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Back from the Dark Ages
I'm back to being connected to the Internet world, I'm not sure if that's good or bad. While I certainly do miss whatever brilliant, well-crafted snark is coming from the comments, it was kind of nice to be untethered from the digital world.
As for the weekend, the Cubs pulled out 2 of 3 wins from the New York Mets - and with the Rockies getting swept - sneak to 5.5 back in the Wild Card. Important thing to remember here is they managed to score one run versus Nelson Figueroa and couldn't sweep a team missing David Wright, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, John Maine, or J.J Putz. Zambrano, who seems to be getting advice from Alfonso Soriano on how to play with injuries and hurt your team, got lit up for 11 hits and 3 earned runs and couldn't make it out of the 4th against the Buffalo Bisons lineup. Color me unimpressed...
The Astros show up tonight and Michael Barrett's favorite ace takes the mound - Roy Oswalt. The Cubs counter with Rich Harden, who along with Aaron Heilman, did not get traded by today's deadline. I didn't really think the Twins would give up anything to grab Harden, they're just not a team to cough up prospects, but why Aaron Heilman is still wasting space is unfathomable.
Theriot, Bradley, Lee, Ramirez, Fukudome, Fox, Baker, Hill go tonight.
Some minor league and roster move info after the jump...
- Minor league post-season All-Star rosters are being announced. The Cubs didn't place anyone in Triple A, 1b Blake Lalli (787 OPS, 5 HR, 51 RBI...shrug) made the Double A Southern League roster, and C Robinson Chirinos (only played a little over half a season in Hi-A) and SS Starlin Castro made the Hi-A Florida State League team.
- The playoff push continues for the minor league affiliates. Iowa is tied for second with Nashville and they both trail Memphis by a half game. Iowa is riding a 5-game win streak and Nashville and Memphis square off for the next 3 games. The season ends next Monday. Tennessee and W. Tennessee remain tied and play the last 5 games of the year against each other (7 left total). Peoria has already clinched a playoff spot in the Midwest League and can clinch the division with a win tonight.
- Muskat says Iowa will have to win without Micah Hoffpauir, Justin Berg, and Andres Blanco, all of whom will get called up tomorrow when rosters expand. David Patton will join the team on Wednesday. Expect another 3-4 more call-ups as well before the month is over.
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no ninja? cold.
well, i guess someone has to pitch that last week+ in AAA during Sept.
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20 up and 20 down for Petite then a a grounder to Harriston the lesser...oopps.
Drugs will ruin your life
Before game Lou announced that Hill will be starter for rest of the season.
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soto's putting on his public face of not being upset, fwiw...which is cool, i guess.
2010 could be interesting if k.hill can't come back cheaply.
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I have to think there's a lot of guys floating around who can do what Hill has done for a million or less.
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So can Soto still be used as an example of how the Cubs farm system can produce an everyday player?
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Well Manny...one excellent season, one terrible season.
I'll wait to judge Soto until I see ho he comes into spring training, and how 2010 goes first.
I hope you're wrong...lol.
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If the Cub's actual baseball training hasn't failed Soto, then it was the training on what the organization expects of him in the off season and how to conduct himself outside of the baseball season that has failed him. I get the impression the Cubs have no kind of control over any of these guys.
Is it inappropriate to ask these guys to stick to a training regimen and avoid drugs and excessive drinking in the off season or do any risky activities like softball or exiting a jacuzzi? I'm only half kidding, though. And for the record my feeling is the Zambrano-softball thing was blown out of proportion. Last I heard he was playing softball with some kid and it probably wasn't very physical.
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it's soto's responsibility to take care of soto.
does he want to make 400K+ a year and ride the plane...or 40K a year and ride the bus?
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No, I know that. It makes sense to you and me, but it's easy to forget that some of these ballplayers are mere kids and in many cases not even American. I vaguely remember my world view when I was 22 years old and there's no way I would have acted responsibly. Let's just say I probably would have spent an inordinate amount of time in Soto's apartment with a bag of Doritos.
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not even American
Could you expand upon this idea? I'm genuinely interested, not just trying to be snarky.
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I don't really know what I meant by that to be honest. I've experienced life as a 22 year old American, but I've never experienced life as a Dominican 22 year old who was given gobs of money and put in the big city.
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It's a 21st Century version of the farm kid in the big city.
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Grabow has really been good. Too bad the rest of the team let him down since he signed up. Hope he winds up a type A guy, I wouldn't even mind having him back for another year (but not three years $12 million, Jim!).
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Bobby Scales isn't getting called up? WTF? We don't have 7 2b on this team.
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We need more lefthanded-ness and scrap.
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We've already got plenty of lefthanded-ness and crap. You're mistaken.
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That Cubs-Sox game will be huge for both teams. Huge.
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So, to recap:
The weather in Chicago in August sucked.
The baseball in Chicago in August sucked.
Not one interesting/exciting prospect on the horizon (Vitters hit .230 at Daytona, so spare me).
What to watch in September-- can the Cubs finish over .500 for 3 straight years? Woo.
I hope Hendry was watching the bottom of the 9th -- that's what a closer looks like. Comes in, kicks ass - game over.
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Also, the Cubs have at least 3 interesting SS prospects at the A-Ball level (Castro, DJ LeM, and Hak Ju Lee), but they are all far from the majors. The interesting pitching prospects are similarly distant. The Cubs are interesting at the A-Ball level and generally less so at AAA and, to some degree, AA. Which, hopefully, means that in a year or two, they'll be interesting at the AAA and AA levels, and then that we'll get a major leaguer or two out of the deal.
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Castro, as Rob pointed out in the post above yours, is in AA.
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True, and he's doing well there. But he played 96 games at Daytona this year and is on their post-season roster.
Josh Vitters
He also walked 11 FREAKING TIMES IN 445 AT BATS!!!!
So Dusty Baker approves of his aggressive approach.
Sell HIGH
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Vitters has 27 walks in 758 career minor league at bats. He makes Tyler Colvin look like Frank Thomas.
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Funny you should mention those 2 in regards to the Cubs apparent draft strategy.
Tyler Colvin 13th overall in 2006.......Travis Snider #14 overall.
Josh Vitters 3rd overall in 2007........Matt Weiters #5 overall
But at least we got compensation picks for Wood and 3 can't miss prospects from Cleveland in the DeRosa deal!!!
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Oh Oh... Can I Play??
Mark Pawelek 20th overall in 2005......Colby Rasmus #28 overall.
**To be fair to Wilken he has only been Director since the 2006 draft.***
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Colvin and Vitters were consesus picks for where the cubs drafted them?
I missed that.
I could have sworn that Weiters was the #1 overall prospect, and that Colvin was thought of as a 3rd round talent?
But they are aggressive.
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Wake me up when Weiters has earned his signing bonus. Colvin was expected to go around 50, though some people had him moving up on their boards as the draft approached.
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I realize he is very young but I was just lamenting that nobody is tearing it up in the minors, including our top prospect, who has another hand injury.
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Several guys tearing it up at Peoria, which is why they lead the league in HRs and BA. LeMahieu and B. Jackson look like they're on a fast track.
You also have Flaherty, a tall skinny 2B/SS with 20 HRs and 79 RBI.
At Daytona, Guyer tearing it up.
Castro hitting .287 at AA. He's still not 19 and a half. Colvin tearing it up (.375/.421/.683/1.104) if you just want to talk about August. It will be interesting to watch how Castro and Colvin do in the 5-game battle for first place that begins in West Tenn on Thursday.
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Recent Ask BA piece discussing Castro. Scroll down:
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Levine on Soriano...including questions (quess which one of the four is bogus):
1) have you considered using a lighter bat?
2) is your bat speed slowing up?
3) Do you need glasses or your eyes checked?
4) Have you been to any good wrestling matches lately?
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Someone needs to start an Aaron Miles watch. I don't think he's been in a game for 10 days. Maybe Lou took him out for some Italian food and he disappeared.
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Wow. Miles' last hit was that triple in Colorado on August 8th. He's 0 fer 19 since that ab.
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When Miles gets in a game, the Cubs are 24-38.
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Why do we need to locate Aaron Miles, again?
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Neifi Perez as a Chicago Cub:
Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS AVG OBP SLG -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004 23 62 12 23 5 0 2 6 1 0 .371 .400 .548 2005 154 572 59 157 33 1 9 54 8 4 .274 .298 .383 2006 87 236 27 60 13 1 2 24 0 1 .254 .266 .343
And Aaron Miles:
Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS AVG OBP SLG -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009 62 148 16 26 7 1 0 5 3 0 .176 .218 .236 AAA 21 87 8 22 4 0 0 8 1 2 .253 .267 .299
The lesson?
Aaron Miles: ALMOST as good in AAA as Neifi Perez was on the Chicago Cubs.
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Gawd, I'd almost forgotten that Ne!f! played in 154 games in 2005. Thanks for ripping open that old wound.
As bad as Miles has been, at least he's only had 150 ABs.
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Geez... the vitriol Neifi receives and gets run out of town, yet Aaron Miles performs worse and largely gets a pass. It makes no sense to me what-so-ever.
Sometimes I wonder if Wittenmyer was right.
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Miles sure doesn't get a pass on this board at least, and he's only had 148 at bats.
Aaron Miles sure sucks though...no doubt there.
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Moreso is the issue that DeRosa was traded to "Save money". Yet they turned around and gave 50% of DeRosa's money to Miles.
Not to mention the 2.7 million we are on the hook for next year.
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I know...unbelievable....
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While Miles does only have 148 AB's (159 PA's), he has (thankfully) missed almost two months (40%) of the season thus far due to injury.
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our 05 SS ended up ripping his groin...garciappara.
cedeno showed up as the savior late season. he sure saved the cubs in 06...wait.
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Rob maybe Marmol got some advice from Soriano or vice versa on how to be discreet when it comes to affairs.
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"the team that steps out on their wives together, dies together...."
("dives together" also works, if you insist on a true rhyme)
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jim thome to the dodgers...supposedly they got john garland, too.
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ARZ broadcast calling it PTBN, fwiw....early breaking, though...could be someone.
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So one chicago gm is realistic
and one
is hopeful sorry the cubs finish 83-81
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If Jimbo had traded Harden away for a 26 yo who is still in A-ball, as Kwill did with Thome I would be calling for a riot right now.
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83-81 is what, 83-78 regular season than 0-3 in the playoffs?
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Somebody from Manny's club has been 'editing' the Wikipedia entry for Jim Hendry. Earlier today, it read,
"Jim Hendry (born July 27, 1955, Dunedin, Florida) is not worthy of having a wikipedia page, but they gave one to the bastard anyway. He is also the retarded Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs."
The page now reads a much more boring "Jim Hendry (born July 27, 1955, Dunedin, Florida) is the Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs."
Evidently, someone put the "bastard" and "retarded" comments in on Saturday afternoon at 1:52 pm until they were 'undone' this evening at 10:51 pm (if I'm calculating the time correctly -- I presume the times are listed as Greenwich Mean Time, as the revision states it was done on Sept. 1, 2009 @ 03:51). Geez, and the Cubs were riding the wave of a one-game winning streak at the time, too.
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I wish I could take credit, but good to see people are slowly seeing the light.
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Two game winning streak.
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"Two game winning streak."
Actually, it was still a one game winning streak at the time the insulting comments were posted.
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garland to LA confirmed...ARZ and LA are playing each other right now. 3-3 tie.
garland found out he was traded and sent to the clubhouse. when justin upton hit a homer to tie the game garland came back up from the clubhouse to high 5 everyone.
happ told him he should probably get back to the clubhouse and not do that after giving upton a high-5.
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"Jim Thome?!?!" - mark grace, 100 times tonight on the ARZ broadcast.
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Grace is so fantastic(ally bad). Someone should hire Grace, Sutcliffe, Joe Carter, and Dave Otto and put them all in the booth at the same time until some fans heads start to explode.
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Thome had to stop at Sports Authority last night, before getting on plane, to buy a mitt.
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I always have trouble picking on Jim Thome. He's always seemed like a great guy to me. Kind of slow, but really nice.
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Bradley was stalking the Cubs last september?
Remember, it was Bradley who desperately wanted to play for the Cubs last winter, basically ignoring other interested teams.
"As much as we courted him, I've never seen a player court us like he did," Cubs Chairman Crane Kenney said at the Cubs Convention. "He was scouting us in the third game of the World Series, sitting in Los Angeles trying to figure out where he would play in our lineup, and he left himself, basically, with no escape clause. He was negotiating with us and really didn't have a safety net.
"This is a guy who chose Chicago, and the pressure, and the limelight."
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So why the hell are we paying so much for him? Way to negotiate, Hendry! Ass.
Bradley Negotiations
Milton Bradley: OK Jim, I want to come to Chicago. How about 1 year 5 million.
Hendry: No can do Milton. How about 4 years 50 mil
Milton: I don't want to be tied up that long. How bout 2/14
Hendry: Listen 3/30 full No trade clause, and a night with my wife.
Milton: Uhhhhhhh....... How bout just the 3/30?
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Wittenmeyer says Scales, Samaramadingdong (after his next Iowa start) and Stevens will be called up too
The Cubs plan to recall outfielder Micah Hoffpauir and right-hander Justin Berg from Class AAA Iowa and reinstate infielder Andres Blanco from the disabled list when rosters expand today.
Right-hander David Patton is expected to rejoin the active roster from the DL on Wednesday, and four more I-Cubs are to be recalled as the Class AAA season winds down: infielder Bobby Scales and right-handed pitchers Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Stevens and Esmailin Caridad.
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Soto officially makes the sophmore jinx list:
1962 Ken Hubbs .260-5-49 .235-8-47 Killed (in) plane crash Feb. 1964
1989 Jerome Walton .293-5-46 .263-2-21 Steady decline in part-time role
1998 Kerry Wood 13-6, 3.40, 233 K DNP, elbow Injuries derailed career
2008 Geovany Soto .285-23-86 .212-9-31 --
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In a season full of "defining moments that this isn't the year":
- 2008 ROY Geo Soto is officially named backup for a guy hitting .245 with 2HR who cut off all the fingers of his right hand in 2007.
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So tired of hearing that Hubbs slumped in 1962. It's just normal binomial variation.
year | outs hits | AB
1962 | 489 172 | 661
1963 | 433 133 | 566
Total | 922 305 | 1,227
Pearson chi2(1) = 1.0391 Pr = 0.308
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I wondered if anyone would catch that. Expected?
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Anyway, all of his struggles in '63 can be attributed to the hitting environment becoming less favorable in '63.
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Basically, if we assume that Hubbs was "really" a .260 hitter, meaning that this is an accurate measure of his ability, then in 566 at-bats in 1963 we would expect 147 hits and 419 outs - not the 133/433 he actually had.
A Chi2 test can tell us if that difference is statistically significant or just a result of chance. You would use this type of test, for example, to analyze whether dice were fair. When we perform this test on Hubbs we find that the Chi2 is 1.801 (1 degree of freedom) and the p-value on a two-tailed test is .1796. All this means is that difference is not statistically significant. In layman's terms: Hubbs could have been that same .260 hitter in 1963 and still just come up with 14 less hits by chance. This is not all that surprising to anyone watching baseball, because you know that some seasons you have more fall in than others or hit the ball right at people a lot. Our conclusion might be that he was unlucky in 1963.
The problem of course is that he could also be the .235 hitter he was in 1963. If we perform the same test on his 1962 season based on the .235 average, we find that the difference is not statistically significant either! This would mean that he was just very lucky in 1962 and was really a .235 hitter.
The main problem with all of this is simple - endogeneity. We know mathematically the expected outcomes for dice, but we are basing our expected outcomes for player performance based on that same performance which is a no-no. It might work if we had a track record of a player, say an average season over a 10-year career, and we could then see if his sub-par 11th season was just unlucky or if he was slipping due to age. But the sad reality with Hubbs is that his career and life were cut too short to be able to say with any certainty how good of a player he really was and how is career would have panned out.
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The chi-square takes the marginal (pooled) results as the expected, which I think is legitimate. For large samples, it's pretty close to exact comparisons of two binomials. If course, a player's performance could have extra-binomial variability, essentially "streakiness". But the chi-square does give a reasonable answer to the question "Could these results come from the same distribution?" and in Hubb's case, the answer is clearly yes.
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"We know mathematically the expected outcomes for dice, but we are basing our expected outcomes for player performance based on that same performance which is a no-no."
That's what the "huh?" meant. You can't apply statistic evaluation in that method and call it meaningful. Statistics are great for things like die rolls and molecular movement. Trying to apply them to a single baseball player over two seasons is such a meaningless endeavor that it was better to keep the book closed.
At what point do the Cubs think about just shutting Soriano down for the year? We got another 5 years with this clown, and at least we need him healthy (to play or try to trade him). I say give the team through the weekend to cut into the WC lead. IMO, if we are still 6 games back with 4 teams in front of us, just pull the plug on his season.
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Don't you think there should be some judgement call on whether or not continuing to play will endanger his 2010 season? Why not recommend shutting down all the starters?
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At what point do the Cubs think about just shutting Soriano down for the year?
Only when there is value to shutting him down early, they should do it.
Don't you think there should be some judgement call on whether or not continuing to play will endanger his 2010 season?
Exactly, I would hope someone made a judgement call and took it seriously.
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Do all the starters have bum knees and going to get MRI's done? Do we have 5 years and $90 million more invested in them?
If Soriano is hurt and we are playing meaningless games, why not shut him down, get his knee scoped, don't cause more damage to it and make sure he is 100% ready to go for 2010 season.
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Soriano already said the he was going to get the knee scoped if the cortisone shot doesn't work.
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I can care less what Soriano says. The Cubs are the ones paying him. While they can't make him have a medical procedure. They sure can shut him down.
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Sorry, maybe it's just me, but I actually find what Soriano says more relevant than what you think about the subject.
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Absolutely, what Soriano thinks is more relevant than what I think as a fan, even if he has no clue about the topic (remember he said it was going to be a few weeks until he got the MRI, but somehow it was moved up).
But I was coming at it from the Cubs POV. The Cubs shouldn't let Soriano effect their decision to shut him down.
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Once again, you have no evidence whatsoever that shutting down Soriano is going to have him any more ready for 2010 than letting him play. The Cubs theoretically are still in the wildcard hunt, and they have a lot of fans that would rather watch Soriano hit than Jake Fox.
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If Cubs listened to Soriano he would be batting leadoff and playing second base.
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Soriano told the Nationals he had no interest in moving from 2nd to LF and they dealt for him anyways and then decided to move him to LF despite their promise not to. Geee how would you feel?
It was an asshole move by a what we know now an organization with some fucked up morals.
I think it took Brooks Robinson in calm reasoning way to explain the situation. And it all worked out. One thing Soriano is, is a reasonable person. If you make your case to him about how it might benefit the team he will tend to go along with it. After all he played SS for Yanks then played the OF then they told him to play 2nd base all without a peep.
Besides if we listened to the fans Derrek Lee would have been released by now and replaced by Micah Hoffpauir.
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OMG. Are all the starters nursing knee injuries that are clearly affecting their performance?
Harden and the Rockies
The Rockies acquired Jose Contreras, salary $10 mil, from the White Sox yesterday.
QUESTION: If the Rockies claimed Contreras, why wouldn't they claim the younger, better, and cheaper Harden?
AZ Phil or someone, help me out with this, there must a good reason, right?
Maybe they didn't think the Cubs would deal with them?
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In the hearts and minds of Cub fans, Rich Harden is a far better option than Jose Contreras.
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Maybe because Contreras' pitching style is more conducive to the ball park?
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In the hearts and minds of Cub fans, Rich Harden is a far better option than Jose Contreras.
Pretty sure that most, if not all, of those who follow baseball would think that Rich Harden is a far better option than Jose Contreras.
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probably didn't want to give up any 1st round-type talent it would take to snag him.
still...i dunno why they want to pay contreras 1.6m bucks for a month of the crap that comes out of his arm.
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Soriano already said the he was going to get the knee scoped if the cortisone shot doesn't work.
he should get his knee scoped even if the cortisone shot helps
(but after the season or at least after they are mathematically eliminated from the wild card
...after the season is OK as the rehab after a scope isn't that long that it makes a difference to get it 6 weeks from now)
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"Two game winning streak."
I think we've only had one of these in quite some time.
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The return of the dreaded towel drill...
"Wells worked to correct the issue during a side session between starts and during a drill Monday, in which he repeated his delivery over and over again with a towel in his hand instead of a ball."
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Somewhere Dr. Andrews is smiling and having his secretary set up the surgery for Wells now, since that towel drill worked so well for Wood, Prior, etc.
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I would just like to know what pitching coaches like Dave Duncan and Leo Mazzone think of these towel drills? Do they make their pitchers do them? Or do they laugh at Rothschild in secret?
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almost every coach does in many systems.
you need a load balance on the arm...and the towel lets you see a path in your throwing motion.
wonder what some of you would think about resistance training with a rubber band on a fence...also a semi-common one.
not everything in baseball requires a 10 thousand dollar machine.
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Shut Wells, Z, and Soriano down.
Play for 2010
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Soto is apparently using the Jerome Walton model on being a Cub ROY. Come back for your second full season nice and fattened up. Slide quickly to the bench and, in a few years, out of the game completely.
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But Hendry has no plan for 2010.
"I haven't even thought about next year yet," said general manager Jim Hendry, who pointed out a seasonlong team slump has put every flaw under a microscope -- Aug 19
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Firstly, let's hope he doesn't need to think about it as he gets canned. If he does come back, he likely won't have a too much to do as he is stuck with a huge amount of players and contracts with NTC, so what you see is pretty much what you get (unless Ricketts give him another $20MM or so to throw away).
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take 1 comment, blow it out of proportion, and call it a fact.
yes, it is very safe to assume hendry has no plans or idea about 2010 from that quote. hell, it's "technically true" so it must be a fact. yeah, that makes perfect sense. bravo.
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The question Hendry was answering related to Lou Piniella's oblique criticism of the way Hendry built the team--- a lack of athleticism in the outfield that hurts them defensively in big ball parks like San Diego where they have trouble running down balls hit to the gaps and a lack of speed on the basepaths that hurts their ability to score runs without hitting home runs. As Piniella pointed out, the Cubs are last in the league in stolen bases. Actually it's worse than that. They are last in major league baseball in stealing bases (45) and last in the majors in SB% at 62%.
Hendry was asked if he was going to address those concerns this year and into next season. Reread his answer. Does that sound like a guy with a plan for 2010?
Nope, Hendry isn't a planner, he's a reacter. So when he tells you he hasn't thought about next year yet, believe him.
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I thought Lou's excuse for last season was lack of Left-handedness?
What about Cubdom makes everyone unaccountable for everything they do?
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There's a difference between plan and execution, Doc. The plan was to add left-handed hitting. The execution mainly involved Fontenot (.227) and Bradley (.243, with 20 XBH's lefty and 27 overall).
One day the Cubs will have a few decent lefty hitters and then we'll see what happens.
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"Hendry isn't a planner, he's a reacter. So when he tells you he hasn't thought about next year yet, believe him."
that's ignorant as hell.
i would explain why, but you already know. yes, you know.
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The biggest problem with Hendry is that he doesn't have a crystal ball - how could he know that Soto would regress so badly, Fontenot would be a complete bust as a "starter", Ramirez would miss 2+ months with injury and Soriano, Zambrano and others would fall so short of their career norms? In my mind, given all of these factors and that our top 4 starters spent significant time on the DL, it is a minor miracle we are even in sniffing distance of the wildcard race on September 1st.
Yes, Hendry tries to overfix things sometimes and has tied the hands of the organization with some of the contracts he has given out. And of course in 20/20 retrospect he has made some dumb moves - every GM has. In my mind though, the Lee and Ramirez (and even the Harden) deals were rapes in our favor and I for one was very happy when we landed Soriano at the time, as he was by far the best free agent position player on the market that year. We have made the playoffs 2 years in a row, which I can't say has ever happened before in my 37-year lifetime, so I consider Hendry's tenure to have been a successful one. I'd love to win it all too and it is tough when we don't, but that don't make it a failure (in my opinion).
It's a bitch what expectations will do for you...
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So getting rid of Pie to open a spot for Gathright was Hendry's idea? Have you got any bridges for sale? Here's a crazy idea way out of left field - Maybe Lou says stuff so that he doesn't come out like a dipshit? But you can watch Lou's in game and lineup management and realize that he is a disphit, no matter what he says.
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Case in point "I didn't say I wanted to get a more lefthanded lineup" but he refuses to stack Fukudome and Bradley 1-2 at the top of the lineup. Why is that? Because he does want to try to balance the lefthanders in the lineup.
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If this is the case about Lou, why is there not a mutiny amongst Cubs fans looking for his ouster?
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Because Cubs fans are the dumbest in baseball.
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Or maybe there is a racist tinge to the matter?
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We could definitely use some fresh perspective from the managerial position. Lou looks like he has aged about 10 years in the past year. Once again, at the time he was hired by Hendry, Lou was the best manager available with the most credentials but he just seems old nowadays...
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I disagree. Lou may have had the best credentials as a manager, but I have to think that Girardi would've been a better choice, maybe Brenly too--as in they are probably better managers than Lou. Of course, I have no idea what it's like to be in a dugout or clubhouse with these guys.
[And by "best credentials" I mostly mean longest history. In contrast, Girardi didn't have worse credentials, he had almost no credentials--no history as a manager.]
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Guiness Book level of taking a quote out of context there.
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btw...for the soto weight-watchers.
the guy showed up in great shape and gained most of his weight in april/may/june eatting off the meal money and clubhouse spread, fwiw.
when pitchers/catchers reported and before-hand in the WBC people were gushing about his off-season work habits.
now all of a sudden he's a lazy pot smoking guy who can't figure out how to handle his poor Dominican self with new-found money. okay, sure.
i dunno if his weight gain is even the proper route to seek blame, but if it is i dunno if winter is to blame.
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Regardless, the top reasons for our digression this year are Soto, Fontenot, and the injury to A-Ram, period. But Soto is exhibit A.
We have no choice but to hope this season was the fluke and not last season, roll him out there, and hope for the best. Cubs.com did point out that his BABIP is nearly 100 points lower this year, which is probably good luck/bad luck. I would be happy if he hit .250/.320/.450 next year.
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You forgot shitty bullpen and shitty Soriano.
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I wonder about that.
Soto was listed at 225 on the WB Classic roster before the season began. He's at 225 most places now and 230 at Baseball Reference and Baseball Almanac.
Hope this isn't too technically right for you but he was 190-200 last year. Still is listed at that weight at The Baseball Cube.
Flashback to 2007 -- "Soto feels the difference in his new frame, which was previously listed at 6'1 and 230 pounds according to various media guides prior to the season."
So, he slims down to the 190's and has two great years. Then he porks back up to 230 + and he sucks. I'm guessing there's a causal relationship in there somewhere.
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never trust a listed weight or height...ever.
what's david ortiz up to now? 230 lbs? hehe...
theriot's actually shrunk an inch to 5'11"...age is a bitch. i don't buy he's 5'11" either. fontenot lists at 5'8" btw.
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First, Soto is Puerto Rican and not Dominican.
Second, his injuries should be part of the discussion. He suffered the shoulder injury the first week of April and missed time, and then he injured his oblique in early July, which put him on the DL. And in May, Brenly said he thought Soto was battling the same hand injury from last September. (Check out this Will Carroll "Under the Knife" column: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?arti...)
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I hate the offseason.
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lenandbob: Check that...Soriano must have talked his way into the lineup. He's in for Fox.
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Friday's games will be in Washington, Chicago, Arlington, and Cleveland or Boston. Someone's game is starting laaaaaaaate - 50-50 chance it's the CDT Cubs.
Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
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When our son was younger, he would collect the bright yellow leaves as they dropped from the towering tulip poplars in our yard in the fall. He considered them golden treasures and insisted on taping them to the refrigerator door.
Tulip poplars are one of my favorite trees. From the beautiful early fall color that ranges from gold to crisp lemon yellow, to the orange-tinted spring blooms that hide high in the canopy, tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is a great choice for the landscape. As it turns out, this magnolia family member, commonly known as yellow poplar, tulip magnolia or tulip tree, is not a poplar after all.
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"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," his rep tells PEOPLE in a statement.
A gifted dancer, a rugged outdoorsman, a romantic leading man and a loving husband, Swayze was also, as his brother Don put it, "a warrior" in his cancer fight. Appearing on Nightline, ABC's Barbara Walters, who conducted one of the last in-depth interviews with the actor, reported that Swayze was with his wife, Lisa Niemi, and brother during his final hours at his ranch in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains near Los Angeles.
"Patrick was a really good man, a funny man and one to whom I owe much that I can't ever repay," says Whoopi Goldberg, who starred with Swayze in one of his biggest movies, Ghost. "I believe in Ghost's message, so he'll always be near."
"Patrick lived a hundred lifetimes in one," adds Rob Lowe, who appeared with Swayze in The Outsiders and Youngblood. "I will remember him for that, and I will remember him for how much he loved his wife Lisa. He was such an intense actor, so full of passion and vigor. He definitely made the most out of it. It's a sad day."
Swayze continued working on his A&E series The Beast even as he underwent chemotherapy – and never lost hope. About his prognosis, he did admit in the Barbara Walters interview that aired in January, "There's a lot of fear here. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm [asking], 'Why me?' "
A month before, Swayze had issued a statement to PEOPLE addressing speculation about his health, saying that such questions "cast a negative shadow on the positive and good fight I'm fighting."
Texas NativeOne of five children raised in Houston, Texas, by Patsy, a dance teacher, and Jesse, a champion rodeo cowboy, Swayze grew up dancing in his mom's studio and met his future wife when the two teenagers were both students there.
It was the beginning of one of Hollywood's most enduring romances: Swayze and Niemi, 53, were married 34 years.
Over the years, the couple – both pilots who often flew together and who shared a love of horseback riding and the outdoors – would see Swayze's career take off.
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"Lisa and I have built just about every character I've done," he told PEOPLE in 2007. "You have to understand, we have an ease. ... We've been partners for a long time."
It was Lisa who proved a "pillar of strength" during the trying past year, said her brother-in-law Don. United in their focus to overcome the awful odds – pancreatic cancer has just a 5 percent survival rate within five years of diagnosis – the couple maintained a fierce determination.
In fall 2008, he told The New York Times that although chemo had been "hell on wheels," he refused to quit fighting.
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7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)
When I was a kid, I acted in a few movies.
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It was generally a good experience, but every day I'm glad I wasn't Olsen twins famous. Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
But why does this happen?
#7. Their Parents Won't Help Them ...
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I chose to start acting when I was 5. It was my decision, and my parents tried their hardest to discourage me. When I insisted, they allowed me to act, but were always very protective of me.
I saw many child actors who did not have that, and they were all miserable. Kids whose parents pushed them into acting often grow up to resent them. They never had a choice, and worse, they never had the chance to be a kid.
This dude reportedly said "Actors are cattle." That would mean child actors are veal.
When one of my preteen co-stars didn't seem that into acting, I asked him why he even bothered doing it. "For the money," he said. I hadn't considered that. My own money was an abstract concept: locked in a bank somewhere, to be used only after I turned 18. I was just acting because I liked it. But this kid was supporting his family.
This isn't a new problem. Back in the 1930s, Jackie Coogan was not only the biggest child star in the world, but one of the biggest stars, period. The kid had $4 million (more than $48 million in today's money) to his name, but when he turned 21, he found that his mother and manager/stepfather had spent almost all of it. Coogan sued his parents, and while he only got $126,000, he did get a law named after him. That's a nice consolation prize, right?
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And he also went on to play a character named after something a boil does.
The Coogan Law isn't perfect, though: While it has long protected a kid's right to a trust fund, it still only protects 15 percent of a child's earnings. There are still lots of ways parents can misuse their kid's money. And it's easy for them to get away with it, because most kids don't have the guts to take their own parents to court and scream about all the things they can't handle (the truth, and so on).
The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
#6. ... or Their Parents Can't Help Them
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Even good, non-stage-parent parents can have trouble asserting authority over their kids. My parents, I think, did most things right. They didn't always pick the greatest movies for me to be in, but they were supportive and responsible about money. But even they had to answer to a higher power.
No, not this guy. We were Jewish.
When I was 7, I went to the premiere for the movie Nine Months. I don't remember much about the movie beyond Hugh Grant stammering and some placenta jokes, but I do remember a red carpet reporter asking me my opinion about Hugh Grant getting busted for prostitution.
"You play a child-wizard in this film. Do you think abortion should be a woman's decision?"
If he had been arrested for something like defacing a Lion King poster or stealing bouncy castles, I might have cared. But while I knew he'd been arrested, I didn't understand what for and didn't feel comfortable answering. My father called the station the next day to suggest that they, you know, not talk to a child about soliciting sex. But he was rebuffed, and the complaint was ignored. Even then, as a kid, I knew that parental power was gone.
When Miley Cyrus went through a series of scandals in 2010, one involving the scarier-than-pot-but-somehow-more-legal salvia, Billy Ray Cyrus went on record saying that he had very little control over his daughter anymore. Her Disney entourage had long since taken over. Even if he wasn't telling the complete truth about his role in his daughter's scandals, it was clear that he, the parent, was not in control.
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"We are your family now."
#5. They Get Used to Love and Attention, and Then Lose It
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The first week of my first movie, Mrs. Doubtfire, I got gifts from every cast member. When an interviewer asked me what I loved most about acting, I forgot all about the joy of becoming someone else on camera and said, "You get a lot of presents, sometimes!"
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"And the weed is just ... mmm!"
Combine the regular amount of free stuff celebrities get with all the presents people give kids just for being cute, and you've got a recipe for one spoiled-ass child. My parents tried to keep me grounded: They made me share a room with my sister, kept me in public elementary school, and encouraged me to think of acting as just a hobby. But I'm sure there were still times when I was an entitled little shit.
This tends to happen: It's called the hedonic treadmill, which sounds like something 1950s sci-fi writers imagined we'd all have in our pod-houses by now, but actually means that even people who have the best of everything quickly become used to it. The thrill of new things and new experiences always wears off.
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"OK, I'm bored, take a hike."
Adults know that infatuation is fleeting, but kids don't understand this. A year in a kid's life seems like an eternity, and they think anything happening now will happen forever. Years of adulation and money and things quickly become normal, and then, just as they get used to it all, they hit puberty -- which is a serious job hazard when your job is being cute.
It's basically a real-life version of Logan's Run. A child actor who is no longer cute is no longer monetarily viable and is discarded. He or she is then replaced by someone younger and cuter, and fan bases accordingly forget that the previous object of affection ever existed.
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Except without the human sacrifice and creepy '70s strobe-light orgies.
Most of you reading this felt pretty disgusting and useless while you were going through puberty. But imagine that people you once relied on and trusted -- as well as millions of people you'd never met, who had previously liked you -- had told you then, "Yeah, it's true. You are exactly as ugly and worthless as you feel."
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Speaking of which, you know that one lucky asshole you grew up with who never seemed to go through an awkward age, at all? The child stars who make the most successful transitions tend to be those kinds of assholes: They were adorable kids, and now they're beautiful adults. The rest typically disappear.
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Or come back a few years later as Rorschach.
But it's not always a smooth transition: To be a teen idol is to be vulnerable. Brooke Shields has said that being a sex object led her to feel like she wasn't in control of her own body, and is one of the reasons she didn't have sex until she was 22. Natalie Portman has said similar things.
And sometimes it gets violent: Former child stars Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, and Todd Bridges all went on record saying that they had been sexually assaulted by adult men when they were young, and that there were likely many more child molesters in Hollywood. Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by a stalker after he saw her in bed with a male character in a film and denounced her as "another Hollywood whore."
But even when it's not violent, it's not pleasant. When I was 12 years old, I made the mistake of looking myself up on the Internet. (I know not to do that now, unless I want to stay up all night imagining the kind of person who would replace my Wikipedia article with nothing but the word "poo.") One of the things I found was a foot fetish website dedicated to child actresses.
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Officially displacing the "pictures of actresses sneezing" blog as the creepiest celebrity site on the Internet.
Now, at the time, I thought this was hilarious. I was in seventh grade and couldn't say the word "sex" with a straight face; fetishes were beyond me. I never told my parents because it seemed like too much of a joke, not a threat.
Then, two or three years ago, I was talking to a friend and casually mentioned the foot fetish thing. Her eyes went wide. "So, basically, you were on a child porn site?"
"Uh ... I guess so." I hadn't thought about it like that. Suddenly it wasn't as funny as I had once thought.
There was worse, both for me and for others. Like the Coogan Law, there are too many loopholes. If you ever need to convince someone not to get their kid into show business, inform them that it's still legal in several places to Photoshop a child's head onto a nude adult body. Sexual exploitation is just part of the package.


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We just saw the passing of the poet Seamus Heaney. When the news came it struck me as odd and eerie. I don't read poetry all that often, or as often as I should let's say, but I'd just been reading Heaney's collection 'The Spirit Level' and was fixed on his poem, 'Saint Kevin and The Blackbird' �I found it intriguing, resonant, as resonant as the chaos of birdsong outside my window most mornings lately. I'd read Heaney's poem over more than once sensing there more yet to absorb in it. Then I heard the poet had died. Thinking about him with maybe a mind to some sort of tribute I came across this video of the poet reading his poem. He introduces it as a meditation based on the notion of "doing the right thing for the reward of doing the right thing" about "self belief and chosen values, opted for and stood by" �such a prayer that the body makes �entirely.
�nyway, here's to the forgetting.
SAINT KEVIN AND THE BLACKBIRDAnd then there was St Kevin and the blackbird.The saint is kneeling, arms stretched out, insideHis cell, but the cell is narrow, soOne turned-up palm is out the window, stiffAs a crossbeam, when a blackbird landsand Lays in it and settles down to nest.Kevin feels the warm eggs, the small breast, the tuckedNeat head and claws and, finding himself linkedInto the network of eternal life,Is moved to pity: now he must hold his handLike a branch out in the sun and rain for weeksUntil the young are hatched and fledged and flown.~And since the whole thing�s imagined anyhow,Imagine being Kevin. Which is he?Self-forgetful or in agony all the timeFrom the neck on out down through his hurting forearms?Are his fingers sleeping? Does he still feel his knees?Or has the shut-eyed blank of underearthCrept up through him? Is there distance in his head?Alone and mirrored clear in Love�s deep river,�To labour and not to seek reward,� he prays,A prayer his body makes entirelyFor he has forgotten self, forgotten birdAnd on the riverbank forgotten the river�s name.~ Seamus Heaney


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Stetson University women's basketball head coach Lynn Bria announced Thursday that Daniel Barber has joined the program's coaching staff for the 2014-15 season.
"I am very excited to join the Stetson family," Barber said. "It is my dream to coach at the Division I level and shape the minds and the game of basketball for young, talented women. I look forward to having an immediate impact on the program and achieving success with a highly motivated and gifted group of individuals."
Barber joins the Hatters from UNC Asheville where he served as an assistant coach in 2013-14. While there, Barber worked with Bulldog guards, enhancing their skills and development during team practice and individual workouts. He also assisted with recruiting, scouting, team academics, and team building activities.
Prior to his time at UNC Asheville, Barber served as a Graduate Assistant and Team Manager at his alma mater, the University of Florida. While at UF, Barber assisted the women's basketball coaching staff with scouting reports, player development and team travel. He was also responsible for conducting individual summer workouts with the team.
"Daniel is a young and upcoming coach, and he is going to be great for us," Bria said. "He comes from a really good background and has worked for some great people. He started at the University of Florida working for Amanda Butler. Having a year under his belt at Asheville really helps, too. He has learned a lot of things and has gained a lot of experience, and I know he will help us right away."
Barber graduated from Florida in 2012 with a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition with a specialization in Dietetics. He served as the Head Manager for women's basketball in 2011-12. He helped facilitate team practices, distribute equipment and assist with team travel responsibilities.
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Shenango to Collect Mittens and Gloves at the Hermitage Light Up Night Parade
Sharon, Pa. – On November 17, 2012, during the Hermitage Light Up Night parade, Penn State Shenango staff, faculty and students will walk alongside their float titled "Penn State Shenango's Night Before Christmas" passing out candy and collecting mittens and gloves for Operation Warm Hands to benefit the homeless of the Shenango Valley.
Please consider participating in this event by purchasing a pair, or two, of mittens or gloves, so no child or adult goes without them this winter.
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This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Elizabeth Crowell
Women 2.0 regularly profiles women (from angel investors to venture capitalists) who invest in women.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
From angel investors to VCs, Women 2.0 puts a face to those who invest in women. Only 11% of investment partners at venture capital firms are women and 15% of angel investors are women. This is unfortunate and needs to change, as women investors are more likely to be directly connected to and able to attract female-led ventures.
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The Stetson men's soccer team will open the 2013 season on Friday, hosting UMass Lowell at the Athletic Training Center at 5:00 p.m. The Hatters will continue regular season action on Monday, playing at USF at 7:30 p.m.
Both games can be watched live with Friday's home contest streamed on Hatter Vision, and Monday's road game available on USF's Bulls Cast. Live Stats will be at GoHatters.com on Friday and GoUSFBulls.com on Monday. For Twitter updates fans can follow @StetsonMSoccer all season long.
General Admission tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for seniors and students at the Stetson Athletic Training Center. All home soccer matches are free to Stetson students, faculty, and staff with a Stetson University ID. For more information call (386) 738-HATS. Monday's game at USF is $7 for adults, and free for students grades K-12.
• The Hatters have won the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship twice; in 2005 and in 2009 under Coach Fleck.
• Stetson returns 10 players from last year's team, including seven from the starting lineup.
• The Hatters welcome 14 newcomers to the squad in 2013, which includes three sophomores and one senior.
• Stetson is looking to improve on last season's 3-10-2 record.
• The Hatters are 56-37-14 under T. Logan Fleck over the last six seasons.
• Evan Jimmo and JJ Bostic are the only returning Stetson players to have scored a goal last season.
• Senior Raffaele Centofanti had the most assists (two) of all the returning players in 2012.
• Andreas Schnabl holds the Stetson record for career shutouts (12), and is currently first in school history with a GAA of 1.19.
• UMass Lowell is in its first season of NCAA Division I play. The River Hawks went 15-6-1 last season in Division II.
• The Hatters and the River Hawks have never competed against each other in men's soccer.
• USF went 8-6-5 last season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• The Bulls hold a 24-4-1 advantage over Stetson in the all-time series between the two teams, which dates back to 1965.


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on December 29, 2012 - 10:16 PM
NORTH TONAWANDA – The city is firing back against convenience store owner Muwafek S. "Moe" Rizek in the wake of his federal lawsuit accusing the North Tonawanda Police Department of stealing evidence from his burned-out store.
City Attorney Shawn P. Nickerson is seeking a court order that Rizek sign a settlement he agreed to early this year in State Supreme Court. Nickerson said he thinks that Rizek, by signing it, would void the federal case, which also accuses the city of slander and discriminating against him because of his Arab ancestry.
Meanwhile, the City Assessor's Office has raised the valuation of Rizek's store substantially above what it was before a 2009 fire gutted it. Rizek said he believes that was a revenge move by City Hall, but Assessor Flora D. Carozzolo denied it.
The May 15, 2009, fire at Mark's Food Market II, 290 Oliver St., set a long chain of events in motion.
Rizek's insurance company refused to pay him benefits, accusing him of arson. Rizek sued and won, with a State Supreme Court jury deliberating for all of 15 minutes on Dec. 8, 2011, before deciding the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction.
Finger Lakes Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. paid Rizek $500,000 after a settlement in January. The next day came a settlement in which Rizek agreed not to sue the city over its investigation of the blaze, which also came down on the side of arson.
The city agreed to refund a $2,500 building inspection fee to Rizek and drop all Housing Court charges against him.
But the refund hasn't been paid because Rizek hasn't signed the release from liability, Nickerson said.
Rizek's attorney, Kevin T. Stocker, said last week that two police lieutenants hand-delivered him a copy of Nickerson's motion, which will be argued Jan. 10 before State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.
Stocker said Rizek's federal case should continue because he has complaints that weren't covered by the January settlement. Nickerson disagreed, saying the settlement bars Rizek from suing the city.
"The city wants that signed release … memorializing the settlement placed on the record," Nicholson said.
Meanwhile, Rizek is complaining about Carozzolo's move to hike the assessment on the store to $220,000, effective with the September 2013 school tax bill.
The store was assessed at $139,000 before the fire, a valuation that was dropped to $40,000 after the blaze.
"The timing is a surprise because I am not done with construction, and maybe going to $139,000 wouldn't be too much of a surprise, but $220,000 is a bit too much," Rizek said in a text message.
"It's totally remodeled," Carozzolo said. "We offered him a business improvement exemption. … It is something that's still out there for him." The city allows businesses that improve their properties to have a 10-year tax break, starting with a 50 percent discount on the value of upgrades. That exemption decreases by 5 percentage points per year.
Rizek also can file an assessment grievance in the standard fashion if he wants, the assessor said.
Rizek called it "retaliation" for the lawsuit. "By no means," Carozzolo said. But she added, "I'm not surprised he feels that way, given the troubles he has had with the court system."
"Certainly it shouldn't be what it was since the fire, and maybe not before," Nickerson said. "The place looks great."
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Football Announces 2014-15 Leadership Council
Ball State fourth-year head football coach Pete Lembo's Leadership Council was created to maximize the student-athlete's input into football program operations.
This year's Leadership Council is as follows:
Freshmen – Corey Lacanaria, David Morrison, Kevin Willis
Redshirt Freshmen – Jack Milas, Vinnie Palazeti, Ralph Smith
Sophomores – Steven Bell, Sam Brunner, Ozzie Mann
Juniors – Ben Ingle, Jacob Richard, Darnell Smith, Jordan Williams
Seniors – Jahwan Edwards, Brian Jones, Nick Miles
The Leadership Council was created to maximize our players' input into everyday football program operations. The group will meet on Monday nights during the season with Coach Pete Lembo to discuss issues and make decisions that can improve the football program. There are also meetings in the spring semester, typically on Wednesdays. The meetings are a great source of feedback for the coaching staff from the players and vice versa. A major bi-product of the Council is the development of leadership and communication skills in our student-athletes.
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Staff at Tahoe Women's Care in Indian Hills, are digging through thousands of medical records left in disarray after the group's South Shore office shut its doors last year.
The Tahoe Women's Care office in South Lake Tahoe closed after contract negotiations between Barton Health and two OB-GYN physician groups fell through last fall. Barton opened its new facility, Barton Women's Health, on Jan. 2, but some new patients are still waiting for their previous medical charts.
According to Barton spokeswoman Rebecca Wass, Tahoe Women's Care staff boxed and alphabetized the records before they were delivered to the Nevada office at the end of December.
The problem is those boxes became disorganized when they were moved into storage, gynecologist Dr. Gary Willen said.
"It's totally screwed up. To find one chart you have to look through 5,000," Willen said. "The contract says, 'deliver the records.' [Barton] met the letter of the law, if not the spirit."
According to Barton spokeswoman Monica Sciuto, Barton paid to have the files delivered to Tahoe Women's Care and that those records were left in good order.
"It is in Barton's best interest that the patient charts arrive arranged and orderly as it is likely that many patients would want to have access to their medical records in the long run," Sciuto wrote in an email.
Yet Willen said that if a new Lake Tahoe patient visits him or Dr. Carol Habaradas --another physician who formerly contracted with Barton and now practices in Carson City - the medical staff will have to physically search the storage unit for the chart.
That means sifting through almost three dozen 40-pound boxes that he estimates contain anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 records total.
If the team doesn't find the chart, they can reconstruct the patient's medical history by directly contacting labs for information like a women's blood test or pap smear results. It's a process that costs time and money, Willen said.
Dr. Kelly Shanahan with Emerald Bay Center for Women's Health said she hasn't had to conduct any new tests for patients since she's been able to get the necessary records from labs, but piecing together those histories often relies on a patient's memory. And some labs only keep the medical information for six months.
"Sometimes my staff has to be detectives to track those records down ... It's not a good way to treat the people in your community," Shanahan said.
Willen said he's still trying to get permission from Barton to transfer the records electronically.
"We'll get through it. But I'm not going to let any patient that comes to me suffer for it. It won't affect the level of care," Willen said.
Sciuto stated in an email that, like Willen, the Barton Women's Health physicians don't need prior medical records to see a patient and that there are no delays regarding Tahoe Women's Care access to their electronic records.
"While it is helpful to have these records, it is not necessary to get an appointment and start care right away ... Barton Women's Health would be happy to work with patients to get the required forms filled out and sent to Tahoe Women's Care or any other prior provider for the acquisition of their files," Sciuto wrote.
As a California nonprofit and under the Corporate Practice of Medicine Act, Barton cannot legally employ physicians. Instead, it contracts with a number of physician groups to treat patients at the hospital, physician offices, the community clinic and the surgery center.
Barton entered into contract renewal negotiations with Tahoe Women's Care and Emerald Bay Center for Women's Health in January 2012, but was not able to come to an agreement with the physician groups. According to obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Kris Kobalter, Barton told Tahoe Women's Care that the practice was losing too much money and they would need to downsize the number of doctors and decrease costs.
Barton was offering competitive, fair market value salaries, Barton Health's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Clint Purvance told the Tribune in October, but the groups couldn't come to an agreement.


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Featuring Mary Bitterman, President of the Barnard Osher Foundation and Lead Independent Director of the Bank of Hawai'i. An inside perspective on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: How well is it working to regulate ethical behavior in corporate governance?
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Complaints that Buffalo police cars are showing their age and that sometimes not enough are ready to go at shift changes because of repairs will be addressed in city budget discussions.
And there is the possibility that some new ones will be purchased, according to Common Council President Richard A. Fontana.
The Buffalo Police Department has a fleet of about 200 marked patrol cars, and no new vehicles have been added since 2010, which goes against a standard national practice in law enforcement to replace one-third of the fleet annually so that patrol cars are never more than three years old.
"We have been lean on purchases of police vehicles in the last few years," Fontana said.
Tight fiscal conditions have been cited for the slowdown in buying new police cars. Mayor Byron W. Brown's proposed budget, released Wednesday, includes $1 million for 25 to 30 new patrol cars.
Some members of the Police Department do not think that's enough. Others have expressed concerns to Fontana that many of the current Ford Crown Victoria patrol cars have more than 100,000 miles.
"In budget deliberations, I'm going to be taking a close look at what is being proposed. We're lucky the Crown Victorias are dependable, but once a patrol car starts to get near the 150,000-mile mark, it is a lot different than a civilian vehicle. Patrol cars are on all the time," Fontana said.
Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said he hopes to rotate new police vehicles into the fleet at the start of the new budget year, July 1.
"We're in the process of putting together a purchase of new vehicles, and we may get some before the new fiscal year," he said.
Police who have voiced concern say that the police repair garage on Seneca Street is often packed with cars awaiting repairs and that at the start of each shift, officers will alert the police dispatcher that they are awaiting an available patrol car.
Some of that, though, is because officers prefer a certain patrol car and are waiting for it to return to the district headquarters. But Fontana says there is no question the fleet needs to be updated. In the past, he said, the Brown administration faithfully replaced a third of the patrol cars each year.
"We achieved that for many years, and you have to commend the mayor for that," Fontana said, adding that he understands public funds are limited. "Even if it was a quarter of the fleet replaced each year, that would be OK. You can't go without police cars, and if you do not do a turnover, then you have to buy a whole bunch at once. It is either pay now or pay later."
He credited mechanics at the police garage for their diligence in keeping the fleet road worthy.
As for what the Buffalo patrol car of the future will be, that depends on upcoming budget discussions.
Ford no longer makes the Crown Victoria and has switched to the Taurus as its patrol vehicle, while Chevrolet manufactures a Caprice patrol vehicle, and Dodge has a Charger police car.
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Last year's thread was pretty fun so I figured I'd do another one this year. Halloween is nearly upon us, and that means it's time to watch scary movies, carve faces into fruit, and drink way too much to forget about the cold weather. But most importantly, it is the time of year that you take pictures of yourself wearing ridiculous costumes and post them on the internet. This is where you should do that.
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CHARLESTON (AP) — The Rev. Frank Ruffatto comes to his new job as pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church with an unusual resume. He is a former police officer and homicide detective....
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Treat yourself to velvety chocolate mousse baked into rich, chewy brownies. It's a dessert easy enough for everyday yet elegant enough for guests.
Serve this decadent chocolate dessert on pretty plates sprinkled with cocoa.
Make it your way! Create butterscotch mousse bars by using butterscotch chips in place of chocolate chips in the mousse layer.
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