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D'backs are probably finding that Olt/stuff is the best they can get without Upton vetoing. I mean I have to think Texas offered Olt/stuff in past months. Not sure how I'd feel about giving up Olt and Perez. We'll see how it plays out. Daniels almost always refuses to overpay.
I was bored, so I felt like doing a comparison of Upton and Miggy (pre-Tigers trade; Miggy was about the same age when his trade was made) and try to estimate if that would be an overpay for the Rangers. First off, let's look at what Cabrera did from his age 21-24 seasons (2nd through 5th years; first full season) compared to Uptons 21-24 (first 4 years where he didn't begin in minors).
Cabrera: 633 games, 20.8 WAR, .318/.405/.566, defense (while he flipped between COF and 3B) = not good
Upton: 580 games, 16.7 WAR, .285/.363/.485 defense = average with a UZR/150 at 2.0 and 16 DRS
Clearly Cabrera was the better hitter and Upton the superior defender, not that I needed to take all that time to figure it out. However I did to draw the comparison between the two. Cabrera was able to bring in two top 10 prospects from the year before they debuted (according to Baseball America). Upton wouldn't be worth
much, but Profar is the only Rangers prospect in the top 10 and, from all accounts, isn't going anywhere. A deal for a combination of Olt (who's currently blocked by Beltre although could play first) and Perez + organizational depth for Upton I would claim is fair. Olt is a top 25 prospect from what I've seen and Perez has been around 40-50 range despite his struggles. Let's not forget that pitching prospects are very unpredictable and if I were the Rangers and that was all it took I would be taking that deal today. Sure, Upton has health issues, but he's shown enough where having him for the next 3 years at what he's getting would be extremely valuable. Hamilton had his own problems as well and that's who Upton would be replacing.
Also it should be noted, Cabrera only had (I believe) one year left of arbitration before he would've become a FA when he was traded, while Upton still has 38.5 million over 3 years left on his deal. That averages out to a little less than 13 million a year. Considering a WAR win is about 5 to 6 million, he'd only need 3 WAR a season to make his deal profitable (which he has done 3 of the 4 years, with the other being worth 2.5 wins). Upton's clearly shown the potential to have big years (2011 gave him a top 5 MVP finish, 2009 was another huge year) and have the talent where he could potentially gain possibly 4 or even 5 wins a year. Say he gains 4.5 wins each of the next 3 years (on average). That'd be 13.5 wins, multiply that by 5.5 million (one WAR win) and Upton would realistically be worth almost 75 million. With simple math, 75-39 = 36 million dollars profit Upton would draw.
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Losing everything has Lexi clinging to her daughter. Hell is determined to loosen her grip.
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when a males cock becomes so physically stimulated by a female it feels like it might snap off,hence the sensation of a wrench clamped around a phallus
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Creativity without clarity is not sufficient for writing. I am eternally thankful to Hashem for his gift to me.
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Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'N' Roll in America's Loudest City By Steve Miller Da Capo Books, 312 pp., $16.99 "It's this beautiful place where you sacrifice your safety for a shitload of freedom," Rachel Nagy of the Detroit Cobras says of her band's namesake city. And while th ... More >>
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Georgia running back Richard Samuel carries against Arkansas during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Fayetteville, Ark., Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
There will be no confusing Georgia's top two tailbacks entering this season.
The Bulldogs practiced in full pads for the first time Monday morning, and getting carries with the first-team offense were redshirt junior Richard Samuel and freshman Isaiah Crowell. Samuel is listed at 6-foot-2 and 243 pounds, while Crowell is 5-11 and 215.
"Richard can't turn the corner quite as quickly as Isaiah, but Richard brings a bigger load," coach Mark Richt said after the workout. "Isaiah does run behind his pads very well, but Richard is 240 pounds. You can kind of hear the ground shake when he runs.
"Hopefully that will be a good combination."
Entering last season, Washaun Ealey and Caleb King each was listed at 5-11 and around 210 pounds.
Samuel and Crowell have forged ahead of redshirt junior Carlton Thomas, redshirt freshman Ken Malcome and sophomore walk-on Brandon Harton. Malcome is practicing with a nagging groin injury, and Harton is out this week with a concussion.
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Georgia's top three receivers last season in receptions and yards were A.J. Green, Kris Durham and Tavarres King. Green is now with the Cincinnati Bengals and Durham is with the Seattle Seahawks, but King is back for his redshirt junior season.
"I probably talk to either one of them once a day," King said. "They say it's a little different. They get pressed all the time now in coverage, so somebody's always in their face. At least that's what Kris said.
"They're both excited about where they are."
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Despite last season's 6-7 record, Richt ranks fourth among Bowl Subdivision coaches with a minimum of 10 years experience in winning percentage. Richt's 96-34 record after 10 seasons with the Bulldogs translates into a 73.8-percent win clip.
Ranking higher are Oklahoma's Bob Stoops (80.6 percent), TCU's Gary Patterson (78) and Penn State's Joe Paterno (74.7).
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Junior cornerback Branden Smith continues to "practice with a greater focus than I've ever seen him practice with," Richt said. ... Georgia players have taken to heart a book called "The Energy Bus," which was recommended to Richt by Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith. The book discusses a positive attitude and labels non-positive people "energy vampires," so the Bulldogs have created an "energy vampire board" in their locker room. ... The defense prevailed in Monday's practice, and Richt was asked if coordinators Mike Bobo and Todd Grantham get into it during drills. "Oh, yeah," Richt said. "They'll chirp. It gets heated."
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T. Coraghessan Boyle's debut short-story collection, The Descent of Man, included a one-word epigraph: "Ungowa!" More than thirty years and seven short-fiction collections (not to mention twelve novels) later, the invocation of Tarzan still suits Boyle to a T — and not merely because the author's newest collection, published this month, is titled Wild Child. Boyle's fiction is a crackling amalgam of realism and fantastification, brilliant invention and historical fact. Descent contains a story about a man whose girlfriend is cheating on him with a chimp and another about blood falling from the sky like rain, and Boyle often draws on real-life figures — from British explorer Mungo Park (Water Music) to breakfast mogul John Harvey Kellogg (The Road to Wellville) to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (The Inner Circle) to amorous architect Frank Lloyd Wright (The Women). But perhaps the strangest aspect of it all is the fact that the author's untethered imagination is delivered so engagingly. For all his flights of fancy, Boyle's work remains strikingly accessible. Doubtless that's a product of his uncanny ability to engender and satisfy a reader's expectations. Because contrary to the narrative arc of "Balto," which leads off Wild Child, when you climb aboard a Boyle tale, there's no doubt as to who's behind the wheel. Boyle appears at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; 314-994-3300 or www.slcl.org) at 7 p.m. to discuss his work and sign copies of his books. Admission is free, and books will be sold on-site.
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Adrian Peterson underwent surgery for a sports hernia he had been suffering from during the season. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
In addition to coming back ACL surgery, Adrian Peterson was also playing through a sports hernia last season. The Vikings running back underwent successful surgery to repair the injury in his abdominal core muscle, according to the team's official site.
"Adrian Peterson had a surgical procedure done today by Dr. William Meyers, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Meyers was able to successfully repair Adrian's abdominal core muscle injury (sports hernia). We expect a speedy recovery with no long-term concerns."
There were no details on when the injury occurred although Peterson missed a few practices in December and was listed on the injury report with an abdominal issue, reports USA Today.Peterson finished the seasons with 2,097 yards, just nine short of the NFL record.
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Wooing Russia's Twitterati
How the U.S. ambassador in Moscow is using social media to get his message out.
In early December, Michael McFaul, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, embarked on a marathon question-and-answer session with Russian Twitter users. I watched as McFaul walked into an embassy press office and sat down at the computer where he would compose his responses to tweets from his interlocutors. Several aides sat at desks, glancing up at the wall where a flat-screen monitor displayed McFaul's personal Twitter page. As the session began, questions from users began to crop up in McFaul's feed. His curious followers wanted to know everything, it seemed, from his views on Russia and the world to the details of his personal life -- and he was happy to oblige, churning out answers (including a few jokes) in Russian and English. As a novice Twitter user myself, I was intrigued to watch a professional confront the conflicting imperatives of the medium, balancing the demand for maximum exposure with the need for diplomatic tact.
The themes of the conversation ranged from geopolitics to private emotions. Is there a danger of a nuclear strike in the Middle East? How's your broken finger? Will Obama attend the Olympics in Sochi? What's your favorite TV show? Notably, no one asked about Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker. McFaul's followers were more interested in Iran, Syria, visas to America, and U.S.-Russia relations. "I'm a bit worried that I'm going to run too long," McFaul told one of his aides. Diplomacy requires careful use of language -- but on Twitter, whatever the ambassador wants to say has to be expressed in no more than 140 characters. "I'm better live," McFaul joked.
Nonetheless, he confesses to a certain fondness for Twitter. "It's a medium that offers me great advantages as an ambassador trying to explain our policies to this giant country," McFaul told me recently. "I can just go to my computer and talk with a scholar in Vladivostok or to an ecologist in Novosibirsk." To some Russians, it's been a great shock to be able to communicate directly with the U.S. State Department -- an experience that seems to run counter to everything they've heard on Russian television about the U.S. trying to undermine the power of the Kremlin.
Before his arrival in Russia two years ago, McFaul didn't know what a tweet looked like. It was then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who urged him to use social media to engage with society. (The photo above shows McFaul with Clinton during his swearing-in ceremony in 2011.) A former professor at Stanford University, McFaul appears to be a quick learner: on the day we met, last month, he had more than 57,000 followers. Admittedly, that's just a quarter of the number of those following Kseniya Sobchak, the high-profile socialite and political activist. Yet it's also worth noting that McFaul's contingent of followers is nearly two and a half times more than that of one of his frequent debating opponents, Aleksei Pushkov, the Chairman of the Russian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
It's true that Russian Twitter users are a tiny minority in a country where the government controls all forms of media that have the greatest reach -- like national TV, far and away the main source of information for most ordinary Russians. (Lately, as some diplomatic sources note, the big, government-controlled Russian TV channels have been notably reluctant to invite McFaul on, perhaps because his open and engaging manner during his first appearances was a bit too effective for the Kremlin's taste.) Other Russian media, however, often cite McFaul's tweets and Facebook posts in cases where the embassy's press representatives haven't been contacted for comment. This isn't to say that McFaul never gets exposure in other Russian media; there are still several smaller private TV broadcasters and print outlets that are happy to interview him. But it's clear that the ambassador's shrewd use of social media is proving highly effective at spreading his message, in undiluted form, to even broader audiences.
When leading opposition activist Alexei Navalny was sentenced on alleged embezzlement charges last year, for example, McFaul's Twitter comment decrying the verdict as "politically motivated" was retweeted 578 times (and favorited 60 times -- although, to be fair, some 50 percent of the Russian responses to McFaul's remarks about the Navalny trial were negative). According to tweetreach.com, McFaul's Twitter Q&A sessions reached an average of 300,000 accounts per session. The fact that he's spending his time engaging with the Russian public on Twitter Q&A sessions is already a diplomatic success in itself, one State Department official told me.
McFaul's popularity is especially noteworthy considering the recent tension between Washington and Moscow, not to mention the distinctly anti-American tone of the reporting by Russia's state-dominated mainstream media. "Pretty much every night somebody writes that U.S. government is aiming to destabilize Russia and overthrow the regime," said McFaul. The ambassador also noted that death threats sometimes crop up amid the messages he receives from the Russian public. He hastened to point out that Russian officials have always reacted to the threats with reassuring speed and efficiency.
Even after two years of tweeting, McFaul still can't explain his popularity. "We've embarked on a grand experiment here," he told me. "We're only two years in. Before us, there were almost no diplomats on Twitter or Facebook. Academics will be studying this experiment for years. What's important is to stay engaged on a daily basis." The ambassador was also at pains to explain that Twitter isn't the only way he interacts with his host country. Just like his predecessors, he still makes the official rounds, attending events, meeting Russian government officials, and seizing every opportunity to socialize with Russians from all walks of life.
McFaul's social media presence has won him more fame than other public figures -- but it has also confronted him with the tricky task of figuring out what's private and what isn't. Attending a recent concert at the Kremlin, McFaul took a photo of the event and was about to post it online when he suddenly had second thoughts. The event was closed to the public, and McFaul's security officials have counseled him against revealing his whereabouts in real time. "It's really hard to figure out where the boundary runs between the personal and public," says McFaul. "'Here's a picture of what I had to eat today and here are some photographs explaining diplomacy.'"
And there are moments when the heightened attention looks more like harassment. Last year, he set off to what he was expecting to be a private meeting with activist Lev Ponomarev. Someone, however, had leaked the details of the meeting. Upon his arrival, McFaul was confronted by TV journalists and a large, hostile group of nationalist demonstrators. (Caught off guard, an indignant McFaul vented at the TV crew -- and later had to apologize for some of his remarks.)
Yet most of his encounters with the citizens of his host country are far less confrontational. During the ambassador's two years in Russia, McFaul has spoken to audiences of all types, from graduate students to ordinary people in the street. The most difficult part has been learning to lecture in Russian. "I've given two-hour lectures in Russian," McFaul told me with pride a few days ago. "I wonder if any other diplomats have ever done that."
But speaking is easier than writing. Russians are far more critical of his written Russian; some of his less-well-meaning followers have been happy to seize on his occasional grammatical mistakes. To improve his Twitter skills in Russian and inspire his followers, McFaul has spent many a late hour with his Russian dictionary in his upstairs room in Spaso House, the historic residence of the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, struggling to compose faultless tweets. "Another thing is not to take myself too seriously," said McFaul. "I do have a sense of humor in real life, but on Twitter, it took me a while to come up with my own voice."
McFaul's approach to diplomacy irritates some Russian diplomats and Kremlin officials. "Our diplomacy is on the opposite side of the scale," says Sergei Markov, an old friend of McFaul's who works for the Russian government. "Right now we're reinventing our own exotic, imperialistic diplomacy with much more discipline, since that's what we need." That said, Markov still admires McFaul's talents and social media skills. "He's a trendsetter," says Markov, noting that McFaul was the first diplomat in Moscow to begin communicating with Russians on Twitter. "Even our own Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now following his example by using Twitter. McFaul is pushing everybody forward."
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