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Psychological Profile of a Phobic Cockatoo by Sam Foster
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The Exotic Bird Rescue and its Role In the Future by Bob Kaegi
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"The Rescue's Song" by Judith R. Archer
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A World full of Feathers
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For those who Rescue
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On December 11, 2012, WCB announced the release of version one of the Connect America Cost Model. Version one of the cost model allowed the Bureau and interested parties to examine various options for different network deployments to serve funded locations (e.g., fiber to the premises or fiber-fed digital subscriber line) and different assumptions about both the amount of existing facilities assumed to exist (e.g., green-field or brown-field deployments, the mix of aerial, buried or underground plant) and unit costs for capital and operating expenses.
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His vehicle was found on the mountain at Timberline Lodge.
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A spokesperson for Jordan's mission to the United Nations confirmed Monday that his country will ask the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on behalf of the Palestinians, who have written the council president regarding the "dangerously escalating tensions" in East Jerusalem.
Earlier on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed forward plans for 1,060 new housing units in East Jerusalem settlements despite growing international criticism and steadily rising violence between Palestinians and Jews in the city.
Both the U.S. and the European Union condemned Netanyahu's move. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psake said Washington was "deeply concerned" by reports of Netanyahu's plans.
Shortly after Netanyahu's announcement on Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian Authority (PA) would appeal to the UN Security Council to call on Israel to stop its ongoing expansion of settlements in the city, its increasing campaign collective punishment throughout Palestinian neighborhoods as well as its attempts to change the status quo of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Adding to the chaotic day, Palestine Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah paid a rare visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, commenting, "There will not be a Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital."
Hamdallah's appearance at Al-Aqsa was followed up Tuesday morning by a provocative visit from the Jewish mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barak, accompanied by a large group of armed police officers.
"Barakat is the first mayor to storm Al-Aqsa, joining the extremist groups and the extremist Knesset members who usually storm the place and urge others to do the same,"
the director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiwsani. .
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The Israeli police have been heavily cracking down on Palestinian neighborhoods throughout East Jerusalem since last week, when a young man from Silwan was shot and killed after he ran over a group of people waiting at an East Jerusalem light rail station, killing a three-month-old baby and a 22-year-old Ecuadorian woman. Israeli officials labeled the incident a terrorist attack while the young man's family argues he lost control of the vehicle.
Since then, the situation has steadily declined. Daily clashes between Palestinian youth and heavily armed Israeli security forces have occurred on a daily basis in almost every Palestinian neighborhood in the city.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned the U.S. on Sunday of the steadily deteriorating situation in Jerusalem, saying it was liable to spin out of control if the Israeli government continues its current provocative policies, particularly attempts to change the status quo in the Temple Mount area.
Residents of East Jerusalem say police are using crowd-dispersal methods indiscriminately in attempt to collectively punish the city's Palestinian population, the Israeli English-language daily Haaretz
on Tuesday.
Residents of Silwan and Issawiya said Israel's security forces have hit houses in the neighborhoods indiscriminately during clashes with youth, shooting tear gas into windows and spraying 'Skunk Water" into homes at random.
Adal Siam, a resident of Silwan,
his house was targeted by the fowl-smelling liquid for no reason.
"We were sleeping. It was a quarter to 12 at night and the machine stood in front of our shouse and deliberately fired at our windows. The windows break from the pressure and the whole house gets filled with it, "Siam said.
"For the first time ever I vomited for 20 minutes, even though I had nothing in my stomach. We've washed everything down three times but the smell doesn't go away. My poor wife, children and mother can't breathe."
Police have closed the two main entrances to Issawiya, a small, overcrowded neighborhood that sits in a valley below Hebrew University.
"This makes no sense," Issawiya's village leader Darwish Darwish
Haaretz. "They're just heating things up. Instead of calming things down, they're lighting fires."
Border and traffic police have erected flying checkpoints in around Silwan and Issawiya over the past few days, often writing tickets for minor infractions. Residents say this too is a form of collective punishment.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A homeless day center is being built by renovating the City Rescue Mission downtown, but it's three months behind schedule.
On Monday morning, Mayor Alvin Brown addressed the delays.
In November, the city said it was aiming to open the center in January, but now it's slated to open at the end of this summer.
"To reach the national goal of no chronically homeless or homeless veterans on our streets by December 2015, we have to know each one by name and what their goals are," said Dawn Gilman, of the Homeless Coalition of Jacksonville.
There are about 400 homeless people sleeping on the streets of downtown Jacksonville on any given night. The day center for the homeless was one of Brown's campaign promises that was supposed to already be up and running.
"They're great people, they are veterans who served our country, so we are just doing our part to help them have a place so they become self-sufficient," Brown said.
Three months past its scheduled opening, the issue is the cost is more than double the mayor's initial projection.
When the project was announced, the renovation was expected to be about $70,000. Now, it's up to $180,000.
Wells Fargo just contributed $70,000, but the city still needs more than $100,000, even though the space is being leased from the City Rescue Mission for free. The plan is to have it open three days a week, giving users access to things like showers, computers, phones and veterans groups.
Clarence McCloud, who's homeless, is looking forward to using the day center to get back on his feet.
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OTTAWA — Three people were killed and 23 injured when a double-decker city bus struck a transit shelter in Ottawa on Friday afternoon, badly damaging the vehicle's upper deck where several people were trapped inside.
The driver of the bus was arrested at the scene, Chief Charles Bordeleau of the Ottawa police told an evening news conference at city hall. He wouldn't say why she was detained rather than submitting to questions voluntarily.
"Something led us to having to arrest the individual and take them to the station," Bordeleau said.
The crash took place west of downtown at 3:50 p.m., just as dusk was beginning to settle on the coldest day of the winter so far in the capital. The bus was headed to Kanata, a more distant Ottawa suburb.
Mayor Jim Watson said two of the dead were riding the bus and one was on the platform at Westboro station, a major stop on the city's busway.
The vehicle apparently jumped the curb as it approached the station and plowed along the platform, where the roof of a shelter carved deep into the vehicle's second deck. The first seats on the upper level of the bus were crushed together.
During the emergency response, a dozen ambulances lined one side of the transit route, waiting to take injured people away.
One woman who could walk was helped off a bus by two first responders, one supporting each of her arms. Another was wheeled on a gurney in obvious distress, wailing loudly enough to be heard on an overpass above.
Neither Bordeleau nor Watson would speculate on why the bus had left the road. Despite mid-afternoon temperatures of about minus-15, it hadn't snowed in Ottawa Friday and the busway is the top priority for the city's snowplows, salters and sanders.
"We're taking every necessary step to establish all of the facts and will co-operate fully with any investigation," said John Manconi, the general manager of Ottawa's transit service, OC Transpo.
Paramedics said a total of 25 people were taken to hospital, suggesting one of the victims could not be revived at the scene and the other two died after arriving. Of those transported, 14 were in critical condition and 11 were in serious condition, paramedic chief Myles Cassidy said in the news conference later.
"Most of the serious injuries were on the upper-right side of the bus," Bordeleau said. "I want to express my sorrow and condolences of the Ottawa police service and other emergency services."
He said the upper deck of the bus was badly damaged in the crash, trapping several people inside for some time.
The investigation will take a long time and likely would mean the closure of the busway and nearby roads for at least many hours, Bordeleau said.
Gabe Rivett-Carnac arrived at Westboro station on a double-decker bus himself about an hour before the crash. He was in his apartment across the street from the station when he started hearing sirens just after 4 p.m.
He went outside and came across a "chaotic" scene, with at least 30 emergency vehicles, including seven or eight fire trucks, and lots of police and bystanders, he said.
"You could see the entire front portion of the bus had been demolished or cut away, and firefighters were on ladders cutting out the top floor windows," he said. "I saw one person being lowered from the top floor in a seated position."
He said he could tell there would be deaths given the devastation at the scene.
"Based on the way it looked, if there was anybody at the front of the bus at the top ⦠I can't see how they would've been able to get away from that," he said.
His partner usually gets off the bus at that station when coming home from work but she hadn't gone in on Friday, he said, and they were checking in with family and friends who live in the area to see if they're OK.
"You get a knot in the pit of your stomach. I felt like vomiting a couple of times. It's not a comfortable thing to witness and I can't imagine experiencing it."
Politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, tweeted messages of support.
"To the people of Ottawa, know that the rest of Ontario shares in your sorrow tonight. We grieve with you, and we stand with you," Ford wrote in a longer statement.
"Such devastating news. My thoughts and condolences are with the victims, their families and all those affected by this tragedy," wrote Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, who represents the area in Parliament.
In 2013, another Ottawa double-decker bus broke through a warning gate and collided with a Via Rail train in suburban Barrhaven, killing six people as the train sheared off the front of the vehicle. In that case, an investigation found that the cause was a combination of excessive speed, a difficult curve before the tracks and driver distraction from video monitors showing the upper deck.


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Teachers are able to upload their own videos to organized Channels, or link media from YouTube. You are also able to watch Cable Television in the TV Channels portion of the site. This allows classes to tune into important news events or educational programming. The Live Streaming ability is used for morning announcements at a few schools and is also used to stream City Council and Board of Education meetings.
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Shark Fights 20 is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 15 in Laughlin, Nev.
Neer looks for his fourth straight win and sixth victory in seven fights since his UFC release in 2009. Most recently, he scored a TKO victory over Jesse Juarez in the Shark Fights 16 headliner. He now meets da Silva, a veteran of the Brazilian fight scene who owns nine knockouts in 17 career wins. Most recently, he went 1-1 in a two-fight series with Hernani Perpetuo (12-3) in the Shoot Brazil organization.
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A gentle rain fell sorrowfully upon twelve newly filled graves. Each drop seemed to touch the packed earth and roll down the mounds like tears on a living cheek. It was as though the world itself mourned the loss of lives to such senseless violence.
Shaking his spectral head the watching spirit moved forward to study the graves more closely. Three were small, dug for children sent on errands that would never be completed. The other nine appeared to be that of a typical adult; however one stood out for its lack of headstone and the lone mourner that still knelt by the mound even in the rain. Drawing nearer the sounds of wrenching sobs challenged the pattering rain for attention.
Minutes passed as he silently contemplated the scene before him.
"I never meant for this to happen!" Moaned the kneeling figure. "You weren't suppose to be there!" With shaking hands the figures pulled a small box commonly used to hold rings. "You are dead and for what? A god forsaken Ring! It's not worth it, nothing is worth it!" Violently the figure threw the offending box far into the rain drenched cemetery then went back to sobbing uncontrollably.
In a move denying all logic, the spirit folded in on himself and re manifested far from the mourner. Tilting his head he studied the now open box and its contents at his feet. Nestled in its tightly packed cloth folds was a finely crafted silver ring embedded with delicate cut diamonds and sapphires. The cost of the diamonds and sapphires alone would have made worth a noble's ransom, but it was the other worldly aura emanating from it that caught his attention.
In life he'd only ever heard whispers of items that possessed the power as this one. Lifting an incorporeal eyebrow he glanced back at the mourner who now shambled away from the unmarked grave. Did they even know what they had thrown away? Would they even care if they understood its value? How many in this city would kill any number of innocents to posses such a thing?
With great sorrow he gazed upon the fresh graves with new understanding. This was the results of a theft gone wrong and the actions of those who were desperate to recover that which was stolen. Until this was found these won't be the last graves dug here in the coming days. The City was about to get interesting and for him that meant more work to do in the dark passages dividing life and death.
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text: Duke defeated Old Dominion by a score of 89-61. The top seeded Blue Devils, coached by Mike Krzyzewski, were simply too talented and too deep for the eighth ranked Monarchs, who were coached by Tom Young. Duke was led by the tournament's top scorer, Johnny Dawkins. Duke went all the way to the final game of the tournament, where they lost to eventual champion Louisville.


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Duchess Habsburg, a tenant in her own palace
ZYWIEC — After 60 years in exile in Switzerland, Duchess Marie-Christine von Habsburg, 87, is living out her golden years as a tenant in two rooms of her family's vast palace in southern Poland.
"Well, isn't that funny? I live here as a tenant in my own palace" in the town of Zywiec, she says, making light of the situation.
But she insists she is "the happiest of tenants" in one of the properties of the famed Habsburg dynasty, this one expropriated by communists after the war and which her family never tried to reclaim after the 1989 demise of communism.
"I'm delighted to be back where I was born, where I spent my childhood," says the octogenarian confined to a wheelchair and dressed in her trademark black.
A member of the House of Habsburg, a dynasty originating in what today is Austria that reigned over much of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century, she was able to return to the 19th-century palace only after the fall of communism two decades ago. Her family had been driven out by the Nazis during World War II and the communists prevented their return after 1945..... MORE
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DETROIT – A Detroit church is warning residents to keep an eye our for a woman selling raffle tickets for a bogus fundraiser, and then pocketing the money.
The Solanus Casey Center in Detroit says the woman has been going door to door, using the church's name for her scam, and he doesn't want anyone else to become a victim.
"We concerned that people take our name and use it in an illegitimate way," said Father Larry Weber with the Capuchins. "You should see on the ticket a state license for the raffle."
Father Larry says the next big fundraiser for the Solanus Casey Center isn't until February.
Police describe the woman sell the tickets as a white female driving a black sedan with orange and gold rims. She was last seen on East Warren in Detroit.
Local 4 has learned the woman selling the tickets has been spotted at a local bowling alley and a couple of restaurants.
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Ramon Martinez's back
You can either read the apostrophe above as a discussion about his back or that he "is" back. Either way, you're right, and he's in the lineup today. D.J. Houlton was optioned to Triple-A to make room for him. Here's the lineup for the first-half finale:
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Martin, C
Gonzo, LF
Nomar, 3B
Loney, 1B
Kemp, RF
Martinez, 2B
Hendrickson, P
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How about sending Tomko or Hendrickson down or out… At least D.J. hasn't given us a reason to send him down yet…
I have to tell you, I'm normally not negative when it comes to the Dodgers…I'm quite patient, but I've had it with those two pitchers and yes JP ***** too…everytime he hits a flyball, he should sit out a game…
We should start a new topic of conversation.
Fill in the rest of this sentence:
Everytime JP hits a fly ball ____________________.
Here is my next installment. Everytime JP hits a fly ball, he should pay back the organization $100.
Can someone explain how such a putrid player like Juan Pierre gets to play every single day?
Do Ned Small or Grady Little even realize how much most Dodgers fans cannot stand Pierre?
We should stage a Pirate-like walkout because Pierre plays every day…
$15 parking and add ticket prices to that just to walk out? No thanks…
Stay positive my friends, you'll go crazy if you don't during a losing streak, which happen to all teams. I seem to remember a very long streak of losses one year ago. Chin up things will come around, they always do. In fact some of you should go into the archives from July of last season, it was a dark time indeed, what's scary is a lot of the type of comments made around that time are being made when we were winning this season. What's happened to this blog?
It's "good" to see Martinez back again. Otherwise we might get overbalanced with our younger players, and that would not be Grady's or Colletti's style – heaven forbid.
yeah, thank goodness martinez is back!!! uh, yeah.
Dodgers could really use a 12 man pitching staff more than having 2 utility infielders on the roster with the way things have been going through this rough stretch.
Juan "expletive" Pierre… sigh…
they should give kemp a shot in CF and give jp a rest man.
we see that guy eeevveryday!
really if they're going to bring ramon back send abreu down already—its long overdue.
agreed jspelk
Does anyone know what our Payroll is at?
Payroll is about $110 million
Quit ******** about JP. If he should get fined for popping out, Nomar should get fined for swinging at the first pitch every time. 4 at bats last night and he saw a total of 5 pitches?
Dodgers: $108,454,524
By comparison:
Tigers: $ 95,180,369
Cubs: $ 99,670,332
Red Sox: $143,026,214
Brewers: $ 70,986,500
Angels: $109,251,333
Indians: $61,673,267
Padres: $ 58,110,567
D'Backs:$ 52,067,546
Mets: $115,231,663
Yankees: $189,639,045
SO what to watch… dodger game or MLB futures game?
Futures Game. Kershaw is pitching, as you know.
How about futures game on the computer, Dodger game on the TV
Here is what i really want to discuss though: We have to be able to get Buerhle without giving away top-top flight prospects. Ken Williams would be crazy to not take a package of Kuo, Meloan, Betemit/Hu/Young/ even LaRoche… I think we still might end up getting this guy…. Any thoughts?
kershaw or lurch…hmmm. it would be nice to know what time he's pitching though since im not really interested in the game as a whole.
i don't think so ewk. Why would he want Kuo? He's injured now and has no consistency. Meloan sure. They already have a good 3b prospect so no to Betemit/LaRoche. Hu they might be interested since apparently they're interested in Lugo, and thus insane.
They might want Kuo bc he has potential and they might want LaRoche or Betemit bc no doubt they can turn them around again for something they do need. LaRoche and Betemit are both young and with lots of potential; if the Sox cant use them they could definately use them as chips for something they do need. Its not like they are competing for anything this season anyway… And its not like they are going to get anything overwhelming for half a season of Buerhle.
Dodgers need 12 pitchers but they don't need 12 pitchers today. Houlton wasn't going to pitch today anyway after pitching Friday and Sat.I'm surprised they didn't send Stults down as well to get some work in over the AS break.
FYI : They just slated Clayton to pitch the 7th inning…. probably…
and Hu is hitting in the 2 spot for the World team…
Hu just hit a double with a RBI
Hu is AWESOME.
OMG, Justin Upton has one heck of an arm.
Buerhle just signed an extension!
what happened to Miggy and Kemp?
quit giving gonzo the 3-0 green light lol
Anybody else think its's strange that Miggy and Kemp left the game around the same time?
"quit giving gonzo the 3-0 green light lol"
Yahoo Sports reports that Miggy left due to a jammed shoulder, and Kemp left due to an undisclosed injury.
On the Dodgers.com game thread people said Cabrera hurt his shoulder. Good thinf Kemp came out so Andre could hit the homerun but why?
Why do people post here during the game? wouldn't it be better if there was one place for intragame comments? I would appreciate replies.
"Anybody else think its's strange that Miggy and Kemp left the game around the same time?"
i do and i also think its weird that Larry Beinfest flew out to LA just for this game. Also, Ned Colletti was going to go watch Kershaw and Hu and the futures game but canceled his trip last minute.
Buerhle re-signing is FANTASTIC news.
What are you talking about Max? Kemp is still on the active roster.
They are both hurt. No trade unfortunately!
hahah i know.
im bored thats what im taking about.
balls flying out of DS on a day game as usual…get lurch out of there and use everyone else for an inning!
Hu looks good!
Nomar continues to BEAT THE COVER OFF THE BALL….. Yuk Yuk …
Ethier having a good day… Too bad its' at the cost of losing Kemp to injury… (hopefully not serious)
Ethier and Kemp need to be in the lineup at the same time sometimes. Grady should consider a platoon of Kemp and Pierre. Pierre against lefties is even worse then he is against righties. Its obviously we'd be better off minus Pierre but that will never happen.
Is it a coincidence that the one day we finally string all of out hits together and score runs is the same day Kent isn't in the middle of the lineup?
JP ain't sitting down. Quit suggesting that. He never has and never will.
Scurtis —-
Do you think that is a good thing or a bad thing or are you just being apathetic…..
I don't have a problem with it. Paying him the big bucks, might as well keep him in there. It would be a disaster if Kemp played CF. Don't worry, Ethier will be in LF next year with JP in CF and Kemp in RF as the everyday starters.
JP is solid. I don't mind him.
I think you are probably right….. Of course, if we make a trade that involves any of them, that could change things… I really don't see that happening though…
"JP is solid"…. *****…..
Alrighty then!
I just wish we had some power in this lineup.
This team has a $110,000,000 payroll….
We now have 2 pinch hitters — one is batting .159 & the other is batting .206….
Is that the best we can do for Gods Sakes …..
We all need a drink!
Yes… We very much need a power hitter in the outfield and/or at 3rd base or 1st base…. Just very hard to come by without giving up the farm….
But I do forsee Ned making some moves in the very near future…. Just hope they are for the better without giving away the young talent that we now have…
Happy All Star Break!!!
Yes – Happy All Star Break….
I Bet we will have lots to talk about when we come back after the break… The next few days could be very interesting….
According to the Daily News(N.Y.) TOMKO was starting today's game(they proberbly didn't know & just placed in a name). While I was at the feast I dropped into church to prayer for Tomko. God must have said, "I'll do you one better I won't even make him start". It's great to have two HRS in a game and neither were solo. I'm returning to the feast and I hope the Pards lose by the time I get back. In case anybody doesn't know The Dodgers who are 49-40 at the break were only 46-42 last year. I heard Kemp was hurt(hamstring?), let's hope it's not serious. Well let's enjoy the break and pull for the NL so the Dodgers will get home field advantage(don't say you heard it here first) in the WS.
Hu looked really impressive today. His numbers in double-A are even more impressive. Id say he takes over for Furcal in a couple of years.
He certainly did, and congrats to him for being named MVP… very nice article about it on mlb.com… Does anyone know where a box score for the game is? I know Clayton gave up a bomb, but he only pitched 2/3 innings, or so i heard…. anyone watch it care to give us a play by play??
JP, what's the deal with getting on him. the only thing that gets me with him is he's terrible with RISP but other than that he's pretty solid, has the most hits for the dodgers over 100 already and plays great defense. let's hope for a great 2nd half…Go Dodgers!
getting on JP happens everyday on this blog…..along with Nomar, Ned, Grady….Just watch for times when we lose. That's when all **** breaks lose and people find anyone to blame.
When we win, like today…the bashing stops..as shown above…
Sad how Dodger fans are rooting against their own players, and sometimes, goes out of their way to do so….
Rooting against their own players? Dude, they get paid millions of dollars to play a game; why should they be exempt from criticism when they do poorly? I'm sure if you mess up at your job you would get reprimanded by your boss or customers. We are the paying customers of the product the dodgers sell. We have the right to criticize what they do. Don't put them on a pedestal; you care more about them then they ever will about you.
All-Star Break 1st half wrapup:
List of teams who have less wins than us in the National League at the All-Star Break:
Mets, Braves, Phillies, Marlins, Nationals, Cubs, Cardinals, Pirates, Astros, Reds, D'Backs, Rockies, Giants
List of teams who have the same amount of wins as us in the National League at the All-Star Break:
Brewers and Padres
List of teams who have more wins than us in the National League at the All-Star Break: Nobody
One game behind San Diego in the Western Division (2 in the loss column)
Two games ahead of Atlanta in the Wild Card
The bumpy rollercoaster is only half-way finished…Go Dodgers!
"Don't put them on a pedestal"
that reminds me of 40 year old virgin…
ewk…Kershaw gave up the bomb but was still rather impressive. His fastball was around 93-96 and his curve was sick. He gave up the home run on a change up the guy literally hit off of his shows. It was impressive. I can't wait to see him and Bills 1-2 in 3 or 4 years.
All you have to look at is Pierre's obp to realize how horrible of a year he's having. His BA is around .280 which is solid but his obp is only 30 points higher and .311. A .311 OBP for anyone is pathetic not to mention a top of the order guy.
I still think this isn't understood in this group. Pierre is only valuable to us when he gets on base. You guys always bring up the points off…We'll he steals bases and scores runs well DUH. How else do you think he does that? by getting on base.
League average OBP is .330 he's not even average and a good lead off hitter wants to obp around .350-.360 and great ones are .380-.400. Furcal will come around to his career numbers but Pierre is on pace for a career worst season. Also did you guys see how Furcal got forced out at second AGAIN today by Pierre. If you want your answer to why Furcal hasn't scored as many runs as Pierre well theres your answer.
dodgerdude– i feel bad for you. You put it perfectly though; it/you really all make sense now.
It is not simply a product– it is a part of my heart. You compare it to a working place scenario, whereas i think of it as a family thing. ie. If you sister does something that is annoying, you still love her. The beautiful part about sports is that you care so much about the team without them knowing you at all– it is the very essence of being a fan. You love your team– you get upset when they lose but you do not rant about it like no tomorrow Granted there are circumstances where said ranting is necessary, but with this team it is all nitpicking and microanalyzing.
I for you put them on the highest pedastal i have.
for one put****
OBP is all you have to work with His Fld Pct. is Very solid with only 3 errors and he leads this team in Hits Runs Scored Bases stolen and triples if he were the leadoff guy I might be concerned however our leadoff guy makes about 6 million dollars more a year and gets forced out at 2nd because his wheels don't turn quick enough….JP is a leadoff hitter but bats second and would have more stolen bases if The 13 million dollar man wasn't blocking him when they both get on base….not to mention Furcal leads this team in errors with 12.I hope Hu is ready when Raffy's contract is up because we pay wayyy too much for the poor performance he is turning in this year.But Schmidt is the Bum of the Year winner Hands down for $/performance.Jp is hitting near .350 over his last 10 games and should be in the leadoff spot after the break.Get off the JP rant its old and doesn't hold water when you go beyond the obp. and say leadoff hitter in the same sentance….
Fisher man…did you even read what i wrote?
Furcal can't steal or score runs because of Pierre. Pierre is impatient therefore Furcal can't get a good pitch count to steal on and Pierre forces Furcal out ALOT at second base. Also Furcal's hurt.
Tell me how Pierre scores runs…tell me how he steals bases…he has to be on base to do that. Do you understand that?
If Pierre got on base at an average clip he'd have more steals and more runs scored and also that would help Furcal as well.
Furcal and Pierre have had back to back singles in one inning only about 3 times this year. Just 3 times. That means every other time Furcal has gotten on base Pierre had either forced him out in the innings or popped out/struck out/ ETC.
If Pierre walked more he would be a MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better player. Pierre's job isn't to drive in runs so don;t give me that **** about "a hit is better" because in Pierre's case all he hits is singles.
The more times Pierre gets on base the more likey he is to steal a base and score a run. Is that not understood? Please tell you understand that so i can stop typing this same mother freaking thing again. PLease tell me you understand. PLEASE
"gets forced out at 2nd because his wheels don't turn quick enough."
you really can't believe that? can you?…
I have had this thought multiple times over the season watching Pierre. I feel the Dodgers should invest in Brett Butler as a special coach for him (unfortunatly I think he works for the D-Backs). Even though Brett is a Jeff Kent type, he really helped Jose Offerman when they were with the Dodgers (OBP not fielding). I remember early in 1991 Offerman was a free swinger like Pierre is today. Butler, who got tired of not being able to work his way around the bases worked with him and he ended up being quite good at getting on base, now fielding was a different story.
By the way-
To the guy who says he is a good fielder: 3 errors for a weak arm outfielder is like 25 errors for a strong arm shortstop which Furcal is. Pierre's head moves so much when he tracks a fly ball it is amazing he can see it enough to catch it.
It is hard for me to bash the guy because he really seems to care which is better than a certain former Dodger who now plays in the AL East.
Pierre apparently works harder than anybody out there. I respect him for that. Apparently he's a pretty likeable guy too.
The problem is he's not a lot better than a lot of good little leaguers. Many times he gets horrible reads on fly balls & even with his speed doesn't get to a lot that other CF's get. If he does get there, it's a 50-50 chance that he'll drop it or misjudge it on tough plays.
His arm is HORRIBLE. Not just really bad, HORRIBLE. Runners always take the extra base and can tag up on any ball he catches, anywhere.
He runs fast, but last night for example, he didn't tag at second on a pretty deep ball to the outfield that was obviously going to be caught.
To use his speed he has to be on base, but is allergic to taking pitches and walking. He doesn't bunt nearly enough for a guy with his skill set. When Furcal gets on ahead of him, why not bunt half the time? Even if they know it's coming it's still a pseudo-sacrifice and many times he'll get on base, force a bad throw, etc. MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN! Don't just hit a fly ball or ground ball that forces Furcal.
Of course, if Little had a backbone like a former Dodger I know managing down the road, JP would be ordered to play the game the way his skill set dictates and the way that best helps the team.
Furcal needs to start running even if his ankle is not 100% or else he just need to be out of that lead off spot. It ***** that all leading SB guy have to bat 2nd.
You're right Lewis. I've always thought that it would be better for the Dodgers to lead off with Pierre & follow up with Furcal. Furcal gets many more extra base hits and I believe is a better situational hitter. The problem, I think is that JP doesn't get on base enough. I'd still like to see both of those guys, but especially Pierre, bunt and slap a little more. It will get the defenses shifting & moving and open up some holes and rush them into bad plays.
Wow! Ground Hog Day even when we win.
Now you guys have four full days to beat up on Pierre, Nomar, Grady, Ned, the washed up old vets, Tomko (ok, so he deserves it), not playing the kids (oops, never mind), etc., etc., etc.
You guys are too much. lol!
Kershaw is a REALLY big kid. His fastball sits at 95 MPH and with age, could get even faster.
His potential is limitless.
I wonder if Selig read this yet but than again it was posted 3 days ago. They really needs to do something about this now.
Pierre's arm is worse than that of a dead fish. Which has no arm. But his fielding is actually quite good. Here's a quote from a DT article about JP's zone rating:
"Juan Pierre scores surprisingly high on the defensive statistics published by The Hardball Times. Pierre is the No. 7 center fielder in THT's Zone Rating, which it obtains from Baseball Info Solutions. According to the numbers, Pierre has converted 144 of 158 balls in his zone into outs, while also grabbing 36 balls out of (his) zone, or OOZ. And that's good.
Surprised by this, I asked THT's Dave Studeman about how the numbers conflicted with how bad Pierre looks to my naked eye. Essentially, the statistical evidence is that too much has been made of Pierre's balltracking shortcomings."
You can read the whole article here:
Learn about zone rating (ZR) here:
**** cheating Giants fans.
Old-Fogey–Thanks for the tip on the Loney song. Everyone has been complaining that the last line did not rhyme (something, to be honest, that we did not even think of at the time), but your suggestion is very good.
I am hoping that Kemp is OK (can we get an update???), and assuming that they figured better to take him out early and let him rest over the All-Star Break than to risk something.
I know a lot of people think that he should be starting in CF over Pierre. I love Kemp, but understand why he is not in there everyday. He is still raw–he has some bad at-bats, gets too anxious, and still learning to hit the off-speed pitch. But unlike last year where it was unclear if he would be able to hit it, it seems it's a matter of time now. But he just needs to learn and mature. He's going to break into superstar status sometime between August of this year and August next year, and until then, I understand why he is not out there every day (I won't get caught up for now in the JP debate).
One other injury note–I really thought they should have sat Furcal yesterday and give him Friday off too. He's going to be the difference if we are to win the West, and giving him a full week off the ankle would have helped. Hopefully, the time off that he gets will do it.
Here are Kenny Loftons numbers compared to Pierres from this year.
.301/.386/.431 53 runs scored 81 hits 13 doubles 6 home runs 37BB 25K 20SB
Pierre: .282/.311/.338 52 runs scored 105 hits 13 doubles 0 home runs 15BB 24K 34SB
now notice how Pierre has more hits? But his OBP and BA are lower then Loftons…Thats because Lofton walks. Also notice how Lofton has one more run scored then Pierre? Thats because Loftons OBP is off the charts.
Id take Kenny Lofton over Juan Pierre any day. The fact that Ned took a 5 year 44 million dollar deal to an overrated player instead of an 1 year 8 million dollar deal for a guy who can obviously still get it done unlike the rest of his "veteran" signings is ridiculous.
I think that those stats do not take in account how fast Pierre is. His "zone" should be larger than another outfielder due to his speed. His routes are rarely crisp if ever… can anyone really remember him looking routine on a fly out? It always seems to be an adventure.
I have read all about his workout regimine maybe he works too hard on hitting. If you work on it all the time it is going to make you that much more anxious(sp?) to swing the bat. He is a front foot swinger he should be able to sit and read the pitch better.
I watch too many games on the internet so maybe I am not the best to state this but do the Dodgers ever hit and run? I only say this because with Pierre and Nomar it would seem like a great strategy to open up the field.
never-the-less, go Dodgers, here's to them putting the hitting, fielding, and pitching together. cheers.
PS to ESPN- Do you think you just might maybe notice that there are other teams outside of NY and NE? Maybe if baseball would step in and make them show other teams baseball would grow like football.
If Kemp isn't ready to go by Friday, we might see Delwyn Young up. He's smoking the ball right now.
"His "zone" should be larger than another outfielder due to his speed."
It should be but it is not because of how poorly he reads balls.
The Sky is Blue.
No player's zone is bigger in zone rating; that would ruin the whole point of ZR, which is to find an objective stat which defines defensive range. He's 7th best among CFs; who cares if you think he takes ugly routes, he gets to more balls out of zone than all the rest of them.