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TORONTO (AP) The Toronto Blue Jays have hired Pat Hentgen as their bullpen coach, bringing the Cy Young winner back into the team's coaching ranks.
Hentgen previously served as Toronto's bullpen coach in 2011. He spent eight of the last nine seasons as a team ambassador and special assistant to the organization.
Hentgen played 10 of his 14 big-league seasons in Toronto. In 1996, he went 20-10 with a 3.22 ERA to become the first Blue Jay to win the Cy Young Award.
The 44-year-old Detroit native made 183 consecutive starts for Toronto between 1993 and 1998.
The staff for new manager John Gibbons is now complete.
Hentgen joins a staff that includes bench coach DeMarlo Hale, pitching coach Pete Walker, hitting coach Chad Mottola, first base coach Dwayne Murphy and third base coach Luis Rivera.

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Here's the first official still from the TV pilot based on Powers, the comic-book police procedural set in a world of superheroes. There have been a lot of attempts to create a successful superhero show on television lately, but this could be the one that hits.
The pilot, made for FX, just wrapped filming recently, but it won't air until June 2012 — and that's if FX decides to pick it up as a series.
In Powers, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, superheroes and supervillains are relatively commonplace — but ordinary cops still have to solve crimes. The series follows Christian Walker (Patric) and his partner Deena Pilgrim (Lucy Punch.) The pilot also stars Charles S. Dutton and Carly Foulkes (from the T-Mobile commercials.) Walker himself is a former superhero who became a cop after he lost his powers.
Talking to the Chicago Sun-Times, producer Charles Eglee (The Shield, The Walking Dead) describes the show as a genre mash-up: "like, if you took 'Se7en' and smushed it with 'The Dark Knight.'" He also says Chicago plays a key role in the series, and it's super grounded in the realities of Chicago policing despite its superheroic elements. And he said the show might not stick too closely to the storylines from the comics — and it might make a storyline from a handful of comics issues last an entire season.
FX President John Landgraf, talking to the Sun-Times and other outlets, sounded pretty gung-ho about the series:
The superhero genre is ripe for reinvention. Everything television has ever done in that genre is the equivalent of [a 8 or 9] o'clock show - light, breezy [and] special effects-oriented. I'm not saying that 'Powers' isn't fun, but it aspires to be a serious drama, and it's fascinating to me to try to reshape and reinvent familiar genres.
Here's hoping we get to watch Powers next summer... [Chicago Sun Times]


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Fwaaap! Thwack! BANG! This must be how you say 'Welcome to Ohio' at Kiser State Park. As we rolled into the campground to begin a six week trip around the coastal southeast, all we could hear were the bangbang sounds of black walnuts crunching beneath our tires. Already, Jezzy was not a happy camper. On a sultry day with late afternoon temps in the mid-90s, we had a choice of a campsite with electric service and no shade, or a shady site with no electric (meaning we couldn't run our a/c). We debated, and chose the shade, so we could at least sit outside. Oh man, it was HOT! We were lucky to have one of the few sites shaded by towering maples, instead of black walnut trees. We could hear the walnuts bouncing off cars and RVs all over the campground. We escaped that, and were fortunate that the temps dropped into the comfortable 60s for the night. We're back on the road! It's been a long summer, spent mostly in our own back yard
Our plan for this trip is to wander south toward Atlanta (Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum!), then over to Savannah. From there, we'll hug the coast as we wander north, getting as far as Norfolk before turning west and heading home. Since we made our plans, Hurricane Irma slammed into the coast, closing Huntington Island State Park (SC) until the end of the year. We're hoping Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Phillipe, etc. leave us (and everyone else) alone.
After just one night at Kiser, we headed to the Wayne National Forest and the Iron Ridge Campground. What a gorgeous campground. Large campsites, thoughtfully laid out with flush toilets and showers. The downside? How would you feel about being invaded by about 5000 stinkbugs? It was disgusting! They got inside, outside, on everything we owned. An endless invasion. We'd roll up our shades, and five would drop out onto the bed. They collected inside our ceiling fan, clattering around when we turned the fan on for circulation. Eventually, we couldn't stand being outside anymore, and simply holed up for the evening. Fortunately, they must be late sleepers, as we didn't have any issues as we quickly pulled up stakes and hustled out of town after just one night. Good luck with this, Ohio. We've got some in Michigan, but this was beyond my worst nightmares.
So, we're not exactly off to a rip-roaring start.
What else has happened since my last post in May? Not much, really. We spent most of the summer trying to rehab our lawn, which suffered from neglect all spring due to our late homecoming. Perhaps a better plan is needed if we want to be gone for so long every winter. We did add two new bikes to our backyard sculpture park (or bicycle garden), including this little polka-dot King of the Mountain bike which makes me smile every time I see it. Thanks to my cousins Mary and Laurie for the supercute plaque. Gardening this year was a huge flop – yeah, the kale grew, but bugs got most of my herbs, and my four tomato plants produced a grand total of six cherry tomatoes. Needless to say, I've gone in like Sherman into Georgia and hacked everything down. Need to rethink my gardening options for 2018
I bought a new bike! Yay!! But, then I hardly rode it. Boo. Except for a four-day camping trip with a friends from our bike club Rapid Wheelmen. They tried to kill me, making me ride up the scenic drive at Sleep Bear National Lakeshore. Worth every pedal stroke.August was our best month, headlined by the 5th Annual Night Shift (the epic 100 mile nighttime gravel road ride for which John and I provide crew services). New route this year found us camping for the first time at Yankee Springs State Park. Omg, what a nightmare. Just don't go there. Never have we been cheek to jowl with so many campers, each site with an RV, a tent or two, two cars, bikes, wagons, kids, and flashing lights, TVs, and whatnot. But, the ride was a hoot! Our T@DA pals Jen and Chuck came up from North Carolina to participate, and spent two days camped in our driveway while we explored Grand Rapids. A little BBQ, a brewery or two, and a stroll around Meijer Gardens made this week the highlight of our summer. Here's Chuck doing his best Life Imitates Art impression. John has been an amateur astronomer for years, and has seen two total eclipses. We made plans to see his third in Kentucky with John's brother and friends. Wow!! I have no photos – why bother? Every person with decent equipment and knowledge posted incredible photos of this stunning event. We spent our time in a small boat in the middle of Lake Barkley, near Hopkinsville, watching the shadows creep across the sun, until we could finally remove our paper glasses and just stare, open-mouthed at the amazing total eclipse. The surrounding air turned a dusky twilight color – like being surrounded by sunset at noon. It was eerie and amazing.I can't wait until 2024 to see it again.
But, the funniest thing happened as we motored our way back to the dock in the small speedboat (fishing boat?) we were in. As we meandered back toward shore, an Asian Carp suddenly leaped out of the water and hit John right in the back of his head! It then slapped his shoulder, and dropped behind him, nearly landing in brother Don's lap. Needless to say, pandemonium ensued. There was a mad scramble to grab this two-foot long fish and fling it overboard. I was standing in the front of the boat trying to get a photo, and laughing so hard I nearly fell overboard myself. If you live in Michigan, you probably are aware of the Asian Carp menace. If not, click on the link above and see what we're talking about. There is genuine concern that they will decimate the salmon population in the Great Lakes if they get established here. Although I don't have any action photos, and what I did take are cockeyed and crazy, I do have a photo of the fish imprint on John's shirt. Our only other adventure this summer was riding the Big Bear Butt Bicycle Tour. We once again camped in our favorite Michigan Campground at Lake Michigan Recreation Area. We cycled on a perfect day for about 65 miles in northern Michigan on pristine roads through woods and small towns. A piece of the ride went along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Arcadia. My Michigan pride wells up here – will happily match our shoreline against the best scenic views anywhere.So, that's my summer. We're happy to be on the road again, and will post up as time and access permits. In the meantime, we're dusting off our hiking boots for a six-mile jaunt tomorrow into the beautiful Jefferson National Forest.


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We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels
Oldspeak: "We see, then, that modern technology has led to the concentration of economic and political power, and to the development of a society controlled (ruthlessly in the totalitarian states, politely and inconspicuously in the democracies) by Big Business and Big Government. But societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life. How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Fromm:
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure.
Our "increasing mental sickness" may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspicuous and extremely distressing. But "let us beware," says Dr. Fromm, "of defining mental hygiene as the prevention of symptoms. Symptoms as such are not our enemy, but our friend; where there are symptoms there is conflict, and conflict always indicates that the forces of life which strive for integration and happiness are still fighting." The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish "the illusion of individuality," but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But "uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. . . . Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed." –Adolous Huxley
"Share Everything". "Broadcast Yourself" "Stay Connected"…. Relentlessly, we're peppered with the propaganda and it is extremely seductive and powerful. Encouraged to incessantly create and consume "content" fashioned from our lives and the lives of others. Preying on the paradoxically profound narcissism/insecurity our maladjustment civilization breeds and selling it via the new virtues of 'convenience' and 'personalization', our privacy, liberty and ownership of our selves is freely given away to our controllers. Which they then use to surveil, sell, and profit handsomely from. The Stasi had it all wrong. Making the tools of totalitarianism ones that the populace loves, uses of its own free will and can't live with out, makes things INFINITELY easier. How comfortable are you in your "Velvet Prison"? "Ignorance is Strength." "Freedom is Slavery." "War is Peace."-OSJ
By John Feffer @ Foreign Policy In Focus:
According to the Chinese zodiac, the heavens circle around every 12 years. The Year of the Snake, the creature that sheds its skin to emerge anew, marks a time of great transformation. Indeed, for the last quarter century, the world has experienced three profound shifts at 12-year intervals, beginning with the Year of the Snake in 1989.
On June 4, 1989, on one side of the globe, Poles were participating in their first semi-free elections in more than 40 years, which—though few suspected at the time—sounded the death knell for Communism in East-Central Europe. Meanwhile, on the same day on the other side of the globe, the Chinese government was cracking down on the Tiananmen Square protests and ensuring that Communism would continue there as an official ideology for at least another 25 years.
Twelve years later, the Year of the Snake returned, and the ground shifted radically beneath our feet once again. This time, the 9/11 attacks brought the two sides of the world together as both China and Poland threw their weight behind the U.S.-led war on terror. Poland, presided over by a former Communist who'd embraced market reforms, even went so far as to host one of the "black sites" that the Bush administration set up to interrogate suspects gathered up through extraordinary rendition. China, presided over by a current Communist who'd also embraced market reforms, used the opportunity of 9/11 to ramp up operations against separatists in Xinjiang and secure "unprecedented" counter-terrorism information sharing with the United States.
And then last year, the Year of the Snake came around again, and this time it was Edward Snowden who caused a seismic shift in our understanding of everyday reality. We thought that we'd seen through the efforts of the Communist state to control our minds and the efforts of the corporate state to control our desires. But it turned out that we really didn't know the full extent to which intelligence services and corporate entities had invaded our private spaces. Nor had we understood our own complicity in this brave new world. It wasn't just states like Warsaw and Beijing that had joined forces with Washington against non-state actors. We had all become informers under this new regime, whether we liked it or not.
The old metaphor for surveillance was the Panopticon: the warden, sitting at the hub of a penitentiary, could see what all the inmates were doing along the perimeter of the structure. Then came the Big Brother of the Cold War era: a state apparatus that used informers, propaganda, and interrogations to infiltrate every crevice of society.
Today's metaphor is still Big Brother—but it's the TV show, not the sinister presence of the George Orwell novel. In this reality TV show, the public watches what goes on inside a house fully monitored by surveillance cameras. But here's the twist: we are both voyeurs and exhibitionists, for we have also turned the cameras on ourselves so that the surveillance can be mutual. We don't just like to watch, like Chance the gardener in Jerzy Kosinski's Being There. We like to be watched as well.
It's time to update Socrates for the era of selfies and YouTube: the unwatched life is not worth living.
The novel that out-Orwells Orwell in its depiction of this new reality is The Circle by Dave Eggers, in which characters willingly wear cameras that track their every movement and broadcast to an ever-increasing number of social media followers. The novel exaggerates only slightly what we are already doing through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, or what is being done to us through our cell phones and our credit card purchases and our Google searches.
To rein in Big Corporations and even out the inequities of Big Politics, activists have long clamored for participatory democracy. What we didn't expect was that Big Corporations and Big Politics would team up in what I've previously called the "surveillance blitz" to create a new phenomenon: participatory totalitarianism.
If we look at the three seismic shifts that have taken place between 1989 and today, they all center around the state and its ability to maintain its authority in the post-modern world. In 1989, the Communist states failed in their effort to manage the economy through five-year plans and artificially fixed prices. In both post-Communist Poland and post-Deng China, the market became the arbiter of production and consumption, restricting the state largely to redistribution (with a bit more capacity for strategic investments in China). Privatization and austerity budgeting in the capitalist world also whittled away what remained of the welfare state's ability to intervene in the economy. This was the neo-liberal victory in what had been an epic 20th-century war, though many skirmishes continue to this day and a second grand battle may yet take place in the wake of the global financial crisis.
In 2001, states faced a second major challenge from al-Qaeda, though more as an idea than an actual military force. Al-Qaeda is an unusual hybrid of the globalized and the localized. It grew out of a specific context (the mujahedeen's attacks on the Soviet army in Afghanistan) and has taken on a different character in each national context where it has taken root (Yemen, Syria, North Africa). Al-Qaeda is a franchise not unlike McDonald's, offering a universal product (a global caliphate) that can be adapted to the cultural preferences of local consumers just as McDonald's sells its well-known French fries with the McAloo Tikki burger in Mumbai or the McArabia Chicken sandwich in Doha. To use the awkward phrase from academia, al-Qaeda is a "glocalized" phenomenon. It thus has represented both a global and a local challenge to the state—offering a vision of subsuming the state into something larger and, from below, attacking the state's monopoly on violence. It's no wonder that states as different as Poland and China found common cause in fighting against al-Qaeda.
And now, after 2013, the state is suffering yet another challenge to its authority. After the revelations of Snowden, the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and his colleagues point out, "It may not be going too far to suggest that what we still call national security has been colonized by a new nobility of intelligence agencies operating in an increasingly autonomous transnational arena." National security, as the phrase suggests, has been the responsibility of the nation-state. But intelligence agencies, led by the disproportionately powerful NSA, have skirted the traditional mechanisms of the state to operate across borders and with little oversight. Members of Congress, even though many have branded Snowden a traitor, havepushed for changes in the way the NSA does business domestically. The leaders of Germany and Brazil who discovered to their dismay that they too have been punked by the NSA—U.S. spies listened in on the communications of both Angela Merkel and Dilma Rousseff—are also pushing at an international level for reform.
The state's status has deteriorated over the decades. It no longer provides the "iron rice bowl." Its monopoly on violence has been challenged by non-state actors, and many states have failed or are near failure as a result. And intelligence-gathering organs have metastasized beyond the control of the traditional nation-state in order to sift through the rapidly expanding universe of global data to stop plots while they are still twinkles in the eyes of the conspirators (shades of Minority Report).
If surveillance was monaural during the Cold War and became stereophonic in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, it is now quadrophonic. It can't be reduced to the activity of a single state or even a particular government-industrial complex. We are all now embedded in a veritable matrix of surveillance. It has become surround sound.
In the Communist era, Hungarian writer Miklos Haraszti wrote about what he called the "velvet prison." Under state socialism, he observed, the vast majority of artists accommodated to the strictures imposed from above. "We learn to live with discipline," hewrote. "We are at home with it. It is a part of us, and soon we will hunger for it because we are unable to create without it."
We are at home in the new surveillance state, for we barely register all the cameras, all the targeted advertising, all the intrusions into what had previously been considered sacred private space. We are not passive objects of observation. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
This is not inevitable. States like Germany and Brazil are fighting back. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation are fighting back. Whistleblowers and journalists are fighting back. So, perhaps when the next Year of the Snake rolls around and we are preparing to shed our skin once again, we will see a shift in the other direction—toward a new economy, a new kind of politics, a new definition of security, and a new way to interact with our fellow citizens that relies on mutual solidarity and not mutual surveillance.


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Archive of 2009
Looking back: 2009
Here's our month-by-month review of a very stormy political year.
The best resignations of the decade
The best resignations of the decade
The best scandals of the decade
Last decade we had sleaze. But the noughties gave us a wider range of political explosions.
The best political films of the decade
politics.co.uk looks at the best political films to emerge since the new millennium.
Feature: Our top ten blog posts of 2009
Nothing gives the politics.co.uk team greater pleasure than eliciting comments from you, our dear readers.
Analysis: The great debate gamble
Gordon Brown's decision to agree to a TV leaders' debate could be the best - or the worst - move of his political career.
Audio: Widdecombe on Simon Cowell
Audio: Widdecombe on Simon Cowell
Analysis: Life after Copenhagen
Climate change secretary Ed Miliband could be forgiven for giving in to the huge temptation to tell cynical journalists: 'I told you so.'
Interview: Ann Widdecombe vs the 'shrug'
Twittering and blogging MPs believe they're at the forefront of a new media revolution. Ann Widdecombe believes they're wasting their time.
Audio: Ann Widdecombe on impotent MPs
Ann Widdecombe gives her views on Britain's "lousy" parliament and explains why she thinks today's MPs are more impotent than ever.
PMQs as-it-happened
Follow today's PMQs, with politics.co.uk's live coverage.
PMQs sketch: End-of-term truce disarms Harman
Perhaps seized by the festive spirit, William Hague seemed determined to avoid confrontation in the final PMQs of 2009.
Analysis: The Afghanistan fightback
Gordon Brown appears to be winning the political war for support on Afghanistan - for now.
Sketch: Quentin Davies' blustering masterclass
Defence minister Quentin Davies showed how nothing quite beats bluster as he bristled his way through an absurd Commons committee grilling.
MPs' Christmas
Parliament goes into recess on Wednesday December 16th for the Christmas break, and returns on Tuesday January 5th.
Audio: An atomic widow's story
Audio: An atomic widow's story
New expenses claims: The big players
How the big beasts of parliament come out of today's revelations.
Sketch: The Commons debates the Smiths
Morrissey dominates business questions. But the good life is out there somewhere.
Pre-Budget Report as-it-happened
Welcome to politics.co.uk's as-it-happens page. Here, you can keep up to date on speeches, debates and major political events live, in real time. Just hit refresh on your browser to see the latest developments.
PMQs as-it-happened
Welcome to politics.co.uk's as-it-happens page. Here, you can keep up to date on speeches, debates and major political events live, in real time. Just hit refresh on your browser to see the latest developments.
Analysis: Longer-term dilemmas lie in wait
Those with a vague interest in following the state of Britain's coffers may be dimly aware we have a problem with debt. We don't.
PBR sketch: To boredom, and beyond!
Alistair Darling delivered his Pre-Budget Report with all the fighting tendencies of a semi-runover hedgehog.
Pre-Budget Report in full
Read chancellor Alistair Darling's statement to the Commons on the Pre-Budget Report, in full, on politics.co.uk.
Pre-Budget Report: Reactions
Pressure groups, unions and the bookies react to Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Report (PBR).
PBR analysis: A 'pre-election' report
Both Alistair Darling and George Osborne repeatedly talked of the "choice" facing the British people. As the shadow chancellor put it, it's the election rather than the Budget which everyone is focusing on.


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Keys to championship run can be found in bullpen
That time of the year has arrived when games, divisions, pennants and championships are won and lost in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings -- or beyond.
If you are blessed with the vision and luck required to be stacked in the bullpen, your chances of navigating the October obstacle course are enhanced immeasurably.
Champions invariably have found consistent relief along the way.
In spite of their weekend sweep at the hands of the Reds and supercharged closer Aroldis Chapman, the Dodgers have reason to believe they are well positioned for October. Their bullpen, since the midway point of the season, has been the best in baseball by a significant margin with a dominant Kenley Jansen moving into the closer's role.
Since July 1, the Dodgers lead the Majors in lowest team ERA by relief pitchers, highest percentage of saves, fewest inherited runners allowed to score and lowest batting average by opponents. These are revealing measures of the overall quality of a bullpen.
The Braves, Pirates and Reds all appear well fortified in the bullpen, while the American League contenders are too close to call in terms of relief efficiency. A blanket can be thrown over the Athletics, Rangers, Royals, Rays and Tigers.
A deal-breaker in each league might be found in Craig Kimbrel of the Braves and the Rangers' Joe Nathan, the most consistently effective closers all season long.
"The Rangers have a very nice mix in their bullpen," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, "and Nathan is doing a great job as their closer. They've had a good bullpen for a while now."
Chapman's 100-mph heat can be unhittable, but his 87.5 success rate in save situations is not on the level of Nathan's 95.1 and Kimbrel's 93.6 percent.
Jansen began the season setting up for Brandon League. The Dodgers were 11 games below .500 and in last place in the NL West, 9 ½ games out of first, when Jansen assumed the closer's role on June 23.
The soft-spoken, 25-year-old native of Curacao, who began his professional career as a catcher, has been successful in 22 of 23 save situations during the Dodgers' rise to the top of the division. Jansen has a string of 18 consecutive successful saves.
The arrival of Brian Wilson, the closer for the 2010 champion Giants, has provided the Dodgers with another quality setup arm to go with Ronald Belisario, J.P. Howell and rookies Paco Rodriguez and Chris Withrow.
Obscured by more celebrated teammates such as Clayton Kershaw, Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Zack Greinke and Yasiel Puig, Jansen has had a comparable impact in his team's turnaround.
"Kenley has been lights out for us," manager Don Mattingly said. "Our bullpen has stabilized, and he's been a big part of that."
In 68 2/3 innings, Jansen -- going primarily with a Rivera-like cutter -- has registered 100 strikeouts against just 13 walks for a 7.69 ratio. With 42 hits allowed, his WHIP is a remarkable .801.
Kimbrel, bidding for his third consecutive NL saves title as the heir to Mariano Rivera as king of closers, has a .850 WHIP and 0.94 ERA in 58 appearances. Kimbrel has adapted to a new setup crew in the absence of Eric O'Flaherty and Jonny Venters. Luis Avilan, Jordan Walden, Scott Downs and David Carpenter have taken turns getting the ball in Kimbrel's capable hands.
The A's and Orioles were the surprise teams of 2012, reaching the postseason in large part because of the brilliance of their bullpens. Oakland's relievers have remained top shelf, ranking fourth in the Majors in ERA, but Baltimore has fallen to 17th -- between the Cardinals and Yankees.
Bullpens are in a constant state of flux, owing to the demanding nature of the job. Relievers, more than any other players, experience extreme performance swings.
"You have to have a short memory to do this," said the Blue Jays' Darren Oliver, one of the game's premier relievers since leaving behind the starter's life behind in 2004. "You have to be able to let it go and move on to the next game. You can't let one rough outing get inside your head."
The foundation of any club is its rotation. Your starters can keep you in games, keep you in races. But they can't do it alone. The work of your relief corps can be the difference between a parade and a long flight home for a premature winter vacation.
In this final season of Rivera, the greatest closer ever, the Yankees are hanging around, trying to replicate one last time the magic he and his relief associates have weaved through the years.
At 43, "The Sandman" was beaming like a 12-year-old Little Leaguer on Sunday, his team having taken a critical game from the Red Sox even though he'd surrendered a tying ninth-inning home run to Will Middlebrooks. His seventh blown save was of no consequence to a visibly delighted Rivera as Ichiro Suzuki brought home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.
At this time of the year, the greater good takes precedence over personal matters.
Since July 1 and the start of the second half, the Dodgers own the Majors' most productive bullpen -- by far. Their 2.49 ERA is almost a full run better than the runner-up Braves' 3.23.
For the season, however, the Braves hold a slight bullpen ERA edge over the Dodgers. The Pirates, Reds, Cards, Royals, A's, Rangers, Tigers and Nationals round out a top 10 with something in common: winning records.
The Dodgers flaunt the highest saves percentage as a team since July 1, at 90.9 percent. The Giants -- whose bullpen was a major factor in their 2010 and '12 World Series titles -- are second, followed by the Braves, Padres and Pirates. Among contenders, the Reds, Tigers, Rays, Rangers, Royals and A's also have success rates of 75 percent or higher in the second half.
Cause for concern is found with the Orioles, Cardinals, Indians, Yankees, Red Sox and D-backs. Each club is below the 75 percent threshold in saves converted since July 1.
Dodgers relievers over this period have allowed just 9.9 percent of inherited runners to score, the best by a substantial margin over the Jays. The Braves lead for the season at 23 percent, with the Dodgers fourth, at 24.9 percent.
Dodgers relievers are holding hitters to a .228 batting average in the second half. The Reds, at .231, are second.
The emphasis on high-quality relief grows every year. Through 1969, the single-season saves record was 32 by Kansas City's Jack Aker. The Orioles' Francisco Rodriguez has held the record since 2008 with 62, secured for the Angels.
At the moment, there are 15 Major League relievers with 32 or more saves. That number could swell to 20 by the end of the season.
The most coveted save -- the last one -- comes in late October.


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West Coast Customs is back in Primetime with All-New Hour-Long Episodes
STREET CUSTOMS, the popular series that chronicles Ryan Friedlinghaus and the rest of the famed West Coast Customs crew as they transform ordinary cars into masterpieces, is back with four new episodes beginning Thursday, October 29 at 10 PM ET/PT. Ryan and West Coast Customs remain at the top of their game, customizing such rare cars as a $350,000 Maybach and a '37 Model A Ford. But cars aren't the only thing on Ryan's mind in the new episodes. With his two clothing and shoe lines, a special project for charity and a visit from a very unique client, there's never a dull moment at WCC.
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STREET CUSTOMS: EPISODE 213 - Premieres Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10 PM
When Ryan visits the Vans Headquarters to check out his customs shoe line, he's asked to customize a 1974 Mercedes van. The van's unique see through poly-cast roof proves to be a huge challenge to fabricate, especially when it cracks during assembly.
STREET CUSTOMS: EPISODE 214 - Premieres Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10 PM
Two members of the San Manuel Native American tribe of Southern California, bring their $350,000 Maybach to West Coast Customs in the hopes that Ryan can add his special WCC touch. Then Ryan is asked to work on a special project by a very unique client.
STREET CUSTOMS: EPISODE 215 - Premieres Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10 PM
Ryan and his West Coast Customs crew customize an old '37 Model A Ford, going old school turning a clunker into a classic Hot Rod to help promote Ryan and his wife Meagan's new line of clothing, "Wrench."
STREET CUSTOMS: EPISODE 216 - Premieres Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8 PM
Ryan and his crew give the WCC makeover to a Lamborghini and transform it into the ultimate eye catching speed machine. Ryan learns how to flame a car when a donor of the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles asks him to work on a special project.


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These ATMs would be perfect if the world was filled with giant oafs and little imps but uh, it's not. That's why they're so completely horrible—normal people can't reach one ATM because it's too high while they have to go down to their knees to use the other.
What's even sicker is that the two ATMs are down the road from each other in Timisoara, Romania. Who calls the shot in Timisoara? Is it a power struggle between Yao Ming and the guy who played Mini-me? A place where using money is shunned upon? Nope, just banks that don't give a hoot.
The high one was supposed to have a staircase leading to it but the bank forgot to get planning permission. And the bank with the low ATM say it had to go there because they are in a listed building and the only access point was a basement window. These are just excuses for treating their customers without respect
The unreachable ATM stands about 6 foot tall, which is uh, taller than most people. So hilariously dumb. [Arbroath]


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Adapted from original recipe by Ina Garten
2 1/4 pounds center-cut salmon fillet (1 1/2 inches thick)
1 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (2 lemons)
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon toasted (dark) sesame oil
1 1/2 teaspoons chili paste, or chili garlic sauce
1/2 cup sliced scallions (2 scallions)
2 tablespoons minced garlic (8 large cloves)
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 1/2 cups Jeff Nathan's Gourmet Panko
Line an 8 by 12-inch baking pan with aluminum foil. Place the salmon in the pan.
In a mixing cup, combine the soy sauce, rice vinegar, lemon juice, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, chili paste, scallions, garlic, and ginger. Pour 1/3 of soy sauce mixture over the salmon fillet. Sprinkle the panko evenly over the fillet. Pour the rest of the soy sauce mixture evenly over the panko. Be sure to soak the panko completely and if any runs off, spoon back onto the salmon. Set aside for 15 minutes, leaving all the sauce in the pan.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Roast the salmon for 18 to 20 minutes, or for about 12 minutes per inch at the thickest part of the salmon. Remove from the oven, wrap tightly with aluminum foil, and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.


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Pizza and pitching
In today's Orange County Register, Takashi Saito tells Bill Plunkett that he's amazed at the strength American players get from eating pizza and bread. It's safe to say he'd be flabbergasted if he saw my daily diet during the season and appalled at the Fox Sports Net employee who finished off eight Dodger Dogs in the press box on Saturday night, setting a new media record. Nonetheless, it's an interesting off-day read about our newfound closer in the OCR.
Another very cool article is the long feature by Steve Henson in today's L.A. Times about Ned Colletti's upbringing. Steve went all around Ned's hometown with him when we were in Chicago and the result is a great read. Check it out if you need to pass the time before tonight's game.
We traveled yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to point it out, but I'm really impressed with the Monday sports section of the Daily News. They have done an awesome job of creating a tabloid-style section that really gives readers a lot of bang for their buck. Check it out if you live around LA.
As for us, our office will be hard at work preparing the postseason media guide, which every team that is in contention must do. It's about a 125-page book of information that the media uses to cover the playoffs and their respective teams during the offseason. It's quite an undertaking, as is the credential process and all the other planning for potential playoff games, but it's all a part of our daily jobs. Six teams are currently doing it and only four of us will be playing a week from today. Let's hope we're one of them.
Here at the Westin in Denver, there's a huge clock tower outside my window and it just chimed 11 times, reminding me that I've got a lot left to do before I leave for the yard in a bit.
Six games. Four wins. That's my prediction for what it will take to make it. And I believe we'll do it.
For a set of four baseline tickets to a game next April, here's something fun to do. Post your predictions on how this will play out (only us, SD and PHI). You can just give each team's record in the final six games and who will make the postseason. Or if you have more time to spare, break it down day by day. But most of all, enjoy this. There are a lot of teams in baseball whose fans would love to be in our shoes today and it'd be a shame if we didn't all enjoy this final week.
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Oh I'm in for the contest — I'll go with:
LA 5-1 (wins division at the Phone Booth)
Thanks for the blog!
L.A 5-1 (87-75) They'll drop one in Colorado and sweep S.F!
S.D 3-3 (87-75) They'll lose to Carpenter tonight and drop two in Arizona!
Phily 4-2 (86-76) They'll get shocked by Washington for one game and Florida will get to Moyer.
I believe my scenario would tie the Dodgers and Padres, but S.D would win the division on a tiebreaker and L.A would take the Wildcard by default.
LA 5-1 (nothing sweeter than clinching in SF)
Go Blue!
Dodgers: 5-1 (Sweep Colorado; Lose Friday, Win Saturday and Sunday)
Padres: 4-2 (Lose tonight, win Wednesday; Win Thursday, Lose Friday, Win Saturday and Sunday)
Phillies: 4-2 (Lose tonight, Win Wednesday, Win Thursday; Win Friday, Lose Saturday, Win Sunday)
Padres win NL West
Dodgers win Wild Card
Dodgers will make the postseason, so I expect plenty of entries in this blog next week!
Dodgers 3-3 (win 2 in Colo, 1 in SF)
Pads 4-2 (win 1 in SL, 3 in Az)
Phils 3-3 (win 2 in DC, 1 in Fla)
Blue beats Phils in one-game playoff for WC.
Dodgers 4-2 (Lose one in CO on Thursday and one in SF on Sunday)
San Diego 3-3 (Lose first two in STL and the first one in AZ)
Phillies 3-3 (Lose the first one in DC and the last two in FL)
I take that back after looking at the schedule:
SD loses the next two in STL, and still the first in AZ.
SD wins division
LA wins WC
PHI goes home empty handed.
Oh Josh… forever the eternal optimist! Thanks for your positive attitude. I truly hope this doesn't happen… but it seems most logical:
Dodgers: 3-3
Padres: 3-3
Phillies: 4-2
Here's my scenario:
Dodgers 6-0 (sweeping 2 series on the road)
Padres 4-2 (St. Louis in a must-win situation)
Philly 6-0 (forcing a 1 game playoff with LA; Dodgers win the playoff and limp into post-season)
Of course with my scenario, the Padres win the division with the Phillies taking the wild-card. Sorry guys… like I said, I hope it doesn't happen this way… it just seems most logical to me.
Here's my prayer (hopefully wishing will make it so!):
SD 3-3 (lose 3 in StL)
Pha 4-2 (Lose 2 in FL)
From my keyboard to G-d's ear!!!
I think all three teams will go 4 and 2 in the remaining 6 games. Giving SD the NL West and leaving LA and PHI tied for the wild card.
I hate to say it, but I think PHI would win the one game playoff. I hope not, but that seems most likely to me.
Not what I want, but what I think:
Dodgers 4-2 (2 losses in SF)
Padres 4-2 (Lose to Carpenter today, Webb on last day of season after already clinching)
Phillies 4-2 (2-1 against both Nats and Fish)
Dodgers win play-in game in Philly.
Dodgers (5-1, sweeping Colorado, losing one in SF)
Padres (3-3, losing series in STL, but taking it in AZ)
Phil. (3-3, losing series to WASH, taking it against FLA)
Of course, this all assumes that Houston doesn't swoop in and make STL the wildcard.
This season might come down to Penny. Penny needs to step up in Colorado on Thursday and be ready for the one-game playoff on Monday. It's going to be tough to play three games better than the Padres over the next six and win the division outright. The season is then going to come down to a one-game playoff with San Diego for the division (if Philly is tied with or has a better record than the Dodgers & Padres) or Philly for the Wild Card (hopefully the Dodgers would not have to play two tiebreaker games). The pitching match-ups favor the Phillies in the three-game series with the Nats and the Marlins are scheduled to throw out Moehler and Olsen in the first two games of the weekend series.
The Blue Crew needs to sweep Colorado and take two of three from San Fran (besting either Cain on Sat. or Schmidt on Sun.) in order to have a shot.
Padres 3-3 (lose to Carpenter, Gonzalez, Webb)
Phillies 5-1 (lose to Willis)
Dodgers 5-1 (my heart says they can do this by only losing once over the weekend)
Penny needs to win the playoff with the Padres on Monday and send them off to Philly.
Even though I'm far too superstitious to give a prediction, I just want to say thanks for this blog and for calming my nerves before every game.
(As for the person who ate 8 Dodger Dogs – that is both disgusting AND completely awesome…very impressive)
Dodgers go 4-2 (2 of 3 in colorado and san francisco)
Phillies go 4-2
Padres go 4-2
Padres win division
Dodgers win one game playoff with phillies and get the wildcard.
Nothing ever seems to come easy to our team but we seem to pull through in the end.
Ok, Josh, here's my call on it. And it will be bold.
Maddux vs Jennings (W, game will not last 2 1/2 hours, classic Maddux, not classic Coors)
Lowe vs Cook (W, Lowe is sharp, Coors light game)
Penny vs Kim (W, high scoring game, Matt Kemp hits home run #8 on the season off BH)
Kuo vs Lowry (W, Kuo strikes out Bonds)
Maddog vs ??? (L, at age 40 Maddux needs more than 3 days rest)
Lowe vs ??? (W, Giants can't get anything on Lowe)
Total: 5-1
Myers vs Ortiz
Hammels vs Astacio
Lieber vs O'Connor (L, O'Connor will make it through 2006 without giving up a homer to Philly)
Moyer vs Moehler (L, Moyer is OLD!)
Wolf vs Olsen (L, Ross has 5 home runs this month, and will get at least one in this game)
Myers vs Willis (L, Willis strikes out at least 7)
Total: 2-4
Williams vs Carpenter (L, duh)
Young vs Reyes (L, Pujols)
Peavy vs Batista (W, by 1 run)
Hensley vs Hernandez (W, snap the skid and make things interesting)
Wells vs Gonzalez (L, Wells does not show strength from Pizza)
Williams vs Webb (L, Webb takes out the trash)
Total: 2-4
Final results
NL West – Dodgers (87-75)
NL Wildcard – Padres (86-76)
Really mad at JD Drew – Phillies (84-78)
Dodgers go 5-1
Phillies go 2-4
Padres go 1-5
Dodgers win the divison
Padres get the wild card
No need to break it down day by day. Grady Little wins wherever he goes and this year will be no different. He creates an atmosphere that people start to feel comfortable with and believe in themselves. This will not only be a one year sprint, but a marathon over several years that will bring glory back to the Big Blue. Go Dodgers!
Dodgers go 3-3 ( Maddux no-decision and eventual team win, Lowe win, Penny lose, 1-2 against Giants losing first two games )
Padres go 3-3 ( win 2-1 against Cardinals, draw 2-2 with the Diamondbacks )
Phillies go 4-2 ( 1-2 against Washington, sweep the Marlins )
Dodgers miss out on the postseason 😦
Dodgers go 5-1 (Prevailing Pitchers-Maddux,Lowe,Penny,Kuo,Maddux,Schmidt)
Padres go 3-3 (Prevailing Pitchers-Carpenter,Young,Peavy,Hernandez,Gonzales,Young)
Phillies go 4-2 (Prevailing Pitchers-Myers,Hamels,Lieber,Moyer,Olsen,Sanchez)
Dodgers win playoff game (Penny) and division.
After this season records against the potential division series matchups, I'd almost rather have the Dodgers play the Mets than the Cardinals, but I'd take home field advantage anyday.
Just to clarify any confusion if the Padres and Dodgers tie for the division and both have secured a playoff spot the Padres would win the N.L West Division because they've won the season series over the Dodgers. If the Padres and Dodgers tie and the Phillies win the W.C then there would be an N.L West Divisional Tiebreaker at Dodger Stadium vs. S.D!
is that right?? i dont think if they end with the same record the tie breaker for the NL west is season series? anyone???
How's this for some wishful thinking:
Dodgers: 6 – 0; We become consistent at the best possible time and sweep both Colorado and SF. Maddux, Lowe, and Penny all get quality starts in Colorado, with Maddux going 7 and giving up three hits. The Dodgers shutout the Rockies 4-0. Lowe pitches a complete game Wednesday, giving up one run (unearned) and winning 2-1. Penny limps through the 6th with 3 runs, but the Dodgers break a 3-3 tie in the top of the 7th with a solo shot by Martin and Beimel, Broxton, and Saito allow one hit over the final 3 innings to get the save. Kuo continues his coming-out party against SF on Friday, going 7 innings with 2 runs. The Dodgers jump out in the 3rd for 5, and the final ends up 5-3. Saturday, Lowe pitches another gem, going 8 and giving up 1 run (home run to Moises Alou). Dodgers win 3-1 on home runs by Kent and Drew. Maddux saves his best for last on Sunday, throwing his first complete game of the season and one-hitting the Giants, losing the no-hitter in the bottom of the ninth, only to come back with a game ending double-play.
The Phillies will also go 6-0, but the Padres will drop two games (to Carpenter and Webb), finding themselves in a three-way tie. The Dodgers will win the playoff game at Dodger Stadium on 10/2, and the Padres will lose the Wild Card playoff against the Phillies on 10/3.
Final predictions:
Dodgers (NL West Champs)
Phillies (Wild Card)
Correction: Maddux on Saturday against SF, Lowe on Sunday.
Tue: W
Wed: W
Th: W
DODGERS 4-2 dodgers get WC
padres 3-3 nl chumps
phils 3-3 go home
then …
Dodgers sweep the mets and play Stl NLCS
here's to hoping that we play our best ball of the season.
How is the winner of the tickets determined ? Closest to the actual record or by random draw ?
If the winner is random, then my picks are:
Just to be different from everyone else so far
If the winner is whomever is closest to the actual record, then my picks are: (for what I really think will happen)
LA wins WC !
As my Mom always said, if your going to wish, WISH BIG !!! and work hard !!
Dodgers 5-1 ( 1 loss on Sat. in SF )
Pads 2-4 (Stl is motivated and will take the rest while AZ will take at least 2)
Phils 4-2 (An average team playing above themselves)
All the forecasting aside, lets just worry about today !! Lets get the win today and talk about tomorrow in the morning !!!
It's time for the Big Bats guys !!
Go Dodgers !!!
I'm going to say…
Let's go boys!


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Burnett, Liriano pack unexpected 1-2 punch
PITTSBURGH -- When the season began four months ago, no one expected the Pirates to have the Major Leagues' top record in the first week of August, but everyone expected Clint Hurdle to be able to count on the best 1-2 combination of starters he has ever had.
That's because Hurdle said so, repeatedly calling A.J. Burnett and Wandy Rodriguez his best 1-2 punch ever.
So we're 0-for-2 in expectations. The Bucs do start the week with the Majors' best winning percentage (.604, on a record of 67-44), hard to fathom by many for several reasons, but mostly because Burnett has only five wins and Rodriguez hasn't pitched in two months.
However, Hurdle still packs his best-ever 1-2 punch. Now it consists of Burnett, hampered by poor run support, and Francisco Liriano, who strengthens his candidacy for a National League Cy Young Award every time he takes the mound.
"Yeah, we can erase that," Hurdle said of the top rank he'd awarded Burnett and Rodriguez, "and pencil Frankie in. We have two grown men who are pitching in a really good place."
The last two games, that place was PNC Park. On Saturday, Liriano pitched two-hit ball for seven innings for his 12th win. On Sunday, Burnett went the route, in one sense accomplishing what he'd set out to do. He allowed just one run and fanned nine in a complete-game effort.
"Liriano was filthy, and when you take the ball behind him, you want to repeat what he did. So that was a good follow-up," Burnett said. "As nasty as he was [Saturday] night, I wanted to come out and be just as nasty."
Hurdle's take on the same sequence: "Frankie set the bar in a good place for us, and A.J. just pushed it higher."
Liriano's 12 wins in 16 starts, are already within two of the career high he had in 2010 with the Twins, in 31 starts. His 2.02 ERA would rank second in the NL if he had enough innings to qualify, which he lacks since his start to the season was delayed until May 11 by a right arm fracture. Liriano could be two starts from qualifying, which is based on one inning pitched per each team game.
As for Burnett, much has been said about the effect of weak offensive support on his 5-7 record. But this should be the last word on that argument: Max Scherzer, the Detroit right-hander with the 16-1 record, has an ERA of 2.85; Burnett's is 2.73.
The NL Central-leading rotation only begins with Burnett and Liriano, obviously. Jeff Locke, Charlie Morton and rookie Gerrit Cole all have a big arm in the rotation's MLB-leading 3.18 ERA.
"That's how all our starters are: We want to one-up the guy before us," Burnett said. "Funnest staff I've ever been a part of."


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A month in, some predictions I made here that I'm very happy about:
Joel Pineiro might have been the off-season's most overrated signing…
Pineiro: 2-3, 5.76 ERA.
…just for good measure, Cliff Lee is not only hurt – he has the most nagging and unpredictable of injuries for a baseball player, 'something in the abdomen.'
First appearance coincides with first discussion of his next team. Yikes.
What's the psychological saw about repeating the same unsuccessful action with confidence that this time it will succeed? The Brewers are confident Dave Bush, Doug Davis, and Manny Parra and/or Jeff Suppan constitute three-fifths of a pitching staff.
Here's a silly little question for ARIZONA about Edwin Jackson. If he's good enough for you to have given up on Max Scherzer, why is he pitching for his third team in as many seasons?
1-3, 8.07.
Manny Being Just Manny (No PEDs) is a just slightly better offensive force than, say, Mark DeRosa. The McCourt Divorce may be a lot more interesting than the 2010 Dodgers, and a lot less painful to watch.
Matt Capps is likelier to be fine in Washington than Octavio Dotel is in Pittsburgh (he can't get lefties out!)
Andruw Jones, Francisco Liriano, Fausto Carmona and even Eric Chavez are your seasonal comebacks…
Wow does BALTIMORE not have pitching…
…keep the Ortiz thought in the back of your mind. What if the second half of '09 was the aberration, not the first half? Will the Sox have to bench him? And if so, could the twists and turns of fate find them suddenly grateful that they had been unable to trade Mike Lowell?
We've already seen this play out in one direction, it may now be reversing – but long term this will not end happily for Big Papi.
I think Tampa ends up with the best record…This time I like the Rays to win the Series, five years after other owners seriously murmured about moving them or contracting them…
So far so good. Notice I have left out the prediction about Ike Davis not coming up before June 1. Or May 1. I'll still stop now, I've strained something batting myself on the back.
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Where was the Mitch Talbot prediction?? Sadly one of the only bright spots this season for my hapless Tribe.
Keith, I like you. And my team lost today. And then you swooped in with an answer to a burning question, and I liked your 3-word answer, and it made me smile. So I won't bust your chops tonight. Let's not talk about the standings in the NL East or NL West, okay. Instead, with my visor lowered to my neck (that's the ponytail version of a hat-tip), hand extended and head bowed, and with my utmost sincerity, I congratulate you on your successes thus far. You rarely fail to impress me, sir.
BUT, as my Dad used to tell me, "don't break yer arm pattin' yerself on the back."
Best of luck with your predictions as the season progresses. Except, of course, for the one that has the Giants not winning. 🙂
How's your Reds prediction looking for ya?
Also, God forbid that Dave Miley takes over the Yankees. Managing the Reds was over his head!
Who could have predicted the Yankees would win seven of their first eight series but still be in second place? Watch out for my prediction: Prince Fielder will be in a Red Sox uniform before the trading deadline, and I will be a very sad Prince Fielder fan.
Keith, I think it's time to change the name of the blog; suggestions include baseball genius, baseball savant or perhaps Nostradamus of the diamond (too long ?).
I am very impressed. Was in SoCal for a funeral, and decided to cheer myself and my "baby" bro up(he's 45) with a trip to Petco. Very nice park, love the suites in the old warehouse and of course all their fans think they will stay in first for awhile. We were scouting their first sacker for a trip up the coast, and we are firm in our conviction that it will take a sack or two of coin to get him in the AL west. There is NO doubt that the M's need someone who can get a dinger every now and then. Anemia, anyone?
The Andruw Jones predicition is the one that I'm most pleased has come true.
He's been underappreciated for the bulk of his career. People (professionals who should know better) still habitually and reflexively manage to mispronounce the man's very name. It's nice to see him reminding people of how fine a career he's had, (with some obvious hiccups), and continues to have.
Hey KO – you should call into DP's radio show to talk about how the Arizona immigration disaster affects the world of sports, especially baseball. Would be great radio.
Go Yanks!
Hey Keith! Quick question – how is Milton Bradley doing so far? I haven't had the chance to see many of the Mariners games, and I know you talked about his history with other teams. Hoping he "magically" reforms, or something… 🙂 By the way, you said at the end of your article "I'll still stop now, I've strained something batting myself on the back." Don't you just love it when words that you type a lot pop up in the wrong places? Batting? Patting? @Jwin214 said "BUT, as my Dad used to tell me, "don't break yer arm pattin' yerself on the back." I'll have to add to that – don't break your back while you're "batting" yourself! Ahhh, typos… so much fun, and sometimes almost Freudian. You might want to save the batting practice for Twitter. 😉 Have a great day!
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Sep-25-2009 DCA & HMFA Welcome Plainfield to 'Live Where You Work' Homebuyer Program
DCA & HMFA Welcome Plainfield to 'Live Where You Work' Homebuyer Program
PLAINFIELD - Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs today joined New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia at City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Avenue, to announce that Plainfield is the newest member of the Live Where You Work Program. Plainfield is the 21th municipality to partner with the HMFA on this workforce housing initiative.
"Governor Corzine is dedicated to providing New Jersey residents with the affordable workforce housing they need," said HMFA Executive Director Della Vecchia. "Under the Governor's initiative, the HMFA created Live Where You Work in 2008 to assist in this effort and to encourage families to buy homes in the towns where they work."
"I am excited to see the program gaining in popularity," Della Vecchia added. "Mayor Robinson-Briggs and Plainfield should be commended for their commitment to the residents of this city and I believe more municipalities will join the program."
The Live Where You Work Program is a workforce housing initiative that provides low-interest, fixed rate mortgage loans to homebuyers purchasing homes in towns where they are employed. Additional program benefits include down payment and closing cost assistance for the purchase of a home within Smart Growth areas and flexible underwriting criteria for the loan qualification process.
Homes must be located in a municipality that has become a Live Where You Work partner with HMFA, which is an affiliate of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The Live Where You Work initiative further enhances Governor Corzine's efforts to revitalize and build sustainable communities that encourage greener environments, access to public transportation and affordable housing opportunities for residents.
As a result of Plainfield's partnership with the HMFA, people working in the city who are interested in buying a home in the community will be able to take advantage of Live Where You Work program incentives.
"We are pleased to partner with the HMFA on this program because it will give people who work in Plainfield a rare opportunity to take advantage of responsible financial incentives to homeownership," said Mayor Robinson-Briggs. "Live Where You Work has proved successful in other towns and I have no doubt it will be successful in Plainfield."
Live Where You Work is administered by the HMFA. Trenton, Jersey City, Woodbridge, Elizabeth, Atlantic City, Rahway, Morristown, Evesham, Neptune Township, Bayonne, Carteret, New Brunswick, Paterson, Glassboro, Orange, Keyport, Newark, Washington Township (Gloucester County), Edgewater Park and Cherry Hill are all taking part in the program.
To learn about how to get a Live Where You Work mortgage, please call 1-800-NJHOUSE. For more information about how municipalities can join Live Where You Work, please call 609-278-7478. Or, you can visit the Live Where You Work website at www.livewhereyouwork.nj.gov.


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IGN has the first exclusive poster from the Bekmambetov produced and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. The movie will be shot shaky-cam style as all of the alleged Moon footage is "found" from the lost crew of Apollo 18. From the look of the poster, the doomed crew most likely had an unfortunate close encounter.
The film will be out March 4th 2011.


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Hazelnut-Raspberry Linzer Cookies Recipe
In this classic Austrian treat, hazelnut cookies are sandwiched around raspberry jam and dusted with confectioner's sugar.
Adapted from King Arthur Flour.
Read more: Step-by-Step: Nutty, Sweet-Tart Raspberry Linzer Cookies
- Yield:Makes about 3 dozen sandwich cookies, depending on size of cutters
- Active time: 35 minutes
- Total time:1 hour 45 minutes
- 8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature (2 sticks; 225g)
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar, plus 1/2 cup more for coating (4 1/2 ounces plus 2 1/4 ounces for coating; 125g plus 65g for coating)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (3.5 ounces; 100g)
- 2 teaspoons (10mL) vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon (3g) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (3g) ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon (1.5g) salt
- 1 cup hazelnut flour (5 ounces; 140g) (see note)
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (11.25 ounces; 320g), plus more for rolling out dough
- 1 large egg (50g)
- 1 1/4 cups raspberry jam (10 ounces; 280g)
In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle, beat butter, 1 cup confectioner's sugar, and granulated sugar at medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add vanilla extract, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt and beat until well combined.
Reduce mixer speed to low and add hazelnut flour, all-purpose flour, and egg to bowl and beat until dough comes together. Cover dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375°F and adjust racks to upper-middle and lower-middle positions. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Lightly flour a clean work surface. Divide the dough into two equal portions. Roll out one of the dough portions to 1/8 inch thickness; wrap the remaining portion in plastic and keep refrigerated. Use Linzer cookie cutters to cut out the solid shapes (these will be the bottoms of each cookie) and carefully transfer them to one of the prepared baking sheets. Gather the scraps, roll out the dough, and repeat to make more solid cookies, and transfer to second prepared baking sheet.
Bake cookies until golden, about 10 minutes, rotating sheets front to back and top to bottom halfway through. Transfer baking sheets to wire racks and allow to cool for 3 minutes. Using a metal spatula, transfer cookies directly to wire racks.
When baking sheets have cooled, repeat Step 4 with the remaining portion of dough, this time using the cookie cutter with a punched-out center to cut the top cookies. Bake and cool top cookies according to Step 5.
Once the cookies have fully cooled, sift remaining 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar all over top cookies (the ones with the punched-out centers).
Spread the solid bottom cookies with jam. Place the top cookies on each to complete the sandwich cookies. Serve.
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Go hang off the sky dish till it falls off the wall.
First time in a long time I've looked forward to international break. Will be relieved to get some respite that turbo dogshit we've been serving up.
Martinez never got to spend $145M in one window.He was not a good manager for us, but he WAS very good at getting in talent for modest sums of money. He had a very sharp eye for young talent.
Shame, because we looked much better until they scored.If he sacrifices DCL, Niasse, and Vlasic in the next game he can fuck off; at least they tried and had a bit of energy about them.
CleverlyKobeRoblesSamuraiLennonLukaku (a given)Niasse (from a DVD)Ruined Barkley.Seville has a better eye for young talent.
Message to phone:NOT FUCKIN NOW YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!DELOFEU NOT SAMURAI!!!!!!!
They have right fucked me this week have Everton. Cost me over 3 grand on Thursday. I live in Burnley so ive got to put up with smug workmates tomorrow and 3 fucking hours of my time being bored to death.
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Delgado joins elite company in Toronto
TORONTO -- An impressive group of all-time Blue Jays' greats were on hand Sunday afternoon to welcome Carlos Delgado to the Level of Excellence.
George Bell, Tony Fernandez, Roberto Alomar, Cito Gaston, Pat Gillick and Paul Beeston all took part in the ceremony that saw Delgado's name placed on the facade of the upper deck in left field.
Delgado's family was in attendance as were some of his longtime former teammates, including Shawn Green, Alex Gonzalez and Jose Cruz Jr. It was a memorable day for the slugging first baseman who became the 10th person in franchise history to receive the honour.
"I can't tell you how excited and how honoured I am to be here today," Delgado said from the on-field podium. "Twenty years ago, on this very same field, I started living a dream as a Major League player.
"I want to say thank you to Pat Gillick, Paul Beeston and the Toronto organization for giving me the opportunity to come to professional baseball, for giving me the opportunity to become a Major Leaguer."
Delgado addressed the crowd at Rogers Centre, received a Level of Excellence suit jacket and was presented with a painting montage of his playing days in Toronto by current Blue Jays Jose Bautista and Jose Reyes.
The 41-year-old Delgado went on to throw out of the ceremonial first pitch and left the field to a standing ovation as the fans paid tribute to the best homegrown power hitter the Blue Jays have ever produced.
Delgado still leads the franchise in virtually every major statistical category. He's first in home runs (336), RBIs (1,058), OPS (.949), runs (889), extra-base hits (690) and walks (827).
The native of Puerto Rico also ranks second in on-base percentage (.392) and third in hits (1,413), while playing the second-most games of any Blue Jays player with 1,423. He's a two-time All-Star and received MVP votes after seven of his 17 big league seasons, including 2003, when he finished second to Texas' Alex Rodriguez.
"When you're in the middle of playing, or you're in the middle of the season, you're not thinking about retirement, you're not thinking about level of excellence you're not thinking about anything except going out and trying to have the best season that you can," Delgado said.
"Having said that after you retire and you get that phone call, this is a very special day for me and I want to have friends, family here, so the whole crew is here, because I want to share that moment with them. So, it's an honour to accept this."