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Our political Quote of the Day comes from the Atlantic's always perceptive Marc Ambinder who notes how former President Bill Clinton has rebounded and how "those talented Clintons are "defying Expectations Again," thus providing yet another example of how conventional wisdom often withers when matched later reality.
Ambinder recalls two warnings President Barack Obama got from some when he decided to choose then-Senator Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State: (1) Bill Clinton would embarrass the administration, and (2)the Clintons would be undisciplined, would leak and would create a counter administration within the Obama administration.
The reality? Ambinder:
Turns out… those Clintons really do know how to seize the moment. Not only has Hillary Clinton been a team player, her team — still made up of loyalists — doesn't leak. They don't try to undercut other power centers. (No, I don't think the Gregory Craig rumors are coming from State. And I don't put much stock in those rumors either.) They're humble and effective. When they make mistakes, they get things right, quickly.
And Bill Clinton… his "entanglements" haven't been an issue. Either have his library donors or his foreign travels. He's behaved himself in public, by which I mean he has never undermined the administration's policy arguments, even going so far as to agree with their Clinton-era-corrections to policy approaches. He has not upstaged his wife. He's matured since the presidential campaign. He now seems to understand the way news cycles work in the Net era. And today, as we've seen, he can — and will — drop everything at a moment's notice to do the administration a favor.
And perhaps that is it.
Perhaps "Big Dog" (not to be confused with "Blue Dog") has finally got a grasp on how the news cycles work in the Net era. During the campaign, Bill Clinton seemed a bitter, angry man who seemed to let his hopes for his wife and anger against strong political opposition to her seemingly, seriously, cloud his political skills – which some analysts had long said were among the best of his generation.
Perhaps it's because Hillary Clinton has settled into a job with professionalism and has the respect of Obama and others within the administration — but now Bill Clinton has rebounded in a flash, wiping away all the nastiness of politically foot-in-mouth pronouncements made during the campaign that often made Joe Biden seem diplomatic.
Meanwhile, the idea of the Clinton's as a team — does anyone really think that Hillary Clinton simply woke up one day to learn that her husband had contacted the White House himself or that the White House had contacted her without the two having discussed it? — rides again. As does the image of the Clintons as a team, except among some talk show hosts…but can you write quotes of what those folks will say and the kinds of questions they will raise in advance.
The whole episode also underscores two realities about 21st century America:
1. Analysis is done on the spur of the moment and can be part of a conventional wisdom that can be proven wrong as quickly as it was written or articulated. The dynamics can change rapidly and shatter the once-certain conventional wisdom announced with assuredness by talking heads on cable news shows, screaming hosts and guests on cable political talk shows, or the (ideologically predictable) analysis of most left and right talk show hosts. Once that conventional wisdom has been proven wrong, few will acknowledge that it had been that: wrong. (It doesn't matter to a network that wehther you read the tea leaves wrong it's wrong, just that you are confident as you try to read them. Look at Dick Morris.)
2. Political rehabilitation can happen mega quickly in American politics — this is tied in with the conventional wisdom — where someone who seemingly is down is suddenly up in the media and with pundits, and polls about them subsequently start to rise as the new narrative spreads in the old and new media.But diisgrace and discredit can come just as easily (look at CNN's Lou Dobbs who went from being a quirky business reporter angry about illegal immigration to someone now branded as being obsessed with talking about the "birther" allegations: it's unlikely Dobbs will recover since he has so tarnished blemished his image as a serious, thoughtful mainstream network figure on this one).
Meanwhile, what about North Korea? Did Bill Clinton's mission signal a turning point?
Hillary Clinton, using the Today Show as her microphone, warned that just because North Korea released the two journalists no one should expect diplomatic miracles:
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UPDATE: CNN has a fascinating report sourced "two senior officials" in the Obama administration done "on background" (their names will not be used. It's a series of points. Here are just a few of them:
*President Obama never spoke directly with former President Clinton about this issue, the officials said.
*During a phone call with their families in mid-July, the journalists told their relatives that they had been informed by the North Koreans that they would be willing to grant them amnesty if an envoy like former President Clinton would come to Pyongyang to secure their release.
*During the weekend of July 24 and 25, President Clinton spoke with National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones about his willingness to take on this mission.
*Clinton ultimately agreed to go on the mission but made it very clear in every communication that this was purely a humanitarian effort.
*Clinton also wanted to make sure, based on the due diligence of the national security team, that there was a high likelihood of success if he went. One official said: "We were convinced this would be the result and based on that we could advise President Clinton that his trip was going to be successful."
*It was always made clear by Clinton and the national security team that this would be a humanitarian mission.
There's a great more, so go to the original link.
Meanwhile, the somewhat predictable response from some conservatives has now started — and the argument made by one former top Bush administration official is likely one that will be echoed repeatedly on talk radio and elsewhere:
The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday.
John Bolton, an outspoken hardliner in the previous administration of George W. Bush, told AFP that Clinton's mission to Pyongyang undermines a number of public stands held by his own wife, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"It comes perilously close to negotiating with terrorists," Bolton told AFP when asked about Bill Clinton's trip to secure the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
The pair were sentenced in June to 12 years in a labor camp for an illegal border crossing and an unspecified "grave crime," after they were detained by North Korean border guards on March 17 while working on a story.
"I think this is a very bad signal because it does exactly what we always try and avoid doing with terrorists, or with rogue states in general, and that's encouraging their bad behavior," Bolton said.
Go to the link and read the story in its entirety.
Translation: soft on terrorism…negotiating with terrorists. Get ready to hear (and read) this argument picked up and perhaps embellished and enlarged on some talk shows.
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Dr. Seuss' Lorax would be horrified to hear that San Diego's pending water rationing may lead people to stop planting trees to save water.
San Diego city's Community Forest Advisory Board and tree lovers everywhere are stepping up, like the character in Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's 1971 children's book, to speak for the trees and call a halt to such prattle.
"Get rid of the lawn and plant 10 trees and you'll save water, you'll save energy," said Vicki Estrada, chairwoman of the 14-member advisory board.
Arbor Day began as a drive to plant trees on the treeless plains of Nebraska in the 1870s. San Diego had its first Arbor Day in 1904. Celebrated on various days this month locally, it may be getting new respect with all the talk about global warming, carbon taxes and storm-water runoff.
Kids, college students, their parents and elected leaders will be plowing up the ground to plant trees, as arborists sing the praises of our tall, silent friends.
"More and more people are beginning to recognize that trees and other green things can be the answer to a lot of problems," said Mike Palat, an arborist and chairman of the San Diego Regional Urban Forest Council.
Retired dentist George Gerrodette, 91 today, doesn't need much convincing to support trees. He donated $25,000 to the city in memory of his wife, Billie, to help plant 29 palm trees last month at Scripps Park along Coast Boulevard in La Jolla.
"We used to walk through the park and she commented these old trees are 90 years old and will die soon," Gerrodette said. "When she passed away, that was still in the back of my mind ... and I went ahead and did it."
In 2001 Walter Figg Jr. bequeathed $313,000 to the city to plant more jacarandas, the city's official urban tree.
Trees get a bum rap sometimes through no fault of their own, experts say.
The answer, said Drew Potocki, the city's urban forester, is more education. A $45,000, three-year grant from state park bonds will result in an online public database that pinpoints where the city's 500-1,000 officially protected trees are located. The information then will be shared with community planning groups as they revise their community plans and formulate street-tree master plans.
The effort will include youth in the Urban Corps of San Diego County, Potocki said:
"They're our future, so we've got to have them involved."
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Joyce Kilmer penned one of most quoted lines about trees when she wrote, "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
Almost everybody has nice thoughts about our arboreal neighbors – that is, until they grow tall enough to block views (as occurred at Encinitas' Orpheus Park earlier this year) or send roots under sidewalks to make us trip and fall (and sue the city).
But once a year on Arbor Day, plant a tree or blow an extra kiss to one as you pass by on your morning walk.
As President Theodore Roosevelt said in a message to San Diego's first Arbor Day celebrants on March 17, 1904: "Your love of trees now will make you, as men and women, lovers of forests, both for their natural beauty and economic value."
Here are some other memorable (and irreverent) thoughts:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Arbor Day, which dates to 1872, is held at different times throughout the year around the nation, sometimes tied to the season or according to when the designated VIP is available to speak. Its traditional date was April 22, the same as Earth Day, which is being celebrated in Balboa Park next Sunday.
San Diego city's Arbor Day commemoration will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Dorothy Petway Neighborhood Park, 1375 Rigel St. in the Southcrest neighborhood near Interstate 5 and state Route 15.
The event will feature planting of dozens of trees, demonstrations on saving mature trees during a water shortage, and booths, trucks, displays and refreshments. Participants will get a free starter tree to take home and plant. Special appearances are expected from Louie the Lightning Bug and Smokey Bear.
Sponsors include the Urban Corps of San Diego County, the San Diego Community Forest Advisory Board and San Diego Regional Urban Forest Council, city agencies and SDG&E.
Other local Arbor Day events include: guided hikes, tree plantings and arts and crafts activities at Blue Sky Ecological Reserve, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in Poway; activities at Prescott Promenade on East Main Street in El Cajon, 3 p.m. April 24; tree planting orientation at Spreckels Park in Coronado, 8:30 a.m. April 25; and tree planting at Mountain Hawk Park in Chula Vista, at 8:30 a.m. April 26.
100 trees in San Diego:
Catch about 100,000 gallons of rainwater per year.
Remove 5 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per year.
Add 1 percent to the value of 100 homes (large frontyard trees).
Cost $90,000 over their life spans for planting, irrigating, pruning, sidewalk repair and other expenses, and return $225,000 in benefits for energy saving, air quality improvement, urban runoff absorption and real estate value.
San Diego city's tree canopy shrank from 20,094 acres in 1985 to 14,738 acres in 2002 and now represents about 11 percent of the city's area. The national average is 40 percent and the recommended canopy size is 25 percent. The decrease in trees has stemmed from development, fire, drought and disease.

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Marine Aircraft Group 49 [MAG-49]
The Reserve Units at Willow Grove are manned by almost 800 U.S. Marine Corps Reservists from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland. These Citizen-Marines are part of the 2000 Marines at MAG-49 sites and the 42,000 U.S. Marine Corps Reservists training throughout the United States. They train one weekend a month and serve on active duty for two weeks every summer at a regular Marine Corps base.
The Selected Marine Corps Reserve Program at NAS JRB Willow Grove is the second largest organization in the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing and the largest military activity in Pennsylvania. The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve units stationed at NAS JRB Willow Grove are:
- Headquarters, Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49)
- Marine Attack Squadron 131 (VMA-131)
- Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 (HMH-772)
- Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773
- Detachment A (HMLA-773 Det A)
- Marine Air Control Squadron 24 Det B (MACS-24)
- Marine Wing Support Squadron 474 (MWSS-474)
As the Aviation Group Headquarters, MAG-49's two Dets, Det A at Andrews AFB, has VMFA-321 flying the F/A-18s, a MALS Det and MASD which has the C-12 and GU-20. Det B at Stewart ANGB NY, consists of VMGR-452 flying the KC-130 and MALS-49.
On 26 February 1946, Marine Air Reserve Training Command (MARTC) was activated at NAS Glenview, Illinois. Three Marine Air Detachments (MADS) were also formed on this date: Atlanta, Dallas and Glenview. Within a year, 21 more MADS were formed and consisted of 24 Marine Fighter Squadrons (VMF), and 8 Ground Control Intercept Squadrons (GCIS). One of these squadrons, VMF-451 was established at the Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania in April 1946. On 1 February 1947, Ground Control Squadron 17 (GCIS) was organized at Willow Grove under the MAD. In August 1950 all Marine Corps Reservists of CGIS-17 were mobilized for the Korean conflict and remained on active duty until the reorganization of the squadron began in October 1951. Training progressed smoothly for VMF-451 and on 3 January 1951 they were activated as a unit to serve in Korea.
On 24 June 1950, Marine Air Reserve Ground Control Intercept Squadron 26 (GCIS-26) was formed at New York. On 3 August 1950 mobilization of the unit began and the unit remained unmanned until 20 June 1952, when members returned from active duty. Also in 1952, upon reorganization of the Marine Corps Reserve, 17 Air Reserve Training Detachments remained of the 21 MADS and all were staffed by regular Marines.
March 1, 1954 saw GCIS-26 at Brooklyn, New York, redesignated as Marine Air Traffic Control Squadron (MATCS) to reflect the Marine Corps wide redesignation of many such units. On 15 April 1958, Helicopter Transport Squadron 772 was activated. In October 1951, MACS-17 began reorganization at Willow Grove when the reservists were released from active duty. 1959 saw Marine Air Reserve Group 25 (MARG-25) as the senior Reserve command at Willow Grove with VMF-511 attached.
1962 was a year of change for the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing with Marine Aircraft Group 43 (MAG-43) being reactivated on 1 July, along with Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 43 (H&MS-43). Helicopter Transport Squadron 772 was redesignated on April 1 to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 772 (HMM-772). On 1 February 1963, MACS-26 Marine Air Base Squadron 43 (MABS-43) was reactivated at Willow Grove.
Major reorganization on 1 February 1965 saw H&MS-43, MABS-43, VMF-511, and MACS-17 all reassigned to MAG-43. MATCU-73 at this time was assigned to the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing and remained in New York. On November 1, 1965, MATCU-73 was reassigned to MAG-43 and on May 1, 1967 the Unit transferred to Willow Grove from Brooklyn, New York.
In 1971 HMM-772 transitioned to the CH-53A helicopter and was redesignated HMH-772 and transferred to Marine Aircraft Group 43, NAS Willow Grove.
In September 1972, Marine Aircraft Group 43 was redesignated Marine Aircraft Group 49, and MAG-49 Headquarters was moved from NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey to NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
During August of 1991, Marine Air Traffic Control Squadron-48, Detachment B was mobilized to conduct Air Traffic Control Operations at MCAS Yuma, MCAS El Toro and MCAF Camp Pendleton, California at the onset of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Members of Marine Wing Support Squadron 73 Detachment A were mobilized to MCAS New River, North Carolina to support station operations while active duty personnel were being deployed the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations. Individual members of Marine Aircraft Group 49, reserve and active duty, were mobilized according to their job specialties and sent directly to serve with various units in Saudi Arabia.
Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 was called for mobilization shortly after the Kuwaiti Liberation in support of the Marine Corps' Unit Deployment Program. Initially sent to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing to augment with its sister squadron from NAS Dallas, Texas, HMH-772 was then reassigned to the 3d Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS El Toro, California to prepare for overseas deployment to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Futenma Japan. While deployed, HMH-772 performed just as any active squadron and assisted in the evacuation efforts (Operation FIERY VIGIL) following the eruption of Mount Pinatuba in the Republic of the Philippines. During the unit's period of mobilization, HMH-772 was attached to each of the Marine Corps' four aircraft wings.
In August 1994 Marine Attack Squadron 131 (VMA-131) relinquished all of its A-4 Skyhawk aircrafts and awaited a determination of its future mission.
Administration, training, and support of Reserve activities are handled by approximately 200 active component Marines. Each of these Marines is assigned to one of the reserve units at Willow Grove for mobilization purposes. Should MAG-49 be mobilized, these Marines would go along as integral members of their units and they play an important role in their local communities of Horsham, Willow Grove and others throughout the immediate area.
The Mission of Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49) is to provide the Active Component a Combat Ready Force to augment and reinforce regular forces in Major Regional Contingency (MRC) and to provide relief to these forces during times of high tempo operations. Training must be such that this integration is seamless. Additionally, MAG 49 will reach out to the community in which it serves to tell the Marine Corps story, establish a civilian support base, and when so tasked, to provide assistance to the community during emergencies or disaster relief.
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to close Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, PA. As a result, MAG-49 along with all Navy and Marine Corps squadrons at Willow Grove, their aircraft and necessary personnel, equipment and support, were recommended to relocate to McGuire Air Force Base.
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Comic books taught me about illiquid markets.
As a youth, I was an avid collector. For years, I monitored the value of my "investment" by checking prices in the various guides that purported to offer the going rates. By those accounts, my collection at its peak should have been worth five figures.
The crown jewel, if you'll indulge me a bit of nerdy braggadocio, was a complete set of the popular new X-Men.
My brother, literally a rocket scientist, would shake his head at my obsession. If comics were so valuable, he'd ask, why didn't someone on Wall Street buy every issue of the X-Men and corner the market?
The answer, which I didn't understand at the time, was risk. Wall Street doesn't buy comic books because there's a risk in getting stuck with hard-to-value assets, especially when there's no common exchange or uniformity to the investments.
Wall Street, however, seemed to have no problem with illiquid markets so long as they had an air of financial wizardry, such as credit-default swaps and collateralized debt obligations (CDO). These markets turned out to be the financial equivalent of Beanie Babies or X-Men comics, and yet Wall Street pumped trillions of dollars into them.
And now we're paying $170 billion (around Rs8.5 trillion) and counting for the AIG bailout alone to unravel them. Last week, treasury secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled a plan that would create a clearing house for derivatives such as swaps and CDOs. He hopes to inject transparency into the market by creating an exchange for these complex financial instruments.
That, in theory, would give investors a better idea of the risk by helping to determine the creditworthiness of trading partners and the value of the securities traded. But just like my old comic pricing guide, it may not mean much.
"There seems to be a lot of wishful thinking about the way clearing works," said Craig Pirrong, a finance professor at the University of Houston. "It doesn't make risk go away, it just sort of shifts it around."
Clearing houses work well in active markets with continuous trading, such as stocks and even options. In markets such as swaps, however, which are far less liquid and where each contract traded is different, valuing the securities will be more difficult, Pirrong said.
Nor will more transparency reveal much about the stability of the biggest participants, most likely banks such as Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. What lurks on their balance sheets?
"The whole world is grappling with that issue," Pirrong said.
In other words, even with a clearing house, determining the value of swaps is likely to remain little more than an educated guess, more like valuing a comic book than a stock.
Our financial system can't afford for Wall Street to have hobbies. In the crescendo to the current crisis, bankers became enamoured of the arcane and of the dark allure of creative finance, and they ploughed money in as if it was just another market.
And we're about to do it again. The proposed cap-and-trade "market" for carbon emissions is likely to create an illiquid exchange only traders can love.
Transparency is important for markets to function, and nowhere is it needed more than in derivatives. But transparency alone won't prevent another AIG or Lehman Bros debacle.
My own foray into illiquid markets ended a little better. Soon after I got married, I sold my collection at a convention, though I never reaped a five-figure profit.
The "market" at the time was depressed, and those guide prices I once studied were, to use Pirrong's term, wishful thinking. With more dealers than buyers, one of my competitors simply bought my entire inventory for a few thousand dollars.
It was enough to help my wife and I get started in our careers, so I have no complaints. But my brother had a point, and so, I'm afraid, does Pirrong.
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A 30-year-old man is accused of having videos containing child pornography. Jared W. Coombs of 1288 Bay Harbor Drive, No. 107, was arrested Tuesday and charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography. The videos he had included images of children as young as 5 years old being sexually abused. Three of the videos included children who have been identified by law enforcement or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to arrest reports. Coombs was arrested at his home by an agent from the Florida Attorney General's office. He is being held in the Pinellas County Jail on $200,000 bail.
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Authorities have released photos of a car believed to have been used by two women who scammed an elderly woman out of $13,000 in cash and jewelry Saturday. The car is thought to be a four-door tan or champagne-colored Lincoln Town Car, police said. On Saturday, two women persuaded the victim to hand over valuables as collateral after one pretended to find a wallet with a lottery ticket in it. It happened as the victim was returning to her car at Sam's Club at 2575 Gulf-to-Bay Blvd. Police said the women they're looking for have tried the "pigeon drop" scam at least twice before, and ask would-be victims to call Clearwater police at (727) 562-4422 or (727) 562-4242 if they are approached.
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Inelegant, perhaps, but that was my reaction to the news that the Dodgers had re-signed Manny Ramirez to what amounts to a one-year deal with a player option for 2010, a contract that includes up to $25 million in deferred money. According to AP, Ramirez will receive $10 million up front this season, and $10 million next season if he doesn't void the deal, with the remainder of the money payable starting in 2010 or 2011.
This is an excellent signing for the Dodgers. With the backup options all off of the market, they absolutely needed Ramirez in order to sustain a spot as the co-favorites in the NL West. The focus on signing Ramirez had consumed much of their winter, and while they re-signed Rafael Furcal, a lack of attention paid to the pitching staff left them needing to make up wins elsewhere. Put simply, the gap between Ramirez and Juan Pierre is 2.6 projected WARP, or about 2 � wins, and in a race like the NL West will be, those 2 � wins are as highly-leveraged as any you'll find.
For a more visceral take on the effect, check out the projected standings. The Dodgers were projected at 85 wins and a second-place finish prior to Ramirez's return. Now, they project to 89 and the division title, with the D'backs dropping to 88 just a hair behind. That's why you pay $25 million for the left fielder, because he could put you into October.
The Dodgers were able to leverage the soft market for corner outfielders, impacted by the economy, to bring Ramirez back on a contract that doesn't expose them to significant risk. Every trend this offseason, in fact, worked in their favor. Teams hoarded cash over concern about 2009 local revenues; many teams have begun emphasizing defensive performance in their player evaluation, hurting Ramirez's relative value; there were a number of similar players in type available, many of whom stayed available deep into the offseason; and there may be a trend toward being overly concerned with personalities, a retro paternalism creeping into the game that caused teams to shy away from the controversial, high-maintenance slugger.
In any case, this is a good signing for the Dodgers both on and off the field. They get a significant on-field upgrade over Pierre, whose slappy speed game is actually almost an asset on the bench. They can stop diddling with Blake DeWitt at shortstop, send him back to Triple-A, and let him push Casey Blake out of his sinecure by July. Their lineup falls into place nicely, with OBP machines Furcal and Russell Martin in front of a core of Ramirez, Andre Ethier, and Matt Kemp. Follow that with James Loney, Blake, and an all-but-free Orlando Hudson, and you have what should be a top-five offense in the NL, maybe even better. Only Blake and Ramirez are defensive liabilities.
The Dodgers need to score a lot of runs, because they're likely to be below-average at preventing them. Chad Billingsley is a legitimate ace in the top slot, but after that you have Hiroki Kuroda in the second spot, and he's not quite that able. Clayton Kershaw will eventually be a star, but right now he's just 21 years old, has 22 appearances above Double-A, and he walks a lot of guys. And he's the third starter; bringing in Randy Wolf and Shawn Estes pushes the team away from, rather than toward, a championship. They need a surprise to bolster the rotation, whether it's an emergent James McDonald, or a recovered Jason Schmidt. The bullpen, similarly, is strong at the back with Jonathan Broxton and Hong-Chih Kuo, plus last year's surprise in Cory Wade. The Dodgers have half of a championship-caliber staff, which means that they needed Ramirez, who helps them win some games 7-5-a skill they'll need this season.
Off the field, the Dodgers get Ramirez for a reasonable price, and, more importantly, with just a two-year commitment. They're not exposed to his declining defense past 2010, a point at which Ramirez will almost certainly have to look for a job DH'ing in the AL. He'll hit until they peel the uniform off of his body, but he's unlikely to be a viable outfielder as he approaches the age of 40. Even now, his defense eats away at his overall value.
As for Ramirez... this whole thing looks like a mistake. One year ago, he had a contract that included $20 million options for 2009 and 2010. Now, after acting in a manner that has damaged his reputation and allowed the media to portray him as a problem child, he's guaranteed just $5 million more, much of that deferred. Whatever imbalance existed in reporting the story of Ramirez's last days in Boston, there was truth to the idea that Ramirez was acting badly. The payoff for that was to be a contract that made the options on his Red Sox deal look like tip money. That deal never materialized, so all of the controversy last July was essentially for nothing. It was cost for Ramirez, without benefit.
Scott Boras doesn't make many mistakes, but this was one. He envisioned a market for Ramirez's services that failed to materialize, and while he'll pocket some money for getting Ramirez out of his old contract and into a new one, there's no way to spin this other than as a failure. Boras, and he's not alone in this, did not see the stagnant market coming for free agents this season, and because of that, he found himself with a lack of bidders for Ramirez. It seems clear that Ramirez would have been no worse off had he played out 2008 with the Sox. Either he would have been paid $20 million for his 2009 services, or he would have hit the market without the various issues of that summer hanging over his head. Instead, he'll be no better off financially, and he'll carry the stigma of his departure with him for the rest of his career.
Boras' miscalculation is the Dodgers' gain, and perhaps enough of one to put them back into October.
Joe Sheehan is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Richard Bergstrom
Is Boras really to blame, or did Manny being Manny kind of force this situation? Boras wasn't the one who choked that Red Sox employee...
Mar 05, 2009 08:47 AM
Joe, you mention that the $25 million to sign Manny will be worth it if the Dodgers make the playoffs. Has there been a study on exactly how much a playoff appearance is worth to a team? Is there a difference depending on which team we're talking about (ie. making the playoffs in NY might be worth more than making the playoffs in Detroit)? Also, as a team advances, do we know how much each successive round is "worth"? Thank you.
Mar 05, 2009 08:57 AM
Kate Kirby
Yeah, pick up Baseball Between The Numbers, written by the Baseball Prospectus folks. There's exactly this study, and a number of other equally interesting ones! I was really pleased by the content, and timelessness, of the book.
Mar 05, 2009 09:12 AM
I believe there is something along these lines (including the marginal value of additional wins) in Baseball Between The Numbers...
Mar 05, 2009 09:56 AM
I believe the study says playoff appearances are actually worth more to the Detroits of the MLB world, does it not?
Mar 05, 2009 09:57 AM
I don't see how this is a failure for Scott Boras. Even after this he'll be regarded as the best agent, which he is. He is getting commission on the $45M, which I'm sure isn't chump change.
Mar 05, 2009 09:23 AM
Agreed here. And he once again got an owner to negotiate against himself. Whatever Manny's 2nd-best offer was (SF?), it was well below what Boras got from McCourt and the Dodgers.
Mar 05, 2009 10:00 AM
I don't think McCourt absolutely negotiated against himself. The offer of around $45 million/2 years was pretty constant, plus or minus. The Dodgers' offer probably was well above any other possible offer, but I'd argue it's worth it to keep Manny feeling good, productive, and "not disrespected."
Mar 05, 2009 13:17 PM
"he's guaranteed just $5 million more" yet "he'll be no better off financially"? Isn't $5M better off?
Mar 05, 2009 09:26 AM
Just read the 4 words that follow your first quote. I'll put them here for you:
Mar 05, 2009 09:41 AM
Joe, I think it is a bit unfair to say Manny made a bad decision; I think it would be more accurate to say he was unlucky. The economy had a few issues in between the demands and the new contract that he signed. I think it would be reasonable to suggest that if the economy hadn't turned sour that Manny would have gotten a bigger contract.
Mar 05, 2009 09:42 AM
There isn't "truth to the idea that Ramirez was acting badly." That's weaselly. He was truly acting badly. Likewise weaselly that Manny's behavior "allowed the media to portray him as a problem child." He is a problem child.
Mar 05, 2009 10:11 AM
The money may be close to equal and Manny's reputation is forever damaged, but there's something else that Manny missed out on that wasn't mentioned. Yes, he appeared to make the difference in getting the Dodgers into the playoffs. But the Red Sox made the playoffs and got to within a couple of outs/one big hit from making it to the World Series without Manny.
Mar 05, 2009 10:22 AM
Manny and Boras gambled, and lost. It happens.
Mar 05, 2009 10:34 AM
Jack G
Between Varitek and Manny Boras has come off as the real loser of the offseason. Are there any other examples?
Mar 05, 2009 11:27 AM
Orlando Hudson and his agent? (esp. as compared with Edgar Renteria)
Mar 05, 2009 11:45 AM
I think this "Manny/Boras gambled and loss meme" is ridiculous. They got 45 million even though no other teams stepped up as serious suitors. Frankly if anyone is getting soaked here its LA, although their marginal win improvement and postseason revenue expectation makes this a truly win win situation. Manny gained 5 mil by forcing Boston's hand. Deferred or not, to say he lost is ridiculous.
Mar 05, 2009 11:53 AM
agreed. manny is making $25M for his 2009 efforts. bobby abreu is making $5M. burrell is making $8M. i love manny, but he's not worth 5x as much money as abreu, or even 3x as much as burrell for the upcoming year.
Mar 05, 2009 12:12 PM
Travis Leleu
How does Randy Wolf (as your 4th or 5th best starter) push LA away from the title? He projects to over 2 wins (assuming some bad health). I like where baseball is going with their "injury platoons" (aka "role platooning") -- if Wolf gives you 20 starts at his projected rates, you're doing OK if he's at the bottom of the rotation.
Mar 05, 2009 12:01 PM
Given LA's ability to take on salary, there likely wasn't 2 1/2 games between signing Manny and not signing Manny. Pretty good but overpaid corner OFs always become available by the All Star break, thanks to their teams not contending.
Mar 05, 2009 12:15 PM
Wait - he made $5 million, deferred over 3 years, but he owes it to Boras! In the securities business, this is called 'churning' - unnecessarily trading a client's account to generate commissions. And it's illegal.
Mar 05, 2009 12:20 PM
You're the only one who actually nailed this. Manny hasn't made an additional $5 million over what he was going to get from the Sox. He has to pay his agent's commission and while I'm not privy to what that is it's probably not chump change. Factor in that the money is stretched out over three years and it's probably a wash. Churn indeed. Of course Manny has the intangibles of playing somewhere where he actually wants to be... right? ... right? ...
Mar 06, 2009 04:33 AM
"It seems clear that Ramirez would have been no worse off had he played out 2008 with the Sox. Either he would have been paid $20 million for his 2009 services, or he would have hit the market without the various issues of that summer hanging over his head."
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You have seen the DCT taken apart, what it looks like inside, worn clutch discs, and brand new higher capacity clutch discs made. The new discs handle 600+ and 700+ whp respectively. With my power goals, SSP has decided to build a clutch pack that is beyond anything developed at this time for the DCT. What is the power goal? Well, it is beyond what is currently available and SSP is currently developing a clutch disc pack capable of over 800 wheel horsepower.
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Thread can now get back on topic, thanks.
Unfortunately I'm not close to SSP lol.
It is going to be a very different build but a difficult one. If this is pulled off, I think everyone is going to shut up real quickly.
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Very nice build! Man you are just like me. Patience is key and at the end you will be victorious. Ignore the negativity and keep plucking away. Best of luck and can't wait to see this finished.
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Manchester City and Club América will play a friendly at AT&T Park on Saturday, July 16 as part of the Herbalife World Football Challenge. The San Jose Earthquakes have teamed up with the event to offer a special two-pack ticket offer that will go on sale Thursday, June 2 at 11 a.m. PT.
Individual tickets will not go on sale to the general public until June 16 so fans should make sure to secure a two-pack to guarantee a seat at AT&T Park. The pack will include tickets to both the World Football Challenge and a future Earthquakes game, either the July 2 Fireworks Night against the New York Red Bulls at Stanford Stadium or San Jose's July 12 friendly against West Brom.
Manchester City finished third in the English Premier League with 71 points. Led by Argentinian sensation Carlos Tévez and a host of English talents in Shaun Wright-Phillips, James Milner, Wayne Bridge and Joleon Lescott, the Blues advanced to UEFA Champions League qualifying for the first time in club history. Manchester City also took home the FA Cup in what was a landmark season.
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CapitalAs of June 30, 2012, total capital was $239.85 billion, consisting of $72.86 billion in total shareholders' equity (common shareholders' equity of $68.01 billion and preferred stock of $4.85 billion) and $166.99 billion in unsecured long-term borrowings. Book value per common share was $137.00 and tangible book value per common share (3) was $126.12, both approximately 2% higher compared with the end of the first quarter of 2012. Book value and tangible book value per common share are based on common shares outstanding, including restricted stock units granted to employees with no future service requirements, of 496.4 million at period end. On June 1, 2012, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Group Inc.) issued 17,500.1 shares of Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E (Series E Preferred Stock), for aggregate proceeds of $1.75 billion. During the quarter, the firm repurchased 14.3 million shares of its common stock at an average cost per share of $104.81, for a total cost of $1.50 billion. The remaining share authorization under the firm's existing repurchase program is 46.0 million shares. (9) Under the regulatory capital guidelines currently applicable to bank holding companies (Basel 1), the firm's Tier 1 capital ratio (5) was 15.0% and the firm's Tier 1 common ratio (6) was 13.1% as of June 30, 2012, both up slightly compared with March 31, 2012. Other Balance Sheet and Liquidity Metrics
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Andrew Theodore arrived on Wed Jan 5, 2011 at 8:00 am by C-section. He was 6 pounds 7 oz and 18 inches long. He was 34 weeks and 5 days and is in the NICU still but is doing well. I was lucky enough to be up to a wheelchair by 11am and walked on my own to the NICU within 6 hours of him being born. We are all tired and anxious for him to come home.
Our first baby of the ddc! Congrats! I hope his stay in the nicu is short and he is home in your arms soon!
Congrats! Welcome baby
Wife to J, SAHM to W (03/06) at 32w4d, C (10/08) , and H (02/11)
Welcome Andrew and congrats mama! I hope things continue to go well and that you are both getting some rest.
Congratulations!!!! hoping for a speedy recovery for you and short stay for Andrew!
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Congrats! Welcome Andrew. Many wishes for a speedy recovery for you both. <3
I was just thinking how I can't believe nobody in our DDC has had their baby yet..... and then I saw your post! Congratulations mama. I hope your son is home with you soon.
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I was recently thinking that too! Congratulations & hope you are all doing well!
Congratulations!! I hope you're both doing well and he'll be able to come home soon! How exciting!!
Grats mama!
That's a great weight for a 34 weeker! I hope he's home with you soon.
Congratulations!! Wishing you and your lo a speedy recovery and quick return home!
I hope you have a quick and gentle NICU experience and he can come home with you all soon.
Congrats mama, hope you're both home soon!
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I've been anxiously awaiting our first DDC birth!! Congratulations and welcome baby Andrew!
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Welcome Andrew! Congratulations, and I hope he is able to come home very soon.
DCP to 1 busy munchkin! and a CRST too!
Welcome Earthside, Andrew Theodore! Congratulations on your new son, Mama!
I don't know if you've been over there yet, but the MDC NICU and Preemie Parenting boards were really, really helpful to me during our NICU stay. I hope (and totally expect!) you'll have a short, uneventful stay and both be home really soon. Please keep us updated when you can!
Congratulations. Hope you both have a speedy recovery and get to head home soon!
Congratulations! Hope Andrew's NICU stay is short and you are home with him soon!
wow! congratulations! horrah! hope you are home, holding him on your living room lap soon! over 6 lbs is amazing!
Congrats mama! Hope you all are home soon!
Mom to K and R
wow...our first birth! congratulations!!! and 6 pounds is such a great weight...i hope he's home soon...and i wish you a speedy recovery! love and blessings to you and all your family!
congrats, hope you are both home soon!
Congrats, Alicia! I hope the delivery went well. I can't believe what an awesome weight he has for being that early :) I love the name you settled on, by the way :) I'm so happy that the pregnancy is finally over- you must feel relieved about that! I will pray that the waiting period in NCIU is short and you can all go home and start your new life.
Congrats again and God bless :)
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Congratulations! And welcome, Andrew!
That's a great weight on him, and I hope he can come home real soon.
Welcome Andrew and congrats to mama & family on your new little guy! Here's another voice cheering for a short and healthy NICU stay!!
I'm Brooke! I'm an avid knitter (ravelry:mamaaulait) and IBCLC. Homeschooling mama to my girls, Maiya (4/2009) and Jenevieve (2/2011) and my boy, River (9/2013).
CONGRATULATIONS and welcome Andrew!!!!! Sending you and your family prayers and love! Hope the LO is home soon!
oh mama!!!! Congratulations love and light!!!!!!
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First, we'd like to thank all who wrote in to enter our contest. We had a tremendous response, with more than 1,000 entries — and we read every one of them. So many of you wrote great, sometimes moving descriptions of how our magazine has affected your fishkeeping — and even your day-to-day lives. We appreciate all your feedback and found it very difficult in some cases to narrow down the entries.
After much deliberating, we present the winner of AFI's 20th Anniversary Contest:
Congratulations to William Van Der Velden of Jacksonville, Florida! You won our grand prize from Doctors Foster and Smith!
Thanks to Doctors Fosters and Smith for their generous grand prize. And now, the winning entry:
"Aquarium Fish International has influenced my entire family's hobby on many different levels. To begin, I purchased a subscription to the magazine in an effort to support my niece's Girl Scout Troop's fund raising. The reason I picked your magazine is mostly due to my daughter Christina, who is 6. Christina loves all animals. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed to be allergic to cats and dogs, and the effect of those allergies were even worse than you could imagine due to the fact that she has cystic fibrosis, which makes her extremely susceptible to lung problems. In an effort to make her feel better about not being able to play with our three dogs, which we now have to keep outside, I bought her a fish tank. I eventually bought a tank for myself, only to follow with my wife, who wanted one of her own. We have a combination of fresh and saltwater tanks, so the diversity of your magazine is absolutely perfect for our needs. It not only supplies a wealth of knowledge in its amazingly illustrated articles — it has also introduced us to a number of products and websites through the sponsors that advertise in Aquarium Fish International. This has provided endless information beyond the popular topics and subjects that are discussed in between the covers of your wonderful publication.
Christina will check the mailbox every day after she comes home from school in anticipation of the magazine being there, and when the magazine comes in, my daughter and I spend hours together with the magazine. She'll look at the pictures, and I'll read the articles to her. We then take information we learn together and put it to practical use. We often read in front our fish tanks, so she can compare the vivid pictures to species in our tanks. I can proudly say that she can name most of the species of coral not just in my reef tank but…in Aquarium Fish International and our local pet stores. She also assists me with the maintenance of the tanks, as well as feedings. She will often come to me with your magazine in her hand and ask if we could go buy items that she sees in the magazine. … Christina has also been asking me if she could have a saltwater tank for her seventh birthday. I am proud to say that I believe your magazine has helped spark her interest in the hobby and has also led to educational trips to zoos and aquariums in our geographical area. So your magazine does not just further my education. It improves my skills in aquarium care and teaches my wife, so she can take care of our tanks during my naval deployments. It is also a learning tool for my daughter, gives her something to look forward to and assists in the bonding of our entire family."
William Van Der Velden
Jacksonville, Florida
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We truly did receive a lot of noteworthy entries. Although we can't run all of them, we'd like to share just a few.
"Aquarium Fish Magazine…changed my feelings of frustration over my mistakes and fish losses….After reading the articles in FishKidz, I donated an aquarium to the school where I taught. It started with the tank in my office. I moved the tank to the front office hoping that it would give a feeling of calm to the office staff and parents. The principal said when parents came to the office in a foul mood, he would have them sit in the area where the tank was set up for a few minutes, and watching the tank would calm them. The idea then spread to a sixth-grade science class where the teacher and students were taught how to set up and maintain their tank. There were students who were so interested they were allowed to maintain the tank as far as feeding and water changes. The teacher noticed changes in behavior of some of her students. I brought some of my back issues to the school library. Students in upper grades in the middle school read the magazine articles that related to the type of aquariums their parents had at home. Some would even talk to me about their hobby.
I lost my tank in 2005 when the levees failed during hurricane Katrina. I evacuated to Virginia, thinking I would be home in a few days, which turned into two months. My husband and I no longer live in New Orleans, and have not been able to set up an aquarium….I will always be an aquarist at heart."
Sandra Gibson
Kentwood, Louisiana
"I learned about the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society and their auctions through your magazine. Their auctions are an excellent place to purchase fish directly from breeders at great prices. I also learn a lot by talking to others in the hobby at their regular meetings. I teach science at Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and keep fish at school. There are three tanks in my classroom where I breed and raise cichlids. My students enjoy feeding the fish and have given most of them nicknames. When I'm finished reading your magazine, I take them to school for students to read. I also maintain our school's 125-gallon marine reef and our 65-gallon African cichlid tanks that are located in the central hub of the school. The 2,100 students and staff that make up our school community view these tanks daily. Our special needs teachers use them as a therapeutic tool for their students. Our biology teachers use them to teach about marine biology and resource conservation, and our chemistry teachers use them to measure water quality parameters. I'm sure that my knowledge in this hobby comes in large part from reading Aquarium Fish Magazine and that I'll continue to use it as a resource."
Lawrence Flint
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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The different features inspire me to create imaginative lesson plans. The question and answer sections answer many of my own questions. I leave Aquarium Fish International out in the classroom for my students. Many of them are 'reluctant' readers. They are unable to read above a fourth-grade level, and so refuse to read. I consider reading the most important of all skills….Aquarium Fish International provides high interest reading for my students. It has interesting articles and beautiful photographs! The students pour over the magazine, showing each other the pictures and reading the captions out loud! This may not seem like an important issue, but to see them voluntarily picking up a magazine and reading is wonderful…."
Pattye Robinson
Montclair, Virginia
"I first started enjoying this magazine about 15 years ago. At that point, I was only 8 years old and mostly enjoyed the pictures. Each publication of Aquarium Fish International would introduce a new type of fish that I loved. As I got a few years older, I was able to read more and more articles (with a lot of help from my parents). The more issues I looked at, the more I wanted a fish tank. After much pleading, my parents finally agreed to buy me one. The tank was a simple 10-gallon tank with hot pink gravel, filled with mostly swordtails and platies. To everybody else, it may have been just a simple fish tank, but to me it meant the world.
Developmentally, the magazine has had a positive affect on me. When I was younger, I was not a great reader; I also struggled with reading comprehension. My teachers began noticing that my reading skills were improving immensely. After speaking with my parents, the teachers attributed my reading success to be directly related to the avid reading of the magazine. Since then, I have continued to read the magazine….I love your magazine. It has affected me and everyone in my family. Now that I no longer live with my parents, they had to buy a small fish tank because they realized how much they enjoyed the hobby. My brother keeps two big oscars in his tank. We are all fish enthusiasts, thanks to this magazine. Thanks for an educational 20 years of publication, and here's to 20 more!"
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