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I assume I can configure an audio compressor on the Mac I use for streaming but I haven't run it down yet as I had dropped back to the live broadcasts. That other thing with gameday that has reduced its appeal is that they are about 45 sec delayed this year. I suppose the delay may be my provider instead of gameday's fault, but that makes no difference in the end.

It took many years, but I believe the FCC finally forced radio stations to stop broadcasting commercials at higher audio levels than their regular programming - but now the practice has just moved to steaming services. The commercials in the Tiger game day stream are running at least 12db higher than Dan's mike in the booth, to the point where if I the cut the volume to 'bearable' for the spots, I literally can't hear Dan at all. The increasing severity of this practice has actually driven me back to listening on broadcast radio despite the greater convenience of using the stream. However today's game on AM an my house is out of range for 1270 AM. 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

It's funny how Victor generates so much opinion. He's just your basic utility OF. Yes, he is a major leaguer, no he won't be a multiple WAR player. You'd think a guy that was neither a bum nor a star would be less controversial.

It's hard to see what the end game is. He is not accomplishing anything, nor is he helping his team, nor is he taking any final bows. That last one seems to make it plain he plans to come to ST next season - why not just call it a year and take the last month off and get an early start on whatever rehab might be possible?

You have no GM, so no-one is going to pull the trigger on that decision. Whatever your opinions on AJ Hinch for good or ill, he's a 'players coach' plus I think it's clear he is not the kind of guy who has a lot of strong opinions he will go to the wall for, or even rock the boat hard. So a decision like that seems unlikely to come from him either.

I tend to believe the RW heat is getting to Judge Cannon. There is really no earthly reason a 'special master' is needed this case. The specifics of the documents are not even the real issue. A special master is used when a case presents technical or scientific issues complex enough that the judge doesn't have the competence to understand and evaluate the relevance or truthfulness of the testimony she is hearing. That's nonsense in this case. Any well educated person can listen to people from the intelligence community tell you the significance of a document in an understandable way - this ain't quantum physics. She is just bailing out.

First time since mid July they have won 6 in a ten game stretch.

Verlander might be the last to get to 250, let alone 300.

IDK if it even matters if JJ has the higher ceiling. Cade is a pretty good game manager and in the NCAA as many game are won with steady competence and decision making as off the chart talent. It goes both ways, M is under no obligation to give JJ the chance to turn into the QB he could be but isn't yet if that isn't what gives them the best chance to win. The very fact that a kid can go somewhere else now reduces the obligation on BOTH sides.

Nice outing for Bryan Garcia as well. 6IP 1H 1BB 7K. At 27 he's a little old to turn into a big prospect but he's in contention as a back of the rotation guy.

LOL - I wish JH luck, this is a tough needle to thread.

It's his job to try, but I don't think in the end Harbaugh can do much that makes a difference, all that is going to (or should) matter to JJ is whether he starts games or at least gets half the in game reps. Maybe if Urban Meyer were coaching M I could see him keeping two guys conned for a whole season, but I don't see that as Harbaugh's strong skillset. This is just the reality of college football today. The system gives guys the opportunity to go find a place to be a starter, and there is no reason they shouldn't use it. There is no reason to spend your life prepping to do something, finding yourself in a situation you can't do it, and not taking an open door out. It's no moral victory for anyone's life experience for JJ to miss the chance of being a multi-year NCAA starter somewhere if he has the talent. JJ doesn't owe Michigan being Cade's injury safety valve if Harbaugh decides he's going to start Cade. And I actually would give credit to Harbaugh as being a coach who in the past has been willing to let guys go seek a better situation without hard feelings.

we can rag on Edwards but he's spot on. Cade is not going to be a guy the NFL ever loves enough to go early and JJ is not going to sit behind Cade for 2 more years - and I sure wouldn't advise him to.

If Riley has a weakness in his super powers it's his arm. The assist was there for the taking at third and he pretty much spiked his throw short into the ground. Eduardo manages to strand the runner.

Jace Jung with his 1st professional HR in the first inning for the Whitecaps. Solo shot

analysts beginning to wake up to the fact that McCarthy can't stay at UM if he doesn't take the starting job from Cade. https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-football-jim-harbaugh-jj-mccarthy-cade-mcnamara-big-ten-ncaa-nil

and the non-sense about the 'unitary executive' and sitting president doesn't even come into play. He's violated the law since he left office. He's a frickin' civilian who mishandled and concealed his illegal retention of classified material. That's about as close to a slam dunk as Capone's taxes ever were.

I don't disagree but Good luck with that.

I had to laugh a little when Powell noted that inflation was high in a lot of places like Europe, it isn't just a US thing. Well of course, they've all been pursuing the same policies in lockstep. Why would the Euro outcomes be any different? Still and all, I do believe a lot of this is transient dislocations and things will crash back to low demand pretty quickly. Old people don't buy a lot of stuff and nothing that has happened has made the country (or EuroZone) any younger. If anything, putting the screws to immigration is making us older as a country even faster. A new virus or the Ukraine war going global are still wildcards of course. If we finally do start spending serious bucks to get off fossil that should heat things up a bit - but I'll believe that when I see more of it.

a simpler way to summarize it would be that the moment to produce the spin of a FB originates from the large muscles in your torso and upper arm. The moment to produce the spin of slider has to be imparted by muscles below the elbow.

Well, I was a heavy industry guy, we never proposed building real estate! But apropos of that, I saw a story about how China has gotten itself into a weird unrighteous feedback loop where they keep financing real estate construction to keep the economy going, then halt work before projects are done and tear them down so real estate prices don't crater and create a mortgage collapse epidemic. Made no sense, but what does in China today?

the large overhand rotation of the arm at the shoulder, the overhand throwing motion itself, creates angular momentum on the rotational axis of the FB (a line from 1st to 3rd) because it's on the same rotational axis as the spin of the fastball. You don't have to add anything to the existing angular momentum inventory at the release point for a FB to have it's normal backspin. The overall overhand motion does not create angular momentum on the spin axis of a slider, which is 90 deg away, i.e, from home to the mound. The statement "hand and fingers change position" is correct and is the key. They don't change position without additional forces being applied.

Funny thing is, I'm beginning to think the whole exercise is based on a fallacy. I've worked on capital project proposals for multiple large corporations, and you learn that high interest rates slow the economy because they kill capital expenditures because ROI must be higher than interest rates to borrow expansion money profitably. Thus as interest rates rise, fewer and fewer potential projects can clear the bar. Except that in all my years of doing those ROI calcs under multiple different corporate calculation guidelines, I yet to have ever been able to include the year by year inflation in the value of the product in the calcs. Maybe somewhere they do it, but if so I haven't seen it. So I'm beginning to wonder if the premise by which raising interest rates slows capital spending may not be mostly be due to a shared culture of poor accounting models. If you capture the projected inflationary increase in the value of your project outputs into the ROI calc, your projects would suddenly be a lot less sensitive to interest rates and they would thus have a lot less impact on capital spending. IMO Society has not given the problem of poor accounting models nearly enough attention. All the vexing social problems around the human cost of capitalism, pollution, climate change, could have come out differently if we simply ever had accounting systems that properly modeled those costs.

and the 'bloodbath' yesterday only took the market 'back' to where it was that same month ago.

yes but maybe no. The rotational energy in the ball still has to come from the arm. A RH pitcher's slider rotates CCW on the axis running from the plate to the mound. Applying that rotational energy to the ball requires the hand/arm to accept a CW moment on that axis. As noted before, in the case of the spin on a fastball, the axis of rotation is 1st to 3rd and the energy that drives that rotation is provided by the gross rotation of the arm at the shoulder in the throwing motion rather any specific need for pronation of the lower arm. That is a difference in physics that is real. The difference it makes injury wise may debated, but not that the forces are different.