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Mort Walker turned 87 over the Labor Day weekend and this year his best known creation, the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip, celebrated sixty years in syndication. Mr. Walker was kind enough to take time out of his schedule and invite us down to his home and office in Connecticut. Heâs a man in great shape for his age, and to celebrate sixty years in the newspapers heâs taking a two week vacation while King Features runs strips that were chosen by visitors to his website as some of their favorites.
Walker is not always given his due, though Fantagraphics' recent printing of "Samâs Strip," a short-lived comic from Walker and Jerry Dumas, did draw attention to the fact that Walker is capable of producing a brilliantly complex and innovative comic that is as formally inventive and challenging as anything that could be found on a comics page in Twentieth Century America. It just didnât last very long.
Reviewing his career can easily turn into a laundry list of awards and accomplishments. Walker worked for Hallmark back when it was known as Hall Brothers, and helped to design greeting cards for the company. He was an editor at Dell Publications. At the age of thirty, he received the Reuben of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society. At thirty-one, his second comic strip, "Hi and Lois," which he produced with Dik Browne, was launched. In 1999, he became the second cartoonist to be awarded the Gold T-Square from the National Cartoonists Society.
Walker can be regarded as an cartoonist of the craftsman school rather than those more recent ones who look upon the form as a means of personal expression. This ignores the small ways that Walker has toyed with convention and the small ways heâs personalized his gag strips. It also ignores the small but daring moves he made. When Walker introduced an African-American character into "Beetle Bailey" in the 1960s, the strip was promptly dropped by many major newspapers throughout the Southeast United States and "Stars and Stripes."
Despite the strange genius of "Samâs Strip," Walker seeks something else from his daily work. "I donât want the Pulitzer prize," Walker said, "I want the bulletin board prize. What I want is for people to relate to my strips and say, 'thatâs just like me' or 'just like my friend,' cut it out and put it on the bulletin board. Thatâs what Iâm after."
CBR NEWS: Does it feel like youâve been doing "Beetle Bailey" for sixty years?
Mort Walker: It feels like normal life. I get up in the morning and think up gags, sit down and draw strips and donât think too much about it. [Laughs] I really enjoy it, though. I donât want to retire. I feel like I have a responsibility to all the readers I have. They tell me Iâve got two hundred million readers in fifty-two countries. You donât want to go off and leave them if theyâve been reading you and enjoy it. Every time I run into people who say, 'oh, Iâve been reading you all my life,' I have a standard answer. "Thank you, I thought you looked intelligent." [Laughs] They know Iâm kidding, but they like it anyway.
What is a typical day like for you?
When people ask me when Iâm going to retire, this is my answer, which gives you an idea of my day. I get up and have breakfast. I walk about three steps to my studio and lie down in the barcalounger. I get an idea and take three steps over to my desk. I make some scratches on a paper and they send me money. [Laughs] What would I retire to? Ditch digging? I always think of ideas in bed before I get up. I always have things to write down at the breakfast table.
Now you pencil the comic, but you donât ink them anymore.
My son Greg inks them.
Why did you give that aspect of it up?
I gave that up a long long time ago. The pencilling is the most important thing. Inking takes a long time and if you find somebody thatâs a good inker, youâve enhanced your product. That gives me more time to work on ideas. I can come up with about twenty ideas in an hour. To get them ready for the gag conference, which we have once a month, I select the better ones and sketch those up. This is what I was doing this morning before you came. I can sketch up about thirty of them in a day.
We go to the gag conference and there are four of us and we each have thirty gags so thereâs one hundred and twenty gags. We only need thirty, so thereâs a lot left over. We tried to estimate how many leftover gags we have and we figured we had about 80,000 all sketched up. A lot of people think theyâre pretty good gags. When they come over from Europe and they have comic books they need to fill up because they donât have enough of my regular stuff, they come over to look through these files. So some of them are getting used but I still have stacks and stacks. I have three full file cabinets full of them.
Who takes part in these monthly gag conferences?
I run them. My two sons, who also do "Hi and Lois," write gags. My son Greg does the inking. Brian doesnât have anything to do with the artwork on "Beetle," just "Hi and Lois." Jerry Dumas, whoâs an author and a newspaper columnist. Heâs been working with me ever since he got out of college and got out of the air force around 1951 or '52. He used to do my inking for me, then he took on doing his own strips. Heâs doing one of the strips that I created called "Sam and Silo." It started out being called "Samâs Strip."
There was a great collection of that strip released by Fantagraphics recently, but the strip didnât last very long.
It didnât last too long. The head of the syndicate, King Features Syndicate, said why donât you just put Sam and Silo in a different atmosphere. So I went back to the comics editor and we sat in the office and went, how about doing this? No. How about small town cops? So thatâs what they are, theyâre small town cops, and theyâve been like that for forty years.
What is it about "Beetle Bailey" thatâs been so big?
I think people relate to it. Of course a lot of people relate to Beetle because they have a lot of thoughts like him: All these rules are regulations are awful, how do I get around them? In an office. In school or college. Thatâs the way I was. I always wanted to do my own thing all the time. I was really adept at getting out of work I didnât want to do. [Laughs] Itâs funny. I always made good grades, but the teachers were always at odds with me. They couldnât control me. [Laughs] And I got away with it.
In the army I did the same thing. When the army sent me to school, I was in this dormitory and they had a nine oâclock bed check. I was supposed to be in bed at nine oâclock, but I had a beautiful girlfriend I just had to be with. I found that down the hall there was a closet and there were pipes that ran down to the furnace room. So I climbed down through the furnace room. The attendant down there looked at me like, where did you come from? He didnât know what to do. I would say, good evening, and then walk out the door. [Laughs] Iâd go on my date, come back and say, hi howâre you doing, and climb through the closet. [Laughs] I got away with that for a whole year. No one ever caught me.
Thatâs interesting. How much is the strip like your time in army?
Well, Beetle is me. Heâs a nonconformist. He canât understand why you have to wash the barracks floor twice in one day. If the sergeant says youâve got to do it, youâve got to do it. It doesnât make any sense. I had to live with that for four years, people telling me what to do.
My theory has always been that Beetle is smartest character in the strip, because he knows what he wants and managed to make it happen. And heâs also the happiest character.
You got it right. Just like me. I was always the smartest one. [Laughs] A lot of people like Sergeant Snorkel because as tough as he is, itâs all a ruse. All my characters are based on real people. I had a sergeant just like Sergeant Snorkel and he was just so tough that everyone tried to avoid him. We would hide when we saw him coming. Then one day we came back after a real tough day, heâd written a poem "to my boys" and mimeographed it and put a copy on each pillow. We couldnât believe. He thinks of us as his boys. Weâre not soldiers. He has some affection for us.
Recently [in the strip], they had mail call and the guys turned around and said, 'Sarge, how come you never get any mail?' Heâs like, who needs mail, itâs all junk, donât bother me. Then he goes back to the barracks and sits on his bed and thereâs a tear in his eye. I got letters from kids all over the country saying, donât cry Sarge, hereâs a letter for you. Like he was a real person and he was sad and they wanted to cheer him up. That was very comforting to me. To realize that people have that affection for the characters.
When the comic started, Beetle was in college. Why did you have him join the Army originally?
First of all, they werenât very successful selling it. Readers didnât glom onto it like with a lot of other stuff. The editor of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" wrote and said, "Put him army, theyâre drafting guys like Beetle." I didnât want to do it. After World War II, all the army comic strips faded away. I said, as soon as the Korean War is over, Iâll be out of work." But I put him in the army and it just took off. I said, well this is fine now, but I took him home on furlough and introduced his sister Lois and her husband Hi as an insurance policy.
With the intention that after the war ended, he would leave the army and move into their house or nearby and the strip would involve them.
Yeah. When the war was over and nobody wanted him as a soldier he could become Loisâ brother and weâd work on the relationship there. But it never stopped selling. And today itâs one of the top selling strips in the business and one of the most popular. Theyâre dropping strips all over the place but theyâre not dropping Beetle.
Youâve had an interesting relationship with the army over the years. I donât think younger readers think of the strip as controversial but "Stars and Stripes" dropped it on two separate occasions.
"Stars and Stripes" dropped it under orders from the Pentagon because they thought it was hurting discipline. That I was showing that opposition to orders was fun to do. [Laughs] The readers responded and Senator [William] Proxmire went to the Pentagon one time and said all my constituents want Beetle back in "Star and Stripes." The Pentagon finally relented and found their sense of humor. I havenât had any trouble since.
Military strips tend to have that problem. Bill Mauldin kept running into that during World War II.
He had the same trouble. General Patton called him into the office and told him to stop drawing those damn cartoons. But theyâre very popular with the men. It helps with morale. People like to gripe about stuff. Patton finally relented and let him keep it in. And [Mauldin] won the Pulitzer prize.
You were awarded the Reuben of the year Award by the National Cartoonist Society very early in your career. Before Charles Schulz or many others of your generation did. Weâre here talking about a strip that you began when you were twenty-seven. What was your early career like after you left the Army?
I came to New York and I just had a few dollars in my pocket. Another artist took pity on me and said, where are you living? I said I didnât have a place and he said, you came to New York without lining up some place to live? It was after the war. He said, stay with me. He was living in a condemned building. They were going to tear it down and build a dormitory, but until they did that, they were allowing artists and writers to live there at a reduced rate. For eight dollars a month I lived there and became friends with all the people in the building. One guy was a big comic book artist. He made fifteen thousand dollars a year. I wrote on the top of my drawing board, my goal is to make fifteen thousand dollars a year. [Laughs]
I started selling magazine cartoons. Well, I didnât sell any for the first six months. I realized that I was doing something wrong, so I changed everything. I changed the way I drew. I changed the type of paper I drew on. Instead of drawing roughs like most of the guys drew, I drew finishes. I drew everything in ink and then put a blue wash. The other cartoonists got mad at me because I was outshining them. I said, look, the editors donât know my work. Iâm brand new. They donât know what my work looks like. If I draw a little pencil sketch, they donât know what theyâre going to get. This way they know what theyâre going to get. Not only that, but a lot of them would buy my rough and just use the rough.
Other cartoonists were so helpful. Like the guy who let me come live with him. Other guys who said, weâll show you around. On Wednesday weâd have an open house with all the different editors. Iâd go to twenty different editors on Wednesday. Then theyâd say come and have dinner with us afterwards. They were so good to me. They said sign your name big and make it readable so we all know who you are. [Laughs] Good advice.
Then I started selling to the "Saturday Evening Post." The guy liked my work there and I became the top seller there and he said you know youâre drawing cartoons about family life but youâre not married? I said no. He said, why donât you draw a college strip. I remember your work when you were in college. I was editor of the school magazine at Missouri University called the "Show Me" and I used to draw the covers and a lot of the cartoons and illustrations inside. He said, draw college kids. So I started drawing college kids. He pointed out one character, thatâs a funny looking guy with a hat down over his eyes. Feature him. So I started using him.
In the meantime I got married. Somebody took a survey and found out that I was the top selling magazine cartoonist in the country. My wife said, and you only made eight thousand dollars last year? Youâre in the wrong business if youâre the top seller. I guess when I first came up here and just starting they gave me lower rates so even though a lot of people sold fewer than I did, they made more. Anyway, that day I sat down and made a comic strip using this character whose name was Spider.
Prior to this point you were drawing single panel comics?
Yeah, all single panels. So I sat down and did a couple weeks of strips and took them into King Features and they bought them immediately. Except I had to change the name from Spider to Beetle. I named the character after the editor at the Saturday Evening Post who had suggested that I feature him. His name was John Bailey, so the character became Beetle Bailey.
What was thinking behind changing the name from Spider to Beetle?
Well I had a fraternity brother who was drunk and was crawling up the front lawn to get to the house because he couldnât walk. We were all looking out the window and somebody said, "He looks just like a spider." That was a name that stuck with that guy. When the syndicate said that they had another strip with a character named Spider, I thought, Iâll just think of another bug.
You mentioned how in Scandinavia, "Beetle Bailey" is huge.
I couldnât believe it. An editor from Sweden, he was a cartoonist himself, he wrote me and said, "Youâve got the wrong people doing your translations over here. Theyâre not humorous and you need to have your translations done by someone with a sense of humor." I said, do you have any suggestions and he said, "Yeah, me." [Laughs] So I told the syndicate and they said, sure, fine.
Not only did he do my translations and make them funny, he would put me on the cover. He would have articles on the inside. There was a personality involved. It really caught on. When I first went over there I think Donald Duck was one of the big stars and one of the story strips was one of the top selling comic books and the next thing I knew Beetle was the top. Not only would they put out one comic book a month theyâd put out several.
Now you canât have four men doing gags without coming up with a dirty one now and again, so we had all these dirty gags that we couldnât use.
Iâve seen a number of the dirty gags and theyâre very funny, but they could never run in a paper here.
Right now there is someone who wants to run them, but weâre not so sure that we want to do it. He wants to do it in a comic book over here. Theyâre very popular over there. Iâve got a bunch of books theyâve put out.
What were the comics you loved when you were a kid?
Well I started off with my father reading me "Moon Mullins." Iâd go down and get the paper Sunday morning and Iâd get in bed with him and first he would read me "Moon Mullins." We both loved it. He would laugh until tears came down his cheeks and I would lie next to him. I thought, thatâs a wonderful thing to do for someone, to get him to laugh like that. So I got interested in comics. I had to learn how to read. Before I was five years old, I was reading books. I became an avid reader and I decided I wanted to be a comic strip artist. Way back then. Back then comic strip artists were big stars. Milton Caniff and Al Capp and Willard Mullin. Guys like that were all over the cover of "Time" magazine with big articles written about them. I went into restaurants with Milton Caniff and I could hear people saying, thereâs Milton Caniff.
Through the Cartooning Museum you used to run and your other efforts, youâve really helped to preserve comic art and promoted the idea of treating it as art. When did you first begin to collect art?
The "Kansas City Star" had a big art department. They had about six or seven cartoonists. My father, along with being an architect, was a writer, and he would write a poem every morning. He came from a farm in Nebraska where everybody would get up at five oâclock in the morning to milk the cows, so he would get up in the morning and it was too early to go to work so he would write a poem. He would take them to the "Kansas City Star" and they printed them. My mother had been an illustrator for the other newspaper in town, the "Kansas City Journal," and when they got married she had to give that job up. If it was a Thanksgiving poem or Christmas or other holidays, she would illustrate it and theyâd run it on the front page. I have albums full of their work.
Anyway, when he would take his poems into the "Kansas City Star" he would take me with him. Iâd go hang out with the cartoonists and theyâd let me go through their drawers and artwork and if I saw something I liked Iâd say, can I have this? I used to hang all these originals up. Then I got the idea of writing famous cartoonists. Almost all of them sent me originals because people didnât value them then. I had quite a collection.
Do you have your own favorite strips other than what people voted for?
Well, I have my favorites. Itâs the sixtieth anniversary so we thought weâd do some different things. If itâs a real patriotic holiday I do a Sunday page on it. I did one a couple months ago about My Flag and I got more responses to that. Two people wrote music to it. Iâve got George Washington crossing the Delaware coming up.
On my website we printed a whole bunch of cartoons and asked people, which are your six best favorites - and I think we expanded it to twelve best - and weâll have prizes. This is the result of the voting. I like them all. A lot of them are my own gags. [Laughs]
Is it odd looking at the older comics again where your style has changed over the decades?
Very odd. [Laughs] The characters have changed over the years. Sarge got fatter. I introduced different characters. I didnât have a black character or Asian character [in the beginning] and introduced those along the way. Beetle is Irish, Sarge is German. Plato is Greek. Killerâs Italian. Miss Buxley is Swedish. Iâve got the melting pot in there.
Itâs morbid to ask, but after youâre gone, do you see the strip continuing? Or being rerun like "Peanuts?"
I donât like that idea, repeating everything in the paper like that. First of all it takes away from other artists to make a living. And if youâre dead, youâre not enjoying it. I would just as soon they didnât do it. But to provide an income for my children, yeah. There are three of them that work for me in the artistic sense. My daughter works for me on my bookkeeping and website and stuff like that so four of them working for me, but I hope that the strip wonât die with me. I donât think it will. I mean theyâve worked with me for so long, they know what theyâre doing.
Do you have any final thoughts?
I feel very privileged in what Iâm doing. I hope that I am making people a little happier. I think laughter is very important to your health. Itâs good for your body when you laugh. It makes your day more pleasant. I like to feel like Iâm contributing in that way. And everybody has been so nice to me throughout my life. I donât know why I deserve it. Iâve had so many people go out of their way to help me, to give me jobs. I never ever applied for a job. People came to me and asked if Iâd work with them. And Iâve had some wonderful jobs. Everybodyâs been so nice to me. I hope Iâve contributed a bit.


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Methane emissions contribute to global baseline surface ozone concentrations; therefore reducing methane to address climate change has significant co-benefits for air quality and human health. We analyze the costs of reducing methane from 2005 to 2030, as might be motivated to reduce climate forcing, and the resulting benefits from lower surface ozone to 2060. We construct three plausible scenarios of methane emission reductions, relative to a base scenario, ranging from 75 to 180 Mton CH4 yr−1 decreased in 2030. Using compilations of the global availability of methane emission reductions, the least aggressive scenario (A) does not incur any positive marginal costs to 2030, while the most aggressive (C) requires discovery of new methane abatement technologies. The present value of implementation costs for Scenario B are nearly equal to Scenario A, as it implements cost-saving options more quickly, even though it adopts positive cost measures. We estimate the avoided premature human mortalities due to surface ozone decreases by combining transient full-chemistry simulations of these scenarios in a global atmospheric chemical transport model, with concentration-mortality relationships from a short-term epidemiologic study and projected global population. An estimated 38,000 premature mortalities are avoided globally in 2030 under Scenario B. As benefits of methane reduction are positive but costs are negative for Scenario A, it is justified regardless of how avoided mortalities are valued. The incremental benefits of Scenario B also far outweigh the incremental costs. Scenario C has incremental costs that roughly equal benefits, only when technological learning is assumed. Benefits within industrialized nations alone also exceed costs in Scenarios A and B, assuming that the lowest-cost emission reductions, including those in developing nations, are implemented. Monetized co-benefits of methane mitigation for human health are estimated to be $13–17 per ton CO2eq, with a wider range possible under alternative assumptions. Methane mitigation can be a cost-effective means of long-term and international air quality management, with concurrent benefits for climate.
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NEW YORK -- Two local TV stations have resolved their
dispute with the NFL Network over Saturday night's broadcast of the
potentially historic Patriots-Giants game.
WCVB in Boston and Manchester, N.H., station WMUR, which are
owned by the same company, and New York station WWOR had won
bidding processes for the right to simulcast NFL Network games
involving local teams.
The Patriots would become the first team in NFL history to go
16-0 in the regular season if they beat the Giants on Saturday.
Outside of the Boston and New York areas, the game was originally
scheduled to be broadcast only on the NFL Network, which is
available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with
On Wednesday, the NFL announced the matchup would also be aired
on CBS and NBC.
"WCVB-TV/DT and sister station WMUR-TV and the NFL Network have
reached a mutually satisfactory resolution of the issues resulting
in WCVB and WMUR's loss of exclusive local broadcast rights for
Saturday night's Patriots-Giants game," WCVB said in a statement
released late Friday night.
WWOR did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history
and the first simulcast of an NFL game since the inaugural Super
Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC televised the meeting of the
champions of the newly merged National Football League and American
Football League.
The NFL, which has feuded with major cable companies over their
refusal to include the network in a basic package, had resisted
calls to make Saturday's game more widely available. But pressure
from lawmakers mounted in recent weeks, and the league reversed
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Super easy to make. Made them to freeze for a friend having a baby. Added a little ketchup. Cook time is right on.
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Having gravy or ketchup would be a great addition to this simple recipe. Makes about a dozen muffins.
Want to make 'em into "cupcakes"? Pipe mashed potatoes on top with a pastry bag and star tip. My kids think it's a hoot!
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|Rockies | Colorado closing candidates
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:30:10 -0700
With Colorado Rockies RP Jason Motte (shoulder) likely to start the year on the disabled list, RPs Jake McGee and Chad Qualls could be in play to handle the ninth inning, and RP Miguel Castro is another candidate.
Fantasy Tip: Manager Walt Weiss has been coy about naming a specific closer heading into the season, although most folks automatically assumed it would mainly be McGee, who Colorado traded for in the offseason. That's likely to be the case, but the Rockies could mix and match based on matchups. McGee is the closer to own in fantasy leagues, but because of the uncertainty he's more of an RP3.
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|Rockies | Closer-by-committee approach for Rockies?
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:10:07 -0800
Colorado Rockies RPs Jake McGee, Jason Motte, Chad Qualls and Adam Ottavino (elbow) are all candidates to pitch in the ninth inning, according to bullpen coach Darren Holmes. Holmes noted the bullpen will focus on retiring hitters at critical times and not predetermined roles.
Fantasy Tip: Bullpen by committees are a hassle for fantasy owners, and given the home venue in this discussion, the fantasy value is low for all four arms in the majority of leagues. However, it is also Friday, Feb. 5, so a lot can change before the season starts, and a full-time closer could emerge at some point. For the time being, though, proceed with caution when approaching this bullpen. Ottavino has the lowest value because he'll be for the majority of the first half of the season following Tommy John surgery last year.
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|Rockies | Two relievers headed to Colorado
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 06:33:30 -0800
Free-agent RP Jason Motte (Cubs) and Chad Qualls (Astros) reached two-year deals with the Colorado Rockies Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Fantasy Tip: Both righties could figure into the closing mix. Neither has the electric stuff to give fantasy owners confidence in taking a Rockies closer early, but both are worth consideration for a flyer as a high-end third reliever.
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|Astros | Chad Qualls reinstated
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:14:34 -0700
Houston Astros RP Chad Qualls (neck) was activated from the disabled list Friday, July 10, and SP Brett Oberholtzer was optioned to the minors in a corresponding move.
Fantasy Tip: Qualls should return to a setup role behind Luke Gregerson in the Houston bullpen. Gregerson hasn't been the most dominant reliever for the Astros this year, but he hasn't done anything to make the team think twice about using him in the ninth inning. Qualls is strictly a handcuff option for those that own Gregerson.
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|Astros | Chad Qualls could return Friday
Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:03:20 -0700
Houston Astros RP Chad Qualls (neck) could be activated from the disabled list as soon as Friday, June 10. He threw one perfect inning in a rehab outing for Class AA Corpus Christi Tuesday, July 7, and is scheduled to make one more rehab appearance Thursday, July 9.
Fantasy Tip: Outside of AL-only leagues that use the holds category, Qualls won't have much fantasy value when he returns from the DL. Luke Gregerson is the main Houston reliever for fantasy teams to own.
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|Astros | Chad Qualls has pinched nerve
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:08:28 -0700
Updating a previous report, Houston Astros RP Chad Qualls (neck) was put on the disabled list with a pinched nerve in his neck Friday, June 26. Qualls was 1-4 with four saves and a 5.11 ERA in 29 outings this year.
Fantasy Tip: It sounds as if this is an injury that could easily require more than the 15 days on the DL. Luke Gregerson remains the reliever to own for fantasy teams as Houston's closer, but both Pat Neshek and Josh Fields have pitched exceptionally well and can help owners with their pitching ratios in deeper leagues.
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|Astros | Chad Qualls heading to DL
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:30:20 -0700
Houston Astros RP Chad Qualls (undisclosed) was placed on the 15-day disabled list with an undisclosed injury Friday, June 26.
Fantasy Tip: Luke Gregerson remains Houston's closer despite possessing probably the shakiest ninth-inning skills of the Astros' late-inning options. With Qualls sidelined, expect to see Pat Neshek or Josh Fields serve as the eighth-inning setup man to Gregerson.
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|Astros | Chad Qualls in line for save opps
Fri, 08 May 2015 17:12:55 -0700
Houston Astros RP Chad Qualls will serve as the team's closer if the lineup matches up in the ninth inning, according to manager A.J. Hinch.
Fantasy Tip: Gregerson is currently on the family medical emergency list, and he might not return until sometime next week. Only reach out to the waiver wire and grab Qualls in deep mixed or AL-only leagues if you're hurting for saves, since it'll likely just be a short-term stint in the closer role in the absence of Gregerson.
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|Astros | Three battling for Houston closer job
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:50:15 -0800
Houston Astros RPs Luke Gregerson, Chad Qualls and Pat Neshek will all be competing for the closer's job in spring training. Between all three relievers, they have only 95 career saves, with Qualls having 70 of them in 25 combined seasons.
Fantasy Tip: While Qualls has the most experience and most career saves, and he may start out the year as Houston's ninth-inning stopper, if you're drafting a Houston reliever for saves and upside, it should be Gregerson.
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|Astros | Luke Gregerson to close for Houston
Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:57:13 -0800
Houston Astros RP Luke Gregerson is expected to serve as the team's closer next season. Gregerson can make $21 million from his contract if he is the team's closer, according to a baseball source. RP Chad Qualls, who saved 19 games for the team last year, will likely move to a setup role.
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I second Brendan: congratulations, Charles. And to think I knew you way back when. I look forward to seeing the film.
I didn't read the article, but way to go Charles. The physical/mental quote is priceless. Does it allude to fucking (with) a horse ('s mind)?
Congratulations, Charles. I look forward to seeing Zoo. I saw Police Beat when it played the Edinburgh Film Festival and really liked it. Any chance Zoo will come there this year?
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Running Time: 83
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Wayward college cheerleaders receive the coach and the landlord in four fairly standard boy-girl encounters. The two opening numbers include anal and work; however, the hottest bit is reserved for the final scene, Byron Long prongs a delectable and very vocal Mia who screams, "Let's go, team!" every time Long rams his big rod home.
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In Saturday's third-place game of the Henryville Tip-Off Tournament, Crothersville built an 11-2 lead against Clarksville. But this time, the Tigers didn't let up.
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Joseph Osburn, age 74, of Manitou Beach passed away Aug. 31, 2013.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at the J. Gilbert Purse Funeral Home, Tecumseh, with Rev. Larry Betz officiating. Burial will follow in Green's Lakeside Cemetery, Manitou Beach. Visitation will also be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, before the service at 1 p.m.
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The New England Patriots were supposed to be crippled. The Indianapolis Colts? Sure they were going to be improved, but this improved?
Now they're ready for the Week 2 Faceoff at Foxboro, a battle for the lead in the AFC East, the division that's supposed to be the NFL's strongest.
But alas, the Jets were beaten by the Patriots when Vinny Testaverde was hurt, the allegedly powerful Bills were humbled 31-14 in Indianapolis, and New England and Indy are suddenly right up there with Miami.
For a week, anyway.
The Patriots are favored, which is their right as the home team. The spread is 4 1/2 points, which is more than the three points the home team usually gets.
That's probably close to reality - the young Colts can use a little road seasoning.... PATRIOTS, 27-21.
New York Jets (plus 4) at Buffalo: What a difference a Vinny can make. But so can a Tuna.... JETS, 20-17.
Atlanta (off) at Dallas (Monday night): The off is because nobody's quite sure that Chris Chandler WON'T play.
Danny Kanell was so bad Tony Graziani beat him out as the backup QB in Atlanta. Without Deion and Leon, Dallas' defense is awful and Jamal should do quite well. But ... COWBOYS, 24-16.
Denver (minus 3 1/2) at Kansas City: There's no John Elway to stick pins in a Marty Schottenheimer doll. There's no Marty Schottenheimer, either.... BRONCOS, 26-11.
New Orleans (plus 10 1/2) at San Francisco: Bill Walsh always complained that the 49ers' spreads were too big. When he coached, he was wrong. Now?... 49ERS, 24-23.
San Diego (pick 'em) at Cincinnati: Can those unbeaten, AFC West-leading Chargers keep rolling? Can Moses Moreno challenge Ryan Leaf for the No. 3 job? Will Akili Smith learn his playbook?... CHARGERS, 20-19.
Green Bay (minus 6 1/2) at Detroit: The Lions beat Mike Holmgren's new team. They usually give his old one trouble, particularly at the Silverdome.... PACKERS, 20-19.
Arizona (plus 9) at Miami: The Cardinals came back to beat the Eagles. These are not the Eagles.... DOLPHINS, 34-10.
Oakland (plus 11) at Minnesota: The Raiders drop to the bottom of the NFC Central, as well as the AFC West.... VIKINGS, 27-20.
Seattle (minus 3 1/2) at Chicago: Shane Matthews can't do it two weeks in a row? Can he?... SEAHAWKS, 23-14.
Washington (plus 2 1/2) at New York Giants: A few more weeks and Dan Snyder might fire his team.... GIANTS, 20-9.
Pittsburgh (minus 2 1/2) at Baltimore: The Steelers now try to dispense with the old Browns.... STEELERS 17-14.
Jacksonville (minus 9 1/2) at Carolina: These teams have gone such different routes that Dom Capers now works for the Jaguars.... JAGUARS, 41-3.
Tampa Bay (minus 6 1/2) at Philadelphia: Philadelphia's season may have been the first half against Arizona. With Trent Dilfer barely hanging on ... BUCS, 19-0.
Cleveland (plus 16) at Tennessee: Can the Browns get three first downs? Can they score?... TITANS, 43-7.
Last Week: 8-7 (Spread); 8-7 (Straight up).
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