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Fan Confidence Poll: July 20th, 2009By
Record Last Week: 3-0 (9 RS, 5 RA)
Season Record: 54-37 (504 RS, 440 RA), 1.0 GB
Opponents This Week: vs. Baltimore (3 games), vs. Oakland (4 games)
Top stories from last week:
- After a brutally long four day layoff for the All Star Break, the Yankees started the second half with a bang. Mark Teixeira's late inning three run homer gave the team a win on Friday, then CC Sabathia outlasted Justin Verlander in a classic pitcher's duel on Saturday. Joba Chamberlain followed that up with his best performance in nearly two months to complete the sweep yesterday.
- Sergio Mitre was officially named the fifth starter, but the move will probably be temporary because Chien-Ming Wang is ready to start a throwing program. Damaso Marte also started a rehab assignment.
- We polled the RABiverse, and Mariano Rivera's bases loaded walk was voted as your favorite moment of the first half. The Yankees launched an official fan club called the Yankees Universe.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
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Still holdin strong at 8. Going to take a big event to swing me one way or the other.
beyond CC & AJ, we need more SP depth for september and beyond.
Joba will hit his innings limit soon and andy has been up and down lately.
phil and wang are question marks in SP roles, right now…
I'm not sure that Joba will hit is innings limit any time soon. He's currently on pace for 169 innings. That's probably at the very high end of where his innings limit might be, but the Yankees could simply skip his start a couple of times in September to keep the innings down.
Tough to really complain about anything this series
Joba impressed me yesterday. Pitching against a solid offensive ballclub, Joba overcame a 20 pitch first inning and gave us a B+ effort. Now lets see him put a string of min. 6 inning starts. With Pettitte far from a sure thing, we'll need Joba to be considerably more efficient in the 2nd half.
Hughes's status as a late inning demi-god isn't assured. Bruney needs more reps. I honestly can't wait to see Marte get back. Marte could be a X-factor, and I wonder if impressive game performances from Marte will affect Cash's decision to pursue a reliever by the trading deadline.
I actually voted 7 initially, but writing this stuff up made me realize the immediate future's alittle brighter.
Detroit is actually a terrible offensive team. 10th in RS and 11th in team OPS.
Those are AL numbers, btw.
And league adjusted, i suspect not that different for MLB
yep. The Tiger offense is pretty much composed of Granderson and Miguel Cabrera. I didnt realize Guillen and Polanco were certified dead-weights in the lineup.
Tigers should consider trading Miggy and re-stock the farm.
They're in first place, but they should trade one of the top hitters in the game (whos 26)?
They're in first place and have a knockout 1-2 punch in their rotation.
Their division sucks, so they probably have several months to play around and try to find some more bullpen arms, and they'll be able to move a starter in there for the post-season.
And if they can cut Ordonez and get away with it they have about 30m off the books this offseason. Either way, next offseason the dead weight of Bonderman, Willis, Robertson are gone and thats 35m.
So they really have no incentive to sell off Cabrera
I'd give Joba an A-. He outdueled a good youg starter in a gritty performance.
This week: 8
Last week: 6
Still holding at 6.
Joba's excellent outing notwithstanding, the fact remains Pettitte and the 5th starter (Mitre or whoever fills that spot) are a concern. The BP also needs another dependable arm; MO, Hughes, Aceves and Coke are the only relievers who Joe trusts. That's not going to cut it. At least one of Bruney, Melancon or D-Rob have to step up and do the job. Also, there's still the same old problem of scoring with RISP. Finally, there's the OF defense, namely, Damon and Swisher. They are outright scary. Speaking of Swisher, who I love, I think it's time to start platooning him with Hinske.
Swisher is better than Hinske against both LHP and RHP, what's the point of platoon?
Swisher is just not hitting. Other than a hot April, he's pretty much been in a 3 month funk. Hinske deserves a chance to play more.
I don't see how that should turn into platooning. You can sit Swisher a few extra days to rest him and play Hinske more, that's not a bad idea, but I don't think an outright platoon is the answer. Like I said, even with his struggles, Swisher is a better player against both LHP and RHP.
Swisher is just not hitting. Other than a hot April, he's pretty much been in a 3 month funk.
Not exactly. He had a solid June. He's alternating between good months and bad months.
April – .312/.430/.714 (1.144)
May – .150/.311/.275 (.586)
June – .253/.379/.506 (.885)
July - .222/.308/.267 (.574)
Hmmm, I'd rather bave bad August and good September (or good both) but a good August would be nice.
"MO, Hughes, Aceves and Coke are the only relievers who Joe trusts. That's not going to cut it."
I dont get that statement. So you have + arms for the 8-9 but what about the 6th and 7th innings?
8th inning is the only one that counts, we're all good mate.
9th Mo, 8th Hughes, 6-7 alternate Coke and Aceves (play matchups if you want).
Up to 9 from 7. Hard not to like what you see. Yes, starting pitching beyond CC and AJ remains somewhat of a question mark, but there are very few sure things in this world. If we can get a Joba Chamberlain that pitches into the 7th inning and gives us a chance to win, and a "traditionally better in the second half" Andy Pettitte, we're cruising. I'm starting to get used to the fact that Phil Hughes will be starter in 2010, and that the Yankees are going to try to ride this bullpen train all the way to a championship.
The goal is simple: outlast the Red Sox. This team can do it. It does, however, make me cry that 17 games over .500 doesn't get you as far as it used to.
hard to disagree with you there. i'd also like to add that the farm system is really starting to come around. while the yankees don't have many MLB ready position player prospects, the guys in this recent draft class are really showing something.
I don't think we're catching the Sox with the way the team is currently constructed. Buut we'll make the playoffs, and that's what counts.
Back to an 8 from a 7. This was a great return fromt he break, but our lack of a dependable 4/5 in the rotation, as of yet, bugs me still. I also want to see how we play Boston next time before I possibly go any higher. None of this means anything if we have some kind of issue with them.
"traditionally better in the second half" Andy Pettitte – I don't care what his career numbers were. Last year and right now, Andy is sliding down the slope if retirement. I have no faith left in him at all, though I do hope for the best for him, because I'd like to see him go out a winner.
I also want to see how we play Boston next time before I possibly go any higher. None of this means anything if we have some kind of issue with them.
We last played Boston on June 11. We play them again on August 6th.
I think we've become a little better of a team in the interim, and they've gotten a little worse. JMHO.
I agree, but I think there is even a bigger point: Who cares how the Yanks play against any one team, even the Red Sox?
There are two consecutive goals, a no other ones, really:
Goal 1: Make it into the post-season.
Goal 2: Win games in the post-season.
The Yanks are 54-37 and, if the season ended today, would be the Wild Card. I could care less if they were 8-0 or 0-8 v. the Red Sox. They are 7-0 against the Twins and 5-1 v. the Tigers, but that doesn't mean the Yanks would necessarily have an edge in the post-season, just like it doesn't mean anything in the post-season that the Sox have beaten the Yanks.
Some reminder stats:
2008 regular season, Angels v. Sox: 8-1
2008 post-season, Angels v. Sox: 1-3
2007 regular season, Yanks v. Indians: 6-0
2007 post-season, Yanks v. Indians: 1-3
I could go on …
Oh, you're absolutely right.
It doesn't matter. I was just saying, irrespective of your valid point, we're not necessarily that much worse than the Sox, despite our current 0-8 record.
I agree and disagree. The team's record against any individual team is meaningless; the aggregate record is what counts. But I don't think you look at the rest of the season and say "I don't care what we do against Boston." I think the Yankees approach the remaining Boston series with the same attitude as any other series: that the goal is to WIN those series.
At the same time, while getting to the playoffs is the lowest common denominator, I put more stock in the validity of the "long season" than I do the capriciousness of the playoffs. I think the division winner is typically the best team. I am satisfied with, but not happy about, winning the Wild Card. The expectation should be, always, to win the division, and if possible, have the best record in the league. (The nature of the schedule makes it tough to always get the best league record, but you should always wish for a division win).
Tank, you make a fair point, and your approach to rooting/hoping is absolutely valid.
I just have a slightly different approach. If the Yanks finish the year as the division winner or the wild card, and despite that they go 0-18 v. the Sox, I honestly wouldn't care. (Well, I'd not enjoy the remaining 10 Yanks-Sox games, and I certainly wouldn't enjoy the comments of the idiot Sox fans, but in the bigger picture, I would be happy the Yanks were in the playoffs.)
Now, if the Yanks were to lose four games to the Sox in the post-season, THEN I'd be really, really unhappy.
You are absolutely right.
I think Boston has been playing a bit over their heads this season. But I may be underestimating them. Their bullpen is probably performing better than they should reasonably expect.
I thought they might have offensive issues this season (relatively speaking…they have a good offense, but I figured it was just "ordinary" good and not "championship" good), but I think I'm wrong. I figured that as Youkilis came back to earth (which I expected), Bay's and Lowell's honeymoons eventually ended, and Pedroia had a season more ordinary and expected from a 5'9″ rat boy, I figured the Boston offense might sputter a bit. What I didn't expect was that Ortiz would have a rennaissance.
I can't wait for the Yankees to play them again. No more time for "patience," at least with Boston. The next time they play them, the Yankees need to WIN the series.
that's why, when I mentioned the "traditionally better in the second half" Andy, I put an "if" in front of it. last year's dismal second half was injury-related, so we still don't know if current-day Andy has it in the tank. again, all he needs to do is give us a chance to win, and not be the Andy of 10 years ago. we can argue the merit of W-L records (and i'm sure we will), but a 2009 Andy Petitte has been good enough to win us eight games thus far.
Up 9 from 8. This weekend was a preview of a potential division series and like you'd expect in the postseason, solid pitching on both sides. Yankees showed they can come out on top. We get performances like that from 3 starters and it doesn't even matter how Pettitte pitches in October (and while he's not the Pettitte of old, something tells me he'll step it up in the playoffs). Not ideal to judge based on one weekend, but it's hard not to be optimistic after a series like that against a first place team.
Confidence Level = 9.
I'm still upset about our willingness to waste quality starters in setup roles indefinitely. With 2/5ths of our rotation having issues (CMW rehabbing, Joba due to get shut down), Phil Hughes should be in the rotation again at some point in the next month or so. He should not be the primary Bridge to Mowhere. He's a better option than Sergio Mitre. And yet, all the chatter out of the Front Office says Hughes is going to stay in the bullpen for all of 2009, and that's a mistake on two fronts (both 2009 optimal roster construction and Hughes' long term development), IMO.
I'm only moving down from a 10 to a 9 because I want to give the club the benefit of the doubt that they have a plan to keep the back end of the rotation well-stocked that I don't know about. Maybe they feel confident that Joba can go all the way through the end of September without being shut down somehow. Maybe they feel CMW is just inches away from being back to normal and that he'll be quality for the rest of the year. Maybe they feel Mitre is legitimately a good AL East starting pitcher and we're all undervaluing him.
At the moment, I just don't see it, though.
+1. I gave the team a 9 for the same reasons tsjc gives above.
With Joba's previous few starts being cut rather short, seems like his innings cap will matter less now, no? I could be utterly wrong, of course; I haven't crunched the numbers….Totally agree on Hughes, though.
He was still throwing 100-ish pitches. Hopefully, they some metric less crude than innings that they're using to measure his workload.
Joba Chamberlain, 2009:
April – 4 starts, 23.0 innings (5.75 IP/S)
May – 5 starts, 22.1 innings (4.46 IP/S)
June – 6 starts, 35.2 innings (5.94 IP/S)
July – 3 starts, 14.2 innings (4.88 IP/S)
Total thus far: 18 starts, 95.2 innings (5.31 innings per start)
If everyone stays on schedule going forward, Joba will make two more starts in July (the 24th and 29th), six more starts in August (the 4th, 9th, 14th, 19th, 26th, and 31st), five more starts in September (the 5th, 11th, 16th, 22nd, and 28th) and one more in the season finale on October 4th.
That's 14 more turns through the rotation for Joba's slot. At his current pace of 5.31 innings a game, that's another 74.4 innings, putting Joba on a pace for 32 starts and about 170 innings.
Does anyone think they'll let him pitch 170 regular season innings this year?
I doubt it.
I disagree with your take on Hughes. For the 2009 roster, the optimal construction has CC, AJ, Joba, Pettitte and Wang as the starters and Hughes in the bullpen. Considering 2009 only, he doesn't help the team at all in AAA.
As far as his development goes, I think there's a lot of value in him pitching to major league hitters. There are a lot of things that you can get away with in AAA that won't work in the majors (look at Kei Igawa's high fast balls). It would probably be better for him to start in the majors, but I really don't see how pitching in AAA would provide much benefit.
I think I want Hughes as a starting pitcher next season. He's too good to keep as a relief pitcher.
This is probably stating the obvious, but with innings limitations, the Yankees might need additional help with starting pitching next season. Obviously Wang is the key variable–if he can pitch well enough to log 200 innings next year, and CC/AJ are healthy and get their innings, Hughes' and Joba's innings limitations won't be much of an issue. But if Wang is AWOL next year, the team won't have enough innings from the other 4 to complete the season; they'll need another arm.
Cashman has said that Hughes is a starter long term – which I assume means next year. As long as their plan is to move him back to the rotation, then I don't really have an issue with using him to help the team out of the bullpen this year.
If he remains in the bullpen all the rest of the year, he's gonna pitch, what, 80-90 innings tops all year?
How much do we let him pitch in 2010 in that event? What's his cap?
It is generally based off of career high in innings pitched. That would put Hughes' inning cap somewhere around 150-180 innings next year.
I'm guessing they'd let him pitch 150-180 next year, if he did well enough to get that many innings.
56 innings right now, I can see 85-90 for this season. You pitch him about 25-35 innings in winter ball and he can give you 150 or so next season possibly. It's not great, but it's also not horrible for his age.
I agree with you. No problem with him spending this season in the bullpen. They may have to go a bit easier on him next season, but I think staying in the bullpen for the year is better than jerking him back and forth between bullpen and starting duties. Much is made of the stress of increasing your workload from one season to the next. But I think having a season where you are alternately used as an every day/other day reliever and an every 5th starter has got to have its risks for the arm, too.
I never said anything about Hughes to AAA here.
I said I want Hughes in the major league rotation, not in the major league bullpen.
Who do you move to the bullpen when Wang returns, or do you go with a 6-man rotation?
I put Hughes in the rotation at the moment because he's the best pitcher we have available. I take Wang's rehab slowly and leave him in Scranton for as long as procedurally possible. Wang takes Joba's place in the rotation when Joba's ready to be shut down in late August/early September.
Now: CC-AJ-Andy-Joba-Hughes with Wang in Scranton rehabbing
A month from now: CC-AJ-Andy-Hughes-Wang with Joba at home
As far as 2009 goes, that's no better than having Hughes in AAA. There's no evidence that Hughes would be better than Wang or Joba as a starter this year.
Your plan also assumes that Joba will hit his innings limit at the same time that Wang would be available to come back. Right now, it doesn't look like Joba will hit his innings limit before late September. Wang will be ready to come back in mid August. What do you do in the intervening month?
There's no evidence that Hughes would be better than Wang or Joba as a starter this year.
He doesn't have to be better than Joba, only Wang. Joba doesn't factor into that balancing equation, because Hughes isn't taking his spot in the rotation. He's taking Wang's. And, there's PLENTY of evidence that Hughes would be a better starter than Wang this year. There's reams and reams and reams of evidence.
Your plan also assumes that Joba will hit his innings limit at the same time that Wang would be available to come back. Right now, it doesn't look like Joba will hit his innings limit before late September. Wang will be ready to come back in mid August. What do you do in the intervening month?
There's a difference between when Wang is available to come back and when we have to bring him back. Unless I'm mistaken, we can put him on a rehab assignment and leave him in Scranton to work on his command and delivery until we're confident in him. Something that he should have been doing in the first place instead of being rushed to the majors prematurely back in May.
I don't want Wang activated until he's really ready to pitch well, not just to pitch. And, if you push Wang's activation back to, say, the end of August instead of the end of July, we'll be able to have Joba pitch as much as necessary and still get Wang and Hughes their innings in September to get ready for the playoffs.
I agree 100 percent with your judgment on this.
But, and I could be wrong, I'm quite sure there is a 30-day cap on rehab stints. So, to make your theory work, the Yanks would have to hold Wang back from his rehab duty until a month before they would want him back.
In their last 6 starts:
Wang ERA: 6.43
Hughes ERA: 6.59
Honestly, you could make an argument either way, but it's not clear that this year Hughes would be a better starter than Wang.
You're basically advocating that the Yankees should basically hide one of their pitchers in AAA. A pitcher that has already expressed doubts about the way the organization has handled him. That doesn't sound like a recipe to ensure that he succeeds when he does come back.
Also, the argument about rushing Wang off the DL in May is bogus. He came back and pitched in the rotation for more than a month after coming off the DL. Maybe you could say they rushed him if he struggled in his first couple starts and then put it together, but that's not what Wang did. There isn't something magical about rehab stints that allow him to regain his mechanics.
Also, he threw 2 games in AAA and gave up no runs. That would seem to be sufficient justification for reactivating him.
Also, he threw 2 games in AAA and gave up no runs. That would seem to be sufficient justification for reactivating him.
Wang is a major league pitcher. He's better than AAA, even when he's not right. He didn't pitch very many pitches in either start, and when he was reactivated he and Yankees both said he wasn't completely himself yet (which the results bore out). I would have hoped the Yankees would evaluate Wang's readiness to return on how he felt and how his mechanics were rather than how he did against AAA players.
+1 TSJC, that was my thought last week, but some people were arguing the Joba wouldn't reach his innings limit till the end of the year. Obviously, he will reach them sooner if he pitches like he did yesterday.
It seems to be poor roster management, which is why I am not moving up from my 8. It seems the Yankees are over-valuing the bullpen, which will create problems down the stretch this year for the starting pitching, as well down the stretch next year…
I never rate things very high in this poll–I go 6 or 7, tops. That's not an indictment of the Yankees' management, which I think is excellent, but my opinion on the extreme competitive nature of MLB today. To have a confidence level of 8 or 9 on a 1-10 scale in this league seems preeeeeety optimistic to me.
My concerns with the Yankees future center on age issues and longterm contracts. The trend in baseball today is to get younger. I think teams fear that the financial storm will eventually rain on baseball, and any team holding expensive, long term contracts will feel the pressure of those obligations. Of course nobody can predict what will happen, but if baseball revenues fall sharply for some reason, the big contracts could hamper the Yankees' ability to fund their minor league and scouting operations going forward.
Fun fact: *The New York Yankees are the only team in MLB that boasts three outfielders in the top thirty of the leader board for the defensive metric, range runs (Brett Gardner (5.9; ranks 16th), Nick Swisher (3.1; ranks 23rd) and Melky Cabrera (2.2; ranks 29th)).
* – The Oakland Athletics – along with Matt Holliday and Ryan Sweeney – now have three outfielders in the top 30 as well because of their acquisition of Scott Hairston.
I'll admit I'm shocked Swisher ranks ahead of Melky. I just don't see it.
That's because individual visual memory evidence is more flawed than mass statistical aggregation of data.
(NSFW – profanity)
I also think it has to do with the fact that Swisher gets to a lot of balls, but makes really bad plays on a few of them (see yesterday's "triple"). This is the exact opposite of the situation that allowed Jeter to win his gold gloves. Jeter doesn't get to many balls, but when he does get to them he makes the play cleanly.
Good point.
Normally I agree with this reasoning, but the defensive metrics are still suspect to me. Also, can we at least point out that these differences are tiny? I assume the range run stat is normalized for 150 or 162 games? So the difference in defense between Swisher and Melky is about 1 run. Over a season. Or even a bit more than half a season (if not normalized). Which means the difference in their defense amounts to a fraction of the offensive production of the team for a single game.
Even if the metric IS valid, any metric has some error built in, and any athletic performance has some randomness and luck involved.
Conclusion (mine): there is no compelling statistical evidence that Nick Swisher is a better outfielder than Melky Cabrera. There are probably not large differences in their defensive effectiveness.
Nick Swisher is not a good defensive outfielder, because he makes some pretty horrible plays on balls every now and again, plays that a good defensive outfielder wouldn't make.
However, he's also most definitely not a bad defensive outfielder, because he still has great range and turns balls hit into RF into outs at a rate higher than the average outfielder.
He's not good nor bad. Just effective.
The farm has improved from recent years, the Yankees have a great club right now on the field and it looks that way for the next few years. By then, if players start declining, hopefully the farm system will produce some young talent that can provide value to this team. By either bringing in players through a trade or the players just taking over themselves. The outfield does look just a bit shaky next year but I think Cash will either make another Swisher like deal or bring in a guy like Mike Cameron. This would be fine for next year, the Yankees offense really is that good.
Like everyone says, the reliever being more important than the starter is a bad idea. Takes away developmental time and Hughes is not working on his secondary pitches so much. I think this could have an effect on Phil like did Joba this year. Well, nothing we can do about it.
But for now – Yankees 2009 Champs!
Well, nothing we can do about it.
Only if by "we" you mean we fans and not the "we" the Yankees. Because there is something the Yankees front office could do about it. They could make the correct decision and put Hughes in the rotation post-haste.
I'm curious about something. First off, I agree with you that Hughes should start. But given the current state of the pen, namely, Bruney's ineffectiveness and the fact D-Rob and Melancon are unproven, who becomes the set up man for Mo? If you've already posted this, I obviously missed it as I don't post here as often as you.
Aceves or Coke. And Bruney and Marte can re-enter the picture as they continue to get healthier and put their injuries further in the rearview mirror.
But Coke and Aceves have been very effective relievers as well, and someone from that foursome will be able to do the job just fine any given night.
Obviously I meant we the fans because that is what we are. We are not the Yankees or are apArt of their FO as far as I know. I try to stay away from using that.
The best thing the Yanks have going for them for this particular year is a dominant 8th and 9th inning. Thats why they beat the Tigers. They need another starter for the playoffs (Washburn, Bannister) And they will win with the bullpen. And hopefully scoring 4 runs a game.
I'll go with nova before I would want them to deal for Bannister.
You have it backwards. They won against the Tigers this weekend primarily because the starting pitchers were effective (A.J.) or dominant (CC and Joba).
Put another way, if the rotation this weekend was 2009 Wang, 2009 Pettite and Mitre, odds are our dominant 8th inning pitchers don't even get a chance to pitch.
The point is, everything starts with the starters.
"You have it backwards. They won against the Tigers this weekend primarily because the starting pitchers were effective (A.J.) or dominant (CC and Joba).
Put another way, if the rotation this weekend was 2009 Wang, 2009 Pettite and Mitre, odds are our dominant 8th inning pitchers don't even get a chance to pitch."
Yes, but I think you guys argue false dichotomies occasionally. Obviously, more innings come from the starters, so their performances count more, overall. But the relief pitchers' innings are more highly leveraged, counting (by James' reckoning), 1.5-2x as much as starters' innings. So, given the close nature of the games, the bullpen performances in these games were much closer to equal value to that of the starters than we might wish to admit.
The point is, BOTH elements matter. If either had failed, we would have likely lost the games.
In a perfect world, Phil Hughes pitches 160 shutout innings as a starter this season for the MLB Yankees. In the real world, his relief dominance does mean a heck of alot to the team. Intelligent folks on RAB are in no danger of overstating the importance of relief pitchers, so we do have to guard against understating it, occasionally.
The best thing the Yanks have going for them for this particular year is a dominant 8th and 9th inning.
No, it's not. It's good starting pitching and a quality offense.
Thats why they beat the Tigers.
No, it wasn't. We beat the Tigers off the strength of our starting pitching, and big homers from our quality offense. The bullpen was the smallest contributor of the three this past weekend.
They need another starter for the playoffs (Washburn, Bannister)
We might. Hughes would do just fine, though, and we don't have to give anything up to get him.
Are we voting on 2009 or on the next few years? For 2009 I think we are well positioned (an 8). OVer the next few years it is less straight forward – teh Rays will only get better as more and more of their players come into their prime. The Sox are not going away and we are stuck in the most competitive division in history. I'd have to admit that missing the postseason 2 out of the next 5 years (2010-2014) seems a likely outcome. I know 3 years out of 5 would make most teams very happy, but last October felt aweful – the Yankees are not like any other franchise so I'd be generous if I gave a higher rating than 6.
The Rays will lose players because they can't pay them. Longoria and Pena are staples. I think the Rays window closes in 2010.
Pena at 31 this year and last year of his contract next year is hardly a staple. Their window closes when they stop producing talent. Percival and Bradford are gone so thats 8m freed up and if they let some other lesser guys go they can have probably another 4m to spend. but Upton, Howell, Garza are all due large raises in their first year of arbitration. Navarro and Bartlett are in their 2nd year of arb, not every prospect becomes a hit and not all player take hometown discounts.
This is definitely the way of the world now. Maybe for the foreseeable future. But what if conditions changed, and the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, Mets, Cubs, and Dodgers were no longer willing to give huge, long term contracts? I could see it happening if there were a financial meltdown in baseball. It's not inconceivable.
I sort of agree with you. The CC, Johan, Beckett, Tex, Braun, Longoria and other starts under 30 will still get their money. But $48m for Carlos Silva? Wont see those ugly deals anymore
other stars under(or close) to 30*
they milked the draft for so many years – they don't need a great hit ratio to have an outstanding and cheap starting rotation for the next 3-4 years
even if they are not strong enough finish better than 3rd in the division their mere existance as the best 3rd team in any division will drain wins from us and teh Sox and we could easily see the wild card go to a non AL East team once or twice in the next 5 years
We got the money and talent to compete year in and year out baby.
sure – to compete but to win? Think of it this way – how much woudl the Rays starting rotation cost to sign for 2010 if they were free agents? USD 80m for 2010 alone? How much are they actually paying?
I'm not saying that they are going to win all the time but if we we assume taht in a 5 year span the AL East gets the wild card 3 out of 5 times that would mean that 8 slots left for us, the Sox and the Rays in 5 years. One – maybe two – of the teams would miss out a majority of the times.
And that's even assuming that neither Toronto nor Baltimore get their acts together. 3 post seasons out of 5 is realistic – 4 would be great.
8. As usual. (technically an 8.5 but I dont round up) *looks at MetsBlog, just for laughs* wow, 30%…thank god Im a Yankee fan
10 as usual. Haven't changed once the whole year. This is one hell of a team.
So are any of the idiots voting 1 or 2 willing to identify themselves, or are they just the dumbest, most pathetic Sox fans on the planet ?
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- About Libra
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- "His name is Libra and he likes to play SOOO MANY VIDEO GAMES. <insert list here>
Also he is cool." - Minerva
17 years old and Dutch, I am a competitve StarCraft II Terran player currently residing in the Gold League. Also playing Red Alert 2 mods such as Mental Omega (maining the Latin Confederation) and Red Resurrection
Also I am a former GLA player in C&C Generals, GDI in Tiberian Dawn, Nod in Tiberian Sun, Steel Talons in Kane's Wrath, and the Allies in the Red Alert series. I also play a tons of other RTS games, but I never had the chance to play those competively :P
I am a nice guy in general, but also sensitive. Most of the time I am okay though, it's easy to notice cause then I'm just silly as hell.
I may have an accent, not quite sure about it as I don't really let everyone hear my voice haha, you really have to know me well to even have a chance at hearing my voice.
I play video games with passion and I really enjoy playing them. They make my life complete, but not as much as someone else does ;)
I also love to teach people the basic stuff of RTS, especially StarCraft II. I think that if you play games with friends, they are more fun than normal and they are most of the time.
So yeah that's all I have to offer for now, as I procrastinate this a lot. Feel free to VM/PM me if you want to know more!
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Posted 1 Week Ago at 02:17 PM by Libra Comments 0
... I am an idiot. Been distancing from a lot of people here if it isn't already noticeable and that is something bad on my end. Then again I had my VM wall set to only friends for a time so I wasn't always open to a new convo, but also the fact that I was extremely busy and still am played a huge role in it. I shall try to be less distant and still do all this nonsense I do right now.
To make up for it, have some gameplay video's of me playing this wonderful mod for Red Alert 2 :3...
To make up for it, have some gameplay video's of me playing this wonderful mod for Red Alert 2 :3...
Posted 2 Weeks Ago at 01:39 PM by Libra Comments 0
I am exhausted as of today... Like completely exhausted. What makes it even worse is the fact that the times I can talk to my girlfriend have been demolished to a few VM's on Sunday nowadays, which is just... it is awful to have to deal with it. Sleep has become extinct for me at days and... it just makes me feel really, really sad because I know the reasons why those times have been wrecked, but I simply can't do anything against it. One cannot fight the laws of nature and this just seems to be...
Posted 4 Weeks Ago at 12:16 PM by Libra Comments 0
So the Steam sales have ended for some time now and we all had our fair share of profiting from Steam, and I shall present to you what I have bought:
Bioshock Triology: Only played Infinite so far and I like it. I really love Columbia and I have yet to dig into Rapture with the first two Bioshock games.
Borderlands 1: I don't want to use my PS3 ever again so I bought this delightful looting game on Steam since it was on sale, shame it has no FoV slider >_>...
Bioshock Triology: Only played Infinite so far and I like it. I really love Columbia and I have yet to dig into Rapture with the first two Bioshock games.
Borderlands 1: I don't want to use my PS3 ever again so I bought this delightful looting game on Steam since it was on sale, shame it has no FoV slider >_>...
Posted June 23rd, 2014 at 05:50 AM by Libra Comments 7
I'm getting into this game again but I want to restart since there were a crapton of new updates for it. Plus I would like to have a huge world for PC members to hop in and build stuff and slay stuff :)
So who's in? (btw Terraria is only €2 on Steam right now for a few more hours, it is REALLY cheap :P)
So who's in? (btw Terraria is only €2 on Steam right now for a few more hours, it is REALLY cheap :P)
Posted June 21st, 2014 at 12:32 PM by Libra Comments 9
That if I am drunk, I abuse the Meme Generator a lot D:
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|ICC Champions Trophy, 2008
New Delhi, 2013/04/19 08:16:13Unsure about travelling to Pakistan for next month's Champions Trophy, Australian pace spearhead Brett Lee on Monday said his participation in the event hinges on his cricket board's assessment of the security situation in the troubled country. "I will wait for an official word from Cricket Australia, only then can I say what my perspective is.
KARACHI , 2014/01/27 02:01:27Pakistan's cricket chief Saturday said he was not worried over the prospect of top players pulling out of the Champions Trophy, which the South Asian country hosts in September. "If some players do not come it would not make any difference," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Nasim Ashraf told AFP.
LONDON , 2014/01/27 02:01:27England's participation in September's Champions Trophy will hinge on a review of Pakistan's security plan for the tournament, according to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The International Cricket Council's decision to allow the tournament to go ahead despite security fears has forced the ECB to consider withdrawing from the event.
KARACHI , 2014/01/27 02:01:27Holders Australia and other key nations could pull out of the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided to go ahead with the tournament in Pakistan, officials said Friday. The Australian and New Zealand players' associations called on their country's governing bodies not to send teams to Pakistan, while England players will be asked if they want to travel.
LONDON , 2014/01/27 02:01:27England batsman Kevin Pietersen has called on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to decide whether to enter the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan rather than force individual players to decide if they want to take part. The ECB have held extensive discussions with senior players following the announcement on Thursday that the tournament would go ahead in Pakistan despite ongoing fears over security in the region.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A boycott of the September Champions Trophy loomed on Friday, a day after the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided to retain Pakistan as the venue despite safety concerns by many teams. The ICC said the Sept. 11-28 event will not be shifted despite concerns by England, Australia, New Zealand and South African boards, prompting player representatives to warn players against travelling to Pakistan.
SYDNEY, July 25, 2008 , 2014/01/27 02:01:27Australia's cricketers should pull out of September's Champions Trophy in Pakistan despite a decision to go ahead with the tournament, the players' association said Friday. The Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) said the security risks of travelling to troubled Pakistan were too great, and it would advise its cricketers against playing in the biennial event.
COLOMBO , 2014/01/27 02:01:27The chief executive of the International Cricket Council sought Thursday to allay fears players may pull out from the Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in troubled Pakistan in September. Haroon Lorgat said the prospect of pullouts was an "obvious concern", but urged players not to withdraw, saying the ICC would do all in its power to ensure their safety.
KARACHI , 2014/01/27 02:01:27Cricket's Champions Trophy faced the threat of a pull-out by players from several key nations on Friday after a decision to go ahead with September's tournament in troubled Pakistan. The Australian and New Zealand players' associations advised cricketers to stay away after the International Cricket Council decided Thursday to go ahead with the event, while England players will be asked if they want to travel to the South Asian country.
LONDON , 2014/01/27 02:01:27England's senior players will be asked if they want to travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy in September after the International Cricket Council (ICC) ruled that the tournament would go ahead despite security fears in the region. The ICC confirmed on Thursday that the event would not be moved after the Pakistan Cricket Board offered assurances over the safety of competitors.
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Valpo Places Four Women on All-Conference Team
Monday, May 19, 2003Valparaiso University's women's track and field team had four student-athletes named to the Mid-Continent Conference All-Conference Team following the completion of the outdoor championships this weekend.
Jessica Cherrington (Roseberg, Ore./Umpqua Valley Christian H.S.) won the javelin with a toss of 132'3" to earn a spot on the team for the first time. The sophomore bettered her nearest competitor by 3'11".
Martha Josephson (Detroit Lakes, Minn./Detroit Lakes H.S.) finished third in the high jump to earn all-conference honors. The sophomore cleared 5'3" setting a new school record.
Amanda Meyer (Somerset, Wis./Somerset H.S.) and Amy Mikel (Lemont, Ill./Fenwick H.S.) each earned all-conference honors as well. Meyer finished second in the pole vault clearing 10'5 �" while Mikel placed third in the 1,500m with a time of 4:39.65.
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Kaitlyn Dressel and Juan Sequera win the annual FSU Pentathlon
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2012-2013: Earned a spot in the B finals of the 500 free, 100 fly, 200 free and 200 fly at the Georgia Tech Invite...swam her best times in the 200 fly with a 2:05.91 and 200 free with a 1:51.91...suffered a season ending injury in December of 2012.
2011-2012-Swam her best meet at the Bulldog Invitational, posting a 4:54.17 in the 500 free while finishing fifth in the event...also won the 1650 at the same meet with a time of 17:07.47.
High School: Was the Alaska State Champion in the 1,650 free and also holds the state record in the event (17:23.59) ...earned team MVP her senior year...swims for KNIK aquatics under coach David Maker.
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OTTUMWA — Ideas for community gardens have taken root.
Nearly 30 people interested in community gardens, farmers' markets and fresh-food projects gathered at the United Way of Wapello County Monday morning to brainstorm ideas for projects focused on food availability and sustainability in the area.
Three ideas stuck: a senior program, revamping vacant city lots as community gardens and reviving old raised beds in the industrial park north of town.
The meeting was the first of several to focus on solving food insecurity, said UWWC President and CEO Desiree Johnson, who noted that 14.8 percent of Wapello County residents are food insecure and 24 percent of local children are food insecure.
"By coming together as a community and working on this, we'll make our community a healthier place, a much more productive place and more cohesive," she said.
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"He had a plot up north in the industrial park that he [maintained] for three years," said UWWC community impact associate Marie Zoromski. "It's currently still fenced in, and there are hoses underground. He did raised beds, but they're disintegrated now."
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Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 2013
(Jamestown, RI, December 19, 2012) Excitement is building for the first annual Jamestown Arts Center (JAC) Design Expo featuring Rhode Island designers who are propelling the creative industry sector of our state's economy.
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Energy Saving Incentive Programs Frequently Asked Questions
Continuous Energy Improvement
What is Continuous Energy Improvement?
Continuous Energy Improvement (CEI) guides your organization through a six-step process that yields a roadmap for an energy management plan that evolves according to your needs and achievements.
Who is qualified for the Continuous Energy Improvement Program?
The program is best suited to mid-sized and large customers who have prior experience implementing management systems such as Lean Six Sigma. It may offer benefits to any customer organization that needs help in strategic planning to reduce energy costs and green house gas emissions.
Learn more >>
How do I apply for the Continuous Energy Improvement (CEI) program?
There's no application for the Continuous Energy Improvement program. Your assigned account manager will determine if your organization is a good match for the program, and then help you enroll.
Is there an incentive for this Continuous Energy Improvement (CEI) program?
This is no incentive or rebate program. CEI is a statewide program funded by the public goods charge.
Customized Retrofit – Demand Response Program
What kinds of projects can qualify for the Customized Retrofit – Demand Response program?
- The project must exceed baseline energy performance.
- It must meet the peak demand definition provided in the CPUC-mandated database for energy efficiency resources (DEER)
- The new equipment or system must operate for at least five years.
- The measure cannot overlap other incentive programs.
- Baseline equipment must be decommissioned and removed.
- LED fixtures must be integral LED lighting with T8 and T5 fluorescent lamps and ballasts.
- Existing equipment used to provide the baseline must be in operation and available for inspection.
- The utility administrator must inspect the facility and approve the project before any new equipment or system is installed.
- Energy not supplied by PG&E, such as cogenerated electricity or energy supplied by another utility, does not count in calculations of energy usage, savings, or incentives.
How are incentives calculated in the Customized Retrofit program?
Incentives are paid based on the calculated energy savings and estimated permanent peak demand reduction above and beyond baseline energy performance. The utility administrator may rely on state-mandated codes, industry-accepted performance standards, or other baseline energy performance standards. Learn more >>
Retrocommissioning Program
How does a business qualify for the RCx program?
The RCx Program is intended for commercial customers who:
- Receive gas or electric service from PG&E
- Pay a California Public Purpose Programs (PPP) surcharge on their utility bills
- Own or operate a facility that has at least 100,000 square feet of conditioned space or that consumes 2,000,000 kWh or 50,000 therms per year
- Have access to funding to implement the agreed-upon RCx measures within 12 months
What kinds of projects can qualify for the RCx program?
RCx measures may include:
- Repairing existing controls
- Enhancing the control and operation of existing equipment
- Making limited upgrades to existing equipment to enable more efficient operation
When you enroll in the RCx program, your organization gets a thorough building assessment by qualified engineering professionals and technical assistance throughout the process.
How does a business qualify for the Customized New Construction (CNC) program?
The CNC Program is intended for commercial customers who:
- Receive gas or electric service from PG&E
- Pay a California Pubic Goods Charge (PGC) for electric service or the Gas Surcharge for gas service on their utility bills.
- Own or operate a facility that has at least 100,000 square feet of conditioned space or that consumes 2,000,000 kWh or 50,000 therms per year.
- Have access to funding to implement the agreed-upon RCx measures within 12 months.
What kinds of projects can qualify for the CNC program?
- CNC incentives are intended for new construction or expansion projects or major renovations that involve a change of occupancy.
- Projects in refineries, waste water treatment plants, data centers, agricultural facilities, greenhouses, vineyards, light industrial facilities, food processing plants, manufacturing plants, high tech and biotech labs may qualify.
- Your project must exceed process baselines developed by PG&E or generally accepted industry practices.
You should submit your application to the CNC program during the conceptual or schematic phase, when design changes are feasible. If you begin work on the project before getting approval, the commission may disallow the incentive payment.
How do I know what my incentive will be for the new construction commercial building(s) that I am building?
Refer to Energy Pro Util-1 form generated by your Title 24 Consultant, this form should be submitted with your utility incentive application.
Can I qualify for the Savings by Design (SBD) program if I receive gas and electricity from both PG&E and another utility company?
The utility industry refers to your address as a single-commodity service territory. Your utility companies have a sharing agreement where each will pay the incentive for the service they provide. In the PG&E service territory, the incentive will be paid only for the commodities that PG&E provides you. Contact your other utility company to see if they have incentives you can apply for.
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What kinds of project can qualify for the SBD or CNC program?
SBD supports construction where energy efficiency is built into the design. Therefore, only major construction and renovation projects can be completed under the program. For example, your project may qualify if you are undertaking:
- New building project where no structure or site footprint presently exists
- Addition or expansion of an existing building or site footprint
- Addition of new load
- Construction involved complete removal, redesign and replacement of at least one of the energy consuming systems of a building or process
- Projects that require design and selection of new systems based upon the needs of new or modified space functions
- Major tenant improvements that add new loads
- Buildings meeting compliance with Title 24
- Your project must exceed baseline minimum efficiency requirements by at least 10%.
You should submit your application to the CNC program during the conceptual or schematic phase, when design changes are feasible. If you begin work on the project before getting approval, the commission may disallow the incentive payment.
Required Documents for Your SBD Application
In order to efficiently process your project application, we must receive the following documentation for each building.
- Project Information (title sheet)
- Architectural (Envelope)
- Title 24 ENVELOPE (ENV) documentation
- Roof Plan (if skylights or other daylighting)
- Exterior Elevations if Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) of glazing is .30 or better)
Electrical (Lighting):
- Title 24 LIGHTING (LTG) documentation
- Lighting Plan (ceiling plan showing location of the lighting fixtures, etc.)
- Lighting Fixture Schedule (specifications of the fixtures used)
Mechanical Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Title 24 Mechanical (MECH) documentation
- Mechanical Equipment Schedules
What Green Building Certification Programs are qualified for the Kicker bonus of 10% within Savings By Design Program (SBD)?
USGBC LEED for New Construction and CHPS typically qualify. Contact PG&E to get consideration for other projects.
Submit your application for any of these programs to your assigned PG&E representative if you have one. Otherwise, you may fax it to (415) 972-5155 or mail it to:
PG&E Integrated Processing Center
P.O. Box 7265
San Francisco, CA 94120-7265
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A 56-year-old New Canaan woman faces a misdemeanor charge after surveillance cameras at a local grocery story caught her shoplifting a $16.99 cheese, police said.
The incident follows an earlier theft of a $125 jar of caviar from the same shop, also caught on video, though the store is not bringing charges in that case, police said.
Serena Benenson of Richmond Hill Road was charged with sixth-degree larceny and scheduled to appear Jan. 31 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
A manager at Walter Stewart's Market told police on Jan. 25 that the shop was tracking a woman who about three months earlier had been caught stealing the caviar. Stewart's did not pursue that theft with police, but kept an eye out for the woman, later identified as Benenson, police said. They knew who Benenson was because she had a shopper's card with the store, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department.
On Jan. 25, she came back and took an expensive soft cheese—Brillat-Savarin Bloomy Rind French cheese. According to Artisanal Premium Cheese, that's a "cow's milk, triple-crème brie-style cheese from France."
"It is buttery, rich, creamy and decadent with a thin natural skin," the organization's website says.
After Benenson had left Stewart's on Jan. 25, the manager checked the cheese area and saw a missing item that didn't match up with what was supposed to be in stock. Prompted by this, the manager checked the surveillance video and saw Benenson remove the cheese from a box and put the empty box back, police said.
According to Ogrinc, Benenson admitted that she had made a bad decision when police later confronted her at home.


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Niagara Gazette — EDITOR'S NOTE: The Gazette has partnered with local automotive expert Tom Torbjornsen to publish his weekly national column. Tom's Corner will appear in Thursday's editions.
There have been some noteworthy happenings in the automotive world lately, so I thought I would cover a few interesting ones along with recent recalls.
Hyundai fuel cell vehicle in the works
Hyundai has become the world's first automaker to begin regular production of a fuel cell vehicle. Hyundai began production of its ix35 Fuel Cell last month at the company's Ulsan manufacturing facility. "With the ix35 Fuel Cell vehicle, Hyundai is leading the way into the zero-emissions future," Hyundai Motor Vice Chairman, Eok Jo Kim said. "The ix35 Fuel Cell is the most eco-friendly vehicle in the auto industry and proves that hydrogen fuel cell technology in daily driving is no longer a dream." The ix35 Fuel Cell, which emits only water vapor, can accelerate from 0-62mph in 12.5 seconds and top out at around 100mph. The ix35 Fuel Cell can cover 365 miles between fill-ups.
Misfueling — what to do if it happens to you
With all the diesel vehicle offerings coming on the market the rise in incidents of 'misfueling' may be attributed to this sales trend.
Traditionally thought of as running particularly noisy engines, diesel engines have been getting increasingly quieter and (particularly in the case of rental cars or second cars) it's easy to forget you're driving a car with a diesel engine. The high-pressure fuel pump in a diesel engine is very sensitive, and adding gas serves to strip it of essential lubrication. As metal grinds against metal without diesel fuel's lubrication, the fuel (contaminated with loose metal particles) soon affects the rest of the fuel system. And the further the contaminated fuel travels, the worse the problem gets. Diesel engines are particularly sensitive and extensive contamination could necessitate the replacement of multiple costly parts.


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Have you ever felt this way:
I am about to start organizing my site (the list of files keeps growing while my management of them seems to contract)... perhaps put things in other folders, have another directory, have another place to put files I'm not using but may need again, clean up just what is in my webpage folder, etc.
(from Judy)
As Judy said, often the list of files you're creating, developing, and managing keeps growing and growing while you have no time for managing them. When you're first developing a site you should pay some attention to how you're going to maintain it before you start building.
But, most people are like Judy and myself, we already have a good-sized site, and we need help to organize and maintain it now. The following are some common organizational methods for Web sites:
- all files in one directory
- all files but images in one directory
- files separated into various directories with images in one directory
- files separated into various directories with images in sub directories beneath
It doesn't really matter how you organize your site, but it should be in a way that makes sense to you and to how your site is maintained. For example, the Symantec Web site is maintained by about six groups. Because of this, it makes sense to maintain the site in separate directories with image files in sub directories off of them.
For example, I maintain the Mac site for Symantec, the /mac directory holds all the files associated with the Mac site. There is also an images directory off of the /mac directory that holds the images for the site. But the images for the AntiVirus research center (in /avcenter) are in an images directory in that area (/avcenter/images).
But when I worked at Netcom, we stored all the images in one /images directory off of the root of the Web server. We still kept related sites together in separate directories, but in order to share images more effectively, we wanted to store them together. There were also only four people managing the entire site, so we didn't have to struggle with a huge distributed network like Symantec.
Where Do You Start
If you've already got a Web site up, then it often can be easy to see how to organize it. Why? Because, chances are you've already got your front page organized to some extent. Take your typical personal Web page, you might see links to things like:
- my family
- my favorite sites
- my poetry
- my dog
If I were going to organize this site, I would create four directories:
- /family
- /sites
- /poetry
- /pets
Then, depending upon how many images there were, I would either create separate
image directories beneath:
or one top-level images directory:
Organize More Than Just the Hosting Server
Remember that if you're organizing your hosting server into subdirectories, you should also organize your hard drive in the same way. For example, my Web Design site has a main directory (/) and a library directory (/library). I created a mirrored directory structure on my hard drive. I have all my files in my main directory in c:about and my library files are in c:aboutlibrary. That way, when I create a new file, I know exactly where to upload it to About.
Creating the Directories
Most hosting services, such as About, have a tool you can use to create new directories. But if they don't you can usually use your FTP client to make the new directory. Simply connect to your hosting server with your FTP client, change to the directory where you want to create a new directory and create the new directory.


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August 1, 2014
July 15, 2005
Police in Albemarle County are warning the public about a series of overnight break-ins in Charlottesville. Five residences have been broken into over the past three weeks in the Hessian Hills, Four Seasons, and Mallside Apartment areas.
Police say the burglar is entering the homes and apartments through unlocked doors and windows overnight, and stealing everything from wallets and cash to computers.
Most of the residents we talked to had no idea of the crimes, and that's why police are trying to get the word out. People who live in the area are being urged to lock their doors and windows.
"[I'm] a little nervous," Kendall Howell said. "I don't want my house broken into. There are criminals out there. They could break in, and people will steal your stuff."
Nobody has been injured, in fact, nobody has even woken up during the burglaries.
Police do not have any suspect information at this time so they're asking for your help. If you have any information, please call 434-296-5807.


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Paul Tassi, Contributor
News and opinion about video games, technology and the internet
Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it's worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won.
It can't, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling. As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead. To be clear, this is in no way meant to be a "pro-piracy" piece, it is merely attempting to show the inescapable realities of piracy that media companies refuse to acknowledge.
What's clear is that legislation is not the answer. Piracy is already illegal in the US, and most places around the world, yet it persists underground, but more often in plain sight. Short of passing a law that allows the actual blacklisting of websites like China and Iran, there is no legislative solution. That's what SOPA and PIPA were attempting to do, but it so obviously trampled on the First Amendment, it was laughed out of existence as the entire internet protested it. The only other thing you could get the internet to agree on was if they tried to institute a ban on cat pictures.
So, what to do? Go the other direction. Realize piracy is a service problem. Right now, from the browser window in which I'm writing this article, it is possible to download and start watching a movie for free in a few swift clicks.
(This is all purely theoretical of course)
1. Move mouse to click on Pirate Bay bookmark
2. Type in "The Hangover 2″ (awful movie, but a new release for the sake of the example)
3. Click on result with highest seeds
4. Click download torrent
5. Auto open uTorrent
6. Wait ten minutes to download
7. Play movie, own it forever
"By making, in essence, an infinite number of copies, you are depriving the intellectual property holder of *scarcity power.* The price of any good or service – in this case a DVD or – lies not in its intrinsic value (which is almost zero) but in its relative scarcity."
This is THE lie. There is no scarcity of creators or of created works. Almost all of us have become creators of intellectual property by creating blogs, videos, songs etc. I specifically uncopyright all my works and place them in the public domain for anyone to copy and use. Even the software that I SELL is free for anyone to copy and use if they do not want my service.
Copyright is a anachronism in a freely sharing world.
There is no intellectual scarcity in mankind only artificially induced monopolies. Only intellectual morons will believe otherwise.
Sorry riprowan, but your argument is flawed. The author is not claiming that whoever offers a solution with n-1 steps will win, but that the argument is multifaceted, for example it's mentioned (in passing) that a bonus is you don't have to feel guilty for doing something illegal – which the pirate websites will never have in their favour.
The moviestudios are indeed exacerbating the situation with their arcane pricing models and desire to extend undue control over the end product as many people choose to pirate rather than purchase as a form of civil disobedience. That they don't consider this is absurd.
People WANT to give them money on reasonable terms and will do so given a sufficiently simple and comprehensive solution – for example, see iTunes/Amazon MP3/Spotify etcetera etcetera etcetera. To suggest this model can't work flies in the face of the real world, where it is, you know, actually happening right now.
Ripowan: you're using "weasel words".
While nobody disagrees that IP holders, in the past, have been known to exert "scarcity power", it does not follow that anybody therefore ever has been explicitly granted the RIGHT to exert "scarcity power".
No such "right" has been negotiated, nor have I ever seen anyone successfully argue that such a "right" would serve the common good in any way conceivable.
In fact, "scarcity power" is entirely an unitended by-product of the old system wich was tied to tangible objects. IP holders sometimes exerted it simply because the could. Now things have moved on and so they can't anymore. "Rights" do not even enter into it.
Here here ripowan! It's just like slave ownership. It doesn't matter how hard you think a master is beating his slave. What gives you the right to deprive him of HIS PROPERTY?
Just like pirates, those stupid abolitionists just don't get it. Slaves aren't people, and anyone who says so is a dirty, dirty liar! So let's all get off of our high horses and stop pretending there is some moral good served here by the likes of Harriet Tubman and her…underground railroad.
You are destroying the economy, and how do you expect the South to compete with the North? They have machines! We can't possibly compete with machines if we can't have colonies of forced laborers of a specific race we deem suitable for it.
So let's call them what they are, CRIMINALS! It's sad so many apologists show up to side with those criminals. One day, though, one day those abolitionists will wake up and see the real world around them. Until then, let's expose the lie for what it is. Theft of property! ;p
While you are perhaps correct, "scarcity power" is definitely an intangible. If I shoplift, I have removed from sale something that the retailer has paid money for. In order to make a sale of that item, he will need to go out and spend more money. That is a tangible loss.
I didn't see anything in the article that suggested that any type of pirating is defensible. But when the average person considers it defensible, then the rights holder already has problems that won't be addressed by further legislation.
Well, the problem is essentially here. There is no thing called a *scarcity power* in real world what comes to data (e.g. movie). It can be replicated infinitedly without any actualy cost. Anybody can do it and nothing is scarce. Talking about something like that is nonsense.
Yes, it is probably morally wrong to do these copies, but what distribution companies do is even more wrong. Come on. A child can make a copy of a movie for his thousand FB friends for free but studios are ripping some $10 per each. That's just absolutely crazy.
If you could order e.g. infinitely available potatoes for free instantly delivered to your home, shouldn't potatoe business just call it a day? Yes they should. There just wouldn't be any business left. Value of that market would be $0.
These are called technological revolutions. They're like a force of nature: steam engine, lightbulb, whatever. Every time an old luddite industry has been replaced by something that is much much more cheaper and effective. If you don't go with it, you're gone. Only heritage manufacturers will persist and they will suffer badly most of them going bankrupt. The earlier you adopt or invest in the new technology, the more you'll win.
Therefore, for the user, the only cost that is left is the amount of time you have to invest into getting that movie and that's where the business lies.
If you can reduce the time for starting a movie from 15 minutes to 30 seconds and will only charge for the time difference according to minimum wage, you've gotten the value of the product, which is: $7.25($/h) * 14.5(min) / 60 (min/h) = $1.75 + VAT. It's quite close to the $2 price that has been pointed out in the article, but it can actually be calculated easy as this.
By the way. These companies have never given any value for the free marketing they've gotten from piracy. I've purchased much much more music since I fould out I can look for interesting artists from "online".
Nowadays I'm using Spotify for that purpose because it makes everything just a bit easier. It is just too bad it doesn't have all the record companies. If I could listen to their music from there, I might buy a vinyl or a cd to support the artist and get it in perfect quality. Now I will never hear about them.
Apple has done just what you say "can't be done" with music. People by the millions forego "free" music in favor of iTunes.
"Now, we can argue whether or not this is a good thing."
Since actual scarcity (i.e., rivalrousness in the physical realm) is the bane of human existence — it is the source of all conflict, resulting in famine, war, mortality (scarcity of time), etc — then I contend that trying to force this terrible quality into the metaphysical realm is not only a bad thing but, as the article points out, impossible because it simply isn't reality. All Intellectual Property laws can boil down to are as redistribution schemes in physical goods. You know, where there actually is scarcity.
When the product can be copied infinitely, there is no scarcity. On the internet, intellectual property CAN be copied infinitely; supply becomes infinite relative to demand. No one individual or organization caused this. It is simply a fact of the internet and the information age that information may be copied endlessly. Nothing was taken, stolen, or denied. The world, and the market, changed.
The primary factor that most people will use to determine their method of acquisition in this very real scenario is convenience (and in some cases, risk will be considered, but this is rare). That is the point the article is making, and I find it to be a well reasoned and valid one.
Then artists will just have to figure out how to pay their bills without selling access to their work. Not-for-profit business models may be the only viable ones going forward.
Such is life.


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Bikes, Athletes, Races & Hockey(?) at the 2013 Sea Otter Classic
Nearly ten thousand athletes and some fifty thousand fans make the annual pilgrimage to Monterey, California for the mountain bike season opener, the Sea Otter Classic. Now one of the world's largest bike festivals, the Sea Otter Classic began as a modest one-day event in 1991 after a local bike shop suggested that co-founders Frank Yohannan and Lou Rudolph put on a mountain bike race. A fantastic tribute to the power of suggestion…
Catharine Pendrel Wraps Up UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Title
There was a battle high in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. The prize for the victor; a RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Championship. With her victory at the sixth stop on the cross-country World Cup series, Oakley's Catharine Pendrel also secured the overall 2012 World Cup title. She highlighted a day that saw her LUNA Pro team take the top three spots in the race. Teammates Katerina Nash and Georgia Gould finished second and third respectively.


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Linux.Conf.Au - Day One
My flight from Wellington to Sydney can be easily chalked up as one of the most painful experiences of my life - alongside military service, breaking a bone, and supporting Windows 98. Things improved markedly when, after approximately three hours standing in line, my colleague and I boarded our flight from Sydney to Hobart.
We were playing spot-the-conference-attendee - a Linux cap here, a summer of code shirt there - when Linus Torvalds boarded our plane, looking a little sheepish at all the adoring stares. I ran into him again after we disembarked - standing in my way at the baggage carousel. I forgave him. After all, I've heard he's a KDE fan.
The University turned out to be a very expensive but scenic twenty minute taxi ride from the airport. Hobart is nestled in thickly forested hills with stunning ocean views. The University itself is set to a backdrop of stately Australian bush, with a view of the city and the water from my room. The accommodation is better than any year I can remember - I and four others are sharing a spacious modern apartment with a very pleasant living and kitchen area.
After a pleasant Italian meal and a good night's sleep, I started my conference experience by alternating between the Sysadmin and Kernel miniconfs. Matthew Garrett's talk 'How I learned to stop worrying and love ACPI' was entertaining and informative, as expected. I counted no less than 10 instances of the word 'magic' during his explanation of how ACPI suspend happens. After my misspent youth digging into making Linux go on laptops I fully believe him that magic is involved. Dark magic. Involving animal sacrifice. Possibly the animal operating the computer.
On the systems administration side of things, I listened to Richard Keech talk on "Rapid, repeatable provisioning of Linux systems" using the Red Hat kickstart framework. There were some very good points to this talk, but my colleagues and I agreed we thought our current methods were better. Perhaps we should get around to putting in a talk for next year's conference. Devdas Bhagat's presentation on "Automating system administration" was great, looking at the people as well as the technical aspects and discussing how to make the business case for spending time on building these frameworks. I've felt the truth of his comment in the past, that "... any sysadmin can blow up a box, but to blow up an entire bunch of machines takes a sysadmin with a configuration management system."
So far the highlight of the conference for me came in my schwag bag. This is my Tasmanian devil-tux. Yes, that's a penguin beak strapped on with string. He's adorable, but I confess to an uneasy feeling that he's trying to get in amongst the penguins for nefarious reasons. There's something a little too smug about that expression.
Tomorrow I plan to again alternate, this time between the Security, Systems Administration, and Virtualisation and Management miniconfs. For now, tassy-tux and I are going to go and see what happened to our pizza delivery we ordered an hour ago. He looks hungry.
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