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That is darling!ReplyDelete
Oh, how cute!
I can't get my two to sit still long enough to get pics of them together!
Oh my goodness, those are just too cute! What ARE they looking at though???
peas n a pod!ReplyDelete
Ha ha! They are uber cute.ReplyDelete
They weren't even looking at anything! Just kids at the park! LOL
Oh my!!! they look identical here! Miss that boy and can't wait to snuggle that little girl!!!ReplyDelete
I can't believe how much they look alike! They're both adorable :)ReplyDelete
omigosh, that is so precious!! i love it!ReplyDelete
There really is SUN in Chicago! Thanks for taking us outside Mommy!ReplyDelete
cute kids! And great job capturing. I love those candid moments!ReplyDelete
wow I love both of their expressions!ReplyDelete
k of anything witty either...but I just love these!!ReplyDelete
That is too sweet....I didn't realize how much they look alike!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness. You couldn't have posed them more perfectly. Too cute!ReplyDelete
So cute! They both have the same exact expressions.ReplyDelete
They're adorable! What great pictures!ReplyDelete
Ivy: "Hm, you don't think that guy is really going to try that, is he?"
Gray: "No, he couldn't possibly..."
Both: "Oh, no! He did!"
I wouldn't know how to start, but how adorable are those two together?
Also, I can't believe how big Gray's getting!!
It appears they've choreographed their own routine to Hanson's "Mmm Bop." Very advanced. And cute.ReplyDelete
Oh my...more adorableness.
It looks like they're watching a game or something.
He shoots!
He scores!
oh. my. goodness. Seriously?! Ridiculously cute.ReplyDelete
That is amazing. Gray is looking more and more like the Big Brother.ReplyDelete
They look so much alike!ReplyDelete
awwwww! now THAT, is cute!! :)
Those are beautiful babies-that's for certain! Glad you got out to enjoy the nice weather!ReplyDelete
Steph -
What a precious moment to capture!
Enjoy those times.
That is incredible! What were they looking at?ReplyDelete
All I can say is that it's pretty amazing:)ReplyDelete
You can certainly tell that they're related. Too cute!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! The only thing I can think of is TOO CUTE!!!!ReplyDelete
way too cute and they look so much alike!ReplyDelete
How about just "Awwwwww!!!"ReplyDelete
Cute and cuter wouldn't work because who would be which. They are both adorable.ReplyDelete
1. Hilarious
2. Ivy is a mini-Steph isn't she? She looks just like you!
Pic 1 - "Impressive"
Pic 2 - "Did you SEE THAT????"
Those are so cute!ReplyDelete
Picture one - Hmm... what's going on?
Picture two - I just cannot believe it!!
Oh my goodness, those are just way too cute!!ReplyDelete
I love that kingsley top we have the same one. So cute! You get the best action shots of your kids. Mine are always a huge blur :)ReplyDelete
Adorable.Fricken adorable.ReplyDelete
Oh, I love that! They look so much alike! And Ivy is as stylish as ever...ReplyDelete
HA! How hilarious and adorable are they! Nice camera work :)ReplyDelete


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Douglas H. Smith, M.D.
Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery
Member , Mental Retardation Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Member , Institute of Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Member , Functional Imaging Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director , Center for Brain Injury and Repair, University of Pennsylvania
Vice Chairman, Teaching and Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Contact information
Department of Neurosurgery
3320 Smith Walk
Hayden Hall 105
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Office: 215-573-3156
Fax: 215-573-3808
Smith Neurotrauma Lab
Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair
B.S. (Biology)
University of Connecticut, 1981.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Noreste, 1986.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology and Protein Chemistry, University of Connecticut Health Center, 1986-1988.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuropharmacology and Trauma, University of Connecticut Health Center, 1989-1990.
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Description of Research Expertise
Douglas H. Smith, M.D. is the Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Penn's multidisciplined CBIR includes over twenty-five principal investigators and their laboratory staff collectively studying mechanisms, diagnosis and potential treatments of traumatic brain injury. Over the last 18 years, Dr. Smith has devoted his full-time efforts to neurotrauma research following completion of fellowships in both molecular biology and neurotrauma at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active member of the National Neurotrauma Society and currently serves as an officer. In addition, Dr. Smith is director of a multi-center NIH program grant on mild traumatic brain injury and he oversees an NIH training grant for brain injury research. His laboratory's research interests include investigating the biomechanical effects of traumatic brain injury, imaging techniques to diagnose diffuse axonal injury, and the link between diffuse axonal injury and Alzheimer's disease. Dr Smith's laboratory has also engineered nervous tissue constructs that have been shown to repair spinal cord and nerve damage. These collective efforts have resulted in over 170 published reports.
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Biomechanics of Concussion
. Clinics in Sports Medicine 30(1): 19-32, Jan 2011.
Cullen DK, Xu Y, Reneer DV, Browne KD, Geddes JW, Yang S, Smith DH.
Color changing photonic crystals detect blast exposure.
Neuroimage. 54(Suppl 1): S37-44, Jan 2011.
Haacke EM, Duhaime AC, Gean AD, Riedy G, Wintermark M, Mukherjee P, Brody DL, DeGraba T, Duncan TD, Elovic E, Hurley R, Latour L, Smirniotopoulos JG, Smith DH
Common Data Elements in Radiologic Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury.
J of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 32(3): 516-543, Sep 2010.
Monnerie H, Tang-Schomer MD, Iwata A, Smith DH, Kim HA, Le Roux PD.
Dendritic alterations after dynamic axonal stretch injury in vitro.
Exp Neurol. 224(2): 415-23, Aug 2010.
Tang-Schomer MD, Patel AR, Baas PW, Smith DH
Mechanical Breaking of Microtubules in Axons During Dynamic Stretch Injury Underlies Delayed Elasticity, Microtubule Disassembly and Axon Degeneration
. FASEB 24(5): 1401-10, May 2010.
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Can an old head injury suddenly cause detrimental effects much later in life?
Scientific American May 2010.
Armstead WM, Ganguly K, Kiessling JW, Riley J, Chen XH, Smith DH, Stein SC, Higazi AAR, Cines DB, Bdeir K, Zaitsev S, Muzykantov VR
Signaling, delivery and age as emerging issues in the benefit/risk ratio outcome of tPA for treatment of CNS ischemic disorders
. Journal of Neurochem. 113(2): 303-312, Apr 2010.
Johnson VE, Stewart W, Smith DH
Traumatic brain injury and Amyloid-beta pathology: A link to Alzheimer's disease?
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010.
Yuen TJ, Browne KB, Iwata A, Smith, DH
Sodium Channelopathy Induced by Mild Axonal Trauma Worsens Outcome After a Repeat Injury.
J Neurosci Res 87(16): 3620-5, December 2009.
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A Cheektowaga man faces a prison sentence of up to seven years when he is sentenced Thursday for defrauding an 85-year-old homeowner of about $18,450, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Leslie "Les" Ralston, 32, of Brookfield Lane, pleaded guilty earlier this week to third-degree grand larceny before Erie County Judge Kenneth F. Case.
Ralston told the woman that squirrels had damaged her roof and that he would repair the roof, according to District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III. Squirrels had not damaged the roof and Ralston did no repair work.
The crime happened between Dec. 4, 2011 and Jan. 18, 2012.
Sedita noted that Ralston's older brother, Joseph, is currently imprisoned on a grand larceny conviction for a similar fraudulent home-improvement scheme and his father also was convicted of grand larceny for similar schemes in the 1980s.


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May 23, 1931 – April 1, 2013
John J. "Jack" Kelly, of Eggertsville, a retired Buffalo police officer, died April 1 after a short struggle with cancer. He was 81.
Born in Buffalo, he was a 1949 graduate of South Park High School. He served for four years in the Navy as a radioman during the Korean War in the anti-submarine division in Key West, Fla., aboard the USS Oglethorpe.
Returning from service, he attended the University of Buffalo while working at Kelly's Tavern, a South Buffalo bar owned by his family. He worked for 4½ years as a radio operator for the Erie County Sheriff's Office and was a security officer and production foreman at the Ford plant in Woodlawn.
He joined the Buffalo Police Department in 1964. Stationed primarily at Precinct 17 in North Buffalo, he retired in 1993. He also was a Williamsville school bus driver for 30 years.
In retirement, he worked at the Hamburg NAPA auto parts store and at the Eggertsville Car Quest auto parts store. He also volunteered in the pharmacy department at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.
Mr. Kelly received the sheriff's Meritorious Duty Award in 1960 and the Buffalo Police Department's Medal of Valor in 1975 for taking a gun away from a man who shot another officer. In 1978, he and a fellow officer alerted tenants of apartment houses on Kenmore Avenue to overnight fires twice within the same week.
He was a member of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Police Emerald Society, the American Legion and the Holy Name Society at St. Benedict Catholic Church. He marched with the Buffalo police every year in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
His wife of 53 years, Rosemarie Heidinger Kelly, died in 2010.
Survivors include two daughters, Sue Jantzi and Jane Cannan; a son, John P.; and three sisters, Jean O'Brien, Margaret Neenan and Kathleen Bannerman.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Friday in St. Benedict Church, 1317 Eggert Road at Main Street, Eggertsville.


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TCR Friday Notes
...lightning round...go!
- David DeJesus ends up going to the Rays, essentially confirming hat the Nationals weren't all that interested in DeJesus afterall and claimed him only in a hope to block him from another team. Instead they ended up with $2.5M committment that they were able to shift to the Rays. The Rays will throw a player to be named later or cash (more likely cash) towards the Nats, which will then most likely get forwarded to the Cubs. You think they Western Union for that?
Looks like the Rays have use for DeJesus as they said he'll play against most righties, mostly instead of Kelly Johnson.
- The Cubs and Rangers completed their deal for Matt Garza today once the Cubs were awarded a waiver claim on RHP Neil Ramirez. The 24-year old right-hander is striking out over 11 per 9 this year in AA, but with a healthy walk rate of 3.8. Before the 2012 season, John Sickels had him as the Rangers #7 prospect, ahead of both Christian Villanueva and Justin Grimm and had this to say:
Held his own in Triple-A until sore shoulder issue sent him back to previously-skipped Double-A level for rehab. A breakout candidate who broke out.
2012 didn't go too well though, putting up a 6.28 ERA between AA and AAA and seeing a significant drop in his K rate. That dropped him to #18 on Sickels pre-2013 prospect list.
Tough to get a handle on after wildly erratic season, failed in Triple-A and was spotty after going down to Double-A though sometimes effective. I have been very high on him in the past but he might do better with a change of scenery. Trade bait?
And so they Rangers sent him back to AA for 2013 to try and master it, and he's put up good numbers going: 9-3, 3.84 ERA, 11.1 K/9 3.7 BB/9 and 0.7 HR/9/. But as Sickels mentions in mid-season review, he'll have to get through AAA before folks get to excited about him.
- Cubs have moved to a game and a half behind the White Sox for the third pick in the draft, thanks to an unlikely 6-game winning streak for the South Siders. The Cubs have 35 left to play and are on pace for 93-94 losses. The remaining breakdown of the schedule for the Cubs look like this (All are 3 game series unless otherwise noted):
@ Padres, @ Dodgers, @ Cincinnati, @ Pittsburgh (4), @ Milwaukee (4)
Philadelphia, Miami, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, St. Louis
Have a good weekend everyone.
Ptbnl = archer?
Ptbnl = archer?
Baez already 2/2 with a HR
Baez already 2/2 with a HR tonight and CJ Edwards with 5 K's so far in 3 innings of 1 hit ball.
I live in Michigan and it has
I live in Michigan so tons of Tiger news, and it has been a VERY rare day that Miggy or Baez has not homered. I'll have to look it up but it seems like it's been more likely that both of them homer, than neither. Baez is the AA Cabrera . . .
Amen. Please be seated.
Amen. Please be seated.
After what we've been through
After what we've been through as Cubs fans, we deserve a Bryant/Baez/Soler/Almora/Rizzo dynasty, with Starlin Castro almost a stud but not quite so we can have somebody to kick around.
Worst baseball card ever? I
olt, cj edwards, grimm, and n
olt, cj edwards, grimm, and n.ramirez...for a bit more than 2 months of m.garza.
hell of a haul.
rizzo didn't try to pull the
rizzo didn't try to pull the ball...and got a hit...to LF.
looks like he's working on something up there.
top 1st...cubs up by 4...0
top 1st...cubs up by 4...0 outs.
make that up by 6...0 outs.
make that up by 6...0 outs.
lulz...pen is up.
Cubs having a good series in
Cubs having a good series in first inning
Cubs having a good series in
Cubs having a good series in first inning
Olt is batting .121 in 28
Olt is batting .121 in 28 games with Iowa. 99 AB 2 HR 4 RBI ...
Those are psychologist visit, and out of baseball in two years numbers. Not saying that's his fate, but better men than he ...
Murphy hbp twice
Murphy hbp twice
/Mad miggy respect
Anyone (AZ Phil etc.) explain
Anyone (AZ Phil etc.) explain to me why the Cubs had to claim their PTBNL off of waivers first? Does that transfer some financial burden to the Cubs? Why wouldn't another team claim him -- Houston for instance? (Talking Neil Ramirez of course).
CARLITO: What ROB G said. But
CARLITO: What ROB G said.
But just for further clarification, starting at 4 PM on July 31st and extending through the conclusion of the MLB regular season, Trade Assignment Waivers must be secured before a player on an MLB 40-man roster (including players who are on Optional Assignment to the minors) can be traded. (This also would include a player who is a PTBNL from a trade that was executed prior to the July 31st deadline).
Trade Waivers are never required to trade players on minor league reserve lists, so (for example) the Cubs could have acquired a minor league player from Texas after July 31st without the player having to be first placed on Trade Waivers.
In the case of Neil Ramirez, the Cubs merely claimed him off Trade Waivers, although they could have waited until waivers were secured and then they could have acquired him as they would in any deal prior to the July 31st deadline. But by doing that the Cubs would have taken a chance that Ramirez would get claimed by another club with a higher waiver priority, and while a Trade Waiver request can be withdrawn if the player is claimed (and that would have happened if Ramirez had been claimed), the Cubs then would have had to wait until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season to get their hands on him. This way, they'll get to see him up close & personal at Tennessee for a couple of weeks.
BTW, if a player is claimed off waivers and then the waiver request is subsequently withdrawn because the player is claimed, the player cannot be placed on Trade Waivers again for at least 30 days from the date the request was withdrawn, and the waivers become irrevocavble (the waiver request cannot be withdrawn) the second time a player is placed on waivers prior to the conclusion of the season.
In the case of David DeJesus (for example), he was placed on Trade Waivers twice this month, but the first waiver request was not wihdrawn (the Cubs traded him to the club that claimed him), so when the Nationals put him back on Trade Waivers immediately after acquiring him from the Cubs, the waivers were still revocable.
Vin Scully will be back next
Vin Scully will be back next year.
Scullys first year was Connie Mack's last year.
Connie Mack was born the year before the Emancipation Proclamation .
i'm gonna miss vin.
i'm gonna miss vin...when he finally hangs em up.
as an east coast guy, he's been my favorite late night game caller in the business the past many years of the MLB EI era. ...that's before getting into the other sporadic games i heard him call growing up.
his call + "non-call" of the k.gibson HR is the stuff of legends. he let the broadcast silence + roar of the crowd tell the story. "High fly ball into RF...she is gone!" *insert a minute+ of broadcast silence + crowd roar* "In a year that has been so improbable...the impossible has happened!"
They should clone the guy for
They should clone the guy for his voice alone.
One day when I was listening
One day when I was listening to a broadcast, my wife asked if I was watching Elmer Fudd.
Was the divorce amicable?
Was the divorce amicable?
Lol. Luckily, I can't stand
Lol. Luckily I can't stand Scully, so no marital problems there.
Not there. Funny. I've always
Not there. Funny. I've always liked him a lot but I've not heard a lot of him.
I used to like him until I
I used to like him until I started to listen to him more this year (Puig). He gets too repetitive and is too much of a homer for my tastes.
There was a game this year where the umpire made a call in favor of the Dodgers. Scully was talking about the play, then the replay clearly showed that it was a bad call. He went silent for a moment then continued talking without mentioning the bad call. That was THE moment I decided I didn't like him. I prefer broadcasters who call what they see instead of trying to be too diplomatic.
Probably just getting old.
Probably just getting old. Jack Brickhouse was painful in his waning years.
ejax has turned a 6 run lead
ejax has turned a 6 run lead into a 6-5 game in 5 innings.
$3m extra per year and an extra contract year for a.sanchez is looking like a hell of a deal right now.
ejax has great stuff, but i have no idea why he has to throw his slider almost exclusively once he gets 2 strikes on someone. it's a good slider...except when everyone knows it's coming.
make that a tie game in 6
make that a tie game in 6 innings.
"$3m extra per year"
"$3m extra per year"
crunch, I wonder if you believe your own assumption, that Sanchez would have signed with the Cubs for the same money he accepted from the Tigers. All the Cubs had to do was match the Tigers, and Sanchez would have said, "Ivy, here I come!"?
j.lake finally gets a bunt
j.lake finally gets a bunt single right.
it's been a while since he got one right.
...and what the hell was he doing tagging and going to 2nd on a popout to shallow right-center? ...and wow, he got in safe even though the ball beat him there.
6-7 in the 7th...
6-7 in the 7th...
unbelievable. just wow.
6-8 in the 8th...sigh.
6-8 in the 8th...sigh.
6-8 in the 8th...sigh.
6-8 in the 8th...sigh.
Dale's plan: Think fun 1st inning, then get them back to work on getting the #2 draft pick.
Kevin Encarnacion, Boise RF
Kevin Encarnacion, Boise RF went 5-5 last night including a double/HR and is hitting .356
Az Phil: What is Encarnacion's upside given his RF competition in the organization. Also any comment on his defense relative to the others, or at least vs. Soler. Finally, what would be expected for KE this offseason? Do you expect him in the AZ Instructional League or Winter league play?
CUBSTER: Kevin Encarnacion
CUBSTER: Kevin Encarnacion was at Extended Spring Training in both 2012 & 2013, so I got to see a lot of him. Despite hitting 350/422/500 in 21 games (46 PA), he did not make the AZL Cubs out of EXST last season and he was sent back to the DSL for a third year, but he was OK (not great) at EXST this season (hitting 259/333/420 with a team-leading nine doubles in 90 PA), made the Boise squad, and then was promoted to Kane County in late June.
He spent about a month at KC as the 4th OF, but he struggled offensively and was sent back to Boise where he has played very well. He is a little bit older than the average DSL/VSL graduate (he's 21), and so he will need to prove himself at KC next season.
He is a gap hitter with slightly above average speed, he's an aggresive baserunner (he likes to gamble and try to take the extra base), and he is a decent defender who can play all three Of positions.
I would be very surprised if Encarnacion gets invited to Instructs after the season, because I don't think he is much more of a prospect that Oliver Zapata (for example). He wlil probably play Winter Ball back home in Venezuela, though.
I do think he can move up through the system, but he probably projects as more of an organizational player (4th OF) than a prospect at this point.
Interesting piece on the
Interesting piece on the mental aspect of Ramirez's ups and downs:
Hello, Michael? Yeah it's
Hello, Michael? Yeah it's Neil. Dude your batting .121 since coming over to the cubs and your whole year has been a disaster. Would you consider joining me on some mental workouts?
Jeff Francouer would like to
Jeff Francouer would like to remind you that this is a really, really hard game to get/stay good at, and that your current fascination with Olt's performance may be a bit of a waste of energy anyway, given his current medical report. Let's see how he looks next season. I'm more worried about Starlin Castro pulling a Francouer than I am Olt pulling a Gary Scott, if only cuz Olt isn't pulling in any real money.
So I take it you didn't like
So I take it you didn't like my attempt at a joke. Rough crowd. Slump...
I wouldn't call it an
I wouldn't call it an obsession, I was curious if anyone has seen him play and if he is having any good looks. Btw I'm curious what his medical report is as I know crunch was saying he had a clean bill of health a few months ago - and was on the upswing. I want the guy to succeed and currently i believe he is the worst player (statistically) getting regular atbats in AAA. Way worse than Gary Scott ever was. I thought it was worth discussion as we are talking about (potentially) 1/8 of next years position player lineup playing like a mannequin on offense. Maybe I'm crazy for giving a crap. I've been called worse!
after returning to round rock
after returning to round rock (AAA TEX) after his time off he wasn't exactly tearing the world up, but he was doing much better than before he took his time off...contact, ob%, and power were noticeably improved.
once he got to iowa, it's been consistent collapse...
Just giving you a hard time,
Just giving you a hard time, no ill intent - anyway, his eye was supposed to have been messed up after getting beaned. I honestly think it's the only explanation for such awful numbers from a guy who has built up a pretty good reputation. I hope that's it, anyway, but I hope it's something that goes away if it IS it. I remember Dickie Thon never really getting over a beaning to the eye.
yeah, no ill intent...i mean,
yeah, no ill intent...i mean, hell...i wanna know what's up with him.
it's weird to be this consistently bad. he's 2/30 in his last 10 games, both singles...and not much better in the 20 games before that.
coming back from his time off @RRock he was tailing a mini-slump leading up to the trade, but he was still hitting homers and had a .340+ ob% overall after returning...he got to iowa and fell apart.
last night's e.volquez
last night's e.volquez performance was a tipping point...DFA'd.
"Carrie Muskat [email protected]
"Carrie Muskat [email protected]
#Cubs Hoyer says there's still time for Scott Baker to pitch this year. "Our hope is that he can make it back.""
A (Kane) - 12.2ip 21h 8bb 8k - 9.95era 2.29whip (4 starts)
A+ (Daytona) - 6.1ip 6h 2bb 2k - 2.84era 1.26whip (2 starts)
ryno has a sense of humor..
ryno has a sense of humor...or is just odd...
PHI is bidding away "gift baskets" for charity full of stuff pertaining to certain players/coaches/manager/etc...
the ryno basket contains and autographed ball, a hat, fungo bat, bunch of other stuff...and for some reason an autographed garden hose that the charity runner couldn't explain. whatever.
do the cubs really have to
do the cubs really have to keep giving d.mcdonald starts?
having him on the team is bad enough...especially after what he was doing in AAA.
Apparently he's our ringer.
Apparently he's our ringer. Guaranteed #3 draft pick if he gets enough AB!
MLB should change the rules
MLB should change the rules and use a lottery to determine the draft-order of the first ten picks in the 1st round of the First-Year Player Draft.
mike olt HR in his 1st AB.
mike olt HR in his 1st AB.
corner turned...sunny days ahead...bring him up.
baez 0-4...DFA him.
vogel 0-2, 3bb.
bryant 2-5, double.
c.black 5ip 3h 4bb 2k, 2er
Let's do this!!!!!
Let's do this!!!!!
bring him up...the fans
bring him up...the fans demand it...oltamatum!
Honestly I just want a 3/4
Honestly I just want a 3/4 with a HR and a 2/4 with a couple doubles all in the same week. Just to know he hasn't been invaded by aliens.
olt raises his avg/ob% with
olt raises his avg/ob% with iowa...
.119/.198 to .152/.226
d.barney solo shot...lulz
d.barney solo shot...lulz
1-0 cubs, top 5th.
tie game...bottom 6.
tie game...bottom 6.
d.barney with an easy double...d.mcdonald going home for NO F'N REASON EXCEPT STUPIDITY and would have been out by more than a few steps...except l.forsythe airmails the ball WAY off mark high and wide no where near a defender...ends up in the stands...
barney on 3rd...
cubs up 2-1, top 7
rizzo single...moving castro
rizzo single...moving castro (HBP) to 3rd and scoring barney...
cubs up 3-1, top 7
ninja loads the bases in the
ninja loads the bases in the 8th...still in the game...no outs.
...sac fly
cubs 3-2
can someone check and see if
deep popout LF, walk, and a K...
ninja gets out of it after loading the bases twice. damn...
scrubbies win...gregg
scrubbies win...gregg actually gets through the 9th without putting a man on base...or losing the lead...or the game...
d.barney 3-4 tonight, btw...single, double, HR
Does anyone think its a
Does anyone think its a little eyebrow raising that the current Golden Boy Cubs GM a true ACE pitcher in Matt Latos for four cra-turds from the Reds? One that got DFA'd?
that latos trade was nuts.
that latos trade was nuts.
latos was days away from turning 24 when he was traded in 2011 (offseason, started 2012 with the reds) and is under team control until 2016.
SD got some nice bats, but for an arm like that you want more than volq + grandal + y.alonso (and boxberger, decent non-closer type reliever, meh). grandal/alonso are nice bats, but neither were (or are) expected to be impact power bats...just contributor-type regulars.
volq had injury concerns along with a high walk rate he's always had.
...not to mention that the guys the reds gave up were guys they didn't even have room for. alonso can't play OF to save his life and they had an excess of young/adequate catching.
That was a Josh Byrnes trade,
That was a Josh Byrnes trade, not Hoyer. Hoyer was hired in Oct '11, and Latos was traded in Dec.
"...not to mention that the
Trevor Gretzky 9 for 21 (8 singles and a triple) since being called up to Kane County.
yeah, the only guy they
Barney now outslugging Castro
Barney now outslugging Castro.
pee into the cubcup
pee into the
[email protected]..to the 17th
[email protected]..to the 17th
game is a bit over 6 hours old...longest (time) game in dbacks history (home or away)
campana goes 1st to home on a
campana goes 1st to home on a double in the top 18th...1-5, 5bb for him on the night...and amazingly 0 sb.
another run scores shortly afterwards...followed by another 2 runs.
btw...casper wells is pitching...yes, the OF'r. btw, he has a 90mph fastball...and he threw 40 pitches for 2 outs.
...and now john mcdonald, the utility IF'r, is coming in from LF to pitch. he has a 81mph fastball.
ryne sandberg managing fail. to be fair, he did pull his starter after 0.2ip...still...this is a home game and those who stuck around are not very pleased about what they just saw after sticking around for 7 hours. btw, the fans aren't mad...just disappointed.
game is final 7h6m...both teams combined to use 44 different players.
AZ Phil: One more specific
AZ Phil: One more specific player question. As always your insight is greatly appreciated.
You've called him a strike throwing machine and clearly he is. Daury Torrez pitched 6 innings of shutout ball yesterday (3hits, 6K, No walks) for the AZL Cubs. For the season he's 4-2 in 49 innings with a 3.12 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 49K and amazingly only 5 walks. Yesterday, he piggybacked in the 2nd inning after an inning thrown by rehabbing R. Dollis.
Any comment on Daury Torrez as a prospect going forward given his performance this season?
Here is the last time I could find commentary by AZ Phil on Torrez (from May 27th):
RHP Daury Torrez followed Pugliese to the hill and hurled three shutout innings (needing only 31 pitches to do so), allowing two harmless singles. He struck out one and did not issue any walks. Torrez is a strike-throwing machine.
P.S. I noticed my personal favorite farmhand, DSL 3B, Adonis Paula went 2-4 with a double and a HR. Go Adonis Go.
CUBSTER: Not counting the
CUBSTER: Not counting the guys who came through Mesa before moving up to Boise, Daury Torrez and Erick Leal are the two best pitching prospects presently at AZL Cubs,
Torrez doesn't throw particularly hard (I have never seen him throw harder than 91-92), but his fastball has sink & run, and it is difficult for hitters to make good solid contact against him. His slider doesn't break much so it stays in the strike zone (it's not a swing & miss "chase" pitch like it would be for somebody like Juan Carlos Paniagua), and he throws his change-up for strikes, too. So hitters can't just work the count against him because otherwise they'll find themselves sitting 0-2 more often than not. I think as he moves up the ladder he'll probably give up more hits than he does now, but he should be able to have success at the higher levels AS LONG AS he keeps trusting his stuff.
I have never seen Leal throw harder than 89 MPH (and he usually sits 87-88), but he only uses his fastball to set-up his plus-curve and decent change-up. So Leal pitches "backwards" (as they say), in thart he is a breaking ball pitcher who throws his fastball to spots, and success depends on whether he can command his fastball to set-up his off-speed & breaking stuff. He doesn't get ground balls like Torrez does because his fastball doesn't have much movement and the curve ball and change-up are "fly ball" pitches.
per Muskat: Castillo nursing
per Muskat: Castillo nursing sore ribs but will be in the lineup Sunday.
Baez will not play in the Arizona Fall League, but top prospects Jorge Soler and Albert Almora will. The official AFL rosters were expected to be released later this month, and Hoyer said the Cubs will have an impressive group.
recent Bruce Levine chat with
recent Bruce Levine chat with opinions on Choo and Navarro:
rodon throws hard...and
rodon throws hard...and easily hard...and is easily the best college pitching prospect in the draft. he was steal for NCSU recruiting.
that said, he's one of those 100-pitches-in-5-innings types. his control leaves a bit to be desired...which is even more concerning (imo) because his command of his pitches is good. aka, there's not a lot of "fix" except him growing into controlling where his pitches end up.
trea turner is a pure line drive hitter with a good eye...good D...speedy...that's about all you can say about him. he'll probably fast track to the bigs, but once there he'll probably be a role player rather than a leader.
both these guys are still young, have years left, and can use their college eligibility to their advantage if not picked high in the draft.
Smokies update...
Smokies update...
WHAT'S AT STAKE: Thanks to Pensacola's win last night, the Smokies can clinch the North Division tonight with a win and a Birmingham loss. A win or a Jackson loss would clinch them a playoff spot.
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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.
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 :(
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It's going to be hard to say if any team in the NHL can carry any positive momentum they may have gleaned from the end of last season into this lockout-shortened version, since the 2011-12 regular season ended more than nine months ago.
It will be more on individuals, rather than teams, to keep the good feelings going since some of them kept their careers going on a relatively normal schedule overseas or in the American Hockey League.
The Buffalo Sabres certainly hope that's the case with burly winger Marcus Foligno. He burst on the scene here last March, getting named NHL Rookie of the Month after compiling six goals, five assists and a plus-10 rating. He's clearly established as a top-six forward at the start of his full pro season as the left winger with Tyler Ennis and Drew Stafford. That's no small task under a veteran head coach like Lindy Ruff.
Foligno said this week he was disappointed the lockout wiped out his first training camp as a likely regular in the NHL but he worked hard to maintain his focus with the Amerks.
"You can't get frustrated. The lockout could get to you, knowing you had a good end to last year and had a good chance to start with Buffalo," Foligno said. "I had a lot of support from the coaching staff down there and the coaches from the Sabres always being down there watching. You always felt you were being scouted so it helped you to keep working hard and not be complacent."
Plenty of publications and websites expect big things from the 6-foot-3, 226-pound Foligno. TSN, the Canadian sports television giant, has Foligno on a list of 20 Calder Trophy candidates that also includes Sabres center Mikhail Grigorenko and Tampa Bay winger Cory Conacher, the former Canisius College star.
Foligno had six goals and seven assists last year in 14 games. He had a scoreless outing in his NHL debut on Dec. 20, 2011 at Ottawa and then exploded on the scene when he returned for the final 13 games. He scored his first NHL goal in game two, also at Ottawa on March 12, and had points in nine of his last 13 games.
In Rochester this year, he had 10 goals, 17 assists and a plus-7 rating in 33 games.
"He's a great hockey player and everybody knows he's such a beast with the puck," said Sabres center Cody Hodgson, who centered Foligno this season for much of their stint with the Amerks. "He takes the puck so hard to the net, creates offense, has a great shot. It was a fun time to play with him."
Foligno had five goals and eight points in his first five games in Rochester this year but struggled when Hodgson went down with a hand injury and didn't score for 10 games. Ruff liked how Foligno pushed through that tough time to keep contributing.
"If you're not putting the puck in the net, you have to help someone else put it in," Foligno said. "I was still chipping in with the offense, helping out. There were a few empty nets here or there, chances I didn't capitalize on. But there was no shortage of getting to the net so I was happy with that. I was getting through the grind well."
As key NHL players relegated to the AHL during the lockout, Foligno and Hodgson were the keys to every opposing scouting report on the Amerks. Hodgson, who had five goals and 19 points in 19 games in Rochester, will open the season here at center between Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville.
"I'd rather have that target on my back," Foligno said. "It means people look at you, think you can do well down there and measure up to you."
Foligno, the son of former Sabres captain Mike Foligno, said he will be keeping his Buffalo uniform number of 82 this season. He wore 71 in Rochester, the reversal of his father's No. 17, but said he's going to allow older brother Nick Foligno of Columbus to be the family's only 71 in the NHL.
"It was a real advantage I had being able to go to Rochester," he said. "That time helped me work on becoming a more complete pro player. I have to look at it that I'm kind of lucky the lockout happened when I was still on an entry-level deal and I was able to keep playing."
The Sabres will continue training camp today from 10:30 a.m-12:30 p.m. in First Niagara Center. Admission and parking are free. The team sold 5,000 tickets Tuesday on the first day of public sales and have 13,000 tickets left for the season. Sunday's opener against Philadelphia is one of four games already sold out.
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This is nowhere close to the situation with NNK. It's just a little hard to find in some locations and there are plenty left. By comparison to the Steelbook and Wizard's Edition craziness this is nothin'.
I'd say that Fire Emblem: Awakening is one of the most desired : hardest to find standard edition games in recent history.
And don't say because it's niche because Target and Kmart are carrying it and they don't typically step out of the major release comfort zone.
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Picked up this list of conventions. Thought it'd be a handy refernce for other fans. Enjoy! ^_^Jan 4-6 Anime Los Angeles 4Jan 4-6 Ohayocon Feb 15-17 Katsucon 14 Feb 22-24 WonderCon San FranciscoMarch 7-9 AnimaritimeMarch 14-16 Wizard World Los AngelesApril 18-20 New York ComicConToronto AnimeConJune 6-8 Toronto ComicConMarch 21-23 Anime BostonApril 26-27 Calgary Comic & Entertainment ExpoMay 16-18 Anime CentralMay 23-25 Anime NorthMay 30-June 1 Project A-konMay 29-June 1 Wizard World PhiladelphiaJuly 3-6 Anime ExpoJune 28-29 Northern Anime FestivalJuly 20-22 OtakonJuly 24-27 San Diego ComicConJuly 25-27 Ai-KonJune 26-29 Wizard World ChicagoAug 14-17 GenConAug 29-Sept 1 DragonConSept 19-21 Anime Weekend AtlantaNov 7-9 Wizard Texas
you forgot one, Anime Milwaukee it's a new con held in milwuakee febuary 29th through march 2nd.
how do you guys now this man i wish i new this stuff i hope ther is a naruto one soon!
"people do not need violence to solve there problems."
id love to go to all these festivals but were i live theres nothing like this!!! just in a uncultured place in the midle of nowere...it sucks!!!any manga festival going on in spain? there is wer i ment in the midle of nowere.... any news reply please!!! **liFe of FanTaSY**
I'm most likely going to attend the Izumicon in November at the Reed Convention Center in Midwest City on the 27th,228th, and 29th.
It's great that there is some in Canada... like in Toronto...But what about Montreal? It's been a long time since there was an anime expo there... "What do you see in front of your fists?"
any of them in florida??"people do not need violence to solve there problems."
Hi i looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove manga
to think is to know....but to know is all ,at least that is what some might say...
thank you."people do not need violence to solve there problems."
Does anyone have information of any anime events happening in Anderson S.C.?
So who all is going this year? It is sure to be a lot of fun. I wish I could go but alas, I just found about it and now it is too late to get tickets. Maybe next year I'll be more lucky.
does anyone know of any convetions coming to tucson,az any time soon
wut about georgia
Aug 29-Sept 1 DragonCon in AtlantaSept 26-28 New York Anime Festival
Tekkoshocon is in pittsburghusually in early april, i missed it this year but im hopin and prayin to go for at least a day or two in 2009. "Don't doubt the darkness, it can be your enemy as well as your friend."
-Alf-Aries-San3I always been wanting to go to a anime convention but where i live it sucks! hardly anything GOOD comes here. I wish i could live somewhere else.. I really wana live in Japan!But.. oh well for now =/
I'm planning on going to the 2009 San Diego ComicCon ...I didn't get to goto the one this year and I was seriously bummed out because Tite Kubo was there.I really like Bleach and would have liked to meet him. ~Baby Girl
I wish i can go"I will be the GOD of this New World"
hello everyone im candace does anyone know about a convention coming up soon near south alabama or north florida
can't wait for san diego comic con. i just started going 2 years ago and it's awesome! "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
I shamelessly plug Anime Central, May 8-10 this year, in Rosemont, IL. Uh, also, this site is not entirely clear about how I would contact Manga Entertainment for screening permissions... does anybody know?
"some things are better left unknown"
"some things are better left unknown"
why isn't any on virginia?
not in Bulgaria
Whats with that, nothing in Arizona?"Im concerned with the structure. Those who control my life and those who want to control it even more. I want freedom, thats what I want and thats what you should want!!!"
well i've never been to one but i'd always want to so if there are some for this year please let me know
I havent been to one in years but what i remember was good times. Hope you get to go sometime.=D" See me, I might be bleeding, but im still breathing, You might hate me, but you cant break me. Push me, and ill push you right back.."
none in florida
why aren't any in virginia is it always like that?
none in michigan neither well how rude
i mean i'm just asking...
if you can you should check out Mechacon in Louisiana held july 24-26. its worth the drive .
sweet I see two in New York
"Lord please forgive us for the truspasses that we are about to commit!!" - Dead Leaves, #777
they are never where I am at man this suck
i've never been to one.join my clan it is called the full metal clan!
because i hear they r fun but i never been 2 one.Join Our Full Metal Clan.
what is a anime convection like sounds cool
A anime convention is a place where everyone can go and buy manga comics and anime DVDs also they have different events there and they show the latest anime show to come. Some people even do cos play at these anime conventions. was that help enough
Bust Through The Heavens With Your Drill!!!!!
now i realy want to go to one now but i do not know wen it is here in iowa but they have them here to it's called anime iowa and i realy want to go to it .
it's jly 30-august 1
i did not know for sure when it was so thank you
I wish there was one in philadelphia but the one thats even close is the one in New York.
Bust Through The Heavens With Your Drill!!!!!
Inochicon is in Philly this weekend Aug 27-29 downtown http://www.inochicon.com/
I organize the anime convention at Gloucester County College in south Jersey in January called KotoriCon http://anime.gccnj.edu
In March there is one in King of Prussia called Zenkaikon http://www.zenkaikon.com/index.php
Have fun!
Can you light up my nightmare.?
lol that is a bummer
"i'll make u love me with each heart beat you take<3"
are there gonna be any in arizona soon? i hope so!
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latest and great OS.Other than the Windows brand, Xbox
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Office are the company's other two major successes in the
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friendly" Wii and the Office team is getting seriously
nervous about growing consumer interest in OpenOffice.On
the other hand, Bing has failed to gain even 10 percent of the search
market in most metrics, despite a massive ad push and a deal with
Yahoo. Zune remains a tiny player in the MP3 market, having
failed to become a true competitor in terms of sales to Apple's iPod
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Kin and ill-received
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States the report, "Microsoft's executive suite is in turmoil.
CFO Chris Liddel, entertainment unit head Robbie Bach, device design
leader J Allard and business division chief Stephen Elop have left
within the past year. Ray Ozzie joined the exit parade last
week."The report praises Microsoft's recent efforts, but
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[they're] not too late."Much like the Romans or Greeks,
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consoles, and internet services. But much like the
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expansions to hungrier parties. But much like Rome, it will
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fall into commercial purgatory.The talent gap is absolutely a
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love for the company, has failed to execute a strategy to turn around
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most powerful technology company in the world? The leading
candidates have already
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easy answer to Microsoft's leadership issues and that the ongoing
risk to the company is tremendous.Is Microsoft's consumer
brand "dying"? Not yet, in our minds. But it
lacks the hunger that it once did. And it most certainly sorely
misses the leadership of its founder and chief visionary -- Bill
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quote: To the average end user (and many, many corporate IT teams -- as what corporate IT decrees the end user must use) being told by Microsoft that the IE browser was an integral and non removable part of Windows made it the only browser they considered.
quote: An OS that ships without a browser IS crippled by definition. How are you going to get drivers and software and etc etc without a browser!? You REALLY rather load up a third party browser off a floppy or disk before you can actually USE your OS???
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quote: Can you imagine if Windows and Office were instantly gone. Could Mac and Linux really jump in and take over?
quote: Introducing the "iMac; Dock Edition". Imagine if you will a 24" widescreen monitor, with an integrated 1TB HDD, wireless mouse and keyboard, and iPad dock. When you are at home working on your term paper, just plug your iPad into the dock, and work as you have always worked. WHen you wish to leave, simply undock your iPad and take it as you go. But wait! there's more. Next to your iPad dock port is your iPhone dock port. Simply connect both devices to your "iMac; Dock Edition" and run apps from both, with all the power of both.(to tell the truth... this actually sounds somewhat cool to me...)


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Ashley gently pulled the perfect Macintosh from the middle of the grocery display when suddenly everything shifted and there was a loud rumble. "Run for your lives", she exclaimed, " APPLEANCHE!"
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It's our second year with a pre-lit tree and you can probably imagine my disappointment when I plugged it in and it didn't light up. That's what I was afraid of.
Apparently if you push the "on" button, though, it will light up. :)
Gray is okay with Chazz Star now. He just keeps his distance.
The boys excitedly wrote out their Christmas lits.
We don't give a lot of presents to the kids at Christmas. Mostly because we can't responsibly afford it, and also because we want to instill the mindset of Christmas not being only about getting gifts. It seems each year we try to be "more simple" than the last.
I never make a Christmas list. Jeff and I don't exchange gifts, and we don't expect it. Ever.
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I do think back to my childhood and how our living room would be filled FILLED with toys. Those are some of my favorite memories, actually. The tiny Barbie-sized grand piano that really played, my Littles doll house, kitchen sets, there was always so much.
I confess it makes me a little sad that we can't do that for our boys, but I know they have plenty of favorite memories over the couple toys they do get, and a living room filled FILLED with our family.
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The 6 Greatest Video Games We'll Never Get to Play
As I briefly touched on in this article, the one thing common to every gamer I know is that they all have at least one revolutionary, brilliant, perfect and heartbreakingly unrealized "I Have a Game" concept: some combination of elements, some untapped property or some new direction for a sequel that just never got made, but would shake the gaming world to the core if it did. The single greatest tragedy in gaming isn't what that manipulative bitch Peach is doing to poor Mario's heart; it's that, though we will get endless iterations of Call of Battle: Duty Field from now until the heat death of the universe, we'll never see these masterpieces get made.
But fuck that noise: This is the Internet. This is where dreams come true, even (hell, especially) the awful ones. Why can't we have these? Indie games have more of a market than ever, talented designers are increasingly going freelance and Kickstarter and similar programs are disseminating funding outside of the old publisher model. All we need is a big enough platform to publish our ideas and somebody with the will and ability to take advantage of them. Well, I've got the platform right here, and everybody reading this right now has the ideas. So somebody, for the love of God, please -- take advantage of us.
#6. A Zombie Game Done Right
This being the Internet and all, I'm sure people are going to generally crap all over and ruin everybody else's wonderful game ideas. Me being a part of the Internet and all, I'm sure I'm actually going to be the first one to do it. But it seems unfair for me to shoot down anybody else's I.H.A.G. idea without putting my own out there for mockery. So here's the one I'm waiting for: the perfect zombie game.
What? Guys, what?! Jesus, stop booing! I'm a person, too! I have feelings! AND THEY HURT SO BAD RIGHT NOW.
I know, I know, zombie games are totally played out nowadays, which is why I find it so amazing -- with the absolute glut that we've all endured over the last decade -- that nobody ever even tried to make one right. There were some good ones, sure: RE4, Dead Rising, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare and so forth -- but there's one very simple, very appealing aspect of the zombie apocalypse that nobody has sufficiently addressed.
The "apocalypse" part.
Source.Which is weird, right? Seems like it'd be hard to miss the end of the whole world.
We don't love zombies because of the monster: We love zombies because of the unique scenario the monster creates. Zombies are just slower horror versions of the bandits from The Road Warrior, or stupider versions of the vampires from I Am Legend. (The book. We will not now and shall never discuss the Will Smith "movie" version.) And yet every zombie game takes place with you either trying to prevent or fighting your way through the zombie apocalypse. They should be taking place, say, a year after it. A year after the large-scale fighting has died out; after the survivors have been whittled down; after what few people are left have already executed their survival plans and are now just dealing with the fallout in a world of the undead.
My perfect zombie game would be an open world one, in the style of Grand Theft Auto IV or the Saints Row series, but with an emphasis on completeness instead of size. See, I think the ambitious scale of open world games these days is actually a weakness. They create vast play areas, sure, but they're ultimately empty and inaccessible. I know that's a matter of hardware and design limitations -- you can't satisfactorily model the inside of every building in LA with current hardware and realistic resources -- but why hasn't anybody scaled down? Instead of creating a two-dimensional theater backdrop of New York City, why not give us every living, breathing inch of Small Town America? A little backwoods city with a modest downtown area, surrounded by a bit of suburb and wilderness, and every inch of it totally realized. You can't tell me we can build World of Warcraft but we can't nail down a decent facsimile of Redmond, Oregon. Give me a small town in the country, with every room in every building built out, as much of it interactive as possible, and the whole damn thing just friggin' lousy with the undead.
Source.Like, objectively just too many undead. So many they don't even have stuff to do anymore; they just loiter.
You start out with a home base and some resources, but your job isn't to save mankind or rescue the Zombie President's daughter or anything so grandiose. Your job is just to start retaking the town however you see fit. Maybe that means you find the other survivor bases and meet up with them, or take them out, or work together to build some new ones. Maybe you cordon off the top floors of all the buildings downtown, nail the doors shut, demolish the stairways and lay planks from building to building to create a rooftop outpost. Or maybe you clear out the local Walmart and have yourself a massive concrete bunker complete with vital Hot Pockets and subpar jean caches.
Source.That game would be called America: Faded Glory.
In general, I would put the focus more on complete interaction with a small environment instead of partial interaction with a large environment, and shift the mood from pure action to strategy/survival. Sure, you'll probably have some intense moments with zombies clawing at the windows as you unload a shotgun in every direction -- but most of the game will be about carefully making sure that scenario never happens.
So, it's like Grand Theft Auto meets Left 4 Dead, with a hefty dose of Minecraft mixed in. But here's the kicker -- here's how you could extend the replayability to infinity: You swirl in just the tiniest dash of Animal Crossing.
Haha, what? Do I want to see Tom Nook torn apart by an undead cartoon hippo?
Of course. The miserly bastard pays how many bells for a shell? This one has motherfucking rainbow swirls, you cheap son of a bitch. The fires of hell should warm your breakfast.
"Stop! Just take it. JUST TAKE YOUR POUND OF FLESH, NOOK."
But that's not what I'm talking about: I'm talking about stealing one of Animal Crossing's online mechanics, wherein you exchange a code with another player that allows them entrance to your town (and vice versa). Because in my tragically fantastical zombie game, what you've chosen to do with your town changes everything completely. Walking into somebody else's play area, even if it started out the same, would be a wholly different experience. Did they hole up in the library, too? Or did they move underground and seal off the sewers? Do they even have a home base, or do they just camp in the woods and keep moving? Did they corral all the zombies together in the Costco and routinely drive a Zamboni through the aisles just to thin out the crowd a little? Or did they go completely mad with isolation and just build a giant, towering metal cock out of the rusting husks of destroyed vehicles?
How It Could Be Ruined:
Nobody would buy it, and you would therefore have nobody to play it with, because seriously: More fucking zombies, man? Ugh. They're just done.
How It Could Be Even More (Unrealistically) Amazing:
If you didn't have to trade codes at all; if the town was semirandomized and every single instance was unique, all linked together by short expanses of highway. There's no way the computing power exists for that, I know, and if it did, the connectivity issues would be staggering. But that's what the word "unrealistically" is doing up there. Because oh, shit, how cool would it be if that were possible? You finally conquer the horde in your city and get bored, so you just hit the road, hopping from town to town, encountering, bartering or butting heads with other survivors. Maybe you find somebody whose strategy is way better than yours, so you form a raiding party and go after their resources. Or maybe you're won over by their superior way of thinking, and you decide to permanently join up with the Grand and Esteemed Order of the Metal Cocktower ...
#5. A Horror Game That Understands Subtlety
By CestMoi
A horror game that isn't at all marketed as a horror game and you could conceivably go through the entire thing and not experience a single ounce of horror apart from perhaps a slight feeling as you're playing that something isn't right with this game world. However, if you go away from the main quest or whatever horrible creepy shit goes down and you realize that as you were playing this game that there was always this horror lying just underneath the surface and you never even saw it until just now and OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL.
Or perhaps similar to that idea a game that is completely normal the first time you play through it again, just a sense of "something peculiar is up and I don't know what it is" and then you get the horror coming through on subsequent play-throughs. You'd need some sort of incentive to do multiple play-throughs, though, maybe something like a promise of multiple endings.
Why It's Awesome:
Subtlety is perhaps the single rarest virtue in any form of modern media. For example, I've always wanted to see CestMoi's exact concept done as a movie: A film that seems maybe slightly unsettling at first, like the overall atmosphere is just a little strange and tense, but it's only if you pay really close attention that you see all the details of true horror in the background. Things like monsters lost in the crowd, reflections that subtly don't match up, things scurrying in the shadows -- but the movie itself never focuses on them. It never explicitly even mentions them until the end. Although CestMoi is right, of course, in that it would be even more killer as a game. A sort of Eternal Darkness that only becomes a horror game after multiple play-throughs, when you start chasing after those monsters you didn't notice in the crowds, or finally exploring what was on the other side of that door with the weird scratches that you've passed by a million times ...
How It Could Be Ruined:
The audience. Obviously, it would be spoiled to hell in the first week, and probably memed into irrelevance by the second. But more importantly, subtlety isn't prevalent in our media precisely because we as an audience just don't have time for it. You'd essentially be asking a dev team to create a somewhat boring game first and hide an amazing one underneath it. That sounds amazing in theory, but I have a few hours a week to play games, if I'm lucky. If the first hour of your game is my character depositing checks at the bank to set up the "normalcy" of the scenario, I'm sure as hell not playing the second hour. And the whole thing hangs on that -- on building a convincing normality and then subtly violating the sanctity of it. We all live normality every day anyway; who wants to play that shit, too? You give us the tiniest bit of freedom in a video game and the first thing we do is jump an ice cream truck through the front door of the police station. A subtle horror game would be trying to set up the atmosphere and we'd all be off in the corner, hitting the squat button and giggling because it looks like our butts are in the teller's face. I mean, it could be done, of course. Normality could be made intriguing long enough to subvert it, but the balance needed to maintain interest while essentially playing through a disposable main plot would take an absolutely masterful horror writer.
How It Could Be Even More (Unrealistically) Amazing:
If they actually got a masterful horror writer to write the damn thing. Seriously, video games, most writers I know work pretty cheap -- why do you keep giving scripting duties to the drunkest intern? Chad's a good guy and all, but his character sketches for "the guy with REALLY big hands" are just not all that scary.
#4. No, Seriously: Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... The Game
By Bender_Is_Great
I would love to see a L.A. Noire-style game set in the world of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a game where you play as Eddie Valiant, or some other human character, and travel around a photorealistic rendering of 1930s- or 1940s-era Los Angeles, interacting with classic cartoon characters and solving mysteries. The human characters and environments would all look realistic, but the Toons would all be cel-shaded, and ideally voiced by their current voice actors (if you go into Toon Town, then all the environments are cel-shaded and your character is the only one who looks realistic). The Animated Series-style skins in Arkham City prove that it is possible for a game to have some characters look cartoony, while other characters look realistic.
Why It's Awesome:
It's like Kingdom Hearts meets Mafia II, except you can play as Bob Hoskins (OMG, finally!), and Jessica Rabbit is way more effective at confusing your sexuality than Daisy Duck.
How It Could Be Ruined:
Bender_Is_Great realized it himself later in the post: licensing. If any aspect of the licensing fell through, the center could not hold. If they couldn't get all of the actual character rights, you'd just be mowing down totally random cartoon rabbits with a Studebaker. And while that's pretty funny, it's just not the same thing. Or it could be even worse: They could get licensing for the B-listers, and you'd end up playing a sexy game of cat and mouse with Olive Oyl while trying to solve a murder plot masterminded by the Great Gazoo.
How It Could Be Even More (Unrealistically) Amazing:
Four little words: Bob Hoskins motion capture.


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So I've seen a few videos out there, and I see guys pulling their jerk chords and their decoys are dipping their heads into the water when the line is pulled,(like the ducks are feeding) I was able to achieve this once by mistake, when the line that goes to the bungee got wrapped around the neck of the first decoy on the jerk chord. however this doesn't work for the rest of the decoys on the chord just the first one.....Anyone know how to achieve this effect without multiple weights sunk and strung between decoys?
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are you using feeding decoys the one with the bill just above the water that what I think most use. or are you using normal resters and swimmer decoys?
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I mainly jerk them just to get some splash and ripples on the water. They will dip if I pull the line really tight. Do you put your decoys on all facing the same direction? Try putting the rear end of the decoy that keep getting wrapped. You could also get some distance between your bungee and the first decoy.
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I don't think I'd worry about it, honestly. The reason for a jerk rope is to add motion on the water for a more realistic look. Having the decoys on your rope looking like they are feeding isn't going to add any extra realism and help you kill more ducks.
However, I do know what you're talking about! It does look good. Clip your decoys to the rope by the hole in the front of the keel and keep the line tight between decoys, and pull the cord fairly hard. Make sure the birds sight of you is distracted before you do it though.
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I once bought some old plastic decoys and one of them had a small eye screw screwed into the bottom of the beak, just a little back from the end. There was a string run from the eye screw, down to the regular anchor hole. It appeared this decoy would tip beak down/butt up when yanked.
A single duck is obvious and easily explained.
Three or more is a flock and is logical and understandable.
But two are always a paradox.
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The arc described by a motorcycle's tires as it corners. On a racetrack, the proper line through any corner is determined by a number of factors: Surviveability, best setup for the next corner, best corner exit speed, and preventing other racers from passing, usually in that order. (Racing is stressful and bad decisions get made. That's racing.)
"There's a few lines that work through that combination of corners, choose one that has you sacrifice the entry to the first so you can get a good drive on the exit of the second"
от kz2zx 15 януари 2006
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A 'line'(for lack of better word) of any powdered drug that is snorted, often through a rolled up 100 dollar bill.
"Snort a line of this."
"What is it?"
"I don't hear snorting..."
"What is it?"
"I don't hear snorting..."
от Diego 03 септември 2003
Line is a Norwegian name for the most awesome girl ever! Line is a very unique and lovable person who is beautiful, intelligent, funny, smart, stubborn, weird, cool, nice and grateful towards her friends. She is a bit awkward, but once you get to know her, she will be a invaluable companion in your life. She loves video games and especially Zelda, which is what she grew up with. You will know it if you know a Line, especially if you're a mature and different guy. She will be the light of your life, and you should do all you can to take care of her. She is a beautiful human being, a flower that needs sun, and you should not let her go.
Wow, I've never felt this way about a girl before. She is so amazingly unique and perfect. She must be a Line!
You know Line? I love her so much, I must make sure to keep her close in my life.
Oh man, I've never met a girl who loves video games this much and isn't a total nerd. She must be a Line!
You know Line? I love her so much, I must make sure to keep her close in my life.
Oh man, I've never met a girl who loves video games this much and isn't a total nerd. She must be a Line!
от ILoveYou_HappyBirthday 05 април 2011
powdered cocaine, usually sniffed
I smoke white lines
от Sourcez 11 октомври 2003
What George W. does for a good time.
G Dub can snort a line like no ones business.
от ChickenFriedKitten 16 юни 2004
Powdered substance (usually cocaine) that has been separated into multiple lines of powder usually by using a credit card or razor. These lines of powder are then sucked up through the nose usually using a rolled up dollar bill or an empty pen tube.
Hey dude I just got an eightball, want to do some fat lines of blow?
от JDawg2006 05 юли 2006
Designers create a line of cloths,funiture,skateboards,shoes
You need to see the matchiepoo matchiepoo line of doggie and owner accessories
от J Stranquist 14 април 2006
A really sweet and she seems innocent and pure, but she can be a naughty little devil.
Wow, that girl is so Line!
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on January 29, 2013 - 11:39 AM
The top of a tractor-trailer was sheared off this morning when the driver of the vehicle crossed under a low bridge in the westbound lane of the Robert Moses Parkway.
The road crosses under the Grand Island Bridge. The low bridge which commonly causes problems for drivers of tractor-trailers and mobile homes who apparently do not see or disregard warning signs about the approaching underpass, according to State Police.
The trailer was empty at the time of the 9:15 a.m. crash and no injuries were reported. The road was not closed, but troopers were called to the area to direct traffic and used a blow torch to cut up the damaged trailer, according to police.
It is unknown if the driver will face any charges.


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when a girl cums and sits on a guys face and smears it around. after it dries, the girl rips it off while also extracting his blackheads.
Thanks for giving me a biore pore strip last night babe, now i'm clean and clear and under control!
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