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Welcome to Hockey Pool Geek's Deep Analysis. Our goal is to dig deep into the team and league that is being analyzed in order to bring out some insight and push you into really getting the most out of your team and ultimately taking down the rest of the league.
Neil McWilliams, aka wendelclark17 on the DobberHockey forums, was one of the lucky winners of our contest. Let's dig right in.
Team Name: Wendel's Warriors
League Name: All-Star Keeper League
GM: Wendelclark17
Evaluators: The Hockey Pool Geek Team
Date of Analysis: September 2011
League Structure:
Format: 10 teams, fantasy points, no maximum GP.
Rosters: 12 forwards, 6 defensemen, and 2 goaltenders.
Each team also has a farm team consisting of 8 NHL players of any position, as well as a "prospect list" of players from which to draw upon during the year to be placed on their farm team or live roster. There is no limit to the number of prospects -- though they can only be added to a team through the draft.
Scoring categories: Goals and assists = 1pt , PIM = 0.1 pts, Shot = 0.05, +/- = 0.2, Shoot-out goal = 1, Goalies – Win = 2pts, Shutout = 3pts, assist = 2pts, goal = 10pts, PIM = 0.1
Number of keepers: Everyone!
Keepers declared by: July 1st
Draft: Inaugural draft was June then a prospect only draft in July (less than 25 games for skaters and less than 20 games for goalies), there is a yearly 6 round draft for prospects only.
Season add/drop limit: no limit but only done once per week on Wednesdays submissions are opened in chronological order.
Trade limit: no limit
Trade deadline: (date here)
Team Assets at Time of Deep Analysis:
The Roster:
F: Perry, Giroux, Ryan, Stastny, Ribeiro, Krejci, Plekanec, Zajac, Van Riemsdyk, Bergeron, Cammalleri, Grabovski
D: Letang, Edler, Chara, Giordano, Meszaros, Franson
G: Rinne, Crawford
Farm: Bernier, Savard, Vermette, Penner, Fleischmann, Wideman, Leino, Rundblad
Prospects: Moore, Despres, Scheifele, Adam, Armia, Beach, Namestnikov, Khokhlachev, Jensen
Background and Environment:
Neil says he built his team as a win now (ish) franchise but has tried to have mostly young elite talent (Ryan, Giroux, Stastny, Perry, Letang, etc.). He doesn't know how the league will shake out as of right now since this is the first season.
He thinks his team is a top 5 team for short-term challenging but it's hard to gauge.
A Look at League Strategy:
First step in looking at the strategy for any league is to understand the scoring system, statistics, and player values.
This league is a fantasy points league, which means there isn't a lot of magic to a winning formula here: you want to accumulate more fantasy points than your competitors – it doesn't matter where they come from in the scoring categories, you simply want the most. Concepts of category balance go out the window!
Close to 90% of the fantasy points generated on most teams in this league will come from 5 categories: Assts (45%), Goals (24%), SOG (11%), Wins (9%), and PIM's (6%). These are rough calculations but reasonably indicative of where scoring comes from. The other categories are minor contributors with shutouts leading the way at around 2%.
Slice it anyway you want, but you need your 12 forwards and 6 defenders putting up points as a priority and secondarily shooting a lot and taking penalties and your goalies putting up wins. Obviously, you look for a positive +/- and avoid a negative +/- because that can create a fantasy point swing in your favor and obviously to your detriment if it goes the other way.
The productivity and durability of a starting line-up, in this league, are key, since bench players aren't moved into and out of the line-up easily to increase production -- a couple of rules clearly deter that. The strength of the bench is only important in a competitive season in so far as it provides coverage for injuries and perhaps big time slumps in the starting roster, so maximizing your investment in your starting roster makes a lot of sense.
Of the 8 players on the bench, perhaps 4 players (2F, 1D and 1G) should be productive now, to cover the starting roster, the balance can be developing players or players who are worthy trade bait for upgrades.
At any given time, there are 200 players in this league who are putting up fantasy points that count. So is one position more important than another? Well, not really – because it is simply a matter of comparisons with other teams – on average you want your players to be producing just a little more than the other guys'. Once the draft is over, every move a team makes should be with an eye to increasing the average fantasy point production of the starting roster, in the short term if you are being competitive, or in the long term if you are building for the future. Bench points don't count.
After inputting the league setup into the HPG site, our first stop is the League Breakdown.
Why? It gives you an idea of how the positions are valued relative to each other. Since the size of the rosters is fixed, the contribution of a player relative to other players of the same position is what needs to be focused on in order to get the most out of a team. For wendelclark17's league, it looks like this:
Position |
+/- |
Sog |
ShOG |
Fantasy points |
62 |
4 |
46 |
191 |
2 |
- |
- |
78 |
45 |
2 |
50 |
147 |
0 |
- |
- |
58 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
35 |
5 |
87 |
What does this tell us about strategy in this league?
- Forwards are, on average, 30 fantasy points ahead of defenders… so a 78 FPt forward has the same real value as a 58 FPt defenseman.
- Taking that a step further, a 90 FPt forward has the same real value to a roster as a 70 FPt defenseman. See where we're going with this? A 130 FPt forward (a great total for a forward in this setup) is in line with a 110 FPt defenseman. It's important to keep this in mind when you're trying to make a decision between two different positions.
- Talk around it as much as you like, but the simple truth is this: maximize the contribution of each player on the roster relative to the average player at their position and you've got a shot at the title.
That takes care of strategy as it relates to skaters. But what about the goaltenders?
- We're flat out ignoring the goalie goal scoring category because it's so infrequent an occurrence that it's statistically insignificant.
- Likewise with goalie PIM – a really rough goalie gets what, 20 PIM? At 0.10 FPts per PIM, that's 2 FPts which is the same value as a win. Can you predict a goalie's win total to the exact number? Probably not, so we're just throwing this bad boy out.
- Goalie assists? At 2 FPts a pop they become relevant, but still so hard to predict that we don't have enough confidence in them to assign much value.
- Rosters moves have a 3-day delay, so with 10 teams and 2 starting goaltending slots per team you need to be absolutely sure that you've got two full-time starting goaltenders. Three would be nice to help you weather slumps and injuries.
- Ignoring bench goalies for the time being, there are two starters per team which means that the average goalie -- out of that population of twenty – puts up 87 fantasy points. A 40 win 10 shutout season would mean 110 FPts, so the top-end value isn't there like it is with forwards… but there will be an awful lot of goalies in the 80-100 FPt range and you need to make sure you've got at least two of them.
In this league, an average of 85 fantasy points per starting player is going to win the league and an average of 80 fantasy points per starting player is likely to be a 3rd place team. So the targeted average needs to be 85 fantasy points per starting player and that can be accomplished with forwards averaging 90 fantasy points, defense averaging 70 fantasy points and goalies averaging 90 fantasy points. Obviously you can rob Peter to pay Paul, but these are worthwhile targets to consider when building a team.
The Team:
In wendelclark17's own words he thinks this is a win now team, but he doesn't seem as confident in that as he could be. To understand the value of his players, we generated a set of rankings customized for this specific league setup using last year's statistics as a benchmark. Why last year's stats? Mostly because we don't want to give away Dobberhockey's 2011/12 projections for free in this article – they're available to HockeyPoolGeek subscribers, though. A summary of the players and their total fantasy points are below.
We've also got a column that shows roughly the HPG values based on the Dobberhockey projections for the coming season so you can get a feel for where the players will go without us actually giving away the goods.
2010/2011 |
Dobberhockey projection 2011/12 |
Player |
Pos |
fantasy points |
HPG Value |
HPG Value |
Corey Perry |
126 |
53.9 |
40.5 |
Claude Giroux |
95 |
23.4 |
18.0 |
Bobby Ryan |
96 |
23.8 |
21.8 |
Paul Stastny |
70 |
-1.5 |
7.0 |
Mike Ribeiro |
87 |
15.3 |
1.6 |
David Krejci |
77 |
5.5 |
3.1 |
Tomas Plekanec |
77 |
5.2 |
2.9 |
Tomas Fleischmann |
38 |
-33.7 |
-1.7 |
Patrice Bergeron |
74 |
2.4 |
-2.2 |
James van Riemsdyk |
55 |
-16.6 |
-8.9 |
Mike Cammalleri |
61 |
-10.4 |
-5.9 |
Mikhail Grabovski |
81 |
9 |
-5.0 |
Forward Starters |
954 |
93.1 |
71.2 |
Marc Savard |
14 |
-57.8 |
-53.9 |
Antoine Vermette |
64 |
-7.6 |
-9.6 |
Dustin Penner |
56 |
-15.8 |
-11.7 |
Travis Zajac |
55 |
-16.9 |
-1.7 |
Ville Leino |
66 |
-5.9 |
-16.0 |
Kris Letang |
78 |
27.3 |
27.9 |
Alex Edler |
44 |
-6.6 |
5.2 |
Zdeno Chara |
73 |
22 |
12.4 |
Mark Giordano |
56 |
5.7 |
3.4 |
Dennis Wideman |
48 |
-2.5 |
-5.9 |
Cody Franson |
43 |
-7.8 |
-6.4 |
Defense Starters |
343 |
39.4 |
28.6 |
Andrej Meszaros |
49 |
-1.2 |
-13.9 |
David Rundblad |
-15.9 |
Pekka Rinne |
84 |
2 |
1.2 |
Corey Crawford |
78 |
-4.1 |
-4.8 |
Goalie Starters |
162 |
-2.1 |
-3.6 |
Jonathan Bernier |
31 |
-51.1 |
-47.8 |
Wendel's team was drafted pretty recently, but he's already made a trade.
Wendel sent PK Subban, Andrew Ladd, and a 2012 1st round pick for James van Riemsdyk, David Rundblad, Mike Cammalleri, and Cody Franson.
What do we think of it?
The Trade Analyzer is just the right tool to sort that out!
Since this deal was a 4-for-2, we need to look at the two players that were bumped off Wendel's roster to make room for the extra bodies so we can compare apples to apples. We checked with Wendel on this and it turns out that he was already two players short from a previous deal, so it actually is a legitimate 4-for-2 deal. To evaluate the trade fairly, we plugged in waiver-level players into those slots (10 teams x 25 roster players per team plus say 20 prospects that are contributing = roughly the #270 player – and we roughed out the stats to give the right HPG value).
Team |
Player |
Pos |
+/- |
FPts |
HPG Value |
Team A |
PK Subban |
55 |
-7 |
102 |
209 |
0 |
74 |
15.9 |
Andrew Ladd |
55 |
-4 |
45 |
173 |
2 |
69 |
-8.7 |
Waiver Pickup |
45 |
0 |
20 |
150 |
0 |
55 |
-23 |
Waiver Pickup |
27 |
0 |
20 |
120 |
0 |
35 |
-23 |
Team A Summary |
182 |
-11 |
187 |
652 |
2 |
233.1 |
Team A HPG Value |
-38.8 |
Team B |
James van Riemsdyk |
55 |
7 |
42 |
172 |
0 |
69 |
-8.9 |
Mike Cammalleri |
54 |
5 |
40 |
224 |
2 |
72 |
-5.9 |
Cody Franson |
38 |
14 |
34 |
136 |
1 |
52 |
-6.4 |
David Rundblad |
34 |
0 |
30 |
110 |
0 |
43 |
-15.9 |
Team B Summary |
181 |
26 |
146 |
642 |
3 |
236 |
Team B HPG Value |
-37.1 |
Post-trade Team A |
-1 |
37 |
-41 |
-10 |
1 |
2.8 |
-1.7 |
Post-trade Team B |
1 |
-37 |
41 |
10 |
-1 |
-2.8 |
1.7 |
That 2012 1st round pick isn't much of an asset for a win-now team like Wendel's… if he's going to be placing top-5 in the league that means the pick would be cashed in for the #6-10 prospect in the 2012 draft, who likely wouldn't make a major impact in the NHL until 2014 at the earliest – too far off!
So on that level this deal looks to be pretty much a saw-off, and it solved the problem that Wendel was short a few bodies.
But what if Cammalleri bounces back to his 75+ point ways? What if JVR breaks out and hits 70 points? Using the What If? tool, we can see how that would affect things:
Player |
Pos |
+/- |
FPts |
HPG Value |
James van Riemsdyk - Current Stat Set |
55 |
7 |
42 |
172 |
0 |
69 |
-8.9 |
James van Riemsdyk - What If? |
70 |
7 |
42 |
172 |
0 |
84 |
6.1 |
Mike Cammalleri - Current Stat Set |
54 |
5 |
40 |
224 |
2 |
72 |
-5.9 |
Mike Cammalleri - What If? |
75 |
5 |
40 |
224 |
2 |
93 |
15.1 |
The trade is pretty much a saw-off if JVR and Cammalleri perform as projected, but there's definite upside on those projections, so we like this trade.
What does our man Wendel need to do to be competitive? The HPG team ran the numbers for the whole league based on Dobber's 2011-12 projections and here are the team estimates for fantasy points.
Team – Active Roster |
Estimated Fantasy Points |
HPG Value |
Jersey 18's |
1722 |
259.4 |
Louisville Laughers |
1664 |
204.9 |
Wendel's Warriors |
1560 |
99.0 |
Velvet Morning |
1541 |
76.8 |
Renegades |
1537 |
76.3 |
Maaasquito Bites |
1498 |
35.2 |
Seadawgs |
1426 |
-36.1 |
Silver Seven |
1359 |
-101.4 |
Shakedown Smackdown |
1348 |
-112.0 |
Crease Crashers |
1224 |
-179 |
This is based on a few rough assumptions:
- Dobber projections for 2011-12.
- That live rosters stay intact for the whole season (which they won't)
- There may be some variance in live rosters to start the season – in a few cases it was just a best guess.
So Neil mostly got the team that he was trying to put together, competitive and still young and developing. But he isn't going to win now without some major renovations. He needs an average of 5 more fantasy points per player to catch the 2nd place team in projections and 8 more points to catch the 1st place team. Again these are projections but those numbers are significant enough to suggest the challenge is huge for the win this year, for Wendel's Warriors. In fact, there are 3 teams that could sneak up easily and knock him out of the money.
Perry, Riberio, Bergeron, Grabovski, Plekanec, Krejci, Leino are all players who we might say are: "What you see, is what you get." They all have upside over Dobber's projections, but this year and in the future, you probably aren't going to see a big upswing in production. Solid core and the right age to keep for a few seasons more, for sure.
As a group, they probably aren't going to produce an average of 85 FP as desired, but they could be close at 83. Of this group, Perry is the only one that is where you want him – the others are only going to produce enough to keep the Warriors close to the money. If two of the second group of forwards (listed below), manage to have significant breakouts, then this forward group is solid enough.
Stastny, Giroux, van Riemsdyk, Cammalleri and Ryan are all forwards who have significant upside against Dobber's projections. As a group this year, they project to average 84 FP but could easily increase that to 87 or 88 points on average if things go well, particularly in the case of Cammalleri and Van Riemsdyk.
All in all a very solid core of forwards for now and in the future. But one can always improve and to win this league that is going to have to happen either now or in the future.
Well the good news is that the projections show that Letang, Chara, Edler and Giordano will be extremely solid producers on D.
The bad news is that the Warriors are short 2 D guys that will produce enough to move the D corps beyond slightly sub-adequate. Wideman/Meszaros and Franson are each 15 to 20 points off the desired target.
More good news, though – Rundblad is on his way. He might make a splash early, but he might not. Great pipeline though!
The Warriors need to look at upgrading the two D positions in order to move this roster to where it needs to be for the win.
Two starting goaltenders should be good enough, but what happens if there's an injury, a significant slump, or worse yet – if Crawford really stumbles? Presently, Bernier is not adequate insurance, though he sure is a great asset longer term.
Rinne is an absolute stud in some scoring setups… but not this one. He's great in terms of SV% and GAA, but unfortunately for Wendel those aren't scoring categories in this league. He'll have wins in the mid-30s and a handful of shutouts. That's pretty much an average starting goalie in this league.
With so much scoring tied up in goaltending – with an average starting goaltender contributing 87 fantasy points – this is an area to look at improving.
Rinne and Crawford are solid in this format, but not good enough if you look to win position battles with other teams. At a minimum, they need to collectively produce another 5 fantasy points each to make the cutting score and of course, more is better. Will they produce more wins and shutouts in the future? It's hard to see that happening, actually. 10 fantasy points may not seem like a lot but every roster position needs to pull its weight in this league.
The Warriors goaltending is just on the bubble of being good enough for the win but an upgrade to either would be a good thing.
Farm (bench):
Forward: Zajac, Penner, Savard, Vermette, Leino
Defense: Rundblad, Meszaros
Goal: Bernier
Only in the case of injury or one of these bench guys becoming a present day stud will any of them see action on the starting roster. Leino could end up replacing Fleischmann as a minor upgrade, but otherwise not one of these bench players will do anything this season to usurp a healthy starter on the Warriors – well okay, a miracle recovery by Savard, maybe.
Ignoring Savard for the moment, only Bernier and Runblad have the upside to figure into future plans for the Warriors – the rest are insurance against injury and hopefully serve as decent trade bait. As mentioned previously 2F, 1D and 1G are good to keep for injury replacements – looks like Zajac and Leino will fit the bill as forwards, Meszaros at D. Vermette and Penner aren't really needed.
Neither Bernier nor Rundblad are adequate injury replacements for this season, but they are keepers. So there really isn't an adequate goalie replacement in case of an injury to Rinne or Crawford.
Savard is a hope shot. He can stay for now, as we are sure Neil sees it the same way and do the right thing once more information comes in.
The Warriors farm roster has some notable players on it, but all are some time away from the big show and hence really not a factor in this audit, except where they may become trade bait for starting roster upgrades. This league screams for starters with high upside, so any players on the farm that don't have an upside of 80 + points for forwards and 55 + points for D guys should not be given a lot of consideration for the future.
The Next Moves:
The HPG audit team thinks that Neil is at a fork in the road with his Wendel's Warriors: one fork leads to the path that has him going for the win this year, and the other is backing off from that and tweaking his team for a win in a year or two.
Option 1:
Based on Dobber's projections coming true, the Warriors are probably 150 fantasy points away from being right in the mix. If one takes the optimistic view that his roster is going to exceed Dobber's projections (which could very well happen in the cases of Cammalleri and Van Riemsdyk), the Warriors are still probably looking at a deficit of about 100 points give or take. So to go for the win, where are those points going to come from?
It's easy to imagine that they could come in the form of 25 fantasy points from 2 better D guys, 10 points from a better goalie and about 65 points from at least two high end forwards. These margins are not small: it will mean acquiring someone else's high producing keepers. They are out there on every team, for example: Green, Keith, Weber on D; E. Staal, St. Louis, Thornton types at forward, Lundqvist, Bryz, Price types in goal.
We aren't sure why anyone would trade players of that caliber to the Warriors unless they are a team that is lurking back in the pack and can make really good use of good future draft picks and high end prospects. So should the Warriors decide to take on the challenge of making a run this year, they can expect to be parting with some serious futures in the way of picks and prospects, unless they can pull the wool over someone's eyes, which might be difficult when this audit is published on the Dobber Sports Network.
Is it doable? Yes, we think so, but, not with a lot of certainty. Neil can expect to be without Bernier, Rundblad, a couple of his best farm players and a couple of very good picks in future drafts once the dust settles. The future of his team will certainly be dimmer and he has to decide if it's worth the run.
Option 2:
This amounts to taking a step back from going for the win this season and building towards a more certain challenge in a season or two. In this case, the idea would be to acquire players who are close to breaking out, who have higher upsides than the bottom end players at each position – upgrading on the Widemans, Grabovskis and Bergerons to eventually gain 10 or 15 extra fantasy points per player. In all likelihood it would take 4 players of this ilk, plus the Warrior's developing players like Giroux, Ryan, JVR taking another incremental step for the strategy to be successful.
The HPG audit team composed a list of 15-20 players that we believe are worthy targets in this strategy. We won't publish them here, that would be a spoiler, but we do think the idea has wheels. One of the pros for this strategy is that the targeted players should cost less to acquire (they won't be free though), which allows the Warrior's to retain some assets for the future to feed the system. These are all players who have an upside of 80+ points and are probably within a season, and at most two, of hitting 70 points.
One aspect in favor of this option is that it offers the luxury of time to put the plan together – whereas Option 1 is definitely a "go hard and do it now" scheme. Option 2 offers less pressure, and hence, more time for consideration and planning to avoid errors. An extended time frame will often allow for more shopping for better deals as well.
Wrapping It Up:
So there it is. Neil has drafted and traded his way into a solid young team that probably doesn't have what it takes to win now, but certainly can compete for place or show money.
We believe that the Warriors need two things to happen concurrently for this team to seriously challenge for the win: Firstly, the present top end of the roster needs to produce close to its upside and secondly, there need to be some trades made to acquire players who will replace the bottom end of the starting roster with much more production, either now or in the near future.
The HPG audit team does not see sit and do nothing as an option – this roster does not presently have the horses to win, although it's within shouting distance, so a dramatic renovation isn't really necessary.
We have laid out two options that we think are rational in terms of building a winning team. We recommend that Neil decides which he likes best and then get on with it.
Which option has the highest degree of probability for success? We think they are close but we think Option 2 has the higher degree of probability of being put into action and grabbing a title. We went back and forth on it a number of times – it's close!
After the fact:
After Neil read this Deep Analysis (but before we published it) he decided to go with the second option, and he pulled off two deals.
The first deal: Dustin Penner and Travis Zajac for Bryan Little, Alex Burmistrov, and Michael Backlund.
We like this deal for him, but we can certainly understand why the other GM would go for it too. All of the assets coming back to Neil are young and likely have their best producing years ahead of them. Penner seems to have proven where he'll produce. Zajac's injury will slow his production this year (and he's one of those middle-of-the-road players that Neil has a few of), but most importantly his good production has come due to chemistry with Zach Parise – and there are plenty of rumblings that Parise won't be in NJ anymore after this coming season.
In Little, Burmistrov, and Backlund, wendelclark17 gets a series of good young players who are all in good situations in the short- to medium-term, and will likely see some decent opportunity for icetime. Who knows how they will pan out as players, but we like the combined odds of at least one of them taking a big step forward in the next 12 months.
The second deal: Ville Leino and Marc Savard for Nikolai Kulemin and Alexander Radulov.
We love this deal for Neil too, because it's all about risk and reward. We view Leino and Kulemin as pretty close to a wash this coming season; there could be a compelling argument for each of them, but both fit pretty solidly in the 55-65 point window. So if those two pieces are close enough to equal, it's down to Savard vs Radulov.
Radulov might never come back to the NHL. Savard might never play again. Nobody really knows about either of those situations. But what happens IF one or the other returns? If Savard makes a comeback, he is one injury away from never playing again. He was once a 90-point player, but we think that day is long gone. If Radulov makes a comeback, he will likely step in and produce in the order of 60 points, with the possibility for much more – so this is the type of "position for next year" move we absolutely love.
Great work Neil, and good luck with your team!
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ynotzz said:
letnry said:
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ynotzz said:
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Shoeless said:
Neil, that Penner/Zajac trade is a beaut. Just compared the upside for those 5 players in the deal - oh yeah!
Killer67 said:
1. Wendel, I was lucky enough to have HPG evaluate my team last year and it was an invaluable tool. They predicted that I was a mid level team in my 14 team H2H and I used their suggestions and tools and managed a 2nd place reg season and playoff finish. As long as you stay active, the tools work.
2. Brandon, looks like HPG is giving your team the Smackdown in this review, LOL!!!


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"It's been great just to be a part of this team," Rogers said. "I know that since we're all mostly sophomores, we can do big things in the these next two years."
Hurricane coach Josh Caldwell said Rogers was the worthy beneficiary of a team-first concept that led to the program's overall success.
"That's always going to be the case when you have a good team. You're going to have players honored for their individual efforts to the team's success," Caldwell said. "Courtney obviously stood out and she's very deserving of the award.
"She's been a big piece to our success. Being one of two pitchers, she's been a big part. I've always said you've got to have good pitching to win. On offense she was huge piece because she was our best hitter this year in what was really a good-hitting lineup."
Rogers split pitching duties with sophomore Emily Davis, a second-team all-state selection who finished the year with an 11-3 record and batted .385. While Rogers had the highest batting average on the team, there were six starters who hit better than .400, including senior all-state catcher Linzie Reynolds and junior all-state outfielder Addie Fullen.
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Saurashtra 242 (Vasavada 54, Jackson 53, Makvana 51, Pandey 3-43) and 303 for 4 dec (Pujara 203*, Vasavada 55, Pandey 3-51) beat Madhya Pradesh 135 (Joshi 3-17, Unadkat 3-20, Jadeja 3-51) and 183 (Saxena 75, Jadeja 6-51, Makvana 3-43) by 227 runs
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MP shouldn't have lost so many batsmen so quickly for so few. The dry Khandheri pitch, over which MP had had reservations since taking their first look at it, could not be blamed, save for the captain Devendra Bundela's dismissal. Yes, batting had not been easy on the slow, low and slightly uneven surface, but as Cheteshwar Pujara on day three, and Jalaj Saxena and Rameez Khan this morning, had shown, runs could be made with application.
Saxena and Rameez batted positively without any major alarms for close to 90 minutes today. About the only problems they faced a few times were getting beaten on the cut with extra carry and on the pull with low bounce. Rameez had himself to blame for his dismissal, something applicable to every MP batsman except Bundela.
Jadeja had been flighting almost every delivery vigorously, his pivot, shoulder and height earning him the extra lift from the pitch which no other spinner managed. Rameez, on 31, pushed at such full delivery from the crease, instead of getting forward; the ball dipped and hit the stumps.
Bundela and Saxena had settled down again when ten overs later, one of Jadeja deliveries reared at Bundela from a pitched-up length and the surprised MP captain edged it behind. The procession had just begun.
Udit Birla pushed forward to a generously tossed-up Jadeja ball and played for the spin. But, he left a huge gap between bat and pad and the straighter one sneaked in.
Then, it was the turn of the experienced Kamlesh Makvana, a steady but accurate offspinner, to take a wicket. Harpreet Singh padded up to his fourth delivery, but that isn't the right shot to play when the ball is full and has pitched in line with the stumps. Three deliveries later, Ankit Sharma lunged forward with bat in front of pad, only for the ball to pop up to forward short-leg tamely.
Saxena, who had made a second-innings hundred against Mumbai in MP's previous game, was watching the proceedings from the other end. Saxena had batted solidly, pulling and driving the sharp Jaydev Unadkat for boundaries. Off the last delivery of Makvana's next over, probably looking to keep the strike, he stepped out, but in trying to turn the ball to leg, he only got a leading edge to the bowler.
Lunch was now delayed and the end came soon. Ishwar Pandey slogged a few sixes before hoicking Jadeja to deep midwicket. The left-arm spinner, despite inviting the batsmen to drive and loft most of his deliveries, went for below two runs an over with figures of 26.4-8-51-6.
Jadeja, the second-highest wicket-taker in this season's Under-25 CK Nayudu Trophy, was told a few years ago by an age-group coach not to pivot so much in his action. But the young spinner had the confidence to stick to his method. "I modified my action for some time and found that I was not getting wickets," Jadeja told ESPNcricinfo. "I went and told the coach I would continue with my old action. It comes naturally to me."
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on Oct 2, 2013 at 11:58 am
Yelp-- well known shake-down artists.
on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Someone, please be the first to write a Yelp review about this article! There goes the neighborhood :)
on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:25 pm
yelp =-= review [paloaltoonline] ''one wonders who reads this site. are they concerned aware people ,or are they clueless? nevertheless ,there seems to be a confusion of values expressed by the number of posts removed by staff. go elsewhere ,or make your own palo alto blog. call it....paloaltoons.org. as in cartoon...we won't take ourselves too seriously.
on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:33 pm
yelp! the beetles - review for CREAM ... maybe thsi place got something completely down and they went for it.it works, however it's happening. not only is this ice cream good,you wonder where they got it. even the packaged ben and jerry isnt quite this well done. and economical, you can't beat ''2 scoops for $ 2.99. long crowds yeah, but go late ,thyre open very late. a stitch in time ,enjoy it while you can.-----there ,that is an objective review. no need to read any ''yelp'' reviews! (for the ''there goes the neighborhood crew).
on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Translation of the first poster's comment: Apparently, businesses have to pay Yelp to keep the good reviews and delete the bad reviews.
on Oct 2, 2013 at 2:03 pm
I never use Yelp for anything. They have a very bad reputation for demanding bribes. Who would believe anything on their site?
on Oct 2, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Why does Yelp need to be on Palo Alto? It certainly will not improve our tarnished image!
on Oct 2, 2013 at 7:31 pm
After reading several articles on Yelp, I stop using it. The comments above are from most of those articles. Don't trust it for reliable ratings.
on Oct 2, 2013 at 10:31 pm
Welcome YELP!!!! Folks who read the Weekly (and comment) are so grumpy! Great service and Palo Alto is lucky to have such a booming economy.
on Oct 3, 2013 at 8:29 am
I no longer read or post on YELP. I use to but now all the useful reviews go into the "filter folder" and are not included in the stars rating, so the stars rating is meaningless. I honestly reviewed a local Palo Alto dentist according to the set guidelines; my review was not calculated in the stars and ended up in a "filter" folder as did another low stars review, as of now, the dentist has a perfect number of stars, this is very skewed. I joined my neighborhood group Google and Yahoo email lists and nextdoor.com, I get real reviews and feedback for the local services and businesses from my neighbors not dentist's friends and relatives who over-hype the practice. This dentist advertizes with Yelp so maybe this is why my and other negative reviews end up in the filter folder.
on Oct 3, 2013 at 8:38 am
Here is and example of Yelp and its failure: Web Link
2 reviews posted and calculated in star rating; 48 reviews filtered and you have to log in and type in gibrish before you can read those
on Oct 3, 2013 at 9:16 am
Can you rate Yelp on Yelp?
on Oct 3, 2013 at 10:01 am
@No more Yelp: At least they still leave filtered reviews for people to read. They used to just delete. I still use Yelp even though it is skewed. But I don't necessarily believe reviews if there are only a handful. If there are 150+ great reviews, it's probably accurate.
on Oct 3, 2013 at 2:27 pm
yelp review -''campo''. i dont get it. i keep going here and thyre always closed. it's as if they don't want customers or something. i just can't understand it. i advise taking your business elsewhere.
on Oct 3, 2013 at 9:47 pm
The online reviewing company Yelp has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. They have paid thousands of dollars to sit on ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force.
Whether Yelp likes it or not, that money will be used to further all areas of ALEC's pro-corporate agenda, from voter suppression and union-busting to "Stand Your Ground" laws.
Mr. Stoppelman,
The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, develops and disseminates model legislation that is detrimental to the lives of consumers, voters, workers and their families - in other words, your customers.
No matter your intentions in joining ALEC, by paying thousands of dollars to sit on a task force you are supporting their efforts: including but not limited to voter suppression, union-busting, the privatization of education, and so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws.
A company that claims to help people should have nothing to do with these efforts. Please immediately cut all ties between Yelp and the ALEC.
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The Nokia Lumia 710 is our favourite Finnish firm's second smart phone running the Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.
Much less swanky-looking than its big brother, the Lumia 800, the 710 carries a more affordable price tag, pitting it against the ZTE Tania and the HTC Radar in the lower tier of Windows Phone handsets.
The Lumia 710 is due to land in the UK next month, but some retailers are offering it on pre-order from free on £15.50 per month, two-year contracts.
We got our hands on a 710 this week, so read on to find out how it fared.
Should I buy the Nokia Lumia 710?
The Lumia 710's main features are the Windows Phone OS, its snazzy, swappable backplates and free music streaming and sat-nav apps from Nokia -- free despite the handset's mid-range pricing.
Microsoft's OS is slick and easy to use and the Lumia boasts a 1.4GHz chip so performance is impressive. If you're a big Facebook user you'll love how the phone comes alive with your mates' updates.
But the OS doesn't offer as many apps as Android or iOS, so if you're always wondering if there's an app for that, you might find Windows Phone a bit limiting. We'd suggest considering an iPhone 3GS or a mid-range Android mobile instead.
Windows Phone 7.5 OS
The Lumia 710 is powered by the latest version of Windows Phone -- 7.5, aka Mango -- rather than the age-old Symbian platform Nokia used to rely on. Nokia has added some apps to the Lumia 710, along with its very own 'Nokia blue' colour theme, but it's more Microsoft than Finland's finest running the show.
We found Microsoft's operating system responsive, slick and easy to use, with bold, colourful icons and no-nonsense symbols clearly signposting all the functions. Thankfully, it's nothing like Microsoft's previous mobile OS, Windows Mobile, not least because it's been designed from the ground up for touchscreen phones. It also looks and feels strikingly different to Android and iOS, so don't expect an iClone.
If you're new to smart phones, we reckon you'll find Windows Phone a really welcoming place, because it's so simple and straightforward to use. But on the flip side, the software lacks the geeky, tinker-friendly nature of Android and can feel somewhat rigid, because Microsoft doesn't allow any big changes to its interface.
You can tweak the theme and background colours and create, delete and rearrange tiles on the home screen. But if you like to really customise the experience with widgets, as you can on Android, you might find Windows Phone a touch sterile.
The Lumia 710 runs the Mango version of Windows Phone. Among Mango's additions is multi-tasking, meaning you can listen to music in the background while browsing or composing an email. To switch between apps you hold down the back button, which brings up a deck of screenshots of your recent activity, then you swipe through and tap on the app or function you want to return to.
Throughout the OS are options to share stuff or interact with social networks. So if you're a big Facebooker, you'll love how it's baked into the phone.
After hooking up our Facebook account we did notice the Lumia's What's New feed wasn't always as up-to-date as the full-fat Facebook news feed, as viewed via Facebook.com. Don't expect to always be eyeballing the freshest data or even viewing all there is to see going on in your social circles through Windows Phone's lens.
For a better Facebook experience, there is also a Windows Phone Facebook app, which can be downloaded from the Windows Marketplace. We found this app generally to be more up-to-date than the Lumia feeds. Prolific Facebookers are likely to prefer it over the People hub.
Microsoft organises content in Windows Phone around a series of hubs. We like the convenience of hubs, but can't help but feel a big part of their function is to act as ballast, bolstering the OS in an area where it lags behind other smart phone operating systems -- apps.
From the home screen, tap on a hub Live Tile and, if you've correctly hooked up your Windows Phone to all your social feeds, you'll find yourself in familiar surroundings, high-fiving your email contacts, and poking your Facebook buddies. Think of Windows Phone as a house you've just moved all your stuff into -- the more you settle in, the more it feels like home.
The People hub is a social repository that collates info from your Facebook friends, email contacts, Twitter account and so on, depending on what you choose to connect (Windows Phone also supports LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail, Outlook and more). Swiping left and right within the hub segues through different slices of your data -- such as only the latest updates or a comprehensive list of all your contacts in one gigantic alphabetical mash-up, regardless of the medium through which you talk to them.
We like how hubs make getting to swathes of content straightforward, packaging related info into handy buckets where you can quickly dive in. The Pictures hub, for example, lets you browse photos you've taken with the phone's camera and also view a feed of snaps you or your mates have posted to Facebook. There are some great touches -- we especially like the date view with the Pictures hub. It displays all the snaps you've taken with the phone for each month, like a photo diary.
There's a Music + Videos hub for multimedia content; an Office hub, where Microsoft's productivity apps live, including OneNote for note-taking and Word for word processing; and an Xbox Live games hub where your games and Xbox Live avatar hang out. Apps that don't obviously fit into any of these buckets land on a secondary screen, where every app and phone function is stacked alphabetically in a long vertical list, making it easy to flick down and quickly locate a specific app.
If you want to access the full range of services offered by the Lumia you'll need a Windows Live ID. This is in addition to signing in with your Facebook, Twitter and email, so prepare for a spot of registration fatigue during setup.
For example, a Windows Live ID is needed to link your phone with Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming system. This is in order for it to display and track your Xbox Live gaming achievements and avatar, and to use SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage system. You also need a Windows Live account for syncing with Twitter, because the OS asks you to link your Twitter account with your Windows Live account.
Microsoft has sweated buckets recruiting developers to Windows Phone and recently gave a shout out to the platform's 60,000th app. Lots of app basics are here -- from Spotify to YouTube and the ubiquitous Angry Birds. But there are still notable app gaps, including no iPlayer or Instagram.
There is also a fair amount of overlap with both Microsoft and Nokia bringing their 'assets' to the handset -- so you get Bing Maps and Nokia Maps, for instance. The Music + Videos hub taps up Microsoft's Zune music marketplace, but the Nokia Music app hooks into Nokia's MP3 store. Having two ways of getting the same stuff is confusing, but it does mean you can choose your favourite. Nokia Maps has the edge over Bing Maps, thanks to the helpful addition of public transport routes.
For sheer quantity, Windows Phone can't match up to the might of Apple's iOS -- which is rapidly heading for 600,000 apps -- or Android Market's 400,000-plus. One feature of Windows Marketplace we do like though is the ability to try before you buy. Shelling out £3 for an app that laughs in your face before crashing your phone gets old very quickly.
Nokia Music and Nokia Drive
Nokia makes its own small but significant software splash on the Lumia 710 via the Nokia Maps, Nokia Mix Radio and Nokia Drive apps. The Mix Radio app not only offers free music streaming with access to some 15 million tracks, without the need to subscribe or even register, it also supports offline listening of up to 14 hours of downloaded music. Be warned though, if you're steaming music you can only skip seven tracks within a 24-hour period.
There's no sign-up or even registration needed to use Mix Radio -- you simply fire up the app, select a music genre or radio station and start listening. An impressive spectrum of tastes are catered for -- from mainstream genres such as indie/alternative, R 'n' B and dance to more nuanced offerings like 'Leather jacket rock' and 'Dubstep roots', plus stations built around 'New releases' or 'Best of 2011'.
Another impressive freebie is Nokia's sat-nav app, which brings turn-by-turn navigation to Lumia 710 users. To get started you need to download and install country-specific maps over Wi-Fi. Downloading and installing the UK maps took us less than 10 minutes. There are more than 100 international maps within the app that can also be preloaded -- a great way to avoid data roaming charges when you need to drive abroad.
The Lumia gets access to Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service, with 25GB of free space for each user to deposit photos and documents. This is five times more than Apple's iCloud storage system, but Apple says it doesn't include purchased music, apps, books, TV shows or photo stream data against this limit.
Content saved on SkyDrive can be synced and accessed via other devices. If you want to use your phone to get a spot of work done, this feature should come in handy. There's also an option to automatically upload the phone's camera roll to SkyDrive, so your photos are backed up on the fly. You can also sync the notes you make in the OneNote app.
Bear in mind there's no expandable memory on the Lumia 710, and only 8GB of space on-board, so cloud storage could be more of a 'must have' than a 'nice to have' if you cram lots of media on to your phone.
Performance, processor and battery life
The Lumia 710 has 512MB of memory and a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor, which is a decent amount of welly for a mid-range phone. We found the Windows Phone OS fast and responsive in our tests, fancy 3D menu transitions and all. Web browsing was smooth, with pages loading quickly and rendering promptly. Internet Explorer 9 includes HTML5 support, but Windows Phone does not support Adobe Flash, so you'll find lots of embedded videos won't play.
Apps load with a minimum of fuss so we didn't have to spend too much time watching Windows Phone's loading screen -- five beads that swoop in and accelerate away like the dust kicked up by a speeding car.
Nokia reckons the Lumia 710's battery can cope with up to 7.6 hours of 3G talk time, 6 hours of video playback or 38 hours of music. The battery life here is the same story as standard smart phone fare -- heavy use drains the battery quickly, so an average user should expect to charge the Lumia every night.
Look and feel
When Nokia bestowed the looks upon the Lumia family, the 710 was clearly last in line -- behind the curvaceous, unibody Lumia 800 and its supersized American cousin, the 900. But high-end looks aren't cheap, so the 710 has a price-tag to match its more workaday design. The overall look isn't exactly showstopping -- but nor is it a terrible eyesore (assuming you regularly wipe away the inevitable fingermarks). Indeed, it's grown on us in a short time.
The front of the device is dominated by a 3.7-inch LCD touchscreen display that's neither too small nor too big for our tastes -- slapped atop a chunky hunk of plastic with the obligatory rounded corners. A curved and rubberised backplate means the device nestles comfortably in the hand. Size-wise it's like a beefier version of the iPhone 4S or the Lumia 800.
There's a choice of two basic handset colours -- black or white -- but one big design splash is the changeable backplate, a throwback to Nokia days of yore, when pimping your phone with a luminous plasticky back or faceplate was all the rage.
There are five backplates on offer from Nokia: yellow, cyan, magenta, black or white. We don't have any info on price per plate as yet but we'll update this review once we know. Nokia suggests you should colour co-ordinate the handset with your mood -- so presumably that's yellow = sunny! Magenta = so hot right now! Black = GRUMPY! And so on.
Our black Lumia 710 sample device came with two backplates in the box -- a matching black backplate plus a cyan spare. The two-tone black/blue phone looks great. As you'd expect, the blackplates themselves feel a tad flimsy when removed, so don't leave your spares lying around where your kid brother is going to step on them, unless you fancy that cracked-phone look.
Build quality
Being a rather chunky 12.5mm thick, the handset feels reassuringly solid without being heavy (it's lighter than the iPhone 3GS and the Lumia 800) -- or it does so long as the backplate is properly snapped in place. If it's not fully tamped down you'll hear clicking noises when you squeeze the phone. So make sure you push firmly on all its corners after selecting your mood tone for the day.
As with all Windows Phones, there are three buttons on the front -- the back button, Windows home key and Bing search. The Lumia 710 has one long plasticky key to cover off all three functions, which looks ugly and feels cheap but works fine. We'd have preferred the sleek look of touch-keys -- as found on the Lumia 800 -- but we're assuming this is one of the areas where Nokia was shaving a few euros off the build cost.
There's also a dedicated camera button on the right-hand side of the handset, plus a volume up and down rocker. These keys are made of the same rubberised plastic as the backplate and we found them a touch spongy and unresponsive. We'd have preferred Nokia to have used a different material for the keys to help them stand out.
On the top of the 710 is a power key, which is also used to wake the phone up from sleep, along with a 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro-USB port. The power key is small, laid flush with the top of the phone and also made of the same shiny plastic, so it can be quite fiddly to press.
We found ourselves pressing it twice thinking it hadn't registered our first press -- instead of waking the phone, it would revive and instantly turn off again.
Like its big brother, the Lumia 800, the Lumia 710 takes a micro-SIM -- the slot for which is tucked away inside the device next to the removeable battery.
Screen and keyboard
The capacitive LCD touchscreen has a middling resolution of 480x800 pixels -- which is true of all Windows Phones to date. It may not have a gorgeous AMOLED screen like the Lumia 800, but the 710's screen is still bright and colours are vivid, although they aren't as vibrant as on the 800. The blues, greens and pinks look paler and washed out.
We also noticed that whites on the 710 have a distinct nicotine hue -- a characteristic we also spotted on the 800. This means web pages viewed on either Lumia can appear yellowy compared to some other smartphones.
The 710 includes Nokia's ClearBlack Display technology, which the company reckons makes blacks look really black -- thus helping other colours to pop out. We can confirm this is true. Nokia also reckons this makes the screen easier to read in bright sunlight. During a brief sunny spell in January we took it outdoors and were pleased to find we could still make out most of the stuff on the screen.
We found the Windows Phone's touchscreen keyboard very easy to use in portrait orientation. It has an excellent auto-correct feature that's as good as the one on iOS. If you like typing with your thumbs, the keyboard can also be used in landscape orientation.
There's a copy and paste feature, which saves highlighted text to a clipboard that can then be pasted elsewhere by tapping on the clipboard icon. Getting the text highlighted in the first place, however, was rather fiddly.
Camera and video
The Lumia 710 has a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a considerable step down from the 800's 8 megapixels. It's also unbranded -- no fancy Lumia 800 Carl Zeiss lens here -- but again this is to be expected for what we hope will be a mid-tier smart phone. There's also no front-facing camera so video calling is off-limits.
While we like the fact Nokia has included a dedicated camera button, it's a tad spongy and can be tricky to tell when the camera will fire. In order to properly focus your snaps you need to squeeze lightly on the button until the desired portion of the picture is in focus and then push down further to take the photo. Unless you have a touch as light as Lionel Messi's, all your photos will be blurry.
If this button is too fiddly you can always tap the screen, which focuses the photo where you tap and then takes it. We found there was little lag between tapping and the hardware snapping, although using the dedicated camera button was fractionally quicker. When using the screen to take a photo, it takes under two seconds from tapping to snapping.
As you'd expect with middle-of-the-road megapixels, shots are unlikely to win you any major photography awards. The camera especially struggles in low-light indoor conditions -- producing grainy, unspectacular shots and lacking clarity. Even with reasonable indoor lighting our test images contained a lot of noise and colours generally appeared dull and washed out.
The 710 also has a tendency to produce lens flare. Outdoor shots in strong daylight produced better results but this camera is never going to offer more than throwaway point-and-shoot snaps.
On the video front, our test footage was reasonable in well-lit environments -- the 710 shoots 720p-resolution video at 30 frames per second -- but quickly becomes grainy in lower light. We also found the camera can be slow to focus and is especially slow to adjust to lighting changes -- so seconds of footage can end up blown out or over-dark, while you wait for the camera to catch up. Like most mobile video cameras, the more motion you have in the frame, the more the detail falls off.
All the usual connectivity options are on board, with high-speed HSPA mobile tech, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, plus GPS for mapping. In our tests, call quality was clear and we didn't experience any dropped calls or serious connectivity issues.
Windows Phone OS updates can be downloaded by plugging the phone into a computer and using Microsoft's Zune Music + Video software. The Zune interface is also used to manage media on the phone. We found it relatively straightforward to transfer photos and videos from the phone to a PC using Zune.
From £15 per month on a two-year contract, the Nokia Lumia 710 is a very respectable mid-range smart phone, with a beefy 1.4GHz chip and a slick OS. We welcome high-end features such as Nokia's free streaming music and sat-nav apps, and Microsoft's suite of Office and cloud storage services.
But on the apps side, Windows Phone offers slim pickings. However good the Nokia and Microsoft apps are, they don't compensate for all the apps you're not getting compared with Android or iOS. Alternative mid-range phones to consider include the iPhone 3GS, the HTC Desire S, the Samsung Galaxy Ace and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S.
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Rangers manager Ron Washington: 'I'm concerned about my job'
The Texas Rangers have seen this story before.
They are faltering down the stretch, going 2-12 this month and last season blew a six-game division lead with nine games to go before losing the American League West to the Oakland Athletics on the final day of the regular season.
The Rangers then proceeded to lose the one-game wild-card playoff at home to Baltimore Orioles.
That is more than enough to be of concern to Rangers manager Ron Washington, who isn't sure of his status moving forward, especially if the Rangers fail to make the playoffs.
The Rangers begin Tuesday with a half-game lead over the Cleveland Indians for the second-wild card spot.
"That decision, if it's made, it's out of my hands," Washington said on ESPN Radio. "And yes, I'm concerned about my job. Who wouldn't be. But I hope that I've gained credibility for what all we've accomplished in the past few years. I'm not a finger pointer. I'm not pointing the finger at anyone. We all have to take the blame for our collapse right now if that's what you want to call it. I'm not calling it a collapse. I'm just calling it a slump. But there isn't anything I can do about that. I don't really think about that type of stuff. I know at some point in this game of baseball we all have to look for another job, but it isn't anything I'm concerned about."
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Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said the whole thing is a "distraction."
"There is no substance to it. It's not something remotely being discussed," Daniels said of Washington possibly losing his job. "The bottom line is we need to go out and have a good at-bat, a good inning and a good game and get this turned around. Everything else is a distraction


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Call Bobby V. Stanley cause he's a cheap tool
Posted 16 April 2012 - 07:46 AM
Great work there Stanley, attack one of the beloved grit players of the Red Sux, that will get the team and city behind you. On the radio I heard that Dustin P said something like "That's not how we do thing here" and apparently Kevin's agent called him to let him know what Stanley said. Stay classy Stanley!
But Red Sux nation is missing Tito and Theo now, although I feel a little bad for Ben- he's the puppet that Larry Lou will push the blame onto. Fucking Red Soxs they make the White Sox look good.
Posted 16 April 2012 - 09:37 AM
Posted 16 April 2012 - 09:41 AM
He's a self serving tool that can't stop speaking, watching the Red Sux fail this year is a pleasure I'll enjoy.I just don't understand what the point of the statement was.
Posted 16 April 2012 - 10:41 AM
I do feel bad for Cherington. Stuck in a shit-hole of a front office like Boston...he is going to go from a highly sought after asst GM to Jim Hendry in one season.
I do NOT feel bad for the Red Sox fans. They are getting EXACTLY what they deserve and hopefully this will humble them. Also, it needs to be a warning to us, for after we win the 2015-2020 WS titles.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 07:09 PM
As a Sox fan, I was really disappointed by this hire. I suspect that they'll soon get a more Tito-like manager (old school in the sense of "as long as it's not punishable by the law, go ahead: just win tomorrow," new school in that he doesn't think that a standard deviation is some sort of pervert).
Ultimately, the Sox's real problem might be their recent success. I really worry that all of the long seasons have taken their toll on the arms of Beckett, Lester, Buchholz, etc. They did a better job of keeping one pitching staff intact than most teams, but they might all be fading together.
Posted 28 April 2012 - 05:05 AM
I think a lot about Francona's tenure, his style; his habit of NEVER calling out his players while managing men who won't govern themselves... I know that's simplification.
Last year, midseason, maybe June or early July, he pulled Lackey, and that bastard did his best to belittle Terry in front of 40,000 people before stepping off the mound. Then Lackey did it again and again, the rest of the year. I think that's when (and partly how) the wheels came off the Tito-era Red Sox.
In the 80s there was a computer company in Massachusetts, Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC. It was a huge player in central Mass' economy. It was managed Tito-like. Hire the best people, give them marching orders, stay out of their way. Treat adults like adults. If someone seemed troubled, manage them (rather than punish or oust). But soon lazy, unscrupulous people started glomming on. "Here's a 'good' job. No pressure!" ...because they would apply no personal pressure, from within themselves. That company was productive for about ten years, too.
Some MBA-type might know the name for this process. I think a good organization (or organizational philosophy?) might have a 'season' then ripen and die.
When Manny was being Manny, Tito enabled him... to be a fearsome hitter (although he was still a dink). When Lackey was being an ass, Tito should have wupped it. But, Tito was still being Tito.
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Minority populations suffer from sectarian violence in countries around the world. Last week Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] stated that the violence against minority Rohingyas [BBC backgrounder] and other Muslims has increased since a state of emergency was declared [JURIST report] in the western Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] state of Rakhine, including human rights violations such as rape, destruction of property and unlawful killings. A week earlier the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] reported that 10 UN staff and aid workers have been arrested [JURIST report] in the northwestern Rakhine state and three of them are facing unknown criminal charges. Also that week AI criticized the government of Kuwait [BBC backgrounder] for continuing to limit the rights of the Bidun jinsiyya, which is Arabic for "without nationality" and identifies a class of illegal immigrants in Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE) who remain non-citizens, either because their ancestors immigrated without filling out state paperwork before 1920 or they settled as a refugee in the nation after 1920. In June Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] issued a report documenting refugee abuse and urging the government of China to provide basic food and shelter needs to thousands of refugees fleeing sectarian violence in neighboring Myanmar.
DOMA is an impermissible federal intrusion into the Commonwealth's regulation of marriage, which this Court has consistently recognized is a power exclusively reserved to the States. Whereas most States recognize a single marital status that is given effect under federal law, DOMA effectively divides marriage in Massachusetts into two different statuses: married for all purposes for different-sex spouses, and married but "federally single" for same-sex spouses. This federal interference in the State regulation of domestic relations is unprecedented in the Nation's history and violates the Tenth Amendment.
DOMA has faced numerous legal challenges recently. Last week an elderly New York woman petitioned [JURIST report] the US Supreme Court to hear her challenge to DOMA. She was successful in suing the US government in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) [official website] which held [JURIST report] that section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional due to its violation of the principles of federalism. Earlier this month a lesbian couple sued [JURIST report] the government in the US District Court for the District of California [official website] seeking the same immigration rights for gay and lesbian couples as already afforded to heterosexual couples. Two days earlier, members of the US House of Representatives [official website] also filed [JURIST report] an amicus brief [text, PDF] with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] arguing against the constitutionality of DOMA.
Government abuses and violent conflict in Sudan have raised international concern recently. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos on Friday expressed concern [JURIST report] about deteriorating conditions in Sudan due to continued violent conflict in the country. Amos noted a recent increase in Sudanese refugees crossing into neighboring countries because of the conflict. In June UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged Sudan authorities [JURIST report] to take measures to prevent violence against protesters in upcoming demonstrations. Earlier that month AI urged Sudanese authorities to cease violence against protesters and journalists [JURIST report]. The call came after the country's police in Khartoum used tear gas and batons against civilians who protested over austerity cuts.
The Venezuelan government and the IACHR have clashed in the past. In 2011, Chavez criticized the IACHR [JURIST report] for ruling in favor of presidential hopeful Leopoldo Lopez, allowing him to run for office despite a separate court ruling barring him from the election. Chavez said the ruling was politically motivated and that the court was influenced by the US. In June 2010, the IACHR sent a letter to the Venezuelan government expressing concern [JURIST report] over the increasing threat to freedom of expression in the country, citing three recent cases that caused particular concern. In February 2010, the IACHR released a report [JURIST report] providing a detailed analysis on the state of human rights in Venezuela, which ultimately concluded that not all citizens are ensured full enjoyment of their basic human rights. The top Venezuelan human rights official criticized the report [JURIST report] and said that the report makes unfair characterizations and undermines Venezuelan democracy.
Same-sex marriage remains a controversial issue throughout the world. Last week the Liberian Senate [official website] passed a bill prohibiting same-sex marriage [JURIST report] in the country, making it a second-degree felony subject to a fine or a short term of imprisonment. In recent weeks four petitions have been filed with the US Supreme Court [official website] challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive], which precludes the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages regardless of their legality in the state in which they are performed. Last week an elderly New York woman petitioned the Court to expedite her DOMA challenge, which was successful in obtaining a ruling from US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) [official website] that DOMA is unconstitutional [JURIST report]. The week before, a lesbian couple filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California [official website] in a DOMA challenge that seeks to achieve for gay and lesbian couples the same federal immigration rights afforded to heterosexual couples [JURIST report] under the Immigration and Nationality Act [materials]. Also last week 132 members of the US House of Representatives [official website] filed an amicus brief [JURIST report] arguing that statutory classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to heightened judicial scrutiny, and that DOMA should be overturned as unconstitutional under any level of judicial scrutiny. The brief was filed in the appeal of Karen Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, the landmark case in which the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] also ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional [JURIST report].
JPMorgan Chase has faced numerous lawsuits related to its business practices. In early June the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] granted [JURIST report] the bank permission to pay $44.6 million in order to resolve allegations of fraudulent bidding practices for state and local government investment securities at taxpayers' expense. The settlement followed JPMorgan's agreement last July to pay a total of $228 million to federal and state authorities. It agreed [JURIST report] to pay $51.2 million to the affected municipalities, and its affiliates agreed to pay $177 million to settle parallel charges from other federal and state authorities including 25 states' attorneys general, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board [official websites]. A month earlier JPMorgan reached [JURIST report] a $153.6 million settlement for fraud charges brought by the SEC for misleading investors during the housing crises. In May the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] approved [JURIST report] a settlement agreement between JPMorgan and more than one million litigants nationwide who sued over excessive overdraft fees. JPMorgan agreed to pay $110 million to customers in settlement to resolve the litigation.
Cuba-US relations have improved in recent years. Last year US President Barack Obama [official profile] ordered [JURIST report] the Departments of State, Treasury and Homeland Security [official websites] to take steps to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. The new regulations were expected to allow greater travel from the US to Cuba for religious and educational purposes, the transfer of up to $2000 per year to non-family members in Cuba so long as they are not senior government or Communist Party leaders, and all US international airports to service charter flights between the two countries. In 2009, Obama ordered the lifting of travel restrictions and restrictions on money transfers [JURIST report] between Cuban-Americans and their families in Cuba in 2009. Obama also ordered that US telecommunications companies be allowed to work within Cuba to facilitate communication between families split between the two countries. The plan was put forward as not only necessary for the interests of the families, but also as way to bolster a democratic movement within Cuba.
The country's judiciary has been in conflict with the executive branch since political leaders have rejected the court's order to investigate into the president's alleged corruption. In mid-July Zardari signed the Contempt of Court Bill 2012, which would shield senior officials from contempt of court proceedings after it was approved by both the lower [JURIST reports] and upper [AFP report] houses of the national parliament. The new law was seen as an attempt to exempt Ashraf from a possible upcoming contempt of court proceeding for failure to reopen the investigation against Zardari. The court had ordered [JURIST report] the new prime minister in late June to investigate the corruption allegations against the president. Ashraf, however, has argued that the president is immune from prosecution under the country's constitution. The court in response claimed that no one is above the law and thus, the investigation against the president should proceed. During the same month, a Pakistani court ordered [JURIST report] the arrest of Makhdoom Shahabuddin [BBC profile], a former health minister from Punjab Province and the nominee for the country's then-vacant prime minister position for allegations that he was involved in irregularities in the amount of the controlled drug Ephedrine circulating within the country during his tenure as health minister. The arrest order was issued the same day the president nominated Shahabuddin to fill the position of former prime minister Gilani.
Former president Arroyo has been a target of anti-corruption efforts by President Benigno Aquino [BBC profile]. Arroyo was arrested [JURIST report] in November on fraud and corruption charges in the hospital before she was able to leave the country to seek medical treatment. In April Arroyo and her husband Jose Miguel pleaded not guilty [JURIST report] to corruption charges before a special anti-graft court in the Philippines. The non-guilty plea came a month after a Philippines court issued an arrest warrant [JURIST report] against Jose on bribery charges. He was accused of accepting bribes to support the $329-million national broadband network deal with ZTE Corporation. Arroyo faced the same charges in December when the country's authorities filed a second criminal complaint [JURIST report] against her alleging that she approved a $329-million national broadband network deal with the Chinese company in return for millions of dollars in kickbacks in 2008.
Earlier this month the court heard arguments [JURIST report] over a claim brought in opposition to the 500 billion euro (USD $632 billion) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) [text, PDF]. In June the court ruled [JURIST report] that the German Bundestag has the right to be heard on the European financial crisis, holding in a case initiated by the Green party that Merkel failed to notify the parliament early enough about plans for the ESM regarding its sister party in Austria. Although that decision did not have any effect on the 500 billion euro ESM, it increased the parliament's rights by requiring the chancellor's government to provide notice to the parliament as early as possible in the future. A previous ruling that gave the parliament similar rights over matter concerning the EU was issued in February. The country's constitutional court held [JURIST report] that the use of a parliamentary subcommittee to fast-track decisions related to eurozone bailouts is unconstitutional, instead requiring the entire Bundestag to overview such decisions. In September the court ruled [JURIST report] that the parliament did not unconstitutionally impair its own ability to adopt and control the nation's budget, nor did it infringe on the budget autonomy of future parliaments.
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said earlier this month that her office is opening a preliminary examination [JURIST report] of the recent violence in Mali, after the ICC received a letter from Malian government officials requesting an ICC investigation. Malian Justice Minister Malick Coulibaly said earlier this month that he would ask the ICC to open an investigation [JURIST report]. In May Amnesty International reported that Mali is facing its worst human rights crisis [JURIST report] since it gained independence in 1960. HRW released a similar report in April claiming that all sides to the conflict are committing war crimes [JURIST report]. Earlier in April the ICC said they would monitor the situation [JURIST report] in Mali for potential crimes under the ICC's jurisdiction. All of this has come after Malian soldiers took control of the government [JURIST report] and suspended the constitution in March. Many in the international community have expressed concern over the situation, including the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [JURIST reports]. The turmoil began when Taureg rebels attacked Malian soldiers [Al Jazeera report].
Earlier this week the International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB) [official website] reported that the number of global pirate attacks fell sharply [JURIST report] in the first half of 2012, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre [official website] (PRC) having received reports [materials] of 177 incidents in the first six months of this year, compared to 266 incidents for the same period in 2011. In May the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] ruled that the legal definition of maritime piracy [JURIST news archive] includes an armed attack to hijack a ship, even if the attempt is unsuccessful. Earlier that week a United Arab Emirates court sentenced 10 Somali pirates [JURIST report] to 25 years in prison. Also that week six accused Somali pirates went on trial [JURIST report] in a Paris court for taking 30 crew members hostage in 2008 on a ship in the Gulf of Aden. The US government in March handed over 15 suspected Somali pirates [JURIST report] it had captured in January to the Republic of Seychelles for prosecution. Italy ordered its first international piracy trial in February against nine Somali pirates, while France began its first international piracy trial [JURIST reports] in November. In October the UN Security Council adopted a resolution encouraging states to criminalize and punish piracy after maritime piracy reached an all-time high [JURIST reports] last year.
The international community has repeatedly called on Senegal to prosecute Habre. Belgium asked the ICJ in March to order Senegal either to prosecute or extradite Habre after a Senegal court rejected a Belgian court's request [JURIST reports] for it to do so in January. A year ago, Senegal reversed its decision [JURIST report] to send Habre back to Chad after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay suggested that he might be tortured. A year earlier, Amnesty International released a report citing [JURIST report] Senegal's refusal to prosecute or extradite Habre as just one of many examples of the country's "contempt" for rule of law.
Crime statistics have shown a similar trend in the US. Last month the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] released [JURIST report] the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report [text] documenting that the overall rate of violent crimes has decreased throughout the US. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter declined 1.9 percent, and forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault each declined 4 percent. While such crimes decreased in metropolitan counties, the same types increased significantly in cities with populations under 10,000. In terms of property crimes, motor vehicle theft dropped 3.3 percent while larceny theft dropped 0.9 percent. The same crimes increased in smaller cities. It was the fifth year in a row that violent crimes decreased. The trend continued from the preliminary semiannual report [text] that the FBI released [JURIST report] in December last year. The report for 2010 showed a decrease of 6.0 percent in violent crime and a decrease of 2.7 percent in property crime compared to 2009 statistics [JURIST reports]. The decrease began after 2006 and 2005 statistics [JURIST reports].
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Purchased at iHerb
useful for gluten free and vegan baking.


text: Are you a fun-seeker with a drive to succeed? If so, Calypso is the place for you! We need energetic, bilingual people with good communications skills who can provide awesome customer service with a smile! Working at Calypso has many advantages including unlimited access to the park and discounts in all restaurants and the gift shop. Hours are flexible, include evenings and weekends, and you will be working outdoors in all weather conditions. So bring your organizational skills, trustworthiness and professionalism to our fast-paced environment.