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I made these moist muffins to take to the office, and they were a hit. Sugared almonds give them a crunchy topping. When strawberries aren't in season, I use individual frozen cut strawberries directly from the freezer.
- 1-1/4 cups sliced almonds, divided
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 1-1/2 cups sugar, divided
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1-1/4 cups fresh strawberries, chopped
- In a large bowl, combine 1 cup almonds and egg white. Add 1/2 cup sugar; toss to coat. Spoon into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
- In a large bowl, cream the shortening, butter and remaining sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk just until moistened. Fold in strawberries and remaining almonds.
- Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Sprinkle with sugared almonds. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Almond Berry Muffins in Taste of Home June/July 2005, p27
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Reviewed Apr. 14, 2016
"The topping is great. I found it easiest to bake on parchment paper lined pan. That way they don't stick and make a mess."
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2012
"The sugared almonds are a very nice touch and these muffins are excellent for breakfast or a snack."
Reviewed Sep. 22, 2011
"These were yummy fresh out of the oven! Next time I will cut the recipe down. The next day they were very soggy!"
Reviewed May. 25, 2010
"very good! Was hard for my husband and I to stop at 1!! The topping was kind of messy to make but was worth it!"
Reviewed Apr. 25, 2010
"Absolutely delicious! This recipe has all the elements of a good muffin....moist, crunch and flavorful. It's a keeper!!"
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"Very yummy! My husband and kids gobbled them up."


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The insanity of skyrocketing gas prices has gotten alot of attention recently. I'm very lucky to be in st. paul, i found a station for 2.79 yesterday.
I've been investigating how to get more mileage out of my car, and one thing thats popped up in articles is the tornado air intake, that runs for like 70 bucks and is supposed to change the way air flows in your car's engine to make it more efficient....does anybody have any experience with these, and are they worth the money? I've been reading conflicting reviews, wondered if any real people know whats up with them.
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What do you need to know as you plan to design and deploy SharePoint solutions to Microsoft BPOS cloud? While at TechEd 2010, Zhiming Xue "Z" chatted about the subject with Marc Dencker, Enterprise Architect at Microsoft. In this interview, Marc explains what Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is, and what financial and operational benefits it offers to customers. He then addresses several important issues related to SharePoint deployment to BPOS cloud such as custom code and third-party application consideration and integration, testing, deployment, revision and rollback, SharePoint service management and user authentication. From his first-hand experience, Marc also speaks about whether SharePoint BPOS is suitable for you or your customer, how long it takes to set up a SharePoint BPOS solution and what assistance you can get from the Microsoft BPOS team.
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[Editor's note: On September 19, 2008, DayJet Services, LLC, discontinued its jet services and canceled all future flights, the result, the company said, of its "inability to arrange critical financing in the midst of the current global financial crisis." DayJet also said it was unable to honor customer reservations or issue refunds.]
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Orlando is becoming a major hub and resource center for corporate aviation, and for good reason: its metropolitan area boasts an unusually high number of corporate aircraft maintenance and crew training facilities. It also has perhaps the densest concentration of world-class fixed-base operators (FBOs) in the U.S.
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Macquarie Global Opportunities Partners, an unlisted fund managed by a subsidiary of the Macquarie Group of Australia, announced after Labor Day that it had completed the acquisition of several business units of Sentient Flight Group, Inc. from Berwyn, Pa.-based JetDirect Aviation Holdings, LLC (formerly Sentient Jet Holdings, LLC). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Business Jet Traveler published its inaugural issue in October 2003-just two months before the 100th anniversary of Orville and Wilber Wright's first powered flight.
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J Dilla – born in Detroit as James Dewitt Yancey in 1974 – was a child prodigy musician who became one of the most influential producers in hip-hop history.
Known and revered for his work with A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, the Pharcyde, the Roots, Common and Erykah Badu, among many others, Dilla brought an eminent musicality to hip-hop, born of his love for and deep immersion in a broad range of musical idioms, from soul to jazz.
Dilla passed on in 2006, after a long battle with lupus and the rare blood disease thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Following his death, his mother, Maureen Yancey, established the J Dilla Foundation in his honor.
The foundation works to raise funds for inner-city music programs, and, according to Jdillafoundation.org, "provides scholarships to students attending schools that have progressive music curricula."
Beginning at 10 tonight, Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar (253 Allen St.) will host "Doin' Dilla: A Benefit for the J Dilla Foundation." Emcee and turntablist Billy Drease Williams, aka Edreys, will preside over an evening of Dilla-produced songs featuring various local artists, with intermittent sets of Dilla-related breaks by DJ Cutler.
Admission will be $5 at the door. All proceeds will go to the J Dilla Foundation.
Toronto 'haute rock'
Toronto's Young Empires perform at 8 tonight in the Town Ballroom (681 Main St.) and with the band comes a new subgenre within modern pop – "haute rock," a term band member Jacob Palanhuk came up with to describe the band's sound. "We're writing tracks that make you feel wealthy, attractive, powerful; a soundtrack to your haute life," Palanhuk told www.tracasseur.com in 2010. Which, you have to admit, is pretty hilarious.
That said, when you listen to the band's blend of rock, world beat and electro-dance, you do get a whiff of the gorgeously decadent grandeur of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. Which, if accepted with a chaser of irony, goes down smooth and is fairly delicious.
All of the beautiful people should prepare to convene at 7 p.m. at the Town Ballroom, when the doors will open. Tickets for the all-ages show are $14. Royal Teeth will open.
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The sixth annual Big Easy in Buffalo party – presented by Music Is Art and featuring the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Marc Stone Duo featuring Joshua Paxton and the George Caldwell Quintet – brings a little bit of New Orleans to the 716 at 7 tonight in the Tralf Music Hall (622 Main St.). Tickets are $29 (box office, Ticketmaster).
The Other Side of Silence – a new trio comprised of revered Buffalo musicians Roger Eric Cormier, Jim Wynne and Marty Raymondo – makes its debut at 9 tonight in the Hertel Lounge (1669 Hertel Ave.).
The Ifs, with special guest "Japanese Paul McCartney" Tadaaki Naganuma, play at 10 p.m. Saturday in the Pearl Street Brewery (76 Pearl St.).
The 10th annual Cure vs. Smiths Dance Party takes place at 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Soundlab (110 Pearl St.).
Psychedelic dance/jam band the Werks, with guests Slip Madigan and the MKGs, play at 9 p.m. Wednesday in Nietzsche's (248 Allen St.).
Tickets for the show are $10 in advance, through MNMpresents.com.
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LegacyTexas Bank launches salute to Troops
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As the Veterans Day holiday approaches, it serves as a reminder that thousands of United States military troops continue to serve our nation in distant outposts around the world. It also signals the start of a Lone Star Salute to Troops, LegacyTexas Bank's annual campaign to collect and distribute care packages to military personnel stationed world-wide. The bank has sent over 1,500 care packages since their efforts began in 2010.
The collection will run through Veterans Day and once again makes it easy for people in the local community to express their gratitude and support for U.S. troops in a very personal way. Collection boxes are located at each of the 20 LegacyTexas Bank offices throughout the Metroplex, and area residents and businesses are asked to bring in items for troops who have been deployed from Texas military bases.
"Lone Star Salute has grown every year thanks in great part to the support of our communities," says LegacyTexas Bank President Phil Dyer. "People appreciate the opportunity to express their thanks to the men and women who serve in our military. It's a cause our bank is very close to, and we are pleased to provide a way to give back to our troops."
Anyone can contribute to the troop care-packages through November 12th by dropping off items at any LegacyTexas Bank location. With support from the DFW Blue Star Mothers, packages will be assembled and shipped by bank employees in time for Christmas delivery. When making a contribution, remember that most troops carry more than 50 pounds of gear and have little storage space. Requested food items include beef jerky, powdered drinks, protein bars, candy, seasonings, nuts and other snacks. Batteries, small games, personal notes, holiday cards and toiletries such as baby wipes, shampoo, lotion, sun block, eye drops, Q-Tips, disposable razors, shaving cream, toothpaste, socks, baby powder and other travel-size items are also needed. A full list of suggested items is available from any LegacyTexas Bank employee or at LoneStarSalute.com. To learn more about a Lone Star Salute or to make a contribution, visit a LegacyTexas Bank location or LegacyTexasBank.com.
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Gormandy will also participate in a special symposium on "African Americans: Facing Mental Illness and Experiencing Recovery" this week, as part of our national convention.
The Symposium will address key mental health issues that affect the African American community, highlight major research findings, and discuss mental illness and recovery from a family approach. This event will bring together consumers, family members, researchers, and providers to share information, tools, ideas, and approaches to reach African American families.
Women & Depression
*In any given year, 10 to 14 million people experience a clinical depression. Women 18 to 45 years of age account for the largest proportion of this group. Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that is much more than temporarily feeling sad or blue. It involves disturbances in mood, concentration, sleep, activity level, interests, appetite, and social behavior. Clinical depression can develop in anyone, regardless of race, culture, social class, age, or gender. However, across virtually all cultures and socioeconomic classes, women are more likely than men are to experience depression.
*Clinical depression affects two to three times as many women as men, both in the U.S. and in many societies around the world. It is estimated that one out of every eight women will suffer from clinical depression in her lifetime. Women also experience higher rates of seasonal affective disorder and dysthymia (chronic depression) than men. While the rate of bipolar disorder (manic depression) is similar in men and women, women have higher rates of the depressed phase of manic depression and women are three times more likely to experience rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.
*There appear to be important links between mood changes and reproductive health events. Gender differences in rates of depression emerge when females enter puberty and remain high throughout the childbearing years and into late middle age. Hormonal factors seem to play a role in some of the mood disturbance experienced by women.
*Psychosocial factors that may contribute to women's increased vulnerability to depression include the stress of multiple work and family responsibilities, sexual and physical abuse, sexual discrimination, lack of social supports, traumatic life experiences, and poverty.
*Studies also indicate that sexual and physical abuse are major risk factors for depression. Women are twice as likely as men to have experienced sexual abuse. A recent study found that three out of five of the women diagnosed with depressive illnesses had been victims of abuse. In one major study, 100 percent of women who had experienced severe childhood sexual abuse developed depression later in life.
*Although it once was thought that women experienced low rates of mental illness during pregnancy, recent research reveals that over 10% of pregnant women and approximately 15% of postpartum women experience depression. As many as 80 percent of women experience the "postpartum blues," a brief period of mood symptoms that is considered normal following childbirth. However, the related hormonal and biological changes associated with pregnancy or giving birth may initiate a clinical depression. Or, the changes in lifestyle associated with caring for a young infant may constitute a set of stressors that have mental health consequences for the mother. There is a three-fold increase in risk for depression during or following a pregnancy among women with a history of mood disorders. Once a woman has experienced a postpartum depression, the risk of having another reaches 70 percent. One woman in a thousand experiences a postpartum psychosis -- a medical emergency in which the woman may inflict harm upon herself and/or her baby. The first episode of bipolar disorder in women frequently occurs following the birth of a child.
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*Approximately 12% of the U.S. population, 33.9 million people, identify themselves as African Americans. The African American population is increasing in diversity as immigrants arrive from many African and Caribbean countries.
*Over half of the nation's African American population (53%) live in the South; 37% reside in the Northeast and Midwest combined; 10% live in the West. In 1997, nearly one-fourth of all African Americans earned more than $50,000 a year. And yet about 22% of African American families lived in poverty, compared to 13% of the United States as a whole and 8% for non Hispanic white Americans.
*African Americans may be less likely to suffer from major depression and more likely to suffer from phobias than non-Hispanic whites. Somatization is more common among African Americans (15%) than among whites (9%). Moreover, African Americans experience culture bounds syndromes such as isolated sleep paralysis, an inability to move while falling asleep or waking up, and falling out, a sudden collapse sometimes preceded by dizziness.
*While non-Hispanic whites are nearly twice as likely as African Americans to commit suicide, suicide rates among young black men are as high as those of young white men. Moreover from 1980-1995, suicide rate among African American ages 10 to 14 increased 233%, compared to 120% of comparable non-Hispanic whites. African Americans are over-represented in high-need populations that are particularly at risk for mental illnesses, yet African Americans account for only 2% of psychiatrists, 2% of psychologists, and 4% of social workers in the United States.
*Nearly 1 in 4 African Americans are uninsured, compared to 16% of the U.S. population. Rates of employer-based health coverage are just over 50% for employed African Americans, compared to 70% for employed non-Hispanic whites. Medicaid covers nearly 21% of African Americans. Overall, only one-third of Americans with mental illnesses or mental health problems get care. Yet, the percentage of African Americans receiving needed care is only half that of non-Hispanic whites.
*African American are more likely to use emergency services or to seek treatment from a primary care provider than from a mental health specialist. Moreover, they may use alternative therapies more than whites. African Americans of all ages are under represented in outpatient treatment but over represented in impatient treatment. Few African American children receive treatment in privately funded psychiatric hospitals, but many receive treatment in publicly funded residential centers for emotionally disturbed youth.
While few clinical trials have evaluated the response of African American to evidence-based treatment, the limited data available suggest that, for the most part, African Americans respond favorably to treatment. However, there is cause for concern about the appropriateness of some diagnostic and treatment procedures. For example, when compared to whites who exhibit the same symptoms, African Americans tend to be diagnosed more frequently with schizophrenia and less frequently with affective disorders. In addition, one study found that 27% of blacks compared to 44% of whites received antidepressant medication. Moreover, the newer SSRI medications that have fewer side effects are prescribed less often to African Americans than to whites. Finally, even though data suggest that blacks may metabolize psychiatric medications more slowly that whites, blacks often receive higher dosages than whites, leading to more severe side effects. As a result, they may stop taking medications at a greater rate than whites with similar diagnoses.


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Michael Iannuzzi, M.D., pulmonologist from Mount Sinai Medical Center joins SUNY Upstate as chair of Department of Medicine
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Michael C. Iannuzzi, MD, MBA, chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced by Steven Scheinman, M.D., senior vice president and dean of the College of Medicine
A specialist in lung disease, Iannuzzi is widely known for his role in the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene in 1989. During the last decade, he has been an internationally recognized expert in sarcoidosis. His most recent research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is in the genetic epidemiology of sarcoidosis. Last November, he was the lead author on a sarcoidosis progress report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Sarcoidosis is an immune system disorder with no known cause that can affect any organ.)
"Dr. Iannuzzi is a remarkable individual," Scheinman said. "He is a master clinician, an award-winning teacher, and an accomplished scientist. In addition, he is a skillful manager, a good listener, and a thoughtful leader. I am thrilled that he has joined the SUNY Upstate faculty."
In joining the Department of Medicine, Iannuzzi will lead SUNY Upstate's largest clinical department with more than 100 physician faculty members in 11 different divisions and sections, ranging from cardiology to rheumatology with numerous specialty clinics, such as the Joslin Diabetes Center, the hematology and oncology practice in Oneida and Oswego counties and the state's Designated AIDS Center.
Iannuzzi said SUNY Upstate's Department of Medicine is poised for growth. "One goal is to reinforce strengths such as in cancer, infectious diseases and diabetes care," he said. "Our Joslin Diabetes Center is outstanding—and ready to expand into related areas like obesity, hyperlipidemia, and diabetic heart disease. SUNY Upstate's new heart and cancer centers also will allow us to grow these programs."
Expanding the department's research is another priority. "Clinicians have phenomenal insight into disease, and basic scientists bring different insights. The key is to build interdisciplinary teams and respect what each party brings to the table. It's much more productive than looking at a problem through one discipline."
Iannuzzi joined Mt. Sinai in 2003, when he was named professor of internal medicine. Subsequently, he was appointed as a division chief and was a member of the medical team of Mt. Sinai's Asthma Clinic. Prior to his Mount Sinai post, Iannuzzi was a tenured professor at Case Western Reserve University (2000 to 2003) and also practiced at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit (1991 to 2002).
As a researcher, Iannuzzi has compiled a significant record of scientific discovery. Funded by more than $12 million in research support, much of it from the National Institutes of Health, Iannuzzi has made advances in the understanding of cystic fibrosis and sarcoidosis.
While on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical Center, Iannuzzi and a team of researchers made a significant scientific breakthrough when they successfully isolated various DNA sequences leading to the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene. The discovery has brought researchers a greater understanding of the basic defect in this inherited disorder. Their findings were published in the journal Science. He has received numerous awards for his work on cystic fibrosis and is one of seven scientists holding a patent on the gene's discovery.
In studying sarcoidosis, Iannuzzi's work has helped scientists better understand the causes of sarcoidosis and how it affects different populations, especially African Americans. Iannuzzi's current research has identified two possible sarcoidosis genes and is searching for other genetic factors that predispose individuals to progressive disease.
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By Ansie Baird
There's a dog in the sky.
Or is it a crow.
There's a knot in my eye.
What should I know?
There's a leap in my step.
Or maybe a crawl.
Here's the stain where I wept
On the fencepost of Fall.
Apples don't need to be red.
Patients don't need to be real.
Apples don't have to taste sweet.
Doctors don't have to be male.
Apples spill onto the floor.
Even the good ones turn sour.
Answers don't always make sense.
We've come to the end of the hour.
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MSI GTX780 Lightning Review
3D Mark 11
Published: 28th August 2013 | Source: MSI | Price: £590 |
3D Mark 11
Blimey Charlie it's a close run thing in 3D Mark 11. The out-the-box Lightning is consistently brilliant. With the overclock in place the P Score just shades the MSI Gaming and Gigabyte cards, although in the Extreme test the performance falls off somewhat.
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cant wait till someone has it under sub-zero i wanna see what this thing can do!
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wow this thing is amazing!
cant wait till someone has it under sub-zero i wanna see what this thing can do!
Cheers Tom
If someone makes a nice water block for this very tempted (something like the xspc on).
Will be interesting to see how many records this card will break over the next few days/weeks. Most likely all of them
It's not badly priced either, I was expecting it to be around £100 more than a standard 780 but it's only £40 more. If you have enough to spend £550 on a GPU then £40 more isn't going to be a big deal to you.Quote
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I'm pretty sure 8-Pack has already done so over the last couple of days, breaking the Firestrike record
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"i really do have to make a in video about the silicon lottery..." hahahaaha... u killed me with that one...
Nice review... as im going water cooling, i think ill just aim for the reference 780... still have to think a bit, as im buying two at the same time...
I love the video reviews and love the in depth reviews on the site.
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I wonder if they'll do a water cooled version like evga? It would definitely make more sense since this is mostly aimed at extreme overclockers, and maybe make a slightly cheaper and more flamboyant version for the gamers with less over clocking stuff (cause the red version is honestly too plain and frankly is Asus colour)?Here's hoping Quote
No sure if this is what I was looking for !! Damit Tom you really hide good lol !!!
Can you give any hint ?Quote
The 780 Gaming being a reference design would obviously be a lot easier to find a waterblock for. With the results compared I'll go a 780 Gaming I think
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From the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama; University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; and University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California.
Grant Support: By an Education Innovation award from the Mayo Clinic.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.
Requests for Single Reprints: Liselotte N. Dyrbye, MD, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905.
Current Author Addresses: Drs. Dyrbye, Thomas, Sloan, and Shadafelt; Mr. Szydlo; and Mr. Novotny: 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905.
Dr. Massie: 1530 Third Avenue South, FOT 720, Birmingham, AL 35294.
Dr. Power: University of Minnesota, 516 Delaware Street Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Dr. Eacker: General Internal Medicine Center, 4245 Roosevelt Way Northeast, Seattle, WA 98105.
Dr. Harper: 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3051, Chicago, IL 60637.
Dr. Durning: 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799.
Dr. Moutier: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Medical Teaching Facility Room 180, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0606, La Jolla, CA 92093-0606.
Background: Little is known about the prevalence of suicidal ideation among U.S. medical students or how it relates to burnout.
Objective: To assess the frequency of suicidal ideation among medical students and explore its relationship with burnout.
Design: Cross-sectional 2007 and longitudinal 2006 to 2007 cohort study.
Setting: 7 medical schools in the United States.
Participants: 4287 medical students at 7 medical schools, with students at 5 institutions studied longitudinally.
Measurements: Prevalence of suicidal ideation in the past year and its relationship to burnout, demographic characteristics, and quality of life.
Results: Burnout was reported by 49.6% (95% CI, 47.5% to 51.8%) of students, and 11.2% (CI, 9.9% to 12.6%) reported suicidal ideation within the past year. In a sensitivity analysis that assumed all nonresponders did not have suicidal ideation, the prevalence of suicidal ideation in the past 12 months would be 5.8%. In the longitudinal cohort, burnout (PÂ < 0.001 for all domains), quality of life (PÂ < 0.002 for each domain), and depressive symptoms (PÂ < 0.001) at baseline predicted suicidal ideation over the following year. In multivariable analysis, burnout and low mental quality of life at baseline were independent predictors of suicidal ideation over the following year. Of the 370 students who met criteria for burnout in 2006, 99 (26.8%) recovered. Recovery from burnout was associated with markedly less suicidal ideation, which suggests that recovery from burnout decreased suicide risk.
Limitation: Although response rates (52% for the cross-sectional study and 65% for the longitudinal cohort study) are typical of physician surveys, nonresponse by some students reduces the precision of the estimated frequency of suicidal ideation and burnout.
Conclusion: Approximately 50% of students experience burnout and 10% experience suicidal ideation during medical school. Burnout seems to be associated with increased likelihood of subsequent suicidal ideation, whereas recovery from burnout is associated with less suicidal ideation.
Relationship among depression screening result, degree of depersonalization or emotional exhaustion, and prevalence of suicidal ideation in the previous year (n = 2248). The prevalence of suicidal ideation increases as burnout increases (all P < 0.001), regardless of whether individuals screened positive for depression.
We found differences in suicidal ideation between groups (P < 0.001). Pairwise comparisons showed statistically significant differences between students who recovered versus students with chronic burnout (P = 0.001) and among students who never experienced burnout versus those with new burnout (P = 0.007) or chronic burnout (P < 0.001).
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In a recent study, Dyrbye et al looked at burnout and suicidal ideation among medical students in the United States (1).
I am very interested to know if the rate of burnout varied amongst the students in different years of training. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is based on the theory that in helping professions, frequent intense interactions with clients that are "charged with feelings of anger, embarrassment, fear, or despair and with solutions for the clients' problems that are not always obvious or easy to obtain. For the person who works continuously with clients under such circumstances, the chronic stress can be emotionally draining and can lead to burnout(2)."
Based on these considerations, one would anticipate that first and second year students, having very few interactions with patients, should have much less burnout using the MBI than other students. If the first and second year students do have a high level of burnout, then it may be a function of either a poor match between MBI questions and their experience or their burnout being driven by work-tedium rather than intense patient interactions. The MBI-general survey was developed for professions with "only casual contact with people" and evaluates work-tedium and performance and may be a useful instrument in these individuals(2). Third year students might have the highest level of MBI burnout since that is the most intensive clinical year. Burnout levels might decline in the fourth year as students have more autonomy, which has been associated with less burnout (3).
1. Dyrbye L, Thomas M, Massie F et al. Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students. Ann Intern Med. 2008;149:334-341.
2. Maslach C and Jackson SE. Maslach burnout inventory manual. 3rd Ed. Palo Alto, Ca: Consulting Psychology Press; 1986.
3. Shirom A, Nirel N, and Vinokur A. Overload, Autonomy, and Burnout as Predictors of Physicians' Quality of Care. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 2006, Vol. 11, No. 4, 328""342
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To the Editor: I was astounded to read that the suicide rate of medical students and physicians in our country is so high. When I attended medical school there were far fewer places available for aspiring physicians than currently exist. I believe that the motivation to be a physician was therefore greater; and perhaps as a result, the will and ability to survive the strain was stronger. Additionally, there was far less to learn at the time, and medicine has taken great leaps forward since 1956, when I graduated. My non-scientific observation is that of the hundreds of medical students, house physicians, and colleagues that I have known in the past 56 years, I've known none that have committed suicide.
We commend Dyrbye and colleagues (1) on their important work linking burnout to suicidal ideation among medical students. To assist educators in addressing this issue, we wondered if there were any observable differences between students who reported "chronic burnout" and those who "recovered from burnout." For example, do more resilient students have marital support or lower educational debt? We also found it especially noteworthy that higher levels of educational debt were associated with increased suicidal ideation in this study (1). It is plausible that high educational debt may act as a chronic stressor, contributing to the persistent nature of burnout in certain students. In support of this hypothesis, another recent study observed an association between anticipated debt and perceived financial stress suggesting that anxieties about future debt also contribute to student stress (2). This highlights the need to consider how to prepare students with higher debt to address this mental stressor.
In addition to exploring these factors, it is also important to understand how much of recovery from burnout is a natural part of completing the stressful, and predominantly clinical third year. Indeed, students in their third year had increased suicidal ideation than those in other years (1). In an insightful review, three of the authors of this study discuss the myriad of causes leading to medical student moral distress (3). During the clinical years, however, moral or ethical distress may play an especially subtle but substantial role in student well-being (4). Using the cardiac stress test as an analogy, clinical clerkships may inadvertently act as an "ethical stress test" that "risk-stratifies" those students who are particularly susceptible to poor resilience, cynicism, and burnout as future resident physicians. Given the new accreditation requirement to "periodically assess the learning environment" at U.S. medical schools (5), the extent of burnout and resilience among students might serve as useful proxy to "risk-stratify" even medical schools""particularly those schools with learning environments that are at high-risk for eroding student well-being and promoting burnout.
This study therefore raises the importance of further research that investigates the specific contributions of financial and moral stress in promoting burnout. Through more work like this, medical educators will be better able to target those students burdened with high educational debt or those exhibiting poor resiliency from burnout. Indeed, early interventions are particularly important before high-risk students become burned-out residents responsible for patient care.
(1) Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Massie FS, Power DV, Eacker A, Harper W, et al. Burnout and suicidal ideation among U.S. medical students. Ann Intern Med. 2008;149:334-41. [PMID: 18765703]
(2) Morra DJ, Regehr G, Ginsburg S. Anticipated debt and financial stress in medical students. Med Teach. 2008;30:313-5. [PMID: 18484459]
(3) Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Shanafelt TD. Medical student distress: causes, consequences, and proposed solutions. Mayo Clin Proc. 2005;80:1613 -22. [PMID: 16342655]
(4) Feudtner C, Christakis DA, Christakis NA. Do clinical clerks suffer ethical erosion? Students' perceptions of their ethical environment and personal development. Acad Med. 1994;69:670-9. [PMID: 8054117]
(5) Liason Committee on Medical Education. Accreditation standards. Chicago, IL and Washington, DC: American Medical Association and Association of American Medical Colleges; 2007. Accessed http://www.lcme.org/standard.htm on 23 September 2008.
We thank Drs. Yoon and Arora for their thoughtful letter. We agree that debt is a substantial source of stress for today's medical student. As reported, students reporting >$100,000 of educational debt had a 1.47 greater odds of suicidal ideation during the previous year than students with <$50,000 in reported debt on univariate analysis. Despite this association, debt was not independently associated with suicidal ideation during the previous year on multi-variate analysis. The amount of debt students reported was associated with other factors such as age, relationship status, parental status, year in school, and burnout (all p <0.02). This observation suggests the relationship between debt and suicidal ideation may be mediated through interactions between debt and burnout or other characteristics rather than directly. This possibility is worthy of further study. We also believe it is important to identify what personal and professional characteristics are associated with recovery from burnout. It is hoped this information can inform efforts to assist struggling students. We are in the process of performing a comprehensive formal analysis of this aspect which will be the subject of a future manuscript.
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Who Will Lead the Cubbie Revolution?
If topics among major league teams trended like twitter, "building the farm system" would certainly be near the top. All the new GM's and some of the old ones alluded to it one way or another as the key to sustained success and of course, there's a lot of truth to it. But there's also a lot of truth to the famous phrase, "it's easier said than done". For the new Cubs in charge, they'll be taking over a farm system that will likely rank in the lower third as an organization in overall talent that many of the self-proclaimed experts believe has lots of depth and marginal major league talent, but very light on the upper tier players. Unfortunately, it's those upper tier players that the Cubs are sorely in need of at that moment as they try to reverse a 3-year trend of losing while in the midst of saying goodbye to their aging core of players. Not only do the Cubs have to find(or soon find) replacements for the likes of Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano, Kosukue Fukudome, Derrek Lee, Alfonso Soriano, Marlon Byrd and so on, but they have to find players that are cumulatively better than those in order to improve. Just finding the equivalent isn't going to get the Cubs back into the division hunt. Personally, I don't see those players in the Cubs farm system right now and certainly not anyone ready in the next year or two. So to me that means having to dive into free agency and/or be willing to trade some of that depth for a few stars (much like the much aligned Garza trade last year) if the Cubs intend to compete next year and the subsequent years. Now if they want to go into a full 3-year rebuild, more power to them, but I don't see the Cubs taking that path. To me, it's identifying whom on this list and subsequent lists are going to be the average or above average major league contributors and not just roster filler, protecting those players and thus making everyone else expendable if a trade presents itself.
Before we get to the rankings, I like to share this bit of insight from Bill James via Joe Posnanski. Something to keep in mind that not all top 10 lists are the same.
A few years ago, Bill James told me something I had never thought about before but now think about all the time, especially after trades like this one: Every single baseball team has prospects. Every one. The best teams. The worst teams. The smartest teams. The dumbest teams. They all have prospects. Not only that — every team has enough prospects to fill out a Top 10 list. You never see a team's "Top 7 Prospects" list because the team did not have enough to fill out 10. No. They all have 10.
To the list...
- Brett Jackson, OF
- Javier Baez, SS
- Matt Szczur, OF
- Trey McNutt, RHP
- Dillon Maples, RHP
- Welington Castillo, C
- Rafael Dolis, RHP
- Junior Lake, SS
- Josh Vitters, 3B/1B
- Dan Vogelbach, 1B
You can always view past Baseball America lists at Wiklifield.
I was probably expecting to see Vogelbach a little higher, but I understand his defensive issues. I was surprised to see Lake and Dolis up there, but Baseball America has always been fans of their talent, if not their results. As expected, the 2011 draft spending spree is well represented, although one cannot expect to see any of them in the majors for another 4-5 years and then add another 2-3 years before they could potentially be impact players. And when 3 of those are in your top 10, that tells you how far off the system is from consistently providing talent to the major league club.
To me, Brett Jackson and Matt Szczur are the only players (excluding the 2011 draft class) that I think the Cubs should be very reluctant to move. And I'm not that reluctant on either to be honest, both certainly have their flaws and if they would help land a true superstar talent, I'd get over it pretty quick. But they certainly should be holstered unless an amazing talent comes available.
It's not to say that the other players may or may not prove useful, but I'd personally be just fine with 3 to 4 more Garza-like trades that brought in mid 20's players in the upper third of their position to start filling out the Cubs roster. Deals for players such as Gio Gonzalez, Logan Morrison, Chase Headley and so forth that are entering their prime years and would be under club control, but more at the expense of depth than true impact talent, of which I count just the two aforementioned players in the system (once again excluding the 2011 draft, whom the players are not eligible to be traded yet anyway).
Of course, much like building the farm system, those trades are easier said than done.
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i hate having another level of playoffs...and interleague all year (puke)...
it's about time a 15/15 happened, though...the AL West/NL Central situation has been "bleh" since it's inception.
i don't quite follow how the "2" leagues break down, though...3 main leagues? just an east/west? how many teams out of 15 are getting a pass to the playoffs?
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i can't make logic out of your logic fail...
interleague all year i don't recall (at least in the modern era)...and mlb has been unballanced for a long time.
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you have interleague...you don't need to have it all year to do that.
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Yeah, you could have 14 teams play each other and one team sit out for a week! The season would only take 12 months!
Re: Who Will Lead the Cubbie Revolution?
or you could have interleague over 2 months...or all 6...whatever.
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long story short, i don't want teams (aka, the Cubs) to play interleague all year in small spurts. i'd rather teams blow their load through scheduling over 1/2 (or less) of the season.
now we should know where we're both coming from.
it's no biggie and eventually it'll probably be better for baseball as long as the "interleague" novelty keeps bringing bank. eventually, they'll water it down to the point where people don't see much of a line...hopefully it won't come within my lifetime.
it's not as horrible as it sounds...i'm just not a fan of interleague even if the scouting is catching up.
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I'd rather not watch teams blow loads unless there are some hot illegal Mexican, Polish, Japanese, and Canadians involved. With senior citizens in attendance.
Wait, where am I?
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I understand your desire to group all of the interleague games at one point during the season, but with fifteen teams in each league, it would be mathematically impossible. Unless teams start taking off more than the occasional day (like having a bye week or bye series), it is necessary for at least one team from each league to be playing an interleague series throughout the entire year.
In the immortal words of Barack Obama, this isn't about politics, it's simply math.
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i hate i made it all this clear as mud...because that's what i accomplished, but basically...yeah, that's what im saying. i find interleague distracting, but now that it's almost 1/5th of the season i'm going to be forced to get over it.
also, i dont want to see teams working their way toward playing tons of games in the AL...which it seems they're on the way to.
ultimately, it won't ruin baseball at all...and will probably make teams a good amount of loot until the novelty wears off.
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Tue, 11/15/2011 - 7:54pm — Rob G.
I think he was attempting to now say that a certain number of teams would play all their interleague games within a span of a month or two and then the next group would play theirs (believe it's gonna be 30 games total) Not sure how feasible that is either...but at least that's actually possible within a degree compared to his first statement.
ROB G: It isn't the increase in the number of interleague games (the current pre-All Star Game 12 interleague games increasing to 30) as much as the idea of playing interleague games at the very end of the regular season that is going to take some getting used to. Even the NFL doesn't do that.
I would be surprised if teams play all of their interleague games in one consolidated period of time, because then some of the teams in each league would spend the entire month of September playing games only against teams from the other league, and that just isn't going to happen.
As it is, two teams (one from each league) are for sure going to be playing interleague games for their final series of the regular season, and that could get very weird.
Imagine the Cubs playing the Red Sox the last series of the regular season to determine if one or both make the post-season.
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**Even the NFL doesn't do that.**
Two of the bears' last five games are against the afc.
UPDATE: and I count at least 3 games in week 16 that are interleague, and at least 7 in week 15. Only week 17 has no interleague matchups.
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Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:40pm — big_lowitzki
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**Even the NFL doesn't do that.**
Two of the bears' last five games are against the afc.
UPDATE: and I count at least 3 games in week 16 that are interleague, and at least 7 in week 15. Only week 17 has no interleague matchups.
BIG LO: One NFL game is equal to 10 MLB games (16 versus 162).
The NFL does not schedule interleague games on the last week of the regular season.
That would be equivalent to MLB not scheduling interleague games over the last ten games/last ten days of its regular season.
But at least two MLB teams (one in each league) will be playing interleague games right up to the end of the regular season.
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If there are 30 x 15, or 450 interleague games, there's going to be about 3 interleague games a day, though they certainly could group them up more for some periods, so that there are fewer at the start and the end.
MLB quickly trying to turn the season into the monotony of the NBA... doesn't seem like a good plan.The first casualty was the All-Star game. Hopefully the next isn't regular season games.
NL Clubs are really going to have to start carrying good hit, no field 4th outfielders or backup first basemen too. 15 starts a year is too much to waste on the Jeff Bakers of the world.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to move the Brewers back to the AL central, and move KC to the AL West?
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Yes and Yes.
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Oh, my bad. Never mind then. Carry on...
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It went to 16/14 when the Marlins and Rays joined the league. In order to not have either interleague every day, they moved Milwaukee to the NL.
You are way too smart to not understand why you can't avoid all season interleague play with a 15/15 team AL/NL split.
Re: Who Will Lead the Cubbie Revolution?
Might as well add dh to nl too
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it'll happen eventually...along with rosters expanding to 26-28...
baseball evolves by it's nature...there's just been a whole lot of them since the mid-90s. in almost 18 years the league has gone from 26 to 30 teams along with a slew of changes brought on by it.
except for the DH...the big labor shakeup in the 70s...various baseball strikes...and that experimental weirdness in 81, baseball was mostly "stable" from the early/mid-70s til the early 90s
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Well, they fucked with the gear and their bodies to make more homeruns happen, so maybe now that we're moving past that they feel the need for change.
As a Houston resident, I hate it for three reasons. We're moving to the snooze league in Houston so I have to go to St Louis to see real baseball (maybe Atlanta or Phoenix, I guess) it continues to cheapen the ASG and the WS and the Cubs won't be here all the time anymore.
If I could go back in time, and kill one person, I'd be hard pressed to choose Hitler over whoever came up with the DH idea.
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I'm sure someone could put together a YouTube video that shows Hitler did come up the the DH idea.
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Redsox get Sv, Cubs get Eum?
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Not much impact pitching on that list either.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the new regime is slightly higher on him than the old, because of their grasp of BABIP.
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I haven't heard any mention of BABIP among Epstein, Hoyer, McLeod et al. Have you?
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Is that a joke?
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Let me know when one of them mentions BABIP. Otherwise, I'll start to think that they haven't internalized it. No joke.
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Well, Theo Epstein said something along the lines of "I read Baseball Prospectus every day" is that good enough for you, or do you want an actual quote that says "I understand the vagaries of BABIP"? May have to go to the Cubs convention for that one.
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I just wondered if you had seen him quoted using the term in any context, and could point me to it.
Do we know, in general, what stats he considers useful?
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If Vitters can't stay at third he won't be of much use.
I figured before that Shea Hillenbrand would be the best case scenerio for Vitters. If his glove puts him in left field he's about as useful as a right handed Derrick May.
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The DH is a done deal? Then I want Ramirez back...
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Sorry, I read Crunch's comment above and entered a time warp...
Anyway, the modernization of baseball seems to a oxymoron. Won't beanings increase? Didn't Washington instruct his hurlers to pitch inside? They did, but the (effing) Cards adjusted at home. If the Arlingtoners did not have to bat in those last two games---Freeze would have been knuckled under...
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"A few years ago, Bill James told me something I had never thought about before but now think about all the time, especially after trades like this one: Every single baseball team has prospects. Every one. The best teams. The worst teams. The smartest teams. The dumbest teams. They all have prospects. Not only that — every team has enough prospects to fill out a Top 10 list. You never see a team's "Top 7 Prospects" list because the team did not have enough to fill out 10. No. They all have 10." - Joe Posnanski
Wow, that Bill James really knows his stuff.
I understand that Posnanski was also astonished to discover that that the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west.
So let me get this straight...
All MLB clubs (even dumb ones) have prospects, in fact they all have enough prospects to fiill out a Top 10 list?
That is just amazing. I never would have thought of that.
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Well yeah but the point of that was to say teams (and fans) throw out top 10 lists, but they tell you basically nothing. Two teams' #8s aren't necessarily comparable. Sure that might be self-evident, but it also calls for greater examination of the players themselves and I don't see much of that. Plus, and I see that here, just because you give up prospects doesn't mean you did jack to harm your club. I've been as big a proponent at giving young players a try here as anyone but we tend to place too much value on the word prospect.
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Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:47pm — johann
Well yeah but the point of that was to say teams (and fans) throw out top 10 lists, but they tell you basically nothing. Two teams' #8s aren't necessarily comparable. Sure that might be self-evident, but it also calls for greater examination of the players themselves and I don't see much of that. Plus, and I see that here, just because you give up prospects doesn't mean you did jack to harm your club. I've been as big a proponent at giving young players a try here as anyone but we tend to place too much value on the word prospect.
JOHANN: Posnanski said until Bill James mentioned it, he had never thought of it.
That really is pathetic.
As for Baseball America's annual "Top 10 Prospects" lists and what they mean or do not mean, what a "Top 10 Prospects" list tells you (and all it is supposed to tell you) is who the writers at BA believe are that particular team's best prospects at the time the list is posted.
Besides posting its "Top 10 Prospects" list for each MLB organization, Baseball America also has a "Top 100 Prospects" list posted prior to the start of Spring Training that rates all the prospects in baseball regardless of organization (and Jim Callis said in his Cubs chat yesterday that probably only Brett Jackson, Javier Baez, and Matt Szczur will be on that list, but that still is three out of 100, which would be just below midling if there are 30 teams and 100 slots), and BA also rates the MLB organizations as to strength of farm system 1-30. (Prior to the Matt Garza trade, Callis said in his chat following the posting of last year's Cubs Top 10 Prospects list that the Cubs farm system was ranked #8 in all of baseball).
BTW, Callis also said in yesterday's chat that if the Garza trade had not been made, Hak-Ju Lee would have probably been Cubs prospect #3 this year (between Baez and Szczur), and Archer probably would have been #5 (between Szczur and McNutt), which means JH Lee (for sure) and possibly Archer would have been in this year's Top 100 Prospects list.
So you put it all together, and you should get a pretty clear idea of where the BA people stand (and FWIW, they do poll scouts and minor league managers who have actually seen the players play).
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And if we follow along the proposal:
Deals for players such as Gio Gonzalez, Logan Morrison, Chase Headley
Gonzalez, (highest ranked as a prospect 26 approximately Brett Jackson's rating)
Would cost us Szczur, McNutt, and Vitters.
Morrison would cost Castillo, Dollis, Lake, and a lower ranked starting arm.
Headley: Jackson and Jackson and Carpenter.
It's a road to nowhere. Now we've got a 75 win team, and no help from the farm system until 2015, and by then all the guys we traded for are free agents, or compensated like them.
I am pretty confident that 4 of the 16 players we lose in these trades equal what we got back for the teams that give them up. If by some miracle we are vaguely in contention mid-season... how do we improve the team? Trade Baez and Vogelbach?
If Hendry had not made the Garza deal, he may still be around.
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I was basing the trade proposals on what we gave up for Garza (3 top 10 prospects, including our #1 or #2). Is that not what happened?
Simple math would tell you that to get 3 more players of similar value, your going to have to trade 9 of your top 10 prospects. The Cubs couldn't trade 9 of those guys, since only 7 of them are eligible.
What do you not like about the logic, or do you think that Gonzalez the all-star with the saber savy GM is going to be cheaper than Garza?
Propose the trades, then run them by a fan site of those three teams, and see if any of them think the Cubs could get your three guys without trading all 7 of our top 10 prospects.
I am sorry your feelings got hurt, it wasn't my intent, I was just showing the flaw in your logic of team building.
No need to be a prick.
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"No need to be a prick."
Good advice.
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Hey, I am obviously all for Babylonian justice when it comes to stuff. But if you're going to be a blog writer, you shouldn't act all butt-hurt when someone questions the logic of something you write.
Rob G, acting very childishly said he isn't going to debate it, then acted like a dickhead, didn't he? Basically, the most immature, and unprofessional thing he could do. Something he bashes that Al guy about.
Where in my post did I act like a dickhead?
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speaking of acting like a dickhead...i wouldn't mind seeing morrison in a cubs uniform.
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Haha, I'd love to have all three of those guys. I just think they're going to be prohibitively expensive.
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You don't have to apologize for having issues with Al.
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Just quick and dirty, according to BA, it cost us these ranked guys to get Garza:
#18 (if memory serves)
Based on that, I tried to figure out what it would cost to get those three guys you mentioned. obviously I wasn't trying to say exactly which players would go in the trades, but just illustrating the type of value that these players could fetch. It cost us our #1, and #4 prospects to Garza. Our system is not more highly regarded than it was last year. Our #2, #5 and #10 prospects are off limits. In your scenario you have labelled our #1 and #3 prospect off limits.
Garza cost us our #1, #4, and #12 prospects.
You want to bring in three more guys of roughly equal value (to be accurate I would say Gonzalez would cost more than Garza, Headley about the same, and Morrison a little less).
These are the bullets in your gun:
#4 McNutt
#6 Castillo
#7 Dollis
#8 Lake
#9 Vitters
And maybe some other guys (Jackson and Carpenter probably in our top 15). None of those guys is likely to be a top 100 prospect
Garza cost us our #1, #4, (both top 100 prospects) and #12. And somehow you're going to land those three guys with the listed players above. Does that really seem like a legitimate proposition?
I am all for it if it could be done, trade those seven guys and bring back an all-star and two guys who could join him. I just don't think that was very realistic. I don't think even with B. Jackson and Szczur (NTC and salary issues aside) we could land those three guys, but even if we did, the farm system would be dead fucking barren. Not like 90's system barren, but like 90's system without Wilkins and May and the occasional sort of useful piece.
I know the temptation is to dismiss the Cubs farm system, and prospects in general. But you named two guys that the Cubs would keep to build their young core around. Castro and Geo. You can probably guess where I am going with this but what do those guys have in common? They weren't highly regarded as prospects until they broke out. Geo was in the system 7 years before he made a Cubs top 10 list, and Castro two, three before we realized we may have something pretty special. If the Cub trade 16 of their top 17 prospects (Darwin Barney being the exception), I feel like four of those guys are going to "hit" and be guys very similar to what we gave up for them, but we lose a lot of pre-arb years in the process.
Your proposal either vastly overrates the current market value of the Cubs prospects, or under rates what pre to early arb potential all-stars can bring on the trade market. I didn't mean to imply it was stupid, just not fully thought through.
There are probably a couple of dipshit GM's left who will make trades like the Garza one, but they're a dieing breed, and SD and Oakland certainly aren't in possession of them. San Diego is going to know exactly how much the Cubs value Headley. Morrison could maybe be had at a discount, but is he even a sure bet to be more than a 2nd division starter?
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No need to be a prick.
As the great Rod Blagoyevich would say, this is f***in' golden.
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I had a case of the shits today... I am pretty sure, that at least three times, I crapped out things more interesting and insightful than you have contributed to this website in the last three years.
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The goal sure as shit shouldn't be 75 wins.
Like it or not the Cubs aren't going to tank for draft picks in an effort to build the system. No team that can put together a 150 Million dollar MLB payroll SHOULD operate in that manor in MLB baseball as currently constructed.
If we could trade every available eligible Minor League "prospect" in a package that nets us Morrison, Gio and Headley I'd hope like heck that Theo would do it instantly.
What exactly do we even have in the minors at this point?
A few kids drafted last year with potential
A borderline future MLB starting OFer with contact issues
A football player who runs fast but can't hit
A few bullpen arms
I say sell high on anyone drafted before 2011 while we still can. Let this new, more competent regime worry about restocking the system with their own players.
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A football player who runs fast but can't hit
I thought your position on Szczur was that he was overvalued by some fans, not that he wasn't any good at all.
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Over rated by fans is the more accurate description in reality. I think he does probably develop into a Tony Campana type of spare part at least.
He does have a useable MLB glove and good speed. So he should get a decent shot at some point.
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Oh. I think I did misunderstand your original position on Szczur if it was that he is Tony Campana redux. I thought you were just trying push back against some of the enthusiasts (and I admit I have been among them, but I recognize that I tend to be overly optimistic about Cubs prospects).
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I gotta agree here. Bill James was telling Posnaski the obvious, perhaps because Posnaski had lost sight of the obvious.
We Cubs fans, for example, hear on a regular basis that our top 10 are nowhere near as good as other organization's top ten (or at least our top five or so).
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A couple things that should also be noted:
"Org rankings" are not soley based on top 10's. It's entierly possible that one team has a better top 10 list than another, but the weakness of their next 15 prospects makes it an inferior system. "Top 10" is an arbitrary number.
Likewise, it's possible that two teams have equal value in their top 10, but one team's players are more evenly spread out than the others, so that they're 6-7-8 players are better than the other team's 6-7-8 players.
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Bob (Mundelein, IL): Is Hayden Simpson worthy of being in the top 30 after the year he had?
Jim Callis: He's going to make the Top 30 because I think he has to get a mulligan for 2011, when he pitched with a stress reaction and a small tear in his elbow, both of which have healed. I'd describe him as another draftee that the Cubs were higher on than the majority of clubs. Really don't know what to make of him until we see a fully healthy Simpson in pro ball.
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I hadn't heard that before. It is encouraging to know that his season to forget was only partly due to recovering from mono. Although, it makes me wonder why the Cubs didn't just let the guy heal his elbow instead of having him pitch. It got to a point where they should have shut him down when it was only known to be mono. Letting him pitch while weakened from mono and having an arm problem seems criminal.
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If the Arlingtoners...
The Metroplexers?
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Kenny Williams commentary on the Theo compensation talks (from WEII, Boston)...
White Sox GM Kenny Williams, who had to negotiate compensation with the Marlins for the departure of manager Ozzie Guillen, took some amusement in the matter.
"I was impressed," said Williams. "This is a testimony, I think, to Theo and his skill level. It is one thing to trade a manager. But to trade yourself and then to work out the compensation for yourself, that's one hell of a trip. I'm impressed. … Even though he hasn't gotten it done, I don't know how that conversation goes. I have to ask [Cherington] how that conversation goes.
"'There's no way I'm going to give you that for me,'" Williams surmised Epstein saying. "'Who do you think I am? I'm not worth that.'"
Williams...was asked what his value would be on the trade market.
"Probably a lot less than it's taking, evidently, to get Theo," said Williams. "There's probably some (WSux fans) who would probably want to give me away. It's true."
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Y'know, Williams may seem constantly sour and sarcastic, but he's also bitter and defensive!
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Wittenmeyer identifies another Cuban that the Cubs are interested in...
...but the Cuban defector the Cubs are targeting with greater interest, according to sources, is another athletic, hard-hitting outfielder — a seven-years-younger version of the flavor-of-the-month Cespedes: Jorge Soler, 19.
Soler, who defected this year and is expected to become a free agent within weeks, is exactly the kind of player the Cubs' new regime is looking for as it restocks the farm system and tries to build a long-term home-core contender.
More Buehrle meat
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Hard to see them signing guys as old as him to four-year $10+ million per deals, after talking about building from within. Just because he wants four years, doesn't necessariliy mean he'll het it, though.
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I've always liked him, but he's got an awful lot of miles on him. But then, so do I, and I'm still going strong. fingers xed
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he's got a lot of miles and gives up a ton of hits for a team that can't even turn a double play properly.
this IF isn't very leaky, but castro needs work and barney is slow.
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How do you feel about Soriano leading off?
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free swinging RBI power hitters with low ob% leading off?
you'd be a fool not to use him lead off. everyone knows leadoff hitters only get fastballs because pitchers need to save up sliders/curves/changeups for ryan theriot who will surely bring soriano in from 1st or 2nd to home plate for massive scoring.
besides, soriano's 10-20 SBs were game changers.
boourlee puts in his innings, but he also tends to lead the league in hits given up while doing it.
you're going to see a lot of balls put into play with him on the mound even if they're not flying 350+ft.
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we all did, but the "soriano should lead off" argument was so f'n retarded given his skill set. the defense of "leadoff hitters get fastballs" was ignorant and blanketed. we had a 100+ RBI guy not getting on base for 2/3 hitters. brilliant use of a mega-money RBI guy.
and d.barney is a slow fielder.
and boourlee gives up a ton of hits.
and castro is still learning.
and these are real things that are real issues with signing boourlee.
real as it gets.
aka, a consideration.
aka, something anyone should think about.
also...what is with people who won't accept d.barney's slow D? sorry there isn't a convenient number to point to. barney is a slow fielder. he's mike bordick at 2nd...it looks good, but it's not fast enough. this isn't a musing...it's a fact. he's slow.
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What is your opinion on big-name/high-salaried managers?
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my opinion is bringing up legit points and having them met by people who care more about me than the points being made...evidently.
there's another thread going on where you can talk about how snow forms if you're bored enough.
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Just tweaking your habit of repeating your opinions, not their validity.
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but...the snow.
also, ive not talked about boourlee too much. now that he's got steam on signing with the cubs (along with 10 other teams) it's on my radar.
i dunno how a team that has multiple people talking about improving the D has plans for boourlee unless they have further plans for 2nd/3rd (and 1st blocking/catching for castro) in the future plans.
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I wasn't talking about you talking about Buehrle.
But yeah, snow.
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i'm just saying that's why the D was brought up.
what boourlee does for a living depends a lot on the infield D.
he's a guy who will give up 220+ hits per 200ip...there's a lot of fielding going on with him on the mound, as well as dealing with runners on base.
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Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(