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Yankees No Longer Scary With the Bases Juiced
ANAHEIM, Calif.—No team is more closely associated with the grand slam than the New York Yankees.
The all-time Grand Slam leader, Lou Gehrig, hit all 23 of his bases-clearing shots for the Yankees. Alex Rodriguez, second place all-time with 22, has hit half of his for New York. Don Mattingly holds the single season slam record with six, in 1987.
But right now, when the bases are loaded, the Yankees aren't in need of a dramatic grand slam. At this point, they'll happily settle for an RBI single.
For the past few years, the Yankees have been baseball's deadliest team with the bases loaded. In 2010, they were baseball's best, with a .344 average with the bases loaded. In 2011, they hit an AL-best.337.
This year? A paltry 8-for-53, good for a .151 average. That's fifth-worst in baseball. Tuesday, Robinson Cano came up twice with the bases loaded and struck out both times. Either opportunity could have been the difference-maker in a 5-1 loss.
Bases loaded situations should be the best of all worlds for a hitter, especially veteran power hitters like those on the Yankees. The pitcher must stay in the strike zone or risk walking in a run, and the Yankees boast patient hitters who don't venture out of the strike zone.
But this year, it isn't working. Yankee hitters are either moving away from their usual tendencies and slashing at bad pitches, or hitting good ones right at opposing fielders.
Yankee manager Joe Girardi admitted he was flummoxed by his team's about-face with the bases loaded.
"We haven't done very well this year, and we've been very good in the past," Girardi said. "It's just kind of what we've went through this year, one of the struggles that we've had."
The bases-loaded problem is the ultimate manifestation of New York's larger troubles with runners in scoring position. But if these disappointing Yankees could just rectify their bases-loaded futility, they'd likely be doing just as well as their 2010 and 2011 versions were at this time of year.
The Yankees have scored 226 runs this year, and allowed 212. That translates to an expected win percentage of .531, an exact match for New York's 26-23 record. But if the Yankees were hitting at a .337 clip with the bases loaded, like they did last year, they would be 18-for-53. If we assume, conservatively, that those extra hits drove in two runs each, then the Yankees would have scored 246 runs this year. That would translate to an expected win percentage of .573, which would put them at the top of the AL East.
In theory, no one should be more likely to break this streak of ineptitude than Rodriguez, who trails only the Iron Horse in bases-loaded mashing. But teams have actually walked Cano in order to pitch to Rodriguez several times this season with the bases loaded, which causes Girardi to raise his eyebrows.
"I am surprised, because it is Alex Rodriguez, you see that stat, he has 22 career grand slams," Girardi said. "Jeez, it seemed the one year they did it, a couple years ago, he hit a grand slam every time. But managers are going to play percentages. Sometimes they don't quite work out. But sometimes they do."
And they have this season. Rodriguez is 1-for-9 with the bases loaded, with a single for one RBI. Rodriguez himself said he's puzzled by his results.
"I really can't explain mine. For me, for parts of 17 years, it's a position that I've relished. I know the home runs—I don't know what the rest of the numbers say—but I've obviously done extreme damage in that position," Rodriguez said.
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Should You Pay a Relative to Take Care of Mom?
Growing numbers of families are compensating relatives who serve as caregivers to elders. But to avoid exacerbating tensions, it is important to disclose such arrangements to the entire family.
According to a report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, 43.5 million Americans looked after a friend or relative age 50 or older in 2009, 28% more than in 2004. In a survey conducted for Home Instead Senior Care, a home-care franchiser, nearly 7% of respondents said they receive compensation for providing care to a relative.
Jeffrey Bloom, an elder-law attorney in Boston, says the number of such cases in his practice has quadrupled since before the recession. "I have several clients with adult children who are out of work," he says. "Rather than pay someone else for care, many hire the child."
Feeding the trend: the high unemployment rate, the rising cost of nursing-home care, an aging population and a 2006 change in Medicaid law that makes it harder for people who wish to qualify to give away assets. (Individuals are subject to strict limits, which vary by state, on the value of their assets in order to qualify for Medicaid benefits.)
When caregivers make financial sacrifices, elder-law attorneys say, it is often appropriate to compensate them. Some 37% of caregivers surveyed by the NAC in 2007 said they had quit a job or reduced their hours to accommodate their responsibilities.
There are several ways to compensate a family caregiver. Attorneys say many families pay an hourly wage. As an estate-planning tactic, others opt for annual gifts or a lump-sum payment designed to cover services over an extended period. Some arrange for the caregiver to receive a larger inheritance.
Which option makes the most sense will depend on factors such as the caregiver's desire for income now versus later and the care recipient's estate-planning goals. Families also must consider tax consequences. And if a parent may need to rely on Medicaid to cover future nursing-home costs, it is important to pay the caregiver in a way that is permitted under Medicaid law.
Regardless of the method selected, elder-law attorneys urge clients to disclose these arrangements to the whole family. When revealed after the fact, compensation agreements can create suspicions that result in family conflicts or even estate litigation, says Howard Krooks, an elder-law attorney who practices in Boca Raton, Fla., and Rye Brook, N.Y. (To find an elder-law attorney familiar with your state's rules, go to www.elderlawanswers.com or www.naela.org.)
Under federal law, when annual compensation exceeds $1,700, an employer and employee each owe federal payroll taxes of 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare. The employer must generally also pay 6.2% on the first $7,000 in wages in federal and state unemployment tax, says Melissa Labant, a CPA with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. (For more information, see IRS Publication 926, "Household Employer's Tax Guide.")
In many cases, people employing someone 40 hours or more a week also are required to contribute to state workers' compensation insurance pools.
Some families prefer to give caregivers tax-free gifts in lieu of compensation. Current law allows people to give up to $13,000 a year to anyone, which also may reduce the amount of a taxable estate. While each person also is permitted to give away an additional $1 million over his lifetime, such gifts reduce the amount a donor can ultimately shelter from the estate tax.
Particularly in situations where a care recipient may eventually need to rely on Medicaid, attorneys say it is important to draft a written agreement—often called a "personal care contract"—that documents the caregiver's responsibilities and hours and sets a rate of pay in line with that of local service providers.
Under such a contract, Anne Stone, 51, received $420 a week for providing 21 hours of care to her wheelchair-bound father, William Stone, 81, from October 2008 until last February, when he entered a nursing home. Ms. Stone says the payments made up for some of the income she lost when caregiving responsibilities forced her to take time away from the doggie-day-care business she operates in Sudbury, Mass.
"I was taking so much time off from work that we had to turn business away," she says.
The payments had an unanticipated benefit: They also helped Mr. Stone deplete his savings so he could qualify for Medicaid. Without the employment contract, Medicaid would have considered all of the payments to Ms. Stone a gift made to hide assets, subjecting Mr. Stone to delays in coverage, says Mr. Bloom, the Stones' attorney. To pass muster with Medicaid, he says, it is important to have such a contract in place before the services are rendered.
Rather than issue regular paychecks, some families opt to pay caregivers an upfront lump sum, typically calculated by multiplying the caregiver's hourly wage by the number of hours he or she is expected to work over a parent's life expectancy. With such a move, a family can transfer assets to a child that Medicaid might otherwise deem available to pay a nursing home.
Still, in some states, says Mr. Krooks, lump-sum payments can trigger delays in Medicaid coverage.
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Hynix rations DDR supply
Hynix's US subsidiary is placing its supply of DDR DRAM fast memory on allocation. In other words, major customers will have to wait for product, or they will only get a percentage of the product they ordered.
Matsushita, Toshiba to wire TVs, fridges, toasters
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Toshiba Corp said Monday that they plan to establish a joint venture by the end of this week that will offer internet access services to next-generation home appliances. The two electronics giants will respectively own 51 per cent and 29 per cent of Home Integrate Inc, with two smaller …
Mobile phone thieves face jail
Mobile phone thieves could face up to five years in jail, following a ruling by a senior judge yesterday.
Sun rallies Java backers to tilt at .NET
Sun Microsystems Inc has rallied 13 enterprise-level Java licensees to its latest specification, which is expected to stimulate the market for re-usable software components, despite concerns vendors will repeat past portability mistakes in the quest for web services, writes Gavin Clarke. Palo Alto, California-based Sun …
Time rescues Tiny
Wait long enough and it shall be yours: Time Computer has bought the business and certain assets of Tiny Computer, the UK's biggest PC maker, which went into receivership yesterday. The price was not disclosed.
BBC bans use of non-MS PDAs
The BBC IT department has evidently taken the Microsoft shilling, in some style. Our sources informed us a while back that the company is spending a total of £61 million on Windows upgrades for approximately 24,000 desktops, and now an internal memo leaked to NTK reveals that it has banned staff from using any non-Microsoft PDA with company machines.
Vodafone & Orange numbers point to mobile ARPU stability
The most important acronym in the mobile industry at the moment is ARPU. All the operators - at least in developed mobile markets - are struggling to push up average revenue per user (ARPU), even at the expense of growth in terms of subscriber numbers. On Tuesday, Berkshire, UK-based Vodafone Group, the world's largest …
LLU arives in Edinburgh
Hang out the bunting and crack open the whisky -Edinburgh has joined a select group of towns and cities that now boasts unbundled telecoms loops.
Toshiba signs for ARM mobile Java chip
Toshiba has licensed ARM's ARM926EJ-S core processor, for use in mobile phones and PDAs. The ARM926EJ-S is optimised for mobile products supporting Java; it uses ARM's Jazelle technology, and has a claimed speed advantage of up to eight times in Java execution over a software-based JVM.
'Upgrade' renders IF web bank iffie
The Web site of Intelligent Finance (IF) – the multi-channel ebank from the Halifax – has been closed for most of the day following an upgrade that went wrong.
MS wins semiconductor award!
Microsoft has picked up a gong at the prestigious annual Microprocessor Report's Analyst Choice Awards - for the best Game chipset of 2001.
AMD ships go faster mobile Durons
AMD has topped up its budget notebook CPU line with 1.1GHz and 1.2GHz flavours of mobile Durons. Nothing extraordinary here, except that these are real clock speeds and not performance-rated part numbers.
UK web host downed by DDoS attack
Normal services have been restored after a "ferocious" distributed denial of service attack was launched against Doncaster-based hosting firm Donhosts today.
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I would like to know your opinion about using Cassandra to implement a RBAC-like authentication & authorization model. We have simplified the central relationship of the general model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control) to:
user ---n:m--- role ---n:m--- resource
user(s) and resource(s) are indexed with externally visible identifiers. These identifiers need to be "re-ownable" (think: mail aliases), too.
The main reason to consider Cassandra is the availability, scalability and (global) geo-redundancy. This is hard to achieve with a RBDMS.
On the other side, RBAC has many m:n relations. While some inconsistencies may be acceptable, resource ownership (i.e. role=owner) must never ever be mixed up.
What do you think? Is such relational model an antipattern for Cassandra usage? Do you know similar solutions based on Cassandra?


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Patrick Stewart Is Now a Chicken-Wing Believer
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And he has Andy Ricker's Pok Pok Ny to thank for it.
Quit binge-watching Netflix.
The Pok Pok chef says new state regulations have the power to change the entire restaurant landscape.
"I just felt so bad when I saw people standing out in the cold."
For parties of all sizes.
"I have been spending a lot of time in Chinatown lately and am very taken with the vibe down there," he says.
Today's Leftovers.
Expect Stumptown coffee, grab-and-go food, and the full drink menu.
"I ate the massive sandwich — the equivalent of four sandwiches — in three minutes."
Andy Ricker says he's just waiting to be re-inspected.
Avoid overpriced prix-fixe menus at Marco's, Charlie Bird, Empire Diner, and more.
Plus: T-45 opens, and more, in today's Leftovers.
It's business as usual for Charlie Bird, Franny's, and ABC Kitchen.
Andy Ricker's goose is cooked.
You can now get your curry in a hurry, and so on.
"Overall, we'll be able to crank the food out faster," says Ricker.
Ricker promises a "very robust AC and heating system," among other things.
Know before you go, and all that.
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Montmartre Cemetery - Paris
Love this. So cool.
Is this the same statue featured on the album cover of Misanthropre(s) of the band Celeste?
I love this btw. Great job.
I love this btw. Great job.
Excellent work!
that's beautiful!!
Love the emotion you have captured here. Wonderful
you have really caught the emotion in this one
Stunning shot! I love the framing and the contrast.
ooww..this is really beautiful..great shot!
Marvelous cemetery sculpture and you captured the expression amplified by the power of ten!
thanks guys ... one of my favourite ever cemetery sculptures!
good job
yeeeeeeeees ... I'd have to upload it again to change the name ... sorry for my poor spelling
thank you for the lovely comments
yes, one of my favourite ever cemeteries - I can't wait to return
yes, one of my favourite ever cemeteries - I can't wait to return
My favorite cemetery ever
Your framing is very good. Very expressive!
This is really beautiful
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Bill would protect same-sex, bi-national couplesFebruary 15,2013
MONTPELIER More than a year after U.S. immigration authorities sought to split up a same-sex, bi-national couple living in Vermont, Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Susan Collins of Maine are pushing legislation to protect such couples.
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I am so confused, I'd be happy if someone had an input of any kind..
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I as thinking about all that stuff myself.. I wouldn't want her to start the conversation so it doesn't look like things were decided behind his back, besides, she shouldn't be stuck in the middle.
The best thing I thought of is for my those other friends maybe to bring it up... But My friends (the one from that poly relationship) says I should just wait and he might bring it up himself.
The other day I told him I told him I was going out with her to buy some stuff and just hang out and drink some beer. He as cool with that.. When I came back (she got up to the apartment for a second too) e got pissed like I didn't tell him or something. It was so weird and stupid and upsetting. Day after that he told me he was sorry and being stupid and said he'd tell her that as well.
It feels like when I take one step forward, I go back two steps :\
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Anybody who doesn't vote for McGwire should have his press card pulled and be forced to get a real job.
Seahawks: STILL outscored on the season.
(1.5) Cheeseheads
Quaint. Darling little things. We need a Seattle equivalent. We were thinking one of these:
If you vote for McGwire than u have to vote for Bonds when the time comes.
They were both hall of famers before the juice and I would vote for them. But I dont get why McWire gets a pass and Bonds doesnt. Im not saying is racism, Im just sayin'..
Josh Brown kept the Hawks in the game.
Jerramy Stevens is a drunken piece of shit.
Favre should've retired two years ago.
Sans 'roids, Mark McGwire is Dave Kingman.
I was at the game. Man it was fun, eventhough the Hawks made the Packers look like the Colts. Part of it was the weather Im sure, but the Hawks should have pimped that Packers' offensive line, most of em dont even shave yet. Surprised to see a lot of Packer faithful at Qwest. Some of em got their cheese heads thrown down and a couple of fights could have gone down, but for the most part Seattle fans are classy working class folk. Though I gotta say, having grown up in Philly, with the best football fans in the world, if those same fans had been talking mess back in Philly they would have gotten a serious beat down. I agree Josh Brown is a man amongst boys. He was the MVP of the game. Hawks will go deep in the play offs. I can feel it.
Who said I wouldn't vote for Bonds? The question of who's "on the juice" and what it actually does for you on the field is a complex one not easily answered here (for one thing, no one has ever proved that it makes you hit better), In Bonds's case, EVEN DISCOUNTING the home-run record years, he's one of maybe three players who can legitimately challenge Babe Ruth as the best player of all time -- Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb being the others.
I grew up a Hank Aaron fan, and Bonds far surpassed him. My dad was a huge Ted Williams fan, and Bonds surpassed him, and Stan Musial, and Willie Mays, and Mickey Mantle, and everybody's darling Cal Ripken, Jr., and all, all the others. Bonds was by far the best player in all of baseball all through the nineties, back when he was "only" hitting 30-40 HR a year or so. He should have 12 MVPs. He would be an inner-circle HoFer if he'd dropped dead in 1998 and had never hit even 50. So, yes, he gets a pass.
But not this year, because he's not eligible.
Well said Fnarf, I couldnt agree with you more. However, dont u think that Mcwigre gets a pass and Bonds is held up as everything thats wrong with baseball?
seme -- i think the bonds thing would have more overt racial element if it wasn't for the fact that barry bonds is generally considered to be the biggest dickhead (literally during the last few years) in baseball. if he was a nicer guy and he still got the shaft you might have something, but if you kept their personalities while swapping their races, a white bonds would probably still be hated because nobody likes an asshole. bonds is just "that guy"
maybe Charles but George W's boy Kurt Schilling is a big arrogant asshole and most people would agree that broken bat throwing Roger Clements is a douche bag, and Mcgwigre was not known to be warm and fuzzy or a hella of a nice guy. Bottom line is if the sports media dont like ya, than they will emphasize your assholeness. If they like u they talk about your courage and your bloody tampon sock, but if they dont than an asshole u will be. I dont know if its racism,but African American athtletes seem to be held to a higher standard, and it seems the media wants them all to be Willie Mays or Hank Aaron whereas white athletes like Schilling get a pass. Maybe is not racism, but itcould be, thats all Im saying. And I agree Bonds seems to be arrogant and a lousy team mate.
You left part of that out, Charles: it should read "Bonds is generally considered to be the biggest dickhead in baseball BY REPORTERS" -- the same reporters who treated him with mind-blowing disrespect throughout his career, back in the days when he didn't hit 70 HR but was, by far, the best player in the game, but not in the eyes of the reporters who apparently, and still, have little clue about what wins baseball games.
This is similar to the oceans of shit that washed over another inner-circle Hall of Famer widely derided as a selfish jerk by people who were not qualified to hold his jock: Rickey Henderson. And yes, it is racism. Mark McGwire never ever faced that kind of questioning until the andro business popped up, and even then it was still pretty friendly and buddy-buddy, unlike the endless bitching Bonds faced.
And yes, Bonds could very well be a hopeless prick. I wouldn't know; I've never met him. In fact, ALL of my personal contact with the fellow has been mediated by not-particularly-bright sportswriters bearing grudges. Which might, uh, color things a little.
What I DO know, however, is what he accomplished on the field, which is unlike ANYTHING I or anyone else alive has ever seen before, not just in quantity but in quality. Bonds is not just better, he's DIFFERENT; he plays the game differently than anyone else before him. How many players can say that? McGwire, for all his tremendous skill, was never more than a feared hitter; Bonds was beyond that, not just feared but completely befuddling.
A .609 OBP. Six-Oh-Nine. That alone puts him in the center square. It really is ridiculous.
But I think Seme is wrong; McGwire ISN'T getting a pass. He's unlikely to get in this year. Many, many writers have said they won't vote for him. These writers should have their passes pulled; they're not qualified. They don't understand the first thing about baseball. They know less than my dead grandmother, because they THINK they know, and they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
You guys are forgetting the most important factor here. The voters are humans. Humans with snobby attitudes because they are big time BB writers. That means they have grudges that they will grind until doomsday. Their beef with McGwire will keep him out this year. Their beef with Bonds is much bigger/deeper; it may keep him out forever. Which would be a shame/sham. See Pete Rose.
Charles: My vote is for fishheads. Make them all gory with realistic scent...
If Pete Rose wants to go the Hall of Fame, he can buy a fucking ticket.
i like fishheads too. and conveniently the idistrict is only a few short blocks away from qwest field... :D
For a while now I've felt that Bonds was a victim of his own greatness, or rather his pride in his greatness. At the time McGwire was going for the homerun record, Bonds was so obviously the best player in the game. Most half-way intelligent baseball players (and sportswriters) must have known McGwire was juiced, yet the press not only gave him a pass but put him on a pedestal. All the sports writers now grinding on Bonds at the time set the bar for how greatness would be measured and what would be allowed to achieve it.
I doesn't surprise me that other great hitters would say to themselves, "Duh, I could hit 20 or 30 more homeruns a year if I wanted to poison myself with that crap." In Bonds case, he let his sense of injustice and pride overwhelm his reason and self-respect. He's paying now because the standard of allowable means to the end changed. I do think the way his story is being coverred is clouded by racism and a resentment against his ongoing lack of humility, but I dont think it was racism that caused the change in industry and media attitude toward steroids. Anybody with half a brain could see it was only a matter of time before baseball would follow other sports.
I'm surprised there isn't more interest in the dramatic tragedy of Bond's story, The media still wants the big black guy to say uncle. If he hadn't taken the steroids Bond's would be laughing at them like Ali, but...
If McGwire hadn't taken steroids, he would have been just another quality power hitter who couldn't run.
I must be said again as FNARF did, "A .609 OBP. Six-Oh-Nine. That alone puts him in the center square. It really is ridiculous." Even with the steroid cloud, this number is amazing.
Tragedy is about what could have been. Even if you hate his personality, tragedy is an apt description of Bond's fate and weakness. For McGwire, there is no tragedy, because there is no "could have been."
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Bonds' OBP is .443, not .609. That's his slugging percentage, fools.
In 2004, Bonds's OBP was .609. I'm asking you again, think about that. Ruth and Williams never came close to that.
Yeah, because he had 120 INTENTIONAL WALKS in 2004! That's directly related to the juice. And the fact that he had a series of hacks hitting behind him.
Regarding Bonds... If you believe it's fair that Pete Rose isn't in the HOF - for actions taken AFTER he stopped playing - then it's definitely fair to keep Bonds out. That argument about him being the best player before '98 may be true, as is the fact that he might be the best all around player. But he juiced, and the evidence is there to show that he did - see Game of Shadows. McGwire almost certainly did too. Keep both bums out of the Hall.
Good thoughts all, but I'm sticking to my guns. Bonds belongs in there, his achievements merit that. Hell, Gaylord Perry admited he cheated as did a lot of hall of famers. This puritan wish to want all of our players to be like Edgar or Robinson is crap. Sometimes players are assholes like Cobb or Bonds, but that doesnt take away their greatness.
Regardless of your take on the whole steroids/greatness/HOF debate, I think we can all agree that this is going to make sports radio and TV completely fucking unbearable for the next God-knows-how-many years.
My personal wish is to see all HOF's burn to the ground. All it amounts to is sportswriters mutually masturbating each other over the past. An argument can be made for inclusion or non-inclusion for almost every player ever (except maybe Carl Everett [who don't believe in no Dinosaurs]).
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Pete Rose threw games.
There is only one offense that's beyond the pale, and that's undercutting the integrity of the game. "Integrity of the game" is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot, but no one ever really says what it means. It means that you can believe in the games: you can believe that the results are real, that the teams are both trying as hard as they can to win. It's what separates baseball from pro wrestling.
Pete Rose violated that pact. He violated it when he was a player-manager, and manipulated his lineups to gain himself playing time, so that he could chase the hits record at the expense of his team, and at the expense of every baseball fan who was assuming that those games were being contested fairly. He violated it when, as a manager AND A PLAYER, he bet on baseball games that he was involved in. By betting on some games and not others, he called the legitimacy of those results, the ones he bet on and the ones he didn't, into question.
All of the above is true EVEN IF he didn't actually manipulate the results. Perception is everything. There is a huge sign in every baseball clubhouse Pete Rose has ever been in that explains how and why his actions are prohibited, and what the penalty is.
Barry Bonds, on the other hand, may have "juiced". Doug, how many home runs is that juice worth? You're always hearing people say "20-30 HR" -- but that's completely ridiculous. None of the other guys who juice got 30 extra HR out of it. Is it 10? 5? Any? You have no idea, and neither do I, and neither does anyone else.
What do steroids do for you, exactly? I'm hoping, Doug, since you're so dead set against them, that you have some sollidly-documented evidence to back up your claims. I hear they help body-builders gain muscle mass. Got any evidence that body mass helps hitters? I'm pretty sure that bat speed is more important, and I don't hear anyone saying steroids help bat speed.
And, hey, aren't most of the guys who've been caught juicing pitchers, not hitters? And aren't most of them crappy nobodies like Ryan Franklin, trying to hold on to the league, not established superstars?
And juice or not, it doesn't change the fact that Barry, and Mark, were trying to win. They weren't their own manager, for one thing. Steroids are (supposedly) a competitive advantage; they're trying to win, not lose. Pete Rose was trying to lose.
It makes all the difference in the world, and it means Pete Rose should not, MUST not, be allowed to come within 100 yards of the Hall while Barry and Mark belong inside.
Here's the thing, Fnarf. You want proof? Read the book Game of Shadows. Here's what happens with steroids. 1) Your body heals from injuries faster, including the kind of wear and tear that happens over a 162 game season. 2) The muscles built include ones that determine how fast and hard you can swing a bat, and therefore how hard and far you hit a baseball. It does affect the total number of HRs hit per season. 3) Steroids also shrink your testes and give you horrible back acne - according to Game of Shadows, Bonds' mistress can testify that he suffered through those side effects.
Do you not think that calls the integrity of his game into question?
I'm with The Pope. Play the fucking game already.
TV media: shush already. Skip the graphics and the dumb bullshit and talk about the game at hand, morons.
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Just a bit more... the anecdotal evidence, though not conclusive, is pretty staggering. The best home run hitters from the late 80s to the early part of this decade - McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, Palmiero, Canseco - are all suspected of steroids (in Pamiero's case, proven) and those still active when MLB started testing for steroids saw huge drops in production, drops that can't be explained merely by age. (Bonds started hitting huge numbers of HRs at an age when his own father's career was ending.)
Trying to win is great, but integrity of the game is based on certain things being equal, and not every batter juiced. Giving these bums a pass is not right.
I don't know. I still want someone to tell me how many HR it added. Because if you say it's 20 or 30, I'm not going to believe you. Otherwise, why haven't a bunch of Willie Bloomquists started hitting 30 or 40 HR?
Specific to your question: no, I don't think it calls the integrity of his game into question, because I am not using that phrase in its cliched sense. See above. No one could possibly call into question whether Barry Bonds was trying to win or not. You could say he was using unfair means, but he was still trying. It's a difference in kind, not degree. Pete Rose was not cheating to get ahead IN THE GAME; he was cheating the game. Pete Rose is my personal candidate for biggest scumbag of all time, and yes, I've had this argument before.
The whole subject hinges on race and personal style and the attitude of sports fans who sometimes aren't as interested in true sports performance as they think they are. People like Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson are vilified for being difficult or unpleasant or selfish or what-the-fuck-ever, for not basically not being deferential enough; while players like Pete Rose are revered for their "gritty", "down-home", "workmanlike" style of play and deportment. Too often this is couched in terms that present themselves as being sports-related, but are really race-related, and are even sexually tinged; it becomes about machismo, rather than performance. It's the kind of thing that makes white baseball fans in Seattle think Willie Bloomquist is a good player, and it drives me up the wall.
Rickey, who is by far my favorite player ever (challenged only by Edgar Martinez), was CONSTANTLY being attacked throughout his career for "dogging it", loafing in the outfield (despite the fact that he was a SPECTACULAR outfielder), jogging to first on a walk (despite the fact that he was a SPECTACULAR on-base threat), selfishly trumpeting his own accomplishments (despite the fact that his accomplishments were mind-blowing but frequently derided), and in general being the best player on every team he ever played on -- but being hated for it, while lesser teammates like Don Mattingly were drooled over by the sportswriters.
Barry has suffered the same way. Has he handled it badly? Sure, fine, whatever. But the humble, gritty, dirty-uniform white guy doesn't even have to handle it. the question never comes up. And, you know, the game isn't about dirty uniforms, or humility, or pretending you're a regular joe; it's about playing the best. Barry Bonds minus every drop of steroids in the world is still better, better by far, than all the other guys on the list.
"Pete Rose threw games." Because you post it, it must be true, huh?
Sammy Sosa's gotten a pass, but then again, he's a nice guy.
Bonds might be the best ever, agreed. That said, the .609 figure is worthless—he was juiced. It shows you what happens when one of the best players ever takes steroids—no one wants to pitch to him, so he gets 1 ½ walks per game.
Rickey Henderson's statistics, on the other hand, are bulletproof. How many first at-bat homers did he hit against the M's? 100?
The numbers have been crunched over and over by the best sybermetricians. Ruth still blows everyone away for best ever, but Bonds still comes in the very top tier even when an effort is made to factor out steroids.
Nevertheless, he is tragic. Also, he displays the classic signs of a personality deeply hurt at the core by racism, but unable to avoid having the justified anger and child-like confusion at the injustice become part of his self-identity. Some people feel too much and cant let it go, no matter how much money they have. Then sometimes they do really stupid shit.
HOF is bogus. If Buck O'Neil cant get in the Hall, then fuck it. All that integrity and contributions stuff is BS. Never forget, however right it was, the gambling statement was put on the wall by Commissioner Landis, the same racist slime who delayed the integration of baseball by at least 10 years.
By BS, I meant hypocritical BS.
He's admitted that he bet on some games and not others. That's tantamount to throwing games, the ones you didn't bet on. It is also tantamount to throwing games when you are the manager and continue to put yourself in at first base, even though you are by far the worst-hitting first baseman in baseball and there are literally hundreds of better players either on your team or available in the minors for free, so that you can chase the hits record.
I agree with you that Rose shouldn't be in the hall, but as far as who he chose to play at first base, knowing he would continue as a player, the general manager and owners made their choice about what was going to happen with the team. They knew Rose would keep playing for his record, etc. It is not a smear on the integrity of baseball every time a manager or owner puts a player on the field who plays worse than some other choice they could have made.
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Ruth is untouchable. Shit man, not only did he play drunker than Freddy Garcia and Carlos Guillen, but he was also a pitcher who threw hard. What hitters today can say that?
Truth be told, the Sports threads on Slog always have good discussions and comments are fat.
I personally don't care about the personalities of the players when it comes to their achievements. I disliked Bonds years before he was home run king, and it didn't have anything to do with the sports columns because I didn't read them before the big home run derby year of 1998. I saw his showboat style a lot when I lived in Denver before I move to Seattle in 97 and didn't like him for that. But I sure respected him and won't take that away from him.
Problem is, it wasn't enough for him. He was jealous of the attention McGwire and Sosa were getting and wanted some of it for himself. Again, that's per the book Game of Shadows.
it's clear that what he did was unfair, and I for one don't want to see any of them in the Hall of Fame - not Bonds, not Sosa, not McGwire, not Palmiero. And that's not because of race or some sports hack's opinion.
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Why not vote your conscience in the primary and vote pragmatically in the general? Have we gone so far down the road of lesser-of-the-the-evils politics that you're worried about throwing your vote away in the primary?
Gravel 46
(you have no disagreements with this candidate)
Though all of the issues are important, the issues that are key for me, jobs, infrastructure, reducing crime, are not on the list. I guess these are considered local issues.
FWIW, I got the exact same results as ECB, though I suspect we differed on a few things.
I deduce you support No Child Left Behind. While it sounds like something we all need to support, the program has been largely an unfunded failure. Low performing schools are now doing all sorts of things to increase their test scores - very little of which has the goal of graduating a well-rounded, educated student. Teachers in Los Angeles, for example, now spend a majority of their day teaching to pass a standardized test. Critical thinking in that kind of environment goes out the window.
I want to believe the goal was praiseworthy, but ultimately its panned out to be more Wonder Bread from a nutritionally-deficient administration.
Gravel 31
I must be the only person in the world who thinks we should have a real border wall AND a path to citizenship for everyone already here.
Erica- If I remember correctly Obama was against the fence. Does that mean youre for a fence on the Mexican border?
I recall when the amendment for the fence came up in the last immigration bill, Obama and Cantwell voted against the fence. Am I mistaken?
Bauhaus, I think ECB's against NCLB because she and I agreed and disagreed with the same candidates pretty much.
I also had no disagreements with Gravel. Very weird. Why does Kucinich SUPPORT NCLB?
What disturbs me is how many of the "cool cats" are for the mother fucking patriot act. What the hell? That's really bothersome.
Gravel: 61, no disagreements. He comes off badly, but I have known he has the same stance as me on lots of things. Why does Clinton/Edwards support Iran military action?? WTF?
for me it goes:
Very interesting.
I think people just like the phrase "No Child Left Behind." How can you be against anything called that?
Why doesn't it include factors like, "He's a goddamn dick?" That would knock a few points of Kucinich right away.
Kucinich (he's a vegetarian!) was mine too. I supported him 4 years ago and I still think he rules.
But with viability it goes to Richardson all the way. I like him, his ideas, his centrist stances on key cross isle issues and his environmental record is better then anyone. Plus he has 4 Nobel peace nominations... who better to get us out of the war and back into dialog with the Muslim world?
No. 4: No, I'm against No Child Left Behind. Kucinich voted for it.
No. 6: Obama supports a fence along the border with Mexico.
Ooops. My bad, Erica. Sorry.
It's just on the recent Democratic debate Edwards et al. bad-mouthed NCLB. I didn't check voting records.
I feel informed.
I got negative 36 for Brownback and negative 70 for Hunter. I must hate the shit out of Hunter, whoever he is.
Wow. My list:
Kucinich (72)
Gravel (60)
Dodd (45)
Clinton (44)
Paul (4) Who I disagree with on just about everything, but still got a positive score.
And I must hate the shit out of Hunter too, whoever he is, he got a -72.
This was kind of a test of how you weighted your responses. I put in exactly the same agreement/disagreements as Erica (or so I surmise by having the exact same disagreements with candidates as her) but I got Obama right next to Clinton. Having already read her post though, I used the "key" button only for deal-breakers.
ALSO what affects Gravel and others, particularly Thompson, is having many issues on which they have no stated position. That's why Kucinich scores higher than Gravel despite having no disagreements with Gravel and one with Kucinich. I'm sure that's why Thompson, in the republican section, was up there with Giuliani and McCain for me, even though I hear he's a bigger fascist than them.
There is more to a candidate then simply issue positions. Experience, political skills, temperament, personality, pragmatism, etc are all important. Kucinich and pebbles, while perhaps ideologically sounds, are severely lacking in many of these regards.
The BORDER FENCE? Hillary, I'm comin' home.
kucinich. then gavel. hmmmm......
kooch, clinton, gravel...
ron paul got an 8, which is about right because i'm an isolationist, too.
for a second, i thought i agreed with Duncan Hunter, but it was a NEGATIVE 50.
The list is geared to produce a Kucinich result, whether they designed it that way or not. That's why something like 2/3 of the people taking it end up with him on top. There are no economic questions at all -- nothing on the deficit, nothing on taxes, capital gains, the Federal Reserve; and there's very little on foreign policy beyond Iraq and Iran. Those are the most important areas! Basically it's a list of hot-button moral issues.
You and me both, Erica.
But, remember, it won't matter since our caucus will be after most of the nation has already voted the previous week.
Well, actually, most will vote January 4th, since ballots go out January 2nd in most big states. And then counted in February.
sounds like you need to re-weight your preferences.
Kucinich 79
Gravel 72 (no disagree)
In the 30s, descending order:
Paul is actually positive, at 19. That's because of his ardent opposition to torture and wiretaps and so on.
The rest of the GOP field is negative, with Romney at -80.
I'm surprised Clinton is at the top of those who have electability and personality. All but Biden are grouped between 36-39, which shows there's not much difference between them, and they all fall short of ideal. But fnarf is right that economic policies were underrrepresented. I suspect that's why Edwards rates so low, even though my hunch is that he's the best of the top tier policy-wise. Paul would be negative if economic issues were included.
It's all well and good to discuss positions and nitpick about this or that policy. But really people, the ONLY yardstick that matters is which one of them can keep the inevitable whackjob Republican out of the White House. All the Dem candidates are a million times better than the likes of Giuliani, Rommey, fucking Fred Thompson...
Matthew: that's why I'm anti Hillary. I think Giuliani would beat her in the general if he gets it.
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When Dan Savage wrote this in Oct. 2002 he was saying that the death of children in the Iraq war was acceptable.
\"War may be bad for children and other living things, but there are times when peace is worse for children and other living things, and this is one of those times. Saying no to war in Iraq means saying yes to the continued oppression of the Iraqi people.\\\"
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This thread and article makes me angry and sad. There is something profoundly lame about Erica and the so called progressives like her. Explain to me why having the same beliefs as Gavel is Disturbing Erica? Watching intelligent progressives trying to rationalize their support for the Democratic party is like watching a battered wife make excuses for their asshole husband. What retarded the spirit of progressives in this country? What made apathy and the willingness to eat the bullshit capitulation Democratic party such a hallmark of American liberals? Papers like the Stranger.
Interesting result when I took the test: I'm all for a Universal Health Care program. It doesn't show any disagreement on that issue with Edwards, Clinton or many of the other candidates. While Edwards and Clinton may say they are for UHC, they have yet to propose such a program or it's funding. I call bullshit.
Who the hell is Gravel anyway? I'd say that generally this seems about right. And I would never vote for Kucinich or this unknown Gravel person. Richardson will be gone before I ever get a chance to cast a vote (but i'd support him for Veep ecspecally on a Hill & Bill ticket).
The forerunners are about even on this in terms of lining up with me on policy...so it will come down to nuances that cannot be measured in a simple poll. And we know people don't always vote based on who they agree with on policies.
Kucinich 53
Gravel 49
Richardson 32
Clinton 31
Edwards 31
Obama 30
Dodd 29
Biden 24
Giuliani -1
McCain -4
Paul -8
Thompson -14
Cox -31
Brownback -39
Huckabee -40
Hunter -50
Tancredo -50
Romney -51
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NOT TO BE OUTDONE by other news in the automotive sector this week, Intel has announced a major commitment to connected transportation with a number of updates to its automotive Internet of Things campaign.
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Research into driving experiences under the "Personal Vehicle Experience Research Project" will examine what people love and hate about driving and focus on how technology can be used to better serve that.
The "Local Experience of Automobility" (LEAM) project examines the driving patterns and habits of drivers in different continents to try and identify the individual challenges of each and try and avoid future tech becoming based around the driving needs of fifty-five-year old marketing executives from Silicon Valley.
The "Secure My Connected Car Research Project" will look at was that technology can defend hardware from theft and leverage Mcafee's Whitelisting software to ensure the car can't be hacked.
Doug Davis, corporate VP of Intel's IoT group said, "To further strengthen Intel's technology partnership with the automotive industry and prepare for the future, we are combining our breadth of experience in consumer electronics and enterprise IT with a holistic automotive investment across product development, industry partnerships and groundbreaking research efforts.
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Crowd sing-along was a Mardi Gras highlight
Published: Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 10:25 p.m.
Our float had the opportunity to lead the Krewe of Hyacinthians' parade as title float. Everyone along the parade route made it a wonderful experience. The weather and the crowds were outstanding. We also want to take a moment and thank everyone involved in getting our parade off the ground, especially law enforcement.
We were lucky enough to be parked in front of The Balcony in downtown Houma while our queen toasted her king. Our thanks go out to those in the crowd who participated in our Mardi Gras float sing-along. To hear young and old singing with us to "Delta Dawn" and "Keep on Smilin' " was memorable. It sounded like hundreds of voices singing together. We only can hope this was as special to those there as it was to us.
Keep on smiling, Houma, because you made us smile.
Laurie Hamner, float Captain
Jaimie Folse, Assistant Captain
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