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Carlos Marmol threw a nine-pitch 1-2-3 1st inning (K, F-9, P-5), Jose Valdez singled, tripled, stole two bases, scored two runs, and drove-in another, and D. J. Fitzgerald clubbed a two-run HR onto 8th Steeet, leading the Daytona Cubs to a 4-1 victory over the Inland Empire 66ers (Angels Advanced Class "A" affiliate) on Field #3, while Justin Berg allowed three runs on two hits and two walks in his one inning of work, as the Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels Class "A" affiliate) drubbed the Peoria Chiefs 9-1 on Field #2, in Cactus League Minor League action at Fitch Park this afternoon.
Marmol and Berg had their scheduled outings rained-out yesterday, which is why both threw in games at Minor League Camp today.
Cubs 2010 7th round draft pick RHP Ben Wells (Bryant HS – Bryant, AR) was the most impressive pitcher at Fitch Park today, following Berg to the mound on Field #2 and throwing three shutout innings for Peoria, allowing just an infield hit, a bunt single, and a walk, while striking out two, and doing it all on just 29 pitches.
Conversely, RHP Tarlandus Mitchell had a very poor outing for Peoria, getting just one out while allowing a single and walking the bases loaded before getting pulled from the game. Although he throws in the mid-90's, the 5'8 Mitchell has struggled with his control since signing with the Cubs and has yet to pitch in a full-season league.
Pitching for Daytona on Field #2, RHP Justin Bristow (2008 5th round draft pick out of East Carolina) saw his first game action since 2009 (he missed all of last season with an elbow injury), loading the bases on a double and two walks before being relieved without retiring a batter.
Cuban defector Rubi Silva played CF for Peoria today and drew two walks. He also grounded out twice. The 21-year old lefty hitting Silva played for the Cuban Junior National Team prior to defecting, and he is very fast and a Gold Glove caliber CF with a plus-arm. He received a reported $1M bonus when he signed with the Cubs in December.
After a work-out on Field #4, several players from the Extended Spring Training squad (3B Wilson Contreras, OF Reggie Golden, SS Marco Hernandez, and C Brian Inoa) got some late game action with Peoria or Daytona, and two others (OF Xavier Batista and INF Gioskar Amaya) traveled with the Tennessee and Iowa squads to the AA and AAA road games at Tempe Diablo Park. Catcher Hector Suarez, INF Vismeldy Bieneme, and outfielders Dong-Yub Kim, Blair Springfield, and Oliver Zapata were on the bench at Fitch Park but did not play. (Position players from Extended Spring Training are used as late-inning replacements in the minor league games).
Catcher Yaniel Cabeza (another defector from the Cuban Junior National team who signed with the Cubs in December), 1B Richard Jones, 2B Pin-Chieh Chen, ex-Villanova football star Matt Szczur, and OF Kyung-Min Na are assigned to the Peoria squad but did not play today, and catcher Chad Noble is the only position player assigned to Daytona who did not play today. (Cabeza and Noble were the bullpen catchers for their respective squads today).
Here are today's abridged box scores (Cubs players only):
FIELD #2 (CLASS "A" - Peoria vs. Cedar Rapids)
1. Rubi Silva, CF: 0-2 (BB, 4-3, BB, 4-3)
2. Arismendy Alcantara, SS: 1-4 (F-8, 1B, F-7, 5-3, R, SB)
3a. Anthony Giansanti, RF: 1-3 (5-3, 1B, 5-3)
3b. Brian Inoa, PH 0-1 (F-7)
4a. Ryan Cuneo, 1B: 1-3 (F-8, 4-3 FC, 1B, RBI)
4b. Wilson Contreras, PH: 0-1 (6-3)
5a. Chris Huseby, DH-LF: 2-3 (1B, K, 1B)
5b. Reggie Golden, PH: 0-1 (1-3)
6. Max Kwan, C-DH: 1-3 (P-4, 1B, 4-6 FC)
7. Dustin Geiger, 3B: 0-2 (4-3 GIDP, L-9, HBP)
8. Wes Darvill, 2B: 0-3 (F-9, 3-U, 3-1)
9. Cody Shields, LF-DH: 0-3 (5-3, K, F-8)
10. Johan DeJesus, DH-C: 1-3 (1B, 4-3, 6-3)
1. Justin Berg: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 3 R (3 ER), 2 BB, 1 K, 23 pitches (13 strikes), 2/0 GO/FO
2. Ben Wells: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 29 pitches (18 strikes), 3/3 GO/FO
3. Jeffry Antigua: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 PO, 33 pitches (23 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO,
4. Robinson Lopez: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 0 K, 1 PO, 19 pitches (9 strikes), 1/1 GO/FO)
5. Tarlandus Mitchell: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 4 R ( 2 ER), 3 BB, 0 K, 1 BALK, 25 pitches (9 strikes), 1/0 GO/FO
6. Larry Suarez: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 29 pitches (17strikes), 0/3 GO/FO
1B Ryan Cuneo: E-3 – errant throw to pitcher covering 1st base
2B Wes Darvill: E-4 – dropped pop fly
Max Kwan: 1-3 CS
RF Anthony Giansanti threw out baserunner 9-5 trying to advance from 1st to 3rd on single
FIELD #3 (CLASS "A" ADVANCED - Daytona vs. Inland Empire)
1. Evan Crawford, DH-CF: 1-4 (6-3, 5-3, 3-U, 2B)
2a. Dustin Harrington, 2B: 0-3 (P-4, K, F-9)
2b. Pierre LePage, 2B: 0-1 (P-5)
3. Matt Cerda, 3B-DH: 0-3 (BB, 1-3, 4-3, F-8)
4. Justin Bour, 1B: 0-3 (K, 6-3, F-8, BB)
5. Greg Rohan, DH-3B: 0-4 (K, K, 5-3, F-9)
6a. Francisco Guzman, CF: 0-1 (HBP, 6-3)
6b. Jesus Morelli, RF: 0-2 (F-8, 6-4-3 GIDP)
7a. Sergio Burruel, C: 1-2 (1B, 4-3)
7b. Micah Gibbs, C: 1-1 (1B, R)
8. Jose Valdez, RF-DH: 2-3 (F-7, 1B, 3B, 2 R, RBI, 2 SB)
9a. Elliot Soto, SS: 0-0 (BB, F-8 SF, RBI)
9b. Marco Hernandez, SS: 0-1 (K)
10a. Alvaro Ramirez, LF: 0-2 (F-8, 5-3)
10b. D. J. Fitzgerald, LF: 1-1 (HR, R, 2 RBI)
1. Carlos Marmol: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 9 pitches (6 strikes), 0/2 GO/FO
2. Graham Hicks: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 2 K, 34 pitches (20 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO
3. Justin Bristow: 0.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 0 K, 16 pitches (7 strikes)
4. Marcus Hatley: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K, 22 pitches (18 strikes), 2/1 GO/FO)
5. Danny Keefe: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 25 pitches (16 strikes), 2/2 GO/FO
6. Jordan Latham: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 11 pitches (6 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO
Sergio Burruel: 1-5 CS
WEATHER: Sunny, with temperatures in the 70's
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Fwiw, I was at the big club's game from about the second through the top of the seventh. Highlights from the lawn seats? #3 for LA (Paul?) made a couple highlight reel catches in CF, Fuk helicoptered into the ground pretty bad at one point, and a startling turn of Cubbery when DeWitt tripled to lead off an inning and was followed by K, K, BB (Fuk), and K.
That said, I got to shake hands at Sluggo's after Sunday's game with Moreland, Dernier, and Willie Wilson. Class acts all of them. Granted, he's on the payroll, but Bobby D expressed a lot of enthusiasm about the youngsters coming up the next few years, told me to 'Keep the faith.' Made me wanna be able to come back here every year. Bobby Dernier was who you pretended you were stealing bases when I was a kid. Awesome people, Zonk told a great story about a death threat he got in NY in (I believe he said) '84.
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Cubs should definitely be the team to bring back the golf cart rides from the bullpen to the mound ... but only for those pitchers hand-picked by Gary Hughes.
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Thanks for these updates.
Some quick questions:
How has Ben Wells velocity been this spring? IIRC, last fall, you mentioned that, since Wells was slowly working his way back, he was working only in the upper 80's/low 90's. Pre-draft reports suggested that he was able to run it up to the mid-90's on occasion. Was wondering if his velocity was better now.
Looks like a poor outing for Bristow, but how has he looked overall? I remember the end of 2009, when he was looking like a really nice prospect with some breakout potential and was running his fastball in the mid-90's. I know Fleita has reportedly said that he's good to go, but curious what your take is.
I know Gioskar Amaya has been said to be a good athlete, but not a quick-twitch type. Do you think he has a shot of sticking at short? Profile sounds loosely similar to some of the recent young Cubs Latin American middle infield talent.
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Have you seen Simpson throw a pitch yet? I'm anxious to see him finally throw and see if his stuff is as advertised after the draft. Hopefully he won't feel too much pressure after being picked early and then not throwing for the team for a year.
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Thanks for the response. In terms of downward movement and potential releases, is there anyone in minor league camp that you've seen or heard about that might be at risk, like say a Dan McDaniel last year, who if I recall correctly, was one of the final cuts.
Disappointing to hear Lopez look bad, but not that surprising. If I recall the SAL reports, he was very inconsistent.
Quick query on Antigua - do you think he has the chance to add any velo? He's what, 88-92ish on the fastball?
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You have no idea how happy I am to see these back. I'm tired of reading about Koyie Hill wasting at bats. I'm happy to hear Rubi Silva is transitioning well. The Cuban Cannon?
Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come for Ben Wells.
Burruel with Daytona's team. Maybe he'll play full season ball this year. Sweet.
Golden looking 'better' yet?
Thanks, as always.
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I couldn't agree more! I was needing minor league updates something fierce. I love the fact that Rubi Silva took 2 walks. BA said he was a very aggressive hitter that didn't walk much, so this is nice to see.
As always, I greatly appreciate the updates, AZPhil, and please keep them coming!
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Thanks for the info Phil. On one of the broadcasts over the weekend Kyler Burke pinch hit for the Cubs. Bob Brenly said that he heard from probably his son Michael, that Burke hit in the worst luck ever last year. What group is he with this spring and how does he look?
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Is Michael the mailman's son?
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I miss minorleaguesplits.com, but from what you can see at just a quick glance at his stats show that his HR's and walks were cut in half his K's went up about 30%, so even if he hit into bad luck last year, he wasn't good.
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MILB.com and First Inning have some minor league splits
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Cool, thanks.
You can see that he had a .271 BABIP last year, on a 19% LD and 38% GB rate, so yeah he was probably unlucky, but add .050 and .075 to his slugging his slash line comes to .262/.329/.403 - still nothing to get excited about, but not totally horrid.
Ironically, luck neutralized, he probably hit about as well as Michael Brenly last year.
I still like Brenly's chances to make it. He just does the same thing ever year - moves a step up and holds his own with the bat.
Down to 36
Maine, Berg, Wellemeyer and Guzman sent down....
From Muskat..
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...and Max Ramirez getting an MRI on his left wrist. Apparently he's had problems with that wrist before. (per Rotoworld)
Might they be able to sneak Mighty Max to Iowa in a few weeks with a season start on the DL?
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Snarcasm. I love it.
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Phil - is there any serious effort or mechanism that MLB uses to try to ensure that teams do not hide healthy young players on the DL rather than lose them? I assume that there is peer pressure against that sort of thing, but does MLB management play any type of police role to try to prevent it.
I am not saying that there is no injury to Ramirez in particular. I am just wondering about the general situation.
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No Maine? a little surprising
Z, Dempster, Garza, Wells, Silva or Cashner
Marmol, Wood, Marshall, Grabow,
with Samardzija, Coleman, Russell, Stevens, Looper, Mateo and Silva or Cashner as the 3 other possibilities
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with Samardzija, Coleman, Russell, Stevens, Looper, Mateo and Silva or Cashner as the 3 other possibilities
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Angel Guzman is my dark horse candidate.
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Read above... Guzman got sent down.
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The article at cubs.com says he showed up without a slider ready to go:
I am a little hazy on what he did to get voted off while Coleman and Russell get to sing another song this week, but three lefties is probably sufficient, assuming Russell makes it.
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Peter Gammons tweet-
pgammo Interesting scouting report on Chris Davis:"He is the next Carlos Pena"
19 minutes ago
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Roy Oswald hit in back of head by manny Ramirez line drive.
Walked off on own power.
/wait he's not nl central
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On second thought, it looks like it might have hit him below his head, more on the neck. That couldn't have felt good, though... his neck absorbed nearly all of that velocity.
New Forbes Baseball Franchise Valuations
Forbes out with an article online that will appear in the April 11 issue of Forbes Magazine "Inside Baseball's Debt Disaster" ( http://blogs.forbes.com/monteburke/2011/03/23... ) which for some reason doesn't feature the Cubs and their 75% Debt to Value ratio, worst in Major League Baseball, as exhibit "A."
The Cubs' franchise page can be found here ( http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/33/baseball-... ). They have the Cubs worth $773 million. If they're right and that's questionable since they got other things wrong like the Ricketts' purchase price wrong (Ricketts' paid $845 million not $700 million) then the club is worth $72 million less than it cost them.
What surprised me (besides claiming Ricketts' paid $700 mil):
Forbes' analyst doesn't seem to know that baseball head coaches are called managers.
Cubs rank 24th in tv ratings?? Is that due to CSN having no audience?
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"Cubs rank 24th in tv ratings?? Is that due to CSN having no audience?"
Did you see that team last year???!??!
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They have the Cubs worth $773 million.
There's only two "real" ways to properly value a corporation, when a business isn't being sold. The first, which is the quick and dirty, is the market cap, which can only really be used if the business is pubically traded. The second, is by depreciating it's future cash flows.
The Cubs aren't presently pubicaly traded, so you can throw the market cap method out. That means to get a value for them, you're going to have to use the second method, and you're going to have to do it without things which are pretty important to actually know, like say, income.
The "stock market" moves up and down, and stocks move up and down based on what full time analysts think of the dispartiy between market capitlization, and net future cash flows. So every time you see a stock traded, you have someone in the "know" thinking that the company is over or under valued, and again, these are companies that have to release quarterly reports to the public.
The idea that anyone without inside financial information "knows" what the Cubs books look like, is well, naive at best. Even if all the information was available, you would still have full time experts give you divergent values for the team, and I am talking like $200 million differences.
Not to say the Forbes stuff isn't interesting, but take it with a grain of salt. It should not be treated as gospell. It's not like the Ricketts walked in with a copy of Forbes when they went to buy the Cubs.
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good stuff, TRN.
Re: Kevin Slowey
Twins would move Slowey for relief help.
Marshall for Slowey?
I'd probably do it.
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or make Marshall a starter?
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seems that ship has sailed with the Cubs...
never gonna happen, just throwing it out there
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i hear ya
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Yeah, this crossed my mind this morning, though I can't say I had thought specifically of Marshall. Slowey certainly seems more attractive than our current 5th starter options...
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Hell, you'd trade the Jackson twins, Castillo and McNutt for him ; )
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I would trade J. Jackson and Castillo probably, but I'm a pretty big Slowey fan. I guess his health would be the big issue that I can't answer.
Twins I assume are looking for an impact reliever, so I figured Marshall would be the asking price.
Be great if Grab-Ass would get it done with the Cubs throwing in $2M.
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Desperate times call for higher socks
tweet-PWSullivan Carlos Silva has pulled his socks up to just below the knee, apparently in his effort to change his luck.
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working so far
2-1 Cubs right now through 4, retired something like 15 of 16 last hitters
hello 5th starter
wonder if Cashner goes to pen or Iowa
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socks for pitching coach!
silva's lowered his ERA by 4 points...ha.
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make that 5 points...neat...kinda...sorta...
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4 innings = 12 outs... Silva must be pitching really well to have retired that many in 4 innings...
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I messed up the innings of course
only rough spot was the 1st inning where he gave up a leadoff single and a one out double.
6 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K for the day
retired 15 of 16 after the 1st with a lone single to Ryan Sweeney in the 3rd with 2 outs.
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I don't know what to make of this, aside from, as crunch points out in a lower post, the Oakland Lineup sucks... Maybe this does open some trade doors, though...
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i'm being a bit hard on oakland...especially since im not even watching the game.
i just can't believe this is year #2 that oakland has cheaped-out on their bats with such good pitching backing up the club.
that said, there's not a lot exciting about who he faced today. at least his 3Ks came vs. regular season starters.
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well he was 9-2 with a 2.96 ERA as of July 6th last year
Maddux seems to have some faith in him, wouldn't be surprised if he said he still deserves a shot in yesterday's meetings.
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The guy makes MILLIONS! Can't he at least show up for camp in shape? Especially after having problems with his heart last year?
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I missed a lot of the second half of last season because I lost interest, but the half I did watch, Silva's game appeared to be to keep the ball low, throw strikes, and make the batter earn it. It's not inconceivable that he'd be rusty and leave some pitches up the first few starts of spring training and he's not a guy that can make an occasional mistake. I'm not saying I've pre-ordered my Silva jersey and I definitely don't expect a 9-2 2.96 ERA in July this year, but he's probably good enough for this team's #5 pitcher. Silva isn't going to be the guy preventing a Cubs playoff berth. Sigh.
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But don't get me wrong... I mean if it were up to me, he'd be a goner. I'd eat the contract and let some AAA douchebag pitch.
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Hello trade partner, hopefully.
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I don't know if this available online or not, but is anyone watching or hearing the game that might be able to note what is different about today's start, other than his socks or that he is getting outs...
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it probably helps when you're pitching to one of the most piss-poor lineups known to man. oakland keeps amazing me with how they refuse to address their hitting. it's all singles, walks, little-speed, and the occasional (but not occasionally enough) homer.
this is year 2 with amazing pitching and "really?" hitting.
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/joe morgan
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They added Crisp, Matsui, Willingham and tried to get Beltre.
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okay, wtf?
intentionally walking s.moore in a f'n spring training game with 2 out?
hope w.castillo makes oak pay for that bush crap.
-edit- and welly walks...loaded. and soriano hbp...loaded.
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Walking a guy intentionally to get to a guy that is hitting .700 this spring = questionable?
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For Your Viewing Pleasure: I'm guessing some of you haven't seen this yet. Rare footage of Ruth and Gehrig together
Farm systems
It's a rainy evening here. Has everyone seen this yet---Baseball America's organizational ratings. Cubs' farm system ranks 16th by their reckoning.
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through the years
2011: 16th
2010: 15th
2009: 27th
2008: 20th
2007: 18th
2006: 15th
2005: 10th
2004: 7th
2003: 3rd
2002: 1st
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J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.


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Long-time Altoona Area High School cross country and track coach Angie Gioiosa made a positive impact on hundreds of area runners that came under his direction.
Three of them - Travis Etters, his sister, Krista, and Todd Runk - will be competing in the JFK UltraMarathon Saturday in the late Gioiosa's honor and memory.
Travis and Krista Etters and Runk will be part of the 50th running of the 50-mile race, which will begin in Boonesboro, Md. and wind up in Hagerstown, Md.
Travis Etters and Runk, both 33 and 1998 graduates of Altoona High School, competed on Gioiosa-coached teams. Krista Etters, 38, did not compete on the scholastic level for Gioiosa, but she benefited from his coaching when she began her competitive running career several years ago.
"I did not run for Angie in high school, but I knew him for many years, and I appreciated all the help and encouragement he gave me when I started running as an adult in my 30s,'' Krista Etters said in an email to the Mirror. "Since running my first 5K race about six years ago, I have progressed to completing marathons.''
Angie Gioiosa - who died in 2011 at the age of 72 and was a 2002 inductee to the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame - was the first overall finisher in the JFK UltraMarathon back in 1975. Travis and Krista Etters, along with Runk, are trying to raise money for the Angie Gioiosa Memorial Scholarship Fund, a scholarship that recognizes one boy and one girl cross-country and/or track and field athlete at Altoona Area High School.
To date, a total of $1,500 has been raised for the Gioiosa Memorial Fund. Individuals can donate directly to the Altoona Area High School, but must note the Angie Gioiosa Memorial Fund in the memo line on their checks. More information is available on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/ultraforangie.
"Last year, we were able to give two $500 scholarships,'' Travis Etters said. "That's our [minimum] goal every year, depending on the funds [generated].''
The course begins on the Appalachian Trail for several miles, and continues for most of its duration on the Canal Trail, before winding up on the road.
"The course looks almost like a horseshoe, starting in Boonesboro and winding through Harpers Ferry, W.Va.,'' Travis Etters said. "We figured that this is the best way to honor [Gioiosa]. We're hoping to run [in a time] between eight and nine hours for the whole 50 miles, which will probably put us in the middle of the pack.
"I just want to finish and be healthy enough to walk the next day,'' Travis Etters added.


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Sunday, 7 September 2008
Dexter Filkins writes about Pakistan in New Duranty:
ONE SWELTERING AFTERNOON in July, I ventured into the elegant home of a former Pakistani official who recently retired after several years of serving in senior government posts. We sat in his book-lined study. A servant brought us tea and biscuits.
Was it the obsession with India that led the Pakistani military to support the Taliban? I asked him.
"Yes," he said.
Or is it the anti-Americanism and pro-Islamic feelings in the army?
"Yes," he said, that too.
And then the retired Pakistani official offered another explanation — one that he said could never be discussed in public. The reason the Pakistani security services support the Taliban, he said, is for money: after the 9/11 attacks, the Pakistani military concluded that keeping the Taliban alive was the surest way to win billions of dollars in aid that Pakistan needed to survive. The military's complicated relationship with the Taliban is part of what the official called the Pakistani military's "strategic games." Like other Pakistanis, this former senior official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of what he was telling me.
"Pakistan is dependent on the American money that these games with the Taliban generate," the official told me. "The Pakistani economy would collapse without it. This is how the game works."
As an example, he cited the Pakistan Army's first invasion of the tribal areas — of South Waziristan in 2004. Called Operation Shakai, the offensive was ostensibly aimed at ridding the area of Taliban militants. From an American perspective, the operation was a total failure. The army invaded, fought and then made a deal with one of the militant commanders, Nek Mohammed. The agreement was capped by a dramatic meeting between Mohammed and Safdar Hussein, one of the most senior officers in the Pakistan Army.
"The corps commander was flown in on a helicopter," the former official said. "They had this big ceremony, and they embraced. They called each other mujahids. "
"Mujahid" is the Arabic word for "holy warrior." The ceremony, in fact, was captured on videotape, and the tape has been widely distributed.
"The army agreed to compensate the locals for collateral damage," the official said. "Where do you think that money went? It went to the Taliban. Who do you think paid the bill? The Americans. This is the way the game works. The Taliban is attacked, but it is never destroyed.
"It's a game," the official said, wrapping up our conversation. "The U.S. is being taken for a ride."
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In HBO's The Newsroom, John Gallagher Jr. plays Jim Harper, the senior producer of the nightly cable news program anchored by Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). The show's second season, which began in July, takes place in 2012 during the presidential primaries. Ever since the start of the series, Gallagher's character has been in a will-they-or-won't-they relationship with one of the young producers of the news show. Right now, it's looking to him like they won't, and in an attempt to get away from the woman who's broken his heart, he's decided to go on the campaign trail and report from the Mitt Romney bus. But he soon discovers there's nothing to report, just repetitive stump speeches and daily spin delivered by Romney campaign aides on the bus. In a recent episode, Jim tried to get some real answers out of the aides, and ended up getting thrown off the bus.
In addition to acting, Gallagher can sing and dance. He won a Tony in 2007 for his performance in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening. (Lea Michele, who went on to star in Glee, was also part of that cast.) Gallagher also played Johnny, aka "Jesus of Suburbia," in the Green Day musical American Idiot as part of that show's original Broadway cast.
He joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to discuss how he rehearses for The Newsroom, his appearance on the fourth season of The West Wing and the challenges of translating a Green Day album into a Broadway musical.
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When it comes to 2011 NFL Mock Drafts, there are only so many authorities for the rest of us to go by. It just so happens that ESPN has two very good ones in Mel Kiper and Todd McShay.
Without them, tackling your own mock draft would be like trying to give a sermon without a pulpit.
However, as clever and well-informed as Kiper and McShay may be, their mocks do tend to offer up a few picks that are real head-scratchers.
For example, I'm pretty sure one of Kiper's mocks had the Houston Texans taking Julio Jones. It doesn't get much more puzzling than that.
But never mind Kiper. I've already done an exhaustive critique of his most recent mock. Instead, I'm going to set might sights on McShay. After all, there are precious few hours left until the draft, and mocking McShay's most recent mock draft sounds like a great way to pass the time.
The formula here is pretty simple. I'm going to go through McShay's mock pick by pick, and I'm basically going to take him to school.
If I think McShay nailed a given pick, he gets a good grade. If I think he's wrong, he gets a bad grade. Either way, I'll wrap things up by giving my own two cents about which player each team should pick.
If this sounds like fun to you, all you have to do is keep it here and wait for updates.
If this doesn't sound like fun, that means your name is Todd McShay, and that this is not the place for you. You're biased.


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PEORIA -- Caterpillar's first-quarter earnings climbed 5 percent and the construction equipment maker raised its 2014 forecast. But the company also says a mining equipment sales slump is still hurting results.The Peoria company says it now expects 2014 earnings of $6.10 per share excluding restructuring costs. That's up from its previous forecast for $5.85 per share.Analysts expect $5.72 per share, on average.Caterpillar Inc. says it earned $922 million, or $1.44 per share, in the quarter that ended March 31. That compares to $880 million, or $1.31 per share, last year.Earnings totaled $1.61 per share, excluding restructuring costs. Total revenue was nearly flat at $13.24 billion.Analysts forecast earnings of $1.21 per share on $13.09 billion in revenue.Caterpillar shares are up nearly 4 percent in premarket trading today.
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Bobby Massey is a founding member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees the O'Jays. The O'Jays' story dates back to the late Fifties when Eddie Levert and Walter Williams began singing gospel on a radio station in their hometown of Canton, Ohio. Joined by fellow high-schoolers William Powell, Bobby Massey and Bill Isles, they became the Triumphs, an R&B vocal group, in 1959. Their popularity as a live act got them signed to Syd Nathan's King label, where they released a pair of singles as the Mascots.
They were then taken under the wing of Cleveland disc jockey Eddie O'Jay and renamed the O'Jays – a name that stuck. In 1961 they headed to Los Angeles, where they honed their craft with producer H.B. Barnum. They recorded for Barnum's Little Star label and then got signed to Imperial Records. The O'Jays spent much of the Sixties on the Imperial and Bell labels, enjoying chart success on the R&B side with such hits as "Stand in For Love" (#12) and "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today)" (#8). The group's fortunes took a leap when they met producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff backstage at Harlem's Apollo Theater in 1968. The O'Jays signed to the duo's fledgling Neptune label, for which they recorded seven singles, including the R&B hit "One Night Affair" (#15).
Massey left the group in 1971, shortly before the group signed to Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label. He has since retired from performing and has established several recording companies to promote and nurture the talents of young artists. Bobby designed the "Back 2 Basics" program to help our children develop into responsible, well mannered, successful adults. Massey is also the President / CEO of Mass Network, a business development and consulting company whose goals are to make resources available to small, minority business organizations in order to realize maximum growth potential. Because of his many successes, Bobby is dedicated to giving back to his community and the world at large.
Bobby Massey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Da'von Durant, a linebacker at Butler (Kan.) Junior College, has wanted to play for South Carolina for years dating to his days as a Shrine Bowl player at Greenwood High School.
On Tuesday he plans to finally take that next step by committing to the Gamecocks.
"Coach (Kirk) Botkin is coming out to see me," Durant said of his recruiter and the Gamecocks' linebackers coach. "I'm ready. I'm excited to get back home and make plays."
Durant, a 6-4, 240-pound four-star recruit, plays outside linebacker in a 3-4 alignment at Butler and knows that USC is planning to use more of a 3-4 look starting this season. His spring game is May 9 and he says he's had a very good spring practice thus far.
"I've been working on the small stuff like technique and getting off the ball and pass rush," Durant said. Durant said he is on track to graduate in December and will have three years to play two.
In other recruiting news:
Quarterback Kelly Bryant (6-4, 205) of Wren, the state's top quarterback prospect for the 2015 class, committed to Clemson last week.
Bryant had narrowed his focus to the Tigers, Florida, N.C. State, Virginia and Virginia Tech.
"Clemson was the leader. I was just going back and forth," Bryant said. "Not much difference. But then I talked to Coach (Dabo) Swinney and Coach (Chad) Morris and those phone calls finalized everything for me. I knew Clemson was where I needed to be."
Bryant emerged as a true quarterback prospect last season fighting off the label of "athlete" by insisting on being recruited as a quarterback. Last season he passed for 2,805 yards and 28 touchdowns and rushed for 1,000 yards and 15 touchdowns.
"He can keep a play alive and he looks to throw the football," said Wren coach Jeff Tate. "He sees the field well and has learned how to get the ball out of his hand really quick. And he understands the coverages."
Defensive lineman Gage Cervenka (6-3, 265) of Emerald, a lifelong Clemson fan, realized that childhood dream of joining the Tiger program last week when he committed during an on-campus visit.
"My biggest thing is when I was younger, and this recent season when I went to the Georgia game, all the fans, they are never quiet," Cervenka said. "It's just unique."
Cervenka also had offers from Miami, Virginia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest and N.C. State. Cervenka is also a three-time state wrestling champion and the Clemson defensive coaches view him as a run-plugging interior lineman right now. Last season he had 100 tackles with 28 for loss and 3 sacks. The Tigers now have 11 commitments for their 2015 class.
USC currently is the team to beat for tight end Connor Redmond (6-4, 230) of Decatur, Ga., following a recent visit for a spring practice. Redmond got a good look at the program and the city and liked everything he saw.
"I really like the city of Columbia," he said. "It's not too far from home but far enough to be away from home. I really like the coaches. They are laid back and down to earth. And I like that they've been doing good and they have new facilities that are impressive."
Redmond also has visited Boston College, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Auburn and N.C. State. He doesn't have any more visits planned right now but would like to visit Georgia again, Ole Miss, Florida, Florida State, Mississippi State and Clemson, though he's not hearing much from the Tigers.
Wide receiver Auden Tate (6-4, 200) of Tampa is a target of Clemson and USC along with several others. He began his football career at Dutch Fork before moving to Tampa after his freshman season and he hasn't forgotten his roots. Both the Tigers and Gamecocks are high up on his list. "South Carolina and Clemson, I liked them a lot when I was there," Tate said. "South Carolina throws the ball a lot and they are in the SEC, and that's appealing. Clemson's offense is very wide open and I like that a lot. They throw the ball around and are a big play team. South Carolina is one of my favorites because I'm from there. And Clemson also is up there as well." Tate is expecting coaches to scout him in May during his spring practice. He has not narrowed his list and will take more visits including USC and Clemson. He has been to South Florida, Florida State, Central Florida and Florida. He also plans to visit Miami. Tate said Kentucky and Miami have been recruiting him the hardest and he's talked the most with recruiters from those two. He has offers from Clemson, USC, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Miami, Penn State, Vanderbilt, South Florida, Central Florida, Nebraska, Ohio State and Kentucky. He does not have favorites at this point. Last season Tate had 48 catches for 815 yards and 5 touchdowns.
Florida State commit DB Calvin Brewton of Miami is expecting Clemson to stop by his school during spring practice. Brewton has shown interest in the Tigers and is considering a visit. Since committing to the Seminoles, contact has waned from Clemson but a positive conversation this spring could mean a visit. "I've always been interested in them," Brewton said. "I know I am committed to FSU right now but depending on what they say, I still could visit." Brewton said he remains committed to Florida State but added, "(My) recruitment is still open."
On June 6, OL Troy Thingstad (6-5 265) of Mobile, Ala., will visit USC for the first time. The Gamecocks were his first offer back in January and since then, he has picked up three more. Thingstad has added Louisville, Southern Miss and South Alabama since then and is hearing from Texas Tech and Northern Illinois. His previous visits include Alabama, Georgia Tech, South Alabama, Southern Miss and Louisville.
Highly sought after LB Roquan Smith of Montezuma, Ga., made his second visit to Clemson for the Tigers' spring game and it was another visit that worked in Clemson's favor when it comes to the hot competition for the weakside linebacker. "I spent a lot of time with the coaches," Smith said. "I like what those guys stand for. I talked mostly to coach Venables. He likes my ability and strengths and said they don't have that on their current roster and I could come in a play early. I also sat down with coach Swinney in his office. He's a great guy. I like what he stands for. He's a great, family oriented guy. And they are a top 10 defense, probably a top two in the ACC and they are going to be really good. I could fit in in the Will (linebacker) position. The weekend boosted them up a lot. It's a great school." Smith had planned to take a visit to USC this weekend but his recruiter Kirk Botkin informed he that he would be on the road recruiting so that trip has been scrapped. Smith said if he visits USC it won't be until the summer. He has also been to Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Florida State. Smith said he has no favorites right now.
DL D.J. Jones of East Mississippi JC, a former Shrine Bowler from Wren, continues to talk with USC and Clemson and is thinking strongly of both. "Choosing between those two, to tell you the truth, I couldn't. I feel comfortable about both places." One bonus item for USC is that Jones has a sister who goes to school there. He said USC and Clemson likely will get two of his official visits. He has not decided on the others. Jones recently added offers from Florida, Arizona State and Texas A&M. Some of his other offers are Alabama, Tennessee, Florida State, Ole Miss, Southern Cal, Mississippi State, Georgia and LSU. He does not have favorites at this point.
USC last week offered OL Tommy Hatton (6-2 280) of Montvale, N.J. Some of his other offers include Boston College, Maryland, Duke, Georgia Tech, Indiana and Louisville.


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In anticipation of sleet, freezing rain and possibly snow on Tuesday, the National Weather Service has issued its second Winter Storm Watch in less than a week.
As part of this event forecasters expect a wintry mix to begin sometime early on Tuesday morning, most likely north of the Houston metro area, and sag southward. For parts of the region the wintry precipitation could last through midnight Tuesday.
The exact timing and amounts of precipitation aren't yet clear. However forecasters believe 0.05 to 0.2 inches of ice, and 1 to 4 inches of snow could accrue in parts of the Houston metro area. Snow is most likely north of Houston, with ice more likely in the city. But most areas could see at least some snow.
It's difficult to say when roads will be worst, but there's a chance they could be hazardous throughout the day on Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning.
We should have a better understanding of this by Monday morning.
A key difference between this event and that on Friday is that temperatures should be a few degrees cooler, allowing for freezing rain or snow from the outset, and making it more likely that the precipitation will remain freezing on the ground. Thus there is the potential for this event to be more severe than that experienced on Friday.


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SLAP repair - discharge; Acromioplasty - discharge; Bankart - discharge; Shoulder repair - discharge; Shoulder arthroscopy - discharge
You had shoulder surgery to repair the tissues inside or around your shoulder joint. The surgeon may have used a tiny camera called an arthroscope to see inside your shoulder.
You may have needed open surgery if your surgeon could not repair your shoulder with the arthroscope. If you had open surgery, you have a large incision (cut).
You will need to wear a sling when you leave the hospital. Some people also wear a shoulder immobilizer. This keeps your shoulder from moving. How long you need to wear the sling or immobilizer will depends on the type of surgery you had.
Wear the sling or immobilizer at all times, unless your doctor says you do not have to.
If you had rotator cuff or other ligament or labral surgery, you need to be careful with your shoulder. Ask your doctor about what arm movements are safe to do.
Your surgeon will refer you to a physical therapist to learn exercises for your shoulder.
Consider making some changes around your home so it is easier for you to take care of yourself.
Your doctor will give you a prescription for pain medicines. Get it filled when you go home so you have it when you need it. Take your pain medicine when you start having pain so pain does not get too bad.
Narcotic pain medicine (codeine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone) can make you constipated. If you are taking them, drink plenty of fluids and eat fruits and vegetables and other high-fiber foods to help keep your stools loose.
Do not drink alcohol or drive if you are taking these pain medicines.
Taking ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or other anti-inflammatory drugs with your prescription pain drugs may help also. Ask your doctor about using them.
Place ice packs on the dressing (bandage) over your wound (incision) 4 - 6 times a day for about 20 minutes each time. Wrap the ice in a clean towel or cloth. Do NOT place it directly on the dressing. Ice will help keep swelling down.
Check your circulation (blood flow) throughout the day. Your fingers should be warm and pink. They should not feel numb or tingly.
Your sutures (stitches) will be removed about 1 week after surgery.
Keep your bandage and your wound clean and dry. Ask your doctor if it is okay to change the dressing. Keeping a gauze pad under your arm may help absorb sweat and keep your underarm skin from getting irritated or sore. Do not place any lotion or ointment on your incision.
Check with your doctor about when you can start taking showers if you have a sling or shoulder immobilizer. Take sponge baths until you can shower. When you do shower:
You will probably see your doctor every 4 - 6 weeks if you had a complicated shoulder repair surgery.
Call your doctor or nurse if you have:
Also call the doctor if your hand or fingers are darker in color or feel cool to the touch.
Phillips BB. Recurrent dislocations. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 47.
Phillips BB. Arthroscopy of the upper extremity. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 52.
Matsen III FA, Fehringer EV, Lippitt SB, Wirth MA, Rockwood Jr. CA. Rotator cuff. In: Rockwood CA Jr, Matsen FA III, Wirth MA, Lippitt SB, eds. The Shoulder. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:chap 17.
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The Stetson men's basketball team travels to Daytona Beach on Monday to take on Volusia County rival Bethune-Cookman. The Hatters (2-3) will look to snap a two-game losing streak against the Wildcats (2-6) at 7:00 p.m. in Moore Gym.
Following a hard fought 63-54 loss at home to USF on Nov. 26, Stetson traveled to Richmond and dropped a 92-56 game at VCU on Nov. 28. The Rams, who are receiving votes in most national polls, were a final four team just two seasons ago.
On Monday the Hatters will look to get back to the winning ways they saw in the middle of November, which included a pair of 22-point victories over Florida A&M and Southeastern. Stetson has used unselfish play throughout its first five games, and was in fact leading the nation in assists per game with a mark of 20.0 when the NCAA released statistics for the first time on Nov. 26.
In Bethune-Cookman, Stetson faces a team in just its second home contest, holding a record of 2-6 with seven of eight tilts coming on the road. The Wildcats recently fell to Florida A&M in Tallahassee by a score of 75-67, a team that the Hatters topped 88-66 back on Nov. 13.
The Hatters have a history of success against B-CU, holding a 19-5 advantage in the all-time series, but since 1997 the two teams have alternated victories during the last seven meetings. Last year, Stetson won 65-60 in the season-opener. In the Wildcats favor is that they have had much more success at home, trailing the Hatters just 4-3 in Daytona Beach.
Monday's game can be heard live on WSBB 1230 AM in New Smyrna, 1490 AM in DeLand, or online at www.MyAM1230.com. Head over to our Broadcast Information page for instructions on how to listen to the game from your computer or smart phone. Live Stats, the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.


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As retailers go, Southern Season doesn't fit neatly into any single category.
At a glance
Southern Season opens at 730 Coleman Blvd. in Mount Pleasant on Thursday, marking the company's only store aside from its original Chapel Hill, N.C., location. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is at 8:30 a.m. Some statistics about the company:
It carries 80,000 different items
About 45% of its annual sales fall between the day after Thanksgiving and Dec. 26
About 45% of customers are men
The new store has a 48-seat cooking school equipped with TV cameras
It has a 250-seat restaurant with a private-function room and outdoor bar area
One of its most expensive food items is an imported cured ham that sells for about $190 a pound.
It's not just a specialty food and beverage store. It's not just a seller of cookware and other kitchen items. It's not just a cooking school. It's not just a bar and restaurant operator.
In short, it's all of those businesses tucked under one roof — part Williams-Sonoma, part Dean & Deluca, part Food Network.
"We entertain. We educate. And, of course, it's all about the product," said veteran entrepreneur and investor W. Clay Hamner, chairman of the expansion-minded company.
Southern Season is gearing up for what is arguably the most eagerly awaited retail recruit for local culinary buffs since Whole Foods took over an empty Bi-Lo in Mount Pleasant nine years ago.
This time, it's a vacant Food Lion, also in Mount Pleasant, that's getting the upscale makeover. Southern Season opens Thursday at Brookgreen Town Center on Coleman Boulevard, the first step in a big growth spurt for the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based company.
"It will be a destination," said Hamner, whose TC Capital Fund bought Southern Season from its founder two years ago.
The East Cooper store has hired 208 full- and part-time employees to staff the multifaceted enterprise, with all but three from the local area, he said. The payroll will jump to about 300 around the holidays.
"The people we hire love food. They love to entertain. They're well-educated," said Hamner, who teaches entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina's Kenan Flagler business school.
In describing the array of inventory, he uses the term "depth." He points to the vast selections of wines, coffees, teas, chocolates and other consumables.
"Every hot sauce known to man," Hamner said during a tour of the new store. "Every barbecue sauce known to man."
He added that the company is "big on gift baskets," and sells "more coffee beans" in North Carolina "than anybody."
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Southern Season isn't a supermarket, at least not in the traditional sense.
The 40,000-square-foot Mount Pleasant operation is broken down into 10 distinct departments, with each of those expected to generate $2 million to $4 million a year in revenue, led by kitchenware sales, Hamner said.
While the new store will carry items such as pricey cured hams, pates, fresh-baked goods and gourmet cheeses, it won't stock most everyday staples. Produce, milk, seafood and fresh meats aren't in the merchandise mix.
Hamner said the company's strategy includes giving free shelf space to locally produced goods, from tea raised on Wadmalaw Island to kitchen gadgets designed in Mount Pleasant.
"If it sells, we keep it," he said. "If it doesn't sell, we can say we tried."
Lowell Grosse of Charleston Coffee Roasters is one of the store's local vendors. He said he'll be holding demonstrations and classes aimed at the "in-home consumer."
"It fits along the lines with our brand because it's higher end," Grosse said of Southern Season.
The company is the new kid in a town awash with upscale food-oriented retailers, but it's actually an old hand at that game.
Opened in late 1975 by Michael Barefoot in an 800-square-foot space, Southern Season has cultivated a devoted following and a huge mail-order business over the past 38 years. The Chapel Hill store is now considered a local landmark, a "must-see" for visitors, Hamner said.
But Bareback resisted Hamner's suggestions to take the concept to other markets.
"He had no interest in expanding," Hamner said.
Two years ago, in the aftermath of the recession, he agreed to sell to Hamner and other Chapel Hill investors. Barefoot remains a consultant to the company.
Hamner is no newcomer to the retail industry. He was running Montrose Capital when it acquired the The Pantry convenience store chain in 1987. He's also been a director of Wendy's International, among other companies, and he was an investor in Kleinfeld, the Manhattan bridal boutique made famous by the popular cable show "Say Yes to the Dress."
"I seem to like retail for some reason," he said.
A persuasive case
It was veteran real estate dealmaker Charlie Way of The Beach Co. who helped make the Mount Pleasant expansion come together. Way was looking to fill the empty Food Lion space that his family-owned real estate business owns. He flew to Chapel Hill to call on Southern Season with Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails in tow.
"He's very persuasive," Hamner said of The Beach Co. chairman.
It wasn't an instant decision.
"We love Charleston," said Hamner. "That isn't hard to sell. The question was, 'Is it large enough?'"
He noted that the North Carolina location draws most of its business from a 50-mile radius, an area with a population of about 1.7 million people.
On paper, Charleston is about half that size, and is on the coast, to boot. But Hamner said the region has an outsized base of well-heeled consumers who aren't calculated in the numbers retailers look at when studying future store sites.
Some are retirees, he said. Others don't declare Charleston as their primary residence but spend a fair amount of time in the area.
"They may have a house on Kiawah Island or Sullivan's Island but live in Atlanta," he said. "They don't show up in the demographics."
Bolstering the case for the hefty Mount Pleasant investment is the region's nearly year-round tourist base and its tidy assortment of colleges, which brings parents to the area. The thriving food scene in Charleston was the icing on the cake, Hamner said.
As the store prepares to open, Southern Season is also expanding into eight other cities in Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Hamner said the short-term goal is ramp up to 10 locations in the Southeast and ring up a combined $400 million in annual sales. That would be enough to get Wall Street's attention and set the stage for a possible public stock offering, followed by a nationwide rollout, Hamner said.
The company will set off down that path Thursday in Mount Pleasant.
Edtior's note: An earlier version of this story misidentified Southern Season founder Michael Barefoot.
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On a warm September morning on the academic quad, a group of students is having a serious conversation, but it's not about being inundated with homework or what's on the menu at Curtis. Here, at the heart of campus, they have created what they call a "safe space" to hold an intentional discussion, complete with popcorn and juice. They are trained members of Sustained Dialogue, and they're trying to make the world a better place, one conversation at a time.
Sustained Dialogue (SD) is a student-run initiative at Denison, and it's part of a much larger movement that is supported by the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue. Simply put, members of SD solve problems through communication. Several SD groups meet throughout the campus and invite students, faculty, and staff to discuss pretty much anything and everything, but especially those topics that often elicit varying emotional points of view. No subject is off limits, and the goal is not to have all parties move toward common ground. Rather, it's to share differing opinions and perceptions, and to acknowledge and understand their differences in a respectful way, becoming better informed and more valuable community members in the process.
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Here's a question: Which product requires minuscule amounts of physical capital, an even tinier marginal cost per unit sold with capacity to fill infinite demand, and can make you very wealthy almost overnight? If you said music or web content you're right about the first two points, but it is software that really fits the bill.
Of the five wealthiest people in the world, two made their money on software, and the iPhone app market mixes good ideas with a bit of programming into hundred-thousand dollar jackpots. Software is the work-from-home, get-rich-quick scheme that actually works. Why would anyone want to give that away?
Open-source computing looks at software as a public good. Programs are measured in pride over profit. Programs are provided with their source code free-of-charge, allowing users to freely modify the work, provided the terms of the license (usually attribution and licensing the derived code under the same open-source license) are met.
For mainstream applications such as operating systems or productivity suites, open-source alternatives followed their commercial counterparts after the latter's licensing burdens became too restrictive. However, a large fraction of academic projects have been open-source from the start, owing to their educational value, collaborative nature, and public funding. NCBI BLAST is one of the most successful of these projects and receives hundreds of thousands of DNA-alignment requests daily.
With open-source software allowing more uses of the code—freedom to modify, distribute, and use—why isn't open-source software dominant? Or is it?
As it stands today there are open-source options for virtually every step in the drug-development pipeline. Odds are the company website is being delivered by open-source Apache (60% of market share). Even so, the workstations are probably running Microsoft Windows (80% do) with some combination of proprietary and open-source applications.
Users are familiar with Windows, and choosing Windows offers a greater selection of programs in most cases. Drug development is already an expensive endeavor, so paying a relatively small premium for additional functionality and familiarity can be well worth it.
In the lab, open-source software co-exists peacefully with commercial software. You might see a presentation in Powerpoint filled with pictures analyzed and modified in open-source ImageJ.
Academia seems to favor open-source more than industry. One good example is how open-source statistics package R is rising in academic citations and discussions but still remains absent from job postings.
Also, computationally focused work favors open-source as well: Freedom to modify is critical when the algorithm is as experimental as the data itself, as in bioinformatics. Some main complaints with open-source software in biology are difficult installations, poor integration between packages, and lack of support.
The free-to-download, free-to-modify code makes for a challenging business model. Still, there is a market in offering a fix. Open-source vendors create a distinction between free and paid "Enterprise" versions using some combination of additional services such as technical support, quality testing, proprietary add-on utilities, certification, and training.
By including these perks, they ameliorate the shortcomings of classical open-source, for a price, usually a fraction of competing costs. This is the case with OpenClinica, a clinical electronic data capture solution. Everyone can download the same base software, but only paid users receive validation, hosting, support, etc.
Though this blurs the lines of open- and closed-source, the confusion doesn't stop there. Other licenses such as for the molecular dynamics tool Amber are not free but do include the source; the prices are split between $400 per non-profit/academic site and $20,000 for commercial sites. Finally, premium tools such as Accelrys' Discovery Studio integrate open-source molecular dynamics tool NAMD with closed-source tools together in one giant package.
The question of which software option to use comes down to two main questions: What are your employees familiar with, and what is their time worth? Cash-strapped academic labs have shown that open-source software options are generally up to the task, but tweaking, fiddling, fixing, and searching is often necessary to get them running properly.
Once an open-source tool reaches a threshold of usability, though, schools start to integrate it into curricula; a phenomenon that will only become more common as library and software budgets are slashed. OpenClinica generated interest in academic circles after it was featured in PLoS Medicine, and its free version was demonstrated in an independent investigator-run 400-patient study.
It's already made its way into a course at the Bioinformatics Institute of India and been picked up by several CROs including Athena Healthcare in China, Qualitix in Taiwan, and Emphron in Australia. This is a small fraction of the market, but it's a start, and as areas like China and India grow in wealth, so too will the value of those CROs. Open-source software could take over newer, smaller, and poorer CROs that have fewer patients and could expect a greater fraction of licensing overhead.
Even so, changing software is a relatively small modification. If you could afford Oracle Clinical or one of the other commercial packages, then clinical trial workflow will not be particularly altered. For those who couldn't, however, data collection and dissemination will become much easier.
Open-source represents an answer to software piracy, price-gouging, vendor lock-ins, and abandoned code. It comes with just one question: Who wants to install it?
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COLUMBUS -Twice, Seneca East's Zach Gregg was a miss away from the Division III state title in pole vault.
Twice, Columbus Grove's Collin Grothaus - the only other competitor left - cleared the required height.
Had Grothaus not cleared 15-3 with his third vault, the Seneca East junior would have won the event. When Grothaus cleared it, the onus shifted to Gregg, who had missed 15-3 on his first two attempts. When he missed on the third, Grothaus was champion.
"I think we could have used another five pounds (on the pole)," Seneca East vault coach Gary England said, "to give him a little more spring."
Grothaus had been down to one vault minutes earlier, when Gregg had cleared 14-6 and Grothaus missed on his first two chances.
Even after Grothaus cleared 14-6, the advantage still stood with Gregg due to criteria.
"I never want to hope that someone doesn't make a height," said Gregg, whose final height cleared was 15-0. "I was just kind of watching to see what happened. Anxious."
He wasn't the only one.
Gregg's teammate, freshman Cory Depinet, who cleared 13-0 to take sixth, was asked if he was more nervous during his tries or Gregg's.
"I was nervous for him toward the end there," Depinet said.
It was a big jump for Gregg. He qualified at state for the pole vault last season, but didn't clear a height.
"That wasn't such a great feeling," Gregg said. "I just kind of worked as hard as I could. I'm very happy with what I did."
England was, too.
"Zach, he's done great," England said. "I couldn't ask any more from him. He's a very good competitor, he's got great form, and he's very smooth through that form."
As for Depinet, England said he only will get better.
"We've just got to get him used to vaulting a little higher," England said. "He tends to shoot for the bar, we've got to get him used to getting his hips up over, and just following through with it; not worrying about the bar."
Depinet said he was confident about reaching the height he needed to place where he did.
"I was really nervous starting out, but I knew I could get 13 feet again, and I was hoping to get 13-6," he said.
The vaulters weren't the only Tigers to place Friday.
In the girls shot put, Ashton Daniel placed fifth, throwing 41-2 .
"Couldn't ask for a better way to end my career," the senior said. "Very happy with it."
The winning throw for the event was 45-8 by Fairlawn's Olivia Cummings. Daniel said it was a tough field of throwers to compete with.
"You had to go out there and throw your best today," Daniel said. "There were a lot of 40-plus-footers out there and this is the best of the best in Ohio. These are the best girls I've thrown against in my whole career."
Another Tiger, Ben Hahler, competed in both throwing events. He threw 143-8 in the discus for 11th, and placed 14th in the shot, throwing 49-8 .
One SE athlete competed in a preliminary. Kevin Moore, despite running in Lane 8, placed second in his heat in the 110 hurdles, gaining automatic entry into today's finals.
Moore ran in 14.78, the fourth-best time overall.
Moore, who made state last year, was asked about his expectations.
"Go for first," he said. "Anything better than sixth is better than last year."
One other Tiger will compete today, with Jason Willman having qualified for the 1,600 and 3,200.
It's shaping up to be a big weekend for Seneca East.
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Making her way to the beautiful, centuries-old Greenbriar estate, Samantha finds it no easy task to sell its owner, the handsome yet uncompromising Anthony Whitaker, on her wild idea of searching for a lost Austen work–until she mentions its possible million dollar value.
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The Affordable Care Act codified the worksite wellness exemption to the federal medical underwriting provisions in the group health plan market. This means companies are allowed to use an "outcomes-based" incentive model that provides financial rewards for those who satisfy a prescribed health standard such as a BMI of less than 30 or who meet a "reasonable alternative standard" or obtain a waiver from their physician. What some see as "rewards" others view as penalties or surcharges and, given the absence of evidence to confirm the role of such incentives in actually improving population health, the new provisions have unleashed a debate about the ethics and putative effectiveness of the new provisions.
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When an employer group shifts from one health plan to another, why not allow them to take their claims data to the next health plan? That way, the new plan would gain immediate knowledge of the specific disease burden faced by its new members and be able to act accordingly vis-à-vis care management programs and other interventions. As it stands now, the new plan would have to wait many months and even then would lack the history that the earlier plan no longer needs. And when the new plan "finds out" about a member's condition, it might be due to a claim for an event that could have been prevented had the carrier had access to the earlier data.
Here's how the system would work. When a group signs up with a carrier, it could reserve the right to have its data transferred if it changes carriers. Obviously, it wouldn't be able to "see" its own patient-identified data any more than it does now, but the data would accompany the change of carriers.
Life is change. We here at Managed Care are breathing new life into our website by changing its look, but not only the look. Sure, it is more streamlined and easier on the eyes, but the change that excites us is in the content, which is richer and more interactive.
As we move Managed Care into the blogosphere, my curiosity was arosed about the number of active English language blogs. As with many internet related statistics, I found a wide range of estimates from 152 million (BlogPulse, February 2011) to 450 million — Hat Trick Associates. I unsuccessfully spent a bit of time searching for the number of healthcare specific blogs.
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On Sunday, state Sen. John H. Eichelberger Jr., R-Blair, voted with a majority of his colleagues in Harrisburg to approve a state budget.
The next morning, Eichelberger, who's been a critic of public school spending, was in Altoona with the auditor general who said the Altoona Area School District violated Pennsylvania School Code when now retired Altoona Area Superintendent Dennis Murray gave raises to the district's administrative employees without specific board votes.
"I think the results are clear - that there was a breach of Pennsylvania law done by the superintendent," Eichelberger said.
While Murray and his attorneys have said they trusted the auditor general's investigation would be impartial and fair, they smell something wrong with how the final product turned out and was presented.
"We were told at the end of last week that there would be no report and that surprised us. We were even more surprised with the announcement on Monday that there would be a report and that it was different than the one we were expecting," Efrem Grail, a Reed Smith attorney in Pittsburgh, said on Tuesday.
The report Reed Smith expected would have shone favorably on Murray.
Consequently, Murray's attorneys are calling for "a full release of the Auditor General's investigation and all correspondence relating to it," as a statement from Reed Smith read on Monday.
They have questions about potential influence on the report from locally elected state officials.
"That's ridiculous," Eichelberger said.
Eichelberger stood behind Auditor General Eugene DePasquale during his visit to the Altoona Area Public Library on Monday where the audit results were explained.
"It's not unusual for a visiting state official to bring along local officials," Eichelberger said. "He brought me because he knew I was interested."
Eichelberger said he received the report from the Auditor General's Office prior to the public because "They knew how anxious I was for it."
The school board had asked Eichelberger to be its mediator with the Auditor General's Office to speed up the audit's completion when it was slowed by delays, he said.
Eichelberger said he frequently calls state departments on behalf of local entities, schools and businesses to say "hurry up and get work done 'people are waiting for this.'"
"This goes on literally on a daily basis. It's part of my job," he said.
He said a significant delay resulted from the elimination of the Auditor General's Office Of Special Investigations because of budget cuts. The OSI had begun the pay raise investigation as a joint effort with the Bureau of Auditors, the audit states. Auditor general spokesman Barry Ciccocioppo said all information collected by the OSI was included in the completed audit report.
Eichelberger said Monday was his first encounter with DePasquale, a Democrat elected in November. He has only contacted legislative liaisons of his office in the past. He said no information was disclosed to him during the investigative process.
Rep. John McGinnis, R-Altoona said he was interested in the audit results but was not in contact with the auditor general during the investigation.
"If Republicans have influence over Democratic public officials [such as DePasquale], that's a story there," McGinnis said.
Eichelberger said he has received questions about whether he was able to work with public officials who are Democrats.
"And at the same time there are questions that I have control over these people," he said. He emphasized the professional conduct with which public officials including DePasquale conduct themselves.
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As Portuguese I had already
As Portuguese I had already heard about her. I think this cover is simply awesome, but of couse I prefer the original XD She isn't very famous, because in Portugal the radios and tv give lot of atencion to crap artist like Bieber...
she's sure awesome but i
she's sure awesome but i prefer the original!!! XD
I think she sounds pretty
I think she sounds pretty awesome. Ya its NOT the original version. It's not supposed to sound like the original version. And I like the way she sings. Her version of Basket Case is kind like a lullaby in way. It's not something you should sing to a toddler or anything but I think this version is very.. I dunno, like peacful or something. While the original version by Green Day sounds awesome in a different, upbeat kinda way.
She's not getting the lyrics
She's not getting the lyrics wrong, she's changing them slightly to suit her. This is HER version of the song- that's what covers are all about. They don't have to be exactly the same as the original.
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Write a comment here (no HTML please) She sings very well but i don't like this version . But it's original
I have to say, I like the
I have to say, I like the idea of having an acoustic arrangement of Basketcase using an upright Bass. However, I did not like her voice or her style of singing. And in my opinion, I think that when you do a cover you can make it your own in a manner of speaking, but you have to stay true to the original artist up to a point. She changed quite a few of the chords, and it didn't work that well. Overall I have to say I'm not impressed.
Yeah, I'm not impressed. :(
Yeah, I'm not impressed. :(
i dont think she sounds tht
i dont think she sounds tht good. and she also got some of the lyrics wrong. what did you guys think about it?


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Guy 2:"I gave him the old, ghost in the stalls."
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Bonner says thank you
The faculty and staff at Bonner Elementary School hosted a Christmas dinner on Dec. 18 for volunteers and stakeholders. Bonner students sang Christmas carols and performed a variety of dances and skits for those in attendance.
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Several utility trailers among other things have been stolen lately in our community. One of the trailers belonged to my son in law.
It's really getting out of hand ... people can't leave anything in their yard anymore without worrying about it being stolen.
Happy Birthday from Hood's Chapel UM Church to Marsha Giggleman (Dec. 31).
Happy Anniversary from Hood's Chapel UM Church to Jerry and Charlotte Hush (Dec. 25).
Prayer List
Continue to pray for Virginia Kirkland, Louise Litchfield, Thelma Shurlknight, Eric Shurlknight, Sally Bowick, Justin Knight, Viola Atkins, Viola Murphy, Vida Wyndham, Maggie Dubose, Mildred Thames, Shirley Perry, Diane Gaskins, Diane Litchfield, Sam and Yvonne Hood, Ricky Hood, Marion and Juanita Mills, Roy and Marlene Farmer, Bryon and Jenelle Watts, Brenda Law, Patricia West, Bo Langley, Pete Wrenn, Sarah Jackson, Violet O'Connor, Wilma Morris, Kirby Litchfield, Shelvy Jean Wilson, Willis Wiggins, Willie and Neshia Cox, Cassidy Cox, Kelly Umphlett, Leah Mitchum, Liz Barlow, Marie Barlow, Zachery Waterman, Janice Musau, Kite Reames, Gage Brinson, RosaLee Litchfield, Kitty Cumbee, Ruth Cumbee, Yvonne Cumbee, Rouse Thomas, Marilyn Tucker, Allen Mills, DP Caddell, Mitzie Caddell, Gennie Vincent, Geraldine Garrett, Kyle Thomas, Dexter Floyd, Brian Welch, Ted Caddell, Gloria Conner, Cody Mullanax, Arlene Giggleman, Frank Litchfield, Frankie Garrett, Patty Mathis, Gary Goldberg (military), Burt Alexander, Byron Dupree, Mike and Elizabeth Balard, Mike and Beth Crawford, Madison Litchfield, and our firefighters, first responders, military, community and country.
If anyone has news to share give me a call at 565-3125 or e-mail me at janettehood2aol.com I need news on Wednesday for the next week's column.
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