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10 Questions With: Temple head coach Matt Rhule
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- by Zach Barnett 1 year ago
Among all the first-year head coaches hired last December and January, Temple's Matt Rhule might be the most well-rounded. In terms of versatility, it's hard to beat a bio that boasts stays as a defensive line coach, linebackers coach, offensive line coach, run game coordinator, special teams coach, quarterbacks coach, recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach, offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Off the gridiron, he has a big-picture view and TV-ready charisma that helps him sell his program in ways big and small, whether that means New York City, doing the Cupid Shuffle, or cycling through the Owls' uniform combinations for this fall, as he and his staff were doing through NCAA Football at the time of our call.
Aside from football fashion, we talked what it means to be the head coach at Temple, what he learned from Tom Coughlin, what he likes about Temple's new conference and what he learned from his son's swim instructor with the Owls' new head man on today's edition of 10 Questions With.
To view past installments of 10 Questions With, please click here.
1) At your introductory press conference at Temple you struck me as a guy that fully appreciated what a privilege you had just been given, and that you could not wait to wake up and go to work every day. Is that fair?
I spent six years here so I knew exactly what I was walking into. That was a decision I made because I wanted to be here. You can't always work where you want to work and I had a great job with the Giants and I loved Coach Coughlin and those people. This is a place that I really wanted to be. Everything you see from me is very geniune.
2) I'd imagine your first team meeting was much different than a typical introductory meeting. How did that go?
It made it more business-like because they all knew me. It was kind of like, "Okay, this is how we're going to do it." I met with the seniors and it was very, not business-like, I should say more informal. Like any other team meeting because those guys knew me. What was unique, Coach Addazio, when they played Army this year they were staying about 15 minutes from my house up in Jersey so my wife, my son and I went up there and Coach allowed me to speak to the team. I hung out with Steve and hung out with all the players for a couple hours. It wasn't maybe but a month, month and a half later that I got the job. All those guys at least had a place to see me since I had left. There were just so many people that knew me, knew what I was about. My wife was still working at Temple when I was with the Giants so the guys knew her, knew my son. It was just kind of like coming back to the family.
3) How much of your job is strictly selling people on Temple football considering Philadelphia is such an NFL market?
Probably a lot. There's a lot of great fans here, a lot of great football fans. You just have to consistently get the program out. The cool thing in Philadelphia is, one in every seven college grads is a Temple grad so there's a lot of Temple alumni that are right here. The message I have is, "It's great to be an Eagles fan, it's great to go to games on Sundays but you can take your kids and come down here on Saturdays and watch us play." It's a different environment, it's a great environment for kids. It's a great environment if you're a Temple grad. I get on the radio, get on TV, do whatever I can in this market to make sure people know we're a great thing you can go do on the weekends. We're a great entertainment sports value. I think people are seeing that. Al (Golden) did it really well, Steve did it really well and I'm just trying to continue what they did.
4) As a position coach you bounced back and forth from offense and defense much more than most coaches do. At the time did you see it as something that would help you in the long run, or did part of you wish you could establish roots on one side of the ball and work your way up from there?
I think those things happened by chance but I knew the more I could do, the more I could do. When opportunities came available and people said "Hey I want you to do this, I want you to do that," I saw it as, No. 1, a way to diversify myself, No. 2, I felt like if I ever had a chance to become a head coach I'd be well-versed in enough areas that I would be able to be a head coach from all areas. I walk in and it's my first head coaching job but I've been a recruiting coordinator twice, I've been an assistant head coach, I've been a special teams coordinator, I've been an offensive coordinator, I've coached the quarterbacks, the tight ends, the o-line, I've coached in the pros. On defense I've coached the d-line, I've coached the linebackers so unless it's secondary play, receiver play or running back I've basically done it. To me, I think that that allowed me to have a lot of diversity. And I've always just wanted to be one of those guys that when a coach needed me to do something, I did it and tried to do it really well. I didn't worry about, "Oh, this is going to stunt my growth." I just said, "Okay, whatever you need me to do I'll do it." What I found is, as an offensive coach my time on defense has really helped, and hopefully vice versa. Now as a head coach I really have no position, at least when we have conversations, when we're debating things, I feel like I have a good perspective because I've probably either coached it or been really close to it during my time.
5) Do you view yourself through an offensive or defensive lense, or do you not think of yourself that way?
I just had a staff meeting and I told the staff - last night my son had a one-on-one private swim lesson. My son is definitely afraid to get in the water and I think I'm this great coach and I can't get him in the water. This woman was a fantastic teacher, a fantastic coach as my son refers to her, and started with getting his head under the water once, and then did something else and then came back around got his head under the water twice. By the end of about an hour she had my son going up and down the pool. I was just struck by how good of a teacher she was. How patient she was. Her ability to communicate information. Her ability to pull him just beyond his limits but at the same time be supportive of his concerns, to help him but not enable him. I told her, "You're a fantastic coach, a fantastic teacher." Sometimes that's very humbling for me because I see that and I say to myself, "Geez, am I the same way with my players as this person is with my son?"
To be quite honest with you, that's really what a teacher and a coach is. Yes, you have to have the requisite information. There's only so many ways that you can teach tackling, you know? It comes down to the people that can take the information, communicate it to young people, communicate it again and be patient, teach them, correct them the right way, motivate them. Those are the things I've always been good at. In terms of actual, you know, the best knowledge of anybody, I don't know if there's one I know better than the others. I wasn't really an offensive line guy and I learned from Pat Flaherty and those guys and I feel like I know that well pretty well. I don't know that I would associate myself in any one place in terms of "Hey, this is what my expertise is." I would like to think I built my career on the ability to teach, communicate, motivate, correct and then teach again. Hopefully for a guy who plays for me, that's what he would say.
6) With your varied experience, how do you plan to divide your time between offense and defense once the season starts?
A lot of what I learned from Coach Coughlin. I want to probably spend a lot of time with the special teams. One of the things Coach Coughlin did was he was the master in terms of introducing the opponent to the team. I think that was something I had never really been around before. He was able to articulate the overall vision for our team and who the opponent was really well to the entire team. So I want to do that. I want to lead the team, I want to be involved in the special teams and then be involved in offense where I can but, again, have a feel for everything and know what's right and what's wrong and really just sort of mimic the schedule that he did.
6a) When you say Coughlin introduced the opponent to the team, what do you mean by that?
He introduced them statistically, introduced the key players, he introduced them with a video. In 15 minutes, that could basically encapsulate, "This is who we're facing and this is what we're facing." So often we get caught up in our own little component, you know what I mean? We compartmentalize ourselves. He kind of, from the very beginning, set the vision for the week. "Hey, here's who we're going to play and here's what we have to do to stop this guy or beat this guy." The whole team heard it and the whole team knew how were we going (to play). People talk about a team win, but he started that at the very beginning of the week by talking about the opponent and then as the week went on it was a system of, "Here's what they do well, here's what they don't do well, and then here's what we have to do." By the time you got to the game, everyone understood how we're going to win this football game. I liked knowing going into the game, even as an assistant, who we're playing, what the other side of the ball is facing, who we have to neutralize, our plan.
6b) How often do you and Coughlin talk?
Just here and there. Coach is a very busy man and I'm very respectful of that. I think that he's a person I would always go to when I have questions, when I need advice. He got in touch with me when my daughter was born, he's gotten in touch with me to see if I need anything. He's just a really good person. I would go to him when I need advice, when I need direction. I think that's what's great about coaching. When you can find mentors you can rely on when you're not sure what the answer is. Hopefully you have some guys like that on your staff and hopefully you have some guys like that who aren't on your staff that can give you a very unemotional, direct response and I know I can certainly get that from him as well as several of the other coaches with the Giants. I know they're there to help me as I go through this journey at Temple.
7) Your first game as a head coach will be in Notre Dame Stadium. How much time have you spent thinking about that game?
We're now in June kind of working on the first four opponents and I don't know that we have the luxury to prioritize any one of those four over the other. We've spent several days on each of those opponents and really just trying to get to know who we're playing, what they do, what they don't do. We've spent some time with them as a staff, we've spent some time on Houston, on Fordham, on Idaho. Just trying to familiarize ourselves because even though I was an assistant here before, we're not playing any of the same teams we played when I was here in the past. Other than Army and Connecticut, I don't think I have a history at Temple against anybody we're playing this fall. This will be a completely new schedule for me as a position coach or head coach. We've tried to grind a little bit to get ahead in terms of, "This is what these people do."
8) What's your view on the the Big East becoming the American Athletic Conference?
I think it's really exciting and I'll be frank with you, when you look at a league and you want to see if it's going to be a good league or not, I think you have to look and see how many different teams win that league or are in contention year in and year out. There are some leagues that we say is a great league but the same two or three teams are going to win that league every year and so really it's not. It's just a collection of a couple dominant teams. I think when you look at the American (Athletic) Conference, South Florida has been in the top five, top 10 in the country in the last couple years. Houston was No. 6 in the country a couple years ago and beat Penn State in a bowl game. You look at Cincinnati, who's been a tremendous team. UConn went to the BCS a couple years ago. You start looking at the other teams, the SMU's, the Central Florida's, there's a lot of teams there that have been really competitive, have won a lot of games, have won conference championships. What I think you'll see, and the reason why I think it's going to be a great league, is there's going to be a lot of competition. There's going to be a lot of teams that can win that league year in and year out and when you have that you start to develop some natural rivalries. I think people are going to look and see SMU vs. Houston and think it's a great game in a couple years. USF and UCF or us playing UConn every year, those are going to be some great natural rivalries geographically and at the same time I don't think you're going to be able to say this team is going to dominate the league year in and year out, or these two or three teams. It's going to be really competitive and I think that's why the league will take off in the years to come.
9) Thanks to all of the realignment upheaval, you're now going to be playing much more of a national schedule. Do you plan on working that into your recruiting strategy?
I thought about it, I really did. That's a great question. In some ways, maybe so. But I think the thing we did here - at one point last year we had 13 different guys on active rosters in the NFL, I think we had seven defensive linemen, and the important thing is all those guys that we got were within a car ride away. That's how we built it. I would much rather stay here, stay within this four or five hour radius and go battle for the kids that have spent the last four or five years watching Temple on TV, seeing Temple be bowl eligible three straight years, seeing them play in two bowl games, seeing Bernard Pierce go in the third round and go win a Super Bowl ring this year, seeing Muhammad Wilkerson get drafted in the first round out of Linden, New Jersey. There's a lot of local ties and local connections to Temple. I think our strategy is to be the best possible recruiting staff we can be within the local area. If there's a natural tie, if people from outside that area see us and there's a connection, we'll certainly always travel high and low to get a great player. I don't want to start recruiting in another time zone and lose what we've built here, which is connections with the high school coaches, with families, with alums. We're going to try to be the best staff we can be here, locally, and see where that takes us.
10) We hear you're a pretty devoted reader. What kind of stuff do you like to read?
I'll either read books about football coaches or I'll read business books, psychological books, learning books. I just read a book called "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson, which every football coach in the country should read. It's one of the best books I've ever read. One of my best friends is a guy named Geoff Collins, who's the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State, I was through about 50 pages and texted him that he needed to read it. It's a great book for everyone. For your players, but for coaches, in terms of focusing on the process and instead of trying to do eight things at one time, doing everything right every day. I would say I probably try to read 15 to 20 minutes of a motivational, learning, philosophical or football book every day so that every day I get a little bit better.

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Palm Beach County foreclosure filings up in June after three month decline
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Palm Beach County foreclosures inched up in June following three months of decline, but default filings are still 31 percent lower than the same time last year.
A monthly foreclosure report released Thursday by the Clerk and Comptroller shows lenders filed for foreclosure on 1,640 properties in June, up 14.6 percent over May.
In June 2009, 2,376 initial foreclosure notices were filed.
So far this year, 10,385 new cases were filed, a 32 percent drop compared to the 15,959 submitted during the first six months of last year.
The reason for the overall decrease is unclear. Federal loan modification programs, a new rule requiring lenders to determine ownership of the mortgage note before filing for foreclosure, and incentives for banks to do more short sales may all be factors slowing foreclosures.
Deerfield Beach attorney Jeffrey A. Kasky said he's working with lenders to do mediations before a foreclosure is filed. Beginning Monday, all Palm Beach County foreclosures must go to mediation before a hearing is held. But negotiations between a lender and borrower on the front-end can help avoid court costs.
Kasky said borrowers often come out of the mediations with a loan modification or deed in lieu of foreclosure.
"When the mediation is real and the information is exchanged correctly, it works out 98 percent of the time," said Kasky, who runs Kasky Mediation.
Despite the overall decrease in foreclosures, Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller Sharon Bock said her office is still faced with a 52,000-case backlog.
Bock received a one-time payment of $403,000 from the state this year to hire additional employees.
"We're grateful for the money," Bock said. "However, a one-time appropriation is not a long-term solution to the crippling backlog we've seen in our courts."
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HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) - Cape Cod regional transit officials say they are adding July 4th holiday service on the CapeFlyer weekend train between Boston and Cape Cod.
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Not so long ago, an umpire cited the Infield Fly Rule in an important baseball game.
Now, let's be honest: A significant percentage of "baseball fans" don't know what the Infield Fly Rule is, or why it exists. But of course you're not most baseball fans; I will guess that every one of you has at least a passing familiarity with the Infield Fly Rule, and I'll bet that some of you thought you had it cold.
I thought I did.
I didn't. As with a lot of baseball rules, there are nuances and codicils that don't come up very often ... but when they do, watch out. That's what happened, not long ago. Because a lot of people who saw the Infield Fly Rule called in that Braves-Cardinals game had never seen it called precisely that way before (or couldn't remember seeing it called that way; which, for the sake of their arguments, is the same thing).
In the immediate aftermath, I wrote this long piece about the play. I titled it "Everything you always wanted to know about the Infield Fly Rule" ... but I knew it wasn't really everything. The result was (at last count) more than 900 comments. Granted, a few hundred of those were from just a few heartbroken Braves fans. Still, it's obvious that I didn't cover every nuance and codicil. So let's take another run at this thing, and this time I'll try to address all the questions and complaints that have been raised since my original piece.
Once more but in rhythm this time, here's the guts of the Infield Fly Rule, with a few particularly relevant parts bolded:
An INFIELD FLY is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort, when first and second, or first, second and third bases are occupied, before two are out. The pitcher, catcher and any outfielder who stations himself in the infield on the play shall be considered infielders for the purpose of this rule.
Rule 2.00 (Infield Fly) Comment: On the infield fly rule the umpire is to rule whether the ball could ordinarily have been handled by an infielder - not by some arbitrary limitation such as the grass, or the base lines. The umpire must rule also that a ball is an infield fly, even if handled by an outfielder, if, in the umpire's judgment, the ball could have been as easily handled by an infielder...
You know what makes this one tough for people? Those words ordinary and ordinarily. But we'll get back to those in a moment. Let's start with the easy stuff ...
Why does the Infield Fly Rule exist?
As the 1971 edition of Knotty Problems of Baseball notes, "The Infield Fly rule is designed to protect runners from the trickery of the defensive team, which, without this regulation, could turn easy pop flies into double plays with great regularity."
In the early 1890s, some bright boy realized that with runners on first and second or the bases loaded, with one out or none, he could let a pop fly drop to the ground, then grab the ball and start a pretty easy double or even triple play, because the runners would have felt compelled to hold near their respectable bases.
So in 1895, the Infield Fly Rule was adopted. (Oddly, the initial rule covered only one-out situations; it wasn't until 1901 that the Infield Fly Rule also applied with nobody out.)
Okay, so if the intent of the Infield Fly Rule is to protect the baserunners -- that is, to prevent those crafty infielders from turning crafty double plays -- why did Sam Holbrook call it in this situation? There was no way that Kozma was going to start a double play, was there?
No, probably not. I mean, I suppose it's possible. But without looking at an overhead view, I'm guessing that both runners were well off their bases and could have easily advanced if Kozma had tried something crafty. Well, at least one of them. There might have been time for Kozma to throw to third or second for a force-out, but a relay throw to complete a double play seems highly unlikely. Getting just one out might have been a stretch.
So if the intent of the rule is to prevent cheap double plays and Kozma wasn't going to turn a double play, why in the hell did Holbrook make the call?
Because that's what he was trained to do.
Let me back up for a moment. I won't argue (yet) that Holbrook was trained to make that call, 200-some feet from the plate. What I will argue (now) is that he was trained to ignore the relative chances of the defense turning a double play. The rules don't say anything about the umpire making that judgment, and I've seen comments from a number of umpires from every level, and they're unanimous: The umpire is not supposed to weigh the chances of the double play. You might think he should, but that's not a Sam Holbrook issue; that's a Baseball issue. It's not in the rules, and there is no apparent precedent for it.
Also, while it's probably true that Kozma couldn't have turned a double play, it's not really that difficult to imagine a situation in which the runners could get all bollixed up. Last week I spoke to Hunter Wendelstedt, who's been umpiring in the major leagues since 1998, and serves as Chief Instructor at the Wendelstedt Umpire School. When I asked Wendelstedt about the argument that Holbrook should have eschewed making the call because Kozma was too deep to turn a double play, he pointed out, "You have to assume these guys are the best players in the world."
What if a couple of incredibly slow hitters were on the bases? Is the umpire supposed to take the speed of the baserunners into consideration, too, along with everything else? (Well, maybe a little. More on that below.)
What does precedent have to do with it?
Like it or not, precedent plays a big role in umpiring. For example, according to the rules, fielders aren't generally allowed to block baserunners from bases. But the umpires allow it everywhere except first base. Drives me nuts, because a) it's against the rules, and b) it's a good way to get somebody hurt. But today's umpires allow it, because they always have (no, I don't know why they began allowing it).
We don't have to be happy about umpires ignoring the Official Rules -- I mean, the Official Rules literally, as you and I understand them -- but nobody's going to raise much of a fuss if precedent is on their side. Nobody's going to excoriate an umpire for allowing a catcher to block the plate, and nobody's going to excoriate an umpire for ignoring the double-play chances when the Infield Fly Rule might be in order. Except those situations aren't really analogous, since the latter umpire has both the rulebook and precedent on his side.
Okay, smart guy. Is there any precedent for calling the Infield Fly that far away from, you know, the infield?
Precisely that far? According to Baseball Info Solutions, that ball hit the ground 224 feet away from home plate. Also according to BIS, this season there were 50 fly balls caught by infielders more than 224 feet away from the plate. Just from watching the games recently, it's clear that infielders could catch many more fly balls, if they weren't called off by the outfielders. One thing that BIS doesn't track is how often the Infield Fly Rule has been called on those plays.
We do know that the Infield Fly Rule has been invoked when an infielder's ranged well into the outfield, because it happened just this season in a Cubs game, with Starlin Castro. I've run this video before, in a Hot Corner post, and I'm not going to belabor Harold Reynolds' analysis within, because it touches on a lot of the points I made in my original piece. But if you haven't seen this, it's simply proof that Holbrook's not the first umpire to yell "Infield Fly!" on a batted ball that carried well into the outfield. The first minute and 15 seconds is about Kozma and Holbrook, and then it's Starlin Castro from May ...
Now, I know this gets a little tricky, but Starlin Castro is important because it establishes that umpires do call the Infield Fly well into the outfield. It doesn't happen often. But it does happen.
A few people have told me, "I've seen a lot of baseball games, and I've never seen the Infield Fly called on a play like that." Well, the fact that you've never seen it (or don't remember it) doesn't mean it's never actually happened. I feel fairly confident in suggesting that Pete Kozma and Sam Holbrook did not set the all-time record for Infield Fly Rule distance ... although I suspect they came real close.
It was an extraordinary play. But I use the superlative extraordinary in its most literal sense. Yes, that play in its entirety was far from ordinary. Usually the left fielder would catch the ball. Occasionally the shortstop would catch the ball. But very rarely would there be a mix-up, with the ball dropping between them. Even more rarely would this happen with two runners on the bases, in a winner-take-all playoff game.
But while the play (in its entirety) was extraordinary, that does not mean Kozma displayed extraordinary effort.
Wait, what? If the play was extraordinary, how was the fielder's effort merely ordinary?
Now we're getting to the really tricky part. The part, I think, that's tripped up a lot of the people who can't stop thinking that Sam Holbrook made a terrible call.
Remember ...
An INFIELD FLY is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort...
Earlier in the rules, there's a Definition of Terms, where we find this:
ORDINARY EFFORT is the effort that a fielder of average skill at a position in that league or classification of leagues should exhibit on a play, with due consideration given to the condition of the field and weather conditions.
Rule 2.00 (Ordinary Effort) Comment: This standard, called for several times in the Official Scoring Rules (e.g., Rules 10.05(a)(3), 10.05(a)(4), 10.05(a)(6), 10.05(b)(3) (Base Hits); 10.08(b) (Sacrifices); 10.12(a)(1) Comment, 10.12(d)(2) (Errors); and 10.13(a), 10.13(b) (Wild Pitches and Passed Balls)) and in the Official Baseball Rules (e.g., Rule 2.00 (Infield Fly)), is an objective standard in regard to any particular fielder. In other words, even if a fielder makes his best effort, if that effort falls short of what an average fielder at that position in that league would have made in a situation, the official scorer should charge that fielder with an error.
Yes, this section is ridiculous on its face. It's perfectly nifty to say that "average fielder" is an objective standard, but of course that's actually a subjective judgment that every umpire (and official scorer) must make.
But umpires and official scorers make subjective judgments all the time. There's another problem, at least for those trying to parse the definition of "ordinary effort" ... What is a play?
Everybody knows what a play is! But I'm not so sure that everybody does. When we think of a play, we think of everything. Let's say there's a grounder to the shortstop. When the ball is hit, the following (usually) happens:
1. Shortstop moves to field baseball,
2. Shortstop fields baseball,
3. Shortstop throws baseball.
That's a play, right?
Yeah. Except in the narrow context in which an official scorer evaluates the shortstop, that's not a play. That's two plays.
Think about it. If you're the official scorer, you don't care about how good a jump the shortstop gets. That's essentially irrelevant, even though you and I think of that as part of the play. If the shortstop starts in the wrong direction, and winds up missing the ball by six feet, the scorer won't give him an error. I've seen it happen. To the official scorer, all that matters is that he does get to the ball in a good position to make a play; that play.
If our shortstop now fields the ball cleanly, he's made that play and won't get charged with an error. If he doesn't field it cleanly and the official scorer believes an average fielder would have fielded it cleanly, he'll probably get an error.
Ah, but even if he does field it cleanly, he's got another play to make. The throw is another play. In fact, players occasionally make two errors on the same play. Because fielding a ground ball is actually more than one play. Fumble a grounder, you get an error on that play. Pick up the ball and throw it away? You get an error on that play, too, if it leads to further runner advancement.
Great. So one play can be two plays. What does that have to do with Pete Kozma?
It has everything to do with Pete Kozma. Some people think it took extraordinary effort for Kozma to be in a position to catch that fly ball in left field. That the average shortstop wouldn't have been out there, setting up for the catch.
It doesn't matter. I mean, I think that's actually wrong. I think a lot of shortstops would have been out there, in almost exactly the same position as Kozma. But again, it doesn't matter. All the umpire cares about is, once the player is out there, can he make the catch, that play, with ordinary effort?
Think about it like this. Two left fielders. Matt Holliday and Brett Gardner. Long fly ball to left-center field. Holliday's got below-average range, and doesn't come close to catching it. Ball hits the ground and bounces over the fence. Automatic double. No question. Gardner's got fantastic range, reaches the spot and slows down for the catch ... and the ball bounces out of his glove. Does the scorer watch that play and say, "Well, an average left fielder wouldn't have been in position to make that play. So, no error for Gardner"?
No, he does not. Or he shouldn't. Scorers make odd decisions sometimes. But the scorer should ask not if an average left fielder would have reached the ball and made the catch. The scorer should ask if an average left fielder would have made the catch, once he reached the ball. Which is why Brett Gardner gets an error.
Let me be more specific. As that pop fly in Atlanta began to descend, Holbrook had one job: Determine whether the infielder, at that moment, was in good position to make a catch that an average major-league shortstop would make. Hunter Wendelstedt stressed this point to me again and again: "We need to realize that these ballplayers are the best in the world."
Here's what Holbrook actually said about the call, right after the game (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution):
"I saw the shortstop go back and get underneath the ball where he would have had ordinary effort and would have caught the baseball, and that's why I called the infield fly."
"It's all judged on what the fielder does. Once that fielder establishes himself and he has ordinary effort on the ball, that's when the call is made. So it wouldn't matter whether it was from third base or on the line out there. But, again, it's all based on what the fielder does, that's what I went on, and that's what I read."
Maybe all this seems elementary to you. But I've had people reading the rule, then reading Holbrook's comments, and arguing that he simply doesn't understand the rule. That his definition of "ordinary effort" does not square with the Official Rules.
Which is possible. But unlikely. The umpires are really good about knowing the rules. They make mistakes all the time. But the great majority of their mistakes are snap misjudgments, or the result of faulty or unfortunate positioning. Their mistakes are very rarely due to not knowing the rules.
All of that sounds good, but why should we trust your interpretation?
You shouldn't. I've laid out my interpretation of "ordinary effort" -- which is the biggest point of dispute, I think -- as clearly as I can, and I arrived at it independently. It does comport, I think, with Holbrook's statement, and I'm assuming he does know the rules cold.
Hunter Wendelstedt told me that when he teaches the Infield Fly Rule at his school, "We're going to show this and say, 'You need to call this.' "
I also ran my interpretation past Jim Evans, who umpired in the American League for nearly 30 years and now runs the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring. Specifically, I asked him about the meaning of ordinary effort and play in the context of the Infield Fly Rule. In an e-mail message, Evans wrote:
Quick answer: You are judging the possibility of an infielder fielding a fair fly ball with ordinary effort after the ball has reached its apex and started down. Something could happen between the time the ball left the bat and the ball reached its apex that could change the play (e.g. infielder falling down, wind).
Umpires are trained to signal each other prior to the first pitch to every batter when the conditions for the infield fly rule exist: Runners on first and second or bases loaded with less than two outs. The umpires then observe the starting positions of the infielders. When the ball is hit, the umpire then mentally determines whether the ball is fair or foul, a fly ball, a line drive, or a bunt (the infield fly rule does not apply to foul balls, line drives, or bunts). If he determines it to be a fair fly ball, he waits until it reaches its apex before making his decision whether or not the ball can be fielded with ordinary effort by an infielder. Waiting until the ball has started down gives him more time to more accurately assess the situation. Though not stipulated in the rule, consideration should be given at this point to the feasibility of a trick play by the infielder...
Now, I should say that Evans does allow, both here and elsewhere in his e-mail message, that there is room for interpretation by the umpires. That is, while a literal interpretation of the rule allows for the Infield Fly to be called on the warning track, the umpire should consider the double-play (or "trick play") possibility in his ruling. Evans wrote, "Though controversial, Sam Holbrook's call is defensible under the current wording of the rule." Defensible, but perhaps not metaphysically correct.
I will note, too, that Wendelstedt (if I understood him correctly) didn't really allow for any interpretation at all; if the infielder can make the catch with ordinary effort, the umpire has to make the call.
Which shows, again, just how tricky these things can be. Here we've got two experienced Major League umpires who run top umpiring schools, and they seem to have a somewhat different take on a central point.
After all of this, my take is essentially what it's been from the beginning: I believe that Sam Holbrook's call is certainly defensible; on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is they should fire this buffoon and 10 is let's put him in the Hall of Fame tomorrow, I'm somewhere north of 7.
Most of this makes sense, I guess. But shouldn't they rewrite the Infield Fly Rule so this doesn't happen again?
So what doesn't happen again? A bunch of people who don't understand the rule, complaining about it?
Haha really funny. No. A situation where a team loses a baserunner and an out, even though the defense doesn't actually make the play.
Oh, that. Yeah, sure. But the devil's in the details, right? The rule could be, for example, that if the Infield Fly Rule is called but the defense doesn't make the play, the batter gets first base and everybody else moves up one base. I haven't yet figured out what's wrong with doing it that way.
But you know, something probably is wrong with it. It's the Law of Unintended Consequences. Every time you change a rule to fix one problem, you're probably going to create another problem.
And this problem that we have now ... Is it really so terrible? According to Baseball Info Solutions, in the last three seasons there have been six occasions on which the Infield Fly Rule was called, but the catch was not made.
Have you ever tried to plow through the Official Rules? They're really complex. Basically, nobody knows the rules except the umpires. Most managers don't have them cold. Most players really don't have them cold. Yes, I know that erstwhile shortstops Cal Ripken and Omar Vizquel didn't think Holbrook should have called the Infield Fly. With all due respect to both of them, I suspect that neither Ripken nor Vizquel know the Infield Fly Rule as well as Sam Holbrook knows it. Or as well as Hunter Wendelstedt and Jim Evans know it. Or as well as you know it, now.
So, congratulations - You're an expert!
You're welcome. But you asked about changing the rule. I think the Official Rules are complicated enough. Most of the people who want to change the rules want to make them even more complicated, so that they'll cover every possible situation perfectly, and preclude the possibility of any controversy at all.
But that's an unreachable star, the quest hopeless. The more situations you cover, the more complex the rules, and the more complex the rules, the more times the umpires or the managers or the players will misunderstand them.
The rules should certainly be rewritten, so that a modestly intelligent English-speaking person can understand them. They should be simplified to whatever degree they can, so there are fewer people complaining about them in October. And they should be enforced, usually, to the letter. Because the rules were put there for good reasons.
Actually changing them, though? Only for a heavenly cause.


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Jim Williams has been watching birds and writing about their antics since before "Gilligan's Island" went into reruns. Join him for his unique insights, his everyday adventures and an open conversation about the birds in your back yard and beyond.
This is what can be found, maybe, if you get up and out early in the morning. I took the shot at about 7:30 a.m. That is early for me. Birding was OK, this was better. The doe is looking at me, about 50 yards distant, already one shot in the camera, the loud click of the SLR mirror making her alert. Love the camera, hate the noise. SLR -- single-lens reflex, 35mm format, the image transferred to my eye for framing and focus by a mirror in front of the shutter. Hit the button, the mirror flops up (or down), the shutter moves, the image is caught, the mirror immediately returning to be ready for the next shot. The flop is noisy.
The Minnesota Snowy Owl that has been tracked by GPS signals since Jan. 26 has moved to a location west of Cosmos, Minnesota. That is a shift 15 miles west-northwest from its previous site south of Hutchinson. It moved to Hutch from its long-time location in Ramsey, Minnesota, west of Anoka, where it was netted and given its transmitter. This bird is named Ramsey. It is one of 21 Snowy Owls equipped with transmitters by ProjectSNOWstorm, based in Pennsylvania. The project was initiated when the owls began being seen in the eastern U.S. by the hundreds earlier this winter. The owls and the technology came together as a unique opportunity to follow movement of these birds. You can track Ramsey and the other owls at www.projectSNOWstorm.org.
Below is an image (©ProjectSNOWstorm and Google) from the project website showing the movements of an owl located in urban Baltimore. The transmitter on this bird was set to record location every 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. The illustration shows movements over a two-hour period.
ProjectSNOWstorm will follow the birds as they move back north to breeding grounds. Information is sent to project headquarters via cell-phone technology. The data is downloaded whenever the birds are within range of a cell-phone tower. Yes, there are few if any cell towers in Arctic Canda, but the transmitters can collect and store thousands of pieces of location data for transmission when possible.
You also can use the website to make a contribution to help with financing of the project.
There are codes of ethics for people who photograph wildlife. These codes and guidelines easily can be found on the Internet by Googling "wildlife photography ethics."
There is an ongoing clash locally involving behavior of some of the photographers taking photos of Snowy Owls. Not all photographers; let me be clear on that. There are many photographers who understand and follow appropriate behaviors. And there are those few who do not.
Perhaps you saw the WCCO-TV (Channel 4) story two nights ago on the 5 p.m local news. It illustrated and discussed the issue of baiting owls. Baiting involves either offering an owl a live mouse to lure the bird into close photo range, or casting fake mice toward the bird for the same purpose. These photographers have been particularly present at a site in Dakota County and at another location in the City of Ramsey, a northern suburb. There, you might see them in action between Armstrong Boulevard and Ferret Street along 147th Avenue. Watch for the ice-fishing rods and reels used for casting dummy mice.
The Ramsey owl, unfortunately cooperative, has been harassed in such a fashion for days, maybe weeks. The same photographers appear, with the same fake or store-bought mice. These men have been told by other photographers on site that such behavior is unethical, and bad for the bird. Those comments have been met with laughter and threats, or the people urging appropriate behavior are simply ignored.
It seems that none of the the photographers who need to bait owls to get the photos, photos they must desperately want, know anything about ethics. They seem ignorant of the numerous wildlife photography clubs and national associations that have very specific codes of conduct. These codes pointedly say baiting is unethical and should never be used to bring a bird close for photos.
So, our bozo photographers either are so uninformed about their own hobby that they don't know behavior codes exist, or they just don't care.
Our DNR and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are looking into interpretation of existing laws concerning harassment of birds. The debate is whether baiting is or isn't harassment. Well, according to many wildlife photography groups baiting, illegal or not, is unethical. If you are a photographer who would represent your hobby in an acceptable way, baiting or use of lures to bring birds closer to the camera should not be done.
Here are excerpts from two photography codes:
Nature Photographers Network — "Do not entice a wild animals with food (baiting) in order to get the photo."
digicamhelp.com: "Never force an action." "Never feed or leave food (baiting) for wildlife."
North American Nature Photography Association: "… use good judgement: treat wildlife, plants, and places as if you were their guest."
britishbirds.co.uk: "Be honest in declaring the circumstances in which a picture was taken." I include this because I wonder how many of our baiters are explaining their methods when showing off their photos. It's not hard to find these photos on Facebook and other photo-posting sites. If you go to look, pay attention to explanations, if any, on how the photo was obtained -- with true skill and care or faked with baiting. In my experience as a wildlife photographer the chances of a raptor attempting or making a capture or kill directly in front of you, at close range, is nearly impossible. Such photos are almost always faked. How can a person be proud of or brag about a faked photo?
Ottawa Field-Naturalists Bird Committee: "Keep a good distance away and do not linger."
International Association of Wildlife Photographers: "In the field, security and lack of disturbance of the animal must be put before all other things."
In conversation this week with another photographer at the Ramsey location I was told that a local nature photographers club met recently and discussed the ethics of baiting. I was told club members broke about 50/50 on whether or not baiting was acceptable. I hope that's not true. I hope someone misunderstood. I hope photo clubs here have clear ethical standards. I hope the clubs are not endorsing behavior that wildlife photographers world-wide find unacceptable.
How much should you spend on a pair of binoculars? This question has been followed for several days on the birding email network BirdChat. Today, this piece of advice: Spend as much on your binoculars as you would on one month of rent or one monthly house payment.
This comes from a book by Jack Connor, "The Complete Birder." I don't know when it was published, but I'd guess rent and house payments were lower than. I'm not sure you could find binoculars priced high enough today to match many current monthly rent/mortgage payments.
Jude and I were in Ramsey yesterday (11 Feb 14) afternoon, looking for the Snowy Owl being seen there, and hoping to see some of the photographers who are using mice to bait the owls into position for "hunting" photos. The owl was there. Two guys with stubby ice-fishing rods were there, fake mice tied to the end of the fishing line. Casting for owls. They were kneeling in the snow about 50 feet from the bird. I walked to within about of 20 feet of them, behind them, and began talking to them, to their backs, actually.
I told them using mice is wrong. It stresses the bird. It's unethical. The photos would be fakes, cheesy photos. Never one to under-emphasize, I said most of this at least twice. I invited them to cast a fake mouse so I could take a photo. They neither did so nor turned to face me.
The fake mouse on the fishing line is tossed toward the owl, then retrieved to lure the owl into attack. The owl, of course, gets nothing for its effort. It expends energy and wastes time. We have no way of knowing the cost to the bird of these fruitless hunting efforts. How many times in recent weeks have Twin Cities Snowy Owls wasted energy on cold days in pursuit of fake mice? This is being done at both the Ramsey site and in Dakota County along 180th Street, and perhaps elsewhere. It is an unfortunately common way that a handful of photographers use to scam owls.
After maybe 20 minutes in Ramsey, the two men with fishing rods left. There was a small older one and a large younger one. Walking past me to get to the parking lot, the larger fellow said to me, "Take my picture and I'll break your f…ing nose." To add insult to potential injury he said my camera was shitty. So there!!
His comments weren't unexpected. I certainly did push. But the reluctance of those two men to have their photos taken tells me that they understood perfectly well that their behavior was bad for the owl. These birds get stressed, heart rate elevated, stress hormones released. There is no way to know this by looking at the bird. I read of a comment by a photographer in Dakota County who said of an owl, "Look at him. He's not stressed. He just sits there and watches us." The bird should not be watching photographers. It should be hunting.
Four other photographers were present in Ramsey, none armed with mice. Two of them came over to introduce themselves. One of them told me that if I had been "attacked" the four of them were ready to intervene. Can you believe this? Six birders wrestling in two feet of snow because one of them is desperate for a photo! Half an hour later the big ornery guy returned. He walked past me to get onto the path into the owl field, saying in a very quiet polite voice as he passed, "I'm just going to look for something I lost, and then I'll get out of your hair." He almost sounded contrite. If so, good for him. What a day!
Photos can be taken of the birds without harm. Keep your distance. Get in and out quickly. Leave if the bird seems to be paying attention to you.
I work with Nikon equipment.. The shot here was taken from about 100 feet with a 400mm lens. One picture is as it came from the camera, the other cropped in Photoshop to enlarge the image of the bird. (The photo would be better if I had a better camera.)
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CATEGORIES Movies, News/Reactions, HorrorWhen I first heard that Dark Horse Comics acquired the Hammer Films license, my mind reeled at the possibilities. An on-going Victor Frankenstein series using the likeness of Peter Cushing? A Christopher Lee Dracula monthly title? A graphic novel based on One Million Years B.C.? Or how about a mini-series sequel to Curse of the Werewolf? The mind reels.
I was slightly disappointed that, according to Hollywood Reporter, their first venture will be a spin-off of the English-language version of Let the Right One In (re-titled Let Me In). I liked the original Swedish film, an unlikely story of friendship between a young outcast and a vampire. I expect the remake to be decent, at the very least, but there's so much more they could get from the license than film marketing tie-ins. I mean, it makes sense in a quick buck kind of way, but a book based on one of their classics would have me at the comic shop on the first day of release. I can't say the same about Let Me In.
Let Me In will be written by Marc Andreyko and probably timed for release with the film, sometime in late September/early October 2010.
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Don Bradman Cricket 14 launches in the UK this Friday
UK release date confirmed as Alternative Software signs up to distribute.
Don Bradman Cricket 14 hits 360/PS3 in March, PC in May
Release date to coincide with ICC World Twenty20.
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Sight-Seeing Tours Aisen, Chile - LOST WORLD ADVENTURES arranges specialized tours and expeditions in South America and Central America. Our company was founded in 1986, when we pioneered our first adventure trips into Venezuela. We now arrange travel throughout Latin America.
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News 13 calls your attention to a problem that some people face as they try to visit a major Panama City retail complex. Details in this Problem Solver report.
For those not familiar with this significant hole in the road…it is something to make you think twice about trying to maneuver. It has been a handy short cut for many Sam's Club shoppers…at least until recently. The problem is at the access road leading to the Sam's Club parking lot in the 2200 block of Frankford Avenue.
It all started at the end of February during a water main break under the road. The consequent hole filled with water. An unlucky motorist drove here Dodge pickup truck right into the hole…nose first. Thankfully, she was not injured. The water line was repaired, by a private contractor, but the road repairs have not been effective. Some drivers approach the access road only to carefully drive around the small crater…while others just don't even try. And it looks much bigger on site.
So who is responsible for fixing it properly? I spoke with management at Sam's Club. They tell me it is private property not owned by Sam's. They would also like to see the road repaired as soon as possible. I also checked with Panama City Utilities. They tell me the city has nothing to do with this issue since it is private property.
News 13 has learned that the property may be owned by a company based in Missouri. We have attempted to reach the proper officials about the road and are awaiting their response. But we wanted you to be aware of the problem. Since it will only get worse…especially in heavy rains.
News 13 will keep you updated as we receive information and hopefully a solution.
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Both Show Producers and Fans alike are thrilled that "SHOCKWAVE is Back". The SHOCKWAVE and Flash Fire Facebook Page has literally been on Fire. Keep those Likes coming and please continue to Share with your Friends and Contacts. We will continue to update you with exciting News, Photos , and Videos from Shows all across the Country.
With the 2014 Return of the Blue Angels and Thunderbird Jet Teams and many of the traditional Military Airshows back on board it's looking like 2014 will be the Biggest Year Ever for Darnell Racing Enterprises and our Fleet of 3 Awesome Jet Trucks that includes SHOCKWAVE and our two Flash Fire Jet Trucks.
We will be performing alongside the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds at nearly 20 Airshows this year. As a Show Producer if you are looking for that "Mind Blowing Headliner Act" look no further. It doesn't get any better than "The Undisputable #1 Exhibition Jet Vehicle in the World - SHOCKWAVE !! "
Check our Schedule Page soon as we build and add to our 2014 Schedule for all our Jet Trucks and check out all the great Videos on YouTube.


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Further Enhancement for Active Interference Cancellation on MB-OFDM UWB Transmission
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When an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) transmitter is operating, it must not cause interference to existing primary users. Three new techniques are proposed in this paper in order to enhance the Active Interference Cancellation (AIC), which is a technique to avoid causing the interference, for multiband-OFDM UWB transmitters. The first technique applies cyclic shifting while the second technique applies phase shifting to the frequency-domain data symbols. The third technique is a combination of these two techniques and is shown to improve the performance by about three orders of magnitudes.
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Such cool critters!
What was this the summit of? Love those guys! Well, not really guys but still :)
On the summit of Kelso. A very fun day; the younger goats started jumping around in excitement when we launched into our first turns.
They like pretty young. No wonder they were excited when they saw you curving turns.
Great shot of the little ones, Kirk.


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she stole back. The merchandise is worth about $600.
The store is pressing charges, and
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