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Though Bryce Harper's first two weeks at Class AAA have left plenty to be desired, the Nationals aren't concerned in the least about their top prospect's development.
Harper ended play today with a .232 average and only one RBI in 14 games for Syracuse, but slow starts are nothing new for the 19-year-old outfielder, who has struggled early at every stop he's made in the Nationals' farm system the last two seasons.
General manager Mike Rizzo said he's not surprised Harper has needed some time to get used to Class AAA pitching.
"I think it's an adjustment period for him," Rizzo said before tonight's game against the Astros. "It's a different kind of pitching than he's ever had in the minor leagues. You've got some hard-throwing prospects, and you also have some veteran, AAA/AAAA type of pitchers that can really pitch and command their stuff. They're not the blazing fastballs, but they try to get you outRead more »
- Gonat - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Corey Brown in CF or LF and Tyler Moore in LF and 1st could come in as platoon players. Now then, I don't see Rizzo ditching DeRosa or Nady or Tracy at this point which makes a call-up a long shot.Nady does have that wall scraper HR and DeRosa is competing for the Stairs trophy right now.Winning teams have to make tough decisions but in the end, Rizzo and Davey like veterans on the bench mixed with their youth.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21 PM
It's all good. One note from 'Ol Joe though. Actually it's a question to all of the NI experts. Why do so many of you think, "Oh, just move Lombo, or Tyler Moore, to the OF "is the answer to getting there bats into a MLB lineup? Do you honestly think that anyone that has played first base,or shortstop, can just go out there and not embarrass themselves,or hurt the team? If you really believe that then I doubt you ever played the outfield,or coached someone, on a competitive level.It's not as easy as you might think, and you can seriously damage yourself out there.Bryce Harper may be one of the more talented baseball prospects in at least a generation and he's having a tough time. I believe Moore has played first his whole pro career. Do you really think his bat makes him ready to play LF for the Nats?
- NatsJack in section 235 - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Gonat…..injuries man, it's all about having replacement parts, even for the short term.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:23 PM
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- Gonat - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:24 PM
NatsJack, I didn't want to say it…..
- NatsJack in section 235 - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 PM
The other guy setting himself up for a rapid rise is Josh Johnson who CAN play short and third.
- Gonat - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 PM
Joe Seamhead, putting Tyler Moore in LF reminds me of Michael Morse, Josh Willingham and Adam Dunn.Putting Lombo in LF reminds me of 3 other 2nd baseman, Pete Rose, Knoblach, and Alfonso Soriano. Knoblach and Soriano weren't great but they weren't great at 2nd either. Lombo can definitely do it. Personally, I'd rather see Lombo only at 2nd and LF.
- Oldguy - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Another prospect who has been looking real good is Danny Rosenbaum at Harrisburg. In 21+ innings, 16 K's, 0 walks, 3 ER, .125 era. Big, strong lefty, 24 years old. Saw him in Florida. He should be at SYR soon.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Did you folks ever see Willy Mo Pena out there? The guy all but ducks from line drives coming at him. Or Adam Dunn? Good grief, at bad as he was at first he was even worse in LF.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Rose was a very good OF'er, as he was anywhere else you put him. He was a freak, and freaks like him only come along once in a while. Soriano had some "learning experiences." I've only seen Lombo for a couple of innings in the spring. It wasn't pretty.Don't get me going on Willingham,though he is a good example of "if he can hit we'll find a spot for him." Chuck Knoblach suffered from a mental thing of not being able to make the throw from 2nd to first. He stunk as as outfielder. My only point is that it's not as simple of a transition as many posters seem to think.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:42 PM
Oh, yeah, and GYFNG!
- Steady Eddie - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Uh, Joe, notice anything that Dunn and Pena had in common? They're both classic and not especially athletic BIG GALOOTS. Lombo is anything but, and his speed at least makes him a plausible candidate to give it a try. TMoore I don't know but he's also at least not a big galoot.There's an honorable history of conversions with caring success, as Gonat noted. My favorite was Elstin Howard who played a strong LF while backing up Yogi at his real position, C. Not so successful — but the early 60s Yanks still did it — was putting Johnny Blanchard in LF, where he was, hmmm, most notable for his bat.There's no absolute rule about it, except looking for speed and athleticism and staying away from the Big Galoots.
- NatsJack in section 235 - Apr 19, 2012 at 10:49 PM
Joe……exactly why we won't see Lombo in left. Not only was he bad, he was uncomfortable. Davey won't do that to him.
- Steady Eddie - Apr 19, 2012 at 11:01 PM
NatsJack, I agree that Lombo was not good in the, what, 3-4 games they put him in LF. Also agree that you don't mess around with regular season games with that kind of experiment. But Lombo is a reasonable candidate for a longer tryout in left in, say, the Winter Leagues.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 19, 2012 at 11:27 PM
No argument on the winter leagues, ST, or even a game that has become a laugher, Steady Eddie. To bring a Tyler Moore up to play LF isn't a move that I see the 2012 NL Manager of the Year to make!
- NatsJack in 235 watching EJ throw bp - Apr 19, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Both you guys have it right with both players.
- NatsLady - Apr 20, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Just got a chance to look in on the game. Wha' happened? Can we just start over with the second inning?
- NatsJack section 235 - Apr 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM
NO. You have to play the hand you're dealt.
- NatsLady - Apr 20, 2012 at 12:37 AM
NJ, OK. Seem to be playing it OK, picked up 4 of the 5 runs.
- NatsJack in section 235 - Apr 20, 2012 at 12:52 AM
And still have 15 outs to play.
- NatsLady - Apr 20, 2012 at 1:44 AM
Unfortunately, so do the Astros.
- Joe Seamhead - Apr 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM
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- Tcostant - Apr 20, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Hey Joe -One thing I will tell you as an old Mets fan, in Davey's hayday; he will always trade defense for offence. I watched DJ play Kevin Michell at SS and Howard Johnson in CF.I think the bigger question is if Tyler Moore is ready for big league pitching. But rest assured that DJ will play guys who can hit anywhere…
- Laddie_Blah_Blah - Apr 20, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Those three (Harper, Brown and Moore) are the guys to watch. They are going to give Harper all the time he needs to adjust to lefties and learn to hit slow breaking balls. I think either of the other 2 could come up before Bryce. Moore offers a chance to have a power righty to platoon at first with LaRoche, or come off the bench as a RH power PH. I would much rather see Moore as ALR's backup than Marrero, as well as the RH power hitter off the bench, rather than Nady (Marrero is not a power hitter), and as the RH LF off the bench. No one else in the entire organization is putting up his power numbers, right now.Brown is there just in case Bernie fails, again, in LF, or Ankiel gets hurt, again, in CF. Odds are either one, or the other, or both, will happen, again, this year. Meanwhile, Corey is getting his ABs at Syracuse, and looking good in the leadoff role. He will end up the year with a better OBP than Desi. We will see both of them, in the fall, at the latest, and in the Arizona Fall League, later on. Both of those guys are on the brink. Of course, they have to continue to produce, and it would be helpful for Moore to cut down on the Ks.Rosenbaum has been looking really, really good. Makes the loss of Milone a lot easier to take. They have so many quality young middle infielders, I wouldn't be surprised to see Rizzo deal one of them, for the right price. No way Johnson, Kobernus, Martinson, Walters, Rendon, et. al. all make the ML roster with Desi, Spinner and Lombo already blocking the way. Of all those guys, only Rendon is a lock, if he can stay healthy.
- Anonymous - Apr 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Tyler Moore won't be on this team unless he plays 5 times a week.
- Anonymous - Apr 20, 2012 at 6:21 PM
The other guy setting himself up for a rapid rise is Josh Johnson who CAN play short and third.And I'd say Jeff Kobernus with a .375 average, .403 OBP, and 11 stolen bases. Now if he can just do what Corey Brown has done (13 walks to 9 strike outs) he'll be ready.
- Anonymous - Apr 20, 2012 at 6:22 PM
And again Harper and Brown have an advantage the others don't: left-handed power bats.

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text: Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat What is a good moveset for Smeargle? 6 votes I'm trying to fine a good move list for smeargle need some good ideas right now it got transform, milk drink, tri attack and roar of time. Smeargle learnset smeargle movesets asked Jul 1, 2010 by darkpokemon edited Aug 29, 2012 by DarkTyphlosion According to Bulbapedia, there are 559 moves in the game. Smeargle can sketch all but struggle and chatter. He also probably wouldn't carry sketch for a battle, so I won't count that. That leaves 556 moves total for him to learn. nCr=n!/(r!(n-r)!). n=556 and r=4, making 3,939,049,415 possible combinations for a smeargle moveset. 4 billion move combinations sounds impressive but half of them would be completely useless. Splash, anyone? True, but having that many possible combinations is still cool. Smeargle (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Technician EVs: 252 Def/ 252 SDef/ 4 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Sketch - Sketch - Sketch - Sketch Best moveset ever ;P lol (filler) Why does the Smeargle learnset link bring me to a YouTube video? Because he learns every single move in the game. It's over 9000. Not chatter Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 27 Answers 14 votes I would use: Spore (100% accuracy to make pokemon fall asleep) Lock-On (next move guaranteed to hit) Sheer Cold Double Edge or another powerful move, just in case the others don't work. Surf would probably be best because it's better against more types (DE would be ineffective against ghosts). Or instead of the OHKO thing, you could go with Spore, Double Team then two attacking moves, maybe Surf and Earthquake? answered Jul 11, 2010 by Pokemaster edited Jul 1, 2011 by Pokemaster Show 4 previous comments If I were you I would replace the last move with destiny bond You should let go of the OHKO move. It has really low accuracy. I'd put Earthquake. Of course you could get it to hold a wide lens, zoom lens, or use X Accuracy. Also you can use SPORE (put enemy pokémon to sleep), SEISMIC TOSS (always hit 100 hp), SMOKESCREEN or DOUBLE TEAM or CONFUSE RAY or ATTRAC (check your pokémon gender) or THUNDER WAVE or NIGHTMARE or TRANSFORM, and one cover move at your choice. I dont know man, what you choice ;) Held Itenm Leftvovers / Brightpowder / Focus Band Smeargle HP 241 Speed 271 JOLLY Trainer Goofy Use minimize instead of double team :) @ xxsilverxx. The OHKO move has 100% accuracy with lock on, as lock on ensures the next move will hit. Please log in or register to add a comment. 7 votes I like endeavor and extreem speed. If you have a focus sash and you are level one you can beat your friends level 100 with a level one. answered Jul 15, 2010 by ohioscyther A STARLY did that to an ARCEUS on a Battle Video once. I like this moveset,now I'm going to go and catch a Smeargle. This is just a copy of Uncle Nick's F.E.A.R. Rattata(ScrewAttack). Focus Sash Endeavor (Quick)Attack Rattata. Please log in or register to add a comment. 6 votes Item: Focus-sash Nature: Timid/Jolly Ability: Own-tempo/Moody EVs: 252 Speed, 128 Defense, 128 S.Defense Spore Quiver-dance Bulk-up Baton-pass Spore makes them go to sleep. Quiver-dance and Bulk-up are boosts to pass and when combined they boost all your basic stats(Accuracy and evasiveness being secondary stats). Baton-pass passes the stat boosts. answered Nov 7, 2011 by Speed freak edited Apr 24, 2012 by Speed freak Disclaimer: If you use this set people may hate you, use at own risk. Why do you have Baton pass? It is a ridiculous move, you can just switch Smeargle out instead. Beacause if you just switch out all of the stat boosting is wasted. Baton Pass passes on ALL stat boosts to the next Pokemon. Please log in or register to add a comment. 6 votes What I use is a set-up Smeargel, and it works really well: Smeargle (F) @ Focus Sash Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 128 Def / 128 Special Def / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Spikes - Toxic Spikes - Stealth Rock - Spore So basically, Smeargle prevents fainting from Focus Sash, and spores them to sleep if she doesn't attack first. Either way, asleep. This gives her a chance to set up, Stealth Rocks, possibly a few layers of Spikes, and some Toxic Spikes to get that in-between damage rolling. Lets just hope, as the user, you can get set up quickly. And man, does this thing screw you if you don't have a rapid spinner. ;P answered Jan 15, 2012 by Rio edited Aug 29, 2012 by Rio Personally I would use Spore instead of Dragon-tail/Circle throw as Smeargle does not have the bulk to set up. Right. Thanks SF! Dont know what I'd do without ya. ;P Replace Spikes with Sticky Web and your set. Please log in or register to add a comment. 5 votes Gen V Smeargle (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Shell Smash Spore Baton Pass Cotton Guard answered Jun 12, 2011 by trachy edited Jan 22, 2012 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 4 votes Note: This is not a competitive set. This is an in-game moveset used to capture rare Pokemon. Smeargle Ability: Technician Item: Leftovers EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 HP (then again, who cares about Evs for in-game?) False Swipe Spore Heal Block/Soak/Shadow Claw Mean Look False Swipe gets a STAB+Technician boost and leaves one HP for the Pokemon you're trying to catch. Spore leaves them with sleep status, which is optimal for capture. Heal block is for legendary Pokemon that like to restore their health, and soak can turn your opponent into water type, meaning that ghosts that would otherwise be immune to false swipe no longer have that luxury. Not only does soak eliminate their STAB in most cases, but it lets you use net balls on them if you can't use dusk balls. (that one is more situational, but it can still be helpful depending on what verison you own.) Mean Look prevents manual fleeing, and since the Pokemon is asleep, it has a low chance of being able to get in a roar on you. answered Jul 2, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion edited Jun 7, 2013 by DarkTyphlosion awesome moveset that helps catch TONS of Pokemon... Well, how about roaming Legendary that using Roar? That move is such as pain in the ass! I remember in HeartGold SoulSilver and in Pokemon X and Y sucuine entei rakiou articuno zapdos and moltres leave (in X and Y articuno zapdos and moltres disappears until you see then about 9 times) in HeartGold and SoulSliver you have one turn. But for other pokemon with roar its Great ! I think that false swipe, spore, thunder wave and soak would be better as a lot of things aren't effected by spore Please log in or register to add a comment. 3 votes Well a good moveset would have lock on and a one hit k-o move like sheer cold then moves like earthquake and psychic to defend against fighting types. Sheer cold is better becuase it effects all types. answered Jul 1, 2010 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 3 votes Shell Smashing Smeargle @Focus Sash 252hp 4Def 252Speed Jolly/Timid nature -Spore -Baton Pass -Shell Smash -Destiny Bond I had allot of fun with this set yesterday, considering your reading this on the 30th of may. Ok so the only type of smeargle you see in the current meta game is Spore.Baton Pass.Shell Smash, No one ever thinks about the last move. So why not destiny bond. So heres the strat- Send out smeargle first use shell smash (yes first, unlike other sets that allows you to out speed your opponent to put them to sleep, that then allows you to spore so they wont wake up and kill the pokemon passed to which if you use spore first they would have a good chance, though dont use if the pokemon is well known for a priority move which most leads are not.) Second spore then pass. Sweeper sweeps. Ok sweeper eventually gets taken out so switch back in 276 speed will out run most pokemon so you can then spore them and use the usual tactic pass again. But If the foe is sweeping your team and it will loose you the match send in 1hp smeargle with destiny bond, who will expect that, now you have no major threat to deal with. answered Apr 30, 2012 by Blobyolo wow it is all bold oh wait 1.2372% is not bold lol toxicroaker u troller Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Smeargle (M) @ Focus Sash Role: Staller Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) Spore Substitute Toxic Recover OR Love Addict (Smeargle) (M) @ (No Item) Role: Hillarious Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 252 Spd Naughty Nature (+Atk, -SDef) Charm Sleep Powder Harden Pound answered Jul 1, 2011 by Josh edited Jul 1, 2011 by Josh Sorry, but I had to fix the addict set. I don't see a change? And btw, I edited the name to make it slightly more appropiate for those who don't get it. the set was in the wrong order. He never pounds before the sleep powder. Oh, lol Forgot about that. That IS hilarious! I was staring at this set for a good minute trying to see what was so good about the moves. Kudos! why not Cotton Guard? Instead of Harden? Because Smeargle doesn't use protection. Sheep skin - Cotton Guard (self explanatory) Pound isn't a very good move, it doesn't do enough damage. How bout Bone Rush? XD i agree bone rush and cotton guard *by the way im new to being a user on this site* Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Gen V Smeargle (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 4 Sp.Atk / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Spore Shell Smash Endeavor ExtremeSpeed / Mach Punch Start off with Shell Smash, if you go down to your focus sash then, put them to sleep with added speed. Endeavor them to 1hp too, then out speed them with ExtremeSpeed or Mach Punch. If they don't hit you first go, do another shell smash and up your attack! answered Sep 13, 2012 by zLouisss Pretty good idea here. thought i would try something different! /Bullet Punch/Quick Attack Well what if u were against a ghost type? because you don't have baton pass so u can't keep the shell smash for a high defense pokemon. But it still is a great moveset for other pokemon types :) Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Okay, this one won't work unless your opponent has a weak lead, but if it does work, well, you will have one ticked-off opponent on your hands. Okay, so this is primarily a lead but can be used later as well: Smeargle (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Belly Drum/Swords Dance - Agility - Baton Pass - Protect First, go for either Agility or Belly Drum (use Belly Drum ONLY if your opponent's Pokemon can't one-hit the smeargle). If you use Belly Drum, follow up with Protect to regain some of the lost HP with Leftovers. After that, use Baton Pass to give the boost to either a speedy poke or a physical poke. Used correctly, this can make any physical attacker with decent speed impossible to touch. It should be taken note of that it would help lots to also have a priority attack on whoever you are Baton Passing to, because if you pass to, say, Salamence, an Ice Shard might almost kill it. So be aware. answered Jan 22, 2012 by NuffSaid edited Jan 22, 2012 by NuffSaid Moody cannot be used with Baton Pass. I'll change that. Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here is a Smeargle for use in Rain Teams. Smeargle @ Life Orb Trait: Techinician EVs: 252 SAtk/ 252 HP/ 4 Spe Modest Nature (+SAtk,-Atk) Soak Thunder Bullet Punch/ Charge Beam Hurricane Soak is for turning the opponent into a Water type and use Thunder on him. Bullet Punch is for Priority but Charge Beam can be used on the Water type, being super-effective and having a chance to raise Smeargle's low Special attack. Hurricane is also a good move in Rain. answered Jul 1, 2012 by JirachiCelebiMew what are you going to do when a pokemon with a weather starting ability comes in? xD Weather is pretty rare in NU but.... I could just switch into my Rain starter and kill the other Weather starter :P yeah but what if it was Abamasnow aka barrack obamasnow? Cot sumpthin' super effective to that? Smeargle is RU, I thought. So you have access to every priority move in the game, but you choose the one with the worst possible typing? GJ. With that being said, go for Aqua Jet. (Tech + Rain) Right xD Probably not Aqua jet because of soak, but instead maybe ExtremeSpeed Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Smeargle (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Own Tempo EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Spore Shell Smash Endeavor ExtremeSpeed OR Spore Shell Smash Night Shade Destiny Bond answered Oct 15, 2012 by Chewy Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here's my pride and joy button passer. Shell smash cosmic power spore button pass Item-focus sash Always works with it because of great defense raising with shell smash answered Jan 21, 2013 by Bayranoxes Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Smeargle @focus sash Spore Leech seed Recycle anythingyouwant endeavor or toxic spikes to lower opponents hp faster its the best way to win any match spore leech seed (full health) recycle (bring focus sash back)best at level one answered Mar 31, 2013 by Sh!nyFlygon Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Healer/state raising Smeargle Nature:Jolly/Timid Item:Focus Sash Moves: -Lunar Dance -Quiver Dance -Calm Mind -Baton Pass -Lunar Dance for healing completely wounded Pokemon on your teams on Wi-Fi battles/Normal trainer battles and for healing their PP.Smeargle will faint using this move so use it later when a teamate is low on Hp/PP. -Quiver Dance for raising speed/special attack/special defence. -Calm Mind for raising attack/special attack. -Batton pass for passing the states to the next Pokemon. Hope this is a great moveset with smeargle if you don't like Calm Mind replace it with a better state raising move. answered Jun 28, 2013 by TheTeamChooser edited Jun 28, 2013 by TheTeamChooser Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Item: Focus Sash Ability: Own Tempo Moves: Spore Stealth Rock Spikes Seismic Toss/Toxic Spikes First turn spore, then stealth rock and spikes, if you get spore with focus sash intact you can spore again, maybe maxing out spikes at three, then toxic spikes or seismic toss, your preference to either dent the lead or get more entry hazards up, seismic toss keeps him from being immobilized by taunt. answered Jul 10, 2013 by Ryan39football Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote I love using smeargles almost as much as azumarill…almost. i like battling with them so much I made a party full of them just to anboy my friends. Anyway, heres my team. Smargle 1: the hazard setter Ability: item: focus sash Stealth rock-deal some damage when opponents Pokemon are switched out and deals damage to flying types and Pokemon with levitate Spikes-deal some damage when opponents Pokemon are switched out toxic spikes-badly poion Pokemon circle push-swotch opponents Pokemon to deal damage with spikes, toxic spikes, and stealth rock. It also is super effective against 5 types Smeargle 2: stat booster Ability: Item:focus sash Calm mind-to help out special sweeper Spore-to put opponents Pokemon to sleep so you can boost.stats Minimize-to raise evasion baton pass-the stat changes on. Smeargle 3: special sweeper ability: Item: expert belt Volt switch-to get out of tough situations Psychic-reliable move and coverage from fighting doom desire/roar of time-great moves to use Earth power-realible and gives good coverage Smeargle 4: (i don't have a name for this one yet) Ability: Item: focus sash Judgement-great move (STAB) Endeavour-works well with focus sash and extreme speed extreme speed-works well with focus sash and extreme speed (STAB) U-turn-to get out of tough situations Smeargle 5: OHKO ability: Item: focus sash Lock on-to make sure the OHKO move works Sheer cold-for OHK Bullet punch-incase they have sturdy or a focus sash U-turn-to get out of tough situations Smeargle 6: physical sweeper ability: Item:toxic orb facade-toxic orb and STAB make this move a great optio swords dance-great stat booster u-turn to get out of tough situations Close combat-good move and provides great coverage answered Dec 22, 2013 by azumarill fan 6855 Love this! 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OAKLAND -- Justin Verlander met his deadline of being back in form for the playoffs. In A's rookie Sonny Gray, however, he met his match.
"He pitched like Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling," reigning American League Most Valuable Player Miguel Cabrera said after the 1-0 Tigers loss sent them back home with their American League Division Series even at a game apiece.
The look in Cabrera's eyes after that pitching duel was amazement. He was shaking his head.
"Wow, that fastball, that breaking ball," Cabrera continued. "Man, he was good. He was great today."
He could've easily been talking about Verlander, who re-established his October dominance with seven shutout innings and 11 strikeouts. He was actually talking about Gray, whose postseason debut saw him shut down Detroit's offense for eight innings with nine strikeouts.
"Verlander, too," Cabrera added, quickly correcting himself. "Both."
In the end, that's probably how Verlander's return to form will be remembered. Six days after Verlander's final regular-season tuneup ended up overshadowed by Henderson Alvarez's no-hitter in Miami, his return to the postseason will probably be a footnote in the amazing story of Gray and his October indoctrination.
Much like the Alvarez no-hitter, it took a ninth-inning rally -- capped by Stephen Vogt's bases-loaded RBI single off Rick Porcello -- to finally have a scoreless duel finally meet its end.
"It was a heckuva baseball game," catcher Alex Avila said. "Those guys pitched their [fannies] off. They just got the one hit with guys on base that we didn't get."
The Tigers headed back to Detroit in the wee hours of Sunday morning with a split, earning them a chance to finish out the best-of-five matchup at Comerica Park if they can win the next two games (Game 3, Monday, 1 p.m. ET on MLB Network) . But with an offense that hasn't plated a run in 17 innings following the first inning of the series, they missed a golden opportunity to head home with a chance for a sweep.
Unless Max Scherzer couldn't pitch a deciding Game 5, meanwhile, the series is over for Verlander. But while America outside of the Bay Area discovered Gray, it also rediscovered Verlander.
For nearly two months, as Verlander worked through mechanical tweaks, strategic quirks and doomsday prognostications, he kept pointing to the playoffs as his deadline. If he could get back to his dominant form in time for October baseball, all the work he put in to get there will have been worth it.
"Pretty good stuff," Verlander said. "I feel like that's been a theme for me my last few starts, and it's a good theme for me to have, because I've been working really hard to find my stuff and my location and everything."
Verlander took the same mound in Oakland where he shut out the A's in Game 5 of last year's ALDS and picked up where he left off. His fastball hit as high as 98 mph, and more importantly, he hit his spots with it.
Then came his curveball. What had been an off-again, on-again breaking pitch was buckling, taking A's hitters down with it. Vogt was caught looking at one. Eric Sogard and Josh Donaldson went down swinging at two others up in the zone to end the fifth and sixth inning, respectively.
The nastiest, however, dropped on the inside corner to cleanup hitter Brandon Moss, freezing him at the plate to end a fourth inning in which Verlander retired the side on called third strikes.
Verlander fanned 11 Athletics over his seven innings, five of them looking. He ended each of his final four innings with strikeouts, showing increasing emotion with each zero completed. His reaction upon striking out Vogt for a third time on his 117th and final pitch, a 98-mph fastball, was perhaps the most he has shown on the mound since his first no-hitter.
"Obviously that was a huge spot in the game -- base hit, anything, I knew this game would be over," Verlander said. "Especially the at-bat he put together, that's one of the best at-bats anybody's had against me in a long time. So to come out on the winning hand, it just flows, the emotion."
Add in nine strikeouts for Gray, and plate umpire CB Bucknor had enough punchout motions to look like a prize fighter. Considering the matchup, it might have been fitting.
The Tigers had never seen Gray, and they relied on a combination of video and advance scouting to form a game plan against him. Nothing they saw prepared them for the actual product, a mid-90s-throwing rookie whose composure matched his stuff.
"You go over film as much as you can. Once you get out there, you're pretty much just trying to see it and hit it," said Austin Jackson, who struck out four times against Gray. "And he had good stuff."
Gray escaped a second-inning jam with a Jose Iglesias ground ball to strand runners at first and second, starting him on a roll. An ill-advised bit of Tigers aggressiveness left Omar Infante standing helplessly on third base to watch Jackson strike out and Iglesias thrown out trying to steal second.
The Tigers managed just four singles over Gray's eight innings, the final three of them infield grounders after Cabrera's first-inning liner up the middle.
"I think we looked a little bit like we were guessing, because it was the first time we faced him," Cabrera said. "The way he threw the ball, he wasn't giving us a break to try to figure him out. But we worked counts, we had a lot of 2-2, 3-2, and he made some pitches. He was great."
According to research on baseball-reference.com, Verlander became the first pitcher in postseason history to earn a no-decision after seven or more shutout innings and 11 or more strikeouts. Gray, meanwhile, became the second pitcher to get a no-decision from eight shutout innings with nine or more strikeouts, joining Oriole Mike Mussina in Game 5 of the 1997 AL Championship Series.
That's how good this matchup was.
"You expect more high-scoring games based on both offenses," A's manager Bob Melvin said, "but pitching can rule the day."
In essence, though, Gray's no-decision was a win for the A's, who were able to outlast Verlander's outing and take a tie game into Detroit's bullpen. Al Alburquerque (0-1) stranded two runners in the eighth with back-to-back strikeouts of Donaldson and Moss, pumping sliders to both of them. Back-to-back singles, both off sliders, leading off the ninth left Alburquerque (0-1) and the Tigers needing an escape.
Unlike the first seven innings, there was no Verlander to pull out a strikeout. Instead, an intentional walk to Josh Reddick loaded the bases and brought in regular-season starter Porcello for Vogt, who lined a single into left-center field for the game-winner.
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Nearly two months late, the IT budget passback guidance turned out to be not really worth waiting for.
Multiple agency sources say the annual guidance detailing the Office of Management and Budget's IT policy priorities for the following year is much ado about nothing.
There is only one new requirement for agencies in 2013: By April 15, they must submit a plan to OMB for how they will give their chief information officer more authority over commodity IT spending.
OMB issued a memo in August 2011 telling agencies to give CIOs authority over IT spending for things such as email, data centers and storage. But the memo from then OMB-Director Jack Lew, didn't include any hard deadlines, so by requiring a plan in the IT budget passback, it's a signal the memo didn't have the impact OMB hoped it would.
At the same time, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is creating a bill to revamp the makeup of federal CIOs, both in terms of authorities and numbers of them across the government.
Beyond the CIO authorities deadline, OMB didn't include new requirements or signal any new IT goals for 2013 or beyond.
"This has the least amount of direction I've seen in years," said one long-time CIO, who requested anonymity because the IT passback is considered pre-decisional budget information. "It's not pushing so hard on the cloud, and focused more on shared services and mobile government. I think OMB doesn't want to signal cloud isn't the way to go, but they just are not harping on it."
Another CIO praised OMB's limited IT passback guidance, saying they had enough to do and needed time to work on current priorities.
A former government official echoed the CIO's opinion, saying agencies already have a lot to do with data-center consolidation, cloud, mobile government and PortfolioStat so they should focus on delivering on those goals and not have to deal with new requirements. The source said with sequestration still an unknown and the possibility for a year-long continuing resolution, any new programs would be hard to get started anyway.
But another CIO said the lack of teeth in the passback was surprising.
"I was surprised there was not more emphasis on managing information or technology better, especially with Issa pressing so hard on waste, fraud and abuse," the CIO said. "As far as our priorities, OMB was more passive around data center consolidation and not pushing on us to make major changes. It's all stuff we heard about at the recent CIO Council offsite."
The IT passback included references to continued support for the cross-agency priority goal for cybersecurity and the Digital Government Strategy, but nothing more specific as far as deadlines or requirements.
A request to OMB for comment on the IT passback was not returned. In previous years, they have not commented on pre-decisional budget guidance.
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Great Tip! As an add on to your post, I do something similar with Monthly and Seasonal Chores. First I created separate lists for Daily, Weekend, Monthly and Seasonal Chores. After entering time estimate for each chore, I was able to see the total amount of time I needed to spread out of the month. Divide by 4 and voila! Chores are easily spread out throughout every month. No more marathon cleaning, mattress flipping weekends!
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to clarify, divide by 4 or 12 respectively.
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REVIEW: Rise of the Guardians
Jack Frost (Chris Pine) teams with a tattooed-Russian accented Santa (Alec Baldwin), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), the Easter Bunny (a very funny Hugh Jackman) and a silent Sandman to defeat the nightmare king, Boogeyman (delish delivered by a Voldermort-looking Jude Law).
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An 18-year-old boy was caught on video beating an autistic boy in Okeechobee, Fla.
The video is graphic and disturbing -- and has caught the attention of thousands now across the country.
18-year-old Andrew Wheeler was arrested by the Okeechobee Police Department and is facing a charge of felony child abuse, a third degree felony.
According to the official police report obtained by WPBF 25 News, the 16-year-old autistic boy was at a house party when he reportedly got drunk and passed out.
He awoke to being asked to go outside and fight someone. After refusing to go outside, Wheeler was called to come kick him out, the report said. Once Wheeler arrived, he began hitting him.
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The boy then left and collapsed in the street where police found him, according to the report.
A driver had alerted police after seeing the boy laying in the street.
An adult is also seen in the video. The report identified the woman as Evadean Lydecker.
The boy told police that earlier that evening, Lydecker had driven them to the gas station and bought them alcohol, then later she was drinking at the home with her friends. He added that he had tried to knock on her door for help but there was no answer, the report said.
Lydecker denied giving alcohol to minors and denied witnessing the fight inside the residence.
According to Wheeler's statement to officers, he said that he hit the boy because he thought the boy had struck another attendee at the party and got angry.
The boy suffered from multiple bruises, a sprained neck and a concussion, according to the report.
Investigators have also confirmed that Lydecker was arrested Friday morning for contributing to delinquency of a minor/holding an open house party, according to the Okeechobee Police Department.
Thousands are now speaking out with the hash tag #JusticeForAaron all over social media in reaction to this story.
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Being intentionally provocative to knock people out of old assumptions is all well and good … but even though I love Ruby, and am so glad to be working in it now after 11 years of Java, my perspective is more pragmatic.
There is no perfect world. You gain a lot by giving up static typing for dynamic typing, but you also give up some things. It's six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Or maybe 9 and 3. Whatever. Whether the tradeoff works in your favor depends on a lot of things — the kinds of systems you're building, the process and practices you use, how well you understand your domain, and other things. And folks like Tom Ball make great points when they point out some of those tradeoffs.
(Furthermore, "static typing" doesn't necessarily mean "Java-style static typing." It's just that the industry right now is all wrapped up in static typing done the wrong way, while ignoring static typing done the right way.)
In spite of all that, though, I do agree (mostly) with Neal and Stu. I, too, would rather write Ruby in vi (er … that is, emacs) than Java in IDEA.
If you're still on the fence about this, or even downright skeptical, here's my advice. Having been a static typing bigot for a very long time, I know all of the arguments from that side. I used them myself. And what I've learned is that you can't figure this out by thinking about it. There are things about dynamic programming languages — and about how programmers work in those languages, and how systems are designed in those languages — that you don't really understand until you've gained some real experience. It's the Blub paradox at work. Knowing about the flaws in the language isn't enough either. What's important is knowing when they bite you, and how badly, and what you have to do to stay clear of them. Primitive types in Java represent one of that language's worst flaws, but in my many years of Java programming I was impressed by how rarely they really got in my way. (They did get in my way, but not as much as I expected them to when I first learned Java.)
So just give Ruby (or Groovy, or Python) a try. Find a way to build a system of some reasonable size (a few thousand lines or so) in it. Give yourself time to get over the learning curve of syntax and names, and learn to think in the language. Decide based on experience, not fear or doubt.
Our field is at its worst when we act (when we teach, design, manage, plan, argue) as if we've got it all figured out, as if we've got it down to a science. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our field is one of creativity, experimentation, guesswork, hunches, and feedback. Above all, feedback.
Nothing blinds us and deafens us to feedback like being convinced we've found the one true way.
I started a new Rails project last week. The customer had done an unusually good job of working out the site look-and-feel ahead of time, so my first day on the project I grabbed the HTML mockup of the first page we were going to implement and turned it into a Rails app. It was still static HTML -- there was no code at all in the application, and no database yet -- but the page was being rendered by the new Rails application. I carved the page up into a layout, main template, and appropriate partials, and got ready to start implementing features the next day.
But before I called it a day, I had an idea that seemed promising. I spent about 10 minutes (certainly not more than 15) going through that HTML looking for anything representing a feature that needed to be implemented. That meant links and buttons, plus anything that needed to be generated dynamically. Whenever I found something like that, I added a CSS class to the markup: "unimpl".
Then, using Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar extension in Firefox, it became a simple matter to quickly highlight all of the not-yet-implemented features in the application:
Just use CSS selector syntax in the dialog to select all elements with class "unimpl":
Here's what the result looks like (demonstrated with the Streamlined sample application rather than my current project):
(By the way, those features are really implemented in Streamlined; I just marked that application up as an example.)
This provides a great, easy way of keeping track of things that remain to be done. As I implement those features, I replace static HTML with generated HTML, and I just delete the "unimpl" class as I go. Sometimes I partially implement a large part of the page; in that case, I move "unimpl" from the surrounding element to the individual pieces inside that I haven't completed yet.
This is no substitute for requirements, or an issue tracking system, or anything like that. But it's already proven very convenient as I implement features, trying to decide what's next. It's particularly nice when I have just a few minutes available … maybe not enough time to tackle a big feature, but I can quickly scan to see if there are any small things I could fix.
It takes just a little bit of discipline and consistency on the part of the development team, but it was really easy to annotate that first mockup, and now that the layout and commonly used partials are done, doing subsequent mockups will be even easier.
This morning I became annoyed by the three-click process to highlight those elements using the toolbar (how lazy is that?) so I hacked TextMate Footnotes to add a quick toggle link in the footnotes div at the bottom of the page:
If you're interested in that, let me know. If it's useful to people, I'll polish it up and submit it for inclusion in footnotes.
For a while now I've been using Duane Johnson's TextMate Footnotes plugin with my Rails development. It's been the biggest boost to my productivity since I started using Rails. I kind of assumed that most Rails developers were using it, but apparently it's not as widely known as it should be.
I first learned about footnotes from Geoff Grosenbach, when he interviewed me last year for the Ruby on Rails Podcast. Geoff mentioned that it links lines from a Rails stack trace (displayed in the browser in development mode) so that clicking will open the appropriate file in TextMate, positioned to the correct line. Nice!
But it does more than that. When there is no error and your page renders correctly, the plugin adds "footnotes" to it: a little div at the bottom of the page with useful features for development and diagnosis:
You can show the contents of the current session, current cookies, the parameters passed to the controller, and the last 200 lines of the Rails log. But the most useful things are the links that ask TextMate to open the controller, view, layout, and other important files that Rails used to build that page. (It only does all this when the app is running in development mode, of course.)
If you're doing Rails development on OS X, install it this way:
$ script/plugin install -x http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Rails.tmbundle/Support/plugins/footnotes
If you aren't on OS X, I know there are ways to define URL schemes like the "txmt" scheme TextMate defines on OS X. What are you waiting for? Arrange for "txmt:" URLs to open your favorite editor appropriately, install footnotes, modify it (to remove the "only on OS X" code), and have fun!
I'm always interested in the things that other fields can teach us about my own field of programming. My blog on bridge building from a few weeks ago is one example; I also recall when Dave Thomas pointed out some relevant phrases from the U.S. Marine Corps' document on Warfighting, and of course Dave and Andy learned about the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition from reading about the nursing profession.
Now Greg's found a delightful example from the world of woodworking. Read Greg's blog, and the short article it links to.
"So in your leisure or in your active moments, if you wish to advance, you must be alert."
Every now and then I hear someone compare software development to bridge building. (Bridge building, of course, is just a placeholder here for "real engineering," which in the speaker's mind is much cleaner and more manageable than the current messy state of software development.) Sometimes it's "software development isn't like building bridges," while on other occasions it's "software development should be more like building bridges." In either case, though, the implication is clear: bridge building is predictable, rote, unexciting, very manageable work, and software development is not. The only difference is whether the speaker likes software development the way it is, or wishes it could be different.
I think both positions are misinformed. And no, I'm not about to pull out my magic prescription for how to solve all the software industry's problems by making it more like bridge building. In my experience, software developers tend to have an idealized, unrealistic view of what "real engineering" is like. Sure, some kinds of bridges are so well understood by now that there's very little risk involved; freeway overpasses and the like are churned out regularly and routinely (in much the same way that simple CRUD applications, whether web- or desktop-based, are usually safe bets for even inexperienced development teams). But from what I've learned, bridge building in general is a lot more like modern software development than most people realize. And I think the software industry can learn some lessons from the history of bridge building.
Take, for example, the bridges of Swiss engineer Robert Maillart. His best known bridge, Salginatobel, was just featured in a really nice piece about some of the best man-made structures.
Maillart was seeking new designs that would take advantage of the properties of a new material: reinforced concrete. It had been in use for some time, and builders had figured out how to work with it, but Maillart realized that reinforced concrete had unique properties that would permit the use of new forms, resulting in significant savings (due to reduced material costs).
The formal methods used by civil engineers at the time weren't up to the challenge of analyzing these structures (known today as "hollow box arches" and "deck-stiffened arches"). Maillart verified the designs empirically, by building models, rolling barrels full of concrete over them, etc. etc. The civil engineering establishment of the day vilified him as a charlatan who was endangering lives and cheating his customers by building bridges that would fall down. But he got customers anyway, because his designs were much, much cheaper to build. (The fact that they were strikingly beautiful didn't hurt.)
Another engineer of the time was Leon Moisseiff, a strong proponent of formal methods and the developer of "deflection theory," at the time the state of the art in mathematical analysis of suspension bridges. Moisseiff designed a bridge intended to be a showpiece for the power of deflection theory. It was the Tacoma Narrows bridge. After its famous collapse, other bridges that had been designed with Moisseiff's assistance (such as the Golden Gate) were retrofitted with stiffening trusses. It turned out that deflection theory was deeply flawed in a way that nobody had yet realized.
One of Maillart's bridges did fall down … after being buried under an avalanche. One was demolished because more capacity was required. The rest are still in use, and the forms he pioneered are now standard design taught to civil engineers. The math eventually caught up with Maillart's methods. As the story I linked to above notes, Maillart is an inspiration to the current superstar of bridge design, Santiago Calatrava.
I think there are some important lessons here for the software profession. The lesson is definitely not that "real engineering" is a mechanistic, purely construction-oriented process, which is the lesson that is usually assumed when software is compared to bridges.
Note: I have at best an interested layman's knowledge of the history of bridge engineering. Sources include Henry Petroski's wonderful Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America for information about Moisseiff, and David P. Billington's article "The Revolutionary Bridges of Robert Maillart" (from the July 2000 edition of Scientific American). For what I believe to be the best description of the true relationship between software development and other engineering disciplines, I encourage you to read "What is Software Design?", Jack Reeves' brilliant essay.
This episode is a bit of a change for the Ajaxians; rather than being an interview with one person or team, it's a more formally produced analysis piece, with comments from several JavaScript and Ajax experts, only some of whom are really associated with the project. I lead off with a discussion about why current implementations of JavaScript are rather slow, but then Brendan Eich and Kevin Lynch (from Mozilla.org and Adobe, respectively) talk about the project, along with Alex Russell and representatives from the IE team and Zimbra.
Ben and Dion are planning to use a similar format for upcoming episodes, and I'm thrilled—I think it works really well, providing a continuity and depth of analysis that you just don't get from a single interview. Bravo, guys!
I'm not the least surprised by this, and I don't know many serious programmers who will be. Programmers and computer scientists have been raising a stink about electronic voting machines for several years, but it's been difficult to explain to non-programmers the full extent of the danger. It's nice to have a video that shows the complete cycle: how the machine can be subverted, how it can steal votes, and how the rogue software can cover its tracks. (The one thing about the video that did surprise me, by the way, was how quickly and easily the physical act of subverting the machine can be accomplished.)
Beyond this one example, though, are more dangers. I don't believe that any such machine — any machine without a voter-verifiable paper trail — could be sufficiently secure for the purpose, even in principle. And that's not just a hunch. I have good reasons for believing that it's not possible to make such a machine secure enough to be entrusted with our votes.
The paper that's available on the page with the video describes in detail the research that was performed, and the findings. It unavoidably contains some technical jargon, from the fields of software and security. Overall, though, it's quite accessible, and I don't think you need to be either a computer or a security expert to understand the issues. There's also an executive summary that hits all the highlights.
Two years ago, when I went to vote, I was not amused to find myself having to vote on one of these very machines. In light of that, though, I most definitely was amused by the "My Vote Counted" sticker I was given as I left, and I felt compelled to augment the sticker's message. I'll probably have to vote on the same machines again in a couple months. But I hope we'll turn toward more secure, reliable equipment for future elections.
Avi has blogged before about the idea of implementing Ruby on an existing, fast Smalltalk VM (the object models of the two languages are very, very close; the biggest hurdle would be Ruby's richer method argument handling).
But, as Avi points out, the open-source availability of Strongtalk, including the VM implementation, is a big development. Although it's now ten-year-old technology, Strongtalk nevertheless represents the state of the art in dynamic language implementation. Strongtalks basic principles of operation have been widely known for years (although apparently not by Joel), but actual implementations of those ideas have all been in proprietary products. (The Hotspot source is available, but not as widely as a true open-source products.) For OSS developers who want to learn, the closest they could get to a cutting-edge dynamic language implementation has been Self. But although the techniques in Strongtalk originated in Self, the Strongtalk team took them a lot farther.
Sun's HotSpot VM for Java already incorporates these techniques, so JRuby is already on track to take advantage of them. I don't know that much about the CLR, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it uses similar ideas, which bodes well for IronPython and an eventual Ruby implementation for the CLR. But there's still a performance limitation imposed by the mismatch between object models, and the unavoidable mapping layer that implements one atop the other.
Mr. Malsky, I predict that in three years, Ruby will have performance rivaling Strongtalk's — whether by someone adapting Strongtalk itself to run Ruby, or by mining it for techniques that can be rolled into YARV or some other VM project.
(Well, maybe three years is a bit optimistic. But I can hope.)


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Outerwear is especially important during the winter or performing activities in cold environments such as mountain climbing, hiking, ice-fishing, hunting, and camping. You want to make sure that whatever outwear clothing you choose, it needs to ensure warmth, durability, and water resistance. The products featured in our outerwear collection not only meet the aforementioned qualities, but surpasses them featuring National Fire Protection Association certification and advanced technologies. Many items in the outerwear collection are used by the military and have military specifications. Some of the advanced technologies in our outwear collection consists of the water resistant GORE-TEX
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