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Malloy close to a 500 OBP since arriving at Toledo.

Hurter for Guenther swap by tomorrow's game?

Saw Olson sitting with the other starters, no dressing or anything on his finger so that's good. Bad thing is that he's there at all instead of starting an MiLB game.....

if that stands it's just stupid

So in this era of re-examination of long held practice, who decides eligibility can only be 4 seasons plus a red shirt? One can very honestly spend 5-6 yrs working on a PhD. Who can argue a doctoral student is any less a student or affiliated with his university than an undergrad? So if I'm going to spend 10 yrs at the University, and I happen to be 6'5" 295 why shouldn't I be able to play for more years? In fact just as many years as the average NFL career (which I believe is 5 yrs for non QBs). Sure it seems absurd, far fetched, but what are the criteria for what's on the table and what isn't right now? More athletes ending up in academia would probably be good for it!

The early 70's Orioles starting staff is what I remember. Three 20 game winners in '70. Then to top that, in '71, 4 starters, 81 wins racked: Palmer(20), McNally(21), Cuellar(20), Dobson(20) with 69 complete games. Earl Weaver hardly got his cleats dirty walking to the mound the whole season.

LOL. A young family moved in about a block to the east - far enough that we knew where they belonged but had never met. But we could not figure out what was going on - he'd constantly be walking past our house carrying things, sometimes large, and you have to understand there is really no place you can get to walking past our house carrying something. Then it started with the little boy. Way too young to be seen on the street alone in Ann Arbor (HQ for hovering helicopter parents who would consider it parental failure for their kid to be out of their sight for more than 30 consecutive sec before their 18th birthday) also running one way alone, and never returning.... The mystery was finally resolved at a neighborhood open house when it transpired that the Grandparents had moved in a block to the West. 🤣

So was there a Schwinn 'Truck Bike' involved? That was always the mark of the serious paper boy pro.

Yup - forget that completely. You handed the attendant cash and they made the change at the car. Fill the tank for $4.50 and get change back from a $5. Most often I bought an even $2 or $3 though, made for the quicker getaway. 🤣

this is definitely an issue with Comerica. Even though the upper deck is much further away than at Tiger stadium, I still prefer the upper deck boxes or at least as close to the front as is available rather than the lower bowl. No comparison to an upper deck box at the old ball park, but OTOH I don't get a pole if I don't buy early enough! Funny that in Tiger Stadium and Olympia, Detroit had two of the best upper decks ever in sports. At Olympia the front or the upper deck reached all the way the 1st or 2nd row of the lower deck.

There are roles that Stellan is so perfect for you can't even imagine anyone else doing them.

When you aren't fast enough or strong enough to get the puck back when the other team sustains pressure, what do you do? The weird thing about the NHL is that a team has a skill level, then that skill level is either diminished or amplified in each game by the energy level they bring. But over the long run that energy level also has a sustainable maximum that your team can only play above for so long. McLellan came in and their energy level went up, but as the season came to a close and other teams started raising their level, the Wings couldn't meet it. McLellan talked a lot about game management and playing to win as opposed to playing to score, but if all that's going to happen if you make the safe clear is the other team is going to be right back in your zone with sustained pressure because you can't forecheck and they beat you to all the loose pucks and you aren't fast enough to tie them up before they got off a pass or skilled enough to anticipate a passing lane or get a take away at the boards, you are still going to give up late game winners. You see it when the Wings go into 'fall back' mode and you know the game is an inevitable loss. You will never be a winning team if you have to go into turtle mode for long minutes at the end of every game. There is always a ton of discussion about how much all the things other than talent matter, because talking about talent all the time get boring, but in the end, in athletic competition talent is still what drives the outcome most of the time.

They don't want to hear it at ABC.

last season between May 8 and June 11 they were within one game of 500 either way 22 times before falling back until the August run. Also 2017 they hung around in May just under 500, got to 29-30 on June 8 then fell back.

Before you bought your home delivered newspaper by monthy subscription - you had to pay your paperboy in person every week - so one of those changers was a required working tool for every paperboy. The little hooks on the back are so you can hang it from your belt. IIRC, for a long time the News and Freep were a dime on weekdays and quarter on Sunday, so that was 85 cent for the week, so when you were on your 'collecting' day you had to be able to make change from a dollar at the door for ~60 customers.

as long as NCAA players are forced to age out of the league, the NFL won't have a problem. When one of them who is getting paid who isn't drafted goes to court to keep his 'job', that's when the problems could start. That has to be one of the reasons the colleges want Congress to codify outline of the House settlement into black letter law. One possible good outcome would be guys realizing that they can get paid another year for grad school working harder on actually getting a good degree.

Thompson was single from '85 to 2002. His second wife was 36 when they married and she was a GOP senate operative and they had been dating for several years at that point.

Slackers. They could have had that railroad done 30,000 years ago.

and for all that, we are still sitting dead on our Pythagorean for the season.

Until we learn otherwise, the Walman thing can't help but put me in mind of the Pistons firing Rick Carlisle. IOW, Yzerman or maybe even Ilitch got PO'd over something that either didn't or shouldn't have had any bearing on hockey. Of course the big difference being the Pistons lucked into a couple of years of Larry Brown instead of Gustafsson.

It will be funny if it ends up that some possibly large number of players who get paid amounts larger than the NFL minimum in college end up not being drafted. Not that there would be anything wrong with that at all, I just think it would be some kind of ironic. I suppose it's only a matter of degree different from a guy on a full ride who doesn't get drafted, but still...

Recent opponents have been the Cards, the Cubs, Cleveland, the Royals, the Giants, and the White Sox. All those teams other than the White Sox have better than average Team ERA's, with KC and the Giants being in the top 5. Two of the games against the Pale Hose were cool days. Not to worry.

As long as when both feet come back down they come back down in play, right? He's played 118 innings (~13 games) and has 4 Rdrs. Probably 5 after tonight.

still probably only a matter of when, not if. I don't know how the last couple of seasons went for them but I remember a couple of years ago the program at UCLA was reported to be in pretty dire financial shape. I assume the B10 revenue share must have helped.

Maybe he just overestimated how far away they were. I think that was pretty easy. Going into the COVID year I thought they were a lot closer than they were too. If he had understood how far they had to go, maybe he doesn't spend at all on those mid-level FAs and he gets to this year or even last year with a war chest big enough to bring in a couple of difference makers to go with the kids. Now they are stuck - the only hope being that next year's rookie crop is enough to turn the tide because they don't have the money to seriously compete for more than one top level FA.