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CHICAGO -- If fans were allowed to vote for pitchers on All-Star Game ballots, then the White Sox probably would have three of the top contenders in the American League.Jon Garland leads the AL with eight victories, with Mark Buehrle right on his heels at seven victories. Dustin Hermanson has been one of the best closers in the game this season, not allowing a run in 2005 and closing out all 11 of his chances. The pitching has carried the White Sox into the top spot of the American League Central. But there are also a number of position players who deserve consideration for the Midsummer Classic in Detroit.
Despite a slow start average-wise, Paul Konerko ranks a solid third among ballots cast for first basemen. He trails Tino Martinez, New York's popular first baseman, and Boston's Kevin Millar. Konerko leads the team with 37 RBIs and 13 home runs -- without the presence of Frank Thomas in the lineup all season -- and has focused on helping the White Sox continue their early run of success.Tadahito Iguchi, a 30-year-old rookie from Japan, is hitting over .300, has played flawless defense at second and has sparked the offense with his bat control and speed, hitting second in the lineup. Yet, the top five vote-getters at second base are Baltimore's Brian Roberts, Texas' Alfonso Soriano (both of whom are having phenomenal years), Boston's Mark Bellhorn, the Yankees' Tony Womack and Bret Boone of Seattle. Scott Podsednik forms a great one-two punch with Iguchi at the top of the order, and leads all of baseball in stolen bases. His speed in the outfield also has helped the pitchers, preventing balls from getting into the gap, or cutting down the bloop hits that fall in before him. Podsednik sits 11th among outfielders in the current round of voting, four spots ahead of White Sox right fielder Jermaine Dye. "Situationally, they have all given themselves up," said White Sox general manager Ken Williams of his top offensive players, such as Konerko. "When you play that style, you will not always have the greatest looking numbers, but at the end of the day, all we really care about are the Ws. "I also see behind some of the other things. How many times have you seen Paulie hit the ball hard and make an out? Quality at-bats are all you can ask from the hitters, and keep battling to stay consistent on the defensive side and the situational side of things, and we'll be OK."
And speaking of Thomas, the White Sox's career leader in home runs (436) is scheduled to make his first Major League appearance in almost 11 months this week. His 2005 baseball action has been limited to extended Spring Training and a Minor League rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte for a surgically repaired left ankle, but he ranks fifth in the first round of voting at designated hitter.Only Boston's David Ortiz, Baltimore's Rafael Palmeiro, the Yankees' Jason Giambi and Detroit's Dmitri Young fall ahead of him. Thomas' support could increase once he starts getting some at-bats.
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The Blizzard of '78 has to be the most photographed and videoed winter storm in New England history.
Images of stranded cars, battered coastlines and children playing in giant snowdrifts are all vivid memories of that historic storm.
As New Englanders, we commemorated the 35th anniversary of the storm earlier this week – and now Mother Nature is celebrating herself with what could be one of the biggest snowstorms in history.
As we hunker down for this storm, let's take a look back at the Blizzard of '78. Here are some fun videos from TV and radio broadcasts before, during and after the storm, as well as home movies on YouTube…
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Steve, I think your design could be easily adapted to mount to an engine stand. Maybe you could end up with the best of both worlds that way. My set-up is useless without the engine stand.
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I like the engine stand idea. I used my engine stand to hold my fenders when I painted them. It was easy to rotate them to make sure i got good coverage under the fender lip and I stood the out far enough to get both sides. I used a combination of threaded rod, tubing and nuts to secure the rod to a mounting hole and the tubing provided a much smaller contact point than a washer so I was able to cover more metal with paint.
When I painted my hood, is screwed a 4 inch stud into the fuel outlet and then got a lager pipe that would slip over the stud. I hung the hood with conduit through the headlight holes and left it vertical to paint the bottom. Then I slipped the pipe over the stud and rotated the hood up so it was level to paint the top. I had to stand on a short ladder to paint but it worked out well. The was too floppy for prep work, though. I'd be interested to know where you made your solid fastening points to the hood for the engine stand.
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Now that sounds like a plan.
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I am very interested in seeing where this all leads. Very good ideas.
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Here are some pics to give folks some ideas on using the engine stand.
here is how I used threaded rod and tubing and nuts to hold the parts. In this case the tubing provided needed strength too.
And wheel centers. I could rotate almost 180 degree using both sides of the stand. not bad.
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I did see Gary's hood on the fixture he told you about. This made it so much easier for him to fill in the generator, exhaust,and air breather holes. You cant see any sign of the patches he welded in now that it is painted. I would like to see Steve's fixture adapted to an engine stand also.
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Go right ahead Gary I didn't patent it yet I used a shipping crate from a table saw that my dad purchased a few years ago
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I really need to get better about taking pictures of the projects that I work on. For painting fenders, I made a simple mounting board, that both fenders mounted to. It simply lays across a long board, that extends between a pair of saw horses. With that, I can paint the back side of both fenders, flip the whole deal over to paint the front. Painting both sides at the same time eliminates overspray issues. I also made a simple mount for the pan seat, that mounts to a hole drilled in the saw horse, to accomplish the same thing.
I'll dig my fixtures out & get some pics of them, but don't have any loose parts to attach to them currently.
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I thought about mentioning the fender painting fixture. I have an extra set of fenders for my 65 low boy. We could mount them for the pictures, it would make it easier to understand how it works.
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That would be good. I thought about borrowing a set of George's, but this is much closer. I have my old rusty seat, to hang on that fixture, leaving only the hood. I think a pic of it on the engine stand, would be clear enough to understand how it is used.
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I have a complete tractor.... in parts.. that could be used as a step by step "how to" project to show proper use of jigs and painting techniques Seriously, it is nice to see Steve's and all the other great ideas, Thanks!
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I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would fill in the air breather hole What's up with that
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Yeah, Rick I'm curious about that too. And I thought this was 1940's Cub. Why would he fill in the exhaust hole. Surely he wouldn't convert to an underslung exhaust would he?
That just doesn't sound correct for a Cub. I sure hope he painted it red when he got done.
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Only a fool would close off those all important openings in the hood! Unless??????
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Is that an odd odor emanating from the fuel tank??????
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Beilein offers more Twitter caution after Nik Stauskas receives backlash | MLive.com
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John Beilein: Proximity to Kid Rock is 'why I came to Michigan'
"BAWTITABAW, KEMOSABE, DO YOU SPEAK IT?" Beilein said.
Unverified Voracity Needs To Replicate The Fly
[NOTE: in transit to DC today for Q&A thing Thursday, so light day from me.]
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I need some lambchop-possessing awful cartoon unholy wolverine-elephant combinations stat.
On your TV! Black and Blue, the Willis Ward documentary, will be on your television if you're in Detroit. Channel 7, 1 PM, Saturday. Yes, this is unfortunately timed with the Arkansas basketball game overlapping. Set your DVRs.
Where many coaches just show up from the MAC. The Big Ten has pants and pants of money. Leg-sleeves stuffed with cash. And…
Purdue Football Coaching Search: Butch Jones Leaning Towards Colorado
…that about says it all. I know that Purdue is maybe not the best example but the current Big Ten coaches are:
MAC OR MAC-ISH HEAD COACHES: Beckman, Kill, Hoke
NOT EVEN MAC: Hope (fired)
BIG EAST HEAD COACHES: Dantonio
COORDINATORS: Wilson, Bielema, O'Brien, Pelini
POSITION COACH: Fitzgerald (thrust into the job early by tragedy), Ferentz
URBAN MEYER: Urban Meyer
People, stop hiring MAC coaches who get hot for a couple seasons. Anyone can get good in the MAC (except Eastern why do you have football Eastern), and the MACtion nature of the league means that whoever is good is good because of chaos. Hoke at least had a couple years of turnaround at SDSU to his credit.
Also, there is one coach in the league who came in with BCS-level bonafides, Meyer, and he had extenuating circumstances that removed him from his previous job. This year is not a great example because I can't think of anyone who leaps off the page as an excellent coach Purdue should try to poach, but in the past five to ten years no midlevel Big Ten school has even approached a decent hire. I mean, yeah what about Sonny Dykes:
Sonny Dykes- Where art thou?
Sonny Dykes, my number one choice, seems to be staying pretty quiet during this whole process. I haven't heard his name mentioned for Tennessee or Arksans or even NC State despite early murmurs those were his preferences. His team turned down a bowl game because they were hoping for a better offer. If that's any indication of how Dykes negotiates someone may get a bargain of a coach. Cal seems to be the front runner for him at this point but with the coaching carousel you never know. I'd still like to see Burke take a shot at him and use the extra money for a hot shot defensive coordinator.
Is Cal going to outspend a Big Ten team for Dykes? Adding Rutgers and Maryland will change that. Sure.
Next up for Purdue: maybe Darrell Hazell because Hazell has one year in which his team came out on top of MACtion and two as a head coach. Conference, I roll my eyes at you.
Burnin' the shirt, burnin' the shirt. Well so much for Caris Levert the redshirting guy. Michigan put him out there against Bradley and will continue playing him. This means bad news for Matt Vogrich, who went from a starting, if minor, role to a few minutes late:
"(The plan is to play him) six to eight or six to 10 (minutes per game)," Beilein said Monday. "I don't know if that's always going to happen, it depends on what's going on late in the game.
"That was our intention, that's why we made the move to put him in the top eight -- we're still going to stay with a top eight or nine (guys in a rotation), and he's in there."
With Albrecht and McGary definitely part of that rotation, Levert's addition just about kicks Vogrich out of meaningful PT.
How do we feel about this? Vogrich was off to a poor start this season, but he has been able to provide sporadic gritty grit off the bench in past years and knows how to work a back-door cut. I'm less incensed about burning redshirts in basketball, where the really good players don't stick around four years, let alone five, and anyone on the floor is contributing in a way Sione Houma wasn't when he covered kickoffs that were going into the endzone anyway.
If Levert is worth a couple points a game, I'd say go for it. We haven't seen much to indicate that he is yet, but the buzz has been consistent. If they can really use him as a "defensive stopper," I'll be surprised but that's what Beilein says and Beilein draws a lot of water in this town.
Everyone was injured and now it can be told. Taylor Lewan's shoulder you didn't know was hurt is fine now, which hurrah because Clowney. Gardner's ankle you didn't know was hurt will be fine by the time bowl practice starts. Denard's elbow you knew was injured is still coming along:
Robinson was asked Monday if he's been throwing at all.
"I'm not throwing how I want to throw," he said. "I'll get there eventually."
He didn't indicate what has kept him from throwing the way he'd like.
"I don't know right now," he said. "Got to keep going, keep trying and keep getting treatment."
Nate Brink is not returning and this is apparently still news despite the fact that he walked on senior day. Stood, really, but you know what I mean.
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The discussion: Which team is the nation's most talented?
Ford: …the team that may have the most talent in the country, in my book, is Michigan. The Wolverines currently have five players ranked in our Top 100. Kentucky is the only other team to have as many Top 100 players.
Right now, point guard Trey Burke is the only Michigan player ranked in our top 30, but Glenn Robinson III and Tim Hardaway Jr. both have the ability to crack the first round of the NBA draft. Freshmen Mitch McGary and Nik Stauskas are further down the list, but both have a real shot at getting drafted down the road.
That's in part why I believe Michigan is a Final Four team and may give Indiana a run for the No. 1 spot by the end of the season.
/spins in chair whistling strangely
Adopt-a-Bundesliga. I mentioned this on the podcast a few weeks ago and I am still kicking the idea around: I kind of want to adopt a Bundesliga team, because the Bundesliga is a place where people think like this:
Among Germany's well-organised supporter groups is Kein Zwanni (Not Twenty), a campaign to keep tickets cheap. Its spokesman, Dortmund fan Marc Quambusch, said: "You have to keep tickets affordable so poorer and young people can have the experience of being football supporters. German football has a special relationship with supporters because we are the owners of the clubs; people do feel that very emotional sense of belonging and the clubs do listen to the fans. I feel we need to really value what we have."
Watzke is a confirmed adherent to the Bundesliga rule that its clubs, with the historic exceptions of Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfsburg and more recently Hoffenheim, must be controlled "50% plus one" by their members. The other 33 of the 36 clubs, including Bayern Munich, which is 82% owned by its member-supporters, cannot be bought by a single person from outside, like the Premier League clubs, but instead are democratically answerable to their members.
An indication of an "emotional sense of belonging" is what the Big Ten's leadership got from fans once they announced they'd be adding Maryland and Rutgers, and is what they are busy throwing away right now in pursuit of ever-greater dollars without bothering to ask first. Ask anyone. They just did it.
That article is on Dortmund*. Dortmund fell in to debt and is coming off consecutive league championships by digging out and buying young players and building something. The entire league is organized like the Packers with exceptions grandfathered in; meanwhile the Packers setup is banned by the NFL with Green Bay grandfathered in. One gives you Dan Snyder. The other does not.
*[Dortmund pros: successful, opportunity to root against Jermaine Jones. Yellow overlaps with Michigan somewhat. Cons: somewhat of a carpetbagging thing to root for defending league champion, their yellow seems a little off. ]
Meanwhile your business models are unsustainable. Fact: if you do not like sports cable is a huge ripoff. Via Get The Picture:
The average household already spends about $90 a month for cable or satellite TV, and nearly half of that amount pays for the sports channels packaged into most services. [Emphasis added.] Massive deals for marquee sports franchises like the Dodgers and Lakers are driving those costs even higher. Over the next three years, monthly cable and satellite bills are expected to rise an average of nearly 40%, to $125, according to the market research company NPD Group.
So far, people seem willing to pay. But the escalating costs are triggering worries that, at some point, consumers will begin ditching their cable and satellite subscriptions.
"We've got runaway sports rights, runaway sports salaries and what is essentially a high tax on a lot of households that don't have a lot of interest in sports," said John Malone, the cable industry pioneer and chairman of Liberty Media. "The consumer is really getting squeezed, as is the cable operator."
That is an unsustainable model that will erode. The Big Ten has hitched its entire wagon to that instead of things without an immediate return like, oh I don't know, an emotional sense of belonging. They are following the lead of newspapers, most of whom have abandoned any long-term strategy for slowly milking what profits can be made—except newspapers did not have a choice.
At this point I just don't care about the Big Ten expanding. I had my rage, and now I don't care what happens. That's where I am, and that's dangerous for the pointy-haired bosses. I'll watch, I'm committed to that, but there's a continuum here.
Here is a libertarian-flavored argument from Mother Jones's Kevin Drum about this whole business that GTP linked and I agree with, no polo.
No link just a thing I am thinking. The best example of the milking behavior is the Big Ten ruining things by making more of them. The two examples I'm thinking of:
- Splitting Michigan and Ohio State in the hopes of getting a rematch the next week.
- Cramming four Big Ten bowls onto New Year's Day, cheapening the accomplishment.
Instead of NYD being a litmus test for a good season it is now highly likely 8 and 7 win teams get there annually, and then who cares.
Yes, I am thinking about living under a highway overpass. Let's think about something happier.
STAUSKAS. Stauskas.
Also other key plays. I love how on the last one you can hear the entire arena moan disgustedly before Stauskas even gets the ball. They know it's going in.
Etc.: Nebrasketball beats USC to give the Big Ten a little bit of a schedule bump. I watched the first 15 minutes or so and came away amazed at how bad the Trojans were. They have a guy with above-average usage (Jio Fontan) shooting 24% from 2!
Hagerup profiled. Baumgardner on the Bradley game, which I was fine with them playing. I'd rather have Michigan go to MVC schools for RPI and competitive purposes than beat up on the SWAC. Beard on the freshmen. MGoUser club_med looks at overtime games and eventually concludes that how you get to overtime—by blowing a lead or coming back—does not affect your chance of winning.
Late fades after being up big are the best problem to have but I would prefer it if they were fixed.
Unverified Voracity Wants CONCACAF Disbanded
The only way we'll ever see FSU at Michigan again: a playoff
Playoff stuff. CBS anonymously surveyed conference commissioners and came back with indications as to where they're leaning if (when) a four-team playoff gets implemented. The most important bit from the Big Ten perspective:
CBSSports.com survey says: The commissioners that responded favored playing the semifinal games on campus and holding the title game at a neutral site -- either an existing BCS bowl or letting cities bid for the title game. There was not much support for holding the semifinal games at neutral sites.
I predict in 2014: Semifinal games will end up being played on campus sites with the current BCS bowls hosting the championship game on a rotating basis. Although, don't count out the BCS allowing other cities to bid for the game -- similar to the Super Bowl. Also it's a stone cold lock that the double-hosting format by the BCS bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and Rose) will be eliminated when the new cycle begins.
That is the way it should be. Cut out the middlemen and provide home atmospheres. Brett McMurphy also reports that commissioners are split down the middle about restricting the field to conference champions, that semifinals will be played sometime around Christmas, and the final will be "as close to January 1 as possible." Oddly, the actual plus one—just another game after the bowls without a bracket—is still on the table.
Amazing how we've instantly flipped from never happen to definitely happening on this. Once Delany was proposing stuff in newspapers this was inevitable, I guess. Still a jarring shift in the landscape.
Burying the lead. David Stern got snippy when asked about the NBA's one-and-done rule recently, which got the headline and the attention. I think this is more significant, though:
"Years ago, I said to the NCAA, I've got a great idea," he said. 'We'll insure a select group of basketball players. And that will make them more likely to stay in school, because they won't feel the loss of a big contract. We'll designate a pool, and those that are lucky enough to be drafted and make money will pay us back, and those that don't, it's our expense. The NCAA I think took it to a committee, that takes it to a census, that took it to a conference, then they have a congress and they came back to me and they said, well, it will only work under our rules if we do that for all sports. And I said, I don't think that'll work."
NBA: Would you like some free money?
NCAA, thanks to the Indiana States of the world: No.
The NCAA is a lot like CONCACAF these days, dominated by a bunch of insignificant islands who have voting power out of all proportion to their relevance. This is D-I. Indiana State wants it to be intramurals. A split is necessary.
As far as the one-and-done model goes, the reason Stern gets snippy is because every time he has a press conference someone asks him about the one and done being ridiculous. This is because it is. John Gasaway was talking about this on twitter recently and I chimed in to agree: the NBA should move to the NHL model where everyone's eligible out of high school whether they opt in or not. NBA teams could then draft players without having to sign them, and sign them when they thought they could be a useful addition to the roster. You could expand the draft to five rounds and give NBA fans another reason to watch college basketball. The kids who aren't ready but keep declaring for the draft willy-nilly would evaporate. It would be a win for everyone.
Della Valle items. I'm watching his weird Findlay Prep team* club a high school that's actually a high school in a made-for-ESPN high school showcase. It's dififcult to judge Della Valle's offense since he's an afterthought amongst the mega-touted guys around him, but he plays probably 80% of Findlay's minutes so he's doing something right.
He's a scrappy, high-effort player who's doing pretty well defensively against other guys going to high majors, and it seems like he's making smart cuts to get open. These cuts are almost universally ignored by his teammates; the one time he did get a dump-down in the post he took a couple of back-to-the-basket dribbles before hitting a teammate flashing down the lane. The resulting thunder-dunk was aborted by a foul. He looks like a Beilein player out there amongst the athletes and whatnot. Findlay claims he's hitting 55% of his threes on the year, which… like… if that's true he's not shooting nearly enough.
His ballhandling is okay. You could get away with him as a backup point but wouldn't want to start him there. He'd be able to play at the two and three easily. I'd take him without blinking.
It would be a great help for Michigan if Arizona's troubled Josiah Turner returned. Survey says…
"I won't elaborate beyond that just because when our season ends we will be able to take the next step and get on the same page with Josiah moving forward. That shouldn't be interpreted as he will never play at Arizona again, but I know he won't play this season again."
This is Turner's second suspension. He did not travel with the team to Florida on Dec. 7, and Miller also held him out during the third game of the season to send something of an attitude adjustment message.
Miller wouldn't comment on the chances of Turner -- rated the 10th-best recruit in the country last season by Rivals.com -- being with Arizona next season
Hmmm. Make this work, Sean Miller. Arizona currently has one scholarship available and is after Duquense transfer TJ McConnell, a PG (who can't play next year, settle down) who fits a bigger need for them. Without someone else leaving they would not have room for Della Valle. Root for McConnell to Arizona and Turner to zen meditation.
Della Valle visits Arizona the 13th and Michigan shortly after. Vibes have been good so far but not so good that it would be a shock to see him at Arizona. It seems to be down to M and the Wildcats, though.
*[The only students at the school are the guys on the basketball roster. It's a school in a very technical sense. The academics seem fine, as the kids go to a tony private school across the street.]
Beilein offense in detail. It's been like four days so it's time for another Massive Daily Profile. This one is on Beilein's offense:
Beilein rapidly moves the five pins around the board, showing the wide variety of offensive looks he uses. The only thing moving faster than his fingers is his mouth, as he breathlessly details what would be overly complex to most.
You realize Beilein is in complete control of this offense, and for good reason — it's all his. Some may have similar principles in their system, but the minutiae, terminology and endless reads Beilein employs are unique to him. Though the basics come from some ancestral systems, he has morphed and twisted his attack into something all his own.
Ever wonder why you don't see other teams running the Beilein system? It'd be impossible. The only man who truly knows its detailed intricacies is Beilein.
Etc.: Five high points of the basketball season. Craig Roh interviewed, seems to be adopting the shaggy hair required of Michigan SDEs.
A Gentle Suggestion For The Benefit Of The Revolution
2/21/2012 – Michigan 67, Northwestern 55 (OT) – 21-7, 11-4 Big Ten
LEFT: A fateful moment in which our brave comrade fouled the opponent's forearm in the eyes of corrupt capitalist lackeys. RIGHT: The imperialists were forced into illegal measures in their failed attempts to deal with Comrade Morgan.
Dustin Johnston/UMHoops; AnnArbor.com
Let the reign of Beilein be long and glorious. He is our sun and star and moons. He has brought basketball back to Ann Arbor long after we had ceded our land to the imperialists of East Lansing and set about hoping we would not be Northwestern forever. The bubble is banished and all loyal Wolverines are required to have Mao-style paintings of not one but two Dear Leaders. This is right and just.
But we have to talk about something, Oh Great Back Cut of Heaven. That thing is what to do when Michigan's glorious but thin frontcourt, sabotaged by foreigners who broke Comrade Horford's foot—we have executed the traitors or at least given people who probably know the traitors harsh looks—is brought low by the machinations of imperialist pig-dogs with whistles.
Oh Thousand Shining Arcs From Behind The Line, your response in the Northwestern game was to bench Comrades Morgan and Smotrycz in favor of Comrades McLimans and Christian. They are a good loyalists who contribute all they can to the cause. Unfortunately for the Glorious Revolution, that is zero shot attempts and zero rebounds in fourteen minutes. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" suggests that Comrades McLimans and Christian are most needed in the towel-waving collectives of Ukraine, where they can fan our team to greatness.
When they are placed on the court, starvation ensues. Michigan led 11-3 when McLimans entered the game; Northwestern led 31-24 by halftime, when Comrades Morgan and Smotrycz returned to the floor. In that span of time, Northwestern had six offensive rebounds in eight opportunities*. In the other 31 minutes they had five in 24. Northwestern scored more points in the fourteen minutes without Morgan and Smotrycz (28) than they did in the other thirty-one(27).
Upon their return Morgan and Smotrycz promptly led a glorious charge into a lead foreordained by your divinity, Great Leveler. Unfortunately, rebel conspiracy sabotaged the bridge between Tim Hardaway Jr. and free throw makes, forcing the revolution into overtime. The people rose up and slew their purple oppressors with a thousand swords, as you decreed would always be the case.
Some of our less faithful comrades may have momentarily lost confidence, however. While the will of the people can never be defeated, it should be pointed out that basketball teams can and putting in comrades who are not very good at basketball could lead to a (temporary, meaningless) setback in Michigan's five-year plan.
When comrades Morgan and Smotrycz returned it took 12 minutes for one of them to pick up a third foul. If they were allowed to continue playing in the first half it is true they would be in danger of fouling out early. But what would the consequences be in that situation? In the worst vaguely plausible scenario, both Morgan and Smotrycz foul out five or six minutes into the second half, forcing the Striped Orange Sun to… play McLimans and Christian for 14 minutes. The wisdom of the Shining Beacon of Halftime Adjustments is unquestioned, but in this one situation it seems like it is not infinite.
Earlier in the year, a similar substitution pattern saw Comrade Burke confined to the bench for a long stretch against Iowa. Burke left with Michigan down four and returned with them down twelve. Nefarious play by oppressors made Michigan play poorly throughout, so this did not make an impact on the outcome, but it didn't help matters much.
I submit that with Burke averaging 1.8 fouls per 40 minutes at the time of his transgression and six additional calls available to a two-headed center playing a team without any size, it would benefit Michigan greatly to roll the dice on players in foul trouble instead of willingly accepting the worst-case scenario of doing so. Oh sun and moon and stars.
*[It was actually 7 of 9 but one was a OREB credited to Northwestern's team after McLimans blocked a shot out of bounds. I don't think that shows up on the box score I'm using.]
Photos from AnnArbor.com and UMHoops. This one demonstrates Burke's powers of telekinesis:
Dustin Johnston
Highlights from BTN and mgovideo:
Bullets that get dust on them
Defense! Zounds. UMHoops says Michigan had Morgan and/or Smotrycz for 40 possessions. On those possessions Northwestern scored 27 points, or 0.68 points per possession. That's outstanding. Northwestern has the country's 15th-best offense and the league's fourth-best; when Michigan wasn't going to the deep bench because of the aforementioned rigidity they annihilated the Wildcats.
The primary way they did this was by switching everything. IIRC there was a single breakdown for an open layup in the first half, then nothing the rest of the game. Everything else was contested. John Shurna was 2 of 5 from three and 4 of 11 from two with a couple of those twos ridiculous circus things; after the game Bill Carmody kind of called out his leading scorer for passivity:
"It just seemed the whole game that he was reluctant to do anything," Carmody said. "He had some pretty good looks and he passed them up to go to the next thing. It was a game he had to take over."
Northwestern never tried to punish Michigan for switching players as small as Trey Burke onto Shurna. That's either blind luck or great scouting.
Threes? Michigan hit 37% on 38 threes for 1.1 points per attempt. Are we happy with that? I have no idea. On the one hand, a lot of those were wide open when opponents sagged off Burke or left a corner three open in the 1-3-1. On the other hand, 38 threes. I'm guessing we would have had a much different opinion than confusion if Burke and Hardaway didn't put down back-to-back triples after Michigan found itself down four late. Those makes opened the door for the rat-tat-tat at the beginning of overtime. Before that the numbers were ugly.
1.1 points is not great. It sounds good as a shooting percentage but you have to take into account that way more twos than threes end up getting erased in favor of free throws. On the other hand, being willing to launch from deep really cut down on Michigan's turnovers (six to an uncharacteristic 14 for Northwestern) and would have led to some additional possessions via Morgan offensive rebounds if the refs hadn't gone from suck to blow in the second half. In the end, it worked. Worked authoritatively when Morgan/Smotrycz were in.
1-3-1 response. When Michigan's 1-3-1 was getting shredded early in the disappointing Harris/Sims post-tourney year it seemed like opponents were attacking it diagonally and getting to the basket. Michigan was hesitant to put the ball on the floor at all and ended up shooting over it on a large majority of possessions. When they did dump it in low, Morgan had a couple opportunities but didn't go up strong, as they say, and we got the obligatory missed bunny or two*. I wonder if Northwestern just runs the 1-3-1 a lot better than Michigan ever has in the Beilein era.
*[This should be less of a problem with McGary. When people are asking Morgan to go up strong they believe he can dunk a ball from a standing start under the basket, which I don't think he can. This should be no problem for McGary as long as he can catch cleanly—always an issue with big men.]
Hardaway. Yerg. Back to the salt mines: 2 of 9 from three, 4 of 10 from the line. Two of three from two… against a team that has no shot blocking. I don't think those distributions are going to get fixed this year; we can only hope the shots go down when Michigan really needs them to.
Rodger Sherman is not dead:
How. in the HELL. do we lose two games to the same ranked team in overtime? HOW? Why does this happen? THIS IS JUST THE WORST.
Northwestern has now played about 8000 close games this season and lost all of them. Here are my questions, and I am furious about each and every one.
You get the ball witha bout 50 seconds and a full shot clock. Instead of opting to go two-for-one and take the last shot, which ANYBODY WITH ANY SORT OF BASKETBALL SENSE IN THE WORLD would have done, Northwestern held for 35 seconds and had a possession end with a JerShon Cobb three, a shot which is about as efficient as repeatedly stabbing yourself in the face. YOU DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES AGAINST A RANKED TEAM WITH ALL THE MOMENTUM. YOU WANT TO END THE GAME IN REGULATION. YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF BEATING A BETTER TEAM IN THREE POSSESSIONS (TWO OF WHICH ARE YOURS) THAN FIVE MORE MINUTES. This is inexplicable.
We will root for Northwestern from here on out. We have hurt them more than they deserve. AnnArbor.com on Vogrich:
"He's been a big part of this little surge we're having right now," Michigan coach John Beilein said of Vogrich. "You've seen all year long that we've struggled with our bench play.
"And we need that. He's done a good job."
During Michigan's current four-game winning streak, Vogrich has gone 9-for-13 from 3-point range, providing a spark off the bench that hasn't been there for most of the season.
Known as a 3-point specialist, Vogrich entered the Nebraska game on Feb. 8 shooting just 21.2 percent from behind the arc. But thanks to his recent hot streak, he's jumped up to a more respectable 33.3 percent on the year.
UMHoops recap.
Unverified Voracity Boggles At The Cameron Lazies
I still can't believe it's called "The Journey," which should by rights be a Hallmark Channel series about entering puberty. But it's talking Michigan-Michigan State. Cazzie Russell gets his eyebrow on and Novak rains threes in Breslin:
The Aneurysm of Leadership is discussed.
It's the… uh… economy? This is unbelievable:
Once regularly an asylum for 1,200 Crazies, Section 17 at Cameron Indoor Stadium now rarely plays host to a student-only crowd.
Student attendance at men's basketball games has fallen consistently over the last five years, even dropping after Duke won its fourth national championship in 2010. This season, approximately 650 undergraduates have attended each game, 150 fewer than during the 2008-09 season. As a result, Duke Athletics has begun to sell an increasing number of general admission tickets in the student section on a regular basis.
"It has nothing to do with the revenue. We just want it to be full," Director of Marketing and Relations Mike Forman said. "If there were 1,200 students every game we would love it."
I've given Michigan students crap for late/spotty attendance at football and hockey (basketball seems immune for some reason) but, like… Jebus. If Duke can't sell out their student tickets it is a nationwide epidemic.
The article goes on to describe a couple of reasons for the decline: the prevalence of online streaming (which seems ludicrous since I'm sure all Duke games are televised in Durham) and "the students' misconception of the time commitment involved." Apparently it's first-come, first-serve and you show up for a game sans ticket and hope to get in. That's a little nuts.
Even if Duke is too far at one end of the scale, Michigan could slide closer to them without incurring the same effect. Offer incentives for having your tickets scanned on time or early and revoke student ticket privileges for people who don't bother to show up.
Attacking the symptom. Bowls are out of control but this does not attack the matter at its heart:
There is "growing support" among conference commissioners, athletic directors and bowl officials to increase the difficulty of becoming bowl eligible by requiring teams to have seven victories, or a winning record, when the new BCS cycle begins in 2014, multiple sources have told CBSSports.com. The seven-win requirement would also mean a handful of bowls likely would be discontinued because there would not be enough eligible teams to fill all of the current 70 berths. In the past two years alone, 27 teams with 6-6 records were needed to fill all the bowl slots, meaning nearly 20 percent of the bowl field didn't have a winning record.
That would hack out about seven of the existing bowls, none of which would be missed in the slightest. It would still allow a dozen or more bowls that are net negatives to exist. The way to fix the current system is to get rid of ticket and hotel guarantees and let the bowls, not the schools, assume the risk of a crappy matchup.
Slicing out the bottom of the barrel is better than nothing, I guess. And at least athletic directors and presidents are getting wise to the scam:
"The 7-5 proposal is getting serious support," a non-BCS bowl official said. "They're telling a coach [that] 6-6 doesn't cut it, but then the coach gets a $50,000 or $100,000 bonus for a bowl game that none of the fan base wants to see. Athletic directors feel like they're pouring money down a hole and they're getting frustrated with it. The only people making out on 6-6 bowl games are the coaches."
…and the dudes in blazers, of course.
Burn. The Daily profiles Brian Wiseman by featuring his ridiculous peewee campaign:
You've probably heard about Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson's phenomenal six-goal game with the St. Louis Blues in 1968. But what about the record-breaking season of one of his assistants, who averaged over five goals per game en route to a 413-goal campaign?
"They didn't even keep those stats when I was a kid," Berenson said.
Alex Guptill says no sale.
@_BrianWiseman I've seen this guys wrist shot, there is no way he scored 413 goals... #allstar
Wiseman can only say "keep scoring" at the moment, but don't find yourself in a drought, Alex.
I'll take f-bombs for 1000. David Molk is interviewed by Kyle Mienke:
He's certain of one thing, though: He has doubters. And he knows exactly where they can go.
"It's just, stuff like that pisses me off," Molk said, voice rising. "Any scout who denies me pisses me off. 'Oh, this is what you got. You're not good enough.'
"Well, (to hell with) you, let me show you what I got."
For the record, I have never doubted Molk and move around constantly so my location cannot be pinned down. Also, Molk's Sugar Bowl injury was a severed tendon. Competition for center of the 2010s is now closed.
Surprise unwarranted. After the Purdue game I noted that Michigan's bench was a nonfactor this year. A UMHoops mailbag points out that is no outlier:
Here are the statistics for the percentage of minutes played by the bench (Bench Minutes/Total minutes) under John Beilein since 2005:
Year Bench % Rk 2012 22.3% 327 2011 19.3% 337 2010 22.1% 327 2009 35.6% 66 2008 31.6% 147 2007 24.7% 282 2006 20.0% n/a 2005 31.2% n/a Average 25.9%
Beilein has high expectations and he's going to play who he trusts at any given time.
The last three years Michigan has been incredibly thin. I'm hoping that changes next year. Michigan's not going to shoot up into Arkansas territory but if they can get into the middle of the pack injuries get a lot less frightening and players having off nights can spend more of them on the bench.
Etc.: Martin pwns Brewster at the Senior Bowl. Penn State flips a QB commit from… Rice. Scout folks say Diamond, Grant to M, Garnett to Stanford, Kozan to Iowa, and punt on Reeves.


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Report: Ravens' Reed still on mend
Ravens S Ed Reed, speaking at his football camp in Destrehan, La. on Tuesday, told The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune that he's not quite back at full strength.
Odds of Bulger re-signing with Baltimore tied to other opportunities available
Could there be a scenario where backup QB Marc Bulger re-signs with Baltimore? It cannot be ruled out if other starting jobs dry up — or just don't appeal to Bulger.
AFC North best bets to break through in 2011
PFW identifies four players from the AFC North who are ready for coming-out parties in 2011 (clockwise from left) — Terrence Cody, Jermaine Gresham, Ziggy Hood and Colt McCoy.
Ravens deny assistants have received new contracts
There are conflicting reports as to whether or not the Ravens have given contract extensions to all of their assistant coaches through the end of the 2012 season.
Report: Ravens S Zbikowski plans to return to boxing following NFL career
Ravens S Tom Zbikowski plans to return to boxing once his football career comes to an end, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Harbaugh's advice sticks with Ravens' Dickson
Among the ways that Ravens TE Ed Dickson is preparing for his second NFL season: pushing a blocking sled 10 yards 20 times. Such is life when you're slated to play James Harrison twice a season.
Ravens rescind employee paycuts
The Ravens have rescinded the pay cuts for all employees they had previously implemented and will refund all the salaries they had already taken.
PK Stover to announce retirement
PK Matt Stover will announce his retirement on Thursday, bringing his 19-year NFL career to a close.
Lewis' narrow-mindedness exactly what players don't need during lockout
Recent comments by Ravens MLB Ray Lewis illustrate why he should stay out of the ongoing labor strife.
Zbikowski done with boxing, returning to football
Ravens S Tom Zbikowski has backed out of a boxing match so he can return to Baltimore and train with teammates.
Ravens QB Cantwell eager to show what he can do
Ravens QB Hunter Cantwell doesn't know when the work stoppage will end, but he knows when it's over, time will be of the essence for him as he tries to make the roster.
Kindle avoids jail for DWI arrest
Ravens OLB Sergio Kindle avoided jail time for his DWI arrest last December, but he was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation.
Lockout limbo: Ravens report
As we wait for the labor dispute between NFL owners and players to be resolved, we present a closer look at the issues facing the Ravens, one of the AFC's top contenders of recent seasons.
Panthers' Smith addresses trade talk, future in Carolina
Panthers WR Steve Smith reached out to PFW on Tuesday to discuss his future and clear up some of the misreporting he has read regarding his status in Carolina amid trade talk.
Ravens' rookie class could make early impact
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Rays closer, second in league in saves, replaces Rivera
ST. PETERSBURG -- Rays closer Rafael Soriano was named to the American League All-Star team on Wednesday as a replacement for Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who had to withdraw from the Midsummer Classic so he can rest his ailing left side and right knee.
The Rays will now have four players at this year's game in Anaheim, as Soriano joins Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford and David Price.
Because Rivera, who has a left oblique injury and right knee inflammation, was elected via the player ballot, his replacement was the next-highest-ranking relief pitcher. Soriano ranked fourth among relief pitchers on the AL player ballot with 67 votes.
"I'm very happy for Soriano," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "He deserved to be there in the first place. I know it's tough to pick an All-Star team. I've done it. But he definitely deserves to be there. ... He's basically been perfect all season.
"We would not have 50 wins without him. We would not be in this position without him. And furthermore, this entire bullpen would not be pitching this well without him. So that's what he's meant to us to this point."
Soriano said he got the news from his agent early in the afternoon.
"To me, I'm not here for trying to make the All-Star team, I'm here to try [and help the Rays] win," Soriano said. "At the same time, I get the opportunity to be there, I'm happy with that and my family, too."
The 81st Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and Sportsnet HD and Le Reseau des Sports, and around the world by Major League Baseball International, with pregame ceremonies beginning at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN Radio will provide exclusive national radio coverage. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Game coverage.
Soriano, who came to the Rays in a December trade with the Braves, picked up his 23rd save of the season Tuesday night against the Red Sox, which was his fourth save in as many days. The right-hander has converted 23 of 24 saves this season for a Major-League best 95.8 save percentage.
Soriano is 2-0 with a 1.65 ERA and has 29 strikeouts and just seven walks in 32 2/3 innings.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This time, however, the preps took a back seat to the collegians as four NL Central teams selected college players and the two other clubs selected high-ceiling high school prodigies with outstanding hitting credentials. This year, the high schoolers seemed to be more of the exception rather than the rule in the NL Central.
There were still plenty of high school players and players with modest resumes selected as teams scoured the countryside in search of talent. But generally the preps went later as the early round selections were dominated by college picks as teams seemed to set their sights farther along the talent learning curve.
Here's a team-by-team look at how NL Central teams fared during the first day of the draft:
Chicago: The Cubs didn't go as heavy as their division brethren on the collegians, but three of the Cubs' first seven picks were left-handed pitchers, including two collegians. The Cubs also took two catchers and two outfielders during the early rounds, with Palm Harbor, Fla., teen Ryan Harvey their top pick (sixth overall).
"Our scouts describe him as a Jay Buhner-type body," Cubs scouting director John Stockstill said of center fielder Harvey. "He's very athletic. He had a knee problem in the fall, but up until that time, he was a plus runner."
Harvey, 18, has a lot of "raw power," Stockstill said of the 6-foot-5, 215-pounder. Baseball America ranked him second among high school players in terms of best five-tool talent and second in their best power hitter category.
The Cubs have been a bit thin organization-wise in the catching department but they took steps to bolster that situation by taking Michigan's Jacob Fox in the third round (73rd overall) and Florida State's Anthony Richie (103rd) with their next pick. Both are considered above-average prospects with fine defensive skills. Richie is more of the long ball threat.
High school lefty Darin Downs, a 6-foot-3, 176-pounder with a 12-to-6 curve and good change-up, compares physically to Oakland's Barry Zito. But Downs, the 133rd pick of the draft, has also signed with the University of South Carolina and the Cubs will need to sign him before he reports to class or risk losing him. The Cubs took another college lefty, Sean Marshall of Virginia Commonwealth, with the 163rd pick and Santa Ana College southpaw Matt Lincoln with the 223rd selection.
Cincinnati: When Ryan Wagner was born, his father wanted to name him Nolan Ryan Wagner after his favorite pitcher. Mom and Dad eventually compromised and the baby was named Ryan. He may not have the Hall of Famer's name but Wagner has Major League stuff with a 92-mile-an-hour sinking fastball and a power slurve. Projected as a future closer, Wagner was rated the tenth best pitcher in this year's draft by Baseball America.
Wagner is on pace to break a 39-year-old NCAA record by averaging 16.8 strikeouts per nine innings. Scouts have raved about his slider, which he throws more than half the time. Wagner also possesses a lively split-fingered fastball that regularly exceeds 90 mph.
"I think he and Kyle Sleeth have the two best arms in the draft," said Leland Maddox, Cincinnati's assistant general manager and director of scouting, adding that the Reds graded Wagner's slider as the best breaking pitch among any draft-eligible player.
Cincinnati ended a five-year streak of drafting a high school player in the first round. The last college player the Reds chose in the first round was infielder Brandon Larson from Louisiana State University. However, it marked the fourth time in the last five years that the Reds made a pitcher their first-round pick. They drafted left-handers Ty Howington and Jeremy Sowers in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and right-hander Chris Gruler last year. Shortstop David Espinosa, chosen first in 2000, was the only position player the Reds took No. 1 in that span.
This time the Reds used 14 of their first 18 picks on collegians. Among the more notable Cincinnati selections in that group are Princeton right-hander Thomas Pauly (51st overall), Ohio University lefty Marc Cornell (141), Arizona right-hander Richard Gardner (171), St. Mary's right-hander Jose Guevara (201) and Southern right-hander Damian Ursin (231). All possess fastballs of at least 90 miles an hour and have above-average potential.
Houston: The Astros' farm system has been very productive in recent years, so much so the cupboard in the high minors isn't nearly as well stocked as it was three years ago, when the likes of Roy Oswalt, Wade Miller, Tim Redding, Morgan Ensberg and Jason Lane were waiting their turn at Triple-A New Orleans.
The Astros, who did not have a first-round pick this year after signing Type A free agent Jeff Kent, took Cal-Lutheran right-hander Jason Hirsh with the 59th selection and used nine of their first 13 picks on collegians.
Hirsh, a 6-foot-8, 250-pound junior who was recently named first team to both the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team and the American Baseball Coaches Association Division III All-West Region team this spring, is expected to move quickly through the system.
"He's got a power fastball and a power curveball," Astros Director of Scouting David Lakey said. "His fastball is anywhere from 90-97 (miles per hour) and his slider is anywhere from 80-85. He's one of those guys who seems to throw better in the later innings. He gets stronger as the game goes on."
Hirsh was 9-1 with a 3.68 ERA for the Kingsmen this year. He appeared in 15 games (12 starts) and threw six complete games. He allowed 41 earned runs over 100 1/3 innings with 22 walks and 126 strikeouts.
The Astros grabbed Atlanta (Ga.) High School outfielder Drew Stubbs with their second pick (89th overall), a high-ceiling athlete who hit .429 and stole 22 bases this season, but then resumed their drafting of college talent with eight of their next nine choices, including Eastern Kentucky center fielder Joshua Anderson (119th overall), Loyola Marymount left-hander Joshua Muecke (149), Rice center fielder Jeffrey Jorgensen (209), Maine right-hander Michael Collar (239), Michigan third baseman Brock Koman (269), Alabama right fielder Beau Hearod (299), Darton College right-hander Nicholas Green (329) and Louisiana Tech shortstop Christopher Robinson (359).
The Astros selected Jon Davis, a 6-5 right-hander from Eupora (Miss.) High School with the 179th selection. Davis, who has an outstanding curveball and above-average fastball, has signed to play quarterback at the University of Alabama.
Milwaukee: Once Tampa Bay took Delmon Young, the Brewers' choice was a no-brainer. Milwaukee, with four picks in the top 100, took Rickie Weeks, a five-tool prospect out of Southern University many feel might be the best player in this year's draft, with the second choice.
The 20-year-old hit .493 this season for the Jaguars while winning his second consecutive NCAA batting title. He hit a record .473 over his NCAA Division I career and stole 65 bases in 66 attempts. Weeks has played three positions since beginning college -- second base, shortstop and center field.
"We felt this was a 'no lose' situation with these two young players," Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin said. "We're real ecstatic about getting Rickie -- a multiple tool player."
The Brewers see Weeks as a second baseman, possibly part of a future tandem with Huntsville shortstop J.J. Hardy.
Weeks isn't the only Milwaukee draftee who figures to be on the fast track up the organizational ladder. The Brewers selected San Diego State outfielder Anthony Gwynn, son of Aztecs coach and former San Diego Padre great Tony Gwynn, with the 39th choice. Like his father, Anthony Gwynn has a picture-perfect stroke and uses the whole field but is only an average runner.
The Brewers used their next five picks on players who may not be as close to reaching the majors as Weeks and Gwynn but who are considered to be future Major Leaguers with above-average potential. Broward (Fla.) Community College catcher Louis Palmisano (69th overall) is the best of the bunch and high school outfielder Charlie Fermaint (99), catcher Bryan Opdyke (129th), and right-hander Robert Wooley (159th) have outstanding tools.
Cal right-hander Brian Montalbo (189th) throws a decent slider and change-up to complement his curveball and above-average fastball. Montalbo would have gone higher had he exhibited better command but the Brewers love his raw ability.
Pittsburgh: Like a lot of small market teams the Pirates used most of their early round draft picks on pitching.
Paul Maholm, a gifted left-hander from Mississippi State, went to the Pirates with the eighth pick. It was the sixth time in a row and seventh time in the last eight years the Pirates used their top pick on a pitcher.
Maholm has the resume to merit his lofty selection. The 20-year-old was 9-2 with a 2.76 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 107 2/3 innings as a junior in 2003. He was named to the first-team All-SEC squad and was ranked by Baseball America as the third-closest college pitcher to being ready for the Major Leagues. Maholm was also ranked by Baseball America as the ninth best pitcher available and the 17th best overall prospect in the draft. In his three seasons at Mississippi State, The 6-foot-3, 214-pound Maholm was 27-10 with a 3.55 ERA in 46 games (44 starts). In 312 total college innings, he fanned 273 and walked 105.
"Paul was a very accomplished and successful pitcher at Mississippi State," Pirates GM Dave Littlefield said. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to select him."
Other pitchers picked by the Pirates Tuesday included Triton College left-hander Thomas Gorzelanny (45th overall), high school right-handers Kyle Pearson (105), Russell Johnson (195) and Jacob Cuffman (405) along with Pacific University right-hander Sergio Silva (225), Lethbridge Community College right-hander Dustin Molleken (435) and Rice University right-hander Steven Herce (495).
The Pirates used the 75th choice to take high school catcher Steven Lerud and the 135th pick on infielder Craig Stansberry, a teammate of Herce's at Rice.
St. Louis: The Cardinals were one of the few teams who used both of their top two picks on high school players but the two they chose have solid credentials.
Catcher Daric Barton, a left-handed hitter from Marina High School in Huntington Beach, Calif., went to St. Louis 28th overall. In 78 at-bats for Marina, Barton batted .372 with 10 home runs and 78 RBIs. He also tallied eight stolen bases.
While the Redbirds have typically favored college players -- and especially college pitchers -- in the early rounds of recent drafts, they apparently could not resist Barton's power potential.
In the second round (65th overall) the Cards took Tennessee high school right-hander Stuart Pomeranz, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound specimen. Pomeranz's numbers are ridiculous: 9-0 with two saves and a 0.11 ERA in 12 games. Pomeranz struck out 118 and walked only nine in 63 innings and has allowed just 15 hits. High school or not, the tools were simply too much for the Cardinals to pass on this kid.
After those two St. Louis looked to the college ranks for 10 of its next 11 picks, including such talents as Georgia Southern right-hander Dennis Dove (95th), Delaware right-hander Mark Michael (125), Franklin Pierce College right-hander Matthew Weagle (185), Lewis & Clark State shortstop Brendan Ryan (215), Central Arizona catcher Matthew Pagnozzi (245), Seminole right-hander Justin Garza (275), Oklahoma lefty Thomas Blair (305), Crichton College right-hander Nathan Kopszywa (335), Southern Nevada outfielder Calvin Beamon (365) and Brigham Young third baseman Kainoa Obrey.
Sixteen of the 20 players selected by St. Louis were collegians.
Jim Molony is a writer for MLB.com based in Houston. This story was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Schobel likely done in Buffalo; looking for trade?
Aaron Schobel has played his entire nine-year career with the Bills, but it doesn't appear that he'll play another down for the franchise.
Bills sign draft picks Moats, Brown
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Lot 49 Mysteries in California
Turns out the entire text of The Crying of Lot 49 is being broadcast in semaphore from the top of Adobe's Almaden Towers headquarters. San Jose Semaphore, by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose's Office of Cultural Affair's Public Art Program. The code was recently cracked by two Silicon Valley tech workers, Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo.
Jonathan Rosenbaum on Reading Pynchon
If you haven't read Jonathan Rosenbaum's excellent and insightful essay on Vineland,"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the Chicago Reader, now's your opportunity. It's available on his blog.
Pynchon's Surprise Party
San Francisco writer Michael Corrigan wrote a lovely article about him and his pals throwing a surprise party for Pynchon at a local bar.
Sept 17, 2013: Bleeding Edge Wiki is live!
As promised, Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge has hit the stands, and the Bleeding Edge Wiki is ready to go.
Built by Tim Ware of HyperArts in Oakland, CA the wiki was made available the day Bleeding Edge was published.
Like the wikis for Pynchon's other novels (on Pynchon Wiki), the ''Bleeding Edge'' wiki includes page-by-page annotations, an alphabetical index of characters, names and places (real and imagined), and a whole lot more.
Sept 5, 2013: Bleeding Edge Wiki to be Launched the Same Day as the Novel ... September 17, 2013
The wiki for Bleeding Edge built by Tim Ware of HyperArts in Oakland, CA will premier the day the novel is published.
Like the wikis for Pynchon's other novels (on Pynchon Wiki), the Bleeding Edge wiki will include page-by-page annotations, an alphabetical index of characters, names and places (real and imagined), and much more.
April 2013: Penguin Press Fall 2013 Catalog reveals blurb (also on Amazon books) and excerpt from Chapter One.
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.
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Feb 25, 2013: Pynchon's Bleeding Edge to be published September 17, 2013
According to the New York Times "DealB%k" blog, the novel takes place in 2001 in Manhattan's Silicon Alley.
Penguin, the novel's publisher, made the announcement on Monday, February 25, 2013, according to Sarah Weinman of Publishers Marketplace.
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New Thomas Pynchon Novel Bleeding Edge to be Published in the Fall by Penguin Group
Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World, Fiction Editor and weekly critic, tweeted that two folks at Penguin Group confirmed the fall 2013 publication on Thomas Pynchon's eighth novel Bleeding Edge.
However, he then tweeted: "Hey, Twitterverse, chill out! Penguin has no specific date yet for upcoming Pynchon book. Everything is tentative @ this point, they tell me"
Stay tuned for details as they emerge.
Sept 3, 2012: Writer-Director Paul Thomas Anderson is back to working on a film adaptation of Inherent Vice AND ALSO has his sights set on a film adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow!
Back in December 2010, we reported that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson was considering an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice possibly starring Robert Downey Jr. as pothead private detective Larry "Doc" Sportello. In 2011, Anderson tried to get financing for Vice along with his upcoming film The Master, which recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival, play at TIFF, and then open in limited release on September 14th. Anderson has now turned his attention back to Inherent Vice and is currently working on the script. [...] Anderson also revealed he's hoping to adapt Pynchon's acclaimed novel Gravity's Rainbow. Read more about Paul Anderson adapting Thomas Pynchon novels for film...
June 13, 2012: Pynchon Relents All His Novels Now Available in E-book Format
Pynchon, like a lot of us, isn't enamored of e-books, but he would certainly like to maximize his audience. Thus this decision. Penguin made the announcement on Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
The prices range from $9.99 to $12.99.
All seven of Pynchon's novels, plus the short-story collection Slow Learner, are now available at Penguin, Barnes & Noble, Apple iTunes Store, Kobo Books, Sony and Amazon.
From The Guardian: "Pynchon, typically, declined to comment on the move. But Penguin Press president Ann Godoff told the New York Times that the author was motivated by a desire to attract more fans. "I think he wants to have more readers," she said. "Every writer wants to have as many readers as they can possibly get. But I don't think this will change his public profile, in terms of him being out there in public. In fact, I know it won't."
Check out Penguin's Promotional Video for the Pynchon e-Books
The Endangered Literary "Recluse"
Excellent article about the concept of the "reclusive" literary figure, comparing the styles of Pynchon and Salinger - The Globe and Mail
Pynchon Narrates Promo Video for Inherent Vice
OK. First, be aware that this site operates independently of Thomas Pynchon (PIN-chawn) and is thus, yes, unauthorized. The site has been under since about 1996, and there's always some hammering going on somewhere. Feel free to report any weak stairs, wobbly railings, or exposed nails.
The meat of this website is the indices to Thomas Pynchon's first three "big" novels V. (1963), Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason & Dixon (1997). These "Web guides" have been of great help to readers of Thomas Pynchon through the years, and will no doubt continue to be. Contributions are always welcome. If you're reading Pynchon for the first time, you may want to take a look at Advice for Newbies, given by a cadre of life-long fans and contributors to this site.
These days, there is also the PynchonWiki, which consists of a suite of seven wikis, one for each of Pynchon's novels, with extensive annotation and growing all the time. Those interested can also register to become editors of the wikis. More details at PynchonWiki »
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Wikis for Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, The Crying of Lot 49 and V..
You can now register to be a contributor to any of the five Pynchon wikis: Against the Day, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, The Crying of Lot 49, V. and Vineland. Check 'em out.
Hawaii & Thomas Pynchon
This page begins to explore the Hawaiian references in Pynchon's fiction, particularly in Against the Day, Vineland, and Gravity's Rainbow, as well as in Thomas Pynchon's seventh novel, to be published in August 2009, Inherent Vice.
Against the Day
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Pictures Showing What Happens On Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel, "Gravity's Rainbow"
Zak Smith's amazing and lovely illustrations of every page of Gravity's Rainbow were published in book form on Nov 28, 2006. You can order it now. Or click for more info...
Against the Day Wiki to be published Nov 21.
As daunting as it may seem, we intend to have available at publication a full-blown wiki guide to Pynchon's new novel, allowing registered editors to amend, comment, pontificate, criticize and interpret this amazing new novel's vast subject matter and incredible array of characters historical, fictional and "otherwise." At launch, the wiki will have a fully indexed alphabetical guide to the characters, events and arcana of the novel.
Brian Wilson & Thomas Pynchon
Hilarious bit about Pynchon and Brian Wilson getting stoned in Brian's tent, from the new Wilson bio Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson (Peter Ames Carlin, Rodale, 2006)
New album by California band Thrice based on V.
The band Thrice has released their fifth album, entitled "Vheissu," which is the result of the band's singer, Dustin Kensrue, being blown away by Pynchon's first novel V. He had the entire band read the novel from cover to cover before recording the album. Read more...
Pynchon on The Simpsons, Again!
On Sunday, February 20 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT), the official 16th season premiere of THE SIMPSONS was aired, whereon actor James Caan and writer Thomas Pynchon guest-starred as themselves.
In the January 25, 2004 episode of the Simpsons, Pynchon did his own voice for his character. [ ]. You can also read Erik Ketzan's article at TheModernWord.com.
New: It appears Tom still has his fastball. He's written a 20-page intro to the Plume Edition of 1984 and it's damn good. Read David Kipen's review, Jim Knipfel's review or just buy the book! 1984 is more timely now than ever as we sink deeper into Newspeak.


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By now, most people must have heard of the term 'phablet', a word used to describe big-screen phones that straddle the line between smartphones and tablets. It's a category of devices that was started pretty much singlehandedly by Samsung, with the release of the original Galaxy Note, and there's been one constant feature that's defined every phablet made so far: they've all been Android phones. Up till now, there's never been a big-screen phablet running anything except Google's mobile platform.
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That was certainly the case this past Saturday when thousands attended Orlando Mini Maker Faire at Orlando Science Center.
Local Makers showcased their one-of-a-kind creations and shared how they made them with the public.
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