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From This Corner - Councilor's question silences even supporters in audience
Written by Paul Gauvin
June 01, 2007
Lawyers, it is said, are taught early on to refrain from asking a question they don't know the answer to.
Town Councilor Gregory Milne is not a lawyer, so he asked a public question of voters attending the annual meeting of the Greater Hyannis Civic Association last week that he should have left tucked in his shirt pocket for the moment.
During an open forum, Milne, who has a reputation for being long-winded, raised his hand to speak and somebody on the other side of the room immediately murmured the words "I'll be brief," attracting several muffled guffaws. Sure enough, Milne stood and prefaced his remarks with something like, "I'll be brief."
"Brief" is a subjective thing and not all will agree on what "brief" really is under various circumstances. It is "three minutes" at town council meetings. Milne exceeded that particular parameter to the point that association member and charge d'affaires for the evening, Joe Hoffman, on the other side of the room, signaled Milne with the "cut" sign by running an open hand along his throat repeatedly.
But the verbally feisty councilor continued his oration that unfortunately digressed from association matters into the personal, political realm by asking a direct question the audience didn't expect.
Couched in terms of "feedback," Milne inquired whether people in the audience wanted him to run again for the town council or might they prefer he run for the charter commission?
The silence was deafening.
Maybe Milne felt an immediate need to gauge his standing after a previous speaker suggested the association try to field good candidates for the town council and other offices.
In a political venue, or in a one-on-one dialog, the question would have been appropriate. But to ask somebody to get up in front of 40 people and comment on such a personal question involving the secret ballot only Karl Rove would have the arrogance to recommend.
Well, we learn by our mistakes...or so they say.
It must be mentioned in Milne's behalf that at best he was there and involved with his constituency, did comment on association business and did update the audience on the charter commission effort he has championed for the potential benefit of the community.
Milne certainly had supporters in the audience, but they were stunned into silence by the question.
From this corner, the councilor's gaffe paled to that of his council colleagues with constituencies in Hyannis and Hyannisport -- that would be Councilors Gary Brown of Precinct 9, Harold Tobey of Precinct 8 and James Munafo of Precinct 3 -- who did not and usually do not participate in association meetings despite open invitations.
In a similar vein, an inappropriate shout from the rear tainted somber Memorial Day ceremonies at Beechwood Cemetery as Council President Janet Joakim rendered remarks for the occasion. As she did, somebody shouted, "Your three minutes are up." -- a reference to the time allotted at council meetings for citizens to speak. Not nice given the sacred venue.
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How can Barnstable compete in the All American City award next week when it insists on calling itself a town? If in fact the significant contingent of town (city) officials heading out to Anaheim, Calif., manages to talk their way into the top award, it ought be incumbent upon them on their return to finally recognize that Barnstable, particularly Hyannis, has grown into a city. It operates on a city charter, ergo, city hall, city council, city manager, city limits, city police -- but could still retain the village fire departments and water supplies until such time as voters in a grass roots revolution demand, we say, demand, consolidated fire and water service at less cost.
It is said the contingent is not going to Anaheim just for the competition but to learn what other cities have done to improve their economic lot. One thing they've managed is to call themselves cities if that's what they are. Our contingent might want to stop at Disneyland and see what Mickey Mouse has to say about it.
Hopefully, and as stated by town officials, private money will pay for the vaca -- ah, networking trip. If that is truly the case, then we can't call it a junket, can we.
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do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.10m?I saw it in a professional paper, other data including Bench press of 140kg ,throwing 2kg discus over 52m,100m 12.5s. women LJ WR holder also standing jump of 3.10m, how strange it is,
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Re: do you believe the standing jump of melnik reach3.10m?
3.10 Standing LJ by Felnik? Yes, I believe it. It's a sheer power jump off two feet. They compete in this event in Norway during the winter. Norwegian women might not have gone 3m but certainly over 2.90 on many occasions. I would think 52m with the 2Kg disc is more impressive.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of melnik reach3.10m?I'm guessing this is actually Fiana Melnik, former discus world record holder's performances. Those are marks you would expect from an explosive, powerful athlete.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of melnik reach3.10m?
Yeah,wow, throwing 2kg dis over 52m,she is comphrensive thrower, also throw SP out to 20m,she took part in 1976oly in SP AND DT for USSR, BUT it was huge disaster for the 1975 world best woman of athletics, in fifth round of discus she went to 2nd place behind Evelin Jahl with 68.60m, however it was judged a foul, only 4th, ,in shot put even worse,after two round she even not passed 18m and eventually 18.17m, no final qualify at all.OLY actually nightmare for 11th WR breaker,in 1980 she threw almost 70m, but only over 52m in qualification.Only one gold medal which won narrowly beaten Menis.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.I haven't seen women going over 2.90 m many times. My lists from Norges Best (Norwegian record book by Jo Nesse ) shows 2.92m best by only one person and that is Annelin Mannes NOR at Flise in March 81. Bear in mind that in Norway they do the SLJ with the toes over the line as permitted in the Olympic rules when they had this event for men up thru 1912. This adds about 9" to the jump when made with toes behind the line. So no, I don't believe that Melnik or anyone else did it unless I see it in the official results. Maybe it's been done in the last few years but that's very unlikely.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.In "Transfer of Training in Sports", former Hammer Throw Olympic Champion and coach Anatoliy Bondarchuk gives a table called "Model Characteristic of General Physical Preparation of High Level Athletes Specializing in the Discus" (p.36). For women the standard for Standing Long Jump is 2.90-3.10m and for Bench Press 140-160kg. So Melnik figures 3.10m and 140kg are within these range.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.In all fairness, coulda woulda shoulda doesn't count. I coulda been a contender. Show me the competition result and I'm a believer.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.at a meet in Europe one summer in the '70s a bunch of international athletes had a standing-LJ competition and Al Feuerbach was an easy winner, beating no end of jumpers.
Al also once beat Rey Brown in a standing vertical jump comp. don't confuse standing jumps with running-jump ability.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.That was in TandFNews back in the 70's about Feuerbach's vertical leaping ability, and I was pretty surprised to hear about it.
Feuerbach was one of my favorite field guys then. Seemed like a cool dude. He and George Woods were quite a pair. Wasn't Feuerbach one of the organizers of the old Two Big Guys meet, years ago, that had a shot put competition in their back yard? Last edited by Conor Dary on Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.Is/was it Feuerbach who holds the "unofficial" SLJ world record? I had heard it was a shot putter.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.
My best was 3.20m. Several shot and javelin friends could beat me.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.For what it's worth, here are some SLJ marks, by body weight (source : Dale Harder's
'Strength and Speed') : 360/11'9 3/4 Werner Gunthor (280 lb?), 335/11'0 George Woods (294?), 320/10'6 Ken Patera(300), 305/10'0 Tony Mandarich(315), 244/8'0 Paul Anderson (320? /1957?) Idea for a SLJ competition: have some billionaire put up big prize money, and have all the world's best compete a la that tv show where people are always falling in the water - they must jump over a chasm (landing on safe surface, so no ankle injuries). You land on other side, or fall backwards into the water. I'd watch.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.I definitely believe so...BTW, it should be noted that usually SLJ in europe is measured on the long jump pit, usually starting with part of the feet over the edge of the pit..so giving some extra to the measure, compared to a very strict NFL combine type measurement.
Re: do you believe the standing jump of Faina Melnik reach3.Erozag, you're exactly right. When I wrote my Strength & Speed book I found that the Finns and Norwegians still do this annually and do it indoors with their toes over the edge of the pit. BTW, this is how they did it in the Olympics from 1900 to 1920--it's in the old rules for the event. Personal research reveals that you can average 9 inches more using the toes over the edge version. BTW, Gary's absolutely right. Running long jumpers do well because of their speed more than leg spring--they're not exactly chopped liver but speed is what does it for them. Out of the HJ, LJ and TJ, the TJ usually produces the best jumpers of that bunch. Invariably SP and DT produces the best of all T&F athletes generally speaking. Dick Cochran, one of our DT relates that in the 1956 Olympics many of the weight men were having an informal contest, and Paul Anderson, the heavyweight weightlifter came over and blew them all away. Dick didn't report the distance of that particular jump. On another occasion as pointed out above, Ken Patera, another WL-SP combo guy was a terrific SLJer. Incidentally WLers do better than even weight throwers as a group except for the very shortest WLers. Even they usually jump 3 to 4 feet longer than their height. BTW, Arne Tverraag NOR jumped 12'2 (371 cm) with toes over at a competition in Noresund NOR on 11-11-68 but I regard that as slightly inferior to Calvin Johnson of the NFL who did 11'7 (353 cm) in March 07 at the Georgia Tech combine. The NFL combine uses toes behind the line so Johnson's jump equates to 12'4 Olympic style. These should both be recorded as official. I've also heard claims of pro jumpers and Haken Sornbloom NOR HJer (220 cm or 7'2 1/2)doing as much as 13'1 (400cm) but they're not corroborated in official competitions.
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What I found more surprising than the NASCAR stats, though, was the abject shock from my green friends when I shared the information. It is precisely these kinds of 'purple issues,' combining the interests of Blue and Red States alike that will allow us to find the compromises (that's right, I used the c-word) we need to break political deadlock and take effective action to solve some of society's biggest problems.
NASCAR Green is purple precisely because it is 'oxymoronic.' It highlights common ground, letting us come out from behind the barricades to see the other side as having merit and something to contribute to the solution. As the national political parties continue hammering away at each other's differences, these purple issues give us a chance to play off our shared values.
—Richard Crespin, from Forbes' Corporate Social Responsibility blog
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Jason Russell and Joseph Kony Can Teach Us How to Love One Another on the Internet
by Chris Miller, guest contributor
As a social media nerd and a nonprofit worker with a heart for Africa, the past month has been fascinating. In that time we have witnessed the rise of the "KONY 2012" campaign and the fall of the mastermind behind it, Jason Russell.
On March 5th, an organization named Invisible Children launched an online movement to make Joseph Kony, a Ugandan war criminal and rebel leader known for his use of child soldiers, famous. The goal was to bring so much attention to him that governments would work together to bring about his arrest. Invisible Children produced a sleek thirty-minute video presenting this idea. The video went viral, racking up more than 86 million views.
However, not everyone thought the video was a good idea. (Myself included.) The Internet had a bipolar reaction. Many supported the campaign, posting links on Facebook and Twitter. Many others criticized the movement and the organization behind it.
The video featured Jason Russell, a co-founder of Invisible Children. Because of this, he came under personal attack. Sadly, the burden of this criticism was too much to bear. Suffering from "exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition," he had a nervous breakdown. Ten days later, he was detained outside of his home, where he was found nude, pounding his fists into the pavement and yelling profanities at the devil.
The Internet was quick to respond. He was mocked in every possible way. In fact, many of the top tweets were so offensive I do not feel comfortable sharing them here. To make it even worse, TMZ.com obtained a thirty-second video of his breakdown and posted it on their website. It went viral.
Every person processes and embodies their tradition in an original and organic way that is complex and embedded in the person's experience of joy and suffering; loss and loves. When talking about religion we are always treading on delicate and intensely personal ground and an authentic religious conversation involves listening more than speaking in order to fully understand and appreciate another person's religious background.
—Paul Raushenbush, the wise and elegant editor of Huffington Post Religion, has just written an outstanding piece on the art and work of bringing religious ideas and difference into our public spheres. It's sentences like the quotation above that deserve slow reading and pondering.
He then applies this thinking to what happens to religion in politics and in political lives, weaving in some astute observations from former Senator John Danforth. When I spoke with Danforth several years ago, he gave me much to think about. He has lived this line of faith and politics in an especially robust way.
by Krista Tippett, host
The Key to Relationship? Good Old-Fashioned Conversation about Everyday Topics
by Krista Tippett, host
As I write this, I am still reeling from the nine-day production trip that took us to Jerusalem as well as Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron. Suffice it to say, everything I thought I understood about Israeli and Palestinian realities, indeed about "the Middle East" in general, was cracked wide open.
I realized in a whole new way how the humanity of those people, places, and histories is simplified and distorted by our focus on the politics of the region. We will be producing five or six shows in the coming weeks and months, hoping to open that up for our listeners as it was opened up for us.
And so it is with a bit of cognitive dissonance, but happily, that we release our show with Kwame Anthony Appiah this week. Of all of the "Civil Conversation" voices we've interviewed up to now, his credentials are the most erudite and global. He is the incoming president of the PEN American Center, a Princeton philosopher, and an American citizen raised and educated between the country we now know as Ghana and the United Kingdom. He has written sweeping, fascinating, and influential books, including Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. In his latest work, he analyzes the real-world ingredients of social change and "moral progress" in disparate times and places — the end of foot-binding in China, for example, or of the slave trade as a social and economic staple of the British Empire.
Anthony Appiah also has a rare kind of personal moral authority with which to analyze such things, and that makes him the kind of voice I love.
His intellectual passion is leavened by life experience. He is the product of a seismic cultural shift that seemed unimaginable but then transpired within a generation. Every culture has had these. In my lifetime, there is the fact that black people were still sitting in the backs of buses in American cities. And the interracial 1953 marriage of Anthony Appiah's African father and British mother — the daughter of a former chancellor of the exchequer — was condemned as morally repugnant, the stuff of global headlines.
I pursue a bit of a thought experiment with him for the purposes of this conversation. What if we considered the breakdown of civility in American political, media, and cultural life as a moral crisis — a condition fed by our worst instincts and destructive of our highest ideals, which will rot us from the inside if we don't address and correct it? How might Anthony Appiah's knowledge about moral change inform our words and actions moving forward?
For all the gravity of that question and the scholarly intelligence Anthony Appiah brings to it, his response is a relief. Sometimes we need to address difference head on, he says, but often the best way is to "sidle up to it" — to accept and live it without forcing agreement or even addressing it head on.
He echoes a point made forcefully by Frances Kissling on this program, speaking from the context of the abortion debate, that our rush to come to agreement can get in the way of really understanding each other. But Anthony Appiah brings this closer to the ground. He muses on how differences retain their vitality within extended networks of friendship and family — not going away, often, but also not presenting a stumbling block to relationship. Appiah is a gay man, and he relates in his personal history experiences of family who may not accept his sexuality as moral, but with whom he can stay in loving relationship.
What we need more than agreement, he says, are simple habits of association with different others, encounters that breed familiarity. There is real social and even moral value to be had, he suggests, when we connect with others even on the most mundane topics of who we are and how we spend our days — whether it be soccer or football, shared hobbies or parenting. In fact, Anthony Appiah says, this kind of human exchange — as much a matter of presence as of words — is the old-fashioned meaning of the word "conversation."
The trick in our time, of course, is that the world is conspiring against human presence even as it gives us a million new ways to connect. We have to work particularly hard to seek out those who are different from us. Anthony Appiah's analysis on this point is provocative and helpful, one other piece of the puzzle of what has gone awry in what we used to call "common life."
Yet even here, his prescriptions are doable. He tells a story of one especially formative relationship from his early life that he calls a great piece of good fortune. As a left-leaning student activist, he formed a friendship with an arch-conservative neighbor. He agreed with this man on virtually nothing, yet they conversed in a spirit of neighborliness and friendliness. This experience of connection that held and contained difference, he says, has shaped his movement through the world ever since. These, surely, are the kinds of encounters we could all begin instantaneously to nudge into existence, to sidle up to, and to do so with our children. I for one will be looking, with relief, for such good old-fashioned conversation.
About the image: Anthony Appiah's mother, father, and siblings in the mid-1960s. (photo courtesy of Anthony Appiah)
A Force More Powerful
by Margaret Benefiel, guest contributor
Children watch fish in the reflection of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at a park in Thrissur, India on International Non-Violence Day. (photo: Ragesh Vasudevan/Flickr)
In the midst of the American discussions of violence and civility in public discourse, we would do well to remember a lesson that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. learned and taught: nonviolence is a force more powerful than violence.
Martin Luther King, Jr., following Gandhi, believed that nonviolence, like electricity, is a powerful force, and that humans have only begun to tap into its potential. The more we experiment with using nonviolence, the more we will discover its power to transform conflict into mutual understanding, to transform injustice into justice. Violence, on the other hand, always leads to the same end: more violence and destruction.
Dr. King reminded us:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction — the chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
Many have experimented with the power of nonviolence in international and national conflicts: Christian Peacemaker Teams stand between opposing forces in the world's hot spots, Polish Solidarity leaders brought freedom to Poland without firing a shot, Gandhi and his followers broke the power of British rule in India, to name but a few.
What we also need in America today are those who will risk experimenting with the power of nonviolence in our families, in our communities, in our nation. American culture has become a violent culture, and we need pioneers who will blaze a new trail. We need to be shown another way.
A few unsung ordinary heroes (and probably many more we don't know) have taken the first steps in blazing the trail. When New Yorker Julio Diaz followed the man who had taken his wallet at knifepoint and offered him his coat as well, leading to a transformative conversation and to his wallet being returned, he demonstrated the power of nonviolence in response to street violence.
When Texas Rep. Al Green started his town hall meeting on health care reform with questions for his audience about how the meeting should be conducted, resulting in the group creating a mutually agreed-upon contract, he demonstrated the power of mutual respect in a group to counter disruptive violent tactics. We need more people who will follow in the footsteps of these pioneers.
As we begin to experiment with nonviolence, we will come face-to-face not only with our actions, but with our hearts as well. In Dr. King's words:
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
Martin Luther King's words, addressing the international arena but just as true within a nation, ring true for Americans today:
"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation."
May we choose to experiment with nonviolence in our families, our communities, and in our public discourse. If we take this experiment seriously, we will discover a force more powerful, a force powerful enough to transform our relationships on every level, powerful enough to transform our culture and to change the world.
Margaret Benefiel lives in Boston and is a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting. She's a consultant at Executive Soul and author of Soul At Work and The Soul of a Leader.
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How Do We Live Together While Holding Passionate Disagreements?
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Tell us a story. Share an experience. It's this sense of possibility and vulnerability that just may be the way in to hearing each other — to engaging and understanding those who fundamentally challenge us in the deepest ways, on the most contentious of issues. We (me included) often posture and blame.
We'll be selecting the best of these stories for a radio show and podcast — recorded in the first person, in the voice of the author — for our ongoing "Civil Conversations" series.
And, please share this with others, whether it's on your personal blog or Facebook or Twitter or even through an old-fashioned letter via post. We're a public radio program, and it's our mission to make this effort as expansive and truly representative of our public dialogues as we possibly can. We want to hear from all types of conservative and liberal voices — religious, social, political — and the many others navigating that vast middle.
Listener Demands Apology and a Civil Exchange Results
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Chad Smyser, a listener from New York City, took us to task for our editorial decision to broadcast and podcast a recent show featuring Evangelical leader Richard Mouw. He wrote:
I am so disappointed in last week's episode.
This broadcast was ill-timed in the wake of the hate crimes in New York and the suicide at Rutgers. In addition, at a time when SOF is transitioning its brand identity, one would think the choice of material would be less divisive.
I have listened to your show for years. It has brought great comfort and understanding into my life. I will continue to listen, even in the wake of what I consider to be a giant gaffe from a show that I deeply respect. Would the show have given voice to someone who supported Virginia's anti-interracial marriage laws in 1967, no matter how civil the voice? In my mind, this is what "On Being" did, translating it to 2010.
But civility in the political and religious arena is such an important topic! I wish it had been explored in a way that didn't highlight one man's disapproval of gay marriage. I long to be respectful of other folks' beliefs, struggles and communal aspirations. Regrettably, it is impossible for anyone who believes in equality to reconcile Mr. Mouw's beliefs on gay marriage. How is it civil to deny someone his or her right to marry the one he or she loves? An on-air apology to your gay and lesbian listeners would be most welcome.
The language used on one of the Facebook posts ("No matter what your opinion on gay rights") was appalling. While I'm sure it was unintentional, I feel that the show really needs to clear the air.
All the best,
Chad Smyser
This critique echoed many other listeners' reactions to the show. And, we answered as many as we could. But, it was the following exchange between Kate Moos, our executive producer, and Chad that offers an example of what quality conversation can be when we are honest, open, and vulnerable with one another:
Dear Chad,
Thanks for taking the time to write. I'm sorry the show disappointed you. There has been some follow up on our blog, and there will likely be more. Our internal editorial process was quite fraught along some the same lines of question and concern you describe. The program itself was not designed to be—and wasn't—a show about the gay marriage and gay civil rights issues. It was aimed at the broader topic of civility. But Mouw's position on gay marriage colors his authority—in many peoples' view—for other topics of moral weight.
We argued about this and wrestled with it. Ultimately, we felt it was important to factor in the people with whom Mouw is in a distinct position to have high authority: other conservative Christians, whom he is taking to task and challenging to greater compassion, humility and civility. In fact, we received an email yesterday from one of those conservative Christians who has been paralyzed in her relationships with 2 close family members who are gay. She wrote to thank us because she was heart-broken and felt Mouw gave her a way to be in relationship with them, and in some sense, gave her permission to love them. So that is another impact of this program.
We would not have a guest on our show who would defend inter-racial marriage laws. And yet your point is taken—theological thinkers and religious people have erred badly in the past, and continue to err on matters of central moral gravity, things like slavery, voting rights, and marriage. Some people clearly put Mouw in that category.
The idea was to challenge all of us to keep listening through our most profound disagreements.
Chad, I am a lesbian who is long partnered, and who went to Canada to be married a few years ago—believe me I was challenged in producing this show, to keep listening to a point of view that I find in its essence a condemnation of my life. I am also related to people who share Mouw's view of gay-lesbian marriage, and of the essential sinfulness of homosexuality. I struggle mightily to keep an open heart for them. This is where we are living, all of us, in this kind of contention.
I am not writing back to you to counter what you say but perhaps to amplify it. We will be posting reflections on this show in the coming days that might help "clear the air." If you have other thoughts on how we can do that I'd love to hear them.
Thanks for writing, and peace.
Kate Moos
And Chad's reply:
Dear Kate,
I am deeply touched and grateful for your thoughtful, heartfelt reply. Perhaps this episode struck such a dissonant chord with me because, like you, I struggle with the issue of civility and open mindedness in dealing with folks in my own family and circle of acquaintances. It was Mr. Mouw's views on homosexuality in the context of creating an open dialogue amongst people of vastly varying viewpoints that really caused my disappointment.
Also, I look to SOF/Being as one of my touchstones to a spiritual life. I was raised evangelical and threw out all things spiritual when I came out. I thought that the two were mutually exclusive. It was really your show that allowed me to find a way back to belief in something bigger than myself. Through SOF I discovered the quiet revolution of Thich Nhat Hahn. I started uncovering the secular movement toward well-being via Jon Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness and Andrew Freear's architecture. I even felt a deep kinship with Shane Claiborne, although his views on homosexuality certainly aren't akin to mine. Nevertheless, his spirit of subversive inclusiveness and social justice really appeals to me.
I am moved by the response of one of your conservative Christian listeners who struggles to find a way to have a relationship with her gay relatives. Perhaps this one outcome is worth all the confusion and anger gays and lesbians may have felt. Furthermore, I suppose this episode has truly challenged my views on civility and dealing with those whose views I know are empirically wrong when it comes to homosexuality, yet with whom I must find a way to reconcile. There is nothing more human than failure. I would be well advised to accept others' failure as well as my own.
I continue to look forward to the journey from "Faith" to "Being." Airing your and the staff's own struggles with this episode would be a great help to your gay and lesbian listeners. Understanding your journey has profoundly affected mine.
Of course we are sensitive to these types of personal conversations, so I requested Chad's permission to publish the exchange, to which he replied with a graceful note:
Dear Trent,
Yes, you may publish our correspondence. I am very grateful for Kate's response, and I imagine that it will speak to others. It really helped me to understand the spirit behind Krista's conversation with Mr. Mouw, along with the editorial struggles that went into its production.
All the best,
How Do We Live and Honor Each Other Despite Our Differences?
by Krista Tippett, host
"Restoring Political Civility: An Evangelical View" with Richard Mouw was as hard as any show in my memory to produce, edit, script — and even to justify, as news unfolded while we were creating it.
I have known Richard Mouw for 15 years and interviewed him on this program in its early days. Other Evangelical Christian leaders have been more visible in American political and media life: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ted Haggard, James Dobson, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, and on the more progressive side Jim Wallis and Richard Cizik. I have followed them, but I have also always kept my ear and eye on quieter figures like Richard Mouw. As president of Fuller Theological Seminary, with more than 4000 students from 70 countries and over 100 denominations, he is training generations of Evangelical and Pentecostal pastors and global leaders.
And in this political season, in which values have once again — and with a new edge of hysteria — come to be a rallying cry for viciousness, I wanted to speak with him again. A book he first wrote in 1992, Uncomon Decency, has just been released in a revised version with the subtitle, "Christian Civility in an Uncivil World." Mouw has long been a kind of bridge person — theologically conservative on some issues and more progressive on others — but he most fervently insists that the way people are treated is a greater measure of Christian virtue than the positions one takes.
I've wondered rhetorically how our political life would have evolved differently if the Christian re-emergence into politics in the late 20th century had modeled a practical love of enemies. My own deepest despair at present is not about the vitriol and division per se — as alarming as they are. It is about the fact that we seem to be losing any connective tissue for engaging at all, on a human level, across ruptures of disagreement. Across the political spectrum, many increasingly turn to journalism not for knowledge but to confirm individual pre-existing points of view. What we once called the red state, blue state divide is now more like two parallel universes where understandings of plain fact are no longer remotely aligned. This leads to a diminishing sense of the humanity of those who think and live differently than we do. And that is the ultimate moral slippery slope, for everyone on it and for the fabric of our civic life.
Richard Mouw lays out the imperative to all kinds of Christians for gentleness, reverence, humanity, and "honor" of the different other at the heart of the Bible and the life of Jesus. But this is not a feel-good plea for harmony. Even as he calls for civility and gentleness, Mouw reasserts his public and private opposition to gay marriage and civil unions. The civility he calls for would not minimize difference, at least at the outset, but would create a different space for discussing and navigating it — indeed for bringing differences into public life with virtue and vitality of expression. Picking up on a phrase coined by Christian historian Martin Marty, Richard Mouw builds upon this idea of "convicted civility."
We had impassioned and difficult discussions on our production team about his ideas, and the complications and contradictions they present. When he says that, as a Christian, he sees other human beings as "works of divine art," can that genuinely apply to a person whose sexual identity he defines as fundamentally wrong? And then, in the thick of creating this show, the Rutgers student Tyler Clementi committed suicide — one of a string of suicides of gay youth. This sharpened a question of whether religious views condemning homosexuality — however civilly expressed — inevitably fuel hateful, even fatal, behavior.
With all of this on my mind, I was struck by an open letter the Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler wrote in direct response to those teen suicides. Though Mohler is to the right of Richard Mouw theologically and culturally, his letter takes an unexpectedly kindred tone. Mohler leads the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and one of the most conservative. He spends the first few paragraphs of his statement reiterating his firm theological conviction that homosexuality is a sin. But in words that echo a search for a new way of "convicted civility," Mohler confesses, "Much of our response to homosexuality is rooted in ignorance and fear." And he asks, of the faithful and of his church leaders, "What if Tyler Clementi had been in your church? Would he have heard biblical truth presented in a context of humble truth-telling and gospel urgency, or would he have heard irresponsible slander, sarcastic jabs, and moralistic self-congratulation?" I read in Mohler's statement a profound shift of tone, if not of position — and an opening to new ways of being.
This all drives towards a question I pursue in so many of my conversations: How does social change happen? We will not all be "on the same page," as Americans like to be, on sexuality or many other issues for generations to come. The 21st century has opened up questions Western civilization thought it had put to rest. Some of them are intimate and raw, terrifying in every life at some point and therefore all the more unsettling when we are forced to ponder them out in the open together. Same-sex marriage is but the tip of an iceberg of human redefinition: What is relationship? What is marriage? What is friendship? What constitutes a family? In this messy moment, we retain our rights and responsibilities as human beings and citizens to discern our truths and live by them. But we have no choice, at the same time, if we want this to end well, to search for new ways to discern our multiple truths while living together.
Richard Mouw suggests that we need to start some of our conversations again from the beginning, certainly the conversation about sexuality. He believes that only by naming our hopes and our fears, articulating them among ourselves, revealing them to each other, can we begin to recreate something called a common life, which can contain, and not be destroyed by, our differences. I want to believe him, to believe that this is one answer to the question of how social change happens. If I didn't believe that a new kind of conversation can also be a starting point for walking forwards together — living together, differently — I would not do what I do.
And yet, maybe another reality we have to live with is that these critical new conversations will start small, in many places, compelling us to connect dots for a while in lieu of convening the sweeping dialogue we might hope for. I'd point to a few that we've pulled together at onBeing.org with this show, including Albert Mohler's letter in its entirety as well as a Religion Dispatches report about an historic meeting between a senior Mormon elder and LGBT Mormons.
We've also posted a piece we admire by fellow journalist Sasha Aslanian titled "Sex, Death, and Secrets" — featuring an interview with two lesbian pastors who've experienced a roller coaster ride of discernment within their own denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
And we've posted another kind of contribution to civility, an act of care for "despairing LGBT kids who are being bullied and harassed, kids who don't think they have a future" — a video project called "It Gets Better" that was created by syndicated columnist Dan Savage and his husband Terry. Both come from families with conservative religious roots, and we see photographs that bespeak the embrace they've both received as members of these families. They are photographs of love that has overcome convictions — or chosen to live in a gracious, loving tension alongside them. This too is possible. Please add your thoughts, stories, and pictures — your dots, if you will — to this difficult, dispersed, essential conversation.
Richard Mouw: A Twitterscript with an Evangelical Leader on Civility
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
This coming week we will be releasing our latest show, which focuses on the topic of incivility in political, religious, and civic culture with one of the leading Evangelical Christian leaders in the United States today. On September 8, 2010, Krista interviewed Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a professor of Christian philosophy and ethics, which we live-tweeted (@softweets) from behind the glass of Studio P at Minnesota Public Radio. Here's a compilation, our Twitterscript if you will, of all those tiny nuggets, and a few exchanges with our followers:
- Tweeting Krista Tippett's interview on civility with @richardmouw
Wed Sep 8 14:11:57 2010 - "The antichrist has changed across my lifetime…in the 1980s it shifted towards Islam" - @richardmouw
Wed Sep 8 14:12:47 2010 - On civility, @RichardMouw quotes the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah: "Seek the shalom of the city in which God has placed you."
Wed Sep 8 14:18:06 2010 - "What does it mean for me to honor the Muslim..the Mormon..the people of unbelief who are hostile towards Christianity?" - @richardmouw
Wed Sep 8 14:18:22 2010 - "What I owe to my mother and friends, I also owe to the stranger. And that's more than toleration." -@richardmouw on going beyond tolerance
Wed Sep 8 14:19:11 2010 - "Evangelicalism goes back + forth between alienation to a takeover mentality - but alternate between two theologies." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 14:26:32 2010 - "I do think Jesus is a model of civility - of convicted civility." -@RichardMouw, president of Fuller Seminary
Wed Sep 8 14:32:48 2010 - "For starters concentrate on your own sinfulness and the other person's humanness." Evangelical leader @richardmouw on gentle Christianity
Wed Sep 8 14:32:55 2010 - "Glenn Beck + anti-Islam have revived the Evangelical sense that they're taking something away and we need to get it back." - @richardmouw
Wed Sep 8 14:36:42 2010 - "It's very important for a leader to approach people having a hard time controlling their fears." -@RichardMouw on conservatives' concerns
Wed Sep 8 14:42:13 2010 - @mindywithrow You're welcome! It's tough keeping up. in reply to mindywithrow
Wed Sep 8 14:42:52 2010 - "We have to be careful that we not sin in the process of acting on those concerns." @richardmouw on "Glenn Beck followers'" moral concerns
Wed Sep 8 14:45:42 2010 - "We're not messiahs. And God isn't going to hold us responsible for righting all the wrongs in the world." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 14:48:27 2010 - "Instead of telling Mormons what they believe, asking them what they believe." @richardmouw on a "gentle" approach w/ those we disagree with
Wed Sep 8 14:51:19 2010 - "GK Chesterton once said, 'It's bad to have false gods. But it's also bad to have false devils.'" -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 14:52:44 2010 - "Seeing other people is a kind of exercise in art appreciation." - @richardmouw on the realization that all people are a work of art
Wed Sep 8 14:53:02 2010 - "Even in expressing our differences we're dealing with people that are precious works of divine art" @richardmouw
Wed Sep 8 14:57:41 2010 - "One of my stories about learning in civility was going to a gay Mass at an Episcopal church." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 14:58:38 2010 - "I'm gratified by a growing Christian subculture of the more conservative side that are willing to think some new thoughts." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:04:05 2010 - "There's a common life. There's something that bonds human beings together that politics can't create and shouldn't destroy." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:07:58 2010 - RT @expatminister: ah yes, the oft-quoted Jeremiah 29. Much more complex, much harder than "I know the plans…" bumper sticker. Good tho…
Wed Sep 8 15:09:57 2010 - "I think more and more we're committed to bringing people in (@FullerATS)… It's important to create these kinds of spaces." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:11:51 2010 - "We need safe places. The problem is that there aren't safe places any more." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:13:21 2010 - "If more people who have influence and leadership positions can give their blessing to this [civility] and encourage this…" -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:19:56 2010 - "In many ways, we are living in a world that's much like some of the best years in Christianity in the past." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:23:50 2010 - "We have to bracket those kinds of [social] issues and live with more mystery on that." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:26:29 2010 - "We need to see He [Jesus] calls us to go out to identify with the things he cares about." -@RichardMouw
Wed Sep 8 15:31:00 2010 - And that concludes our live-tweeting of Krista's interview with evangelical leader @RichardMouw. Thanks for reading!
Wed Sep 8 15:32:35 2010
It Gets Better Project
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The YouTube project called "It Gets Better" is a noble effort to help save the many young gay and questioning children and teenagers out there right now who are struggling, who are contemplating suicide. The project tries to show those "despairing LGBT kids who are being bullied and harassed, kids who don't think they have a future" that adults who were in their same situation as them have endured and emerged in a safer, happier place. They are examples that life goes on, that situations do improve.
The video above of Dan Savage, the author of the syndicated sex column "Savage Love" and who started this project after Billy Lucas' suicide, and his husband should be a vivid reminder to all of us about the true virtue of civility and kindness. No matter where you stand on the gay rights issue, this video should appeal to the need for a common decency for all people.
And for all of you Project Runway fans, Tim Gunn has recently released his contribution to the project with a troubling story from his own childhood:


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Mugelllo's high-speed nature is not typical of many F1 venues – with its set-up and aerodynamic demands only really relevant for tracks like Silverstone and Suzuka. In particular it lacks the slow speed turns that are so typical of forthcoming races in Monaco, Canada and Valencia.
amouzouris wrote:i think that they should test upgrades extensively to learn how they work....not plugging 10 upgrades on the car and gain 0.500s but without having any clue how they work...if they learn how they work they might be able to extract another 0.250 for example...if u get what i mean!
Crucial_Xtreme wrote:elFranZ wrote:Sorry, but I don't buy it.
Ferrari still lacks in WT and CFD compared to other top teams, so they'll have to squeeze every single second in Mugello trying the many updates they can, hoping it works immediately. Otherwise the season is gone.
They've always been good in track-testing, so enough with rumors, we're a few hours from the truth.
Ferrari has said they will use the first two days at Mugello to compare exhaust solutions and that it will introduce 'more significant updates' on the final day.
Crucial_Xtreme wrote:Ferrari has said they will use the first two days at Mugello to compare exhaust solutions and that it will introduce 'more significant updates' on the final day.
f300v10 wrote:The F1fanatic website has an interesting article that compares the performance of this years F1 cars by looking at the percentage each car is slower than the fastest race lap at each race. That is not always a valid comparison, as some times the fastest lap is effected by a late change for tires. That said it does offer an interesting look at Ferrari's performance over the last 3 seasons:
"The raw data of Ferrari's recent decline makes for startling reading. They were 0.48% off the pace in 2010, 0.83% off last year, and 1.5% off in the first four races of 2012."
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Sue Manor is one of hundreds of patients who received steroid injections for back pain.
"I didn't really get into any state of fear or anything. I just thought ok we're going to research this," she says. "And of course the more I researched the more worried I get.
Forty-seven people in Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan and Indiana have gotten a non-contagious form of meningitis from tainted steroid shots. At least five people have died.
Federal health officials have identified the Massachusetts manufacturer and have issued a recall. Seventy-five clinics in 23 states that received the recalled lots have been instructed to notify all affected patients.
As many as 630 people treated at two medical facilities in southwest Virginia may have received these injections. The state has five confirmed cases.
"It very commonly presents with headache, fever, sensitivity to light and then other symptoms: nausea, vomiting sometimes, and potentially symptom like the balance, the neurologic symptoms," says Dr. David Trump of the Virginia Department of Health.
It can take 28 days for the infection to develop, so for right now Manor is waiting.
"I do wish that maybe they could bring patients together, we can have a physician perhaps who can answer these questions and put our minds at rest," Manor says.
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Good Monday morning! Hope you had a good weekend. Today, we've got some Twins Thoughts, minor league updates and some other thoughts and links. I am working on the next two postings, and I am pretty excited about both of them, so be sure to check back. Tomorrow's, of course, will be all of your responses to the Discussion Question, so be sure to e-mail me your thoughts. Also, I will re-post something I posted on Saturday afternoon regarding a Twins Bloggers night that you should read and participate in if you are able to. Here is that:
There is a wonderful non-profit organization called Admission Possible. It makes college a possibility for many low-income, motivated students. This is done in four ways: 1.) SAT and ACT preparation; 2.) intensive assistance in preparing college applications; 3.) help in obtaining financial aid and 4.) guidance in transition to college. The program has been incredibly successful already.
The organization is funded through private primarily through private donations. That is where the Twins Bloggers Night comes in. Twins owner Carl Pohlad has agreed to participate in Admission Possible with a gift. The organization receives a picnic, the owner's suite and about as many tickets as needed. I hate to ad-lib and lose anything in translation, so I will use the Twins Geek's words directly:
For $25, each person gets a ticket to the game, admission to the pregame picnic tent (SW corner of the dome, 5-7PM, with hot dogs, chips, soda), and a raffle ticket to sit in the owner's box - with Tony Oliva. He'll also be stopping by the picnic. It's perfect - a great event, with fellow Twins fan(atics), food, a jazz band, a chance to sit in Carl's suite, and every penny goes to a worthy cause.
Since that was posted, they have received more specific information from Admission Possible. First, if you are interested in attending the game and the picnic, etc., click here to order your tickets. I really, really wish I lived closer to the cities so I could be there, but that seven hour one-way drive makes showing up on a Tuesday night a little difficult.
However, for those of you who might want to say hi, I will be at the Twins Autograph Party outside the Dome next Saturday (June 18th) as well as the Twins game that night, a 6:10 game against the San Diego Padres. I have been to the Autograph Party the last two years. It is a fun place to be with plenty of activities. The current players sign autographs as do many former Twins. To obtain autographs requires a $25 autograph card. There are live and silent auctions of some great Twins Memorabilia. All money goes to the Twins Community Fund which does great work throughout the Upper Midwest.
Here is a re-run of the Discussion Question. It is time for a new Discussion Question. Again, if you check out the Archives, you will find a number of such questions. From who would make your All-Time Lineup, or which greats you would like to talk to, and more. But this week, the topic turns back to the Minnesota Twins. Here is the first question:
Right now, the Twins are 35-23, 4.5 games behind the Chicago White Sox in the American League Central.
a.) What moves do the Twins need to make to win the division? Trades?
(my current opinion really is that the Twins don't need to do anything. Their record is not only second in the division, but it is second in the American League. They are one of just three teams in all of baseball with a Winning Percentage over .600. But there are places and positions where the Twins can improve. What are those positions, and who are some players that the Twins should be targeting? Feel free to propose a few trades for our readership to think about.b.) Finally, and maybe most importantly, which Twins minor leaguers would you classify as "Untouchable" ?
PROCESS - OK, the process remains the same for the Discussion Questions. This question is posted today and will be kept up all weekend. I will also post it on Monday. I will then take all of the responses to these questions that I receive and post them on this website on Monday night at 11:30 p.m. So, read and re-read the questions, consider your response, and then be sure to e-mail me before Monday night.
The Twins lost two out of three against the Dodgers down in Chavez Ravine this weekend. The two losses, like most of their losses, were both by one run. Those can be the most frustrating to watch as a fan. There are always situations here and there where you can question a player or the manager. For instance, the Twins had two or three runners in scoring position with less than two outs three times in the middle innings. In each case, the rookie pitcher DJ Houlton was able to get two strikeouts to end the inning. First it was Justin Morneau followed by Torii Hunter to end one inning. The next inning, it was Juan Castro and Brad Radke. That same combination repeated itself a couple of innings later. In each case, it is impossible to blame the two out hitter because you're going to get out. I was more disappointed by Morneau and Castro (twice) in these situations. All you have to do is put the ball in play and you score a run, but they were unable to do that. After the second inning when both Michael Cuddyer and Juan Castro lifted sacrifice flies, I figure it would be a good "Twins do the little things right" day, but clutch performance was pretty non-existent after that. You can also second guess Ron Gardenhire for not pinch hitting for Radke in the 6th inning and two outs. I know that the thought crossed my mind. But, as much as we second guess the manager and the players, we also have to realize that if things turn out differently, they look smarter.
Anyway, here are a few thoughts on the series:
Glenn Williams made his major league debut on Friday night as a pinch hitter. He hit the first pitch up the middle. It hit the pitcher and before the other infielders could react, Williams was past first base with his first hit. He then got a start at 3B on Saturday night. He made all the plays and went 2-4. So, he's now a career .600 hitter.
Hee Seop Choi went into the weekend series hitting .243/.323/.410 with 6 homers. That is an OPS of .733. After his weekend where he went 6-12 with six homers and seven RBI, he is now hitting .263/.335/.532 .That is an OPS of 867. And now the stat-heads will tell us that he is having a good season!
Luis Rodriguez got the start in all three games in the series. He is making all the plays on defense. Also, he was 3-4 with a double on Saturday night. He was 0-2 but successfully dropped down two very good sacrifice bunts. My question is this: Luis Rivas is soon eligible to come off of the Disables List. What do the Twins do? Maybe they can send him to Rochester for a rehab stint? Just release him and eat his contract? Send Rodriguez, or Brent Abernathy or Glenn Williams down again? I know which one I would vote for!
I was happy to see Shannon Stewart pinch hit in the 9th inning on Sunday. It means that he will be 100% and ready to go on Tuesday. If it were more serious, there is no way that they would have let him hit, particularly against Eric Gagne.
The Twins are second in the American League in home runs allowed. Saturday night, Carlos Silva gave up three. On Sunday, Brad Radke gave up four. So, does that really matter? I mean, how much does that matter relative to the fact that the Twins have the best pitching staff in the American League. It basically means that the only way to score against the Twins is via the long ball.
Not even I, one of the biggest Brad Radke apologists, can come up with anything to excuse Choi's third home run. First pitch fastball, right down the middle of the plate. Honestly, I think I could have hit that ball out of the ballpark!
Jesse Crain threw another 2.1 innings of shutout ball. Of course, Juan Rincon threw 1.1 scoreless innings. JC Romero struck out four in his two shutout innings this weekend. Joe Nathan pitched a scoreless ninth for the save on Saturday night, and he struck out two. And yet, it was Terry Mulholland who came into the game in the bottom of the 9th against Choi and gave up the game-winning walk-off homer. It was Mulholland who struck out Choi to end the seventh inning.
The Twins have an off-day today to travel home where they will take on the Bonds-less San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres.
Do you have any thoughts on the Twins, the Yankees or anything baseball. Feel free to e-mail me.
Friday - REDWINGS 1, Richmond 3 - Scott Baker pitch well but falls to 2-3. He gave up three runs on six hits and a walk over 7.1 innings. He struck out six. Brent Schoening came in and got the final two outs. Jason Bartlett went 3-4 with his fourth double. Chris Heintz was 1-2 with a walk and his second homer.
Saturday - REDWINGS 5, Indianapolis 13 - Rochester got shelled, so I am going to start with some positive. Luis Maza went 4-5. Jason Tyner was 3-5 with a walk and his 10th stolen base. Jason Bartlett was 2-4 with a walk and his 2nd homer. Kevin West was 2-4 with hit 11th double and his 7th home run. It was a rough start for Dave Gassner. He gave up 8 earned runs on 9 hits and a walk over 4.2 innings. Beau Kemp, Willie Eyre and Travis Bowyer combined for 2.1 shutout innings. Ricky Barrett gave up a run in his 1.1 inning. Brent Schoening gave up four runs on five hits in hit inning. But he did 'strike out the side.'
Sunday - REDWINGS 3, Indianapolis 4 - The Redwings had just six hits. Luis Maza was 2-4 while Jason Tyner and Augie Ojeda each had a double. Boof Bonser started and took the loss. In six innings, he gave up four runs on eight hits and two walks. He struck out a very impressive 13 batters. Henry Bonilla went the next two innings without allowing a run. Travis Bowyer pitched one shutout inning, striking out two.
Friday - ROCKCATS 2, Trenton 1 - Francisco Liriano picked up his third win of the year. He went six innings and gave up a run on five hits and three walks. He also struck out nine. Jason Miller recorded his third save by pitching three perfect innings with three strikeouts. The Rockcats had just five hits. Danny Matienzo went 2-3 with a walk and his 18th double.
Saturday - ROCKCATS 3, Trenton 7 - Colby Miller came off the Disabled List to make the start. In four innings, he gave up four runs (2 earned) on five hits and two walks. Jim Abbott then pitched the final five innings. He gave up three runs on six hits and a walk. Alex Romero went 2-4 with his 12th double. Ben Pattee was also 2-4. James Tomlin had a triple, and Luis Jimenez hit his 9th home run.
Sunday - Game 1 - ROCKCATS 7, Trenton 3 - Matt Yeatman improved to 2-3 with a 3.29 ERA. He went 5.2 innings and gave up three runs (2 earned) on four hits and a walk. He struck out five. Pat Neshek pitched the final 1.1 innings and didn't allow a run. The Rockcats found a way to score seven runs on just five hits. Doug Deeds was 2-4 with his 20th double and 6th home run. Ben Pattee and Luis Jimenez each hit a double.
Sunday - Game 2 - ROCKCATS 10, Trenton 1 - In the second game, the team got great pitching from Jan Granado and Kevin Cameron. Granado started and went four innings. He gave up a run on four hit. He walked none and struck out four. Cameron came in and gave up just two hits over the final three innings. Tommy Watkins led the offense with a 3-4 day that included his 9th double. Alex Romero went 2-4. So did Ricky Bell who had hit 6th double. James Tomlin was 2-2 with a walk and hit 12th double. Doug Deeds hit his 21st double and drove in two runs.
Friday - MIRACLE, Tampa - Rained Out
Saturday - Game 1 - MIRACLE 2, Lakeland 3 - It was a Miracle that Ft. Myers was able to get two games in against Lakeland. But fans in attendance got to see some great pitching. In game one, Errol Simonitsch (arguably the Miracle's best pitcher right now) started and went all six innings. He gave up three runs on four hits and two walks while striking out five. Lakeland threw one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, Justin Verlander. He went all seven innings, giving up just two runs on six hits and a walk. The powerful righty also struck out ten. On the season, Verlander is 8-2 with a 1.71 ERA. In 79 innings, he has walked just 18 and struck out 95. Of Ft. Myers' six hits, Denard Span and Matt Moses each had two.
Saturday - Game 2 - MIRACLE 1, Lakeland 2 - Glen Perkins had a great start. He struck out 14 batters in seven innings. He gave up just one run on three hits and a walk. Kyle Geiger and Felix Molina led the offense by going 2-3. However, Jay Sawatski came in for the the inning and gave up an unearned run to take the loss.
Sunday - MIRACLE 1, Lakeland 5 - The Miracle could only muster two hits in this game. Matt Moses and Denard Span had no hits, but Moses drove in Span with the team's lone run of the game. Nick Blackburn started and gave up just four runs on seven hits and a walk in three innings. Tristan Crawford gave up just a hit in two innings. Josh Gray gave up a run on three hits and three walks in two innings before Chris Schutt pitched a scoreless inning.
Friday - SNAPPERS 3, Peoria 6 (11) - Jay Rainville continued his successful run of starts. On this start, Rainville went 6.1 innings and gave up two runs on seven hits and two walks. He struck out six. Josh Hill came in and pitched 1.1 scoreless innings. Jonathon Martinez gave up an unearned run in his 1.1 innings. Kevin Culpepper gave up three runs in his 1.1 innings including the three run homer to Luis Montanez that ended the game in the 11th. Dwayne White went 2-5 with an RBI. Trevor Plouffe went 2-5 as well. David Winfree hit his 15th double.
Saturday - SNAPPERS 4, Peoria 7 - Deacon Burns went 2-5 with his 19th double. Jeremy Pickrel went 2-4 with his 9th double. Trevor Plouffe went 1-3 with his 4th homer and two RBI. He also committed his 20th error. David Shinskie falls to 0-4 after giving up seven runs on ten hits and three walks. He did strike out five. Evan Meek pitched 2.1 scoreless innings, although he did walk three.
Sunday - SNAPPERS 3, Peoria 1 - Anthony Swarzak bounced back from his first bad start in a long time by pitching another great game. He improved to 7-3 by giving up just a run on three hits over six innings. He walked none and struck out seven. Jose Mijares has been used in about every role in the last couple of weeks. Here he picked up the save by pitching three shutout innings. Trevor Plouffe continued a good weekend. He went 2-4 with his fifth double. Luke Hughes was 2-5. David Winfree went 1-5, but his two run triple was helpful in the win! He also committed his 20th and 21st errors of the season.
I didn't spend too much time online this weekend, but found a few articles worth reading and thought I'd share some of them with you:
OK, Alex Gordon, you're in the super-regional tournament with a small lead in the latter innings. You already hit an impressive home run in the game. You were the #2 overall pick in last week's draft. What could possibly be worth getting kicked out of that game for? OH... because he was drafted by the Royals. Yeah, I can see that being rather upsetting!
Is it just me, or does Cubs OF Jason Dubois look a lot like Michael Restovich?
Did you see the play that Cristian Guzman made to end the Nationals 3-2 with over the Mariners? Even if he's only hitting .185 (which he is), he is very solid defensively. I think that the Twins (and their fans, even me) are realizing now that Juan Castro is the starting shortstop that defense is vital in the middle infield.
Did you see that the Reds sent OF Austin Kearns down to AAA? It's really been nothing but injuries and struggles for Kearns since his impressive big league debut in 2001. Maybe it would be possible for the Twins to acquire him from the Reds without breaking the bank. It is totally worth checking out because Kearns is a power-hitting right-handed hitting outfielder. Now, it may not be anything that the Twins are even interested in right now. I mean, I certainly wouldn't play him ahead of Torii Hunter, Shannon Stewart, Jacque Jones or Lew Ford. However, I can't imagine that more than two of those four guys will be on the roster next year. Add Jason Kubel to the OF mix, and the Twins OF depth would be strong again.
To send down Kearns, the Reds also called up OF Kenny Kelly. The 26 year old Kelly has been a baseball prospect for at least the last six years and is finally getting a call up. He was the QB at Miami for a couple of seasons. Of course, with Ken Griffey, Adam Dunn and Wily Mo Pena, Kelly likely won't get much playing time.
It's Monday, so I'm sure that The Baseball Savant will be posting his data on the team's Pythagorean Numbers.
There was a really great article on Pat Neshek and his website on the New Britain Herald this weekend.
Frightwig has some very interesting comments on the quotes by Ron Gardenhire and Rick Stelmaszek, and from Torii Hunter and the pampering through injuries of Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau.
On that note, I am going to call it a day! I hope everyone has a great week! As always, please feel free to e-mail me your thoughts on the Twins, the minor leagues, or anything you would like to discuss.


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Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Housewares Designs Awards. One of the most rewarding aspects of hosting the Housewares Design Awards during the past 11 years has been the delight and gratitude of the winners and finalists whose products are displayed during the annual gala and awards ceremony.