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VIDEO: Laura Poitras & Glenn Greenwald Back in U.S. for First Time Since Breaking NSA-Snowden Story
Ten months ago, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and soon exposed a trove of secrets about the NSA. They didn't enter the United States again—until today.
From Kabul to Cairo, the Killing and Jailing of Journalists Continues
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Journalism is not a crime. This is the rallying cry iJournalism is not a crime. Neither death nor imprisonment should be the punishment for reporting the news.
From Kabul to Cairo, the Killing and Jailing of Journalists Continues
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Journalism is not a crime. Neither death nor imprisonment should be the punishment for reporting the news.
READ: Excerpt From "Capitalism: A Ghost Story" By Arundhati Roy
As Arundhati Roy joins us to discuss her latest work, and the elections now underway in India, you can read an excerpt from her new book, "Capitalism: A Ghost Story."
READ: Nomi Prins' "All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power"
Read an excerpt of "All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power," by reporter, Nomi Prins, who joined us Tuesday to discuss the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street.
Climate Science's Dire Warning: Humans Are Baking the Planet
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The majority of the world is convinced that humans are changing the climate, for the worse. Now, evidence is mounting that paints just how grim a future we are making for ourselves and the planet.
Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Six years into the Obama administration, the president's promise of "a new era of open government" seems just another grand promise, cynically broken.
CREDO Members: Final week to vote for Democracy Now!
This month, CREDO members vote to distribute 2014 donations funding — and how much we get this March depends on you. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of funding.
U.S. Sailors and Marines Allege Fukushima Radiation Sickness
Three years have passed since the earthquake and tsunami that caused the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan and casualties are still mounting.
VIDEO: Fast-Food Workers Charge McDonald's with Wage Theft
Democracy Now! was there when a group of fast-food workers rallied in front of a New York City McDonald's Tuesday in support of lawsuits accusing the company of wage theft. Employees have filed suit in three states, claiming McDonald's and its franchises have stolen their wages through a range of illegal practices. [includes rush transcript]
READ: Excerpt from "A Sliver of Light" Ahead of Tuesday's Extended Interview with Iran Hikers
Tune in Tuesday when we'll speak with Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal about their new book, "A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran." In the meantime, you can read an excerpt from Bauer about the day they were arrested.
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CIA Spies and Tortured Lies
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This week's public spat between CIA-loyalist Sen. Dianne Feinstein and that agency might briefly upset the status quo, but they will make up. Sadly, it obscures a graver problem: the untold story of the United States' secret policy of torture and rendition (the latter is White House lingo for "kidnapping").
Dragnet Nation: Julia Angwin's Quest for Privacy & Ray McGovern on FISA Court's "Raw Take" Order
In Part 2 of our interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Julia Angwin, she explains how she got her children interested in privacy by making it fun. We also speak with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the newly revealed "Raw Take" order that weakened privacy restrictions.
READ: "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance"
Tune in Wednesday when we'll speak with reporter Julia Angwin as part of a roundtable on whistleblowers, and discuss challenges journalists face in cultivating such sources due to online surveillance by the government and corporations. In the meantime, you can read Chapter 1 of her new book, Dragnet Nation."
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PART 2: Angela Davis on Solitary Confinement, Immigration Detention and "12 Years a Slave"
Watch our extended interview with activist and scholar Angela Davis about the significance of the Oscar-winning film, "12 Years a Slave," the use of solitary confinement in prisons, and the global movement to challenge the expansion of immigrant detention. [includes rush transcript]
44 Years a Prisoner: The Case of Eddie Conway
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Marshall "Eddie" Conway walked free from prison this week, just one month shy of 44 years behind bars. He was convicted of the April 1970 killing of a Baltimore police officer. Conway has always maintained his innocence.
Oscar Countdown: Watch Our Filmmaker Interviews on "Dirty Wars," "The Act of Killing" & "The Square"
Watch our interviews with three of the filmmakers who have been nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary.
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba: A Life of Struggle, a Legacy of Progress
The world lost a visionary activist this week, with the death of Chokwe Lumumba, the newly elected mayor of Jackson, Miss.
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
As Americans prepare for one of the most popular national holidays, Thanksgiving, a wave of xenophobia is sweeping the country.
Show for Nov 25, 2015
Chicago Cop Indicted as Video of Laquan McDonald Killing Released
Minneapolis: 3 Arrested in Shooting of Black Lives Matter Protesters
Classes Cancelled over Racist Threats at Western Washington U.
Tunisia Declares State of Emergency After Bombing Kills 12
Obama, Hollande Vow to Increase Airstrikes Against ISIS
Hollande: Climate Talks a "Beautiful Symbol" after Paris Attacks
French Activists Vow to Protest During Paris Climate Talks
Russia Condemns Turkish Downing of Warplane
Liberia: Teen Dies of Ebola, Marking 1st Fatality in Months
Missouri Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Reggie Clemons
Human Rights Activists Launch Encampment, Fast at Guantánamo
U.S. Military Report Concludes Hospital Bombing Resulted from Errors
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A Chinese boat hit and sank a Vietnamese fishing vessel on Monday afternoon in disputed waters in the South China Sea, according to Vietnam's state media.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. local time (5 a.m. U.S. Eastern time), when a Chinese fishing boat crashed into a Vietnamese vessel with 10 fishermen on board about 17 nautical miles south out the HD-981 oil rig, owned by China's Cnooc, according to Vietnam's state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with full-service spa and free breakfast
Situated in Plettenberg Bay, this hotel is 1.3 mi (2.1 km) from Plettenberg Bay Beach and within 9 mi (15 km) of Robberg Nature Reserve and Arch Rock. Jukani Wildlife Park and Lawnwood Snake Sanctuary are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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|Dunlop, James; McLure, Ross; Kukula, Marek; Baum, Stefi; O'Dea, Christopher; Hughes, David
|We present the final results from our deep HST imaging study of the host galaxies of radio-quiet quasars (RQQs), radio-loud quasars (RLQs) and radio galaxies (RGs). We describe and analyze new WFPC2 R-band observations for 14 objects which, when combined with the first tranche of HST imaging reported in McLure et al (1999), provide a complete and consistent set of deep, red, line-free images for statistically-matched samples of 13 RQQs, 10 RLQs and 10 RGs in the redshift band 0.1<z<0.25. We also report the results of new deep VLA imaging which has yielded a 5 GHz detection of all but one of the 33 AGN in our sample. Careful modelling of our images, aided by a high dynamic-range point-spread function, has allowed us to determine accurately the morphology, luminosity, scale- length and axial ratio of every host galaxy in our sample. Armed with this information we have undertaken a detailed comparison of the properties of the hosts of these 3 types of powerful AGN, both internally, and with the galaxy population in general. We find that spheroidal hosts become more prevalent with increasing nuclear luminosity such that, for nuclear luminosities MV<−23.5, the hosts of both radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN are virtually all massive ellipticals. Moreover, we demonstrate that the basic properties of these hosts are indistinguishable from those of quiescent, evolved, low-redshift ellipticals of comparable mass. This result rules out the possibility that radio-loudness is determined by host-galaxy morphology, and also sets severe constraints on evolutionary schemes which attempt to link low-z ULIRGs with RQQs. Instead, we show that our results are as expected given the relationship between black-hole and spheroid mass established for nearby galaxies, and apply this relation to estimate the mass of the black hole in each object. The results agree remarkably well with completely-independent estimates based on nuclear emission-line widths; all the quasars in our sample have Mbh>5×10^8 M⊙ while the radio-loud objects are confined to Mbh>1^09 M⊙. This apparent mass-threshold difference, which provides a natural explanation for why RQQs outnumber RLQs by a factor of 10, appears to reflect the existence of a minimum and maximum level of black-hole radio output which is a strong function of black-hole mass (∝ M2−2.5bh ). Finally, we use our results to estimate the fraction of massive spheroids/black-holes which produce quasar-level activity. This fraction is ~=0.1% at the present day, rising to > 10% at z~=2 − 3 (Refer to PDF file for exact formulas).
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Dave.. good you joined this group. It's very diverse with gardeners from all over the country and world with very differing soil and gardening conditions...but good basics is good basics!
Muriel, perhaps a low spot or a layer of clay that is a foot or so down that the water can't get through?
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Hi Linda,
Do you have vineyards in your back yard? :) There's a poster here named Carole that is up in Riverside and is a great gardener. Perhaps you two can touch base. We used to live up in Redlands and had the same weather experiences but mostly just hot.
Yahoo! I just planted my seeds indoors and hope I'm right on time, since in southern Calif we go from rain to hail to snow and back to 72 all in a matter of 3-4 days I hope mother nature is done toying with us for this spring. Happy gardening everyone!
Nice pics, Bonnie ... what are they??
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Chicago Drum Show 2015: Empowered Percussion
Aaron Tafoya, founder of Empowered Percussion, tells us about the wide range of cajons he hand-builds to suit every taste and style.
Chicago Drum Show: Liberty Drums In The Windy City
We check out UK-based drum maker Liberty Drums' electric blue flame kit at the 2015 Chicago Drum Show.
Dream Cymbals Lets Your Fingers Do The Talking
Dream Cymbals unleashes the Timsha Finger Cymbals. Available in four sizes (small, medium, large and extra large).
Matt Garstka Can See Through Tama's Mirage
Tama has taken advantage of time and technology to bring you back to the sharp, full-bodied sound of classic acrylic shell drums—minus any of the drawbacks.
New Paragon Cymbals Celebrate Rush's Fortieth
Sabian Cymbals celebrates Rush's 40th with four new Paragon cymbals designed by Neil Peart.
Chicago Drum Show 2015: Sonor
Sonor celebrates 140 years of making drums at this year's Chicago Drum Show with it's vintage series kits, a call-back to the 60's and 70's, replicating the sound that established the company throughout the world.
Rig Rundown: On The Road With Shattered Sun
Robert Garza shows us his tour kit for the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival.
Chicago Drum Show 2015: Steve Maxwell
Steve Maxwell is known for his vintage, collectible drums, but now he is making his own. Here we see his nesting drums, that make it easier to travel and store them without losing the integrity of the instrument.
Chicago Drum Show 2015: Trick Drums
Mike Dorfman of Trick Drums shows us his aluminum drums at the 2015 Chicago Drum Show, and a lets us take a peek at the 25th anniversary snare available in two sizes, hand-signed, and "alien silver."
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KAM Instruments was featured in DRUM! a couple years back, and now at the Chicago Drum Show they are showcasing the same great product with new upgrades and improvements, listed at a very fair price.


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Chad Campbell used a fast start, and Vaughn Taylor and Colt Knost had strong finishes to share the first-round lead at 4-under 67 in the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Thursday.
Campbell birdied four of his first seven holes, Knost birdied three of his last five, and Taylor holed out from the fairway for a closing eagle on the par-4 ninth hole at Harbour Town Golf Links.
Jim Furyk, the 2010 winner, was a stroke back along with Harris English, Charlie Wi and Matt Every. Forty-two players, including John Daly in just his second PGA Tour event this year, were at even par or better.
Masters winner Bubba Watson took the week off as did most players ranked in the world's top 20. No. 1 Luke Donald — who has been second, third and second here the past three years — opened with a 75. He has to finish in the top eight or surrender the top spot to No. 2 Rory McIlroy next week.
Matt Kuchar was tied for the lead at Augusta National with three holes left before finishing two shots out of the playoff between Watson and Louis Oosthuizen. Kuchar hoped to continue his strong play at Harbour Town, but ended in a large group at 1-over 72.
Campbell held a first-round lead for the first time since the 2009 Masters. His game has faded some since then — he recorded just one top 10 at the British Open last year, his fewest since coming out on tour in 2002 — and has missed five cuts in nine tournaments this year.
"I haven't felt like I've been that far off," Campbell said. "But the results haven't been good at all."
South Africa's Charl Schwartzel shot an 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over India's Jeev Milkha Singh after the first round of the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion, had nine birdies and a bogey.
•Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice was 8-over par after eight holes when first-round play was suspended because of darkness in the Nationwide Tour's TPC Stonebrae Championship in Hayward. Ben Martin topped the leaderboard at 5-under 65.


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This 14" authentic Billy Cook Barrel Saddle is in almost new condition. High cantle, roughout seat with no wear, stirrups professionally turned so they hang perfect. Used it a few times, then sold the barrel horse and only ride trail and arena now, so just don't need this saddle.(plus my butt is a bit bigger than last fall, what can I say) No wear inside padding.
New they sell for over $1000, but I will sell this saddle for $650 plus shipping.
I have all the paperwork for this saddle, including guarantee and the serial number has already been registered with Billy Cook Saddlery. This is not a knock off saddle, but made in Sulpher Springs by Billy Cook.


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- ColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Rosiris EstherColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Wendy PaolaColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Update on EstherPreviously Esther bought living and dining room furniture, paintings and artisanal work from the municipality of Sanpues. The people of this area are experts in the creation of these types of products and her customers are very happy with them. Esther gained a greater profit from this investment so she re-invested in something new. At the moment she is focussing more on buying and selling furniture and dressing room items.
Esther is grateful to all of the lenders and asks that they continue this initiative to improve the quality of life of the entrepreneurs. She is applying for a loan from Fundación Mario Santo Domingo which she will use to buy more bedroom sets and dining tables to sell to her customers. Esther hopes they will be satisfied with these products so that her Kiva investment will be successful.
Previous Loan DetailsEsther is a widow, and she has 4 adult children. She has been working as a merchant for 7 years. She started her business selling a variety of merchandise so that she could get ahead through her own efforts. She sells products such as clothing and undergarments, cosmetics, and perfumes. She s... More from Esther's previous loan »
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64275072015-11-26T08:32:52.530-08:006-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blogA blog mostly about the Dodgers, Angels, baseball in general, and other minutiae as it may happen.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-4347768630212003112015-10-14T07:21:00.001-07:002015-10-14T07:21:22.755-07:00The New Chaos: On Arte Moreno's Hyperactive OwnershipI read with no surprise, sadly, that the Angels had just barely missed the postseason (old news), and that Jerry Dipoto resigned after years of arguing with Mike Scioscia (even older news) to be replaced, temporarily, with Bill Stoneman, GM emeritus, returning to that role. So when former also-ran and Yankee front office product Billy Eppler won the job, it took me a bit to realize something fairly important: Eppler is now the fifth general manager the Angels have had in the Arte Moreno era (fourth if you count Stoneman's two terms as one). You think the Gene Autry era was tumultuous, what with its loud personalities and poor decision-making skills? The worst they managed was three GMs in as many years, from 1991 through 1993. Arte's got a problem, and whether it's in the mirror, or the field manager having too much power, or both, the echoes of the old, bad teams from the early 1990's are impossible to ignore.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-48964957590224964492015-06-30T06:57:00.002-07:002015-06-30T07:00:15.422-07:00Cord Cutting Continues, Now Up To 8.2% Of The Subscriber BaseSomething I forgot to write about last week: a new study by Digitalsmiths shows an 1.3% year-to-year decline in the number of people with cable TV, making 8.2% overall who are former cable customers, while "a much larger 45.2 percent said they reduced their cable or satellite TV service during the same time frame." This "cord shaving" suggests people are doing other things with their free time, and cable/satellite TV is increasingly irrelevant. Unclear how many of them are in the LA area, but this can't be a good sign for traditional cable.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-21650553643008135772015-06-17T17:10:00.002-07:002015-06-17T17:48:45.066-07:00Why Sports Net LA Can't Sell A La CarteWith the Dodgers' $8 billion/25 year TV deal in the can but not realized (still), Time Warner taking on water to the tune of a $1 billion loss over the life of the contract, and the proposed merger with Comcast dead, it's been a terrible year for Dodger fans hoping to see their team on TV, and mostly without hope. Or it was, anyway, until Time Warner bid and won on the consolation prize of Charter Communications, immediately expanding the reach of SportsNet LA. For customers on that network, nine innings of Vin Scully is a reality again.

 But the money drain continues for that channel; they still have less than half their projected audience, and there's no other sign of them getting to an agreement with the remaining cable and satellite carriers. It's interesting, then, to take a look at one of the more commonly suggested answers to the problem of rising cable costs, a la carte purchase. Despite a great deal of belief in the idea that live sports are the last redoubt of cable TV, the reality is somewhat more complicated; for instance, only 35.7% of those polled said they would buy ESPN if it were offered as a separate channel. Similarly, the economics become highly questionable, to say the least.

 Let's dig in by first taking a look at a recent Times story on the ratings boost provided by the Charter acquisition. Charter serves 300,000 subscribers, while Time Warner has "four times" that number, making 1.2 million for that carrier, or 1.5 million in all. An earlier LAT story suggests the total number is closer to two million, but it's unclear whether that includes San Diego County homes that would be in the Padres broadcast area and would not get SportsNet LA; for this discussion, I use the lower figure. If we take Time Warner's subscriber base and reverse the calculation that they're 30% of the market, the overall subscriber base should be 4 million.

 As a sanity check, let's look at the dollar figures from the contract to make sure we're not missing something. The first year of the deal required Time Warner to pay the Dodgers $210 million, which means if we were to assume they merely broke even, that would be

 $210M/year / $5/subscriber*month / 12 months/year = 3.5M subscribers

 (For the purposes of simplicity, I round up the $4.90 per subscriber per month figure to $5.) So we know we're on the right side of these numbers; Time Warner has to make a profit somewhere (that's the extra 500,000 subscribers from our earlier calculation). Now that we know the size of the market, we can look at prior years' ratings to give us an indication of the number of people willing to fork over their hard-earned dough so they can root for the Dodgers.

 Ratings vary quite a lot depending on whether a team is winning or not, and the Dodgers are no exception. Their successful 92-70 2013 season resulted in average per-game ratings of 154,000 viewers, where the mediocre 82-79 2011 season yielded an average of 65,000, less than half. While the 94-68 2014 season was even more successful than the prior year, the cable TV impasse sent ratings even lower, to an average of 40,000 viewers per game, the lowest figures in nearly two decades. So let us assume that the Dodgers are capable of averaging around 100,000 viewers per game, even though we know the variance is quite large. Let us also assume that each and every one of those viewers will be willing to pay for a subscription to see the Dodgers. In an a la carte scenario, that means we're going to divide the expected revenue by the number of viewers.

 Get ready.

 $210M/year / 12 months/year / 100,000 subscribers = $175/month*subscriber

 One hundred seventy five dollars per month per subscriber. This monthly figure is more than the price of MLB.TV for the year. Nobody's going to pay that, and hardly anyone could afford it. In short, this isn't happening, now, or ever, unless the Dodgers give up their current salary structure.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-49883433669680260832015-06-16T11:38:00.000-07:002015-06-16T11:38:29.251-07:00Bombshell: FBI Investigating Cardinals Hacking Of Astros Front OfficeThe New York Times uncorked a doozy today when they broke the story that the FBI is investigating the St. Louis Cardinals for hacking into the Astros' network and stealing proprietary player data.

 The Astros hired Mr. Luhnow as general manager in December 2011, and he quickly began applying his unconventional approach to running a baseball team. In an exploration of the team's radical transformation, Bloomberg Business called it "a project unlike anything baseball has seen before."

 Under Mr. Luhnow, the Astros have accomplished a striking turnaround; they are in first place in the American League West division. But in 2013, before their revival at the major league level, their internal deliberations about statistics and players were compromised, law enforcement officials said.

 The intrusion did not appear to be sophisticated, the law enforcement officials said. When Mr. Luhnow was with the Cardinals, the organization built a computer network, called Redbird, to house all of their baseball operations information — including scouting reports and player personnel information. After leaving to join the Astros, and bringing some front-office personnel with him from the Cardinals, Houston created a similar program known as Ground Control.
 Which suggests that Luhnow and others in the Houston front office didn't bother to change their passwords from their time at St. Louis. It also suggests that the Cardinals store their passwords in plaintext, which, why?

 Fangraphs has a fine piece on the legal ramifications:

 The primary law implicated by the Cardinals' alleged hacking would appear to be the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The CFAA was originally passed back in 1984 to protect both the government and the financial industry from electronic espionage. The law was later expanded in 1996, however, to cover any unauthorized, remote access of another's computer.
 Under Section (a)(4) of the CFAA, anyone who "knowingly … accesses a protected computer without authorization" in order to "obtain[] anything of value" is subject to potential criminal liability for the hacking. Similarly, Section (a)(5)(B) of the law prohibits "intentionally access[ing] a protected computer without authorization," should it result in any damage being inflicted on the computer's owner.
 The act provides for a five year sentence per instance of access, which could mean life imprisonment for ongoing spying. Also, the Electronic Espionage Act of 1996 makes the entire Cardinals organization possibly complicit in criminal activity, but only if the government can show high-level Cardinals knew or should have known about the matter.

 But is that likely? As one of the commenters at a Facebook group observed, commissioner Rob Manfred has been pleased to use stolen evidence when it suited him; how hard can he really come down on the Cards? (Ignoring for the moment the consequence of criminal investigations, and assuming that there will be repercussions at the MLB commissioner's office.) One thing's for sure, there'll be a lot of billable hours among all parties.

 Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-9756169844934451042015-06-15T10:42:00.002-07:002015-06-15T10:42:48.091-07:00Wid Matthews' Matchless Track RecordJon Weisman has a brief story up about how the Dodgers missed out on Willie Mays:

 Jackie [Robinson] says the Dodgers blew a chance to land Willie Mays when he was a 16-year-old phenom with the Birmingham Black Barons. "The Dodger players were much impressed with Mays when we played an exhibition game with the Barons," said Jackie. "The front office in Brooklyn was contracted, but Wid Mathews, Mr. Rickey's assistant, turned down Willie because Wid said he couldn't hit a curve ball."
 This is genuinely incredible, because Wid Mathews also wrote off Jackie Robinson as "strictly the showboat type". It's one thing to be wrong about a player, but to clank so impressively on two Hall of Famers is something like a reverse Midas touch.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-7754307773220037272015-06-12T07:32:00.003-07:002015-06-12T07:32:59.726-07:00Nancy Bea Hefley Nearly RetiresI was unaware of this, but Dodgers organist Nancy Bea Hefley handed in her resignation in sorrow at her diminished role (she only plays "Take Me Out To The Ballgams" now, and perhaps three or four other numbers, a total of five minutes a night) — but was talked out of it.

 "They said I had a job as long as I want the job, the job would not be open for anybody else," Hefley said. "I will be signing a new contract at the end of the year."
 Whew. Bullet dodged. Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-48877786917222441542015-05-02T17:10:00.000-07:002015-05-02T17:10:26.169-07:00How The Luxury Tax Threatens Labor PeaceA great couple of posts by Nathaniel Grow at Fangraphs about MLB's luxury tax and its erosive consequences for player salary. Salaries as a percentage of league revenue have been in dramatic decline since the inception of the luxury tax in 1996, particularly since peaking in 2003:

 Overall, however, it appears that the luxury tax threshold has effectively become a de facto salary cap for many of MLB's larger market teams, and thus represents an important contributing factor to the players' declining share of MLB's overall league revenues.
 This is not insignificant. One of Bud Selig's signal achievements is two decades of labor peace, bought mostly on increasing revenue for the clubs and climbing salaries for free agents.

 In hindsight, then, the MLBPA likely made a mistake by agreeing to a more restrictive luxury tax framework in the last several CBAs. And to the extent the union intends to address the players' declining share of overall league revenues in the 2016 collective bargaining negotiations, modifying the luxury tax will likely prove to be an important piece of the puzzle.
 Counteracting this, to some degree, is the willingness of teams to sign their young stars to extended deals that buy out not only remaining arbitration years, but their early free agency terms. This has the side effect of raising the cost of the few players who do actually reach free agency despite being on the wrong side of 30, precisely because there are fewer of them. But in the main, the benefits adhere to owners, who now nab the lion's share of revenues. The explosion in TV deal revenues is largely going unshared with the players, for a curious reason:

 Unlike ticket sales – which generally rise as a team improves on the field – television revenue is fixed via long-term broadcasting agreements. So while franchises can increase their in-stadium profits to some degree by spending more on payroll – thereby improving the quality of their team – the same is generally not true for television revenue. As a result, teams have little incentive to spend any added broadcasting profits on payroll (because, in economic terms, the added television revenue has not adjusted the team's marginal revenue product).
 The Dodgers are in some ways an anomaly in that regard, and we shall see just how much of that actually pans out in a deal that appears largely doomed. If the MLBPA has been content to let ownership gradually but dramatically increase its revenue stream without sharing, that may not last past the next round of negotiations. On the other hand, I have to believe that negotiators for both sides remember the crippling 1994 strike, how much it soured fans on the game, and how nobody wants that again.
 Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-67732148111880711422015-04-30T17:34:00.000-07:002015-04-30T17:34:09.860-07:00Administrivia: Link CleanupCleaned up a ton of stale links, including the minor league links, which I hadn't fixed in a couple years (and shamefully pointed to pre-2014 affiliations in some cases). A few blogs that haven't been updated recently got the axe, as well some various sites I haven't used in a great long while. I've fixed a few other links; the sidebar post references are, after a couple years of breakage, now semi-functional, at least through 2007. I hope to fix that shortly.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-32791376929270343552015-04-29T14:11:00.002-07:002015-04-29T17:06:32.665-07:00The O's Lose The Fans, And Why The Dodgers Should: Orioles 8, White Sox 2You would be hard pressed to find a more remarked-upon or remarkable game than today's White Sox/Orioles tilt at an entirely empty Camden Yards, due to the rioting in Baltimore. The game itself was mostly noteworthy for its astonishing speed, completing nine innings in a barely-recognizable 2:03 despite the high-scoring offense. If MLB rules people want to figure out how best to accelerate the pace of play, this game might well be a good place to start, an experiment otherwise impossible that yields an interesting result, just as shutting down all air traffic on September 11, 2001 yielded some interesting (or not) results. Taking the fans out of the park might be the most radical idea yet advanced to this end, but is it too much to imagine that showboating batters, the staged drama of walkup music, the endless preening of the pitcher between pitches might be considerably lowered in such an environment?

 If any team can achieve such a thing, it's the Dodgers, who have staked what appears to be the vast majority of their revenue streams to television contracts, rather than seats in the park. While it might be overkill to suggest the team could play entirely without fans in the stadium, it could certainly operate financially without them, although their current TV contract's viability is in grave peril. Think of the advantages for the team: no parking hassles (or revenue), no more Brian Stows, no fan interference, no need for concessions or staffing. Security could be reduced by no less than two-thirds. This begins to sound better all the time.

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 Update: Apparently the Orioles signed autographs for and tossed balls to fans that weren't there.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-89801892782376052052015-04-29T08:46:00.002-07:002015-04-29T08:46:39.549-07:00More On Josh Hamilton and Mat GleasonI confess, thanks to lingering and intractable login problems on my main computer, I had largely stopped reading Halos Heaven, but they've got a good Halolinks piece today citing something I really think needs emphasis: Josh Hamilton is a raging jerk. He blames the Angels for a lack of an accountability partner (when he was the one to cut that cord). He didn't thank his Angels teammates, and of course there was his childish refusal to take accountability for anything.

 It's ironic, perhaps, that this episode had the side effect of Mat Gleason's exiting Halos Heaven. Nobody knows this but me, him, and Tyler Bleszinski, but Blez offered me the job of running the HH blog before it started; I basically turned him down, and it went to Mat. Nobody was more surprised than me at the time, but I think Blez made the right choice. Halos Heaven is the success it is in large part because of Mat's dedication to the task; irascible, tendentious, and pugilistic, Mat was always interesting to read, and he kept going through some awful seasons. (This blog, as you know, has largely gone dormant after 2010.) I haven't spoken with Jim Gardner and don't know him; shortly after the news broke yesterday, he wrote a piece introducing himself and announcing his new position as interim ringmaster; one of the comments therein suggests Mat wrote a goodbye letter, which was subsequently yanked. I briefly spoke with Mat yesterday via e-mail, encouraging him about the situation. He was characteristically incendiary. I still think he was right, though.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-13603115059036672272015-04-28T12:39:00.002-07:002015-04-28T13:07:43.013-07:00Mat Gleason Leaves SB NationWhat I choose to write about here surprises even me sometimes. I was utterly amazed to see that Mat Gleason has been fired resigned as the head blog-runner at Halos Heaven in the wake of his intemperate comments about Josh Hamilton. Irascible, tendentious, and pugilistic, he was never dull. He did a good job with that blog for years. The Halosphere will be diminished for the absence of someone willing to post with vigor and candor.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-18453347871331393412015-04-27T17:14:00.000-07:002015-04-28T08:22:21.831-07:00The Entitled Josh HamiltonSo, Josh Hamilton said things:

 Josh Hamilton took strong exception to Angels owner Arte Moreno's comments suggesting that Hamilton lacked "accountability" by suffering a substance-abuse relapse that ultimately led to the troubled outfielder getting traded to the Texas Rangers on Monday.

 "I have no clue what he's talking about," Hamilton said during a news conference at Globe Life Park in Texas, his first comments since he reported his relapse to Major League Baseball in early February. "I showed up every day and played hard when I was there. I hadn't been the player they wanted me to be, I know I haven't been, but I worked my butt off this winter to be that player.

 "They just didn't want that to happen for some reason. It doesn't hurt my feelings or make me mad, but I prepared. [Moreno] knew what the deal was when he signed me. Hands down, he knew what he was getting. He knew what the risks were. He knew all those things. Under the [joint drug agreement], it is what it is."
 Those defending Josh Hamilton as a product of addiction have a certain limited point about the nature of that disease and the risks therewith; but "he knew what he was getting" sounds disturbingly like an excuse. In the end, character matters. Josh Hamilton did not have it, but he will have a very large fraction of the remainder of $83 million, paid by the Angels. Having recently gone through it with someone who is a genuine addict myself — and shockingly, with a friend who came disturbingly close to enabling behavior — I cannot help but see this as smirking arrogance. As Mat Gleason wrote,

 Josh, when you finally die of a drug related matter it won't be Arte Moreno's fault. It won't be the fault of the good fans in Anaheim who figured out your little game. They might have Donnie Moore's karma on them but they won't have yours. As much as I would like to say the blame for your future fate lies with the enabling national media and coddling players union, I think of Steve Howe's face crushed against his truck's windshield on a lonely interstate highway with crystal meth in his bloodstream and I know that all the blame will be on you, all of it, as it was with Howe. I can only hope that when you do yourself in, which you will, that, mercifully like Howe, you take nobody else with you.
 Amen.

 Update 4/28: It appears I am in the minority in endorsing the Rev's words above, because they have since been taken down. The vituperation against it on Twitter seems to be pretty close to unanimous, if my feed is any indication. I have known Mat for a number of years now, and hyperbolic, tendentious opinion is his schtick (viz. his reaction to the news that Hamilton wouldn't appear at spring training), but it has not always been thus; once upon a time he offered a much more conciliatory tone, writing:

 Perhaps this is just an issue with his surgery, many fans would be relieved by some drug test going wrong because of modern medicine. The benefit of the doubt should go to the man, a suffering human being deserving of our compassion. But the likelihood that he used and is owning up to it seems to be the razor truth of the matter.

 Say a prayer for Josh Hamilton, the man. We can determine what this means for the team at another time. For now, be thankful your demons are not dragging you into a goldfish-bowl-shaped hell.
 In the end, I suspect Mat's own personal wrestling with the demons of addiction informed his more recent rant. Temperance of any kind isn't easy to achieve with consistency.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-15773092284417519612015-04-24T08:52:00.001-07:002015-04-24T20:00:10.455-07:00Angels Could Expel Josh Hamilton In "Days", And How Arte Might Do ItMichael McCann at Sports Illustrated claims that Josh Hamilton could be gone "in [a] matter of days", and even his salary. The basis for this is language in the Uniform Player Contract:

 Some of the relevant language can be found in the UPC's Loyalty Clause:

 Loyalty
 3.(a) The Player agrees to perform his services hereunder diligently and faithfully, to keep himself in first-class physical condition and to obey the Club's training rules, and pledges himself to the American public and to the Club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, fair play and good sportsmanship.
 The Angels, it would seem, could persuasively argue that Hamilton's relapse constitutes a failure to render services "diligently and faithfully," as well as a failure to "keep himself in first-class condition and to obey the Club's training rules." A drug and alcohol relapse, moreover, could be viewed as evidence that Hamilton breached his contractual duty to "pledge himself to the American public and to the Club to confirm to the high standards of personal conduct ... and good sportsmanship."
 It has been occasionally tried in the past, most recently by the Padres with Lamarr Hoyt, but unsuccessfully; also, the Rockies ended up buying out 80% of Denny Neagle's contract when that team tried to invoke the "personal conduct" clause to sever ties.

 None of this language, however, will authorize the Angels to terminate Hamilton's contract. Through the grievance process, the Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA) has aggressively prevented teams from attempting to use the aforementioned language to terminate guaranteed player contracts. The MLBPA is most concerned with preventing the creation of a precedent whereby teams can readily convert guaranteed contracts into non-guaranteed contracts.
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 If anything, the Angels—rather than Hamilton—might have run afoul of the Program by issuing remarkably harsh and unsympathetic statements following the arbitrator's award. For instance, a spokesman on behalf of Angels president John Carpino bluntly remarked, "It defies logic that Josh's reported behavior is not a violation of his drug program." Note that the Program bars teams from issuing "public statements which undermine the integrity and/or credibility of the Program." While Carpino's statement and others like it likely will not lead to any consequences for the Angels, it's a reminder that Hamilton's conduct is not the only one at issue in this controversy.
 Well, we'll see, but I'm still not hopeful. For the record, I'm somewhat opposed to the tenor of Craig Calcaterra's observations a while back that Arte is being craven or greedy here:

 But really, that's what's going on with the Hamilton stuff. People are disapproving of Hamilton's acts, which are borne of addiction and not malice, yet they will nod at Moreno's efforts to not pay Hamilton, which are borne out of greed and, maybe, a side of brains.
 Is there room in this discussion for mentioning personal integrity and how Hamilton exhibits very little? I mean, I agree that Arte's also failing at it (per the functional gag order mentioned above), but it's hard to root for either side in this mess.

 Update 3:43 PM: Bill Shaikin of the Times has an update on the situation:

 The Angels are in talks with Josh Hamilton that could result in the troubled outfielder leaving the team within 72 hours, according to a person familiar with the matter who is not authorized to discuss it publicly.

 Angels General Manager Jerry Dipoto was in negotiations with Hamilton's representatives Friday.

 Although the Angels had announced a plan to send Hamilton to their Arizona training facility as soon as this week to prepare for a comeback, Hamilton balked at the plan. It is believed Hamilton would like to play for a club close to his Texas home.
 It's important to remember that the Angels have apparently operated in bad faith throughout this story, so we should be very careful not to read too much into the "Hamilton balked at the plan" part of this. Still, it's not entirely implausible.

 Update 7:35 PM: Apparently it's a done deal:

 The Angels agreed Friday to trade Hamilton to the Texas Rangers, without getting a player in return, according to a person briefed on the deal but not authorized to discuss it. Instead, the Rangers will assume a very small portion of the $83 million left on Hamilton's contract, one that might well end up as the worst in Angels history.

 Although the Angels had announced a plan to send Hamilton to their Arizona training facility as soon as this week to prepare for a comeback, Hamilton balked at the plan and told them he wanted to play in Texas. Hamilton, who has four children and filed for divorce in February, makes his off-season home in Texas.
 Update 8:01 PM: Jeff Passan writes the Angels will eat $68M of the remaining $83M on Hamilton's contract. Yow.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-22466987378913775042015-04-23T12:50:00.003-07:002015-04-23T12:50:39.766-07:00Comcast/TWC Deal Dead, SportsNet LA Renegotiation Can't Be Far BehindBloomberg reports that the Comcast/Time Warner Cable deal is dead, after Comcast decided to pull out. (Warning: auto-play video at that link.) Almost certainly, this also means the Dodgers' TV deal with SportsNet LA will be renegotiated, possibly as a consequence of that entity going into bankruptcy. Probably good news, but not for Dodger TV fans, not soon, anyway.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-74450788115324654672015-04-18T13:57:00.002-07:002015-04-18T15:10:44.776-07:00Josh Hamilton Sells His Newport Beach Home, Files For DivorceA report yesterday from the Times says Josh Hamilton is selling his Newport Beach home for $16.5 million. Josh Hamilton apparently filed for divorce around the time his relapse went public, according to the Dallas Morning News. After the fracas with the Angels in which Arte Moreno refused to commit to Hamilton again playing with the team, it seems like there's more, not less, chaos in Hamilton's life going forward.

 Update: Looks like I missed the part where his wife has an ongoing affair, who is forbidden to stay at their shared (for now) home (emboldening mine):

 Hamilton outlined 34 requests in the petition. Among the requests: prohibit her from using the Maserati and 1972 Chevrolet Blazer in his possession; prohibit her from "hiding" the children from him; prohibit her from making disparaging remarks against him or his family; prohibit someone who has an intimate relationship with her from staying in the same home as the children overnight.
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 Sources told The Post that the market rate for the channel is more likely $3 per subscriber per month, meaning the charge will be almost $1 billion when adjusted over the life of the contract or in the region of $700 million in present-day terms.

 "Comcast will be made whole," said the source, suggesting this mess had to be cleaned up as a condition of Comcast's proposed deal to acquire Time Warner Cable.

 "Unless the deal [to merge Time Warner and Comcast] closes, there will not be another [Dodgers] season shown outside of Time Warner Cable. I don't believe they'll get carriage," a source told The Post.
 I would even go so far as to suggest that, if the entity that bought the rights is independent, the Dodgers could end up on the wrong side of a bankruptcy. It's hard for me to imagine that Time Warner didn't protect their interests in this way, but dumber things have happened.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-61758387512925842542015-02-25T16:11:00.000-08:002015-02-25T18:07:26.096-08:00Subtraction By Addiction? Josh Hamilton To Face Disciplinary HearingWe don't know why Josh Hamilton is in New York to face an MLB disciplinary hearing, but it sure sounds bad. If Ken Rosenthal's surmise that the charges are worse than PED use, it suggests he's fallen off the wagon again.

 Update: It appears the issue is a relapse with drugs (cocaine, at least) and/or alcohol. Bill Shaikin thinks it "unlikely" he would be treated as a first-time offender if this is the case.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-40980593030724808592015-02-03T17:01:00.001-08:002015-02-03T17:01:23.314-08:00Josh Hamilton Out 6-8 Weeks For Shoulder SurgeryMany thanks to Halos Heaven for pointing me at the story that Josh Hamilton will miss 6-8 weeks for shoulder surgery. Probably the best-case scenario for the Angels is retirement, as the Rev says. It sounds like side effects of arthritis, which at least rules out rotator cuff problems. But it also lowers our expectations from his ability when he does return, if he returns.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-49490879227134675932015-01-27T07:32:00.000-08:002015-01-27T07:32:18.752-08:00The Temperature Rises: Dodgers In Talks To Sell Minority ShareThe Times reported last week that the Dodgers are in talks to sell a minority share to a Korean partner, which I suppose should come as no surprise. This is a step one takes if one is starting to run low on cash, or otherwise wishes to diminish exposure to downside. Which is to say, the early ebullience of the Kasten era has given way to a more sober assessment of the likelihood the team's overarching flaw, its uncompleted TV deal. At this point, it seems to me, it's a question of when, not if, SportsNet LA will go into bankruptcy, and take the Dodgers with them.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-727488642996575132015-01-21T07:30:00.000-08:002015-01-21T07:30:34.299-08:00Dodgers Still "Very Concerned" Their Team Will Still Be Off The AirIt's hard to understand how anyone could be so thoroughly clueless that they thought this wouldn't be the outcome, but here we are in 2015, and the Dodgers still won't be on cable TV this year, report Bill Shaikin and Meg James.

 "I'm very concerned," Dodgers Chairman Mark Walter said Thursday, at the conclusion of baseball's owners' meetings.

 The Federal Communications Commission has until March 30 — six days before the Dodgers' season opener — to approve or reject a merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The FCC has delayed the proceedings twice and could do so again.
 The other side of the table has some blunt words for the Dodgers' TV arm:

 "Time Warner Cable and the Dodgers' front office owe fans the simple freedom to see Dodger games on TV without obligating every TV customer to bail out Time Warner for its reckless overspending," DirecTV said in a statement. Kasten declined to comment.
 "Reckless overspending" is an understatement. We could be into 2016 before this goes away; the Dodgers have deep pockets. I still maintain a chain reaction bankruptcy is not impossible. Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-43543426888140280362015-01-03T11:43:00.004-08:002015-01-03T11:44:01.115-08:00Starting 2015 With A "New" Blog And AdministriviaMy overall inattention to this space led me to forget a promise from 2009, when I told the proprietor of Dodger Therapy that I'd give them a sidebar link. (I was archiving my old mail from 2014 when I looked into prior years' archives and found an old exchange that I had forgotten.) Unlike a bunch of bloggers from the end of the McCourt era, they're still around and active as ever. Give 'em a try.

 A lot of sidebar links have bit the dust over the last month, though I still have hope that Matt Welch's old Warblog will one day be resurrected; still, with each passing day, I concede the likelihood of that diminishes.

 Happy New Year, everyone.Rob McMillinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-82177636356403041392014-12-29T07:35:00.002-08:002014-12-29T07:35:27.116-08:00Treating Advanced Stats In Conventional Sportswriting: On Not Explaining BurritosCraig Calcaterra, who is one of my favorite follows on Twitter, has a great piece up about how to deal with advanced metrics and concepts in conventional baseball writing. Noticing that Anthony French at the Detroit Free Press casually drops a line about José Iglesias benefiting from a higher-than-usual BABIP, Calcaterra observes that, in the 1960's and 70's, Taco Bell needed to explain what a burrito was, and yet:

 Maybe there was a need for this in the late 60s and early 70s when burritos were still sort of exotic to a lot American fast food eaters, but they stopped doing that at some point. Why? Because Taco Bell realized that we can handle a burrito. Yes, we ate nothing but cheeseburgers for years and we probably still understand cheeseburgers better, but by some time in the 1970s we were totally are capable of processing what a burrito was as long as it was presented properly (i.e. fast, cheap and available at, like, midnight).

 Mainstream baseball writing (i.e. newspaper baseball writing) still hasn't figured that out for the most part. It probably was necessary in 2002 to explain advanced metrics, such as they were then, in greater detail. Batting average and RBI were our cheeseburgers, and we were being asked to process something new. But we've been eating our SABRburritos for a good while now, so it's not necessary for them to be over-explained to us. It's actually sort of distracting and creates unnecessary controversy when they are. WAR debates and "geeks vs. jocks" cultural garbage. I'm rather tired of that. Aren't you rather tired of that?
 It's a war that's all but won, save for holdouts like Murray Chass. That we're having this discussion is proof.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-37135785005373081162014-12-26T05:57:00.002-08:002014-12-26T06:09:56.263-08:00Transparency In The Hall: An Appreciation Of Repoz's GizmoIt is probably not too strong to suggest that Darren Viola's Hall of Fame Ballot Collecting Gizmo — an annual event for a number of years now — has sparked a dialogue about transparency in BBWAA voting that is vastly overdue. That it must be crowdsourced is understandable (at least for a while), as is the humble and necessarily incomplete means by which it operates. I came across a piece today from one Steve Buckley in the Boston Herald which neatly encapsulated many of the problems I have with the process, while somehow managing never to mention the Gizmo (emboldening mine, as always):

 Look, I get it: Nobody gets 100 percent of the votes. It's supposed to have something to do with "tradition," and something to do with the inconvenient truth that the original Hall of Fame class of 1936 — Ty Cobb! Honus Wagner! Babe Ruth! Christy Mathewson! Walter Johnson! — had no unanimous selections.
 But it's wrong, and it needs to stop. And so for housekeeping purposes, I'll repeat what I wrote in December of 2012: "Fans should know our selections." And I'll also repeat what I wrote in January of 2008: ". . . this absolutely should not be limited to active members of the BBWAA. Retired writers should also be asked to name the names on their ballots."
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 And if there's a retired baseball writer out there whose best case for not voting for Martinez is: "I never saw him pitch," then said baseball writer shouldn't be voting. Fair, right?

 There's a bunch more there, including why we need to shame the anti-steroids voters, and especially the "they all did it" tar-and-featherers. It's one reason why I'm especially pleased to see Buster Olney's surprisingly principled protest empty ballot, even if I think the act is misguided in some wise. There's just no excuse for keeping Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of the Hall, and something needs to be done about it, sooner rather than later. Thank you, Darren, for helping to get this out in the open.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427507.post-77954628233060528822014-12-16T12:50:00.001-08:002014-12-16T13:17:31.375-08:00Angels Deal Jepsen To The RaysI know, I haven't said much about the many bigger deals — the Angels picking up Andrew Heaney from the Dodgers was likely more important to 2015 — but this one is such a puzzler that even I can't make heads or tails of it. The Angels traded Kevin Jepsen to the Rays for left-handed-hitting outfielder Matt Joyce. Joyce has typically manned the corners for the Rays, and has never surpassed 20 home runs, though he has some decent pop (.383 SLG in 2014, career .441). As expected, he hits righties well (career .261/.356/.463) but is largely powerless against lefties (.189/.258/.316). It seems likely he'll spell Josh Hamilton when he gets injured or is otherwise unable to play.
 What's puzzling about this deal is why the Halos would do it when they possess both C.J. Cron and Cole Calhoun. Calhoun, especially, looks superficially like a younger version of Joyce, who still has three years of team control ahead of him and is putting up similar numbers. I expect this means Calhoun may be trade bait, or Cron will find himself optioned back to Salt Lake, whence he will return if Hamilton or Calhoun find themselves on the DL. Depth in the outfield is nice to have, but dropping pitching that has been a mainstay of the bullpen seems like a poor choice.Rob McMillinhttps://email@example.com


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Brand new listing! Beautiful 3BR + loft , 2ba. Single home in the heart of town with large private yard and hot tub, next to the best biking and skiing trails in the area. Walk to elk street and shuttle route to Mt Crested Butte skiing.
Brand New listing ! The house has 3 bedrooms and a loft. Fully equipped kitchen with all necessities. Flat-screen ( 4K ) TV with cable internet / wifi. Walk to Elk Street and all the awesome restaurants/shops. Jump up shutte to the ski mtn. The best nordic trails in the country are right outside our door. Feel free to call us with any questions. Best neighborhood in town. we are located in the private NW side of town and the best nordic/mtn bike trails are right outside our door. Walk...
Crested Butte
Winter*Spring*Summer*Fall* Year round, this is the perfect mountain retreat! The wide open space and spectacular views from every room will make this a place you will want to return time and time again with all of your friends and family!
Crested Butte
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Cosy room w/ amazing views of Mt. Crested Butte. Walk or ride half mile to Crested Buttes "main st" Elk Avenue. Beautiful fenced in yard, large deck, grill and incredible views of the mountains. Pets accepted upon request. 2 bikes available for borrow.
Private newly carpeted bedroom with semi-private bathroom locked off from main house with shared access to the backyard, deck, views and bbq. Bed is a pullout couch with a tempurpedic topper. Great views from the bedroom. Newly renovated custom bathroom with river rock shower and Mt. Crested views from shower. Front porch, entryway, closet, bedroom and bathroom. Shared deck space. Please note that for the month of August, the room is private however we may need access to the entryway an...
Crested Butte
Our cozy private room is 2/3 mi. outside CB in a quiet neighborhood. It comfortably fits two and has a walking/biking trail into town and has a groomed Nordic trail just outside the door! The updated kitchen and washer/dryer are available for use.
I am in a quiet neighborhood a mile south of town, close to Nordic ski trail, bus and town. A private room with two twin beds includes a fan, coffee maker, dorm-sized frig and microwave , plenty of light and storage, private bath includes soap, shampoo, and blow dryer , and entrance near your room. Washer/dryer, kitchen and facilities are available before 7 pm. I cook a lot also, so I will be using the kitchen, and would appreciate if you can give me times you will be using the facili...
Crested Butte
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