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This is a seriously spot on observation Romad. I've often thought that there no form of hobby or recreation that Americans can't ruin once they 'discover' it.

It's probably a misplaced hope, but if we ever get an automated K zone, it might be to the relative advantage of guys that throw changes and curves because the pitch which is diving downward is the most difficult for an ump to call, so a pitcher in today's game is left with more doubt than with a FB or slider that even if he throws a good curve in a key situation, the ump is going to miss the call.

there are about 50 'dead man walking' football programs out there just waiting to be told they are being left out.

IDK about the politics, but he's right about the IPA. 😝

I tend to agree. Whatever seems to in the water in the Tiger hitting room this year, Torkelson probably doesn't need anymore exposure to it.

Over 800 for August. Assuming he keeps it up I wonder if they will bring him up again before the end of the season or just leave him there to build confidence the rest of the way.

Cabrera - LOL. Tigers need a one legged man to win a game

I don't get the point of playing him when the knee is not good. Completely pointless. I find it hard to believe he doesn't know once he warms up each day whether he is going to be able to drive off it or not.

Big night for the Seawolves - 9 runs scored. Meadows: 3/4 2B BB Dingler: 1/4 HR Workman: 2/3 HR BB (2nd HR in two days after not homering all month) Navigato: 1/4, BB HR Gipson-Long: 7IP 4H 1ER 2BB 5K 1HR

Norris failing in relief - what a surprise.

Willi needs to stop this. I'm getting flak from the SO about my long-standing disregard for his skills.

this actually is the way a functioning government is supposed to work. We are so unused to that it seems outre'.

nothing in the Constitution says you have to let him out if he won, and this is an original text SCOTUS.

Maybe with Cossa the FO is thinking 'Ceilings, not floors.'

should be interesting. I suppose every engineer whose management shoots down part of what he proposes can make a pretty similar set of complaints about the company putting profits first, but that's what companies do. Management in general has some rights around deciding how much risk they are willing to accept in their operations, at least when it's not a matter of people's personal safety. Whether Twitter's claims rose to the level of investment advice fraud is the kind of thing that can end up as a he said/she said. How much security constitutes 'good' security may not have obvious bright lines. Still in all, this news probably makes Elon a happy camper.

But it's not ultimately about whether Grossman gets better or not, it's about why the Braves covered ground with him the Tigers didn't. Now as Rob said, maybe in reality they had at least to some degree, but that didn't fit the narrative that either Grossman or the Braves or Cody S. wanted to sell. But if it is true that the Tigers hadn't, that still stands as an indictment even if Grossman crashes the rest of the way, and Hinch more or less admitted as much.

option 4 is certainly possible, but OTOH, if it was just a matter of seeing what he had changed you should be able to do that just with a side by side slo-mo and your own eyes and brain if you are being paid as a hitting coach. But still possible. option 5 doesn't seem to match the public narrative, but given the quality of sports reporting it does have to be considered.

so anyone wondering why one would be cooling on AJ Hinch, the Grossman situation is exactly the kind of thing which has to make you wonder. Here are the possible scenarios. 1) Grossman scuffles all season and AJ never says to Coolbaugh: "Scot, have you looked at Robbie's video? What's going on with him?" - failure on AJ's part bigtime. 2)Hinch does say it to Coolbaugh, Scott says "Can't see a thing chief" _ failure on Coobaugh's part - why is he still here? And thus by indirection fail on Hinch's part. 3) Coolbaugh says "all that stuff is at Lakeland, we can't get at it" - this is a little grayer - certainly an organizational fail and Avila has taken the fall for that, but you mean to tell me AJ couldn't have gone to Al and say "This is what I need, now." Fail on multiple levels. And the point is it doesn't even matter if Robbie is fixed long term or just short term. The point is there was something there to see and the Tigers didn't see it, didn't look for it. If making sure that kind of thing doesn't happen isn't part of what you pay a manager for, what is? What scenario is there where you can absolve the manager when something like this breaks?

Parker has pushed his August OPS over 1000. Nice month. Tork not quite as hot yet, but he has improved his 598 July OPS at Toledo to 816 for August so he is regaining a little form.

Maybe the one way you could maintain some sports as truly amateur would be to stop charging for tickets for 'non-revenue' sports. I doubt it would make much difference to the overall economics anyway and would at least create a bright line where you could say "this athlete plays for free and that one doesn't" Of course, would that mean you couldn't televise a B10 swim meet either? Who knows!

Tigers *REALLY* threaten, but do not score...

This is why it's such a CF right now. NIL doesn't create any framework between the Athletes and the schools, it just exists out in left field, so none of what needs to be defined systemically was helped to be defined at all by the NIL rulings.

IDK. The timing has just been off. The time to have changed the game was for a new Pres to have declined to extend Harbaugh - but the deed was done before he had a shot at the decision. Seems unlikely to see any new game at MI until it gets to where Manuel/Ono or whoever drag Harbaugh into it by the scruff of his neck.

you kill a family member to pressure the guy to do something he was 'supposed' to do but hasn't, right? And TBH that sounds a lot more like mob SOP than the Ukrainians, though you do never know.

Gardenhire was fine. He had nothing to work with but he kept things on an even keel and took pretty good care what little pitching he had. It was funny that he seemed like a reasonably mellow guy for a manager, but inside the losing was eating him up to where he had to bail.