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What I'm telling the South Koreans
- By Stephen M. WaltStephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.
I've just arrived in Seoul, after a long but uneventful flight from New York. Korean Airlines did a nice job getting me here, but why do all airlines (not just KA) feel compelled to feed you a meal right after takeoff? In this case, we took off from JFK at 1:15 AM, and were immediately served a nice but wholly superfluous dinner. Even if you skip the dinner they don't dim the cabin lights for an hour or so, when you'd really rather be sleeping.
But I digress….
As I mentioned last time, I'm here for a conference on Asian security issues. I'll be talking a bit about issues on the Korean peninsula, and the fine line that South Korea has been walking in recent years as its economic ties with China have grown. But my main contribution — such as it is — will be talk a bit about the balance-of-power dynamics that I anticipate in East Asia in the years ahead. Here's an edited version of the key portion of my paper (disclaimer: the following reflects just my views, and not those of the conference sponsors or any of the other participants).
In general, states seek allies to balance against external threats. The level of threat, in turn, is a function of the power of potential rivals, their geographic proximity, their specific offensive capabilities, and their perceived intentions. As states grow stronger and amass greater power projection capabilities, nearby countries worry about how these capabilities will be used and to look for external support.
Ideally, states facing a rising threat would like to "pass the buck" to some other country, so that they don't have to bear the burdens of balancing against the threat. If "buck-passing" is not feasible — usually because there is no other country to pass the buck to — then states have little choice but to increase their own defense capabilities and form external alliances in order to preserve their autonomy and security.
In rare cases, weak or isolated states may be forced to "bandwagon" with a powerful state. Weak states can do little to affect the outcome of a great power contest and may suffer grievously in the process, so they must choose the side they believe is most likely to win. They may be willing to stand up to a stronger power if they are assured of ample allied support, but a weak state left to its own devices may have little choice but to kowtow to a larger and stronger neighbor. That is how "spheres of influence" are born.
What does this logic tell us about alliance patterns in East Asia? On the one hand, prospects for balancing ought to be fairly good. Although China has the greatest power potential in Asia, several of its neighbors are hardly "weak states." Japan has the world's third largest economy (despite a lengthy period of stagnation), a latent nuclear capability, and significant military power of its own. Despite a rapidly aging population, it would be hard to intimidate unless it were completely isolated. Vietnam has never been a pushover, India has a billion people, a rapidly growing economy, and is nuclear-capable, and states like Indonesia and Singapore possess valuable strategic real estate and (in Singapore's case) military strength disproportionate to their size. Last but not least, the Republic of Korea is now an impressive industrial power with advanced military capabilities and a number of strong alliance partners.
Furthermore, even a far more powerful China would have some difficulty projecting power against its various neighbors, because it would have to do so via naval, air, and amphibious capabilities and not via land power alone. And given the U.S. interest in preventing China from exercising regional hegemony, the potential targets of a Chinese drive for regional dominance would have a great power ally ready to back them up.
It should not surprise us, therefore, to observe that China's rise is already encouraging balancing behavior by many Asian countries. Japan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and South Korea have all begun significant defense modernization programs, and each of these states has taken steps to strengthen its ties with the United States. These responses, it is worth noting, are both a response to China's growing power and a reaction to its increasingly assertive regional behavior. Their desire to improve ties with the United States has found a welcome audience in Washington, which is also concerned about China's rising power and regional ambitions.
This is good news for realists who think that great power competition in Asia is very likely. But balancing behavior is not automatic, even when the level of threat is rising, and efforts to coordinate balancing responses in Asia are likely to face several obstacles.
For starters, a balancing coalition in Asia will face serious dilemmas of collective action. Although many Asian states may worry about a rising threat from China, each will also be tempted to get others to bear most of the burden and to free-ride on their efforts. These incentives may lead some states to simultaneously balance against China (at least somewhat) while at the same time trying cultivating close economic relations with China. Indeed, one could argue that this is precisely what South Korea has tried to do over the past decade or more. This problem may be compounded by lingering historical divisions between potential alliance partners (e.g., Japan and South Korea), and by adroit Chinese efforts to play "divide-and-rule."
Second, a balancing alliance in Asia will require coordinating interests and policies across a vast geographic area. It is nearly 3000 miles (by air) from New Delhi to Taiwan, and some 5000 miles from Sydney to Seoul. Distances in NATO Europe were quite small by comparison (i.e., the distance from Paris to Bonn was a mere 250 miles), which meant that European leaders understood that they faced a common threat from Soviet power and Moscow found it impossible to split NATO apart. (It helped that Moscow tended to rely more on bluster than on blandishments, but that's another story). The more challenging situation in Asia will place an additional premium on adroit alliance leadership, especially given the shadow cast by China's growing economy.
As I've noted before, a third challenge is the question of how much support the United States has to provide its Asian partners in order to keep them on board. If Washington does too little, some of them might be tempted to cut a deal with Beijing. If Washington does too much, however, its Asian allies will free-ride and Americans will soon grow tired of carrying most of the burden. U.S. leaders may be tempted to threaten disengagement to get allies to do more, while states like South Korea may threaten to accommodate Beijing as a way to get Washington to invest more on their behalf. If either tendency is taken too far, it will be a potent source of misunderstanding and resentment. U.S. policymakers will have to walk a fine line, therefore: providing enough reassurance to convince Asian partners that balancing will work, but leaving enough doubts so that Washington doesn't end up doing all the heavy lifting itself.
This analysis implies that managing alliance relations in Asia is going to take more diplomatic skill than it took to manage relations in Europe during the Cold War. The United States is probably the only state that can play a leadership role in this evolving alliance, but it will have to devote more time and attention to the task and it will have to shed a tendency to view its Asian partners as subordinates or junior partners. To note an obvious example, treating South Korea as if it were a greater proliferation risk than India-which is not even an NPT signatory-and trying to impose onerous conditions on a new nuclear cooperation agreement will do little to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons but would almost certainly add an unnecessary irritant to the U.S.-South Korean relationship.
Finally, America's Asian partners-and especially South Korea-are likely to face serious choices in the years ahead. If Sino-American rivalry remains muted, either because China's rise slows or because Washington and Beijing are able to manage their bilateral relationship successfully, then the ROK may be able to maintain its alliance with Washington and pursue tighter relations with Beijing simultaneously. But if Sino-American rivalry heats up–as I believe it will–then Beijing and Washington will press Seoul to choose sides. Of course, competition between the United States and China might allow South Korea to extract valuable concessions from both, but it also increases the risk of abandonment by Washington, which would leave South Korea at the mercy of its large near-neighbor.
The bottom line is clear: security relations in Northeast Asia are in flux. There is ample room for continued cooperation, but managing alliance relations there will not be easy and there will be abundant opportunities for miscalculation and misunderstandings in the years ahead. This is not a forecast of impending doom, but it is a wake-up call to Americans and Asians who will be responsible for managing these relations in the years ahead.
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Defense lawyers are asking a U.S. Supreme Court justice to intervene and free nine members of a Michigan-based militia from jail.
Richard Helfrick and Todd Shanker say an appeals court followed the wrong standard in continuing to keep the nine in custody while the government challenges a ruling that would send them home until trial.
The petition was filed Friday with Justice John Paul Stevens, who has some authority over federal cases in Michigan.
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JOE AARON: Cats have been my undoing
Life and maturity have taught me a great many worthwhile lessons for easing the pain of living upon this spinning orb we call home.
They have shown me what to do, and sometimes what not to do, in order to protect myself from the furies that oftentimes attack the unwary earthling.
I have learned that it is impolitic to wise off at a police officer who has stopped you for speeding, or for impeding traffic, or for failing to yield the right of way, or for expectorating on a public thoroughfare between the hours of 7 and 10 in the morning.
Even if you wise off at a police officer who has pulled you over simply to borrow a match, or to ask the time, then you are going to be good and sorry.
I have learned the inadvisability of eating a pepperoni pizza before retiring at night, or too many oatmeal cookies, because they will inevitably back up on you as you sleep and ignite that entire stretch of viscera extending from the esophagus to the diverticula of the large bowel.
I have learned you shouldn't get in a hurry while shaving with a new blade, or assume that every driver is going to stop at a four-way stop sign. Some of them don't even slow down.
You should never run heedlessly through a blackberry thicket in pursuit of an escaped house pet.
I have learned that you shouldn't drink unsweetened grapefruit juice immediately after brushing your teeth, unless you have a compelling reason to lock your own jaws, and that you should never drive a car in Zurich, Switzerland, or Mexico City, Mexico, or on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago, for they are out to kill you there. They aim.
And it is the shallow end of wisdom to boast of your invincibility at Scrabble, because there is always going to be some fast gun who will demand proof, and proof is sometimes embarrassing.
So all of these things I have learned — and many more — and I believe they have made my life far pleasanter than it would have been otherwise.
Why do you suppose it is, then, that I can't seem to get the hang of cats?
Cats, for as long as I can remember — and I am practically elephantine in that respect — have been my undoing.
I get more disputatious flak over them than anything else that I write about.
And yet there seems to be in me some manner of perverse desire for anguish — perhaps what psychiatrists would call a vestigial death wish — that just won't let me leave them alone.
I know that if I say a cat is arrogant then many people are going to react as if I had come out against the sacred marriage vows or the Fourth of July or watermelon.
But I always pick myself groggily off the ground, dust off my knees and go flying back for more.
My latest indiscretion, alas, was no different from all the others. I allowed as how cats are haughty and supercilious and overbearing, feline traits that have been fairly well documented, and a predictable flow of surly mail was aimed at me.
One cat lover in Jasper, Ind., claimed that cats, in all respects that she considers important, are almost superior to humans.
Well, I certainly never said THAT wasn't true, but I have often heard greater compliments.
She said her Siamese, in addition to being loving and affectionate and intelligent and self-respecting and clean and odorless and amusing and, I suppose, god-fearing and loyal, has the further ability to be able to talk.
Well, I do not wish to get into that. I know a whole lot more about your so-called "talking" cats than you might think I do, but it would simply be more gunpowder in the incinerator if I discussed it now.
Nor am I particularly taken by her claim that cats are valuable because they catch mice. Some cats may catch mice, but not all cats do.
When I lived on a Warrick County farm some years ago, not only would my cat Carbon not catch mice but he enticed from the barn to the house a family of cats that I kept out there for just that purpose.
And forever after, until we moved away, you couldn't walk across the porch without having about five mewing kittens attach themselves to your ankles, demanding milk.
Then, after soaking their feet in puddles of transmission oil, they would pace back and forth across the top of my car.
If cats can talk so all-mighty well, how come they didn't say they were sorry?
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Do bans on plastic grocery bags save cities money? That is a question one organization aims to answer in a new study.
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Environmental Leader: Plastic bags produce more greenhouse gases than alternatives, says Senior Fellow Sterling Burnett.
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San Francisco Chronicle: As legislators in California push for a state-wide plastic bag ban, Senior Fellow Sterling Burnett says that there is no proof that the bans save money.
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Whether used in reference to a special someone or to the little bundle of joy (and drool) one hopes to make with a special someone, "Baby" is very likely the most frequently-used noun in all of R&B/pop – and, along with "what," one of the few words that, if repeated, can serve as a whole damn chorus in itself. Following in the footsteps of Justin Bieber, Ashanti, Fabolous, LL Cool J and many more, Jagged Edge jump on the "baby" bandwagon (babywagon?) with their latest single. Here, a lightly-bouncing piano/synth arrangement by Lamb sets an easygoing mood as Brian, Brandon, Kyle and Richard soulfully remind their respective babies just how deep they are in love – other
women simply can't measure up. The mellow beat, along with the J.E.'s glittering vocal interplay, add up to one luxuriously tuneful cut – and the perfect thing to throw on for your baby next time you want to show how much you care. Those suffering from a lack of smoothness can find The Remedy for what ails them on the group's latest full-length, set to hit stores March 29, of 2011.
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BEIRUT The Middle East's espionage wars are heating up after Lebanon's arrest of more than a dozen alleged Israeli spies, and dire warnings from Jerusalem that Arab groups are trying to use the Internet to infiltrate the Jewish state.
Officials in Beirut say they struck a strategic blow against Israel with the recent arrests of 15 people – 13 Lebanese and two Palestinians – who they contend were gathering intelligence on Hezbollah positions, leaders' movements and infrastructure targets. Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces fought an inconclusive war in 2006 along the Lebanese-Israeli border and both sides have since been preparing for the possibility of another.
Although Israel and its Arab neighbors have for years spied on each other, the recent announcements have highlighted the secret war of espionage and the depth of the infiltration. Lebanese officials say the spies arrested there included a math teacher and housewife, and that they were equipped with sophisticated electronics.
Lebanon holds elections June 7 but the recent arrest announcements did not seem intended to influence the vote.
Hezbollah stepped up pressure against the alleged spies, with the group's leader demanding Friday that authorities implement the death penalty against those found guilty of spying for Israel.
In a videotaped message broadcast from a giant screen to tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in southern Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah asked for "severe punishment for the collaborators and the spies" and "mercy" for their family members.
In Israel, meanwhile, the Shin Bet internal intelligence service this week urged people to be careful when using social networking sites such as Facebook, contending Arab groups are using them to recruit and hire spies. In one instance, Israeli intelligence said an Israeli Facebook user was contacted by a man who introduced himself as a Lebanese agent and offered money for information.
Israeli officials have said Hezbollah has also used the illegal drug trade to lure Israelis into working for them. Over the past decade, two Israeli drug officers and two military trackers were sent to jail for passing information to Lebanese drug dealers.
In 2007, Azmi Bishara, a fiery Israeli Arab lawmaker, fled the country a few weeks before he was accused of relaying sensitive information to Hezbollah during the war. He now lives in Jordan. Since the war, Israel also has accused a handful of Arab citizens of collaborating with enemies in Lebanon.
Israel's government routinely refuses to discuss its intelligence activities, but Israeli commentator Ronen Bergman, a private expert on security affairs, said reports emerging from Lebanon could signal key errors by Israeli intelligence.
Bergman, author of the new book "The Secret War with Iran," said the details of the network being published in the Lebanese media – and the apparent ease of unraveling the operation – "are all signs that are worrisome for Israel."
Added Shlomo Brom, former chief of strategic planning for the Israeli military and an expert on south Lebanon and Syria: "If the Lebanese authorities say they have caught Israeli spies, there's a high likelihood that it's true."


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Most jobs allow you two 15 minute breaks during the day. If you can, get up from your desk and take a walk outside. Not only will you get some exercise, but it helps you to re-energize, and to think clearly.
sometimes all it takes to break a plateau is adding more cals one day, then taking away the same amout you went up the next..and going back to normal day 3
In the winter months it is hard to walk after work. One of my goals is to walk 5 miles per week. To solve this I walk during my lunch break. I either drive to the local fast food joint, park my car and walk around the block. If the weather is bad I drive to the indoor mall and do a lap around the mall. Each walk takes about 18 minutes. 311
I enjoy taking walking breaks while I'm at work. Now that I have the FitBit, I've been making an extra effort to get out while I can!


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Still ill, Vonn heading home for midseason break
Depending on how many races Vonn misses, her chances of defending the overall title may be affected.
Vonn is fourth in the standings. Tina Maze of Slovenia leads with 799 points, followed by Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany at 468, Kathrin Zettel of Austria at 440 and Vonn at 414.
Vonn, however, might not miss any speed races, her specialty, so Hoedlmoser wasn't counting her out.
"In January there are plenty of races left for her," he said. "The goal is to get her back up in shape."
In last week's issue of People magazine, Vonn revealed she struggled with depression in 2008 and was prescribed an antidepressant. She added that she's happier these days.
"All the parts of my life are finally in sync," she said. "I accept who I am, and I'm moving forward."
Vonn separated from her husband of four years, Thomas, last year.
In Monday's statement, Vonn said "I want to be emphatic that this has nothing to do with my recent interview with People Magazine."
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COASTAL BEND - Archer "Archie" Parr of Matagorda Island was 11 years old in 1871 when he went to work as a cowhand for the Coleman Fulton Pasture Company, one of the great cattle ranches of South Texas.
Archie was an experienced hand by 1883 when he was hired, at the age of 23, as foreman of the Sweden Land and Cattle Company near Benavides in Duval County. Parr, carrying a battered suitcase, got off the Tex-Mex train at Benavides, 15 miles southwest of San Diego, and asked a boy at the station if anyone from the Sweden Ranch was there to meet him. The day Archie Parr stepped off the train in Benavides marked the beginning of a long, fateful relationship between Parr and the people of Duval County.
As the foreman of the Sweden Ranch, Archie Parr hired mostly Mexican-American vaqueros. He learned Spanish and was trusted by the vaqueros who worked for him. One San Diego resident said, "When Archie told you something, you knew it was so. He stood hitched."
Archie Parr married Elizabeth Allen, a student at Sam Houston State Teachers College, in 1891. They had six children, including George B. Parr. Archie was elected to the Duval County Commissioners Court in 1898. His political power was based on his long association with Mexican-Americans in Duval County.
A special election was being held on May 18, 1912, on a proposal to incorporate San Diego as a city. Hispanic voters, led by Parr and the Democrats, supported incorporation while Republicans and cattle barons opposed it. On election day, at the only polling place in San Diego, C.M. Robinson, his brother and two friends ran into three county officials, all Hispanic. Angry words were exchanged and gunfire erupted. All three Hispanics were shot to death. One of the gunmen went in search of Parr, but Parr had been warned that violence was possible and he had taken his family to Corpus Christi.
The following day, Parr returned to San Diego to find Mexican-Americans arming themselves to retaliate. Parr urged them to put away their guns and let the law take its course. Three suspects were taken to Corpus Christi and put in jail. They were tried in Fort Bend County, on a change of venue, but not convicted. Key witnesses disappeared or had memory lapses.
From the time of the shootout, Parr's influence with the Mexican-American voters became stronger than ever. In 1914, he was elected to the state Senate. His election was virtually assured because he controlled the Hispanic vote in Duval County and was allied with James B. Wells of Brownsville, the boss of bosses in South Texas.
Parr took his 13-year-old son George Berham Parr with him to the Senate to act as his page, to learn the art of politics, if not political corruption. "You'd better try to make some new friends every day," Archie told George, "just to take the place of the ones you're bound to lose when you're in politics."
Archie consolidated his hold on power. He became the dean of the Senate and fellow senators began calling him "the Duke of Duval." Back home, he was called "jefe" or "patron grande." He controlled the Hispanic vote through paternalism, by giving handouts to supporters, and through fraud and coercion. Marked ballots were used, armed guards (special deputies appointed by Parr) patrolled the polling places and election returns were changed and inflated to suit the need. Parr's minions knew how to stuff a ballot box.
Criminal prosecutions of Parr and allies were blocked by control of the prosecutorial and grand jury process. Patronage was the reward for those who could help keep him in power. So long as he controlled the system, Parr was safe.
Archie Parr was investigated by the state in 1914 over allegations of misuse of county funds, but at a critical stage in the investigation, the Duval County Courthouse burned, and with it all the key records were destroyed. Missing and lost records became a trademark of the Parr regime.
It was a lesson young George B. Parr, the heir apparent, learned well. George grew up on his father's ranch near Benavides, the Rancho los Horcones (ranch of the forked poles). He was known to be in training to take over his father's political dynasty. George spoke Spanish before he learned English. He graduated in 1921 from Corpus Christi High School. He played end on the football team that won the South Texas title that year. He went on to college and the University of Texas Law School. He dropped out before getting a degree, but he passed the state bar exam in 1926. That was the same year he was elected county judge of Duval County. To ensure George's election, Archie made sure there were no opponents on the ballot for that position.
It wasn't long before George was in trouble. He was indicted in 1932 by a federal grand jury in San Antonio for income tax evasion, for not reporting a $25,000 kickback from a road-building contractor.
Vice President John Nance Garner, a Parr ally, tried to have the indictment quashed, but George was convicted and given a probated sentence. One probation requirement was that he stay away from politics. When that was violated, he was sent to the El Reno Reformatory in Oklahoma. During his nine months there, he worked in the prison library.
Meantime, Archie Parr was defeated in 1934 in his state Senate re-election campaign. He had lost power outside of Duval County after it was reported that he received a $100,000 kickback. He retired from politics and turned over his kingdom — or dukedom — to his son George.
Archie moved to Corpus Christi, where he lived on Saxet Drive. He died in 1942 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. B.G. Moffett, at the age of 82. Among the honorary pallbearers at his funeral was Gov. Coke Stevenson. The new Duke of Duval, George Parr, would help defeat Stevenson in the 1948 Senate race against Lyndon Johnson with a stuffed ballot box, the infamous Box 13.
(This is the first of two columns on the Parr political machine in Duval County. Part two will run next Wednesday.)
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George, R.A.*, Smith, T.D.*, Callaghan, S.*, Hardman, L.*, Pierides, C.*, Horiatis, O.*, Wouters, M.A.* and Cotton, R.G.* (2008) General mutation databases : analysis and review, Journal of medical genetics, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 65-70, B M J Group, London, England [C1.1]
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McCabe, Marita and Hardman, Lisa (2005) Attitudes and perceptions of workers to sexual harrassment, Journal of social psychology, vol. 145, no. 6, pp. 719-740, Heldref Publications, Washington D.C. [C1]
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SAN DIEGO NAVAL STATION -- About 2,100 Marines and sailors from Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base left San Diego early Wednesday on three Navy ships for a six-month deployment that will take them to the Persian Gulf.
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The focus of most Marines this week was to bid their families farewell and get on the ship.
"I think everybody is now anxious to go," Sgt. Maj. Ernest Matkin, the unit's top enlisted Marine, said as some troops feverishly rushed Monday to get their work and personal errands done.
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The deployment marks the end of the formalized, six-month training program required of Marine expeditionary units before they go overseas.
This last training session, in the wake of the recent deadly attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole, was conducted with an eye toward improving so-called "force protection" practices -- techniques that will help the Marines better protect overseas troops and military assets.
Once they arrive in the Persian Gulf, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and three ships of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group will provide a highly mobile naval assault force to that tense region. Officials say the Marines normally assist the ship crews with security, including when entering foreign ports and when pier-side.
The Marines will replace the Camp Pendleton-based 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit which came home Feb. 13 and had assisted Cole sailors and U.S. investigators for three weeks after the attack.
While in Hawaii on the way across the Pacific, the Marines will conduct a force protection exercise, its second such training, said Marine Col. Charles S. Patton, who commands the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
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Should you be an activist?
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More on the 2013 03 15 Hacker Attack on Fathers for Life
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2010 — The ten most popular pages at F4L
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Scott Boras says Johnny Damon will sign by May 1
Apr 2, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT
ESPN's Buster Olney heard from Scott Boras today and quoted the agent as saying that Johnny "Damon will be signed by May 1st; just don't know where."
Olney also said that Damon is looking for at least 450 plate appearances, which would be enough to get him at least 100 hits closer to 3,000. Damon is sitting at 2,723 hits right now.
There's been much speculation that Damon's quest for 3,000 has made him a less attractive option as a free agent, but while it's true that Damon is no star, he'd be an upgrade for several teams in left field or at DH. He hit .261/.326/.417 with 16 homers, 73 RBI and 19 steals for the Rays last season. With Tropicana Field playing as such a pitcher's park lately, that was good for a 110 OPS+. It's surprising the Indians haven't made a play for him, given their interest in a pretty similar player in Bobby Abreu.
- icanspeel - Apr 2, 2012 at 6:06 PM
I kind of don't get the logic of someones quest for 3,000 hits to be a turn off.. I mean don't you want a player to strive to get as many hits as possible? I'd be more concerned if he didn't care about reaching 3,000
- byjiminy - Apr 2, 2012 at 6:14 PM
I think he just means he might be resistant to a bench role
- jyoung1891 - Apr 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Or more eager to swing at a borderline pitch and put the ball into play, rather than taking a walk.
- Lukehart80 - Apr 2, 2012 at 6:25 PM
I know there was some talk last year that Damon was expanding his strike zone, swinging at more bad pitches, less interesting in drawing walks because he was desperate to raise his hit count. I don't know that there's any way to prove that, but it's worth noting that his walk-rate was just 7.9%, after sitting above 10% for five straight seasons. Drawing walks has been a big part of his value, and if he's less willing to do that, he's a less valuable player.
- stac266 - Apr 2, 2012 at 7:17 PM
Plus the draw it would bring for the fans. Who wouldn't want to see a player get his 3000th hit.
- jlove42 - Apr 3, 2012 at 1:27 AM
Sure, they will put butts in the seats for 1-4 games 3 seasons from now. Big deal. Don't forget that he sits 2723, so whichever team signs him this season doesn't even get a piece of the 3000 hit fun.
- marshmallowsnake - Apr 2, 2012 at 7:21 PM
I think that people think that he will strikeout more because he will be swinging at everything trying to get those hits and his production will suffer.
- proudlycanadian - Apr 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM
I am sure that Damon will sign a contract by May 1st; however, the other party will be a "Mystery Team" and the name of the team will consequently be blank.
- mybrunoblog - Apr 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Even if he signs on may 1 he will need a few weeks at triple a to get his swing back. Doubt he sniffs 450 AB's. More like 300 at most. Sorry Johnny the crystal ball does not see 3000 for you.
- gcbball3 - Apr 2, 2012 at 8:34 PM
as a tribe fan im praying everyday we bring damon in, to play left and maybe even hit leadoff or second, we need his veteran presence, and his stick, if not him make the trade for abreu happen or sign vladdy but damon is our best option, and the tribe have a shot to make the playoffs with their starting pitching alone so come one bring in someone who can help us score some runs pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sincerely a long time suffering, browns, cavs, buckeyes, and indians fan
- foreverchipper10 - Apr 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Depending on how Chipper recovers from his surgery I could see the Braves making a movie here. With Chipper out Prado slides over to third leaving Eric Hinske/Matt Diaz playing left. Damon would be an upgrade over those plus I personally like Hinske coming off the bench as a pinch hitter as he seems to do well in that role. All speculation but I can see it coming if he would sign a 1-year 1MM deal or something of the like.
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Hollande: France would recognize provisional Syrian government
- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating is associate editor at Foreign Policy and the editor of the Passport blog. He has worked as a researcher, editorial assistant, and deputy Web editor since joining the FP staff in 2007. In addition to being featured in Foreign Policy, his writing has been published by the Washington Post, Newsweek International, Radio Prague, the Center for Defense Information, and Romania's Adevarul newspaper. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN International, C-Span, ABC News, Al Jazeera, NPR, BBC radio, and others. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he studied comparative politics at Oberlin College.
Criticized by some in recent weeks, including his predecessor, for foot-dragging on Syria, French President Francois Hollande suggested one way to raise the diplomatic stakes today:
"France asks the Syrian opposition to form a provisional government – inclusive and representative – that can become the legitimate representative of the new Syria," Hollande said in a speech to France's corps of ambassadors.
"We are including our Arab partners to accelerate this step," he said at the presidential palace, without elaborating. "France will recognize the provisional government of Syria once it is formed."
France, along with Italy and Qatar, was one of the first countries to recognize the Transitional National Council as the legitimate government of LIbya last year. This may turn out to be harder in the case of Syria, where the opposition leadership seems more divided.
The U.S. government says Hollande's comments don't represent an international position and that the United States will not be making a similar declaration any time soon. Last summer, I wrote that the U.S. government probably wouldn't recognize the Libyan rebels while Muammar al-Qaddafi was still in power as it traditionally avoids wading into recognition battles when the situation on the ground isn't settled and there's no international consensus on legitimacy. That turned out to be completely wrong.
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