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ladymoon_oh(5 on lake erie)March 26, 2005
I have LOTS of plants that need dividing. I have had some health problems that have cut down on my gardening abilities,things need divided I am unable to do it all by myself. I'm looking for someone to help and in exchange they can have some. I wanted to post this here first, if I don't find someone I'll post to freecycle but thought I'd have a better chance fnding a true gardener here. Not that anything is real fragile but you know what I mean, the thought of my husband or son doing this is scary the are not the gardening type!
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Hydroculture Camelias and Establishing new roots and leaves
Hi Camelia planters,
I am living in China and last week I ordered 3 Camelia seedlings over the internet from a company here (they are BiLuoChun tea plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biluochun ). I really enjoy the tea so I wanted to see what the plants were like. I also have many indoor hydroculture projects on the go - a planted aquarium and various house plants growing completely in water.
The seedlings I ordered were apparently 1 year old, but they look older to me, which isn't a big problem. They arrived late due to the delivery service being terribly disorganized, and so they had been in the dark, with muddy roots wrapped in clingfilm for 6 days by the time they reached me - something I am very upset about, but anyway, I still want to give it a try. There was stil quite a bit of moisture around the roots so that was okay. They also arrived without any leaves so I'm hoping they have enough internal reserves to send out new roots.
I soaked all three for a couple of hours before potting them. Two of the bushes I am attempting to convert to hydroculture and another I have planted in loamy soil with decent drainage lower in the pot, but I was a little short of soil so I added a layer of clay mud to the top which I wanted to coat some of the rootball emerging above the soil surface with so that it didn't dry out too quickly. I am aware that my resources and conditions are less than ideal, but I really thought the seedlings would be a lot smaller.
I have 3 main questions for anyone who may be able to help in the slightest:
1) Do you think 6 days inside a box without any leaves or soil/water, but wrapped in clingfilm would have done any serious damage to the seedlings - severely damaging any chances of them surviving even in optimum growing conditions? I hear that they are hardy plants which can be pruned bare.
2) Is there a better way to convert them to hydroculture so that one can see their roots than the route I am taking (see photos)? Much of their rootballs had been damaged which I hear is good for encouraging water roots to develop.
3) Is there something extra I can do to encourage new leaf growth? I am nervous about adding chemicals to the solutions because I want to give new roots the best chances of developing.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Just keep doing water changes to keep the water from going bad and it might work, this is the same way I've rescued numerous species, but it's really all up to the plant itself... Lot's of people say you'll need expensive setups for hydroculture but with a little extra work what you're doing is exactly the same. This will be the least stressful for the plant and encourage it to grow new roots. Give it a couple weeks and if it doesn't start growing there might be nothing you can do. :(
I've never worked with this particular plant but I've rescued and kept roses, numerous herbs, some succulents, coleus, Devils Ivy, and lots of random wildflowers this way so it should work just as well as it does with your other houseplants. You mentioned keeping them in just water, I do the same with all of mine and use tea as fertilizer. I just soak a teabag for a few minutes and then squeeze it into the plants vase putting enough tea in to tint the water brown.
p.s... where did you get those vases? My roses are outgrowing everything I put them in and I was looking for something like what you have pictured :3

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southernmumJanuary 31, 2013
I've picked out our stone, Mossy Creek, but I'm having a difficult time deciding on a brick to pair with it. Stone is going to be exclusively on front, but brick on the sides and back. Would love to see your pix! Thanks :)
Front is stone and shake, no brick visible. The sides and rear of the house have a brick foundation, with the shake -- so not a ton of brick showing. (This is being doing this way to save money, of course.) The front does not show both brick and stone.The funny thing is that we're the only ones on the entire street NOT doing a brick and stone front due to the fact that I think those houses are too busy looking! (And these houses are all in the millions $ price range, with very reputable builders.)


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May be off topic here, but guessing a lot of you have boats. I decided to get my fishing boat out of the barn and into the water. Gotta replace the trolling motor battery as the one in it is definitely toast. Haven't had the boat in the water for 4 years, now we have time to rectify that situation.
I'm out of contact with the deep cycle battery market, what's a "reasonable" battery these days? Googled and came up with "around $200" to under $100-Wally world naturally. The Wally world one had good reviews and the price is more in line with what I remember.
Boat batteries are a particular nemesis of mine. You buy a new one, use it all summer, then it sits all winter, trickle charge it, deep cycle discharge it, etc. And a year (or two If you're lucky) you get to buy another one. Yeah, I know it's due to the plate construction being set up for lower and extended amp draws than a conventional one, but I don't have to like it!!!! :-)
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Winterizing my potted June bearing strawberries
This is my first year growing strawberries and the plants have done well. I'm eager for next season when I'll have fruit but I want to be sure they make it through the winter! :)
I've read several articles, posts and so forth and everyone has different techniques so I'm looking for further direct suggestion. I live in central CT and have enjoyed 60-70 degree days all Sept and Oct (weird) and now we are expecting a frost (finally) tonight so obviously I'm stressing a little, having no idea what to expect my plants to survive in. :)
Some say mulch, some say cut them down, others say garage still others say leave them out...what's a girl to believe? Haha. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to ease my mind.
Burying the container against/near the north wall of a heated building and mulching with straw is a good strategy, but you may get some weed seeds arriving in the straw & it could attract rodents. Don't use leaves if there's danger of them getting wet & compacting.
If you're growing them in a container that's so large you don't want to bury it, or in a strawberry pot, the garage is a good alternative and helps guard against dessication.
Frost won't hurt the plant & you can move them back outdoors as soon as there isn't much danger of actual container soil temperatures dropping much below 27* or so.
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Michael Marshall is the Vice-President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and Project Director of the Good Thinking Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work with the MSS has seen him organising international homeopathy protests and co-founding the popular QED conference. He has written for the Guardian, The Times and New Statesman.
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What I learned over the years is that you shouldn't make the price an important factor in deciding to get a website hosting. Most of the times, an incredibly low price translates in an incredibly poor service. Don't be cheap. If you want your site to work well pick a provider because of its quality.
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BROUSSARD, La. (AP) — Kelly Kraft won the Louisiana Open on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, closing with a 6-under 65 in windy conditions for a one-stroke victory at Le Triomphe.
BROUSSARD, La. (AP) — Kelly Kraft won the Louisiana Open on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, closing with a 6-under 65 in windy conditions for a one-stroke victory at Le Triomphe.
SAN ANTONIO — Jimmy Walker made himself right at home on the Texas Open leaderboard. Walker won his hometown event Sunday to become the first two-time winner this season on the PGA Tour, beating fellow Texan Jordan Spieth by four strokes.
SAN ANTONIO — Jordan Spieth has a couple of home games before the Masters. "I enjoy being able to drive my own car to these tournaments," said Spieth, the 21-year Texan who lives in suburban Dallas. "I get to see a lot of friends and family who I don't get to see a lot of the year. And then, at the same time, get ready for the Masters on a challenging track."
ORLANDO, Fla. — Rory McIlroy's road to the Masters was memorable for reasons not many would have imagined.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Morgan Hoffmann's day began with news that his 97-year-old grandmother died Thursday morning. It ended with his first lead on the PGA Tour.
ORLANDO, Fla. — He's known in golfing circles simply as "The King," though one player at the Arnold Palmer Invitational still calls the tournament host "Dumpy."
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Jordan Spieth and his world-class short game came up big in a playoff victory Sunday at the Valspar Championship.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — The Valspar Championship wouldn't seem to have a lot going for it. It has the worst spot on the calendar for the Florida Swing, the one event where it makes sense for the top players to take a break. The Honda Classic is the home event of so many players living in the West Palm Beach area, and it's followed by a World Golf Championship at Doral. Arnold Palmer's tournament is next week at Bay Hill.
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LOS ANGELES — The next two months suddenly are loaded with perks James Hahn never imagined. His victory Sunday at Riviera gives him a two-year exemption on a PGA Tour that took him a decade to reach. He qualified for two World Golf Championships. He's going to the Masters for the first time. What's more, his wife is expecting their first child in three weeks.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For the longest time, Brooks Koepka was known primarily for the stamps in his passport. His peers knew better.
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Benny Spurgin recorded a hole in one Tuesday while playing at TWU.
Denton's Marco Scarola earned his spot in August's Bright Realty Texas State Open.
The 10th annual Point of Charity Golf Tournament is scheduled for Monday at Oakmont Country Club. The tournament benefits the Denton State Supported Living Center.
For the second straight year, Argyle and Andrews finished as the top two teams at the Class 3A boys state tournament.
The final round of the Class 4A state tournament didn't go exactly as Guyer wanted, but its boys and girls teams left the University of Texas Golf Club in the gloaming Tuesday with the satisfaction of a successful season and a huge step forward for the program.
Brad Stracke faced a pretty large rebuiding job at North Texas this season. One look at what has transpired on the Web.com Tour is evidence enough of just how big the task was.
POTTSBORO — The Argyle boys held off a late charge Tuesday from Texarkana Pleasant Grove to claim the Class 3A Region II championship and qualify for the UIL state tournament in Austin.
POTTSBORO — Argyle's boys golf team will enter the second round of the Class 3A Region II tournament a few strokes ahead of everybody else.
A trio of North Texas golfers put up red figures Tuesday in the final round of the Lone Star Invitational to power the Mean Green to a fifth-place finish. Cory Churchman, Juan Munoz and Gonzalo Rubio were under par as North Texas had the third-best score of the day at 5 under par.
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Eji Kwon and Chaslyn Chrismer fought through difficult conditions Tuesday to give North Texas its two lowest individual scores on the final day of the BYU at Entrada Classic. Kwon and Chrismer finished tied for 35th place after shooting scores of 78 and 79, respectively.
ST. GEORGE, Utah – A difficult course and blustery conditions kept the scores high for North Texas and the entire field after the first day of the BYU at Entrada Classic.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Blustery conditions battered the field on the final day of the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational, but freshman Eji Kwon stood out for North Texas.
MILTON, Ga. — One of the most decorated golfers in school history had his career at North Texas come to an end in the final round of the NCAA Division I tournament Thursday.
MILTON, Ga. — North Texas senior Rodolfo Cazaubon fell back in the second round of the NCAA Division I tournament Wednesday after shooting a 2-over-par 72.
MILTON, Ga. — Playing on college golf's biggest stage with a national title on the line, North Texas senior Rodolfo Cazaubon didn't shrink from the challenge Tuesday.
The North Texas golf programs are on the verge of having a place to call home for the first time in years.
Rodolfo Cazaubon's goal of reaching the NCAA Golf Championship is now a reality.
The North Texas men's golf team struggled in the second round of the NCAA Pullman (Wash.) Regional on Friday, shooting a 12-over 300 and falling into 12th place.
AUSTIN — With four holes remaining in the Class 3A state tournament Friday, Argyle and Andrews were tied for first place.
ARGYLE — On two occasions over the next two days, Argyle senior Blake Lyle will step up to hole No. 8 at Austin's Jimmy Clay Golf Course, the same hole that devoured his driver last spring in the state tournament.
Kyle Hodges finished his high school career — not to mention a historic season for the Guyer golf team — on a high note Tuesday at the UIL Class 4A state tournament.
As the lone senior on Guyer's top boys golf team, Kyle Hodges has developed quite the reputation among his head coach and teammates. That was further solidified at the Class 4A Region I tournament in Abilene nearly two weeks ago when Hodges lined up a putt that would go down in Guyer golf history.
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. — It was a gutsy effort, and for the first time in nearly 40 years, the North Texas men have won back-to-back conference championships.
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. — Powered by senior Rodolfo Cazaubon, No. 38 North Texas roared back in the second round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament, posting Tuesday's second-lowest round at 1-under-par 287 to move into second place.
North Texas' bid for a second straight Sun Belt Conference title got off to a bit of a slow start as the 38th-ranked Mean Green is in a three-way tie for third place after Monday's opening round in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
The North Texas men's golf team will begin play in the three-round Sun Belt Conference tournament today at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
ABILENE — In the second round of the Class 4A Region I tournament at Diamondback Golf Club, Lindsey Heal posted a score of 100 on Thursday for a two-day total of 199.


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Mark and Rick Hofer are gluttons for punishment.
Fresh off what they say was the most challenging and stressful project of their careers -- the redevelopment of the derelict Avenue and Hample buildings on Portage Avenue -- the two brothers are eager to tackle another heritage project.
So eager, in fact, they've joined forces with Winnipegger Keith Merkel to launch a new integrated real estate development company -- EdgeCorp Group -- that will enable them to tackle two new projects a year. It could include one downtown heritage-redevelopment project and one suburban new-build project.
While Mark has nothing against new-builds, heritage-redevelopment projects are what really light a fire in his belly. Especially ones involving downtown buildings.
"There's no doubt my passion is for downtown Winnipeg," he said, sitting in a century-old former warehouse on Pacific Avenue he converted into commercial/office space for his Direct Focus marketing firm. "I'd like to do more projects there."
Hofer said he's already got his eye on two downtown properties he hopes EdgeCorp can acquire, though he wouldn't say which ones.
Two other downtown buildings he'd love to get his mitts on are the Bay store on Portage Avenue and the James Avenue Pumping Station on Waterfront Drive.
"I'd love to tackle the Bay building. I see some amazing opportunities from a housing perspective... And the pumphouse would be a challenge because they don't know what to do with it."
The Hofers have completed three heritage redevelopment projects so far. The first was the warehouse building at 315 Pacific. The second was the conversion of another warehouse into the Edge on Princess apartment/retail complex at 230 Princess St. And the third was the conversion of former Avenue and Hample office buildings on downtown Portage into a 75-unit apartment complex with main-floor office space.
Hofer said Merkel coming on board is what enabled them to launch EdgeCorp. and to begin ramping up construction. He'll take a lot of managerial-type duties Mark used to handle while still running Direct Focus.
"Rick's strength is in construction. My strength is as a project manager. Mark is good at getting us all going and keeping us going," Merkel said. "He's the catalyst."
Merkel is a former general manager of Direct Focus who also oversaw construction of the new Ashley Furniture stores on the Prairies for Dufresne Furniture and managed the real estate holdings of Nyg*rd International.
"But I always wanted to get into construction," Merkel said. "So when this opportunity came up, I thought this was a way to get into the construction business."
EdgeCorp's first project will be a two-phase, 100-plus-unit condominium development in Transcona called the Station.
Hofer said they opted for a new-build as their first project because it should be less challenging than redeveloping another historical building.
He said their employees needed to take on something a little less challenging after the Avenue/Hample project, which is just wrapping up.
Merkel, who grew up in Transcona, said there's also a strong demand there for affordable condos. Re/Max Performance Realty agent Bill Thiessen, who specializes in condo sales, agreed.
Thiessen said he has marketed 42 condos in three different developments in the area over the last three years. They all sold quickly.
He's now the lead marketing agent for A & S Homes' 72-unit Park City Condominiums on Pandora Street. He started marketing the townhouse-style units, priced $249,000 to $275,000, a month ago, and has sold six so far.
That's how many units they've sold in the Station, Merkel said. They want to pre-sell at least half of the 60 units in Phase I before they proceed with the project. They hope to begin construction his fall, and to start on Phase II next spring.
Know of any newsworthy or interesting trends or developments in the local office, retail or industrial real estate sectors? Let real estate reporter Murray McNeill know at the e-mail address below, or at 697-7254.
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HERE are some details about the Station condominium development:
Expected to cost between $18 million and $20 million.
To be built on Pandora Avenue West and Melrose Avenue West between Winona and Bond streets.
To include between 100 and 115 units -- six bungalow-style and the rest apartment-style units.
To be developed in two phases, 60 units in Phase I on Pandora and 40 to 55 units in Phase II on Melrose.
Will include one-bedroom, one-bedroom plus den, and two-bedroom units, priced at $174,900 to $249,900.
Construction expected to begin this fall, with the first tenants expected to move in about the middle of next year.
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The memory of the Mexican girls he helped deport after shutting down dozens of brothels years ago still haunts the investigator.
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Castro, who speaks Spanish and English, investigated cases off the clock and on his own time for five years before his own agency recognized the existence of the crime. At the Fort Myers trainings, Castro will talk about emerging trends being employed by human traffickers.
He is now looking into sex slavery in secluded spots in California farm fields. The deputy sheriff did surveillance in northern San Diego County, where traffickers set up makeshift brothels that catered to migrants. Traffickers bent bamboo shoots to make caves and tunnels to hide the spot. Girls and clients used cardboard boxes and trash bags for curtains, he said. He estimated up to 50 girls and young women were involved in servicing 300 to 500 male clients, who parked and walked across the field to where the girls were during a roughly five-hour period. The investigation was captured on video.
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Castro has also visited Tijuana, Mexico, to gain perspective about the sex trade across the border. While there, he said he was offered an 8-year-old girl and visited a zone where traffickers operated across the street from a police station. In the United States, one the biggest challenges he said he and others face is convincing law enforcers that the crime exists, especially if they never have handled a case or made contact with a victim. Since cases take so much time to unravel, it's difficult to keep officers motivated, he said.
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Ten years after Castro began investigating the case in which more than 100 Mexican girls and women were found in brothels in San Diego County, questions still plague him about what happened once they were returned to Mexico.
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SweetSpot: Brian Bannister
Royals set all-important rotation
- In case you were wondering, the rotation for the Royals coming out of the all-star break looks like this: Zack Greinke, Bruce Chen, Brian Bannister, Kyle Davies and Anthony Lerew.
Royals manager Ned Yost said one benefit to putting the rotation in this order is that it gives Bannister a chance to pitch more day games than his counterparts.
"The spot that has the most day games is the three spot," Yost said. "Four of the nine starts are day games, and Banny excels in day games, so why not (put him there)?"
Bannister is 4-0 with a 2.37 ERA in six daytime starts this year, but 3-7 with 7.45 ERA in 12 nighttime starts.
"I can't explain it," Yost said. "There's no explanation for it. You look at some guys and they may be 15-2 on Saturday. I don't know why Banny pitches better in the day than the night.
"But you try to play the percentages in anything you do," Yost continued. "Percentage-wise, it's in our favor."
Obviously, six daytime starts and 12 nighttime starts tell us nothing about Bannister's skills or tendencies. Not as they relate to daytime and nighttime, anyway. But what about 39 daytime starts and 72 nighttime starts? In his career, Bannister's got a 3.87 ERA in day games, 5.49 in night games. He's been slightly better at controlling the strike zone in day games, and given up somewhat fewer home runs.
Does it really mean anything? I don't know. Probably not. If I were going to make any sort of important decision about when Bannister pitches, I wouldn't pay a great deal of attention to those day/night splits unless I had some remotely reasonable explanation for those splits.
I don't have that explanation. Then again, I haven't looked for one. I suspect that Ned Yost hasn't looked for one, either.
Fortunately, this is nothing like an important decision. There's no reasonable difference between Bannister and Davies and Bruce Chen ... and even if there were, so what? The Royals aren't going anywhere, and rotation order is largely irrelevant even if your team is going somewhere.
This is the sort of thing that managers should spend a lot less time worrying about.
Pitchers' year? Not for these guys...
Even before tacking on 13 runs in five innings last weekend, Scott Kazmir's ERA was 5.98; now it's 6.92. Even during Kazmir's four-game June winning streak, he walked nearly as many hitters as he struck out. It's hard (for me) to say exactly what's wrong with Kazmir ... Except we know he's not throwing as hard as he used to, we know he's striking out many fewer hitters than he used to, and we know he's walking more than he used to. All of which could have been said last year, too. Which isn't an encouraging trend.
Like Kazmir, Nick Blackburn (6.40) pitches for a contender, which makes his continuing presence in the rotation that much more problematic. Blackburn's problem isn't that he's getting too few strikeouts; it's that he's not getting any strikeouts. I exaggerate, of course. But 34 strikeouts in 97 innings is nearly impossible. Blackburn's struck out 3.15 per nine innings; sinker-baller Aaron Cook is the only other ERA qualifier under 4 ... and he's at 3.97 Ks per nine. Blackburn's just operating on a completely different level, which would be cool if that different level wasn't that of a scrappy non-prospect in Triple-A. Fundamentally, he's better than this. Blackburn entered this season with a 4.14 career ERA, which was somewhat lucky but not wildly so, considering his 2.46 strikeout-to-walk ratio. You can understand why the Twins haven't given up on him yet.
Kevin Millwood's on the DL, so perhaps he shouldn't be on this list. But Millwood has started 18 games for the Orioles, and he does have a 5.77 ERA. Not exactly what management had in mind when they traded for Millwood, hoping his veteran presence would stabilize a rotation composed mostly of much younger pitchers. Granted, the Rangers are paying $3 million of Millwood's salary this season ... which still leaves (roughly) $9 million for the Orioles.
Next we've got a couple of twin Royals, Prince Kyle Davies (5.57) and Prince Brian Bannister (5.56) ...
- First Banny, then Davies:
Even at their very best,
Our closer figures to get
A relaxing two-day rest.
The Royals aren't going anywhere and they don't have anyone better than Davies and Bannister, so they may as well keep pitching. And each is capable of doing better. Just slightly better, though. If the Royals ever get better, they'll have room for just one No. 5 starter.
Scott Feldman (5.32) is the one guy who really, really wasn't supposed to be on this list. Not after his 17-8, 4.08 ERA campaign just one year ago. Of course, Feldman's skills never really supported that season's record ... But then again, they don't suggest a 5.32 ERA, either. Feldman was mildly lucky last year, and this year he's been terribly unlucky, giving up a .343 batting average on balls in play. Feldman's going to win more games and post a lower ERA in the second half, which is good news for the Rangers and better news for Feldman (whose postseason role is now -- with the Rangers' acquisition of Cliff Lee -- highly questionable).
Cleveland's Justin Masterson (5.31) is another guy who just needs to keep pitching, and for two reasons: 1) His team isn't going anywhere anyway, and 2) there are some things to like here. Masterson throws hard, his ground-ball rate is high, and his strikeout rate is fine. He does walk too many hitters (and always has), but if he can cut his walk rate by 25 percent he'll be a perfectly fine No. 3 or 4 starter.
Everybody mentioned above suffers the disadvantage of pitching in the Big Boy League, with their better hitters and designated hitters and the like. To be fair, I could have focused on a league-neutral statistic like ERA+ or something. I didn't. I like numbers that start with 5. Sue me. But all this makes San Diego's Kevin Correia (5.26) really stand out, as he pitches in a pitcher's park in the National League. Just think how good the Padres would be if they didn't have the worst pitcher (ERA-wise) in the league. Correia looked pretty good last year. But he's 29, and in his career he's got a 4.54 ERA as a starter. Maybe he's just not quite good enough to pitch for a team with postseason aspirations.
Tim Wakefield (5.22), you can judge for yourself. I'm not saying anything negative about Kid '66.
And finally, we've got our second National Leaguer, Nate Robertson (5.10). Robertson is simply a place-holder, and the Marlins can hardly worry about his contract; they're paying him $400,000 this season ... while the Tigers are contributing $9.6 million. If you're a fan, enjoy Nate Robertson while you can. You might not see much of him after August.
Greinke learns from the nerds?
First, from Williamnyy:
- The whole notion of stripping away lucky is very slippery. For starters, FIP completely ignores the fact that a pitcher might have control over how well a batted ball is struck. Intuitively, I think we all know that premise is nonsense. The fact that batters hit so many line drives off Sergio Mitre, but always seem to weakly put the ball in play against Mariano Rivera is not a factor of luck. While the concept of FIP does have some predictive value, it is but a minor tool. Using it as the basis of an assessment is lazy at best. Using statistics sloppily does more to hurt the field of Sabermetrics than ignoring them altogether.
And then, Jimbo3772:
- Another "luck" argument from Neyer ... shocker. He doesn't know a thing about baseball. Just another stats geek. He thinks the difference between a guy getting jammed with a good pitch inside which breaks a bat and induces a weak grounder to the pitcher versus a guy who throws a meatball over the plate that gets roped into the gap is "luck". FIP is another one of those biased, made-up combo statistics which rewards certain stats that it favors and doesn't reward other stats which it disfavors.
It's true that I'm a geek (or at best, a nerd). I suppose I do know a few things about baseball, having made a fairly close study of various aspects of the game over the past 30-some years. But there are definitely a lot of things I don't know. So many things, in fact, that I'm racked by self-doubt (even if I generally hide it pretty well, because nobody likes a writer who's not confident in his opinions). Gosh, maybe this Fielding Independent Pitching is half a crock, of little use to anyone but the pointy-headed goofballs like me who never played a varsity sport.
And then, somehow, maybe even magically (or at least Tyler Kepner-y), I found this:
- "David DeJesus had our best zone rating," Bannister said, referring to the Royals' left fielder. "So a lot of times, Zack [Greinke] would pitch for a fly ball at our park instead of a ground ball, just because the zone rating was better in our outfield and it was a big park."
To that end, Bannister introduced Greinke to FIP, or Fielding Independent Pitching, the statistic Greinke named Tuesday as his favorite. It is a formula that measures how well a pitcher performed, regardless of his fielders. According to fangraphs.com, Greinke had the best FIP in the majors.
"That's pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible," Greinke said.
Not many pitchers think that way. But then, Greinke, 26, is not like other pitchers.
No, he's not. He's probably the first supremely talented pitcher to believe that nerds like me -- or rather, truly brilliant nerds like Bill James and Voros McCracken and Tom Tango -- might actually have something to teach a supremely talented pitcher.
It's actually happening, right now, and we're here to enjoy it.
'Disco' Hayes questions the CW
Three Questions for you, Dear Readers:
1. Who is Chris "Disco" Hayes?
He's a 26-year-old submarining reliever who wasn't drafted out of Northwestern but signed with an independent team and eventually earned a professional contract with the Royals. Last year in the Double-A Texas League, he went 5-2 with a 1.64 ERA. This year he pitched even better in Double-A, but got cuffed around after a promotion to Triple-A Omaha. This likely explains why he wasn't a September call-up. Another explanation: Hayes doesn't throw nearly as hard as Brad Ziegler (for example), and Dayton Moore is probably too young to remember Daniel Raymond Quisenberry.
2. How could Chris "Disco" Hayes possibly take Brian Bannister's crown?
Because he really, really thinks about the game. From a long, long essay about defensive moves that might be made, we find this:
- Why don't the fielders ever swap positions?
I think it's safe to assume every team in the majors does not employ two corner outfielders with exactly the same defensive abilities. I honestly have not watched a single nine inning MLB game on TV yet this year (that's sad, I know...what kind of baseball fan have I become now that I watch 140 games per year from the bullpen?), but I would have to think some teams employ a set of outfielders with varying defensive abilities. So lets say a team has a better defensive right fielder than left fielder. When a right-handed dead-pull hitter comes up to bat, why would the team merely shade the center fielder over to left field to help out the weaker left fielder, yet keep their better outfielder away from the action?
Why not have him jog over and switch with the left fielder for that batter? I know the ball flight is different in right field than it is in left field, but I don't think it's impossible to think corner outfielders could adapt to being able to play both spots.
3. How did two players as smart as Hayes and Bannister wind up in such a stupid organization?
I haven't the foggiest idea. The universe is full of mysteries.


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This is great news for us!! I used to like listening to Brent but that was back in the 70's. It has gotten painful. The SEC can have him. If we are lucky they can poach Dickie V too.
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This is great news for us!! I used to like listening to Brent but that was back in the 70's. It has gotten painful. The SEC can have him. If we are lucky they can poach Dickie V too.
I couldn't believe my ears at the end of the national championship game. He actually sounded dissapointed about FSU winning. Then ESPN proceeded to show the last 7 national champions from the SEC instead of focusing on FSU. THEN Brent said ''Jimbo Fischer modelled his team after the SEC.'' Uh what? How does one model a team after a conference Brent?
we get a combo of Nessler, Tesitore, Tirico, or McDonough with Herbie. Musberger is on the way down. I think Nessler and Herbie would be great.
I'm rooting for Rece Davis to get the gig, just to free him from having to work with Holtz and May. I like Rece and feel bad that he has to wrangle those two idiots every week.
Also I don't want to split up McDonough/Spielman, who is the only team I genuinely look forward to when they have our games.
I think Reece moves up regardless. He either gets the prime time gig, or more likely Fowler takes the prime time slot and Reece does College Gameday. Not sure who gets stuck with Holtz and May.
I like Spielman because he called out Borges during the Nebraska game.
I know, I know.....OSU and all that shit. But I grew to respect the guy a ton when he played for the Lions and then when he ultimately retired from the NFL to help his wife as she went through her horrible battle with cancer. His analysis is always pretty good and I like when he does B1G games specifically because you can tell he knows the history there.
If Michigan is playing like crap, for example, he's not afraid to compare and contrast what he's seeing vs. how he saw Michigan execute in the past when they were more successful. He keeps the hyperbole to a minimum while still conveying legitimate excitement/interest in the game he's analyzing. I don't find him to be biased towards OSU in any way during his broadcasts, similar to how Bob Griese was pretty good at masking his internal bias whenever he used to broadcast Michigan games in 1996 and 1997.
I also like that Spielman is understated as an analyst/ESPN personality relative to Herbstreit. I have no problem with Herbstreit when he's actually doing the games, but part of the problem with being the lead college football analyst for ESPN and co-host for College GameDay is all the "rah rah" propoganda you're required to do to increase viewership. Over the last few years, that's meant blatantly trumpeting the SEC until we all get sick of their exposure. In 5 years from now, it might instead be the Pac 12 or the B1G.....doesn't really matter because either way it will still be overly annoying. Since Herbstreit is such a focal point for ESPN's college football coverage, he easily gets associated with all of this and becomes more annoying as a result. I'm not even going to get into the whole Les Miles incident from 2007 but uhhh......yeah.
I guess I'm in the minority of people on this post who will miss Musburger. I think it was definitely time to put him out to pasture as he had lost his fastball, but he was a damn good announcer for ABC/ESPN over the years, as well as for CBS in the 80's. Some of his calls still give me chills whenever I watch replays of older Michigan games (Harbaugh's bomb to Kolesar in '85 vs. OSU, Grbac to Howard on 4th and 1, Dreisbach to Hayes against Virginia in '95, Gallon's "they left him alone!" miracle catch and run against ND in UTL I are just a few examples that readily come to mind).
He was at his best when he was partnered with Vermeil and then later with Danielson. Those guys were both great analysts for Brent's style and they helped create a great 2nd pair announcing team during the latter years of the Keith Jackson era. I didn't like Brent as much with Herbstreit, as they didn't seem to have the same type of chemistry that Brent had with his earlier partners. I'm guessing some of that was the age differential. But Musburger was pretty damn good until about 5 years ago or so. When I look at the current lead announcers who are out there doing college football, I can't really think of anyone who's close to Brent in his prime aside from McDonough and Nessler.
Yeah, I like Spielman alot, as well. He's not the UM hater/basher that some people try and make him out to be.
It would be nice to see him get out of the whole Holtz/May stuff. Those two are the worst and it isn't even close. I can't tell if they are just there for comic relief or what but their analysis is always crap and they aren't funny either, so I just don't get it.
On the McDonough thing I disagree though. Honestly it's clear he knows the game but for me being an announcer has to be more than that. Now I come from a time where I was fortunate enough to have been exposed to Keith Jackson and he's the standard I hold others to. Personally I don't acre how well you know the sport, if you have an annoying voice or personality than I don't want to listen to you. I'm definitely in the minority here, but I just find McDonough to have an annoying voice so I hate listening to him.
Honestly, it's hard to admit that two of my favorite announcers are former buckeye's, but there you go.
"I can't tell if they are just there for comic relief or what"
You can't? What on earth else could they be there for?
I did laugh when he introduced himself as Kirk Herbstreit though.
He had a distinctive voice and he did the big games, but I always hated how he shortened school names. The 'noles or the 'canes. Always bothered me.
And he was definitely no Keith Jackson. Now that guy is still missed!
Woooooaaah Nellie. The kick is up. It's good!!
Musberger was getting demoted. There had been rumors for the past year that Chris Fowler wanted to move up the main play-by-play role. The question is whether Fowler would do double duty with College Gameday and Saturday Night Football or whether Rece Davis would get bumped up to host Gameday with Fowler taking Musberger's role. This has been speculated on ever since ESPN went with Tessitore instead of Rece Davis to host SEC Nation as many saw it as a sign that Rece Davis was going to get Fowler's spot on College Gameday. Fowler quote from last year:
For me anyway, you want to be continuously challenged. Professionally, you don't want to coast into the sunset. I am 50. [He turns 51 on Friday, Aug. 23]. I have a lot more to do and there are other things I want to do that I have not done. I don't think it is anything secret internally what I want the next step for me to be at ESPN. I don't think that is a mystery given the landscape. It's why GameDay is a unique standalone thing for me. It doesn't act or feel like a studio show. But the live events are the most inspiring, unexplored thing for me.
I really have a passion to document live events as they happen. Hosting is wonderful and remains really satisfying but the joy for me is calling big matches and it was very hard for me to give up calling Thursday Night Football on ESPN. It became too much to manage with GameDay's increased schedule and travel. But giving up calling football in the booth was the toughest decision I have had to make. That remains something I am drawn powerfully to.
He fully admits he wants live games and admits game day is a schtick. To say "it doesn't feel like studio show" means it is a studio show!
Like I said, it's interesting because as an outsider, it makes you see the hierarchy of sports broadcasting.
I always enjoyed watching my team try to defend the other team when that other team was playing "in the shadow of their own goal line".
Brent Musberger is a dope and always has been.
I can't stand Musberger. He gets started early in the game picking one teams "strength" - maybe even a player. All game he hammers on that meme even when its not there. When the team he is cheering for is down late in the game, he once again reminds the viewers that its not over because "watch out, this 'strength/person' is about to take over the game!"
At the National Championship absolutely disgusted me. He gave Fisher no true credit for the fantastic job he did rebuilding Florida State (who is tied with Oklahoma for most appearances in the title game), and proceeded to slobber and drool over the greatness of the conference, despite the fact that Alabama had just lost in the previous game, TAMU needed a miracle to escape DUKE, Iowa had LSU on the ropes, Florida didn't even qualify for a game, Ole Miss squeezed by Georgia Tech, and Georgia lost to Nebraska.
Keep him. They're a perfect match.
I fear this will move Spielman and Matt Millen up the ladder.
Spielman I can handle. Millen ... uh ... yeah.
Well, except for that "jock strap" comment that one time. That was pretty funny.
Tater!! His One Shining Moment (TM).
He knows what the ladies look like down there and he jumped at the opportunity.
I'm in the minority but I liked Musberger and Herbstreit.
(Don't we have a guideline regarding titles describing the subject? Save the wit for the body of the post. It makes browsing the forum a lot easier and would cut down on duplicate threads.)
I guess I'm on my own when it comes to this. I like Musberger. I always have. Him saying, "You are looking live at the big house in Ann Arbor," will always be one of my favorite memories of the college football season.
In the 90's, he became a favorite of mine because of all the jabs he used to take at OSU under John Cooper. He frequently said on the air during random games that he expected Michigan to win THE GAME. One time, Don Shane got an interview with him on the Big Ten Ticket. It was early in the season but Brent brought up this line....
BRENT: The team is playing better and they know it will just be a matter of time before they go to Columbus and beat the Bucks yet again for a Big Ten Title.
DON: Maybe not this year.
BRENT: They'll find a way to win. They always do.
Then in 1998 when a crappy MSU team pulled off the ultimate upset of #1 OSU in Columbus (Remember Joe Germaine's end zone interception and Cooper angrily throwing his hat on the field in disgust?) The first words out of Brent's mouth were... "Ladies and Gentlmen, Michigan State has just beaten Michigan to the punch.". Buckeye fans felt lower than low at that moment and Brent poured salt in the wound by immediately bringing up their futility against Michigan. It was so beautiful. (God, I miss those days)
And it's also kind of hard to forget our 8-1 record when Brent broadcasts a Michigan/Notre Dame game. He called Desmond's fourth down catch and Roundtree's game winner for UTL.
I'm going to miss him and I make no apologies for that.
He's had a lot of great calls over the years. I do think he's slipping a bit, though.
great calls were all before he became "BRENT MUSBERGER - SELF APPOINTED LEGEND" that he is right now. I think the last time I really enjoyed his call on a game was The Game 06. He really grasped the importance of that game and set the stage well. Since then he has become a caricature of himself and in the worst way possible. He can never just say something without thinking "what would Brent Musberger say right now." It is very choppy and self important. Keith Jackson was able to be a legend calling a game but still had a way of making the game the story. I feel like Brent tries to hard to make himself the story and the importance of the game suffers.
To me, Musberger would just beat storylines to death sometimes and detract from what was really important in a particular game. It got really annoying over the past several years. Thank God Herbstreit was there to balance that out with actual analysis. I also hated how he pronounced "buckeyes".
See my earlier post for reasons why. It's probably a generational thing. For those 25 or younger, they probably only caught the tail end of Musburger's prime and thus, don't have the same appreciation for his calls or the way he could make a game feel truly "big". I'd still take Keith Jackson every time over Musburger for a big Michigan game, but Musburger was no slouch.
Some of his calls are so classic in part because they precisely captured the enthusiasm for the team that had just made a huge play at a critical juncture. To the fans of the team who made that play, his call sounded like pure elation and an extension of what they were already celebrating in their living rooms; to the fans of the team who the play was against, his call sounded like having the opposition fan right in their faces, celebrating their team's failure as loudly as possible.
I remember some time ago reading on 11W how a bunch of those guys thought Musburger was biased against OSU in the 90's, but then realized after OSU turned the tide against Michigan in the 00's that it wasn't really the case. He simply always got excited for the team that made the big play in the moment, and was very effective at communicating that excitement. It's why in Columbus to this day they still celebrate his calls for "Holy Buckeye" in 2002 vs. Purdue and the ridiculous Anthony Gonzalez catch in the 2005 game vs. Michigan, while in Ann Arbor we'll always celebrate 4th and 1 and "THEY LEFT HIM ALONE!"
I would give anything to see Urban throw his headset after we beat him.
It's a huge win for the B1G.
and Todd Blackledge might get a bump to the primetime slot.
Just got the primetime slot per ESPN on FB.
As most have stated, I am not really upset about losing Musberger. This won't happen as he'll have to work his way up, but Griese and Herbstreit in primetime would be fun.
I think Griese's got some pretty good potential for a higher profile analyst role. His commentary has really improved over the last 4 years. If he was on BTN, he'd easily be their top color analyst. Hell, even if he showed up drunk and disoriented he would still probably sound smarter than Glen Mason.
"You are looking live at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, the Big House, set to host a record crowd."
Not gonna lie, I will miss that.
Credit where credit is due, that is a great line.


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