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BEWARE THIS IS LONG. 5000 words to be precise. I wanted to take the 2012 Community Prospect List and put in a bunch of information, mostly stuff that I remember and got off stat sites (I didn't troll this site for information; I'm not that crazy), so we can remember - or learn - who these guys are and what they did in 2012.
Further, everyone's rank is taken from the 2012 CPL, there are no re-rankings. I put in some opinion on everyone; like I said, if I said anything out of sorts please say something. There are also expected/ceiling/floor projections, these are opinions based on:
Expected: Makes the majors (with a few exceptions) and performs mostly in line with what their minor league career shows.
Ceiling: Maximizes all their tools, what their line would be in their career year.
Floor: Makes the majors (with more exceptions than "Expected") but doesn't improve from current talent level.
I also added an asterisk to players I think will have a substantive major league career; not necessarily become stars or everyday players, but guys I think will see the big leagues in multiple seasons and at least occasionally as useful players.
That just about sums up everything I know people will question, so let's move on because you will not read all of this.
1. *Gary Brown: The Giants' first-round pick in 2010, Brown possesses two plus-plus tools in defense and speed. A prototypical leadoff hitter if he can get on base, he doesn't hit for much power, but has enough pop to keep pitchers honest, and should have a decent average.
Expected: .300/.350/.400. Ceiling: .320/.400/.450. Floor: 5th OF
Stock: PUSH. Brown's 2012 started off very disappointing until a midseason hot streak, and ended up with a .279/.347/.385, which is better than it looks for a CF in Richmond, but still not anything close to his San Jose Performance
2. *Joe Panik: Another first rounder, this time in 2011, Panik was considered an overdraft by many, but silenced some doubts by hitting .341 in S-K last season. A strong contact hitter with a good eye and mediocre power, Panik spent his San Jose campaign at shortstop, but most projections put him at second base long term.
Expected: .280/.350/.400. Ceiling: .300/.380/.450. Floor: Utility INF
Stock: DOWN. Like Brown, Panik started slowly before a hot streak boosted his numbers. But for a 21-year-old college first rounder in High-A, he needed to do better than a .768 OPS. More walks than strikeouts and the intact possibility of a future at short keep hope alive, but he'll need to produce in Richmond if he wants to stay penciled in as the Giants' 2B of the future.
3. Tommy Joseph: Traded to the Phillies in the Hunter Pence deal.
4a. *Eric Surkamp: Surkamp lead the Eastern League in ERA in 2011, with excellent peripherals, but had a disappointing performance in a late-season callup.
Expected: 3.50-4.50 ERA as a starter. Ceiling: sub-3.00 ERA. Floor: Long reliever
Stock: DOWN. Surkamp went down without throwing an inning in 2012 and eventually had Tommy John surgery.
4b. *Heath Hembree: Hembree dominated across multiple levels in 2011 and appeared the heir apparent to Brian Wilson. A blazing fastball and strong slider coupled with decent command projected a permanent move to San Francisco as early as 2012.
Expected: Closer/set-up arm. Ceiling: Shutdown closer. Floor: Middle reliever
Stock: DOWN. Hembree suffered injuries in 2012 as well as fewer strikeouts and more walks in Fresno. After 2011, he looked like a probable late-2012 callup, and now he's questionable to see the majors in 2013 with far more reservations about whether he'll stick in the majors.
6. *Hector Sanchez: Sanchez shot through the system in 2011, moving from San Jose to Fresno to the majors. A ML debut at 21 is quite auspicious, but Sanchez is a bit of an enigma, showing lots of power in San Jose but no patience, and the exact opposite in AAA. His defense remains raw but with potential.
Expected: ???. Ceiling: .300/.350/.450. Floor: Backup catcher
Stock: UP(ish). Sanchez stuck in the majors this year as an adequate backup catcher, but didn't show much power OR patience. His free-swinging approach has resulted in many strikeouts, but he also makes a lot of hard contact. The glove is clearly raw but shows glimpses of serious potential. Sanchez could still become a good starting catcher and has at least proven he can handle an MLB backup job.
7. Andrew Susac: Susac was a good pick in the second round of the 2011 draft, a projected first rounder who suffered a hamate bone injury that dropped his stock. Susac strikes out a lot, but is supposed to have a good eye, decent power, and a solid glove to make up for it.
Expected: Backup catcher. Ceiling: .260/.320/.400. Floor: Bounces around on non-tenders/releases and minor league deals, intriguing teams with his potential but never producing
Stock: DOWN. Susac had a disappointing 2012 in San Jose, with a .244/.344/.380 line showing good patience and decent power, as advertised, but far too many swings and misses. Reports on his apparently solid glove were also somewhat disconcerting.
8. *Francisco Peguero: Peguero's calling card has always been his high averages, because he literally does not walk. Solid power and good defense have accentuated his contact-first approach, but once-strong legs appear to have deserted him.
Expected: 4/5th OF. Ceiling: .320/.350/.450. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: DOWN. Peguero finally showed everyone what happens when he doesn't hit for average, batting .272/.295/.394 in Fresno. Yes, .272 is Peguero "not hitting for average", and a .295 OBP probably would have been a career high in walks were it not for an emergency call-up. Peguero looked like a potential starting outfielder (to some) as early as 2013, but things aren't pretty now.
9. *Kyle Crick: Crick was a supplemental round pick in 2011, with a very high velocity fastball and questions about his command and secondary pitches. Extremely raw but with a high ceiling, with Tommy Joseph gone he's probably the highest-ceiling prospect in the system.
Expected: 3.50-4.00 ERA starter. Ceiling: sub-3.00 ERA, true #1. Floor: Middle reliever
Stock: UP. Crick dominated Augusta to the tune of a 2.51 ERA and 128 strikeouts in 111.1 IP. His control problems manifested in a 5.42 BB/9, but he has plenty of time to get a handle on that and allowed only 6.06 H/9 for a super-low BAA of .190.
10. *Ehire Adrianza: Adrianza's a glove-first shortstop who always had questions about his bat until 2011, when he hit .300 with good on-base numbers (a skill he's consistently shown) and a career-high ISO in San Jose.
Expected: Utility infielder. Ceiling: .270/.350/.380 with plus defense at short. Floor: Org player
Stock: DOWN. Adrianza had his worst year ever in 2012, with a .220/.289/.310 line in Richmond. At the major league level and with a strong glove, that might be acceptable, but Adrianza isn't particularly young and has only one good offensive year under his belt. On the plus side, he suffered from a .266 BABIP and his walk and strikeout numbers were more or less in line with his career, and his low ISO might be explained away by the Eastern League.
11. Josh Osich: Osich was considered a steal in the 6th round of the 2011 draft, a high-ceiling pitcher who fell due to injury concerns. Working from the left side, he's got a very good fastball and a couple promising offspeed pitches.
Expected: LOOGY. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: Injury wreck
Stock: DOWN. Osich spent more time on the DL in 2012, and when he was healthy, he threw out of the pen, which appears to be his long-term home and severely limits his value. A 2.52 FIP is pretty good, but only 32.1 IP is rather sad.
12. Clayton Blackburn: Blackburn was a huge sleeper coming into 2012, with excellent showings in late 2011 after being a 16th round selection. A low-90s fastball with heavy sink, good secondary offerings, and excellent command combined for a promising profile.
Expected: Mid-rotation starter. Ceiling: No. 2. Floor: Long reliever
Stock: UP. Blackburn had a huge 2012, easily generating more buzz than anyone in the system. With a 2.54 ERA and even lower 1.91 FIP (9.80 K/9, 1.23 BB/9), solid scouting profiles, and youth, Blackburn is fast rising in the Giants' system, likely a top 5 system prospect and will end up on a couple top 100 lists if Keith Law's hints are any indication.
13. Adalberto Mejia: Mejia was the biggest guy to come out of the DSL after 2011, and a jump to Augusta in 2012 was considered a major vote of confidence. Working in the high 80s as a lefty starter, Mejia's got a couple developed secondary pitches, is very young, and limits walks.
Expected: Long reliever. Ceiling: 4th starter. Floor: Organizational pitcher
Stock: PUSH. Mejia had a terrible time out of the gate, pitched well on a demotion to the bullpen, and came back strong with a return to the rotation. Mejia's 2012 is a bit hard to decipher; he hardly struck anyone out, but walked even fewer, suffered a little from the batted-ball gods, has age on his side, but doesn't project too well from a traditional scouting perspective.
14. Adam Duvall: Duvall was a big story in 2011, with an excellent all-around performance in Augusta, hitting for average, getting on base, and showing lots of power. Serious questions about his glove abound, but for now he's a third baseman. He's old for his level as well.
Expected: Bat-first bench player. Ceiling: .270/.350/.500 as a 3B. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: UP. Might be a push, but Duvall led the organization with 30 HR in 2012, and while the walks came down a bit, the strikeouts stayed level. The biggest issues he faces are still the glove and birthdate; he'll need to fight to make the majors before turning 25, and doesn't really have an obvious position outside DH. Overall he had a solid year, but there are still plenty of questions.
15. *Conor Gillaspie: Gillaspie has spent the last two years in Fresno, and wouldn't be old for the level if he returned in 2013. That would be likely were it not for the fact that he's out of options after this season, and with the lowest single-season wRC+ of his minor league career a 97 would absolutely get claimed on waivers. Gillaspie is consistently adequate at everything, but not truly exceptional anywhere (though he does post very good OBPs)
Expected: .280/.360/.420. Ceiling: .300/.400/.450. Floor: Bench player
Stock: PUSH. Gillaspie perpetually posts wRC+ numbers in between 97 and 109; in four full seasons from 2009-2012 he hasn't escaped that vortex. He's not considered a good defensive third baseman, doesn't hit enough for first, and those positions are taken in SF anyway. Expect Gillaspie to get traded this offseason; he plays a position of need in MLB, and the Giants have no use for him.
16. Ricky Oropesa: Oropesa was strongly hyped after the 2011 draft, with scouts claiming he had plus raw power and some stat guys questions that after his HR total dropped significantly when the NCAA moved to more wood-like BBCOR bats. A true 1B, Oropesa's going to have to punish the ball to make the majors.
Expected: PH in September. Ceiling: .270/.370/.500. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: DOWN. Oropesa didn't really have a terrible year, but he was 22 in San Jose, plays a mediocre 1B, cranked out only 16 HR in 518 AB, and sported a K/BB of nearly 3. The ceiling is still there, but it'd be nice to see more production than this.
17. Jarrett Parker: Parker had a solid year in San Jose in 2011, so it was somewhat surprising to see him return in 2012. Parker possesses good defense, solid power, and strong on-base ability, which is good, because he strikes out a ton.
Expected: 5th OF. Ceiling: .250/.370/.450. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: DOWN. Parker was 22 in San Jose in 2011, already fairly old, and returned for 2012. He responded by striking out 30 more times in 80 fewer ABs, though the walk rate and power increased a bit. A .247/.357/.443 line isn't terrible, and should finally get him to Richmond, but the fact that he was repeating a league he was already old for and struck out at a ridiculous pace kills him.
18a. Chuckie Jones: One of the highest-ceiling prospects in the system, Jones possesses superior athleticism and a strong eye, giving him the potential to turn into a Justin Upton-type player. He won't, though, because that's ludicrous.
Expected: Organizational player. Ceiling: .270/.370/.550. Floor: Worse organizational player?
Stock: DOWN. Jones went to Augusta for a bit, but struck out in nearly half his at-bats. Uh, yeah. Sent back down to S-K, Jones cut down the K's and increased the walks and power, though he still has contact issues and doesn't smack the ball as hard as one would like. He's got room to grow, but he's gone from sleeper to coma patient.
18b. *Mike Kickham: Surprised with a promotion from Augusta to Richmond, Kickham possesses plus left-handed velocity for a starter and enough secondary stuff to get K's, but doesn't always know where the ball is going.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: LOOGY
Stock: UP. Kickham had a pretty good year in AA, reducing some age-to-league concerns while maintaining his strikeout rate and cutting his ERA by more than a run. His walk rate ballooned to 4.5 BB/9, though, so that improvement was mostly a result of BABIP and LOB%.
20. Kendry Flores: The Master of Salem-Keizer, Flores returned to short-season ball in 2012 after posting some good numbers in 2011. Somehow he managed to get only 48 IP in 11 starts and one relief appearance.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: 6/7th starter
Stock: PUSH. Flores' K rate dropped by 1.5 per nine this year, and a small reduction in BB/9 wasn't enough to keep his K/BB in line. He's still young and should get going to Augusta next year with at least three rotation spots probably opening up, but it'd be nice to see more than 4-5 innings per start.
21. Jacob Dunnington: Not to be confused with Jake Dunning (but will be), Dunnington is Heath Hembree-lite, with a good fastball and decent projection. He spent 2011 mostly in Augusta but also saw time in San Jose. An undrafted free agent, he's got some projection but is still a middle reliever
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Set-up guy. Floor: Triple-A bullpen depth
Stock: PUSH. Dunnington had a decent year, with middling numbers in Augusta and Richmond, but only threw 25.1 innings all season due to multiple injuries. He continued to strike guys out and walk everyone else.
22. Angel Villalona: Villalona was a big-bonus international guy whose calling card was his power. And then he was implicated in a murder in the Dominican Republic. Whether he actually killed someone or was framed for extortion is still a bit up in the air, but he hasn't been granted a US visa since the charges were dropped.
Expected: Doesn't return to the US. Ceiling: .270/.330/.550 at 1B. Floor: Gets locked up again
Stock: DOWN. Villalona had some pretty unimpressive performances for a guy his age in the DSL and with experience as far as High-A San Jose. Until he returns to the states, he isn't a prospect despite his youth and power potential.
23. Charlie Culberson: Traded to the Rockies for Marco Scutaro.
24. Jesus Galindo: Another speedy outfielder, Galindo (and his partner in crime, Shawn Payne) are two of the only guys in the Giants' organization that have the ability to steal a lot of bases at a high success rate. Coupled with a good eye, he could end up being valuable despite possessing Burrisian power.
Expected: 5th OF. Ceiling: .270/.350/.350 as a CF. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: DOWN. Galindo moved up to Augusta from Salem-Keizer, but didn't find the environment much to his liking. His peripheral stats aren't much different, except his batting average fell with a few more strikeouts and no home runs. A .626 OPS out of a 21-year-old CF in Augusta isn't irredeemable, but it's certainly not good. Luckily he still possess excellent game speed, with 40 SB against 11 CS.
25. Seth Rosin: Traded to the Phillies as part of the Hunter Pence deal
26. Chris Dominguez: Some of you know how much I hate Chris Dominguez as a prospect, but I'll try not to let that affect this. Dominguez has huge power potential and a killer throwing arm, two plus tools that will ensure he keeps getting chances. But he can't make any contact, continually strikes out, has poor overall defense, and is almost 26. Promoted to Richmond mid-season last year and again to Fresno this season.
Expected: Organizational player. Ceiling: .250/.280/.400 at 3B. Floor: Released very soon
Stock: DOWN. All right, I said I'd keep it civil. Dominguez keeps moving up the food chain, but he just doesn't hit. At 25, you don't want to have just a half-season in AAA under your belt, and you certainly don't want to post a .618 OPS there. Though I guess it's better than the .554 in Richmond. I get the tools, but Dominguez is just awful, and it's high time he moved to the mound.
27. *Brett Bochy: Considered by many a "favor" pick, Bochy was a late-round 2010 draftee who is the son of one of the Giants' current employees. Who it is, I'll never say. He doesn't have overpowering stuff, but he dominated Augusta in 2011 and appears to use deception as his main weapon instead of heat.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Set-up guy. Floor: Bullpen depth
Stock: UP. Bochy skipped San Jose in favor of Richmond, which was good because this was his age-24 season. Amid concerns that he was just beating low-A hitters with actual ability to make the ball sort of go where he wants, Bochy did very well in Richmond, with a 11 K/9 and 3 BB/9 and 14 saves. Watch out for him to make the major league team sometime in 2013 if this keeps up.
28. Ryan Cavan: Cavan spent a mediocre 2011 campaign in San Jose and moved up to Richmond in 2012. He does most things okay, but nothing spectacularly, and reports on his defense are mixed. Nearly as old as Chris Dominguez, he needs to get moving.
Expected: Utility infielder. Ceiling: .280/.340/.430 at 2B. Floor: Organizational player.
Stock: DOWN. Cavan finally made it to the upper minors at the age of 25, and while he's only six months younger than Dominguez, until this year he had pretty good numbers across the board. But then he put up a .620 OPS in AA. Once a semi-interesting prospect, Cavan doesn't look like much anymore.
29. Shawn Payne: Payne is a very similar player to Jesus Galindo, except he apparently doesn't play defense all that well. Moved from 2B to LF, he possesses a Brett Gardner-like profile: average and OBP, but little power, and a lot of steals at a very good rate.
Expected: Super-utility player. Ceiling: .280/.370/.380 in LF with lots of SB. Floor: Org player
Stock: UP. Payne spent all of the 2012 regular season in Augusta, and moved up to San Jose for the playoffs. With a batting average of .309, an OBP just shy of .400 in low-A, and 53 stolen bases in 56 attempts, Payne could develop into a prototypical leadoff guy.
30. Hector Correa: Acquired for Ronny Paulino, who spent about ten minutes in the Giants' organization, Correa posted some pretty solid numbers in San Jose and Richmond in 2011. Not too many strikeouts, but he limited walks and hits. At 23, he's got time to develop.
Expected: Bullpen depth. Ceiling: Middle reliever. Floor: Released soon
Stock: DOWN. Correa threw only 18 poor innings in San Jose this year, finding some strikeout ability but walking 7.5 per nine as well. Recently DFA'd to make room for Jean Machi, Correa may not be long for the organization and likely won't see much of the majors for anyone.
31. Lorenzo Mendoza: Mendoza is an awesome pitcher with a Cy Young future. Now that my personal bias is out of the way, Mendoza had a good year in 2011, with strong peripherals in Salem-Keizer as a 19-year-old starter.
Expected: Depth starter. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: Organizational guy
Stock: DOWN. Much as it pains me, Mendoza repeated S-K in 2012 and actually performed slightly worse overall. Things look worse than they are, as he didn't pitch like a 5.00 ERA guy, but he only threw 49 innings in 14 appearances (10 starts) compared to 73 innings in 14 starts last year. He's still only 21 next year, and will likely be headed to Augusta.
32. Joan Gregorio: Gregorio is, like Mendoza, a projectable right-hander. Tagged as a sleeper for 2012, he moved up to S-K from rookie ball, and has a ton of growing room at 6'7" 180 lbs.
Expected: Depth starter. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: Organizational guy.
Stock: UP. Gregorio moved up a level and responded by improving his K and BB rates. His ERA also doubled year-over-year from 2.32 to 5.54, but this was mostly the result of poor luck, with a 3.95 FIP sending a better message. Gregorio is still interesting just based on his potential though.
33. Rafael Rodriguez: Another big international signing, Rodriguez has been mostly a disappointment since donning a uniform. Entering his fourth full season as a professional, Rodriguez was demoted from Augusta to Salem-Keizer based on some serious futility at the plate.
Expected: Organizational player. Ceiling: Not really sure, but it's high. Floor: Org guy
Stock: DOWN. Getting a demotion is already bad, but not hitting after that demotion is worse. Rodriguez posted a .235/.287/.364 line, with more power than he's ever shown, but obviously still a disappointing season. He's still a prospect based on age alone (20 entering 2013).
34. Chris Marlowe: Marlowe is one of the more interesting guys among a ton of high-strikeout, high-walk, high-velocity arms drafted by the Giants in 2011. A conversion to the rotation in Augusta was on the books for 2012.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Closer/Back-of-the-rotation. Floor: Too wild to make it.
Stock: DOWN. Outside of a couple starts, Marlowe actually had some promise to begin the season. But that was mostly an illusion, as a K/9 just over 9 isn't enough to make up for walking six batters every nine innings. Combined with an injury, Marlowe is on the "to-watch" list but isn't rocketing up any charts.
35. Enmanuel De Jesus: De Jesus was the sidekick of Adalberto Mejia in the DSL in 2011, posting a few more walks but also a few more K's. Super-young at 18 years old entering 2012, he spent the season in the Arizona Rookie League
Expected: Depth starter. Ceiling: Mid-rotation starter. Floor: Organizational guy.
Stock: DOWN. De Jesus only threw 10.2 innings in 13 relief appearances in rookie ball this season, walking as many hitters as he struck out and allowing plenty of runs. This isn't enough of a sample to draw a conclusion from obviously, but it's very hard to find a bright spot. De Jesus is still a guy to watch but he's much less interesting now.
36. Demondre Arnold: Another hard-throwing 2011-drafted reliever, Arnold wasn't moved to the rotation like Marlowe, but still had some hype coming into the year based on mostly velocity and rookie strikeout and walk numbers.
Expected: Bullpen depth. Ceiling: Set-up guy. Floor: Released soon.
Stock: DOWN. De Jesus had a bad year in a small sample, and Arnold raised him a worse year in a substantial sample. After a good showing in 26 innings in rookie ball last year, Arnold had 56 very poor innings in Augusta this season, with more strikeouts than walks and not many strikeouts anyway. He's got some work to do.
37. Kelby Tomlinson: Much beloved by certain fans around here, Tomlinson has mixed scouting reports, with some people saying he's a great SS and others not so sure. He has spent nearly all his time at short, and after an excellent showing in the AZL Tomlinson was pegged as a sleeper coming into 2012.
Expected: Utility infielder. Ceiling: .270/.320/.330 at SS. Floor: Organizational player
Stock: DOWN. Tomlinson looked like a 12th round steal, and now he looks like a regular ol' 12th rounder. A .575 OPS in Augusta at 22 tends to do that; he did a good job of getting on base, but struck out very often and hit for no power. He crushed the AZL, so there might still be something there, but it didn't show up in 2012.
38. Roger Kieschnick: A veteran among Giants prospects, Kieschnick is all the way in Fresno and was drafted way back in 2008, making him 26 next year. Generally considered a toolbox, injuries and poor performance after 2009's San Jose season dropped him way down.
Expected: 4th OF. Ceiling: .280/.350/.550 in right. Floor: September call-up.
Stock: UP. Way, way up. Kieschnick's frail body plagued him once again this year, but when he was on the field he hit .306/.374/.604 in Fresno. For a good defensive right fielder, that'll do. It remains to be seen whether that was a PCL mirage or his talent finally showing up, but Kieschnick has put his name into the conversation for Melky Cabrera internal replacements.
39. *Dan Otero: Along with Steve Edlefsen, Otero looked like a reliever that was very close to the majors, albeit one without a ton of upside. Making his living limiting walks instead of racking up K's, Otero projected as a solid, cheap middle relief option.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Set-up guy. Floor: ROOGY.
Stock: DOWN. Otero did make the majors, in fact breaking camp with the club, but didn't last long. After giving up six earned runs in 1.2 innings in late April, Otero found himself demoted to Fresno. Victimized by a .405 BABIP and 52.6% LOB%, Otero didn't pitch badly enough to deserve his 7 ERA, but a 4.35 K/9 doesn't leave much wiggle room even if you're walking fewer than two per nine. Otero is just another fungible reliever, and will likely grow very familiar with the ride between Fresno and San Francisco over the next couple years.
40. Leonardo Fuentes: Fuentes is a hugely projectable young outfielder. Of course, that also means he must tiptoe around the graves of many other hugely projectable young outfielders on his way to the majors. After a decent-not-great 2011 season following up a decent-not-great 2010, Fuentes became a guy to keep an eye on if not expect the world from.
Expected: Free-swinging ways doom his career early. Ceiling: .260/.350/.500. Floor: Scary
Stock: DOWN. Fuentes did everything he could do get around another decent-not-great tag in 2012, mostly by running furiously away from "decent". He struck out in over half his at-bats, dropped his power to a third of its 2011 level, and actually had a negative wRC+ - .088/.167/.150 is just terribad.
41. *Chris Heston: Heston's one of those guys every org has a couple of: not quite old enough to be a non-prospect, not young enough to be a top guy, not good enough to induce a "wow", not bad enough to repeat levels or get released. He works off a lowish-velocity fastball with sink and doesn't walk many, a good profile for a back-of-the-rotation starter.
Expected: #4 starter. Ceiling: #3 starter. Floor: Long reliever.
Stock: UP. Kieschnick and Heston must have been furious with their positions on this list, because they both tore it up in 2012. Heston's still a bit old, but a 2.24 ERA that FIP pretty much entirely backs up is not to be ignored. He found some more strikeout ability and continued to limit walks and severely limit homers, keeping his general luck stats at reasonable levels and crushing the competition. Heston's never going to be an ace, but he's done a lot to get himself into the conversation for even a mid-rotation starter.
42. Derek Law: Like Marlowe and Arnold, Law was a hard-throwing high-strikeout reliever drafted in 2011. Another good fastball, not much else to say about a 9th round relief prospect in A ball.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Closer. Floor: Bullpen depth
Stock: UP. Unlike Marlowe and Arnold, Law remembered how to pitch in 2012, with a solid 55.2 innings. Lots of strikeouts, walks but not too many, and he'll be in San Jose next year carrying a career ERA of 2.81.
43. Kentrell Hill: Inverse Fuentes, Hill is another young toolsy outfielder, but he possesses very different ones. Instead of power, Hill doesn't strike out and gets on base a ton, though he doesn't use his legs well. After a mediocre-at-best rookie league debut, Hill got on mostly for being young and kind of interesting.
Expected: Bench bat/pinch-hitter. Ceiling: .280/.380/.400. Floor: Organizational bat.
Stock: UP. Hill moved up to Salem-Keizer and improved, hitting for average and getting on base. If he could do more with his legs, he might go even higher. Or maybe he could hit for power. Still, this skillset will play in the majors and Hill should be climbing this list.
44. Jake Dunning: Remember Jacob Dunnington? Probably not. Dunning is another right-handed pitcher, but he's a little more developed, though he doesn't have as high a ceiling. Middle reliever is a good term, because he looks like a very middling pitcher.
Expected: Middle reliever. Ceiling: Middler relieverer. Floor: Bullpen depth.
Stock: PUSH. Dunning kept on keeping on in 2012, with a 4.10 ERA slightly lower than his 2011 mark of 4.74. He did have a season that was a bit worse, losing a strikeout and a half per nine innings (8.5 to 7), but he also moved up a level and kept his walks under three per nine. Dunning doesn't look as good as he did a year ago, but he didn't do so badly as to warrant a down comment.
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A 10-year-old boy is in serious condition after being hurt in a car accident Saturday morning.
Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. James Holmes said investigators believe a car traveling south on 39th Avenue around 10:15 a.m. ran the red light at Peoria Drive and was hit broadside by another car in the intersection.
Phoenix Fire spokesman Captain Larry Nunez said their paramedics transported two adult women and three kids ages 10 and under to local hospitals.
Nunez said a 10-year-old boy was the most seriously injured in the wreck and is in serious condition.
The accident investigation caused the intersection to be closed until early Saturday afternoon.
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Invisible flame is burning issue of London Games
LONDON, England (AP) —The Olympic flame is nowhere to be seen. The enduring image of the Summer and Winter Games, lit Friday night at the climax of the opening ceremony, is out of sight from the throngs of fans who hoped to catch an inspiring glimpse or take the photo of a lifetime.
The cauldron sits low in the center of Olympic Stadium in London, invisible from the outside. It will be moved Sunday to a corner, and visible in person only to fans lucky enough to have tickets to track and field, which started yesterday.
Until then, if you want to see the Olympic flame, you'll have to settle for a beauty shot on television, where it looks from above like a small, distant campfire, or the pilot light under the eye of a giant stove.
"It's unfortunate," said John Morrissey, who traveled to London on a day trip from Ireland on Saturday, the first day of competition. "I didn't realize you couldn't see it. I was going to walk around until I saw it. It seems quite poorly thought out."
"That could have been made more user-friendly," said Lorraine Payne, an airline worker from London.
The lighting was one of the high points of the opening ceremony. Seven teenage athletes, meant to represent the next generation of British sports, touched flaming torches to 205 petal-shaped copper stems that spread into a ring of fire.
Then the flames rose and converged, as if into an elegant, blazing flower. Fireworks erupted over the stadium, Paul McCartney led a singalong of "Hey Jude," and London was off to a feel-good start to its games.
Just maybe a darker one than everyone expected.
The designer of the cauldron, Thomas Heatherwick, offered an artistic defense: "It's almost that the stadium represents some kind of temple and it's the flame that sits in the heart of that temple."
"We were aware that cauldrons have been getting bigger, higher, fatter as each Olympics has happened," he said.
Indeed, Beijing was a tough flame to follow. The Summer Games in 2008 featured a mammoth, spiraling cauldron attached to the inner roof of the stadium, so big that it dwarfed the wire-suspended gymnast who spacewalked around the rim to light it.


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Art and revolution both allow us to recognize that tomorrow does not have to replicate today. They offer us hope for change. Both art and revolution begin with the same word: "no". And each is always a model for what may next be offered.
The revolutions occurring in the Middle East and Africa will be inspiring in many different ways. I've been eager to find how they filter down and influence indie & truly free filmmaking. Eyad Zahra has stepped forward to get this conversation started, providing us a guest post on what effect all this social & political change has meant to his process. What do these changing times mean to you?
The recent events in the Middle-East have inspired me to readdress the way I do things, and reexamine my own uses of various social media networks. If Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube can aid in overthrowing tyrant dictators, then they can truly be used for any nobel cause the world my have. The brave civilians in the Middle-East are showing us all how robust our social networking tools really are. The ability to share information and connect people on a mass scale has exponentially grown in the past few years, more then we could have ever imagined.
It's about time we indie filmmakers pick-up on this. We need to go beyond simply acknowledging our social media campaign tools... we need to really start using them aggressively and creatively. They must become a top priority.
No matter what size of a production, studio or ultra-indie, social media campaigns are climbing high up in the ranks of any film's long-term marketing strategy. There is a true democracy at hand here, as these tools are available for anyone and everyone, at the cost of nothing.
For the longest time, I (along with many other filmmakers) thought that using social media wouldn't have that big of an effect. It was an afterthought to the main focus at hand, the film itself. We found it awkward to be our own cheerleader, and ask friends, and friends of friends, to join our fan pages and twitters. We found every excuse imaginable to not take on social media as serious as we should have, and we would delay using it until we absolutely had to.
It's time to think past those kind of self-imposed barriers. Developing a social media campaign should be about, more then anything, a filmmakers' sincere interest in connecting with their fan base. That's who you are making the film for anyway, right? If you focus on that with your social media campaign, all the bonuses of having one will come about naturally.
With all that said, here are a few points that I have written down to remind myself for the next time around:
1) I need to start my social media campaign, as soon as I possibly can. As it may take years to make my next film, why not build my social campaign during this process? When it's time to launch my film, I won't have to scramble to connect with my audience, and educate them on my project.
2) A strong Facebook presence is a must. Everybody is on Facebook, and it's not going anywhere. Facebook truly is becoming a virtual replica of the real world. A Facebook fan page is one of the the strongest, if not the strongest way, for me to mutually connect with a wide-scale audience.
Unlike email lists and the the older Facebook groups, the new Facebook fan pages are incredibly accurate in presenting forth what kind of fan base I actually have. All those annoying changes Facebook made were for the better. For people to like my film means something. It means they are willing to put my film's logo on their profile, share information about themselves to me, and in most cases, it means they are willing to stay tuned to the film's news feed. That's a huge deal, and that kind of fan dedication will most likely amount to those people supporting the film down the line.
Facebook fan page analytics are special numbers to have. The fact that I can track down my fans by city, countries, and language is incredible. What might have cost me thousands of dollars in survey studies before, I can now get for free from my Facebook fan page. Who knows what kind of information I will have access to in the future
Distributors and movie theaters are taking Facebook fan page numbers very seriously (as seen with Mooz-lum). Having a high Facebook fan page count is very attractive to these businesses. It's a tangible asset to have thousands of fans already in my support.
3) My social media campaign is an extension of my film, and should be considered an art in and of itself. Tweeting should not be a chore, but rather it should be a fun and creative process that gives people a taste of what the experience of my film will be like. Twitter and Facebook don't have to be boring, we can transform them into artistic expressions that make us excited to use them.
4) Social Media Campaigns tap into the golden ticket to a film's success : word-of-mouth promotion. When people are taking initiative and reposting and re-tweeting my film's posts, that's genuine word-of-mouth, the most valuable kind of publicity you can ever get. When a friend posts something in their news feed about my film, it means more to others then if a mass-scale aggregator like the Huffington Post does.
5) My social media outreach will last for as long as I want it to. As my audience grows overtime, I will always be in touch with them. When I need to inform them about special screenings, or inform them about the dvd releases of my film, my social media campaign will play a crucial role in distributing important information. Even when my film is in a dormant phase, I can turn my Facebook fan page into a forum of discussion by posting trending news items that pertain to the issues or themes of my film. By doing this, I will keep my fans engaged about my film in a genuine and sincere manner.
6) If I plan to self-distribute my next feature film, a strong social media campaign might play the biggest role in how I connect to an audience. Self-distribution becomes a viable possibility only if I actually have an audience to deliver the film too, and I know who they are.
All in all, I'm really not saying anything new here, but rather, simply trying to reaffirm things for myself, and others. We filmmakers need to gain more confidence with our social medial tools, and we need to become masters of them, just as much as we need to become masters of filmmaking.
The next time around, I am going to learn from my mistakes and do things better. I'm going to think about my social media campaign from the get go. As soon as I am ready to go on my next project, I will step back and think what kind of social media strategy will suit it best.
Those are my thoughts, and I hope they can help. Long live the indie-film revolution.
-- Eyad Zahra
Eyad Zahra worked with Visit Films and Strand Releasing to release his first feature film The Taqwacores last Fall. The Taqwacores will be available on DVD on April 5th, 2011 in the USA. Eyad is an advocate of DIY cinema, and has given workshops on the subject at University of Southern California and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
mike newman | March 11, 2011 2:39 AM
social media worked in helping start those revolutions b/c there was meaning behind it. it's quite a stretch to compare these revolutions with filmmaking. social media won't work for meaningless films. now if you're talking about social issue documentaries that have the power to change the world or documentaries that tap into a large niche market, then social media can be a game changer.
if you're talking about narrative self-indulgent films [which account for 99% of indie films] then i think you're wasting your time with social media. people watch narrative films to escape from the world, they don't want to be a part of some superficial community that does nothing more than feed the filmmaker's ego and make him/her money.
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One year after ING U.S. Financial Services launched the ING Gazelle Index, a national quarterly survey of 350 CEOs of the nation's fastest growing African-American-owned businesses with 10-100 employees, year-over-year findings indicate 43.4% of Gazelle CEOs said that business activity was better in 2003 than in 2002.
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The fourth quarter 2003 Gazelle Index value of 56.8 represents the third consecutive quarterly increase and the third quarter in which the Index has been greater than 50; meaning CEO outlook is more positive than negative. The low point of the Index (37.9) was reached during the first quarter 2003.
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- During the fourth quarter 2003, this component of the Index (53.0) was more positive than negative. This reflected the fact that 35.1% of Gazelle CEOs indicated that conditions were better while only 31.1% indicated conditions were not as good. The third quarter value of this component was 47.4.
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According to the Economic Census data, there are more than 880,000 African-American business owners in the United States, up 46% over a 5-year period. Majority-owned firms have grown only 24% during the same timeframe.
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On the 3rd morning of our trip, we picked up our tickets at the Santa Monica Pier for our StarLine Hop-On-Hop-Off Doubledecker Bus Tour and Starline Movie Stars' Homes Tour. We started the bus tour across from the Pier.
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A popular spot to pose for pictures!
As you can imagine, Beverly Hills is beautiful and immaculate!
We saw this Bugatti Veyron while passing through Rodeo Drive. It is in the $1.7 – $2.7 million range and has a top speed of 250-270 mph.
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Why am I mentioning all of this car stuff? Let's just say, we don't see these kind of cars in my neck of the woods and my guys love cars!
I was DYING to see a celebrity on Rodeo Drive, but no such luck.
If we had more time, I would have liked to wander the streets of Beverly Hills.
Let's face it…I couldn't afford a pair of socks in these stores!
Hollywood was filled with tourists. This is Grauman's Chinese Theatre where we had to pick up the van for the Movie Star Tour.
There were a lot of "Look-Alikes" hanging out there. Andrew took a picture with this Samuel L. Jackson "Look-Alike." Little did we know he was expecting some money in return! There goes another 5 dollar bill!
It was fun seeing the stars on the Walk of Fame. Here are a few of the stars that came out good with my camera. I saw Michael Jackson's star, but everybody was hovering over it to take pictures, so we couldn't get a good shot of it.
This is the kind of van we rode in for the Movie Star Tour. We wore head phones so we could hear the driver talking to us.
This is Simon Cowell's house. It looked very masculine and seemed to really suit him.
This is Dr. Phil McGraw's house. Isn't it beautiful?
If I'm not mistaken, this is Halle Berry's house.
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You know what the tour driver said a lot? Here on your right…this used to be the home of "so-and-so."
It seemed like he said that for half of the homes!
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On behalf of the National Taxpayers Union's (NTU's) more than 4,700 members in Oklahoma, I urge you to support House Bill 3038 and eliminate the Sooner State's personal income tax.
Sponsored by Representative Leslie Osborn, HB 3038 would immediately cut the top marginal rate from 5.25 percent to 2.25 percent. This and other rates would then decrease in regularly scheduled steps each fiscal year until 2022, when the tax rate reaches zero. This is a prudent course, allowing the state ample time to prepare for revenue adjustments and alter state budgets to complement the tax changes.
States with no income tax have routinely outshined those that take money from workers' paychecks. According to the American Legislative Exchange Council's Rich States, Poor States: From 1999 to 2009 the nine states with no personal income tax experienced an average growth in gross state product of 61.23 percent - the nine states with the highest personal income tax rates grew by 44.91 percent.
A robust economy is one of the most important factors in fiscal solvency. Because states without income taxes were outpacing their counterparts in expansion of economic activity, they also outpaced them in terms of revenue growth. From 1999-2009, states without income taxes saw a 123.66 percent increase in collections compared to the national average of 70.23 percent. When combined with ongoing expenditure restraint, this kind of strong economic and revenue performance is a recipe for consistently stable and balanced budgets. Eliminating the burden of income taxes in Oklahoma could go a long way toward securing the state's fiscal future.
Moreover, states compete with one another for business and jobs. Oklahoma leaders know all too well the long-term success of the state's Red River rival to the south, income tax free Texas. The regional competition could become even tougher as Kansas and Missouri are now seriously considering drawing down or eliminating their income taxes. Kansas is likely to reduce its corporate income tax to zero. Missouri could take an even more aggressive approach by phasing out corporate and personal income taxes over a period of five years.
Oklahoma has a chance to become a regional and national leader on forward-looking tax and economic policy. We urge you to support this important legislation and pledge our maximum effort to help you eliminate the income tax.
Sincerely,Brent Mead State Government Affairs Manager


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For years now, I have made sort of a Saturday morning ritual out of watching College Gameday in order to get geared up for the day in proper fashion.
This year - for the first time - I have completely switched over to watching the BTN preview show and will only switch over the ESPN on commercial. Their production is just as good as the big guys, and I don't find their analysts to be anywhere near as annoying. It's also a much more efficient way to watch what I actually care about --- and I get to see a lot more of what really matters to me on Sat.
It's amazing how much I really don't care about Corso's pencils or what mascot head he is putting on today.
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OXFORD – The Bowling Green State University ice hockey team lost to Miami Friday night, falling to the RedHawks by a score of 2-1 at the Goggin Ice Center. Freshman Mark Cooper scored the lone goal for the Falcons, while senior goaltender Andrew Hammond (6-9-3) turned away 24-of-26 shots in the loss. Bowling Green was scoreless on the power play in five opportunities, while Miami was 2-for-3 with the man advantage.
Miami came out flying in the opening frame, opening an early shot advantage on the visiting Falcons. However, Bowling Green was able to weather the initial storm, scoring the game's first goal at the 16:36 mark of the first period.
Sophomore Ryan Carpenter took possession of the puck at the bottom half of the near circle, before sending a pass to senior Ryan Peltoma at the point. Peltoma accepted the puck, sending a low shot towards the Miami cage. Cooper reached out and deflected the shot, beating Miami netminder Jay Williams for his seventh goal of the season.
Miami responded with two power-play goals in the second period, both coming off the stick of Cody Murphy. The RedHawks' first tally came just 51 seconds into the frame, as Murphy banged home a rebound after an initial save by Hammond in front. Murphy scored again at the 8:40 mark, netting another rebound goal to give Miami the 2-1 lead heading into the final period.
The Falcons peppered Williams in the final frame, with the majority of their chances coming on a five minute power play. Despite several quality opportunities, Bowling Green was unable to solve the Miami netminder, giving the RedHawks the 2-1 victory.
The loss drops the Falcons' overall record to 8-12-5, with a record of 5-9-3-1 in conference play. Miami now sits at 14-6-5 overall, including a record of 9-4-4-4 in the CCHA.
The loss gives the Falcons their first back-to-back defeats since the end of November, when Bowling Green dropped games to Ferris State (Nov. 17) and Michigan (Nov. 21).
The Falcons' loss pushes their current winless streak against Miami to 15 games, with Bowling Green's last regulation win against the RedHawks coming back on Jan. 4, 2008, a 4-2 win at the BGSU Ice Arena. The last Falcon victory in Oxford came back on March 10, 2001, a 4-2 win in the first round of the CCHA Playoffs, a 16-game streak.
Carpenter's assist on the lone Falcon goal extended his point streak to a career best nine games. Carpenter's streak marks the first Falcon to record a point in nine-straight games since Jonathon Matsumoto back in 2005-06.


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Report: Martin left the Dolphins30 Oct 13
Dolphins will adjust with Clabo in the lineup
Any type of drama around a team with Bryant McKinnie on the roster usually revolves around the massive left tackle. Instead, it's the Dolphins' other offensive tackle that left the team earlier this week.
Dolphins T Jonathan Martin has been absent from team facility all week and has not practiced. Team is not expecting him to play tomorrow.—
Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) October 30, 2013
BREAKING: Dolphins starting lineman Jonathan Martin left team facility following incident in cafeteria on Monday (via @JayGlazer).—
FOX Football Daily (@FFD) October 30, 2013
The Dolphins felt they resolved their issues at both tackle spots last week with the McKinnie acquisition. Martin moved from the blindside to the strongside. The team now won't have Martin for this week's game and maybe longer.
Tyson Clabo will resume the starting duties at right tackle.
Tyson Clabo will likely be called on to start at right tackle because of Jonathan Martin's absence.—
Omar Kelly (@OmarKelly) October 30, 2013
This could be a massive blow to the Dolphins' offense. Martin wasn't spectacular during his return to right tackle, but he was still an upgrade over Clabo.
The Dolphins' coaching staff made sure to give McKinnie plenty of help in pass protection during his first start with the team. It may not be able to do the same for a second straight week.
Clabo consistently surrendered pressure on QB Ryan Tannehill before he was benched. The Dolphins will have to adjust with one under performing tackle and another still learning the offense.
The jokes going to be on Ryan Tannehill and the rest of his Dolphin teammates. Now Tyson Clabo has to start again. #MartinLaughsLast—
Mike Loyko (@NEPD_Loyko) October 30, 2013


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The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge received a letter of gratitude from Fr. Jeremy Harrington, OFM, Commissary of the Holy Land, for the generous contribution given by the faithful in the Diocese of Raleigh to the 2012 Pontifical Good Friday Collection. The amount of the Collection totaled $97,569.20.
In his letter, Fr. Harrington noted the financial contribution will be used for several important causes, including support of the small Christian community of 150,000 people currently living in the Holy Land. Many Christians in the Holy Land depend on the collection for their lives.
Due to severe political and economic hardships, an estimated 500 Christian families leave the Holy Land each year. This steady emigration suggests that one day the Christian community and the Christian church may cease to exist in this part of the world.
Since 1209, the Holy Land Franciscans have been charged with preserving Christian places, providing pastoral care and serving the needy in the Holy Land. Their tasks include maintaining and caring for the shrines and chapels, operating schools, caring for the poor by providing housing and health care, pastoral ministry, providing spiritual direction for pilgrims, and keeping Christianity alive.
Through the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, Christians throughout the world are united in a special way to the land that was made holy by God's plan.


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Derbyshire potholes to be filled in
More than £800,000 is being spent fixing potholes on roads across Derbyshire.
County councillors agreed to the funding at a cabinet meeting last night. The money is coming from a share of £4million pounds for emergency repairs from the Government.
In neighbouring Nottinghamshire, the County Council has recorded tens of thousands of potholes since April 2012 - and expects the total figure to reach 32,443 by April 1st 2013.
In 2011-2012, Nottingham City Council spent £90,000 fixing around 2,500 potholes. So far this year it's only fixed 1,032 at a cost of £62,662.


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St. Joseph's College and its Alumni Association will be walking to benefit the Thomas J. Wendt Scholarship. Named for former employee who was dedicated to volunteerism and charitable causes, Tom Wendt '88 was active in various student organizations during his tenure at the College, including the Student Government Association, Circle K Club and Campus Ministry. After his passing in 2004, St. Joseph's College established a memorial scholarship in his name to benefit students who play an active part in the College and the surrounding community.
The Rose Brucia Educational Foundation was founded in 2004 by St. Joseph's College alumnus, Matt Barbis '94, after the abduction and murder of his 11-year-old cousin, Carlie Jane Brucia in Sarasota, Florida. Since its inception, the foundation has been educating children around the nation about potentially dangerous encounters with strangers using their educational puppet show. With the goal of decreasing the number of child abductions in the United States, the foundation has presented their puppet show to over 26,000 children across 27 school districts.
Registration for the 5K Run/Walkathon will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the faculty parking lot of the Long Island Campus of St. Joseph's College, located at 155 West Roe Boulevard, Patchogue, New York. The route will go through the Village of Patchogue and end back at the parking lot. For more information or to register, please call Matthew Colson in the Office of Alumni Relations at 631.447.3215, visit www.sjcny.edu/alumni or www.rosebrucia.org.
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St. Joseph's College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in more than 29 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs.


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|Joe Tringali
Great article! But its missing an idea on how to handle product cost... Outside of Digital Distribution, there are big expenses associated with printing discs / carts, boxes, warehouse, sales, shipping, point of sale promotion, etc. If you think publishers are risk averse, retailers are worse. If a box product isn't available in major retailers, especially if it's on a platform that requires retail (DS, Wii), never going to make any money, or justify the marketing spend. There are also significant upfront costs for a developer in order to create a professional game (software, hardware), and most first parties are restrictive on who is able to purchase dev hardware. Generally, as an indie without a track record you're limited to PC, iPhone or Xbox via XNA. This idea would need to skew more towards an incubation model to provide devs enough resources to get started.
Also, if the publisher assumes the IP rights, they have de-facto control, and all developer freedom comes from good faith. I think either leave the IP with the dev, or with a publisher option to purchase the IP should it be successful. I think were seeing the start of a real, commercial indie model, but instead of a label, its more of a platform change, with first parties testing the waters in the digital distribution space (so not incurring product cost), and hopefully publishers to follow at some point.
|Bart Stewart
Great analysis, reasonable conclusion.
Some thoughts:
1. Need to address the console/PC divide. a) PC development is easier/cheaper for indies, but that may not be the publisher's target market. b) Who pays for vetting of indie games on consoles, and how does the speed of indie development fit with the delays caused by requiring hardware manufacturer signoffs? c) Will the publisher supply the console hardware as well as a capital expense?
2. Talent scouts: I would strongly recommend having more than one. Two would be better; three would be best. That way you don't have one person's personal preferences controlling the supply of indie innovation.
3. "... you really need people who are willing to leave their own ideas behind them and work as facilitators to help teams accomplish their goals." This is a crucial point, as the "old" EA claims to have learned. Some amount of stable schedule/budget process is a Good Thing, but too much risks destroying the team culture that was able to produce the games you thought were interesting enough to fund.
4. "Someday Ill rant about producers who secretly dont want to be producers". Yes, please. Bearing in mind that some overlap is inevitable, producers should stick to production and leave design to the designers. That's true generally, I think, but it's particularly important when "design creativity" is part of what you're buying when you fund indie developers.
5. So let's say a publisher gets the point and fires up an indie arm. What's the next step? How should that investment be leveraged to make more successful AAA products?
6. How does this fit with the similar (but different) concept of a "Skunkworks" division for exploring high-concept game design possibilities? For example, what might be the interactions between Will Wright's "Stupid Fun Club" which will supply EA with crazy new ideas and an indie publishing arm?
|Kevin Reilly
I think the idea of creating "indie" publishing has merit, but I don't think that the traditional large 3rd party publishers will adopt this model for one very important reason: Shareholders. They see games like MW2 and only want more. EA just slashed 1500 developer heads and dozens of projects. You can bet that the games getting axed were all acclaimed for "innovation", but the tried and true "iteration" is what feeds the beast (Madden, FIFA, etc.). Looking at Gamasutra's estimated XBLA/PSN sales I don't think other publishers will be enticed to invest in speculative indie projects and canabilize their own title, but I could certainly see many acting as "distributors" providing mimimal marketing and taking a fee.
Sony, MSFT and Nintendo though would benefit from more competition from the indie space and would be the better fit for energizing indie development as they can offer higher marketing visibility and tech support on their platforms. Sony is offering the Pub Fund which works pretty much like a negative pickup deal (you get paid after delivery of the game), but the game still needs to be approved by Sony, financed by a 3rd party and then is exclusive to the platform for a period of time (up to 3 years I am told). Google could do a lot to support Android by funding development for the platform which if it migrates from mobile to PCs/Netbooks would open another distribution channel.
|Jorge Hebrard
I hope EA doesn't read this article.
|Kumar Daryanani
A great article. I've always been a proponent of publishers starting new IPs out small, with games to be released on any of the digital distribution channels, and then measuring the relative success of the game to flesh out the IP and invest more money on future games in that line. Thankyou for putting these thoughts to paper in such an eloquent manner!
|James Hofmann
Music's shift in the last decade can help inform us of the possibilities. What that industry has now is a sliding scale of backing vs. ownership tradeoffs - you can go 100% indie and DIY everything, you can sign to a small label and retain a sizable stake, and you can go to a major label and get the full star treatment (and a corresponding loss of control).
A full sliding scale for games isn't in place yet, but something along those lines is emerging, as with music, via digital distribution and promotion methods. The bottleneck we have right now comes from a huge gap in scale and accessibility between the digital distribution market and the retail one, one which is obviously narrowing with time.


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"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
The quote written above is one of my favorite quotes and one of the philosophies I live by. I like how the author of the quote emphasizes that the act of doing good–acts of kindness like serving others and being generous–should be done everyday of our lives as long as we live, to everyone we know and meet, whether it's a loved one or a stranger.
The good value of being generous is one of the things I intently teach my children, and it certainly is a heartwarming feeling when you see and learn how they demonstrate this act of kindness to others.
Like for instance, a couple of weeks ago when my eldest daughter, Gwenevere, came home from school, I asked her what I always ask my kids like how their day at school went and if they finished the food I packed for them. She told me that she just ate one of the breads I prepared for her because she gave the other one to her friend. I asked why she did that and she said that her friend did not have anything to eat during their snack break so she gave some of her food.
Actually, that was not the first time that she shared her baon to one of her friends. Even my 2 other kids, Gabrielle and Gerard, would also tell me how they would sometimes share what they have because someone from their classmates needed it–not just their food, but school things, like a sheet of paper, or lending them an extra pencil or crayons.
It all starts with you.
Our children learn from what they see and as parents, it is important that we model generosity and that they see it in almost anything that we do. From demonstrating patience while waiting in a long line, speaking respectfully to other people, or giving your seat to an elderly woman or man standing up at the bus, our children are watching how we respond to every situation in our everyday living.
As a family, you can also plan for a charity outreach. My kids and I want that one of these days, we could visit an orphanage and give them things that they need and help them in any way that we can. It will not only teach them to become valuable members of the community, but will also serve a great bonding opportunity for the whole family.
Encourage them to donate.
Being charitable is one of the best ways to teach generosity to children. Encourage them to donate unwanted (but still useful) stuff like toys and clothes that they no longer use and that no longer fits them to kids at the orphanages or to victims of calamity.
Telling our children in what ways this act of generosity will benefit other people will also encourage them all the more to give. Like the time when my daughter asked me why we need to donate or give love offerings to church every Sunday, I told her that it would be a great help for the church to do their ministry work, like helping the poor and sick people in our community. It will also help pay for certain expenses when they need to improve or repair something in our church and probably help buy church chairs in case they need to buy new ones.
So now every Sunday, they wholeheartedly give what they can in the love basket that would help our church.
Share stories.
Whether it's reading them a book that teaches the good value of being generous or sharing the story of some notable people in our history who selflessly gave their time to help other people (one good example is Mother Teresa), our children will certainly learn a lot by the words we share to them.
Always praise.
I never miss to tell my children how happy and proud I am of them whenever they tell me a good thing that they did to other people, most especially when I see them taking turns and sharing. Whenever they know that you appreciate and that they make you happy for the good things that they do, they will want to do these random acts of kindness all the more.
How else do you teach your children to be generous? I'd love hear all about it so please do share it on the comments below.


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I think Flyers nation breathed a collective sigh of relief to see our battered boys pull out the big W tonight on the shoulders of Tom Sestio and Ilya Bryzgalov. Bryz almost literally stood on his head to keep the red-hot Lightning at (Tampa) bay and Tommy-boy proved he belongs in the line up by scoring 2 important goals. The best take-away from this game is that we can play right along with those teams that are currently at the top of the standings. More importantly, 2 wins have been strung in a row! The game before that, the Power Play finally clicked. Altogether, some great signs of improvement! I believe the team is finally beginning to settle into the season and adjust to the injuries. Danny B is looking better with each game, which tells me that he came back not 100%, but is continually getting closer. Giroux may be generally absent on the scoresheet some nights, but not on the ice. He draws a lot of attention, a lot of ice time, and makes that other team work! The biggest difference this year over last year is that he's now the man with the target. Moving Briere to his line has been a great decision, as it now gives the opposing team someone else to have to focus their attention on. With the departure of Jagr, there wasn't really anyone with the puck handling skill left to distract teams when Giroux is on the ice. Without that secondary magic-maker, its much more of a target on his back. I think he's doing well at adapting to this, with or without Briere, and you'll soon see a lot of opportunities for his linemates to make magic happen once he's opened up the ice for them.
With the improvement of the team learning to play together with some pretty impactful pieces missing, I think you'll see the offense break out some more. We saw some hints of that in the Carolina game, but then we saw those defensive breakdowns of old. I have a very tough time believing that we can have a balanced game under Lavy. Getting Mez back healthy will be a huge boost, but until then, the players need to take it upon themselves to properly backcheck and get the quick line-changes in so they can maintain the high-pace offensive push while still being defensively responsible. It's actually not helping the cause that Bryz has been all-star caliber again lately. They've been able to get away with some pretty dismal defensive play and he's been the man to bail them out. Amazing how much things change in a year! We are finally getting the goaltending savior that Snider paid for! Hopefully once he gets past the amnesty buy-out risk, he continues to have the motivation to play the same.
Speaking of goaltending, last night proved just how bad Leighton really is. In the previous Flyers/Lighting game, everyone had a field day with picking apart his slow reaction time and poor positioning. He's a great AHL goalie but just not someone I want in the net for an NHL club. In the 2010 playoffs, he played well above his level. The Chicago series was much more his normal game and there really should have been no surprise that he let up the cup-clinching goal. He's a weakness to be exploited. I'm very happy that Brian Boucher is back with the club and can't wait for him to finish rehabbing with the Phantoms. I truely see him supplanting Leighton as the #2 man in net. Bouch may not be a number 1 anymore, but he's got incredible skill and plays amazingly while cold. He can start for a few games and keep you in it if there is an injury or a guy just needs some time off. Believe it or not, at the AHL level, I do see Leighton as being a good piece to have to keep that team competitive.
My final point as to why I'm feeling pretty good about this team...the record does not accurately portray the team's play. There have been a lot of losses that have been close games with a few horrendously timed lapses or just not having all the pieces clicking at the same time. The Flyers have had better starts than last year and there have really only been 2 games where they were just flat the whole time. The first 2 games of the season, I really feel could have gone either way. There has been a recent outcry over the poor officiating recently when it comes to goaltender interference penalties. I really felt Flyers got the short end of that stick, as have several other teams. And the worst part is, these are times when it has a huge impact on the final outcome of the game. I'm not trying to complain and blame them, but I am pointing it out as a factor that was out of their control and thus makes me feel more confident in the team moving forward.
Often overlooked is the emotional effect of game changing calls and circumstances. I relate it to the power outage at the superbowl. A team that was rolling lost a great deal of adrenaline when they had to wait a half hour and do nothing, giving a panicked team a chance to relax and regroup. A big goal that either ties it or put you ahead that gets called off (especially when you know it shouldn't have) can really deflate you. Hopefully this will be educational for them to get back to what they used to be sooo good at, which is shrugging that off and coming from behind. With so much young talent on the team, and players who weren't here in 2010, there is a history that is being rebuilt and relearned. The resolve of this team will continue to improve, and the points will come.


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Ware County - Firefighters and Forestry rangers are battling a huge and dangerous fire that's been blazing for twelve hours.
It forced evacuations and school and road closures.
County officials are evacuating anyone who lives from the Waycross City Limits down to Swany Chapel Road in Manor southwest of Waycross.
They're also asking people who live in nearby areas to be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice.
High winds spread the fire rapidly.
Emergency management officials still aren't sure how much land the fire has scorched and how many homes and other buildings are threatened.
A shelter is open tonight at Waycross Middle School for people who had to evacuate and classes are canceled for tomorrow at all Ware County schools. "Ware County notified us that all schools will be canceled tomorrow for students. However, all teachers and staff are being asked to report to school as usual and teachers at Ruskin Elementary are being asked to report to Waycross Middle School," says James Ginn, Public Information officer for Ware County.
Emergency managers set up a command center at Ruskin Elementary school in the middle of blaze.
Firefighters say they will continue working all night to try to put out the fire but they say it's virtually impossible to contain it until the wind dies down.
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Cynthia Minick, 50, of Colorado Springs, passed away on November 11, 2010. Cindy was born in Richmond, Missouri and was the youngest child of Jack Campbell and Jeanette Simpson. She graduated from Harrison High School in Colorado Springs. Cindy was a hardworking homemaker who raised her three children with much dedication. She was a guiding light and friend to all. She never met a person she couldn't have a conversation with. Cindy went out of her way to ensure people were taken care of and always had helpful advice. copied from the Gazette Legacy Obituary
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As Jarret Hitchings lay motionless in a chemically induced coma -- his liver slowly regenerating, his mother at his bedside -- The Beatles chased him through Russia.
Inside Hitchings' medically paralyzed body, which five weeks earlier was fit and agile, lurked a mind still soaring. And dreaming about the Fab Four.