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BALTIMORE, MD (January 18, 2012) - The Maryland Department of Labor Division of Labor and Industry, in partnership with Towson University, hosted the inaugural Employment Rights and Safety Forum earlier today. Maryland Labor Secretary Alexander M. Sanchez, Commissioner of Labor and Industry Ron DeJuliis, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Towson University President Maravene Loeschke provided remarks touting state and local efforts to protect workers and create jobs.
The forum brought employers, policy makers and labor leaders together to discuss public safety, wage and hour issues, workplace fraud, apprenticeship and training opportunities and issues pertaining to the states workplace safety laws. More than 550 people attended the session at Towson University.
"The Division of Labor and Industry continues to take proactive steps to engage employers, industry leaders and workers in productive conversations that will move Maryland forward," said Secretary Sanchez. "Under Commissioner DeJuliiss leadership, the Maryland Department of Labors Workplace Fraud Unit has taken great measures to protect workers and level the playing field for honest, law-abiding business owners. Todays forum is another opportunity for DLLR to educate all stakeholders about new laws and safety regulations that protect wages and lives."
"I am very pleased that the Maryland Department of Labor is holding this important conference in Baltimore County. As we continue to work our way out of a very difficult economy, government must do all that it can to help our employers maximize opportunities and increase employment opportunities," said County Executive Kamenetz.
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The Good Guys Chairman, Andrew Muir commented, "This is a logical, commercially driven decision that recognises our relatively small position in the New Zealand and that the path to gaining a significant market position and acceptable financial return is too far away.
"The New Zealand market has undergone significant rationalisation and consolidation and with only five stores, our business would require significant investment to bring it to a scale that would deliver acceptable returns.
"We are very proud of what our team in New Zealand has achieved. We provided a world class offer and value proposition for our customers and introduced strong competition that drove significant benefits for New Zealand consumers.
"We have entered into arrangements with one of New Zealand's most respected retailers, The Warehouse Group, to ensure that we exit the New Zealand market responsibly for our key stakeholders.
"Our Australian business continues to outperform the market in both same store year on year growth and market share growth and will continue to be a focus for our future investment".
The Good Guys will assign five of its property leases in New Zealand to The Warehouse Group, who will look to utilise these retail spaces across a mix of its retail brands. The Warehouse Group brands include The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming Group, Torpedo 7, and R&R Sports..
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Romeo and Juliet Director Helen Meade plays with space and time in a totally unique way. The audience will have to choose sides: Will you follow the Capulets (Juliet) or the Montagues (Romeo)? Of course, the lovers will reunite for their scenes together. The cast includes Andrew Miller and Danielle Powell in the title roles, and Ron Siebert, a veteran actor who appeared on Broadway with James Earl Jones in "The Iceman Cometh," and on network TV dramas, in his PSIP debut as Friar Lawrence. Free.08/31/2013
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Greeley police say an event at the Roadkill Sports Grill on Thursday night turned into a gang-related brawl that left bystanders shaken and two people with stab wounds.
Police responded about 9:30 p.m. to reports of a fight outside the bar at the Greeley Mall, where they found 100 to 150 people, including children, in the parking lot who were attending the bar's Bike Night event, according to a news release from the police department.
Police found that two people were stabbed during a fight between rival biker gangs. They were transported with non-life-threatening injuries to a hospital.
Police say members of one gang fired shots at the motorcycles of a rival gang and also fired shots in the air.
Three people were arrested after the fight on unrelated charges, according to the release. Investigators are working to identify and arrest suspects who were responsible for the fight.
Police issued the Roadkill a motion for summary suspension after the fight because the incident happened at a sponsored event, said Greeley Police Lt. Steve Nelson. The bar's liquor license is temporarily suspended for up to 15 days, and a hearing will be held to determine if the bar can retain its license, according to the release.
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5 Artists Who Stopped Sucking Out of Nowhere
Many of you probably think of Brad Pitt as just a mere elder statesmen of hotness who seems like a pretty cool guy after turning in some bad ass performances in movies like Fight Club and 12 Monkeys. But at the start of Pitt's career, he was all primed to be a mere pretty-boy, no-talent cheeseball. In fact, that's exactly what I thought he was. And it was hard to blame me. His appearance in Thelma and Louise as boy candy and his starring turn in A River Runs Through It added up to little more than Baby Robert Redford Lite.
"See? Even in this silly hat, I sure am pretty!"
If you've not seen Kalifornia there is a simple remedy for that: see Kalifornia. In this 1993 movie, Pitt plays a racist, abusive, white trash sociopath who spends most of the movie looking like he smells really bad. Pitt is greasy and hairy and genuinely terrifying. At that moment, I knew Pitt was a real actor -- not just because he played against type incredibly well, but because he clearly did not care if he looked disgusting. And considering I can still remember the hole in his filthy gym sock more than 15 years later, it was quite a performance. My hatred vanished, but just in case there was any lingering doubt, his performance as the stoner roommate in True Romance that same year just sealed the deal.
#1. J.K. Rowling
This one's a little different. Mostly because I never hated J.K. Rowling as much as I thought she and the Harry Potter series were just wildly overrated. Also, I changed my mind gradually without a defining moment. But I'm including Rowling (at the top of the list no less) because she changed my mind in a very profound way and even influenced me as a writer.
Back in the late '90s, I started hearing about this children's book that grownups were reading called Harry Potter. As my testicles had already descended by that time, I decided to forgo the reading experience. I also distinctly recall seeing noted literary scholar Harold Bloom criticize the books on Charlie Rose for being derivative. I started watching the movies and thumbing through the books. I had to agree with Bloom. The influences were obvious. Harry Potter simply couldn't exist without Roald Dahl, Monty Python, J.R.R. Tolkien and even Franz Kafka (compare Ms. Umbridge's torture pen with Kafka's In The Penal Colony).
The 180 Moment: There Wasn't One Really
The turnaround for me was so gradual I can't place it on a certain book. Like I said, I never hated Harry Potter. I just thought it was overly praised because I could check off all the borrowed elements. But with each book and film I began to realize that even though the installments contained elements from earlier works, there was more to Harry Potter.
Yes, the muggles are just like the terrible adults of Roald Dahl fiction; the foul-tasting magical candies come right out of a Monty Python skit; and wearing a horcrux that must be destroyed while worrying about its own corrupting influence on your soul sounds a lot like Tolkien's one ring to rule them all. But those elements are not why people like Harry Potter. Instead, the Harry Potter universe is filled with rules that are constantly broken in the interest of equity. Time and time again, Harry and all the likable characters of Hogwarts break the letter of the law to fulfill the spirit of the law. The best kind of wish fulfillment made all the better by the intensity of the defeated evil.
Indeed, compare Frodo's trip to Mordor while wearing a corrupting ring with Harry Potter's wearing of the horcrux. Frodo knows that carrying the ring is his burden. That it cannot be passed to another. Although Harry is facing an evil as great as Frodo's, he shares the burden by altering the wearing of the horcrux between his two companions. Yes, the similarities are apparent, but it's the distinction that holds Harry Potter's specific charm.
"Hi. My name's Daniel Radcliffe and I smile much more broadly than Harry Potter in real life."
J.K. Rowling taught me that using influences in a novel is a lot like using sampling in music. It's absolutely fine to lift riffs and hooks from other songs as long as they are referential building blocks of your work instead of being the appeal of your work. For example, the "When Doves Cry" sample is the only good part of MC Hammer's "Pray." The "Under Pressure" riff is the only good part of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby." But take a song like "Jackass" by Beck, built around a sampled loop from Them's "It's All Over, Baby Blue." It stands completely on its own terms.
Rowling liberated me so much that when I wrote my serialized novella Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, I had great fun incorporating elements from Douglas Adams, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, Dennis Lehane, Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell, David Bowie, George Romero and Scott Kosar, confident they were only cultural shortcuts enriching the story instead of stealing its individuality. So yeah, sorry, J.K. I was wrong.
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Gee SME, did you ever think maybe you ARE a raging misogynist and everyone sees it? All the JJ commenters should call you out every time you post a misogynistic, racist, or idiotic comment. Of course, these forums would fill up very quickly since those are the only types of comments you post.
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MajorSME - you aren't from this country. You might not be Scottish but you're definitely not an American, thank goodness. Why don't you just sail back over the "pond" and spew your racist and misogynistic hatred back home? You've become the worst thing - a bore. Complete and total bore.
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Whose needs do we have a right to speak for?
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Drawing on these sources, he has written an incisive, moving interpretation of community and democracy in a work that not only examines the breakdown of human solidarity but shows how it might be re-created. The Needs of Strangers restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.
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Joshua Bell & Symphonie EspagnoleViolinist Joshua Bell returns to the PSO for Lalo's daring concert piece, Symphonie espagnole, written at the beginning of a French fascination with Spanish-themed music. Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda leads the PSO in Liszt's rarely performed dramatic portrayals from Goethe's "Faust" - the fallen scholar Faust, his innocent love Gretchen, and the demon Mephistopheles.02/28/2014 - 03/02/201402/28 - 8:00 pm03/01 - 8:00 pm03/02 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
The Gentlemen Sing: Three Generations of SongThis brand-new curated project by Marty Ashby and MCG Jazz features Allan Harris, Ernie Andrews and a brand-new artist who was chosen through a nationwide search. 02/28/201402/28 - 7:00 pm02/28 - 9:30 pm1815 Metropolitan St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Essence of Joy in JohnstownEssence of Joy, directed by Dr. Anthony T. Leach, is a Penn State Department of Music choral ensemble performing sacred and secular music from African and African-American traditions.02/28/2014Time: 7:30pmFirst Presbyterian Church, 309 Lincoln St., Johnstown, PAwebsite | map
African AccentsPerformances of African-influenced chamber music from Cuba and America including composers such as William Grant Still share a program with European classics by Austria's Franz Schubert.02/28/2014Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 250 N Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Fiddlesticks Family Concert: "Carnival of the Animals"Conductor Lawrence Loh joins Fiddlesticks onstage as cartoon artist Joe Wos from the Toonseum illustrates the animals in Saint-Saens' musical menagerie, from the royal lion to the graceful swan, as the PSO performs. Discovery Time activities at 10:00 am (concert at 11:15) will include tortoise races provided by the Pittsburgh Zoo, animal-themed arts and crafts, sing-a-long music, and dancing activities!03/01/2014Time: 11:15 amHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Pennsylvania SingsEvery hour, there are choices of singalongs or dancing/instrument making at downtown Greensburg churches: First Presbyterian, First Lutheran, First Reformed, and First Methodist. This event for all ages offers jazz, Broadway, shaped‑note, folk, children, country, eastern European, and other styles.03/01/2014Time: 1 pm - 9 pmLocation: Greensburg, PAwebsite
Durufle's RequiemExperience the beauty and serenity of this exquisite work, featuring orchestra, organist David Billings, and mezzo-soprano Eva Rainforth. Susan Medley conducts.03/01/2014 - 03/02/201403/01 - 7:30 pm03/02 - 4:00 pmLocation: variouswebsite
Music on the Edge: JACK QuartetThe JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience." Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.03/01/2014Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Wine and Chocolate TastingInstrumental and vocal music will be performed, wine will be sipped, chocolate will be consumed, and a good time will be had at this event benefiting The Pittsburgh Camerata and Renaissance and Baroque.03/02/2014Time: 4:00 pmLocation: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1047 Shady Av, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Young Winners RecitalPerformances featuring pianists Jonah Berger, Isaac Che, Stephanie Petinaux, Katie Liu, and harpist Hannah Piston.03/02/2014Time: 2:00 pmLocation: Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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Jim Hendry's Plan #44
Before I get to what's going on with Aaron Heilman's knee, I've got a few odds and ends to mention.
I've figured out what the heck Cubs GM, Jim Hendry, is up to this offseason. In a nutshell, in an attempt to beef up the middle of the lineup he wanted to add one of the all time great sluggers to the Cub lineup. Unfortunately Hank Aaron is just about to turn 75 years old. So this great idea came to him in a dream...swap out Hanks (Blanco, Williamson) and accumulate Aarons (Miles, Heilman). Voilà, plan #44!
The newest acquisition (Aaron Heilman) grew up as a Cub fan. It seems that this is the first directive from Tom Ricketts, all new organizational members must be diehard fans.
On to Aaron Heilman's medical issues. I've not been able to find a precise diagnosis to his 2008 left knee ailment other than it being labeled tendonitis. This LINK goes to an article from Sept 12th, 2008 discussing what problems Heilman was dealing with last year.
Last night on WGN radio, David Kaplan interviewed Aaron Heilman and specifically asked him about his knee problems. All we got was "athlete speak." It does seem that they have a therapy treatment plan that was worked out for him to address his issues this offseason.
Kaplan: In terms of your knee. I'm reading an article on ESPN today, it said knee pain played a role in your 2008 struggles. Would you agree that your knee was a problem and how is it today?
AH: Right now it's great. I feel healthy, everything feels good. I struggled a bit early on in the season trying to figure out a routine that would work best for me. By the end of the year I had figured that out. It certainly took a lot longer than I thought it would and that I hoped it would. It certainly wasn't 'the' factor that caused me to have a year I wasn't particularly pleased with. When you are going through something like that, you're trying to figure it out, you're trying to do different things every day, you don't really quite have a routine because you're not sure how you're going to feel the next day, that can play a role into it. We've got all those issues hammered out. I'm looking forward to staying with a good program, staying healthy all year and just going out there and competing.
Tendonitis refers to inflammation of a tendon and there are several tendons around the knee. The largest two are the quadriceps tendon (which inserts into the patella/kneecap) and the patellar tendon (which goes from the patella to the tibia below the knee). Tendonitis of either one is common. There are also hamstrings (medial or lateral) and even the gastrocnemius which is more of a calf muscle but the tendons go behind and above the knee attaching to the femur.
My guess is it was a patellar tendonitis (aka Jumper's knee) as it's probably the most common of these conditions. In a pitcher, this would a significant problem for both push off or landing from a mound. Heilman played through it most of the season, meaning it was nagging but not incapacitating . It wasn't disclosed to the press until the 2nd week in September where there are multiple articles (see the link above for one of these) explaining why they hadn't used him as much in early September. Of course blowing 5 of 8 save opportunities might just be a better excuse to skip calling him from the pen.
I'm sure they had MRI imaging on him as that would be useful to rule additional conditions inside the knee that might make the tendonitis a secondary problem (like a torn meniscus). The treatment is the usual rest and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, better shock absorption in shoes. Therapy includes stretching and controlled exercises also various heat modalities to the inflammed area. In a pitcher it's unlikely to resolve until enough rest can occur, which means the off-season.
He didn't have this in 2007 so I'd expect him to be OK in 2009. I saw that he did have right (his pitching elbow) tennis elbow surgery immediately after the season on 10-23-06. Tennis elbow (aka lateral epicondylitis) is an inflammation of the tendons responsible for wrist extension and originate just above the outside/lateral aspect of the elbow. It develops from repetitive resistance to wrist extension activities hence it's nickname, tennis elbow came from the added resistance of using a tennis racquet. Dr. David Altchek (he's quite a famous NYC Sports Orthopod, who did similar surgery on Carlos Delgado that same week) performed the surgery and although it's obviously unrelated to his knee issues, it is an example of a chronic tendonitis that rarely needs surgery but ultimately he needed it (and presumably got better from the surgery). His stats in 2006 (74 games, 3.62 ERA, 1.16 WHIP) were better than 2008 (78G, 5.21 ERA, 1.59 WHIP) so I guess it was the same nagging thing but he put up with it pretty well. He probably had a bunch of therapy, ultrasound/deep heat rxs and a few cortisone shots for it before the elbow surgery.
Patellar tendonitis can be chronic (which isn't all that common) and then the tendon can be surgically explored or consideration is occaisionally given to (ESWT) extracorporeal (ultrasonic) shockwave treatment, which is more often used to treat resistant plantar fascitis (arch inflammation). ESWT is not like ultrasound in a physical therapy center which is mostly a way of delivering deep heat to tissues. ESWT is more like what they use to break up kidney stones (lithotripsy). It actually traumatizes the tendon collagen and brings in new blood supply which then promotes healing of the damaged tissue.
Update: based on a nice pickup from reader ankeith15, it looks like Heilman did undergo ESWT treatment. This LINK from a mets.com archive on November 20th confirms his diagnosis was patellar tendonitis and goes on to say:
After a loss in September, Manuel disclosed that Heilman had pitched much of the season troubled by patellar tendinitis, a malady that affected his landing leg, restricted his conditioning and non-game throwing, and reduced the sharpness of his pitches. Heilman since has undergone a noninvasive ultrasound treatment that has reduced the pain in his knee.
ESWT was used off-label on Magglio Ordonez during his free agent year when he was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the femoral condyle (dying bone in the knee due to damaged local blood supply). I think Mags had to go to Vienna, Austria to get that treatment as ESWT wasn't being used like that in the US then. Ordonez knee did recover apparently enough to hit .298 with 24 HR's and be the ALCS MVP with a memorable walk off 3 run homer to end that series.
A variant on such an example of surgical treatment of a chronic tendonitis was the chronic achilles tendonitis in Cliff Floyd who had surgery (also at the same hospital/same week that Heilman had surgery, but a different surgeon) on it the offseason before he signed with the Cubs.
Of course if you have HMO insurance, they just tell you to change shoes.
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This post seems familiar.
When you get tendonitis, is it always sharp pain? The first time it happened to me, I literally took off my shoe to check it for razor blades. I couldn't figure out what the hell was happening, but it HURT!
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My shoulder tendinitis flared up after I pitched a bit too much one day. A couple days before I'd been doing some home demolition for a family member; I think that I had basically exhausted my shoulder and then overexerted it pitching. It started off dull, and when I ignored it and kept going, it became sharp. The intensity of the pain dulled over the next couple days until it was just kind of an ache, then seemed to go away. When it acts up now, I tend to get a sudden sort of sharp pain and then general soreness. I know some other folks that have similar experience, but the general consensus among us seems to be that tendinitis is more of an ache than a sharp pain, most of the time. If your shoe was rubbing the spot, though, maybe that could sharpen the pain?
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Totally agree with Charlie and his description of the pain. Mostly a sore-achey feeling (my knee almost felt "tired" if that makes any sense) but once and a while on a particular jump or cut, it'd be a shooting pain, following by general achey annoyance.
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I've dealt with Patellar Tendinitis in high school (the golden years) it's more so annoying and nagging than very painful. The only remedy they gave me, which Cubster noted here, was 4-8 weeks off.
I'm sure AH will be okay coming off the winter break. Hopefully he's taken care of the issue, and he says he has. I hope he can return to the 2007 AH not the 2008.
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Hey Neal, thanks for getting me started with your post on the last thread as well as being the source of my HMO line.
Pain is always somewhat subjective but certainly it can be sharp pain. What is happening is the collagen that makes up a tendon is tearing on a microscopic level. The body tries to heal it but tendons have limited blood supply so it often just leads to small areas where there is tendon degeneration. Some of the listed treatments are just trying to bring blood to the tendon so it can heal the degenerative tissue. That's probably what surgery does as well as the ESWT.
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yeah this wasn't subjective pain. I was really surprised to find I wasn't bleeding. That's why I always cut Prior some slack because if he even pitched through a little of what I felt, he must have been one determined Mo'fo.
Are some people more pre-disposed to get it? It seems that Heilmann has got it twice now, and now I am wondering if the constant ache in my left hand could be the same thing.
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These tendonitis conditions are common so I don't think it's often a predisposition thing. Unfortunately, when an athlete gets problem after problem (I guess this would be true for a non-athlete) one has to wonder if there is a unifying reason.
Tennis elbow symptoms are mostly at the elbow. There are several tendonitis conditions that cause pain around the wrist and hand though.
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I have at times had pain in both my right shoulder and my left knee, both connected to sports. The right shoulder flares up when I pitch or throw from the outfield. The left knee used to hurt a lot when I played soccer and when I was running a lot.
In both cases I first hurt the joint due to my own negligence/stupidity. The shoulder was from over exertion and ignoring pain. The knee was from over exertion, playing through pain, and not paying attention to how far I was running on what surfaces--concrete wreaks havoc on my knees.
I was also never as serious an athlete as I could have been, which means that my form in both pitching, running, kicking, and tackling has always been pretty mediocre. It also means that I under trained, physically, for baseball.
What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that in some cases the underlying condition may not be physical--it may be behavioral.
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Sounds like Aaron and I will just have to keep up with the flaxseed oil treatments.
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Also on a more dramatic pain front, when people get acute achilles tendon ruptures (which is different from tendonitis)...the patient often says that it felt like they got whacked in the calf with a baseball bat or they felt like they got shot by a gun. It's a classic description but when they look around nobody else heard or felt anything but them.
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Sorry to go all health study on everyone...but I'm in that line of work.
Studies at the University of Missouri found that increased intake of folic acid and B12 has a greater impact on inflamation than acetaminophen...
Anyone have the number for an old NY Mets trainer or a Houston Astros short stop? Sounds like after a few shots of B12, strategically placed in say the knee area, we should have ourselves 200IP, a 2.97 ERA, and 21 wins.
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Gotta love the google Adds on the right putting tenditis remedies up for us.
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"By the end of the year I had figured that out."
Whoa! Aaron, what did you figure out? You were terrible the second half.
.480 OBA against
.435 Slugging against
.915 OPS against
And downright pitiful in September
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thanks for the article Dr. Hecht.
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Plan 9 was better.
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No comments on the concurrently running PLAN 21 ?
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so says Jerry Seinfeld.
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Cedeno celebrated the trade last night by whacking a two-run homer for Aragua as they fell behind Caracas three games to two in their best-of-seven VWL championship series.
Jose Ascanio is the closer for Caracas. He got a one-inning save, striking out three. The box score says it's his eleventh save. That may just be a playoff stat, I'm not sure.
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Aaron's a personal friend whom I coached for 4 yrs-a real competitor(which explains that look when he's on the mound). If he says he is OK then he is & for sure he's anxious to be a Cub. What a bargain this man is.
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refuge=Paul Molinari ?
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fugee= Wyclef?
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not at all, tho Paul would tell you even more about Aaron's make-up. Why be so negative about a guy who hasn't thrown that first pitch? Can't start ? When the Mets gave him a few starts 3 yrs back, how about a complete game one-hit SO plus other quality starts? Then he went to the pen....?
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Why be so negative about a guy who hasn't thrown that first pitch?
you must be new to the Internet.
I kid.
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Jim Turner?
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thanks for the insight, refuge....
if Aaron ever wants to stop by TCR or do an email interview, we'd love to have him :)
and I'm all for the trade, he put three very good years together before last season and there don't seem to be arm issues.
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Sure he is. Explain his September 08 collapse. Supposedly he was "OK" then.
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Fine then explain his 3 years in a row of not only being a decent reliever but a dominating one? You want to pick out a month? I will pick out 3 years and match that against your month and we will see what Heilman can do.
Christ he has a track record of success in the majors, he isn't up one year then a disaster the next then good again and then a disaster. He dealt with an injury and if he is over that your getting a guy as a reliever who can sport a 3.00 ERA and probably be a damn fine #5 starter who could win 10-15 games.
Yes he is that good. Don't let last year fool you, Heilman is a good pitcher.
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MikeC I absolutely agree that Heilman could easily revert back to his form from 2005-2007, and be a good reliever, with that 3.00 ERA.
However, he has never shown that ability to be a #5 starter at this level. He has shown that he was much more successful as a reliever than a starter, and was used as such.
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explain his 3 years in a row of not only being a decent reliever but a dominating one
How about, He didn't have a debilitating tendonitis in his left knee until last year?
You want to pick out a month?
Sure, I picked the last month of the season because Heilman said he had finally "figured it out" by then after suffering with injury most of the year.
I'd think someone who had suffered through The Towel Years with the Cubs wouldn't have to be spoon fed this stuff.
Andy Sisco
trying out for teams(A's, Rockies, Giants), had TJ surgery last year...
Wait, what?
Former Yankee trainer Steve Donahue said part of Roger's pregame warm-up was taking a whirlpool bath at the hottest possible temperature, enough to where he'd "come out looking like a lobster." Then there's this little trick, which gave The Rocket the additional competitive edge he needed before Game 2 of the 2000 World Series against the Mets, courtesy of Fan IQ:
Then Donahue would rub the hottest possible liniment on his testicles.
"He'd start snorting like a bull," the trainer said. "That's when he was ready to pitch."
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That's just wrong. And gay.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."
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Seriously, he couldn't rub it on himself?
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Anyone feeling sorry for Debbie?
Puts a painful twist to the idea of the postgame spread.
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Could you?
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The deadspin commenters were great on this.
Guy A: You know you've really made it when you can pay a guy to rub ointment on your balls
Guy B: And you know you haven't made it, if your the guy doing the rubbing
Bonds positive tests?
It shall not be Uribe
signs with Giants on a minor league deal...$1M if he makes the team
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We're not out of the woods yet, he still has to make the team.
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Man, I am good.
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That's a relief. Bring on Hudson.
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I endorse The Joe's suggestion of Hudson. His defensive game is gold.
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This suggests that the Cubs were offering a minor-league deal--otherwise he would have accepted whatever the Cubs were offering to make the 25-man. It also suggests that the Uribe rumors had nothing to do with Hoffpauir being trimmed from the active roster.
Unless you include Fontenot, the Cubs have one lefty power bat. Righty, they have four, assuming you still consider Lee a power bat. I know we don't like rookies, but let's all go easy on the Hoffpauir-to-Iowa rumors. It would be a shame to send a guy back to a league he just got finished tearing up. You might as well just shoot him.
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no one's wishing for Hoffpauir to get sent down, the reality is that he has options left though and that the Cubs seem to be pursuing someone more versatile to compete for the final spot.
The Cubs don't seem to want another Ward this year....
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If Hoff or somebody other than Aaron Miles could play 3b decently, while putting average offense for MLB 3rd basebasemen either on the MLB or AAA roster, I would like to have Hoff on the bench, but we need a Bobby Bonilla type who can play all 4 corner spots. I cant believe why Hendry isnt trying to outbid the 1 or 2 million dollars the Pirates are offering Hinske to play the same role for them.
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All accounts that I've seen say that Hinske really is God-awful at third base. At this point the Cubs need a caddy there for A Ram's annual muscle yank. I am not sure who that could be, but I don't think Hinske is that guy.
Maybe they can wait out Joe Crede!
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I wouldn't mind Crede actually, although the Giants are said to still want him even after signing Uribe. Crede sounds like a good teammate and can play serviceably in the field. What would he cost?
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Man, I don't know. I don't know that anyone can tell given this market. Dunn and Abreu and Cruz and four or five other good players are still looking for work. Garland settled for a lot less than I am sure he imagined he could get. And while he ain't Ozzie Smith, Uribe dropped from $4 mil last season to the major league minimum...if he makes the 2009 Giants that is. Crede should be able to get a starting job somewhere, I doubt he'd have to settle for a backup role like on the Cubs.
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That should mean Rich Aurilia rumors pick up.
Garland signs
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if the Cubs had $5M or more to spend on a second basemen, they would have kept DeRosa...
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We got Aaron Miles and Paul Bako signed. Why would we need Orlando Hudson?
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No way dude! He's not lefthanded man!
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Hudson is a switch hitter.
Maybe hendry can sign him to a really backloaded deal?
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Was replying to Rob and was talking about DeRosa.
I agree that if we had the money for Hudson, we would've kept DeRosa.
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while I realize you were joking around, I'm sure there are some who think DeRosa got moved just to add another lefty to the lineup...
I'm sure that was part of it, but the bigger part was to free up cash. The Cubs weren't going to downgrade to Fontenot/Miles just for left-handedness, they needed the room to sign Bradley and fill out the rest of their roster.
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It just further illustrates jimbo's continued insistance on paying full retail price for every guy he gets. Instead of Bradley and miles for 12.5. Maybe he could have gotten Hudson and abreu for 13? Care to make a wager on which tandem will be more productive next season?
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No, but I care to wager on which crack dealer has the clearest rocks for $10.
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Not logical. DeRosa started over fifty games in the outfield last year. Bradley is an outfielder. A big difference between Bradley and DeRosa is handedness.
My first instinct was that Miles replaced Cedeno and Bradley replaced DeRosa. Handedness helps explain both changes.
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I know. I just like Hudson.
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maybe O Dog will take an extremely back loaded contract...like $500K this year and a bazillion dollars until armageddon happens.
The risk is he might help the Cubs win the World Series and then we'd have armageddon to deal with.
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From MLB.com article in November, one that talked about Heilman reportedly saying "start me or trade me" (those were my words, not his).......
Moreover, a physical problem developed. After a loss in September, Manuel disclosed that Heilman had pitched much of the season troubled by patellar tendinitis, a malady that affected his landing leg, restricted his conditioning and non-game throwing, and reduced the sharpness of his pitches. Heilman since has undergone a noninvasive ultrasound treatment that has reduced the pain in his knee.
Sorry, dont have the link as I just closed the window I was viewing it in, but there is the official info, Orthopod Joe.
From one Cub diehard, medical professional (tho far less experienced) to another...:)
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here it is, it was a link in the article I wrote about the trade, although I skipped past the ultrasound part...
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Nice pickup ankeith15. That article is from Nov 20th, 08. It does confirm my guess that his problem was patellar tendonitis. It also implies that he had ESWT as I mentioned in the last paragraph of the writeup.
The reference to noninvasive ultrasound probably implies that he did get ESWT (extracorporeal shock wave therapy) which is not like ultrasound in a physical therapy center which is mostly a way of delivering deep heat to tissues. ESWT is more like what they use to break up kidney stones (lithotripsy). It actually traumatizes the tendon collagen and brings in new blood supply which then promotes healing of the damaged tissue.
ESWT was used off-label on Magglio Ordonez during his free agent year when he was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the femoral condyle (dying bone in the knee due to damaged local blood supply). I think Mags had to go to Vienna, Austria to get that treatment as ESWT wasn't being used like that in the US then. Not sure it was the reason Ordonez recovered but the WSux thought he was a goner (an expensive goner). Detroit took the risk and the 2006 World Series was proof of his recovery although it's still pretty sketchy from medical data that it works on that diagnosis.
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The Cubs supposedly were considering Ordonez during the 2005-6 offseason. He didn't sign until Feb 07, 05 which was very late in the offseason.
They did go and sign Jacques Jones on January 10th, 05 (a 3 year deal which was, even in Hendry terms, one year too long). He replaced Jeromy Burnitz in RF. Of course we all know that in the post-Sosa era, right fielders need to hit left handed to come to the cubs...and they need to be signed before the Cubs convention too.
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I've updated to original post to include the info ankeith15 added.
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Bye bye DoucheBlag. I'll miss your amusing antics.
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The title that The Daily Show has been using to introduce Blago segments is priceless:
Scumdog Million-hairs.
Gets me every time.
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I dig Blago's reverse mullet
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I kinda thought about him as a Halloween costume, but I would have had to start growing my hair out in about 1999 to have enough to complete the look.
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When do pitchers and catchers report again?
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see post #56
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I think JH offers "market rate" deals (exception: Soriano). As far as I can surmise, he treats people fairly, in an honest manner, and has an excellent reputation among the MLB fraternity. This is certainly not a bad thing.
2006 was his worst year with his lack of preparedness. I was one of his more ardent detractors (but can't hold a candle to MANNY). However, he turned the ship around, imo.
It is not really his fault that the team totally choked (and they did choke), in three games.
So, we'll see how this year turns out - and then we can all make our calls then.
But - two years in a row - we had a chance to get to the dance at least.
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From Wittenmyer's Twitter post:
Rich Hill to the O's for PTBNL?
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does mcphail realize that he's not saving money on scouting by just picking up Cubs players he's familiar with?
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I think Andy Mac is just trying to recapture the glory of all those championships he won when he was running the Cubs.
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To update Wittenmeyer's twitter I can confirm through my team sources that the PTNBL will be a 5'7-5'9 athletically challanged 2B or who can play SS in a pinch.
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Baltimore Sun has the Hill story also. (http://tinyurl.com/af7zo)
The Orioles...would be gambling on familiarity to help turn (Hill) around. Orioles pitching coach Rick Kranitz was Hill's pitching coach at Triple-A Iowa in 2005 and bullpen coach Alan Dunn coached Hill at Double-A Tennessee in 2005 and Triple-A Iowa in 2006.
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What I know about knee joints is as follows. As an athlete you pound the joint, over time this causes wear on the meniscus (i.e. the shock absorbent material that separates the bones.) Over time this material recedes and you have osteoarthritis.
In a normal day to day life one gets older and the edges of the meniscus wear out. One compensates for this by exercising. If you don't eventually the joint hardens up and you need a surgery. My orthopaedic guy is Vanderbilt's team doctor and he says that replacement is the best long-term option.
For a paid athlete the priorities are different and they will likely "postpone the inevitable" by doing intermediate surgeries to prolong their careers. That's probably where Heilman is although rehab could effectively cope with his situation.
This is a layman's perspective from someone who also has knee problems.
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Can we go ahead and trade Tyler Colvin while he still has value? Rich Hill could have netted Erik Bedard last year. Probably 75% of Brian Roberts as well.
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Colvin has value?
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Weird WBC story ... runners to start each half-inning on 1st and 2nd beginning in the 13th inning.
Makes sense for the nature of this tourney but very, very left-field. It's almost like a shootout on ice in that it's designed to score the maximum amount of times quickly to simply induce a result, unnatural as it might be considered.
They should make backup catchers be the pinch-runners.
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They did this in the Olympics this year also. My sister plays HS softball and they have a similar rule. It reminds me of the college football overtime rules.
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To update Wittenmeyer's twitter I can confirm through my team sources that the PTNBL will be a 5'7-5'9 athletically challanged 2B or who can play SS in a pinch.
Can we get Scott Moore back to play 3B? At Iowa.
or maybe Jerry Hairston III, futures
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Actually Scott Moore would be a good get, we can put him at Iowa and keep Hoff on the MLB roster. When Aram goes on the DL we could always call him up or if he has one week long nagging injuries we could send Hoff or the 12th pitcher down and call him up, assuming he has an option left this year.
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I'd love to get Scott Moore back as the PTBNL.
-Hits lefthanded
-Has power
-Can play all 4 corner positions
-Solves our 25 man issues
-Still has an option year
It makes too much sense. Therefore it will NOT happen.
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Is the general feeling that Tyler Colvin will never get to the bigs?
I mean...he isn't ever going to be a .300/.380/.550 type hitter..because those are just everywhere, but is .280/.330/.480 out of the question? I'd like to see him get a little more time in developing before we write him off to Jason Dubois-land....
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Picking him in the first round caused many a Baseball America jaw to drop. He's a "toolsy" guy (yep another one of those), doesn't hit the lefty too well, has proven to be quite inconsistent in his pro career and, as so many top Cub picks in the past, is "working on learning the strike zone". He's recovering from TJ surgery too, right? The consensus is he projects as a 4th outfielder.
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He was a signability pick, so the cubs could get Samjay.
Those always seem to bust.
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That's right, I remember now. Didn't the Cubs give up their 2nd and 3rd round picks for free agent signings that year as well?
Still....it's not like they were a poor franchise. I would think they could pick a high priced prospect, lay out the money for him AND get Shark as well.
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We didn't have picks in rounds 2-4 because of Jack Jones,Scottie Ire, and Bobby Howry
We did spend on Chris Huseby though
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I think they overpaid on Andrew Rundle too.
I'll hope Rob G. is right. I remember that Hendry called this draft the most "creative" he'd ever seen and praised Wilken for it. In four years we'll have a good idea about it.
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nothing wrong with taking a leap that makes the armchair prospect crowd take notice, they did the same with Ryan Flaherty. Safe picks get you Luis Montanez and Ryan Harvey...
Colvin was also on Team USA soon after he was drafted who owes nothing to the Cubs, so Wilkin isn't the only one who thinks he has some talent.
His K/SO ratio is terrifying though...
Cubs overpaid for Mark Pawelek the year before who was a Boras client, so they've certainly been shown many times over to pay well over slot when they felt like it.
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Except when its for a guy like Matt Weiters.
Generally speaking, they like to do so for Raw,Toolsy,magical,gypiesque,far away HS guys.
Apparently spending on the obviously superior talent isn't as much fun?
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you mean like Mark Prior or Samardzija?
maybe they just liked Vitters more? maybe they have a draft and sign budget set by the failing Trib that wouldn't have let them sign the other 49 or so guys if they signed Wieters..., maybe they knew they had something in Soto before any of us did....
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Probably right.
But if Rob G were GM, who would we have taken?
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whomever my scouting director suggested, if I'm the GM I don't have time to scout amateur players...
unlimited budget though, probably Wieters...
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If you really wanted, you could then trade Weiters to Baltimore for Josh Vitters and other prospects.
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A .050 (isolated on base average, patience?) would be a big improvement for Colvin.
His walk rate is what worries most folks.
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Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 11:43am.
We didn't have picks in rounds 2-4 because of Jack Jones,Scottie Ire, and Bobby Howry
We did spend on Chris Huseby though
DR AARON: Cliff Andersen (9th round), Chris Huseby (11th round), Drew Rundle (14th round), and Nate Samson (34th round) all got considerably "above-slot" money in 2006 to give up their college plans (Huseby - Auburn, Andersen - Oklahoma State, Rundle - Arizona, and Samson - Daytona Beach CC) with the money the Cubs saved from not having draft picks in rounds two, three and four of the 2006 Rule 4 Draft.
The Cubs also signed 3B Jovan Rosa (selected out of Lake City CC in the 22nd round of the 2006 draft) and RHP Jordan Lathan (selected in 29th round of 2006 draft out of the College of Southern Idaho) as "Draft & Follows" in May 2007, giving both a substantially higher signing bonus than a 22nd or 29th round pick would be expected to get. (Rova had planned to transfer to NC State, and Latham was all set to transfer to Arizona State).
The Cubs do a good job of signing their HS and JC draft picks, but of course the problem with HS & JC players is that there is a lot more projection involved than is the case with players who have played three or four years of college ball .
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Never leave us AZ Phil
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No kidding. All TCR is bromantic on AZ Phil.
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I think they did take Wieters, just some dumb transcription error when they got to pick and it got spelled Vieters so they went with it as it was phonetically close.
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I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.


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The arguments for and against unpaid internships have been made for years.
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"Are you insisting at every turn that interns be paid for the work they do?" Stuart asked. "At the Howard University Jobs Fair yesterday, I was reminded how ingrained this no-pay notion is, especially in the heads of young recruiters who need to be on the front lines fighting it. I asked a young recruiter if his company was paying its interns. 'Oh no,' he said. 'They don't do that.' If he's working for them, shouldn't he be saying 'we?'
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At CBS News, the interns' duties are listed as, "Log tapes, coordinate script, research stories, conduct preliminary interviews, assist during shoots, select footage, perform light clerical duties and assist staff members," with the proviso that "Duties vary in each department."
A description adds, "This is an unpaid internship. Student must get credit." [Updated Nov. 27]
Steven Greenhouse, New York Times: Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships (May 5)
Derek Thompson, the Atlantic: In Defense of Unpaid Internships (May 10)
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Summer is winding down in Buffalo. When I think of summer, I think of end of the year barbecues, the sun drifting lazily over the lake, spontaneous thunderstorms, and night swimming.
I moved to Buffalo in 1997, when I was 9 years old. After decades of Army-sponsored globetrotting, my mother and father decided it was time to move back home. They wanted to reunite our family in the land of the Bills, blizzards and Labatt Blue. We moved to our new home Dec. 5, and winter was already in full swing.
The weather gave us a genuine Buffalo greeting and our moving day was met with several feet of snow and near white-out conditions.
Of course, weather is just a part of life in Buffalo, and there was no amount of snow great enough to keep away our welcoming party. The whole family showed up to welcome home its prodigal members. Aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors; everyone was there to help us move in.
My father, who is not originally from Buffalo, always says the best people on the planet are from Buffalo. They are salt of the earth type of people: hard working, well grounded, loving. It was the people of Buffalo - my family, friends and neighbors - who helped me grow from child to adult. I graduated elementary school, middle school, high school and college in Western New York.
After college, I decided it was time to give back to the people who had given me so much. With a brand new degree in nursing, I joined the Air Force and waited to see what life would bring. I knew I would miss Buffalo very much, but I couldn't help but feel that I had to give the rest of the world a try, too.
I've heard people say that no matter where you go, you can find a Buffalonian. Two days into my Air Force training in Alabama, I met a woman from Buffalo. She was a doctor, assigned to a hospital in the South. Shortly after that, the Air Force sent me to California. I met a man at a bar from Buffalo. We lamented over the impossibility of finding good wings, the delusions of the Raiders and Niners football fans, and the families we had left back home.
And now, three months into my Afghanistan deployment as a nurse, I have met more than one Buffalonian. Some were healthy, some were not. Sometimes I have helped care for men wrapped in gauze and breathing through tubes, only to see their names again days later in the local news online.
Summer is still upon us here in Afghanistan. It's unbearably hot and dry. Some days, it's so sandy you can barely see down the road. But despite these complaints, I am, for all intents and purposes, safe. I'm "inside the wire" in an air-conditioned medical facility. I don't have to worry about stepping on an IED or being shot at from a darkened window when walking down the street.
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All eyes will be on the Olympic Champion Kim Yuna from South Korea in Torino as she tries to follow up her world record setting performances in Vancouver with a second consecutive World Championships title.
All eyes will be on the Olympic Champion Kim Yuna from South Korea in Torino as she tries to follow up her world record setting performances in Vancouver with a second consecutive World Championships title.
The Bronze Medal is definitely the question since Rochette wont be there. However, there was no mention of Flatt in the Preview who took a beating with those judges in Vancouver. or was it the Tech Panel? We'll see her in Torino skating for that bronze medal also.
The article mentioned Flatt's Olympic URs as if they were a commonplace occurrence. That is NOT true. While Mirai Nagasu has received UR calls last season and this season up until the Olympics, Rachael received NO URs at 2009 Worlds and none in her GP events this season.
At this point, I'd say the bronze will be a three-way fight between Ando, Nagasu, and Flatt, with the outside chance of Suzuki, Lepisto, or Kostner sneaking in there. Alena and Ksenia are good, but I don't think they will get the PCS needed to be up that high. Most likely I think Ando will win the bronze, then after that I'd say Mirai, then Rachael. I just wonder where both Rachael and Mirai have skated so well at their past two competitions in a row, if they will be able to match performances of that calliber here in Torino. I hope so, but it's hard to know. Where Miki was not stellar at Japanese Nats or the Olympics, I'm wondering if she is poised to peak at the right time and skate her best performances of the season here. I guess we'll know soon enough.
I think it will be Ando or Nagasu for bronze. Flatt will be in there too. Of course, someone could take the silver from Mao. She's not a complete lock.
Except this: It can't have escaped the attention of Rachael and Mirai that they have a very good chance of medaling with Joannie out of the picture. I hope that doesn't knock their focus too much. Probably Lepisto is thinking the same.
Miki would have been disappointed with finishing off the podium with or without Joannie.
Maybe Ando was too much of an afterthought in this preview. I mean, before the Olympics people were talking about her the being the surprise gold medalist if Kim faltered ... Just cuz she faltered at the Olys doesn't mean she should be dismissed as an afterthought behind nagasu and flatt just yet.
Other than that ITA with everything written.
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I wouldn't say Miki's Olympic performance was her very best, but for her it was a breakthrough in the sense that she finally overcame the flashbacks of her nightmare in the last Olys, IMO.
Miki said after her free skate that she felt really glad that she's been a figure skater "from the very bottom of my heart, and maybe for the first time ever." Her face beamed saying so.
She had been fighting against her own trauma for four years long, and now finally, she is truly releaved !!
Don't worry Miki, let anyone say what they will. Just be yourself, enjoy, and let it all out!!
I hope Chukum does an analysis of the Judges and Tech Panel once they are known which should be tomorrow.
I think with a new set of judges, Miki and Rachael may very well join the group battling for a bronze.
I just hope pressure doesn't get to Marai, thinking 'Rochett is out of the picture and I'm 4th so it should be easy for me...etc.'. She still have to fight off Miki, Rachael and Laura. Honestly, of the four, I want Marai to get the bronze. I wouldn't mind if Ando or Laura get one too if other are less than steller, probably Rachael the least.
It would be interesting to see if the judges will continue to give huge +GOE to Yuna and if Mao and Yuna will get over 67+ PCS mark. If they get it, I think Marai definitely deserve at least 64-65 PCS mark. Laura probably 62-63, Ando 61-62 and Flatt under 60.
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The hairstyle;
Also, could be used as an incognito penis reference.
One morn, i coulda sworn, i was in the middle of a porn, cause this bitch was riding on my unicorn horn
додав CnClear 10 Січня 2011
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A heavily gelled hairstyle characterized by a pointy spike, resembling a unicorn horn, sported by many metro-sexual men, including: Ryan Seacreast, Adam Levine, and my father.
Check out his unicorn horn! Do you think he gets man-icures too?
додав diosmioalejandra 07 Травня 2008
(n.) The part of the female unicorn that if you ever get to touch leaves you unknowingly witty.
You sure are funny today you must have held a unicorn horn or something.
Oh my my, holding my unicorn horn sure made u witty today.
Oh my my, holding my unicorn horn sure made u witty today.
додав stevie the hero 07 Січня 2014
A hairstyle created by using obscene amounts of hair gel and spray, forcing the hair upward into a hornlike shape. Worn only by those who possess enough balls to DO IT.
Yo homie, my unicorn horn is BALLIN'.
додав CarreraRider911 05 Лютого 2007