going to have seasons where because of injuries alone the best laid plans gang aft agley. What bothers me more is the way the hitting has gone south. Too many guys seem to be going up there without a plan or with the wrong plan or too tight to execute a plan. Doesn't seem to comport with Hinch's mantras.

Great, we'll go from a market that is frozen because current owners don't want to give up low rate mortgages to one where current owners can't sell because they are underwater. 🙄 Actually I wonder how much drop in $/ft^2 we are getting as opposed to builders building smaller units.

what is your problem? Tone it down or take it somewhere else.

golden sombrero for Tork. He's been having a great month but at this point they are probably all pressing.

a couple of weeks ago I would have said it was still nuts to call him up, but the offense is in such a total meltdown right now I think I would do it anyway just to get some new enthusiasm/confidence in the clubhouse

I wonder how this breaks out though? Is this cash being held by the super wealthy who are already in the market in a big way and the cash holdings are just ordinary diversification (so in effect it's another measure of wealth concentration), or is the market unusually widely split between bulls still buying at any price and bears that have already bailed out with fewer people in between.

Good strategy by the Browns there to go for a play just long enough for their kicker but short enough to get to the line fast. Even if they had missed the kick it was the only way to do it.

teams seem to have figured out the Tigers system for scouting their pitchers because whatever secret sauce they were giving hitters to prep them in the first half of the season isn't working anymore. They aren't hitting anyone.