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“I don’t like what the…

“I don’t like what the author is saying, so I’ll lob a dumb insult and claim there’s no substance.”

I follow her career fairly…

I follow her career fairly closely, and as such, I'll deviate from your comment a bit and very disrespectfully disagree with that dude. In my experience, the Venn diagram of people who say Jemele a racist and people who feel like January 6th was a righteous day has 100% overlap.

 

These folks also don't understand why rappers can say it but they can't.

He was my son’s basketball…

He was my son’s basketball coach a couple of years ago. Super nice guy, great with the kids. 

Same on the newest ESPN mock…

Same on the newest ESPN mock draft.  Starting to look like a pattern.

You stupid monkeys!

You stupid monkeys!

Excellent question. If there…

Excellent question. If there’s one thing we’ve seen for sure in this world, it’s that minority women definitely have every advantage in getting opportunities. 🙄

 

(side note: the lack of an emoji making a wanking gesture is unfortunate)

They would lose a ton of…

They would lose a ton of money doing it this way. 

A. Baumgardner is…

A. Baumgardner is outstanding. 
B. The criticism here says waaaaaay more about you guys that it does his work.  

Provide more free labor…

Provide more free labor during a pandemic or face the wrath of pasty commenters who will never have to weigh the risks to multi-million dollar earnings. Got it. 

This decision says less…

This decision says less about his character than your judgmental BS says about yours. 

The absolute last thing that…

The absolute last thing that anyone with any level of power anywhere gives a righteous fuck about is how you are personally feeling on an emotional level.

If they think they can play games and make money, they will.  If they think they're more likely to play games by smiling and pushing it back a month at a time, they'll do that too.  Your emotional whiplash could not possibly play less of a role in the calculations.

There's also this story from…

There's also this story from last week: https://www.jweekly.com/2020/07/19/israeli-teacher-dies-of-covid-after-begging-parents-to-keep-infected-kids-home/

 

A. That isn't true.  Just…

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This is an embarrassing, fan…

This is an embarrassing, fan-boy take.  No modern athlete tends to his image more than Brady.  

I don't wear Sparty or…

I don't wear Sparty or Buckeye gear (or any other college, for that matter).  But avoiding entire colors is unbelievably dumb.

It wasn't his car.

It wasn't his car.

Hulu Live has all the sports…

Hulu Live has all the sports channels, and gets you access to all of the old Hulu content, which is nice. 

I use a Fire TV and find that it's outstanding.

Jeff Criswell, not Ben. 

Jeff Criswell, not Ben. 

I was disappointed to see…

I was disappointed to see that Bock didn’t get to hold his spot on the Sr National Team. Still, he’s been quite good in NCAA competition so far this year, and definitely looks to be ahead of last season. 

Thanks for the recap!

They see that he criticizes…

They see that he criticizes the program at times, and they have no ability to distinguish between RCMB hot takes and legitimate analysis that shows a shortcoming.  

Baumgartner's great at his job.  

Since there was debate about…

Since there was debate about the last UM RB to get drafted, it's worth noting that Hart was taken in the 6th round.

One other great book is Last

One other great book is Last Best League by Jim Collins. It’s one season of the Chatham A’s of the Cape Cod Baseball League. If you’re unfamiliar, CCBL is a summer wooden bat league for college baseball’s elite. The book covers the history of the league while following a team from roster selection through the following MLB draft. It’s a damn-near perfectly written baseball book.



Side note: last year’s CCBL champs were the Brewster Whitecaps, who won the 3 game championship series on the backs of two wins by UM’s Will Tribucher (Game 1 in relief, Game 3 as a starter), and a Game 3 save from UM’s Troy Miller. Go Blue.

If you can come to the

If you can come to the conclusion that there were two trainers (on of whom was known as “The Deflator”) complaining about Brady’s demands for a lower pressure ball but nobody ever actually tried to deflate footballs, then I don’t know what to say. (Yes, the whole investigation was bunk and science does. Most of the exonerating, but there’s no way they weren’t trying to monkey with the balls)



Saying that Michigan people never cheat or do bad things is how you wind up with a brainwashed lunatic fan base like PSU. Acknowledge faults and flaws and that we aren’t perfect just because we went to Michigan.

He’s from Oak Park.

He’s from Oak Park.

Jesus Christ, some of you

Jesus Christ, some of you people are oversensitive. It was funny. Loosen up.

No, the FBI determined that

No, the FBI determined that Bowen didn't break any laws.  

It’s a private course.

It’s a private course. They’re exercising their freedom to dictate the terms of their commerce.

GRIII and McGary were both 5

GRIII and McGary were both 5 star players.

Baumgardner is a tremendous

Baumgardner is a tremendous beat writer.

Can't disagree with this

Can't disagree with this more.  Playing Tennessee and Arkansas and Washington and Va Tech is awesome.  Dumping all those games to wind up with mid-season games against Notre Dame sucks.  

University of Texas - El

University of Texas - El Paso.  Also not difficult to type out.  Also a waste a time, because everyone knows what the acronym means.

Talbott, not Taylor.

Talbott, not Taylor.

It's at MSG, but we have to

It's at MSG, but we have to play a week earlier with the single-bid conferences to make it happen, which is just emabarrasing. 

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What's was the beef with that

What's was the beef with that thread?

By that logic, Lou Gehrig did

By that logic, Lou Gehrig did not "earn" a starting job.

If he doesn't take them, he

If he doesn't take them, he would wind up academically ineligible for the bowl game (hello, Tate Forcier!).

I didn't call anyone a name.

I didn't call anyone a name. I said the argument put forth was shit.

Same could also be said for

Same could also be said for Baylor and TCU.

Saying that because he did

Saying that because he did something that could be interpreted as different than Bo would have done 50 years ago is proof that he didn't belong at Michigan is the most homerishly, condescendingly arrogant pile of crap I could imagine. That's why people hate Michigan fans.

Because it's a HC job at a

Because it's a HC job at a school with a major shoe company pouring in money, in a premier conference in fertile recruiting grounds.



K-State was nothing until the right guy came around.



Oregon was nothing until the right guy came around.



OK State was nothing until the right guy came around.



Maybe Durkin's the right guy at Maryland, maybe he isn't. But turning down a good opportunity because it hasn't been successful in the past is a failing attitude.

Comments like this make me

Comments like this make me understand why people hate Michigan fans.

It's cute that you think

It's cute that you think that.

Adidas' fan gear is even

Adidas' fan gear is even worse than the uniform debacles.  Even if the team continued to be outfitted by adidas (or Champion, or Bill's Jersey Hut), the switch to Nike is worthwhile just to have the ability to buy better stuff for ourselves.  

 

The maize on maize on maize

The maize on maize on maize on maize hoops uni was outstanding.

I gave the minimum and got

I gave the minimum and got the email.

 

The site has been down for me as I've tried to log in and purchase over the last 12 hours though.  Not sure if others are having that issue?

No, most of the students at

No, most of the students at Dearborn and Flint do not get into Ann Arbor.

The matte helmets were

The matte helmets were awesome. Everything else in this piece is accurate.

So, the same dude who whines

So, the same dude who whines about old people in the stadium telling him to sit down is now throwing an internet hissy fit and threatening a kid for suggesting something outside of tradition?  I'm unsure of whether the irony or idiocy here is more noteworthy.

Not cool.

How perfectly convenient that

How perfectly convenient that you all feel this way about the guys who chose other schools. I'm quite sure that if they had gone blue, you would have been upset about their inclusion in our program, because they are such awful headaches.



This surely has nothing to do with post hoc rationalizations and sour grapes...the problem is 100% with the 17 year old kid who didn't make the biggest choice of his life in a time frame that suited your needs. Those kids are screwed up, and you folks are righteous.



Of course, all those guys who committed to other schools before flipping to M are just making sound decisions. Nothing headachy about them, amirite???