gehringer_2

this is the one will kill the game in the end. The strength of baseball was that everyone played it, the girls, the boys, the moms, the dads. This has just gone away. Empty diamonds everywhere all summer long. Most sports have to get by on pure spectator value, few people have any direct identification with what pro football, or hockey players are doing from moment to moment. More for basketball and soccer, but still nothing like the % percentage that know what it feels like to swing a bat at a ball or catch a fly ball. But that % started dropping fast with gen X, partly because their cohort was too small to field sand lot teams, and has only accelerated with the millennials

In inflation adjusted dollars he may have as much invested at UM as he does with the Dolphins. 🤔

Yes - but I'm thinking even more along the lines of the big ticket items like air defense systems and the like.

He is going or not going because it will be where he decides he wants to be, I doubt it will have much of anything to do with any contract negotiations at UM.

Vicious circle. Sales based top managements tend to commoditize both R&D and Engineering - which leads to weak R&D and engineering departments, which leads to devaluation and further commoditization of R&D and Eng. 🤔

this is spot on other than your use of the word 'seems'. 😕

this is the Achille's heel. Russia cannot afford its weapons splurge except by third party sales. But as the US could tell them, sell enough arms in enough places and sooner or later it's your troops looking down the barrels of the guns you made.

Blash says Betuzzi was - as suspected in the booth - cut on the wrist by a skate but that he is OK. No word on Larkin other a report he appeared to have hurt his hand....

Zadina is useles - almost painful to watch him play. They need Vrana badly - if for no other reason than to get one of the deadwood forwards out of the lineup. Of course if either Larkin or Bertuzzi are out long it won't really matter.

Stahl with a couple of giveaways in one shift - Ana ties the game after wings dominate the period

Larkin out - upper body. Not coming back in this one. Wings score on PP for the 1st time in 19 tries - a 5 on 3. 1 apiece in the 2nd.

LOL - who knew the thread hadn't moved in a week - ME! It was still a funny juxtaposition though....

I think Ukrainian neutrality is fine, the question is would Putin leave it at that or constantly be meddling in Ukrainian governance and just restarting this over and over. Then again, I suppose if that is his stance, there is no way out until he is gone from the scene and there will be continual tension until then. I've noted before that the Russians have been willing to leave the Finns alone - also directly on their border and with lots of strategic relevance in terms of being able to interrupt Russian access through the arctic sea. But Putin clearly has more of a hard on for Ukraine than a couple of generations of Russian leaders ever did for Scandinavia

well, they should be well rested after not having played last night......

mgoblue blog would pretty much be the sports equivalent of cable news wouldn't it? 🙄

Looks like he's hardly played any competitive minutes since high school. Some G league time I guess?

All they have to do is double their wins next year and the year after.....🔮

well, you could just punt on 1st down each time you got past the 50. 🤔

It's kinda fun to think that next year could be kinda fun.

Well, nature does abhor a vacuum.

I don't think it's a myth at all because I don't think anyone at the U or anywhere else thinks that. We are well aware our incoming classes are mostly from very well-off backgrounds. We don't attract that much 1%er aristocracy like the Ivies but only the minority of our students (at least in Engin) are from families that ever pinched their pennies.

you mean we aren't replacing Decker?

this is right answer

yeah - the right's idea that you can reduce the role of government is basically a chimera. Work on making it work better, stop with the fantasy that's it's the enemy or that it's going to go away - it's a counter-productive waste of energy. If the government is the enemy in a democracy that means the people are the enemy - it just makes no sense as political theory.