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you think a major college coach like Harbaugh sufferes his AD to be tweaking how smoothly this program is 'running' from day to day? I doubt it. Your complaints are about the coaches, not the AD. Teams and coach management is a head coach responsibility. Also, I would guess that the fact that Manuel still seems happily ensconced in his job would indicate that he and Ono basically played a game of bad cop/good cop with Harbaugh, and it appears to have worked, but whether Manuel is still here in 12 months will prove that out one way or the other.

Like Lafreniere? Bird in hand and all that....... But seriously, if he's a UFA, trading him now is basically like a baseball rental isn't it? You still think it's possible to get all that much?

If you were a sport fan, sure, he was a non-entity. In terms of keeping an even keel when the various crazies at the U start running around with their hair on fire, the go-blue tuition guarantee, and also wrt to running the Univeristy through COVID I thought he he pretty much hit everything spot on.

I doubt if Mary Sue did much of anything in terms of initiatives out of the President's office. I can't think of any evidence of it. Her main obligation as interim was to be available for political and fund raising efforts because the donors want to rub elbows with the U Prez .... and to help find Ono.

those are all coach's management issues you are talking about. You are the big Harbaugh fan, did you want Manuel to fire him? Or Howard? Firing Howard over one incident would have generated a lot more heat than his incident did. (The losses will solve that problem soon enough if they continue!). Life is a series of choices of the lesser evil. And he did fire Pearson. Firing coaches is a pretty blunt instrument but that's the main one he has for these kinds of incidents. Warde's bosses have been happy because the program is solvent and supporting new capital investments on campus. For a long time preceeding Ono, the UM admin leadership have not in particular been sport's fans so the bottom line for revenue sports at the Fleming bldg has been - revenue. Ono is definitely more interested, we'll see what difference if any it makes (and the Fleming Bldg is no more). But he certainly doesn't seem in any hurry to have Manuel sanction Harbaugh for 'being in the news' so much, so there's that.

LOL - Doesn't surprise me at all. Schlissel would have ben the first to admit he wouldn't have a clue to how to review Manuel in any meaningful way. I Imagine as long as Law enforcement and the NCAA were staying away and the AD budget balanced he had nothing to say. Not to mention that if they did have any kind of real working relationship, the formal review process is stupid anyway. Formal review processes are for employess whom their managers don't know well enough to be able to evaluate without one.

and all we have is agent speak to this point - so tons of rock salt in order. I have a really hard time seeing them let Larkin walk - esp after SY had him apprentice to and then appointed him captain. OTOH, I can see Larkin feeling the Wings 'owe' him for being underpaid for previous services rendered. If there was ever a player in Det who I would not begrudge a 10-20% overpay it would be Larkin - esp since it has gotten so hard to sign or trade for top tier players in the NHL.

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Could be, but I tend to suspect the opposite. I think if you put Larkin between two other players of anywhere near the same talent level he'd be a perenial league point leader. He is a phenomenal set-up man who has waited his whole career in futility for players good enough to do something with his passes. He elevates every player they put on his line, who when they are rotated off it return to being marginally productive players.

this is something that I've thought should be the next unexploited advantage - teaching guys how to add and subtract more. The young JV would +/- almost 8 mph on his FB. If you can upset a hitter's timing without the strain of throwing a breaking ball everytime you want to do it, that's a pure plus. In fact, on the other side, I thought it was something that held back a Fulmer - he could throw hard but every FB was exactly the same speed. And he threw his slider so hard that if the change wasn't working, he had very little timing challenge for a hitter. Of course the hard part is you have to have enough spin/life on your fastball to toss it up there at 91-92 part of the time without it getting hammered.

And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

I didn't say there wasn't a reason - just that the reason had consequences. I do have some sympathy, these things don't always come out like they were planned. They spent a couple billion replacing Yankee stadium with a field that was engineered to play exactly equivalently to the old one and missed it by a mile. I think at COPA they made LF too big in part because they were afraid the west wind would make it a band box otherwise - didn't turn out that way at all and so the first move was that LF had to come in. I also like the DT vista quite a bit - but they could have provided some shade for the poor souls on the 3rd base side at a day game.

There is no mechanism to recall a member of Congress at the state level. The House could have refused to seat him - if there had been anything like leadership present there interested in preserving the integrity of the institution. ...OK - I did laugh as I typed those last 4 words.

Krugman's list of some possible end arounds for the debt ceiling if the dems want to get creative:

it really jumps out when you read his bio how active he was in the business - the number of different people he launched, encouraged, worked with, is huge. Of course part of that could be that for a number years he may have been in bad enough economic shape he'd take any kind of work that was offered....🤷‍♂️

Raymond from Larkin after a Larkin steal. You can't draw it up any prettier.

Have to admit I'm biased here as hearing the Doors is one sure way to get me to roll the dial on my radio. Morrison's voice had marvelous timbre, but that was just a genetic gift. and the thought of Jim Morrison singing Guinnevere just made me laugh.....

Exactly 84. All they need to do is knock the policy legs out from under Scholz. If they burn too much fuel and the Ukranians can't fix them then they sit. They can sit parked in Ukraine as well as they can sit parked State-side and if they knock Olaf off his backside it's a win/win. I can hear DOD say "But Scholz will only come up with another condition." OK let him. He is already trailing his own public's opinion, they will force him along sooner or later.

No, Aroldis was teetering right at the edge of the 'career over' cliff as it was last season. Odds that he goes right over this season are too good for my taste. If you wanted that kind of excitement you could have just kept Soto and Jimenez.....🤣

Exactly. And you know and I know Hutch is in part responsible for Houston's sacks, but Houston's sacks don't go on Hutch's Football Reference page and someone else who may not be as good will end up celebrated as the year's NFL sack leader, etc. That's where Hutch's 'success' in the most commonly given/media terms, suffers. You are referencing what he really does, but I'm referencing more the amount of popular credit/acclaim he is going to get for doing it. And the other effect is that if you can put better players next to him that break up those doubles more often, it's only human nature the you help increase his motivation knowing he's got a better chance to make a play, and probably cut down on his wear and tear also, so in the long run you still don't want to leave that guy out there on a island indefinitely as the only good player on his line.

The Man had a lot of demons, but he turned it into a lot of music that spoke to a time and place as well as any ever did. His personnel hex on me is that to this day I cannot even look at a pair of barber scissors but "Almost Cut My Hair" starts ringin' in my head!

There have only ever been two scenarios that made sense: A) a left winger released it to help drum up fund-raising. The fly in the ointment here is that it only had any impact in the period up to the decision's actual release, which was still well before the election. So early release really wasn't strategically needful. And of course as noted, Roberts would have no qualms about finding and outing any lib responsible B) Alito leaked it to freeze the internal court debate on the decision because Roberts was lobbying for a more incremental approach. This has always been the most logically sound scenario and the fact that Roberts is not willing to expose any such finding if he had found it is also completely predictable.

here you go https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/08/14/how-unlikely-alliance-helped-steer-detroit-tigers-toward-prospect-tarik-skubal/2007574001/

LOL - TPM concludes that the report never states whether they investigated the justices themselves but implies they didn't. If that's the case, there just might have been a small flaw in the strategy.....🤔