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Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
- Noooo, oh God, No. We get the White Sox telecast for today's game, after Len and Bob's telecast got rained out yesterday. It is a cruel and malevolent god who rules the baseball airwaves.
- Game starts with Dempster throwing a fastball for a strike to Podsednik, low outside corner, 88 mph.
- Podsednik hits a sharp liner to center, forcing Johnson to go back on it for the catch. Hawk pours forth some stream of nonsense that he thinks counts as baseball lingo, I think he meant to say "Podsednik hit that ball well."
- 0-2 on Alexei. A few pitches later, he throws his bat at the ball, and at Dempster, to foul one off.
- Ramirez hits one into the left-center basket for a home run. Hawk gives it a double-"yes." Looks like a fastball outside and up. 0-1 Sox
- 3-1 to Dye, and he hits a big two-hopper to Theriot.
- First-pitch fastball to Konerko, who hits it sharply, but on the ground right to Fontenot. Inning over.
- Danks' first pitch is a fastball inside for a ball. Fastball up and out for 2-0 count.
- Hawk now talking about spinning hitters. In what world does Soriano have a "spin" in his swing like Fukudome? Hawk's, I guess.
- full count to Soriano, Soriano swings ahead of and over a changeup.
- Theriot grounds to short.
- 3-2 to Bradley, a changeup outside off the plate leads to a soft fly out to center.
- AJ hits a sharp fly ball to left-center, no problem for Johnson.
- Brian Anderson hits one off the end of the bat, dumps it into shallow right, near the line. Stone points out that Bradley pulled up a bit on the ball.
- Gets also dumps one down the right field line, this time getting it past Bradley, so that it rolls to the wall. Hawk's cheering for the ball to get past Bradley was the key to the whole play. It's a triple, Anderson scores, 0-2 Sox.
- Fastball inside to Getz, who chops it to Theriot. The infield drawn in, Anderson holds at third.
- And again, Hawk cheers for a pop fly off Danks' bat to drift out of play, and it does. Hawk is 2-2 in the telekenisis, today.
- Danks K's swinging.
- Lee chops a single through the 6-5 hole, just out of the reach of Beckham. Got a bit of a bad read on the hop.
- And Soto hits a sharp bouncer down the third-base line, just a step or so to Beckham's right. He tried to get in front of it, when, as Hawk correctly points out, he should have backhanded it. It skips away, and goes for a very, very generous "hit" for Soto. Hawk berates the call, and what do you know? It's changed to an error. Hawk has other-worldly powers, today.
- A third ball hit to Beckham, and this time he turns the 5-4-3 on Johnson. Lee to third.
- 2-0 on Fontenot, he grounds one to Konero 3-1 putout. Nuts.
- Podsednik walks on four straight.
- Alexei K's swinging, I somehow missed it
- Podsednik steals second, 2-0 count to Dye. Hawk and Steve point out that Miles was a couple of steps off of the base, presumably trying to better block it from the head-first sliding Podsednik. Hawk hopes to see someone head-first slide into Miles' groin, next time. In come the Mench and Bochy big-head jokes.
- and Dye walks.
- Konerko bounces into the 6-4-3.
- Miles bounces one back to Danks.
- Dempster K's looking at a big sweeping curve.
- Soriano comes up to bat in an 0-2 count.
- And swings ahead of and over another change up. I think I hear some boos over the "He Gone!"
- AJ with a weak tapper to Fontenot.
- And Brian Anderson walks on four straight.
- Full count to Getz, K's swinging, with Soto throwing out Anderson at second. Nice DP, good throw by Soto.
- Theriot with a sharp bouncer to Bechkam's left. he dives for it, it gets away, picked up, but Theriot beats the throw.
- Bradley loops one into shallow left center. With Theriot going to third, Podsednik tries to throw him out but Alexei cuts the throw, just maybe 20 feet from the base. Podsednik looks upset that it got cut off, Bradley wasn't going anywhere at first. Runners at 1 and 3 for Lee, no outs.
- Lee with a soft looper into straight-away center. Anderson catches it at his shin, running and stumbling. Theriot tags, makes a start, then holds at third. Stone things he needed to go for it, Hawk isn't so sure, sympathizes with Theriot. I'm with Hawk.
- Soto swings over a changeup, strike three. 2 out, Theriot still at third.
- Johnson, like Soto, Soriano, swings wildly through a changeup for strike one. Von Joshua has some work to do....
- Johnson bounces out to Beckham, 5-4 putout. Nuts. 2 innings with 2 on, 0 outs, and no runs to show.
- Danks surprisingly has throw more pitches than Dempster through 4: 64 to 60.
- Hanging slider, Beckham lines it into right for a single.
- Danks bunts to Dempster, moving Beckham over.
- Podsednik squibs one down the line to Fontenot, easy out, Beckham holds.
- 0-2 to Alexei as he swings over a splitter.
- Next splitter goes maybe 55 feet, two feet outside. Soto doesn't have a chance, Beckham to third.
- Dempster hangs a breaking pitch, but Alexei gets under it, flies to Soriano.
- Fontenot K's on a check-swing foul-tip. That has to be about the worst way to K.
- Aaron Miles' beard is way too manly for a guy wiht that squirly batting stance.
- and Miles also K's swinging, fastball low and off the outside corner.
- That was quick, Dempster flies out to left-center.
- 2-0 to Dye, he grounds one to Fontenot, playing deep and toward the line. A long throw, Lee makes a great scoop save for the out.
- A couple very bad misses with splitters, and it's 3-2 to Konerko
- Lined shot right back at Dempster. Real rocket. Dempster manages to get a glove on it as it's hit right at his glove-side, knocking it down and getting Konerko at first. Yowza. Yowza, I say.
- Full count to AJ. Seems like Danks and Dempster have struggled a lot, yet the game's flying along.
- AJ K's swinging at a splitter.
- Soriano with a quick flyout to Dye
- and Theriot to Podsednik. Danks just mowing them down now.
- Nevermind, Bradley drops another hit in, to right field on a chest-high fastball.
- Lee waves through a changeup. That's 7 K, 0 BB so far for Danks.
- Getz is trying to bunt his way on, but instead takes ball four.
- Dempster: 100 pitches, 50 balls and 50 strikes. Guzman up in the bullpen, as it's 2-0 on Beckham
- Hawk tries to cover his telekinetic ass, and yells "Ball Four Base Hit" as Dempster delivers the 3-1 to Beckham. It's Ball Four. Not counting that as another datum point in my argument for Hawk's telekinetic powers. Dempster leaves with 6+ IP, 6 BB and 4 K.
- Wild play as Danks shows bunt while the Cubs put on the Wheel defense. Danks pulls back, swings, and Guzman makes a very nice grab, throwing to second where he barely gets Beckham. Runners at 1 and 3.
- And now Podsednik drag bunts up the first base line on a squeeze play, then beats everyone to the bag at first. 0-3 Sox. Parachat thinks Miles was slow to cover first.
- Alexei rolls into a slow 4-6-3, just out at first.
- Soto flies out to Dye.
- Johnson's just wailing away with his swings. K's at a high outside fastball.
- Fontenot K's swinging at what I think is a slider. 9 Ks for Danks.
- Leadoff walk to Dye.
- Konerko battles back from behind in the count, and inside outs a high fastball on a hit-and-run play. Miles is moving to cover the bag, and the ball sails right behind him. Runners at 1 and 3, no outs.
- AJ hits a very short fly into left center, and Soriano makes a nice running catch. Dye tags, and Soriano, unable to right himself, hits Dye in the back with the throw, allowing Konerko to advance. A tough error for Soriano, and it's 0-4 Sox
- Anderson with a slow roller to Theriot, 6-3 putout. Anderson seems to have stepped on Lee a bit as Lee backed into him in response to a low throw. Konerko to third.
- Getz bloops out to Fontenot.
- Miles doubles inside the third-base line.
- Danks out, Linebrink in, the many Sox fans boo.
- First pitch fastball to Jake Fox, hitting for Guzman. He gets all of it, but with the wind blowing in, Anderson makes a fine leaping catch into the ivy, just to the right of the 368 sign in left-center. Miles tags and goes to third. Nuts.
- Soriano rolls out to Alexei, 6-3. Miles scores, and a very lame RBI for Soriano. 1-4 Sox
- Theriot takes a rip at an inside fastball, strikes out.
- Ascanio in, Fox into left for Soriano, double-switch. Jenks warming up. Dear god, you can see his nasty-ass beard from outer space.
- Beckham with a soft liner into shallow left, and Fox makes a nice running catch with a tumbling barrel-roll to cap it off.
- Thome hits for Linebrink. Full count, and drives a ball toward the left field well, where the wind holds it up for an easy fly-out.
- Full count to Podsednik, who pokes one in front of Fox in left for a hit.
- Game really slowing down with Ascanio pitching and Podsednik on. 3-2, 2 outs to Alexei, K's swinging at a slider low and away.
- Jenks in. Bradley fooled badly by a slider that dips sharply into the dirt, striking out.
- Lee rolls out to short.
- Soto with a high fly to straight away center, eliciting another double "Yes!" from Hawk, who sounds as though he is in ecstacy.
- quality of mlb.tv video
- Avoiding work.
- Ozzie
- Alexei's scrawny bod.
- Bad-ball hitters.
- Can you trade a baby that's on the DL,
- and how much can you get for it?
- My new life as a Mac user.
- Traded between games of a double-header.
- long, drawn-out, tacky jokes with bad punch-lines. Our favorite.
- More on the different cable and mlb.tv telecasts
- Beckhams.
- Von Joshua's racial identity
- Vons.
- Lou Diamond Phillips.
- Dorks
- Maroons
- The social construction of race.
- Other slurs and insults with obscure and ugly origins.
- The Joe: Is it a hate crime to beat up a bigot?
- Yes.
- Everyone: we don't like blog networks because they'd bring us more readers.
- And we'd have to stop swearing, again
- Our relationship with MVN
- Parachat loves agreement
- No you don't.
- Other Cubs Blogs
- I'm the arguer at TCR?
- yeah, I guess so. I'll agree with that.
- Some sort of practical joke involving guys who wear tight shirts, Crunch, Rob, Carlos, and pot.
- Start Wang against the Nats for your fantasy team?
- no.
- A long, boring talk about a fantasy league I'm not in.
- God, I don't CARE if you're going to trade Scherzer for Wang. I demand better entertainment than this.
- Fast peeing.
- What % of men regularly wash their hands after peeing?
- Whateve the %, it's not high enough.
- Theraputic qualities of urine?
- Pee-drinking and that fraud, Bear Grylls.
- re-scheduling the rainout.
- Some sort of double entendre about double headers and double shafters that I made sure not to spend much time trying to untangle.
- Getting booed at your job
- the wild bunt plays.
- Where did we leave Bobby Scales?
- at a rest stop in Iowa
- 25th-man discussions.
- Choking Joe Buck, the assault everyone can agree upon!
- Tough love for Bradley?
- and its relation to the Jacques Jones saga
- Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and racist fans.
- When did ballplayers stop taking off-season jobs?
- Kyle Farnsworth claiming he got bit by his dog is really an excuse for.....
- eh sometimes, you really do get bit by your dog.
- Anderson running into Lee. Cheap shot? No, not a Fick-er.
- A-Rod's many transgressions on the ballfield, in the trainer's room, and with the Palin daughters.
- Oh,THAT'S how I'm going to increase traffic to TCR and thereby make back the money I spent on the new computer: I'm going to announce that I have proof that A-Rod shot up a HGH-Heroin cocktail with the Palin daughters, Jose Canseco and Hannah Montana. What could go wrong with this plan?
- More on Macs and PCs
- winning computers at donkey shows, or some Mexican thing like that. Ask Carlos.
- I voted for Mousavi.
- The Iranians are going to execute Theriot, those bastards!
- Er, check that, they're executing Rioters.
- More Iranian current events.
- Bumping into David Wells on the Back Road.
- Oh My.
- Rob shares the offers he gets by email.
- Tattoos
- Parachat devolves.
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
Congress will investigate Sosa for possible perjury charge.
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probably not gonna get too far on that one, but may uncover a few more leaks...
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Thanks goodness, this is something that needs to be gotten to the bottom of, for the sake of the nation's safey.
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Tell Sammy to juice up and come on back. And bring Bonds with you.
We need something.
Hey, if cigarette execs can tell Congress with straight faces that they don't believe nicotine is addictive, why does Sammy (and not Raffy?) get in trouble?
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Palmeiro's use came after the congressional hearings.
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Odds that he's not on the "list"?
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I would say 1 in 5 he is on it.
I'd be interested to see what the list of things they tested for was...
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The ironic part is, despite all the offensive struggles of the Cubs, they're still mid-pack in home runs, even without Ramirez. The problem isn't lack of power, it's the Cubs choke with guys on base and they don't do the fundamentals.
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I'd like to thank JACOS for this from last thread:
"Danks=Sandy Koufax
Cubs bats=lopsided piece of shit"
This phrase, sums up the 2009 Cubs-to-Date.
It is catchy, yet at the same time - very revealing. And - unfortunately, true.
LAst year at Wrigley, this team kicked some ass (even though they also lost three straight at the Cell). What a difference a year makes.
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Cubs have now played 61 games, and nobody on the team has 30 RBIs. I think Soriano leads with 28, including today.
Always a good sign when you leadoff man, who s hitting .128 with RISP, is your RBI leader.
It boggles and numbs the mind at the same time.
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hitting .128 with RISP
Geez! IS that right?
Did you check Soto's? Can't be much better.
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According to this, Sean Marshall should be our new leadoff man. Come on guys, we can still do this!
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Soto: .216 .349 .235
Theriot: .271 .327 .417
Bradley: .258 .410 .548
Fukudome: .343 .479 .600
Lee: .234 .377 .383
The Fontenaught: .214.321.333
Miles: .115 .207 .192
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This team is just about ready to get it over with and go on the long losing streak that gets them to the basement.
There's no way you can really 'shake things up' at this point to fix things. Sit Soriano and start Fox and what do you get? 3 players who are passable offensive threats in Lee, Bradley and Fox, to be a really good team you need people hitting from top to bottom. No way this team is going to turn it around like that.
I have to think Piniella will be gone at some point.
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Pedro hopes to sign with us or the Rays soon:
Hopefully he picks us so we can move Marshall or Wells as part of a package for Dan Uggla, who FLA is reportedly thinking about trading and is at least through this season still cheap.
(EDIT): I knew I should have double checked Cot's before I posted. Uggla makes 5.35 Mil this year, about 1.05 mil more than Dero. According to Levine last month, Dero was too expensive for them to add on.
Lou threatens to make lineup changes
"It's getting to the point where I'm going to have to start making some tough decisions and get different people in the lineup," said Piniella, whose team fell to 30-31 for the season and to 1-3 on the homestand. "I've been real patient with it, but I tell you, it's getting to that point.
"How do I go through it? Just look what we've been through here over the past I don't know how many days or how many games. But anyway, we'll see."
Piniella doesn't have a whole lot of realistic options other than benching Soriano for a few days.
The Cubs' $136 million left fielder is batting .225 with 14 homers, 28 RBI, 68 strikeouts and 22 walks.
"He has to do something because we haven't done anything," said Soriano, who chafes at days off and at moving down in the batting order. "He's got to do something to try to make this thing go."
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
Uhhhh why does Soriano need to lose playing time when he has a track record of putting up multiple good offensive seasons?
What in the fuck has Bradley ever done in his career to keep playing? If anyone on this team deserves to be bench its Bradley. Soriano will get back on track, Bradley can go rot on the bench. Knee jerk reactions like this is what makes players not want to play in Chicago. It doesn't matter what you put up in the past if you have a bad month you need to be benched and given up on. Everyone has a slump and the best players come out of it, and Soriano is one of the better players in baseball. You keep playing him.
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Remember that time that Bradley sold your son into slavery? That really sucked.
Bradley's career OPS+ is 116. Soriano's is 115. Bradley has hit .276 in June. Soriano .154. Plus, do you really want to see Fox in left field?
Soriano is on pace to K 184 times, that's 24 more than his career high. He needs, at a minimum, a mental break.
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
Uhhhh why does Soriano need to lose playing time when he has a track record of putting up multiple good offensive seasons?
It doesn't matter what you put up in the past if you have a bad month you need to be benched and given up on.
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Need more steroids.
Too soon?
In all seriousness, I've gone through denial... anger (well, I'm angry often)... and I'll assume we can get past the bargaining stage ("if Von Joshua can just get these guys to start hitting...")... I guess I'm ready to move on to the next stage... depression.
F*** the world... cubs suck. *** cranks up bauhaus ***
This does not look like a good team. I don't care what the numbers say. They don't grind, they don't do the fundamentals. If you think they're going to all start hitting .300 again, well, no they are not going to.
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Too soon!!
More Pedro and Ramirez
Aramis Ramirez will begin taking batting practice in the next few days and could begin his minor-league rehab stint by July 1 or 2. Ramirez has been out since May 9 with a dislocated left shoulder. "We haven't rushed him," manager Lou Piniella said. "He has gone through the full gamut of treatment and exercises. He's going to be as strong as possible. I don't think I've ever played with a player with a separated shoulder." Ramirez is expected to spend at least 7 to 10 games during his rehab stint to get back his timing. If all goes well, he could return for the final series before the All-Star break, against St. Louis, or the first one after the break, in Washington.
also, make-up game with White Sox tentatively scheduled for Sept 3...
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7-10 days on a rehab assignment seems long but maybe Jimbo owes Mike Wellman some huge favor.
Note to Lou: ARam's injury is a dislocated shoulder...haven't you been reading my posts on TCR?
Here was my timetable for ARam's return to the lineup based more on a 3-5 game rehab assignment (from a post in the previous thread).
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The thing that annoyed me the most today was the squeeze play. Anybody who has played baseball or watched baseball knows that it was a perfect time for one. It was a close game, runner on third less than 2 outs, batter up who can handle the bat, just had a weird play with lots of confusion in the infield. Yet the Cubs had the deer-in-the-headlights look when it happened like they never saw it coming.
Perhaps fans of all teams feel this way, but I always feel like when the Cubs slump they are sitting there waiting for the walls to cave in. They'll undoubtedly get hot again, and eventually snap out of this funk, but good teams always do the little things right and find ways to win even when they are not firing on all cylinders.
Lessons in headline writing
"Cubs deal hits snag"
rest of article basically disproves that the deal has hit a snag....
here's the CNBC article
basically says Trib sent letter to Ricketts saying that unless the remaining matters were agreed to within a specific time frame, Ricketts could risk losing the deal or Tribune could begin talks with other interested parties.
What u think Phils will give us for Harden?
they do supposedly have room to add to their payroll, but not sure if they'd want someone as fragile as Harden.
Re: What u think Phils will give us for Harden?
Probably could get Rollins for Harden... or less. Of course what do you do with two leadoff hitters, right?
Re: What u think Phils will give us for Harden?
Rollins is struggling terribly this year, but the Phillies aren't trading their recent MVP short-stop. It won't happen. Besides, he is due the rest of his $7.5 million this year, $7.5 million next year, and at least a $2 million buy-out for 2011.
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we have a leadoff hitter?
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They might not have to much of a choice given what suppose to be out their in the SP trade market. Peavy's injury knocks him out of contention to be dealt this summer, The Indians want to keep Lee because they feel they can compete next year and McClaine's mancrush on Oswalt and the tightness/weakness of the NL Central looks like it will preclude a deal there as well. Just today Erik Bedard went on the DL with another bout of shoulder irritation. So it looks like the grand prizes are Jarrod Washburn (given his FB tendencys would likely be garbage in CBBP) and Brad Penny. So if Jimbo wants to deal Harden I would think he becomes (if he can replicate his outing vs. MIN in his next few starts) the best SP avalible. Right now that clubs only weaknesses are the lack of a no. 2 starter behind Hamels and an insurance policy to help the backend of the pen if Lidge cant stay healthy (Gregg). so they might be inclined to overpay for them. Something headlined by Jason Donald would be cool by me.
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Charlie Manuel went on the record recently saying that he wants an "A" starter. A "Horse" for the rotation. I don't know if Harden fits this description because of his injury history, but that's who I immediately thought of when I read the article. We all know Harden has the talent to be a difference-maker.
I doubt the Phils would give up anyone on their ML roster for him though, just because they are clearly in contention and the "A" starter is to put them over the top. There is no way I see the Phillies trading Utley, Ibanez, Victorino, Werth, Howard, Rollins, etc. I could see Feliz as a maybe, although hopefully a healthy A-Ram makes a trade for Feliz moot (although Feliz has also played the OF before).
Jason Donald is an interesting choice, although he has not hit very well at all in his first season at AAA. The Phils do have several prize arms in minors-- Kyle Drabek, Vance Worley, Escalona, Bastardo, etc-- that they might give up.
They also have two outfielders that I really like-- Michael Taylor at AA, and Dominic Brown at High A. Both of them are really hitting well, with really solid peripherals (good BB/K rates) and both are age-appropriate for their leagues. John Mayberry might have a shot at being a good ML-er as well, and is currently hitting decently in his 2nd try at AAA (he turns 26 later this season). Dominic Brown is a lefty and is playing mostly RF, so he could be the lefty-hitting RF-er/Holy Grail/of the future that Hendry has been looking for his entire Cubs tenure (he could possibly be ready to take over when Bradley's contract expires, though I kind of hope Bradely is gone before then).
The interesting thing is that the Phillies actually might have a use for Aaron Miles as a back-up infielder. Eric Bruntlett has been their utility bench guy for the past couple seasons and has actually hit a lot worse than Miles, which is hard to do. There might be something to a multiple player deal.
The Phillies might also be interested in a bullpen guy like Heilman, depending on how well Brad Lidge returns from his knee injury.
In short, I think Harden to the Phillies makes a lot of sense to them if the Phillies are giving back prospects. I doubt the Cubs would get Major League players back in return, which is definitely what the Cubs seem to need right now.
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
Was at the game today...what an awful experience but Jake Fox really hits the ball hard. Not much else was fun to watch.
Von Joshua's the new voice: See the ball, hit the ball, hit the ball hard. Repeat after me.
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Ryan Freel will probably be ready to come back to the roster from his rehab stint in Iowa by the Indians series.
Today he was 1-4, 1 walk, 3 stolen bases and 2 rbi's...playing RF in a 5-4, 11 inning Iowa win over Oklahoma City.
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
The Red Sox have led the AL in walks every year since 2005 (including this year). They were also second in the AL in 2003 (lost in Game 7 of the ALCS) and 2004 (won the World Series). That's a fairly long period of time, and obviously, they've had a good bit of player turnover.
The Cubs led the NL in walks last year, and I don't even want to know where they rank this year. The plate discipline has fallen off a cliff. It started falling last September and continued into the playoffs. Of course, it's been terrible historically.
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Indians tied the Brewers with a 4 spot in the bottom of the 9th, including a DeRosa double...now at 8-8. Hoffman blew his first save of the year. Kerry Wood now pitching the top of 10th.
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and DeRo makes a fine over the shoulder catch in RF to help KW get through the top of the 10th
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I like Pedro to fill the role that El Duque filled for the 2005 White Sox.
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trade harden for utley [if philly plays hardball we'll toss in miles or fontenot; their choice]& sign pedro to fill his spot! is it a deal, reuben?
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Then we trade Derrek Lee for Albert Pujols, and Ryan Dempster for Joe Mauer, and we're all set?
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tongue in cheek like a big wad o' chew Dusty boy...
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Lol..sorry...coffee hadn't kicked in yet...
Re: Game 61 Recap: Cubs 1, Bleached Hosiery 4
"[The problem is that] the Cubs choke with guys on base and they don't do the fundamentals."
The root problem is not that they choke with guys on base; the problem is that they don't get on base in the first place.
As for the lack of fundamentals, I would be willing to bet that the Cubs are no more or less fundamentally sound than any other team (how you would test this I don't know). The problem is that due to their lack of OBP the margin of error is so small that any mistake leads to a loss, and is magnified.
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Actually, if you look at the statistics, it is batting with RISP that is most indicative of how poor they are doing. They're 15th in runs, but 9th in HR's and 12th in OBP. They're dead last in BA with RISP. Having more runners, would certainly make that BA a little more useful, though. They need to improve on all of those facets though if they want to get into the playoff picture.
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Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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The 7 Most Regrettable Tattoos Ever Received
As an online comedy writer, or humorist, if you will, I'm expected to be as pale and glossy as an English sausage. Truth be known, I'm a bit of an ink aficionado and have a number of tattoos, all of which have deep, personal, and serious meaning. Just kidding, they're mostly goofy tattoos that I found amusing for one reason or another. I'd show you pictures, but this article isn't about me, and I'll thank you not to meddle in my affairs.
As it happens, I was watching a show called Tattoo Nightmares, which is apparently broadcast 10 hours a day on Spike TV. The show focuses on people who got a tattoo they regret and how it gets covered up with a great new tattoo. And it made me think, these aren't nightmares. They're just shitty tattoos getting fixed. There are way more nightmarish stories about tattoos out there. Like these!
#7. Prank Tattoo
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A good rule of thumb is, if you get into an argument with a guy who isn't an actual tattoo artist, just a guy with a tattoo gun, and then he offers to tattoo you, don't do it. It will turn out badly. In this case, the customer in question wanted a tattoo of a yin-yang symbol with some dragons around it, your typical kind of cheeseball tattoo that people might get on the spur of the moment in a dude's kitchen. If he were a girl, it would be a butterfly in the small of her back, or maybe some koi, because chicks dig koi. What he got instead was a giant cock. Like a full on 15-inch chubby right on his back, with big round balls to complete the ensemble. And to add further insult to injury, it's not even well done.
Would a well-done dick ameliorate the injustice of having a dick on your back? Hard to say, but when I read this story, I was actually expecting it to be a real veiny, meaty dong of a thing, like a majestic horse wang, all bulgy and obscene, maybe listing to one side under its own weight. Instead it's a half-assed line drawing that looks like a drunk with a Sharpie hastily scrawled it on a bathroom wall. Just look at this video:
It says "I luv cock" under it. Oh man. I admit, I laughed when I saw that, but I can appreciate that, to the dude in question, this was probably not funny at all. Even a day later he probably didn't laugh at this.
Lucky for Yin Wang, a credible artist offered to give him a coverup tattoo so he doesn't have to pay out tons to have the tattoo removed or deal with the potential scarring, plus he'll still get a sweet tattoo out of the deal. So in the end it was probably not worth it still, but it could have been worse.
#6. Vengeance Tattoo
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The idea of giving someone a tattoo as a prank or for revenge seems like a hilarious plan if you literally stop thinking about it right there and then switch you brain off or go watch Adventure Time or something. Those incapable of doing that might stop to wonder how you could tattoo a person against their will, given how still you need to sit to get the job done and the fact that an artist is literally tethered in place by the equipment. But just like all male dinosaurs throwing caution to the wind on Isla Sorna and making sweet dino love to procreate, life finds a way!
In this case, a man and his tattoo artist bound and tied down the man's wife, which still probably made for some terrible tattooing, before subjecting her to a vengeance tattoo because the man suspected her of cheating on him. What did they tattoo on her? We don't know, but it covered her arms, stomach, and breasts, so it must have taken a while and was probably awful in numerous ways.
As a happy ending to the story, the artist was sentenced to two years in prison for his part in the dipshittery, while the husband got a longer sentence. Plus, since this happened in Singapore, he was also caned. Literally caned. With a cane!
#5. Tattoo Bullies
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Bullying was a lot different when I was your age. Sit here a moment, I need to have my prostate removed and drink an Ensure. Back in the day, bullying was honest work. You didn't like a kid, so you called him fat or poor or gay, and then maybe you beat the ever-loving shit out of him every day until he grew up bitter and resentful and started writing comedy articles. But nowadays bullying is a whole ordeal.
Aside from the fact that schools and special interest groups have to pretend like they care about bullying now, bullies themselves are getting lost in the myriad ways they can make someone's life miserable. Should they stalk you on Facebook? Text you incessantly, because you have to have a phone when you're 12? Push you into a dumpster behind Golden Corral? The choices are endless. And now it seems like tattooing kids is also an option.
A high school boy was threatened with some severe beatings by older students at his high school if he didn't submit to getting tattooed. Being the kind of kid who values self-preservation, he opted for the tattoo and ended up getting a dick on his ass, because of course that's what he'd get.
The kids involved were charged with various assaults, but the victim is going to have to spend a few thousand to have the tattoo removed, barring an unusual desire to keep a forced dick tattoo on his ass for the rest of his life.
#4. The Tattoo of Regret
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There's a popular refrain the tattooed are used to hearing from those not tattooed that deals with regret. You're going to regret that when you're older! How's that going to look when you're 90? To answer that question, it's going to look exactly the same. It's a tattoo. It doesn't turn into other shit as you age. Most people who get tattoos don't plan on becoming pope or anything later in life, and even if they did, they'd be tattooed popes. What the hell point are you trying to make?
The issue of regret is potentially a valid one, although maybe not for the reason you'd think. Sure, some people get idiotic tattoos or tattoos by artists who have no business handling a tattoo gun, and those are regrettable, but other people regret tattoos because they're complete idiots. Like Aaron Evans, a man who tried to steal a police bait car in England. His ability to get away with the crime was severely limited by the fact that the car has cameras inside it and Evans has his own name and date of birth tattooed right on his neck, in case you don't want to spend a lot of time looking him up before you go and arrest him for being a moron.
This is the tattoo equivalent of leaving your wallet at the scene of a bank robbery or signing your name with the ashes of the building you just burned down. Probably the kind of thing you should plan to avoid in your quest to become a criminal mastermind.


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quote: "Some feel the President shouldn't have the power to order the warrantless killings of Americans on U.S. soil.""Some"!?
quote: If you're trying to assume that Jason Mick is playing partisan politics, and that he is a hard core republican, you haven't been following Dailytech long enough.
quote: I started reading here because of Masher, and didn't like Jason's perspective at all back then (it seemed as though he were on a liberal global warming spree).
quote: Jason has never struck me as a Reagan lover and I think you're trolling is in very poor taste.
quote: Yet neither of you addressed the not hidden at all message that every president has used the US military to attack nations outside of Congressional approval. Now we attack individuals in areas that the de facto nation has little control (Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan).
quote: Suddenly the reason why Congress and the President support a lot of operations and invasions that are unpopular and at times nonsensical/counterproductive makes a lot more sense. Feed the hand that feeds.
quote: I tend to be "party democrat" liberal, however, This is just terrible. You should ask these family members, what will happen when a republican or somebody they doesn't like comes to power?
quote: Obama is pretty much doing the exact same thing with drones as Bush - let the CIA and DoD kill bad people in lawless lands that we don't want to invade
quote: You keep forgetting that drones have been in use since Clinton. They are just getting more press coverage because the Right can't seem to find anything else to complain about.
quote: The public has the same kind of fascination with drones as they did with our nuclear umbrella in the 80s and precision munitions and night vision in the 90s. Drones and stealth are the 'cool military toys' of the age.
quote: Do those "bad people" include civilians? If so, why is the Pentagon paying grief payments for these "bad people" (or "bad civilians"?) deaths?
quote: I know there's reasonable people on both sides of the aisle, my intention was not to blast "Party Democrats", but rather to suggest that there's unreasonable people (on both sides of the aisle) who baffingly see no harm in warrantless killing of Americans and other unconstitutional actions.
quote: There's never been a conflict this major in the history of armed combat that's resulted in so few civilian casualties. Especially considering it's sometimes impossible to identify the civilians from the insurgents.
quote: Yup, I've broached the topic with certain Obama-obsessed "Party Democrat" family members and they argued it was fine (I kid you not) because "the Constitution is outdated" in their opinion, and they believe Obama would never abuse that unchecked power and that "we live in a scary world today where people want to kill Americans (so warrantless deathstrikes are necessary)."
quote: Yeah we're on year 5 of the Democrats new plan of making the world love us more. How's it working out so far? Not that I care about world opinion personally, but you have to admire the complete and utter failure of Obama and Hillary in the foreign relations arena.At least under Bush there seemed to be clear goals. Even if they were unwise. Obama to the rest of the world looks more like a random assassin, we're everywhere now randomly killing everyone. What was Libya even about again? We violate a sovereign nations boarders to raid Bin Laden. He even wants to kill US citizens with drones!! We don't even defend our own people from a clear assault on our own embassy in Benghazi, we try and cover it up.
quote: Lets not forget Syria, Obama talks tough about a "red line" on the use of chemical weapons. So it happens, innocent people are gassed to death. So this would be a CLEAR cause for us to do something about it, right? Wrong, Obama issues more rhetoric.Where's the consistency? If it was so important to use military assets (illegally without Congress) to intervene in a civil war there, why is it NOT equally important to intervene in Syria when civilians are being killed by biological weapons? What's the reasoning behind this!?
quote: Drone strikes started in Pakistan in 2004. Whoops!
quote: Do you still want to get involved?
quote: You're a Fox 'News' parrot. Just repeat what your told. Make sure not to use critical thinking or deductive reasoning. Just repeat what you're told. The truth? Irrelevant.
quote: I have no sympathy whatsoever for ANY government in that crazy stupid region of the world nor do I have any sympathy for religious fanatics of any faith, but these two items beg for comments:I wonder how we'd feel if the Pakistani government killed US citizens in the US and then offered "grief payments of a few thousand dollars per body." I think I know.
quote: We are trying to stop it, and yes, almost always each side loses innocent lives in war. That's what wars are unfortunately.
quote: They are just whining because the President is a black Democrat.
quote: Obama is a moderate through and through.
quote: The number of innocents kill in 9/11 is a so small compared to the number of innocents killed in Irag, Afghanistan, and Pakistan combined.
quote: Firstly, it IS NOT war
quote: Firstly, it IS NOT war, if you think you it is, the MASS MEDIA complex has truly done its job to convince the avg joe the US is at war.
quote: A state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
quote: War is an organised and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states and/or non-state actors. It is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, and economic destruction.[
quote: 1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations
quote: (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations(2) : a period of such armed conflict
quote: a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state
quote: We probably wouldn't feel much of anything because they'd be killing our citizens as a result of our savage asymmetrical warfare strategies that put exponentially countless more innocent civilians in harms way.
quote: "Some feel the President shouldn't have the power to order the warrantless killings of Americans on U.S. soil." "Some"!?


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Corn farmers say "let the profits trickle down", while other farmers say quotas will kill jobs
There's a growing debate about what is put inside your fuel pump. At the heart of the debate is a two-carbon alcohol -- ethanol. This little fuel is creating a huge debate, which has divided the farming industry and raised perennial questions regarding the cancerous influence of special interest on the U.S. federal government.
I. Big Corn Makes Friends
When it comes to corn ethanol the message from Congress is clear: cut down on the ethanol production. But the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) is still waffling on whether to keep its strict quotas, or to "temporarily" relax them, after the worst drought in decades hit parts of the U.S.
With the drought hurting corn yields, farmers have been forced to compete with ethanol producers and the food industry for an insufficient supply. Some farmers have, in their desperation, turned to
feeding their cows candy
, as cast-off bulk sprinkles are cheaper than the traditional corn feed.
The EPA's holds a tight grip on the amount of corn going into ethanol, thanks to its ability to regulate fuel in the U.S. Under The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (often referred to as the Renewable Fuel Standard), which
passed under President George W. Bush
, fuel blenders are required to incorporate a certain amount of ethanol into gasoline blends at the pump, with the amount being bumped a little bit each year.
The U.S. government mandates ethanol be blended into gasoline, to create artificial demand for corn. [Image Source: Nation Corn Growers Assoc.]
Studies have suggested that going from the corn-field to fuel pump corn ethanol is an energy negative process, consuming more energy than it produces, and offering up
higher life-cycle carbon emissions
that standard gasoline. Further, automakers say gasoline-ethanol blends can
harm traditional engines
deliver worse gas mileage
than pure gasoline. So the compelling question has long been why did the U.S. jump so deep into corn ethanol, and in doing so "accidentally"
drive food and livestock feed prices upward
In Congress' case, it appeared to be largely special interests. Senators and representatives from corn farming-heavy districts/states accepted funding from farmers to help them get elected, and in turn pushed for the seemingly illogical ethanol blending requirements, which create artificial demand, driving corn prices up. They also for some time passed billions in subsidies along to big corn farmers.
As recently as last year some senators -- Senators
Tom Harkin
Tim Johnson
(D-South Dakota);
Amy Klobuchar
(D/"Farmer-Labor Party"- Minnesota); and
Al Franken
(D/"Farmer-Labor Party"-Minnesota) --
proposed increasing ethanol quotas
via the trickily worded
Biofuels Expansion Act of 2011
II. Drought, Spending Cuts Threaten Corn Special Interests
But the ethanol special interests saw their grasp on Congress weakening last year amid the partisan rancor regarding the budget. In a battle by each side to preserve their special interests, corn found themselves too short on the special interests pecking order to convince Congress at large to continue to vote for bloated subsidies.
In the aftermath, the subsidies were slashed, and then
eliminated altogether
. Republicans in Congress also banded together to
block the EPA's plan
to increase ethanol blending to 15 percent nationwide, although the EPA
found a way to sneak around
that restriction.
But even the EPA -- who seemed firm on its ethanol commitment -- has started to show signs of doubt after an entirely external, non-political influence hit -- the drought. The record drought is essentially forcing the EPA's hand, by creating corn shortages and hence amplifying corn ethanol's already undesirable price effects.
The EPA announced it would
make its decision
[PDF] about a potential waiver on blending requirements early next month.
Amid a record drought either the quota or jobs will be lost, say many farmers.
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Eight state governors and 200 members of Congress have
written a letter
(on behalf of the slightly ironically named
National Pork Producers Council
) to the EPA pleading with it to relax blending rules via a waiver, at least for the rest of the year. Delaware and Maryland's governors write that without a waiver the EPA would be creating "the loss of thousands jobs."
A number or researchers also signed a letter calling for a waiver. Among them is
John M. DeCicco
Ivette Perfecto
from the
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources and Environment
. They
, "The (Renewable Fuel Standard) diverts potential food crops to produce fuel, which drives up food price volatility and global food prices."
III. Big Corn Farmers Argue Higher Prices are Good for Everyone
Corn farmers are opposed to the idea, which would reduce the artificial demand that they currently enjoy.
The National Corn Growers Association
essentially admits that it's acting out of greed, but making the argument that higher revenue from corn farmers stimulates the economy in a trickle-down effect. They point out that corn farmers' revenue rose from $63B USD to $90B USD between 2007 and 2012.
They comment
[PDF], "Higher feed prices are only one piece of a complicated economic puzzle... [a waiver would cause] severe harm to the economy."
Big corn argues that its profits are worth more than whatever job savings might be realized by quota cuts. [Image Source: Agriculture.com]
Before the drought corn prices had increased nearly four-fold from 2007 levels. The fuel supply industry was set to (by EPA requirement) deliver 15.2 billion gallons of corn ethanol this year -- up from 5 billion gallons in 2007.
But the payday for big corn may soon be over. After all, the Obama administration has a relatively substantial degree of control over the EPA -- a federal agency -- and it may be wary of refusing the waiver request, lest it trigger the predicted job loss and hurt the President' reelection prospects.
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RE: For the Record
What factors exactly move a market price is, as you point out, very complicated.
But any economist (or first year econ student) can say plainly that if any staple commodity market suddenly has a large portion diverted in to a black hole then that'll exert strong upward pressure on the price. There's no need to amass an army of PhD's and spend a year creating some sensitive, highly complex model that tries to separate all the little factors, because at the heart of the matter it's a very simple problem.
Or, if not for this quota,
all else being equal
, the price of corn would undoubtedly be lower.
And further, due to the substitution effect we can see, where corn is getting a larger share of acreage, that means a spill-over effect to every other crop that could be grown in the same places. Higher prices across the board, again, all else being equal.
This would normally be a wonkish argument reserved for the papers of trade journals and politicians/technocrats, but this isn't some gadget or cell phone or ball bearings we're talking about. It's food. When we live in a country where we've got people going through hard times and in a world rapidly boosting its demand for food, diverting food for the vanity of burning in a fuel tank when such better options exist strikes everyone thats
a farmer or eco-terrorist as insensitive at best, or unwise..
I know it's in your economic interest, but your NCGA is on the wrong side of the moral and economic argument. A more noble position would be to transition out these ethanol quotas and instead focus your efforts on exporting to China and India, but that's not as easy as the ethanol cash cow, I know.
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LEWISTOWN - Robert E. Weiand, 53, of Lewistown, died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at the Geisinger Medical Center, in Danville.
Born March 10, 1959, in Lewistown, he was the son of the late Richard and Roberta (Betts) Weiand.
He is survived by: his sisters, Phyllis Peachey and husband, Leroy, of Lewistown, and Nancy Walters and husband, Leroy, of Belleville; 13 nieces and nephews; and 39 great-nieces and -nephews.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Shirley Mitchell, a nephew and a niece.
He was a 1978 graduate of Chief Logan High School. He was a self-employed farmer and loved farming.
Robert was an all around good guy and enjoyed helping folks in any way he could. He will be greatly missed by all his family and friends. Mr. Weiand was an organ donor.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at the Paintersville C&MA Church, with the Rev. Thomas Wright officiating. Interment will be in Paintersville Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Robert's memory can be made to the Paintersville C&MA Church, 3195 Back Maitland Road, Lewistown, PA 17044.
Funeral arrangements are under the care of the Hoenstine Funeral Home, 75 Logan St., Lewistown.
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Once again, the owners of the Heritage Square shopping center have been ordered to demolish the building.
Whether they intend to follow through on demolition or appeal the latest court order is unknown; neither co-owner Jack Owens nor attorney Andrew Gowder responded to messages.
The town of Summerville ordered demolition in February 2010 after building official Rich Palmer inspected the building at the corner of U.S. 78 and the Berlin G. Myers Parkway upon reports the roof had caved in.
That order set in motion a series of hearings and appeals as the owners staved off demolition demands and attempted to market the property as retail or office space. There was even talk at one point of locating a new county library there.
The parties were back in court in February, when the owners asked Master-in-Equity Maite Murphy to reconsider her previous order.
On March 26, Murphy came down firmly on the side of the town.
"This matter came to light over three years ago. Heritage has been given every opportunity and ample time to rectify the situation yet the safety of the public remains at risk," she wrote.
The owners could have gotten away with demolishing only a portion of the building if they would have hired a structural engineer to certify the remainder would still be structurally sound, she wrote, but they didn't.
The owners argued it was inconsistent for the town to demand demolition of the building but allow the parking lot to be used for public events.
The parking lot used to be a termination point for Tri-County Link and is being used this weekend as a shuttle parking lot for the Flowertown Festival.
But Murphy said such use isn't inconsistent because Palmer wasn't the one giving permission for the lot to be used and his order never addressed the parking lot to begin with.
She discounted the owners' arguments that parts of the building still have value for reuse or renovation.
"Whether the building has value for reuse or renovation is not related to public safety ….This Court has not been pointed to any section of the Code where public safety is overruled by monetary value," she wrote.
Murphy gave the owners 30 days from the date of her ruling to submit demolition plans to the town.
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so who' your favorite character my fav's are Athrun Zala and Cagalli yula.
.....Lacus Clyne I guess."I love anime and manga! Also J-Rock!"
ya i am a music player a i like to play a lot of heavy metal J-ROCK or J-pop wath ever you want to call it but i like J-ROCK to.
Do you play in a band?
no not right now but i like to be in one right now i justplay a bass guitar and a electric led guitar i all so playthe drums but i don't have set right now but it would be coolto get with some one and start a j-rock or a j-pop band.
I don't any more, but I did play drums when I was in middle & high school.
thats cool to but would you do it agan if we could put some thing to getter.
My favorite two characters are Kira Yamato & Lacus Clyne.
mine is the emotionless guy that is the main character I think and has black or dark green hair. can someone name him?! "How unexpectedly irregular. Why do you continue to resist?" - Gurren Lagann, Anti-Spiral
Kira & Athrun are the two main characters. Kira shows lots of emotion, and he has brown hair. You you must not be talking about him. You might mean Athrun. He dose not show as much emotion as Kira, and his hair is a very dark purple or you could say it's black.
no I know now he's alahyah why'd marie name him that its so hard to spell and i already have problems spelling. I wonder what would happen if he walked into a mass..... Halahyah! he stands up to answer. they should show that in one of the episodes it would be a comic relief episode"It's Time To Take A Dirt Nap!!" - Dead Leaves, #666
thats from gundam 00, seed is a different show. it is quite good, but i prefer 00. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
Naruto is my favorite
i like cagalli, lacus, captain ramius and the desert tiger.
Gotta go with Athrun Zala. In the anime he is pretty cool but in the manga is even cooler.
The Keeper of Precepts My favorite character is both Kira and Athrun, becaure they remind me and my old friend in the past.
i got to go with shin cuz i like his viwe on the war and i like his way of thinking.
i got to go with shin cuz i like his viwe on the war and i like his way of thinking.
i liked the desert tiger
to get into this show it just wasn't working for me.....~Did you know that Your Dreams are Just Lost Pieces of Reality.~ http://www.playlist.com/LadyMeyesi


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4 Situations When You're Totally Supposed to Lie
#2. To Children
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In all likelihood, lying to children evolved as a pastime for parents, just to see what kind of stuff they could get the little chuckleheads to swallow, and then afterward they'd get together with other parents and laugh about what suckers they'd spawned while eating their lunch snacks. The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, their potential to succeed ... we just cloak children in lies and see how long it takes them to figure it out.
In more subtle ways, it's just so much easier to lie to kids under the guise of protecting them, which is often a way of saying that it makes you uncomfortable to tell the truth. If little Billy walks in on Mommy getting railed by Daddy and Daddy's friend Julio, then asks what's going on, odds are no one is going to explain a Chinese finger trap to Billy. They'll just say he's sleepwalking, or Mommy's losing a really weird game of Risk. Sex, death, and any mildly complex math is much easier to explain to a child with a lie than with the truth, and it's so commonplace that some people would argue that the weird people are the ones who would tell kids the truth rather than shield them from life's myriad horrors and perversions.
If you really want your mind blown on this particular subject and the potential moral quandary represented by telling a child that no, the clown is not going to do anything bad to us, we're just in his basement waiting for a surprise party, you could look into something called Wittgenstein's ladder, which is basically a method of taking really hard-to-understand concepts and information and presenting them in a happy, easily digestible manner until such time as you understand them -- then you can ignore the bullshit part. It's lying to someone with the intention that they're going to recognize the lie eventually and learn something in the process, so it's actually beneficial to be deceptive. So feel free to tell your kids it's cool to taste the cat's bum, because they will eventually learn that the true lesson is that it's mostly never OK to taste the cat's bum.
#1. Sex
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If you haven't told a lie during sex, then you're doing it wrong, and all of your sexual partners are dissatisfied with you. No one ever told you that before? It's because they lied to spare your sad, truth-spewing heart the trauma.
Sex lies are the best lies ever and are a good 10 percent of the fun of sex in general, the rest of the fun being various squishes and oomphs. I don't mean the depressing lies, like "Yeah, I guess it's big enough" or "Sure, Felix is a manly name" -- I mean the dirty talk lies you'll toss out just to go along with whatever filth your partner enjoys.
I'm willing to concede that you may not even have dirty talk in your sex life, in which case I feel like it's OK to call your entire sex life a lie, one that you willingly live each and every time you scrub your nether grubbies against a partner's barely engaged fun zone. But for the rest of us, lying in dirty talk is all but essential. It's where you can say the most ridiculous, nefarious, depraved things and you're probably going to be OK so long as you don't cross into the realm of "cattle smeared with poop" or what have you that so few people really get off on these days.
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I don't know either, and I wrote this whole column. Not the cow, me.
No one takes the stuff you say during sex at face value. If you talk about how you want to hump on top of the Sphinx, it seems awesome in the moment, but it's not like you're expected to buy tickets to Egypt after you've finished and used Wet Ones to mop up your lovin's. Likewise, you can bring up how, yes, you've always really enjoyed the idea of being called a worthless man-hole and you'd gladly wear heels around the house when you clean up because it sounds fun and sexy.
Sex lies are the one and only time you can cut loose in life and just say any awful and/or awesome thing you can literally never say at any other point in time without making someone stop what they're doing and give you that look. You all know the look -- the one where their brow furrows just a bit, their stare is intense, the nostrils flare as they exhale just ever so slightly louder than is necessary, and they shake their head because you are disgusting and disappointing and they're trying to puzzle out which one is winning out.


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on November 15, 2012 - 6:34 AM
The Buffalo Board of Education is vowing to protest attempts by a nonprofit group to convert East High and Waterfront Elementary schools into charter schools. The board Wednesday voted to register its complaints in a letter to State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr.
"I think we're going to have to, as a board, band together on this issue," said Ferry District member Sharon Belton-Cottman. "I'm going on record to say that I am working with the alumni and parents at East High School – even though it is not in my district – to make sure that we maintain that school. And I'm also working with a West Side group that interested in working to save Waterfront [Elementary School], as well."
Her sentiments were echoed by board President Mary Ruth Kapsiak, in whose Central District both schools are located. Kapsiak, who was not at Wednesday night's meeting, participated by telephone.
Chameleon Community Schools Project, a local group affiliated with attorney Steven Polowitz, has submitted an application to the state Education Department to close both schools, which are considered among the lowest achieving in the state, and reopen them as charters.
However, those plans drew heated opposition from some parents, community members and teachers during a public hearing that was hosted by the School Board on Nov. 7.
Mike Quinney, an East High School alumnus who spoke at the Nov. 7 public hearing, again addressed the School Board on Wednesday. Quinney, whose son is a freshman at East, said the school is beginning to make strides toward academic improvement.
"When I look at East High School, with Johns Hopkins coming in there now, with [the University at Buffalo] having [its] interdisciplinary program there, I think we're moving in the right direction. I am in full support of our new superintendent. I say give her an opportunity ... to resolve this problem before we turn it over to [Chameleon]," Quinney said.
At-large member Florence Johnson agreed. "We have a new superintendent ... We have the Say Yes program that will provide wrap-around services. I propose that in our letter [to King] we say that. Tell [the state] to give this district an opportunity to put into effect its action plan by the superintendent," said Johnson. Her sentiments were echoed by Kapsiak.
Other School Board members accused Chameleon of attempting an end run around the School Board by going directly to the state.
"What Chameleon is doing is unprecedented ... because for the first time in New York State, they're not identifying the population of students. They're identifying a particular school. That's never been done across the state," said Park District member Louis Petrucci.
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Richard Milton Harr, 89, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in Grandville Manor in Parsons.
He was born April 14, 1924, in Canaan Valley, where he resided all his life. He was the youngest of eight born to Merrick and Idella Harr, and was the last surviving member of the family.
He was married to Mary Jocelyn Raines, who preceded him in death in 2003. They were married 60 years and are survived by four children, Barbara (James) Alford of Leadmine, Lloyd Carl (Maria) of Canaan Valley, Phyllis Garcia of Waldorf, Md., and James (Marilyn) of Jackson, Ohio.
Also surviving are seven grandchildren, James Alford Jr., Mark Alford, Jason Garcia, Nathan Garcia, Wesley Garcia, Sarah Harr and Osman Harr; and four great-grandchildren, Richard Alford, Bobbi Garcia, Thomas Bierstensky and Mark Randall Alford.
He was preceded in death by eight brothers and sisters, Sylvester, Lloyd Hansford, James, Curtis, Joseph, Earl, Edith Adams and Opal Harris.
Richard was a World War II veteran, having served in the Army in North Africa and Europe. He returned from the war in 1945 and began his career as a farmer. He and his brother, Joseph, owned the Harr Brothers farm in Canaan where they raised beef cattle and a small dairy herd. They also sold cauliflower for several years. "Dick" and "Josephine," as he and his wife were known, were the proud recipients of the Farming for Better Living Award one year. This award reflected the hard work put in by the whole family as they brought the farm up to modern standards. After 22 years on the farm, it was lost to the state of West Virginia in 1966 and now lies fallow as part of the Canaan Valley State Park.
Dick built a home on Cortland Road where he remained until he moved to Granville Manor in 2012. He made his living as a school bus driver and part-time carpenter. While working for the board of education, he became president of the local School Service Personnel Association. Dick made many trips to Charleston and was directly responsible for legislation that positively affects wage and pension benefits for school service employees to this day. Dick was honored to receive the Tucker County Chamber of Commerce Employee of the Year award which recognized his dedicated service to both his job as bus driver and civic duty on the School Service Personnel board.
Dick served on the Parks and Recreation Board for several years and worked hard with others to restore Camp Kidd into what it is today - a valuable recreational venue including a golf course.
While the family was young, Dick and Josephine and all the kids committed their lives to Jesus Christ and became members of the Buena Chapel in Canaan. Dick is still a member there today and served as Sunday school superintendent and teacher for more than 40 years. He is also remembered for his piano playing and beautiful singing voice which he used to praise the Lord.
Dick has been a member of Davis Lodge IOOF 103 for 60 years. For 19 years, he was the lodge's district deputy grand master. He was affectionately known as "Mr. Odd Fellow" by his lodge brothers. He was also a member of Independent Order of Rebekahs and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The family will receive friends at Hinkle Funeral Home Friday, Oct. 4, from 4 to 8 p.m. The funeral will be conducted at Buena Chapel in Canaan Saturday at noon. The Rev. Neal Parsons will officiate. Dick's son, Jimmy, who is now pastor of the Jackson Mennonite Church in Ohio, will offer a celebration of his dad's life in both eulogy and song. Burial will take place in Mt. Hebron Cemetery off Cortland Road in Canaan.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Mt. Hebron Cemetery Fund, in care of Dave Lesher, P.O. Box 778, Davis, WV 26260.


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WASHINGTON – Now that Congress has pushed us away from the "fiscal cliff" and saved 98 percent of us from an income tax hike, we all need to brace ourselves for higher taxes, starting with our next paychecks.
That may sound incongruous, but it's true.
While Congress extended the income tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush for all but the wealthiest taxpayers, lawmakers did nothing to extend a two-year, 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax, which funds Social Security and Medicare. So a tax cut that benefited nearly every American worker expired quietly, almost unnoticed.
You will notice the change in your next paycheck, though, since it's likely to be 2 percent smaller than you were expecting. Add that up over the course of a year, and for someone earning $50,000 a year, it's a $1,000 loss.
Although Congress didn't spend much time debating the payroll tax issue, those who work with people close to the financial edge are worried about what the higher payroll tax will mean.
"This is going to hurt people who are barely making it paycheck to paycheck, who don't have a lot of wiggle room," said Paul C. Atkinson, president and CEO of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Buffalo.
Atkinson said he was surprised that no members of Congress pushed hard for extending the payroll tax cut, but that's pretty much what happened.
That being the case, the payroll tax rate will immediately go up to 6.2 percent on the first $113,700 of everyone's income. We've all been paying a 4.2 percent rate for the last two years.
Congress enacted that cut in the payroll tax rate back in 2010 when it seemed that the Great Recession would never end, thinking the immediate boost in everyone's paycheck would spur the economy.
"It was a middle-class tax cut that had its intended benefit," said Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo.
This time around, though, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle were reluctant to extend the payroll tax cut amid rising concerns about the federal deficit and the long-term financial viability of Social Security and Medicare.
"The thinking is, the payroll tax goes to fund Social Security, and you can't cut off revenue to Social Security and at the same time shore it up," Higgins said.
Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, who serves on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, noted that it was the Senate and not the House that developed the final fiscal cliff deal that allows the payroll tax to rise.
Ideally, Reed said, he would prefer that the payroll tax be kept low, but he understands the other side of the equation.
"Obviously, I'm very concerned about the future of Social Security, and that payroll tax goes to fund the Social Security liability that's out there," Reed said.
That concern is warranted. Thanks largely to the retirement of the huge baby boom generation, the Social Security trust fund for retirement benefits is on target to run out of money in 2035, according to the trustees who oversee the program.
That being the case, Social Security advocates opposed the payroll tax cut from the start. Permanently cutting the payroll tax by 2 percent without replacing the lost revenue would double the Social Security trust fund's projected shortfall over 75 years, according to Social Security Works, an advocacy group.
For the last two years, though, Congress used general tax revenues to patch the hole in the trust fund created by the payroll tax cut. But with rising concerns about the federal deficit, that robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul approach found few takers in the fiscal cliff debate.
On the contrary, lawmakers such as Reed are more interested in reforming Medicare and Social Security to secure their long-term future.
"We need to address Medicare and Social Security solvency as soon as possible," Reed said.
Still, a payroll tax hike at this point will have an economic impact, and not a good one.
The increase will reduce household income by about $125 billion nationwide this year – and thereby cut the expected growth in the gross domestic product by about 0.6 percent, JPMorgan Chase Bank said in an analysis last fall.
George M. Palumbo, an economist at Canisius College, agreed that the payroll tax hike will hurt the economy.
"I would expect that it would have a relatively modest impact – but a negative impact," he said.
Atkinson, of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service, said that negative impact will hit an economy that has by no means recovered from the Great Recession.
"The point is, this tax cut was put in place to benefit the middle class" in difficult times, he said. "Now it seems that somebody in Washington thinks things are rosy again, but I don't know who those bozos are. As far as I'm concerned, things are not terribly great around here."
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Car crashes into bedroom, catches fire
Man awakes to car crashing into Poinciana home
A Poinciana man was awakened to a car crashing into his bedroom and catching on fire early Sunday, police said.
Investigators said a car driven by 45-year-old Trevor Ricketts, of Kissimmee, lost control, crashed through three fences and into Carl Hutto's home near Spoon Place and Country Club Road just before 6 a.m. Sunday.
The crash started a fire that burned the engine compartment of the car and part of the home.
Osceola County firefighters extinguished the fire before pulling Ricketts from the vehicle and checking Hutto for injuries.
Ricketts was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center for treatment.
Hutto declined to be taken to a hospital.
The crash and fire caused major damage to the home, and part of the home's roof collapsed, Osceola County Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Danny McAvoy said.
Ricketts was cited for careless driving, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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on February 2, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Are we prepared for results of putting women in combat?
I am sure that combat veterans in the region have their own convictions about women serving in combat roles. Personally, the egalitarian view of letting them have a chance to achieve the same standards as infantrymen is noble, and I think most agree with them afforded the opportunity. But what are these standards? I know that my experiences in the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 were the toughest mental, physical and emotional experiences I've ever had. Sleep deprivation for days at a time. Dysentery. Intense combat situations with a never-ending operations pace. Death and prisoners and casualties. Without showers for three months because the infrastructure was not yet built. Constantly carrying a combat load of 50 pounds or more at all times. Few men and women can do the aforementioned.
But two more fundamental questions must be raised: (1) how will unit cohesion be affected and (2) are we ready to see a female body count at accelerated rates and female prisoners of war? I was in An Nasiriya with the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines during the Jessica Lynch ordeal, and it wasn't until afterward that I realized the press coverage it received. Are we as a nation ready for more Jessica Lynches?
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John L. Smith used to coach in packed Southeastern Conference stadiums.
His new place barely holds 3,000 fans.
Smith went up against teams like Alabama that were contending for national championships.
Now, he will get to face squads in the little-known Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Smith was hired Wednesday as the head coach at tiny Fort Lewis College in Durango, a Division II school coming off an 0-10 season, after being let go as coach at Arkansas.
He will make around $67,000 a season, which will be renewed on a year-by-year basis, and he only will have 16 or 17 scholarships to dole out.
That�s a long way from SEC football.
Sure, Smith had other offers to become a position coach that paid more after he was let go by the Razorbacks. But this quaint mountain town located about 330 miles southwest of Denver simply is his kind of place. Plus, he�s reunited with director of athletics Gary Hunter, who gave Smith his first head coaching job at Idaho in 1989.
�To get a quality coach like John L. Smith, we�re very fortunate,� Hunter said. �When this became a possibility, I called him up and said, �Durango is a gorgeous spot to live, why don�t you come on over here and put this program back together?��
That was enough enticement for Smith, who�s an avid skier and now will be surrounded by some of the best powder skiing in the world.
The two sides have yet to officially formalize their deal. So far, a simple handshake agreement has been sufficient. Smith is expected to begin his new head coaching assignment March 1, the school announced.
�When he gets here, we�ll march into human resources and get a contract,� Hunter said with a chuckle.
�Not exactly what�s going on in the NFL or SEC, huh?� he said.
Smith was hired away from Weber State last April to step in for ousted Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino, just weeks after a scandal that erupted following Petrino�s motorcycle accident that involved his mistress.
The Razorbacks had big hopes under Smith, especially after starting the season ranked in the top 10. But the team struggled to a 4-8 record, and the John L. Smith era came to a close.
And now the 64-year-old former Michigan State and Louisville coach gets an opportunity to resurrect his career in Durango, a city with a population of around 17,000. He has plenty of work to do in turning around the Skyhawks, a team that�s only had 10 winning records in 50 seasons as a four-year school.
�To me, it�s a situation where we�re going to have to work hard to try and get the excitement up, get the program going in the right direction, win some games and graduate our kids,� Smith said.
In 19 seasons as a head coach, Smith has compiled an impressive record (136-94) and picked up a few accolades (Big Ten Coach of the Year at Michigan State in 2003) along the way. He�s also been to seven bowl games and captured six conference titles.
This hiring definitely is a coup for the school.
�Fort Lewis College is making a commitment to football,� Hunter said. �Many of our other programs have reached the pinnacle of success at the national and regional levels. We want our football alumni and fans to have the opportunity to enjoy that same success.�
Hunter isn�t expecting an immediate turnaround.
No, that�s asking too much out of his good friend.
�Our first goal is to be competitive, to be respected,� Hunter said. �Then, maybe we can attract recruits and other good football players because winning takes care of itself.
�The one beautiful thing about John L. is this: What you see is what he is. There�s not a dishonest word out of his mouth. I knew him when he wasn�t making anything at Idaho and then making big money at Michigan State. He�s the same guy. He�s the same down-home, fun-loving guy.�
Smith replaces Cesar Rivas-Sandoval, who announced his resignation a week ago after three seasons and a 6-25 record.
Among Smith�s assistant coaches will be Skyhawks� defensive coordinator Ed Rifilato, who played for Smith at Idaho and also served as director of football operations under Smith at Louisville in 2002.
�He�s a great player�s coach,� Rifilato said.


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J.R. Smith's injuries were chronic and gradually worsened. Recovery time is approximately 12-16 weeks.— NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) July 15, 2013
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The circa 1798 house at 43 Meeting St. originally had a piazza — like almost every other Charleston single house.
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But it disappeared decades ago, bit by bit.
Initially, a slice of its first floor was removed, apparently to create more room for a car to park between the home and the neighboring house to the south.
That probably compromised its structural integrity, as the second floor was left precariously cantilevered over the first.
Not long afterward, the entire piazza was removed, and the door to the main house was ripped out and tacked onto a small brick-and-stucco foyer addition that became the new entrance.
When Kristopher King looked at the property as a possible project for an Australian couple looking to invest in Charleston, he realized he had a rare opportunity on his hands.
A year later, the job is done: The piazza is back.
King, who has a preservation management company, helped guide the restoration work along with architect Glenn Keyes and contractor Jim Rhode.
It didn't take long for them to discover not only the holes in the house that originally supported the piazza's joists but also the remnants of the brick piers that made up its foundation.
Old photographs provided a guide, and King says the reconstruction is historically accurate except perhaps for one feature: the piazza's entrance on Meeting Street.
Since there was little surviving evidence of how that looked, Keyes designed a relatively understated door and surround. There are no ornate brackets or fancy carvings here.
King says that front door design approach fits the rest of the property. While the home might look grand today, it was rather simple for its time. One only needs to contrast 43 Meeting with the house Nathaniel Russell built a few doors north just a decade later.
Charleston's piazzas not only offer elegant outdoor living space, but they also help shield the main house from the elements. In this case, King notes the piazza also converts what was an odd-looking skinny house into one with more handsome proportions.
Because the house sits closer to Meeting Street than its southern neighbors, the piazza offers even better breezes and views.
And its restoration has the added advantage of giving pedestrians a better glimpse of architect W.G. Clark's previous addition to the surviving kitchen house.
Clark added a series of windows, framed in wood painted Charleston Green, as a sort of a glassed-in piazza to the rear brick building. It's modern, but its detailing is sensitive to the far older buildings nearby.
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The 43 Meeting property was converted from two units into one large single-family home — one of King's and Keyes' greatest challenges was improving the interior flow — and its spacious garden also is being replanted.
The home was owned most recently by the late and legendary Charleston preservationist Elizabeth Young, who mentored King when he worked with the Historic Charleston Foundation.
He jokes that when the work began, he thought, "We have to do it right or she's going to haunt me."
But King says the house teaches another lesson: treat a house gently to preserve your investment. In the case of 43 Meeting, it was fortunate that most modern necessities such as a kitchen and bathrooms, could be fit into a later addition joining the historic house with its kitchen building.
"The Youngs were the classic old Charleston stewards. They didn't spit-shine the thing, but they didn't do thing anything wrong," he says. "I think buyers will become more savvy to authenticity in the future. Is it original? Is it authentic or is it a replica?"
Or, in the case of this new piazza, is it an authentic replica that looks great?
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Thanks to Houston�s late-season slump, Denver and New England will have byes when the AFC playoffs begin next week.
The Texans fell from first to third in the conference Sunday when they lost 28-16 at Indianapolis, which welcomed back coach Chuck Pagano after nearly three months of treatments for leukemia.
AFC West champion Denver won its 11th consecutive game, 38-3 over Kansas City to secure the top seed.
New England blanked Miami 28-0 for the second spot.
Minnesota edged Green Bay 37-34 to grab the final NFC wild card, sinking the Packers to the third seed. Those teams will meet again next week at Lambeau Field.
The other NFC matchup will have Seattle (11-5), which beat St. Louis 20-13, at Washington. The Redskins beat the Dallas Cowboys 28-18 on Sunday night for the NFC East crown. San Francisco and Atlanta received the NFC first-round byes.
Cincinnati (10-6) will be at Houston (12-4), and Indianapolis (11-5) at Baltimore (10-6) in the AFC wild-card rounds.
Denver will host the Cincinnati-Houston winner the second week of the playoffs.
New England (12-4) got the second seed despite having the same record as Houston because it beat the Texans, who lost three of their final four games.
Adrian Peterson had 199 yards against the Packers, finishing with 2,097 � Dickerson�s single-season rushing mark in 2,105. But it was rookie kicker Blair Walsh who won it with a 29-yard field goal as time expired.
Baltimore Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed is looking forward to a reunion with Pagano. He wishes it would come a little later in the postseason.
�Chuck�s like a dad to me,� Reed said �He means a lot to me. I would have much rather seen them in the AFC championship game than the first game.�
But Reed will see him next week at Baltimore.
The Ravens had a chance to move up to the AFC�s third seed with a win and a New England loss. But Baltimore lost at Cincinnati as both teams played backups for much of the game.
Pagano coached the Ravens� secondary for three seasons and was promoted to coordinator last year. Players and coaches in Baltimore have kept in touch, offering encouragement as he fought through the cancer treatments.
�Going back to Baltimore, obviously there�s some familiarity there,� Pagano said. �We had four great years there as a family. It�s a top-notch organization, you know, really good football club. It�s a great challenge, and they have a great team, and they have great players all over the place.�
The Colts were 2-14 last season and chose quarterback Andrew Luck with the top selection in the draft. Luck and offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who stepped in as interim coach with Pagano sidelined, led the turnaround.
Next week, Pagano goes up against former boss John Harbaugh.
�I love his family, and he�s one of my closest personal friends in coaching,� Harbaugh said. �What he�s been through is phenomenal, but we�re all competitors so that gets set aside.�
The defending Super Bowl champion Giants are out of contention. When Chicago beat Detroit 26-24, the Giants (9-7) were eliminated, even though they routed Philadelphia 42-7.
�It hurts,� said Eli Manning. �Each year you want to make the playoffs to give yourself an opportunity to win a championship; 9-7 last year was good enough. It wasn�t good enough this year, and we knew it wouldn�t be.�
Minnesota�s win eliminated Chicago, which the Vikings swept this season.