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Keeping with their "get older stay older" tradition, Wisconsin picks up 5th year senior 7'1 Chris Vogt from Cincinnati (2 years there and 2 years at Northern Kentucky before that).

Done deal...

In the immortal words of the late Tommy Lasorda... "He'd finish 3rd in a race with a pregnant woman."

Porterhouses tonight...

I had the best Mom in the world. Outgoing, funny, loving, never met a stranger, the best euchre player I've ever seen, and a fantastic cook... Such a good cook in fact that when I went to kindergarten, she got bored and enrolled in a 6 week cooking school in downtown Terre Haute. At the end of the 6 weeks they invited all of the students' families to a pot luck. The guy that ran the school, a gourmet himself, told my dad, "your wife is a wonderful person, and truth be known, she taught us a helluva lot more about cooking than we taught her." RIP Mom...Miss her a lot...

How are you guys liking Navarre?

Sad...She led a troubled life...

The Tribe has tied the record... No team has been no-hit 3 times in a year...

Also Miley's no hitter was the 4th this season. The modern record is 7 (1990, 1991, 2012). We're over halfway there in 1/5th of the season. They've even cheapened that accomplishment...

This will be the 4th year in a row and the only 4 years in the history of MLB that there have been more strikeouts than hits. Boring baseball is walking to first, walking to the dugout, or trotting around the bases... Something has to give...and I don't think Rob Manfred is the guy to do it...

Bringing this one over from the Crock Pot thread from days of yore... I know a lot of folks on here grew up in Indiana, so here's an Indiana staple...Beef and noodles. Never seen it anywhere else, but my Mom made it on a regular basis when I was a kid...I made up this crock pot recipe a few years back...easy-peasy The Crock-Pot method. 32 oz of beef broth 2-3 lb chuck roast 24 oz bag if Reames frozen egg noodles Put the roast in the crock pot and cover it with the beef broth Cook low for 7 hours Shred the roast Dump the Reames noodles in and cook on low for an additional 90 minutes Best over mashed potatoes (starch city, baby)

But how would you alter a Fenway Park or a Wrigley Field? Move the plate back? You can only go back so far, and there's not a bunch of foul territory in either one the way it is... Or maybe it would encourage more contact and less swinging from the heels...Like you, I'm a big fan of extra base hits, stolen bases, bunting, and hit and run plays... Agree whole heartedly... And I always loved Hawk Harrelson's nickname for Lance Johnson..."One Dog."

It was after the 68 season...Bob Gibson had a 1.12 ERA in 68 and that prompted the change... Agree with the first and second bullets... I'd get rid of the extra inning rule all together and the 7 inning double header rule as well...And the DH I'd actually expand rosters to let managers have more arms on their staffs. I always enjoyed the cat ond mouse strategy of lefty-lefty, righty-righty. Whitey Herzog, when he had Ken Dayley (lefty) and Todd Worrell (righty), would, if there was a juncture in the game that had lefty-righty-lefty would bring in Dayley, then pull the right fielder and put Dayley out there to let Worrell pitch to the right, and bring back Dayley for the 2nd lefty and put a reserve right fielder back out in the outfield...That was awesome... On the 4th bullet, I think there are other ways to limit home runs...I'd hate to alter the charm of a Fenway Park over it...Alter the ball or bat (I once saw an interview with a guy that was head of composite bats for Louisville Slugger, and he said they could hype them up or down depending on what a certain league wanted).

I was looking at some stats last night...here are NL batting stats from 2011...I sorted by team batting average...But also look at the total hits and the total strikeouts... Now, here are the 2021 stats... In 2021, more strikeouts than hits, and while a .247 team batting average is tops in 2021, it would have landed you 6th from the bottom in 2011. And in 2011, every team was above the 2021 NL aggregate batting average... I honestly believe 2 things...I watched @IU Scott's favorite movie for the first time yesterday ("Moneyball") and although Beane my have figured a way to help lower payroll teams win games, he ruined baseball in the process. Walks, strikeouts, home runs and OBP do not make for an exciting game... I also think the dimensions of the baseball diamond have been compromised by today's athlete. At the very least the pitcher's mound needs to be evaluated for height and distance from home plate...I said 5 feet back last year, nut I'd be interested in the experiment to push it back by a foot as the Atlantic League is set to do in the second half of their season... Our game needs help...And I'm not opposed to drastic changes to give it that help...

"Why Kansas over Illinois, Cliff?' Cliff: "You're sh***ing me, right?"

The first turkey I ever smoked was on a Weber kettle. Turned out nice. First Thanksgiving we were married. November 1983. The in-laws, especially my father-in-law who was a meat cutter and a pretty good BBQer, were thoroughly impressed.

Can't go wrong with any Weber. Solid choices...

We have a winnah!

Hey @IU Scott, every time you type "Reds" it comes out "Refs." You need to turn your communism filter off 😉

Good guess, but no...

Now THAT is a promotion...

No... Although Pedro once wore a Mets hat out of a brawl between the Mets and Reds in the 73 NLCS (Rose vs Bud Harrelson) The answer isn't an obscure pitcher though...

What Cincinnati Reds pitcher did Willie Mays hit his last MLB home run off of?