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The Century's sort-by-lectionary-day tool
exists primarily as a way of organizing past Living by the Word columns
and Blogging toward Sunday posts in a useful way. But we also put other
content there--anything from the magazine or blogs that happens to deal
with a given lection in a way that could plausibly be useful to a
preacher or worship planner.
So, while our lectionary columnists
and bloggers mostly focus on Sundays, the lectionary pages have also
collected a good bit of content related to the additional holy days of
the (weekly) lectionary.
Yesterday was a long day. I'm now working not one but two part-time church-music jobs; I'm with the Lutherans by morning and the Methodists by night. Both congregations observe Palm/Passion Sunday, complete with numerous changes to the order of service, additional musical ensembles to plan and rehearse, etc.
Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about: An anti-bullying session for fifth-graders, a guide for avoiding sexist campaign coverage, more.
If you want to filter your/your child's movie viewing through some fairly granular rules about sex, nudity and profanity, the Motion Picture Assocation of America's rating system is your friend. If, like me, you have a weak stomach for depictions of violence--glorified or not, realistic or not--you kind of have to do your own research.
So, who's playing politics with reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act? Sen. Schumer and the Democrats, or Sen. Grassley and the Republicans?
probably both. Yes, Democracts would love to bolster the narrative that
Republicans don't care about women, even though Grassley et al. object
to new provisions added to the VAWA, not the existing law. And yes, by
threatening the whole bill based on objections to small parts of it,
some Senate Republicans (not all of them) reveal that while they may in
general favor services for domestic violence victims, it's not exactly a
top priority to them.
Of course both Senators Chuck are playing politics. That's their game, especially in leap years.
Bob Dylan released his first album 50 years ago this week. That
self-titled debut is not the Dylan record anyone listens to most--it
includes only two original tunes--and as Andy Greene details, it was not a smashing success. But it opened the door for Dylan to come back just months later and record The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which propelled Dylan's staggering career.
As I've said before, the objectivity-fetishizing conventions of straight
news reporting make me crazy. It's not just the odd philosophical
throwback of implying that reporters can somehow avoid writing as
particular people situated in particular contexts. It's also the
convoluted copy, in which even plain facts can't be stated plainly if
they happen to be unpopular.
So I was glad when NPR released its new ethics handbook,
in which among other things the network states that it favors "truth"
over "the appearance of balance" and adds that "if the balance of
evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we
acknowledge it in our reports."
I certainly don't hear from as many PR people as David Roberts does, but
when I do hear from them it tends to annoy me for most of the same
reasons it annoys him: no hyperlinks, buried ledes, missing background
info, generally little evidence that the sender knows what I do or cares
if I consider his or her pitch. I particularly enjoyed item #6 on his
list of tips.
Two similar pieces are getting a lot of play this week: James Whittaker's blog post about why he left Google and Greg Smith's op-ed about why he left Goldman Sachs. Both
talk of their high level of company loyalty and enthusiasm in the past.
Both bemoan the changes in their respective corporate cultures that led
them to leave. Neither seems all that hopeful about his company's
future.What neither of them does, however, is demonstrate that
the problem is that Google/Goldman Sachs used to care about more than
just making money but doesn't anymore.
I've heard the Century referred to as moderate, center-left, progressive, left-wing--all from some who meant these labels as compliments and others who very much did not. Here's one I have not heard before: the Century is a conservative magazine.
Michele Chabin reports that Israeli postal workers are refusing to deliver Hebrew-language New Testaments. Mark Silk asks an interesting question.
Colbert for the civil-libertarian win.
Once again, VIDA has tallied the byline gender gap at several magazines. Once again, the Atlantic and the New Yorker did not do well on this test, and Harper's and the New Republic did even worse.
Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.
My wife and I have been joking with our neighbors lately about TV ads that a
Super PAC supporting their cat, Kobie, might run against our cat, Owl.
Now Scott Simon's reporting on an ad someone actually made.
Christopher Shea highlights a new study that analyzes the effect of U.S. grain and soy subsidies on the American diet. The study's abstract leads with its contrarian, we're-taking-on-Michael-Pollan angle:
Many commentators have speculated that agricultural policies have
contributed to increased obesity rates in the United States, yet such
claims are often made without any analysis of the complex links between
real-world farm commodity support programs, prices and consumption of
foods, and caloric intake.
So, the Blunt amendment got killed in the Senate. And good riddance: you wouldn't know it from the L.A. Times's writeup, but the measure was a good bit broader than a reversal of the Obama administration's contraception mandate (which itself would have been nothing to celebrate). From the amendment text (pdf):
A health plan shall not be considered to have failed to provide the
essential health benefits package...on the basis that it declines to
provide coverage of specific items or services because...providing
coverage (or, in the case of a sponsor of a group health plan, paying
for coverage) of such specific items or services is contrary to the
religious beliefs or moral convictions of the sponsor, issuer, or other
entity offering the plan.
In other words, essentially a line-item veto of whatever the boss is morally opposed to, based on church teaching or otherwise.
So Bloomberg talked to some rich Wall Street types
about dealing with the impact of reduced bonuses. All populist
eye-rolling aside, I think this quote from Michael Sonnenfeldt--founder
of Tiger 21, a "peer-to-peer learning group for high-net-worth investors"--actually makes some sense:
Sonnenfeldt said [Tiger 21] members, most with a net worth of at
least $10 million, have been forced to "re-examine lots of
assumptions about how grand their life would be."
While they aren't asking for sympathy, "at their level, in
a different way but in the same way, the rug got pulled out,"
said Sonnenfeldt, 56. "For many people of wealth, they've had a
crushing setback as well."
Sure--you don't have to be destitute to experience the disappointment of unmet financial expectations.
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In an exclusive interview with Doug Van Dagens, Ford Motor Company's Director of Connected Services, at a CES 2010 press event
has been provided exclusive details on the upcoming successor to SYNC, dubbed MyFord Touch. There's a lot of exciting new features -- some which Ford has already discussed (portable customizations, smart phone app API, climate control, and mobile broadband), others that we received exclusive insight on (the new system's web browser and details on its text messaging scheme).
First the basics: MyFord Touch is powered by an 8-in. touchscreen display in the center stack and two smaller 4.2-in. LCD screens to the right and left of an analog speedometer. The LCD gauges can currently be found in the Ford Fusion Hybrid. In the new MyFord Touch, the left screen provides practical vehicle information like a tachometer and fuel gauge, while the right screen offers MyFord Touch menus.
Two five-way button thumbwheels on the steering wheel give the driver one means of interacting with MyFord Touch. The driver actually has three primary means of interacting with the system -- a VUI (voice user interface) which implements the system's famous voice commands, a TUI (touch user interface) via the center stack screen, and a GUI (graphic user interface) via the thumbwheel controllers.
The new system splits activities into four categories -- Phone, Climate, Navigation and Entertainment. Each of these categories is color coded, but you can reportedly freely customize the color selection. As the second heading implies, MyFord Touch will soon provide you with a digital means of controlling your car's heat and air conditioning.
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and take advantage of its voice commands. This could eventually enable streaming voice-controlled streaming internet radio apps or restaurant finder apps that allow you to select a type of food and selection by voice and then gives you directions.
Another new feature is settings portability. When you get a new MyFord Touch vehicle (or whatever its successor will be called), you can put your preferences -- color scheme, your radio presets, your music tags, your seat position, etc. -- on a USB stick or even on an SD card, via the new slot found in upcoming MyFord Touch vehicles. The system also brings refined voice commands (allowing complex selections like artist collaborations).
received exclusive information on another important feature of the upcoming system -- a browser. You can only use MyFord Touch's new browser when parked, but the proprietary (Ford designed) browser should be handy for mobile connectivity. The browser is built on WebKit, which forms the basis of Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers.
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Currently a handful of smart phone partners (Apple, RIM) have been announced. Google is likely soon going to be added to that list. Mr. Van Dagens hinted at that, stating, "I can't announce anything that our partners haven't announced yet."
He did give us details, though on Ford's progress with offering text messaging through the new system. In the new system you will be able to send one of fifteen canned text messages to your contacts. An update is coming to the system sometime this year which will allow you to customize these messages.
In summary, the new MyFord Touch looks like an incredibly exciting piece of technology and looks to continue to allows users to interact with their car in ways that users have only seen before in the movies. Ford isn't resting on the laurels of the system's success, instead it's aggressively driving ahead with new features. And that should provide its customers with a truly groundbreaking in-car experience -- a consumer infotainment system that surpasses that found on any competitor's car, including luxury models.
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RE: Finally a solution to this texting problem..
Who cares if Teens or Adults text more than the other? The point is, there are a lot of drivers out there who don't pay attention. I've seen just as many who put on makeup, shave, talk on the phone, mess around with the radio, read (for crying out loud), etc.
I would agree that younger drivers are more likely to abuse this or be affected by it (due to lack of experience or more agressive driving habits) as a percentage of their population, but "adults" make up such a large population of drivers that the actual numbers would support adults being the larger population of infringers.
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Quick Cubs Hits
- Sean Marshall will start Tuesday and Rich Harden will start Thursday. Letting Marshall start Tuesday means he'll likely get the start for the likely season finale on Sunday as well. Lou also said he won't be lightening any workloads for Harden or Zambrano this series. Pushing Harden to Thursday also means Lilly will get moved to a Saturday start.
Phil Rogers suggests this all means an NLDS rotation of Dempster, Harden, Zambrano and Lilly - a plan that I fully endorse. Rogers also provides some useful information that all four possible playoff opponents are less productive (judged by OPS) against right-handed pitchers than left-handed pitchers. Bruce Miles has some other thoughts on the rotation and Lou himself said he's not making any announcements until this weekend.
- Rogers also reports that Jason Marquis will likely head to the pen and a long relief role for the playoffs although there are no specific quotations attributed to anyone. For some reason, I thought he was left off of last year's playoff roster, but he was just bumped from the rotation.
- Congrats to Micah Hoffpauir and Mitch Atkins, the Cubs Minor League Hitter and Pitcher of the Year.
- The Cubs claimed outfielder Brad Snyder off waivers and designated Adam Harben for assignment. Snyder was the 18th overall pick in the 2003 draft.
- The Cubs made some changes to their AFL roster. Pitcher Justin Berg will go to the Venezuelan Winter Leagues instead and be replaced by righty Jessie Estrada. Also, catcher/infielder Steve Clevenger and infielder Esmailin Caridad have been added to the Mesa Solar Sox bringing the total Cubs players up to 8 (Tyler Colvin, Darwin Barney, Nate Spears, Donald Veal and Rocky Roquet being the other 5).
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Nor did i or the fiance... :(
but i did come across this...
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Nor did i or the fiance... :(
but i did come across this...
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Everything else that I've read says that Lou's decision to push back Harden is so that he can pitch game 2, and that probably Dempster would go game 1 at home, with Z pitching game 3. Lilly would start 4 and Dempster could come back for 5.
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"Right-hander Jason Marquis probably won't be in the rotation, but he's a virtual lock to make the playoff roster."
Slightly misleading. As a reliever presumably.
Rick Sutcliffe on Lou
IMO as much as I like Lou, Rick seems to give him a little too much credit.
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Agreed. Hard to believe all of those decisions eminated from Lou alone. Am sure Hendry et al had an influence.
Also, seems like Sheff has finally lost all clue.
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Hendry got smart all of a sudden when Dusty left and Lou arrived.
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"football coach syndrome" runs rampant through a lot of sports it shouldnt.
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The idea that we wouldn't pitch Z in game 1 is sickening. Winning the first game is very important and we need our best pitcher out there. Z is big game pitcher who pitched very well in game 1 last year.
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Chad's only saying this because Sammy Sosa isn't on our playoff roster. If he did, he'd be the clear bet for Chad's game 1 starter.
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Dempster is a better pitcher at Wrigley.
Truth: lower road whip and if you take away the one bad start against the W.Sox, his splits are even.
Truth: Started at Wrigley 20 times. Might account for all those home wins
Truth: Bad road run support
Z had a bad August. It's no surprise as he usually does. Then he turned it around in September in which he threw a game where the other team did not record one hit.
Z is a big game pitcher.
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Dempster has been a better pitcher than Zambrano all year. Harden has been a better pitcher than Zamrano all year.
And one good game in September does not equate with "turning it around."
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Zambrano in April/May: 7-1, 2.55
Dempster in April/May: 7-2, 2.76
Zambrano in June: 1-2, 5.68
Dempster in June: 2-1, 4.55
Zambrano in July: 4-1, 1.78
Dempster in July: 3-1, 1.99
Where Dempster has the clear edge is August/September, obviously. To say he's been "better all year long" isn't really accurate. We're kind of splitting hairs here.
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So they were basically the same in April/May and July, and Dempster was significantly better (based on ERA) in June, August, and September.
So based on the numbers you gave, Dempster has clearly been better this year, with Zambrano being as good in a couple of months.
Dempster- 2.99 ERA, 151 ERA+, 3.49 FIP, 1.21 WHIP, 16.8 pitching win shares, 55.2 VORP
Zambrano- 4.17 ERA, 120 ERA+, 4.50 FIP, 1.29 WHIP, 13.5 pitching win shares, 37.7 VORP
It really hasn't even been close as to who has been the better pitcher this year.
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Dave, you said Dempster has been better all year long. It's just not true. You want to say Dempster has been better since August, go ahead. I won't argue that.
You can't say Dempster has been better "all year long" and then say they were the same in April/May and June.
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Fair enough... I guess I should have said something like "Dempster has clearly been the Cubs best pitcher this year."
You may still argue that one, but it takes away the opportunity to use arbitrary markers to look at different segments of the season.
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I like how they're arbitrary when they contradict what you said and believe.
It's clear that Dempster had a marginally better June and a much better August and September (and, no small note, has been healthy all year). In no way was I arguing that he wasn't the best starter overall or not a good choice to start the first playoff game. However, the stats show, whether you like it or not, that Z was just as good at certain times this year.
It's also clear that you often can't have a disagreement without being condescending. At least there was no, "Um..." involved.
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I like how they're arbitrary when they contradict what you said and believe.
No - they are arbitrary because deciding to look at fragmented sections of a season, with very limited sample sizes in each fragment, is quite arbitrary. It has nothing to do with whether they contradict or confirm what I am saying.
It's clear that Dempster had a marginally better June
Marginally? His ERA was over a run better. That is significant.
However, the stats show, whether you like it or not, that Z was just as good at certain times this year.
Huh? Why would I not like that? I already said that they were equally good for two of the months.
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in 2004 August was his worst month era wise
and 2003 is was terrible in august. 5.86 is quite good?
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His 2003 August ERA was 1.18.
His 2002 August ERA was 5.86, but that is pretty irrelevant, being that it was his rookie year, and it was his second month as a starter in the bigs.
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Anyone see this horseshit? http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/09/wrigley...
Ald. Tom Tunney is trying to get Wrigleyville bars to stop alcohol sales after the 7th inning.
How ridiculously absurd. Yeah, these bars that are only profitable because of the Cubs should stop selling basically their only product at ~9PM. Great idea, you jerkoff.
The fact that the ballpark has to stop selling in the 7th is bad enough. Because some douche gets in a fight or drives away drunk means the other 99.9% of us can't have fun. Politicians need to force people to take responsibility for their own actions and stop trying to pass ridiculous laws that take away our personal liberties "for our own good."
Give me Old Style or give me death!
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it'll never fly.
we're talking about a neighborhood with so much pull they have (numerous times) battled a corporate giant in the Trib. Co. and made out pretty damn well.
all these people that don't belong in the neighborhood moving in and trying to change the rules mid-game.
ranks up there with people moving out to rural areas and complaining about farmer's equipment and animals...or moving near an airport and trying to get flight patterns changed...
besides...that area is a walking area...no one's gonna converge 10,000 cars deep in that area to get out and party.
how about keeping the trains open a little longer...encourage public transport and keep the area around the stadium walking area...meh...
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we're talking about a neighborhood
The bars and the neighborhood are two very different constituencies.
how about keeping the trains open a little longer...encourage public transport and keep the area around the stadium walking area...meh...
Huh? The Red Line runs all night. The 22 (Clark) bus runs all night. Several other area bus lines run all night.
Taxis also obviously run all night.
Lack of available public transit is not a problem around Wrigley.
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didnt know the red line ran all night.
and the neighborhood thing is what's pushing most of these complaint issues...the night game issue...the "everyone is pissing in my yard" complaints...the noise stuff...
and the bars/businesses i consider part of the neighborhood even if they tend to be pro-people.
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crunch... the neighborhood doesn't want noise, pissing in the yard, etc.
open bars = obnoxious people, loud people, people pissing in the yard, etc.
get it?
the neighborhood and the bar owners tend to be opposed to each other.
put it this way - it sure isn't the bar owners who don't want more night games.
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"and the bars/businesses i consider part of the neighborhood even if they tend to be pro-people."
we're saying the same things...just a semantics roadblock
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I agree that it is stupid, but a couple of fact checks.
1 - It does not appear that this is Tunney's idea, and he is not the one "trying" to get it done.
2 - As Rob mentioned, it would ONLY be for games where the Cubs/Sox could win a series.
3 - It appears to be "voluntary."
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Next thing you know Blue Laws will go into effect during the entire game. Martial law will be declared. Dogs and Cats living together!
This is nothing big--just Chicago's BS MO.
The bars will fight this big time. They're asking bars to give up significant income. I doubt anything will come of this.
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We all know what happened in Chicago, the last time there was Prohibition. lol
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With the strength of this rotation, you could start Dempster, Harden or Z in any order and it's pretty formidable. The "Z is a headcase" stuff is overrated to me in general and even more so in this case. It's not like he's gonna pout himself into a bad outing.*
*Disclaimer: That doesn't mean he might not pitch badly anyway. It's not his psyche that'll be an issue.
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The "ban" is voluntary, so there's really nothing to fight. No bar will do it. If anything they'll offer 7th-inning specials.
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No can do. You can only run alcohol specials all day. No happy hour allowed in Chicago.
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That may be a law, but it's definitely not enforced and a ton of bars offer happy hour specials (or just random specials during the night). Case in point, Redmond's (Sheffield & Roscoe) usually offers a 2-for-1 Jager Bomb special about 3 times a night. It's almost like a strip club, where the DJ gets on the mic and announces, "2 for 1 Jager Bombs for the next 10 minutes only!"
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They'll lose their liquor license if they're ever found out. It's definitely enforced if the city knows about it. Trust me on this one.
The reason why they're only announcing it as opposed to advertising it is that they're trying to minimize risk.
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I don't know about this. Pretty much all the Bar1 bars (Durkin's, Redmonds, McGee's, Duffy's, Wrightwood Tap) have happy hours that are advertised at the bar and on their website.
From the Durkin's website:
"Durkin's is the happiest place in Chicago on Friday nights! Every Friday night we host our classic Happy Meal, but we're changing to time a little for summer! Our $15 meal package now includes a pizza and wing buffet, all drafts and vodka lemonades from 6-10pm."
If that doesn't count as a happy hour, then I don't know what is.
I found some stuff online about some supposed ordinances stating that liquor couldn't be priced differently throughout the day, but probably 90% of the bars I've ever been to in the city do this. Maybe the loophole is having a package deal (e.g. $10 for all you can drink for 3 hours).
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They're making a meal package. That's not a happy hour. A happy hour is a time based discount on alcoholic beverages.
You are correct that this is a loophole.
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I was in Chicago last week, and one of the major bars in wrigleyville had a sign with a different happy hour offer each day...it was on the outside of the bar, and the sign had clearly been there for a while.
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Was it a different special each day? That's not illegal if it's all day long.. The Illinois Liquor Commission does not allow for the reduced price sale of an alcoholic beverage during a specific period of time during the course of a day.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here but wasn't Wrigleyville relatively well behaved last Saturday?
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Other than some jerkoff yelling at me for knocking over his trash cans and pissing in his yard. I thought the Neighborhood was fine.
Playoff Pool?
I have a slightly-used recent scorecard pencil I'd be willing to put up as a prize, ROB G, for a PL. Roster Pool.
IS the majority at TCR of the opinion that Ward will be chosen over Hoff-Power? As of Today when I looked, in 94 AB's, he has 21 hits w/a SLG. of .394. He won a game for us, yes.
Micah, in 54 AB's, has 19 hits. .444 SLG
IT would seem, based on the total pitcher numbers of course,that one of Pie, Hoffpaiur, and Ward are not going to make it.
What say ye? Could Lou EVER go with a "rookie" LH PH bat? Or will Ward, "turn it around."?
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Ward may not have been great this year, but late in a tight game I want the veteran.
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I can envision Ward being the 2008 Model of the Randall Simon 2003 vintage. Few at bats, but one swing could change the game.
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I sure as hell hope he goes with Hoffpauir over Pie. Pie's only value that I can see is as a pinch runner. If Marquis is included we don't need Pie (I'm only half kidding).
Re: Playoff Pool?
Someone tell me what purpose Ronny Cedeno serves in a game where he doesn't start--other than pinch running, which Pie can do. If Cedeno is supposed to be a fielding upgrade at second, he didn't look like it on that Delgado grounder in the ninth yesterday.
Cedeno is the weak link right now. In a playoff game in which R. Johnson starts, the righty PH'er off the bench will be Cedeno or Blanco, and Blanco is the backup catcher so Lou won't want to burn him.
Re: Playoff Pool?
Well... Cedeno is the best defensive middle infielder on the team, by far. But you are right, that one play from yesterday means that he sucks defensively.
He also brings speed. He also is the only real backup SS on the team.
As soon as Pie can play SS, he may be more valuable than Cedeno for this current team.
And, FWIW, some second half numbers comparing Cedeno with the Cubs' starting SS:
Theriot: .272/.358/.332 OPS: .690
Cedeno: .290/.338/.377 OPS: .715
Re: Playoff Pool?
Fun with stats.
Here's a stat: Cedeno had 35 hits in the 1st half, 20 (now 21) in the 2nd. Fewer at bats, sure. I wonder why? Four (now five) extra base hits in the second half. Probably three of them were bloop doubles down the RF line.
Cedeno has tools, including power and speed, but he doesn't use them. One stolen base in the second half.
Why do you need a backup shortstop in the playoffs, unless you're planning to rest the starter? DeRosa and Fontenot can both play short in an emergency. If Theriot gets hurt, Cedeno can be activated the next day.
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Cedeno had 35 hits in the 1st half, 20 (now 21) in the 2nd. Fewer at bats, sure. I wonder why?
Seriously? You are quoting the number of hits as something that is meaningful for a backup player?
Four (now five) extra base hits in the second half. Probably three of them were bloop doubles down the RF line.
Really? You want to talk extra base hits? In the second half, Cedeno had 5 extra base hits in 74 at-bats (1 ever 14.8 at-bats). Theriot has 10 in 217 (1 in every 21.7 at-bats).
Re: Playoff Pool?
I don't see why everyone gets so worked up over these 2 guys. It seems like everybody loves one of them and hates the other. They're basically the same player, give or take a little speed here, power there.
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I want the pitcher who we can trust the most to give solid efforts in game 1 and 5. That's Dempster...he may not scare the heck out of anyone, but he's consistent and solid, and can get us into the 8th inning.
Z is capable of throwing a brilliant shutout...but he's also capable of losing his head and blowing his top. That worries me.
I thought Z had grown up a lot this year. I thought he had grown out of his mental collapses. Unfortunately, I don't think he has...and when we have another solid starter, let's go with that.
I do think starting Lilly ahead of Z and Harden would be really dumb though.
I'd like to see:
Dempster, Harden, Zambrano, Lilly
I do not want to see:
Dempster, Lilly, Zambrano, Harden
Re: Quick Cubs Hits
2007 NLDS Game 1: 6 ip (pulled cause Lou is an idiot) 1h 1 er 1 bb 8 ks.
You can call sample size. I call him a gamer.
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Do you still stick with Z if he is no better than mediocre tomorrow?
Giving him basically 1 good start in his last 8 appearances?
It's a challenge for Lou...Z has about double the ERA of any of the other 4 pitchers in August and September this year, including the no hitter. I don't personally think you can send Z out there for game 1 after his rough stretch, because of 1 great game.
If Z pitches a great game tomorrow, I'd be more comfortable going with him for game 1..but I'd still stick with Dempster no matter what.
It would be Nice if we went into the playoffs with Z pitching like he did in Apr-July. Unfortunately, we don't...and so we have some question marks.
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there is a lot more than just the stats from tomorrow's game.
I would look at velocity, movement and location. If those things seem right, that's all i need to know that he's good to go.
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Another advantage to starting Dempster in game 1, is that the Mets won't have seen him anytime recently.
OF course, it's a different story if the Brewers pass the Mets.
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I don't want to be accused of being a Chadball follower, but I agree with this one. I believe that when we've REALLY needed the big guy to come out and pitch well, he's done it. Yes, he's struggled this at times year, a lot like he did last year and a lot like he does at times every year.
I believe I recall having a similar conversation at this time last year. People were scared about throwing him in Game 1 because he'd had a rough August - 7.06 ERA. But, he came back with a 3.44 in September and a solid start in the playoffs when we needed him. Yeah, the guy blows up every now and again, and I sure do wish he'd take some random game in July as seriously as he takes the one we REALLY need to win, but I'll sure take him on that must win day over almost anybody.
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2 big differences in 2007 versus 2008.
2007, Z was far and away the best pitcher on the team...Lilly was a clear number 2. This year we have 3 really good pitchers.
2007, Z did come back with a good September. This year, he had one brilliant start, and one total implosion, and an injury to boot.
Personally, I think the pitcher we face in game 1 is going to be more important than the pitcher we put on the mound. I trust that Z, Demp or Harden could give us a solid outing and keep us in the game. The question becomes if we can score runs.
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2007, Z was far and away the best pitcher on the team
Actually, not really.
At the end of the year Z, Hill, and Lilly all had almost identical numbers, and pitched at eerily similar levels all year.
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This is why no one pays attention to me here.
But my point is still the same. Z was the #1 pitcher last year, and all else being equal, it wasn't a surprise that the #1, #2 and #3 pitchers in the playoffs were the same as the #1, #2, #3 in the regular season.
All is not equal this year though, as Dempster's numbers are head and shoulders above Z's, and Harden is up there too.
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Dempster is definitely the best choice for a solid outing in the first game. Z gets the second start. Hopefully we don't need to use the bullpen much until game three. I put the over/under on innings Harden pitches at 5 and 2/3.
And, if its the Mets...
What are our chances against Santana in Game 1? Unless he throws 125 pitches, it is not likely we'd get to their shitty pen this game.
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Now THAT is a bit more encouraging. I didn't know.
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I would really like to see a Z vs. Santana battle in game 2. It would pacify Z's ego since there's a good reason to put him up against the Mets' ace and it allows us a greater likelihood of taking game 1 without too much bullpen use. Z in game one raises the tension level for everyone, fans and teammates alike. I'd like to see us not entering freak out mode in the first game of the NLDS.
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and let us not forget the National pride that Z would want to claim if he bested Santana too.
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It's not just our bullpen tiring that worries me. Our bullpen is definitely our weakest link. Our risk for loss and the all important "disappointment factor" goes way up. Harden is great, but if we lose game 1 and he starts game 2, I'd assume that our bullpen would provide us with a certain amount of crushing disappointment that is more likely to get in the players' heads. It's harder to come back from a Game 6, 2003 disaster than a normal loss. Maybe I'm still just suffering from Dusty-era hangover.
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I had a response all typed up, but I'd rather give up than continue the argument. Now that's arbitrary.
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Harden is the best pitcher the Cubs have? I thought I read that Dempster was clearly the best pitcher this year. I hope someone can clear this up.
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And it is me being condescending? Interesting.
FWIW, I said that Dempster has been the Cubs best pitcher all year. That would be hard for Harden to be, being that he wasn't on the Cubs for half of the season.
Harden has the best stuff on the team, and when he pitches he is the best pitcher that the Cubs have in terms of pure stuff and ability to dominate.
But he also has somewhat of an inability to go deep into games, and somewhat of an inability to pitch every 5 games.
If I need to win one game, and could pick any Cubs starter, I would pick Harden.
And right now, I would take both Dempster and Harden over Z.
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Actually, Dave, I was being facetious, not condescending. And yes, I knew what you meant, and I knew what Rob meant.
(FWIW, even if I was being condescending, it doesn't change that you often are.)
But in all seriousness, I agree with you, Dave...I would pick Dempster and Harden as #1 and #2 for the playoffs. It just goes to show how strong the rotation is if you have Z as a #3 (instead of, say, Rich Hill).
All I took issue with was your notion that Z didn't stack up with Dempster for the most part. It was a matter of semantics to a degree, and I don't disagree with your larger point about Dempster.
Fair enough?
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Fair enough.
Should we kiss and make up? :)
(and, FWIW, 2007 Rich Hill, was arguably just as good as Z has been in 2008, overall)
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What, am I Chad now?
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Do you have a mullet?
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I want Zambrano and Harden to pitch the most. I agree with Mr Whipple that Dempster is the most likely to have a solid outing. However, the playoffs are not about solid, they are about dominant. In the best of worlds, the Cubs opponents leave Chicago down 2-0 having seen only 4 pitchers--Z, Harden, Marmol, and Wood, and they might be thinking "how the hell are we ever going to get a hit off of these guys let alone a run?"
I don't think opponents fear, or don't look forward to hitting against Dempster (I always thought that when he was a closer,too). He gets/got people out, but the batters (in my world, at least) walked away thinking, "I'll get him next time". Not so much against Z, Harden, Marmol, and KW.
Maybe Wes, or somebody else who played something more serious than Little Leauge and intramurals can chime in on this...but it seems to me that there's value in how you beat somebody. Guys some times defeat themselves before they pick up the bat. Z and Harden are the Cubs starters most likely to do that.
Just my opinion.
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Dempster at Shea....bad memories from last year. Very bad memories.
Not sure of the order, but I would go with Z and Dmepster at home (the two crowd favorites, with Z getting the most lift from the home crowd) and Lilly (who seems to have guts and has experience) and Harden (best pure stuff) at Shea.
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Is "guts" greater than, less than, or equal to "grit"?
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"Is "guts" greater than, less than, or equal to "grit"?"
Guts is equal in value to grit. However, it is not the same thing as grit. They are two different, distinct qualities that are, nonetheless, equal in value to each other.
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2nd in defensive WAR, NL.
6th in NL in RBI
Go complain about something else, like, "they never play good against the good teams", or some other shit.
Addy really has trouble breaking through .250 BA -- after his hot streak got him to .251, he has gone 1-for-17.
Thank goodness for Jansen's 2 WP on Friday -- otherwise this would have been a sweep.
There seems to be a direct correlation with overconfidence in the Cubs offense against mediocre/young pitchers and really poor offense against mediocre/young pitchers. So, let's fear the Pirate pitchers!
Rizzo due for a power surge -- one HR in August so far. He truly does hit them in bunches.
Sometimes I'm not as supportive of Cahill as maybe I should be. There, I said it.
Rough 8th inning all around -- HBP, Cahill error, Javy's poor decision.
Oh well - given that the Cubs didn't look like they were going to score, it's better to lose in 9 innings, save the bullpen and get changed for the PJ trip home.
Baez still learning
heyward with his 3rd multi-hit game since the all-star break (all in august)...2nd in the past 3 games during his 7 game hitting streak.
he's gone from flirting with a sub-.300 ob% to nearing .310 ob% in 3 games (1 game was just a 1 for 1 pinch hit appearance). all 5 hits in the past 3 games have come in a row...neat.
stewart with 7Ks through 3ip...of course.
that 10-13 mph difference in his fastball/change is working today...and they're swinging at his crappy slider.
brock stewart...steven brault...fun times for the cubs hitters vs allegedly competitive teams...maybe.
Maddon would have started three lefties against the Dodgers, Montgomery, Zastryzny and Lester, except that he doesn't have the juice to do that. No manager does. Maddon has a boss, Epstein (and probably Hoyer, too), who gave him a starting rotation of five guys including Hammel. Maddon was asked yesterday about the starting group for next year and basically said, Not my call, that's why I drive away in my RV in the summer and occasionally check in, etc.
video of Maddon.
always nice that he actually tries to honestly answer questions. Does mention that he wanted to give Zastr? a chance in a meaningful spot rather than a mop-up role.
from Muskat:
#Cubs Maddon: "I'm not going to make up an excuse for why I did what I did. It has nothing to do with lack of confidence" ... "It was the right thing to do today based on what I saw, what their lineup looked like and Rob Z.'s availability." #Cubs
Hammel not particularly understanding of getting pulled out...as he should. Be curious what Maddon had to say. All I can think of is is keeping arms fresh and maybe wanting to see if Zastr? is worth considering for the playoffs and how he'd do against the Dodgers.
great defense
Heyward, Russell, Baez, Bryant, Ross in particular...although Bryant's a bit hard to judge with all the positions.
Fowler and Rizzo in the top half of the NL for their positions as well (per fangraphs)...Zobrist right at the halfway cutoff for 2b in the NL.
I'm sure some luck is involved too, but the Cubs and Maddon knew what they were doing.


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We're now going to take a look at the Restoration palette. What does is it enables me to bring back some of the original imagery that was in our source image and I've got that opened up again. This is the image we went through and did some underpainting, and controlled the Color Space a little bit. So now I want to take the image that I created earlier and actually use the Restoration palette with it. This opens up an interesting little piece of information you need to know is how do I reestablish a connection between a source and a destination image so that I can do this kind of work? Let's go up here and I'm going to go back and I'm going to open the autopaint_finish image.
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Today Detroit has 600,000 people. GREAT JOB GM. Motor city turned to slums!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chrysler was the really big operator in Detroit. GM had some operations in the Detroit area; Cadillac,
headquarters, GM Tech (I believe was in Warren--maybe it still is.) Flint was dominated by GM and has
really gone down the tube--according to some of my neighbors who still have ties to the area. Ford
dominated the south side: Dearborn.
" Flint was dominated by GM and has really gone down the tube--according to some of my neighbors who still have ties to the area."
Your neighbors are correct. Two strikes drove GM out of Flint. The first one was the Buick City/Powertrain strike in 1994. Local 599 went on strike for more jobs and the elimination of subcontracting at Buick City and the adjoining Powertrain plants. The second was the 1998 strike by Locals 659 and 651 at the Flint Metal Fab plant. This strike was a huge mistake on the part of the union, in an earlier contract the union had agreed to end 'pegged' production rates in return for additional part allocations. Management meet their obligations, the union did not. The only thing that the ended the strike was GM filed a grievance to the NLRB saying it was an illegal strike. The union knew it was and capitulated before the arbitrator ruled. If the arbitrator had found against the union, it would have cleared the way for GM to sue the union for the cost of the strike and it would have broken the union.
I was intimately involved in one of these strikes and I can assure you it was the final straw that nearly eliminated the UAW in Flint, and unfortunately, the city as well. Because the union knew it was in trouble, part of the deal was that issues in many other plants not connected with the strike went away also. After that the UAW settled down a bit, but it was too late...the damage was done.
BTW, yes, the Tech Center is still in Warren (which borders Detroit) and is bigger than ever. A few years ago a new Vehicle Engineering Center Building (commonly called the VEC) was completed.
Well, let's see. Smartie pants had far more brain cells at birth than he has today. Thanks to years binging on the bottle, he's got only maybe half now and with no way of recovering those lost cells.
Detroit at least can experience a revival.
Wow......that is a really funny post.
Just goes to show that unions are only good for ACTIVE members. They destroy everything for everyone else.
Detroit's population and GM's financial/sales success are diverging metrics and have nothing to do with each other.
Take your #$%$-whining over to the Detroit message board. Please search for it and whine there...
Sentiment: Buy
You just take the cake sometimes. The extent of your delusional psychosis is far worse than even I thought, and I thought you were totally nutso.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
'have nothing to do with each other.'
You have got to be kidding us........you are stupid, but you can't be this stupid.


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Is this a bug or working as designed? When I delete a comment from the native comment system in wordpress, I expect it should be synced with - deleted from - disqus as well...
Is this a bug or working as designed? When I delete a comment from the native comment system in wordpress, I expect it should be synced with - deleted from - disqus as well...
That's by design since the plugin doesn't regularly export your WordPress comments to Disqus. Exporting from WP to Disqus is a manual operation -- "syncing" (as it's referred to in the plugin) only copies comments from Disqus to WordPress.
Note that exporting from WP to Disqus again, however, won't change the comment's status since the comment will be seen as a duplicate and therefore skipped.
Feel free to reach out at http://disqus.com/support with any further questions.
I just noticed this as well ... but.... why should this ever happen? Once the plugin is installed, doesn't *everything* go through Disqus? I'm worried now that things are happening in two places ... should i be?
Nick, Dirk's issue was that he was moderating via WordPress' native comment admin rather than the Disqus admin within WordPress, e.g., WP > Comments > Comments rather than from WP > Comments > Disqus. Again, to re-iterate, moderation actions need to be performed via Disqus and not WordPress as moderation actions are not synced back to Disqus if they're performed in WordPress. Let me know if I can help clarify anything further.\
What about the other way around? Moderated/deleted/edited comments should sync back to the local db, but I don't think they are, which is a pretty big deal.
That would require checking every single comment's status in the Disqus forum and then cross-referencing that with the status of each comment in the WP db. This requires a highly non-trivial amount of processing. That said we would like to do something similar to this in the long run so we're always investigating methods to see if we can find something truly efficient which wouldn't negatively impact your database or server.
If you anticipate you'll be changing the status of comments after they're synced to WP we'd recommend disabling automatic sync or changing the cron to run at a less-often interval.
Tyler, well, for SEO purposes and for browsers without JS enabled, the cached comments from the local db will be displayed. Then comments that are spammed or asked by people to be deleted (say, their private info was posted by accident), etc - they're all going to stick around in that form.
I'm not sure why you think it will take a huge amount of processing at all - in fact, the solution is pretty trivial. All edits and moderation is done on DISQUS. So, DISQUS can keep track of comments that are touched in any way and keep a queue that the site would then pull via cron and sync back to the local db. So instead of only new comments, that queue would also support updating old ones, marking them as spam or trashed, as well as unspamming and untrashing. This approach is far more flexible than maintaining a number in the local database of the last post id.
Thoughts on the above?
There's currently no way for our system to know if a sync was instantiated, if it was successful in your WP installation itself, and if you haven't also additionally moderated those comments in WP, to name a few factors. Like I said we're definitely thinking about how to do this; the key here is we want to do it right, from the beginning. If you are able to whip up any technical solution on your end don't hesitate to forward it our way at http://disqus.com/support and we'd be happy to look into including it in the plugin. You can also fork the plugin at https://github.com/disqus/disqus-wordpress and make pull requests directly too.
This is me, Artem, from AndroidPolice.com btw. Afraid the technical solution would require access to the backend as well (and lots of time to do this right, which I'll leave to your developers). As this is something that's not supported right now, what's the best strategy to sync these from time to time (force overwriting of posts in the local db, let's assume the local DB won't be touched otherwise) or to sync up the comments if we ever need to leave DISQUS? I wouldn't want to be stuck in a situation where I'd have months or years of unmoderated, unedited, uncurated data all over again and be forced to attach to DISQUS.
I do hope for a correct solution to this implemented that'd solve the main issue here retroactively, but in the meantime, could you please answer the above?
So if I want to just use Disques to store comments and not in my local Database can I do it?
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a liitle history-i had meniscus surgery on my left knee on august 6-2008-again on oct 13-2008- acl repair(patella tendon) left knee on jan 27-and then broke me left knee patella (kneecap) on feb 12-2009
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my question-when can i start doing sprint and half triathlons again-the mds are great-but get differing opinion-just wanted 3rd 4th and 5th opinions-
i started out fit before the surgeries and also ama 51 yr old woman -was wanting to do the savageman half in maryland on sept 20th-but unsure if its too soon--
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When you say Half, do you mean Half Iron Man? If so, there is virtually no way you can be ready for that if you can currently only do minimal distances. A general rule is you lose 3-4% of your endurance per week and it gets worse after about a month of inactivity. You need to talk to your doctor about specific requirements to get well. Its more important to get well and not re-injure your self than to push too far and risk being out for more than one season.
Sounds like you just want someone to tell you what you want to hear.
You should listen to the orthopedist, he outranks the PT and the rest of us.
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as they say denial is not a river in egypt!!patience is best---thanks again
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I know that brand perceptions and other biases play a big factor, so I knew that a regular tasting wouldn't cut it. So we decided to do a double-blind taste test so neither of us would know which beer was which when we were tasting them.
The Lineup
I started with a list of the top 20 best-selling beers (sorry, it's a slideshow, but that's the list I used). Then I went to a couple of local convenience stores to see which ones I could actually find in single cans (I cheated a little and bought a 4-pack of PBR because of the hipster factor). And for good measure, I included Cigar City's Hotter Than Helles as a "control" beer that I have actually drunk on purpose, and found decent. So I wound up with all of the top 6 beers, plus a smattering of other top 20 beers — I've added their sales ranking and brewery ownership:
- Bud Light (#1, AB-InBev)
- Coors Light (#2, MillerCoors)
- Budweiser (#3, AB-InBev)
- Miller Lite (#4, MillerCoors)
- Natural Light (#5, AB-InBev)
- Corona Extra (#6, AB-InBev/Constellation)
- Heineken (#10, Heineken)
- Miller High Life (#11, MillerCoors)
- Natural Ice (#14, AB-InBev)
- Pabst Blue Ribbon (#17, Pabst)
- Cigar City Hotter Than Helles (unranked, Cigar City)
Price is not a big factor for me when I choose my beer. But I found it interesting to see the price differentiation. The beer cost about $28 total. At the high end, a 6-pack of Hotter Than Helles cost $11 ($1.83/can), the singles cost $13.50 ($1.50/can most of them were $1.19/can, and a few were $2/can because they were 24 oz.), and a 4-pack of PBR cost $3.60 (90¢/can). And the Hotter Than Helles cans were 12 oz., as opposed to the 16-24 oz. cans at the convenience stores. The PBR would probably be closer to the other singles if it wasn't in a multi-pack.
I had two main goals for the tasting process: taste a lot of beers to get a broad sample, and avoid knowing which ones were which. I also wanted Wind and I to be tasting the same beers at the same time, so we could discuss them as we went. So we came up with this process:
- We rounded up all the taster and juice glasses in the house. We had 11 beers, so we had to dig into the high cabinets to get 22 small glasses.
- Wind left the room while I gave each beer a number (the slips of paper in the photo above), poured two glasses, and wrote down the beer-to-number mapping.
- I left the room and Wind replaced the numbers with randomized letters, wrote down the number-to-letter mapping, and rearranged the beers in order by their letter.
- We tasted the beers and rated/ranked them.
- We then consulted our mappings to figure out which beer was which.
The first thing we noticed was the color, or rather lack thereof. Looking at the table full of tasting glasses, the color differences were minimal, and mostly attributable to the glasses or lighting. So we're definitely talking about pale yellow fizzy stuff.
The second thing we noticed was that there were actually differences between the beers. Some had a very pronounced lager twang, but others didn't. Some of them had a little aroma, but others had absolutely none. Some had honey-like sweetness or even a touch of maltiness, while others had basically no taste at all. Some were very highly-carbonated or astringent like wheat, while others were smooth and clean.
By the time we were half-way through, it was obvious we were not going to agree on ranking the beers. In particular, I rather liked the beer that wound up being PBR and found Bud Light to be middling, but Wind hated both of them.
That said, we were in complete agreement that Heineken was clearly the worst (which is pretty amusing since back in the days when we didn't particularly like beer, Heineken was the main beer we did drink). We also agreed on most of the bottom tier, too: Natural Light, Miller Lite, and Coors Light.
We also mostly agreed on the top of our rankings: 4 of our top 5 were the same, though in different orders: Corona, Budweiser, Hotter Than Helles, and, surprisingly, Natural Ice. It was somewhat reassuring that we both included Hotter Than Helles in our favorites, though it's worth noting that neither of us could pick it out of the lineup, and neither of us ranked it higher than third place. This definitely confirmed my suspicion that a blind tasting was needed here.


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I had to plead guilty and was sentenced to probation. Since then, I have completed all requirements set by probation and payed ALL fines. My current career requires me to relocate to another state.
I have been assigned Rose Ann Bisch with the Minnesota Interstae Compact nit to over see my transfer. At first, she declined my request since she decided I "didn't have a job" waiting in the receiving state. This was even after providing her with a letter from my employer and current check stubs from my job. I had an officer call her and set that straight.
She ended up sending the paperwork to the receiving state. I was accepted by the receiving state however Minnesota was never contacted regarding the acceptance. I did some research and called and emailed the receiving state inquiring as to why I have been accepted and that Rose Ann Bisch from Minnesota ISC told me I "was not" accepted.
The receiving state ended up calling Rose Ann and they had a heated battle over me. She ended up making them "decline" my request for transfer due to my career leaving the state of Minnesota.
I had an "alcohol" violation. I have nothing else on my record. This Rose Ann is corrupt and taking orders from the crooked trooper that has a personal problem with myself, even though my police report states I was "highly cooperative"... My rights are being violated in a MAJOR way. I have completed all of the demands that the offence created and did them very timely. I only want to be able to continue my career which is moving to another state. This type of corruption is uncalled for. Abuse of authority is the major problem here. I was also told by Rose Ann that I can NEVER contact anyone involved with my case, not even "her".... More rights violations... It's obvious she doesn't want the corruption exposed. Beware of Minnesota Interstae Compact Unit. I am going Federal on this one!!
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