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on Jun 7, 2013 at 11:36 am
The politicans are just looking for more tax money to fund their pensions.
on Jun 7, 2013 at 12:04 pm
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As I stated when surveyed, I will support a bond issue for a new public safety building only if it is NOT built as part of the Jay Paul development. I support no upzoning for offices until we are in compliance with ABAG housing ratios (which may be never)! Palo Alto is built out unless we build up. Most of us don't want that. We do want a 50 ft limit to building height. We do want adequate parking. We don't want new houses without driveways for parking.
We have enough offices. We need more retail and housing like the SOFA development and less like Arbor Real, Alma Plaza and the latest proposal for Maybell. If the Maybell development was downsized to five houses with driveways, sidewalks, bike lanes and minimal backyards plus a smaller senior development, there would be far more support for the project.
Maybe we need an ordinance that requires any development of a certain size that does not comply with current zoning and the city's master plan, to be submitted to the voters.
on Jun 7, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Good Grief! Now an outside contractor is telling city officials that they need to educate city residents why we should appove bond measures and raise taxes because the city is doing such a great job. How much of resident tax money was given to Fairbank, Maslin, Mauslin, Metz, and Associates for this dysfunctional survey. Guess if you spend enough you get the answers you want. When is the last time the City Manager met with the public or City Council members actually went out and spoke with residents on matters concerning city issues.What a pity.

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Is the killer cyclist more negligent because of past actions?
Today's announcement by District Attorney George Gascón that he filed felony vehicular manslaughter charges against Chris Bucchere, the bicyclist who hit and killed a pedestrian at the intersection of Market and Castro streets on March 29, won't be a surprise or source of outrage to many people.
As I reported shortly thereafter, data from the cyclist training website Strava indicated that Bucchere was traveling at around 35 mph as he entered the crowded intersection on a yellow or red light. And the callous comments he made afterward to an online forum, which I also quoted, certainly cast him in an unsympathetic light.
But there is an aspect to the case that Gascon is bringing that I find vaguely unsettling: "'This tragic death caused by a bicyclist illustrates the worst case scenario when traffic laws are not obeyed,' said District Attorney Gascón. He explained that Bucchere displayed gross negligence in operating his bicycle warranting a felony vehicular manslaughter charge. His office intends to prove that there was a pattern of traffic laws being broken by Bucchere leading up to the accident."
If he ran a couple red lights without incident before this one, does that make him more criminally liable for the bad decision he made at this intersection? Shouldn't the question of whether Bucchere was criminally negligent in causing 71-year-old Sutchi Hui's death be about his decision to plow through this intersection when it wasn't safe to do so?
Perhaps it's an issue that helps shore up the case that he was behaving in a reckless way. But this is going to be an emotional case and one likely to be trumpeted by the handful of cyclist-haters out there for whom our tendency to roll stop signs is the source of real anger and condemnation, with many blog commenters in the past wishing me a violent death for doing so, threatening to carry out the deed themselves, and saying they would feel only pride in doing so.
If one of these crazies plows into me when I'm riding legally, will I be blamed because I ran a red light a few intersections ago? Will they cite my admission in the Guardian that I often break traffic laws and say I had it coming? Would the decision that Bucchere made as he was screaming down Castro toward that fateful intersection be less negligent if he had stopped at previous intersections?
With the bitter resentments that some San Franciscans feel toward cyclists so palpable and potentially dangerous, it will be easy to lose perspective on this case and make Bucchere emblematic of all cyclists, as dishonest as that may be. And I think it's incumbent upon Gascón to try to prevent that from happening.
This is an isolated and unusual case of a young man making a tragic mistake for which he will pay a heavy price, no more and no less.
Are you trying to tell me that the laws of man should supersede the laws of physics?
What's next, declaring that sea level rise is not happening?
Never made it to voir dire.
Justice is sometiems served.
many that that cop was guilty at all, given the situation going on at the time.
If it's a felony rap then more than a year will involve State time, and I think that's important here because it sends a clear message that just because you're a cyclist and so considered groovy, you can't just spped, blow thru lights and not pay attention.
Perhaps 5 is too much, but I want to see 2 to 4. And hard time, not a country club.
Don't forget it's not just the bikers running red lights and ignoring pedestrians. SF also has a horrible problem of bikers riding on sidewalks, including on Market and Valencia, two streets with bike lanes. Intelligent people think bike lanes should be enough to keep bikers riding in them and not on sidewalks congested with people walking.
Well if you've ever ridden a bicycle on the streets in SF you'd understand why cyclists ride on the sidewalk, so that tells me you've not ridden on the streets.
I ride on the sidewalk frequently because it's much safer there---less likely to be doored or hit by a self-absorbed SUV driver texting and driving---and I'm courteous to pedestrian. The other night the sidewalk was crowded with pedestrians on Market Street near Castro, so I rode in the bike lane. It was not a good experience. Because I usually ride on the sidewalk, I had no idea how terrible the streets are with bumps and potholes. I was almost shaken off my bike because of the roughness of the street near the Chevron station. I made it one block and then got back on the sidewalk. I have no idea how most cyclists ride on these terribly-rough streets without being thrown off their bike or getting a flat. I suspect the anti-cyclist troll above, doesn't even own a bicycle. Typical. That person is the self-entitled SUV driver constantly trying to "keep up with the Joneses."
pedestrians around. If pedestrians even have to *think* that you might be a hazard to them, then *you* are out of line. Wheelchair jockeys, this second part applies to you as well. In spades.
Under California vehicle code, bicyclists have a right to take an entire lane when and if safety dictates, otherwise keep to a bike lane or ride on the sidewalk *real* *slowly* and avoiding proximity to pedestrians.
Bicyclists have as much effective right to use the full lane as Sutchi Hui had to use the crosswalk whenever he wanted, that's why we ride on the sidewalk. That, and one-way streets that make cycling on the sidewalk, even slower, less onerous than 3 turns and three blocks.
I biked on the sidewalk on that forlorn block of 15th between Guerrero and Valencia. I was biking between the tree curb cuts and the curb. A guy in the wheelchair screamed at me "you're going to kill someone." I was 8 feet away from him and biking at less than 10mph. Clearly the media circus has had its impact on people, stoking fear and hatred of cyclists.
Good thing that paid advocates have got our backs, huh?
I think you way overestimate the rightness of your sidewalk riding habits.
At 10 MPH you will travel eight feet in less than a second. Don't ride 10 MPH on a sidewalk unless there are *NO* pedestrians or wheelchair riders around. Simple? Perhaps not simple enough. *Real* simple rules like "it is fucking illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk" are necessary for people who, like you, habitually ratchet up their own domination of public spaces.
When you get to the end of the block, do you continue riding through the crosswalk? You are a fucking hazard to motorists too then.
By the way, when you are *poking* *along* on the sidewalk, don't ride near any doorways because someone can appear from one in a split second. (Again, applies to the wheelchair jockeys too.)
Perhaps you misunderstand relative speeds? Pedestrians are apparently standing still compared to the speed of cyclists even slow speeds on the sidewalk.
The other difference is that slow speeds mean fast stops and fast speeds mean slow stops. Cars speeding at 35mph next to bikes are much more dangerous to bikes than biking at 8mph next to a ped walking 3-5 mph.
In the case I recount above, I am more likely to clip a tree or a meter only injuring myself than I was to have hit anyone on the sidewalk.
That property of speed differential is why hardly any pedestrians are injured and there are none on the record being killed by cyclists riding on the sidewalk.
The simple answer is to make the streets safer for cyclists and provide counterflow through one way streets if they remain. The way to do this is to improve transit so that folks don't need to rely on single occupancy autos for most trips.
nowledge that I mistook your clear "less than 10 MPH" to be 10 MPH precisely and responded in an overly harsh manner, but with these caveats:
I think 8MPH should be the *absolute* top limit for bicycling on the sidewalk and that should be for when their are basically *no* pedestrians present. At the other end of the spectrum, it is proper to dismount and walk your bike or at least slow to bare steerage until you are sure everybody knows you are there, what your intentions are, and that you are in control of your bike at walking speed. (Like at intersections? Yes.)
Otherwise, take to the street. Typically, the sidewalks in the big city (downtown area in particular are) *not* suitable places for you to learn to ride a bike, and they are *not* suitable places for you to go at your best speed when the safety of pedestrians is *in* *the* *least* comprimised.
See? It isn't about "you" (bicyclists) or your own safety. Its about the basic integrity of the space which pedestrians are limited to. It will no doubt tempt many to rationalize otherwise, but the truth is that once you were only a pedestrian (as a child, for sure) and you must realize that there are still more pedestrians than bicyclists. You cannot win this and you should not.
The downside is that there really is no place for bicyclists who insist on riding at running speed on the sidewalk and damn the comfort and safety of pedestrians. Either learn how to ride a bike really slowly -- and get used to the idea that you travel at a speed not dictated by your pedaling power, but by the presence of pedestrians -- or learn how to ride a bike fast.
Riding a bike relatively fast allows you to avoid dangerous situations when you are on the street. Try it. It's not like being a pedestrian though. Don't wear your iPod.
In between are times when you need to slow to 5, or to bare steerage.
at 5MPH in the opposite direction that you are traveling "at less than 10" has a 15MPH relative speed. Your bike at 20MPH has a relative speed of 5MPH to same-side traffic moving at the speed limit on most city streets you need to be riding on.
When (and if) biking down major thoroughfares like Oak Street, I regularly will make a temporary right turn followed by a "u" to let the bulk of traffic go by under the theory that I'll be less likely to be hit by a driver not negotiating heavy traffic, and open lanes to my left are always a good thing in the presence of parked cars.
Right, all pedestrians are walking towards me while all motorists are driving away from me. Nice trick.
The hype scares pedestrians more than normal while the numbers show no real public health threat to peds from bikes on the sidewalk.
The orders of magnitude more weight of the auto and higher speeds relative to cyclists still mean an orders of magnitude greater danger for cyclists from cars than to peds from cyclists.
completely full of shit.
1) Traffic *is* moving the same direction as bicyclists when both are following traffic laws. (Were you really ignorant of legal requirements for bicycle users of California roadways?)
2) Bicyclist *do* present a greater danger to pedestrians than other pedestrians. They typically move much more quickly, and unlike runners, can approach without making any sound.
3) Get it through you head. It is *not* about you. Your safety is *not* paramount. Do not ride on the sidewalk. (There. you did it. I actually believe people ought to be able to ride on the sidewalks (within the limitations I've stated), but you are apparently one of the jerks who make it impossible to allow such.)
Yes, my safety is paramount to me. And when the streets are dangerous, then I'm going to ride on the sidewalk and I am going to do so as a guest on the sidewalk, as the lowest priority sidewalk user, got it?
but when I read the text of your comment, I saw that we are not far from each other. (Were you posting earlier on this thread as "guest?")
That said, I think you might want to revise and amend your statement. Although I sometimes ride on the sidewalk, I would tend to put my own safety *below* doing something really "embarassing" like bumping into a mother with her newborn, or even mildly frightening an obviously pregnant woman.
as long as he first dismounts and walks his bike.
And let's get real here, you're trying to say that we're going to coerce cyclists to put ourselves in harm's way by fining activity that is inherently safer in many cases for cyclist and by the numbers safe for pedestrians?
How high would you need to make the fine so that cyclists would be sensitive to it, and do you propose to put cyclists who ride on the sidewalk in debtors prison if they can't pay?
you wouldn't want a bike in a pedestrian lane either.
Or do you want a double standard?
Of course, the moment that the SFPD enforces the laws against motorists and keeps the streets safe for cyclists, I'm off the sidewalk during those rare times that it is safer to ride on the sidewalk than in the street.
That can't happen soon enough but the amount of progress being made towards that is imperceptible compared to the amount of effort being expended to make the sidewalks no safer for peds, by the numbers, by enforcing against cyclists.
The truth is that there is no concerted municipal effort to make anything safer for anyone, just a government with contempt for its residents and taxpayers figuring out ways to divide and conquer those folks in order to keep its Good Thing Going.
I'd adopt some fairly aggressive defensive manoevers if a bike came too close to me on a sidewalk. You can act all brave with a disabled guy in a wheelchair but you'll get unlucky one day.
A bike is a vehicle. Use the road and obey the rules.
for "taking the whole lane", that's a problem and for two reasons.
First the law demands that slower trafic keep right. Bikes aren't always slower in cities, of course, but where they are, they shouldn't hold up traffic. And in fact the law says that if there are vehicles stacked up behind you, you should pull over.
Second, it's dangerous. As a driver, if a vehicle coming the other way veers into my path, I'm going to swing right. The more a bike is to the left, the more likely I will have to sacrifice him to prevent a head-on collision.
Be careful out there.
Wow, intentionally kill a third person to keep yourself from being killed by a second person? That's pretty fucking cold.
a truck is heading right for you. do you hit the truck at a combined speed of maybe 60mph or sideswipe a cyclist? Either way, someone dies, but this way only one person does.
Actually it doesn't matter how you answer that because it's not a logical deliberation - your instincts would take over and you'd avoid the truck at all costs, and I mean all costs.
And luckily the solution is easy. Keep right.
but it must have gotten lost in the ether. As you are passing a bicyclist and concurrently eyeing some menacing oncoming traffic, is that what's going through you mind? That you can just cream the person on the bike? Siko.
law requires slower traffic to do, and keeping right and risking being sideswiped in a number of possible situations.
The "slower traffic keep right" rule is there for a reason.
prudence of keeping out of the flow of faster, heavier traffic.
It's a potentially like-saving
but drivers should damn well be inculcatated with the idea of that solid line is an impenetrable wall.
But if your point was that some people would intentially steer for a young person on her bicycle instead of doing a header into a heavy SUV, and that they commit such an act with forethought -- thinking exactly of such an possible outlet as they passed the bike and watched an uncoming vehicle with trepidation -- then I see your point. There are people like that.
I don't care for them.
It's a matter of self-preservation. You either hit an oncoming vehicle weighing two tons traveling at a combined speed of 60mph, or you instinctively swerve and possibly hit something that can't hurt you.
By the same argument, a car might even mount a sidewalk rather that hit a ten-wheeler head on, and risk hitting a person.
Or of course you may get hit by the other vehicle and rebound into the bike anyway.
It's not a moral decision, a logical determination or a rational act. It's an instict to survive which we all have. And there are accidents like this so, as a cyclist, you need to be aware that the further to the left you ride, the more likely you are to be accidentally sideswiped.
Your fantasy should be seeing the menacing truck in advance and slowing to not pass the bicyclist. I wish you well in achieving the peace of mind for you to advance.
If you have to take evasive action, it's better if other traffic is keeping right, especially the vulnerable type.
Hey, ride wherever and however you like, he's just explaining the risk factors to you.
Do you also oppose wheel chairs on the sidewalk? Why not a whine about them? They can move quite fast and they are 2 wheels as well. And aren't you Michael P. "the flag guy" who was on here awhile back whining about cyclists on the sidewalks on those same streets?
Sprinkle a couple of handfuls in the most problematic areas and you solve the problem of entitled cyclists on the sidewalk. Also works wonders where cyclists disobey stop lights and signs.
Tim, Steven or Marke,
Doesn't the above comment fall under the Assholism category?
Thank you.
What an idiot. What would stop pedestrians from walking on tacks? Did you not think of that? Duh. And isn't this called terrorism? There's nothing stopping cyclists from also using tacks at motorists, idiot. Don't start something that you can't even begin to "win." Car tires are a lot more expensive than bicycle tires.
Troll II/Lucretia Snapples = The Terrorist
That's hilarious - bring charges against me under the PATRIOT act then!
Tacks do not penetrate through shoe soles. They're perfect for stopping bikes riding illegally on the sidewalks and blowing through stop signs and lights though. Don't want a tack? Get off the sidewalk.
You do realize that throwing tacks in the road would puncture the tires of a bike rider who stops and proceeds through legally, or someone walking their bike on the sidewalk no differently than someone riding illegally, right?
should be asking themselves whether their self-advocacy is on the right track when a "critical mass" of SF residents are thinking along these lines.
If SFBF's mission is to win hearts and minds, they're failing, even without the second killing of a pedestrian by a bike in the last few months.
Posted by Troll II on Jun. 14, 2012 @ 7:23 pm
"Can we try and be more harmonious?
This is not at all helpful to productive conversation.
Let's share. Let's be reasonable."
Multiple personalities?
as well as Troll II's comment. I often do that.
GPS fixes from iPhones are crude. Please stop treating the 35 mph figure as fact. The video is a more likely source for determining Bucchere's speed.
Steven, this turns on the issue of what is admissible in court and for what purpose.
Legally, you cannot prove someone committed a crime based solely on their prior acts. In other words, I cannot charge you with theft and then go to court and argue, "Steven has a history of theft; therefore, he stole the watch from the store at issue in this case."
However, I CAN certainly admit your prior misdeeds for other purposes. For example, I can, under certain circumstances, admit your prior thefts to show (a) lack of mistake on your part in the current case, (b) establish a certain modus operandi that I can then establish was present in the theft at issue, (c) impeach your credibility as a witness, etc.
In other words, this is how our legal system works, and it is entirely proper and reasonable what the DA said in his statement. Mr. Bucchere will be convicted or exonerated based on what he did on the day of the incident in question, not on whether he had a history of being either an asshole and/or a bad bicyclist.
Mr. Gascon's job, his only job, is to prosecute individuals for whom he reasonably believes there is sufficient evidence establishing that they committed a criminal offense. It is not incumbent on him or any DA to worry about the image of cyclists in the city or engage in transportation policy matters--that is not the job of Mr. Gascon or any DA.
If someone from another planet were to read these comments, I suspect they would say, "Don't go anywhere near that planet. Extinction is near. Those people are going to kill each other one way or another. They are determined to do so. They can't get along on anything. They are determined to be dysfunctional and some of them like to act big, tough-bully and violent-sounding."
I appreciate Steven's article, but in the future I will read just the article he writes and make a point of not reading the comments because I know that future comments on this topic will be a repeat of these comments. Because these comments (their content) are a repeat of past comments on this topic---the very same nasty arguments over and over---and they are the same type of comments that one reads routinely on most articles having to do with cyclists (and motorists and pedestrians) in the States. One of the major modus operandi of the U.S. and many (most?) of its people is spreading endless hate.
critical assessment of the quality of anything written here.
Most post here are "ra ra" for our side.
Guest, I am not quite sure how you make the logical leap to claim the sole purpose of the U.S. and its people is to spread "endless hate" based on a few people bickering on the public web forum of a local alternative news site?
Read the comments posted on any of the web forums of prominent UK, German, French, etc. newspapers, and you will see many people getting into heated arguments over issues both large and small, and some of them behaving in quite a petty and mean-spirited manner in the process. However, I would never presume to state that such behavior is representative of these nations as a whole or of their people.
I would also question the implication in your remarks that you are on higher moral ground than those you criticize. Generally, an individual does not need to take much time to determine if they are offended or outraged by what they are reading, and individuals who truly feel this way cease reading whatever is causing them such offense or outrage and move on with their lives. They certainly do not read comment after supposedly offensive comment working themselves into a froth before releasing their false indignation in a self-righteous post.
In other words, it seems to me you liked what you read just a little more than you should if it truly bothered you.
DISCLAIMER: and I ride around the city every day. I moved to San Francisco from the number 2 bicycle commute city in the country. I've spent a lot of time in the number 1. I've biked for transportation for years, and I don't drive. I never learned to drive because I feel that it's not necessary.
That being said, in response to your attitude about cyclists in general in SF.
I see at least 5-7 people running red lights every morning and just as many on my commute home. Most of these incidences involve said people running more than one light. I saw a man fly into an intersection on Haight St against a red and almost get creamed by a corporate shuttle two weekends ago. He wasn't phased at all. A lot of people don't wear helmets (don't tell me it's fine and okay here. California drivers are insane and cars hurt. I know this from experience). A lot of people ride with headphones in, which is not only dangerous, but illegal. A ton of folks pass on the right in bike lanes, which is not only rude, but dangerous.
I hate to say it, but yes, a lot of SF cyclists do have an entitlement problem. I'd always said drivers are wrong when they say that - until I moved to San Francisco.
So yeah, if this dude didn't feel like he could run red lights and generally be a dick on a bike, he probably wouldn't have killed someone. The laws and regulations and just general common courtesy associated with using a road are there for a reason.
Is this case blown way out of proportion? Sure. Drivers that kill people on all roads should be charged with a felony without a doubt. Everyone should be able to wait for 25 seconds for a light to change without a doubt. This guy deserves a felony conviction without a doubt. He killed someone. Yes, drivers need to be held accountable for their deadly actions, but that doesn't mean this guy doesn't deserve everything he's getting. Jerks be jerks, whether behind a wheel or on saddle.
Okay, sorry. Ranting is over. Feel free to try to tell me why it's okay for you to break the law on your bike now, and I'll totally ignore it, because I'd rather be safe/aware than get someone (mayyyyybe) a tiny bit sooner.
His decision to go so fast cost a senior citizen his life. Whether or not this was an isolated incident or not, he still kill someone. Does that mean anything in this city or if you're riding a bike are you automatically excused from crimes because if so, I have a few banks to rob
No, the excuses are reserved for miscreant motorists who regularly mow down pedestrian and cyclist alike yet are rarely if ever prosecuted by suburban commuter cops.
But, hey, its always better to play weaker public space users off against one another, because that distracts attention from the real dangers.
There has not been any evidence introduced at trial yet that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the cyclist was speeding. All you've got is the Chronicle.
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Perspective on how far into the future Prince Fielder's contract goes: It ends a year after Blade Runner is supposed to take place. Now, I'm pretty sure that Blade Runner is more of a documentary than a movie, so this tidbit freaks me out. Flying cars. Androids that are indistinguishable from humans. Prince Fielder on the Detroit Tigers.
If you haven't heard, Prince Fielder has a unique body for a professional baseball player. But forget about that for a bit. Assume that he's just a player. You don't have to pretend he's an Adonis, but you can pretend he's built like your average slugger for this exercise. Other than Prince Fielder, there have been 25 players in baseball history who hit 200 or more home runs before they were 28. Twelve of them are in the Hall of Fame. Three or four will be.
The Prince Fielder deal could work out for the Tigers. It really could. It could also end with Fielder catching ablaze as he drifts over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Here are some different ways the Fielder contract could end, using the 200-homer/age-27 club as the set of comps.
The Hank Aaron Special
There were other players who stayed effective for a long, long time. Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, and Harmon Killebrew, to name a few. Heck, Alex Rodriguez did so well after he turned 27 that he got a different ten-year deal. Derek Jeter's 10-year contract drew guffaws from some folks after it was signed -- there's no way he could stick at short until he was 36! -- but it turned out just fine.
But there isn't an aging-gracefully discussion without Aaron. If Aaron got a 14-year deal after his age-27 season, or a five-year extension after his nine-year deal was up, it would have been an unqualified success. The guy had a 161 OPS+ and 371 homers in his 30s -- one of the few Hall of Famers who would still make it if you eliminated his 20s entirely.
The Jimmie Foxx Mixed Bag
This is five or six years of high-level, All-Star stuff that would make it hard to get too mad at the last three years of the deal. I'm going for career arcs here, not overall stats, but maybe Foxx still isn't the best comparison -- Fielder's good, but he wasn't putting up a 1.218 OPS when he was 24.
Maybe Vlad Guerrero is easier to imagine for you in this category. More perspective: If Guerrero had signed a nine-year contract after his age-27 season, it would have started while he was still on the Expos … and ended after this last season with the Orioles. But for two-thirds of the contract, he would still have been a valuable part of a healthy offense.
Where Is the Eject Button on This Here Boog Powell?
Same as the above, with a quicker decline. Now, Boog sounds like the nickname of that hefty guy in college who didn't cut his hair once in the four years you knew him. But Powell wasn't overweight -- he was just a large human being, so he isn't the best physical comp.
He's a scary career comp, though -- Boog's career OPS+ before he was 27 was 133, not much worse than Fielder's (143). Powell won an MVP when he was 28, had two more good seasons, and then injuries started to take over. He would have retired almost two full seasons before his hypothetical nine-year deal would have been up.
Others would fit here, like Orlando Cepeda, Ken Griffey, Jr., or Rocky Colavito. If you wanted to completely change the name of this category, you could name it "The Ominous Juan Gonzalez", as there isn't a day that goes by that Mike Ilitch isn't glad that Juan Gonzalez turned down an eight-year, $140 million extension before the 2000 season, yet there he goes, offering a nine-year deal to someone else.
You could also rename it "The Punchline of This Title is Jose Canseco," which cleverly uses Jose Canseco's name as a self-contained punchline.
What in the Hell Happened to Andruw Jones?
In this category, we have Andruw Jones, which is quite the coincidence. Final perspective: Andruw Jones would still have two years left on a nine-year deal given to him after his age-27 season. Jones is another reminder that no matter how much we want to project a guy's future based on his tools or physique, we just can't. After 2005, Jones looked like a Hall of Fame lock. Healthy, talented, and in the prime of his career. His fall was like a Looney Tunes cartoon where Wily E. Coyote looks down and sees he isn't on the cliff anymore.
Darryl Strawberry would also be in this category, though partially for reasons of his own making. Adam Dunn certainly could be, though his low average and defensive nonsense never made him a candidate for a huge, Fielder-like deal.
Annulment! Annulment!
The previous category is filled with players who would have been disasters on a nine-year deal, but of all the players to hit 200 or more homers through their age-27 season, only Hal Trosky wouldn't have provided any return on the investment. Before he was 28, he hit .314/.378/.559 (136 OPS+). Then migraines forced him out of baseball in the middle of the next season. He came back to play a full year when he was 31 and a partial season when he was 33, but his career was basically over before he turned 28.
Trosky has about zero predictive value when it comes to Fielder, other than to say "Things happen!" dismissively as if you've unlocked some secret to the universe, you genius.
Again, this is all before you consider body type, which if you do, seems to hint at one of the last three categories. But before you laugh too hard at the Tigers' fate, remember that the team scheduled to pay Vernon Wells $21 million this year still found enough money to sign the best hitter and pitcher on the free-agent market. So don't just assume that Fielder's contract will cripple the Tigers for years and years and years. He should also start out just fine, and in the short-term, at least, there will be a whole lot of dingers.
But of the 25 players other than Fielder to hit 200 homers before they turned 28, five of them show up on Fielder's "similar batters through 27" list: Juan Gonzalez, Jose Canseco, Darryl Strawberry, Boog Powell, and Orlando Cepeda. Best of luck in 2019, Detroit!


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Patterson is back for Philly after being out due to viral pneumonia.||||||| Patterson missed the Thursday night game against the Bengals.
Patterson has been activated off the reserve/non-football illness list and is ready to play for the first time this season. Patterson is eligible for Monday night's game at New Orleans (2-5). Patterson says he's "really anxious" to return to the field and expects to play only a few snaps as he eases his way back into the lineup.||||||| He suffered a seizure at practice on Aug. 3, 2011, and was diagnosed with a brain AVM, or arteriovenous malformation, a prenatal condition in which blood travels abnormally between the arteries and veins. He played the first 15 games of last season but was not cleared to play for the start of this season because the incision where he had brain surgery in January hadn't fully healed.
The Philadelphia Eagles have ruled out defensive tackle Mike Patterson for their entire training camp and possibly more because the incision where he had brain surgery in January hasn't fully healed. Patterson was diagnosed with a brain malformation last August after suffering a seizure during a training camp practice at Lehigh University.||||||| Eagles head trainer Rick Burkholder said Sunday that a piece of Patterson's cranium was taken off in January so neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Spetzler could remove the arteriovenous malformation, a tangle of veins and arteries that doctors determined caused the seizure. Burkholder said Spetzler determined Friday after examining an X-ray and CT scan that the area of Patterson's cranium that he operated on hadn't healed sufficiently to allow Patterson to return to football.
Patterson, who collapsed and suffered a seizure at practice just 10 days ago, has returned to the Philadelphia Eagles.||||||| Patterson did not practice Saturday, but was in uniform doing strength and conditioning drills with trainer Rick Burkholder and several other teammates for the first time since his scary episode on an adjacent field. Patterson didn't answer questions, but he did smile broadly and tell reporters, "I feel great," while leaving the practice field.
The agent for Mike Patterson says the Eagles defensive tackle has been released from a hospital after suffering a seizure Wednesday at practice. Agent J.R. Rickert says in a statement Friday that Patterson is scheduled to see a neurologist in the next few days.||||||| On Thursday, Eagles trainer Rick Burkholder said Patterson has a brain condition that may require surgery. Rickert disputed a definite diagnosis of AVM, which are malformations or tangles of arteries and veins that alter blood flow. Earlier Friday, Eagles coach Andy Reid said Patterson "is making progress and getting tests done."


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I promise, after this, I'm done with posts that are deep and soul-searching. After this, it'll be vuvuzela photoshops I find around the Internet. But I've got one more left in me. I came out for the US Men's National Team earlier, and now I'm coming out for Aston Villa. But I'm going to need your (a general your directed at the 7500 community) help.
I tried to get into EPL soccer in middle school (12+ years ago) where my best friend at the time was actually British. He was a Man U. fan and I tried following them. Luckily, I never got too into it since I didn't have the wherewithal to watch games. Thank god for that, because now I pretty much abhor Man U. More recently, I decided last year to give the EPL another chance. I really do want to like soccer and I don't care about any of the other leagues. "If I do this," I thought, "it's going to be an English side."
So I went in an Off-Topic post on Lookout Landing and was advised by a frequenter of these parts (English Mariner) to choose Man City. It made sense for me: lash out at the team that I had grown to hate from my youth, and pick a building team that has some real promise. And then I did my reading, and my following: Man City had become the New York Yankees of soccer. Their owner was attempting to buy a championship in anything. Now, I certainly can't hold a grudge against old City fans, but I want nothing to do with a team like that. I also had another problem: it was nearly impossible to keep up with the team I had chosen. There weren't any blogs that I really liked for it, and in lieu of being able to watch every game, I need a great source of commentary.
That brings me to this summer. I'm still searching for an EPL team, and the soccer bug has bitten me hard. So what are my requirements? Well, a team with hope, but not a team that has hope solely based on money. But even more than that, I want to be a part of a good community. When I saw Aaron and Kirsten had started a Villa blog, I started leaning towards this. I knew there'd be people here I "knew" from Lookout Landing, and I knew that the quality of writing would be high. And then, through Kirsten and Aaron's twitter feeds, I found Aston Villa Central. There, I had it. Two great blogs. One with a good community built up and a perspective that matches mine (I know Aaron and Kirsten did what I am doing now in the not-so-distant past). And one that's been at it for a while and seems (I might be wrong) to be a Villa lifer.
So, I'm choosing Villa. I'm not going back. I love the community, and I've gotten one of my best friends to choose Villa too. It'll give me someone to talk to outside of here. It's perfect. Now, here's where I need your help. What do I need to know? I'm sure I'll figure out some traditions as I go, but I want to avoid being that annoying guy; a bandwagon rider. Can I rush right out and get a kit? Is it a faux-pas to have a nameless kit? Is there an mlb.tv equivalent for the EPL? What's the best way to keep up with matches if I can't get to a pub to watch them? Are there traditions I need to know about right away, or are they all things I can learn. So please, use this thread as a way to not only educate me, but to talk about Villa fandom in general. What is it that you love about Villa? For those of you who came to the club later in life, what drew you? I'm excited to hear the stories, and I can't wait for the season to start. Through thick and thin, I'm now Villa 'til I die!


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Real-Time Hadoop Queries Will Be a Reality in 2013
Real-Time Hadoop queries will be a reality in 2013 thanks to two new projects from Cloudera: Impala and Trevni.
Impala is the open source version of Dremel, Google's proprietary big data query solution. A first beta is available and the production version is foreseen for Q1 2013.
Impala allows you to run real-time queries on top of Hadoop's HDFS, Hbase and Hive. No migrations necessary.
However the real revolution will only get better when Doug Cutting [the creator of Lucene, Hadoop, etc.]'s Trevni is integrated into Impala. Trevni is a new columnar data storage format that promises superior performance for reading large columnar stored data sets.
Impala + Trevni is promising real-time big data queries with multiple joins that are on par in performance but have more functionality than Google's Dremel…
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Peter Karussell replied on Fri, 2012/12/07 - 10:58am
Well, either Impala is not really active (any more) or cloudera is hiding the activity: https://github.com/cloudera/impala/commits/master
Bertrand Dechoux replied on Sun, 2012/12/16 - 7:59am in response to: Peter Karussell
Actually, it is the Apache Drill project that is an implementation based on Dremel.
Impala is based on (google's private) F1 for which there is no public documentation/publication.
But the title holds true. Although the meaning of 'real time' could lead to a meaningless semantic fight, the tools for interactively exploring the data within 'Hadoop' are definitely coming next year. I would advise anybody interested in the subject to watch Ted Dunning's presentations and to join your local Hadoop User Group as it is very likely Cloudera will also talks about Impala there.
Bertrand Dechoux replied on Sun, 2012/12/16 - 10:51am in response to: Peter Karussell
@Peter Kar : Cloudera has published a post answering your point.
They are planning to "provide more transparency".


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When: Spring 2009
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Highlight: Meeting so many Italian people
Best Excursion: One week traveling all of Tunisia with Maria Ponce de Leon
Favorite Dish: Cabonara!
Next Destination: Tokyo, Japan!!!!
What did did you learn to love about the culture?
Food. The general attention to detail when it comes to food is amazing! It isn't about quantity, it's about quality. There's nothing like steaming pile of carbonara with a glass of white wine (although red wine would be more appropriate, I don't like it). Who knew there were that many cheeses in the world?! And if one ever gets to experience what it's like to walk around the morning markets of Campo di Fiore, there is indeed a fine art in picking out the perfect blood orange. Because there is little to no preservatives and most food is home grown, Italian fruits, vegetable, and just everything tastes so much better there! Granted there are certain things that are a commodity, like marshmallows and peanut butter. Learn to love nutella and all will be well.
How has this experience changed you?
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill -- Bloomington Alderman Jennifer McDade's efforts to get back on the ballot for the primary election in February ballot continue to be opposed by her opponent in Ward 5.
Matthew Koetters filed a brief in McLean County Court Friday, arguing incumbent alderman McDade's name should not appear on the ballot for a number of reasons.
The Bloomington Election Commission had earlier removed McDade, because she had failed to name which ward she was running in and used the date of the general election, not the primary.
McDade has appealed, and Koetters has cited case law as reasons McDade shouldn't be on the ballot.
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SAUGUS — The Triton football team will evidently not be spiraling into a long losing streak this season.
The Vikings (3-1) continued their march to a likely playoff berth yesterday with a 35-6 victory over Saugus. Triton dominated in every phase of the game just six days after the Vikings felt they performed short of their potential in a loss to Pentucket.
"The kids all agreed we didn't give our best effort for four quarters against Pentucket," Triton coach Pat Sheehan said. "We had a big week focusing on our response. We wanted max effort, and we got it all-around."
Triton has now scored at least 33 points in three of its four games. The Vikings' has also won by an average of 29.7 points in their three wins.
The Vikings' are in the midst of drafting one of the Cape Ann League's best turnaround stories of the season. Last season, Triton finished 1-10 and lost its final nine games.
The leading's top rusher, Justin Spillane, went over the 100-yard mark for the fourth straight game. He also notched two more touchdowns, bringing his area-best total to eight on the season.
After Saugus got on the board first in the first quarter, the Vikings scored 35 unanswered points to close out the game. Spillane had touchdown runs of 3 and 40 yards. Bradley Whitman had two touchdown passes of over 40 yards — one to Justin Cashman, and the other to Nick Desrocher. Whitman also scored on a 12-yard run.
Sheehan credited the efforts of Luke Boyle, Jake Gilbert and Patrick McManus on the defensive side of the ball.
"The effort was great," Sheehan said. "It was a sloppy game all-around; the field conditions weren't great. There were a lot of penalties, but we made some big offensive plays. Our line blocked well, and we forced turnovers on defense. It was an opportunistic win."


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CATEGORIES Movies"Zero Dark Thirty," the epic new film about the decade-long quest to bring down Osama bin Laden, is a movie of such unfathomable complexity that it's hard to imagine anyone having the wherewithal or skill to corral this thing into a workable narrative. That task fell to the Oscar-winning duo behind Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker," writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow and Boal were able to synthesize a seemingly bottomless amount of data into a taut, rollicking, nearly three-hour real-life piece of masterful suspense filmmaking. We were lucky enough to get to sit down with Boal and Bigelow, who talked about what it was like wrangling the research into a narrative, the movie's "chapter headings," how Bigelow might be a serial killer and whether or not Area 51 was really involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
What made you delve into this immediately after "Hurt Locker?" Was there ever a moment where you were like "Maybe we should do a romantic comedy?"
Bigelow: [Laughs] That never came up. Boal: I mean, it's an exciting story. That was the main idea. It's a mystery; it's a thriller. We were just thinking, Yeah, that could work out.
And it was a different story initially, right?
Boal: Yeah but it covered the same ground, essentially.
You both did extensive research for the movie. Was there anything you really wanted to include but didn't because of time?
Boal: We probably should have put more of the dog in, if we had our druthers.
The movie is obviously very based in the real world, but there seems to be some nods to movies from the '70s. Were there any touchstones that you were harkening back to?
Bigelow: I don't know... Boal: No, I would say the opposite. I overheard her and the director of photography always talking about not replicating shots they had seen in other films. Bigelow: We were trying to stay as focused on the research as possible and try to bring that to life in a way that felt very authentic, in a way that is very specific unto itself.
Can you talk about the chapter headings in the movie? Jessica Chastain [who played Maya] said they weren't in the script...
Bigelow: It was an idea of Mark's as we were cutting it... Boal: Yeah, you know, you never stop working on something. Bigelow: It keeps evolving.
What was the intent for them? For me it made the movie more novelistic.
Bigelow: Oh, that's interesting. It was a couple of different things: one, it was to chart the passage of time and enabled us to have an ellipses in the storytelling. So every time you had a date it was because of a specific event. And that enabled you to have another way, another methodology, of charting time. Also, it distills that part of the narrative down to its essence at each chapter heading.
Speaking of information, I feel like you don't watch this film as much as you just download it into your brain. Did you ever worry that this movie would make peoples' heads fly off their shoulders?
Bigelow: [Laughs] Oh my god! Heads fly off their shoulders! 'What happened to those people?' Boal: I think audiences are smarter than people give them credit for... Bigelow: I agree. Boal: So my test is if I can follow it, and I'm not the smartest guy in the room, I'm pretty sure other people would be able to. But it's a ton of information for sure. Bigelow: It's also a glimpse into an environment, the intelligence community, that's so rarely observed. So it's kind of like watching a snow leopard: oh my god, it's there, and then it's gone. There's something kind of fascinating about that.
How often did the actors consult with you for information about their characters? Did any of them come and ask you what their character was doing when they were ten?
Bigelow: Not necessarily when they were ten... Boal: But what movie does that? What movie shows people when they were ten?
Well we had three "Star Wars" movies to explain how Darth Vader got in the cape.
Boal: [Laughs] Alright, alright bad example. But touche.
But did they ask for anything more specific?
Bigelow: Well, when you cut back to the bedroom and there's an American flag next to the bed. That's something. Boal: I'm trying to think of a counter-example to "Star Wars." Bigelow: It's just information. Just contextualizing these characters. There was a lot of research that a lot of the actors conducted. A lot of them spent time with Mark, in terms of research as well. They're reading books like Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" and Michael Scheuer's "Osama Bin Laden." It was some pretty rigorous research.
Did anyone ever say no to you in terms of actors?
Bigelow: No. Boal: She doesn't tend to rack up a lot of passes. Bigelow: I mean, what director doesn't want to work with great talent? There were 120 speaking roles, so it was a field day. I just went after all the actors I know and covet and have wanted to work with. I was really fortunate in that sense. I kind of collect actors in the way that people collect art or something. Like "Oh I saw Jason [Clarke]..." Boal: In your mind... Bigelow: Yes, in my mind... Boal: It's not like she has a freezer full of them.
Just the heads!
Boal: Yes just the heads! God... Too many press interviews today... You sound like a f*cking serial killer. Bigelow: I didn't mention the heads -- he mentioned the heads! Boal: (In a menacing voice) I collect actors. Bigelow: No, but, like, three years ago, I did an audition with Jason Clarke but it was for a project that didn't really materialize. But I tracked him and thought, this was an extraordinary actor and extraordinary talent. So when Mark finished the script he was the first person I went to. Boal: Tracked him... Lord...
Did you approach Edgar Ramirez because of "Carlos?"
Bigelow: Absolutely. We watched it and thought, Okay, that's phenomenal.
Where did his character go?
Bigelow: Ground branch. He goes outside the wire. He's one of those kinds of guys.
He has such great hair.
Boal: You could try and beat that hair back but it's no use. Bigelow: Probably wouldn't want to.
I know the actors didn't meet their real life counterparts, but did you guys act as a kind of go-between?
Boal: I mean, there's a script, right? It's like "How do you play Anna Karenina?" I'm not comparing this to that, I'm just saying it's not that unusual to work from a script like that. And that was 90 percent of it. And 10 percent was if somebody had a question I would try and answer it. But there were a lot of worries about just trying to get down the stuff in the script.
Was Area 51 really a part of the operation?
Boal: Well, listen that part of the movie is based on overhead satellite imagery of Area 51, and without being too specific, the movie was based on a lot of research so... It's not news that the US military have a lot of assets in that part of the world...
There has been some talk that you will return to the original version of the script [about a failed attempt to apprehend Bin Laden in 2002]. Is that still a possibility?
Boal: It's still potentially in the cards but I don't know how realistic that is.
You guys should just chill. Film a movie in Hawaii or something.
Bigelow: Where's the tension? Boal: Yeah, what would we film? I tried to schedule this press conference in Hawaii... Bigelow: Why didn't we do that?
Do you want to continue down this kind of docu-drama path? Bigelow: I can't even think beyond this at the moment. I literally finished the film two weeks ago.
"Zero Dark Thirty" opens wide on December 19


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How well does OSX work with a touch screen monitor?
I have found the iPhone touch screen and voice over technology to be remarkably useful. I am wondering if there is similar technology built into OSX.6 when coupled with a touch screen monitor.
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Mac OS X works fine with most touch-screen monitors, you just have to make sure you have the correct drivers installed for the monitor. Then it should work fine.
If you would like to see how well a Mac works with a touch-screen though, I do recommend that you look up a website called Troll Touch (A company that specializes in touch-enabled Macs) or Axiotron (A company that make custom-made tablet MacBooks) there are also some good videos about touch-screen Macs on YouTube, so It may be worth your time checking on there!
I personally use a little 15" touch-screen monitor with my iMac, and it works fine! Just be sure to check the compatibility information that comes with your monitor!
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War and Australia
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This page will be updated progressively throughout the next few years leading up to the Gallipoli commemorations in 2015. State Records aims to highlight a selection of New South Wales State archives that reflect our involvement in a number of military conflicts including:
World War I: Anzac spirit
Anzac is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the beaches of the Gallipoli Peninsula in modern-day Turkey on 25 April 1915. The Gallipoli campaign has been described as the moment of birth of nationhood for both Australia and New Zealand. The Anzac spirit which has survived Gallipoli included the ideals of mateship, endurance, courage, ingenuity and a larrikin sense of humour. Anzacs - from the trenches of Gallipoli is the first in a number of planned commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli in 2015. It features the probate records of two soldiers who died at Gallipoli - Thomas Bann and Jacob Allan.
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- Soldier Settlement: A Land Fit For Heroes?
"Vast tracts of our state were settled by returned servicemen and women in the aftermath of the Great War: the rural communities they established lie at the heartland of regional Australia. But the story of soldier settlement has yet to be told. We know little of the experience of soldier settlers and their families as they battled to 'make a go of it' on the land."
Boer War
The war between the British and the two Dutch South African republics - the Boer War - began on 11 October 1899 when the Boers declared war on the British. It lasted until 31 May 1902 when Lord Kitchener and General Botha signed the peace treaty, the Peace of Vereeniging, ending the war. The first colonial contingents arrived in South Africa between November 1899 and March 1900; the second between December 1899 and February 1900; the third between April and May 1900 and the fourth between May and June 1900. The unification of Australia's defences began following Federation on 1 January 1901. After 1901 additional contingents of soldiers were sent to South Africa to form battalions with squadrons from each state. These battalions were first numbered as units of the Commonwealth Contingent. Later the entire force was designated as the Australian Commonwealth Horse. The total Australian casualities numbered about 1,400. These included 251 who died in action or from wounds sustained in battle, 267 who died of disease and 43 who were reported missing.
- More images of the NSW Bushmen's Contingent on Photo Investigator
- Information leaflet - Archives in Brief 27 NSW State archives relating to the Boer War
- Search Boer War Nominal Roll (AWM)
In the early 1880s the British-backed Egyptian regime in the Sudan came under threat from local supporters of Muhammed Ahmed, also known as the Mahdi. In 1883 the Egyptian government was sent south to crush the revolt, but instead of destroying the Mahdi's forces, the Egyptians were soundly defeated. On March 29, 1885 a NSW contingent arrived in Sudan, the first time Australian troops fought in an imperial war.
The NSW contingent consisted of an infantry battalion and an artillery battery, totalling 758 men. They left Sydney on March 3 and returned on June 19, 1885. While the contingent did not fight in any major battles, there were three wounded soldiers and seven deaths from fever or dysentery.
- A photocopy of the Soudan [sic] Contingent Roll 1885 (COD474) is available in our reading room
- Search the Sudan War Nominal Roll (AWM)
- See Australian War Memorial: Sudan (NSW Contingent) March-June 1885 for more details of the conflict and soldiers from NSW


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KaloBios Pharma edges higher following IPO
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of respiratory drug maker KaloBios Pharmaceuticals are inching higher on the first day of trading.
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. says its initial public offering of 8.8 million shares priced at $8 per share. The company's stock is now trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol "KBIO." In early trading the stock gain 9 cents to $8.09.
The underwriters of the offering will have the option to buy another 1.3 million shares to cover any over allotments.
In January KaloBios said it intended to sell 3.9 million shares for $12 to $14 per share.
The company is based in South San Francisco, Calif., and it is studying antibacterial drugs and treatments for cystic fibrosis and blood cancers.
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This painting is part of the group: The Crucifixion Altarpiece
This painting has a reverse
On loan from National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, © Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool
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This is the left-hand panel of a triptych painted for the church of St Columba, Cologne.
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The reverse of this panel shows the miracle of the Mass of Saint Gregory, in which the figure of the crucified Christ appeared to Pope Gregory the Great on the altar as he was celebrating mass.
Other paintings in this group: The Crucifixion Altarpiece
Master of the Aachen Altarpiece
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ATLANTA -- The Yankees' Derek Jeter and Curtis Granderson are in prime position to be voted by fans to the All-Star Game on July 10 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, according to the second American League balloting update, released on Monday by Major League Baseball.The next National League update is slated to be released on Tuesday. Jeter has garnered 2,419,508 total votes, ranking second overall in the AL behind outfielder Josh Hamilton of the Rangers (3,833,504). Granderson's 2,033,239 votes are second among AL outfielders. Jeter is hoping for his 13th All-Star selection at the Midsummer Classic, while Granderson is hoping for his third All-Star appearance and second consecutive fan-elected start. The Yankees have been well represented on the tallied ballots thus far. First baseman Mark Teixeira at 991,075 ranks third, while Robinson Cano at 1,732,359 is second among AL second basemen to the Rangers' Ian Kinsler (1,920,364). Raul Ibanez is third among AL designated hitters at 752,884 about 1 million votes behind the leader at that slot, the Red Sox's David Ortiz (1,758,369). At 927,163, Alex Rodriguez is fourth among AL third basemen, with the Rangers' Adrian Beltre (1,634,057) leading. Russell Martin (602,983) ranks fourth among AL catchers, also more than 1 million votes behind leader Mike Napoli of the Rangers. The AL outfield leaders are comprised of Hamilton, Granderson and the Rangers' Nelson Cruz, who has 1,398,534 votes. Nick Swisher (862,648) and the injured Brett Gardner (612,306) are seventh and ninth, respectively. Fans can cast their votes for starters up to 25 times at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via your mobile device -- using the 2012 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot until Thursday, June 28, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Fans can also once again participate in the State Farm Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league who they would most like to see participate in the State Farm Home Run Derby. The 2012 State Farm Home Run Derby -- part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day -- will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, July 9.
The 2012 AL and NL All-Star teams will be unveiled on Sunday, July 1, on the 2012 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show, televised nationally on TBS. Baseball fans around the world will then be able to select the final player on each team via the 2012 All-Star Game Final Vote on MLB.com.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2012 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2012 All-Star Game will be played at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday, July 10. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 83rd All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and Sirius XM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com or royals.com/asg.
Barry M. Bloom is national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.