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...Friday's game thread is below...
- As you've probably heard by now, the Cubs received 25-year old outfielder/first basemen Doug Deeds from the Twins today as the PTBNL in the Craig Monroe deal. A ninth-round selection of the Twins in 2002, the lefty was an honorable mention on John Sickels top 20 Twins prospects before 2007, but didn't make the cut in 2008 after a rough year in AAA. His scouting report on Scout.com before the 2007 season sure had some encourging notes:
Deeds is one of the more polished hitters in
the Twins' organization, and each year he seems to grow at the plate.
He has the ability to hit to all fields, and has shown the ability to
hit at every level he has played at during his Minor League career.
Deeds is a great defensive outfielder, and
should have a future as an everyday corner outfielder in some
organization, hopefully the Twins. He makes all the plays in right
field, and has a tremendous arm that enables him to scare potential
base runners from advancing a base. He uses good closing speed to get
to balls that most outfielders do not get to, and has had his fair
share of outfield assists throughout his Minor League career.
His career line is still a solid 291/374/463 and hopefully a change of scenery will benefit him. I imagine he'll be headed Mike Wellman's way and on to Iowa.
- I don't care to read too much into Lou's quick trigger with Rich Hill yesterday, even if Lou is hinting that Hill better straighen it out soon. He seemed set on wanting to start the righty Jason Marquis as is, and I think Hill just gave him an excuse with his lack of control to get Jon Lieber in there as soon as possible. As for Felix Pie, let's say I wouldn't be too surprised if he gets sent down soon and Matt Murton gets called up. Reed Johnson would take over full-time CF duties, Murton would roam the outfield and Kosuke would probably be the CF backup, much like he's doing tonight.
Personally, I think 23 plate appearances isn't enough to judge a 23-year old kid. I do think that if Lou wasn't on board with giving Pie a legit shot to play through some early struggles, he should have been traded this offseason for someone Lou would play...like that Brian Roberts character we heard so much about.
- We had a couple lists this week of the All-time greatest Cubs killers. I can't get the spreadsheet that "Big_Lowitzki" gave me to import into google docs to give you the full results, but here's the bottom 10 with at least 350 PA's versus the Cubs.
|OPS vs. Cubs
|Career OPS
|Will Clark
|Barry Bonds
|Mike Piazza
|Lance Berkman
|Reggie Sanders
|Dary Spencer
|Ryan Klesko
|Tom Haller
|Albert Pujols
|Darrel Evans
As reader "Chad" noted in the commments, we've owned Pujols to a tune of a .945 OPS. I'll see if I can put up some proper pitchers lists in the near future, which some of you started in the comments already.
- There was some brief talk about Korean Cubs pitching prospect Dae-Eun Rhee yesterday in the comments. That reminded me of an email I received earlier in the week from a guy who runs a website called the East Windup Chronicle. He's recently been hired by the Cubs as a scout in Korea, and although he can't discuss the players the Cubs are targeting, he does do write-ups on players after they've signed. One such player is Dae-Eun Rhee and here's a little excerpt:
He's listed as 6′2 and 195 lbs, which is 10 lbs. heavier than his
signing weight. He throws right-handed and his birthdate is 3/23/89.
What makes the team really excited about this kid is the fact that he's
already throwing three pitches well and is working on a fourth. His
best pitch is a tailing four-seam fastball that usually comes in
between 87-93 MPH. He can locate it to both sides of the plate and has
very good control overall. He throws a well-developed 11/5 curve that
drops as low as 73 and a less-developed splitter in the 77-82 range.
The fourth pitch is a power slider.
You can also find his site in our TCR Blogroll under the prospects section.
- It seems our Cubs Injury Calendar corrected itself when I updated Scott Eyre's entry. It use to duplicate the entries once you tried to navigate the calendar. Chalk it up to Google weirdness.
- Some site updates you may have noticed over the last few weeks: Added a Cubs schedule widget to the right sidebar, updated the "Quick Links" in the left sidebar and added a "TCR Approved" Amazon affiliate store of personally endorsed products by the TCR writers. Plus some social bookmarking links on the bottom of each post for BallHype, Digg and Stumble that help promote the site.
.- The TLFC and TCR have a little bet for the season. Seems TLFC thinks Ryan Braun is going to repeat his monster 2007 campaign, while I'm a bit skeptical. We set the bar at 35 HR's and a 925 OPS. I say he reaches neither and TLFC says he'll hit both or above. If he reaches one, but not the other, it's a tie. The stakes: TLFC gets to take over TCR for the day if Braun does hit 35 or more home runs and has a 925 OPS or higher. TCR gets a black TLFC cap and clock from his Cafepress store if Braun is unable to reach both goals.
- You may have noticed the Rotohog link at the top right of the page. They tell me there's a Cubs league you can join now as well. It's free to create a team and they offer all sorts of prizes (and we get some kickback for any teams that sign through that link).
- Speaking of kickback, don't forget about our TCR April Pledge Drive, even if GROTA doesn't care for the idea. I promised an update each Friday and so far we've received 18 donations for a total of $411.30. A good average, but a bit short of our hopeful, if not realistic goal (100-$2000). I would be thrilled with about $800, which would at least cover our startup costs and I could pay our writers back. And thanks to all that have donated so far.
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i dunno crap about the kid, but...a AAA corner OF/1st who's near the end of his minor league eligibility years? couldnt go for some A/AA kid...meh...
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i dont care much for braun and having TLFC win would mean MIL is doing better than it could be doing...
go braun. start working on the new TCR graphics. i vote ted lilly with an animated gif flaming skull. that would be bitchin. k-rad...
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If the Cubs don't add him to their 40-man roster by the end of the World Series, Doug Deeds will be a six-year minor league FA after this season.
Like Josh Kroeger, Deeds destroyed AA pitching, but has struggled to hit at AAA.
While Deeds might end up at Iowa (where he would temporarily replace the injured Micah Hoffpauir at 1B) he could also end up at AA Tennessee, where Smokies 1B Matt Craig is also on the DL.
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The shame about Pie is that he might be the right player to be the Cubs CF, and is here at exactly the wrong time. This is a team with a manager and leadership that has bigger plans than just winning the Central division. Rob is right that they should have traded him before spring training for Roberts if that would have gotten the deal done. None of us really know what the O's were looking for then or now or if the Cubs even have the 'right package'.
What is obvious is that Lou isn't a Pie fan (unless he was hitting about .285+), and Hendry is a fan. From all his minor league history, Pie takes some time to get adjusted to every new league then brings his numbers up over the last 60-80 games. Lou isn't going to give him that much time in a season where the Cubs are favored to make the playoffs. Johnson has succeeded in at least winning platoon status with Pie, and Pie isn't a player that's going to progress to the point where he's a valued starter getting only 2-3 starts a week.
The one offensive need the Cubs have is for a leadoff hitter that could put up numbers like Roberts. I have to believe (or hope) Hendry is still working to make that deal. In the meantime, I would rather the Cubs bring up EPat for the LH bat in CF versus RHP that would be tough on Johnson.
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Hard to believe Will Clark wasn't a cub killer - he was in the 89 playoffs that's for sure.
Rich Hill is in the bullpen as of tonight, according to cubs.com. While I know Hill has been struggling through spring training and the season, it's not like Ted Lilly has been lights out either. Between Hill and Pie, I'm starting to wonder how strong Lou's Dusty-like veteran favoritism tendencies are.
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I guess Lou playing a bunch of rookies and young players last year doesn't count? Without Lou, Marmol, Theriot, Fontenot, and Soto, to name a few, would probably be in AAA with no major league success under their belt.
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Right now Lou couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag.....
* Ruin Pie by not playing him
* Distroy Pie's trade value by playing him in 4 games and sitting him on the bench
* Weaken the outfield defense by playing Ward in right and Fukudome in Center
Sorry Ward - I know you haven't played rightfield in 3 weeks, but you are a very good pitch-hitter who couldn't catch that ball going over your head if you played right three weeks in a row.
* Over pitch Zambrano (107 pitches)on a night you (Lou) admitted he didn't have his good stuff.
Who is responsible for player "development" - not Lou.
I hope I am wrong, but Lou is pigheaded and the game has passed him by.....
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You, sir, are pretty short-sighted here.
1. There is no evidence that Pie is being "ruined". When a player cannot hit major league hitting, and another player on the roster can, guess what dude? Pie STILL has value as a defensive whiz and will get playing time.
2. Did you mean "destroy"? If you meant destroy Pie's trade value - do you not think all of the GM's already know that Pie is "hitting-challenged", now?!
3. PH specialists HAVE to see some game experience. Whether it is in game 12 or 37 - ALL managers will try to get some time for their bench players so they can see some "real" pitching.
4. 107 Pitches to Carlos Zambrano is not "overpitching" him.
I think that Lou is not perfect, but I and many professional writers, GM's, players, etc., have seen him change the culture of LOSING on the North Side to one of winning. He today, STILL, is onf of the top 5-6 in baseball.
Perhaps you'd want to become a Reds fan and follow the Great Dusty Baker around?
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"major league hitting" = major league PITCHING
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...and you think his trade value has increased by the way Lou has handled Pie? - NO!
Pie is our player, if we don't give him a chance to play - it is our loss.
Don't get me wrong Johnson is a nice 4th or 5th outfielder who should not start against RH pitching. He doesn't bring close to the outfield defense what Pie does. I would bet that given a chance (+200 AB) Pie will be a better hitter that Johnson - overall.
Oh yea - you're right, there were lots of teams looking for Johnson when he was CUT from the BlueJays. Teams were falling over themselfs to get him - as a starting centerfielder!!!
With Pie in center and Fukudome in right - it would have been a different game last night.
But lets not forget, Ward added a great offensive punch last night - 4 ground balls to the right side of the infield.
107 pitches is too many when your pitcher is losing and he doesn't have his stuff.
and don't even get me started with how Lou is handling Rich Hill!!!!
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I'm not sure I follow part of this logic:
Play Pie even if he is not hitting; but Lou should not have played Ward because he went 0-4??
If your own arugment holds about playing Pie so he will do well over the long run, then you have to agree to play Ward once in a while so he keeps his stroke and gets pinch hits for us over the long run.
Also, on Johnson: the Mets, Red Sox, Rays, and Rangers were all rumored to be interested in him when he got released. His career line in over 2,000 at-bats is: .282 .344 .410. In 200 at-bats so far Pie is .211 .265 .317. Now I like Pie a lot, but to just simply assume that Pie would out-produce Johnson given 200+ at-bats is a tenuous proposition.
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Pie should either play or not be on the major league roster - period. If he is going to be on the major league roster than give him quality playing time - time to grow into a major league hitter. He is not going to do anything for the team sitting on the bench. Is it me or is Pie the FIRST player in major league history who has not hit over 300 in his first 100 major league at bats?
Yes - other teams were lokking at Johnson, but not as a STARTING centerfielder on a playoff team?
Mets - corner outfielder / injury replacement
Red Sox - 4th outfielder
Rays - not a play off team
Rangers - 4th outfielder and not a playoff team
Ward does not belong in RIGHTFIELD. Yes - as a pitchhitter Ward needs at bats, but not at the expense of losing a game with his defense (which he did)!
Sweet Lou said Fukudome is getting tonight off - against a LH Starting pitcher. So do we get Johnson in center and Ward in right? Great outfield defense!!!
Although I am looking forward to another four ground balls to the rightside of the infield - which is ONLY good when there is a man on second with no one out....
Poor Lilly.
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derosa in RF, cedeno 2nd i'd bet...that's lou style.
could be anything...
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First, to blame an entire loss on Ward's defense is stupid. Baseball is far more complicated than that.
Second, how many PLAYOFF teams have a STARTING center fielder with a career average of .215??? Playoff contending teams have good, proven center fielders. We didn't, so we picked up Johnson.
No, Pie is not the first player to fail hit .300 in his first 100 major league at-bats. But he is also not the first player who to hit .215 in his first 200 at-bats and then, again not surprisingly, find himself not always starting. This particularly happens on playoff contending teams where the fourth outfielder is a career .285 hitter in the big leagues and also plays sound defense. If Ellsbury hadn't hit .353 last year then he would have been benched or sent down too.
And this whole argument about what Ward did at the plate is just plain dumb. So if he had gone 4-4 with 4 homers it would have been ok? I guess Lou forgot to look into the future before yesterday's game.
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Ward misplayed a flyball in RF that caused a run to score... The fly ball turned into two runs - the Cubs lost by two runs 5-3. Without that misplay in RF - it is a different ballgame.
Now maybe if Ward had provided some (OK - any offense)last night his defensive difficulties could be over looked.
The Cubs have not been a good defensive team so far this year - Lou doesn't need to compound their defensive problems by playing Ward in RF.
Ward does not belong in RF.
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We just won 5 games in a row and you're complaining a guy hitting .200 and looks lost at the plate isn't starting? Pie's trade value is not being ruined, other teams knew he couldn't hit lefties and he had an extended look last year, if you forget, in which he looked like crap then.
Everyone would like to see Pie get established, but it's hard to do when he's not hitting and you're trying to win games. I'll take winning the division over trying to establish a player who may or may not become an average starter.
As for Ward, I'm not trying to pick on you, but you do know that pinch hitters need to start a game every now and then to help keep their timing sharp? Most teams, ideally, start their bench players at least once a week. Ward has 1 start in 8 games. If you want and expect Ward, Fontenot, Cedeno, Johnson/Pie, and Blanco to stay sharp they need to start once in a while. Ward's a good hitter, and Johnson historically can't hit righties that well, especially tough righties like Myers from last night. And Pie just plain blows right now. He swings at anything 6-10 inches inside. He has no knowledge of the strike zone.
As for Zambrano, 107 pitches isn't overusing him. And it's not like he was hurt. He didn't have his good stuff. Maybe you didn't want the bullpen get overworked the previous 3 games in Pittsburgh and understand the team needed a starter to step up and give them 6-7 innings.
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ward starting is one thing...ward in RF is another.
at least with lou we dont gotta hear every move of his dissected. god knows he's already made a few moves (including wasting a player announcing a switch before a pitching changing using 3 players instead of 2 in a game that became extra innings) that would have been jumped on for 100 posts by the dusty hive-mind.
every manager is gonna do a LOT of thing people consider "stupid".
More Voice of reasons
"Pie's trade value is not being ruined, other teams knew he couldn't hit lefties and he had an extended look last year, if you forget, in which he looked like crap then."
THANK YOU!! My point exactly as previously stated. "LOUD SUSTAINED APPLAUSE"
The dude has no clue...just like trying to bang your head against a brick wall...
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In the sixth, Ryan Howard opened with a double. Burrell followed with a double over the head of Ward in right.
"What can I say?" Ward said. "I'm doing the best that I can. It's been three weeks that I've been in right field. It's tough getting good jumps being that long. There's not really any excuses. I gave it my best effort the ball, and it was over my head."
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Elsewhere, Brian Giles let a ball go over his head in right. In fact, it nearly hit him in the head. (he made a nice play to avoid it)
What is San Diego thinking? Bench him.
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d.ward was a horrible OF'r in Houston and nothing's changed.
the only thing he has is an average arm. he's slow, his ball tracking skills are awful, and the OF in PHI isn't a small place to patrol.
even in his youth (and many lbs. ago) he was a bad OF'r...he's the type of guy you stick in LF in fenway.
ultimately it doesnt matter THAT much cuz its just a handful of games he should play there (hopefully). still, he's a pretty cruddy choice for an OF slot, much less a big OF...and RF, damn...
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Gavin Floyd had no hitter through 7 1/3.
I 8th Hawk announced the stats for the game he didn't want to announce that the Tigers had no hits but he did.
Edgar Rentaria promptly hit the next pitch into right center.
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100 pitches is pretty normal for any pitcher in the league. I dont know what the hell this guy is talking about with Z being overworked last night. Say what?!??!
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Okay - not overworked is too tough of a term, but waisted!!! Zambrano normally throws over 100 a game, but Lou waisted it last night and should have cut his loses.
But Id perfer not to have Zambrano go over 100 in a game he doesn't have his best stuff and has already lost it mentally. By the sixth inning, lets save the arm for a game that wasn't already thrown away by the manager.....
My main arguement is that Lou is sailing this ship as a pigheaded captain. If the manager and GM aren't going to be on the same page - the team is not going to develop or win.
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I have a really hard time getting on board with this argument. Our bullpen just got worked to death in the Pittsburgh series. There's still another 2+ games until the next off day. There's absolutely no reason to trot Marshall, Lieber, or anybody else out there for 2+ innings just so you can save Z 20 pitches. That's dumb.
And you're right about our pigheaded captain sinking the ship. Finished above .500 last year. Above .500 right now. Lou IS KILLING US. Come on, dude. Seriously.
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Right now Lou couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag.....
* Ruin Pie by not playing him
* Distroy Pie's trade value by playing him in 4 games and sitting him on the bench
lol... biggest thing lowering Pie's trade value is Pie, but I'm sure everyone knows my feelings on him already so I'll just leave it at that.
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The San Francisco Giants' starting lineup today:
Fred Lewis
Eugenio Vélez
Randy Winn
Bengie Molina
José Castillo
John Bowker
Dan Ortmeier
Brian Bocock
I bet Matt Cain's pissed.
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There's no reason to put Ward in RF tonight. As Crunch said, DeRosa could easily spell Fukudome tonight.
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9th inning, two out, runner in scoring position, SF trailing StL by a run and PUJOLS lets a ball roll right through his legs.
Tie game.
Very un-Pujolsian even though the scorer has it down as a hit.
We'll have an extra inning ball game today in SF.
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Hey - Hows that allstar reed johnson doing in center tonight?
0-4 with 2 K's.....
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You forgot to mention the very nice play in center on a deep fly ball over his head toward the right-center angle in the wall. He got a really nice break on the ball and hauled it in.
Being the outfielding afficianado that you are, I thought you'd be sure to notice that.
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Joe - it was a nice play.
I just didn't think we were taking outfield defense into account.
Im swimming against the current here - stating that Ward should not be in RF to keep is bat warm.
I don't think there is a question over who is a better defensive outfielder between Johnson and Pie.
Pie should be in there for his defense and to either hit is way on or off the major league roster.
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If Pie keeps hitting .182, his defense won't make up for his abysmal offense.
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But he isn't going to get a chance to improve his batting average sitting on the bench. There is NO reason he shouldn't be playing against most if not all RH startig pitchers.
Although I suspect two of the reasons are Solarino hitting under 200 and Ramirez hitting under 250 (although he has had some timely HRs).
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Heh... I love when people attack a player for having a bad game. And hopefully you do realize that even after Johnson's 0-4, he still has significantly better numbers than Pie so far.
So if you want to play silly and ridiculous sample size games, I can do the same.
Fukudome sucks, being that he hasn't had a hit in his last 8 at-bats.
Johnson is obviously better than Pie, being that Johnson has such better numbers this year.
DeRosa is better than ARam.
Dempster is one of the top five starters in baseball.
Should I go on?
Recent comments
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
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.


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Can't snowboard, help.
Haha nevermind.
Honestly move to Nashville, TN work on your singing career and play in honky tonk bars. Once you have become famous singing you can move out West.
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You're trying too hard. Snowboarding should be fun. If you are trying to do it to go pro then you are doing it wrong. Learn to ride, figure out ways to go as often as you can. Move to the mountains when you can. I wouldn't give up other aspirations because you are going to go pro. If you are thinking about college, go. Plenty of schools nearby to mountains where you can get a quality degree and plenty of shred. There are tens of thousands of kids who all want to go pro. Maybe 100 of them will. Even less will have a successful career that makes them real money and allows them to ride when they want.
Not matter how hard most of us work at it, we'll never be pro snowboarders. Why? Because we lack the talent. Most anyone can become a good rider, but there's a big difference between being a "good rider" and being a pro. A BIG difference.
Go ride and have fun. Focus on having fun and being the best rider that YOU can be. If you're good enough to be a pro, you'll become a pro. If not, you'll still have a blast and won't be stressing because you're not a pro.
Also, keep in mind that there are varying levels of "pros". Hell, most can't even agree on what a "pro snowboarder" is. Is it anyone who is sponsored? Do you have to have a certain number of sponsors? Does it depend on what level of comps you're competing in and how you're doing? Hell if I know. If you're talking about Olympic and X-Games level pros, you're talking about a literally just a handful of guys. Those are the elite of the elite. They are the NFL Pro Bowlers of the snowboarding world. If you're talking about guys who completely live off of their snowboarding winnings and sponsorships, again, you're talking about a small handful. Most "pros" are working landscaping jobs, etc. in the summer to be able to live. Sean White is the only guy out there who is legitimately balling ass rich from pro snowboarding.
Killclimbs is right on. I think you are likely just frustrated because you want to snowboard and can't, so your frustration is giving you delusions of grandeur about being a pro. First things first, you snowboard because you love it and it fulfills you, not because you want to be a professional icon. If that ends up happening down the road (extremely unlikely) then great, but you should not be putting all your energy into an unrealistic fantasy; you should instead should just do whatever it takes to have fun.
Once you become a pro, your also subject to the circus' interests, meaning your going to be riding whatever is most profitable for the sport. For how much of an snowboarding icon Shaun White is, all he does is pipe and park because that's what makes him famous and makes the corporations money. There's a lot more to snowboarding then gymnastic flips, but if you purely listened to the media you would never know it because it's not what's profitable to them. You see a lot of the older snowboard stars just completely fall off the map because they want to snowboard to have fun, not make money (and very very few snowboarders actually make enough money to support that).
Hell, at this point, White is pretty much pipe only.
You're fake as fuck and not going to do shit in snowboarding. Cruel hard fact you live in bumfuck and don't ride. The only way to get good is to fucking ride. I ride 150 plus days a year I'm not pro but I can hold my own where I need to. You don't ride and from the sounds of it you're still part of the couch potato x box generation that's not going to be able to withstand exploding on a 40 foot jump when you don't get anywhere near the knuckle.
Snowboardings about fun not fucking "being pro". Truth is like Mr. Linville said you won't be shit in snowboarding. Yeah I'll shit on your dreams cause I'm bitter, old, and fucking seen hundreds like you before. You have nothing to offer at this point other than a few falling leaf turns down a bunny hill.
I`m smelling troll meat.......:dunno:
It's cool
Ah, when i posted this, I had no intentions to sound like a desperate little fag, but I did, and I reread it and am now realizing it. I'm still gonna try though. Thanks for being real and not telling me to "follow my dreams" and "listen to my heart". I'm sick of all the gay bull shit people have been telling me. So, really you're doing me a favor.
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6 Ways Convenience Stores Have Changed the World
Although you wouldn't know it from the whining that fills nearly every page of the Internet, the world's actually a pretty easy place to live in. We're surrounded by products and services and features designed to make our lives easier, to the point where people from a generation or two earlier must think we're huge mewling babies every time we open our mouths.
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"Someone registered the Twitter account "@hampirate" before you could? That sounds much worse than being shot four times in Korea."
There's a lot of reasons for the general easing of our lives, even aside from obvious things like the arrival of the Internet and the general decline in popularity of Asian proxy wars. Like for example, convenience stores. No bull; aside from granting you the ability to get corn snacks at hours our ancestors would have considered impossible, if not downright degenerate, convenience stores have changed the world in more ways than you can count.
Unless you can count to six.
Here are six of them.
#6. One-Stop Everything
Of course, at most convenience stores you can do a lot more than just buy Cheetos.
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You can still do that though, so don't worry.
The big selling feature of convenience stores is, intuitively, their convenience. Selling things that we could get elsewhere, but just making it easier for us. This has been extended into some pretty innovative areas; depending on the country you live in, convenience stores will let you:
Do Some Banking
Convenience stores and grocery stores were among the first to get off-premise ATMs installed in them. Convenience stores ended up being ideal places for these off-premise ATM deployments; they were brightly lit, staffed locations where people needed cash.
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And they let you do your banking without having to subject yourself to bankers and their judging eyes.
Buy A Phone Card
Phone cards are little cards you can buy with a 1-800 number and a PIN that allow you to contact a telecom company, which will provide you with cheap long distance (which is great for people who are still paying "long distance").
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"Hello, Mega-Legit-Success-Communications? Grandma, please."
They actually work great, but without the convenience stores acting as trusted middle men, it seems unlikely these telecom companies would ever have gotten anyone to give them a cent.
You Know Something? Forget It, Let's Just Buy The Whole Freaking Phone
For people with limited access to credit (a non-trivial portion of convenience store customers), getting a cell phone used to be a huge pain in the ass. Prepaid cell phones simplified that, offering cell phones off contract that could be filled up with cash at various locations. Now, even people with ruined credit had a whole new world opened up to them, and it was in part thanks to the ready-built distribution system that convenience stores offered.
And by "whole new world" we mean they could start playing Snake.
Basically Everything An Asian Person Could Want
It turns out that in Taiwan you can apparently pay parking tickets at convenience stores. Throughout Asia, in fact, convenience stores offer all sorts of services, like ordering couriers, photocopying, sending faxes, making bill payments, or picking up concert tickets. Why? Basically, convenience stores have caught on in Asia in a way that would surprise many Americans. And, because they're so common and popular, they've been forced to compete on their one defining feature: convenience. How popular are they? In Japan and Taiwan, probably due to simple population density (or their insatiable love for Pocky), there are now something like three to four times the number of convenience stores per person as the United States.
Japanese students continue to put American students to shame on Pocky consumption.
#5. Fresh Ice
Ice is that cold thing we can totally make ourselves in our freezers, and that's about all most people ever really need to know about it. Sure, we sometimes have to buy it in bulk if we need to drink beers by a lake, but that doesn't really seem like the kind of thing to hang a business model on.
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"So I've crunched the numbers, and if our average customer buys $3 worth of ice a year, that means the government is going to bring back debtors prisons just for us."
But believe it or not, fridges didn't always exist. In the bad old days, ice used to be dug out of crazy, distant places like New England and shipped around the world, where people would jam it up on their food to prevent it from spoiling. Because that was apparently easier than simply inventing refrigeration.
Even when artificial refrigeration was finally invented, for a long time, it involved big heavy, frighteningly poisonous equipment, which wasn't the kind of thing people wanted to keep in their houses. Ice then had to be made at local ice plants, where people would visit to pick up ice. These ice houses, needing to obviously be relatively close to people's homes, became the forerunners of the first convenience stores. Indeed, 7-Eleven got its start when some guy who worked at an ice dock started making a few extra bucks on the side, selling milk and bread. From there it was a quick step on to drinks, snacks, and other delicious treats.
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Like gasoline.
#4. Sweet Frozen Beverages
Only one species on the planet has mastered Slurpee technology, and it should come as no surprise that it's the same one currently on top of the food chain and complaining on the Internet about things. Humanity has Got It Going On, and the Slurpee drink (and its various counterparts) are among the brightest of stars in our firmament of accomplishments.
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Take a hike, penicillin.
And to think that it all came about as a happy accident. In the 1950s some guy wanted to sell soda, but, lacking a soda fountain, he started keeping bottles of soda in the freezer. Because cold's cold, right? They froze, because it turns out that cold isn't cold at all, and when he tried serving this to his customers with his fingers all sorts of crossed, he was surprised to find that the teens of the 50's loved it.
"We're digging this boss treat, Daddy-O. Hot rod sock hop heavy petting."
Can you imagine a world without Slurpee drinks? Can you imagine how dark it would be every day? You know those photos you sometimes see from the early days of photography, where the colors are all washed out and people's eyes are blacked out? That wasn't a visual artifact. That's what a life without Slurpee drinks is like.


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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Wando baseball opened the 2014 season with a win and two losses in this weekends Comporium Tournament at Gilbert High School.
Wando (1-2) pulled off a seventh-inning win over Byrnes in Saturdays opener, before falling to Gilbert and Spartanburg on Sunday.
Wando 2, Byrnes 1
With one out and the game tied in the the seventh inning, Oliver Hill drove a sacrifice fly into center field to score Owen Ravenel and give Wando a 2-1 opening day win Saturday.
Jeff Gottesman earned the win for Wando, allowing two hits and one earned run over seven innings while striking out eight and walking two.
Ravenel helped Wando get on the board in the second inning, reaching on an infield error with two outs while Barrett Walton scored from third.
Wando gave the run back in the top of the seventh with an error at the plate to allow Mason Streater to tie the game for Byrnes.
Down one out in the seventh, Ravenel walked, and Payton Muller and Trevor Pederson hit back-to-back singles to set Hill up for the game-winner.
Walton finished the day 2-3 with a run scored, Hill 1-3 with an RBI, and Pedersen 1-4.
Gilbert 8, Wando 4
Wando rang up nine hits but left six runners stranded in an 8-4 loss to Gilbert Sunday.
Ethan Keane took the loss for Wando, allowing three earned runs off two hits and a walk in one inning.
Wando jumped on top of a couple Gilbert errors early, reeling off three runs with two outs in the first inning. Harrison Smith scored from second while Kep Brown reached on an outfield error. Brown then scored off another Gilbert outfield error while Noah LoCascio reached third. Walton drove in LoCascio in the next at-bat to put Wando on top 3-0.
Caleb Watkins got two back for Gilbert in the bottom frame with a two-run double to center. Gilbert scored two more runs in the fourth, three in the fifth and another in the sixth.
LoCascio drove in Brown in the top of the fifth to score Wandos only other run. Smith finished 2-4 with a run scored, while LoCascio and Walton both went 1-3 with an RBI.
Spartanburg 9, Wando 6
Wando wrapped up the weekend with a 9-6 loss to Spartanburg, giving up eight runs through the first three innings.
Brown sparked a five-run rally for Wando in the top of the first with a two-run homerun over the leftfield wall. Ravenel singled to left to drive in Gervais DuPre, and Hogan Kelly followed with a single to right to score Walton and Ravenel.
Spartanburg scored four runs in the bottom frame with two outs, including a two-run triple by Banks Wise.
Smith singled to center to score Pedersen in the top of the fourth to pull Wando within two runs of Spartanburg. But the Warriors managed just one more hit the rest of the day.
Smith suffered the loss for Wando, giving up three hits, eight runs, one earned through three innings while striking out five and walking four.
Brown hit 2-4 with a homerun, a double, two RBIs and a run scored. Smith finished 1-4 with an RBI and a walk.
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Busy, busy Saturday on tap today. Loads of college football ahead of the first BCS Rankings, which will be released tomorrow.
The Brett Favre saga apparently won't die, though I'm sure he would love for it to. Pretty big game tomorrow for Favre and his Minnesota Vikings against another potential disaster in the Dallas Cowboys.
Both teams are struggling with 1-3 records and need to win to keep their seasons off life support. Plus, Favre has been diagnosed with tendinitis in his right elbow and listed as questionable. Will his consecutive games streak remain intact? Um, count on it.
After New York's dramatic come-from-behind win in Game 1 last night, how will the Texas Rangers respond today? Do they have anything left after what had to be a deflating loss?
Also today, we have Game 1 of the NLDS between Philadelphia and San Francisco. Roy Halladay vs. Tim Lincecum. First team to three runs wins in a pretty stout pitching matchup.
And then we have UFC 120 from England. Not available on pay-per-view, apparently, but will air later tonight on Spike TV. Go figure.
Keep it here as we update all the significant news of what I'm sure will be a busy day in sports.


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Edwin Fleck Brown, 80, Homers Gap, died Saturday afternoon at his residence.
He was born in Altoona, son of Ai Ernest and Martha (Fleck) Brown. He married Beverly Jeanne Meister on Jan. 23, 1960, in Clearfield.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters: Sharon (Robert) Furbee in Pennsylvania and Dee (Richard) Gudenau in Michigan; a son, Matthew in Pennsylvania; two grandsons: Thomas and James Furbee in Pennsylvania; a brother, Ai Ernest Jr. in Virginia; as well as many nieces and nephews.
Edwin was a graduate of Altoona High School and a U.S. Army veteran. He was the owner/operator of Brown's Frame Shop. He was a member of Greenwood United Methodist Church and Allegheny Antique Car Association, and he enjoyed working with and restoring antique cars.
At the request of the deceased, there will be no public viewing or funeral service.
Memorial contributions may be made to Greenwood United Methodist Church or Horizons Hospice, 309 E. Plank Road, Altoona, PA 16602.
Arrangements are by Mauk & Yates Funeral Home Inc., Juniata.


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The Truckee Wolverines of the Sierra Youth Football League's Maverick Division failed to respond to a bad start like their previous game in which they ended up on top for the win. The Fallon Greenwave proved to be too big a challenge to allow the 7- to 8-year-old boys another comeback win.
The Greenwave used all three phases of the game to roll over the Wolverines 41-0 in front of their home crowd last Saturday. The Greenwave's offense scored from the ground and air. The defense scored an interception return for a touchdown. Their special teams also scored on a punt return.
Fallon's offense started the game with a 21-yard sweep to the right followed by a 37-yard touchdown run to the left. Their next offensive play later in the first quarter went 41 yards to the left for a score and a 14-0 lead.
The Wolverines defense then finally tried to dig their feet into the sand and brace against the Greenwave. They started the second quarter behind two tackles for no gain from defensive tackle Colton Conklin. This helped put Fallon into a fourth-and-10 situation. The Greenwave quarterback took the keeper around the right side and rolled 41 yards for the score and a 21-0 halftime lead.
After halftime, Truckee's run defense only allowed 13 yards on four carries, courtesy of the Wolverines' leading tacklers, Matthew Seline, Hunter Hansell and Galdino Bravo-Karvonen. Each had four tackles on the day with defensive tackle Seline and cornerback Bravo-Karvonen leading the team with two tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
Even with the ground game stopped, the Greenwave washed up into the end zone three more times in the second half thanks to a 50-yard punt return, a 45-yard interception return and an 18-yard pass.
Truckee's offense never found the end zone, facing a punishing defense that only allowed them one first down and 9 yards on 15 carries.
The Wolverines' leading rusher, running back Damon Parisi, was held to 2 yards on five carries. Running back Jackson Kahl led the Wolverines in rushing for the game with 5 yards on four carries. Running backs Jason Roth and Hutton Johnson followed with 4 yards each, including Johnson's 1-yard gain for Truckee's only first down.
Bravo-Karvonen gained the most yards on a single play for the Wolverines with an 8-yard punt return up the middle.
Defensively, the Wolverines got contributions from linebacker Mitchell Mueller and defensive end Carson Jensen. Both had two tackles, including Jensen's team-leading two solo tackles.
Defensive end Ernesto Gomez-Cortez , nose tackle Luis Castaneda, defensive tackles Jacob Moule and Peter Reoutt also contributed with a tackle.
UP NEXT: The Wolverines (1-1) travel to Reno to take on the Wooster Colts (3-0) on Saturday at 11 a.m.


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Rome Braves leadoff hitter Kyle Wren looked down the third base line and saw New York Yankees perennial All-Star Alex Rodriguez inching toward the grass on the infield.
The night before when Wren had learned that Rodriguez would be in the lineup for the Charleston RiverDogs on a rehab assignment, he called his brother Colby, to talk a little strategy.
The Wren brothers decided to see just how well Rodriguez, 37, would be able to move after having offseason hip surgery that has kept the New York Yankees third baseman out of the lineup all season.
On the first pitch of the game, Wren laid down a perfect bunt and began sprinting toward first base. Rodriguez came charging in, scooped the ball up with his right hand and made the throw to first.
It wasn't in time.
"I figured I'd drop down a bunt on (Rodriguez) in the first inning and maybe 10 or 15 years from now it's something I could tell my kids about," said Wren, who played this past spring at Georgia Tech. "I got to play three innings against one of the greatest players of all time and I got a hit against him.
"Right before the pitch, I saw (Rodriguez) kind of creep up and I wasn't going to bunt, but then I was like, I gotta do it."
Wren, whose father Frank is the general manager for the Atlanta Braves, stood on first base with a huge grin on his face barely able to stifle his laughter.
"I was laughing when I got on first because what I'd planned with Colby the night before had come true," Wren said. "I think everyone on our team was in awe of A-Rod. It's hard not to be. He's one of the guys everyone grew up watching. It was great just to get a chance to play against him and be on the same field."
It wasn't exactly the kind of return that Rodriguez had hoped for after being away from the game for nine month.
Rodriguez went hitless in two at-bats — hitting into a double play in the first inning and striking out in the third — in his 2013 debut.
But the results didn't seem to matter to Rodriguez or the standing-room-only crowd of 8,255 at Riley Park Tuesday night who saw the RiverDogs rally for a 4-2 victory over the Braves.
"I had a blast out there, great atmosphere, great fans," Rodriguez said. "That was pretty impressive for (Class) A ball. There were a lot of fans out there. Everyone seemed to be having a great time. It was a great blessing to be back out there. It's been a long fight, a long climb and I'm just pretty excited to get a couple of at bats and get into the mix a little bit."
Rodriguez said he didn't know what to expect in his first game back, but a bunt on the opening pitch didn't factor into his thinking.
"That's a welcome-back play," Rodriguez said with a chuckle. "It was a heck of a bunt. It always seems to work out like that. I actually thought I'd have to dive the first play. I think they were just picking on the old man. I told them I'm 38 years old."
It's so soon into his rehab process that the results on the field or at the plate don't seem to matter much for Rodriguez.
"I put the ball into play and that's a success," he said. "It's a progression. Three innings is not a lot and two at bats is not a lot. It almost feels like March 1 and the start of spring training, and that's the basic approach I'm taking. I've got 19 more days and counting, and you've got to be smart about your work.
"I think you start paying attention maybe 10 games out when you're getting closer. I think what I'm looking for is how my body reacts when I wake up tomorrow. The pain and the aches and make sure I can work through those things."
Rodriguez has played on the biggest stages in baseball, but after a nine-month absence, he admitted to being a little nervous at the start of the game.
"You're always a little excited to be out there," Rodriquez said. "It's been nine months. It was good to get back out there and take some rust off."
Rodriguez wasn't the only Yankee in the lineup for the RiverDogs Tuesday night. Yankees backup infielder Eduardo Nunez, who played for the RiverDogs during the 2006-07 seasons, had two hits in three at bats. He is rehabbing a strained oblique.
"It was fun to be back in this ballpark," Nunez said. "I have some good memories from playing here."
Rodriguez and Nunez said it was fun to rub elbows with some Yankee hopefuls and a reminder of what it means to play in the big leagues.
"It's so nice to play with these young kids," Rodriguez said. "Part of the rehab that's a blast is to have conversations with these kids. They have such great dreams."
When Rodriguez left the game after the third inning, he spent about 30 minutes signing autographs along the first base line for fans. Rodriguez and Nunez will be back in the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Braves.
"Tonight was a good start and hopefully I can build on that for (Wednesday)," Rodriguez said. "It was a pretty awesome atmosphere here in South Carolina."
Alex Rodriguez, Yankees third baseman, returns to the dugout as fans cheer during his game as a member of the Charleston Riverdogs against the Rome Braves Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at Riley Park.(Paul Zoeller/postandcourier.com)×


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SYCAMORE - The United Methodist Church of Sycamore, 211 N. Sycamore Ave., Sycamore, is to host columnist/humorist Jonathan Richard Cring and artist/musician Janet Clazzy during the duo's "2012: Six Words Tour."
The pair is to appear at 7 p.m. Oct. 11. Cring is to present comedic and inspirational essays from his national daily column at www.jonathots.com, with Clazzy playing original musical tunes on the oboe and WX-5 Wind Machine.
The duo, via email, describe their show as a two-person, Broadway-style production that "inspires and entertains."
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Jonathan Cring (left) and Janet Clazzy are bringing their "2012: Six Words Tour" to Seneca County.
A native of Sunbury, Cring said early in his adult life, he started a family and a music career at the same time. In spite of the challenges, he was persistent and managed to do both.
"Twelve years working in Nashville,Tenn., in the music industry, and touring the country. I wrote 11 books, 17 screenplays for movies, won some awards, and I got the opportunity in 1996 to join forces with the musical talent of Janet Clazzy. Along with being the father of seven sons - four of my own making and three I adopted - I have traveled this great country so many times that I can recommend a good mechanic in almost every locale," Cring wrote.
Clazzy wrote she met Cring in Shreveport, La., in 1981, and became his musical partner in the 1990s when she moved to Nashville. Her musical journey started by playing saxophone in high school.
When the band needed other instruments, the director asked her to play oboe, and she agreed.
"Now, many decades later, I still have the thing hanging out of my mouth. Classically trained but growing up with rock and roll, with a master's degree in music from Northwestern University and having played in five symphonies, I now combine all of my tastes and experiences to write music for movie soundtracks and perform with Jonathan Cring all across the country, playing what we call "clazzy" music - the blend of classical with jazz, pop-minded," Clazzy wrote.
Clazzy accompanies Cring on "this fabulous instrument called the
WX-5 Wind Machine," which she uses to create 250 sounds with her fingertips.
"If Mr. Cring plays gospel, I pull out the harmonica. If he sings a ballad, I may slide in a little cello," Clazzy wrote.
Referring to "The Six Words Tour," Cring said the title refers to his wish politicians would sum up their agendas in six words instead of spewing rhetoric that no one understands or that points blame at others.
He said his favorite six words are "No one's better than anyone else."
The show incorporates music, inspiration and humor that is mean to appeal to multiple generations.
No tickets are needed. An offering is to be taken and copies of books, CDs and DVDs of the movies are to be available for purchase.
For more information, call the church at (419) 927-5472 or go online to www.spiriTed2012.com.


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Eleanor wears embroidered tulle dress, £14,340, by Valentino. Swarovski crystal and metal chandelier-drop earrings, £68, by Butler & Wilson
Antique George III armchair attributed to Thomas Chippendale with silk needlework upholstery, one of a pair, price on request, from Ronald Phillips. Vintage oil painting by Giancarlo Drovandi, £725, and silver-plated and embossed jug (bottom left), £245, both from Regent Antiques. Canvas wall mural reproducing Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects by Balthasar van der Ast, £70 per square metre (above right), from The National Gallery Collection by Surface View. Linen/cotton Brockham fabric (far right), £125 per metre, by Colefax and Fowler. Hand-woven wool Aubusson rug (9m x 6m), £2,507, by Paul Smith for The Rug Company
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo may have plans for a new, non-Indian casino in Niagara Falls, but the city isn't preparing to double down just yet.
Community leaders said Sunday that they would certainly welcome another gambling hall to their tourist community, but they view Cuomo's plan as more of a bargaining chip than a reality at this point.
The thinking is that if Cuomo threatens to allow a competitor to the Seneca Niagara Casino, the Senecas will be more likely to pay the more than $500 million in casino proceeds owed to the state.
"Of course, he's using it as a bargaining chip," said Niagara Falls Block Club President Roger L. Spurback. "I would do the same thing."
But it also provides Niagara Falls with a Plan B if the Senecas either win the arbitration or simply refuse to pay.
"The discussion of the possibility of a non-Seneca casino in Niagara Falls serves two objectives," said Mayor Paul A. Dyster. "It creates additional leverage to resolve the dispute with the Senecas, and at the same time, it provides an option if the dispute isn't resolved."
Other observers said privately that the strategy is essentially a win-win situation for Cuomo and the state.
Either the plan for a non-Indian casino forces the Senecas' hand or it gives the city a new revenue generator as it struggles to survive without $60 million in slot machine proceeds withheld by the Senecas.
It could also push a billionaire landowner with close ties to Cuomo to finally develop his blighted properties in downtown Niagara Falls.
Those options are all possibilities, officials said, but at the moment, the focus is on resolving the current casino dispute with the Senecas.
No city or state leaders contacted by The Buffalo News suggested that plans for a new casino would render the current dispute meaningless.
"Discussion about what happens in the future, to our way of thinking, doesn't change what is owed or what has taken place already," Dyster cautioned.
"The key for us is to resolve the dispute so we can get paid, but at the same time, if the Senecas continue to refuse to pay and the dispute isn't resolved, it's important that we move forward with other options.
"I don't see how the Governor's Office could not look at this."
And a second casino is certainly an alternative, said State Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-Newfane.
"I think the governor is as exhausted as everyone else is with the nonpayment by the Senecas, and I think he's exploring all the options," said Maziarz, who counts the Senecas among his major campaign contributors. "I think he's doing the right thing."
Spurback, who has criticized Cuomo in the past, also believes that the governor's plan will ultimately help the city. But he believes that Cuomo's motivations center on the state allowing "racinos" and other gambling devices, which drove the Senecas to withhold the money.
Spurback believes that it would benefit Cuomo to get the Senecas to agree to a settlement before the current arbitration ends because the state is the party that violated the deal.
"When arbitration ends … New York State will lose that," Spurback said. What the governor is doing, he added, "is putting his cards on the table before arbitration to get the Senecas to the table."
Another theory is that, despite the recent plans for a new casino and the apparent frustration at the pace of negotiations by the state, both sides are relatively close to an agreement.
Cuomo's aggressive stance on the issue could actually compel hard-liners in the Seneca government to move closer to the moderates, who have been pushing for a deal.
A spokeswoman for Seneca President Barry E. Snyder Sr. declined to comment on the casino plan.
Spurback's organization and other groups in the community proposed a similar non-Indian casino plan late last year. They sent copies of the proposal to Cuomo and a representative of Howard P. Milstein, the Manhattan billionaire who owns more than 140 acres of prime, undeveloped downtown land.
Building a new casino in the Falls could push Milstein to develop the blighted expanse that sits at the entrance to the city, which many say is the prime area for a new casino.
But it also would raise questions about Cuomo's relationship with Milstein, a major campaign donor to Cuomo who he appointed in 2011 to lead the state Thruway Authority.
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April 21st, 2013 02:44 AM #1
Better late than never....
Until I just read the 2013 Quarterly Report, I don't think I realized that this report is based on the Nameberry Birth Announcements. And then it occurred to me that I had not left a birth announcement for my son born 7 1/2 months ago, who's name we chose based on Nameberry blogs, lists, & forums. Sorry, I'm waaayy behind the eight-ball on this! But I guess better late than never... Our son, Rhys Phoenix was born on August 25th in Southern California weighing 7 lbs 5 oz & measuring 20 in. His little smile lights up a room & he is the light of our lives.
April 21st, 2013 05:37 AM #3Not so done having children after all. We're not ready for TTC quite yet but when we do get pregnant,the husband handed sole naming rights over to his name obsessed wife!
Bouncing Baby Boy: Tristan Ambrose * Ambrose Galahad* Gabriel Beauregard
Little Lady: Genevieve Claire * Josephine Adele * Fleur Josephine * Morgana
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Thank you so much, Linda!! Now I know how it works for our next one... Already getting sibling naming ideas, thanks to Nameberry!! And thanks to Nameberry in the in the 1st place for helping us come up with our precious baby boy's name, Rhys Phoenix. We're going to have to have a pretty large family for all the good naming ideas we get from the Berries!!


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on September 21, 2012 - 9:12 AM
Bruce Jackson, the prolific writer, photographer and distinguished University at Buffalo professor who has been at the center of Buffalo's intellectual life for decades, will be honored by his colleagues in a celebration today at UB.
"A Celebration of the Arts to Honor Bruce Jackson," beginning at 1 p.m. in Slee Hall on the UB Amherst campus, will feature remarks by UB President Satish K. Tripathi, an exhibition of Jackson's photographs and music and the premiere of David Felder's musical piece "A Garland for Bruce." The event also will include a screening of the documentary "Crazy" introduced by filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who has come from Paris to participate in the celebration. Jackson's wife and longtime collaborator Diane Christian will moderate a discussion.
"Honors like this usually come from elsewhere, not home," Jackson said in a statement released by UB. "At home, they usually only do things like this when you're retiring or dead, neither of which I am." Said Tripathi in that same statement: "Like much of the very best work in the arts and humanities, Bruce's work defies easy definition. His films, photographs, social commentary and scholarship all cut across multiple fields and have tremendously broad relevance, from the academy to popular culture, to international social policy."
The event is free, with more info at 645-3705 or www.ubevents.org/events/jackson.
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The groundbreaking for the new Huttonsville water treatment plant will take place Friday afternoon.
At 1 p.m. in the Huttonsville - Mill Creek Fire Department, officials from the Huttonsville Public Service District will be providing refreshments and hors d'oeuvres and facilitating speeches commemorating the site.
The groundbreaking is open to the public. Representatives from the USDA, USDA Rural Utilities Service, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's office and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's office will be attending.
"There will be speeches from Sen. Manchin's office and the Rural Utilities Service," Louise McAtee, general manager of the Huttonsville PSD, said.
The creation of a water treatment plant in Huttonsville will allow the city to pump its own water, McAtee said. Currently, water is purchased from Beverly and Elkins and pumped to Huttonsville.
When the plant is complete, Huttonsville will no longer be dependent on their neighboring towns for water.
McAttee said the plant will be connected to the Elkwater Dam, which was dedicated this past summer.
In addition, she said, water lines will be constructed to reach the towns of Bell Crouch, Valley Head and Mingo. Lines already connected to Becky's Creek will extend through the town to Bell Crouch.


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March 24, 2012 I was sitting in Walmart parking lot waiting for my son, Jim, when the dark clouds rolled in. I was not sure if the clouds have ever been that dark, or if I was just noticing the sky more these day. more »»
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February 4, 2012 "Fear has torment" is a phrase from the word that speaks volumes. If your life is ruled by fear and your outlook is fear based, hang on. Help is on the way. more »»
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November 12, 2011 When my children where young, they had a little tape they played over and over from the Veggie Tales collection. more »»
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Will you pay it forward?
October 22, 2011 Hopefully, into each and every life people come into our lives and change us completely. Without them, we'd never be who we are today. more »»
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*Kopecky, Abdelkader, *Leino, *Downey, *McCarty
Man oh man, this is going to be hard to sort through. So, let's start with the easy ones:
- McCarty - no place in the pro-organization...but he puts butts in the seats in g.r., so he might stick around.
- Downey - it'd be great to have him up for a few games here and there if we've got the money left to sign him after taking care of EVERYTHING else.
- Leino - RFA, needs at least one more season in g.r., still ahead of our next best prospect (ritola), and should be cheap enough to keep. Hopefully there's little to no competition.
- Kopecky - Helm's taken his spot in the everyday lineup, but I would rather see him out there than Maltby, and he should be cheap enough to keep.
Now, getting into the harder ones:
- Hossa, Samuelsson and Hudler - signing Hossa means no Hudler, and no Samuelsson. He sucked in the post-season, true, but can we forget that he led our team in goals during the regular season...or that he's a great defensive forward? Do you really think that we're better with Samuelsson and Hudler in the lineup than we are with Hossa and Abdelkader!? Hudler's a great offensive player, but he's so bad defensively that we had to put him on the 4th line with Draper and Maltby. Is he ever going to be able to hang in Mike Babcock's system? Samuelsson gets a snipe every so often, but he's a liability defensively and literally (6-2+) the biggest ****** on our team. Do you really want a third liner that can't hit, or play defense?
How about those legacies that are starting to hurt the team a bit? Not in terms of actually hurting the team ON the ice, but maybe in keeping other younger players OFF the ice, and with their CAP implications...
- Holmstrom - He's never been able to handle the puck, he's never been able to shoot, he's never been able to pass, he's never been able to skate, and he's never been able to play defense. He's been a PHENOMENAL player here because he's the greatest net-presence in the game. This used to make his lack of skills (mentioned above) tolerable. However, those skills have declined to the point where he's no longet a top two-liner. I no longer think that we can afford to have such defensive liabilities on the third line. Besides, Franzen has gotten so good in front of the net that Homer is no longer AS necessary.
- Maltby - If you think we're going to be better with Maltby out there instead of Abby of Kop next season...you're out of your mind.
***FINAL POINT*** - Maybe we shouldn't resign Hossa; but if we're not going to sign him, than it had BETTER NOT be at the expense of defensive liabilities like Hudler and Sammy. If you're asking me, I think we should resign Hossa...IF he's willing to take less than Hank...and let Hudler and Sammy walk. Our top two lines are the best in hockey. Its our third and fourth lines that are killing us. We don't need lazy, soft, defensive liabilities like Hudler and Sammy out there, we need hard-hitting, aggressive, energetic and defensively sound grinders like Pittsburgh and Anaheim have. Helm, Abby, Draper, maybe even Kop, maaaybe even Maltby...these are guys that fit the bill. Homer, Sammy, Hudler...these are not.
Lebda, *Chelios, Meech
I'm not sure how we're going to, but somehow, we need to improve back here. So, how about trading Rafalski? It's pretty obvious that his defensive skills (in particular, his speed)are in decline. He's starting to look like nothing more than an overpaid PP specialist. If we could trade him and another prospect (Lebda, Meech, etc.) for a bigger/stronger/faster/younger/CHEAPER number two defenseman that is a little more oriented towards his own blue-line, I think it would help us a great deal. Lidstrom's still got half a decade's worth of norris-level play in him, Kronner's getting closer and closer to that level every season, Stuart was playing as well as he ever had until game seven, Ericsson's looking like our next stud and Kindl's right around the corner...so to me, this is the only deal that makes sense. BTW - best of luck to assistant coach chelios, so long as it isn't in chicago or anaheim.
Ozzie had a rough start to the season, but he seems to have made some changes in his preparation that solved those problems, and he was stone-cold throughout the post-season. There's no reason to consider a change here. The one question at this position is whether or not Jimmy Howard is ready to take on the back-up role, or if we'll have to re-sign Conks (or a similar vet). It's not that important of a question...as we seem to have already gone in another direction long-term (McCollum) and conks was servicable last season...but it'd be a little cheaper to have Larrson as our number three goalie next season.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Hamsters, gerbils, doctor's appointments and children who "won't know what to do" are no longer going to cut in on Joyce Lane during school drop-off and pick-up hours.
"Over the years," explains Summerville Police Department Corporal R. Fowler, "the number of cars has grown…there are more and more cars and in addition, with more and more students in the district, the length of the bus ride has grown and more parents are driving their children to school."
Consequently, the drop-off and pick-up points have become so congested that the very children parents are trying to protect are in jeopardy of getting hurt or worse.
Further, parents are parking a few blocks from the school and expecting their little ones to walk.
This, says Fowler, puts children at risk in today's society.
"We have a tremendous number of sexual predators in Summerville," she explained noting that this is the case all over, not just in Summerville, and children are at risk. She points out that 17A and many of the other main streets, are easy escape routes for someone to grab a child and run.
The problem is that cars line up on the highway right-of-way on Joyce Lane and when that is full on both sides, they then stop in the road and wait to pick up their child. Regular traffic cannot get through, cars turning off of 17A have near misses when they meet stopped/parked cars in the road and the children wend their way through all these cars on their way to theirs. Cars are jockeying to get out after picking-up/dropping-off their child while children are walking between them…it is a huge safety issue, says Fowler.
Further, some cars park in or block driveways and one resident was told "I'll move my car after I pick up my child."
The issue at SES is parents darting between cars and crossing the streets with their children instead of using the crosswalk.
Since the start of school the SPD officers have been trying for five weeks to educate parents as to safe pick-up and drop-off procedures. To help define the problem areas, signs were installed this week clearly defining the area where it is prohibited to stop. Signs will be installed along 17A south, across from Summerville Elementary, next week.
A letter was sent August 30 to Rollings Middle School and Summerville Elementary School explaining the issues, and letting the administration know about the signs and the fact that the rules would be enforced.
Parents need to be aware that enforcement isn't lightweight. Citations carry fines ranging between $160 and $1,092 with the possibility of "points" being assigned to driver license record.
For example:
Disobeying Posted Sign or Signal – $237
Obstructing Streets/Sidewalks/Driveway – $160 to $1,092.50
Improper Stopping Vehicle in Roadway – $237.
But most important, says Fowler, is the safety of the children. Convenience isn't worth a child getting hurt, she says.
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