Support for Israel and Practice, Practice, Practice

The Schloss-Blog is looking at Michigan State, the NFL, immunity pleas and please, everyone, support for Israel.

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Do you know Hitler's birthplace?

Either do I, but Michigan State thought enough of it to put it on its stadium videoboard as a trivia question.

The question is, WTF is going on at Michigan State? As if they don't have enough problems and as if they haven't had enough things go wrong.

Congratulations, Michigan State, you're our school of the weak.

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If you watch as much NFL play as I do, and you probably do, you've noticed an epidemic: nobody can tackle.

I mean nobody.

Missed tackles are a requirement for defensive players.

I remember revered high school coach, the late Grant Blaney, telling me after a playoff game against a team with a stud running back, that he stressed to his defensive players to tackle with their heads up, or else that stud back wouldn't be there when they went to wrap up.

And so I watch as NFL players tackle with their heads down and wrap up thin air regularly. 

That's only part of the problem. The rest is practice. Hitting in practice has practically been eliminated in the NFL, ostensibly to avoid injuries.

BS.

If you don't practice tackling you won't be good at tackling.

You keep hearing about players getting non-contact injuries in practice. The hell with that and they need to hit. And hit. And hit in practice or they won't be any good in the game.

They certainly can't be any worse.

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Is it just me, or has the sensationalized, media-hyped Brock Purdy looked ordinary the last two weeks?

Yeah, he has.

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Just wondering out loud: how long before Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman take plea deals in Georgia now that Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro have?

And then Trump?

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The Arizona Diamondbacks post-season success tale has been storybook.

They had the worst record of any MLB playoff qualifier. They finished the regular season with a plop.

And dashed to the World Series.

Congrats.

Now though, how long before the World Series is over, regardless of outcome, before the Diamondbacks shake down Phoenix and Arizona for the $400 million to $700 million it's estimated they need to repair and upgrade Chase Field?

You can hear the cries now: 

• We need the stadium repairs to be able to sign free agents and win it all;
• We need the stadium upgrades to give our fans the ultimate experience they deserve;
• We need the stadium work or we'll be forced to move someplace that will make these financial considerations for us.

It'll happen. And with the winning streak they're on, they can do it.

And the fans will be behind them. Until they see ticket prices next year.

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If you don't support Israel, then you support terrorism.

Period.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Golda Meir.

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