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That is some decent generic information, I certainly don't think its harmful to either group. How nice of him to convey common sense to us in a written article, does he get paid to do that? I also like the shameless plug at the very end for the Axiom brand
I like the spring loaded strain relief connectors, but the wire stock has an oh so familiar look to it....OMG could it be!
I seriously think its silly to spend an embarrassing sum of money on IC's, I definetly agree with that idea.
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THEIR cables and interconnects are nonsense but OUR cables and interconnects will be great value for the money.Finally, where do you find good-quality, mechanically sound, no-nonsense audio/video cables at a reasonable price? Fairly soon (hint, hint), youll be able to order them directly from Axiom. In the meantime, be suspicious of brands that use pseudo-scientific language to justify their high prices or make claims that defy the laws of physics. There's good reason some of those have been labeled "audio jewelery."
Science or marketing?
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I agree with using good quality interconnects and speaker wire up to a point.
But I'm done long before it gets anywhere near costing what an additional or replacement quality piece of gear costs i.e. better amp or other component, better speakers etc.
It all needs to work as a system. Expense of the cable is not really the point. What matters is that the cable works well with the given matchup of components. Of course it has to be of some quality as well. Audio jewlery, I think not.
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Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
No argument, but it's about diminishing returns and weakest link ... past some particular price point money is better spent on better components and/or speakers then on fatter wires.
I completely agree.
What worked for me was having my dealer (Jeff's Sound Values) let me audition lots of cables. I live near Jeff's Sound Values so I get to audition lots of used high end gear also! I always listen at home before buying audio gear.
So what were your conclusions about the cables you tried?
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I started with Tributaries SCA 300 all around. I substituted the Cardas Neutral Reference on my preamp to amp, It sound too dark with vinyl, but fine with the CD and SACD source. I settled on the Harmonic Tech ProSilway MkII for the preamp to amp connection. Best dynamics, very detailed and not bright at all, plus I got it used for $225 instead of $400 new. I use DH Labs Air Matrix for all my source connections. Very neutral and the details are well defined. You can pick out little things in the songs like in Dido's "Mary's in India". I've moved the Tributaries SCA 300 to the HT system.
I've found that cables over $500 per meter are my point of diminishing return. It's all system synergy. My 2 channel system is very revealing of changes in the setup.
I've tried Monster DataLink 100, Canare LV-61S w/ Canare 75 ohm plugs, Cardas High Speed Data and settled with a custom Cardas blend for my digital coax cable. I was looking for an analog sound, open, wide and deep soundstage.
I replaced all the wiring in my Anthem AMP2 with Cardas wire. The difference I noticed after 2 weeks of breakin was in microdynamics at 60db listening level. The clarity of the details at that low level is amazing!
I'm currently looking into shoot-gunning DH Labs Q10 speaker cable. Now use XLO Ultra6 speaker cable.
2 channel system:
Magnepan MG12 (rebuilt crossovers and wiring)
Anthem AMP2
Anthem PRE 2L tube preamp
Rotel RCD 951 as a transport to an MSB Link DAC III w/ 24/132 upsampling
Sony DVP-NS500V SACD player
Dual CS-741Q w/ Shure V15 Type IV MR NAD PP1 phono pre
I run a mixture of IXOS and HD in my system. The IXOS, although has a sweeter texture to it, has barely any difference to the HD wire. All depends on how you decide to look at it as
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I didn't read the link that was posted, but my take on cables has always been that you can't go wrong with superior materials, even with a basic cable design, kind of a K.I.S.S. principle on steroids.
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I don't think anyone suggested you could do wrong by having superior cables ... I think the point is that at some price point there MAY be other components that deserve upgrading first i.e. there's no point in having $1k / foot speaker cables running from a Rat Shack amp.
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The following news release came down at about 3 pm PST on Monday. I'm all about having "options" as a sports fan, but the City of Portland (and the NW in general) just didn't ever gravitate to the sport of lacrosse. Now, with the poor economy, the team is deciding to look elsewhere. Numerous calls to the Jax were not returned, so right now, this release is all we have to go on.
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JAX OWNERS WILL NOT CONTINUE TO OPERATE IN PORTAND PORTLAND, May 4, 2009 - The owners of the Portland LumberJax lacrosse club have announced today that they do not intend to operate the club in Portland next season. The LumberJax franchise has been in operations for the past four seasons, in which it reached the playoffs three times, including a championship game appearance in 2008. The club's 2009 season concluded last weekend with a loss in a West Division Semifinal playoff game.
"We are currently exploring options for the future," said LumberJax Executive Vice President Brian Silcott. "For numerous reasons, including the current economic climate, it has become increasingly difficult for our owners to continue funding the team at the level necessary to ensure future success in Portland. Right now there are several options for the franchise including a move to another market, accepting new partners and/or the outright sale of the franchise. The National Lacrosse League has a June 1 deadline for notification of intent, so a final decision will be made soon."
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|Football » Schedule » Roster » News » Coaches » 2013 Season Statistics
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
As recruiting and preparation for the spring season carries on, head football coach Dave Cecchini announced his coaching staff Tuesday.
Cecchini has brought three assistants with him from Lehigh: Jason Miran, Vinny Giacalone, and Justin Stovall. The first-year head coach also retained Crusader assistants Steven Donovan, John Snyder, Kasey Teegardin, and Eric Deutsch in addition to hiring Ernest Moore from the University of Chicago.
Miran will serve as offensive coordinator at Valparaiso after four seasons as Lehigh's wide receivers coach. The Pottstown, Pennsylvania native oversaw one of the best receiving corps in Lehigh school history in 2011. The unit as a whole that season ranked third in the FCS in total offense and fifth in passing offense. Under Miran's tutelage, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Ryan Spadola flourished to finish his Lehigh career second in receptions and receiving yards.
Miran played collegiately at Penn where he started at fullback his senior season. He earned his degree in communications from there in 2009. Miran also spent a season at Franklin and Marshall as the tight ends and assistant offensive line coach.
"Jason has been a pleasure to work with the last four seasons. He's a bright coach with a bright future in this profession," Cecchini boasted.
"Vinny did an outstanding job with the offensive line at Lehigh and I look forward to that success here at Valpo," Cecchini remarked.
Stovall also served as assistant coach at Lehigh for two seasons. He will work as linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for the Crusaders. Stovall played college ball at three-time Patriot League champion Lafayette from 2003-06. Stovall worked alongside the defensive coordinator at Franklin and Marshall for three seasons before accepting the defensive assistant position at Villanova. He was the outside linebackers coach at Lehigh.
"Justin brings a great deal of enthusiasm, passion, and excitement to special teams," Cecchini said.
Cecchini hired Moore from the University of Chicago, where the former Lehigh assistant spent three seasons. He has been assigned as defensive coordinator. Most recently, Moore served in the same capacity with the Maroons for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Moore graduated from Lehigh in 2008 before beginning his coaching career at Franklin and Marshall that same year.
"Ernest did a phenomenal job with the defense at the University of Chicago," Cecchini stated.
Donovan, Snyder, Teegardin, and Deutsch will all stay on the Crusader coaching staff.
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A video interview with Myron Uhlberg, followed by a brief text Q&A, about his memoir Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love.
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While drinking anisette with Ernest Hemingway: Papa, why did you do it?
Which came first: the idea for the book, the title, or a passage from the book?
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By Jean Maneke
Special to The Globe
JOPLIN, Mo. —
On Nov. 6, every voter in the state will be voting on ballot language that seeks to make a major change in the way judges are selected in this state.
For more than 70 years, Missourians have selected their Supreme Court and appellate judges through a process now known as "The Missouri Plan."
As you probably know, this system, approved by voters statewide when it was adopted, provides that whenever a vacancy occurs for a judge at that level, a judicial nominating commission interviews interested applicants and picks three of them as judicial nominees. The governor then selects the new judge from one of those three nominees.
This plan has been so successful that more than 30 other states have adopted this process, or a similar process, to name their judges. In addition, the three largest metropolitan areas of the state have adopted this plan for their trial-level judges. It's a system that works. It provides checks and balances that limit any group of politicians from handpicking judges and instead provides a method where judges in our state are selected based on their credentials. Professional skills are more important than political cronyism.
Once appointed, these judges are regularly evaluated by lawyers and members of the public who serve as jurors, and the ratings they receive are publicized by The Missouri Bar so that voters, who are asked whether they should be retained, can focus on their skills and work, not on the money they may be spending to campaign for the office.
Indeed, the Supreme Court a few years ago opened up the selection process further, now making the names of the applicants for these positions a public record and offering public interviews as part of the selection process. Members of the public are always welcome to send letters to the nominating commission or to the governor to express their opinion about a candidate.
What is especially important for the public to understand is that members of the selection commission are lawyers and nonlawyers, from different parts of the state, and have staggered terms such that they are not necessarily of the same political party as the governor. This keeps the process apolitical, and as a result Missouri has been blessed with years of scandal-free judiciary.
A proposed ballot change would eliminate part of the process set out above. While the lawyers on the commission would remain, there would now be four members appointed by the governor and they will not be required to be nonlawyers. The term they serve will be changed; in short, within two years of being elected governor, he or she would have a majority of the seven votes on this commission.
This is not a good idea. The repercussions would be significant. You may see negative advertising and, possibly, multimillion dollar judicial campaigns. Of greater concern to me, personally, is whether judges who must raise money to pay for these campaigns will need to take large contributions to make this happen. Would that mean only the large firms, who would have access to more discretionary funds than a small firm, like The Maneke Law Group, find themselves making these large contributions? And if they did, what would that do to the perception of impartiality a judge has when someone from a small firm goes up against a member of one of these large firms that has contributed significant funds to his or her campaign? How could a judge not help but feel somewhat indebted to those who had helped him or her win a heated campaign?
Negative campaigning has significantly affected the way many in the public feel about the entire political process. So far, this taint has not reached our court system. But I fear that if this proposal passes, the days of faith in our judicial system will fade.
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Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:00
Mineola School Board trustee Nicole Matzer recently visited the Kornreich Early Learning Center to read a Valentine's Day Book to students. Matzer's daughter was previously in the program, who is currently in third grade.
The center, located at the Jackson Avenue School, was founded in 2007, and the program supports 32 children in the Mineola School District. Registration begins this month. Please call 631-427-3700, ext. 256 to make an appointment for you child to join the program or call 516-237-2321.
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Howard Kroplick was just settling in to his new position as North Hempstead's town historian in April of 2012 when a phone call from a resident who found an old headstone led him into a comprehensive study of all 28 cemeteries within
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Kroplick, an East Hills resident for 29 years, serves in the unpaid role as an advisor to the North Hempstead board, out of his longtime love of history. His exhaustive study of the area's cemeteries has helped him complete a history of
North Hempstead that will be published in January, which will coincide with the 400-year anniversary of the discovery of Long Island, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It was Block, according to Kroplick, who first identified Long Island as an actual island, not a peninsula as many believed back then. The 128-page book from Arcadia Publishing is the first ever written about North Hempstead.
Thursday, 05 December 2013 00:00
For the time being, much of the Roslyn area is without representation on the Town of North Hempstead council. Recently, Thomas K. Dwyer, who has represented Roslyn on that body since 2002, announced that he would step down from the board while he is in negotiations with a Manhattan-based consulting firm.
Dwyer, who is the chief operating officer of Syosset-based American Land Services, would not identify the firm he is talking to, but he said that the new job would represent a conflict of interest with his work on the town board.
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Albertson resident and Kellenberg sophomore Gabby Schreib qualified for the Millrose Games in New York City. Schreib qualified as a member of the Sprint Medley Relay along with Danielle Correia, Bridget McNierney, and Jazmine Fray.
The Kellenberg relay's close second place finish in January's Millrose Trials has moved them closer to defending the title they won in the same relay at last year's Millrose Games. Schreib and her teammates time is currently second in the United States for girls track and field performances.
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Registration for Farmingdale's Over the Hill Gang Softball League will take place Feb. 1, Feb. 8 and Feb. 15, from 10 a.m. - Noon at the Allen Park meeting room on Motor Ave. in Farmingdale. The league is open to men 40 and over who live in Farmingdale or the Town of Oyster Bay area. Players can also apply online at www.othgny.com, however must attend one registration session to show proof of age and residency.
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B&W Y-12 gets 'Outstanding' rating for 2009
B&W Y-12 received a performance score of 92 out of 100 and an "outstanding" overall rating for its management of the Y-12 National Security Complex in FY 2009, Darrel Kohlhorst, the contractor's president and general manager, said today.
The company reportedly has not received the performance documents yet, but Y-12 spokesman David Keim said the contractor's fee was $48,664,833. B&W received about $46.2 million last year for its Y-12 work.
Kohlhorst said he thought this was the first time B&W had received an outstanding rating since 2005.
Last year, B&W received a performance score of 89.4 and $46.2 million in fees for operating the Y-12 complex and carrying out missions that include refurbishing nuclear warhead parts and dismantling old weapons components.
The total fee for 2009 was $48,664,833. According to information provided by B&W, the contractor was awarded fees in three areas -- $45,548,646 in "total at-risk fee"; $626,781 for work funded by the Recovery Act; and $2,489,406 for the plant's work for other federal agencies.
"It was a tremendous year," Keim said.
We already know from past articles in this blog that the management at the site gets paid very well, but what about the compensation for the troops in the trenches performing the actual work that made the outstanding rating possible this year?
I guess January of 2010 will determine just how really valuable the employee asset is to
this current contract operator, NNSA and DOE.
Only upper mgmt gets part of the money. The workers don't get a penny of it.
The upper crust get bonus'. The peons get a piddly 2-4% raise (if they are lucky). The word this year is less than 3%. Peons do the work, managers get the bucks.


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The Hockey Experts Are On The Loose Again
It is hard to imagine a hockey fan calling overtime a problem. Everyone loves sudden death overtime. Its a Stanley Cup tradition, the fairest way to decide a game and the most exciting tiebreaker in professional sport.
Overtime is also uncompromising. There are no shortcuts, so occasionally fans are treated to a marathon, a hockey game that stretches into two, three, four, even five overtime periods before a goaltender finally cracks. They are epic nights, remembered for years to come as hockey at its gut-clenching best.
But when these all-nighters become regular events, the novelty can wear thin. With the second round yet to be completed, the 2003 Stanley Cup playoffs have already featured three double-overtime games, three triple-overtimes and one game that didnt end until the fifth overtime period. By the time Anaheim and Dallas finished that one the fourth longest game in Stanley Cup history the building was only half full. After all, most fans had baby sitters to relieve or morning commutes to make. When Petr Sykora scored for the Ducks, the prevailing emotion seemed to be a flood of relief from everyone involved.
Still, even those who gave up and went home that night probably did so without complaint. Sudden death overtime is what it is, and if that means an occasional winning goal scored at 1:30 in the morning, so be it.
But extended overtime puts a visible strain on the folks working the television studio. As games stretch deep into the night, you can see the hairspray fail, the crisp white shirts going limp, the bags growing under the eyes and the exasperation of men trying to fill yet another unexpected intermission with chit-chat. Inevitably, they begin to wonder if overtime should be curtailed, with four-on-four hockey or a shootout introduced to get us a quicker result.
If a six-hour hockey game is a problem and no one here is saying that it is, but for now lets entertain the notion, if only for the sake of fans who have to catch the last train home or broadcasters who have to do another game the next night then it is only a symptom of a larger issue, one we have already heard too much about: NHL games do not generate as many goals as they used to. Goals-per-game have been at or near an all-time low for the last decade or so. Great goaltending and precise defense are the hallmarks of this era, so it is little wonder that the play tightens up even further when the games really begin to count.
That brings us to the familiar list of more offense ideas that have been making the rounds for years now: eliminate the red line, make the nets bigger, go four-on-four fulltime, etc. The idea of NHL hockey with no red line is intriguing, but most of the other ideas are simplistic, hare-brained schemes, and the NHL has wisely ignored them. Like the recent suggestions to shorten overtime, the various proposals for fixing the game come from Canadian sportswriters and broadcasters, a surprising number of whom dont appear to like hockey at all.
These experts are hopelessly out of touch with the fans, who seem to like the game just fine. If they occasionally leave tickets unsold or seats unused, its probably because the prices are too high or the home team too bad, a deadly combination in any sport.
Unlike the narcissistic experts and jaded agitators who roam the press boxes and broadcast booths, hockey fans are more willing to take the long view: some playoff years have more lengthy games than others, but most of the time most games are decided at a decent hour. As for the persistent call for more goals, lets set aside the historical statistics and consider the evidence on the ice, which suggests that a good 2-1 game is no less exciting than a defensively shoddy 6-5 shootout.
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The Pearl River High School baseball team spent most of spring break in Florida.
Over the course of their week-long trip, in between games, the players had a good deal of downtime, during which the conversation kept coming back to Little League.
"The guys were talking about who hit more homeruns, who struck out who, which teams had the best records, all of that stuff," said Chris Woolgar, an assistant coach for the high school team and a coach with Pearl River Little League.
Woolgar thought it'd be a positive gesture for the team if they went to the opening day ceremony.
"They wanted to do it, they were excited," Woolgar said. "I thought it'd be nice for some of the younger players to see that all the guys on the varsity team played Little League right here."
A few things have changed since the players on the team were in Little League, but the most might be their perception.
"It all seems a lot smaller now," said Brenden Ryan, a senior pitcher for the Pirates.
The team, which is made up of all former Pearl River Little League players, all wore their hats from whichever team they were on when they played in the league's majors division.
"All morning at practice they were talking about coming back to the field," Woolgar said. "They were mostly excited to get the cheese fries from the snack bar."
Ryan and fellow senior captain Jake Tedesco threw out ceremonial first pitches, as did Congresswoman Nita Lowey.
During the ceremony, there was also a moment of silence for Patty Harris, who died earlier this year of cancer. Her husband, Tim Harris, has done a lot of work with the league over the years, and the kindergarten field is named Harris Field, after him and his brother, late Pearl River Fire Chief Bill Harris.
"Patty was a very patriotic person and loved all things red, white and blue," said Joan Bourke, director of Pearl River Little League. "To show our thanks to Tim Harris and the entire Harris family, we've purchased a new flag, which we'll proudly fly in Patty's memory."
The majors baseball and softball teams that won their league last year were also honored during the ceremony, as was the 2011 AAA champion. All-Star teams that won their section or division also presented their banners to the league to hang up this year. The Chance Cosgrove Sportsmanship Award was also presented to Ciaran McEnroe. The award is named after the late 12-year-old who drowned while on a family vacation in 2009, and is given to a member of the Pearl River Little League representative in the annual Tournament of Champions that best displays Cosgrove's love of the game.
The award was presented by members of the Cosgrove family and Woolgar, who not only coached McEnroe last year, but also coached Chance Cosgrove as well.
Pearl River's opening day was initially scheduled for March 31, but was postponed due to rain.


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Who says that West Hollywood doesn't have great theatre? Last night, a new play, Innocent Flesh, opened right here in our town.
Its provocative theme about young female prostitution and human trafficking brought in a full house of enthusiastic supporters of this important issue. The play is based on real stories of underage female prostitutes in the U.S.
But not only is this an important issue on the minds of many Americans, it's a powerful play, beautifully written and directed by native Angeleno, Kenyetta Lethridge.
Come along with me for this very special evening of theatre in West Hollywood at the Zephyr Theatre. Oh, and by the way, the play is heading to NYC to an off-Broadway theatre in March.
- Tracy Pattin


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So what's 'wrong' with the Yankees?By
With 71 games left in the season, the Yankees are right in the thick of the hunt for October. They're 6.5 games in back of the Rays in the AL East, and four and a half behind Boston in the Wild Card. Overall, just eight teams in baseball have better records than the Yankees.
But for all 49 of their wins, everyone thinks something is wrong with the Yankees. Hal Steinbrenner, while reluctant to make trades, is disappointed with the season. Hank Steinbrenner blamed the injuries. And over at Baseball Musings, David Pinto noticed a lineup with only two players sporting OBPs over .350 and blamed the lack of depth. That's a whole lotta blame to spread.
What I want to know is what's really going on with the Yankees. Hal fingers the kids; Hank fingers unlucky injuries; Pinto fingers depth. Where's the truth in all of this?
As an astute observer might guess, the truth is in all three of them. We'll start with Pinto's observation. The Yankees these days have been sporting lineups with a bunch of guys sporting less-than-stellar OBPs. Melky Cabrera's is hovering around the .310 mark; Robinson Cano's is stuck around .290; Jose Molina and Wilson Betemit, both playing more frequently than either should be, are both at .269. With Johnny Damon out, Brett Gardner and his .194 are taking up a lineup spot too. Even Derek Jeter (.346) and Bobby Abreu (.345) are sporting on-base numbers well below their norm.
In that sense, David Pinto is right. If your every-day players aren't getting on base, it's that much harder to score runs. Fewer runs means fewer wins. It's a baseball fact. In July, the Yankees are doing a great job of proving this fact; eight games into the month, the Yanks have a team OBP of around .340 and have plated 38 runners — but 18 of those were in one game. Somehow, they've gone 4-3 in seven games while scoring a whopping 20 runs.
The Yankees are stuck with a lineup this shallow not, as Pinto postulates, because of "a clear lack of depth." For this, we turn to Hank Steinbrenner and his finger-pointing at the injuries. So far this season, the Yankees have seen Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada, Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon hit the DL. They've lost Ian Kennedy, Phil Hughes, Brian Bruney and Chien-Ming Wang. In this context, the fact that the Yankees are only 6.5 games with a record seven games over .500 is actually pretty remarkable.
It's easy to fall into the "what if" trap, but had the Yankees not suffered these injuries, it's easy to see them hanging in there two games behind the Rays or — dare I suggest? — ahead of them. But that's baseball. Injuries happen, and well-constructed teams find ways to win. The Yankees were built to withstand a few injuries but not all of them. So in the end, it's not really a lack of depth, as Pinto notes it, but the fact that players who shouldn't be starting so often — Molina comes to mind — have been pressed into duty so frequently.
In the end, it's Hal who seems to get it the most though. He expressed his disappointed over Ian Kennedy's and Phil Hughes' combined 0-7 record and their struggles. But Hal also speaks like a man who understands that building a better baseball team for a long run a year later can trump instant gratification. Talking of CC Sabathia and Rich Harden, Hal said, "We just felt it wasn't best for the organization to do anything with those two at this point."
But the real kicker was his promise of good times to come. As the Yankees hold on to their promising young pieces, they're ready to augment those pieces as well. "Where we want to end up is a tremendous mix of young talent and veterans," Hal said. "And the veterans, the free agents, they cost money. And we realize that. We are going to have a lot of money come off the payroll, and that's going to give us some options. But believe me, we're going to use a good portion of it to get this city the team it deserves."
Injuries, disappointments, underperformances. It's all part of the same mix.
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Lack of death, you say? That's pretty morbid of you, Ben.
I hope we deserve CC. I don't want Tex and who knows if Abreu is back.
The Yankees now have the fifth best FIP (3.90) in the A.L. I'd say the way we've withstood those injuries to the pitching staff have gone quite understated.
I was reading through Raul Ibanez' stats, wondering if he would be worth trading for, and then I looked at Bobby Abreu's. The similarities are startling… go check it out.
Annnnnnd…. Brett Gardner should not be the everyday centerfielder. I see Melky's shortcomings (minimal offense), but Gardner really does look overmatched so far in the Big Leagues. He has no power, not much of an arm, and it looks like his patient approach is not working as well in the majors as it did in the minors. Yes, he's very fast and has good range, but he looks like a pinch runner/ 5th outfielder. Yea, maybe I should give him the break, as he's been in the majors for little more than a week or so, but I just think the clamoring for him may hav been wrong and both Melky and Gardner are just keeping the position warm for Ajax's inevitable arrival.
but but but, RAB promised us he would be awsome!
With his current K-rate, it is highly questionable that he could even get his # up to Melkian territory. who as bad as he's looked so far, has tied his career high mark in HR half way into the season and is suffereing from abnormally low BABIP while not particularly bad LD% or K rate (recently though.. not so much)
Seriously you guys, he's been in the big leagues for a week, give him some time. If he ends the season batting .143 then maybe he really doesn't have it but most guys don't come up and hit like Ellsbury did right away. If you look through his minor league stats, he's a notoriously slow starter at a new level. I still think he's been better than Melky in the past week though. Yes Melky hit a homer but he's left a ton of guys on base (with the annoying guy on third, one out strikeout above the head) and can't even get a bunt down. At least everytime Gardner singles or walks, it's essentially a double
They've been playing Major League Baseball since 1876. That's 133 years. With roughly 26 weeks during each summer where they play baseball, that's a little over 3,400 weeks in the history of the major leagues.
Brett Gardner has currently been in the majors for only one of those 3400 weeks. GIVE THE KID A FUCKING BREAK.
The game winning RBI Sunday night was as (I think) you guys said, reminiscent of Sojo in the World Series. I said above that I'm probably being harsh because he's barely up a week, but I think that his patient approach and On Base skills that worked throughout the minors might not work because major league pitchers have much better control than mino league pitchers. But if you look at his MLE's they show that he should be a similar batter to melky with slightly better OBP and worse SLG%.
Melky has looked HORRIBLE recently, I agree, but I'm not expecting much more from Brett Gardner either.
Sitting there and fouling off a ton of pitches and taking your walks work at any level. Giambi is batting like .250 yet has an OBP around .400, he takes his walks. And yes pitchers are more careful with Giambi because he has power but a guy that has a good eye has a good eye whether he has power or not.
I do recall a guy named Ricky Henderson who walked quite a lot but was never a significant power threat. The name of the game is getting on base and Gardner throughout his career has consistently found a way to do that so let's give him a break here
Ricket Henderson had little power? Yea, he was inconsistent, but in 1990 when he won the MVP, Rickey slugged .577,and 28 homers in a season TWICE, and had a career 127 OPS+. I think to even mention Brett Gardner and Rickey Henderson in the same sentence is crazy.
I just don't see pitchers being scared of, or even worried about Brett Gardner enough that they won't challenge him IN the strike zone.
I am NOT trying to defend Melky, just challenging the love affair with Brett Gardner a lot of people seem to have. I HOPE he gets better and starts making more, and I think we'll all be happier if he proves me wrong, but I don't see it happening.
At least the Steins get it. They're not pushing the panic button and trying to buy someone major right now. At least they haven't collapsed and folded as this year is "lost."
I think the offense has been crappy most of the season but Bobby Abreu (not the brightest bulb in the box) says the chemistry is coming together. Maybe he's right.
I think that injuries (and we've had more than our fair share) and the scheduling (brutal) and weather (could we have MORE rain delays?) have really impacted us but maybe it's waking this team up that it's not going to be easy and you have to push push push for a playoff spot.
For all of it…all the bad luck and bad baseball…underperformance of the kids…injuries….scheduling…weather…cold bats….and individual personal (bad) patterns of some of the players (GIDP Jeter, flailing Melky, overthinking Arod) we're not in too bad shape.
It could be MUCH MUCH worse. Moose could be having last year's success. Andy could be distracted by off-field stuff. Giambi could be hurt. Melky's D could be as bad as his O. Joba could be a starting disaster. We could have a decimated farm team and not be able to bring up replacements.
They're finally starting to show grit and determination. I just don't know why they always wait until the All Star break to do that.
I don't know if we have what it takes to get far into the playoffs with the current roster but we have a good chance.
At some point in the last 8 years we started worrying about getting TO the playoffs and then died in the first round. One of these years we have to worry about taking it all…so that we don't lose all our steam just by getting there.
Ben, before you start getting on Brett Gardner I have a little something for you. Maybe you haven't noticed this, but I have.
He has 3 hits
He has 2 walks
. . . . and has scored FOUR runs.
Much like Jose Reyes when he first came up, the guy seems to score every time he gets on base. I can live with him adjusting to the league and having a low BA/OBP when he's THAT efficient. Small sample to be sure, but so are all his other numbers.
id just like to point out the Braves/Dodgers game last night, and let it be known to Cashman that with each team mired in mediocrity, i wouldnt mind having either one of those SPs at the deadline. thank you.
most people would agree, but:
A What you have to give up to get average NL ptchers whch equals average AL ptchers and:
B. I dont thnk those teams wll be sellers. The Braves never unload and the Dodgers, thanks to that crap division, have a chance at makng the playoffs.
I really thnk that ths the Yanks year. Add all of the injuries, guys havng bad years, – no offesnsve playear havng a career year. Unless they can make a trade for a young guy who wll help them next year and further, than they should stay away – a reason why would lke to see them go after Bedard and Burnett (if he fnshes great you can give him an extension thus avoidng the opt-out, provded they don't have to gve up much alla the Harden deal
i think the Braves could be. 5 games under .500, and 5.5 GB in the division, and 7.5 GB in the WC.
Hudson is signed thru 2009, with an option for 2010, so if you give up a little to get him, he's gonna be around a couple seasons.
he eats innings, throws strikes. dependable.
I could see the Dodgers moving a guy like Lowe, who is a FA after this season, especially to make room back on the roster for Kershaw.
more of a wishlist for me than reality, but i think both would be welcome additions to the rotation, and could slide right in for Darrell Rasner for the 2nd half.
Braves have no interest in trading Hudson, he's under team control, and theyre still kinda in it this year, and expect to be in it next year. With Hampton, Tex, and Smoltz a fair amount of money comes off the books for them this year too.
"Where we want to end up is a tremendous mix of young talent and veterans," Hal said. "And the veterans, the free agents, they cost money. And we realize that. We are going to have a lot of money come off the payroll, and that's going to give us some options. But believe me, we're going to use a good portion of it to get this city the team it deserves."
Finally a quote from Hank that made me smile instead of cringe. The only fear I have is that either he goes overvoard, or Cashman convnves hm that the team should have a 150 mll payroll instead of 225
Ah, but look again. It's Hal, not Hank who's coherent.
I think he's just letting the fan base know (who are generally aware to some degree of the expiring contracts) that the yanks aren't going to go cheap on them and hoard the cash
Hal fingers the kids
uhhhh….call the cops?
ha! oh man.
Wonder what the Indians would want for David Delluci.
he's been almost worse than Melky, and we dont need another LHB. pass.
The last time Dellucci was here, in 2003, he had an OPS+ of 39.
He hasn't had an OBP higher than .350 or a SLG higher than .400 in two years. The only times he had an OPS+ north of 85 in a season of more than 200 AB's were in the bandboxes at Texas and Citizens Bank in Philly. He's a much, much, MUCH less talented version of Dante Bichette. And no, he is not an improvement over Melky or Gardner, he'd be a step down.
I want to say lack of depth, caused by injuries and under-performance.
I shouldn't just say this because who knows how effective they would be if they were playing right now, but Bruney and Wang getting hurt is the big problem. With the way Bruney was throwing, he was another "impact-ish" guy in that bullpen, and Wang was of course Wang.
Damon and Matsui being out right now really exposes that lineup, so hopefully they come back soon and healthy. And if Matsui is going to be out for a while, they may want to go get somebody.
Robbie needs to hit better (and has been doing so all this month). Melky and Molina REALLY need to hit better. I am not asking for the world, especially from Molina with the way he plays defense (and his knack for making his few hits XBH), but they can do better than this. It's tough to take them out of the lineup though, because they are our only impact defensive players (for all the shit he takes, Melky is BY FAR our best outfielder — it's not even close).
They need an infusion of youth maybee Gardner is the answer? maybee not?
A guy Like Markakis when available in free agency and Melky has to carry his weight or sit or be replaced or upgraded and stop babying Cano!!!
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So who are these veterans that are going to make up this new mix? What if…dare I say it here…most of the youth doesn't pan out? What is plan B as we sit back with our "prospects" and do nothing? Oh and give me a break on Gardner already. This is a light hitting, skinny, 5'10″ kid who has career pinch runner written all over him.
By the way take a look at the Red Sox injury report for this year. This doesn't include nagging injuries for JD Drew, Manny, Ellsbury, and Youkilis. Perhaps it's because the Red Sox have gotten much more production from their "kids" over the past few seasons? Of course that brings us back to Cashman…….oh wait I can't go there because RAB is the unofficial mouth piece for Brian Cashman…and his plan. Lets face it, as painful as this is, Theo has had Brian's number for sometime. He has done an outstanding job in Boston. He put's Cash to shame.
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Bartolo Colon
David Ortiz
Brandon Moss
Clay Buchholz
Brandon Moss
Sean Casey
Alex Cora
Mike Timlin
Mike Lowell
Josh Beckett
Mike Timlin
Curt Schillingin
Matsuzaka and Beckett missed what, 15 days each? Buchholz missed about the same.
You have a bunch of guys on there twice, and you can compare Ortiz to ARod/Matsui. The rest of those guys are side-pieces. They lost Cora? Oh no! We lost Betemit. They lost Mike Timlin? A) He's horrible and B) Ok, we lost Albaladejo…for the season.
Also, timing is an issue. Were Beckett and and Buchholz out at the same time? Beckett and Matsuzaka? Matsuzaka and Buchholz?
Right now we're without half of our opening day rotation including our number one. If the Sox lost Beckett, Matsuzaka and Wakefield for half the season, they'd be in big trouble too. Ortiz may have been a big loss but Matsui was handily out-performing him and he's been hurt since spring training. Curt Schilling was pretty much done anyways, the guy was a rich-man's Mussina minus the junk-ball stuff.
BTW, you talk about how horrible Gardner is when he's essentially Ellsbury. If he had been up all year, he'd probably have somewhere between 20-40 steals this season with a .270ish BA. How is that not Jacoby?
This is just ignorant.
I think Cashman is very guilty of overvaluing Yankee prospects, but honestly after having a system filled with Alex Gramans and Brad Halseys, I can't blame him for finally thinking some of these guys might pan out.
I don't know what you wanted the Yanks to do about Boston.. we couldn't have topped the Hanley Ramirez offer. Schilling didn't want to come here. They bid like 25-30 million on Matsuzaka and like everybody else, were blown clean out of the water.
Look at how old the roster is. For the most part they are still productive but that well will run dry sooner or later. Then we'll be in the same position we've been in and guys like you will run their mouths about NYY needs to get younger.
We have a ton of money coming off the books and a lot of freedom to really do somethings this offseason (free agents, trades, minor league players, etc). Why would you want to gut the system? Look.. a package of guys like Marquez, Hillgoss, and Vechionacci is not going to get anything significant. I would assume if it could, it would have already been done.
So what do you want to do? You want to trade guys like Montero and Jackson? Maybe we should trade guys like Suttle and Laird.. who the hell cares if we don't actually know if they are any good yet or they aren't at their highest value.
Ortiz – Bill Lajoie suggested Sox sign him, having liked him when he was Detroit GM.
Moss – drafted in 2002 by Dan Duquette.
Timlin – kidding, right? He's been on the team since the late '90s.
Lowell & Beckett – deal was Lucchino's, made during Theo's "sabbatical" in 2005 off-season.
Timlin – again?
Schilling – wanted to come to the Yankees, his first choice, but Garagiola, DBacks GM, on Colangelo's orders, asked for a 4 player package including Nick Johnson & Alfonso Soriano. Check out the garbage Sox gave Arizona.
and the reason that Colangelo refused to have an honest negotiation with the Yankees for Schilling was because STEINBRENNER, not Cashman, went in and signed David Wells after Wells had a handshake agreement with Arizona.
i can't even disagree with AZ's stance.
Steinbrenner stuck his nose in, pulled a BS move, and wound up getting burned for it later.
it's all part and parcel with Cashman and now Hal/Hank trying to clean up the mess left by George and the Tampa guys.
that doesn't mean i pin EVERY bad decision on George. i don't. Cashman has made mistakes.
but these are well documented as non-Cashman decisions:
Sheffield over Vlad
Randy Johnson
Tony Womack
The Red Sox have done better with their "kids" for two main reasons:
1) Their kids have had more opportunity to play, because they haven't been blocked in the system. We've had 2-Posada, 3-Giambi, 5-ARod, 6-Jeter, 7-Matsui, 8-Damon/Bernie, 9-Abreu/Sheffield as fixtures in the field, and had Mussina, Clemens, Pettitte, Randy Johnson, Jaret Wright, Javier Vazquez, Kevin Brown, David Wells, Jeff Weaver, Jon Leiber, El Duque, Cory Lidle, etc. occupying most of the rotation, plus Mo Rivera, Tom Gordon, The Human Sandwich Pick, and Joe Torre's revolving door of overworked veterans in the pen. Part of that is Torre's reluctance to trust youngsters, part of it is Big Stein's penchant for signing big names, but most of it, especially for the position players, is that we've had good hitters signed for big deals and they're not going anywhere, and when they leave, instead of bringing up someone from the minors, we go get another vet. The Sox only real mainstays are Manny in right, Ortiz at DH, Varitek at C, and Beckett-Schilling in the rotation. When guys like Lowe, Pedro, Millar, and Damon left, they weren't replaced (and the Sox suffered, btw) but the openings were created and eventually, their youngsters stepped into them.
2) The Sox have had better chances to acquire good talent than we have. You know what happens when you win more games than one of your rivals for 11 straight years, which we did from 1996-2006? They tend to pick in front of you in the draft, that's what. Add that to the fact that the Sox have had many more Type A and Type B free agent losses and fewer similar free agent additions than we have, and it's clear that they've been able to stock and restock their farm system with more high-level prospects. Since 1999, the Sox have had 39 picks in the top 100. We've only had 29. That's one extra great draft pick every year. Sure, there's been times where we passed on Ellsbury for C.J. Henry, but those are balanced out by times where they passed on Joba Chamberlain for Daniel Bard and Jason Place. Point is, if you've got more bullets, you're going to make more kills. It's basic.
And even with all that, I still don't think the Sox have been "better" with their youngsters. Here's who you can point to as a Red Sox homegrown youngster:
Kevin Youkillis, 29
Jon Papelbon, 27
Dustin Pedroia, 24
Jon Lester, 24
Jacoby Ellsbury, 24
Clay Buchholz, 23
Justin Masterson, 23
Here's what we've done:
Chien-Ming Wang, 28
Jose Veras, 27
Edwar Ramirez, 27
Robinson Cano, 25
Brett Gardner, 24
Melky Cabrera, 23
Ian Kennedy, 23
Joba Chamberlain, 22
Phil Hughes, 22
So, even though we've been pretty disadvantaged in the draft and had to supplement with international signings, which was the only thing putting talent in our system for a while (note the ages), AND we've given our youngsters less ML service time, we've still got Wang/Cano/Joba as unquestionable ML studs, which is equal to Youkillis/Papelbon/Pedroia/Lester. And while Ellsbury and Buchholz could eventually be an everyday leadoff man and frontline starter, the same can be said for Gardner and Hughes, and we still haven't mentioned Melky or Kennedy or Veras or Edwar.
The only way you can really characterize the Sox youngsters as being better is that they've been in the majors longer, and that's mainly a factor of them being older being in their organization longer, and having more chances to succeed or fail.
Agree with the post — it's a combination of a lot of factors, and injuries have played a prominent role. That being said…
We cannot continue to post a starting lineup with Melky, Gardner and Molina in it and hope to catch the Rays or Sox. (I could quote the combined numbers, but I'm sure we are all aware of them.) I could live with one of them…maybe even two. But all three of them in the lineup day after day? It's fugly.
Personally, I don't mind seeing Molina as the primary catcher because I really do believe he calls a far, far better game than Posada — the CS aspect is a bonus. (This is why I had mixed feelings about re-signing Jorge in the off-season — I think he's the wrong guy to call games for all these young pitchers. It was less important when he had mostly veterans in the rotation.) It's impossible to quantify but I would guess Molina's worth at least 0.20 of ERA decrease across the board. And I can live with either Melky or Gardner in CF for the time being. But we can't give up LF as well.
I really don't know if we can afford to wait for Damon to get healthy…I guess that depends on how long that will take.
If Damon and Matsui were healthy, Melky and Gardner would not both be starting. Damon is supposed to be back in a few days, no reason to trade for another outfielder when we have plenty of those already. Let's see if there's something on the market this offseason when Bobby leaves
Betemit caught a hard line drive with runners on during Tuesday night's game, which Giambi would not have had a shot at. Similarly, Molina threw out some important runners against the Sox and generally kept the insanely good running game of the Rays a non-factor. Even Gardner threw out (Elsbury or Pedroia, can't remember) at 2nd base. Plays like these erase runs, and combining a tight Defense with our strong (gulp..) bullpen and adequate starting pitching is why we are winning these games without racking up 8 runs a game. Jeter, Robbie, Abreu, etc. are gonna bring their OBP up, but pitching and defense wins championships and I have no problem with marching out lineups containing Betemit and Molina.
Betemit stinks. The only thing he does better than Giambi defensively is throw.
The line drive you refer to was right at him. Giambi, or the ballboy, or whoever happened to standing there would have caught it.
Lots of cry babies on here that want want want and are willing to sell the farm 1 season away from shedding 84 million and really putting a long term product out there. Than 8 years from now they will be the ones who will say, I was patient and I loved what the Yankees were doing with Cashman and I was writing all these blogs stressing patience. Stephen and Ben, you guys need to relax! Gardner is no superstar in the making. What he brings is defensive range in the outfield to take away doubles. He brings amazing speed on the base paths to cause havoc for the opposing pitchers. I said this before he came up and Chad Jennings also covered this in article on Gardner. If he gets on 1x a game, the likelihood of him scoring a run is pretty high based on his speed factor. If he gives you 1 run scored a game. Isn't that better than what Melky is doing? I also agree with Chip, he stated lets wait and get Damon back next week and than Gardner becomes a platoon with Melky. And in late inning situations you bring in a Gardner or Melky to replace Abreau. Its a win win. Gardner projects to hit at best right now 260-280 with 40-60 SB and 500 plus at bats. His arm i pretty accurate and a hell of allot better than Damons as well. I will take that.
We need to stop being glass half empty and think if we do not win this season, it's the end of the Yankees. This plan is the best laid out plan in the last 8 years and it is one that most intelligent Yankee fans will agree with. Patience!
I don't disagree with your basic premise on sticking with the plan. (Which is why I think signing Bonds is a good interim solution — he doesn't cost us any prospects.)
But stealing 40-60 bases (projected over 500 ABs) on a .260 BA is highly unlikely unless he can post an OBP of .340 or better while hitting .260 — which would be pretty impressive. He would have to be one hell of a base stealer. To put that in perspective, Jose Reyes stole 78 bases on a .354 OBP (.280 BA + 77 BB). He was 16th in the MVP voting.
It's definitely too early to make a call on Gardner, but I think you're being a bit optimistic. First he has to hit .260 — watching him at the plate I wouldn't put my money on that happening just yet.
I think you guys are overrating Betemit at 1B defensively too. His defense is far (light years far) from good enough to carry his 84 OPS+ at what is primarily an offensive position. Tony Clark is far better than Betemit defensively, has an OPS+ of 95 and I wouldn't want him as my starting 1B either.
How is Gardner looking so bad at the plate? He's hit the ball hard a lot of times right at guys. Add to that the fact that he runs a pitcher's pitch count up (one of the most important aspects of that 96-01 teams). You people are looking WAY too much at small sample sizes. If he hits .260-.280 with a .340-.350 OBP then I'm perfectly happy with him.
You meationed that Jose Reyes stole 78 bases with an .354 OBP and placed 16th in the MVP voting. If Gardner were to place in the top 20 in MVP voting next year, I guarantee everybody in Yankee land would be more than happy to have him.
I know nobody wants Pedroia at the All-Star game but you have to accept the fact that he's a damn good baseball player. When you really look at it, Gardner has about his skill-set (minus the swinging from the heels), he gets on base (in his minor league career), gets a lot of hits, steals bases (much better actually), plays great defense and takes his walks. What's wrong with being optimistic with the guy?
Anyone else getting more comfortable seeing Girardi start to use Veras more as the 7th inning guy? If he can continue to be effective and really help keep the bullpen stable, I have to think the playoff push will be greatly enhanced. Would be nice to see the Yanks continue to win these close games on a regular basis.
I guess so…but everybody is failing to read between the lines.
The Yankees are currently the only team with a road record over .500. Although, every other teams home record is absolutely ridiculous while the Yankees home record isn't anywhere close (to that of the Rays or Sox).
I don't believe the Red Sox AND Rays will be under .500 on the road the entire season…so these were the time where we could have picked up some slack…and also explain why we are only 6.5 back after all that has happened to us.
That being said, we're going to have to pick up the pace regardless. If Molina and Betemit have to play everyday, they have to find a way to be better. Melky and Cano have no excuse.
We've been hit hard with injuries and underachieving this season and we're still in the thick of things…imagine if we only had HALF the injuries and we actually TRIED HARDER? Possibilities are endless.
Now you can't help the injuries sometimes…but you CAN help by trying harder. Which is what they need to do.
We're doing a bit above average on the road while we're very below average at home…especially for the AL East.
Also a note: Not only do we have Molina and Betemit in there too much…but we have 2 starting pitchers in Sidney Ponson and Darrell Rasner that shoudn't be there either. Now they have had a handful of good starts between them…but they aren't at all consistent…and they shouldn't be expected to be either…
People need to step it up NOW
"Only team in the AL East" with a road record over .500 I meant to say…forgot to add that in there…
yes, the yankees aren't trying hard enough. this is clearly the problem.
So, you're confident that the Rays and Sox won't remain crappy on the road, but it's inconcievable that we won't improve at home? Or that the Rays and Sox won't cool off at home?
I like to keep the pieces of Mark Melchon,Hughhes,and Jackson.But the Yankees should have traded Kennedy,Melky and Tabatha when there stock was high.
Yes injuries are too blame.But remember Gardner,Molina are playing too much which is right.But remember Rasner,Ponson,LaTroy,Edwar Ramirez also are playing too much.The pitching staff has been good for now.
Matsui and Damon will be back and Posada will get healthy.But if anybody here thinks our starting staff will keep us in the streach to the post season you are crazy.
And trade "will" not maybe…will happen.
"But the Yankees should have traded Kennedy,Melky and Tabatha when there stock was high."
This assumes that the Yanks knew their stocks would drop. Melky… I can see the argument, yes. And I think theyd' have parted with him in the right trade. Kennedy… I'm not sold yet. I still think he can be useful, but again, I think the Yanks would've traded him too, in the right deal (for instance, Santana for IPK+Melky+? I think gets done). Tabata… is 19.
I've always thought the past few years the Yankees have been having terrible luck (was the curse actually reversed??)…
In the past 3 years, we've had several "Iron Men" who have never seen the DL go onto the DL. Now this COULD be attributed to the fact that nobody is using steroids or HGH anymore (which is why injuries are all over the place everywhere these days) but still…
Matsui with his wrist, Damon and Posada this year…never been on the DL before, etc. Hughes MAY be another Rich Harden with his injuries…but I think he's just trying too much…which is probably why he suffered another injury (ankle) while rehabbing from another (hamstring). Ian Kennedy needs to find location…he doesn't have the overpowering stuff that others have…but look at Justin Duscherer on the A's! He doesn't have hard stuff either…but he has incredible location…and he has the lowest ERA in the game due to that….we can also look at our own Mussina as well…he should be giving the kid some tips.
Jeter is getting older and after playing almost 181 games (playoffs every year) in every year of his career…it takes a toll as you get older, Abreu is afraid of the outfield wall and always has been…he's a liability, Matsui and Damon are older and bogging down as well, Cano and Melky are the youth to take us further but are underachieving for no reason. Molina is great defensively but his offense is an automatic out…
I'm not worried about the injuries and veterans getting older as much as I'm worried about these "young" guys of ours not playing with heart. Because this is our future. Like I said above…you can't do much about the injuries and the age…but you can do everything about the amount of effort you put in.


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Each day I read The Modesto Bee and listen to the news I am more dismayed! The 30-plus years that I taught young children, we pledged to the flag, sang America the Beautiful and even The Star Spangled Banner. I would say we are not a perfect nation, but the USA is the best in the world.
Now, I am not so sure. We have to be politically correct and even accept what was at one time morally wrong. Even our president shares about his marijuana use as a kid and states it is not more harmful than alcohol. Has the general consumption of either substance enhanced the lives of our population?
I am thankful that when I attended and graduated from Fresno State College in the 60s, marijuana was not an issue and alcohol was the problem. Not mine, as I cared too much to put a harmful substance in my body and did not want to break any laws.
I know we still have students who honor their bodies and the laws. We volunteered and learned to be responsible leaders at school and for the future. I respect the office of the president of the United States of America, but I often wonder about our current president. He should be setting the standard much higher.


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Raritan High School senior Leann Coppola is a student representative to the Board of Education. She gave this schools roundup report at Lillian Drive School on Monday, April 22. This was her last report before Bianca Lucarini takes the reigns.
Good evening everyone, to start off I would like to announce that this will be my last meeting as Student Representative. Though I am very sad that this amazing opportunity is coming to an end, I would like to thank the Board of Ed., all of the principals, teachers and staff in our district for their support over the past year. I am positive that the new student representative will do an incredible job though she does have big shoes to fill.
Now to report on our district:
Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center celebrated Mother Earth as they recognized Earth Day today. Sycamore Drive welcomed families to attend their Cheeburger Cheeburger Fundraiser Tuesday night! Also Tuesday night, The Child Assault Prevention Parent Program was held at 7pm. Sycamore's PTO will have a meeting on May 1st at 7pm.
Raritan Valley Elementary is asking that students and staff wear orange this Friday, April 26th, as a reminder that Raritan Valley cares about all animals. Raritan Valley is really looking forward to their spectacular Art Show on May 1st beginning at 6pm.
Middle Road's School Store will be open for students tomorrow. Middle Road 's 4th Grade is preparing for their Spring Concert which will be held at RHS on May 2nd. Middle Road would like to remind everyone that their Super Fan Fundraiser will end on May 3rd.
Lillian Drive's 4th Graders are excited to have gone on a Field Trip to build Long Houses at Huber Woods on Wednesday, April 24th. The Lillian Drive PTO would like to remind everyone of their Bertucci's Fundraiser on April 25th. On May 3rd, Lillian Drive's Student Store will be open.
Cove Road showcased their production of "Annie" on April 23rd. The Hero's and Cool Kids from RHS visited the 5th Graders at Cove Road on April 24th. The PTO for Cove Road is holding their Spring Car Wash Fundraiser this Saturday, April 27th.
Beers Street would like to report that their Art Show held on April 16th went extremely well as the students hard work was displayed for the public. The RHS Hero's and Cool Kids will also be visiting Beers Street Elementary School on April 24th. Also on April 24th, Beers Street will be recognizing Administrative Professional's Day.
The 8th grade at HMS would like to thank Raritan's Drama Department for their special viewing of "Annie Get Your Gun". The Hazlet Middle School 3rd marking period academic awards will be announced at this Friday's NJASK pep rally. All winners will receive certificates noting that they are the top student in their specific subjects. The Hazlet Middle School would like to remind students that NJASK Testing will take place from April 29th through May 2nd. Lastly, HMS would like to congratulate their OM team who came in first place in the STATE, and will be traveling to the World Championship!
Congratulations to all of Raritan's Students who were inducted into the National Honors Society on Wednesday, April 24th! This Friday Raritan's annual Coffee House will be held at 6pm. Lastly, the Juniors at Raritan should be reminded that College Planning night will be on April 30th.
In conclusion, NJ PASS Testing for all 2nd Graders was held on April 22 through 24th. Report Cards for the 3rd marking period were posted on Parent Portal April 24.
Thank you again everyone for this opportunity and best of luck to your new Student Representative.


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2008: Served as the team's punter in all 12 games ... Had a 40.9-yard average on 62 punts and placed 13 inside the 20-yard line ... Also had nine punts to go more than 50 yards ... Had three winning grades from the coaches ... Voted the most improved specialist in strength and conditioning during the spring ... Averaged 40.2 yards a punt against Troy and had a long of 52 yards ... Had a 42.0-yard average on four punts against Maryland while also completing a 28-yard pass on a fake punt to Alvin Ingle ... Earned Sun Belt Conference Special Teams Player of the Week honors for his play against the Terps ... Punted four times for a 45.2-yard average and placed one inside the 20-yard line against Arkansas State ... Had two punts downed inside the 20-yard line in win over FAU ... Placed four punts inside the 20-yard line against Louisville ... Had a season-best 47.2-yard average on four punts against ULM to go along with a 64-yard boot ... Turned in a 46.7-yard average at WKU while booming a career long 71-yard punt that tied for the fourth longest in school history.
2007: Named All-Sun Belt by Phil Steele Magazine ... Started all 12 games as punter and the last four games as the placekicker ... Averaged 40.9 yards per punt and led the Sun Belt Conference with 28 punts placed inside the opponent's 20-yard line ... Connected on 4 of 6 field goals including his last three in a row ... Earned the starting job at punter and had eight attempts for an average of 36.0 per kick and put two inside the 20-yard line ... Punted just twice at Louisville for a 39.0 average and one went inside the 20-yard line ... Recorded a 52-yard punt at LSU ... Hit a 56-yard punt in win over FIU ... Enjoyed a great game against Virginia by placing five of his eight punts inside the UVA 20-yard line to go along with a 40.0-yard average ... Put two of his four punts inside the 15-yard line against Memphis ... Placed three of his four punts inside the 15-yard line against Arkansas State ... Averaged a career-best 47.2 yards on eight punts and placed four inside the 15-yard line including three at the 1-yard line against North Texas to set up two safeties ... Also hit a 39-yard field goal versus the Mean Green ... Had a 41.5-yard average on four punts against ULM while also adding a career long 47-yard field goal ... Registered the third-best single-game punting average when he boomed seven attempts for a 53.0-yard average against ULL ... He also had three of his seven attempts downed inside the 20-yard line ... Connected with a career-best 70-yard punt at Troy.
2006: Transferred to Middle Tennessee.
2005: Made 1 of 3 field goal attempts as a freshman at Marshall University while connecting on 2 of 3 extra points ... Attempted one kickoff.
High School: Averaged 42.3 yards per punt during his prep career at Franklin High School under Coach Kurt Jones ... Was all-Midstate in 2003 and 2004 ... Helped Franklin to its first-ever state championship his senior year ... A four-year letterwinner in football and soccer.
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Clam cakes and Johnnycakes in Maine?
Of all the various local seafood specialties I've tried during my visits to Maine, one that I've rarely come across has been the clam cake.
Is the clam cake not really something that local Mainers eat? Is it more of a Southern New England specialty that's only offered at tourist traps to appease visitors from Rhode Island and Massachusetts?
I ask because the very small handful of places I've seen it on the menu in Maine, such as Red's Eats and The Sea Basket in Wiscasset as well as Ken's Place in Scarborough, have been tourist magnets. But whenever I go to off-the-beaten-path eateries, it never seems to be available.
For that matter, the only place I've seen johnnycakes has been at Red's Eats. This is definitely more of a Rhode Island specialty, right?
Any thoughts on the best places to get clam cakes and johnnycakes in Maine? Or are these foods better saved for visits to RI and MA?
I am sure there may be places that make clam cakes and johnnycakes in ME, but its more of a south coast MA and RI thing. I love that there are many specialty items from that area that you don't see elsewhere much.
Best clam cakes I have had were at a dumpy fry shack in Warwick RI called Seven Seas Chowder House. I didn't care for the red or white chowder (thickened with potato and tasted more like pork than clams), but those clam cakes made me realize why people get excited about a clam donut.
Blount's Seafood in Fall River MA makes good ones too - and they have a chourico version. Red and white chowder is good too.
Evelyn's in Tiverton RI has decent clam cakes, but you can get clear (no dairy products added) chowder there to go with them.
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I would guess some sort of hard shell clam. Soft shell clams (steamers) don't lend themselves to chowder or fritter preparations, the texture and body structure are wrong. They grow a lot of "mahogany" clams in Maine, perhaps those or sea clams, and by no means am I saying there are no quahaugs north of Boston, just that as the shore line starts to change so do the predominant species, and what's traditional has a tendency to be what was accessible back in the day.
Definitely a SEMA/RI thing; not Maine. Johnnycakes have a wider acceptance, but clam cakes and clam fritters are almost exclusively South County RI and some parts of MA near Newport. Growing up on Cape Cod, the only place I could get clam fritters was at the local drive-in movie. Surprisingly, they were pretty good.
Maine is lobster and other seafoods. A few places make awesome Whole Belly Fried clams. ( add Bob's in Kittery and Captain Simeon to your list)..but for the rest, wait until you take a trip south
Oh.and hearty second on Evelyn's.....great clams, lovely fun spot.
I've been doing some more research on this topic, and it appears that Schutty's Seafood in West Bath makes clam cakes. All of their fried seafood is supposed to be excellent, with more than a few people on other food sites raving about their fried clams in particular, so I'm thinking that their clam cakes could be the real deal.
Just to add my two cents: I'm an RI native, and I would not think to look for clamcakes or jonnycakes in Maine. Same for RI-style chowder and stuffies.
Fried whole-belly clams, yes indeed. But not the other stuff.
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As a fellow native RIer, I will chime in that, though I love clam cakes, there is not much clam to be found in most examples, at least in my experience. The most memorable ones for me have been purchased from a beach food shack around noon time and scarfed down immediately, preferably accompanied by competently fried French fries, both made by some college kid on summer break, and a big cup of Del's Frozen Lemonade.


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Josh Burkman returns to action after a 13 month layoff to face fellow TUF vet Brandon Melendez at Throwdown Showdown 5 in Utah.
Josh Burkman returns to action after a 13 month layoff to face fellow TUF vet Brandon Melendez at Throwdown Showdown 5 in Utah.
The official payouts for The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale are in from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC). The big winner of the night was TUF 1 veteran Diego Sanchez who pulled in 70k for fighting and winning his fight over Luigi Fioravanti. The loser of the night award goes to TUF 2 veteran Josh Burkman who earned 10k to fight. This was Burkman's 9th fight with the UFC stemming all the way back to 2005.
Kendall Grove ($32,000, fight/win)
Evan Tanner ($25,000)
Amir Sadollah ($16,000, fight/win)
C.B. Dollaway ($8,000)
Diego Sanchez ($70,000, fight/win)
Luigi Fioravanti ($10,000)
Spencer Fisher ($36,000, fight/win)
Jeremy Stephens ($16,000)
Matthew Riddle ($16,000, fight/win)
Dante Rivera ($8,000)
Dustin Hazelett ($24,000, fight/win)
Josh Burkman ($10,000)
Drew McFedries ($26,000, fight/win)
Marvin Eastman ($9000)
Matt Brown ($16,000, fight/win)
Matt Arroyo ($8,000)
Dean Lister ($28,000, fight/win)
Jeremy Horn ($25,000)
Tim Credeur ($8,000)
Cale Yarbrough ($8,000)
Rob Kimmons ($6,000, fight/win)
Rob Yundt ($5,000)
Total Payout: $410,000
These numbers didn't include the fight night bonuses,
Dustin Hazelett ($20,000 for "Fight of the Night", $20,000 for "Submission of the Night")
Josh Burkman ($20,000 for "Fight of the Night")
Drew McFedries ($20,000 for "Knockout of the Night")
All reported payouts don't include deductions for insurance, licenses, gym dues, management commissions, and taxes. They also don't reflect fighter sponsorships, signing bonuses and sometimes PPV percentages.
The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale "Fight of the Night" video between Josh Burkman and Dustin Hazelett can be seen for free on UFC.com.
Hazelett put on a Jiu-Jitsu clinic before diving on Burkmans back at the end of the second round, securing one of sickest Armbar submissions of all time.
Dustin Hazelett defeated Josh Burkman by Submission (Armbar) at 4:46 of R2.
Both fighters received $20,000 bonus for their performance. Hazelette also received $20,000 for "Submission of the Night" and Drew McFedries pulled in "Knockout of the Night" for his dismantling of Marvin Eastman.
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