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R.I.P. is Coroner's first full-length album. It was released in 1987. There are 13 tracks; five of these are instrumentals. The material is in a metal musical direction with progressive leanings. I am impressed with the creativeness of the band's musical arrangements–also, I like the shifting tempos of the songs. I find the songwriting to be solid, the musicianship to be proficient, and the sound quality to be satisfying. Ron Royce is a distinctive vocalist who gets the job done. Tommy T. Baron is an accomplished guitarist whose soloing is meticulous and fluid. In addition, Marquis Marky's drumming is impeccable. Examples of compositions that I enjoy are "Intro," "Reborn Through Hell," "When Angels Die," "Intro (Nosferatu)," "Nosferatu," "R.I.P.," "Fried Alive," and "Totentanz." "Intro" is an attractive instrumental with nice keyboard work. The invigorating "Reborn Through Hell" supplies indelible guitar riffs from Baron. The propelling "When Angels Die" provides background vocals that are engaging and memorable. The instrumental "Intro (Nosferatu)" contains pleasing guitar work from Baron. The nicely crafted instrumental "Nosferatu" is a worthy showcase for Baron's guitar playing prowess. The lively "R.I.P." sports a remarkable-sounding bass guitar line from Royce. "Fried Alive" features a gratifying main guitar riff from Baron, and "Totentanz" exhibits another nice guitar riff from him. As for the CD insert, the song lyrics are not contained, but there is an individual black-and-white photo of each member of the group and a black-and-white drawing included. A color illustration is displayed on the back of the CD jewel case. The disc is 45 minutes. This is a recommendable album.
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Just a quick note on this excellent release : track 2 is "Reborn Through Hate", not "Reborn Through Hell". At least, that's how it is on my original issue cassette.
I first got this album in the 10th grade(about 20 years ago)and I have always loved it. I live in phoenix Arizona and I left the tape on my car seat and it melted about 6-8 years ago. I dont know why it took me so long to replace it because this album is a neccessity for any metal library. Its been a long time since Ive tried to listen to any other Coroner albums and if I remember correctly they sold out after this album(in my opinion). But R.I.P. will always be among my all time favorite albums. It is a must have! All the bands of today like stained, disturbed, slipnot and whoever else that thinks that dressing up and whining alot makes you metal, really need to listen to cds like coroners R.I.P. and get a clue of what metal is. But I am old and I know that "metal" bands of today sell more albums by being totally monotonous and acting like there all deep, depressed, and that life has treated them unfair. But in my opinion it is not metal, it will never be metal and they should trade in there costumes for cowboy boots and go country. Metal isnt about writing songs that you think will sell or being all depressed and deep. Honestly how can anyone respect any band that makes 20 million dollars and then keeps whining about how rough and unfair the world has been to them and then make another 20 million off simpletons that buy there next album which is the exact same. To me metal is pushing boundaries, not giving a crap about what people think, writing music that is intricate and complicated, and a yeah lifes rough, it even sucks sometimes but I am just going to smash through the tough times and conquer attitude. They could learn alot from Coroners R.I.P. album. Maybe metal bands of today would realize that they arent metal, (because people like me are still alive and remember what real metal is), start wearing really tight jeans, go on tour with Garth Brooks and whine and cry. Because there is already a music genre for crying and its called country music not metal. Sorry for my tangeant but that somes up how great this album is, and I will always be blasting albums like R.I.P. until I R.I.P.. Truely a classic and a must have unless you are a country music fan that paints there nails black, in denial, so confused, sad and to dumb to realize that they are a country fan not a metal fan.
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1. A public officer whose primary function is to investigate by inquest any death thought to be of other than natural causes.
2. A three-piece thrash outfit hailing from areas generally populated by various germanic tribal peoples.
Either way you slice it, Coroners have interesting jobs. Everyone knows that metalheads like death, and not in an emo "please kill me I can't go on without my beloved ear gauges" way, but in a more "I hope you choke on your next meal you ass" manner.
So this band drops onto my lap like I just spilled hot coffee, and it burns just as much. It's fast, shreddy, thrashy stew with all the important vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Plus it contains more then your daily requirement of awesomeness. Tight drumming, spectacular riffage, moreso spectacular leads, and haunting vocals combine to make a nice thrash soup for the soul. Plus, Coroner hits a sweet spot on my weakness for instrumentals.
I've always thought that instrumentals really force you to bring your A-game. You cannot simply churn out a verse/chorus/verse format because there are no vocals to carry the song. So it forces your musical chops to shine through perfectly. It's nice to hear a good 2-minute lead or a riff that keeps kicking ass undistracted.
You have classical-inspired leads and rhythms that make this band stand out from the rest. My only complaint is that the bass could've cut through a bit more, but I can't really be too upset about this, because it's good enough to earn a presidential pardon for kicking ass.
Generally, people often call the triplet of Kreator, Destruction, and Sodom as the "Unholy Trinity of German Thrash Metal". Personally, I'd like to recommend to the Heavy Metal Senate a motion that would retroactively promote Coroner as an honorary member of that body. Numerical continuity be damned (implying four bands can't be a trinity, for those who don't understand that statement)!
All said, R.I.P. is an amazing piece of thrash metal music, especially as a first album. I'll be reviewing Punishment for Decadence shortly, so expect more eerily amused grins coming out of this satisfied metalhead.
I award Coroner the best seat in the classroom and five gold stars, plus it gets first dibs on what they want during playtime.
I've been a long time Coroner fan. I remember watching "Headbangers Ball" one night back in the mid/late 80's, and catching Coroners' "Masked Jackal" video. It completely blew me away….
Since then, I've been a huge fan, as you can probably already tell by just looking at my username.
This is Coroners' debut release, and it totally RIPS!!!!!
For a three man outfit, Coroner blends Death Metal / Thrash / and Speed Metal all into one brilliantly produced release. This isn't my favorite Coroner however, that would go to the epic "Mental Vortex" IMO. "RIP" is probably the fastest Coroner release, and maybe the most brutal. It's hard to describe who they sound like because they don't sound like anyone but Coroner.
This is a very good place to start also. They didn't really ever change their sound or style, so basically any Coroner release will lead you in the same direction. I consider Coroner one of the most talented, and most inspiring Death Metal bands ever. The music Coroner produced in the 80's, still sounds very fresh now {2009}, compared to some of the top performers of today like Opeth….
This was one highly talented group of musicians, and unfortunately, they never gained the respect they deserved in the States. I think once you hear Coroner, you'll understand why I like these guys as much as I do. They were way ahead of their time IMO, and to this day, even at 38 years of age, I still listen to Coroner on a regular basis….

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Tynes' tenure as placekicker of the New York Giants appears to be over.||||||| The Giants on Wednesday announced that they had signed 11-year veteran Josh Brown, making it unlikely that Tynes will return after spending six seasons with the team and helping them win two Super Bowls.
Tynes leads the league with 102 points. He has made 26 of 29 field goals to lead the NFL.||||||| Tynes has already surpassed his point total from each of the last two seasons and the Giants' continual red-zone failures have caused the Scottish native and supporter of the famed Celtic soccer club to build a 20-point lead for the league's scoring title over Atlanta's Matt Bryant. Fantasy owners can continue to count on Tynes if Eli Manning and the defending Super Bowl champs continue to fail to score touchdowns.
Tynes has tested his injured right leg and has proclaimed himself ready for the start of the season. Tynes attempted 25 field goals and kicked off eight times in a workout at the Giants training facility Friday in his first major test of the leg he hurt in the preseason opener against the Carolina Panthers on Aug. 13.||||||| The 33-year-old who is entering his fifth season with the Giants has no doubt that he will be ready for the season opener in Washington on Sept. 11.
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Tim Thomas from the Bruins showing off his goalie mask with the bowhunter on far right. Tim said he was heavy into bowhunting before hockey and can't wait to get back into it after he retires. Since he's one with the arrow I take back what I said about his meltdown 2 years ago against STL. He's a bowhunting brudder. Go Bs
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Arnerich, Doyle & Morgan- we couldn't be happier to have you on our team. Thanks for your mant years of service, we are proud to have you represent Danville;)
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Congratulations to Morgan, Arnerich and Doyle you ran a great race clean race!
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Yes, the two incumbents and their endorsee with the false ballot designation have "a lot of work to do" to prevent Danville residents from getting their legal right to decide under Measure S whether Agricultural Open Space is forever lost to residential development.
First up, change the 2010 General Plan in the just-released draft 2030 General Plan to allow clustered residential development (called "P-1" zoning) on Agricultural land. Sure, Measure S requires a vote for such a change; sue us if you care that we are circumventing the law.
Next, release the SummerHill Homes' EIR which we will approve under the 2030 General Plan that we just passed. Isn't it great how we changed the 2010 General Plan to accomodate SummerHill's proposal after we spent the last year saying there was no need for a 2010 General Plan amendment to approve SummerHill's proposal? Whew-that was close! Have we driven away all those pesky opponents demanding their Measure S vote? Hope so. Presto, Ag. land (Magee ranch) is now residential!
All in a couple of months work for the Danville Town Council!
Future "work": 1. convert the 100-acre Ag. parcel in the El Capitan area to residential, continuing to flout Measure S.
2. convert the last 100-acre Ag. parcel of former Magee ranch land to residential, continuing to flout Measure S.
Isn't it great that the incumbents succeeded in keeping any new voices off the Council?
Yes, as the incumbents know well, public votes are "bad" for Danville and should be avoided at all costs. Thus, Danville's incumbent council members and their endorsee will do whatever it takes to make sure public votes never happen (flout Measure S); if one sneaks in (those darn elections officials in Martinez!) control the results using false ballot designations, illegally large signs, group campaign ads, and false statements to voters to confuse them into voting for us.


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LOWER GWYNEDD Ś Owen J. Roberts created enough open-field scoring opportunities to do some damage in Tuesday afternoonÆs District 1-AAA second round field hockey contest at Wissahickon. But the young Wildcats were able to convert only one of them into a goal ģ and that was too late and not enough in a season-ending 2-1 loss.
Emma Christman scored with 4:10 to go in the match for OJR (9-10-1) to cut the Trojan lead in half and the 19th-seeded Wildcats created a pair of penalty corner opportunities in the final two minutes to no avail. Third-seeded Wissahickon (16-3) - which got a goal from Stacie Rocco with five seconds remaining in the first half and another from Emily Gallager with 13 minutes left - advances to a Friday quarterfinal match against West Chester Henderson, a 3-0 winner over Council Rock North.
ōI think we really played with all our heart,ö said junior forward Christman, who scored her team-high 13th goal of the season. ōEven though we lost, I couldnÆt be any prouder of the people on my team.ö
Wissahickon had the better of the play early, but Wildcat junior backfielder Shannon Harris broke up several threats near or in the circle. Then the Wildcats had a couple of near misses later in the half. One came on a nice lead pass from Maddie Stone to Christman, who broke ahead of the last defender for a shot, but Trojan keeper Emoni Fisher came out to make the save. Then Christman intercepted a pass and took it into the circle, but her shot hit off the outside of the right post.
The Trojans took the lead in the final seconds of the half when Jackie Hibbs ¢ who set a team season record for assists last week ¢ got the ball past charging OJR keeper Lizzy Tamburro to Rocco for a score.
Rocco earned an assist on the other goal as Tamburro made a save and a follow-up try was stopped by an OJR defender, but Gallagher finally knocked it in for a 2-0 advantage with 12:56 to go.
But the Wildcats would not go down quietly as Lauren Schweppe whistled one just to the left of the cage with 10 minutes remaining and Molly Minahan led a fastbreak into the circle with Christman to her right, but the ball was knocked away.
The Wildcats finally got on the board when Minahan retrieved a ball that went off the goalieÆs pads and passed back to Christman for a shot from right out in front for the goal. OJR forced a corner with two minutes left, but a try by Stone was blocked and the Wildcats could not get a shot off on another corner 30 seconds later. The game ended as the Wildcats once again closed in with 10 seconds left, but couldnÆt get the ball into the circle.
ōWeÆve been working on finishing and it looked good in practice,ö said Christman. ōI think we have to work on more pressure.ö
ōItÆs us not being composed enough to finish,ö said Wildcat coach Clarence Jennelle.
While OJR was able to create some scoring chances from the outside, they just werenÆt able to sustain any attacks in the middle due to the tough Trojan defense.
ōWe knew it was going to be a tough center with Jackie (Hibbs) in the middle,ö said Christman. ōOnce we realized we had to keep it out of the center, we got it to the outside.ö
ōJackieÆs good,ö Jennelle added. ōShe can dribble. Their backs held us to the outside. They didnÆt give us a chance to get in.ö
Another factor that hurt the Wildcats was an injury in the second half to Schweppe, who finished second on the team in points on the season.
ōWhen Schweppe went down, it took us 10 minutes to regroup,ö said Jennelle.
But despite the comparatively early end to the season after OJR won its first-ever district title last year, the Wildcats are already looking forward to next year.
ōWeÆre definitely going to have a strong team next year,ö said Christman. ōWeÆre going to miss all the seniors who are leaving us, but weÆre definitely looking forward to the potential next year.ö
ōWeÆre young, but a lot of guys are going to do a lot of off-season stuff,ö Jennelle added. ōThe jayvee team didnÆt lose a game this year. TheyÆre strong and fast. WeÆre going to give the PAC-10, districts, and states a run for the money.ö


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Tue. March 04, 2014 at 8:35 p.m. | By Joey Millwood
Noah Linhart was never in much trouble on Tuesday afternoon.
The Hendersonville pitcher kept the East Henderson hitters at an arm's length en route to a 5-3 victory.
Linhart was in command of the game from the start. The junior allowed just one hit across the first four innings. Linhart has earned both of the Bearcats (2-0) victories so far this season.
"I'm throwing strikes and my team was just making plays for me," the junior said.
Linhart allowed four hits, no earned runs and struck out six batters.
His offense was working too. Michael Schmidt singled in the second inning and moved over to second base on a passed ball. Derrik Doyle hit a hard single into center field to drive Schmidt home. Doyle finished 2-for-2 with an RBI.
The Eagles answered in the fifth inning. Lucas King doubled with one out in the inning and was driven home by Grayson Romer.
The Bearcats responded in the bottom of the fifth.
Linhart led off the inning with a single and was brought home by a long double by Justin Sparks, who missed a home run by inches. He'd later score on a groundout by Schmidt.
In the sixth inning, the Bearcats got some insurance runs. Blake Lyda reached on an error to start the inning. Two batters later, Bradley Schmidt drew a walk. Linhart helped his own cause with a 2-2 single that brought in both runners. He finished 2-for-3 with two RBIS and a run.
"It felt great," Linhart said of helping his own cause. "Coach just told me to put the bat on the ball and that's what I did."
It was good that Linhart got those runs because East wasn't closing up shop.
The Eagles rallied in the top of the seventh inning, but just couldn't get over the hump. Patrick Jackson hit a deep double into right-center field. New Hendersonville pitcher Austin Redden got Jesse Case to fly out, but King followed with his second double of the night to drive in Jackson. King finished 2-for-2 with two doubles, an RBI and a run.
With two runners on and two outs, Eagle leadoff hitter Austin Prichard hit a shot between Hendersonville's shortstop and third baseman, but Carson Chet, who took over for Doyle at third had a diving stop. He jumped up and fired the ball to first base to secure the victory.
"It's awesome," HHS coach Mark Cook said of Chet's play. "We've got kids that are just battling for positions out here."
And despite the Bearcats playing well early in the season, Cook and assistant coach Spencer Linn can see adjustments that can be made, especially in timely hitting with runners in scoring position.
"We just have to work on that," Cook said. "We'll get there. It's just going to take a little time."
The Eagles (0-3) are off to a disappointing start, but head coach Josh Miller can see the fight in his team and its refusal to give up on Tuesday afternoon was more evidence of that.
"It's great," he said of his team's relentless nature. "Our team is a no quit team."
Hendersonville will play at 4 p.m. Friday at North Henderson, and East will play at 4 p.m. Friday at Asheville.


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The feistiest hummingbird in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders, going after (if not always defeating) even the large hummingbirds of the Southwest, which can be double their weight. Rufous Hummingbirds are wide-ranging, and breed farther north than any other hummingbird. Look for them in spring in California, summer in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and fall in the Rocky Mountains as they make their annual circuit of the West.
Rufous Hummingbirds typically breed in open or shrubby areas, forest openings, yards, and parks, and sometimes in forests, thickets, swamps, and meadows from sea level to about 6,000 feet. During their migration, look for Rufous Hummingbirds in mountain meadows up to 12,600 feet elevation. In Mexico, wintering Rufous Hummingbirds live in oak, pine, and juniper woods at 7,500 to 10,000 feet elevation, shrubby areas, and thorn forests.
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Long-distance migrant. Rufous Hummingbirds travel nearly 4,000 miles from breeding grounds in Alaska and northwest Canada to wintering sites in Mexico. They travel north up the Pacific Coast in spring and return by the Rocky Mountains in late summer and fall (see Cool Facts).
Rufous Hummingbirds may take up residence (at least temporarily) in your garden if you grow hummingbird flowers or put out feeders. But beware! They may make life difficult for any other hummingbird species that visit your yard. If you live on their migration route, visiting Rufous Hummingbirds are likely to move on after just a week or two.
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Investing in an actively managed fund involves taking a 'fund manager' risk besides market risk.
Should you buy an equity fund where the fund manager actively chooses stocks or go with a fund that just invests in the index?
This question is a valid one after the last few years of turbulence and the struggle by equity funds to deliver market-beating returns. The answer depends on whether actively managed funds do beat their benchmark over the medium and long term.
Room for both
So here's the good news. Over two-thirds of equity funds in India (leaving out the ones that invest in fancy themes or sectors) have beaten their own benchmarks over the last three- and five-year periods. That means you have a reasonably large universe of outperformers.
Still, index funds can form a part of your portfolio for the following reasons: one, given the large universe of equity funds, it is quite possible that the funds in your portfolio turn out to be underperformers unless you are an astute investor.
There have been some periods — the last one year, and the three years between August 2006 and 2009, for instance, — when half of diversified equity funds have lagged their benchmarks.
It, therefore, makes sense for you to own at least some funds that replicate the index.
Two, as the fund industry in India does see frequent churn in managers, investing in an actively managed fund involves taking a 'fund manager' risk besides market risk.
If you are not game for this, then index funds will simply allow you to take risks related to the market alone.
Three, even if you do take on additional risk to earn index-beating returns, you may not beat the index by a mile.
While top funds beat indices by over 10 percentage points, the category managed only a 4-5 percentage-point outperformance, whenever they beat their indices over one- three- and five-year time frames.
The average returns of about 200 diversified equity funds (excluding theme funds and tax-saving funds) over the last one year ending August 24 were 7.2 per cent.
That is lower than the 9.2 per cent and 10.1 per cent gain witnessed by bellwether indices Sensex and Nifty, respectively.
Over this period, only one half of this fund universe beat their respective benchmarks. Even well-established funds such as Franklin India Bluechip or HDFC Top 200 marginally lagged their respective indices.
But the picture is more comforting over a longer period. Over 70 per cent of the funds outperformed their benchmarks over a three-year period of August 2009-12, while two-thirds outperformed over the last five years.
What pulls them down
The present one, three- and five-year performance of funds appears to suggest that fund managers may falter in the short term but do get it right over longer terms. Take the case of long-term outperformer HDFC Equity. This fund beat its benchmark S&P CNX 500 in the 2009 rally and also contained declines well in the 2011 fall and has a good five-year record.
But in swift rallies such as the one in 2007 and the one in 2012 this far, it lost out. Often times, this could be because the fund held low exposure to a certain segment of the market that rallied. The 2012 rally, for instance, was driven by mid-cap stocks but HDFC Equity held a majority in large-caps.
In certain other cases, the underperformance could be due to a fund turning cautious and holding more in cash. IDFC Imperial Equity is an example where the fund held just about two-thirds in equity when the markets rallied from the March 2009 lows.
It was at least almost five-six months before the fund upped its equity holdings to over 90 per cent, thus missing out on the initial run-up.
long-term hiccups
Yes, funds have fared much better over a three and five-year time frame now. But that has not always been the case.
Take the period between August 2006 and 2009: only 47 per cent of the equity diversified funds then beat their benchmark (between August 2009-12, 72 per cent outperformed). Some of the current top funds such as ICICI Pru Discovery or Reliance Equity Opportunities lagged their respective benchmark over August 2006-09, although they outperformed in the subsequent three years ending August 2012.
Clearly the 2008 downfall had done the damage despite the previous year's rally when diversified funds as a category beat key indices such as Sensex and Nifty by a good 10-15 percentage points.
Holding the index
But good fund picking and monitoring can make a huge difference to your portfolio returns. Even in the last one year of volatility, at least 25 funds beat their benchmarks by anywhere between 7 and 18 percentage points.
But if you wish to hedge your portfolio from the risk of your funds falling in the bottom quartile of the chart, then index funds are a good bet.
You can hold 15-25 per cent of your portfolio in index funds based on your risk appetite. Should you choose index funds or ETFs for this purpose?
While both can have tracking errors and do charge expenses, ETFs have proved to be more volatile, as a result of being traded in the market. Over three and five years, the average returns of index funds and ETFs (based on market price) were almost the same.
As you can buy ETFs only at market prices and not NAVs, we looked at the market price returns of ETFs.
Unless you are a close tracker of the market and want to time your entries to a nicety (through ETF), index funds should do well for your passive investing needs.


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A tale of police priorities
By Anh Lê
On Friday afternoon, November 9th, as I was walking on Howard St. near 3rd, I was physically assaulted twice by a Caucasian man walking with an accomplice, an African American woman. I was punched in the jaw the first time while I was still on the sidewalk; the assailant followed me into the street traffic to punch me in the jaw again. Many people passed by, yet none stopped to help.
I called 911 from the a nearby restaurant. The first oSan Francisco police officer to arrive ordered me to sit down, and then quickly left. Then two other officers arrived, one of whom told me that he was already on assignment at the Moscone Convention Center. Even though I had an eyewitness, and we both provided the officers with a description of the assailant and his accomplice, and I told the officers that the two were still in the vicinity on Howard St., the police did nothing. One of the cops told me, "I think the guy looks like someone from the Tenderloin."
Compare that to another incident and you get a sense of the city's police priorities.
On Thursday afternoon, December 13, at the Muni island bus stop on Market St. at 5th, I saw two young African American men in handcuffs. They were detained by an SFPD officer, and two Muni fare inspectors. Both African American men were calm, poised, and respectful in their behavior.
One of the handcuffed men had a cell phone in his mouth while the police officer was questioning him. I thought that it was an odd situation, since the officer could have assisted him by removing the cell phone from his mouth. I also thought that the dynamics of the situation seemed degrading and demeaning to this young man.
Within five minutes, several additional SFPD officers arrived on the scene, and then several more arrived in an unmarked large black SUV. Nearly all of the police officers were Caucasian. None was African American.
One of the officers unzipped the second detainee's backpack. He calmly said to the officer, "I don't have any weapon in there." I could see that the situation involved a simple Muni fare situation. Yet I saw more than ten SFPD officers responding.
I spoke with two of the passengers waiting at the bus stop to ask them what they had seen. Semetra Hampton and Laversa Frasier told me that they saw the two young males handcuffed, and that these young men never acted in any aggressive manner.
I spoke with the two young men, Wayne Price and Jamal Jones. Each received citations, one for paying a youth fare as an adult, the other for misuse of a Clipper card. Hardly serious crimes.
I contacted Officer Michael Andraychak in the Media Relations Unit at SFPD and Paul Rose, spokesperson for San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority to ask why so many officers were involved in such a minor incident.
Rose emailed to tell me that transit fare inspectors saw that the men were using youth passes and asked for identification. When they refused, the fare inspectors contacted police. Andraychack said a Muni fare inspector tried to detain the suspects, but they refused to comply and ran onto the Muni bus island. The inspectors flagged down a nearby police officer, who radioed his location and told dispatch that he was being summoned by Muni personnel for an undetermined problem. Additional officers heard this radio transmission and responded to the scene.
He noted that "Fifth Street / Market is on the border of Tenderloin and Southern Districts. Officers from both districts patrol this area and the MTA K9 officers routinely patrol the Market Street Muni Metro Stations and surface transit stops."
I appreciate the efforts by Rose and Andraychack to provide me with the information requested. However, their statements only tell part of the story. Some of their information does not match what I observed, nor what the eyewitnesses told me at the Muni bus stop.
I was there; I counted more than ten SFPD officers who descended on these two young men. Neither of them had done anything violent to anyone, yet their fare evasion elicited massive response.
On the other hand, there was no diligent effort by SFPD to locate, apprehend, and arrest the assailant who assaulted me, on November 9th when he and his accomplice were still in the vicinity of the attack.
Mayor Ed Lee recently proposed a policy permitting police officers to detain and search certain individuals on the street if police deemed it necessary. After vigorous protests from San Franciscans and the Board of Supervisors on the grounds that such a policy would encourage racial profiling, the mayor withdrew the plan.
Still, I have to wonder: Is sending that many officers to handle a simple Muni fare situation involving two young African American males necessary -- or is it racial profiling at its extreme? Is this how we as San Franciscans want to see our tax dollars spent -- and wasted?
Who hasn't jaywalked, failed to stop completely at a red light before turning right, knowingly underpaid a sales clerk by not correcting his error, puffed on a joint?
Make enough laws and everyone's a criminal. Build enough private prisons and the police state must produce people to fill the cells.
I just witnessed a cop unnecessarily escalate a situation with a pedestrian who was carrying an open beer in a paper bag. The beer wasn't the issue, it was the pedestrian's slowness to respond to the cop's authority. So now the guy has a ticket for almost no reason. And the cops gave him a hard time because "they had something better to do." Well, go do it then, dump the beer, and leave the guy alone rather than waste 15 minutes, bully and scare the guy, and clog up the legal system for a "quality of life" citation.
This happened to a white guy in his early 40's. Imagine the treatment of groups that the authorities assume are criminals.
The only quality of life involved here is that of the insecure cop who uses a gun and a badge to compensate.
in a park, if there are more serious crimes going on. But if we are going to make such laws, then we must enforce them or those laws might as well not exist. While if you don't like the law, then vote to have it changed.
We can't just obey the laws we approve of and disregard the rest. It doesn't work that way.
Getting back to the "walking while black" issue, even Jesse Jackson said (and he can get away with saying this) that when he hears footsteps behind him and looks around, he feels a sense of relief when that person turns out to be white. He's making the same judgment as these cops were.
Troll. Cops stop to ticket cyclists all the time as autos run red lights and threaten pedestrians. Cops enforce whatever laws they want to whenever they want to, they call their own work plan. The cops lose on policing policy when they go before the voters.
put forward by progressives such as now-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and grudgingly supported by the other wing simply because it had such broad community support was opposed at every juncture by the cops.
Heather Fong said it couldn't be done, but then when it was going to be legislated she came out with a completely different analysis in her attempt to keep weasel room for the SFPD.
Now it's a law and the cops can't spend all their time cooping and maybe trolling the internet on their dash-mounted laptops.
Poor, sad, cop-infatuated bootlickers. How fucking sad for you to have lost that so convincingly.
When did that become official SF progressive dogma?
I don't hate cops. I hate "cop-lovers" -- by which I mean people
who don't have the capacity to judge both the good and bad behavior among them.
As a matter of fact, in general, I respect cops and the occupational hazards they face.
The physical danger that cops undergo is well known; they face a risk of death on the job comparable to taxi cab drivers, and not more than a long stone's throw from some really hazardous professions like pilot, electrician, and fishermen.
And cops also face the risk of developing a jaundiced view of their fellow men. I think that's an underappreciated problem that merits more consideration.
Cops must be fairly intelligent since they all have to learn law and pass exams.
For all these reasons cops deserve respect and admiration,* but I stop short of thinking that they shouldn't be under civilian control, and that is what separates us.
is that the mayor we elected is not to your political liking and so, not surprisingly, many of his policles you don't like either, including how the cops work.
But that doesn't mean that the cops aren't being run the way most SF'ers like. The 60% that wanted Lee over Avalos wanted a cop force that is aggressive with criminals, and are comfortable here and there if there are a few unfortunate incidents along the way.
If a majority of SF'ers thought like you, then we'd have a different mayor, and so a different police force. In fact, Oakland's cops continually bitch that their ultra-liberal criminal-friendly mayor ties their hands. That's why the feds are now taking over OPD, which would happen here too if your "hug a thug" polcies replaced real polcie work.
The reason the Feds were considering taking over the OPD has nothing to do with "hug a thug" policies, whatever that means.
The OPD is on a short leash because of systemic unjustified police violence, such as the Riders Scandal and the attack on peaceful protesters at the Port in 2003, plus they almost killed Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland in October, 2011.
Your pattern of making shit up undermines what little credibility you have on these comment pages.
overseer can over-ride Quan.
The reason for that is manyfold. There were multiple violations over many years.
The people in Oakland have more faith in the Feds or in the State than in Oakland's own government. I'd remind you that the State took over Oakland's school district as well.
Point is - Oakland is a basketcase and we need to avoid that.
Troll. Cops resist Board efforts to legislate cop priorities even when reaffirmed by the voters, the Mayor is often proven wrong.
cannot do their job if that happens. The voters support the main priority of the police being protecting life and property. How that is achieved is tactical and best left to those with the knowledge and judgment to do so. Voters, politicans and activists don't have that ability.
I would not trust somebody like you to supervise police because you have very skewed views of what they should be focusing on.
You'll get a ticket but you won't get detained.
It's not clear to me why you'd want the cops to ignore some laws when they see them being broken.
Troll. Moving violations consume police resources and are subject to discussion on prioritization of allocating those resources. What a fucking retard you are.
thru a red, then you're gonna get a ticket. Wanting to get off a ticket is natural, but isn't a valid reason for the cops to ignore such infractions.
The police prioritize their work all the time - that is simply part of the job of the police. If a murder is happening on the same block, you'll probably geta way with blowing that red, but not otherwise.
Oh, and a pedestrian was killed recently at Market and Castro by a cyclist that blew thru a red light. There are reasons why we have such laws and such enforcement.
or traffic laws, but that everybody is a criminal, because everybody (ok, almost everybody) breaks the law. I listed examples that I thought of quickly that I think almost everybody has done.
It's ok for people sitting at tables that a restaurant has been allowed to place on a public sidewalk to openly drink alcohol, but the poor schmoe I saw today got a ticket because some cop had a power trip.
Police need to be accountable to the community they serve. Whenever I see cops doing their work, I usually stop and observe because it's my right and because I like to think that the public witnessing police activity deters police misconduct.
Many states have passed laws making it illegal to videotape the police because they want to protect the police from scrutiny. Without video evidence, the Oscar Grant killing would have been covered up, and no one would have ever heard of Rodney King.
The kind of people who would naturally chosoe to monitor police activities are those who do not like the police. As someone who is happy with SFPD and their priorities, I have no need to try and catch them out.
So the danger with that level of scrutiny and observation is that it would be conducted by "activists" who have an anti-cop agenda. And that it would be highly disruptive to their work.
It's the same with city hall meetings. Generally the elftists activists show up en masse, while those happy with the status quo (or maybe just have jobs) don't show up. So the public comments are routinely way out of whack with what most SF'ers think. Luckily, the Supes know this and compensate for it.
Your complacent attitude contributes to the powerlessness of the average person.
The public should scrutinize all public officials. The police merit hightened scrutiny because the state has granted them the legal use of violence against fellow humans.
interference. How woud you feel if your boss at work hired people to film your every action and record your every word?
It's not a reasonable thing to do and, as I noted, the kind of people who will vomunteer to do the observing will be biased against police.
me to legally use violence against another human being.
stunning if they didn't have to use force from time to time. They operate under massive amounts of stress and there are times when force is used pre-emptively when danger is sensed. That's valid even if it turns out the danger wasn't real. we give them the benefit of doubt much of the time because of the stress, danger and implications on inaction in the "fog of war".
While excessive violence should be pursued, as it was with OPD (hence the federal oversight), it does not serve law and order to have cops micromanaged, especially since those observers would inevitably have a strong anti-cop bias as often expressed here.
Busting cyclists, the homeless and jaywalkers is not a "very dangerous job."
homeless people sometimes carry weapons and are unpredictable.
I'm not so worried about jaywalkers, do so myself, and have never been stopped by a cop, so I don't believe that is a priority.
Lying Troll. Two pedestrians were not killed by cyclists in 2012.
Both were elderly but it refutes your idea that cyclists pose no danger.
justified. But not always. Not even close. Without scrutiny and accountability, the public would hardly ever know about the instances unjustified and illegal use of violence by the police.
Nobody is entitled to a free pass, especially those who can legally kill you.
Extraordinary power demands extraordinary accountability.
Otherwise they would have voted Avalos for Mayor who, no doubt, would have interfered more with the cops.
justified 99 times and not justified once. How confident are you that the average SF voters is outraged by that?
None of my jobs has allowed me to write my own work plan on the fly, a-la-carte, off of a menu with tens of thousands of items on it. Either I was directed to work on a certain project or given a limited set of assignments over which I could iterate at my convenience with milestones for each project.
I know of no other represented city employees who get to choose their work plan on the fly either. The cops are unique and San Franciscans know that the SFPD as an institution is failing us.
They use their judgment to find and prevant crime, and catch criminals and protect people and property. The detail of how they do that is tactical, and so cannot be planned the way an IT project or DBI indpection is.
That disconcerting fact shouldn't be missed in the course of dispatching some cop-infatuated propaganda.
Also, I might be wrong but I think this Yvette is a troll imposter.
Yvette may instead be a newcomer to this forum who shares the SFBG's general instincts, and the imp-troll has realized that their best chance of success with that technique is to imp those who don't have any track record on which to verify their identity.
or on their person, precisely to repudiate the rather selective and self-serving footage that some cop-haters try and use to discredit the cops.
There are canera's in many public places and of course they help catch criminals. I think was Yvette was trying to say was that it isn't helpful if people with a political agenda are following police for the sole purpose of hopefully catching tyhem out. Why instead don't they join a neighborhood watch and fight crime and criminals rather than those who risk their lives trying to protect us from them?
I like the idea of police having cameras in the car and on their person. The problem is that whenever the video supports the police version, it's always on hand; but when it doesn't, somehow it's always "lost" or there was something wrong with the camera that time. That's why it doesn't substitute citizen oversight.
Cops who are doing their jobs well, have nothing to fear.
taken by an anti-police "obersver". If the cops help an old lady cross the street, the video isn't shown. But if they stop and frisk a black guy, it is.
The cops take that video to protect themselves against the bias in those who observe them.
No video is needed when the cops help an old lady cross the street. That's not going to be litigated anyway. You only need a video when the cops do something wrong and it winds up in court.
Besides, when was the last time a cop helped an old lady cross the street?
I fully agree with you. Everyone here on this message board has not brought up the one thing that is a serious contributing factor for these minority youth... That is wealth. Wealth of the community wealth of the schools personal wealth etc. We are never going to fix our problems with crime if we continue to allow poor areas of our community to try and figure out how to make it on their own with no resources to pull from. Maybe if we invested in some after school programs and centers for youth and poorer areas of our community, we would cut way back on crime. White women in Pac. Heights have none of the societal problems that a youth from a poor paycheck to paycheck single parent in a poor part of our community would have so that is like comparing apples to oranges. I do not like how it seems to be all ok with discriminating a weakened population because they never get the financial chance to really make it in this world and instead resort to making it however they see fit. We are all people when we are born. Not one better than the other. We should be very VERY careful about stereo type mass judging of our fellow citizens. Isnt this how the kkk came about? It almost sounds like we are heading right back to those same mentality days. Really scary and NOT the San Francisco i have known all my life. Why is understanding seemingly left out of most of these arguments?
Did you read Anh Le's article?
Did you read Anh Le's article?
Jason Grant Garza here ... ah, the police
(just like you and me trying to DO OUR JOB to get by and RETIRE and live the GOOD LIFE ... don't rock the boat ... look at other unions ... we need someone to maintain/oppress the sheeple)
shall I tell you what the police, courts, medical professionals, etc are after? Ask Heather Fong ( is it 250K retirement?) ...
Let us examine by personal example:
Civil Standby for DENIAL of EMERGENCY SERVICES : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cP3jCmJFRo
Civil Standby in ORDER to COMPLAIN and CORRECT : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3_U7fx-Bs
How can you complain if the PROCESS is RIGGED ... note can not get to OFFICE of CITIZENS' COMPLAINTS or HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (see their own rigged procedure here on youtube ... my what TRANSPARENCY ???
Maybe the process of initially filing the report/complaint in order to PROCESS the arrest and hold accountable in order to effect change:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZiB1ppIX9o
Still trying AGAINST ALL ODDS in order to CORRECT, HOLD ACCOUNTABLE and possibly NOT HAPPEN to SOMEONE ELSE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFPtQ0F_jU
NOW would you care to see the paperwork to the CHIEF ( Suhr ) that I still await response from? Care to see what I got from the Sheriff ... it is there on YOUTUBE.
The RACE card, white folks with more, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, the BOY SCOUTS, the CATHOLIC CHURCH ...
are ALL MORE IMPORTANT than someone DEAD RIGHT, the LIVING DEAD and LEFT for DEAD ... look at all the HELP, CORRECTION, HUMANITY, etc
You can NOT win in a RIGGED PROCESS and you can not fight those who are PART of the "EVIL of BANALITY."
Don't believe me ... go to http://www.myownprivateguantanamo.com to see a signed confession and the LEFT for DEAD ... I confess ... so what? Ask yourself ... what did I get from DPH and the CITY ATTORNEY after they had my case thrown out of FEDERAL COURT (C02-3485PJH) or what did I get when they signed a CONFESSION YEARS later with the OFFICE of INSPECTOR GENERAL .... is it what I am getting NOW ???
Come on FOLKS ... PLAY the GAME, DRINK the KOOL- AID, CONTINUE the ILLUSION as long as they get theirs while JUST DOING THEIR JOB ... ha,ha,ha.
RIGGED is as RIGGED DOES ....
Sorry peeps... the San Francisco police department has some serious cultural problems. They do behave racist (regardless if they are personally or not). The police "brotherhood" reminds of a gang.
There are individuals in the uniformed brotherhood who are no doubt decent humans, but there are far too many who perform their jobs in fear, in the belief of stereotypes, and are just plain lazy about getting to the bottom of things, leave that for the investigators.... its easier to support popular beliefs rather than seek out the truth which will always result in justice. The event think they are the "good guys" and that is ridiculous because they are human being and we know that human beings have a hard time being perfectly good.
Truthfully speaking, police officers mostly support those who believe in "the system" and truthfully speaking "the system" is far from perfect. The commentor on white collar crime was accurate....besides finding every legal way to separate people from their money, there is also the way our system was set up in the first place TOTALLY unfair and with lethal force!
Where are the heroin makers, how many arrests are made? Where are the poppy growers? Who manufactures the assault weapons and ships them from where? Where does the cocaine and crack come from? Why are there no arrests reported in the local newspapers about any of the crime? Is it because there are no arrests? Or are the news papers not reporting them? Only the police officers said that Kenneth harding shot himself and of course those who have absolute faith in the system, which police officers protect are going to believe what that hear.... not what they saw.
You want SFPD to go after heroin manufacturers and poppy growers??? Of course because Golden Gate park is teeming with poppy fields. The gun manufacturers? SF has ONE gun shop, let alone any firearms manufacturing plants. Cocaine producers? Yea... all those coca fields in Delores Park are a huge problem.
Kenneth Harding shot himself with a .380 (which no cop carries) in the neck. Oh I forgot. They probably shot him with it, then planted it. That there is one hellova shot. On the run, able to change guns, shoot him in the neck, and plant the gun without anyone ever seeing anything.
Holy crap, do you actually think (or research) before you post? Or do you just watch TV and assume that that's what happens in real life?
... but now I can't get that song out of my head...
Thanks, Yvette.
Everyone, please re-read Anh Le's article.
It seems clear if these men had given the fare inspectors the info they wanted the police would have never been called, they still would have gotten the citation but none of the headache. Yes I think the police sometimes overstep there bounds, but not in this case, they had no way of knowing what these men were trying to run for. Simple fact: Don't run
racial profiling, isn't it odd that the "victim" invariably turns out to be some type of villian?
It's never, say, a totally innocent party. Was Oscar Grant totally inoocent. Rodney King? And so on.
The cops don't pick on the innocent. They may over-react sometimes, but rarely on a perp who wasn't a BG.
Your blind obedience to authority and apologism for police misconduct is quite frightening, especially since it is so widely shared.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Expectations were high for the Twins entering the 2010 season.With their new outdoor stadium set to open in downtown Minneapolis, a payroll that had jumped more than $30 million and the additions of well-known players such as J.J. Hardy, Jim Thome and Orlando Hudson, the Twins didn't hide their aspirations of securing not only another division title but also making a deep run into the postseason. But there were challenges to be had throughout the year. It began in Spring Training with the loss of four-time All-Star closer Joe Nathan and it continued into the year when Justin Morneau suffered a season-ending concussion on July 7. A slow start offensively by Joe Mauer over the first half of the season was concerning, as were the nagging injuries that seemed to be bothering the All-Star catcher. And the Twins turned to rookie third baseman Danny Valencia, who had expected to be a temporary callup, when injuries depleted the club's infield. Yet no matter what roadblock seemed to pop up, the Twins found a way to overcome it. They captured their sixth American League Central title in nine years and became the first team in baseball to clinch a spot in the postseason. The playoffs didn't go exactly as the Twins had hoped, with the club suffering yet another sweep at the hands of the Yankees in the AL Division Series. But the inaugural season at Target Field was still one that Twins fans will never forget.
Looking back at 2010MLB Year in Review
Game prospering
Final standings
Statistical leaders
There were many storylines that helped shape the Twins' 2010 season, and here are five of the most memorable ones.5. Veteran leaders make a strong impact
When the Twins lost Morneau to a concussion on July 7, it halted what had perhaps been the first baseman's best start to a season. But the loss of Morneau's bat from the Twins' lineup was lessened slightly thanks to Thome's resurgent season. Despite tallying just 276 at-bats, Thome led the team with 25 home runs. He delivered many of the most memorable moments in the inaugural season at Target Field, including a walk-off home run in the 10th inning of a game against the White Sox. But Thome was far from the only veteran leader to have an impact on the Twins in 2010. Carl Pavano emerged as the steadiest arm in the rotation, and Michael Cuddyer once again proved his value with his versatility, starting at a total of five positions and filling in capably at first base for a prolonged stint for the second straight season.
4. Francisco Liriano's comeback season
The Twins returned Pavano to their starting staff in 2010, but the team still needed another starter to emerge as a top-of-the-rotation guy. Enter Liriano, who seemed to find his velocity and, more importantly, his confidence last offseason while pitching in winter ball in the Dominican Republic. After going 5-13 with a 5.80 ERA in 2009, Liriano got off to a blistering start in '10. He went 3-0 with a 0.93 ERA in April and drew comparisons to himself back in 2006, when he dominated the league as a rookie prior to undergoing Tommy John surgery. He wasn't able to keep up that April pace, but Liriano won a career-high 14 games and provided a glimpse of the left-hander whom the club hopes will lead its rotation for years to come.3. Injury overload
The Twins never really got a chance to see all of their offseason plans reach fruition in the 2010 season. Nathan went down with his elbow injury before the team left Spring Training, and it was just the start of a multitude of injuries that would plague the team. Mauer spent the season battling his share of various nagging injuries, and the club had to endure a second straight postseason without Morneau. Opening Day starter Scott Baker was sidelined twice by elbow tendinitis, and fellow starter Kevin Slowey also battled elbow issues. Nick Punto, Hardy and Hudson combined to have seven stints on the disabled list. But even while the injuries hampered the Twins, it was manager Ron Gardenhire's ability to guide his team to yet another title in spite of those losses that earned him the 2010 AL Manager of the Year Award.2. Mauer signs an eight-year, $184 million contract extension
The Twins had long been considered one of the smaller-market teams in baseball. But with a new stadium set to open, the Twins secured a big piece of their future by inking their All-Star catcher and reigning AL MVP to one of the largest contracts in baseball history. It not only kept the hometown kid in the Twin Cities, but it helped the club shed its label being a team that developed talent only to watch it eventually leave. After years of having to say goodbye to their superstars, the Twins showed -- thanks to Target Field and its increased revenue -- they could keep a star like Mauer for the long term. Mauer's decision to stay in Minnesota was not only good for the Twins, it was also good for baseball.1. Opening of Target Field
For 28 years, the Twins played under the dingy Teflon roof of the Metrodome and shared it for much of that time with two other teams. So there was certainly excitement for the Twins to return to outdoor baseball and finally have a place to call their own. But no one imagined a place quite like Target Field. From the limestone walls to the intimate setting and the club's history being celebrated in every nook of the ballpark, the Twins' new home earned rave reviews throughout baseball. It was a season full of memorable moments, starting on Opening Day with Twins legends Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew and Tony Oliva gathering together on the mound and ending with the team's first playoff games at the new park.
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2006 record
80-82, third place, American League West
1. CF Kenny Lofton:
.301 BA, 79 R, 32 SB with Dodgers in 2006
2. LF Frank Catalanotto:
.300 BA, 7 HR, 56 RBI with the Blue Jays in 2006
3. SS Michael Young:
.314 BA, 14 HR 103 RBI in 2006
4. 1B Mark Teixeira:
.305 BA, 33 HR, 108 RBI in 2006
5. DH Sammy Sosa:
Did not play in 2006.
6. 3B Hank Blalock:
.266 BA, 16 HR, 89 RBI in 2006
7. RF Nelson Cruz:
.223 BA, 6 HR, 23 RBI in 2006
8. C Gerald Laird:
.296 BA, 7 HR, 22 RBI in 2006
9. 2B Ian Kinsler:
.286 BA, 14 HR, 55 RBI in 2006 Projected rotation
1. Kevin Millwood, 16-12, 4.52 ERA in 2006
2. Vicente Padilla, 15-10, 4.50 ERA in 2006
3. Brandon McCarthy, 4-7, 4.68 ERA for the White Sox in 2006
4. Robinson Tejeda, 5-5, 4.28 ERA in 2006
5. Josh Rupe, 0-1, 3.41 ERA in 2006 Projected bullpen
Closer: Eric Gagne, 1 save, 0.00 ERA in 2006
RH setup man: Akinori Otsuka, 32 saves, 2.11 ERA in 2006
LH setup man: C.J. Wilson, 4.06 ERA in 2006 The new guys
Marlon Byrd: Former Phillies center fielder, he gives the Rangers a right-handed platoon option in CF with Lofton. Catalanotto: Could play LF or DH. Average defender at best, but gives the Rangers an on-base guy at the top of the lineup but will likely sit against lefties. Lofton: The Rangers are looking for speed and defense in center at the top of the order, but he is also 39. The Rangers will likely limit him to 100-120 games to keep him fresh. McCarthy: Rangers traded three Minor League pitchers for a guy who was a reliever for the White Sox, but is expected to be a front-line starter. Sosa: He has 588 career home runs but did not play in 2006. He is 38 and will likely be used as a DH. Needs to show he can still hit right-handed pitching. Prospects to watch
Joaquin Arias: Terrific defensive shortstop but he is blocked by Young. The Rangers are going to look at him in center field for a possible position change. Thomas Diamond: A 12-game winner at Double-A Frisco, he'll be at Triple-A Oklahoma. Good fastball, but needs to refine other pitches to get his pitch count down. Eric Hurley: He was the Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2006. He will likely start at Double-A Frisco, but is rising quickly through the system. Returning from injury
Gagne: The 2003 National League Cy Young Award winner pitched in just 16 games over the past two years because of back and elbow injuries. The Rangers believe he is healthy again and ready to close. Brad Wilkerson: Coming back from shoulder surgery. If he's healthy, he could regain his spot as the Rangers starting left fielder. On the rebound
Blalock: His OPS has gone from .872 in 2003 to .726 in 2006. He had shoulder surgery after the season. Manager Ron Washington has made him his personal project and says he plans on using Blalock every day rather than sitting him against some lefties. Long gone
Rod Barajas: The Rangers' No. 1 catcher over the past three years. The Rangers made little attempt to re-sign him because they think Laird is ready to be their No. 1 catcher. Mark DeRosa: An invaluable utility man, he had a career year in 2006 and signed with the Cubs to be their everyday second baseman. Adam Eaton: He missed almost four months because of finger surgery, then won seven games down the stretch. But the Rangers weren't interested in giving him a three-year deal. Carlos Lee: He gave the Rangers a big bat in the middle of the lineup but they weren't interested in giving him a huge contract. Gary Matthews Jr.: Had the best season ever by a Rangers center fielder and was their Player of the Year. The Angels signed him for five years and $55 million. Eric Young: Former frontline second baseman, he hardly played much for the Rangers. A great person, but his career has drawn to a close.
2006 hitting leaders (min. 200 at-bats)
Avg: Lee, .322
OBP: Teixeira, Matthews, .371
SLG: Lee, .525
Runs: Matthews, 102
RBI: Teixeira, 110
Hits: Young, 217
2B: Young, 52
3B: Matthews, 6
HR: Teixeira, 33
SB: Kinsler, 11
2006 pitching leaders (min. 30 IP)
IP: Millwood, 215
W: Millwood, 16
L: Millwood, 12
Win %: Rick Bauer, .750
S: Otsuka, 32
ERA: Wes Littleton, 1.73
K: Millwood, 157
K/9: Francisco Cordero, 9.99
WHIP: Littleton, 0.99
1. Will Gagne and Sosa be healthy?
If they are, the Rangers will be dancing in the streets. Gagne appears healthy after two years of injuries. Spring Training will tell if Sosa, 38, has anything left in his game.
Everybody thinks so. Washington has passion, energy and 36 years of professional baseball experience. He has made a deeply positive impression on just about everybody who has come in contact with him, especially his players. He believes the Rangers will win right away. 3. How good is the pitching?
Much depends on McCarthy and Tejeda, two young pitchers with terrific talent. They need to put together full seasons in the middle of the rotation. But the Rangers do have some starting pitching depth to take advantage of at the back end of the rotation. If Gagne is healthy, this could be the Rangers' best bullpen since 1999. The bottom line
The Rangers have eight players who have been All-Stars in their careers. They have a Cy Young winner and a Most Valuable Player winner. They have a batting title winner, a stolen base title winner and a home run champion. They also have serious questions about age and injuries, and they have some key young players who have yet to establish themselves at the Major League level. There are a lot of "ifs," which means this team could see a drastic swing up or down.
T.R. Sullivan 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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Brie with Artichokes Recipe
If you're looking for something special for your holiday hors d' oeuvres table, this tangy out-of-the-ordinary appetizer will fill the bill. "It is so popular with my friends that I try to keep Brie cheese and artichoke hearts on hand at all time," relates Lucy Banks from Jackson, Mississippi.
- 1 round (4-1/2 ounces) Brie cheese
- 1/3 cup chopped water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed and drained
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Salt and cayenne pepper to taste
- Assorted crackers
- Slice Brie in half horizontally. Place the bottom half in a small round baking dish or pie plate. Combine the artichokes, basil, oil, garlic, salt and cayenne; spread over Brie.
- Replace top. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 10-15 minutes or until heated through. Serve with crackers. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Brie with Artichokes in Taste of Home December/January 2005, p11
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The last 5 years, I have made this for a special get together with friends. Each year it surprises me again with the delicious flavors and the simplicity to prepare. This is a must have in your favorite recipes.
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