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Today is the deadline for clubs to submit their Central Tender Letter (CTL) to the MLB Labor Relations Department (LRD), listing all unsigned players on the club's MLB Reserve List (AKA "40-man roster"), and which of them are being tendered a 2012 contract, and which are not.
After checking the letter for possible errors (like "Mr. Hendry, are you really sure you want to tender Koyie Hill?"), the LRD forwards a copy of the CTL to the MLB Players Association (MLBPA), and then the MLBPA notifies each player and his agent.
There are two types of unsigned players, those who are eligible for salary arbitration, and those who are not yet eligible.
A player on an MLB Reserve List becomes eligible for salary arbitration automatically once he has accrued at least three years of MLB Service Time, and certain players with less than three years of MLB Service Time (known as a "Super Two") are also eligible.
A "Super Two" is any player on an MLB Reserve List with more than two but less than three years of MLB Service Time who accrued at least 86 days of MLB Service Time the previous season, where the player is in the top 17% in MLB Service Time of that group (top 22% beginning post-2012).
Unsigned players on an MLB Reserve List who are not yet eligible for salary arbitration ("auto-renewal" players) are pretty much at the mercy of the club. The club has the right to decide unilaterally how much it will pay the player (subject to the MLB minimum salary and the maximum salary-cut rules), and the player can either take it or hold out and not play (and probably go on the Restricted List).
That said, a club (usually the assistant GM) will negotiate with an auto-renewal player (occasionally haggling for weeks over relatively small sums of money, sometimes as litttle as $500), and to keep them motivated, the club almost always wil reward the ones who had good seasons with a raise (sometimes a substantial raise).
Players eligible for salary arbitration are in a much better negotiating position.
First of all, while a player may be eligible, the club does not actually offer salary arbitration to the player on December 12th. A player who is eligible for salary arbitration is only tendered or non-tendered on 12/12, Salary arbitration can't be requested by either the player or the club unless the two sides have not come to an agreement on a contract by January 5th. Then there is a ten-day "window" (ending on January 15th) where either the player or the club can request salary arbitration.
In practice, the club does not request salary arbitration, because if no agreement has been reached by January 15th and the player has not requested salary arbitration by that date, the player automatically becomes an "auto-renewal" player, and the club can unilaterally dictate the terms of the contract (which obviously would be great for the club). So if a player is eligible for salary arbitration and no agreement has been reached by January 5th, the player absolutely, positively WILL request salary arbitration before the window closes.
Once salary arbitration is requested, the two sides exchange "official" salary figures, and a hearing is scheduled before a three-person arbitration panel sometime during the first three weeks of February. In the meantime, the player and the club could have as long as a month to negotiate an agreement.
While an arbitration panel is required to weigh the evidence presented by each side (usually in the form of statistics comparing the player to another similar player) and then choose either the club's salary offer or the player's salary request, the player and the club frequently will decide to essentially "split the difference" (something the arbitration panel cannot do) and settle prior to the hearing, since it's next to impossible to predict how an arbitration panel will rule, and that can be dangerous for both sides, especially if there is a substantial gap between the two salary figures. (An MLB executive who shall remain nameless once told me that he believes the arbitrators just flip a coin).
The Cubs presently have 37 players on their MLB Reserve List (40-man roster), and only seven are signed for 2012. That means 30 players must be listed on the Cubs CTL.
Jeff Baker, IF-OF
Blake DeWitt, IF-OF
Koyie Hill, C
Matt Garza, RHSP
Geovany Soto, C
Ian Stewart, 3B
Randy Wells, RHSP
Darwin Barney, INF
Jeff Beliveau, LHRP
Jeff Bianchi, INF
Alberto Cabrera, RHSP
Tony Campana, OF
Chris Carpenter, RHRP
Andrew Cashner, RHRP
Lendy Castillo, RHRP
Welington Castillo, C
Starlin Castro, SS
Steve Clevenger, C-1B
Casey Coleman, RHSP
Rafael Dolis, RHRP
John Gaub, LHRP
Bryan LaHair, 1B-OF
Junior Lake, INF
Scott Maine, LHRP
Marcos Mateo, RHRP
James Russell, LHRP
Jeff Samardzija, RHRP
Matt Szczur, OF
Josh Vitters, 3B-1B
Casey Weathers, RHRP
So which of the 30 unsigned Cubs players are most-likely to be non-tendered today?
Right off the bat, we can be sure that Lendy Castillo WILL be tendered, because any player selected in the Rule 5 Draft cannot be non-tendered.
Among the unsigned players who are eligible for salary arbitration, Koyie Hill would seem to be a virtual lock to get non-tendered, and Blake DeWitt is a possibility, too.
Having made $2.2M+ in 2011 as a "Super Two" and being eligible for salary arbitration once again after an atrocious season that saw him get demoted to AAA, Ian Stewart would normally have been a good candidate to get non-tendered, just so he could have had his salary cut by more the maximum-allowable 20%. The Cubs almost certainly won't non-tender Stewart three days after acquiring him in a trade, but they really should have waited a while longer to pull the trigger on a deal that might not even have been necessary, since it's possible that the Rockies might have non-tendered him themselves.
See, one good thing about non-tendering a player is that the club can re-sign the player to a contract without regard to the maximum-allowable 20% pay cut that applies to a player who is tendered a contract. Another advantage of a non-tender is that a player can be removed from a 40-man roster without exposing the player to Outright Assignment Waivers (which are irrevocable) or an Outright Release (a player who is given his Outright Release between September 1st and MLB Opening Day cannot be added back to the same club's 40-man roster and 25-man roster until May 15th).
One GM trick is to non-tender a veteran player who is eligible for salary arbitration, and then re-sign him to a pre-arranged Major League contract with more than the maximum-allowable salary-cut, or (better still) sign him to a minor league contract (with a Non-Roster Invitation to Spring Training, of course), with perhaps an opt-out clause if the player doesn't make the MLB Opening Day 25-man roster.
The former means the player remains on the 40-man roster but without the club having to worry about arbitration or maximum salary-reduction limits, while the latter (which is a REALLY good deal for the club) removes the player from the MLB 40-man roster (creating roster space for free-agents or players acquired in a trade or via waiver claim later in the off-season), allows the club to cut the player's salary more than the maximum-allowable 20%, and permits the player to compete for a job on the MLB 25-man roster in Spring Training without the club having to worry about eventually releasing a player who might be entitled to a sizable severance if signed to a MajorLeague contract. Not every player (or agent) will go for this, but some do, and it's worth considering if you want to try and save some money and/or create additional space on the 40-man roster during the off-season.
Another type of player who could be non-tendered and then immediately re-signed to a minor league contract (even for the same money he would have made if he was tendered) with an NRI to Spring Training is an "auto-renewal" player who is out of minor league options, and where the club believes it might need to send him to the minors if there isn't room for him on the Opening Day MLB 25-man roster, but the club would prefer to not have to risk losing him off Outright Waivers (since he is out of options).
Both Marcos Mateo and Bryan LaHair fit this profile to a "T" (that is, player has some value to the team but there might not be room for him on the Opening Day 25-man roster, player is out of minor league options, and signed to a minor league contract, the player would not have to pass through Outright Waivers if he doesn't make the Opening Day 25-man roster and the Cubs want to send him to AAA Iowa).
Again, you non-tender Mateo and LaHair ONLY if an agreement is in place where the player agrees in advance to sign a minor league contract (which could be for "big league money"--that is, maybe $480K with an $80K minor league split) plus an NRI to Spring Training (and perhaps an opt-out clause for LaHair if he does end up in Iowa and has an opportunity to maybe play in Japan).
Otherwise, you can leave them on the 40-man roster, and then trade one or both at the end of Spring Training if one or the other doesn't make the Opening Day 25-man roster and you don't want to risk losing the player(s) off Outright Waivers. But a non-tender and then a quick pre-arranged re-sign to a minor league contract (with an NRI to Spring Training) would be ideal.
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Thanks for the detailed explanations, AZ. I'll probably only remember a line or two in a month from now, but it's great info.
I'm not really following the logic on non-tendering LaHair, although you don't seem to be recommending it as much as saying he is a typical candidate. LaHair is either gonna make it this year in the bigs or, probably, never, it seems. I would think, and hope for his sake, that if the Cubs sign Prince Fielder or some other first baseman, they'd either let LaHair take a shot at some outfield play (Rob G suggested platooning with Soriano, which seems reasonable) or they'd cut him loose and let him try to catch on somewhere else.
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Az Phil----How did you learn all this stuff? I am in awe!!!!
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As always, AZP, thanks for the great, detailed refresher on these transaction rules.
The Cubs almost certainly won't non-tender Stewart three days after acquiring him in a trade, but they really should have waited a while longer to pull the trigger on a deal that might not even have been necessary, since it's possible that the Rockies might have non-tendered him themselves.
It seems to me that pros like Epstein and Hoyer are bright enough to gather assurances that Stewart was going to be tendered a contract. But let me ask hypothetically, were Stewart non-tendered, he becomes a free agent and can sign anywhere, correct?
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We paid over a million for Doug Davis and Koyie Hill apiece last year. I have no problem rolling the dice on Ian Stewart at 1.75 this year. Heck that's Chris Huseby money.
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Thanks AZP!
While disinformation and gamesmanship is certainly possible, so are many other things, including GMs wanting to preserve relationships between their peers through fair & honest dealings. Though I hear your point about waiting, and it's a good one, there may be other information we're not seeing.
And yes, of course Epstein & Hoyer will make mistakes. (Lackey and Crawford jump to mind for Theo.) Given their general track records, especially with bringing up young talent, I'm willing to give them a long leash before I agree any of these early moves are poorly considered.
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The Rockies announced in November that they would tender Stewart a contract
// 11/16/2011
O'Dowd told The Post that he will tender third baseman Ian Stewart a contract. Stewart suffered through a miserable season, going homerless while dealing with multiple injuries and minor-league demotions. While the Rockies plan to tender Stewart, it's not certain they will keep him. Multiple teams have inquired about trading for the one-time top prospect.
Read more: Renck: Rockies need Jhoulys Chacin's mechanics back in form - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/renck/ci_19345131#i...
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Having just read every news article I could pull up on Stewart back to 2007, I most definitely agree with you. The Rockies were totally exasperated with him --- sent him down three or four times last year. On and off the DL. Changed his entire plate approach, from how he held his hands, to how far he was from the plate, to getting on his case for being "too selective" and not aggressive enough. The Rockies were probably done with him if no one would trade for him.
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Levine- Aram to Brewers three years
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Wow! 3 years...
Hopefully, he will find a way to be on the DL enough per his usual pattern, that it won't have much effect on things.
Theo strikes again, and he hasn't even signed anyone yet (other than the small trades/Rule 5 stuff).
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With a division title suddenly in play in 2012, Rickass needs to toss the budget, open his wallet and sign Fielder or consign himself to the dustbin of idiot owners.
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From the FWIW Files:
The Cubs are definitely in the mix for Fielder, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. He adds that the Mariners are trying and the Blue Jays and Rangers are "among teams showing interest and thinking hard about it."
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"Aramis has been one of the more consistent left-handed hitters in baseball" ?!
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Let's see, he's not consistent, and he's not a left-handed hitter, but I do believe he plays baseball.
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If the Cubs pick up a hitter with an OPS of .900+ consistently over the next 6 years (Aramis 2004-2009, and yes, I do include .898 there) I'll be pretty happy.
In my mind, they are saying bye-bye at just the right time.
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Hey, one out of three is widely accepted as pretty good in baseball...
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The post has been corrected.
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So I guess I'm the only who's not looking forward to Aramis killing the Cubs the next three years.
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Would Aramis, Pena and Gonzalez's defense be better than Mcgahee, Fielder and Betancourt for Brewers or at least equal?
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ROB G: If they use a knife, we use an UZI, baby!
Look for a Cubs FIELDER signing.
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....Cubs sign Dutch pitcher Hans Fielder to a minor league deal....lol.
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Yes. Of course. Next question.
Replacing McGeehee and Betancourt with Aramis and Gonzalez in the lineup will probably help offset the loss of Fielder as well.
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mcG makes Aram look like a gold glover, too.
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collect em all (Fielders that is)
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3/36 on aram...not a bad deal if the guy can keep hitting 25+ homers a year with decent ob%...and of course, staying healthy + 3rd defense relevant is important, too...well, i guess they have flexibility at 1st as of now.
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This is a great move for Aramis Ramirez. Playing in a domed stadium should help him in April and help him stay healthy in general. No playing on wet slippery fields in 40 degree weather. No Hawk ripping in from left field. I'll be surprised if he doesn't hit 30+ home runs next year.
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bluejays moved 2 guys off their 40-man and no cooresponding waiver pickup...gio gonzalez to TOR might get done pretty soon.
nevermind...they made earlier moves, too...including another drop + 2 adds (1 waiver claim, 1 trade [picked up b.francisco from PHI]).
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so what does the iowa IF look like in 2012? especially since they just lost their 2nd, SS, and 3rd.
marquis smith is a natural to slide into 3rd unless he ends up on the MLB bench (mistake not to give him AAA everyday time in 2012, imo)...SS or 2nd belongs to junior lake at this point, i'd imagine...no idea about the other 2nd/SS slot.
oh yeah...all this can be shitcanned into a clusterfuck depending on who goes to BOS and SD...keep forgetting about that...they need to settle that out, already. it was supposedly the most important thing ever to the commish pre-rule 5 and pre-winter meetings, but i haven't heard much since.
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Josh Vitters at 3rd? 1B? LF? Have to imagine Rebel Ridling is in the running for the 1B/LF job as well.
I wouldn't be shocked to see Logan Watkins bumped to AA and maybe make it to AAA at some point in 2012, and he looks like a 2B at this point, though he can play SS.
Aside from that, there is always an Andres Blanco, Esteban German, or Bobby Scales lurking.
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Andres Blanco ship sailed already. To the World Series. haha!
He was not good enough, apparently, for Hendry (and as I recall - I don't think our ubiquitous AZ PHIL liked his tool-set either) and had a career year for the Giants.
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I believe that is Andres Torres you're thinking of.
Andres Blanco went to the WS with the rangers (actually, I have no idea if he was still on the roster or the series or not). Andres Torres also spent time on the Iowa Cubs roster, though, before ending up with the Giants eventually.
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vitters could slot in at 3rd if the cubs decide to non-tender dewitt or baker...m.smith is mlb-bench ready as he'll ever be at 3rd/2nd...i'd rather see him stick around getting regular AAA ab's myself...mostly because i don't trust the guy who's supposedly going to get 500+abs (barring massive, unignorable, fail) for the pro club.
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Per Hoy-Stein's mandates, they will not bring up a player such as Vitters, until basically they are setting AAA on fire.
Don't count on this for 2012.
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yeah, i mean slot in at 3rd in iowa...if m.smith is brought up (or moved to 2nd out of necessity in AAA).
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Since it is likely that we will not be competitive in 2012, there is little reason to start the arbitration clock any sooner then you are compelled to.
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How are the Cubs going to avoid being competitive in the NL Central next year? They have a braintrust and a pile of money. The Cards and Brewers are in trouble. Not being competitive next year would be inexcusable.
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I don't care about competing for the NL Central title I want to win the World Series.
While the Cubs might end up being the tallest midget in the NL Central, which gets them a lottery ticket in the crap shoot that is the playoffs, it certainly should not be something that greatly impacts how you run your team.
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While I agree with you that I want the Cubs to eventually become a perennial World Series contender, being the tallest midget in the NL Central is still a good thing. Heck, the Cardinals were the second tallest midget in the division last year and look what it got them.
There's no reason at all that the Cubs can't be competitive in 2012. Of course, that assumes that JedStein gets busy and builds a respectable team.
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Not sure Vitters has shown the bat to be a major leaguer thus far. Figure he's a 2012 DFA Rule 5 candidate if he doesn't show something this year. Arbitration clock should be the least of his concerns.
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this whole thing came off a comment from me not being clear that i was talking vitters slotting in at AAA and m.smith being the guy moving to the bigs to work bench.
i don't think anyone is expecting to see vitters come up to the bigs in early 2012 (if at all), especially with an early commitment to ian stewart for full time ab's and vitters still being pretty young...and in heavy need of work on his D.
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I misunderstood you Crunch.
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the way i puke out comments it's not clear all the time...i can see how it could get mixed up.
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...and of course, staying healthy.
Man, based on his track record - I just don't see it.
I mean, the Brew could get lucky, but his age and DL/nagging injury history suggests not.
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prince fielder linked to 6 teams according to rosenthal on mlb network...cubs named and heavily pushed on tonight's piece.
even though he's a 1st baseman...he's an elite one...and 27 years old. i wouldn't even be upset about an 8 year deal, myself...anything less i'd consider awesome. 4-6 years would be just awesome...but with 6 teams looking....could be another 10 year deal for someone.
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DH in NL will make a 8 year deal work.
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The state of the Cubs is depressing. This feels like the early 90s all over again. Are we in for another decade of malaise and wheel-spinning?
If your corner IFs are Ian Stewart and Bryan LaHair, your corner OFs are Alfonso Soriano and David DeJesus, and your second-best starting pitcher is Ryan Dempster, well.....it's gonna be a LOOOONG year I'm afraid.
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If the season started tomorrow, then yes, totally fucked. But it doesn't, so relax.
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That's how I felt last year, but I'm holding out a little hope with Hendry gone and the new guys only in place for a few months so far. If you really want to get depressed, read about the Bears.
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The Bears' D has been fine, but the injuries show how completely reliant the marginal-in-the-first-place offense is/was on Forte and Cutler. Without them, the team is screwed, and obviously this season is a lost cause.
That's what scares me about the Hawks, too. As good as they've played for the most part, the team has become completely reliant on the admittedly-awesome play of Panda, Sharp, and Daydream Nation. If something happened to just one of those 4 forwards, much less two of them......yikes.
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Jesus HICKMAN, the Winter Meetings ended last Thursday.
Hang in there.
As I have said several times, NO WAY would HoyStein have taken these gigs just to spin wheels.
These are smart motherfuckers who need to learn alot as quickly as possible.
INCUDING assessing the playing conditions and the type of player that best fits Wrigley - and, as Capt. Kirk said, "Go where no man has gone before."
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Welcome to rock bottom!
We knew this day would come.
Let's let the new guys get more then 30 days into this shit sandwich and see what direction we are going.
They are building from the scorched earth of Jim Hendry and the other idiot behind him McFail.
Deep breaths everyone.
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I agree, didn't mean to come across as this how everyone should think.
The great different of opinions makes this a great site, especially when the cheap shots and name calling are no longer around.
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Agreed. I also suspect that the trend from bashing the GM who's been around to announcing the new GM a genius until proven otherwise is part of the same movement in opinion that has to do with unreasonable expectations. I suspect that what sets these guys apart from the rest of us isn't some magic eye for spotting talent or making only the best deals, but instead it is probably a much great degree of involvement, much more scouting info, access to a lot of really smart stat people, and a strong worth ethic coupled with a good deal of experience. They'll all make plenty of mistakes.
That said, it'd be nice if HoyStein doesn't make a Soriano-level mistake (or makes a number of other great moves to balance out such a mistake) and if they don't mismanage the roster consistently the way that Hendry seemed to. I have never been able to figure out why a GM with a bunch of people working under him couldn't be a little better at managing the 40-man.
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BruceMiles2112 Bruce Miles
#Cubs appear ready to burn midnight oil deciding whether to tender Koyie Hill a contract.
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this one should be a make/break 2012 championship decision.
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Seems like baseball people just love this guy. And don't care about the lack of hitting, even a little bit. I really could actually see having a catcher your pitchers love, I suppose, if you had a lot of monsters in your lineup. But sheeesh, this is, at least as it stands now, a really weak hitting lineup that really can't give away both the 8 and 9 spots.
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Especially if the guy were actually a good defensive catcher.
Why can't they just bring Clevenger up and tell everybody (including both the press and the pitchers) that he is a great defender and an incredible game caller, then order him to be nice to everyone and say aw shucks or he gets shitcanned?
What has Hill ever done to show he's a good catcher except not hit a lick? Everyone just assumes he must be good at something. That's my guess. And he probably believes he's very good at calling games and handling pitchers, which probably really sells it to the pitchers. If every catcher walked around thinking that was true of themselves, pitchers would probably like throwing to almost all of them.
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As AZ PHIL has mentioned when I as well was wondering what the KHill deal is all about: the pitchers have a trememdous affinity for his game-calling skills, and this filtered down to the Hendry.
Since the new Sheriffs don't know about the KHill love, and since they can look at his mutiple passed-ball, error-strewn, and wild-attempts at CS games, combined with his Mendoza-like hitting - I think they'll be able to hit the hay early tonight.
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@to the latest muskat tweet above, have tendered contracts to arb eligibles Baker, DeWitt, Garza, Soto, Stewart, Wells, but not Hill -- I'm not sure if that means he's out yet or not.
There are bigger concerns as far as I'm concerned, but I agree they can do better than K Hill
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Time to make room on the bench for Clevenger or one of the non-tendered catchers around baseball who bring more to the tabel than does Koyie Hill (Jason Jaramillo or somebody of the like, though my preference is to go with Clevenger and be ready to call up Castillo if necessary).
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Thanks, AZ...yeah, that's why I mentioned I didn't know if he was really gone yet -- you explained the process well in your post. I mentioned in another comment that baseball people really seem to love the guy. He literally can't hit, as in, really can't hit -- he's like me, just mystified about the process and unable to find a way to make solid wood on the ball in nearly any circumstance, yet baseball people really seem to love the guy.
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Koyie put up numbers that would be OK for a defense oriented backup in the minors, including showing a little pop. The OPS drop off in the majors was extremely steep for him, though, almost around a .180 difference. It's possible that he hit better in the minors because he got more plate appearance, but he certainly never hit well enough to justify getting more plate appearance at the major league level. He just doesn't have the skills to be an adequate MLB player in any role. I wish him luck with his coaching career.
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But the problem with Hill is that he isn't even "defense oriented.". A backup catcher that can't hit or play defense has no place on a major league roster.
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Who calls the pitches, indicates the location, etc.? I forget.
A while ago I ranked catchers on fewest passed balls and wild pitches (often preventable by the catcher) and Hill was near the top, behind Ruiz, Soto, Torrealba and Y. Molina but ahead of Mauer, Martin, Posey, Paulina, Blanco.
But Hill is obviously Hendry's bastard son, so that mojo doesn't work any more.
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Dbacks non-tendered Joe Saunders
supposedly the Braves won't release their list of NT's until tomorrow AM even though it's got to be in by midnight.
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Mrs Pujols wants everyone to know that God works in mysterious ways and that her husband is not a greedy bastard-
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Tweet box has the link, but all tendered except Koyie Hill.
McGehee to pirates for Jose Vera.
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There is a God!
Just not a very good one.
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That's not what Tim Tebow says.
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Holy Shit!
TRN got banned!! FINALLY!!!
Thanks, Rob!
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Wow. Where you been?
Totally 3/44 by now.
Was in the NY Times. ;)
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Well, our long national nightmare of The Koyie Hill Experience is over, so that's something to smile about I guess.....I wonder if Clevenger isn't the likely backup catcher now, and Jedstein has the ability to use either Soto or Castillo as a trade chip in the coming weeks.
Soto/Castillo, Byrd and Marmol, you ought to be able to get something decent for that, right? Those would seem to be the Cubs' three most likely trading chips.
Losing Marmol
AZ PHIL: Should HoyStein decide to trade Marmol, what of the current prospects do you believe would be the best candidates to be an effective closer over time. Cashner? Carpenter? Jokisch? McNutt? Another?
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ninja may be overpaid, but he's a workhorse...not pretty all the time, but he can go multiple times a week without issue and pull 2-3ip long relief duty. unless the cubs bats start show better than expected rbi-producing power and/or ob% they're going to need long relief for more than just blowouts.
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I like your plan, AZPhil, especially the part about giving Bud the finger!
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Phil, you just might be the best Assistant GM/GM not working in MLB.
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Re: Ian Stewart
So. I'm going on record saying that I like the Stewart trade from a "do-I-like-the-new-The-Jed-management-team" perspective. I legitimately think Ian Stewart will be, as someone put it, "Mark Reynolds with more defensive chops." (I think that was fangraphs, it was one of Rob's links). (Also, eff Mark Reynolds and his strikeouts, but hey, beggars can't be choosers...). He'll be gritty enough to keep disgruntled Theriot fans happy, I think he'll hit 25 or so bombs, with, say, 75 RBIs, and supposedly play 3B at least worth-a-shit, which is better than the team has had on the defensive side of the ball. He also better become Rudy Jaramillo's new best friend, if either of them know what's good for them.
Does it suck that LeMayhew had to be thrown in? Sure. But I think Stewart will be a little more serviceable at the hot corner than we're collectively giving him credit for. And we turned Colvin into something, which I don't think he was ever going to do himself, at least not with the Cubs.
Is Stewart a $2m or so upgrade over LeMay at 3B? With a ~$130m payroll, who gives a shit (not me). Figure worst-case, you're trading average for power and getting a little better defensively, which the Cubs (I think everyone can agree) desperately need.
Should they have waited for COL to non-tender him? Probably, but there's always the chance then that f'ng Baltimore, Boston, fill in the blank comes along and thinks he's worth $3-4-5m when he's obviously not, and overpays to do the same thing COL did last year which is bounce him back and forth. Ultimately, I think Stewart was worth a little more to the Cubs than he would be to many teams, but f it, supply and demand, it is what it is.
End of the day, the guy was a top 10 draft pick (for whatever that's worth), and I'm kind of excited to see what he does with the opportunity. Plus he sounds like kind of an asshole, which could play well in the clubhouse... Or something...
I believe in what The Jed talks about WRT acquiring pieces. I think Stewart has the potential to be a decent 'piece'. What I'm really curious to see is what kind of 'pieces' they get to fill 1B (if it's not just LaHair) and the starting rotation........
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to me ian stewart is a guy who's glove (though not great) is worth giving a shot vs. what's in the cubs system and what was on the FA market not named aram. i don't mind what was given up or the 2m-ish he'll be paid.
i just think it's a doomed experiment and i will be thrilled if he's a .330 ob% 20+hr guy. i don't expect it, though...for reasons i probably shouldn't repeat. =p his golf-club-through-the-zone swing, inside pitching blindness, never met an outside pitch he didn't want to swing at tendencies...etc etc etc.
also, given how thin 3rd is this year vs. the need...i personally don't think stewart would have made it long enough to get non-tendered. given what's expected out of stewart from the cubs they didn't give up much...and though i'm not a fan, it's not awesome losing LeM.
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Agree, and as for the swing and pitch selection... Paging Dr. Jaramillo. (isn't shit like this exactly why we hired him? Supposedly guys like Michael Young wouldn't know which end of the bat to use if it weren't for him, right??)
Also, it took a little wind out of my sails to see my WAG predictions were his career high in HRs and +5 for his career high in RBIs.
Maybe 20/65 would be a little more accurate.
Still, I think I like the guy. Should be at least semi-fun to watch. And I don't anticipate a whole hell of a lot in the way of wins unless the rotation gets beefed up at some point, so Stewart is probably really something for my dumb-blind-fan-ass to grasp at. But whatever.
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I'll say more like Mark Bellhorn minus some contact than Mark Reynolds minus some HR, with the same "defense worth a shit" adendum.
Greg Maddux Redux?
Wife says they were bummed with the initial 5 year offer Redbirds put on the table.
I remember another marquee player leaving a central division team for similar reasons.
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doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
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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.


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A 19-year-old Washington County man accused of killing a Hartford woman and attacking a second woman at a Richfield park will have separate trials.
Daniel Bartelt, 19, is charged with killing Jessie Blodgett in her parents' home in July.
Bartelt is also charged with attacking another woman at a Richfield park just days before Blodgett's death.
A judge Monday ruled that the two incidents were not similar enough to warrant a single trial.
Bartelt has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to the three counts in the Richfield attack as well as a count of first-degree homicide in the Blodgett case.
A jury trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 11.

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Chris and Stacey Webb Field ('06) | Mercy Project
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In 2010, Chris and Stacey Field founded Mercy Project, a non-profit organization that rescues victims of child trafficking in Ghana. In May, they will go one step further and adopt one of the rescued children, a 7-year-old orphan named Famous.
Our plans are to rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate every trafficked child in Ghana. It's a huge job, but we serve the God who created the world.
Re-ignited romance and a calling
Unlike many other alums, Chris' journey didn't start at ACU.
"I transferred to ACU from Texas A&M, and I felt accepted from the day I arrived," Chris says. "My professors poured into me and constantly called me to be a person who brought hope and peace to the world in the name of Jesus."
It was here that Chris re-ignited a romance with his now-wife, Stacey.
"My wife and I were actually high school sweethearts," he says. "But then we broke up. We reconnected at ACU, although we both swore it would never happen. We were engaged just five months after our second 'first date.' "
They married in 2005 and graduated from ACU in 2006, Chris with a degree in Christian ministry and Stacey with a degree in early childhood education.
After graduation, Chris took a job as preaching minister at Heritage Church of Christ in Rowlett, Texas.
A trip that changed everything
In 2009, the couple took a trip to Ghana where their lives would be forever changed. On this trip, they met a boy named Tomas who had been sold to work as a fisherman. In Ghana, an estimated 7,000 children are "rented" to fishermen by their mothers in hopes that they will have better lives. What these mothers don't know is that their children are being treated poorly and are forced to work under horrible conditions, says Chris.
Meeting Tomas fueled within Chris and Stacey a passion for fighting child trafficking.
The goal was never to start a non-profit, Chris recalls. "The goal was to find a place that the church I was serving at the time could plug in and do missions. What we found in Ghana was a problem that God was asking us to help solve," Chris says.
'More, more, I want more'
Upon their return home, the Fields began to do research about the children who were being trafficked. Wanting to do more, they began raising money for a non-profit that was working in Ghana, but they didn't feel like that was enough.
Don't be scared to say 'yes' if God is calling you to something. He will work it all out. And if he doesn't, that's OK, too. You tried to make the world a better place. It's hard to be upset about that.
"We eventually felt like God was saying "more, more, I want more. I want your whole life to be spent for these children," says Chris. "The rest, as they say, is history. I became Mercy Project's first and only employee in September of 2010, when we launched the ministry full time."
Mercy Project's first major victory came in September when Chris and his team rescued 24 children in the fishing village of Adovepke.
"To walk out of that village with those precious children, and to know that they were now free, and could be kids again was a more incredible feeling than I could ever describe," Chris says.
And even more to do
But Mercy Project is not stopping there.
"Our hope is to become better and better at what we do," Chris says. "Our plans are to rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate every trafficked child in Ghana. It's a huge job, but we serve the God who created the world. My wife and I are actually adopting one of the 24 kids we rescued this past September. His name is Famous (yes, Famous Field!), and he will be here in May."
Famous was the only orphan of the 24 rescued children; the other children returned to their families. Famous will be joining the Field's 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.
The experience has left Chris with a desire to encourage others to "chase God's dreams."
"Don't be scared to say 'yes' if God is calling you to something. He will work it all out," Chris says. "And if he doesn't, that's OK, too. You tried to make the world a better place. It's hard to be upset about that."
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Rest easy, Stone Temple Pilots fans. Scott Weiland is a free man.
In fact, he always was!
Published reports suggesting the musician, 46, had been arrested in July for alleged burglary and drug possession turned out to be false this week. The man behind bars is actually a Scott Weiland impersonator – though it took Beverly Hills Police a full month to realize it.
It all started July 26, when the man was arrested following an alleged burglary at a Rite Aid in Beverly Hills and was later allegedly found with meth.
"He gave the name [Scott Weiland] when he was booked," Beverly Hills Police Department spokesman Sgt. Max Subin tells PEOPLE. "He gave the same date of birth. He had no ID on him, and he had no money on him as well."
But it wasn't until this Thursday that police discovered, through an FBI fingerprint check, that the man was not Weiland. Authorities have identified him as Jason Michael Hurley, 44.
"We made an error by not realizing that it was not Scott Weiland prior to sending out the press release … We checked our records and realized there was an error," says Subin, who adds that officers on the scene noted that the suspect bore "a strong resemblance" to Weiland.
That snafu coincided with a video that Weiland posted to Facebook, showing he was very much not in prison.
"I just got done reading something very interesting … saying that I was in jail and have been for … months," he said. "I've actually been touring, writing and recording my new album. This is the studio we're in right now. A Los Angeles studio. So, all I have to say to our fans is – whether you found it funny or interesting, or whether you were sad – don't worry, don't fret, it's a lie."
Hurley, meanwhile, has been charged with petty theft, second-degree commercial burglary, possession of a smoking device, resisting arrest and damaging property in a jail.
Subin says Beverly Hills Police are planning to seek one more charge against him: providing false identification to a police officer.
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"Castagnatas" (chestnut festivals) are celebrated throughout Ticino in October. The Chestnut Festival in Ascona is one of the most popular ones. Here you will find the golden brown chestnut in a variety of preparations: roasted chestnuts, marmalade, honey, fancy cakes, and ice cream, among other delicacies.
Take a stroll, accompanied by music, past the market booths and you will discover many other local culinary delights as well as arts and crafts.


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NAIROBI, 19 October 2011 – Resource efficient and cleaner production is a core building block for a Green Economy and Green Industry for achieving green growth, and for the preparatory process for the Rio+20 summit and the climate technology mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
This was stated in a declaration adopted today by participants at the Second Global Network on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) that ended in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The declaration pointed to the critical importance of manufacturing in generating incomes and employment in developing and transition countries as a lasting solution to alleviate poverty, address emerging water and other natural resource scarcities and improve the quality of life. It stressed the need to improve resource productivity and environmental performance of businesses and other organizations to achieve low carbon, resource efficient and green industrialization.
Participants commended the leadership and achievements of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in promoting the adaptation and adoption of RECP concepts, methods, policies and techniques in over 50 developing and transition countries, including through their support for the creation of the RECP net.
"UNIDO recognizes that the Green Industry agenda intersects with other mandates. Green Industry is an essential part of Green Economy, offering a path to green growth and green jobs," said UNIDO Managing Director, Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division, Dmitri Piskounov, who participated in the Nairobi meeting.
The RECP net brings together 41 initiatives based in developing and transition countries that have as their core activity the promotion and implementation of RECP concepts, methods, policies and techniques in manufacturing and related economic sectors. It was established in 2010 with the support of a joint UNIDO-UNEP programme on RECP in developing and transition countries. UNIDO and UNEP collaborate since 1994 in promoting cleaner production and resource efficiency, in particular through support for the establishment of National Cleaner Production Centres and Programmes.
UNIDO is preparing for a Global Green Industry Action Agenda to be launched at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil in June 2012. This would reflect growing consensus that Green Industry is good for business and development at large. Resource productivity, water scarcity, climate change, job creation all stand to benefit from joint Green Industry actions.
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Apr 23, 2012 | In The Community
The first Savings Superhero swooped into our Ontario branch on Friday, April 6th to show off his super savings costume! Also known as Jonathan N., this 10-year old is a regular savings depositor at SCE FCU. He flew in that day with his parents, Raul and Elaine, to show them how it's done. As you can see by his picture, our masked avenger has money on his mind – which is why he chooses to save it in a Youth Super Saver account at the Credit Union. Jonathan's savings habits and his costume are helping him get lots of entries in our Savings Superhero Raffle Contest!


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Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
Join us Sunday for "That Which Transcends Me: A Tapestry of Faith."
Continuing with our Tapestry of Faith series, three of our members/friends will share their individual perspectives on 'That Which Transcends Me." It is bound to be inspiring to all who are seekers. The UUCM Choir will sing. Service, childcare and religious education at 11 a.m. We are located at 246 Church St. in Grass Valley.
For more information, call (530) 274-1675 or visit www.uugrassvalley.org.
Holy Wisdom, Nevada City
The Orthodox Church is premodern, since the modern world has not served up a wide array of dependable answers. Looking for beauty? Looking for a life that can give some degree of stability and peace, while helping you face the realities of the world around them? Come home to Orthodoxy!
Divine Liturgy: Sundays 9:30 a.m.
Vespers: Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call (530) 265-4714 or visit www.holywisdomnevadacity.org.
First Baptist Church of Nevada City
On Sunday during the 10:30 am worship service, a pulpit guest, Rev. David Rowe, will be preaching on "Hope that Endures" from Jeremiah 29:10-14 and Romans 15:13. This historic church's 10:30 am service offers a blend of familiar hymns and up-to-date praise choruses. You are -welcome! First Baptist is your friendly, spiritual home in the Sierra, at 300 Main St. across from the Nevada County Courthouse.
Call (530) 265-4711 or visit www.fbcnevadacity.org for more information.
Pray Nevada County
We are seeking God on behalf of our communities. Open to all for Christian prayer, Pray Nevada County meets each Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. to pray for our county governments and services, schools and families, businesses and media, and churches and parachurch ministries. Since August 1997, 15 to 25 people from eight to 12 congregations have met each week to pray for our communities. In the month of November, we will be meeting at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Church Street, Grass Valley.
For more information or directions, call the scheduling secretary at (530) 432-0458 or Sierra Ministries International at (530) 478-1478.
Grass Valley AM AGLOW
We are a local chapter of Aglow International, meets the second Tuesday of every month from 9:45 a.m. to noon at 336 Crown Point Circle, Grass Valley. Aglow is a wonderful opportunity for unity in the Body of Christ and is not "just for women" anymore! Take Brunswick Road to Whispering Pines Lane, left on Crown Point Circle and then right @ Nevada County Board of Realtors.
Baby-sitting off site is available by making reservations in advance with Jamie Bartsch at (530) 272-6056.
The Healing Rooms of Nevada County
We pray for healing of body and spirit. Everyone is welcome whether they attend church or not. Come to the Main Lobby of the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, 155 Glasson Way, Grass Valley on Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. There is no fee and no appointment is necessary. Also, Tuesday mornings from 9 to 11:30 a.m. healing ministry is available by appointment only.
For more information call (530) 478-1478 or visit http://www.healingroomsnc.com.
The Palestine-Israel Working Group of Nevada County (PIWG)
We advocate for human rights, equality and justice for all in Palestine and Israel. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Peace Center of Nevada County, 216 B Main Street, Nevada City. PIWG sponsors the Women and Men in Black vigil Thursdays, 5:15 to 6 p.m. on the Broad Street bridge in Nevada City. We vigil to in support of the Women in Black in Israel, who founded the movement in 1988. All who support human rights and justice for all in Palestine and Israel are welcome to join the vigil. Bring a sign or use one of ours.
Sierra Center for Spiritual Living
Come celebrate with us and the Rev. Lani Howard. Her inspirational talk is titled "Evolving Always." Enjoy the uplifting music of Gracie MacKenzie and friends at both the 9:30 and 11a.m. services.
Our Youth Ministry is held at 11 a.m. We are an interfaith community committed to awakening humanity to its spiritual magnificence and our vision is "Celebrating Our Oneness In Spirit." We are at 119 Florence Avenue in Grass Valley.
For more information or for a parking map, visit www.sierracenter.org or call (530) 274-1018.
Twin Cities Church
Join Sunday us as we continue our series "40 Days in the Word: Read for Life." The message this week is "Understanding How The Bible Speaks To My Life." Twin Cities Church meets Sundays at 8, 9:35, and 11:15 a.m. at 11726 Rough & Ready Highway. Children (birth through fifth grade) meet during every Sunday morning service. Senior High Students meet at 9:35 a.m. and Junior High Students meet at 11:15 a.m. in the East Multi Purpose Room. You can listen to a past service on KNCO 830AM, from 7 to 7:30 on Sunday mornings.
For more information call (530) 273-6425 or visit the website at www.twincitieschurch.com.
Unity in the Gold Country
Please join us this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. when licensed Unity teacher, Patricia Haller, shares her talk, "Let's Celebrate Life!" Music by Brenda Boston and Jack Wallace. "The Way of Mastery" group meets each Monday evening at 7 p.m. Ho'oponopono meditation each Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Men's and Women's groups meet each Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. ACIM meets each Thursday at 7 p.m. We are located at 180 Cambridge Ct., Grass Valley, opposite Peaceful Valley Farm Supply.
Unity in the Gold Country Spiritual Center is a spiritual community dedicated to expanding consciousness, promising to love and serve all, with enthusiasm, joy and playfulness!
Nevada City United Methodist Church
Join us this last Sunday of the season of Pentecost at the 9 a.m. Traditional or the 10:30 a.m. Contemporary worship service. Pastor Charles Smith will deliver the message at both services. The Gospel reading is from John 18:33-37. Jr. and Sr. High Youth Bible Study takes place at 10 a.m. in our Joseph Room. Children's Sunday School is at 10:30 a.m. during the contemporary service with loving childcare all morning. Fellowship follows both services downstairs in the Fellowship Hall. You can go to Comcast Channel 11 on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. or Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. to view one of our services, or visit our web page at nevadacitymethodist.com.
Mountain Stream Meditation Center
Our Buddhist Insight Meditation group meets Mondays, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Wild Mountain Yoga Center, 574 Searls Ave., Nevada City. On November 26, Mountain Stream teacher Heather Sundberg will lead a period of silent meditation followed by a talk. Mountain Stream can also be found on Facebook.
For more information visit www.mtstream.org or call (530) 272-6425.
Sierra Pines United Methodist Church
Please join us on Sunday, November 25 with our Pastor Alison Berry! Youth Group on Sunday at 4 p.m. Adult Study: Teresa Avila, on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. United Methodist Women: Second Wednesday monthly at 10:30 a.m.
United Methodist Men: First Saturday monthly at 8 a.m. We continue to host Hospitality House on Tuesdays to assist the Homeless. Our contemporary service is at 9 and our traditional service is at 10:30 a.m. Junior High and High School Ages Youth Groups are Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. Sierra Pines United Methodist Church is located at 22559 Hacienda Drive in Grass Valley (near Lake of the Pines). "Hilltop Kids" Sunday School at 9 a.m.
For more information telephone the Church Office at (530) 268-6907 and visit our website at www.sierrapinesumc.org.
Metaphysical discussion group
Come share your thoughts, bring your joy and meet like-minded new friends.
For information, call Lee Ann at (530) 272-2945.
Brother, can you spare an ... hour?
A group of local men meets from 6 to 7 a.m. Thursdays at Penny's Diner for breakfast. Under the banner of "Christian Business Men's Committee," we have breakfast, read a portion of scripture, share what God has done in our life and pray. As a welcome break between weekends, these men encourage each other as they wish to encourage you in these trying times.
Penny's Diner is located at 2072 Nevada City Highway in the B&C Fowler Center in Grass Valley.
EarthSpirit Center for the Transformational Arts
Rev. Dr. Nanci Shanderá hosts a Women's Transformational Healing Group held weekly; new Eldership Training for women over 50 starting in January; email for information. Spiritual counseling for women. Visit our website for other events at www.EarthSpiritCenter.com or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hope Bearers
We are a Christian cancer support group that meets at Foothill Church. Those with serious chronic illnesses, including cancer, and their care givers are encouraged to come and share in a safe environment concerning this difficult time. Family, friends and caregivers are all welcome. Meetings are 6 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of every month. Located at 14600 State Highway 49, Grass Valley.
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The study was spearheaded by Markitects, Inc., an independent marketing service and research firm from June-August 2005 and sponsored by Comcast Foundation. The online survey and personal interviews focused on 90 professional women in a leadership capacity and sought to determine when, how and why they participate in non-profit and community-based endeavors.
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The study pinpoints the benefits of volunteerism for women as well as ways in which the corporate community can leverage volunteerism for everyone's benefit.
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Findings show that volunteerism is one of the richest education and career development tools for professional women. The study participants were involved in more than one organization and sited specific reasons for volunteering including a desire to "give back," a personal or family tragedy, or a tradition of leading by example for the next generation.
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LISBON - Two Negley women accused of beating a Poland woman in July pleaded no contest to persistent disorderly conduct Monday in Columbiana County Municipal Court.
Lakia R. McDevitt, 22, Stateline Road, Negley, and Susan Bish, 22, state Route 170, Negley, were each charged with assault, but agreed to plead no contest to the amended charge.
A charge of complicity to assault against Susan Bish's mother, Peggy Bish, 52, state Route 170, Negley, was dismissed.
Assistant County Prosecutor Megan Forsythe cited potential evidentiary issues in proving the charge as her reason for dismissing the charge.
The mother of Breanna Minniti, the victim in the case, spoke both during Peggy Bish's hearing and the hearing for McDevitt. According to court documents, Peggy Bish was accused of taunting Minniti and then cheered the other two young women on as the assault occurred.
"This woman is a parent," she said of Peggy Bish. "She wouldn't want this to happen to her kids."
According to court documents, the two friends, Susan Bish and McDevitt, teamed up against Bish's brother's ex-girlfriend, Minniti.
A sheriff's reports from the assault stated Minniti and her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Fereana, had decided to go canoeing together and he had driven her to his mother's home where the two women pulled Minniti from the truck by her hair.
Court documents state they attacked Minniti by punching and kicking her in the head, pulling her hair, biting her and throwing her to the ground. Minniti, who was 18 at the time, was treated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for head trauma, facial contusion, neck contusion, a left ankle sprain and a human bite.
"I just can't believe the conduct of people," Minniti's mother stated, "But it's how they were raised, that they would attack someone like an animal."
Although their clients both agreed to plead no contest, the attorneys of the women seemed to somewhat question the story. Bruce Williams, the attorney for Susan Bish, said although he understood his client's wish was not to fight the charge any further for financial reasons, he urged her to continue on and proceed to trial on the charge.
Forsythe seemed to agree there may be more to the story, but that Minniti was injured in the situation.
"There are three sides to every story," Forsythe noted, "each person's side and the truth."
While Forsythe stated she could not condone anyone's actions on that day, she called the situation a "melee."
Judge Mark Frost sentenced Susan Bish and McDevitt to 30 hours community service and a $200 fine each. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended. Both were ordered to attend anger management counseling and to have no further contact with Minniti. Frost further urged the women to convince their friends not to get involved in hassling Minniti either.
"These things sometimes turn into feuds," Frost noted. "They sometimes don't end. This thing ends here, regardless of what happened."


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Menace II society is a gangsta movie
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great fuckin movie. Larenz Tate should have definitely won an Oscar for his crazy role as O'Dog in this urban gangster flick. 1 of the best and easily 1 of the most underrated movies ever made.
Menace II Society owns..got it on DVD!!
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The best movie about the ghetto ever made. Caine is a true g
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de kw 30 Noiembrie 2003
The best hood movie ever made. It is about a young african american man named Caine, who lives in Watts, California and is surrounded by drugs, gangs, and crime. starring Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Jada Pinkett, Samuel L. Jackson, and MC Eiht.
If you ain't seen Menace II Society, then you ain't black.
de 64impala 23 Martie 2008
The greatest movie made about gang life. Better than Boyz N The Hood. Caine got fucked up in a drive-by at the end.
"I knew I was gonna have to deal with that fool someday. Damn! I never thought he'd come back like this, blasting. Like I said, it was funny like that in the hood sometimes. I mean you never knew what was gonna happen or when." -Caine, A Real G
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A snooder is when you get head from a girl on her knees and then blow a snot rocket in her hair.
Joe had this broad backstage and busted a total snooder. It was all in her feathered Jersey-bangs. So hot.
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The act of pouring liquor into bottom, underside part of a shot glass and snorting it.
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49ers got extra third-down play
San Francisco beats Green Bay 34-28
The San Francisco 49ers got an extra third-down play in the first half because of an officiating error - and scored a touchdown on it.
After a third-and-6 play at the Green Bay 10-yard line in the second quarter, Colin Kaepernick was hit out of bounds by Clay Matthews. The Green Bay linebacker drew a personal foul penalty, but so did 49ers tackle Joe Staley for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Because both penalties came after the play ended with Kaepernick stepping out of bounds without gaining a first down, it should have become fourth down. The league said the penalties were dead-ball fouls and the ball should have been spotted at the Packers 6, making it fourth-and-2.
However, game officials gave the 49ers another third-and-6 play, and they scored a touchdown on Kaepernick's 10-yard pass to Anquan Boldin.
Had it been correctly marked as fourth down, they likely would have kicked a field goal. Instead, the Niners went ahead 14-7. San Francisco won 34-28.
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo - Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
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"Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant." (Gore Vidal)
"Magical Mystery Tour"
Less a book than a series of prose-like poems, where language seems a magical tool that paints landscapes and cityscapes not confined by just what is known or possible. The words flow through your mind and spark the imagination, leading the listener on a guided imagery trip through worlds that seem suspended in another dimension and time. It is like a fabulous dessert -- it needs to be experienced, savored, and languished over. Originally published in 1972 with a cover that depicted a city of stone towers that rise from a large floating rock above an ocean; a picture that teased and hinted at what was inside (I still own my original dog-eared copy). There is no plot -- but plot seems irrelevant as you listen to Marco Polo conjure up cities that float between webs, joyous carnival cities, serious cities where no one makes eye contact or speaks, cities that you won't be returning to, "this is a city just for leaving," all to entertain the aging Kublai Khan. He creates his own cities that might dwell in his empire, asking Polo if he has seen these in his travels. You ponder the meaning of the words as they are used in this game between the two men, as well as the structure of the cities and their purpose. Reading this was wonderful; listening is another experience altogether. Close your eyes and experience a journey. Very short, just over 2 hours; something I will leave on my ipod and listen to again, like a beautiful and creative guided meditation.
"Lavish language!"
This is an outstanding book and performance. The language is so rich that I listened to certain portions more than once since it was hard to take everything in on the first pass.
Mountain biking, surfing, skiing, literature, philosophy, psychology, theology and my ipod.
"Falling down the Rabbit Hole"
Having just read Invisible Cities by Calvino today, just about everything is at least swirling in newness of possibilities, like Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, or Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels.
I'm still in the rabbit hole, and don't know what I may have been smoking.
The story is of tales of cities visited by Marco Polo, as told to Kublai Khan. Sounds simple, but we realize that Marco Polo is the experiential adventurer in the world, while Kublai Khan is the intellectual summarizer of Marco Polo's experiences. Well, even that is up for grabs in the end, as who has the handle on reality--the adventurer or the intllectual?
At one point, Kublai Khan has reduced everything to nothing more than a chess game, black versus white, but in so doing, he looses all meaning. Then there is Marco Polo who has many adventures to report, but are they real, or just strung together experiences of illusion?
These philosophical positions are not new, but the experience of them is in the way that I like to be challenged by the new.
"A fantastical journey"
Told through a conversation between Kuala Kahn and Marco Polo of Polos journeys and the lands he discovered both real and imaginary.
John Lee as always does a fine job with the narration of this beautifully disruptive world.
It is a story of life and death of Heaven and hell.
Highly recommend to those who have read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and the Devine Comedy by Dante.
Didn't liked it. It has no narrative, no point, no real subject. I prefer other works by the author.
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Fourth Generation Antiques
Denise Khalil, owner of Fourth Generation Antiques in Pasadena, CA, is a fourth-generation dealer with a reputation for pieces of exceptional quality at competitive prices. Denise specializes in European antique furnishing, fine lighting, silver and decorative arts. The Collector Magazine called her the hottest dealer in Pasadena, as featured on the cover of January 2012 .


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How the IPO Decline Hurts Startup Acquisitions
Fifteen years ago, exits for venture-backed companies were split about equally between IPOs and acquisitions. Now IPOs make up roughly 10% of exits, and acquisitions dominate the dreams of investors and company founders.
Investment banker Paul Deninger warns that the IPO decline isn't happening in a vacuum. It's hurting acquisitions too.
"Who are you going to sell to if there's no one out there that's public?" said Deninger, the senior managing director of Evercore, an investment banking and advisory firm. "We need to repopulate the buyer base."
The decade-plus downturn in IPOs—which have settled at about 50 per year, while acquisitions have settled at about 500 per year – can't help but take its toll, Deninger said. "There are 1,000 companies that aren't buyers today that would have been ten years ago," he said.
The IPO decline has happened for many reasons, including a landscape that's not as friendly to small-cap IPOs, said Deninger, who made his remarks as part of a panel on exits at this week's SuperReturn conference in San Francisco.
"In the early 1990s, the mantra was,"$5 million a quarter, cash-flow break-even," for companies wishing to go public, he said. "It's really hard to do that now."
Deninger also said that the big buyers out there, like IBM, are twice as big as they were during the IPO heyday, so buying a $50 million company is "not as interesting to them."
Even if a company is in position to go public, venture syndicates present a particular problem. David Welsh, partner at fund of funds Adams Street Partners and another conference panelist, said early venture investors and later-stage backers rarely have similar agendas. More-recent investors usually had to pay more to grab a piece of the company, so they're more likely to seek the bigger payday of an IPO to justify their initial investment.
"For earlier investors, [a smaller acquisition exit] could be significantly impactful for their fund," he said, since funds nearing the end of their life cycle have intense pressure to produce returns for limited partners.
Of course, company founders get a say in the matter—and a founder pushing for an acquisition is sending a message that venture investors should pay attention to.
"You never want to stand between an entrepreneur and the door," said Kate Mitchell, partner at Scale Venture Partners. "When they want to sell or when they are [wary] of the competition, you really need to listen."
Assuming entrepreneurs are ready to hang on for the long haul, one way to keep them on board is through secondary stock transactions that allow them to "take some money off the table" and continue running the company. Mitchell said such deals were important for her portfolio companies ExactTarget and Ominiture, both of which went public.
"They got some of that early money, kind of released that pressure, because you're asking them to go from a sprint to a marathon," she said, noting that Omniture, for example, received multiple acquisition offers in the $300 million-$400 million range after its founding in 1996, before going public in 2006 and then being acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion in 2009. "It gives them a chance to get college funds going, get houses paid for."
In the end, the decision of when and how to exit is tougher for venture-backed companies than it is for private-equity-backed companies, in which individual firms have a controlling stake, Deninger said.
"If you're dealing with a private equity firm, you're making one phone call," he said. "If it's VCs, you've got the board, you've got the VCs' friends, you've got outside board members, you've got law firms."
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Guidelines To Attend The Job Interview
As the present market situation is becoming worse, it is hard to find a job. Many individuals are kicked out of their companies because of the recession. As most of the companies are cutting down the employment, it has become hard to get into the companies. The competition for the employment is also becoming harder these days. So you must be prepared well and make a good impression during the job interview. Therefore, it is very important to pass the job interview.
It is necessary before you attend an interview. Many people are facing problems as they attend the interview. Even though they distinguish the answers for the questions that are asked in the interview, majority of them cannot pass it. This is because they will get panic during the interview process. You should also know some of the interview principals before you face a job interview.
If you are looking for a job, it is significant that you should know about the work profile. You should also know about the company that you are applying to work. This is because; most of the people who do the interview will check your knowledge by questioning you about their company. You should make the right job interview preparations before you face the interview. If you are looking for an option to know more about the job interview guidelines, internet is the finest option for you. There are many sites that is available on the net, that will offer you more information on the job interview.
The skills that are stated in these portals are suggested by the experienced professionals. They have researched and found the problems that most of the new comers will face during the interviews. As they are new to face an interview, majority of them will be confused and they may not be able to answer the questions that are questioned in the interview. You should be able to answer any kind of question that will be asked in the interview. Attending interview is an opportunity to prove yourself and your talents. Here you should show what you are able of offering to the prospective employers.
It is essential to follow some of the simple steps to pass your interview. As we have mentioned above knowing much about the company is more important while you face an interview. You should also make sure that you are reaching the venue at least 10 – 15 minutes earlier. Your look is also essential that you must lookout when you attend an interview. Your ability and body language also play an important part in the job interview process. The way you present yourself, the way you walk, your fashion sense all will assist the interviewer to understand more about you. These simple tips can make a great difference in the interview.
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What you say when somebody asks you "what's up" in a room. Usually said to piss someone off.
"Hey man, what's up"
"WTF? you suck shit man!"
"WTF? you suck shit man!"
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an entry point to a room for those...of special intelligence, or of great altitude and velocity.
dude...the Retard just "dropped" in...through the ceiling!
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What your wife is contemplating changing the color of while you have sex with her.
Becky considered 7 possible color changes to the ceiling during the 42 seconds that her husband spent "making love" to her.
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He proposed putting a 3 hour ceiling on gaming time.
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