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Hi everyone
Sorry for the delay in writing this long overdue blog!! What can I say I've been having too good a time to sit down long enough to put fingers to keys!!!
Well I can't believe I've been away for 2 & 1/2 months already and the impending truth of only a short time left in New Zealand!
Lets see my last entry ended with me arriving in Ngaio Bay. An absolutely stunning place. Being able to wake every moring and look out on to the beach words really can't describe. It gave me a real energy to stand in the fresh open space and do yoga each morning before work and then swim every afternoon in the sea having walked in the vast expanse or chilling with one of our hosts many books. If peace and serenity are what you want or need this is definately the place to be. At the same time though there was always something to do. In some respects I felt like part of an extended family and enjoyed the company and hospitality of our hosts. It also felt at times as if we were in fact guests as we were
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welcomed to participate in all that the guests took part in from dinner to fishing, great conversation to insight into our hosts photography and lives, meeting interesting guests to taking a bath on the beach. In some ways I think we got a better deal than the guests due to the extra experiences we had. The penguins setting up home under our beach hut and eventually being evacuted after days of persistence (mainly on James' part! I think the male penguin and James had a love hate relationship!! lol) to the possum's partying on our roof like it was their last one. A truely magical experience which didn't feel like hard work at all! Sorry to say goodbye but looking forward to the next challenge!
About as far away as we could have gotten, Moturoa Island in the Bay of Islands (North Island). It took us 2 long days of pretty much constant travel but well worth the long trek. Here we were to house sit for the owners whilst they went to a wedding and did some business. The island is in fact a site of conservation for wildlife including the Kiwi! It is only inhabited by 20
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residents, most of which don't live their all the time. I couldn't believe our luck, a house to ourselves, beautiful scenery and secluded beaches, kayaks & fishing gear, stunning walks and the 'mule' (a small 4x4 motorised bugey) to drive around the Island. I think there was only once in my week and a half there that I felt a little stranded and in general the time flew by including the long list of jobs which we had been left to do. Digging holes to cement mixing and laying a flower border, to cleaning and tiding, clearing gutters to laying stone. Very diverse which I enjoyed. Ooh I nearly forgot the weirdest thing happened whilst we were there. We needed to order some food which the shop deliver on the tourist boat. It doesn't stop just comes into the jetty and passes over the side of the boat to you. Well who would of thought I would've been photographed by tourists as if I lived on the Island. Really quite bizarre!!
Time to move on again and off to the Coromandel and Whangamata after a quick re-coup in Auckland. Its really quite surreal it feels like a rain forest!
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Stunning again but in a different way. Our first couple of days in Whangamata were very wet although this didn't put us off instead we started to explore the local area even if we got soaked (a good excuse to sit in a local cafe!! lol) The beach was amazing. Beautiful white sandy beach which seemed to go on forever and to go with it great surf for all the surfer's out there! Our hosts again were fantastic, very welcoming and included us in their lives from introducing us to their friends to getting us involved in the community. Again having spent about 3 weeks here it felt like home away from home. Lucky again with the accommodation, we had a house to ourselves on their plot of land. I think I've learnt the most here from basic's in permaculture, being sustainable, and on the other hand stories of sailing, a brief encounter with jewellery making and lots of info to do with natural healing, chinese medicine and acupunture. I felt like we really achieved and helped here from the gardens to volunteering in the local community looking after a group of kids for a couple of days in the
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holidays. It was interesting for me too as we visited the fire, ambulance & police stations and also had a day out at a small farm. We also stayed for the beach hop which is a long weekend where thousands of people meet for a classic car event with the theme of 50's and 60's. It was good, glad we hung around for it. I also think I enjoyed this place as we were able to get out and about on days off. We visited Hot water beach where you're suppose to dug a hole in the sand which fills with hot water from underneath to give you your very own hot pool. Unfortunately the tide didn't go out far enough the day we visited!!! However we did have a great trip to Cathedral cove which is stunning. Also visited Driver's Creek Railway and Pottery where they also glass blow. Got to watch the guy doing this. He made an amazing vase out of nothing, really quite something. The list goes on so will just attach so pictures!!!
Its been a real pleasure WWOOFing, meeting all these fantastic people and sharing a part of their lives. For me now
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though I'm off to be a tourist for my last couple of weeks and catch up on things I've missed along the way. Its quite sad in a way!
If you ever get a chance to WWOOF I'd say jump at it. Its a great way to travel, meet interesting people and be on a budget!!
Well thats me for now, back off to Auckland to catch a few sights before hopping on my kiwi experience bus!
Take care, Em x
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Author | Ernest Hemingway |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
Published | 1929 (Scribner) |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
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A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented his stature as a modern American writer,[1] became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."[2]
The novel was first adapted to stage by Laurence Stallings in 1930,[3] then to film in 1932, with a 1957 remake. The 1996 film In Love and War, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Sandra Bullock, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in the events prior to his writing of "A Farewell to Arms".
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The novel is divided into five books. In the first book, Rinaldi introduces Frederic Henry to Catherine Barkley; Frederic attempts to seduce her, and their relationship begins. While on the Italian front, Frederic is wounded in the knee by a mortar shell and sent to a hospital in Milan. The second book shows the growth of Frederic and Catherine's relationship as they spend time together in Milan over the summer. Frederic falls in love with Catherine and, by the time he is healed, Catherine is three months pregnant. In the third book, Frederic returns to his unit, but not long afterwards the Austrians break through the Italian lines in the Battle of Caporetto, and the Italians retreat. Frederic kills an engineering sergeant for insubordination. After falling behind and catching up again, Frederic is taken to a place by the "battle police", where officers are being interrogated and executed for the "treachery" that supposedly led to the Italian defeat. However, after seeing and hearing that everyone interrogated is killed, Frederic escapes by jumping into a river. In the fourth book, Catherine and Frederic reunite and flee to Switzerland in a rowboat. In the final book, Frederic and Catherine live a quiet life in the mountains until she goes into labor. After a long and painful birth, their son is stillborn. Catherine begins to hemorrhage and soon dies, leaving Frederic to return to their hotel in the rain.
In early editions, the words "shit", "fuck", and "cocksucker" were replaced with dashes.[4] There are at least two copies of the first edition in which Hemingway re-inserted the censored text by hand, so as to provide a corrected text. One of these copies was presented to Maurice Coindreau; the other, to James Joyce.[4] Hemingway's corrected text has not been incorporated into modern published editions of the novel; however, there are some audiobook versions that are uncensored.
Also, the novel could not be published in Italy until 1948 because it was considered detrimental to the honor of the Armed Forces by the fascist regime, both the description of the Battle of Caporetto, and for a certain anti-militarism implied in the work.[5] The Italian translation had in fact already been written illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano, leading to her arrest in Turin.
Background and publication history[edit]
The novel was based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a real nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded. He had planned to marry her but she spurned his love when he returned to America.[6] Kitty Cannell, a Paris-based fashion correspondent, became Helen Ferguson. The unnamed priest was based on Don Giuseppe Bianchi, the priest of the 69th and 70th regiments of the Brigata Ancona. Although the sources for Rinaldi are unknown, the character had already appeared in In Our Time.
Biographer Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described; because his previous novel, The Sun Also Rises, was written as a roman à clef, readers assumed A Farewell to Arms to be autobiographical.[2]
Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then wife Pauline Pfeiffer,[7] and in Mission Hills, Kansas while she was awaiting delivery of their baby.[8] Pauline underwent a caesarean section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth.[9]
The novel was first serialized in Scribner's Magazine in the May 1929 to October 1929 issues. The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies.[10] The success of A Farewell to Arms made Hemingway financially independent.[11]
The Hemingway Library Edition was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix with the many alternate endings Hemingway wrote for the novel in addition to pieces from early draft manuscripts.[12]
The JFK Library Hemingway collection has two handwritten pages with possible titles for the book. Most of the titles come from the Oxford Book of English Verse.[13] One of the possible titles Hemingway considered was: In Another Country and Besides. This comes from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. The poem Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot also starts of by quoting Marlowe: "Thou hast committed/ Fornication: but that was in another country,/ And besides, the wench is dead.". Hemingway's library included both works by Eliot and Marlowe.[14]
The novel has been adapted numerous times for stage, cinema, radio and television: There was a 1930 stage adaptation;[15] a 1932 screen adaptation that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; a 1957 film adaptation; various radio adaptations between 1938 and 1950; and a 1955 television adaptation by Gore Vidal, for the "Climax!" TV series.[16]
In popular culture[edit]
One of the several titles initially considered by Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey was Farewell to Earth, in reminiscence of Hemingway's novel.[17]
A Farewell to Arms was the first book read by Pat Solitano, Jr. (Bradley Cooper) in the film Silver Linings Playbook. The character reads the book and is greatly disappointed by the ending, so he hurls it through an attic window in the middle of the night.
- ^ Mellow (1992), 378
- ^ a b Reynolds (2000), 31
- ^ Young, Stark (1994). "A Farewell to Dramatization". Critical essays on Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms. New York: Hall [u.a.] pp. 91–95. ISBN 0-7838-0011-8. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ a b Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." (New York: Scribner, 1929). James Joyce Collection, the Poetry Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo), item J69.23.8 TC141 H45 F37 1929
- ^ ^ More than one biographer suggests that at the base of the censorship of the Fascist regime in the novel there has also been a personal antipathy between the writer and Benito Mussolini. Hemingway was interviewed in 1922, and in his article in the Toronto Star the future Duce was called "the biggest bluff in Europe's history" and even if there were never official reactions, it is known that Mussolini did not like the article at all . (Fernanda Pivano, "Hemingway", Rusconi, Milan 1985) (ISBN 8818701657, 9788818701654)
- ^ Villard, Henry Serrano & Nagel, James. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky: Her letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway (ISBN 1-55553-057-5 H/B/ISBN 0-340-68898-X P/B)
- ^ "Hemingway-Pfeiffer Home Page". Arkansas State University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-30.
- ^ "A Writer's Haunts: Where He Worked and Where He Lived"
- ^ Meyers (1985), 216–217
- ^ Oliver (1999), 91
- ^ Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. Da Capo Press, 1999, p. 219.
- ^ Boseman, Julie. (July 4, 2012)."To Use and Use Not". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2012
- ^ Hemingway, Ernest (1929). Hemingway, Seán, ed. A Farewell To Arms (The Special Edition ed.). London: William Heinemann. p. XIX. ISBN 9780434022489.
- ^ Brasch, James D.; Sigman, Joseph (1981). Hemingway's Library: A Composite Record (Electronic Edition John F. Kennedy Library, 2000 ed.). New York and London: Garland Pub. ISBN 0-8240-9499-9. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Oliver (1999), 92
- ^ "Climax!" A Farewell to Arms (1955). Retrieved 16 January 2014.
- ^ The Star Gate (A Space Odessy) : a Stanley Kubrick production – 2001 Italia – il blog italiano dedicato al capolavoro di Stanley Kubrick
- Baker, Carlos (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Princeton: Princeton UP. ISBN 978-0-691-01305-3
- Mellow, James (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-42126-0
- Oliver, Charles (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-3467-3
- Reynolds, Michael (2000). "Ernest Hemingway, 1899–1961: A Brief Biography". in Wagner-Martin, Linda (ed). A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. New York: Oxford UP. ISBN 978-0-19-512152-0
- Roy, Pinaki (2012). Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms': A Critical Appraisal. Kolkata: Books Way. ISBN 978-93-81672-12-9


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The City of La Porte City has several Boards, Commissions and other volunteer opportunities that you are encouraged to get involved with.
The Board of Adjustment and the Planning & Zoning Commission are two groups that regulate development. This regulation is designed to preserve agricultural land, encourage efficient urban development patterns, lessen congestion, secure safety, promote health, prevent over-crowding, promote conservation and to facilitate adequate provision for transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks and other public needs.
Board of Adjustment. This board consists of five residents appointed by the Council for a five year term. A majority of the members of the Board shall be persons representing the public at large. The duty of this Board is to hear and decide appeals made by residents in regard to adopted development ordinances. Appeals by the public can be made for variances, use exceptions and interpretation of the Code. Meetings and public hearings are scheduled as appeals are made for the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month at 7:00pm at City Hall. Board of Adjustment Meeting Minutes
Board of Adjustment
5 year terms
Shelly Hopkins 7/17/2014
Julie Grote 7/17/2015
Dan Kautz 7/17/2016
Shane Neil 7/17/2017
Neal Keegan 7/17/2018
Planning & Zoning Commission. The Commission consists of nine members who are qualified by knowledge or experience to act in matters pertaining to the development of a City plan. Terms are for five years and appointed by the Council. Duties include reviewing and making recommendations regarding the adoption or amendment to the Comprehensive Plan and the Development Ordinance which includes subdivision plats, vacation of platted areas, and other land use changes or issues. This Board meets as needed on the 3rd Monday of the month at 7:00pm at City Hall. Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes
Planning & Zoning
5 year terms
Jim Bader 12/31/2015
Joel Bishop 12/31/2015
Richard Sides 12/31/2016
Nancy Olson 12/31/2016
JoAnn Heckroth 12/31/2016
Vi Neil 12/31/2016
Kylee Harting 12/31/2017
Doris Wagner 12/31/2018
Robert Pipho 12/31/2018
The Library Board consists of six members – five of which reside in the City limits and are appointed by the Mayor with Council approval, and one member that resides in rural Black Hawk County, appointed by the Mayor with County Board of Supervisors approval. Duties of these officers is to direct and control all affairs of the Library some of which includes holding regular meetings, hiring of staff, purchases and record keeping. This group meets regularly on the 2nd Monday of the month at 4:30pm at Hawkins Memorial Library located at 308 Main Street. Library Board Meeting Minutes
Library Board of Trustees
6-year terms
Mary Bader 7/1/2014
Jack Aschenbrenner 7/1/2015
Scot Morris 7/1/2017
Michael Whittlesey 7/1/2018
Susan Deaton 7/1/2018
Joan Getz 7/1/2019
The Museum Board is created to advise the Council on the needed facilities to provide museum property and facilities in the City. The Board consists of six members appointed by the Mayor with Council approval and is a five year term. Up to two of these members may reside outside the City limits but within the Union School District. The duty of this Board is to provide for the operation and maintenance of the FFA Ag Museum and to make plans for future operations. This Board meets regularly on the 3rd Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the FFA Ag Museum located at 408 Main Street. In addition to the Board, volunteers are always needed. Those wishing to volunteer at the Museum, please contact us directly. Museum Board Meeting Minutes
Museum Board
5-year terms
Sherry Sheffler 10/31/2014
Pat Wood 10/31/2015
Jerry Erdahl 10/31/2016
Lesa Foss 10/31/2016
Mike Strubel 10/31/2017
Vacant 10/31/2018
Current Ag Instructor/FFA Advisor
The Utility Board consists of three members serving six year terms. Powers and duties of the Board consist of controlling properties, equipment and processes in relation to the combined utility system, and to report detailed financial statements to the City. This Board meets regularly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5:00pm at the Utility Office located at 403 Main Street. Utility Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
6 year terms
Shawn Mehlert 9/1/2015
Tami Keune 9/1/2017
Jon Barz 9/1/2019
Historic Preservation Commission is a board designed to safeguard the City's historic, aesthetic and cultural heritage by preserving sites and districts of historic and cultural significance. This group consists of no more than seven members with a majority of those members residing inside the City limits. The balance of the members must reside within the Union School District or own property in the City limits. Members are appointed by the Mayor with Council consent for three year terms. Members shall demonstrate a positive interest in historic preservation, possess interest or expertise in architecture, archeology, history or other closely related disciplines. The Commission identifies and designates local historic districts and sites and makes recommendations to the State Bureau of Historic preservation for the listing of such places. This group meets as needed a minimum of three times a year.
Historic Preservation Commission
3 year terms
Leann Craft 12/31/2013
Janet Erdahl 2/22/2014
Marla Hanna 2/22/2015
Shelly Hopkins 2/22/2015
Dave Neil 2/22/2016
There is currently 1 vacancy on the Historic Preservation Board.
Economic Development Commission has been created to promote and develop economic sustainability within the community, to assist with business retention and expansion, business attraction, and improvements to quality of place. This group consists of five voting members serving three year terms. Four of the members are appointed by the Mayor with Council approval. Two persons out of these four may reside outside of the City limits, but must be employed within the City limits. The fifth member will be the Council person serving as chair on the Council's Finance and Economic Development Committee. Duties include promoting development within the City and advertising information relating to the economic advantages of the City. This group meets on the 2nd Monday of the Month at 5:30pm at City Hall.
Economic Development Commission
3 year terms
Council Member (Sarah Craft)
James Bronner 6/30/2013
James Hoelscher 6/30/2014
Vacant 6/30/2015
Vacant 6/30/2015
Vacant 6/30/2016
There are currently 3 vacancies on the Economic Development Commission
The Parks and Recreation Commission has been created to recommend and review policies, rules, regulations and ordinances relating to City parks, playgrounds, recreational programs and centers. The Commission meets once per month and shall be primarily responsible for developing, organizing and promoting new recreation programs and the establishment of new parks within the City. The Commission shall also make recommendations regarding existing programs and parks within the City. Parks & Recreation Commission Meeting Minutes
Parks and Recreation Commission
4 year terms
Tera Wood 7/1/2014
Steve Skram 7/1/2014
Julie Grote 7/1/2016
Lindsay Pipho 7/1/2016
Travis Hoy 7/1/2016
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Harvard University. Department of Anthropology
Harvard university. Faculty of arts and sciences. Division of anthropology
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Hooton, Earnest Albert (1887-1954)
Movius, Hallam L. Jr
Peabody museum of american archaeology and ethnology. [Cambridge, U.S.A.]
Reynolds, Edward (1860-)
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American criminal; an anthropological study. The native white criminal of native parentage., The
ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands, 1925:, The
Ancient Palestinian. Skhūl V reconstruction. Charles E. Snow. The Mousterian cave of Teshik-Tash, Southeastern Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Edited by Hugh Hencken, George Grant MacCurdy. E. A. Hooton. The
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Body build in a sample of the United States Army.
Crime and the man, by Earnest Albert Hooton
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earnest albert hooton, november 20, 1887 - may 3, 1954
fifty years of physical anthropology: the men, the materials, the concepts, and the methods
George Grant MacCurdy. E. A. Hooton. The Ancient Palestinian. Skhūl V reconstruction. Charles E. Snow. The Mousterian cave of Teshik-Tash, Southeastern Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Edited by Hugh Hencken
Indian burial place at Winthrop, Massachusetts, by Charles C. Willoughby, with notes on skeletal remains by Earnest A. Hooton...
Indian village site and cemetery near Madisonville, Ohio, by Earnest A. Hooton, with notes on the artifacts by Charles C. Willoughby...
Indians of Pecos Pueblo, a study of their skeletal remains, by Earnest Albert Hooten. Appendix on the dention, by Habib J. Rihan... Appendix on the pelves, by Edward Reynolds..., The
Man's poor relations
native white criminal of native parentage, The
non-human primates and human evolution, The
Nutrition and physical degeneration : a comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects
Physical anthropology of Ireland, by Earnest A. Hooton and C. Wesley Dupertuis. With a section on the West Coast Irish females by Helen Dawson, The
pre-Hellenistic stage ... 1917., The
pre-Hellenistic stage in the evolution of the literary art at Rome, The
some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology
study of some Negro-white families in the United States., A
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Turner group of earthworks, Hamilton county, Ohio, The
Twilight of man
Up from the ape : by earnest Albert Hooton.
Varför människor bete sig som apor och vice versa
Why men behave like apes and vice versa or body and behavior. Earnest Albert Hooton
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Startribune.com digital sports editor Howard Sinker used to cover the Twins and now shares season tickets with friends in Section 219 of Target Field. He blogs about baseball from the perspective of a long-time fan who loves the game, doesn't always believe the hype and likes hearing what others think. Howard sometimes talks about sports with Cathy Wurzer on MPR's Morning Edition.
Well, they're back at it and we're into Year 3 of having the Twins report to spring training with the biggest question for many people being whether this is a team built to win 70 games or so. You'll remember that the great collapse of 2011 was attributed to such a perfect storm of woes the season before that it couldn't possibly happen again. But it did … and it did ... and now we wonder whether it will again.
I want to be optimistic about this year's team and I will do my best not to swing the sickle of cynicism during these weeks in Florida. That wouldn't be fair to the children or the optimistic. I am also willing, because I'm patient and still have some faith in the decision-makers, to let some things play out before carrying on about not going far enough to make the 2014 Twins as competitive as I'd like them to look right now.
A brief review for those who have excised my thoughts from the baseball part of their brain: I have chided the Twins frequently for not building a bridge to the talented players that we assume will be part of the team for years to come. That's the Byron Buxton/Miguel Sano/Alex Meyer/Eddie Rosario group who will be on display at spring training. (Oops, Rosario has taken a leave for now -- for reasons within his control, apparently. Not a good sign.)
But the start of spring training is supposed to bring optimism. I'm going to try.
Right now, as pitchers and catchers report to Fort Myers, it feels like the Twins have done some building but are a couple of supports short of where they could and should be. Let's call this No. 1 on the list of things I want to be wrong about.
While the 2014 Twins are a team that should have better starting pitching than the past two years, that area has been so bad the last couple of years that the real question is: How much better? How good will the new free agents (Nolasco and Hughes) be? How much better, if at all, will Pelfrey and Correia be? Which pitcher from the gang of a half-dozen will be the fifth starter? Someone who will benefit from getting knocked around last season (Kyle Gibson, Vance Worley or Scott Diamond)? Someone who has both teased and disappointed (Diamond or Sam Deduno)? Someone unexpected (the Kris Johnsons of the roster)?
Does anyone else have questions about the wisdom of bring back Mike Pelfrey? I know the second-year-after-Tommy John surgery philosophy, but there was so much else about last season that makes me wonder about bringing him back as opposed to going fishing for a replacement. Let's call this No. 2 on the aforementioned "things" list. I want Pelfrey's performance and demeanor this year to match the determination that was so much discussed last year.
I want the veteran catcher Kurt Suzuki to be good enough that we don't have to pin too many hopes on Josmil Pinto as Joe Mauer's replacement. I don't want the month of promise that we saw from Pinto last year to devolve as has so far in the case of Chris Parmelee.
I want Joe Mauer to hit .390 (OK, maybe .350 with some power) and make the money he's being paid to now play first base irrelevant. I don't care how much players are paid – as long as the deep-pockets ownership doesn't spend too much (read: any) time talking about payroll as a percentage as revenue. May that phrase, in regard to the Pohlads, go the same way as the "perfect storm of injuries" claptrap we heard going into spring training a couple of years back.
I want Buxton, Sano and May to be Twins when they are ready and not a week before. One-and-done. In other words, one call up and they're done with the minors. I want to assume they'll start in the minors, and have the guys whom they will replace in time be motivated to improve because they'll have a damn tough time finding jobs elsewhere if they don't. It doesn't take much to figure out that guys could underperform the last few years without much risk. Who was going to replace them?
I want Jason Kubel to prove that 2013 was a fluke, and that he will be the weak glove/good bat third outfielder (with Oswaldo Arcia in left and Aaron Hicks in center and Josh Willingham as the DH). If Darin Mastroianni or Alex Presley is the Opening Day center fielder, I'll be calling that a failure.
I want Brian Dozier and Pedro Florimon to be that much better in 2014 so that the middle infield is settled for the next few years.
I want the anticipated work of Glen Perkins to be for a team where having an excellent closer really matters.
I want talk of 2015 and beyond to be put on hold. This is 2014 and Twins fans deserve better than what they've gotten in recent seasons. Looking ahead is for losers.
Baseball is starting up. Let's hope it makes us happy more than it makes us mad. Or almost as much. Is that too much to ask?
What do we want?
Change! (The right change)
When do we want it?
Now! (If not yesterday)
It's tough not to be impatient.
The Twins left the Winter Meetings without enhancing their roster for 2014, which shouldn't mean a whole lot because of the way that baseball has changed. It used to be that the Winter Meetings typically resulted in a flurry of trades and other moves, and then baseball pretty much slowed down for the holidays. It's not like that now.
It was pretty clear that some of the Twins' presumed targets aren't feeling any rush to decide where they'll be playing next season. That the main public drama playing out for the Twins this week centered on whether they would re-sign Mike Pelfrey tells you a lot about how unsettled the really big issues are right now. I know the Twins felt they were bringing in a veteran presence when they signed Pelfrey last season, and I was predisposed to root for him, but the truth is that even billing him as a No. 4 starter heading into spring training is a stretch.
I want to be wrong about my Pelfrey skepticism and buy into the notion that he'll be that much better in his second year removed from Tommy John surgery.
But in a rotation that has Ricky Nolasco, Phil Hughes and Kevin Correia as locks for the top three spots right now, Pelfrey feels like he should merely be in the mix for one of the final spots, an uncomfortable fallback if the Twins fail to bring in one of the bigger names who are still weighing their options. (Matt Garza, Bronson Arroyo and Ervin Santana.)
In a better Twins world, Correia comes to spring training in Fort Myers as the No. 4 starter with competition wide open for the final spot among Pelfrey and the others, which is better than filling the rotation by default and prayer. (Hello, Vance Worley, Liam Hendriks and others.)
I also don't want to believe that the amount of Pelfrey chatter is an indication that the Twins aren't really serious contenders for the others. (I'm smart enough about these things to know how much I don't know.) It also shouldn't obscure the fact that, as Terry Ryan has pointed out, the roster still needs to be upgraded in other areas. Making assumptions about Josmil Pinto's ability to be the starting catcher is unwise and there are outfield needs in the short term that were made clearer when the Twins tried unsuccessfully to sign the speedy-but-flawed Rajai Davis. (Cutting a minor-league deal with Jason Kubel does nothing for the notion that the Twins need outfielders who can catch the ball.)
I'm struck by the direction that the New York Mets appear to be taking this off-season. After finishing 22 games behind the division leaders in the National League East last season, they have signed Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon. They are still a flawed team, but a flawed team that is hovering around the .500 mark come August can position itself to be in the postseason discussion in baseball's expanded playoffs.
That's what I want from the Twins in 2014, to be in the postseason discussion come late summer rather than careening toward another season when we wonder whether they'll be closer to losing 90 games or 100. Yes, "playoff discussion" is weak soup compared to our expectations from a few years back. But an equation of improved roster + improved performance + a surprise or two should be able to yield some excitement that's been lacking from Target Field for the last three years.
For the Twins to be taken seriously in 2014 and a team to be reckoned with in the years following would keep me happy for now..
It was Thanksgiving morning six years ago when the news broke that Torii Hunter had agreed to a new contract with the Angels after playing his entire career with the Twins. He wanted something more than he could get in Minnesota, and got a lot more than the Twins were willing to pay.
For most of the years since, we've watched at this time of year as other teams have been major players in free agency and the Twins have nibbled around the edges. Yes, even the Josh Willingham signing -- the previous "richest free agent signing in Twins history" -- was a small mouthful compared to what other teams have been doing.
Ricky Nolasco is a good start to the rebuilding of the Twins. He'll come in with huge expectations only because he's Cy Young compared to what we've watched take the mound at Target Field for the last couple of seasons.
A friend e-mailed me this morning, asking basically, "Jack Morris or Vance Worley."
Talk about zero shades of gray.
My response: "Carl Pavano+."
Nolasco is a No. 2-starter type who could well play the role of an ace from time to time. He's one of a number of needed pieces, and I'm hoping he's one of three starting pitchers with credentials who the Twins sign for 2014 and beyond. I like two from the group of Matt Garza, Bronson Arroyo, Ervin Santana and Scott Feldman. And there are several catchers on the market who would make me happy.
Do that, and I'll trust the Twins to cobble together what's needed for the rest of the roster. (Hey, they're saying Denard Span is available from Washington, you know.)
If you're playing at home, here's a good free-agent tracker to bookmark.
In contemporary baseball, you can't cobble together an entire roster. But if the Twins are on their way to an aggressive overhaul, they could very well be a good team in 2014 and a very, very good team in 2015 and beyond. I'm still in the "if" camp on whether it will happen, but I'm allowing myself to be optimistic.
One move does not make an overhaul or change in tactics.
But bringing in established starting pitchers raises the bar for the young pitchers whose acquisition was the excitement of last winter and, for the most, had an assortment of struggles during their first year in the Twins organization. It's a lot easier to forecast an eventual leading role for Byron Buxton or Miguel Sano than for Trevor May, Alex Meyer or Jose Berrios. If one member of that pitching group comes through, that's good. If two come through, that's excellent.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone. Maybe there will be more to get excited about in the weeks to come. At the very least, this Thanksgiving is better than the one when Torii Hunter got away.
As the trading deadline approaches at the end of the month, there will be talk about teams interested in Twins players A, B, C and a few others. Think of Glen Perkins as A, Justin Morneau as B, Ryan Doumit as C and a bunch of others, including Jamey Carroll and Mike Pelfrey, as being among the few others.
The wisdom behind trading Perkins is that a terrible team doesn't need a first-rate closer and the lefty closer is the guy on the roster who would bring the most in return.
That's true ... but that doesn't mean the Twins should trade him.
Some people argue with vigor that it's reasonably simple to find someone who can be plugged into a closer's role. Maybe it was the time I spent covering the Twins -- when they traded for Yankees set-up guy Ron Davis and tried to make him a closer -- but I don't buy it. In addition to being a game of ever-expanding statistical models, which is a good thing, baseball is a game in which the same player can perform differently in different situations.
Check out RD's statistics in his four years as the Yankees set-up man versus his 4 1/2 as Minnesota's closer.
A few years back, Cleveland liked the stuff of the pitcher formerly known as Fausto Carmona to try him as a closer, an experiment that failed horrifically the season before he won 19 games as a starter.
Another example of a different sort: Journeyman Pat Tabler, a .282 hitter in 12 career seasons, was a killer force batting with the bases loaded during his career. How good? This good: In 109 bases-loaded career appearances, he had a .489 average, .505 on-base percentage and 1.198 on base-plus-slugging percentage (OPS).
By comparison, Miguel Cabrera, a pretty good baseball player, is .417/.413/1.034 in those situations. Joe Mauer? .333/.322/.850. (I use Mauer as a comparison not to make mock, but because Mauer has significantly more power than Tabler, but Tabler's numbers in this particular clutch situation are so incredibly extreme.) And yes, I know, we're doing some cherry-picking of stats here, but this is a five-minute model. Give me five hours and I'll find you more.
Not everyone can switch roles as gracefully as the fabulous Joe Nathan, who was a set-up man in San Francisco before the Twins traded for him 10 years ago.
OK, back to Perkins.
He is among the best in baseball at what he does. If you favor a trade, you're betting on finding a suitable replacement for what is currently the team's No. 1 strength. Plus, you may be conceding that the Twins are on a treadmill of trading top talent because you don't expect them to be competitive for another few years. I've made the case, more often than some would like, that one of the current Twins' failings has been their inability to field a competitive team while waiting for their young talent to be ready for Target Field.
Give up Perkins and you're creating another hole.
Trade Morneau or Josh Willingham (which won't happen right now because of his injury) or Carroll or Doumit, and you should quickly find someone to adequately fill those roles right away based on current, or even anticipated, performance.
Trade Perkins to an American League team and, a dozen years down the road, maybe the Twins would be presenting him with a rocking chair made of their broken bats. Trade Perkins and you're asking for trouble.
West Coast baseball tonight. Take a nap and maybe we'll trade some tweets.
Sweeping four games from the Brewers gives a lot of Twins fans a little extra dose of giddy because it makes up for Minnesota fans having to look up at the Packers, the Badgers (in football and basketball) and the Bucks (despite their mediocrity) in the standings of those sports. But what does it really mean? That the Twins would go 120-42 if they played only the Brewers, Astros and Marlins?
Mostly, it means that the Twins did not shrivel up and blow away after the wretched baseball they played during their 10-game losing streak -- most of it coming against teams that are in first place in their divisions (Detroit, Boston and Atlanta.) That's not meant to be an excuse or a reason losing 10 in a row, but all teams have valleys during their seasons. It's a bit like life: You're never that good (and you're probably not that bad).
After a month with a rough schedule, the Twins have games in June against teams more their speed. The only teams they play next month with records currently above .500 are Detroit and Cleveland. So it'll take some undoing for the Twins to play poorly enough to restart the 100-loss discussion. And if they play really, really well...
With that unfinished thought in mind, here are a few quick observations:
*It's not good that the pitchers we're most excited about, currently, are Samuel Deduno and P.J. Walters. It means the 2013 rotation implants and Scott Diamond haven't given the Twins what they need, which is absolutely true with the exception of Kevin Correia. But here's my challenge to you: Go through the available free-agent pitchers from last winter and find three who would be giving the Twins a significant boost right now. You can use these rankings as a cheat sheet.
When you find three, of course, then you have to be confident in your ability that you would have chosen those three to the exclusion of all others who were available. Here are a half-dozen names that engendered varying degrees of disappointment when the Twins didn't pluck them off the market: Edwin Jackson (1-7, 6.11), Joe Blanton (1-8, 5.94), Joe Saunders (3-5, 5.57) Brandon McCarthy (2-4, 5.00) Brett Myers (0-3, 8.02), Erik Bedard (0-2, 5.32).
[Sarcastic interlude] It's tough all over, and I'm sure all the barstool, basement and blogging GMs would have honed right in on both Scott Feldman (5-4, 2.82) and Carlos Villanueva (1-3, 3.65) as 2013 Twins starters. Absolutely sure. Yeah, I know I would have. And I would have brought back Jason Marquis (6-2, 3.70), too. [End sarcastic interlude]
In no way does this excuse what was allowed to happen to the Twins pitching in recent years. The atrophy was avoidable. But fixing a pitching staff is a tough, tough business. A look through the lists I linked to shows that.
*I'm glad the Twins stuck with Aaron Hicks. Deciding when a player is ready for the majors is as much art as science. You can hurt one player by bringing him up too soon and you can hurt another with too much time in the minors. By season's end, I think most of those who were clamoring from the Twins to return Hicks to the minors will be happy he stayed. And, yes, it may have been the organization's good fortune that nobody in Rochester would have been a reasonable replacement in center field.
I'm anticipating the debate in a couple of years over who plays center field: Hicks or Byron Buxton. That'll be fun.
*I like Pedro Florimon. Sometimes the best answer is gambling on a player that another team (Baltimore, in this case) had no use for and give him a chance. Claiming Florimon on waivers, a month after Terry Ryan replaced Bill Smith, is turning out to be a pretty sweet replacement for J.J. Hardy (and others who shall not be named).
(Update: For some interesting data on Florimon and Hardy, including some numbers that surprised me, check the comments below.)


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