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oddly enough, if you have an online subscription to the NY there doesn't appear to be any way to pull up ad from the print edition.

Good old American overconfidence. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility they may be able to do enough hit and run damage firing anti-ship missiles from mobile shore launchers that the US Navy gets tied up in a whack-a-mole exercise while insurers say 'forget it'.

if true, now the shooting starts. The bombing runs were the easy part.

The Iranian regime and Trump lie at almost the same velocity, to the claims and counter-claims will likely be flying for a few days and in the end we'll be left to guess what was or wasn't accomplished.

I think it sometimes works that way. When I worked for a sales based multi-national, it was often the guys who could really sell that also usually got sold to. Successful sales is just another form of manipulation.

he is a bit of a throwback though - he averages 6 innings per start. He's on a pace for well over 200 IP this season, and who does that anymore? But agreed, throwback or no in Skenes particular case, the trend toward 3 pitchers working every game in something like a 5/2/2 or even 4/3/2 pattern seems inevitable to me, in which case IP will continue to drop for starters along with the max value of any single pitcher.....

I wouldn't want 1 and 2 to both be LH.

the angle we will hear is that once Israel attacked the sites but couldn't completely destroy Iran's capacity, that insured Iran would come right back and 'race to the finish line' for a weapon. So both on a personal emotional level and at the strategic level, Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu to get what he wanted.

Lange with his second appearance for WM. Pitched the 1st inning: 2H 1ER 2K 15/20 strikes.

I guess it will be Biden's fault if the Iranians muck up the Persian Gulf and oil goes back over $100/bbl. I suppose the Saudis are both very happy and worried ****less. And it turned out Bibi, was right. He did have ways to hit Fordow without bigger planes in *his* AF. And of course the $64 question is now that they've tried to hit Fordow, did they succeed?

It will be interesting to see if he is half intelligible at 10 when he goes on the air.

They got 6 1/3 out of SGL, That was a victory of sorts in itself.

I suppose it's not that odd to consider a passed ball an error for scoring purposes. A PB is just a catcher's error, it's just given a class of its own. I guess the question is why is it its own classification?

SGL gave up 3 HR, all on 2 strike counts, two on FB. The pitch Jansen hit was pretty decent, change-up almost out of the zone down. Pitch to Caminero was a center cut mistake. It's always a question with these guys with good secondary stuff - is the FB good enough that when they throw it's not automatically hard contact.

yes - I suppose it was as that would have been three outs before any runs scored.

Keith got a center cut fastball to hit on the third pitch and fouled it off. /..sigh.../

Good zone defense by Parker that AB

There is a gaping hole where Holton's name used to be. He was the key to it all.

It's so pointless to leave a guy out there who hasn't got it because you think you can squeeze another out or two out of him. He just ends up giving up runs and the next guy has to get those outs anyway. Unless they pull this out this will be one for the few loses we can charge right to AJs account. Can't manage pitchers on hope.

opener thing not working to well recently.

Print circulation is now around 50K for each - though the Freep's Sunday print is much larger. Just back of envelop that is a 1.2% market penetration of the 4M households in MI. I guess the tech has now reduced the cost of hardcopy a lot as well otherwise it's hard to understand the Freep can still put out a print every day. MLive does 2'ce a week, Thursday/Sunday. I haven't tried to look for numbers on either paper's web success.

So the $20.5M is apparently going to be an annual calculation based on the average of power 5 program incomes. I wonder how conference re-alignments will figure into that, etc. Who decides which new or re-aligned conferences get counted? Does the judge keep an overseer on the case? Google tells me there are 69 schools in the power 5 and there are 134 schools in the FBS (=Div1?). That leave 65 schools trying to operate in a system that's hard wired to require more income than they have. Well more than that really because probably something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the power 5 schools have less than the average income across the power 5. (I suppose logic requires something near half of any group to be below the group average - unless it's MN of course.....) I'm thinking one of the unintended ( or maybe not unintended ) consequences of all this is pressure on the schools in the back half of Div1 to drop out.

Warde wrote a piece for the "U Record" detailing the budget impacts of the "House" settlement at UM. Cost adds are $6.2M for the increase in scholarship numbers (82 more scholarships added) and the $20.5M in direct payments to athletes. The athletic department made internal cuts that reduced the one time request to the general fund to under $20M for this year and the department will cut staff (10%), reduce travel expenses, and apparently try to sell more booze at events to bring the AD budget back net zero to the general fund. Traditionally the AD does not get any funding from the general budget. They do often run surpluses, which are mostly reinvested on new varsity but also on the other campus rec sports facilities.

This would be a great rule for improving the game, but the GMs of every bad team with a high pick are out there salivating every year about finding a dual threat QB in the draft that can give them a shortcut to a decent offense in one fell swoop. Take away the QB running protected past the LOS, you effectively end the allure of the dual threat QB. Wouldn't bother me, but I think it would be a hard sell overall.

Torkelson's BaBIP in his last 25PA is 125. Baseball happens. Relax folks.