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Rays Exercise Farnsworth's Option, Not Shoppach's
The Rays exercised Kyle Farnsworth's 2012 option while declining Kelly Shoppach's, according to the Tampa Tribune (on Twitter). Farnsworth obtains a $3.3MM salary instead of a $650K buyout and Shoppach obtains a $300K buyout instead of a $3.2MM salary.
Farnsworth posted a 2.18 ERA with 8.0 K/9 and 1.9 BB/9 in 57 2/3 innings out of the bullpen in 2011. Shoppach, 31, hit just .176/.268/.339 in 253 plate appearances, but he led the league by preventing 41% of stolen base attempts. The Rays will look to get more offense from behind the plate in 2012.
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Free Agent Closers' Usage
The upcoming class of free agents figures to present an interesting study in the way teams are evaluating relievers these days. After Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder, many of the most recognizable names are closers or relievers who have previously closed.
Modern analysis suggests it's foolish to invest heavily in relief pitchers due to their limited contributions and volatility in year-to-year production. But someone has to get those crucial late-inning outs, and the temptation for a team that thinks it's a contender to throw a lot of money at a guy who's coming off a year in which he posted a minuscule ERA or eye-popping strikeout rate is often too great.
Undoubtedly, suitors will use a variety of criteria to evaluate free-agent closers, one of which will be usage. Because usage can encompass so many things — innings, appearances, pitches, "high-stress" pitches, and so on — it's tough to say which is the most accurate reflection of a pitcher's workload; of course, this debate continues on for starters, too.
During the season, with the launch of CloserNews.com, we began keeping an eye on relievers who had pitched on three (and four) consecutive days, as that seems to be the breaking point for when most relievers must be rested. We've tallied that up here in a spreadsheet, along with a few other measures (standard and otherwise) of reliever usage, for the upcoming class of free-agent closers.
The objective here isn't to make any bold proclamations based on who threw the most innings; I may as well pen the inevitable mea culpa right now if it were. Rather, there are some interesting tidbits of note here, a few things to file away as these relievers ready themselves for free agency and teams prepare to bid.
- Heath Bell and Francisco Cordero were the only two of this group to pitch on four consecutive days in 2011. Bell is the only one to do it twice.
- Bell's abundance of pitches certainly seems to correspond with his dip in strikeout rate (7.32 K/9 in 2011 vs. 9.22 for career). Looks like he was having trouble putting away hitters, at least relative to his past performances.
- Francisco Rodriguez paced the group by pitching on three consecutive days six times.
- Heavy usage is not unusual for K-Rod, though. He's pitched fewer than 65 innings only once in his nine full big league seasons, the red herring due to an off-field incident in 2010.
- Info was culled from Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference.
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Players Claimed And Pulled Back
A player who is claimed on waivers can be pulled back by his original team, and it happens regularly. It could be that the two sides just couldn't reach a deal, or it might be that the original team never intended to trade the player. Technically a player can be placed on waivers a second time, but it's rare because in that case he cannot be pulled back. Reportedly, at least 16 players have been claimed and pulled back this month:
- Ryan Dempster
- Kyle Farnsworth
- Joel Peralta
- Edwin Jackson
- B.J. Upton
- Heath Bell – claimed by Giants
- Tim Byrdak
- Chris Carpenter
- Coco Crisp
- Scott Hairston
- Rich Harden - claimed by Indians
- Ramon Hernandez
- Jason Isringhausen
- Jason Kubel – claimed by Indians
- Carlos Pena – claimed by Yankees
- Wandy Rodriguez – claimed by Rockies
Many players were placed on waivers and were not traded, including John Danks, Gavin Floyd, Paul Konerko, Matt Thornton, Brett Myers, Clint Barmes, and Craig Breslow. It's safe to assume several of these players were claimed and then pulled back. Additionally, at least 23 players have cleared waivers and can be traded to any team.
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Zambrano, Farnsworth Placed On Waivers
The Cubs' Carlos Zambrano and the Rays' Kyle Farnsworth were among the players placed on waivers yesterday, according to MLB.com's Peter Gammons (via Twitter). Teams have 48 business hours to make a claim on either player, giving them until Tuesday. This news doesn't necessarily mean that the Cubs and Rays are looking to deal Zambrano and Farnsworth, respectively. Hundreds of players are expected to hit the waiver wire in the month of August.
Earlier this week, both players were identified as August trade candidates by MLBTR's Tim Dierkes.
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Stark On Bell, Beltran, Rays, Giants
The latest from ESPN's Jayson Stark…
- The Rangers and Phillies are the favorites for Padres closer Heath Bell, with the Cardinals, Angels, Braves, and Reds also in the mix.
- One executive Stark spoke to wouldn't be surprised to see a dark horse like the Reds or Brewers make a late run at Mets right fielder Carlos Beltran.
- An official who spoke with the Rays over the weekend said that while they're not trading James Shields, they'll decide later this week on players like Johnny Damon and Kyle Farnsworth. B.J. Upton could be dealt even if the team closes its 6.5 game wild card deficit.
- The Rays and Blue Jays have been scouting each other's farm systems recently. One scout speculated that the Jays could join a three-team Upton trade somehow.
- One team says Brian Sabean's off-limits prospects are Zack Wheeler, Heath Hembree, and Gary Brown, along with Brandon Belt. That'd leave the team without any top 50 prospects to move, with Francisco Peguero and Ehire Adrianza in the next tier based on Baseball America's preseason rankings. There's also Double-A lefty Eric Surkamp, who brought his ERA down to 2.00 yesterday.
- The Phillies are steering teams to their High-A Clearwater club, as they don't want to trade big leaguers and not to add much more than a million bucks in payroll. Jonathan Singleton, Brody Colvin, Trevor May, Sebastian Valle, and Jiwan James are names to watch there assuming Jarred Cosart is untouchable. Stark says the Phillies have cooled on Beltran and Hunter Pence is a long shot, so the focus is now the back end of the bullpen. Heath Bell is the top target, with Brandon League also on the radar.
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AL East Rumors: Farnsworth, Upton, Kuroda
The Rays remain on the fringe of contention, 6.5 games out in the wild card. The other four AL East teams have clear positions: the Yankees and Red Sox are buyers, and the Blue Jays and Orioles are sellers. The latest:
- The Rays are willing to trade closer Kyle Farnsworth, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney. The 35-year-old has a 1.99 ERA, 7.1 K/9, 1.8 BB/9, 0.44 HR/9, and 53.8% groundball rate in 40 2/3 innings this year. He's more than a rental, with a $3.3MM club option for 2012. Joel Peralta might be next in line to close if Farnsworth is dealt, suggests Dan Mennella at CloserNews.
- Trade rumors have "become a comedy to me," Rays center fielder B.J. Upton told Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. Upton wants to stay in Tampa Bay, though he's heard himself linked to the Giants, Indians, Nationals, and Phillies.
- The Yankees are among the teams pursuing the Dodgers' Hiroki Kuroda, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Yanks had a scout at Edwin Jackson's start yesterday in Cleveland, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports.
- The Orioles' next GM will have his hands full with many team needs this offseason, writes Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun.
- WEEI's Alex Speier looks at the circumstances that led to the Red Sox acquiring catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia from the Rangers last summer.
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Olney On Deadline Plans For AL Teams
ESPN's Buster Olney outlined plans for National League teams heading into the trade deadline yesterday, and today he follows up with the American League in an Insider-only column that comes highly recommended. Here's a brief recap…
- The Mark Ellis trade could just be the first domino that falls for the Athletics. Other veterans like Josh Willingham, Coco Crisp, and Grant Balfour could follow him out the door.
- The Twins aren't as willing to trade now as they were a few weeks ago, and the big question they have to ask themselves is if eating a chunk of the $5.5MM left on Michael Cuddyer's contract is worth it to trade him.
- We've heard this before, but B.J. Upton and Kyle Farnsworth of the Rays figure to draw interest.
- The Red Sox and Angels don't have a lot of financial flexiblity and are more likely to target smaller pieces.
- Jeff Francoeur, Melky Cabrera, and Wilson Betemit are all affordable and reasonably productive, but Olney notes that the Royals might want to keep some veterans around so the youngsters don't get pounded.
- The Indians and Mariners will not blow up their rebuild processes despite their surprising runs at contention. Erik Bedard's injury took away Seattle's best chip.
- Poor seasons from Alex Rios and Adam Dunn make it difficult for the White Sox to do anything. They need those two to get back on track more than anything.
- The Yankees are convinced their internal pitching options are better than what's available on the market right now. A Rafael Soriano setback would put them in the reliever market.
- It's all about right-handed relief pitching for the Rangers, who will have plenty of options to choose from. The Blue Jays have lots of bullpen help to deal.
- The Tigers are asking around about pitching, specifically left-handers.
- The Orioles are having an internal debate about whether or not to trade Jeremy Guthrie, but they are expected to at least listen to offers.
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Quick Hits: Farnsworth, Durbin, Izzy, Duchscherer
Here are a few items of note for Jan. 29, 53 years to the day after Stan Musial became the National League's highest-paid player with the one-year, $100K contract he signed with the Cardinals …
- The Rays will pay Kyle Farnsworth $2.6MM in salary in 2011, tweets Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. If Farnsworth's option for 2012 is picked up, he will earn $3.3MM that year. If it's declined, the buyout is $650K. The deal also includes up to $300K in incentives for games finished.
- The Phillies have not re-signed free-agent reliever Chad Durbin because he is seeking a two-year deal at a higher annual salary than the club is comfortable giving him, tweets Jayson Stark of ESPN.com. Philly is also intent on preserving the roster spot for the sake of grooming younger relievers, according to Stark.
- The Reds will decide whether to sign free-agent reliever Jason Isringhausen after watching him throw a bullpen session on Monday in Arizona, tweets John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Isringhausen signed a minor-league deal with the Reds last July but did not appear in any games for them. He last appeared in the big leagues with the Rays in June 2009, a stint that ended when he suffered an arm injury that required Tommy John surgery.
- The Orioles remain fairly interested in free-agent pitcher Justin Duchscherer after receiving positive feedback on the right-hander's Friday bullpen session, blogs Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com.
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AL East Notes: Jays, Soriano, Farnsworth, Arroyo
Some news items from the AL East…
- Toronto's payroll could end up being in the $80-$85MM range, tweets FOXSports.com's Jon Paul Morosi. The Blue Jays currently have just under $49MM committed for 2011 (according to Cot's Baseball Contracts) and have eight players eligible for arbitration. Jose Bautista will get the biggest raise of this group, but even with notables like Yunel Escobar and Brandon Morrow also arb-eligible, the Jays should have a bit of money left to spend beyond settling their arbitration cases.
- Perhaps the Jays' extra money could be spent on Brian Fuentes? We heard about Toronto's interest in Fuentes earlier this week, and now SI's Jon Heyman tweets that the Jays are still "pressing for" the free agent reliever.
- Did Scott Boras wait too long for a Rafael Soriano market to develop? Fangraphs' R.J. Anderson thinks this might be the case, and that Soriano might have to settle another one-year contract with the hopes of finding a long-term deal next offseason.
- A bit of early reaction to Tampa Bay's agreement with Kyle Farnsworth: CBSSports.com's Danny Knobler thinks the signing is risky, but believes the Rays need to take chances on their bullpen if they want to contend. Meanwhile, Dave Cameron of Fangraphs thinks the Rays made a better deal for Farnsworth than Boston did with Bobby Jenks, given that Farnsworth and Jenks put up comparable numbers over the last two seasons.
- Bronson Arroyo tells Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald that he enjoyed pitching for the Red Sox and wouldn't mind returning: "Even though I can safely say that I've cemented myself in Cincinnati for a while, [Boston] definitely still feels like home and in the back of my mind I know that there is no better place to play than in Fenway Park." Arroyo said when his three-year extension with the Reds runs out after the 2013 season, he would be interested in pitching for the Rays (to play close to his family), returning to the Red Sox, or staying in Cincinnati.
- MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli has details on the vesting option included in Kevin Gregg's contract with the Orioles. Gregg's 2013 option will become guaranteed if he finishes 50 games in 2012, or if he finishes 100 games total in 2011-12. As SI's Jon Heyman tweeted in the previous link, Gregg will earn between $6-$10MM in 2013 if his option vests.
- Matt Bush, the first overall pick of the 2004 draft, talks to MLB.com's Dawn Klemish about his battle with alcoholism and the progress he's made in the Tampa Bay organization.
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Rays Sign Kyle Farnsworth
The Rays have officially signed Kyle Farnsworth to a one-year deal, according a team press release. The agreement was first reported by Steve Slowinski of DRaysBay and confirmed by ESPN.com's Buster Olney (Twitter links). The deal will pay the Barry Meister client $3.25MM in 2011 and could be worth $6MM over two years, since there's an option for 2012.
Farnsworth posted a 3.34 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9 in 64 2/3 innings for the Royals and Braves last year. The 34-year-old's 41% ground ball rate is unremarkable, but it's higher than it was earlier in his career, when he was more of a fly ball pitcher. Farnsworth doesn't throw quite as hard as he once did, but his average fastball was still 94.9 mph last year. That was enough to place Farnsworth at the top of MLBTR's list of the hardest throwing free agent relievers.
The Rays have added bullpen candidates Adam Russell, Cesar Ramos, Joel Peralta, Chris Archer, Cory Wade, J.P. Howell and R.J. Swindle this offseason. That's a promising group of players, but Andrew Friedman's acquisitions are considerably less established than the collection of Rays relievers that hit free agency after the season.
As MLBTR's Free Agent Tracker shows, former Rays relievers Rafael Soriano, Grant Balfour and Chad Qualls are among the remaining unsigned arms.
It's been a publicly quiet offseason for Farnsworth since the Braves declined his $5.25MM option for 2011 at the beginning of November.
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Jimmy Wales to chair World Economic Forum on the Middle East
Jimmy Wales is set to co-chair the annual World Economic Forum on the Middle East, an event billed as "the foremost global gathering of political, business and cultural leaders." The Wikipedia co-founder will chair the event alongside Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, chairman of Bahrain's Ithmaar Bank; Mohammed Alshaya, executive chairman …
For some reason I suddenly felt that I had just travelled back in time to exactly one week ago.
It's a bit late for April Fools. Isn't it?
Like you said Reg, a Jimmy Wales April Fools story is no match for the real thing.
Paris, cos' she's no fool...
Now I Know
what's wrong with the world today.
"Impeccable leadership skills", Jesus. That's crazy Scientology talk.
Stranger than fiction
Headline: "Jimmy Wales to chair World Economic Forum on the Middle East." Surely this *IS* the real Jimbo April Fools story?
What next? Sergey Brin and Larry Page to co-preside over the G8?
Oh the Possibilities
"not necessarily any knowledge of the region - which he may or may not have."
Surely he will look it up in Wikipedia? Let's all start editing... could be hilarious!
Are you sure
you didn't get this from Wikipedia. This is why you don't make up stories about guys like Jimmy Whales they will trump you every time.
Just the title (if you said it aloud) is enough to get you institutionalized in most countries.
Duke, Duke, Duke...
Duke of York,
Duke, Duke,
Duke of York
Duke, Duke,
Duke of York
(repeat from the top)
Is it true?
That Sub-Lieutenant HRH The Duke of York's nickname in the Navy was C*nt?
Partly because he expected those senior to him to call him Sir? And insisted on being accompanied by his new wife following the fleet in some style on one of the RFAs.
wikipedia founder
duke of york
in the World Economic forum
truly the lunatics are in charge of the asylum
Thetanic Wales
I suppose he will sit around there until he has a cognition.
Oh, that was your story on Scientology? Sorry, it's quite easy to confuse these guys.
How exactly is he a businessman ?
The oversized head that he has gained in no way makes him a businessman, much less a successful one.
He could conceivably qualify himself as a successful lobbyist, though.
But where culture is concerned, he needs quite a lot of educating before being able to tout himself as culturally knowledgeable. And given his stance on moderating, along with his penchant to change the odds in whatever way suits him, I seriously doubt that any forum presided by His Wackyness and buddies will have anything to bring to the public as far as Knowledge is concerned.
We will certainly find out what misguided female is accompanying him, but he needn't preside a forum for that - I'm sure there are a few rags available who'd be happy to publish a line on that subject. Maybe even a picture.
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Memory Alpha has some sort of a crazy fixation about a Bajoran rank they call "Field Colonel". It's completely baseless - it's not part of the episode dialogue, and has no proper real-world equivalent.
Several european nations had the rank of Field
, it was the single highest military rank, just below the political commander in chief.
I don't think we ever heard of a Bajor general or admiral. Maybe field colonal IS the highest rank they have.
Possibly, considering how limited in size and scope the Bajoran Militia appeared to be in the wake of the Cardassian occupation. It seemed to have limited, local law enforcement and internal security functions and relied on small units for the most part. Most small armed organizations like that that don't qualify as full-fledged "armies" don't have general/flag officers because of their limited manpower.
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Two cheers for Michael Mooreand a raspberry. Released as the countdown begins for a second Gulf War, Moore's latest documentary psychodrama, Bowling for Columbine, is nothing if not timely in articulating sentiments and posing questions that few public personalities are willing to entertain (let alone so entertainingly).
Moore is the great grandstander of American documentarians. There's a Bowling for Columbine promo picture that shows him with a camera on one shoulder and a rifle on the other, but really it's the angel of populism and the devil of narcissism that are perched beside his ears. Less shamelessly self-aggrandizing than The Big One (a movie about the filmmaker's book tour that opened with an ovation from his adoring fans), Bowling for Columbine seizes upon the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in the Denver suburb of Littleton as the pretext for an essay on violence in America. The movie can be devastating and is often hilarious. Trolling through the U.S.A., Moore gleefully teases out the absurdity of a Midwestern bank giving away free guns to those opening new accounts and the political confusion of the Hollywood liberal who produces Cops.
Still, for someone who takes pride in his teenage marksmanship, Moore is mighty fond of shooting fish in a barrel. Moving into creepier territory, he pals around with Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols's older brother, interviews some Columbine kids who attended bowling class with shooter Eric Harris on the morning of the massacre, and befriends others wounded in the rampage. It's exploitation with an agenda. Eager to link U.S. domestic and international violence, Moore points out that Littleton's biggest employer is Lockheed Martin and that the Columbine attack occurred on the very day that Serbia suffered maximum aerial bombing. The connection is spurious (and it can be argued that NATO intervention on behalf of Kosovo prevented further bloodshed). Moore, however, is not one to let ambiguitiesor, as the jumbled chronology of Roger & Me demonstrated, factsget in the way.
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Credit Bowling for Columbine with a strong argument for enhanced gun control and a willingness to wonder why this argument is a perennial of American political discourse. (As Arthur Schlesinger noted 30-odd years ago, "No one has ever tried to assassinate the president with a bow and arrow.") As a movie, however, it's poorly structured, a half-hour too long, and devotedly fixated on the filmmaker's persona. Preempting whatever appreciation the viewer might feel, Moore documents himself accepting gratitude for staging a successful protest against Kmart's sale of bullets and hugging needy victims as though he were Mother Teresa in a baseball cap.
Shamelessly roping in the events of September 11 (and egregiously scoring a crude montage to "What a Wonderful World"), Moore has his eye on the big picture. Just why is America so violent? Canada has nearly as many guns, Germany is burdened with a more murderous past, and Britain administered a larger empire. (Third World bloodbaths in Rwanda, the Indian subcontinent, and Cambodia are discreetly omitted as test casesas is the New Left cult of violence.) Moore includes a cartoon history lesson on the making of what Richard Slotkin named Gunfighter Nation; luckily for his film, Moore does not attempt to appropriate the discredited thesis of Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America, which wishfully maintains that the national gun culture was a late-19th-century development.
Who was it that called violence as American as apple pie? The nation's founding revolution occurred in the middle of the institutionalized terror of slavery and a 300-year struggle with the Indians; the bloodiest civil war in recorded history up until that time was followed by a half-century of pitched battles between capital and labor, not to mention thousands of vigilante lynchings and state executionsand that's just violence at home. But how does it explain kids shooting up their suburban high schools? Isn't there also a distinctively American culture of aggrieved self-importance? Moore, who might well understand that cultural foible, ridicules the attempt to scapegoat shock-rocker Marilyn Manson for Columbine and ignores the standard conservative claim that Hollywood violence is responsible; his culprit is the fear-mongering media's obsession with killer bees, Y2K power failures, and Columbine-like outrages. (It's true that Americans enjoy the spectacle of mayhemforeigners are often surprised to encounter the laughter that movie carnage inspires.) To make amends, perhaps that same media can be persuaded to stage a celebrity death match between Moore and a right-wing gasbag like Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh.
Moore evidently had something similar in mind. Bowling for Columbine's grand finale shows the filmmaker using his lifelong membership in the National Rifle Association as a means to dupe the organization's chief cheerleader Charlton Heston into an at-home interview. The ensuing debate might almost inspire pity for the doddering actor (who has since announced that he suffers from Alzheimer's)were it not for earlier footage showing the idiotic satisfaction he took in addressing an NRA pep rally in post-Columbine Denver.
A more enigmatic performance artist than Moore, Ray Johnson (1927-95) is the subject of John Walter's absorbing documentary portrait How to Draw a Bunny. An art-world prankster, Johnson made an anti-career by using the U.S. Post Office as the major distribution system for his complex, punning collages. As a good American, he was preoccupied with celebritudeappropriating images of Elvis and James Dean and founding obscure fan clubseven while cultivating his own obscurity.
"His whole life was a game, like his work," one colleague says of this Duchampian figure who turned every attempt to sell his art into a Zen exercise. "Ray wasn't a person," another elaborates. "He was Ray Johnson's creation." One of the pleasures in Walter's documentary, which won a special jury prize at Sundance and leaves little doubt of Johnson's significance, is the parade of veteran painters, confounded dealers, and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him: "Everyone had a story about Ray Johnson." Even I have one. During the first week of 1995, Johnsonwhom I'd never metcalled me out of the blue with a question concerning the framing of a photograph in a book I'd written. A week later, he jumped into Long Island Sound and drowned. "If none of us could understand his motive for living, how could we understand his motive for dying?" someone wonders.
Walter's documentary ends with the police video taken of Johnson's house in suburban Locust Valley, Long Island. Unprepossessing on the outside, the place turns out to be all studio, filled with boxes and meticulously stacked pictures. There is nothing on the wall and no image facing out except one oversized, deadpan portrait of the artist. That Johnson's suicide was obviously his final work is a most disquieting form of integrity.
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A shooting rest supports a firearm and reduces recoil energy of the firearm. The shooting rest has a rear support and a front support for supporting the firearm and a frame connecting the rear support and the front support. The frame supports at least one weight to reduce the amount of recoil energy felt by a shooter.
1. A shooting rest for supporting a firearm having a first portion and a second portion rearward of the first portion, the shooting rest comprising:
a front support for supporting the first portion of the firearm;
a support member coupled to the front support, the support member including a surface for carrying one or more weights rearward of the front support and a portion positioned aft of the one or more weights to inhibit rearward movement of the one or more weights during recoil;
a rear support for supporting the second portion of the firearm, the rear support being coupled to the support member;
an inhibiting member for inhibiting rearward movement of the firearm relative to the shooting rest, at least a portion of the inhibiting member being positioned proximate to the rear support; and
at least one of a weight configured to reduce recoil, wherein the weight is approximately twenty-five pounds.
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This application is a non-provisional of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/478,557, filed Jun. 13, 2003. The entire text of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
This invention relates generally to a firearm shooting rest, and more particularly to a shooting rest that reduces the amount of recoil energy transmitted to a shooter.
The firearms shooting sports are often associated with the sometimes painful recoil that results from shooting the firearm. Recoil from large caliber firearms can cause a shooter to flinch, or jerk the firearm trigger, in anticipation of the shock to the shooter's upper body. Flinching, or jerking the trigger, in anticipation of recoil is a common negative factor in a shooter's accuracy. Recoil can be described as the equal and opposite reaction to the momentum of an ammunition cartridge's projectile (bullet) and gunpowder charge upon firing of the cartridge. This momentum is imparted to the firearm, causing it to travel in the opposite direction of the fired bullet. The resulting energy, or recoil energy, of the firearm can be calculated using the following equation derived from the Law of Conservation of Momentum:
As can be seen by the above equation, increasing the Firearm Weight will result in a decreased Recoil Energy. As is common to the art of firearms manufacture, large caliber, heavy recoiling firearms are designed to be heavier in weight than small caliber, low recoiling firearms for precisely this reason. The additional weight has a dampening effect on the recoil felt by the shooter.
To test the accuracy of a firearm a shooter will commonly shoot with the firearm placed atop a shooting rest, which in turn is placed atop a bench. The shooter then fires the firearm from a sitting position behind the bench. This type of arrangement eliminates shooting errors caused by the inability of the human body to hold a firearm perfectly steady and provides the steadiest, most accurate method of supporting a firearm while shooting. Shooting from the bench has the drawback of subjecting the shooter to a higher degree of "effective recoil." Actual recoil energy of the firearm does not increase by shooting from the bench, but more of the recoil energy is transferred to the shooter in a sitting position than in a standing position. The standing position allows the entirety of the shooter's body to flex and partially absorb the recoil energy. In the sitting position only the torso (shoulder to waist) of the shooter is available to flex and absorb the recoil. Because of the higher "effective recoil" when firing from a sitting position, shooting a large caliber, heavy recoiling firearm from a bench can create an unpleasant experience when firing more than a few rounds. It is common for a shooter to fire upwards of twenty rounds when zeroing, or sighting-in, especially in the case of rifles and shotguns using telescopic sights.
From this point forward the discussion of firearms will pertain specifically to long arms (e.g., rifles and shotguns) although many of the principles discussed could be applied to other types of firearms.
This invention relates to a method of reducing recoil experienced by the shooter without requiring modification to the firearm. Several devices are currently available that serve as a means of supporting a firearm on a bench while reducing recoil. These recoil-reducing shooting rests differ from traditional shooting rests in that the traditional rests do nothing to absorb recoil. A traditional shooting rest supports and steadies the firearm, but does not restrain it. A recoil-reducing shooting rest may employ any of a multitude of methods to dampen, or absorb the recoil energy. Typically these devices consist of a base unit with a moveable carriage, with the firearm resting on and affixed to the carriage. The carriage is moveably attached to the base to allow linear motion relative to the base along a path parallel to the direction of firearm recoil. Springs, pneumatic cylinders, elastic bands or other methods with which to slow, or dampen, the force and energy of the recoiling firearm, restrain the carriage, and the firearm affixed to the carriage, from free travel relative to the base. Reference may be made to U.S. Pat. No. 5,811,720, incorporated by reference herein for all purposes, for additional background information relating to existing recoil-reducing shooting rests.
The present invention reduces recoil by adding weight to the shooting rest. The shooting rest is a rigid structure. Therefore, when the firearm is fired, the firearm and shooting rest can be considered as a single unit subjected to the firearm's recoil energy. Mathematically, the weight of the shooting rest can be added to the weight of the firearm to yield a total Firearm Weight as used in the Recoil Energy equation. Since total Firearm Weight is inversely proportional to recoil energy, adding more weight to the shooting rest results in a corresponding reduction in recoil energy. The recoil-reducing shooting rest of the present invention is designed to accept 25 lb. bags of lead shot to increase the weight of the unit. Lead shot was selected for its availability to the typical shooter, uniformity of packaging and ease of portability.
The objectives of the present invention include one or more of the following:
1) A shooting rest that provides recoil reduction for heavy recoiling firearms;
2) Recoil reduction in the simplest manner possible;
3) A rigid shooting rest to withstand the energy of heavy recoiling firearms;
4) A stable shooting rest;
5) A shooting rest with few moving parts;
6) A quality product with minimal cost
The present invention is designed to reduce the recoil energy experienced by a shooter when shooting heavy recoiling rifles and shotguns from a sitting position at a bench while providing a solid, steady support for the firearm. In one embodiment, the Recoil-Reducing Shooting Rest is of a rigid design and constructed of steel tubing and sheet metal. The rest includes a stationary Rear Support for the buttstock of a firearm, an adjustable Front Support for the forend of the firearm, a stabilizing Frame connecting the Rear and Front Supports and a formed sheet metal Holder located in the center of the frame. The purpose of the holder is to hold weight added by the shooter. In one embodiment, the holder is designed to hold up to four 25 lb. bags of lead shot or other suitable material. The weight of the lead shot reduces recoil energy generated by offering resistance to the rearward movement of the firearm and Shooting Rest upon discharge of the firearm.
Other objects and features will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.
Corresponding parts are designated by corresponding reference numbers throughout the drawings.
In one embodiment the Frame 4 is constructed of steel tubing and comprises a Rear Vertical Section 13, a Horizontal Base Section 14, a Front Vertical Section 17, and a Horizontal Support Member 24. The Frame 4 provides a rigid infrastructure to the Shooting Rest 1 by joining all the subsystems in a single unit. Preferably, the Rest 1 has three points of contact with a bench or other flat surface but it will be understood that the Shooting Rest may have more or less than three points of contact with the bench without departing from the scope of this invention. In the illustrated embodiment, a Rear Foot 25 is located on the Horizontal Base Section 14 of the Frame 4, generally near the rear of the Shooting Rest 1 and two Front Feet 23 are located toward the outside edges of the Holder 5. A three-point contact, or tripod arrangement, provides the most inherently stable and self-leveling configuration of the Shooting Rest 1. The Front Feet 23 and Rear Foot 25 provide a non-marring surface for contact of the Shooting Rest 1 with the bench and also provide a large coefficient of friction between the Shooting Rest and the bench to minimize movement of the Shooting Rest during firearm discharge. The Rear Foot 25 is threadably engaged to the Horizontal Base Section 14. The threaded engagement allows for elevation adjustment for the rear portion of the Rest 1. The Front Feet 23 are attached to the Holder 5 by conventional fasteners (e.g. sheet metal screws not shown).
The Rear Support 2 supports the rifle buttstock 6 and provides the main transfer point of the recoil energy from the rifle R to the Frame 4 of the Shooting Rest 1. In the illustrated embodiment, the Rear Support 2 consists of a Buttstop 9, Toe Plate 10 and a Recoil Shoulder Pad 16. As seen in
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In one embodiment, the Holder 5 is formed of sheet metal and is rigidly connected to the Horizontal Base Section 14 of the Frame 4. Two Holder Support Tubes 26 are welded to Horizontal Section 14 to add support and stability to the Holder 5 by preventing it from rotating about the Horizontal Section. In the illustrated embodiment, the Holder 5 has a generally U-shaped cross-section with front and back Lips 18 that curve upward from a bottom surface 27 of the holder. The Holder 5 provides a stable platform to receive weights 8 placed on the Shooting Rest R by the shooter and a structure for the attachment of the Front Feet 23 to the Shooting Rest 1. It will be understood that the Holder 5 may comprise other structures for supporting the weights 8 on the Frame 4 or that the weights may be attached directly to the Frame without departing from the scope of this invention. In the illustrated embodiment, the weights 8 are in the form of 25 lb. bags of lead shot due to their availability to a typical marksman and ease of portability. However, other forms of additional weight may be used without departing from the scope of this invention. In the illustrated embodiment, the Holder 5 is designed to hold up to four bags of lead shot 8, but only two bags are shown loaded on the Holder. The lips 18 are sized to prevent the bags of lead shot 8 from shifting during rifle discharge.
All subsystems of the Shooting Rest 1 are joined via bolted or welded connections, for example, to form a rigidly constructed unit. With a weight of approximately 15 lbs., an overall length of approximately 25 inches and a height of approximately 13 inches the Shooting Rest 1 is easily portable. The only movable or adjustable components of the Shooting Rest 1 are the Front Support 3 and the Rear Foot 25. The Front Support 3 will adjust vertically to allow elevation sighting adjustments of the firearm R. The Rear Foot 25 also adjusts vertically to allow for leveling of the Rest 1 and elevation sighting adjustments of the firearm R.
Recoil energy is reduced when, according to the Law of Conservation of Momentum, the recoiling rifle encounters a greater opposing weight than merely the weight of the rifle alone. In the illustrated embodiment, the Holder 5 supports this opposing weight (represented by the four 25 lb. bags of Lead Shot 8), so that the Shooting Rest 1 reduces recoil energy when the firearm R is discharged.
The recoil-reducing aspect of the Shooting Rest 1 is created by adding weight to the unit to increase resistance to the recoil of the firearm. According to the Law of Conservation of Momentum, written below in terms pertaining to the discussion, the Recoil Energy of the firearm can be calculated from the following equation:
Increasing the Firearm Weight in the above-stated formula will result in a decreased Recoil Energy. When the firearm is discharged, the firearm and the Recoil-reducing Shooting Rest 1 can be considered as a single unit subjected to the firearm's recoil. Mathematically, the weight of the shooting rest 1 can be added to the weight of the firearm R to yield a total Firearm Weight as used in the Recoil Energy equation. The more weight added to the rest 1, the higher the reduction in recoil. The Holder 5 is designed to accept up to four 25 lb. bags of lead shot 8 but other types of weights could be used to further increase the weight of the Shooting Rest 1. Twenty-five lb. bags of shot 8 are commonly available to the typical shooter and provide an easily portable system of weight addition for the Shooting Rest. Typically, the recoil energy of a firearm can be reduced by up to 90% by adding weight to the Shooting Rest 1. The amount of weight needed to provide a certain percentage of recoil reduction is dependant on the caliber and size of the firearm used on the Shooting Rest 1.
The general steps in the process of using the Shooting Rest 1 comprise:
1) Placing the Shooting Rest 1 on top of a relatively flat table or bench.
2) Placing weights 8 on the Holder 5 of the Shooting Rest 1.
3) Placing the firearm R atop the Shooting Rest 1 in such a manner that the buttstock 6 of the firearm rests in the Rear Support 2 while the Front Support 3 cradles the forend 7 of the firearm.
4) The Front Support 3 and/or Rear Foot 25 may be vertically adjusted to level the rest 1 or make elevation sighting adjustments of the firearm R.
5) The shooter will take a sitting position behind the Shooting Rest 1 and firearm R with the Rear Support 2 of the Shooting Rest closest to the shooter. The Shooting Rest 1 will be oriented such that an imaginary line connecting the Rear Support 2 and the Front Support 3 will be perpendicular to an imaginary line connecting the shooter's shoulders.
6) The shooter's shoulder will be placed against the Shoulder Rest 16 attached to the Rear Support 2.
7) The shooter will place both hands on the firearm R in a comfortable shooting position.
8) The shooter will pull the buttstock 6 of the firearm R towards the shoulder so as to make complete and firm contact with the inside surface 15 of the Rear Support 2.
9) The shooter will fire, or discharge, the firearm R.
10) Discharging the firearm R will cause the firearm to translate linearly, or recoil, in a rearward direction.
11) With the recoiling firearm R in firm contact with the Rear Support 2 the recoil energy of the firearm is transferred to the Shooting Rest 1.
12) The Shooting Rest 1 will translate linearly, or recoil, in a rearward direction. Due to the resistance offered by the weights 8 added to the Shooting Rest, the Shooting Rest will recoil with a significantly reduced velocity and energy than the firearm alone.
13) With the shooter in firm contact with the Shooting Rest 1 the shooter's upper body will in turn absorb the reduced recoil energy of the Shooting Rest.
When introducing elements of the present invention or the preferred embodiment(s) thereof, the articles "a", "an", "the" and "said" are intended to mean that there are one or more of the elements. The terms "comprising", "including" and "having" are intended to be inclusive and mean that there may be additional elements other than the listed elements.
As various changes could be made in the above constructions without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. For example, the Frame 4 may comprise materials other than steel tubing. Also, the Holder 5 may be an integral part of the Frame 4 or the Holder may be eliminated so that the weights 8 are supported directly on the Frame. Further, the weights 8 could be separate components attached to the Frame 4 or the weights may be integral with the Frame so that the weight of the Shooting Rest 1 is increased and the recoil energy transferred to a shooter is decreased.
In view of the above, it will be seen that the several objects of the invention are achieved and other advantageous results attained.
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We were not very happy with the turnout of the cake. The quality of work wasn't up to par with what was promised, and it wasn't exactly what we talked about. The women who run the shop are very nice, but unless you want a traditional buttercream cake, I would look elsewhere. I don't think they are very good with fondant/modern designs. they also forgot our cake stand. My cousin got married a month before me and had the same issues. Including forgetting the cake stand again.
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It's no shock that Frozen — the great animated film by Disney — became a hit, but it's a little surprising it became a phenomenon. Currently the film is still in theaters, even though it's now on DVD and Blu-ray, and it's about to cross the $400 Million dollar mark domestically, while it's now the twelfth highest grossing film of all time worldwide (unadjusted, of course), and could cross into the top ten when all is said and done.
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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested a Lake Charles man on several charges.
Deputies say around 3:00 p.m. today, they were called to a home on Cedar Lane in Moss Bluff, regarding an attempted theft. When deputies arrived they learned that the victim was standing in his driveway when he was approached by the suspect, Joel Benoit, 26, of Lake Charles, who asked to use his cell phone.
The victim allowed him to use his phone, but after Benoit made a call deputies say, he attempted to run off with the man's cell phone. Deputies say the victim was able to retrieve his phone from Benoit with the help of a neighbor who heard the commotion outside.
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When they arrived at the home, deputies say they found Benoit outside, wearing only his underwear and socks.
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Deputies say while in the back of the patrol car, with both his hands and feet shackled, he kicked a window out. Benoit was taken to a local hospital for his own safety. Once discharged from the hospital he will be booked in the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with aggravated burglary; aggravated cruelty to an animal; aggravated criminal damage to property; and attempted theft.
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Police continue to investigate a bomb threat that occurred Thursday morning at a building in the Fontaine Research Park in Albemarle County. Authorities have identified a person of interest based on a surveillance photo.
Sgt. Darrell Byers say the person of interest, whose name is not being released at this time, contacted police after seeing his picture on CBS19. "They gave us a call and we've been working with this person to try to get them to talk to us and see where this will lead with the investigation," he said.
Police say a man, who may or may not be the person of interest, walked into Medical Office Building 2 in the Research Park Thursday morning and said he had a bomb. Patients in a rehabilitation facility in the building were evacuated in what is being called a "cascade release." The patients were taken out one at a time so police can determine if they are a suspect.
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Matt Rolin wouldn't admit it earlier this week -- but there were some definite signs that the four-star LB from Briar Wood HS in Ashburn, Ga. would commit to South Carolina on his visit to Columbia this weekend.
Rolin wasted little time and committed to Shawn Elliott and the Gamecocks' staff Friday afternoon then announced the news on Twitter.
"Can't spell South caROLINa without Rolin!" he announced. "Committed to The University of South caROLINa!!!! #GamecockNation"
He chose the Gamecocks over offers from Virginia Tech, Florida, Georgia and Florida State, among many others.
The 6-foot-4, 205-pound prospect is considered the No. 13 outside linebacker in the country by Scout.com.
Rolin said earlier this week that his father, mother and sister were to accompany him on the trip.
Both of Rolin's parents attended South Carolina and his grandfather played defensive back for the Gamecocks. He also has family in South Carolina that he will be spending the rest of the weekend with.
"I feel a family connection there," he said of South Carolina in an interview with Gamecock Anthem earlier this week. "I really have a good relationship with Coach Elliott. I just really like the campus and I think I fit in well with the scheme they have there."
Rolin was offered as both a tight end and linebacker by the Gamecocks, but is probably most needed on the defensive side of the ball. The 6-foot-4, 205-pounder describes himself as long and versatile. How does he see himself fitting into the Gamecocks' 4-2-5 scheme?
"First off, it would be good to play behind one of the best defensive lines in the nation -- Clowney, they have some really good defensive linemen. That would be a big part of the defense they play in."
Rolin, who was recently invited to The Opening combine in Oregon, has felt the love from the Gamecocks' staff, but also likes the fact they haven't pressured him.
"We get along real well. We have a real good relationship," he says of Elliott, his recruiter of record. "I talk to him about everyday. Everyday we keep in touch, but he doesn't blow up my phone like the other coaches do, but he'll shoot me a message on Facebook when he needs to talk to me. We just have a real good relationship."
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Kim Clijsters, Li Na set to meet in final
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Kim Clijsters cruised into the Australian Open final and will play for the title against Li Na, who overcame top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki to become the first Chinese player to reach the championship match at a Grand Slam.
Li rallied to win the first of the women's semifinals 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Thursday, saving match point when Wozniacki was serving at 5-4 in the second set.
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U.S. Open champion Clijsters dictated play from the start against No. 2-ranked Vera Zvonareva and won it 6-3, 6-3 -- repeating the result of their U.S. Open final.
Zvonareva had reached the previous two finals at the majors. And she had two break points in the eighth game of the second set but squandered both and Clijsters won four straight points to make it 5-3, then served out for the match.
Clijsters was the only Grand Slam winner to qualify for the semifinals.
The 27-year-old Belgian is back into the Australian Open final for the first time since her loss to Justine Henin in 2004. She has won the U.S. Open three times -- including both since she returned from retirement in 2009 -- but has yet to win a major outside American soil.
She attributed her recent success to her ability to "rise on the occasion" -- learned after losing the first four Grand Slam finals she contested.
"I've been on tour for a while and I've played big matches and not always won them, but although I've lost them sometimes they really do teach you a lot of things," she said. "And that that has definitely helped me now that I'm a little older."
Li is into her first major final, but is growing in confidence after coming off a comeback win over the No. 1-ranked player and her victory over Clijsters in the final of the tuneup event at Sydney, where she came back from 5-0 down in the first set to win it in straight sets.
Wozniacki, playing at a major for the first time with the No. 1 ranking, had match point at 5-4 and 40-30 in the second set before Li rallied. Another 66 minutes later, Li served and won on her first match point.
Li lost to Serena Williams in two tiebreak sets in the semifinals here last year in her previous best run at a major.
Her trip to the final is just another first for Li, who was the first Chinese player to win a tour-level title and the first to enter the top 10. She is also the first player from Asia to reach a Grand Slam singles final.
"I'm so happy I can be the first Chinese player to come to a final -- I always do the first one!" she said in a lighthearted, courtside interview in which she joked about losing sleep on the eve of the match because her coach-husband Shan Jiang was snoring.
Asked what motivated her comeback, she deadpanned: "Prize money."
Li looked down and out after the first set, when she made 17 unforced errors and struggled for consistency. She finished with 51 unforced errors, but that was a reflection of her pushing Wozniacki to the extremes.
She said it was important for the development of tennis in China, and joked that it could give the sport some profile for more than a month.
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"Good for my tennis career. Good for me. Good for my team. Maybe good for China tennis," she said. "Of course this is good experience for my whole life, because many player, they play long time, but they never come to the final for a Grand Slam.
"Today I get it, so feeling I can do well in next two days."
Wozniacki could have ended the match in 1 hour, 29 minutes, but Li hit a forehand down the line, forcing an error and saving match point. It sparked a revival. She broke in that game to make it 5-5, held at love and then broke her Danish rival's serve again -- after Wozniacki three times had game points to force a tiebreaker -- to make it even at one set apiece.
They traded breaks twice in the third set before Li held her nerve to finish it off when Wozniacki miscued a forehand.
The 20-year-old Wozniacki was under pressure from her opening match in Australia, with critics questioning the legitimacy of the No. 1 ranking she gained last October despite her never having won a major. She lost the 2009 U.S. Open final to Clijsters, but has never returned to a final.
Wozniacki ensured she'll retain the No. 1 ranking by reaching the semifinals -- after coming back from a set and a break down to beat French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in three sets -- but she'll no doubt be answering questions about her ranking for tournaments to come.
"I had a match point and I didn't take it," Wozniacki said. "Sometimes in tennis it's one ball that can change everything.
"I didn't get my match point. From then on, well, she was just better at the most important points -- she won the most important one, which was the last one.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: Feature commentary with director Seth Gordon, producer Ed Cunningham and associate producers J. Clay Tweel and Luis Lopez; feature commentary with Chris Carle and Jon M. Gibson; extended interviews; animated short "A really, really brief history of Donkey Kong; " arcade glossary; "I am 8-bit" music & art gallery; theatrical trailer.
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Hard to believe until you watch this! Battle of good vs. evil and the battleground is...King Kong. Full of 80s arcade nostalgia.
When I saw this movie at my beloved Alamo Drafthouse they introduced it as the battle of good vs evil. I thought to myself "well that is a bit over the top don't you think?" Afterwards I was like "holy s**t! that really was the battle of good vs evil. This movie is a MUST SEE!
Worst. Movie. Ever.
Interesting and fun to watch. Felt odd to see all those old games I used to play.
Generally speaking this can be for most ages, however, there is a brief moment in the middle of the film where there are some old playgirl layouts which some parents may feel inappropriate for their children to see.
An absolutely brilliant documentary. This one is for all ages. It's a lot of fun. It really shows you that a documentary can be pretty much anything.
If I told you this movie revolves around a guy who claims the world record for Donkey Kong, the self-appointed referee of the gaming world, and a guy who loses his job and decides to go for the Donkey Kong world record, would you think some of these people might be a little bit weird? Of course they are weird – who wants to see a movie about normal people. And in fact, the guy going for the record seems remarkably well adjusted, but perhaps that's only in contrast to the other two who are batshit crazy.
I don't want to give away too much of the story but the basic plot line is above. And I really enjoyed it. I found myself rooting for some of the characters and rooting against others. And I learned there's a whole little world out there that most of us know nothing about.
Recommended by me.
I had no idea that videogames were this competitive.
Quite a well-made documentary about video game obsession and the price of being just a bit too interested in one thing.
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