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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Aug. 25
- Last Updated on 07:59 AM 09/25/13
- BY The Gazette-Virginian
For candidates' consideration
To the editor:
With the board of supervisors' election looming in November, it is an opportune time to put forth a plan for consideration by the candidates.
Facts are that Halifax is facing multiple problems such as a declining population, loss of jobs, the tobacco buyout ending, a weak economy, etc.
The question is "who running for election has developed a plan to deal with the situation?" I would like to suggest a three point objective plan for their consideration to deal with both the short-term and long-term situation facing Halifax County.
First, deal with the declining population problem by attracting new citizens with the financial resources to stimulate the local economy by purchasing real estate, remodeling or building homes and demanding additional professional services, restaurants or service business, etc.
A part of the funds and facilities that are now used for tourism could be used to attract a small percentage of the estimated 10,000 baby boomers retiring each day by advertising in regional magazines, websites etc. Many of these individuals are not going to retire in the usual sense but will bring new life to clubs, mentoring programs and even may open new business ventures further spurring employment in the county.
Retired financially secure individuals will not require the county infrastructure that younger or less financially secure individuals would require.
Second, with the purchase of Smithfield Processing, China signaled that their growing population with an increasing standard of living is seeking more and better agricultural products. Other large countries such as India are also beginning to become interested in agricultural products, and Halifax County with 93 percent of its land area zoned agricultural is poised to benefit.
Recent action by the board of supervisors to look into reopening a livestock slaughter facility and the hiring of an agricultural agent are a move in the right direction.
Recent approval of improvements to hog production facilities are another indication of the importance the board of supervisors has recently put on agriculture and farming.
Third, instead of the current exercise of spending large sums of money attempting to attract large high tech employers, emphasize the expansion of existing businesses in the county.
Small businesses have been and will continue to be the economic engines of the country. Instead of utilizing or redirecting funds now misspent on the purchase of land and the building of industrial parks, these funds could be used to grow existing businesses and would be a more efficient and viable way to develop Halifax economically.
Additional areas for consideration for potential members of the board of supervisors are gifts to members that may be offered from time to time by organizations who might be asking the board for assistance and the handling of off-budget items.
Although the amount of money may not rise to the level of the state of national level, the implications or favoritism can still exist, and given the financial condition of Halifax County such gifts could be viewed as unseemly.
It is current board policy not to vote on off-budget funding requests at the same meeting the request is made. By allowing off-budget items to be voted upon, the board risks spending funds which are not available under the budget and encourages off-budget requests to be made. How would those running for election handle this?
Barry Bank
ED-5 Supervisor,
Halifax County
Too many school fundraisers
To the editor:
Well, we are about one month into a new school year, and already I find myself angered and disappointed in the Halifax County School system.
Once again our students are not being put first in our schools.
We live in the Cluster Springs Elementary School district. Our first fundraiser (of many I'm sure) has begun.
I was always under the impression that fundraisers were on a voluntary basis. However, CSES, and perhaps all of the county schools, have decided that if our children are to be rewarded with a very much-hyped program, that each child must sell five fundraiser items minimum, ranging in the price range I believe of $9 to $19.
The children who do not manage to do this will be singled out and punished by not being allowed to attend this program, which is being held at the school during regular school hours.
This country's schools already have a very big problem with bullying, and these actions only encourage this behavior. We've also already received a pre-recorded telephone message from our principal, Ms. Long, complaining about lunches being charged by the children.
Ms. Long also ended last school year with a pre-recorded message stating that if any child did not have all unpaid lunch money in by a scheduled end of year field trip, they would not be allowed to go on the field trip. This is coming from a school that boasted to having $20,000 in the PTO fund.
I am appalled and sickened by the audacity of this school system, a public school system that receives federal funds from taxes paid by this county's working people.
It takes a nerve to ostracize our children in the name of fundraisers and lunch money. What will you do with the PTO funds? I cannot think of a better use than for our children (all children) to enjoy a school program or to have a full belly.
Did we not address an unpaid lunch problem last year at our high school?
I'm sure that I am not alone in my feelings. More people need to speak out. This is discrimination. This is an unfair practice.
Our economy is strapped at best, more so in this county than in some others. Fifteen dollars for a container of cookie dough could put a pretty good meal on the table for a family. What do you think would be more important?
For those who want to participate, that's fine. For those who don't, that should be fine also. But school should be for learning, not selling.
There are way too many fundraisers, and they are too expensive.
Sharon Hereford


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By Tim Krohn
Free Press Staff Writer
MANKATO — Even with this year's half-day-early start to Black Friday shopping, the official Black Friday was the best on record for many local merchants.
"Traffic numbers were up on Friday compared to last year," said Paul Wilke, manager of River Hills Mall.
Two mall anchors — Sears and Target — opened Thursday at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. respectively, following the move by a handful of national chains to shift the shopping kickoff from traditional midnight starts to Thanksgiving Day.
Wilke said he won't get firm sales numbers from mall stores for a few weeks, but he said retailers were very happy.
"What we've heard from retailers is very good. They are meeting or exceeding their goals, and their numbers are higher than last year."
He said Scheels reported it broke all past Black Friday records.
Wilke said the weekend following Black Friday was likewise strong. "The weather certainly makes a difference. Not having snow certainly helps."
As for the Thanksgiving Day store openings, Wilke doesn't expect it to be a trend followed by most retailers. "I don't see a lot of pressure for other stores to open on Thursday."
He said the staggered opening of stores seemed to benefit all of them. While some opened Thursday evening, many opened at midnight, and others — including Scheels and JC Penny — opened at 6 a.m.

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Dr. Michael B. Greenbaum, vice chancellor, chief operating officer, and an assistant professor of educational administration at The Jewish Theological Seminary, will discuss his book, Louis Finkelstein and the Conservative Movement: Conflict & Growth., at 6:30 p.m. on March 18 at Border's, 1642 Schlosser Street, in Fort Lee.
The event is being sponsored by Congregation Gesher Shalom (Fort Lee Jewish Center) as part of its ongoing series on "The Changing Face of the Conservative Movement." Future speakers include JTS scholars Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Irving Lehrman Research associate professor of American Jewish History and Dean of Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, and Dr. Joel Roth, Louis Finkelstein professor of Talmud and Jewish law.
Rabbi Greenbaum teaches courses in non–profit management, leadership theory and practice, and the history of the Conservative Movement at JTS. A recognized expert on Louis Finkelstein and the Conservative Movement, his work on these areas has appeared in Conservative Judaism, Tradition Renewed, the two–volume history of JTS, and in the Journal of Conservative Judaism. In addition to working under Dr. Finkelstein as a student, he has also had the privilege of working closely with Chancellors Gerson D. Cohen and Ismar Schorsch.
Dr. Greenbaum's expertise in higher–education administration has been acknowledged by both the Association of Theological Schools (the primary accrediting body for religiously affiliated schools in North America) and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, which accredits all post–secondary schools in the Middle Atlantic region, Puerto Rico, and other locations abroad. At JTS he served for four years as a member of the Association of Theological Schools' National Commission on Accrediting, where he is currently chair of the Appeals Committee, and recently completed a fifth–year term as a Commissioner on the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association, during which time he was also a member of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the panel of advisors for Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education. Over the years he has chaired numerous evaluation teams for both organizations.
As JTS's chief operating officer, Rabbi Greenbaum is responsible for day–to–day operations. He has overseen the physical development of JTS's campus, the realization of a balanced budget, and the professionalization of operations. He works closely with the Chancellor-elect on a wide range of JTS and Conservative Movement issues and activities, both here and abroad, and represents JTS on numerous boards and committees of the Conservative Movement. He is the immediate past chairman of the Joint Retirement Board and the Secretary of the National Ramah Commission. For many years, Rabbi Greenbaum has enjoyed sharing the pulpit in Sharon, Massachusetts, on the High Holidays. He has also been a scholar–in–residence at various events.
Rabbi Greenbaum received a BS degree from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He received a master of education degree from Teacher's College and a master of Hebrew literature degree from JTS, where he was ordained. Rabbi Greenbaum received his doctorate in higher education administration from Columbia University.
The event is free and open to the community. Further information is available by calling Bruce Prince or Pauline Rotmil at (201) 947-1753.
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Monty Montgomery joins GreenBank
The parent company of GreenBank said Thursday that Lloyd "Monty" Montgomery III has signed on as president of the bank's East Region, which is centered on Knoxville.
"I am excited by this opportunity to join a great bank in a great city that I love and in which I have lived the majority of my life," Montgomery said in a news release. "I plan to spend the next few months focused on the organizational and administrative aspects of the role of Regional President and expect those efforts to pay off later on as we continue to expand our market share in East Tennessee."
In 2009, Montgomery was ousted as president and COO of Chattanooga-based lender First Security Group. Last week, that company announced a $500,000 settlement with Montgomery in connection with a $2.3 million arbitration claim related to his termination.
Green Bankshares has not yet announced a successor for chairman and CEO Stan Puckett, who is stepping down at the end of March. However, in Thursday's news release, company president and COO Kenneth Vaught -- who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Puckett -- said the addition of Montgomery will allow Vaught to "return his full attention to GreenBank's day-to-day operations across all three regions."
"We are pleased to have Monty Montgomery join our Bank in this important role," Vaught said in the release. "Well known in the region as a consummate banker and recognized for his integrity and ability, he brings to this position more than 30 years of banking experience, most of it in the Knoxville area. As a result, he knows the region well and understands the particular needs and aspirations of East Tennessee business and retail customers."


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I write about big government's corrosive effects on civil society.
As we pass the one year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, lovingly known to most as ObamaCare, and with a repeal movement trying to get into full swing, it's worth revisiting what could have been, and what could still be. Simply repealing ObamaCare might save the country from the certain financial and health care disasters it would bring, but repeal alone doesn't address the noble goal of ensuring as many people as possible, and the necessary goal of curbing runaway health care inflation. There is another way.
It's vital to understand that the twin problems of uninsured Americans and exploding costs were not caused by the lack of a federal solution to health care. Quite to the contrary, it is precisely the government's involvement in this sector of the economy that has caused these problems. Numbers released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services back in January place the government's share at a little over 43% of 2009′s total health care spending, although Cato Institute's Michael Cannon wonders if the numbers should be closer to 50%. Consider this contrast: Senator Jim De Mint has proposed a balanced budget amendment that would limit government spending to 20% of GDP, and that has many on the left (and the right, but for different reasons) completely apoplectic. Apparently 20% of the entire economy is too little for the left but nearly half of a huge sector of our economy is just fine. But more on government's meddling later.
The root causes by example
For almost anyone having health insurance, the exact cost of services delivered is rarely questioned. When your doctor says, "We're going to order some tests…", or, "I'd like you to get an MRI…", you probably reply "OK, sure.". Let's assume that these tests and scans are unquestionably required. There may be several labs in the area that could do those tests, or a few different facilities with MRI equipment, but more than likely, you'll take your doctor's recommendation ("we have a lab right down the hall") and go through the motions.
With almost any other purchasing decision, it would not be uncommon to shop around for your personally desired mix of quality versus price versus service versus location versus whatever.
However, for some reason, we've allowed our medical care transactions to be treated differently. With a lot of insurance plans, the aforementioned tests and MRI's probably won't even be billed to you. You'll never know what they really cost.
But what of the situation that precipitated those tests? Perhaps it was a physical, which being a responsible person you've had annually for as long as you remember. Similarly, you probably change the oil in your car on a regular basis.
Do you file a claim with your auto insurance company to change your oil?
And there you have two of the major reasons health care is so expensive, and why health insurance, which isn't the same as health care, is equally so.
Now few people would suggest that you should question your doctor's every recommendation. You'd find your customer or boss questioning your every action equally irritating and disrespectful. And few people would argue for skipping annual physicals on a regular basis as a cost-saving measure.
But in health care have we somehow reached a place where we use insurance to pay for things that have very high probabilities of occurring. Insurance was invented to protect against calamities that hopefully never happen. Companies that sell insurance employ armies of people who try to predict the likelihood of these calamities. Given a probability, pricing the insurance is then pretty straightforward, and given an accurate probability, the product can be offered at a consistent level of profit, one that allows the insurance company to be there when you need it.
Here's where things go awry.
Mr. Zarras,
After reading your piece I am at a loss to understand exactly what problem your solution is supposed to solve. The PPACA provides protections to private insurance policy holders so that they cannot be denied services arbitrarily because of pre-existing conditions. Your proposal does nothing to address this. The PPACA intends to provide coverage to those who do not have insurance through their employer, I do not see how your proposal addresses this situation either. Moreover, the way most private insurers work is that they collect more money from their customers than they expect to pay-out in a given year to cover invoices / insurance claims, their own administrative costs, dividends to their stockholders, and they put away some money for the future. As it turns out, people do not spend the same amount of money every year on medical bills, some years it is only a little and some years it is a lot. So by putting money away for the future, they can cover this variability in billing without changing their premiums constantly. Moreover, they usually have fixed payments for given procedures and services exactly to allow for planning.
So, although your ideas are interesting, I do not see how they could provide an alternative to the PPACA.
Auto insurance makes sense. Why? Because a person with insurance could literally never file a claim in there entire lifetime. Health insurance does not make sense. Why? Because everybody dies. It is 100% certain. In our modern society dying usually involves hefty medical bills. In fact 60% of a persons healthcare bills for their lifetime occur in the last 6 months of their life. So what to do? To cut costs of healthcare get rid of health insurance companies all together. Why? Because they add 30% to the overall cost of healthcare. And have everyone pay into an health fund every month of there life. Hmmm. But this is what Canada essentially has. Socialized healthcare! Oh my God. And it works much better than the US model and one half the cost. And the USA healthcare ranks 37th in the world. But John Boehner says US healthcare is the best in the world. Hmmm. Is John Boehner a liar? Could a US member of congress be a liar? Why hasn't our leftist media called him out? Perhaps because our media is owned by rich people? Who does our media serve. A few Americans or all Americans? What if we had an honest media neither left or right. Just the facts Maam?
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You allude to the model of a self-funded plan with stop loss for extraordinary claims and a third party administrator to "submit" claims to. Add in a "rented" network of preferred providers and you have a point of service plan. Problem is, there is no curb on "cost shift" by government underpayments on their programs, the consumption of services by illegals (presuming that most uninsured could get Medicaid or can be a cash payer); nor is there any incentive not to practice defense medicine.
Any Health Savings Account plan must have a "most favored patient" proviso, or some sort of HMO/Preferred Provider plan. This is because any unfortunate person who pays cash for health care today is ripped off by incredibly high prices, as compared to insured patients. Just try to buy a prescription for cash, with no insurance or group coverage. Your price will be far higher than the total of the copay and insurance reimbursement of the insured patient.
I'm a far left wing liberal dem, and fine, I support your solution. Every person should be able to make a single call to any FOR-PROFIT insurance company with a 7-8 figure salary CEO, and purchase an HSA health insurance policy with all of their pre-existing conditions covered FROM DAY 1. I'm not talking about a high-risk pool. Conservatives have spent the last year telling us the those are failures. If HSAs are the solutions, then they are solution for everybody. If for-profit insurers say that they are better, then they are better for everybody even people with 10k/year in annual expenses.
BTW. I spend half of my time on these health care debate blogs doing RUTHLESS BATTLE with whining conservatives whose #1 complaint with ObamaCare is that it caused their DEDUCTIBLE to go up. Here YOU are, one of many conservatives, TRUMPETING HIGH-DEDUCTIBLE plans and criticizing ObamaCare because it doesn't promote them ENOUGH. Rising deductibles are a GOOD thing, you say. Please inform your fellow tea partiers of that and that HIGHER deductibles are the plans of the ELITE conservatives.
Your article did not go far enough. If you take a step back and look at capitalism, capitalism counts on rising prices to cause people to look for alternatives, find cheaper service, or bring in competition. Health care is failing because of the pricing structure. First, you have everybody buy their health care through HSAs as you suggest. But secondly, you change the pricing structure so that doctors and hospitals are paid by the patient not by the service. Since no one except a doctor decides what is needed, you have to make the doctor a general contractor and pay him a set amount. Then the doctor is paying for the work that he ordered. When we change the pricing structure, then prices will go down. It would help to have a five step process to cut the cost of health care, but that is a different area.
The way you solve the pre-existing conditions problem is simple: you mandate that all for-profit insurers must offer a high-deductible HSA plan to anybody regardless of pre-existing conditions with all such conditions covered(after the deductible) from day 1. If they can't do it, then HSAs aren't the solution. It's just that simple.
Mr. Zarras,
1) The PPACA was created exactly to protect people from disqualification due to pre-existing conditions. Unless your proposal a dresses this proplem then it is not an alternative to the PPACA.
2) The PPACA seeks to provide health insurance coverage to those who do not currently have it available. Unless your proposal a dresses that, it is not an alternative to the PPACA.
3) As you correctly point out, a huge portion of all medical transactions in the US are already covered under Medicare or Medicaid, and have been for nearly 50 years. If the VA and military Medical Corps are added, it is the majority. In 2001, about 40 years after the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, there was no deficit and the US debt was under control. So I do not see how the modest expansion of coverage under the PPACA would bring "disaster". It is just more of what have had for two generations, and more than in every other western country.
There is a real simple solution on how to handle pre-existing conditions:
Allow families to contribute the money they would ordinarily pay in taxes to the critical medical care of another family member. I don't mean make it tax deductible, I mean 100% of the money can be directly subtracted from what is owed to the IRS. The reasoning is simple, if your sister is dying of cancer, she needs the money more than the Forest Service, Department of Energy (who doesn't make any energy), or a whole host of other departments do. Families come first — especially in their time of crisis. How much would this cost to implement? That's the beauty. Nothing.
The fact of the mater is, medicare / medicaid are both severely broken. If we are not willing to reform them in-place then there is no hope that we will ever be able to reform a much larger medical bureaucracy when it invariably runs into overspending and difficulty.
The answer is even easier, and you were really close when you started discussing the WWII era wage controls. Just eliminate the tax free benefit of employer provided health 'insurance' which began in that time… that alone is KILLING the market and the only way to truly fix it is to remove the gigantic tax subsidy to restore market forces. HSA's are close to that ideal, but not quite and thus unworkable.
This is a great article and I herald the HSA's. However, I am a 58 year old male in California.
I had an HSA for two years and it was a great idea, that is until the Health Insurance Companies stopped offering reasonably priced High Deductible plans. I had to drop my HSA because it made no sense when the high deductible plan premium being about 600 dollars less than the full blown HMO offered at my company. Do your homework…I have my insurance via Healthnet. This sounds great in theory but if insurance companies don't offer the higher deductible plans at a price reasonably below the regular HMO it makes no financial sense to go that avenue. The insurance companies stack the deck my friends. They and the government have us over a barrel and don't care about the individual and will do what it takes to make the dollar. That's their bottom line, not our health. Sing the praises of HSA's if they only did what they were intended to do!
The trouble is a Health Savings Account makes too much sense. I did a cursory survey to find one for myself in 2009. The only persons offered it besides government employees were bank employees. I'm not sort of inferring anything but it is a bit baffling why Health Savings Accounts have not been on the marquee.


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Yep! Marc tells it like it is and was and Ian lays it out for you in a very few words missing nothing of the essay----ONE THING though (maybe I missed it?) Petrililos recording ban------and before LPs, BIRD stated that if "ya can't say it in two choureses somethings not right". Of course Most of us saw bird taking 3-10 choureses on tunes esp. up things like KO KO et el. Good article! Nice to see that there are still some folks that take the music seriously! Mort
Just saw the the video of Take Five below. Was talking to my old friend The Senator Eugene Wright the other day. Many many years ago we'd hang together when he came to L . A. when he was with Buddy De franco-cats 87 now and still plays--Never for get the the litle concert we played together in Dana Point Calif. Jimi Smith on drums Gary Case on guitar me on clarinet and Eugene. Ahhh yes . There were such days! Mort
Thanks for your feedback Mort. This allows me an opportunity to add a few more words beyond the limitations of the article length in praise of Marc's book. Sure, I missed stuff out, but the aim is simply to engage people's curiosity enough so they go and read this book.
So much of the material is sourced via interviews with a plethora of folk who were part of the scene in those years from the 1940s through the 1970s - it's really an impressive roster: your old pal Buddy Defranco; Sonny Rollins; Dionne Warwick; Burt Bacharach; John Levy; Creed Taylor; Joesph Jarman; Nat Hentoff; Randy Weston; Billy Taylor; Lennie Niehaus; Ira Girtler; Jon Hendricks; Benny Powell; George Wein; Dave Brubeck; George Avakian; Orrin Keepnews; Johhny Mandel; Chico Hamiton; Benny Golson; Rudy Van Gelder; Lou Donaldson; Grace Slick; Chick Corea; John McLaughlin; Ron Carter; Randy Brecker; Gary Burton....
When I said thoroughly researched I wasn't kidding.
Myers has done a really fantastic job. This book should be of interest to anyone interested in or concerned with jazz today, as a lot of the issues that Myers delves into have strangely familiar echoes today - technology, social trends, new markets and economic forces, media...
Those were indeed the days, unrepeatable days, but so are these.
All the best Mort. Thanks for your energy.
Easy to for get----BUT, Joe Morello was one BAD ASS MOTHER F**KER!!!!! Mort
Though I'm not sure what Grace Slick (Jeez, Starship!) has to do with jazz, Marc's socio-political approach seems to be a new and fresh one. Looking forward to reading all 266 pages, and hope it's gonna be a huge success.
"Jazz's challenge going forward will be to attract new musicians who are able to find new ways of expressing the music that not only pay tribute to jazz's past but also interpret contemporary life in a way that resonates with new listeners." Marc Meyers: Why Jazz Happened
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Indeed this is the challenge going forward. Jazz, as a music, must indeed resonate with individuals engaged in our contemporary lifestyles today. In doing so, jazz, as a product must engage individuals within the context of our contemporary lifestyles of today as well. You can't present jazz the way they did in the 1950s and expect to sell out clubs today because there are so many competing interests for people to engage as entertainment now. We have to return emphasis to the live jazz listening experience - at clubs, concert halls and even via the "live streaming" of concerts using technologies of our times.
I look forward to the next developments in the jazz continuum. I am optimistic about the future of the music - browse this site to see all of the great music being created in our own time at all levels. Although instrumental music and the arts are being withheld from too many public school in the US, private community programs seem to be attempting to fill the void. If the US military jazz bands become publicly devalued and thus go away, then that would be a sign for concern as to the relevancy of the music to the public discourse in context. Jazz music is about narrating life from personal experience. That can always be interesting ...
Great book and congratulations to Mr. Meyers! Cb
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Twins going too far this off-season?
With the big signing of Nolasco and Hughes last month and the recent re-signing of Pelfrey (God, please no), the Twins are reportedly still in on Arroyo, Maholm, and possibly even Garza. If Minnesota signs another on of these starters, would they have gone too far in signing starting pitchers? With Diamond, Correia, Deduno, Worley, Albers, Gibson and potentially Meyer and May ready and capable (for the most part) for a starting job, are the Twins over signing so far?
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I don't think so but I don't think it happens. In reality, only Nolasco, Hughes and Gibson really matter. Correia will be gone after this year and Pelfrey is just a backend guy. Deduno may not even be that. Twins should be better next year - maybe even pushing for .500 - but only Nolasco, Hughes and Gibson should be expected to be part of the next winning Twins team and that lets the Twins bring up guys like Meyer and May or sign someone else longterm next offseason.
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It only matters if it keeps them from:
A: starting the best pitchers for some reason
B: signing/acquiring position players (which I think is the actual risk right now)Lighten up Francis....
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The Nolasco signing was OK. The Hughes signing I disagreed with but not terrible, but there was no good reason to resign Pelfrey. He has very little upside and now takes a rotation spot for the next 2 seasons. The Twins would have been better suited to trying to trade for an actual good pitcher, letting one of the young guys with a future take the spot or waiting and signing a real upgrade next off season. Pelfrey makes no sense on a 2 year deal.
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When you had the worst pitching staff in baseball the last two years, you can't go far enough IMO.
The Twins shouldn't be NOT making moves for guys like DeDuno, Diamond, Albers etc
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The saying goes you can never have enough pitching. Of course, it makes more sense if you put "good" in front of pitching. At this point I think the hope is with enough guys thrown against the wall some of them will stick and at the same time not stink like last year.
I agree with Mike on the offense, where is that coming from?This comment brought to you from the Rosedale Mall studio by Hamm's Beer, brewed in the land of sky blue waters.
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In on Garza I can understand. Anyone else? I just don't get it. Much better to put that money toward a catcher and bat(s). (Yes, I know there could be 40-man problems but there just aren't that many indispensables on the 40-man -- we could later have some regrets about a DFA or trade but that is part of the risk of baseball. You have to be able to rely upon your talent evaluators.)
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I don't see Hughes, Pelfrey or Coreria being long term answers for the Twins but they are decent bounce back candidates that might net them something at the trade deadlines In the coming years. They have things lined up right now so that they will have someone they can possibly trade each of the next three years. considering we are two or three years away from being better than average I like that strategy.
They are at the point now though where if they get someone else they need to be really good as we don't have the roster space for an average pitcher to make sense unless TR has some trades in mind that we don't know about. I like that they are not satisfied with what they have and who knows maybe they can find a good deal out there yet. Let's buy as much talent as we can to potentially create trade bait and turn this team around. The team has the money to take some risks and some of them are bound to work out well.
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Of the following players who could make a case for being in the opening day lineup: Worley, Deduno, Diamond, Albers, Hendricks, Hernandez, the guy who came over in the Morneau trade, Gibson, Meyer. The only two you worry about blocking are Gibson and Meyer, and I would bank on both of those guys getting some service time this year.
No disrespect intended to any of the other guys, but they have not proven they are good enough to be part of a good rotation and you can only give someone so many chances (see: Hendricks, Liam). Give them another role, stash them in AAA if possible, or let them go and wish them success with another club.
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The only problem with the offseason is that the Twins have ignored adding anything to a pretty bad offense. Long term this could work out since the Twins best prospects are hitters but 2014 could be an awful year offensively.
Having too many deserving starters and not enough innings would be a lovely predicament for the Twins. One they haven't had in probably a decade.
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No, I like what they're doing so far.
They have:
To mix in with some young guys. Pelfrey was solid the second half of the season, if we get that out of him next year I can handle that for a 4th-5th starter.
The Twins needed options with some experience and now they have them. Now, if they add one more vet they can potentially have 5 vet starters out there with a couple of younger guys battling for the 5th spot or there when someone melts down.
Some people hate the Pefrey signing but I believe he was around a 4.5 ERA the second half.
Generally speaking it is not a good thing to have three spots in the rotation that your young starters more than likely will have to fill. Ideally, you have four experienced starters and maybe one spot that one of your prospects can fight for.
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I also find it strange that you make an argument that most of the MLB ready pitchers as trash (they aren't great) but think it would be difficult to upgrade the offense in FA or trades. The Twins offense is not full of MLB starting caliber players and I would project them as a bottom 5 offense in the majors.
I also have no idea how you can spin signing Drew as a negative and then list a bunch of crappy prospects (Santana is a utility player, Michael absolutely sucks and Polanco is 2+ years away) as an argument against signing Drew.
I don't have a problem with the pitching moves made although Pelfrey is lackluster but it isn't mission impossible to upgrade one of the majors worst offenses that is full of marginal MLB players.
I was posting in reference to what has been said on these boards; not in this thread. I agree Michael has been a bust - I was just mentioning SS prospects off the top of my head. Polanco is really the only legit player of that group - I agree. But in 2 years, the Twins are ready to compete and if the experiment of Polanco does not work at SS this year, perhaps you move to the FA market then or try to make a trade.
Why would you sign a 3b or CF with Sano and Buxton a year away. Arcia is 22 years old. Let him play. He will strike out, but will hit for power (2b, HR). There's really not too much left out there. I don't know man, I just think it's not worth it to spend money on those types of players, when realistically you might get a little better performance, but what will that add up to? 25 runs? 50 runs? 100 runs? The Twins need speed. Not too many burners on that list (Casilla anyone?) maybe Sizemore or Guterriez. I'd be ok with their signing.
Speaking of the pitchers - If signing Arroyo or Garza happens it is not that big of a deal to lose Albers, Diamond, or Deduno IMO.
My post was just in response to the title and was a rant; nothing personal.
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Bello and Diaz should be looked at very hard, and if they are thought to be ready or to be near ready ,we should spend what it takes, as we need another catcher and a Shortstop, both of these guys could grow up with the team and be part of the future
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I don't understand how you can think it's not worth attempting to upgrade one of the worst offenses in baseball. We aren't talking 5-6 year contracts here. For example Corey Hart signed a 1 yr contract with the Mariners in an absolutely awful park for RH'd power hitters. Additionally the Twins have so many marginal players starting currently that it wouldn't be difficult to shuffle a player around when an elite prospect comes up.
I don't see any reason to not sign someone to a 2-3 year contract NOW because we need to see how Polanco handles SS this year. He's 2-3 yrs away and not an elite prospect. There are reasons for not signing Drew but this definitely isn't one of them.
The problem is that it isn't clear a few of the signings are better options. Worley is not a bad pitcher - he was bad last year but the guy had been pretty darn good. Deduno has some fun stuff. And Gibson is supposed to be part of the future.
All three of these guys are potentially squeezed out by two aging, hardly impressive starters. I appreciate the hell out of the effort by the Twins, I'm just not sure it's the right approach. Hughes made sense - he's got great potential to be a steal and a buy-low rebound. Nolasco is a clear upgrade. Pelfrey? Not so much on either front.
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I really wouldn't say they are doing too much. They have 3 straight 95+ loss season. Terry Ryan had to do something and something big. Pitching wins games. It wont take you to the playoff like KC learned in 2013, but it will win games. Luckily for the Twins, they have two of the top prospects in baseball knocking on the door, one impact bat getting his feet wet and another not far away. Combine that talent with Joe Mauer, and 2015 looks pretty good.
Now, 2014 isn't a throw-away either. Mauer, Willingham, Arcia, Dozier, Plouffe, Pinto, Kubel all have talent. Bounce back years for Willingham, Plouffe and Kubel could happen (especially with a Kubel/Plouffe platoon). This team wont be a run scoring machine, but with decent starters and a good bullpen they could score enough to be above .500.Do or do not. There is no try.
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I just don't see how there is a big difference between the Hughes signing and the Pelfrey signing. Grass is greener I suppose.
Consider: They are both top picks and prospects that failed to pan out in the majors as the dominant starters they once projected to be. They are both coming off of terrible overall seasons. Both had some injury issues that affected their durability. However, Pelfrey's contract is far better if these guys end up being who they were last season.
I like both signings for the same reasons, but I actually like the Pelfrey signing more due to the lower risk. Just to be clear, these guys are being paid peanuts if they hit their upside, if they flop, well . . . it would be a shame, but it's not the Barry Zito contract.
Hughes has already proven that his fastball would play well out of the bullpen, but I suspect Pelfrey could do the same if we have young starters that simply run away with the rotation spots and either of them underachieve.
Just think, they are making roughly 27 million over the next two years while Bartolo is going to make 20. Good signings.
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The first time they block a starter in AAA who is truly ready because they want more starts out of Corriea/Pelfrey, I'll worry. There's one spot open now. There will be another by June 1st. Everyone who's deserving will still get their shot.
And as for leaving no money for a bat, the current payroll is ~$83 million. Exactly the same as last year and $20-$25 million less than 2011. If we're out of money to spend, Jim Pohlad should be ashamed of himself.


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Workers already poured the concrete base for the changeable-message sign -- the kind that projects drive times, Amber Alerts, car wrecks and other traffic information -- that can be seen from a number of angles in residential neighborhoods, such as Avenida Dolores and others.
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Council members all agreed to not only shoot down the electrical encroachment permit, but also to formally oppose the sign. They criticized Caltrans for failing to adequately communicate with the city and its residents, many of whom have fought to ban digital signs and billboards along the freeway.
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Mayor Jim Evert agreed, saying the public's will to keep digital signs off the freeway was clear.
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This is one of my favorite OnBeing interviews. As I was
Permalink Submitted by Chelsea on Tue, 2011-03-01 11:35
This is one of my favorite OnBeing interviews. As I was re-listening to it this time around--- probably the 4th time I've heard it--- I was struck by a particular phrase at about 19:35 of the podcast...
WM: "But I would say, since we are talking about faith...."
Woah. I couldn't help but wonder, had this interview been conducted just a few years later-- after the Speaking of Faith became On Being--- how might this conversation have been different? I'd like to think that the name change doesn't have much of an impact on the content of the radio programs, but that all-too-revealing statement certainly made me take pause. Not good, not bad, just something to think about...

Wangari - as always, inspirational on and off the air.
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Time to Put up the boat or do some fall Fishing??
Just seeing whos still out doing what? I have put my boat away for the winter since the fishing this summer was just horrible, and figured its time to pull out the winter toys anhow.. Just wondering whos still doing what for fishing, and or whos switching to hunting mode?Mike
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Both of my uncles and my Dad and I have been fishing pretty much every weekend. We've been doing good trolling one of the small lakes up here since we've all limited out pretty much each time we've gone out there, but otherwise it has been pretty bad here this year as well. I shouldn't complain though since I myself have 9 fish in the freezer, and dad's got about 20. Gotta get a new pan for our smoker so we can smoke some. All rainbow trout, and I think the biggest one is about 14 inches and the smallest is about 10.
Tomorrow (weather permitting) I'll probably do a bit of a hike or a ride, depending on my mood. I wanted to today, but my body was just too damn lazy, lol. It's nice having a "vacation", but man do I wish I was working right now because I am BORED!
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I'll be pulling the boat out soon (hopefully) for some fall fishing. My dad & I didn't get any in this summer...that oil spill really had us disgusted and it's just too damn hot! I'd rather be out there in the fall anyway.-Sal
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Growing up in the Northwest, we always quit fishing at Labor day, and didn't go again until springtime. There are a few ice-fishing episodes, but that's pretty much the rule for us, try to catch and freeze enough during the summer to last until spring.
Now that I'm down in the South, I don't see why I shouldn't be on a boat catching something until even early December, just as long as the weather is good. Start up again in March. I've not done that recently, but that's just part of living in the south.
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See some of our winter toys are the Ice fishing gear..
Well, come on down to KW and watch the race..hang out and lets PARTY...i even have a CONDO ( big ) to share ..cheap !!!! from the 6th of nov. to the 15 th !!!!
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There are some good boat deals going on right now, we went to Bass Pro Shops and they've got their own line called TAHOE that they seem to push, good looking boats. I'm not sure that I'm not looking for a used, maybe 10 year old boat, maybe like a 20' to get started. That may be too big for what we want to do, so who knows. I might decide to buy something in the Spring, unless there is a great deal going on. My wife's uncle has 5 acres of land with a large 1000 sq ft workshop with a covered outer area on it. He might take a small fee to let me park my boat there if it all works out.
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I dont do much fishing on my boat, it's a bow rider ski boat thats set up more for partying.
One of the nice things about being in Texas is most years you can use the boat until mid October then get back on the water in late March. I've been out skiing a few times in November when we've had late summers.
I've got friends that never pull their boats out of the water or winterize them because we dont get a deep freeze here. Personnally for me it gets a little to cold from Dec. to March to be out on an open boat, I dont mind if theres an enclosed cabin to duck into once in a while to warm up and you can stay somewhat dry.
Boat sales have been bad for a few years, a couple local dealers are offering outstanding deals on new 2008 boats. I was looking at a new 2008 Chris Craft Corsair 25 "V" berth for $32k this exact boat was listing @ $64k when I looked at it in 08. Dealers are also being generous on trade-ins right now so they can move the stock thats been accumulating for a few years.
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