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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Gather Ye Rosebud
One of my pet themes was whether one can impose a hierarchy of values on the world of art. For example, was it valid to declare, as the French academics did, that history painting was the pinnacle of achievement, with other genres (still life, portraiture, etc.) ranked below. At times I was known to become quite heated about this and say "ergo"-and even, when I'd had too a little too much dough, "quod erat demonstrandum."
(Heh heh. Crazy days. Remind me to tell you some time about the great Schopenhauer Kerfuffle of 1991. Man, I wonder how we didn't all wind up with police records?)
Anyway, without fail I was on the side of those who felt the creation of an absolute hierarchy of either individual works of art, or of media (i.e., oil painting is "higher" than watercolor) was silly. I'm still of the opinion that an artwork itself has no inherent value; it acquires it in the mind of the beholder. The Mona Lisa, for example, is nothing but mineral pigments when there's nobody standing there looking at it.
I feel the same way when it comes to shoving needlework techniques into a caste system. For example, there are those-and they are entitled to their opinion-who hold that knitting is somehow superior to crochet. I don't happen to agree. I think it's not the technique, it's what you do with it. Knitting snobs would do well to remember that nice yarn and two needles do not always result in a work of art...or have you forgotten You Knit What?
By the same token, crochet can be used to create an object so hideous that just looking at it takes seven years off your lifespan, or it can be used to make the rather spectacular filet tablecloths I bought in Greece last summer.
I must admit to certain prejudices. For example, when I was child every household had at least one revolting zig-zag crocheted afghan over the back of the sofa. I hated them. Hated them so much that I can't even stand the Shetland lace "feather-and-fan" pattern because it makes me think of those afghans.
Ditto granny squares. I know, I know. They're hip right now, they're funky, they're vintage. People just love them. They're on the runway, they're in the books, everyone's making them, blah blah blah. I look at them and have unfortunate flashbacks to sitting around watching Lawrence Welk and eating stale cookies while the grown-ups discussed their gall bladders.
However, like a good Buddhist I do my darnedest to avoid Fixed Viewpoints and, on occasion, even my congenital aversion to certain yarn-based atrocities can be overcome.
John Brinegar, over at Yarn Ball Boogie, has just done it. He's come up with a granny-square scarf with which I am in love, to the extent that I may lie in wait outside his door so that I can conk him over the noggin with my copy of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and steal it.
If you've seen John's work, you know he's good at pushing the boundaries enough to make you look twice at things you've seen so often they're easy to overlook. Rosebud is definitely a pattern like that. I love the metal connecting rings, and I love subtle shifts in color.
It makes me...it makes me wish I could...crochet...granny squares...
Excuse me, please. The room is starting to spin. I think I need some cookie dough.
79 comments:
- Sravana said...
Well, that would NOT be your Gramma's granny square.
Totally hip! Now, crochet it in different colors of leather, and you have just the thing for an evening out with the BEARS.
:::wink, wink, nudge, nudge:::
Sravana, who knows about that from reading joe.my.god - 9:23 PM
- marie in florida said...
get ready My Love, i'll be right over and you will spend the night learning. Crochet is my first love. we can't let Delores see the hook though, it might give her flashbacks.
- Sean said...
I've always loved Granny Squares! Loved 'em before they were hip and will love them after they've been re-catagorized as passé. Now I'm off to see what you're talking about!
- Carol said...
I know exactly what you want to do with those metal connecting rings, you hussy.
And all I have to say is:
Can I watch? - 10:14 PM
- Knit Mongrel said...
You need some of that funny cookie dough. You know.
I was reading a story once (ok, ok - it was in the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader) about some fancy art museum somewhere. The folks showed up in the morning to find a new piece of art hanging on the wall, all framed and everything. They loved it - it was called "genius", and was eventually sold for $10,000.
Then the punchline - it was a schematic of the men's room drawn by the janitor. It was framed and hung in the museum as a joke.
So that elicited a slight giggle outta me, but the end of the story is what really soiled my knickers - the buyer of the drawing sued and was not only given his money back but was paid extra for damages.
I'm sorry. So it was art yesterday? But not today? People piss me off.
Good luck with the granny squares. As long as you don't start sending children checks for $10 on their birthdays you're probably safe. - 10:38 PM
- Marie said...
Okay, I too use to pig out with my friends on cookie dough, but we were much more lowbrow - we used to watch "The Breakfast Club" or "Harold and Maude" instead of discussing things of great import (it was high school, but I'm not sure we did much better in high school!)
- Marie said...
d'oh! I meant to say:
I'm not sure we did much better in college!
Oy, it just goes to show I shouldn't blog when I'm tired - or maybe I just need some cookie dough to pick me up! - 11:18 PM
- April said...
Time for a trip to WalMart to pick up some of that nice Red Heart yarn!
- Mary K. in Rockport said...
"The Five Little Peppers!" Oh, how I loved that book when I was quite young; they were so..so spunky! I picked it up as an adult and discovered that the Peppers were actually unremittingly smarmy. Quel disappointment.
- Carson said...
oh dear, that's not a good flashback (i'm not sure exactly who lawrence welk is, but i get the idea)
- Paper Tiger said...
Ceci n'est pas un Granny Square...
- hugs said...
metal hooks!
- janna said...
I like granny squares BECAUSE they remind me of my grandma. But they've got to have a lot of black in them, because Grandma always used lots of black (most likely acrylic) yarn in hers.....
- Suzanne said...
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew! I thought I was the only one who remembered that book! Holy cats, Franklin!
- Mel said...
Oy, the metal! So bondage-y that it freaks me out.
- anne marie in philly said...
"When Harry rolled over to me after work, held up an assemblage of black leather and chrome, and said, "Can you settle a bet? Me and the guys are trying to guess how you're supposed to wear this..."
how is harry going to react after he sees rosebud? (more winkwinknudgenudge)
I am with suzanne; the five little peppers brought flashbacks (not not good ones) - ditto lawrence welk.
"harold and maude" - marie, it's one of my all-time favorites.
is it time for cookie dough yet? - 5:32 AM
- Barb B. said...
I understand perfectly your feeling about granny squares. But they give me that warm fuzzy feeling. It's the memories and the associations. Being sick when I was a kid, and being coddled, wrapped up in one on the couch. Milk and honey, hugs from my Pop...all that good stuff. My kids, and the nieces and nephews, all say, you just can't be sick without one of Granny's afghans to snuggle up in.
- Mom said...
I don't think you ever said anything about not liking these things when you were younger. I know that you used to wrap-up in one when you got cold. I know one thing for sure we never watched Lawrence Welk (I disliked that show). Maybe you watched it with your grandmother.
- Bridget said...
My only association with granny squares was a vest made of them that some well-meaning church lady gave me as a gift the year that my father died. My mother said, "Oh good God, we're not even giving that to Goodwill!"
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - I read another reference to it the other day, hadn't otherwise thought of it in about 30 years ... they were no Bobbsey Twins, though ... - 9:05 AM
- Mary Lynn said...
I can teach you Granny Squares. The advantage to projects like this is that they can be relatively quick and you can do a major de-stashing. My Mom and I made layettes for a NIC Unit of a local hospital and used baby colors and granny squares for the baby afghans. They were lovely, soft and totally washable (LOL).
On the other hand, when I was a child, I never knew we had a granny square afghan. Until we had a fire and the afghan was destroyed. My Mom sobbed. She hated the damn thing but it was the ONLY thing she had that her Mom had made. It is probably why she taught me how to dow them and why we made them for the hospital. - 9:14 AM
- Julie said...
I look at them [granny squares] and have unfortunate flashbacks to sitting around watching Lawrence Welk and eating stale cookies while the grown-ups discussed their gall bladders.
We shared the same childhood! That brings back a strong memory of unnaturally pink cookies. Where do you stand on quilling? - 9:47 AM
- Sheepish Annie said...
Yup...art is about reactions and not where it fits in the hierarchy. If something resonates then the artist hit the mark, at least with that particular pair of eyeballs.
The last project that resonated for me was a simple crocheted scarf made from Lorna's Laces. Although I did send a few die-hard sock knitters into cardiac arrest and intense therapy for having done so... - 10:45 AM
- =Tamar said...
It isn't the zigzag, it's the awful colors that made those afghans tacky. Imagine one with those subtle shifts in color, done in that fine textured top-quality yarn, with occasional metal rings almost-randomly placed, or in a design that only shows if you deliberately spread it out.
"Rosebud": Are you sure it isn't just the model? Imagine if the squares were tiny, tiny filet crochet, perhaps using designs from those Greek tablecloths.
The Peppers were much better than the B*bbs*y (identical fraternal) Tw*ns. - 11:10 AM
- Debbie said...
Yesssssss, come, my pet. Come over to the granny side.
Actually, granny squares are the perfect way to combine colors and watch them play together. Just promise me you'll stop before you end up wearing a pantsuit made of them, otherwise you know what has to happen . . . - 11:25 AM
- junior_goddess said...
Not seeing the passion, but whatever. I liked the jump rings as links.
Check out http://www.melodysarts.com/index.html
SHE makes me want to pick up the hook. - 11:31 AM
- Lizbon said...
Heh, I think I had the same college experience you had, albeit at a less schmancy institution. And I pine for it now. Our own Kerfuffle had to do with Schroedinger's Cat, I believe. But what's a Sch among friends?
Couldn't agree more regarding: a) usual reaction to granny squares, and b) Rosebud. When I saw it yesterday, I thought, Whoa. And the hot model didn't hurt either.
Oh, the Five Little Peppers; it's like the junior version of Little Women. Thanks for the double time-travel in one fell post. You must be packing a whole crate of madeleines. - 11:45 AM
- knitnzu said...
Rosebud IS a good looking granny square item, especially with those metal links! (I have no idea how to crochet more than a chain). Or maybe it's the wonderful dark colors on that wonderful dark model that's getting to you? You want something to dip your cookie dough in? Melt a tbs or 2 of butter. Take it off the burner and toss in some choc chips, stir it up. It's also good on ice cream if you like hardish fudgy sauces.
- pacalaga said...
OMG, now I know why I dislike feather and fan so much! YAAAAAHHHHH.
- Jax said...
Oh, my, Lizbon is right--there's something to that Sch- thing! In my college days, I knew a guy with a pet snake named Schleiermacher. But I digress...
Forget the Peppers. A hardback copy of Little Women is far more effective. You get better leverage if you slip the book into the case alongside the pillow before swinging. Don't ask me how I know. - 12:38 PM
- roggey said...
Hated them so much that I can't even stand the Shetland lace "feather-and-fan" pattern because it makes me think of those afghans.
And crochet? It ain't no big thing, love. I've started it and I rather like it for those things that drive me batshit in knitting (lace - ach mein gott! is that crazy-making for me).
Go on, go get a hook and try it out.... - 12:40 PM
- Ellen said...
I feel your pain, Franklin. Our feather and fans were all crocheted in avocado, orange, and harvest gold.
Still gives me nightmares. - 1:05 PM
- mbirn said...
You need to check out the blog Yarnstorm. She's been working on the most fabulous Wavy Afghans that will totally make you change your mind about the media - it changed my mind. Here's the link:
You need to check out her blog anyways, because she the some of the best photos of any knit blogger. And she discusses a huge range of design, art, and domesticity topics, all in her droll British way. - 2:01 PM
- Holly Bernice Cox said...
That is different and very simple yet who would have thought of those link .That Noro vest would have Mum's head spinning too.It looks like "Siler Thaw" and she has a bag of that colour It looks like I might get a tank.
- Kristen said...
Well I'll be damned! I never thought I'd see a granny square suitable for an outing to a leather bar!
- Steve in Harbor City, CA said...
...as my other half and I slowly slip into the "mid-life-crisis" aka 50ish (plus or minus) age...we actually now watch Lawrence Welk (well obviously reruns ;-) at dinner time on Sunday evenings...the show now brings back old memories, mostly fond, with the parents, as we contemplate having no parents.
My, how times change.
...you have a wonderful site Franklin...I think Buddha would approve. - 4:19 PM
- PICAdrienne said...
You are mixing my grandparents, my Mom's side had Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (and a couple of more, which I now possess) and my Dad's parents watched Lawrence Welk, and had the granny squares and the zig zag afghans. Although, I can't say it was gall bladders being discussed, it was the "Itus" brothers, Arthur and Burs.
(In college we were discussing The Dhamapada and drinking wine.) - 4:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
It's red. It's made from granny squares. I've a feeling that once it's taken out into the sunlight, it's going to look exactly like your granny's granny squares.
- Kit said...
I came to terms with my dislike for crochet, and admit to why I have it: Crocheting is harder than knitting. Knitting has an anchor, crocheting is off in space. I can't do it, so I don't like it. Kind of like ice skating.
- New Jersey Laura said...
Love to knit, but love crochet, too. I have some crocheted tablecloths and bedspreads that are to die for. Who would do that with thread today (and no ott light, either!)? Not me!
- Cassie said...
Kit, I'm in the same boat with knitting. I keep meaning to learn, but I don't have the time, and if I want to spend hours playing with yarn, I'd rather have it end in a scarf or something. Crocheting makes sense to me, I'm quick at it, and while it uses more yarn, it's... it makes sense to me. Make a loop, pull yarn through it, pull yarn through that loop, and repeat until you have one big knot.
- Anonymous said...
Funny but those crocheted chevrons imprinted on me an automatic dislike of feather and fan ... but, I am actually knitting a scarf in Fleece Artist Lady Godiva in that pattern and this I can take.
There are a lot of reasons why I still don't like granny squares -anything made of them seems to buckle at the joins. There's absolutely no illusion of "whole cloth," which somehow I aspire to.
That said, I really like crochet as well as knitting and I long to see someone make cool and stylish things using other motifs and techniques (not granny, not chevron) and *light*, very *light* yarn.
Five Little Peppers - huh, I had a copy of that book on my shelf all through my childhood and never could make myself read it. I'm not sure why.
Sherri - 10:21 PM
- Debbie said...
I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't like Granny Squares. Didn't way back in the 70's and it is now worse. Augh when will the madness end?
- Ilana said...
Show me the empirical scale for art and I'll apologize for calling Bono a pompous ass when he said that kids shouldn't be allowed to listen to "crappy" pop music. I've learned that there's just art, music, literature (and needlecrafts) that I like and that I don't like, no good or bad, right or wrong.
But wouldn't it be funny if there WERE an empirical scale for art, and at its pinnacle were paintings of kids with gigantic eyes, Britney Spears, harlequin romance novels and granny squares? - 11:15 AM
- Musclemom said...
Admit it -- what really made the scarf for you was the model. I know that's what did it for me. At least what I could see of him.
- Heather said...
That scarf rocks! The Five Little Peppers also rock. I still have one of those books from when I was a kid.
I tried crocheting this year after looking at The Happy Hooker in my LYS. I saw a sweater I had to have and the rest is history. The cool thing about crochet is that it goes so fast compared to knitting (for me anyway) Much more in the way of instant gratification. I hope you do learn to crochet, and if you do be sure to use a good hook, like an Addi or Clover that has a nice fat handle. It saves your hand from cramping into a gnarled little claw.
Heather - 3:57 PM
- Heather said...
omg omg omg! I just saw the photo of the scarf model omg! I have never needed a cold shower after looking at a crochet pattern before now. Hot damn.
- FiberQat said...
Honey, I'm coming to Chicago to do an intervention. Don't cross over to granny squares. Freeform crochet maybe or filet, but not granny squares. Remember how your toes would get stuck in the holes?
Then again, if he did it in black leather strips, then my interest would be piqued.
Schopenhauer? Try explaining Kierkegaard in one sentence. - 6:29 PM
- Janice in GA said...
Huh. On my monitor the picture was so dark I couldn't tell what the little shiny bits were. Beads? LEDs? When folks started talking about rings, I downloaded the picture and did a little gamma correction on it.
Ah, I see them now.
Pattern and/or model don't do a thing for me, but that's ok. I'm pretty boring. :) - 9:13 PM
- Rabbitch said...
I think the only way that pattern would do anything for me would be if the model were actually pierced with the jump rings.
But that's just me. - 12:46 AM
- Lorna said...
Just popping in to say a very belated thanks for your help with the finishing of my bear. He's done, and I think he's lovely!
- celerman said...
I knit not, but I was looking for a link to "panopticon" to put on my site.I found you and yours. Your explanation of the panopticon and its analogy to blogging was perfect, thanks
celerman - 12:25 PM
- =Tamar said...
By the way, your link to String Or Nothing is way out of date; it goes to the old blog. So far there's still a link there to Wiseneedle, from which it is possible to get to S.o.N., but that may not last.
- Bev in TN said...
Wll I still loathe granny squares and ripple afghans and the feather and fan lace patterns, but Thanks, once again, your words have made me recognize my dreadful wimpy tendencies to outwardly go with the flow (as in thinking of crochet as the lesser craft compared to knitting)while inwardly thinking it has great potential. Me, I love tunisian and filet crochet. BTW, for some reason I missed the Regicide scarf when you blogged it; Loving it now.
- pdxWoman said...
Granny Squares? There were granny squares in those pictures? Are you sure?
- DK said...
Honey, you throw one of granny's nasty zig-zag afghans on that man and it'd look passable. Presentation remains everything. I do like the jump rings, though, very clever. Have you checked out Nikol Lohr's Naughty Needles yet? She has some delightful uses for D-rings...
Kate - 10:36 PM
- Puttermeister said...
The Laurence Welk reference in conjunction with those afghan visuals brought back too many visceral sense memories of the Anderson sisters and enforced "quality" entertainment that I had to spring out of lurk-dom to say, "Omigod. Me too."
Interestingly, our grandparents justified forcing us to watch LW with the assertion that it was "good" music, when my sister and I knew that, in fact, The Muppet Show was much higher in the Hierarchy of Artistic Achievements. Preferences and prejudices do seem to start at an early age, indeed. - 12:00 PM
- Helen said...
I just heard a story that I'm sure stars Delores (though the teller didn't know her name). I'd like to share it with you so that you can check its veracity ... how can I email you.... - 12:27 PM
- Puttermeister said...
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- anneonymousone said...
I'm with FiberQat; I crochet some, though not as much as I did before learning to knit. I have done my damnedest to never crochet something that terrorizes toes.
- i believe you know said...
I have this memory of eating cookies and watching Lawrence Welk with you. I don't think gall bladders were discussed, though. It's a happy memory, anyway. Other than you, I may be the only person who thinks "cookies and milk" when mention is made of the French Quarter.
- Carol said...
I barely noticed the scarf in his photo! But on second take, yes, it makes me want to do granny squares too.
- linda in Waterloo said...
Right on topic re: the 'French'ranking art ,a book called, "The Judgement of Paris:
the Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism" by Ross King , was 1 of 3 finalists for the Charles Taylor prize in Toronto. I heard the author speak and it was amusing to hear his stories about Meissonier. - 12:04 PM
- maryse said...
ok so i went and looked at the granny square scarf. and um ... i don't think you're reacting to the scarf. i know i'm not.
- Mary Lynn said...
Well duh, after some of the comments, I had to go back and look at the pics. I must not have had my computer glasses on . . .
- badmommy said...
Hi Franklin - I sent you an email about two weeks ago to the address on your franklinhabit.com website & having not heard from you am wondering if perhaps your spam filter ate it and I need to resend or send to an alternate address? Thanks for checking! Sue
- Marie said...
Who made the cookie dough?
It was Heidigger and dialectic in my day. I read Mallarme and Beaudelaire in the original just to be different. Now when I see the young undergraduates, I just laugh because I know they know only two poems, red wine or no. - 5:36 AM
- evelyn said...
Holy Mother of Pearl. That granny square link is smoking. I've never been a fan of granny squares either, but I do like the bookmark on the Martha of the Stewart website. I can't find the exact project (I know I printed out a copy and have it at home if someone is really interested I'll go find it), but here's a tutorial on how to create a granny square and you can see the bookmark on this page:
Your blog is fabulous. Thanks so much for all the work you put into it. - 7:53 AM
- Adele said...
That's the least horrible use of granny squares I've ever seen.
Sorry John & Franklin but I remain unconverted - the best part about the design is the seminaked model. - 7:43 AM
- Liz said...
Oh, fuck. All these years I've been saying "quod erat demonstratum." I hide my head in shame.
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Bryce Harper enters his second big-league camp feeling more comfortable.
VIERA, Fla. — Bryce Harper reported for spring training today and made it clear what he must do to be included on the Nationals' Opening Day roster.
"I'm going to come in here, work as hard as I can, keep my mouth shut and play," he said.
In truth, the 19-year-old's path to Wrigley Field on April 5 is a bit more complicated than that. Simply showing up to camp, working hard and keeping his mouth closed isn't going to guarantee Harper anything.
But the gregarious right fielder does seem to understand that the spotlight will be fixed on him for the next six weeks, and it's up to him to prove he's ready to handle the attention … not to mention big-league pitching.
One year ago, Harper (barely 18 and barely removed from high school) reported for his first professional spring training and looked the part. HeRead more »
- sunderland - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Harper is really setting steep goals for himself, huh?Trying to make the team is tough enough, but keeping his mouth shut too? That's gonna be a hard one to maintain.
- phil dunn - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Smart move!
- SonnyG10 - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:24 PM
I like Bryce and his attitude. Still think he plays a few weeks in AAA though.
- SilverSpring8 - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:28 PM
He goes to Syracuse until mid-June. It's a business decision.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:29 PM
The issue is that Harper said he wanted to be Joe Namath "off the field." Who cares that he is a Duke fan?
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM
He's gonna make the roster. He's your starting RF for the Washington Nationals. Influx of LHB's they signed this off-season?! Ha!Davey loves himself some offense and he can get comparable D and a lot more O with no Desmond and no Bernadina or Ankiel in CF either.Here's the it-would-be-a-shocker-but-I'd-love-to-see-it lineup for Opening Day:Lombo (ss)HarperZimLaRocheMorseWerthEspinosaRamosStrasNats win 7-2.(You flip Harper and Desi, and LaRoche and Morse, in the lineup against LHP)
- SCNatsFan - Feb 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM
No way you give up a year of Harper for 6 weeks now. Fiscally irresponsible.I think Harper is going to be a player we love while he is here and going to hate when he is gone; he is just such the bigmouth Yankee you just know he ends up there becoming the new straw that stirs the drink. No reason for us to speed that up by bringing him up early.And for those who think it doesn't make a difference, look at what has happened because we gave Detwiler a cup of coffee. If you are unsure go ask Lannan what it can do to a roster.
- Gonat - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:03 PM
I think he goes to Syracuse and when he is in a nice 7 to 10 game hot streak Bryce will get the call. You don't piss away an extra year of control right now.
- whatsanattau - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM
$15M and another season under contract says he starts in the minors and is called up in June.
- Don - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Don't forget his 6 errors in 20 games with the Arizona League last fall. If he doesn't get his defensive skills in place we don't see him before September.
- NatsBrat - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:38 PM
So Lombo at SS in your Opening Day line-up Anon 4:33?Based on what??? I hope it wasn't his BA last September with the Nats.BTW, Desmond hit better at AAA than your new friend.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:48 PM
No, Desmond did not hit better at any level than Lombo. Other than Lombo's ability to field well and hit for average and OBP and his decent speed, he has no chance. In order for Desmond to be the guy at SS he needs to be the guy at SS. If he's looking bad in the Spring, why is it beyond reason that he could star in Cuse? Ian has options left.
- nats guy - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM
The 6 weeks i not about control it is about super 2.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Actually, Desmond hit like mad in like 50-60 games for 'Cuse in 09, his magic year. So he does have better numbers at AAA than Lombo (in a smaller sample). But, Lombo crushes his numbers at all other levels in the minors. Desmond never hit above .260 at any other level for years.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:02 PM
It's called Karma. Nats avoided Super 2 with Stras, the good news, and then lost the year to injury anyway, the bad news. A guy like Harper is thinking HOF is in his future and the potential games played now that could make him ROY, or move him closer to some career counting stat that gets him to Cooperstown is on the line in these 6 or so weeks. He wants to be in the Show, the team should at least consider bucking its money-saving tendencies and give the kid a break if he earns it on the field. Maybe Karma will shine on the club if they do.
- nationals7 - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:04 PM
I think he'll follow his dad's advice.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:10 PM
Just read tightness in Wang's surgically repaired shoulder. And so it starts.
- NatsNuts - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:11 PM
Periculum at 4:33 Idiot
- Positively Half St. - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:11 PM
I think Harper will be just fine.On another note from ealier today:At the same time that many complain about how negative JayB is, I think we should also celebrate how positive natsfan1a is. Ray of sunshine.+1/2St.
- Positively Half St. - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:13 PM
nats guy-I think the 6 weeks are about control. The Super 2 thing takes even longer.+1/2St.
- MicheleS - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:17 PM
I read somewhere that it takes 21 days in the minors for us to keep Harper that extra year. I don't know with the new CBA when Super 2 starts. Isn't usually the first week of June?
- MicheleS - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM
And I will add JaneB to that …+1/2 St..I think we should also celebrate how positive natsfan1a is. Ray of sunshine.
- Positively Half St. - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:24 PM
MicheleS-Agreed, although I would add you, as well.Here's where I ensure I am not in that crowd, I am afraid- Jason Michaels and Brett Carroll don't excite me as stopgaps to Bryce. Their career stats are pretty lame. This, of course, is why scouts help make these decisions, and not guys who casually look at a couple of stats.And anyway- Jeremy Lin has given a new hope to benchwarmers everywhere.+1/2St.
- Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_For_Me - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM
As much as I'd love to "Bring the Best 25 North," Brash Bryce starts at SYR and then makes it here by Father's Day. Unless he bats .600 in ST. And I'm hoping like mad he does.
- NatsFanJim - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Let's stop playing games: bring Harper north on opening day. You would rather have Ankiel, Bernadina, or until his retirment Cameron?? I dont believe it. So, lets stop playing these little games — bring the kid North.
- NatsFanJim - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:36 PM
To Anon at 4:33 p.m.LaRoche batting 4th? That's a joke, right?
- NatsFanJim - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:39 PM
LaRoche is a notorious slow starter. He doesnt even start to warm up until mid July. For his 8 million bucks annually that he got out of the then desparate Nats, I'll bet many on this forum call for his job by mid May, if not sooner.
- Hodges14 - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:40 PM
I've been sitting here all off-season shaking my head regarding the Harper situation. Johnson, who is a good manager (not a great one though; one championship with several teams that were as good or better than the Nats are now), is letting his ego again get in the way vs. what's best for the organization. He keeps pointing to Gooden. When you have a 97 mph fast ball and a great curve and can locate both, it may not matter how young you are. But this is a hitter. The stats I see from 19-year olds (like Griffey, Kaline etc) were good, but certainly not great. They became great players a year or two later. The problems are mental as well as physical. Gooden and Strawberry were supposedly sure Hall of Famers too, but how'd that work out? And Harper appears to be a lot more immature than Gooden was at the time. Throw in the Super 2 and free agent clocks and to start him in the majors when he hasn't had one AAA at bat and is still raw defensively and on the bases makes no sense. We're going to lose him when he becomes a 6-year free agent due to his agent and his desire for the NY bright lights so they'll probably have to trade him before then. The Nats year is probably 2013 so why not get him in the lineup when he's better able to handle things– like July at the earliest. He's not ready mentally and probably physically for the majors yet so why start him up here–just so Davey can say I brought up a future Hall of Famer to the majors when he was only 19? I hope Rizzo is smarter than that because when Harper is playing for the Yankees, Davey will be fishing in Florida but the Nats will still be needing to win baseball games.
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:42 PM
LaRoche has batted clean-up the bulk of his career folks, against RHP he's likely your 4 hitter on OD, well, unless Harper is.
- greg - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:49 PM
i think he will have to look like a world-beater in spring training to avoid those 21 days in the minors.and even then, i really can't see how 21 days on the roster in april justify 1 full year less of control. it makes absolutely no sense to me. forget the super2 stuff, if he's good enough to earn the cash, they'll happily pay it. but the FA clock is *WAY* more important and the tradeoff for 21 days is just way too steep. everything i've read about lombardozzi has said 2B (or 3B), but that he isn't/won't be a good SS in the majors. i don't remember exactly what the evaluations said about why, but i think the nats would only see him as SS in a utility role, not as a starter.
- Captain Obvious - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Um. Has it occurred to anyone that Davey and Rizzo are playing good cop/bad cop here to motivate Harper and get him to buy into Davey as someone on "his side"? Seems like pretty basic motivational mind games.Why anyone takes any of the public pronouncements of a manager or GM without a heaping of salt, I will never understand…
- Anonymous - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM
Hodges — Johson has finished 1st or 2nd in his Division TWELVE times. If there is a guy in the bigs managing right now who's done better with 15 or so years and on 4 different clubs and in both leagues (not counting the Nats) I would be shocked, maybe Leyland? What I am getting at is that the guy knows something about what he's doing. And if ever there was a 19 yr old ready for the bigs, it is this kid. He's been ahead of every development curve on the field and he's a phsyical marvel not some growing into his frame kid. The maturity stuff is a red hearing — if he can play, he can play. At the end of the day, IF Johnson says the kid should play, how can people say — other than for pure money reasons — that Harper should not play? It would be crazy to say that Davey Johnson's estimation of his development was not credit worthy.
- Wally - Feb 20, 2012 at 11:55 PM
MicheleS said…I read somewhere that it takes 21 days in the minors for us to keep Harper that extra year. I don't know with the new CBA when Super 2 starts. Isn't usually the first week of June?Yes to the first. The Super Two date isn't a date – its the top 17% of service time guys in each service class, (I think) but that number has been raised in the new CBA. It used to work out to the first or second week of June, but now is estimated for mid July.I don't think Super Two will factor into Harper's timing, unless he struggles early or his promotion otherwise gets pushed to mid July anyway.
- Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_For_Me - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Anonymous 6:52 writes, and I quote:"The maturity stuff is a red hearing…"That would be under that notorious manager, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, during that awful season of 1954, right?Sheesh, a spell checker in the wrong hands is a wonderful thing to waste…
- Mick - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:01 AM
I hope we are not the Twins of 2011, lots a hype and they went into the tank right away, no injuries, just in the tank
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:06 AM
Spellcheck is for people either too concerned to make a mistake or too concerned what people will think about them if they make a mistake. It might engender some negative response. Oh dear. You know what I meant to type, Sister Ann Ellen of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And misplaced McCarthyism (did I spell that right??) references are always a mistake no matter how yu spel them.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:08 AM
No injuries on the Twins? Morneau? Mauer? Span? Kubel?
- greg - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:16 AM
yeah, i was a little confused by the "no injuries on the twins" comment, too. sure, there were some bad years by some guys. you don't end up that bad without some playing below expectations, but they definitely had some injuries (whether new or lingering (like morneau)) to key players.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:38 AM
Sure, you would say that, you illiterate running dog.
- natsfan1a - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Thanks for the kind words, PHS.Spellcheck might not flag "hearing" because it's a real word, unlike, say, "herrink," which it would flag. (Geez, the former proofreader in me really dislikes having to stick up for spellcheck. But I digress.)On topic, I suppose the roster situation will play itself out and the best 25 will go north (that one's on me for all of you drinking game players :-)).
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM
Best 25 go North! Commies or otherwise.dfh21(missed you guys today — Zuck's a busy dude, no?)
- baseballswami - Feb 21, 2012 at 1:13 AM
Actually I think the majority of people who post here are positive, funny and informative. I also think that LaRoche is going to struggle at first and so is Harper.I think it's just part of the process and you have to go through it and be patient. Good things do not come instantly or easily.The hard work, patience and struggles are what make the end results so rewarding – in baseball and in life.
- Sec 3, My Sofa - Feb 21, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Do nuns and sisters take part in the chickfests? I have a feeling we're about to find out…
- Section 222 - Feb 21, 2012 at 1:38 AM
I haven't noticed that the comment box has a spell checker that corrects anything automatically. :-)SCNatsFan, you're absolutely right about the absurdity of bringing up Harper so early (i.e. less than 21 days into the season) that you burn a year of team control. Not going to happen, no matter what DJ says. (And Captain Obvious has (1) a good theory that Rizzo and DJ are playing good cop/bad cop to motivate Harper; and (2) the right idea that spoonfuls of salt are needed to swallow anything they say at this point). There's no comparison, however, to Bowden stupidly giving Detwiler a cup of coffee the year he was drafted. That burned an option (not a year of team control) and is the reason Det doesn't have any left — putting Lannan on the bubble to make the 25 man out of ST. I think it's a fair bet that Harper won't need any option years once he comes up.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:14 AM
NatsNuts said…Periculum at 4:33 IdiotNOT ME NUMBNUTS I wouldn't post that drivel. Stop stealing Natsnut's handle dude. Let herhave her handle stop the plagiarism.
- 0a88cbbc-5be2-11e1-a5be-000bcdcb8a73 - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:25 AM
I think Harper and the Nats are lucky to have Davey Johnson a key force in the final decision. He's so very experienced with young talent. I have confidence in his judgement.
- Richard Moore - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:29 AM
I just posted the message about the Nats being lucky to have Davey Johnson as a key force in the final decision on Harper but for some reason I can no longer post via my AIM moniker Rmoore446, which I have used for years on this blog.Oh well, I'll select another profile.
- SCNatsFan - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:35 AM
sec222, you are right… my point was not to make short sighted decisions that hamper the team in the future. As much as you want to win now you can't ignore what lies in the future.
- Rabbit - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM
There's nothing odd about Harper being a fan of the Lakers, Cowboys and Duke. What's odd is people who think that's odd and make a big deal of it. If Houston finished last and got Harper, then I guess it wouldn't be odd for him to be a fan of the Cowboys? People just don't have enough to do with all their time.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Has the swarm of fans bothered Harper yet for autographs? Do the Nats plan to have a "special" line for Harper and Strasburg this year for fans to get autographs in Spring training or are they going to be accessible like the other players (with the expection of Zim and Werth who avoid fans like the plague).


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The union intends to hold a 48-hour strike at the site from Oct. 20 until Oct. 22. INEOS has begun the process of taking down petrochemical plants at the refinery in anticipation.
INEOS Grangemouth (UK) said it began talks on Monday afternoon with Unite The Union at the offices of the Arbitration And Conciliation Service (ACAS) in Glasgow.
These talks are intended to find a way to resolve the dispute over Mr. Stephen Deans, an employee representative on the site and to prevent a planned strike action by the union. Unite has informed INEOS that it intends to hold a 48-hour strike at the site from October 20 until October 22. INEOS has since started the process of taking down petrochemical plants in anticipation of this event.
Grangemouth Petrochemicals (UK) says it is currently facing serious trading issues. The North Sea gases that it relies on for raw materials are in decline, and its major contract with BP runs out in 2017. The site lost over £576 million in the last four years and is currently losing over £10 million per month. The pension scheme is £200 million in deficit and pension costs are an unsustainable 65% of salary.
We have always been prepared to go to ACAS if this helps to resolve a strike that Grangemouth petrochemical plant and refinery cannot afford," said Calum MacLean, INEOS Grangemouth (UK) chairman. "We hope to be able to resolve the dispute and address the financial issues that threaten the survival of the entire site."
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She dated her work. This will help you when she's world famous and you have to edit her anthology of collected works.
This is her wedding gown. She is so confident in my as-yet-unlearned sewing skills that those are real live roses, and you can sew them on for me, Mama.
Her flower girl is her sister, she's already announced. And her sister is delighted.
This is my favorite page: the faceless husband. Why faceless, you ask? Because I don't know who he is yet, silly! But he'll be dapper in his top hat and tie and two pocket squares.
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You know words are my first love. Maybe they're E's, as well. (What that says about the faceless husband, I'm not sure.) Or maybe they're a passing phase, but I love encouraging my little Author and Illustrator in Training.
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