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The young Pittsburgh Pirates hitters will once again be put to the test Wednesday night at PNC Park against the Houston Astros.After scoring six runs against Roger Clemens on Monday and knocking Andy Pettitte out of the game Tuesday with one out in the sixth inning, it doesn't get any easier for the young Bucs in the third game of the four-game series. The NL Wild Card leaders will send Roy Oswalt to the hill. Oswalt's .672 winning percentage (80-39) ranks third among active pitchers with at least 100 career decisions. However, the All-Star has not fared well away from Minute Maid Park this season. Despite a solid 3.45 ERA, Oswalt has dropped 10 of his 16 decisions on the road this season. Houston native Kip Wells will make his 31st start of the season and fourth against his hometown team. Wells, who has lost 12 of his last 14 decisions, tossed seven shutout innings against the Astros on August 13 at Minute Maid Park in his most impressive performance of the second half. Wells also threw seven scoreless innings against the Astros at PNC Park on April 27 -- the right-hander's only win in his last 13 starts against NL Central opponents. The two teams have split their 14 games in 2005.
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"It's great to say that we've played well. But winning is the most important. " -- Pirates interim manager Pete Mackanin On the Internet
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PIT: FSNP, ESPN On radio
HOU: KTRH 740, KLAT (Español)
PIT: KDKA 1020 Quick hits
The Pirates have used 137 different lineups in 151 games. They used 116 lineups in all of 2004. ... Tom Gorzelanny on Tuesday became the sixth left-hander to start a game for the Pirates this season. No other big-league club has used more than four southpaw starting pitchers. ... The Pirates are 7-6 against Houston this season. The Bucs have not posted a winning season against the Astros since going 7-5 in 1999. On deck
Thursday: vs. Houston, 12:35 p.m. ET
Friday: at Los Angeles, 10:40 p.m. ET
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Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre has announced it will host auditions for young performers in March.
The audition has been scheduled to fill the roles of the Von Trapp children in the upcoming production of The Sound of Music at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. The show will be on stage this spring from May 16 through June 30.
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Once in a while, an opportunity randomly opens up for me to take or leave. This time, I chose to take.
There was a Diwali happening near my area, and my after-school program thought I could take pictures of them. This wasn't out of random selection, rather I was asked if I wanted to volunteer and take pictures for them. I happily accepted it, they've seen some of my pieces before and they really liked it. I was excited too, other than the nervousness of covering an event like this along with my fellow volunteers (I'm not the only photographer, but still) — I've never been to a Diwali.
First of all, what is a Diwali? (Explanation ahead, correct me if I'm wrong!)
A Diwali is an important holiday in Indian culture, it is a festival of lights that celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness and etc., there are legends that go with it but I'll skip the specifics — apparently, they were told differently depending where in India you live. It's celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs. It's known as the "festival of lights", because shops, houses, and places are decorated with small oil lamps called "Diyas". These lights are placed in rows at doors, by windows, and outside buildings.
I'm not too familiar with Indian culture, but I have to say that the food is really damn amazing. I mean, have you ever had butter chicken? Samosas? Curry? If not, then you are completely missing out. The flavours are just… Wonderful. Spicy, yes. But very, very delicious. It was the first thing I smelled when I came in the room, the aroma of food. It was strong, or maybe I'm just that hungry.
Dancing, singing, and more dancing. It was very colourful, and very joyful. The ones seated on the mezzanine were screaming in joy as the dancers moved around in their garbs of colours, smiling, spinning, and dancing against loud music. To be honest, I really do not know what people up at the top seats were going wild about — maybe it's just my lack of knowledge of their culture. But nevertheless, I enjoyed it, very much so. It was new, yet it was beautiful.
Dances like Mahiya, Bollywood, a variety of Bhangra, "Bhangra Via Africa" (which I found most interesting, for it were African girls executing Bhangra), Sohinya Punjabana, Gidha, music of folk and instrumentals were present during the night. They were performed by people of young and old, and even people I know! The whole time, I've been running here and there taking photos in various angles, preventing wires and stomaching through being so close to a loud speaker just to get shots. On a short sidetrack moment, I never really understood how people can stand beside a loud speaker — my ears die in seconds…
My first Diwali experience was fun. I knew of the yearly event's existence near my area for a while, but I never actually went inside and watched. It was definitely interesting, and worth the go. I'm very interested with events and things of other cultures, and I'm always inclined to discover more! Maybe, next Folklorama I should make the effort of the going through different pavillions. Culture, culture is very interesting. As a Canadian, everyday we go to work, school, or wherever and immerse ourselves to the variety presented. But the coolest thing about it, is that we can all get along.


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So over the weekend I came down with laryngitis or some other respiratory thing or something like that. I also gave it to my girlfriend accidentally but that is not important. What is important is that I am coughing and sneezing and it would be a bit of a jerk move to go to BJJ tonight and get everyone else sick. So with free time and getting bored from studying for a marketing exam tomorrow I decided I should update you mutherfukers on how my training is going.
Anyway, I have been going between 3 to 4 days a week as it is about a 35 minute one way drive for me, and I am hoping to take my first fight before my 25th birthday (April 5th, 2013).
I have been doing BJJ since February and we are working a lot on stuff from half guard and side control, mostly positional stuff, although I learned a really cool kimura from head hip control last week. In addition in early April Daniel Gracie came to work with Warren Stout, my instructor and a Renzo Gracie Black Belt for two weeks, and taught a ton of stuff, literally too much to list here.
My hip flexibility has been improving from BJJ and because of this my kicks are starting to get better as well. I have been working on push kicks and clinch stuff a lot, especially in sparring. My Muay Thai kru really pushes me and does not let up for one second as far as my cerebral palsy goes, but works really well with me. As far as boxing goes I am getting better at striking as a south paw and my cross and shuffle cross are really improving. My head movement is getting better in boxing as well. In all I really love training and am starting to get a lot of attention from my trainers, I believe mostly because of how hard I work. The biggest thing I am finding, and this is surprising, is how rusty my wrestling is. I am going to start getting up early on Saturdays for wrestling practice, because both my takedowns and defense are horrible compared to where I was.
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Now If Only the Red Wings Would Fold
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The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
1980 edition
|Jin Yong
|Original title
|Hong Kong
|Ming Pao
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|The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
|Traditional Chinese
|Simplified Chinese
|Literal meaning
|Laughing Proudly in the Jianghu
The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in Hong Kong in the newspaper Ming Pao from 20 April 1967 to 12 October 1969.[1] The Chinese title of the novel, Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, literally means to live a carefree life in a mundane world of strife. Alternate English translations of the title include Laughing in the Wind,[2] The Peerless Gallant Errant,[3] and The Proud and Gallant Wanderer.[4] Another alternative title, State of Divinity, is used for some of the novel's adaptations.
The story's initial development revolves around a coveted martial arts manual known as the Bixie Swordplay Manual. The manual has been passed down as an heirloom in the Lin family, who runs the Fuwei Escort Agency based in Fuzhou. Yu Canghai, the leader of the Qingcheng Sect, leads his followers to massacre the Lins and seize the manual for himself but does not find it. Lin Pingzhi, the sole survivor of the Lin family, is rescued by Yue Buqun, head of the Mount Hua Sect, one of the members of the Five Mountains Sword Sects Alliance. Yue Buqun accepts Lin Pingzhi as a student and trains him in swordplay.
The novel's protagonist is Yue Buqun's eldest disciple Linghu Chong, an orphaned, happy-go-lucky but honourable swordsman who has a penchant for liquor. He befriends the notorious bandit Tian Boguang and saves a nun called Yilin from the (North) Mount Heng Sect from Tian's sexual advances. In the meantime, Liu Zhengfeng of the (South) Mount Heng Sect announces his decision to leave the wulin (martial artists' community) and invites fellow martial artists to witness his retirement ceremony. The event turns into a bloodbath when Zuo Lengshan (chief of the Mount Song Sect) and other orthodox sects accuse Liu Zhengfeng of being unfaithful to their code for befriending Qu Yang of the heretical Sun Moon Holy Cult. Liu and Qu are cornered by Zuo and his men and eventually commit suicide. Before dying Liu and Qu pass the score of Xiaoao Jianghu (a piece of music they composed together, and eponymous title of the novel) to Linghu Chong.
Lin Pingzhi's entrance into the Mount Hua Sect breaks up Linghu Chong's romantic interest in Yue Lingshan (Yue Buqun's daughter) as she starts falling in love with Lin. Linghu Chong's carefree attitude brings him into trouble; his teacher decides to punish him by making him stay alone for a year in a secluded area on Mount Hua to reflect on his misdeeds. He discovers carvings of swordplay techniques in a cave and practises them, unknowingly familiarising himself with not only the skills of the other four sword sects, but the counter moves as well. He also meets the reclusive Feng Qingyang, an elder of the Mount Hua Sect, who teaches him the formidable skill "Nine Swords of Dugu".
The self-proclaimed orthodox Five Mountains Sword Sects Alliance, though seemingly united, is constantly troubled by politicking among its members. Linghu Chong gets embroiled in the internal conflict and becomes seriously injured while saving several students using his newly mastered swordplay, which Yue Buqun deems unorthodox.
Linghu Chong meets the "Six Immortals of the Peach Valley", who attempt to cure his wounds in their weird fashion, but fail and aggravate his injuries instead. He follows his teacher to Luoyang and encounters a guqin-playing old woman, who turns out to be a young maiden named Ren Yingying in disguise. By then, Yue Buqun has grown tired of Linghu Chong's frequent associations with jianghu lowlifes and strangers, and he abandons the latter. Linghu Chong helps Ren Yingying after she is assaulted by some orthodox martial artists, then she brings him to the Shaolin Monastery to recuperate from his injuries. He also hears from the Shaolin abbot that Yue Buqun has publicly announced that he has expelled Linghu Chong from the Mount Hua Sect.
Linghu Chong sinks into despair as he is now an outcast of the wulin. After leaving Shaolin, he meets a stranger Xiang Wentian, whom he saves from dozens of enemies. Xiang becomes sworn brothers with Linghu and brings him to a manor in Hangzhou, where they eventually find Ren Woxing (Ren Yingying's father), the former leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult who was ousted from power by his deputy Dongfang Bubai. Ren Woxing breaks out of captivity by using Linghu Chong to replace himself, and Linghu learns his "Star Sucking Great Skill" before escaping himself. Ren Woxing returns to rescue Linghu, and offers his daughter's hand in marriage and tries to persuade Linghu to join his cult, but the latter declines. Linghu later helps Ren Woxing regain control of his cult by defeating Dongfang Bubai, whose power is unparalleled but becomes distracted when his lover is also attacked.
Because he once helped the late leaders of the (North) Mount Heng Sect, who were mysteriously murdered, Linghu Chong is appointed head of that sect, whose members are all nuns. He later attends a special assembly of the Five Mountains Sword Sects Alliance, called for by its chief Zuo Lengshan. Zuo attempts to intimidate the other four sects to completely submit to him, but Yue Buqun uses the Bixie Swordplay to defeat and blind Zuo and become the new leader of the alliance, much to the surprise of everyone present.
After leaving the assembly, Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying see Lin Pingzhi brutally slaying members of the Qingcheng Sect to avenge his family, and overhear a conversation between him and his wife Yue Lingshan, in which Lin reveals that he and Yue Buqun have both mastered the Bixie Swordplay. Through this, Linghu learns that his respected teacher is actually a hypocrite who plotted an elaborate scheme against Lin Pingzhi to seize the Bixie Swordplay Manual, and Lin and Yue have both castrated themselves to learn the skill. Both Yue Buqun's wife and daughter die because of their respective husbands.
Yue Buqun tries to kill Lin Pingzhi, who knows his secret and is quietly plotting revenge on him. The finale climaxes with members of the Five Mountains Sword Sects Alliance being trapped in the cave with the carvings, owing to Yue Buqun's treachery, where they slaughter each other out of paranoia and distrust, and Yue Buqun is stabbed to death by the young nun Yilin. Ren Woxing, now intoxicated by power, masterminds an attack to overcome the scattered and fragmented orthodox sects, and tries coercing Linghu Chong to join his cult, but dies at a crucial moment from a stroke triggered by his own megalomania.[5]
Ren Yingying is nominated as the new leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and she seeks a truce between the righteous and unorthodox sides of the martial artists' community. Three years later she passes the leadership to Xiang Wentian and marries Linghu Chong. Disillusioned by all the strife caused by power struggles, Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying retire from the jianghu, living happily after a wedding where the orthodox and unorthodox sects come to a temporary truce.
As a political allegory[edit]
|This section possibly contains original research. (April 2011)
In the afterword, Jin Yong mentions that The Smiling, Proud Wanderer can be read as a political allegory disguised as a wuxia novel.[6] As an allegory, it can happen in "any dynasty or organisation".[7] Jin Yong also stated in the afterword that after the novel was published, Vietnamese politicians have used the names of Yue Buqun and Zuo Lengshan as derogatory terms against others in parliamentary sessions.
Although Jin Yong did not leave any unequivocal evidence, many people believe that characters and factions in the book are representations of people and great powers of the late 1960s, the time when the novel was written.[8] One popular interpretation believes that the Five Mountain Sword Sects Alliance represents the Soviet Union, with its chief Zuo Lengshan as a personification of Joseph Stalin, while the Sun Moon Holy Cult emblematises China with Dongfang Bubai representing Mao Zedong. The other sects, including Shaolin, Wudang, and Emei, represent NATO and countries aligned with the United States.
This highly political book is written from an interesting perspective. Instead of looking at the situation from the point of view of a politician who is either seeking to start a rebellion or struggling to keep the world peaceful, the main character Linghu Chong is a lonely individual who does not seek supremacy in a power-driven world.
Sects, clans and organisations[edit]
Five Mountain Sword Sects Alliance (五嶽劍派)[edit]
Sun Moon Holy Cult (日月神教)[edit]
The cult is based on Black Woods Cliff (黑木崖). Its origin is unclear (though the final chapter of Jin Yong's other novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber indicates that the Sun Moon Holy Cult is the successor organization to the Ming Cult) and martial artists in the jianghu often refer to it as the "Demonic Cult" (魔教). Considered eccentric and heretical, the cult is a common enemy of the orthodox sects. Its members are known for engaging in various types of cult-like activities and committing heinous crimes. It was led by Ren Woxing until Dongfang Bubai ousts the former from power in a scheme. Dongfang treats his followers cruelly, forcing them to consume poison pills and giving them antidotes to temporarily ease their agony only if they obey him. Ren Woxing practises the "Star Sucking Great Skill" (吸星大法), which allows him to drain and absorb an opponent's inner energy, while Dongfang Bubai is said to be invincible after he mastered the skills in the Sunflower Manual (葵花寶典).
- The Qingcheng Sect (青城派) is led by Yu Canghai(余滄海).
- The Fuwei Escort Agency (福威鏢局) is founded by Lin Yuantu(林遠圖), a former Shaolin(少林寺) monk.
- Shaolin Sect (少林派)
- Wudang Sect (武當派)
|Main cast
|Additional information
|Shaw Brothers Studio (Hong Kong)
|Wong Yue, Shih Szu, Michael Chan, Ling Yun
|See The Proud Youth
|Film Workshop
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|Sam Hui, Sharla Cheung, Cecilia Yip, Jacky Cheung, Fennie Yuen, Lau Siu-ming
|See The Swordsman
|Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Michelle Reis, Brigitte Lin, Fennie Yuen
|See Swordsman II
|Brigitte Lin, Joey Wong, Yu Rongguang
|See The East is Red (1993 film)
|Main cast
|Additional information
|TVB (Hong Kong)
|Chow Yun-fat, Rebecca Chan, Jaime Chik, Kenneth Tsang, Tung Wai, Isabella Wong
|See The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (1984 TV series)
|TTV (Taiwan)
|Bryan Leung, Leanne Liu
|TVB (Hong Kong)
|Jacky Lui, Fiona Leung, Cherie Chan, Timmy Ho, He Meitian, Wong Wai
|See State of Divinity (1996 TV series)
|CTV (Taiwan)
|Richie Ren, Anita Yuen, Vivian Chen, Song Ta-ming, Yue Yueli, Tsai Tsan-te
|See State of Divinity (2000 TV series)
|MediaCorp (Singapore)
|Steve Ma, Fann Wong, Ivy Lee, Chew Chor Meng, Jacelyn Tay, Zheng Geping, Priscelia Chan
|See The Legendary Swordsman
|Ciwen Film & TV Production Co. Ltd. (Mainland China)
|Li Yapeng, Xu Qing, Wei Zi, Miao Yiyi, Li Jie, Cheng Lifeng, Yu Chenghui
|See Laughing in the Wind
|Cathay Media (Mainland China)
|Wallace Huo, Yuan Shanshan, Yang Rong, Chen Xiao, Howie Huang, Joe Chen, Deng Sha, Han Dong, Lü Jiarong, Bryan Leung
|See Swordsman (TV series)
A total of 26 volumes of the manhua series by Lee Chi Ching, titled State of Divinity, were published by Ming Ho in Hong Kong and M&C (Gramedia Group) in Indonesia.
Stage productions[edit]
In 2006 the Hong Kong Dance Company adapted the novel into a stage play, starring Rosanne Wong, Race Wong, Liu Yinghong, Su Shu, Chen Lei and Mi Tao, as a jubilee presentation to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary.
In 2010 the Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America presented the premiere of Laughing in the Wind: A Cautionary Tale in Martial Arts in New York City. The play was adapted and directed by Joanna Chan and featured 18 actors playing 26 roles.
Video games[edit]
Swordsman Online is a MMORPG developed by Perfect World. The game also features additional sects that do not appear in the novel.
- ^ The date conforms to the data published in Chen Zhenhui (陳鎮輝), Wuxia Xiaoshuo Xiaoyao Tan (武俠小說逍遙談), 2000, Huizhi Publishing Company (匯智出版有限公司), pg. 57.
- ^ Tong, Simon (2008). "The Beat of a Different Drum". In Pung, Alice. Growing Up Asian in Australia. Black Inc. p. 43. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ^ Wu Dingbo; Patrick D. Murphy, eds. (1994). "Gallant Ficton". Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. p. 248. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ^ Mostow, Joshua, ed. (2003). "Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong". The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 512. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ^ "千秋万载,一统江湖"的口号,在六十年代时就写在书中了。任我行因掌握大权而腐化"《笑傲江湖,后记》
- ^ "这部小说....通过书中一些人物,企图刻划中国三千多年来政治生活中的若干普遍现象。影射性的小说并无多大意义,政治情况很快就会改变,只有刻划人性,才有较长期的价值。不顾一切的夺取权力,是古今中外政治生活的基本情况,过去几千年是这样,今后几千年恐怕仍会是这样。任我行、东方不败、岳不群、左冷禅这些人,在我设想时主要不是武林高手,而是政治人物。"《笑傲江湖,后记》
- ^ "因为想写的是一些普遍性格,是政治生活中的常见现象,所以本书没有历史背景,这表示,类似的情景可以发生在任何朝代、任何团体之中。"《笑傲江湖,后记》
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Children's sponsored playground walk to keep Lollipop Lady
Children at Blisworth Community Primary School near Northampton held a relay walk around the playground this morning.
It's part of efforts to raise almost £3000 needed to fund the school crossing patrol officer, or Lollipop Lady for a year.
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Curried Shrimp Rolls
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- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3/4 teaspoon curry powder
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 1 pound cooked, peeled, and deveined large shrimp, coarsely chopped
- 2 stalks celery, sliced
- 1 cup chopped arugula
- hot dog buns, toasted
- potato chips (optional)
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, lemon juice, curry powder, and ¼ teaspoon each salt and pepper.
- Add the shrimp, celery, and arugula and toss to combine.
- Serve on the buns with the potato chips (if desired).
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 312Calories From Fat 125
- Fat 14g
- Sat Fat 2g
- Cholesterol 173mg
- Sodium 612mg
- Protein 22g
- Carbohydrate 23g
- Sugar 3g
- Fiber 1g
- Iron 4mg
- Calcium 112mg
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Video: Father of terror victim condemns footballer's suicide bomber fancy dress costume
The father of a man from Oldham killed in the 7/7 bombings has condemned a Manchester United player who appeared as a suicide bomber at a fancy dress party.
The England international Chris Smalling has issued a public apology after a photo emerged of him wearing the costume at a private party in his home.
But Graham Foulkes whose son David died in the London terrorist attacks says it's one of the most offensive things he has ever seen and the footballer should have thought about the pain it would cause people.
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From Facebook:
"Hello Friends and Family,
We're sending this out to you today with some information about the last sale at the store! (Finally!)
ear X-tacy will be open for 2 final days on Saturday November 26th and Sunday November 27th. Hours for both days will be 12 Noon – 5pm. We'd love to see all of you one last time at the store. Everything will be sold. Information regarding any discounts will be sent closer to time. We will be accepting cash, credit cards, and gift cards. PLEASE BE AWARE THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME TO REDEEM ANY GIFT CARDS AND GIFT CERTIFICATES.
Also, we will be reaching out to any/all local artists today about a designated pick up time for items in the store. Please be looking for that email, as we only have so much time to get this taken care of. (If you know of a local artist we carry, please feel free to pass along this email).
As always, we appreciate all of you more than you know. We're very happy to be doing this sale over Thanksgiving Weekend because we feel like the biggest thing we can give thanks for … is you.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email email@example.com and we will do our best to answer each and every one of you.
We wish you the very best over this Holiday Season and truly look forward to serving you one last time.
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Here is information for local artists who have consigned product there:
"Hey everyone, hope you're doing well. Thanks so much for your patience throughout this process!
So here is the deal. We are announcing two PICK UP DAYS for consignees to come in and pick up their product.
Consignment Pick-up times (this is next week folks)
- TUESDAY November 22nd, 2011 from 2-8pm
- WEDNESDAY November 23rd, 2011 from 2-8pm
I know there is not a lot of notice here, but unfortunately this is how the timing has worked out. You WILL NOT be paid for your sales when you come in to retrieve your product- that will be the next step. However, when you come in your invoices will be closed out and you will be told how much you are owed. We will take a mailing address and from you at this point and YOUR CHECK WILL BE MAILED TO YOU.
Again, I apologize if the timing of this situation is less than ideal, but a great deal of things are out of our hands. If you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT come into the store and settle with us on one of these two dates, you MUST make arrangements before 8pm on Wednesday 11/23. If arrangements have not been made and no one has been in to retrieve your product, it will be too late and the product will become property of ear X-tacy.
ear X-tacy will be having our final two days of sales on 11/26 and 11/27. No consigment product will be on the sales floor during these days! This means that if you have not already picked it up or made arrangements to do so, IT WILL BE TOO LATE! YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CLAIM YOUR PRODUCT ON THOSE DAYS! IT MUST BE DONE ON 11/22 OR 11/23.
It sucks, but I know there are going to be some folks who slip through the cracks on getting this memo. Please spread the word and info on this. Obviously we don't want to screw anyone over. If you have any questions please let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com.
***I really need to stress how important and how in your favor it will be to pick up your product IN PERSON ON THE DESIGNATED DATES. We will try to accommodate everyone, but making special arrangements with half the consignees here will only make a very messy situation even messier, and we don't know how much time, if any, we will have to work on this past the end of next week.***
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Also I have noticed recently that I mentally make excuses for things that I should be doing with the justification that I am too busy/tired. I realise that actually I opt out of too much and I wonder if people feel they could rely on me. Something a friend said to me recently gave me this slightly painful insight into the fact that I am not reliable; the inference that I wouldn't 'come through' if it mattered.
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This climb is pretty cool, though it may be awkward at times. It's worth it. The first half of P1 teases you into thinking it will be great cams the whole way. As San Juan choss goes, it's usually another story. With creative gear placements, you get by. The crux of P1 is pulling the interesting roof protected by a LA or KB, stoppers, etc. We belayed at the ledge soon after off of KBs.
The route is located in the slot of Chock Up Another One on the right-facing wall. It is slightly uphill from M6 Corner and slightly downhill from Chockstone Chimney.
LAs, KBs, baby angle, a standard mixed rack. We used a #5. We came down Chock Up Another One. I almost left the LA in the P1 roof, but it wasn't good enough to leave.


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Iowa football is like an internet dating profile: if we were anything like our impression of ourselves, we'd find ourselves a lot busier on New Year's Eve.
Nurse Ratched game plans the offense, and all the tough guys are in after-school detention, not practice.
Did I mention? This is the year we make ex-Florida coaches who got fired look like geniuses.
This note offers a strained analogy, a good poem, and ironic praise for an ex-Florida head coach, whom we made look like a genius at Penn State yesterday.
I. Iowa is the Internet Dating Profile Team of the Week.
Yes, I am admitting to experience with this social phenomenon, internet dating. It's what you do when you work 100 hours a week, get divorced, and don't want to watch TV every night with a cat and a bottle of pinot blanc. They'll have dinner with you and maybe jump you in the car if you email them obsequiously about how good it's going to be.
Parse: I saw my first game in the actual flesh yesterday. We do not look anything like our pictures. We do not look like the description we post, of ourselves. We lack the attributes -- "spirited, lively ... athletic and toned ... creative and flexible ... light on my feet ... sharp-witted and surprising ... hot in tight pants" -- we use to lure the naive and inexperienced into a torrid internet correspondence leading to a very expensive, carefully choreographed, thrilling assignation.
No, we're like the chick I took to dinner once at Citronelle, who didn't order but brought out some tupperware containers filled with roughage, proceeded to eat that claiming medical necessity while telling me all about her former obesity, the fiance who was killed in the bar fight, did I like spinning (that's when you sit on your ass and spin your wheels and sweat to no end) and then nodded off from one too many Xanax when she finally made it out to the car. Asleep, she drooled.
But she looked great in her pictures.
Television, like the internet, is a big lie when it comes to watching football. On television, you don't see what's happening between plays, you don't see all 11 guys in motion, you don't see who the leaders on the field are, and you don't see clearly what the other teams' coaches are trying to do to you.
Our job yesterday was to pay for a big fancy dinner for 108,951 people (approximately 17 of whom appeared to be non-caucasian! whoa!), make them feel good about themselves for a few hours, allow them to make optimistic, self-deceiving phone calls to their moms about how great they are, and get back in our cars for the long quiet ride home, thinking, "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"
We looked flat, featureless, as interesting as lettuce, and clueless to the fact that this cycle we're repeating is NOT GOING TO MIRACULOUSLY TURN OUT WELL ONE DAY. We're the internet date from hell who posts 5 year-old pictures and recycles cliches from Sleepless in Seattle, because that's who we are in our hearts, not in reality. And in our hearts, other football teams are afraid of us. Oh boy. We are so fucked.
Ahh, jeez, I can't go into the technical football stuff now. Extrapolate, maybe? Besides, I don't want to criticize individual players by name. Summary technical analysis:
** Field is 53 yards wide. Other teams have figured this out. Also, they appear to remember that fact, series to series.
** Football rewards teams for getting the ball to their best players before 5 people pound them into the ground with arms like axe handles.
** When something works, in football, you keep doing it until it don't work. And vice-versa.
** 240 lb linebackers make very poor man-cover alternatives on shifty slots and wideouts. Then they get tired and they stop being able to do much of anything. Exception: that guy who plays for the Vikings now. Can we spell "outlier?"
** You're in the cover-2 and the other team jams 3 guys into a space occupied by two defenders. Question: is one open? (Lemme see: 2/3 = ...) (240 lb man running headlong across 30 yards of grass to help does not qualify as a defender.)
** The way to tackle someone, if you're playing SS, is to blow them up. Not clutch at them and squeeze them like stuffed animals until they fall down.
** Receivers who stop, mid-route, or run 3/4 speed, need to go to the principal's office and fill out permission slips (see below).
** A QB who can make those two throws to Stross is a QB I want to watch.
** Tell me again how it's helpful to put three receivers in pattern in a 10 yard space inside the hash marks? (Maybe that's why they stop running? Because the play is ... funny?)
** Coaches who trot out the same 8 plays for 9 years in a row better be coaching Southern Cal. No, wait. They lost, too.
** Teams that get three turnovers and 2 first downs (Iowa's totals going into the fourth quarter) have a) Nurse Ratched for an OC; or b) are trying to invent a new quantitative measure of coaching insanity. Someone needs to be lobotomized here, and it ain't the short guy on the field trying to organize the games.
II. A Great American Poem.
Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.
They were all there, in the stands (except for the Negroes). (Now, I know there are African-Americans in Penna. There are African-Americans in the PSU two-deeps.) We validated their existence, yesterday. Then they all got drunk. (It took two hours for me to drive the first 15 miles out of town, most of which was uphill, and I thought I was going to fuse the clutch on the Targa. It was just a really fun day.)
We, however, lack anything approaching the suicidally beautiful, unless it's our QB agreeing to take another snap before meeting someone in blue before he even sets up to throw, or begging his coach for the Next Great Idea.
We're not playing the game of football, in other words. We're playing something else: the game of "execution". This is the difference between being the guy who laughs with his friends while running out the back door of the school for a smoke, the guy who had the cool Bonneville with the great tuck-and-rolled seat and the twin Amal carbs, which he rode in a t-shirt with no helmet, the guy the school administrators pretty much left alone because they wanted to have a 31" waist again and a smile that white, and be able to clock the shit out of anyone on the other team on Friday night. And being the other guy. The guy who worked in the principal's office checking in the late arrivals and signing little pieces of paper that admitted the truants to class, in order to get a smarmy recommendation to a private college Back East.
We're not the stud suicidally beautiful sorts. We're dully compliant in a control system from hell. We play football the way a lot of upper middle class doctors kids play tennis. We practice a lot, and there's no reason to watch, and all of the grown-ups are very, very supportive. Soon we'll leave town, never to come back, and be analysts at Goldman Sachs, dreaming of private equity riches. Those guys are all assholes, incidentally.
III. Another Genius Ex-Florida Coach.
This week saw me finding hope and promise in the example of the ex-Gator OBC -- and ended with Galen Hall making us look like rookies who don't know three things: a) the field is 53 yards wide; b) if you play cover 2 and the offense puts three receivers in the outside third of the field, the corner is gonna have to choose who gets left alone, because the OLB ain't gonna run 30 yards in time to stop the play; c) if you run misdirection, counters and reverses, on top of spreading the ball with the pass to the outside third of the field, there's no one left in the middle of the line to stop a second-string rb from looking like, well, Albert Young, back when Albert Young looked like his pictures.
It's a beautiful thing, football. You can usually see, in the first five minutes, how the other coach has decided to try to beat you. The Genius that is Galen Hall (!!!!!) toyed with Iowa, while the School Detention Hall Monitor Nurse Ratched who is our OC decided to prove, once again, that his nice boys who look good in the yearbook were going to play the game his way or not at all. Three turnovers -- two first downs, game 45 minutes old. Oh, and we're going to make our OLB pretend he's Greenway, or else run him to death trying.
So: Grimness. Morning-after-resolution to never look at internet/TV football again, and ever think it means anything. Sympathy for the Iowa guys, many of whom, defying some of their coaches (evidently), appeared to be playing to win.
Next up -- OH SHIT -- another ex-Florida coach. As the OBC said once, "Well, jeez. Here we go again."
Galen Hall -- genius. What does this make Zook? Richard Feynmann?


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Men's soccer falls to Flagler, 3-0
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Flagler scored two first-half goals to help down the Jacksonville University men's soccer team, 3-0, on Sunday night in St. Augustine, Fla.
"We just couldn't get our shots to fall tonight," said JU head coach Mike Johnson. "Our defense came out flat and it hurt us. We have to be balanced on both sides of the ball to win games. We are going to work hard in practice this week and look forward to getting back in the win column on Friday."
Fredrik Ericsson scored less than five minutes in the game on a cross from the left by Gerson Penza to give the Saints (4-1) an early lead. Boris Kalff added to the lead before the half by scoring on a breakaway from an assist by Eoin Cassin.
The Saints put the game out of reach at the 60-minute mark when David Iafrate scored on a header in front of the goal.
The Dolphins (2-4) recorded 16 shots in the match. Senior Tommy Krizanovic, the nation's leading goal scorer, was held scoreless for the first time this season, despite recording three shots in the game.
JU returns to action on Friday as they to travel Rock Hill, S.C. for the Wingate Inn Classic. They open the tournament with host Winthrop at 7:30 p.m. before finishing on Saturday with Radford at 2 p.m.


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Ladies, step right up. It is your time to shine. Time to take center stage. And no men need apply.
The YWCA is gearing up for the ninth annual running of the Ladies' Sprint Triathlon on June 29.
If you have never tried this one, women, you really are missing out. This event is an incredible celebration of conviction and the fortitude of our local female athletes. It is also a testament to the giving spirit of these athletes who push against each other to greater achievements and at precisely the same time support each other with a genuine issue.
Men, we really can't connect.
Just ask Tara Neff, the race director of the event and the fitness director at the YWCA. Neff said that at the recent Race Against Racism of the YWCA, nearly 75 percent of the serious runners at the starting line were girls. When it came to crossing the finish line, yet, just one in four were girls.
"It mightn't be honest, but it's a fact," said Neff. "With equal training, guys run faster than girls. And swim. And cycle faster.
"It can be really frustrating to a female runner to keep getting passed by guys," Neff added. "The Y Tri is a girls-only event that takes that frustration entirely out of the equation."
Men can play a part only, although at the Y Tri as volunteers. Men giving the women a cup of water and will be encouraging them on, but we shall not compete against them.
As for the big day, it is full of alternatives. The main event is the Sprint Triathlon, which is constituted of a 500-yard swim, a 15-mile bike leg and a 5K run.
The Super Sprint has the same length swim and run, but comprises a 24-mile bike loop.
A duathlon choice is also, which sandwiches a pair of 5K runs around a 15-mile bike leg. Finally, is going to be a 5K race that is stand alone for the very first time.
The event will happen at the Grumbacher Sports and Fitness Center of York College.
For more info, contact Neff at email@example.com or 845 2631 (ext. 131).
Around the roads
SHOE HOUSE 5-MILER SERIES >> This three-event series put on by U.S. Road Running kicked off Saturday in York, and race organizer Toni Arbogast was excited to report a sound turnout.
"The three had 150 runners of all ages, sizes and shapes. Jason from Seltzer's Smokehouse grilled up garlic and sweet Lebanon bologna and served it. The runners adored the day, the run and the sandwiches."
Brady Wilt, 17, was the overall winner, finishing in 30:37. Lauren Finn, 39, was the women's winner in 34:19.
Wilt was followed by Anthony Wallick, 23. John Walton, 32, was third in 31:18.
Michelle Gruger, 37, was the runner up for the ladies while Sarah Wolfe, 35, was third.
Each race starts and ends at YTI Career Institute, 1405 Williams Road in York, and race time is consistently 7 a.m. The path will be the same for every race.
U.S. Road Running will host another special occasion June 28. The Summer Luau 5K/10K will take place . The entry fee is on race day, or in advance. See usroadrunning.com or contact Toni Arbogast at 266-2227 for more information.
The race attracted a solid turnout.
Adam Murak was the overall winner, clocking a time of 19:09, while Aimee Taylor was the women's champ in 22:21.
Colin Russell was the runner up for the men (19:30), edging Peter Wagner (19:34).
Gredda Schreffler set second for the girls in 23:10, ahead of Sherry Riley (23:15).
This race is a 4.5-mile team run, and teams will be picked at random before the race.
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An infielder drafted by the Pirates, Renteria made his debut in 1986, in Leylandĺs first year at the helm in Pittsburgh. After a brief, five-year MLB career, which concluded with the expansion Florida Marlins, Renteria began a coaching career in the Marlinsĺ minor league system, under then-GM Dombrowski.
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ôI keep using the word temperament: itĺs the right one. He knows when to pat a guy on the back and when to kick them in the butt. ... Good guy, even personality. Not a big ego at all. Just a real solid baseball guy.ö
The interview took place in California, as Renteria has recently had hip surgery. The Cubs also made the trek out to interview Renteria at home.
Another San Diego employee, Brad Ausmus, the special assistant to the GM, interviewed with the Tigers on Monday. Ausmusĺ only managerial experience was with Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic.
Renteria managed Team Mexico in the tournament, as well, and has managerial experience in the minors.
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But in all seriousness, it was one of the best gifts I've ever received because of the thought he put into it. He gave me the blank book with a lovely doodled cover to serve as a journal to jot down everyday kinds of notes, observations, and conversations I have with my kids.
Although I LOVE scrapbooking, let's face it–I'm a busy mom of three little ones and creating pages is a luxury most days. BUT, when I do get that time to sit and create, I already have the notes, dates, or even completed journaling for my pages. 'Cause a page without journaling just doesn't do it for me. I want the story behind the photos because I know I'll forget it later.
When I was a baby my mom kept a spiral-bound notebook of journaling about me. The entries waned as I got a bit older and my younger siblings were born, but I'm so grateful she took the time she did to write little bits about my baby and early childhood. I have chosen to follow her example through my scrapbooking and I hope my kids will treasure the stories of their childhoods as well.
Oh, the nipples are chocolate chippy thing? That's an observation our then three-year-old son made one day when he was learning to dress himself. It's one of those family inside jokes we laugh about. And a good way to remember that little phrases like these are gems I want to write down and remember forever. :)


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Mahay-de A Mistake Did the Royals.
Benjamin: Lawernce, Kansas: Do you think there is any reason why Moore didn't trade Grudz or Mahay at the deadline? I heard there were big offers for Ron!!
Rob Neyer: Not trading Mahay is simply indefensible.
And Rob Neyer makes what I would call a "truly excellent point" in regards to the journeyman reliever. I myself was exercising this very theory near the deadline. My mind did not expand to words such as "indefensible," but nevertheless it would seem like a serious organizational mistake to hold onto a player like Mahay. The Royals are waving from the shore as their transportation is heading out into the ocean, because they simply "missed the boat" on this one.
Ron Mahay, a career WHIP of 1.386, posting arguably the best numbers of his career up on the wall during 2008, was held onto by a front office that should be focusing almost solely on the future, and a team that happens to be in fourth place as we speak. And I should mention that fifth place is not all that far behind them. They decide to hold onto Mahay, even though he is 37, which is the most important aspect in this situation. And the fact that he throws between 50-70 innings a year, meaning he can only help the ballclub so much, another important aspect. Wouldn't it have made much, much more sense to rid of him, and obtain anything, anything at all, that will help the team achieve future success. I am not sure how much the Royals could have received had they moved him, but I entertain the notion, and logically, that they would have acquired something that can help them in moving forward.
These are considered missed opportunities for a team, a front office. Ron Mahay was at his apex in terms of a "return," and the Royals let another chance slip through their grasp. Take a note from Billy Beane, Kansas City Royals, relievers are overrated individually. Especially ones that are 37 years old on a non-contending team. Plenty of teams were looking to add bullpen help, and plenty of teams probably would have given up something decent to help the Royals. But they held onto a pitcher that can only impact the team so much, and that SO MUCH is a very, very minimal amount.
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Its simple. Mooore is a terrible GM and he proved it before by hiring Hillman, who is a worse manager.
The Royals are only better because they have better players, not because of anything managment has done.
A decent GM or manager would have them at .500 already.
I agree, and I hated the Guillen signing even more than this.
it's hard to even imagine what their rationale was keeping him…
Because in 2012, when they are semi-competitive, 41 year old Ron Mahay will be coming out of the bullpen…and having success.
If the argument to trade Mahay is to "obtain anything, anything at all", then they should hang onto him into next year and see if they can jump into contention because by that logic, they'll be able to get exactly the same thing next year that they would've gotten this year. And he's a lefty, so he'll always have a job no matter his results.
Guillen's actually been productive this year and, while he's getting a lot of money, sometimes teams like the Royals have to overpay to get players to come to show other players that they're serious about getting better. To say Trey Hillman is a "worse" manager is just someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The guy's been a successful scout; was the director of player development for the Rangers; was a winning manager in the minor leagues for the Yankees and won a championship managing in Japan; considering the shortcomings of the Royals this year, having them at 53-62 is a pretty good accomplishment and bodes well for the future.
But Mahay is having one of the best years of his career Paul, and odds are at this age he won't perform any better than he is. So sell high would be the phrase. And you didn't quote my whole phrase. It was, "Wouldn't it have made much, much more sense to rid of him, and obtain anything, anything at all, that will help the team achieve future success." That indicates I meant that they should get anything they can to help them for the future. Obviously I didn't mean they should trade him for three prospects who are projected to stay in single A their entire careers.
I don't know much about Hillman, because I don't watch the Royals much, but the FO has made some poor decisions. And shouldn't they have thrown money at Aaron Rowand or something if they wanted to make an impression on other players, influencing them to come there? Was Guillen really a guy that attracts other ballplayers?
If the Royals trade Mahay this year and then pull something similar to what the Twins and Marlins are next year, you know what they're gonna be in the market for at mid-season, 2009? A lefty reliever. Do you think that when the Royals signed Mahay to a two-year deal, they were expecting to be in contention in 2008? The Indians and Tigers were expected to repeat what they accomplished over the last couple of years and more; no one saw their collapses coming. And some thought the White Sox were going to be much better, which they are. The Royals weren't contending this year unless EVERYTHING fell into place. They didn't sign Mahay to trade him unless someone offered something stupid, which obviously didn't happen. To trade players for the sake of trading them doesn't make any sense either.
As for the Guillen attracting other players, the main things that attract players are: A) money; B) money; and C) a chance to win. Guillen's a better hitter than Aaron Rowand. Potential free agencts are not gonna care about Guillen's personality.
For how long are teams going to be "building for the future" by dumping their veterans? The Royals tried that with Carlos Beltran, et, al. and got pretty much nothing for it. And front office people can only run their teams their own way. Teams have tried to copy Billy Beane and none have been able to do it. Moore's got a good resume; he's only in year three of his rebuilding project and the team IS better. I'm not a giant fan of Ron Mahay, but I'm not trading the guy away for no reason either.
"I'm not a giant fan of Ron Mahay, but I'm not trading the guy away for no reason either."
if i'm not wrong, joe posited a reason to trade him…the reason was to sell high and reap some good prospects.
God, Moore has made bad so many moves (or lack there of). Why is Ross Gload starting, while Ryan Shealy has an OPS of .873 in Omaha? Read my entry titled "Gruddie Not Traded?" Sort of similar to yours. Great blogging.
Well Paul, do you really see the Royals contending next year? They could very well end up finishing in fifth place. No one knows, but there farm isn't anything special I have heard.
Hillman's a winner; they're spending some money; Luke Hochevar is eventually gonna be a star and it could come out of nowhere like it does sometimes with these pitchers; and I think the Twins, Marlins and Rays are proving that teams can suddenly jump up into contention very quickly. If Mahay were righty and having this same year, you trade him at his high value, but he's lefty. There will ALWAYS be a demand for him as long as he's able to drag himself out to the mound and they'll get a similar return for him regardless of his stats.
Moore cleaned out pretty much the whole scouting staff when he took over because the system was in such bad shape; he's not going to all of a sudden have a packed farm system so quickly after taking over. With the Royals, you're talking about cluelessness going back to the mid-90s. Bottom line, they weren't going to get any blue chip prospects for Mahay one way or the other unless someone got stupid and no one did. If they decide to trade him next year as his free agency gets close, they'll get pretty much what they would've gotten had they traded him now.
Hillman is not a winner. He's a terrible manager who can't make game decisions. There's a reason they Yankees didn't hire him.
He sucks as a major-league manager. He's a bargain bin pickup that keep the Royals from spending money to find a real manager.
Just saying "he's a terrible manager" without even one example why doesn't fly. And Hillman agreed to manage the Royals on the day that Joe Torre turned down the Yankees offer to return. Brian Cashman loves Hillman and might've hired him had he known Torre wasn't coming back and if Hillman was still available.
But isn't basing your moves on LOGIC, much more valuable than basing it on a chance that a below average team (Royals) will almost magically jump into serious contention in 2009? This isn't Carlos Beltran. A 37 year old lefty like Mahay is nothing even close to having the sort of impact that a 27 year old Beltran would have had. Relievers are more expendable than starters and position players. And 37 year old relievers on bad teams are even more so. No one can predict the future, not Pecota, not any individual. But I have a strong feeling that the Royals have a few more years before they can compete. Gordon, Butler, Hochevar, Greinke, etc. are all still developing. Billy Butler will be 23 next season. 23! They have time, and they should build for a year when they realistically can contend. Not for a year where if EVERYTHING falls into place they might finish in third. And I hope the franchise has success, I tend to want to see small market teams compete, but I don't see them competing, realistically, in 2009.
And you're suggesting that they should trade Mahay to maximize his value and get the most possible back for him. What exactly would that be? They're not going to get much of anything for him now or later unless someone does something stupid. You know what they got for Beltran? They got Mark Teahen, a pretty good player; they got John Buck, a platoon catcher with some occasional pop; and Mike Wood, who was with Texas last year and isn't playing with any MLB organization this year. That's not a great return for a superstar center fielder who was 27 when he was traded, so what are you expecting to get for Mahay other than a mid-level prospect? That proposed return would make it pointless to trade him in the first place.
Lets do it a different way. You tell me why Hillman is a good manager. Give me some examples. And winning more games this year doesn't count. They are winning more games because they players they have are playing better. Not because of anything Hillman has done.
I don't need to give examples of why Hillman is a bad manager. He proves it everyday. You tell me how he is a good manager.
Because I'l bet you can't do it!
You can't.
Here are some examples of why Hillman sucks.
1. His use of the pitching staff.
2. Not knowing how to use his bullpen.
3. The intentional walks he has ordered.
4. Ross Gload as your everyday 1B.
5. Tony Pena starting 60 of the 1st 100 games.
6. David DeJesus as the leadoff hitter.
7. Mark Tehan being a starter.
8. Soria in the bullpen instead of being a starter.
9. Thinking a starter can only throw 85 pitches in a start.
10. Billy Butler playing 1B 3 days a week instead of being a full-time position player or a full-time DH.
Thats off the top of my head without making an effor.
So, please, tell me how Hillman is a good manger. Give me 10 reasons. Take you time. Give it some thought.
Because you can;t do it.
whoever you are ron—i like your stuff
1. He's developing three young pitchers in Greinke, Hochevar and Davies (who the "pitching geniuses" in Atlanta couldn't get much of anything out of, but has pitched serviceably with KC); he's allowing Gil Meche to anchor the rotation; and getting something out of Brian Bannister, who isn't any good.
2. The top three in the bullpen have been very good and the innings throughout the staff have been doled out evenly and reasonably.
3. I don't have enough information about his intentional walk usage.
4. Ryan Shealy should be playing instead of Gload.
5. Tony Pena should not be playing in any position other than as a defensive replacement.
6. David DeJesus has some pop and gets on base better than anyone else in their lineup and can run a little bit; there isn't a better leadoff option available.
7. Who is the option instead of Teahen?
8. Why should Soria, an All Star closer who's never started one professional game, all of a sudden be made into a starter?
9. Gil Meche has thrown over 100 pitches in 16 starts this season including six over 115; Brian Bannister, 14 over 100 with six over 110; Zach Greinke, 12 over 100; he's babied Hochevar and Davies within reason for two young pitchers.
10. Butler is supposedly a rotten first baseman, has only 22 of his 84 hits for extra bases and is going to wind up with over 500 at bats this year. For a slugger, he doesn't slug very much.
Hillman's doing a pretty good job with a very young team and trying to develop his players. His resume indicates that he's got a plan and a history of success. I'm not sure who you want to manage the team, but I don't know anyone—Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre—-who'd have a better result with that roster. If you'd like to go back to the days of Allard Baird treating his team as a big league farm club for the larger market teams and mismanagement by Tony Muser, Tony Pena and all their cluelessness, lots of luck.
1. The manager doesn't develop pitchers. They either have talent, or they don't. Greinke isn't developing, he's there. He can't "allow" Meche to anchor the rotation. That doesn't even make sense. Your best pitcher is your best pitcher because he's your best pitcher. Not what his rotation start is, which doesn't last past the beginning of May or the first injury. And my grandmother could get the same effectiveness out of Bannister that Hillman is. You're giving Hillman credit for something he has no control over.
Point #1 to me.
2. The top 3 in the bullpen have been good because they are good. As I said, the Royals are playing better because their players are better. Hillman can control their usage, but he doesn't control their effectiveness. They aren't better because of anything Hillman has done. They reason they haven't been overused is because he won't use them. They are all 1 inning pitchers, because he doesn't allow them to throw a second one. He's often pulled them out while being effective and handed the game to some deadass who turns around and blows it. Again, he does't know how to use a bullpen. He"s underusing them and costing the Royals games.
Point # 2 to me.
3. I live in the UK and have watched enough games and read enough about what's going on with the intentional walks. If you dont know about, how much of a fan are you really? And if you don't follow the Royals, how can you have this much of an opinion? Nick Markakis, anyone?
Point # 3 to me.
4. You agree with me.
Point #4 to me.
5. You agree with, except Pena should be playing defense for another team. Because for some reason, Hillman is still trying to find him at bats. If Pena ever got lucky and got to .200, he would be starting again.
Point #5 to me.
6. You're right. DeJesus has some pop. He would be good hiting 2nd. Maybe 5th. Defintely 6th. Maybe even 3rd. But not as a leadoff hitter. Nothing wrong with Aviles leading off. Maybe Gathright should have been given a chance, but he wasn't and neither will anyone else while DeJesus is considered a leadoff hitter. If the Royals ever did trade him, I'll bet the farm that he won't hit leadoff. That's was Buddy Bells fault for thinking DeJesus was a leadoff hitter, but if Hillman is just going to follow what he did, then we might as well have Bell back.
I'm taking point #6 to me becasue DeJesus isn't a leadoff hitter and anyone who thinks he is doesn't know the game.
7. Anyone. The Royals have enough outfielders/1B in KC and Omaha to insure Tehan never starts again. Lets see. Butler/Shealy/Guillen/DeJesus/Maier/the Hawaiian guy, I can't spell it/actually give Gaitright more than 2 games a week and see if he can do it. Hell, Pena got 60 starts, which more games than Gaithright has played. Plenty of options. I lik Tehan. As a super-sub type of guy, but not as a starter. 250 AB's don't make you a star.
Point #7 to me.
8. The idea of a closer is ********. If you don't have starters that can get you to the 9th, then what difference does it make? How many times has Soria went muplitple games in a row without pitching because they couldn't get to him. If he's that good in 1 inning at a time, I'll take even 75% of that for 6 innings. Worrying about how good your bullpen is just verifies that your rotation is crap. You dont need a 1-inning reliever getting 40 saves when your team can't even win 70 games. When you get to the point where you can win 85 games, its time to worry about a closer. As much as I dislike the Yankees, they figured it out with Chamberlin. Your best pitchers should be your starters, particularly when you're as bad as the Royals have been.
Point #8 to me.
9. I'll give you that one. You obvioulsly went to Baseball Reference or Retrosheet to look it up. Did you also see how many times he's pulled a starter after 8 good innings with a low pitch count just so Soria could get a save? I can think of a dozen different times its happened. He'll let them stay in and pitch, but not get CG's or SHO's. Really nice of him.
I'll give you point #9.
10. Butler might be terrible with the glove. But you won't figure it out playing the field 2 or 3 days a week and DH'ing the rest of the time. Either he plays the field everyday and learns how to do the job (or you live with it if he's hitting) or you put him at DH for 162 games. So he needs to play. Especially if you're using Gload as your 1B, Butler as DH and Hop-Along Guillen as your RF. You can't really belive that's the way to win games? Do you?
Point #10 to me.
So that's me winining the debate 9-1. Which oddly enough, has been the score of many Royals losses this season. And will be as long as Hillman is managing the club. He's about to start making me think Muser knew what he was doing.
It's very interesting how you try to end a debate by simply declaring yourself the "winner" of nine of the ten points and only allow yourself to lose the one under grudging acceptance of stats. I'm not going to get into a point-by-point back and forth; others can decide who's truly "winning" if that's the designation you choose to use, but managers DO develop pitchers and players by their usage and picking and choosing when to remove them or leave them in games. An untold number of pitchers, starters and relievers, have been ruined by managers who either abused them or didn't give them a fair chance. And I've seen and heard enough managers to know whether one knows what he's doing or spouting a bunch of by-the-book crud and Hillman knows what he's doing whether you like him or not.


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"He and Lewin must have had a magical life together out in the country. When Parrish was 90 years old and Lewin was 71, Parrish's wife finally died, leaving him free to marry Lewin. However, he declined so she packed her bags, left the estate and went back to her village where she married someone else."Part one in an occasional series on artists and their love life. [some NSFW] [more inside]