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why should I like the guy just because he wins? Lot of guys win whom I wouldn't care to have a beer with. Urban Meyer was the most successful coach at OSU since Woody - If I were an OSU alum should I like him? What would your feelings about Krzyzewski be if you'd gone to Duke? Harbaugh's sins may not be of of same nature, but they are sufficient that I find him personally distasteful. I'm not dissing anyone who disagrees - that's their choice.

Note that Harbaugh apparently cut Warde out of the loop to give the news of the blessed event to Ono. Nice to know it's all sweetness and light at the Athletic Dept.

Yeah - they like to win close and lose big.

He just can't bring himself to say he's staying. Like I've said - a total nutjob. He may be a good football coach but at some point you have to wonder how much of the garbage he brings with him is worth it?

Agree. Dmen I'm most willing to lose are Osterle and Chairot. Walman made a great play the other night where he skated down a breakaway. He ended up getting a penalty on a terrible call when the guy blew a skate blade and crashed, (they actually showed the trainers working on the skate on the bench but the officials didn't reverse the tripping call....surprise) but in any case it was impressive speed by Walman-no one on the team but maybe Larkin would have been close. Recently he seems to me to be showing more of those good wheels that he's supposed to be known for.

But they aren't giving him enough PT to stay sharp either..... Have to give SY credit - he hasn't lost one yet.....

I guess the reporting from Grand Rapids was a bit over optimistic?

IDK, maybe because you looked at the frame and the decent speed it was hard not to hope we'd get more out of it than we ever did. And to give Victor his due, he did what he asked, never made a fuss and he did generally know the right play - he didn't make a lot of mistakes.

AFAIK, post duty titles in the US are nothing more than courtesies. They can be offered or ignored.

Funny thing with Victor is that he seemed to do a decent job of taking pitches until he had 2 strikes, then he sort of gave up and started hacking. I don't know how you get a guy over a mental block like that (and apparently the Tigers didn't either!), but it was a little frustrating because you felt like he should have been able to make that breakthrough. At 27 he probably is never going to. I don't have any experience of what a major league is facing in the box, but as an observer I've always had the impression that many bad hitters are defeated by having too much fear of taking a called third.

Montana did have some legs, but he did not have upper tier arm talent either. Winning QB play is only half about physical talent. It does help if you are tall enough to see easily, and strong enough to be harder to tackle (Brady does have both of those). And that's the thing. You can put a QB with great IQ, good accuracy and management skill into a setting where he doesn't need to make a lot of circus throws or run for a lot of yardage with more predictability than you can put a QB who can make circus plays out there and get enough of those kind of plays and few enough mistakes to win consistently without the rest of the cast around him.

Agreed. I believe in Baseball that should be your approach everywhere. You don't need to spend your time and effort just to find guys to fill out your long term AAA rosters. The odds of any prospect anywhere making the ML if they are not really special is very poor. The big problem is the one Edman points out which is that most of the international kids are signed before they are even full grown so there is really isn't much way of knowing what you are chasing.

Good question! It would be some kind of poetic justice if the GOP succeeds in keeping immigration suppressed for a generation or so and gets a crash in US upper class real estate prices as the reward for their effort.

Because it's full of old people who had enough money to buy in there?

Yes. They need to figure out what they are doing with Ned and Hellberg and get to where they have a working goalie rotation. Right now they don't have any confidence in either of them and are close enough to the playoff spot taat they don't want to risk any games to a 'goaltending loss', but you can't drive Husso into the ground either - so something has to give.

The don't score enough goals and Chariot has some offensive play in his game so Lalonde is willing to live with the rest I guess.

Not sure what people were expecting after they dealt Soto and Jimenez. There are too many spots in a modern BP to try to roll them all over at the same time.

"for" as in for Beck to record, or "about" as in Stevie was amused that Beck was superstitious himself?

The Piston's can't seriously draft another guy in the 1st round whose outside shooting is questionable, can they? Reminds me of the Tigers filling their rosters with DH's years ago.

We seem to be willing to forgive a lot with this team. Winning percentages of .300, 278, 280, 267 over the last 4 yrs isn't much progress, even given an injured Cade.

I was surprised to see Frank Bruni with a column about this on the NYT Op-Ed page, but I didn't know Frank started out as restuarant reviewer! I think the long and short of it is that art of all forms thrives under aristocracy because only they have the money to support it. We've been in a very 1%er world in recent decades which is what makes places like NOMA -at a couple of grand billed per table - possible. Maybe there is at the least the beginnings of a reaction toward a period when we will move toward more equitable distributions, or at least reaching a point where to be so conspicuous about wealth starts to become frowned upon, and a place like NOMA may be the coal mine canary for the leading edge of the trend. Or not.....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don't play billiards with that man! I though Berituzzi's play was promising. He was still a day late and a dollar short on his chances but he was playing with a lot of energy - looked more like his old self than before he got hurt.

this is apparently Ono's personal twitter account, not the university account of the Presidents office.

You are completely correct. It's sort of similar people not understanding 'sunk cost' fallacies. Once a price has increased once - it will continue to show up in every year to year comparison for the next 12 months even if it never went up again. The only way to recover the year-to-year numbers inside a year to actually experience *deflation* and economists generally agree you never want to go there.

could be. I've been disappointed in the quality of the logic being applied in this cycle. People, including economists and analysts who should know better, keep fixating on the increase in interest rates and not their absolute value. It is true that when the fed has pushed rates up 5% or more in the past that has braked the economy into recession, but it was never from a starting point of zero. 5% is still not a very high interest rate, not a rate as high as that which would normal slam the economy enough to cause recession, or at least a severe one. When people make decisions about borrowing money - they don't care what the difference is between what rates are and what they were a year ago, all they care about is what they are now. 5% has been enough to put a brake on housing, and it has definitely takien the froth out of the stock market asset bubble, but it's not really a level that's going to choke off much otherwise worthwhile business expansion. Based on that, I've not been expecting there to be any kind of hard crash. It's always possble the FED does goes way overboard from here, but they have been talking like they aren't going much higher.