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I have no guess what a Michigan win in this game would look like, but I can write the script easily enough for the loss: The M defense plays stoutly through 3 quarters but gives up two home runs, meanwhile the M offense in fits and starts struggles to put up 2 FGs. Finally, down by 8 and time running out, Harbaugh hands the keys to McCarthy, who engineers a brilliant drive to close the gap to 2. Harbaugh elects to go for two and the inevitable trick play call blows up. MSU immediately drives for a FG. M gets the ball back into McCarthy's hands and they rip off 70 of the 80 yards they need to score and the kid throws the INT. MSU 17, M 12.

It's red flag for Hinch - not LaRussa but it is two of the old guy managers that have gotten to the series.

everybody does cube sats. However, interestingly, and not that I make any kind of effort to actually track this stuff so I could be wrong, but my impression has been the UM College of Eng does more cooperative work with OSU than MSU. The Engineers at both schools sharing in common the universal nerd disdain for the jocks.

A friend who was quite a far flung traveler was in Athens a number of years ago - was in a cab and the cabby was running down the 'north siders'. My friend thought he'd needle a little and asked him what he'd think if his daughter announced she was going to marry a Theban, and the guy almost threw my friend out of the cab, so call it ~2 millennia+.... maybe. 🙄

I like that one.

well, at least we won't need to worry too much about the WS getting snowed on.

with the management remaining completely silent there was little option to make any other decision.

Gardenhire was also not a fan.

ROTFLMAO - tell that to the Scotus members that voted Bush V Gore!

For the 1st time today I wasn't all that impressed with McNamara's decision making. He threw two balls into coverage that had every right to be intercepted and checked down in down and distance situations - once where he had all the time in the world to wait - where it was just a dumb play. Maybe the receivers are not running their deep routes accurately but he sure has trouble going downfield, which is a little weird since it's not like Patterson where he is inaccurate everywhere on the field; his throws on intermediate routes aren't bad. The D keeps looking better though and RB's are flat out good.

Yup. When the past reaches a certain distance, it seems there is always a tendency to idealize it into a realm of legend. In the Renaissance Europeans did it to the Greeks, who did leave some nice stuff behind but really didn't have all that great a society, in the Far East there were the legends of the "Yellow Emperor" that held everything in current civilization was but a failed effort to recapture the glories of the past. Now we are doing it with our own history. Mohammed's Muslim conquerors had this figured out - they might have been the 1st empire to practice historical 'cleansing' of the past in areas they won. And then today we have the irony of today's Muslim radicals idealizing and trying to recapture their own now ancient history. It's a good thing the human species has high sex drive because as a group we sure would never have survived based on our average intelligence.

snake bit though. NIce pass the Edwards and he drops it and the ticky-tack penalty on the great broken play completion.

LOL - I was talking to a young faculty member the other day who admitted to sabotaging her applications to one particular prestigious school she didn't want to go to but that her parents demanded she apply to (and that given her accomplishments, would certainly have gotten into). It was on the East coast and she was set on going West. Lot of good it did her since she's ended up back in the MidWest. Not to mention a close acquaintance who turned down free ride to MSU to pay their way at UM. Those where very understanding parents! Of course in those days that wasn't turning down that much money!

right - but of course in film by it's nature this has to be violated - the whole idea in performance to simulate a reality that isn't happening., so an actor pretty much has to point the gun and pull the trigger while not 'really' intending to shoot the target, and I'm not going to argue a directors reasons for not using CGI, but what is harder to understand is why they don't use 'real prop' weapons. That is 'real prop' in the sense of being truly non-functional mock-ups. A studio could certainly afford to have an 'arsenal' of this truly fake stuff around. They've used mock up stabbing weapons ever since Hollywood begin, why not mock-up firearms? Maybe the risk is that given the ubiquitousness of real firearms in society the risk of accident from a real firearm ending up on the set where it isn't expected and no procedures are in place end up greater than the risk of how they do it now. I guess I can see that as a fair argument. Whether it true or not....?

There is no joy in Beantown tonight.

Didn't get a majority though did he? Another argument for ranked preference voting...

If the Dodgers don't hold onto this and win the series after this epic pitching staff bungle, for Christmas Roberts is likely to find himself boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart.

The best was when you were just the right size to stand on the tranny hill in the back seat with your arms folded over the front bench nosing into your parent's conversation.

QFT

It's down to the Koch 'brother' now. David is dead (and Fred never played the game).

but when you think about it, it's follows naturally. When fabricating without any actual data, and especially if you are not all that clever to begin with, you can't help but betray your own true disposition in your fabrications. In the end most 'authors' write what they know.

John Belushi was right you know - nothing is ever over. No problem in human behavior is ever solved permanently, every generation has to refight the battles in some new form to keep the demons at bay. That's the way it always has been and the way it always will be. Maybe a mistake we make with our materialist mindset. You can fix a thing and it's fixed and you go on the the next thing. You never fix a society permanently, it's always a continual process. I don't think Americans think in those terms and that is our mistake. The country wanted to believe we have 'solved' civil rights with the legal reforms of the 50's and 60's or with Obama's elections in the 00's, so we could stop worrying about it. Doesn't work that way, never will.

be nice to have an x-ray of what's where on the backside of that joist!

I don't know about Del but I know Yoda was reading the forum when this address was pretty much being explicitly posted. He seemed pretty PO'd about what was happening. But he had also mentioned he was thinking about moving out of SoCal so maybe his plate is full. In Del's case maybe it will take some piston wins....

Martin makes two of finest pitches you will ever see to Chris Taylor, then make the mistake of the game on an 0-2 pitch. Bye-bye baseball. Never throw a hittable pitch 0-2.