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The Astana team was the single most interesting story at this year's Tour de France because it was really the only story of the 2009 Tour de France. Without Astana, Saxo Bank would have all but raced away from the rest of the field. During the Tour the conflict emanated from Lance Armstrong's and Alberto Contador's dual desires to win the Tour de France. That conflict produced a lot of collateral damage; top was Contador's relationship with team director Johan Bruyneel. Additionally, rider relationships suffered and even tension emerged between some of the riders and support staff.
Things got weirder even before the Tour ended. Bruyneel had made it known that Alexander Vinokourov wasn't exactly welcome at Astana. Bruyneel's lack of interest in working with Astana's raison d'etre is understandable; he has enough trouble projecting the image that Astana is a team of clean riders without accepting into the fold a rider coming back from a two-year suspension. As a result, Vinokourov issued the classic ultimatum: him or me. So Bruyneel announced his departure and told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, "The reason for my leaving is that Vinokourov is back riding with Astana."
Indications are that Bruyneel and Vinokourov have reached an uneasy truce by keeping their distance; Bruyneel hasn't been seen at races Vinokourov in which has competed. It seemed a reasonable solution—avoid each other until Bruyneel's exit to The Shack.
Which brings up the exodus. Armstrong's exit was quick and easy; because he was unpaid he never had a contract—boom, he's gone. Contador wants out but as been reported ad infinitum, he's got another year on his contract and Astana hasn't wanted to allow him to buy out his contract. Team Radio Shack has signed Andreas Kloden, Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner, Yaroslav Popovych, Haimar Zubeldia, Gregory Rast, Thomas Vaitkus and Sergio Paulinho. Swiss riders Steve Morabito and Michael Schar are leaving for BMC. That's 11 of 28 riders leaving only four riders (Contador, Vinokourov, Dmitriy Muravyev and José Luis Rubiera) who have competed in the Tour de France.
Not so fast. Astana management have noticed the shrinking team and have put the kibosh on the departures of Kloden, Popovych, Zubeldia and Rast. Normally, a support rider buying out his contract is as eventful as purchasing batteries at Radio Shack, but while Astana's management may have trouble making payroll (the final $2 million installment for the 2009 season has not yet been paid), they can do the math: If the Kazakhstan government loses the sport's most successful director and every rider who wants to leave, the only veteran left from this year's Tour de France team will be the beneficiary of Kazakhstan's version of Affirmative Action: Dmitriy Muravyev. Were all these departures to take place, there's no way the team would keep its ProTour license which would make it largely irrelevant as an international statement of cycling prowess.
The surprise here is that Astana's management hasn't done more to bolster the team by replacing those who have left or want to leave. If you consider just those riders who have definitely left—Armstrong, Leipheimer, Horner, Paulinho, Vaitkus, Morabito and Schar—the team is decimated and needs some serious recruiting. So why isn't this happening?
The answer may lie in Contador's woes. He has reported that each time he has a meeting with Astana management that meeting is followed by another meeting in which the new team representative discredits the previous team representative. Contador's brother and agent, Fran, has refused to negotiate further until team leadership is clarified. If there's no clear management structure in place (and that seems a reasonable conclusion) then it isn't terribly surprising what little management there is agrees every rider who can be retained should be.
As a management strategy, it's very short sighted. Riders can be expected to assist each other at key race times because they will want to have something for their palmarés when it's time to negotiate with another team. However, morale will suffer and performances will suffer and that will hurt their value, which is why its imperative for Kloden and the rest to get out now. Bruyneel could sit on his hands for the year and The Shack would still want him for 2011; he'd be wanted anywhere.
There's still time for a happy ending, though not much and perhaps not quite everyone.
Without any new signings, Astana will fall below the 25-rider minimum that the ProTour requires. Without 25 riders the team loses its ProTour status (one can imagine a last-ditch effort by the Kazakhstan government to give a license to any citizen who has won a bike race). With the team's loss of its ProTour license, Contador could invoke a clause in his contract that grants his release should the team lose its ProTour status. This is one problem a new sponsor's money can't solve.
How many teams would have the funds to pay Contador at such a late date? It could be a stretch for Caisse d'Epargne and Contador isn't likely to accept a cut in pay. However, word is Jonathan Vaughters has a sponsor waiting in the wings; should he land Contador, Garmin-Slipstream becomes Garmin-Somethingelse and Contador gets paid what he's worth. That might finally give Vaughters reason enough to let Wiggins out of his contract so he can ride for Team Sky, which has more than enough budget to pay him what he's worth as well as give him unquestioned leadership. A confidential source familiar with the team tells me Wiggins hates the management at Garmin-Slipstream and is desperate to leave.
Were Contador to finally escape Astana a new question would arise. What then of Bruyneel, Kloden, Zubeldia, Popovych and Rast? There's no word on whether the five have similar ProTour requirement clauses in their contracts. Even if Astana management held them hostage for a year, it is unlikely the team could accomplish much. But after all the turmoil the great irony would be to see Bruyneel manage a decimated Astana led by Vinokourov—the only two people who stated publicly they would never work together, bound to the same team.
Team Lance? Team Radio Shack.
The waiting is over. No Starbucks, no Nike, no Oracle. Officially, what we know of Lance Armstrong's new team is that it will be sponsored by Radio Shack and that the seven-time winner of the Tour de France will compete at the Tour of California and the Tour de France as a cyclist, but that he will also compete through the season as a runner and triathlete.
Yes, sports fans, Lance Armstrong will make a return to triathlon.
No other sponsors, riders or team personnel were named except that the team will be managed by Capital Sports and Entertainment (CSE), the same team that managed the US Postal and Discovery Channel cycling teams. Radio Shack said the team would compete at the ProTour level.
Those are the facts. What can we infer from the announcement?
First, the ProTour license will likely come from Astana. Second, the team will be directed by Johan Bruneel. Third, Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner, Yaroslav Popovych and Jose Luis Rubiera will ride for the team; many others from the former Discovery Channel formation are likely to follow. Fourth, the LiveStrong Foundation is likely to have a sponsorship role in the team. Fifth, the team will ride Trek bikes with SRAM components.
Will Alberto Contador be a part of this formation? It's too soon to tell. Bruyneel and Armstrong may not want a rider, even one as talented as Contador, who can't stick to the game plan and rides only for himself. Contador may not want to be on a team where he feels even the faintest whiff of a challenge to his leadership.
Losing Leipheimer
The withdrawal of Levi Leipheimer from the 2009 Tour de France due to a broken wrist is a sad twist for the race. It's a loss on a number of levels, though it doesn't change the race in the way some may think.
The first, biggest loss is that to Leipheimer himself. He was on stellar form and would possibly have had his second podium finish at the Tour. But this is yet another year where Leipheimer's potential remains a question mark. Just what can he do as a leader?
The second is obviously to Astana. Only one other team in history has been able to use a guy sitting in the top five on GC to help control the race. When you think of legendary watchdogs, it is hard to find one more capable than Leipheimer.
Psychologically, Lance Armstrong has experienced a setback. Armstrong places a premium on riders' whose loyalty is beyond question. That said, still has plenty of support in the form of Andreas Kloden and Yaroslav Popovych for when the race hits the high Alps and Mont Ventoux.
Unless Armstrong completely detonates on Mont Ventoux, the 2009 Tour de France will recalibrate our ideas about what a cyclist can achieve as he ages. Even if Contador wins the race, fewer people will think a guy who has had his 35th birthday is incapable of winning a Grand Tour. The question in Leipheimer's case is will he ever be presented with an opportunity to arrive at the start of a Grand Tour properly trained and supported for unquestioned leadership.
The best thing that could happen for Leipheimer is to take his time healing up and then build back up for a run at the Vuelta a Espana. Of course, should Contador not win the Tour de France—and Armstrong doesn't have to win, Contador just has to lose—he will likely want his own shot at the Vuelta which would resign Leipheimer yet again to the roll of World's Finest Domestique.
But what does Leipheimer's absence really do to the Tour? It means very little to the competition between Armstrong and Contador on a direct basis. Though it is true that Andy Hampsten was forced to chase Bernard Hinault on one occasion in the Alps at the '86 Tour, it is almost impossible to conceive of a situation in which Leipheimer would have been asked (and Bruyneel would have allowed) to chase down his own teammate. In short, Leipheimer's greatest threat to Contador was psychological; knowing Leipheimer was loyal to Amstrong may have made him something of a deterrent to Contador.
Leipheimer's greatest use was always in controlling the attacks of other teams. As a result, his absence will make it harder for Astana to neutralize other teams late in a stage. While that fact may strike many of you as obvious to the point of stupidity, the upshot is truly interesting.
Late-stage attacks from the likes of Carlos Sastre, Andy Schleck or Christian Vande Velde (it seems a little unlikely that Bradley Wiggins or Tony Martin will mount a stunning attack) will give both Armstrong and Contador an opportunity to follow and counterattack. A less neutralized competition should actually increase the fireworks between Astana's two leaders.
And what of Leipheimer's post-recovery future? It simply can't be guessed. Had anyone suggested Leipheimer would return to Bruyneel's fold to both achieve his best-ever form and be reduced to a support role at Grand Tours, most observant cycling fans would have scoffed. It's a new take on irony, huh?
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Men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie talks about UConn's decision to play men's and women's basketball games in Bridgeport at a press conference on Monday, Oct. 7. (Dom Amore/The Hartford Courant)
There are about 30,000 UConn alumni living in Fairfield County, according to the university. An appreciable number of them have significant disposal income. Many have influence.
That would include Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, who was a UConn freshman in 1974 and later worked in the university's sports information office.
Through the years, alumni like Finch have braved long winter trips to Hartford and Storrs to watch men's and women's basketball games. They probably have wondered on the way home when the day would come that UConn would come out and play in their neighborhood.
That day arrived Monday. Actually, two of them did.
UConn and Harbor Yard Sports & Entertainment confirmed that Webster Bank Arena will be the site of regular season basketball games this season.
The UConn women, the defending national champions, will host American Athletic Conference rival Temple in Bridgeport on Jan. 11 at noon.
The UConn men will host a nonconference game against Eastern Washington at Webster Bank Arena on Dec. 28 at 1 p.m.
This will be the first time in Geno Auriemma's tenure that UConn will host a regular season home game in any place other than Storrs or Hartford. It will be the first time since 1987, when the UConn men played at the New Haven Coliseum, that the men's program has traveled south in Connecticut.
The agreement is for one season, but there is every reason to believe that more games could follow.
"There are no long-term plans at this point, but we are pleased with the relationship we've developed with the people here," said UConn athletic director Warde Manuel. "We'll see where it all goes in the future, in terms of how many games we might play here. But this is something I personally wanted to do."
"I like to say that we represent the entire state. It's important for us to connect [with the alumni]. It's important for us to come down [to Fairfield County] and connect with our fans, our alumni and our donors. And that includes those who live near New York City, which is barely over an hour away from here now that the train [Metro-North] is running again.
"I consider this a win-win for us. I've heard since I arrived, 'Why don't you bring some games down here to Webster Bank Arena. Well, we're here now.'"
Stephanie Ollie, wife of men's coach Kevin Ollie, is from Bridgeport and attended Kolbe-Cathedral High. Her mother still lives there.
"I really have a true connection to the Bridgeport area," Ollie said. "My ties to Bridgeport are very long."
Ollie said he had "a lot of ticket requests. A lot of uncles and aunties [called]. So I thank Howard Saffan [president of Harbor Yard Sports and Entertainment] for offering his suite to me."
This plan has been in the works for nearly two years. UConn has long been interested in accommodating Fairfield County boosters by scheduling games near them, but had been unable to do so because of a contract with the XL Center that prohibited off-campus home games in any other venue. That contract expired after last season.
Contractually obligated this year to stage 17 men's and women's home games in Hartford by a new deal with XL Center management, UConn identified games scheduled during Christmas break that could not be played in Hartford.
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My Last Pint #18 – James Watt
For the last few years, James Watt and the BrewDog crew have been making quite a stir. Or maybe I should say making waves, crashing on the shores of the US. They've been brewing "Beer for Punks" since 2007 out of Scotland's North East Coast. In three short years they have become one of the leaders in the European Craft Beer boom. In addition to their full line of brews they've kept busy with collaborations beers with the likes of Stone, Cambridge Brewing and Mikkeller and battling with Schorschbräu for the world's strongest beer.
MLP: What would be the last pint of your life?
JW: This is all very depressing. It would depend I guess on how I am going to die. Again very depressing. I tried to figure this out and it involved me trying to pair beers with different eventual death scenarios for myself. A hoppy IPA before being eaten by jungle animals, a black lager before a hungry shark finds me rather appetizing whilst I am diving, a saison before being light-sabered by Vader, a bottle of World Wide Stout before I die in a car crash (causality?), a cheap generic lager before being taken out by the Budweiser mafia and a lambic before being crushed herd of stampeding human size Easter bunnies.
The unfortunate thread running through all these scenarios is me dying before my last pint. Not much fun on a leisurely Sunday morning. Rather than die I would rather just give up drinking. So let's assume there are no hungry sharks or stampeding bunnies or Budweiser mafia and I am simply giving up beer, forever. Upon further reflection this is only slightly preferable to the bunny fate.
As for the beer, I would brew one specially for the occasion. Since this would be my last beer it would have to be my masterpiece, my great symphony with the inherent tragedy that I will only drink it once. I would try to combine a few different things that I am passionate about in the beer. It would be a big imperial stout, with cocoa nibs and a twist of chili. I would then add loads of raspberries after fermentation. After that I would age it in single malt Scottish whisky casks for 2 years before bottle conditioning it in old rum bottles which I will scavenge from a sunken pirate ship.
What would be the setting for your last pint?
The North Atlantic. Aboard the Ocean Quest which was the setting for our Atlantic IPA. In my spare time I am a north Atlantic Captain and have worked on fishing boats all my life. I would be drinking the beer out on the deck (in nice weather) whilst watching the sun set over the horizon as it burns a red trail through the ocean. The beer drinking would be so monumental that the sunken Pirate ship would rise up from the ocean floor and sail once again. The pirate brethren would then welcome me aboard the ship and I would begin my post-life beer as a pirate captain, sending as many ships carrying Stella, Heineken and Budweiser to the bottom as possible. The vessel would be crewed by salty sea dog versions of the Easter bunnies.
What would you eat with your last pint?
Nothing. Although I love beer and food pairings, if this is going to be my last ever beer, I want the focus to be 100% on the beer itself. I might have a little snack afterwards though, and another little snack after that. I may turn to comfort eating to console my post beer existence. Either that or I will need to find a new hobby. Chess anyone.
With whom would you drink your last pint?
Darth Vader, Bracken the Dog and Winston Churchill.
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yeah the fight at the end wasnt as good as the others. to tell you the truth its because the duke was in it that i love it so much. hes one of the people that inspired me to become a boxer. not the greatest role model but hes someone to emulate in the ring.


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Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
One of the tenets of baseball is the belief that working the count is a good thing. A number of positives are said to come out of working the count. First, by working the count a team gets to see all the pitches of the opposing pitcher. Second, by showing good plate discipline you force the opposing starter into throwing a greater number of pitches. This leads to getting into their bullpen sooner. Third, the more pitches you make a pitcher throw the more likely he is to make a mistake and leave a pitch over the middle of the plate. Fourth, taking a lot of pitches leads to walks and walks lead to runs. These are the major benefits touted; but they all add up to one thing - scoring more runs. This is a myth. At least for the 2007 Reds it is.
I looked the number of pitches and the number of pitches by the opposing team in two categories - overall and by starter. The average number of pitches seen by a Reds' hitter in 2007 is 3.77. Using this information the starts were grouped as follows: 4.00 or more pitches is Group 1, 3.54 - 3.99 pitches is Group 2 and 3.53 or fewer pitches is Group 3. Here is the result of that grouping both overall and by starter. Code:
OVERALL RUNS GAMES RPG GRP 1 66 18 3.67 GRP 2 144 28 5.14 GRP 3 86 20 4.30 STARTER RUNS GAMES RPG GRP 1 66 18 3.67 GRP 2 157 32 4.91 GRP 3 73 16 4.56 This puts the pitcher at the advantage. This study would seem to indicate one thing - take a hack at the first good pitch you see. Since I had all of the starters' pitches per start available for Cincinnati and their opponents, I took a quick look at Pitcher Abuse Points. Here is a chart that shows the number of starts and the number of PAPs for each. Not suprisingly, JN cracks the whip early and often in that regard. Code:
O-PAP 21753 CIN-PAP 102811 O-PAPG 20 CIN-PAPG 37 (56%) The opposition starters only 20 of 66 games. (30%) In these games Cincinnati has compiled roughly 5 times as many Pitcher Abuse Points. |
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
the argument I have seen posited is seeing more pitches gets you into the middle relief of the opposing team. For teams with decent starters and little depth in the pen that would be a good thing. Against other teams with marginal starters and a good relief corps it would not seem to help.
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
I don't see the connection between the two issues raised (Pitcher Abuse and Pitches per AB).
As for the first point. Does a higher P/PA lead to a higher RS/G? I'd start by correlating those two variables DIRECTLY. Plot P/PA vs. RS and run a regression on it. See if there is a correlation (positive, negative, etc.) and how good it is. It would probably help to have a larger sample size. If you do get a correlation that may be significant, it would help to get corroboration from another data set (i.e. another team). This is an interesting example of how individual stats may (or may not) not project into team stats. It is apparent that -on a team basis- that RS correlates pretty well with OBP. On an individual (player) basis, OBP correlates pretty well with P/PA. It would seem logical that RS (team) should correlate with P/PA (team). Your preliminary data shows the opposite. Interesting.
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
We are treated summarized P/PA in very different ways. In one, the context is P/PA by pitcher in a single game against multiple batters. In the other, the context is P/PA by hitter in many games against multiple pitchers. So while they are measuring the same thing, we cannot compare the insights gained from these two very different aggregations.
I would run two regressions: 1.) Individual hitters -- P/PA and RC (or VORP or OPS) 2.) Pitchers -- P/PA and game ERA (or R/PA)
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance. Last edited by RedsManRick; 06-14-2007 at 12:13 PM. |
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
Here's an article from the Hardball times on this issue.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...res-the-pitch/ Their conclusion is that seeing more pitches is great, if what you are taking are balls. Of couse, that is the very definition of Plate Discipline. (and oh..so hard to do).
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
Interesting thought:
Pitchers who are wild actually maintain medium P/PA levels because they're leaving balls over the plate often enough to give up hits early in at bats and balance out their walks. Their high pitch count from from lots of PA, not from lots of pitchers per PA. Pitchers who have better control and miss lots of bats are the ones who have P/PA, but are successful by limiting their PA. The PA part of the equation is variable and has a very strong relationship with runs allowed. Hitters meanwhile have a "fixed" number of PA. Thus, in any given at bat, getting more pitches can still tend to be a good thing. I love that line oneupper. I think Vlad is a great example. Getting a high P/PA isn't about getting a walk. It's about getting a good pitch to hit and walking if you don't get one. The "problem" with Adam Dunn is that he doesn't make enough contact so he often works himself in to a 2 strike count and then can't connect with the pitch he gets to hit. It's why a guy like Pujols or Sheffield sees a lot of pitches but doesn't strike out very much. Good pitchers can go deeper in to a given AB without ever giving the hitter that pitch to hit (or make them miss the one they get), bad ones can't. So for pitchers, more pitchers per AB, but fewer ABs.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance. |
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
Working the count isnt' much work at all.
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Re: Baseball by the book:Plate Discipline
G1 - good stuff, good control. higher than ave k%; lower than ave bb%. G2 - good stuff, poor control. higher than ave K%; higher than ave bb%. G3 - poor stuff, good control. lower than ave k%; lower than ave bb%. G4 - poor stuff, poor control. lower than ave k%; higher than ave bb%. As far as the Reds' staff goes. Harang is in G1. Belisle and Lohse are in G#3. (Belisle just missed G2 - a couple of good k starts would move him up) Arroyo is in G4. This chart shows how the four groups with respective to both P/PA and OBP. (Only hits and walks were included in the OBP.) HBP seemed like it wouldn't have made an appreciable difference. Code:
Group K% BB% P/PA OB% G1 21.7% 6.2% 3.75 0.285 G2 18.8% 9.7% 3.84 0.314 G3 12.7% 6.3% 3.55 0.312 G4 13.5% 10.0% 3.76 0.337 Average 16.2% 7.9% 3.71 0.313 No surprises with the OBP%. If you strike a good percentage of batters out and don't walk many then your OBP will be low. If you walk a lot and can't keep the ball out of play then your OBP will be high. |
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