Do you guys remember last summer U23. I was pretty impressed with Troy Spratley’s performance. I think TS is a title contender this year for sure
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Yikes, Republicans…




carry on

to come here and read those members who can define all seven components of critical thinking. Most board members are well equipped to do such. These members regularly abuse the tiny segment who are without clue. Where the majority fails? Teaching the tiny minority segment is completely beyond the reach of the gifted ones. I keep looking for a member of the tiny slow segment to catch on. It doesn't happen.

I am opinionated (you might have guessed that) especially about people who do not respect a job well enough to give their best effort. The poster boy for my displeasure, Angel Hernandez gets paid to leave umpiring when he should have been fired years ago. But then gets his attorney to make the following statements.

"Hernandez's lawyer, Kevin Murphy, told "The Athletic" that he was "NOT kicked out." Hernandez, in formerly announcing his retirement himself, said he wants to "spend more time with my family."

We all know social media has been roasting Hernandez for the last few years so to come and say this statement is almost comical. Now he gets a check to ride on in the sunset and write a story about how to be a truly bad MLB umpire.

Old retiree price for AT&T 1 gig internet fiber: $34.99. $35.56 out the door. New retiree price just announced: $10 plus tax.

I subscribed to hulu for higher picture quality locals than YouTube TV, A&E, Lifetime and Lifetime Movies. Wife likes A&E, Lifetime and Lifetime Movies.

“There’s still a path to win this, but they don’t look like a campaign that’s embarking on that path right now,” said Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns. “If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”

“New York Democrats need to wake up,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. “The number of people in New York, including people of color that I come across who are saying positive things about Trump, is alarming.”

Pretty interesting tidbits. The $22 million / year that is now basically just legitimized NIL, that’ll be tax deductible for donors and paid through the school. Considering that it’s capped it’ll be interesting to see how the well funded schools handle this. Which boosters do they choose to participate with. Do the football boosters get first dibs and a guy like Richison might be left paying through NIL (if he still chooses) without the tax benefits. I get that many schools might not have to deal with clearing $22 mill but the bigs will imo.


Also, ncaa doing away with scholarship limits and imposing roster limits will be very interesting. If we want to go all in on baseball and wrestling we could give full scholarships to the entire teams if we had had the funding. It’ll be very very interesting to see much how the ADs handle things and just how football-centric most schools will be

Florida Gators
* 28-27 overall, 13-17 in the SEC East (tied for fourth with South Carolina)
* Florida played for the national championship last year, losing 2 of 3 to LSU in the finals
* Gators lost to Vanderbilt in the first round of the SEC Tournament
* Florida is making its 16th straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament (second longest current streak)
* Florida is making its 39th appearance in the NCAA Tournament
* Florida lost 2-of-3 to Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Vanderbilt and South Carolina, and got swept by Missouri and Florida St.
* The Gators took 2-of-3 from LSU, Mississippi St., Georgia, and Texas A&M
* They lost to UCF in their lone meeting
* Florida may have the youngest lineup in the regional, starting five sophomores and two juniors and just one senior.
* They feature a player who is a finalist for the John Olerud Two-Way Player award, Jac Caglianone

On Offense
* It's Caglianone and a bunch of guys who either strike out or hit home runs. Okay, it's not that cut and dry, but it's pretty close.
* They've been held to 4 runs or less in 18 games this season
* Caglianone will be one of the first players taken in next month's MLB draft
* He has hit 29 homers this season after hitting 33 last year. He hit a home run in eight straight games last season.
* He has 58 RBI this year and had 90 as a sophomore. Obviously, opponents are not giving him opportunities this year, but also a sign that his surrounding cast is not as good this year.
* After Caglianone, Florida has just one other regular - Ty Evans - hitting above .266.
* Florida has SEVEN regulars that have struck out on at least 25% of their at bats, with four of them striking out 30% of the time or worse.
* Evans, a junior OF, is batting .316 with 10 homers and 43 RBI. He's struck out 58 times in 193 ABs (30% K rate)
* Senior LF Tyler Shelnut is batting .265 with 13 HRs and 47 RBI, but also with 67 strikeouts in 204 ABs (33% K rate)
* Sophomore SS Colby Shelton is an Alabama transfer who's hitting .256 with 18 homers and 45 RBI, but also 63 Ks in 211 ABs (30% K rate)
* Sophomore 2B Cade Kurland is hitting .265 with 13 homers and 39 RBI. He's struck out 63 times in 200 ABs (32% K rate).
* Sophomore CF Michael Robertson is batting .246 with 2 homers and 20 RBI; he's struck out 34 times in 130 ABs (26% K rate)
* Sophomore C Luke Heyman is batting .250 with 14 HRs. He has K'd 59 times in 216 at bats (27% K rate)
* Sophomore DH Brody Donay is batting with .266 with 11 homers, but has struck out 49 times in 124 at bats - that's 40% of his at bats

... I think you get the picture ...

That being said, they do have SEVEN guys who are double-digits in going yard. They're seventh in the nation in home runs as a team.

On the Bump
* While Florida has struck out a lot on offense - like, a whole lot - it has struggled on the bump as well. Like on offense, the exception is Caglianone
* Caglianone is the ace of the pitching staff. He is 5-1 with 13 appearances - all starts - and 62 innings pitched, all team highs.
* Liam Peterson is their No. 2 starter. The 6-5 freshman has started 12 games and has an ERA of 5.83, a record of 2-4, and a WHIP of over 1.50. He's given up 14 home runs.
* But, like Poke-Dawg said in another post, since mid-April, he's been pitching much better, a 2.25 ERA in last four outings, including nice outings against Kentucky and Tennessee. If he continues that roll, that will play a huge factor for Florida.
* After Caglianone, the most consistent pitcher for the Gators might be Fisher Jameson (4-0, 4.26, 2 saves, 28 appearances). He's struck out 62 in 50 innings.
* After that, it's been a struggle for the Gator staff. They've used EIGHT other pitchers as starters, with five of those making at least 3 starts without much success.
* Brandon Neely, who saved 13 games a year ago as the closer, is 2-4 in 6 starts, 15 relief appearances and 55 innings. His ERA is 6.55. He has struck out 70, leading the team in that category.
* Cade Fisher (3-3, 7.51 ERA) has made 8 starts and Pierce Coppola (0-4, 9.42 ERA) has made 6, but neither has had much success. Maybe Coppola should try a movie career???
* Out of the bullpen, Jameson has had the most success, followed by Ryan Slater whose made 28 appearances and 3 starts. He's 4-2 with a save, but his ERA is near 7.
* To say the least, outside of Caglianone, the Gators have lacked consistency on the mound

Summary
Florida is certainly not the team they were a year ago when they went 54-17 and were national runner-ups, but losing Wyatt Langford (and others) on offense, and losing two guys who gave you 100 innings each and 290 strikeouts on the bump will do that to you. The thing that the other teams in the regional have to hope is that the others remaining from the last year's Gator team and their newcomers don't suddenly find their groove in the playoffs. The production on the bump by Peterson and Neely will go a long way for the Gators.

We do not want Florida getting on a roll. They can be a dangerous team. You're talking about a team that has beaten some of the best teams in the country - Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas A&M, LSU, Vandy, and Arkansas have all been beaten by the Gators. With their playoff experience from a year ago, it would not be a surprise to see them make a run.

And assess to themselves what they have become (and always have been). Will they? Time will tell.

Blah blah blah blah. Prattle on blah blah prattle prattle. Bias blah prattle, anti-Jewish dog whistle blah blah.

Changing hearts and minds, one "Israeli lobbyist" at a time.

this board was so active debating stolen elections

and here we are being the proof get indicted for it


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Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.​

Couple of bonus questions that we will get to as well:
- Which are least happy? Conservative or Leftists
- Which have higher incidences of mental issues? Conservatives or Leftists?

1) We have not heard reports of deaths and will check into it.

2) People were killed, but by a faulty Palestinian rocket/bomb.

3) OK we killed them but they were terrorists.

4) OK they were civilians, but they were being used a human shields.

5) OK there were no fighters in the area so it was our mistake. But we kill civilians by accident, they do it on purpose.

6) OK we kill *far* more civilians than they do, but look at how terrible other countries are!

7) Why are you still talking about this? You are an anti-Semite.

Test this technique the next time Israel gets caught committing an atrocity.

HT to Glenn Greenwald

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@smalls103 do you see DT making a serious run at any committed or uncommitted, top 50 guys?

Sorry if I missed it, but this paciolan system is anything but intuitive for me.

We are in section 109 and the literature said we can purchase online beginning at NOON today.

No link for me to purchase tickets.

But while on hold on the phone.... i get reminded repeatedly to purchase them in our account. NOT.

UGGGGGHHHH!!!

He is doubling down….

President Biden encouraged what he calls “reproductive freedom,” the latest euphemism for abortion, which received numerous cheers from the audience. I think it is a sad commentary on our culture when people cheer when a child loses their life. In another moment of division, he spoke about in vitro fertilization (IVF), which has wide bipartisan support in Congress. But he focused on the situation in Alabama, which is carefully being resolved as we speak, as another way to divide us, instead of discussing the value of the lives of all children. Thousands of children, from every state, will be born this year through IVF.

The President brought up the border security proposal I worked on over the past several months. Some of the things he said about the bill were even true. The bill would have added many new Border Patrol agents, ICE agents, asylum officers, deportation flights, and fentanyl detection devices at the border. The bill would have built more border fence, ended the open border parole program, added detention beds, and dramatically increased the speed of deportations by changing the standard for asylum screening.

The bill did not have everything I wanted, but it also did not include any amnesty programs. The myth that the bill allowed 5,000 people in a day is just that, a myth. Under the new rules in the bill, the first person that crossed the border each day and every person after that faced a much tougher asylum standard and rapid deportation to deter the next person from paying a cartel to cross. But if the border was overrun with 5,000 people, like what has happened almost every day this year, the rules tightened even more to give law enforcement new tools to immediately deport every person who illegally crosses our border without any screening.

President Biden conveniently left out the numerous existing legal authorities he has already to better secure our border but refuses to use. If the President would enforce the border the same way President Trump or even President Obama enforced the border, we would not have the chaos we currently have in our nation. Both parties are currently choosing to play election-year politics with our national security by blaming the other party for inaction. We should do everything we can to solve the problem now and allow the election in November to resolve the rest. Inaction when there is danger should not be an option.

On Friday, while addressing reporters, Schumer said that “our ultimate goal” is to grant U.S. citizenship to every illegal alien in the country.

trump draws 100K to the dark blue jersey shore and 25k to the dark blue south bronx, biden's puppeteers are bailing water on the titanic and they know it.

if your offense is one hail mary after another, you ain't got no offense. demorats can't run on anything other than abortion, 44% of abortions are from the morning after pill and the pill is available every where. so shut up and go to the drug store you woke dumbasses. or they keep talking about the stock mkt exploding, almost no effect on most of the middle class. and they keep calling us stupid b/c we can't see how great hour lives are.

here's biden's hail mary list that i can remember, prolly others, respond with more of biden's hail marys.

now diaper boy is ready to debate, with a laundry list of requirements, what a pussy

telling morehouse grads that america hates them, vote for me, i love you guys.

'forgiving' student loans, tried it last election, did he deliver? pretty sure that loan 'forgiving' funding ain;t gonna happen. once again, that pesky supreme court

gasoline is still $2/gallon more expensive than when this hair sniffer took office, soooo, lets dump more barrels of strategic reserve oil on the market and hope it pushes gasoline prices down before the election. been there and tried that, didn't work then, won't work now.

suddenly the border is important to hair plugs schumer/biden. schumer, that asshole can see himself loosing his senate power after the gop takes back the senate. now biden is all up in our grill about closing the border. too little too late, where the fvck were you guys 3 yrs ago?

marijuana is now a schedule 1 drug. schedule 1 includes, heroin, lsd, meth, etc. now shit britches is trying to get mj off the shit list and on the misdomener (sp, not looking it up) list. talk about buying young votes.

next hail mary? something to effect mail in votes, like another pandemic.

add to the list biden's inability to read a teleprompter, walk up stairs, or hold a press conference, this guy is toast. a vote for gaffe boy is a vote for KNEEPAD HARRIS. you want that dumb bitch running the country? and side note, who took the bar exam for her, she could never have passed on her own.

djt did press conferences every day for hours as covid was ramping up, and the liberal press tore trump a new asshole every day. not stumble boy, he just can't think fast enough. so, he just gets softballs from cnn and msnbc. he can't answer a hard question.

finally, i remember obama and hilary on cnn or msnbc years ago saying, if you disagree with our policies or opinions, then you are just not smart enough to see we are right. i got a tree, can you get a rope?

ok wokesters, thats blood in the water, what you got?

coming for my guns? come heavy

Nebraska Cornhuskers
* 39-20 overall, 16-8 in the Big Ten Regular Season (second to Illinois)
* Won Big Ten tournament, winning five in a row after being run-ruled their opener
* Making 18th appearance in NCAA Tournament (last appearance 2021)
* Has been to the CWS three times (2001, 2002, 2005)
* They beat Baylor (4-1) and K-State (8-0), but lost to OU (7-6), Texas Tech (6-3), and twice to Kansas (13-11 and 9-4). They split with Wichita State.

On Offense
* Huskers are very balanced offensively, with five regulars batting from .306 to .353. Their lineup seems to be in constant flux with one exception...
* Junior C Josh Caron is the big stick on the team. Hitting in the 3-hole, he's batting just .320, but leads team with 16 HRs, 15 2BLs, 73 Hits, 65 RBI, 45 Runs, and 228 ABs, all far ahead of the rest of the team
* 2B Cayden Brumbaugh hits leadoff most of the time. He's batting .309 with 11 2BLs, 3 3BLs, and 13 SBs in 16 attempts
* RF Case Sanderson bats second. He's batting .340, 5 doubles, a triple, two homers
* 3B Josh Overbeek hits in the 9-hole (sometimes leadoff). He's batting .281 with 9 2BLS and 5 HRs. He's stolen 16 bases in 19 attempts. Second on team in Ks (49 in 206 PA).
* DH Rhett Stokes has the team's highest bat avg. at .353
* SS Dylan Carey hits in the middle of the lineup, but is batting just .251 with 59 Ks, which leads the team. He and Caron are the only players to have started every game. He leads the team with 17 doubles and has added 7 bombs.
* Other hitters include Ben Columbus (.307, 7 HRs), Gabe Swansen (.306, 4 HRs), Tyler Stone (.297, 8 HRs), and Cole Evans (.256, 5 HRs, 41 RBI)
* Their stats say CF Riley Silva is batting .266, but he's been hit by pitch 26 times - yes, 26! - and walked 24 times, and has a OB% of .416 (second on the team). He also has 31 stolen bases in 34 attempts and has 16 SACs. You'd think he'd been hitting leadoff, but nope

Pitching
* This seems to be the strength of the Huskers. They have a lot of pitching depth, which helped them come through the loser's bracket of the BiG tourney.
* The Huskers have four pitchers with double digit starts and another who has six starts under his belt, including a complete game.
* They have a 4.40 team ERA, which these days in college baseball is pretty impressive (OSU's is 4.06).
* Their starting four do not give up many free passes, just 69 in 281 innings.

* Their ace is Brett Sears, a senior right-hander who is 9-0 with a 2.00 ERA in 15 starts.
* He's the Big Ten Pitcher of the Year.
* Opponents are batting just .176 against Sears. He has 97 Ks and and just 22 BBs in 99 innings pitched (better than 4-1 K-to-BB ratio)
* Sears got the save in the Big Ten tournament championship game in his only relief appearance of the year
* You gotta think he'll be the starter against Florida on Friday for the Huskers

* Soph. RH Mason McConnaughey is 8-3 with a 3,09 ERA - which is alright, alright, alright! He's struck out 81 and walked 23 in 67 innings. Teams are batting .242 off of him.
* Drew Christo, a junior right-hander, is 3-3 with a 4.63 ERA. Opponents are batting just .221 off of him. He's made 10 starts and 16 appearances.
* Junior southpaw Will Wash is 5-4 with 10 starts and 14 app. and has a 5.06 ERA. He's walked just 10 batters in over 58 innings. Teams are batting .300 against him and he's given up 10 bombs.
* Their fifth starter is Jackson Brockett (3-2, 3.57 ERA, 35 IP, 12 A, 6 S), who they started against Ohio St. in their first round game of the BiG tourney and got burned (they lost 17-2 to Ohio St.).
* The four starters are also used in relief a lot (15 relief appearances between the four)
* Primary relievers who do not start appear to be LH Jalen Worthley (3-0, 3.94 ERA, 4 saves, 32 IP), Casey Daiss (0-2, 4.15 ERA, 5 saves, 21 IP), and LH Caleb Clark (1-0, 7.92 ERA, 30IP)

Summary
* Much like Florida and Niagara, Nebraska has one guy who you can not let beat you - Josh Caron. Behind him, they have a balanced attack. They average about 7 runs a game.
* I like the fact that they'll probably use Sears in the opener against Florida. I don't think their coach will try to hold him back like they tried to do in the BiG tourney and got burned.

Survey says: Good idea.

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