gehringer_2
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this actually is the way a functioning government is supposed to work. We are so unused to that it seems outre'.
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nothing in the Constitution says you have to let him out if he won, and this is an original text SCOTUS.
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Maybe with Cossa the FO is thinking 'Ceilings, not floors.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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08/21/2022 1:40 EDT Los Angeles Angels at Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
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.
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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.
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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.
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08/20/2022 1:10 EDT Los Angeles Angels at Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
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. -
Imagining anyone carrying out a car bombing in Moscow is hard enough.
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I wouldn't so much call it innocence, but there has been a big shift in primary market for college football from students on campus to the non-student off campus ticket buyer and TV viewer. For instance, before Bo got to UM, the average game attendance was more than 50% student body and locals. When football exploded and they started to actual sell - out the stadium, it was suddenly a different mix, with a shift to a higher priced ticket holder and the TV audience. As that trend has continued decade by decade, the student body has sensed they are no longer regarded as a valued audience and their participation has fallen off, which contributes to the shift in the 'feel' of the competition to one closer to that of pro sports.
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I tend to think a good many people in the game believe this, but since they have no idea what to do about it, it doesn't much merit talking about. If pitchers find they are suddenly more successful - esp at pushing up their K rate - after they start throwing a hard slider, how would you go about stopping them anyway? Again, maybe this is something that is just another long term result of the rabbit ball and the absolute need to prevent balls in play - or maybe the slider is just easier to command than a change-up or curve so it's harder to get guys to learn the latter, especially on their way up when they might have the time needed to refine the more difficult pitch. Plus now you have the reduced minor leagues and shorter draft increasing pressure on pitchers to reach a high level fast.
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exactly. At what point do have to believe it is more than bad luck?
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If the FO had been right about Schoop, Candelario, Castro, Barnhart, Grossman, Meadows, and Mize/Skubal/Faedo/Rodriguez don't go down, this might have been a successful year and it would have covered whatever issues there are in the org for more time. By the same token right now, as bad as things may be, they look even worse because this season has been such a perfect storm of disaster. But what has happened this season is a combination of misjudgment of talent or mismanagement of same. Either way the buck stopped with Al for those things. The only question left for me is whether mismanagement was significant and how much lies at Hinch's door. In the end I doubt it matters as I don't see Ilitch eating Hinch's contract at least through the next year.
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Verlander's spin pitch was his FB, and that is a different animal. The underhand spin on the FB is from the natural roll off your fingers - hand size, finger strength, skin texture, finger joint configuration and elasticity all provide that without any axial torque on the elbow. Of course there is still torque on the elbow with all pitches, but you aren't adding any extra twist throwing a 4 seam fastball. My totally unscientific impression is that throwing pitches where you pull your thumb down and rotate you palm outward - basically the slider is probably more dangerous. On the other hand the rotation on a curve is overhand, you are rotating your thumb up and your palm in. Just stand with your hand up and your elbow at 90 deg and flick your wrist down while pushing your thumb forward, then flick it down while also rotating your thumb down. Even in that simple exercise you can feel the difference in stress on your ulnar tendon thumb down compared to thumb up
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Norris' stuff in the last two games as a starter is better than T Alexanders, plus Tyler has proven he can be useful working in relief. They need to be in in evaluation mode with everyone. They already (should) know Norris will fail in the pen.
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08/20/2022 1:10 EDT Los Angeles Angels at Detroit Tigers
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
It keeps getting harder to like AJ's managing -
Xi is still operating China in pretty close to the same way right now.
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Cody says organization is more important than the coach, but I think he has it at least a bit backwards. If the parent club's hitting coach is not driving the organization on this kind of thing, who can/will? Isn't it his job to be the expert in hitting development tech? And again, why does Hinch get a pass on this? Coolbaugh works for him and is manifestly not performing. The Tigers supposedly already have sophisticated video mechanics analysis equip - do they stow it all away under the bleachers at Joker Marchant for the season when ST ends?
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Tigers sending Norris to the Pen. I will go out on a very short limb and predict it will be a pointless move as he will fail there again.
