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Chapter 1 Summary
Jim Gallien, a union electrician, picks up a hitchhiker about four miles out of Fairbanks on Tuesday, April 28, 1992. The hitchhiker introduces himself only as "Alex" and asks for a ride to the edge of Denali National Park, from which point he will walk "deep into the bush and live off the land for a few months." Alex, a congenial young man who looks to be only eighteen or nineteen, shows Gallien a map of the Stampede Trail, a seldom-traveled road which winds "for forty miles or so before petering out...(in a) trackless wilderness north of Mt. McKinley." This is where Alex intends to go.
Gallien is concerned because Alex seems woefully underprepared for such an undertaking. He carries only a small rifle and a...
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Chapter 2 Summary
The Stampede Trail, the route taken by Chris McCandless, wanders through rolling bottomland on the northern margin of the Alaska Range. In 1930 the trail was blazed by a miner named Earl Pilgrim, and in 1961 a construction company was hired to upgrade the trail. The company hauled three "junked buses, outfitted...with bunks and a simple barrel stove" up into the wilderness to house its workers, and when the project was halted, one of the buses was left behind "to serve as a backcountry shelter for hunters and trappers." The rusted vehicle was located twenty-five miles west of Healy...just beyond the boundary of Denali National Park.
On September 6, 1992, three moose hunters managed to get across the flooded...
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Chapter 3 Summary
Chris McCandless often mentioned Carthage, South Dakota, as his home. He had become close to Wayne Westerberg, an elevator owner and jack-of-all-trades, who had picked him up as a hitchhiker there one day in the fall of 1990. McCandless, who told Westerberg that his name was Alex, worked for the older man awhile, and found a "surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees." When McCandless hit the road again, he kept in touch with Westerberg, "calling or writing Carthage every month or so."
In reality, McCandless was the son of Walt and Billie McCandless, and he was raised in a "comfortable upper-middle class" home in Ann andale, Virginia. He had eight siblings, and was close to his younger sister, Car ine....
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Chapter 4 Summary
McCandless chronicled his meanderings after graduation in a journal snapshot album. He traveled first to Lake Mead, where he ignored warnings posted against off-road driving and camped on the dry riverbed. He "basked in his newfound freedom" until a flash flood struck; although he was able to salvage his tent and belongings, his car engine was soaked, and he could not get it started afterwards. He abandoned the car, and took advantage of the opportunity "to shed unnecessary baggage," leaving many of his possessions and burning all of his money. He then "tramped around the West" for the next two months, hitchhiking up the Pacific Coast to Seattle, heading east through Idaho and Montana, then south and west again to the Colorad o...
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Chapter 5 Summary
Chris enters Bullhead City, Colorado in early October of 1991. The town is described as a place that is full of tourist traps and strip malls. Although described as a place that one would not expect Chris to visit or stay for very long, he actually enjoyed his stay in this town—staying there for two consecutive months, even considering staying there for longer. During his stay Chris got a job working at a local McDonald's, giving his real name on the application, and even opened up an account at a local bank. Described by those he knew there as a hard working and dependable person, Chris had to be reminded and forced by his manager to wear socks to work on a daily basis. Also during this time period, he met a man named Charlie...
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Chapter 6 Summary
After leaving The Slabs, Chris made his way to Salton City, California, in January of 1992 where he met Ronald Franz, an older gentleman who had long since lost his wife and son, recovered from alcoholism, and became "a devout christian." Franz would question Chris many times about his lifestyle; as Franz recalls, Chris explained to him that he chooses to live his life this way and described his future Alaskan adventure. The two men create a father-son type of relationship and spend a great deal of time together over the next few months. In March, Chris decided it was again time to move on and go back to Carthage, South Dakota. Ronald, sad to see Chris go, offered to drive him to Grand Junction, Colorado, and asked Chris if he...
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Chapter 7 Summary
Wayne Westerberg and various other people from Carthage, South Dakota, reminisce about Chris's final visit with them. Wayne recalls the four week stay as a time when Chris did odd jobs that no one else could handle while he prepared for his Alaskan adventure. He was described by Wayne as a hard-worker who did his job yet lacked common sense, a possible tragic flaw. Wayne's girlfriend and mother also commented on Chris saying that he was shy yet fascinating and spoke nothing of his family except mentioning his sister, Carine, a few times. Some background information is also revealed in this chapter. It is revealed that Chris shared many negative qualities with his father, Walt, which included his stubbornness and "hot-headedness."...
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Chapter 8 Summary
Other men before Chris McCandless have journeyed alone to Alaska to test their mettle. One of the best known was Gene Rossellini, a "wayward genius...interested in knowing if it was possible to be independent of modern technology." After experimenting for "over a decade", he concluded that "it is not possible for human beings as we know them to live off the land," and although he did not seem devastated by his findings, he killed himself in 1991 by stabbing himself though the heart. A lesser-known wayfarer was John Mellon Waterman, who made several forays alone into the wild. A self-critical, compulsive character, Waterman was erratic and unstable, and when his "life's work," an "accumulation of notes, poetry, and personal...
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Chapter 9 Summary
There are many parallels between Chris McCandless and another young adventurer who lived in the early 1900s, Everett Ruess. Ruess tramped the American Southwest and California, taking his first solo trip when he was only sixteen. Driven by a "craving for connection with the natural world and...passion for the country through which he walked," Ruess, like McCandless, was "heedless of personal safety" and "undeterred by physical discomfort." Like McCandless, who developed an alterego, "Alexander Supertramp", Ruess took on a variety of aliases, which he felt compelled to scrawl at some of the remote sites where he made his temporary homes.
Ruess disappeared in 1935, in the Davis Gulch are a in Utah,...
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Chapter 10 Summary
The chapter begins with a New York Times article that gives minor details of Chris's body being found in the Alaskan Wilderness. When he was originally found, Chris's body could not be identified because he did not have identification of any kind. Once the Anchorage Daily News began to publish articles about the mystery, Jim Gallien (see Chapter 1) realized that this must have been the same man that he had dropped off at the edge of the Alaskan wild in the spring. As the search for Chris's identity continued, Alaskan State Troopers were led to South Dakota. When the news of Chris's death traveled there, Wayne Westerberg heard of it and called the Alaskan State Troopers to provide information including...
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Chapter 11 Summary
Chris McCandless was born to Walt McCandless, an intelligent, intense aerospace technician, and his second wife Billie, in 1968. As a child, he showed unusual independence from the time he was a toddler. In elementary school he was placed in an accelerated program for gifted students, but tried to reason with his teachers and administrators that he did not really belong there. His sister Carine remembers that though he was popular, "he was very to himself...he could be alone without being lonely." Chris got good grades in school with little effort, and although he was small, he was a great athlete. He "had little patience for learning the finer points" of organized sports, however; "nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the...
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Chapter 12 Summary
Chris graduated from high school in 1986. After giving his father the gift of a fine telescope and expressing his thankfulness for all he had done for him, he left on the first of a series of extended trips. With no definite itinerary, Chris journeyed to the Pacific Coast, making a startling discovery in California. While visiting family friends in the neighborhood where he had grown up, Chris learned that, long after falling in love with his mother Billie and fathering Chris, his father Walt McCandless had had a son with his first wife and had essentially led a double life. Although he never confronted his father, the discovery irrevocably soured the way he viewed Walt, and filled him with rage.
Chris returned, scruffy...
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Chapter 13 Summary
Chris McCandless's younger sister Carine "looks enough like him that people frequently asked if they were twins." She is "energetic and self-assured," and, like Chris, "clashed fiercely" with her father and mother as an adolescent. Carine eventually made peace with her parents, however. And although she "shares Chris's outrage over racial injustice," she has no objection to the pursuit of wealth. Carine lives in a nice Virginia Beach home with her husband, Chris Fish, and Buckley, the Shetland sheepdog her brother so loved.
It was Chris Fish who told Carine that her brother had been found dead. When Chris McCandless's identity had been confirmed through dental records, Carine and Walt McCandless's oldest...
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Chapter 14 Summary
After Chris McCandless's death, there was "considerable speculation that the boy had been bent on suicide from the beginning" of his risky undertaking, but the author, Jon Krakauer, disputes these theories. His own belief is that McCandless's death was "unplanned...a terrible accident," and he bases his conclusion on experiences of his own.
As a youth, Krakauer, like McCandless, was "willful, self-absorbed, intermittently reckless, moody." "Figures of male authority" aroused in him fierce and conflicting emotions, and "if something captured (his) undisciplined imagination," he pursued it with "a zeal bordering obsession." Krakauer's passion was mountain climbing, and, in 1977, he "got it into (his) head" to...
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Chapter 15 Summary
After retreating back to base camp, Krakauer considered making another try up the mountain; although he really "didn't want to go up on the Thumb again at all...the thought of returning...in defeat wasn't very appealing." He remembered his father, with whom he had clashed continually during his youth. Jon Krakauer's father set impossibly high expectations for his children, and was volatile and unyielding, but Jon "felt oppressed by the old man's expectations" and refused to follow the path set for him. Later, he realized that, in growing up, he "had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass," but it was too late. He and his father were never really reconciled.
Jon's father had, if nothing else,...
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Chapter 16 Summary
In April of 1992, Chris McCandless hitchhiked from Carthage, South Dakota, to Fairbanks, Alaska, riding the last thousand miles with Gaylord Stuckey, a driver who was transporting a motor home to a Fairbanks RV dealer. Stuckey dropped Chris off at the University of Alaska, where the young man spent a few days researching edible plants before he began his hike west into the wild.
Chris McCandless entered the wilderness with only ten pounds of rice and a backpack half-filled with books. From his journal, it is known that he reached the Teklanika River on his second day out, and was able to ford the half-frozen water by wading across. The next day, he found the abandoned construction company bus and was...
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Chapter 17 Summary
If Chris McCandless had taken a detailed map with him into the wild, he would have known there was a way to ford the river he believed was impossible to cross, just twenty minutes from where he was stranded. His mistakes led many to view him as "arrogant" and "ridiculously ill prepared," a victim of his own stupidity. The author, Jon Krakauer, felt there was more to it than that, however, and went back to where Chris died a year later to try to gain a greater understanding of the man.
Krakauer believes McCandless went into the wild "to explore the inner country of his own soul," but found that the struggle for basic survival demanded he focus as much "outward...as inward." His journal does not address...
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Chapter 18 Summary
Chris McCandless resumed his solitary life at his camp after finding the Teklanika uncrossable. He caught enough game to subsist for a month, and apparently spent that time hunting, gathering, and reading. At the end of that time, he "made the mistake that pulled him down." On July 30, his journal entry indicates that he was "extremly weak" and in "great jeopardy." He faulted "pot.seed" for his predicament.
There have been many conjectures as to what exactly caused Chris's "precipitous decline." It is possible that he ingested potato seeds he had brought in with him, which become toxic after they have begun to sprout. More probably, he might have mistakenly eaten a toxic plant that closely resembles an...
(The entire section is 231 words.)
Chapter Summary and Analysis
Chapters 1-2 Summary and Analysis
The story opens with the introduction of Jim Gallien, a union electrician who was the last person to see Christopher McCandless before he embarked on his fateful journey into the wild. Gallien was on his way to Anchorage, Alaska, when he picked up a hitchhiker a few miles out of Fairbanks. The hitchhiker was small and wiry, said he was from South Dakota, and was twenty-four years old. He gave his name only as Alex, and asked for a ride up to the edge of Denali National Park, where he proclaimed his intention of walking into the wilderness to live off the land for awhile.
The two men talked on the two-hour drive to Denali Park. Alex struck Gallien as an intelligent, educated individual,...
(The entire section is 1418 words.)
Chapters 3-7 Summary and Analysis
Chris McCandless graduated from Atlanta's Emory University in May 1990. He had done well in school, completing a history and anthropology major with a 3.72 GPA. While a student, however, he had declined awards and recognitions, insisting that such honors were meaningless. Upon graduation, he donated the remaining money in his college fund to charity, casually told his parents he was "going to disappear for awhile," packed up his beloved 1982 Datsun 210, and took to the road. Chris's parents received one brief note from him in June 1990, along with a copy of his final transcripts; this was the last anyone in his family ever heard from him. It was as if, out of a sense of obligation, he had fulfilled...
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Chapters 8-9 Summary and Analysis
Before he authored Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote an article about Christopher McCandless for the magazine Outside, a work which generated a good deal of vitriol in the form of communication condemning McCandless's demise as "a foolish, pointless death." These correspondences, many of which were sent by Alaskans, railed against Krakauer for glorifying an imprudent young man whom they believed simply "overestimated (him)self, underestimated the country, and ended up in trouble." Krakauer responds by examining a sampling of "marginal characters" who have, throughout history and for various reasons, felt compelled to challenge the Alaskan wilderness alone, only to be found wanting....
(The entire section is 1487 words.)
Chapters 10-13 Summary and Analysis
Christopher McCandless carried no identification when he ventured into the wild for the last time; when his body was found, no one knew who he was. A front page article about his discovery was published in the Anchorage Daily News, and was seen by Jim Gallien, who stepped forward, identified pictures of McCandless, and told authorities that the young hitchhiker had mentioned he was from South Dakota. Wayne Westerberg then heard of the tragedy on the radio in Carthage, and provided Alaska State Troopers with a social security number McCandless had written on a W-4 form he had filled out in order to work at the grain elevators. McCandless was traced to his permanent residence in Virginia with...
(The entire section is 1808 words.)
Chapters 14-15 Summary and Analysis
Jon Krakauer, the author of Into the Wild, has his own theories about Chris McCandless's state of mind when he retreated into the Alaskan wilderness. His belief that McCandless's death was solely accidental, and not the manifestation of a death wish, is based on evidence collected from McCandless's writings and interviews with those who knew him, but even more than that, it is an insight that derives from a more personal perspective. There are numerous striking parallels between Krakauer's experience and that of Chris McCandless, and it is these parallels that make the character of McCandless so fascinating to him, and that allow him to examine the intricacies surrounding McCandless's fate...
(The entire section is 1479 words.)
Chapters 16-18 Summary and Analysis
Christopher McCandless arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska, on April 25, 1992, courtesy of an Indiana man, Gaylord Stuckey, who was delivering a new motor home to an RV dealer in the city. Stuckey enjoyed McCandless's company immensely; Chris shared with him his plans to spend the summer alone in the bush, saying he "wanted to prove to himself that he could make it...without anybody else's help." McCandless also spoke about the bitterness he felt toward his father. Sensing that the young man came from a "nice family," Stuckey pleaded with him to call his parents to let them know where he was, but Christopher would not give him a definitive commitment. In Fairbanks, Christopher McCandless bought a ten-pound...
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The Locale class
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
A "Locale" is an identifier used to get language, culture, or regionally-specific behavior from an API. PHP locales are organized and identified the same way that the CLDR locales used by ICU (and many vendors of Unix-like operating systems, the Mac, Java, and so forth) use. Locales are identified using RFC 4646 language tags (which use hyphen, not underscore) in addition to the more traditional underscore-using identifiers. Unless otherwise noted the functions in this class are tolerant of both formats.
Examples of identifiers include:
- en-US (English, United States)
- zh-Hant-TW (Chinese, Traditional Script, Taiwan)
- fr-CA, fr-FR (French for Canada and France respectively)
The Locale class (and related procedural functions) are used to interact with locale identifiers--to verify that an ID is well-formed, valid, etc. The extensions used by CLDR in UAX #35 (and inherited by ICU) are valid and used wherever they would be in ICU normally.
Locales cannot be instantiated as objects. All of the functions/methods provided are static.
The null or empty string obtains the "root" locale. The "root" locale is equivalent to "en_US_POSIX" in CLDR. Language tags (and thus locale identifiers) are case insensitive. There exists a canonicalization function to make case match the specification.
Class synopsis
, string $locale
[, bool $canonicalize
= false
] )$langtag
, string $locale
[, bool $canonicalize
= false
[, string $default
]] )Predefined Constants
(null) - Used as locale parameter with the methods of the various locale affected classes, such as NumberFormatter. This constant would make the methods to use default locale.
These constants describe the choice of the locale for getLocalte method of different classes.
(string) - This is locale the data actually comes from.
(string) - This is the most specific locale supported by ICU.
These constants define how the Locales are parsed or composed. They should be used as keys in the argument array to locale_compose() and are returned from locale_parse() as keys of the returned associative array.
(string) - Language subtag
(string) - Extended language subtag
(string) - Script subtag
(string) - Region subtag
(string) - Variant subtag
(string) - Grandfathered Language subtag
(string) - Private subtag
Table of Contents
- Locale::acceptFromHttp - Tries to find out best available locale based on HTTP "Accept-Language" header
- Locale::canonicalize - Canonicalize the locale string
- Locale::composeLocale - Returns a correctly ordered and delimited locale ID
- Locale::filterMatches - Checks if a language tag filter matches with locale
- Locale::getAllVariants - Gets the variants for the input locale
- Locale::getDefault - Gets the default locale value from the INTL global 'default_locale'
- Locale::getDisplayLanguage - Returns an appropriately localized display name for language of the inputlocale
- Locale::getDisplayName - Returns an appropriately localized display name for the input locale
- Locale::getDisplayRegion - Returns an appropriately localized display name for region of the input locale
- Locale::getDisplayScript - Returns an appropriately localized display name for script of the input locale
- Locale::getDisplayVariant - Returns an appropriately localized display name for variants of the input locale
- Locale::getKeywords - Gets the keywords for the input locale
- Locale::getPrimaryLanguage - Gets the primary language for the input locale
- Locale::getRegion - Gets the region for the input locale
- Locale::getScript - Gets the script for the input locale
- Locale::lookup - Searches the language tag list for the best match to the language
- Locale::parseLocale - Returns a key-value array of locale ID subtag elements.
- Locale::setDefault - sets the default runtime locale


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Doc's Soda Fountain
Located on historic Route 66, this was originally a pharmacy built in the 1880's. The soda fountain was added to the business in the 1950's. Stop in for an old-fashioned treat or ice-cream. Doc's is also open for lunch and dinner.
CITY: Girard
The Palms Grill Café
The Palms Grill Cafe was a well-known restaurant during the heyday of Route 66. Recently the cafe was revitalized and reopened, and is serving up delicious nostalgia from the fabled Route 66 era. The Palm's Grill Café has been baking pies and feeding hungry travels and residents for decades. Their pies are so delicious they've even won a few state pie competitions. Saddle up to the counter or take a seat at a table; either way, the pie and coffee with the community atmosphere is enough to make any first-timer feel like a regular. Conveniently located right across the street is the towering Bunyon's Statue, another one of Route 66's famous Muffler Man Statues.
CITY: Atlanta
Downtown Geneva
Nestled in the heart of the Fox Valley, and home to dozens of delightful shops, restaurants and galleries is Geneva – a picture postcard. Come stroll along the lush, tree-lined streets and visit a historic town with exquisite dining, boutique shopping, world-class lodging and award-winning festivals. Located 50 miles from downtown Chicago, Geneva is a quick getaway from the hustle and bustle by I-88, I-90 or Metra train.
CITY: Geneva
Downtown Champaign
Discover cute boutiques housed in historic storefronts in downtown Champaign, including antique and consignment shops. Be sure to stop at PACA's Architectural Salvage Warehouse, where you'll find everything from vintage stained glass to ceramic tiles.
CITY: Champaign
Campustown Champaign
Discover Green Street and the heart of campus at the University of Illinois. Restaurants, bars, shops, bookstores and more await your presence in this Orange & Blue themed area.
CITY: Champaign
Didley's Place
Didley's is a '50s outdoor restaurant with carhops on rollerblades, a playground, an outdoor movie theater, a miniature golf course and a concession stand.
CITY: Metamora
Joe's Pizza And Pasta
Joe's Pizza and Pasta is a hometown favorite serving fine Italian dishes including pizza, pasta, submarine sandwiches, desserts and more. Recently renovated, Joe's makes the perfect place for lunch or dinner with the availability of large party reservations and delivery service.
CITY: Effingham
Apple Villa Famous Pancake House & Restaurant
Chicagoland's famous breakfast spot! Only the highest quality ingredients used and baked fresh every day. Distinctive freshness, flavor, and quality! Enjoy omelettes, pancakes, french toast, blintzes and crepes!
CITY: Hoffman Estates
Clifton Country Inn & Bake Shop
If its biscuits and gravy you crave, then Clifton Country Inn & Bake Shop is the place to go in Godfrey. In addition to traditional bakery goods like donuts, this family-owned diner also features a full breakfast and lunch menu. There are also daily lunch specials. Hours: Monday - Friday, 6 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Saturday - Sunday, 6 a.m. - 3 p.m.
CITY: Godfrey
Chicago Diner
One of the first vegetarian restaurants in the city offers dishes that include a macrobiotic plate and vegan desserts.
CITY: Chicago
Lena Golf Club - Wolf Hollow Golf Course
The Lena Golf Club offers the beautiful Wolf Hollow Course with 18 holes, 71 par, 6,422 yards over wide open, rolling prairies. The club house features a full bar and one of the best short-order menus in the region. Fees: Monday thur Thursday: 9 holes - $15; 18 holes - $24; Friday, Saturday & Sunday: 9 holes - $17; 18 holes - $29; Motorized Cart Rental: (Per Cart/Per Person): 9 holes - $11; 18 holes - $16
CITY: Lena
Golden Corral - Gurnee
Located right off I-94, this popular buffet style restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week, and offering breakfast on the weekends.
CITY: Gurnee
Newman & Camden Co.
Newman & Camden Co. is a walk in Bakery/Deli. They serve bagel, donuts, and great breakfast sandwiches. Lunch consists of a daily special, flatbreads, and like the Slow Roasted Turkey & Avocado BLT. All Items are made from scratch!
CITY: Herrin
Angelo's Restaurant
Complete family restaurant on the Historic Woodstock Square. Come to the Woodstock Square to enjoy the many things to see and do, then stop in to Angelo's Restaurant to enjoy a good old-fashioned family style meal that is sure to satisfy everyones taste.
CITY: Woodstock
Tonys Ranch House Restaurant and Bar
Start your day with a home cooked breakfast at Tony's Ranch House Restaurant and Bar located in Godfrey. And, if you like, come back at night for live entertainment. Tony's is a family-style diner with that classic laid-back style. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts are served. There is also a separate full bar. Restaurant Hours: Monday - Saturday, 6 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Sunday. 6 a.m. - 3 p.m.
CITY: Godfrey
Fiona's Family Restaurant
Awesome homemade soups made daily at this little family-style diner which offers a larger, more varied menu than many bigger restaurants. One-of-a-kiind sandwiches include gyros, corned beef, and breaded tenderloin. Breakfast is also served. Billed as a "must" stop for anyone in the Wood River area. Hours: Daily 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
CITY: Wood River
Joe K's Family Restaurant
Family restaurant with that old diner feel! Breakfast specials that can feed the hungriest of stomachs.
CITY: Alton
Kay's Sugar Creek Cafe
Family dining, carry out or dine in. Delicious home cooked meals. Pies and cakes are made from scratch. Friday and Saturdays all you can eat fish fry.
CITY: Creal Springs
Miller's 50's Style Drive-In
Original 50's style drive-in restaurant with car hops serving frosted mugs of Homemade Root Beer, Root Beer Floats, Coney Dogs & Texasburgers on a tray at your car or enjoy our picnic area. We feature summer Classic Car Cruise-Ins every Saturday. Check ou
CITY: Ingleside
Kumar's Cafe
Home of the bottomless cup of coffee with a nice blend of breakfast and lunch menu options, Kumar's offers a homey, friendly coffee-shop atmosphere for locals and visitors alike. Famous for their omelets and hashed browns. Open Tuesday through Thursday, 6 a.m. - 3 p.m., Friday, 6 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday, 6 a.m. - 3 p.m.
CITY: Wood River
Sixth Street Diner
Nice, casual, family-oriented diner with the great food you expect from smaller restaurants. Known for their chicken and dumplings, cabbage rolls and burgers as well as their juicy, large chicken wings. Open daily from 5:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
CITY: Wood River
G-B Grill
Stop by this old-fashioned diner featuring American and Greek dishes. Family owned restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. You'll find tasty meals that are reasonably priced.
CITY: Alton
Gabby Goat
The Gabby Goat American Pub & Grill is the premier restaurant and sports bar in Effingham, IL for your next night out, event, gathering, party, breakfast, lunch, or dinner! The Gabby Goat is all about a culmination of creativity, desire, passion, and just plain old hard work. We are an American Pub and Grill. The driving force throughout our development has been and will always be to provide you, our guests, with the "Greatest Of All Times."
CITY: Effingham
Ed Debevic's
A throwback to the diners of the 50's and 60's. Ed Debevic's offers delicious food with a side order of nostalgia, all served up by a cast of characters who sing and dance on the diner counter.
CITY: Chicago
Kampsville Inn Restaurant
Take a drive down the Great River Road and stop at the Kampsville Inn Restaurant for breakfast (served all day during the week) or their famous fried catfish fillets or catfish fritters. Located on the river, customers can watch the Kampsville Ferry cross while they eat. A full bar is also available. Hours: M - Th 11 a.m. - 8 p.m., F 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.S 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. Su 7 a.m. - 11 a.m.
CITY: Kampsville
Burger Nook
Family style dining, carry out available. Serves delicious homemade hamburgers and much more. Famous for their Chili Mac.
CITY: Herrin
Niemerg's Steakhouse
Niemerg's Steakhouse in Effingham opened September 1, 1978 and is locally owned and operated with food that's made grandmother style; from scratch and with care.
CITY: Effingham
Triple E Bar B-Q
Family dine or carry out. Serves mouth watering BBQ with a mild or hot BBQ sauce. Also sell BBQ chicken. Breakfast buffet every Saturday and Sunday
CITY: Marion
White Spot
Take a step back in time with a visit to this diner which was opened in the 1940's in Jerseyville. Customers come from throughout the bi-state region just for the huge servings of onion rings, which are hand-breaded and fried to perfection. The regulars are friendly and sure to recommend the best menu items for those who don't know what to order. Don't leave before trying one of their homemade pies! Hours: T - S 6 a.m. - 8 p.m. Su 7 a.m. - 2 p.m.
CITY: Jerseyville
MaMa Mia's Restaurant
Homemade croutons might not be enough to entice you to Mama Mia's Restaurant, but they will certainly bring you back for more! This small Italian-style diner features great food selection and generous portions. The all-you-can-eat chicken tenders are delicious and it's difficult to make it past the first plate! Breakfast served all day. Hours: Daily 5:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.
CITY: Wood River
Eagle's Nest Restaurant
Eagles Nest has a varied menu where you can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner. The place is clean, cheerful and features home-cooked fare. Very reasonably priced.
CITY: Bethalto
Charlie Parker's Diner
When you need a heaping side of Americana you can't go wrong at this popular locale. Charlie Parker's Diner located in Springfield has been making mouths water in central Illinois for sometime. Known for diner delights like burgers, breakfasts and anything else hearty enough for the long road ahead. Don't miss this hot spot when you're in the neighborhood.
CITY: Springfield
Grandma Helen's Country Cafe
Grandma Helen's Country Cafe offers a great selection of down home comfort food. We are open 11am-8pm Monday through Friday, 11am-5pm Saturday and join us Sunday for all-you-can-eat fried chicken with all the "fixins" from 11am-5pm.
CITY: Energy
Delia's Kitchen
Delia's Kitchen is a contemporary snack shop that is open 7 days a week, serving breakfast and lunch. We feature Intelligentsia Coffee, Loose Leaf Teas, Olive & Well products, full-range chicken and vegetarian selections. Customers interested in gluten-free offerings are welcome. Dine in or carry-out. You'll enjoy great homemade food and top-notch service. We are a kid-friendly restaurant that also welcomes large groups.
CITY: Oak Park
Track Inn
Family restaurant in Chillicothe with home-cooked lunches, soups, dinner & desserts. Daily specials.
CITY: Chillicothe
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Willett's Winery and Cellar
A family-owned and operated winery nestled in a small-town atmosphere. Experience European charm with a glass of wine in our Market Street Courtyard.
CITY: Manito
The Ironstone Room
Willett's Winery & Cellar is thrilled to announce the opening of their restaurant, The Ironstone Room. Executive Chef Kevin Roecker is planning quite a culinary experience. Ironstone China is a type of stoneware introduced in England in the early 1800's by potters using the country's ironstone to develop a porcelain-like china that could be mass produced. Eventually, Ironstone China was exported primarily to the United States between about 1840 and 1890. Dan's mother, Elsie Willett, has been a collector of Ironstone China for many years. Her collection will be displayed in the Ironstone Room of Willett's Winery & Cellar. Our menu changes seasonally, and offers suggested wine pairings from our winery.
CITY: Manito
Willett's Wine and Dine Experience
The Wine & Dine Experience is a 4-course gourmet meal prepared by Chef Kevin Roecker with each course being expertly paired with wine from Willett's Winery & Cellar. During the evening, you'll hear about each course selection from Chef Kevin and each wine selection from winemaker, Dan Willett. Jazz music will be provided by Joe Metzka throughout the evening.
CITY: Manito
Sky Harbor Steakhouse
Comfortable, casual steakhouse with award-winning ribs, steaks and seafood. Established 1971.
CITY: West Peoria
Hawks Grove
Good American food featuring chicken, steaks, fish, burgers and cookie chops. Serving breakfast Monday through Saturday.
CITY: Manito
Herbst Landing and Lighthouse Lounge
Better dining. Families welcome, children's menu. Full bar for the grown-ups.
CITY: Canton
Gloria's Secret Cafe
Special luncheons. Home-baked desserts. Located inside Heritage Grand Inn Motel.
CITY: Canton
Palm Cafe
A casual fine-dining restaurant in the historic Canton Hotel. Reservations recommended.
CITY: Canton
Tyroni's Italian Cafe
You could say that Tyler Barnes made a name for himself going dough to dough… from spinning pizza to owning the business. Like others attending college, Tyler worked summers to help off-set expenses by making pizzas in a family-owned Bartonville business called Terry's Pizza. A couple of years later, Tyler returned to Terry's Pizza as manager. In 1986, Tyler bought the business and subsequently renamed it Tyroni's, a nickname his in-laws created by eliding Tyler and pepperoni. Today Tyroni's Italian Cafe is one of greater Peoria's favorite dining spots. We appreciate our Senior Citizens 62 and older ~ 10% discount... Dine-In only, alcohol not included. From our family to yours, we'll serve you the best Italian food. We make every item to order - please tell us how you like it. Thanks for visiting!
CITY: Bartonville
Echo Valley Meats
Echo Valley Meats, located in Bartonville, is a specialty meat store providing daily lunches, soups, assorted meats and catering. We are also able to process deer sausage and snack sticks.
CITY: Bartonville
Kouri's Pub
Kouri's is a locally-owned and operated pub where the locals go to eat, drink, and relax. You will never be disappointed with a sports-themed casual dining atmosphere, exceptional friendly staff and great food.
CITY: Pekin
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1907 Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson born November 14 in Näs, near Vimmerby, Småland; second child of Samuel August and Hanna Ericson (brother Gunnar born 1906; sisters Stina and Ingegerd born 1911 and 1916, respectively).
1914 Astrid begins attending school, and Näs receives electricity for the first time.
1923 Astrid finishes school.
1924 Starts work at the Wimmerby Tidningen, the Vimmerby newspaper.
1926 Moves to Stockholm for a secretary schooling; son Lars born December 4.
1931 Astrid Ericsson marries Sture Lindgren. 1934 Birth of daughter Karin, May 21.
1937 Starts working again.
1941 Lindgren family moves to apartment in Dalagatan in Stockholm, where Astrid Lindgren lives since.
1944 Writes her first story, Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump) as a birthday present for her daugther; second prize of Rabén & Sjöt;gren for her first Britt-Mari book.
1945 Pippi Longstocking wins first prize at Rabén & Sjögren's Best Children's Book Competition, age 6-10.
1946 Begins work as children's book editor at Rabén & Sjögren.
1947-1948 First time in England and the USA.
1949 Hamburg publisher Friedrich Oetlinger travels to Stockholm and meets Astrid Lindgren, acquires translation rights to Pippi Longstocking.
1950 Nils Holgersson Medal.
1952 Sture Lindgren dies.
1956 Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis, Sonderpreis (German Prize for Children's Books, Special Award) for Mio, My Son.
1957 The Swedish State Award for Writers of High Literary Standard - Astrid Lindgren is the first children's literature author to receive this award.
1958 Astrid Lindgren receives the Hans Christian Andersen Medal (International Children's Books aAward), for Rasmus and the Vagabond (for the same book, she also received the Boys' Club of America Junior Book Award.
1959 New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Award for Sia lives on Kilimanjaro.
1961 Her mother, Hanna Ericsson, dies.
1965 Swedish State Award for Literature.
1967 Rabén & Sjögren and Friedrich Oetinger establish the Astrid-Lindgren Award; Astrid Lindgren travels to the USSR.
1969 Astrid's father, Samuel August, dies.
1970 Retires as children's books editor from Rabén & Sjögren; receives the Golden Ship Award of the Swedish Society for the Promotion of Literature, the Heffaklumpen of the Swedish newspaper Expressen for Emil and Piggy Beast, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Christmas in the Stable.
1971 The Swedish Academy's Gold Medal.
1973 Honorary Ph.D. at the Linköping University in Sweden; Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Pippi Longstocking.
1974 Smile Award for Russian adaptation of Karlsson-on-the-Roof.
1975 Litteris et artibus (plaque presented by the king of Sweden) and Silvergriffel for The Brothers Lionheart.
1978 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Booksellers' Peace Award) - Astrid Lindgren was the first children's literature author to receive this honor: she donates half the prize money to German children, the other half to Swedish children. Also received: Adelaide-Risto Award (Rome), International Writer's Prize, and an honorary doctor of letters, Leicester University, England.
1979 Wilhelm-Hauff-Prize and the International Janusz-Korczak Award for The Brothers Lionheart.
1984 Mildred L. Batchelder Award to Viking Press for Ronia, the Robber's Daughter; Dag Hammersklöld Award (Sweden); John Hansson Award (USA).
1985 With over 2 million yearly borrowals in the Swedish Public libraries, Astrid Lindgren is the most often read Swedish author. Received the Illis Quruom (Gold Medal awarded by the Swedish Government); Silver Bear Award for the movie "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter"; Loisirs jeune élu par l'enfant (French children's book award); Karen Blixen Award (from the Danish Academy); Jovanovic Zmaj Award (Yugoslavia).
1986 Astrid Lindgren's son Lars and Friedrich Oetinger die; the Swedish Council of America names her "Swede of the Year"; Selma Lagerlöf Award (Sweden) and the Lego Prize (Denmark). Astrid Lindgren founds "Solkatten" for disabled children.
1987 Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal.
1989 Albert Schweitzer Medal; honorary doctor at the University of Warsaw.
1993 International Book Award (from the UNESCO International Book Committee).
1996 The first Astrid Lindgren statue is unveiled in Stockholm's Tenerlunden park (a bronze statue by Majalisa Alexanderson).
2001 Astrid dies in Sweden. She is missed!
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What should we conclude? 1) That these rankings aren't all that relevant? 2) Those teams that are expert in MiLB development aren't shown? 3) Many top players are promoted to the majors before they were "ranked"? 4) that signing high-quality, expensive free agents does make a lot of sense because most teams rarely develop them?
It shows the draft is a grab bag. Tigers should have done better in the 2000 era with as many of top 10 picks they had. Twins will be judged by how they do during this number of years with early draft picks. Internation stage will help now with the ceiling caps in place.
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Actually it's still the opposite. People just need to stop acting like prospects all succeed. If you adjust your expectations as the analysis shows the future Twins are still in good shape but there could be holes pretty much anywhere to fill. As fun as it is to write in a 2015 lineup with every prospect succeeding is a little too optimistic.
It also shows that prospects are a great currency to trade when you want to go for it.
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1) I think rankings are relevant but fans probably over value ranking lists. Jeremy's article with the scout touches on that slightly. (Twins Daily - Scouting with Sean Johnson). I think it's natural that we overrate rankings since those are one of the few things we as fans get to see about the inside work of developing baseball players. But baseball teams have different rankings and access to more information on those players so, as good as BA, it still misses things on players. One current case in point, according to Mike Newman of fangraphs, the Nationals right now consider Goodwin their best prospect, ahead of Rendon. Nearly every ranking cite would have Rendon #1. I suspect that the Twins, who tend to be pretty patient, might have different views of a player like Koskie, for instance, than BA does.
2) I think the Twins showed that they were pretty good at MiLB development. Maybe they aren't the best but they were able to rebuild a playoff caliber team from one nucleus (Koskie, Dougie, Jones, Hunter) to another (M&Ms) without much of a slip up.
3) I don't think BA misses on many "top players." Santana was a rule V pick who used up his rookie status b/c we had to hide him. But he also spent all of the 2000 and 2001 seasons with the ML club. He started 02 in the minors to get stretched out and only threw 48 innings there before he came up and started 14 games that summer for us. He did a lot of his developing in the ML bullpen. When BA misses on guys like Koskie or Youkliss I think it's b/c he was considered too old for his level (good news for Plouffe and Parmelee?). Sometimes certain tools take longer to develop. Span didn't show his patience until the end of his MiLB career. AJ made it to AAA at 21 but wasn't much of a hitter. And some guys - Baker - are probably straight misses. Baker's stuff might have been better than scouted or his control made it play up. Radke too, for that matter. (Good news for Hermsen?) But I would suspect that, however you want to measure the top players in baseball, BA probably hit on a vast majority of them. Some might have been too low (Utley peaked at 81) but they'll be on the list.
4) Free agency, as the main building block, doesn't really work. And it's working less so now that teams are getting extensions out to younger players. Yankees were able to buy a few great teams but that was the rarity. Longterm big contracts usually hurt in the longrun but can be helpful in the short run. If the Twins were one pitcher away this year, it might have made sense to pay Sanchez nearly 100m.
I've often wondered this as well... My assumption is that that worst manager/coach is the home team's manager/coach. THere will always be the people who think they know more than people in the front office, the GM, the manager, the coaches. There are even some who probably think that they're as good as some of the players. It's strange. I'm sure there are Angels fans who think that Mike Scioscia isn't a good manager. And there are Nationals fans who probably don't like what Mike Rizzo has done. Kind of just comes with the territory for those jobs. I definitely think it's due to the advancement of blogs and stats and all that. Everyone can be a armchair GM or manager.
A couple of thoughts, and obviously I enjoy reading prospect rankings and making my own, but you have to always take them with a grain of salt. Here are some thoughts:
1.) Some Top 10 prospects become frequent all stars. Some Top 10 prospects bust.
2.) As Kyle Gibson has said in conversations with me a few times, Being ranked is great, but being a "prospect" only means that you haven't done anything yet.
3.) My reason for being more excited about the Twins farm system than I have been for a long time isn't that I think they're all going to make it. I just think that the more high-ranking prospects you have, the more likely you'll get a few who do make it to a very high level of big league play.
4.) As was pointed out above... if high prospects don't meet their full potential (which is always a touchy subject too because no one really knows what "full potential" is, and in reality, what they become likely is their full potential), they can still be a valuable part of a winning team. In other words, if Alex Meyer doesn't become a true #1 ace, but he still becomes a solid #3 starter, that's important. If Oswaldo Arcia doesn't become an every year All-Star, but he becomes a guy who plays well for the Twins for a half-dozen years or more, that's still a good thing.
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I also think just looking at the ranking can be dicey. There is still some context about the prospect that is important.
For example on the Twins Hicks is going to be a major leaguer of some sort while it is still quite possible Buxton never makes it. I would imagine very few of the busts listed had success at AA. BA tries to balance their rankings but I would find it interesting to dig further in those numbers to see what the rankings are with corresponding levels and what that might tell is. It would be enlightening as to how we view the current state of the system.
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The thing is: Dickey is your typical pitcher in his 30's, he is just finding his grove now. Normally I would agree with you, but Dickey is truly his own special case. The upside is there, and he could help a ton in 2013/2014/2015. It's not like this is a one year thing we are talking about!
Also: Dickey ERA last three years 2.95
Dempster: 4.04
How could we turn down a guy who has the potential to post a sub or low 3.00 ERA without having to commit 100+ million to him!
If it just takes one of our "elite 8" and a couple other pieces, why not pull the trigger? Having nice prospects is....well...nice and all, but I think you have to try to get the one CY Young pitcher you can realistically get.
Also it should be noted that xFIP, and FIP data really is a poor way to judge Dickey, since a good number of "batted" balls against his wicked knuckleball are "easy outs"/poorly hit balls. If you watch a game or two when he was pitching it jumps out right away. I'm not a SABR expert by any means, but this is what jumps out to me, can anyone else confirm? It's not like he had the greatest defense in the world behind him last year as well....
Again at the end of the day his ERA is over 1 run lower then Dempster's, you can throw out all the other stats you want, but give me the guy who has given you significantly better results over the last 3 years then the guy who hasn't.
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I look at Dickey and see a guy who's ERA is out of whack with his peripherals. His 9 k/9 in 2012 was the only time in the last 10 years he has been over 6 k/9 and I think that is a fluke. I see a guy who is going to be 38 and I think he is likely to succumb to age just like everyone else (including many other knuckleballers). I also see other pitchers out there who are very good pitchers and would be HUGE upgrades to the Twins rotation that would cost about the same money without giving away any prospects.
So to sum it up:
Huge Risk
Costs Prospects
Other options
Certainly you are more the welcome to your own opinion.
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I would bet you could offer lower ranked prospects if you also took Santana back. Mets would probably love to include his $20+ million salary. They just extended Wright and owner has money trouble. We need 2 more pitchers and have the $25 million to spend.
Dickey is not coming back to the Twins. I guarantee you that.
Dude, he is a knuckleball Pitcher.XFIP/FIP and several others don't apply to him as much as the other 99.5% of pitchers who aren't knuckleballers. Most of the time when hitter did put bat on ball it was with very weak contact. Hell even with that said his xFIP and FIP were 3.27 last year, add in his 2.73 ERA and k/bb rate and that is top of the rotation stuff all the way. Granted his strand rate was 5% higher then normal, but at the same time his HR% was high as well, what does this say about 2012? It wasn't a fluke for Dickey. Also his two years prior were pretty damn good as well!
As far as knuckleballers not aging well, I'm not sure what you mean. Wakefield pitched effectively into his 41 year season, and wasn't even that god awful in his 42 age year. Phil Niekro had a 3.09 ERA when he was 45! His brother Joe had a sub 4.00 ERA his 40th year and pitched to 43.
Also as I mentioned in the other thread:
Lannan has a better Career ERA then Dempster, and a better past 3 full seasons ERA then Dempster. This isn't to say Dempster has no value or Lannan is better, it just illustrates that Dempster at 3 years and no prospects is not better then Dickey at 3 years and some prospects.
Give me Dickey any day of the week over Dempster, especially if it only costs 26 mil over 2 years and only 1 of our top 8 prospects (+ some other pieces)
Why is everyone throwing around these big numbers for pitchers that will not make the team viable this decade. We need to spend a little more per year: $20 million or so or 7 years, 140 million for the 29 year old Grienke. He would be the Ace this team desperately needs not a 39 year old circus performer knuckleballer at his peak (that we also had the year prior to his three year excellent run). I say that the extra $20 million per year changes us from a below .500 team for the rest of the decade to an annual contender.
I know payroll needs to go up but if it were my money, I would rather bet on a $110-$120 million payroll with Grienke than a $100 million payroll or more for RA Dickey or Dempster. The Twins have spent this much in MLB payroll the last three years and it is clear that this team without a #1 or #2 starter will not compete. With Grienke, Terry Ryan would also not have to keep begging average at best pitchers to take his money. No FA pitcher of any value wants to go to a team not serious about contending now (no matter what TR says, we are not a contender without a #1 or #2 starter). No team is!
Attendance and overall revenue will keep declining unless the Twins field a competitor and prove to the fans that buying them a new stadium was going to make us competitive. It is a huge lie so far but I am not giving up on Jim Pohlad. TR is a cheapskate but JP is not cheap like his Father. He just needs someone to convince him that spending the money will be a good investment. I feel strongly that adding Grienke for a $120m total payroll is a much smarter investment than $100 million on a team without a #1 or a #2 pitcher. We are competitive in our division with an ace that matches up with Verlander or any other ace and not competitive without an ace.Last edited by RodneyKline; 12-08-2012 at 02:25 AM.
2010: Greinke: 4.17 ERA
2011: Greinke: 3.83 ERA
2012: Greinke: 3.48 ERA
2010: Dickey: 2.84 ERA
2011: Dickey: 3.28 ERA
2102: Dickey: 2.73 ERA
Can we please stop with the "Derp, Dickey is Old and he will suck moving forward" when there is zero evidence supporting that case?
You want to tie up 7 years and $140 million in ****ing Zach Grienke? A guy who is about as mentally stable as a 15 year old fat girl? $140 million to a guy with a career 3.77 ERA and 3.62 xFIP? Greinke is solid no doubt, and a better option then Dickey moving forward. But $115 million extra over 4 years better? looooool no.
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Knuckleballers vs. FIP
FIP = ((13*HR)+(3*(BB+HBP))-(2*K))/IP + constant
Why exactly do these not apply to him? Does his knuckleball change how many HR's, BB's or k's he has? If it was true that knuckleballers were exempt from this stat it would show up in other knuckleballers stats. Here are career ERA and FIP numbers of a few knuckleballers as well as Dickey's 3 year average:
From these numbers I think it's safe to say FIP works for knuckleballers. If FIP works then so does WAR since WAR is based on FIP.Player ERA FIP P.Niekro 3.35 3.62 Wakefield 4.41 4.72 J.Niekro 3.59 3.79 Dickey 2.94 3.68
Any time a pitcher's K/9 rate increases from 6 to 9 for one season that is the definition of flukey (which was what I said...not that his season as a whole was flukey).
Wakefield and the Niekro brothers aged well, good for them. Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens aged well too. These anectdotes mean little with regards to how other pitchers will perform as they age.
Lannan vs. Dempster vs. Dickey
Player ERA FIP WAR Lannan 3.90 4.48 3.9 Dempster 4.04 4.00 9.6 Dickey 2.95 3.70 9.9
Looks like Dempster and Dickey are pretty comparable with Lannan a distant 3rd in everything except ERA. These numbers include Lannan's pretty decent 2009 but excludes Dempsters good and Dickey's terrible 2009. If you include Dempster and Dickey's 2009 the numbers start to skew Dempsters direction.
Dempster vs. Dickey
As I said before, you are certainly capable of having your own opinion. However, nothing you have presented has changed anything in my mind. Advanced metrics show Dickey and Dempster are similar quality pitchers over the last few years. Seemingly the only major difference is in their ERA's which is not a good predictor of future success. They are asking for similar length contracts with similar dollar amounts but Dickey would require some good prospects as well. The Twins are in semi-rebuild mode, at a minimum, so trading prospects doesn't make much sense to me.
Bringing up Dickey's stats from the past 10 years is a joke if you know anything about his back story. How can you not know anything about his back story?
He's a great pitcher who could definitely pitch well into his 40s. Still, he's not a good fit for the Twins. We're not an ace away from competing. We need to develop aces.
No, FIP is a terrible way to judge him because it makes the case that his low BABIP is "luck" rather then "Skill". The majority of balls put in play against Dickey are "bad batted balls" as in the hitter is not making even close to good contact.
Again you can point out FIP all you want, the fact is Dickey's ERA is over a full run lower then Dempster over the last 3 years, and it's not due to luck. You pointing out there WAR shows how WAR is a flawed stat.
2009 has no bearing on this discussion in regards to Dickey and it shouldn't even be brought up, he was clearly a totally different pitcher as he wasn't even starting back then. (other then a single game)Last edited by SpiritofVodkaDave; 12-08-2012 at 10:33 AM.
FIP is an empirical equation, i.e. "let's put some numbers together until they make sense". I don't like using empirical equations in every circumstance. I have other engineers who give me designs to review based on empirical equations all the time that don't make sense.
I wonder how to quantify and prove the idea that sustained low BABIP from non-strikeout pitchers equates to a skill. Here are the pitchers last year with an FIP-ERA>0.5:
NameTeamWLGSIPK/9BB/9HR/9BABIPERAFIPxFIPWARFIP-ERAJeremy HellicksonRays1011311776.313.001.270.2613.104.604.441.01.5Jered WeaverAngels20530188.26.772.150.950.2412.813.754.183.00.94Jason VargasMariners141133217.15.842.281.450.2543.854.694.450.80.84Matt HarrisonRangers181132213.15.612.490.930.2843.294.034.133.80.74Kyle LohseCardinals163332116.11.620.810.2622.863.513.963.60.65Ross DetwilerNationals10827164.15.752.850.820.2633.404.044.341.80.64Clayton RichardPadres14143322.214.171.1241.280.2723.994.618.104.22.168Matt CainGiants16532219.17.922.090.860.2592.793.403.823.80.61Jordan ZimmermannNationals12832195.27.041.980.830.2882.943.513.783.50.57Hiroki KurodaYankees161133219.26.842.091.020.2813.323.863.673.90.54R.A. DickeyMets20633233.28.862.080.920.2752.733.273.274.60.54Aaron HarangDodgers101031179.26.564.260.70.2773.614.144.951.50.53
Most of these pitchers are low strikeout guys, which makes sense since FIP is strongly related to K's. But can we say pitchers like Jered Weaver and Dickey (who excepting for this year has had low K-rates) have the skills to cause poorly hit balls?
Testing post.
Rather low to talk about Greinke's mental health history (by the way, if you AREN'T anxious and depressed given the world we live in, something is wrong with YOU!) and "fat 15-year-old girls."
All for R.A. Dickey
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Wakefield and the Niekro brothers aged well, good for them. Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens aged well too. These anectdotes mean little with regards to how other pitchers will perform as they age.
I believe if you took knuckleball pitchers as a group, and non-knuckleball pitchers as a group, you would find that knuckleballers in general pitch more effectively after the age of 40 than non-knuckleballers. If you asked 30 GMs who they think would be pitching effectively at age 41, how many would say Dempster would and Dickey wouldn't? Zero. How many would say Dickey would still be effective at 41? Probably all. This is not anecdotes, this is just the way it is. This portion of your argument has no legs whatsoever.
It was obviously in jest (maybe in poor taste, but this is the internet after all!) Sorry if I offended you with my hyperbole?
Greinke's mental healthy history should be taken into factor though (and it is), just like any players injury history or substance abuse history (Josh Hamilton). Greinke is fine and dandy, but giving him 140 million is HUUUUUGGGGGGEEEE RISK
With Dickey, it basically is the "eye ball test" I watched him pitch about 7 or 8 times this year, and hitters were completely baffled by him, the majority of the contact they made was "poor" in can of corn pop ups/flight outs/jam shots etc.
Weaver is an interesting case, his GB% is...well... poor, yet he has way outperformed his FIP/xFIP in each of the last 2 years.
I get that one year might be a fluke/statistical anomaly , but when you do it three years in a row like Dickey or two in a row Weaver it starts to become more of a trend.
IMO WAR for pitchers is basically worthless. I think it is much more useful for position players because it ties in the whole defense and base-running parts of their job as well.
Pitchers, pitch. That is pretty much 95% of their success rate (the other 5% is fielding/coverinr and pick off moves)
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2 things:
First, you start your paragraph off with the words "I think". That is an opinion and no matter how widely believed it is just that, an opinion. Until there is some kind of statistical evidence backing up your assertion my opinion is just as valid.
Second, my position on age has always been that Dempster is already 2 years younger than Dickey. So even if we assume your aging assertion is true, which until I see some empirical evidence I don't, they aren't starting from the same place.Last edited by Oxtung; 12-08-2012 at 02:48 PM. Reason: fixed formatting
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Look you're basically making the arguement that you believe your eyes over statistics. That is just fine. As I've now said several times I'm ok with you having that opinion. I will lean towards the more empirical analysis for myself. I think we've taken this discussion about as far as we can and so probably won't be responding further. Hope you're having a great Saturday!


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Staying Well With Multiple Sclerosis (MS)Medical Author:
Fernando Dangond, MD
Medical Editor:
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, Chief Medical EditorMelissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
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