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Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
The Padres called, the Cubs said they're interested, and it's a possibility.
According to a West Coast source, the Cubs are the
Padres' best option for a trade partner if for no other reason than
they're not the Dodgers, who are Peavy's first choice, and they're not
the Braves, who at this point are saying they won't deal their best
That's the latest from Barry Rozner of The Daily Herald and I'd probably put a lot more stock into it if it was from Bruce Miles, but it should make the offseason rather interesting. Rozner doesn't believe the Cubs have the pitching prospects that the Padres are looking for, and if you consider Jeff Samardzija and Carlos Marmol as untouchable, I'd have to agree. He then goes batshit crazy by suggesting Sean Marshall and Felix Pie to the Padres and then dumping Jason Marquis and another prospect or two to a third team that would land the Padres the elite pitching prospect that they so crave.
While I agree that dumping the bulk of Jason Marquis' contract for next year would be crucial in trying to acquire Peavy and resigning Ryan Dempster, there will be no good player being exchanged for Jason Marquis and the near $10M he's owed.
Aramis Ramirez voted most outstanding offensive player in NL
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The title of that article should be changed to:
"Cubs Fans No.1 in Internet Use"
Re: Aramis Ramirez voted most outstanding offensive player in NL
Do you think it took longer to tell him he had won or to convince him that something called the Hank Aaron Award actually exists?
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Dude, F Ryan Dempster. if we got Peavy we would have:
Good enough.
Save our money for MARK TEIXEIRA!!!!!
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
i totally get it. But it would be a lot on unnecessary money. he may give a real hometown discount but i think he'll get some really good offers. so, we'll see.
Even Z, Harden, Demptser, Lilly is pretty good
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Anyone else thought of maybe including Harden as the main piece in a Peavy deal? The Pads pitching will take a major hitby dealing their ace, so Harden could help them there. His $7M would be a lot more affordable than Peavy's money.
From a Cub perspective it makes sense to resign Dempster and use Harden as a trade chip than to get Peavy otherwise and let Dempster go for nothing because we have too much $ invested in the rotation. Additionally, maybe you don't want Harden and Peavy on the same staff with their injury histories.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
F that.
I'm dreaming big and
Is the best rotation in baseball
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
peavy 09...it's the new b.roberts 08...sweet.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
According to ESPN 1000 Sutcliffe interested in Cubs job.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Thanks, Sutcliffe. Job's not even open yet.
Macha may be the frontrunner:
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
The report did say if Brenly left.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
I'm glad Sutcliffe is interested in a Cubs job but until Dempster goes elsewhere I just don't see an opening for the slow working and heavy sweating righty.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
When I first heard this a few weeks ago, I was quite stoked. The more I think about Peavy on the Cubs, the more I question the wisdom.
- big money commitment for several years
- coughing up top prospects for the privilege
- not realistically being able to expect anything better than a SP with an ERA in the mid 3s, which is good but not elite
- another damn NTC and possibly demands for an extension
- losing the luxury of having one of my best fantasy keeper league pitchers leaving Petco
Once you consider all the factors, is he worth all the money? My vote comes down to, "Depends on the prospects we have to give."
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Well, allow me to retort:
Although the Pads keep saying nothing's for sure, it seems pretty likely Peavy's gonna get traded, to the Dodgers if nothing else. So you're gonna lose the fantasy edge, I'm afraid.
I understand it's big money, a NTC, but this is Jake Peavy we're talking about. He had a down year last year, but he's entering his prime (okay, entered) and he's relatively cheap for what he could bring. A low-to-mid 3.00s ERA these days is Cy-Young-discussion-worthy.
And I don't know about you but I haven't seen any studs in our minor leagues in a while. Unless we're trading Soto, Marmol, and Ceda, this is a guy you sell the farm for.
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That last point was meant as a joke(ish).
His career ERA outside of Petco is 3.85(ish). If that's what you get, is it worth all those years, all that money, a NTC and giving up young guys to boot? I'm not definitely saying it's NOT worth it, I'm just wondering if the name draw may cloud some judgment on what this guy is really worth.
If the Cubs acquire him without coughing up Marmol or Soto I figure I'll be OK with it, but I honestly don't expect he'd win a Cy pitching at Wrigley is all.
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I'm not buying the idea that his era will balloon to well over 3.5 just because he'll be in a less pitcher friendly park.
His career era at Wrigley is 2.91. Granted it's only 6 starts but still.
Maybe he just likes to pitch at home more than on the road.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
What Rozner doesn't say is that his "west coast source" is his brother in-law in Orange County, CA.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
No, this is playing with hearts: http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/75593
A. Gonzales + Peavy to Cubs for what I'm assuming is everything in the entire universe. If this is possible who needs Teixeira?*
*i'm going with completely impossible unfounded rumor
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Yeah 3/44 and all that. Or should we go 4/100 for this offseason?
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
inflation isn't that bad...yet.
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blah. i had a friend from florida up from thursday-sunday this past weekend for the PSU game, so I've been out of the loop
Re: Not a direct quote but
how in the hell does one "move" k-fuk?
it seems pretty much impossible unless the team takes on some other team's payroll crap...and if the cubs are taking on someone's payroll crap what's to be done about RF and what payroll is gonna cover it? there's no RF in the system that's starter quality unless they want dero in RF.
i mean, it can be done...but the logistics of it seem like a nightmare. i couldn't imagine trying to "sell" k-fuk's 2 years left to anyone after looking so damn lost with his flunky swing on the inside and doing nothing much with the stuff over the outside.
...and when did lou clue into soriano not being a consistant leadoff hitter? buy the guy a pack of bubblegum cards.
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ah, that was the reporter musing.
oh well...as long as the #7/8 hitters are .300 hitters it shouldn't hurt too much.
it's nice to have a true power hitter in the #1 slot and it's a luxury you can have with 3-4 guys in the middle with 20+HR power (and doubles), but damn he's a hell of a power hitter who's best speed game took a back seat to his power hitting a few leg injuries ago.
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soriano is just a lot more timid and he doesn't take the leads he used to.
that said, theriot's lead shunk a ton, too, as the year went on.
coaching philosophy or personal...i dunno.
im not saying soriano isn't capable of 20-30sb, but i'm not really impressed by that compared to what he can do with his bat power. he'll still get a chance to steal...and some rbis to go with the doubles/homers.
btw, soriano batting 1st really doesn't bug me that much, though it'd be one of the first changes i'd make on the team as-given on the crunch-is-in-charge-fantasy-planet-o-coolness. as long as there's 4 guys in the middle who can hit 20-30+ homers with some doubles i don't consider it a huge issue no matter how much i hate it.
Re: Not a direct quote but
he was talking about moving k-fuk to centerfield platoon with Reed . . . not trading him.
Just a poorly constructed sentence by the reporter.
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that makes a lot more sense.
his arm is nice in RF, but could be deadly in CF if he can keep his accuracy.
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"We need to get more athletic"
Fuck that!
That's shit we didn't take from Dusty why should we take from Lou.
Soriano is athletic, Fukudome is athletic, get some goddamn ball players with a brain between their ears would be better.
Pitchers getting 0-2 counts and working it full because they nibble, clowns sliding into first base, not getting sure and no situation hitting.
Having a bad day, but cut that shit and get some baseball players.
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and Peavy!
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I like the option of moving Fukudome to center and keeping Reed Johnson. Since we need a lefthanded hitter it's best that we are not limited to center but have both center and right open. (Not to mention short and second.)
Also, I want to go on record of being 100% against resigning Dempster and 100% for resigning Wood.
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Moving Fukudome to CF is probably necessary, but then we need to get someone with power to replace him in right.
This year, Edmonds was probably one of the most valuable players on the team because he provided the pop that should have been coming from RF. Without that power in the lineup next year, we're basically doing what we did in 2005 by replacing DLee with Neifi (although on a smaller scale).
Re: Random Abreu talk
.296 .371 .471 120
would be alright but can he put that up again? He'll be 35 next march.
Re: Random Abreu talk
i didn't say younger.
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hendry's the GM
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just clarifying
Re: you're famous Chad
i rule!
Re: A scout's take on Marlins trade targets
"looked like he was getting ready for an A-ball game"
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" he looked like he was getting ready for an A-ball game. "
If he was playing in FL same it would be same size crowd as an A ball game.
werld surries
i can't believe they're playing for this long in these conditions.
that's some miserable stuff with a pathetic playing field condition.
wonder who's calling the shots for delays...it sure as hell isn't the umps.
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They just went into rain delay. Radar is just saying bascially no baseball the rest of tonight and likely tomorrow according to the forecast.
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Historians will remember as the Steroid Era gave way to the Tie Era.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Heh... line of the day, from BCB:
[DeRosa's] increased HR and BB totals account for the difference in OBA and SLG.
That, my friends, is called brilliant analysis. Who would have thought that an increase in HR and BB would increase OBA and SLUG?
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I also heard that in the same amount of at bats, he had less hits. I think that's why he had a lower batting average.
Not to mention that his increase in oba and slg might be the reason why his OPS went up.
I'm not into sabrestats so i'll have to consult my bill james handbook.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
yeah those sabrestats are good at poking holes at the arguments of numbers people.
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Very interesting article on the idea of stretching out Marmol to be a starter. Similiar approach to what the Yanks did with Chamberlain. Point being that his cheap years of being under club control are being burned while he is a set up guy, better bang for your buck if he is a front end starter. Most relievers became releivers because they could not cut it as a starter....Marmol has never been given a fair chance. Look at his numbers.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
I basically agree with this. I'm firmly in the camp that the Cubs should use their good prospects as relievers early in their careers rather than spending millions of dollars on guys like Howry, Eyre, Remlinger, Hawkins, etc.
Once the prospects cut their teeth in the bullpen, gradually stretch them out and put them in the rotation. Here's why:
1) You probably end up with a better bullpen since you're using good pitchers rather than guys who just couldn't cut it as starters
2) Your best prospects get to face major league hitters instead of minor league chumps
3) You might end up saving your best prospects' arms because theyre pitching fewer innings while still facing good hitters. Once they move up to the starting rotation they have less milage on their arms than if they were throwing 200 innings a year in the minors.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
The difference bewteen Joba and Marmol is Joba has 4 pitches and Marmol has 2.
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Actually, I think one of the biggest differences between Joba and Marmol is that one has been involved in a highly-publicized debate over whether he should be a starter or not, and the other has succeeded almost exclusively as a reliever and that role has been relatively unquestioned.
As a starter, Marmol threw a changeup and a curve in addition to his fastball and slider. The quality of these pitches can be debated, and, basically, I can't say how good they were. As a starter, Marmol's fastball and slider weren't nearly as good as they are now. Is that because of the limited workload or is it because he's had more time pitching? I don't know. Probably Marmol would not have nearly as much success as he's had as a reliever. His tendency to throw a lot of pitches and to throw the ball out of the zone quite a bit would probably hurt him.
I was very much in favor of giving Marmol a real chance as a starter at this time last year. I don't know what exactly has changed now, but I'm a little less optimistic, though I guess I wouldn't object a whole lot to him getting a shot. Then again, maybe it's his importance to our bullpen that makes me wonder whether the off chance that he turns into a top 3 starter is worth the sacrifice.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Marmol has already found his niche. He is eventually going to be this team's closer and he's going to be damn good at it.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
"He is eventually going to be this team's closer and he's going to be damn good at it."
I won't argue with you on that.
The niche part I'm not sure about, though it's possible. I'm not sure Marmol needs a "niche," but I do think he'll continue to be damn good as a reliever, and I really have very little idea what kind of starter he would be.
One more thing to add to the Joba-Marmol comparison.
The Yanks need Joba to start more than the Cubs need Marmol to--the yanks have a pretty rough rotation. The Cubs have a good one and a few starter candidates who won't even have a spot in it.
World Series Game 5 (suspended) tonight--->CANCELLED
TV ratings are down 25% over last year.
What a fucking debacle.
Re: World Series Game 5 (suspended) tonight--->CANCELLED
Ratings wise, it has been a debacle and the TV people probably blame the Cubs for that.
Re: World Series Game 5 (suspended) tonight--->CANCELLED
I blame Hendry.
Re: World Series Game 5 (suspended) tonight--->CANCELLED
My vote for the blame game is for Corey and Eric Patterson...
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Paul Sullivan speculates on the usual suspects who might join the Cubs, as well as Dunn and Fuentes.
Slow day for news. Griffey and Garret Anderson released. Caveman, anyone?
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Hah. I was just coming here to comment about Griff. He wouldn't be a bad platoon for RF. Another lefty off the bench.
I'm guessing he'll be overpriced due to past performance.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Griffey vs right-handers in 2008: .272 / .379 / .462.
Could be a good platoon with DeRosa, and he and Lou are supposed to be close. But would he accept a platoon? And an AL team gives him the opportunity to DH.
Sullivan Logic
Sullivan sez:
If Furcal came over, Ryan Theriot would move back to second and Mark DeRosa would become the regular right fielder.
And how does that make the Cubs a better-hitting team? Furcal is Theriot, only better; replacing last years' 2Bs with Theriot makes the Cubs a worse-hitting team. Probably better defensively, but replace Fukudome's defense with DeRosa's and it's probably less than a wash.
Re: Sullivan Logic
Defensively, Furcal is way better defensively at SS than Theriot. Comparing DeRosa to Fukudome's defense is a little misleading, since Fukudome absolutely won't be the starting day RFer.
But you meant a better-hitting team. The Cubs don't need to be a better-hitting team in that they need to score more runs per se. They need to be better-hitting in that the lineup needs more balance with left-handers and preferably needs more guys whose loopy swings aren't affected by the long layoffs that now come with playoff baseball.
Furcal does on a regular basis what Fukudome did for the Cubs' lineup early last year - except Rafael hits from both sides of the plate.
For the record, I'm not advocating Furcal simply on a cost-return basis, unless the payroll is going to $160 million or something like that. A starter, a pair of relievers and left-handed power in right field are much more pressing, IMO. If the money is there after all that, then yeah, go get him. Theriot becomes the utility guy he can aptly be and fills in when Furcal or DeRo goes down, so fills in for DeRo at 2B when Soriano, Ramirez or the right fielder goes down. (Sounds to me like quite a few ABs, actually.)
Re: Sullivan Logic
Well... basically it would be replacing Fukudome with Furcal.
You gain defense at SS, probably stay about the same at 2b, and lose defense in RF.
Re: Sullivan Logic
Actually you probably gain a bit at 2B as well; the knock on Theriot has always been more about his arm, which would be a non-issue throwing from closer to 1st.
And, thinking a bit more on this, if you consider the number of balls hit to SS/2B versus those hit to RF, it may not be a wash at all.
A Furcal/Theriot 1-2 punch at the top of the order would be an OBP machine, but can you imagine the number of DPs Lee hits into then?
Re: Sullivan Logic
Fukudome's career OBP is higher than Furcal's. In Furcal's last full year he had an OBP of .333 and an OPS+ of 76, may as well bring back Juan Pierre.
Also, Theriot hits into a ton of double plays.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
The Cubs projected Carlos Marmol as a reliever a year or two before they moved him from the starting rotation to the bullpen.
The Cubs discovered that when Marmol works out of the pen, he adds 3 MPH to his fastball when he doesn't have to pace himself, he can junk his below-average secondary stuff and use his slider more often, and he has much better control of his fastball and slider.
As long as he remains a Cub, Marmol will absolutely, positively NOT be moved to the starting rotation. His eventual future will be as the Cubs closer, although there is no rush unless the Cubs do not re-sign Kerry Wood. Marmol excels as a set-up guy because he's so good at stranding runners when he comes into a game with men on base.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Point taken on Marmol specifically, but I still think it's a smart idea to use your best pitching prospects as middle relievers until they develop and then gradually move them back to rotation starters.
Of course it's on a case by case basis, but there's just no reason to spend $5 million a year on guys like Howry, Linebrink, etc when you probably have options just as good in the minors for $440K.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
Not really a new idea, Doug. MLB clubs have been doing that very same thing for years and years now. Very few SP's start out in the rotation. Most of them really cut their teeth first in the bullpen.
Re: Barry Rozner Plays With the Hearts of Cubs Fans
I never claimed to be the first guy to come up with it, but it's a philosophy I think the Cubs should employ. It seems over the past few years they've been all too willing to sign guys like Howry, Eyre, Remlinger, Hawkins, etc rather than using young, cheap farmhands instead.
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
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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Running along the west bank of the Richelieu River, the Chambly Canal is nearly 20 kilometers long and links Chambly with Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Nine locks allow boats to bypass the many rapids and negotiate a change in height of nearly 24 meters between the Chambly basin and the Upper Richelieu.
Opened in 1843, this canal soon became a powerful driving force for the economy, allowing uninterrupted navigation between Lake Champlain and the Chambly basin. It was also part of the huge network of waterways in eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Located on the axis of the Richelieu and Hudson Rivers, the Chambly Canal, with the Saint-Ours and Champlain Canals, linked Sorel to New York.
All along the route, which is dotted with many of the original lockmasters' or bridge-operators' houses, you will be fascinated by the manual operation of all these locks, which are authentic replicas, and the bridges, which turn, slide or pivot. Imagine what it was like for our ancestors, whose only means of crossing the rapids was by portage or tow line, using a bark canoe!
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The Folly Beach that Lilla Folsom knows as a real estate agent overlaps – sort of – with the island she's familiar with as a local visitor walking in the sand.
"I think it will always be the most laid back of the beaches," she says. Her husband Foster Folsom surfed at Folly since the 1960s and still takes the board out every day, she says.
"It's for health, I guess," says Folsom, a Realtor with Carolina Elite Real Estate. "People out there are surfing, swimming, cycling. It's a really good experience. You don't get in air conditioning; just have a good time," she says.
From a real estate standpoint, Folsom notes that Folly Beach home "prices are going up." She's listing "a gorgeous home" along Teal Marsh Road in the town's sphere of influence but beyond the island's causeway.
Folsom also markets a house on East Erie Avenue that sports glass retaining walls in the front. "You hit a button; they open up to the outside. It's kind of a 'hip' home," she says. "It's not your grandfather's beach house."
As a town with a bustling business district, Folly Beach would really be too large to call a neighborhood. But the island shares distinctions that make it tight-knit. There's the landmark Folly Beach Pier, the Center Street nightlife, the off-the-ocean dwellings that rent cheaply co-existing with the million-dollar spectacles that grace the front beach. There's also the periodic battle against beach erosion that's brought two renourishment projects this year including fixing up the county park on the western end.
Despite ups and downs, Folly's real estate market seems to be active.
"Eighteen months ago, there was too much inventory," says Adam Killerman, who started his real estate career involved with Folly Beach properties and now lists homes for the island's Avocet Properties brokerage. "The pendulum's swinging. There's not as much inventory (now)."
Killerman says the island's proving attractive as a destination for visitors who drive five to six hours or less, and as a place to buy a home just 20 minutes from downtown Charleston.
"I think there are a number of factors (for the allure)," he says. "It's still a sleepy beach town." At the same time, "I've seen a wonderful transition in the commercial district." The oceanside community that rolled up the streets after the summer tourist season now showcases leisure businesses that stick around. "The restaurants, they have legs to get through the winter," he says.
Tides Hotel, owned by Avocet Properties, fronts the beach — which stretches more than six miles in Folly. "You've got more bed and breakfasts," he says.
Killerman currently lists at least 11 island properties, and they fit with the Folly's offbeat image. "Eclectic, we like to call it," he says.
"You've got such a great variety: "Some vacant lots (for sale), two duplexs, two second row, a third row house," Killerman says.
One agent who sees a more sluggish real estate picture as of late started in the business on Folly Beach in the 1970s.
"The market is very slow right now," says Lajuan Kennedy, broker-in-charge of Fred Holland Realty. She says the slowdown is partly seasonal: Fall and winter aren't big months for the business.
"We were doing well, for awhile," she says, citing an upward bump after the housing recession. But, "even the rentals slowed down" earlier this year.
Kennedy predicts the slowing pace will be short term. "I'm optimistic. There are great deals." You can buy a house costing $1.5 million during the height of the housing market in 2006 and 2007 for $1 million today, she says. "Right now, people are looking for a bargain."
Kennedy says the island has picked up steam as a destination place, for instance for weddings. "A lot of people have weddings on the beach."
The island may be moving upscale in some ways, but it won't lose it's down-to-earth charm, Kennedy says. "It's a funky little beach.We are not the Isle of Palms or Kiawah. We are Folly," she says.
Folsom agrees. "I think Folly will always have the little quirkiness," she says. "No one will ever call it stuffy."
To get to Folly Beach from downtown Charleston, access Lockwood Drive or Calhoun Street and turn onto the James Island connector. At the end of the connector, turn left on Folly Road. Proceed on Folly Road for about seven miles. Cross over the bridge onto Center Street and to the island.
Reach Jim Parker at 937-5542 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Avocet Properties real estate agency promotes Folly Beach on its outside wall (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
Folly Beach County Park stands at the western tip of the island (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
A beach renourishment project has helped bring back sand to the county park, which had been severely eroded from various storms (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
The 1105 E. Arctic Ave. house for sale (at right) accounts for one of the hundreds of homes along Folly Beach's six miles of sand (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
This unusual house at 212 E. Erie Ave. includes push button entrances that lift up like garage doors (Provided).×
Public access to the beach and Atlantic Ocean is provided in a number of spots on the island, including here off Arctic Avenue (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
Center Street represents the main drag to and from Folly Beach. The Tides Hotel is in the background (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
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when you pay someone (i.e. a hooker) to give you a blowjob with a condom on
Hooker: wat would you like tonight?
Jimbo: i'll have a glumkin
Jimbo: i'll have a glumkin
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When one recieves fellatio from a hooker whilst using a condom.
When your best friend gets a little too smashed and orders a blowjob from a hooker but decides to be safe and uses a condom. That is a glumkin.
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Amit - can u please EMBED THIS? else its makes no sense as a 'discussion'
@ Alok - Pls reply, Is it OK now ...
Good One Bhai........
Parameters of Economy has changed now..............Its not based only on Keynesian Theory of Demand and Supply, but also on mood. Which you rightly pointed out.
@ Gurpreet - Thanks...
Recession in the US was triggered by the sub prime crisis.
Smart bankers (for sake of bonuses?) found new customers (who had no hope of repaying) to lend to at higher interest rates. These loans were further re packaged and sold to other people/institutions around the world.
The price of the financial asset, which is the loan, depends on the prompt repayment by the loan holder or the underlying asset which is the house for which loan was given.
The loan holder did not repay because he did not have the ability or willingness to pay (maybe never had - but such loans were given due to poor controls). Since many people had taken loans and now did not bother to repay, banks started repossessing the asset (house) and put them up for resale.
As more houses flooded the market, the price of the houses went down. So the price of financial asset went. Since the financial world is interconnected, many companies got affected.
Since banks had to write down the NPAs, credit got squeezed and industries like automobile (which work on credit - who buys a car with full cash down?) stopped.
Automobile industry has a huge effect on the economy because a car requires so many ancillaries. So cars were not bought, employess in the fords and its ancillaries were laid off.
This led to a downward spiral that led to the recession.
Comments welcome.
@ Suresh Jayanthi - if you observe it's all ' State of Mind" effect....
The only true indicator of a good economy is HDI (Human Development Index).


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As plans move ahead to launch a second area code for the Lowcountry and Pee Dee regions, some elected officials are raising concerns about creating South Carolina's first overlaid area codes.
New area code timeline
A schedule for the roll-out of the new 854 area code was sent to state regulators in February by the North American Numbering Plan Administration, which oversees area code issues. Here's that schedule:
By Sept. 13, 2014, begin customer education and begin preparing networks for the overlay area code.
March 14, 2015, begin permissive 10-digit dialing. That means people in the 843 area code could dial an area code while making a local call, or not. It's a break-in period meant to get people used to dialing 10 digits.
Sept. 19, 2015, mandatory 10-digit dialing begins. All calls made by people who have the 843 area code will require dialing an area code.
Oct. 15, 2015, earliest date the new 854 area code will be activated.
The planned "overlay" means the region will have two area codes - 843 and 854 - and everyone in the region will have to dial at least 10 digits to make a phone call. It's an alternative to dividing the region and giving one-half a different area code, which would require people living there to change phone numbers.
The state's Public Service Commission unanimously approved the overlay plan in December and a timetable has been announced to implement it. Mandatory 10-digit dialing is scheduled to begin in September 2015.
Eugene Platt, a James Island Public Service District commissioner and former Green Party congressional candidate, thinks that splitting the 843 region would be preferable to the overlay. He has been urging state lawmakers to get involved and see if they can change the decision.
An overlay, Platt said in an email to state Rep. Peter McCoy Jr. and Sen. Paul Thurmond, "will not be better for thousands of your constituents who would prefer to dial just seven - rather than ten - digits to reach a neighbor, their church, their lawyer, local businesses, medical practices, or the James Island Public Service District."
McCoy replied that he was "completely shocked" to read about the overlay plan in The Post and Courier last month. The paper also reported on the area code plan in September and December.
"I will take this to the lawyers in Columbia and see what kind of creative solution we can come up with to make this easier for 843 customers," McCoy told Platt in an email.
McCoy said Thursday that he's still researching the issue, and there doesn't seem to be a groundswell of opposition to the overlay concept.
"Aside from my emails with Eugene, I've probably heard from maybe three people about it," he said.
The Public Service Commission had scheduled a hearing on the overlay plan in December but canceled it due to lack of opposition to the plan, which was favored by telecommunication companies.
"There didn't seem to be any opposition, so they issued their ruling," said Nanette Edwards, chief counsel for the S.C. Office of Regulatory Staff.
Edwards said no appeals were filed, and no complaints about the area code overlay have been received by the commission in the months since the ruling was made.
A manager with Neustar, which handles area code issues as the administrator for the North American Numbering Plan, said it's not surprising some people would object to having to dial 10 digits to make local calls.
"Local officials want to keep 7-digit dialing, and a split is fine (with them) so long at the other side gets the new area code," said Thomas Foley, senior manager, data analysis, for Neustar. Foley is one of three people in the nation who handles the planning of new area codes.
"Nobody needs to change their phone number with an overlay," Foley said.
He said lots of people don't realize that dialing more digits doesn't mean they'll be charged more for calls.
"We're still operating under the impression that (the overlay plan) is a done deal," Foley said.
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It's a shame it had to come to this, but hopefully it continues working. When I was in school at that age, we would never have thought about doing the things this generation does without any thought. I don't mind paying for this as long as it is working.
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USDA's High Estimated Corn Plantings Run Counter to Veteran Grain Marketing Analyst Opinion
USDA's High Estimated Corn Plantings Run Counter to Veteran Grain Marketing Analyst Opinion
Re-survey rumors indicate bad data; one-day market price reaction costs America's farmers $3 billion
Last week's USDA corn planting estimates are causing markets to move lower, but a grain industry analyst believes USDA's numbers are a pipe dream of sorts.
"It just doesn't make sense, I've got to wonder how USDA came up with an increase in acres from March planting intentions, when we've got big holes in production because of weather," says National Farmers Organization's Senior Grain Marketing Analyst, Pete Lorenz.
Lorenz says Friday's numbers were based on June 1 planting intentions, but since then he has spoken with producers in several key states who still cannot work their fields. "We've supposedly planted the highest number of corn acres since 1936—some 97.4 million acres, but given the spring we've had, I find that number incredibly high, and I'm not alone."
There is industry talk that 14 grain-producing states may be re-surveyed. "It cost American farmers $3 billion on the day the report was released alone," Lorenz says. If USDA suspects it doesn't have accurate numbers or the survey isn't really complete, releasing the report can cause real economic harm," Lorenz emphasizes.
Last Friday's USDA estimates increased planted corn acres in Arizona, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon, which are not big corn production states, relatively speaking. Lorenz says there were more planted acres washed out in Illinois, for example than total corn raised in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon, combined. "To grain industry professionals, it's humorous to mention those three states as report influencers," he says.
The report lowered planted acres estimates by 600,000 in Illinois and 200,000 in Iowa, compared to last year. But, Minnesota estimates are only 50,000 acres lower, compared to a year ago and Lorenz believes the figure should be reduced much more.
"Wisconsin wasn't mentioned at all, and the Badger state lagged the most in planting progress," Lorenz says. It's easy to believe farmers may not be planting record numbers of soybeans because of flood worry in many states, yet USDA also pegged soybeans at a record high 77.7 million acres.
The four-decade grain-marketing veteran said that once the market absorbs the report, all eyes will turn to weather forecasts. And, if there's a risk of hot and dry weather by mid-to late-July when pollination is at full tilt, there could be a real market reaction. "This crop is still very susceptible to another weather event," says Lorenz.
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Safe Electricity Urges Good Samaritans to Practice Safety
Temporary Charging Stations Could Pose Safety Hazards
(SPRINGFIELD, ILL.)—In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, 8.5 million people have been without electricity. Generous people who do have power are offering "charging stations" to those without. Businesses and individuals are using extension cords and power strips to create temporary charging stations—some outdoors.
Safe Electricity urges those hosting and using indoor and outdoor charging stations to understand and avoid electrical dangers.
"It is encouraging to see Good Samaritans helping those without power," says Molly Hall, executive director of the Energy Education Council, provider of the Safe Electricity program. "These temporary charging stations are okay for short-term use and are very helpful in this extreme situation. However, people should take safety precautions."
Offering a safe charging station is fairly simple. Safe Electricity has the following tips for those hosting and using charging stations in areas with power outages:
Those who host a charging station are also advised to have a fire extinguisher that is equipped to put out electrical fires.
For more information on safety following a major storm, visit SafeElectricity.org. The site provides comprehensive storm recovery information and resources on issues like prolonged outages, flooding (indoors and outside), downed power lines, and generator safety. The Energy Education Council joins with millions nationally in thoughts and actions for a safe and swift recovery in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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The Energy Education Council is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting electrical safety and energy efficiency. Established in 1952, the Council is headquartered within the University of Illinois Extension, and serves as a forum for diverse utility and energy organizations to collaborate on the mutually vital issues of efficiency and safety. Learn more at www.EnergyEdCouncil.org.


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5 Ways Regular Guys Ruin Their First Impression With Women
#2. They Make Bad Assumptions About What Women Want
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"How in the hell did that ugly jerkoff end up with that hot chick? He must be rich. God, I hate gold-digging bitches."
Sure, she might be with him because he's rich -- I'm not denying that those women exist. But that ugly jerkoff could also have met pretty much every other quality that woman was looking for in a man. Charisma, confidence, sense of humor, kindness, respect, stability ... See, it turns out that, as a general rule, women don't judge men the way men judge women. Due to some combination of physical differences and the endless ways society defines gender roles, the end result is that the workings of the female brain can seem strange and mysterious to men who don't spend a lot of time talking to them.
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I don't know either, man. Just go with it.
Usually after a guy gets rejected so many times, he gets frustrated or outright pissed off. He'll start laying blame, sometimes pointing it toward women in general (when it gets to this point, that's where underlying misogyny starts to take its true form), and sometimes he points it toward other men. "Yeah, I'd get dates, too, if I had a six-pack and huge pecs." They deflect the actual issue as something they can't control, not even realizing that they were most likely rejected because of their attitude or a mismatched sense of humor ... or any one of a hundred different traits that didn't line up right.
The truth is, there are people who look just like you, who have your same income, who are still having sex. If women only talked to guys with rock-hard bodies and six-figure incomes, they'd go a decade between encounters. If they didn't make compromises on a man's looks, condom companies would go out of business and we'd be in a global shrinking population crisis.
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And this guy would be dead from sexual exhaustion.
The way around these problems is so simple, but it eludes so many well-meaning men because we get wrapped up in the competitive tone of social interactions, and we make them out to be more complex than they actually are. I'm far from an expert on relationships, having been through a divorce and enough unstable partners to staff a military ground invasion on a mid-sized country. But once I figured it out, it all clicked, and I found the most beautiful, stable relationship of my life. And the trick is this:
Relax. She's a human, just like you. She's had every fake piece of shit in a 50-mile radius hit on her in every conceivable way. Maybe it's time you gave her something different: sincerity and honesty. You'd be surprised how high that ranks on her list.
But so many men never reach that point, because ...
#1. They Give Up
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Let's face it: After a while, you just give up. It doesn't matter what you look like, what you do for a living, how much money you have, how enormous your penis is, or how often you prove that by whipping people with it in public. If you get rejected enough, you don't want to feel that ever again, so you just stop trying. And this is where I see guys fall into a long spiral down.
What happens is that, yes, the desire to avoid rejection has tipped the scales in favor of exiting the game. But the desire to be with someone is still there. You can't get rid of that any more than you can remove your stomach for being hungry. So maybe you still go out on occasion with the hopes of meeting someone, but you end up sitting by yourself all night, getting steadily more down as the night ticks on and no one presents herself to you.
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"This is bullpoop. I am a beautiful man, and girls are stupid."
So you pay your tab and go home, sad and alone, and blame an entire gender for making you so miserable, while rubbing one out to a rerun of The Golden Girls. Here's what makes that so crazy ... besides the obvious Golden Girls part.
Bars, clubs, coffee houses -- all those spots that one goes to in order to meet other people -- they are all social places. They are, by design, meeting grounds for people who want to find and connect with other humans. You, having reached your breaking point, have cut out the "social" part of that equation and are now putting as much faith into someone finding you as you would into expecting the Tooth Fairy to show up and pay your electric bill.
What is so easy to forget is that half of the people in those places are there for the exact reason you were. The only difference is that they're making an effort, regardless of the outcome. And if a woman's choices are the guy who had balls enough to walk up to her and talk or the sad sack of meat slumping over his beer at the end of the bar ... well, that's pretty easy competition for the guy who already has her attention.
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"Look at that lonely crying guy at the end of the bar! Hahahaha! What a pussy!"
It can take a long time to find somebody. And even when you do, they might not be the right person for you. If you find yourself in the "I give up" frame of mind, the only way I've seen people get out of that is to take a break. Find some fun shit to do without the end result being a relationship treasure map. Hell, you might find that this frame of mind makes it easy to talk to people. I did. And that's how I finally got the courage to have sex with all of your moms.
John is a columnist right here at Cracked with a new article every Thursday. You can also find him on Twitter and Facebook.


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Drunk to excess or extreme with /associated wild or crazy behaviour. Rock stars that set the precedent include Mick Jagger and any member of the Rolling Stones, amongst many other well known rock stars.
"Mum was rock star drunk last night and fell through the motel hotel window"
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What? Didn't you already plant peas in the spring?
If you did, chances are you probably already harvested them as well, since they are a cool weather crop, grow quickly and hate the heat.
But did you know you can plant them again for a fall harvest? Well, you can.
Peas are one of the easiest vegetables to grow in the garden and one that I believe walks a fine line between vegetable and ornamental. After all, the flower, sweet peas, are close cousins to the vegetable we also call sweet peas, garden peas, sugar snap peas or whatever.
Around here, they can be planted as early as April, even if the ground is still a little cool and wet, although they will germinate a lot faster if you warm up the soil first with a little clear plastic. Seeds will germinate as long as the soil is above 40 degrees.
My favorite sweet pea can't easily be found any longer. The variety is Carouby de Maussane and I used to buy it from The Cook's Garden many years ago. Suddenly one year, it disappeared from the seed catalog and when I inquired I was told they no longer sold it.
The pods on this variety are huge and sweet. I would pick some right away while the pods were still young and tender, and others I would leave to fill out, although if left too long, the peas inside were starchy and inedible. The pods are best eaten raw in salads or cooked quickly in stir fries as they tend to get mushy if cooked too long. It might seem a bit fussy to grow and harvest, but the peas weren't what attracted me to this variety anyway. It was the flowers. Unlike most standard garden peas, Caroby de Maussane flowers are pale to dark mauve with deep purple centers.
It's nice to know that Caroby is not the only purple-flowering garden peas. 'Dwarf Gray Sugar' is a variety with bi-colored flowers, and Golden Sweet Snow Peas have purple flowers and yellow pods. I haven't tried either variety so I can't comment on their flavor. There also is a variety with not just bi-colored purple flowers but also deep purple pods. While the pods are purple, the peas inside are still green. Varieties I've found are heirloom peas called Blue Capucijner and Capucijner blauschokkers, although I'm sure there are others.
Once you find the variety you like, get your order in because a second crop can be planted here around mid-July. Peas usually need 60 to 70 days to mature and since they don't mind cool weather, we can harvest them right around the time football season gets going.
A great thing about planting peas in the garden is they are a vine and will likely need some sort of vertical apparatus to cling to and climb. Don't complain about the extra work involved. Instead be happy you can grow something up instead of out. Not only does it bring a quaint potager appeal to the garden, vertical set-ups take less space in the garden.
My favorite pea trellises are pruned shrub brush and branches. Branches pruned in April make great pea trellises in May but it's difficult to reuse them because the pea tendrils wind themselves around quite tightly. Rather than deal with getting the tightly twisted vines off the branches, I toss them on the bonfire pile and rig up a new trellis consisting of a post at either end of the row with heavy, uncoated twine strung between them. At the end of the harvest, I save the posts but toss the twine and all on the compost pile and let it decompose with the rest of the garden debris. Easy peasy (excuse the pun).
If you think you don't have room for peas (after all, I'm sure you filled your garden by Memorial Day with everything you intended to grow), think about reusing those empty rows where crops have already been harvested, such as lettuce, spinach or radishes. Try not to plant peas where you previously grew other legumes. Since many insects are crop specific, meaning they will usually only attack one family of plants, if you had legumes in that space less than four years ago, pests and diseases could still be lurking in the soil. Foil pests by planting a different species of vegetable in that spot instead.
Peas aren't the only thing you can keep planting. Second sowings of other fast growing vegetables can extend the harvest even longer. Think about planting more radishes, lettuce and spinach as well. In fact, spinach, if planted early enough for it to get a good hold before the first hard frost, will last through the winter. You could be harvesting crispy green leaves next spring before your neighbors even put a seed in the ground.


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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955, the same year Charleston's Cannon Street All-Stars and their parents held tightly to baseball dreams.
Solutions: Reach out, spread RBI
How to get more black children involved in baseball. Ideas are easy, and execution isn't heavy lifting:Expand the RBI concept to rural areas. Reviving Baseball in Inner-Cities has been a big hit in urban areas, including Charleston. But rural areas, particularly in the South, also need help.Tie baseball to academic success. Parents get more interested if reading and math are linked to hit-and-run strategy. L.E.A.D. Atlanta is a great example. "Through baseball development and training, it helps the kids with academics and civic engagement," said former College of Charleston player Jasha Balcom, one of the L.E.A.D. directors. "We show them how to get scholarships. That's what you have to do, get your hands dirty and work with these kids at schools that don't have the resources and budgets."Reach out to kids in non-traditional ways. Go beyond media notices and website calendars to notify large black churches and after-school care centers about local baseball opportunities. Established youth leagues should hold used equipment drives once per season and funnel the take to less fortunate programs.11. 7 education: College coaches must make sure high school coaches and athletic directors know that while the NCAA's 11.7 scholarship restriction for baseball is a challenge, there are many ways to plug in other scholarships and grants.Coaching clinics. "A lot of African-American kids go to high schools where the baseball coaches really are football or basketball coaches who don't know much about baseball but are just picking up the extra check to help with baseball," Balcom said. "If there is no structure, players will lose interest." By Gene Sapakoff
"All the fathers must have gone to some kind of convention because they were all telling us we could be the next Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella or Don Newcombe," recalled John Bailey, one of the former All-Stars and now a contractor in Kensington, Md.
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Many black South Carolinians have gone on to play Major League baseball, but Hilton Head's Dan Driessen comes the closest to representing the Lowcountry:Player Hometown In the majorsWillie Mays Aikens Seneca 1977-1985Terry Blocker Columbia 1985-1989Danny Clyburn Lancaster 1997-1999Lafayette Currence Rock Hill 1975Gookie Dawkins Newberry 1999-2003Larry Doby Camden 1947-1959Dan Driessen Hilton Head 1973-1987Tom Dunbar Graniteville 1983-1985Ty Gainey Cheraw 1985-1987Ike Hampton Camden 1974-1979Pep Harris Lancaster 1996-1998Tim Hosley Spartanburg 1970-1981Orlando Hudson Darlington 2002-2012Morris Madden Laurens 1987-1989Marcus McBeth Spartanburg 2007Glenn Murray Manning 1996Willie Randolph Holly Hill 1975-1992Pokey Reese Columbia 1997-2004 Jim Rice Anderson 1974-1989Gene Richards Monticello 1977-1984Reggie Sanders Florence 1991-2007Mike Sharperson Orangeburg 1987-1995Nate Snell Orangeburg 1984-1987Leroy Stanton Latta 1970-1978Reggie Taylor Newberry 2000-2005Terrell Wade Rembert 1995-1998Billy Williams Newberry 1969Brian Williams Lancaster 1991-2000Reggie Williams Laurens 1992-1999Mookie Wilson Bamberg 1980-1991Preston Wilson Bamberg 1998-2007Herm Winningham Orangeburg 1984-1992 Dewayne Wise Columbia 2000-2013Source: BaseballReference.com
Robinson had broken the Major League color line eight years earlier. But the sun set fast on the 1955 Cannon Street team. The 12-year-olds advanced by forfeit in city, state and regional Little League tournaments after white teams seceded from Little League to immediately form what became Dixie Youth Baseball. Founded in Charleston, Dixie Youth's original charter stressed "for the best interest of all concerned that this program be on a racially segregated basis."
Busy summer
Fifteen-year-old Jordan Jeter of Union is off to a busy summer in the Mount Pleasant-based Diamond Devils travel baseball program.May 18-19: Practice weekend, ColumbiaMay 25-27: Memorial Day Tournament, CharlestonMay 31-June 2: Diamond Devil Classic, GreenvilleJune 7-9: Travelballselect.com Regional, Myrtle BeachJune 14-16: Rock Hill Classic, Rock HillJune 20-28: Perfect Game World Wood Bat Tournament, AtlantaJune 30: USC Underclassman Tournament, ColumbiaJuly 6-7: TBAJuly 13-19: CABA Wood Bat World Series, CharlestonJuly 30-Aug. 4: Perfect Game World Series, Fort Myers, Fla., or Travelballselect World Series, Kissimmee, Fla.
The impact stymied organized baseball activity among black youths in South Carolina, particularly in the Lowcountry, and resonates today. What began as overt racism in 1955 still dilutes baseball interest among blacks.
"That's part of the reason," said Ramon Jackson, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of South Carolina who studied the Cannon Street All-Stars extensively before starting his doctoral thesis on youth leadership among blacks. "The other thing that's important to know is that organizations in South Carolina, including parks and recreation commissions, were very forward-looking. They knew the Civil Rights Act might actually happen and wanted to maintain segregation even if the federal government stepped in."
Palmetto State college teams have few black players — sometimes none.
When Jackie Robinson broke the big league color line in 1947, it was a dream come true for black players and fans. But some breakthroughs take longer than others. As the hit Robinson movie "42" is on the big screen 66 years later, the Lowcountry still has not produced a black big-leaguer. Of the 33 black South Carolinians that have played Major League baseball, none are from Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester or Georgetown counties.
Dixie Youth Baseball eventually integrated. Dozens of future black Major Leaguers (and Michael Jordan) took part. But that was long after founder Danny Jones of North Charleston signed up 537 teams in 122 leagues for the 1956 season, with 390 leagues in eight Southern states by 1962.
As Dixie Youth took over, Little League baseball withered in South Carolina. So did organized baseball opportunities for black children.
"When I played, there was no American Legion baseball for us. There was only the sandlot," said 65-year-old Gus Holt, a teacher who played youth baseball in North Charleston. "Then, when blacks started integrating high schools in South Carolina, they were steered toward football and basketball. Why? Those are the revenue-producing sports for all schools."
Outliers endure
Jordan Jeter, 15, is a veteran of the Diamond Devils travel baseball program known for helping develop more than 100 college or professional baseball prospects. He and his busy parents are back at it this spring.
Camron Hooks is a 2013 Citadel graduate, thanks partly to the academic scholarship won through the Charleston chapter of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities.
Weekend sacrifice
Jordan Jeter is a big, stocky freshman first baseman at Union County High School, where folks take Yellow Jackets football seriously. Former South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback Steve Taneyhill was hired last year as Union County head football coach. "We hear it from people all the time, because of the body size," said George Jeter, Jordan's father. " 'Why doesn't he play football?' "
But George and Penny Jeter spent last weekend watching their only child play baseball at fields in and around Charleston. He participated in a Memorial Day weekend tournament with his 15U Diamond Devils travel team.
There they were in Mount Pleasant that Saturday, at College Park that Sunday and at Charleston Southern that Monday. Jeter was one of just a few black players in action, or the only one.
"I like football, too," George Jeter said, "but I'm glad he has stayed with baseball."
The splintering of youth leagues in the South that began with the introduction of Dixie Youth led to an alphabet soup of leagues and multiple "state champions" by the 1990s. Enter travel ball, and the quest for elite competition.
It's a time-consuming and expensive summer for the Jeters. Jordan's parents will spend more than $2,000 (not including equipment). High-tech bats go for $400.
Their itinerary includes Greenville, Rock Hill, Myrtle Beach, Atlanta, Columbia, Charleston (twice) and Florida.
"It takes a parent who is willing to give up everything," said George Jeter, who works for UPS. "Everything, including your rest on the weekend after a 50- or 60-hour work week."
A full year of travel ball means surrendering 15-20 weekends.
Cost analysis
The goal is nebulous compared to other college sports. Baseball as a "non-revenue sport" offers 11.7 scholarships per 35-player roster, while football and basketball are full-scholarship sports.
It's not necessarily a race thing — no one likes buying a $400 bat. But if parents can pick between full-scholarship sports that cost less to play or a partial-scholarship sport that costs a lot, baseball usually loses.
"I coached a travel team in Union," Jeter said. "The Carolina Sting, with 95 percent black players. If we asked kids to pay $5 or $10 for a tournament, the answer was no."
The Jeters regularly hauled two carloads of kids to tournaments around the state.
They aren't worried about the 11.7 scholarship issue at the end of the baseball rainbow — Jordan is near the top of his class academically.
Camron Hooks found a way to mix baseball and academics success, too, with help from a strong community program. Hooks graduated this spring from The Citadel, thanks partly to a $5,000 per year scholarship he received from the Charleston RBI chapter.
The program, sponsored by the minor league Charleston RiverDogs, includes 40 players ages 13 to 18.
Hooks, a member of the first Charleston RBI team in 2008, was a Garrett Academy of Technology student when he won his scholarship award in a national RBI essay contest.
"We are so proud of Camron," Johnson said. "What an inspiration."
Charleston's RBI program has utilized Harmon Field, home of the 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars. A 1995 Sports Illustrated article about the Cannon Street mess was titled "Little League's Civil War."
Now the battle is to get more kids involved.


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It's not often these days that we have occasion to laud corporate behavior, but the stance taken by the telecom Qwest in resisting the Bush Administration's covert program to ensnare every single American citizen in a vast web of telephone surveillance deserves our thanks.
Every other telecom sold out the privacy of its customers – literally so, taking money to turn over their phone records to the National Security Agency – but Qwest alone insisted on having a court order before complying with Bush's unprecedented and "indefensible" (as Newt Gingrich put it) invasion of Americans' personal lives and business affairs.
Bush's domestic spies refused to supply any formal legal justification whatsoever for their extraordinary request, beyond the implied "plenary powers" of the "Commander-in-Chief": the novel – and equally indefensible — doctrine that the Administration had adopted as the basis of what is effectively a presidential dictatorship, beyond the reach of law.
It is, of course, a sad commentary on our times that Qwest should be praised so highly for merely obeying the law of the land. But this is what we've come to. Our leaders are lawless, and it is now up to every citizen – including corporate citizens – to embody and enact the laws and values of the Republic, on our own, until Constitutional government can be restored.
One simple act we can take is to support those who take a public stand for the law. You can say thanks to Qwest by posting a comment below (you don't need to join, or leave an email or website to post – just scroll down and hit the comments link).
And pass this man an email as well:
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USA Today first broke the story, and now we all know: the National Security Agency has been collecting the private phone records of tens of millions of American citizens since 2001, gathering the tainted bounty of this sinister harvest into "the largest data base ever assembled in the world," as one insider put it. Under the direction of General Michael V. Hayden — the military spymaster now nominated to head the CIA — the NSA carried out this massive "black op" against the American people in total secrecy, without the court orders clearly required to obtain this information. So how did Hayden and his creepy peepers into America's privacy get hold of the phone records?
Simple: the major U.S. telecommunications corporations — all but one — turned them over to the government, for money — your money. That's right: the Bush Administration used your tax dollars to pay the Big Telecoms to hand over your private phone records.
…The sources said the NSA made clear that it was willing to pay for the cooperation. AT&T, which at the time was headed by C. Michael Armstrong, agreed to help the NSA.
So did BellSouth, headed by F. Duane Ackerman; SBC, headed by Ed Whitacre; and Verizon, headed by Ivan Seidenberg. With that, the NSA's domestic program began in earnest.
If you are among the multitudes who signed up, in good faith, to BellSouth, AT&T or Verizon, expecting your privacy to be protected, as required by laws going back more than seven decades, the record of every phone call you have made in the last four-and-a-half years is now in the hands of a secret government program operating without any genuine oversight or restrictions against abuse. This includes the call records of every government or corporate whistleblower, every investigative journalist digging up government corruption, every political opponent of the Administration's policies. Imagine how useful it would be for the Bush Administration to type in the name of, say, Seymour Hersh, and find out every government insider he's talked to on the phone for the past four years?
Rarely has such a powerful, all-pervasive tool for repression been placed in the hands of a government; and rarely has there a been a government which has proven itself less trustworthy to hold such power without abusing it.
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Bush Administration decided to ignore the existing laws governing surveillance, in particular the special secret courts set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978. This urge to bypass FISA is not surprising; the secret courts – which had almost never refused a single request for surveillance of terrorst or espionage suspects – had been created in response to widespread government spying on citizens in for decades, a mania for illicit intrusion that reached its height under the disgraced president Richard Nixon.
Two of the greatest proponents of these assaults on civil liberties were high-ranking minions in the Nixon Administration: Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. After Nixon's ignominious departure, with Congress finally acting to restrain the manifold abuses of the national security system, Cheney and Rumsfeld – now Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary for Gerald Ford – buried investigations of a covert telecommunications spy program remarkably similar to the current NSA scheme under the butt-covering rubric of "executive privilege." The original FISA restrictions were, in fact, aimed directly at serial abusers of power like Cheney and Rumsfeld. It is no wonder that they discarded these restrictions at the first opportunity once they had returned in glory to the White House.
George W. Bush gave his full authority to the NSA program, whose ostensible purpose is to "data-mine" blind phone numbers — with no names or content of the calls divulged — in search of connections between suspected terrorists. Hayden in turn delegated the responsibility to lower-echelon shift supervisors – as in the Watergate days – further diluting the already soup-thin oversight of the operation. For years, it has been carried out in total secrecy; there is simply no way of knowing how they have used – or abused – this massive database, or what other information, such as call content, they have obtained from the phone companies, or by other means.
The Bush Administration pointedly refrained from using any existing legal mechanism in requesting the call records, when it could have very easily done so and doubtless obtained all the information it sought for the data-mining program. In the absence of any other credible explanation – beyond bland assertions of "trust us, it's all legal" – we are certainly justified in suspecting that the Administration had purposes for the program which lay outside the scope of FISA or any other law governing domestic surveillance.
But the major telecoms were evidently unconcerned about the lack of legality. Once the NSA dangled a bit of long green in their faces, they passed over the call records without a by your leave. Only Qwest – the often beleaguered telecom with a checkered past and an uncertain legal future hanging over its chief – refused to cooperate without the sensible expedient of a court order. After all, that was the law, and had been since the 1930s. There is no doubt that Qwest, given the appeals to patriotism and national security in the tumultuous days after 9/11, would have willingly complied – if the request had been made in a legal manner.
Qwest's stand is even more remarkable given the heavy pressure applied by Bush team.
…Trying to put pressure on Qwest, NSA representatives pointedly told Qwest that it was the lone holdout among the big telecommunications companies.
It also tried appealing to Qwest's patriotic side: In one meeting, an NSA representative suggested that Qwest's refusal to contribute to the database could compromise national security, one person recalled.
In addition, the agency suggested that Qwest's foot-dragging might affect its ability to get future classified work with the government.
Like other big telecommunications companies, Qwest already had classified contracts and hoped to get more.
Aside from concerns over legality, morality and liberty, the very utility of the NSA program has also been called into question. The blunderbuss approach of harvesting millions upon millions of phone records to be churned by supercomputers seems wildly at odds with the kind of careful, precise human intelligence and investigative work required to pinpoint the deliberately scattered, deeply buried, small networks of actual terrorists out there. And the already massive extent of the program is evidently just the beginning.
It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
…The usefulness of the NSA's domestic phone-call database as a counterterrorism tool is unclear. Also unclear is whether the database has been used for other purposes.
"Other purposes" is the operative phrase here. Because "data-mining" for terrorists in giant phone record banks is like trying to find microscopic needles in an ever-growing haystack. It is, in a word, impossible, according to expert to Bruce Schneier from Wired Magazine.
This unrealistically accurate system will generate 1 billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month.
Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999 percent and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day — but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those 10 real plots.
This isn't anything new. In statistics, it's called the "base rate fallacy," and it applies in other domains as well. For example, even highly accurate medical tests are useless as diagnostic tools if the incidence of the disease is rare in the general population.
Terrorist attacks are also rare, any "test" is going to result in an endless stream of false alarms. This is exactly the sort of thing we saw with the NSA's eavesdropping program: the New York Times reported that the computers spat out thousands of tips per month.
Every one of them turned out to be a false alarm. And the cost was enormous — not just for the FBI agents running around chasing dead-end leads instead of doing things that might actually make us safer, but also the cost in civil liberties.
The fundamental freedoms that make our country the envy of the world are valuable, and not something that we should throw away lightly.
So again, we are left with the question: What is the NSA program really about? Who are they really spying on? Remember, we are dealing with an Administration that has already declared – in open court, in Congressional testimony, in internal memos, in executive orders and "presidential signing statements" – that the president has the "inherent authority" as Commander-in-Chief during "wartime" to ignore or reinterpret any law that might restrict his "plenary powers." We have seen this pernicious doctrine in action for years: it underlies the use of torture throughout the global system of detention centers, secret prisons and the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay that Bush has set up; it underlies Bush's outrageous claim that he can apprehend anyone on earth and hold them indefinitely, without charges or trial, simply by declaring them, on his own authority, an "enemy combatant," a "terrorist" or even a "suspected terrorist."
(For example, the Bush Administration has declared in open court that the U.S. government would be justified in capturing and holding a "little old lady in Switzerland" if she unwittingly gave money to a charity used as a front by terrorists. Deputy Attorney General Brian Boyle made the assertion in a hearing on Dec. 1, 2004, adding the chilling words: "Someone's intention is clearly not a factor that would disable detention." This admittedly innocent little old lady would then be subjected to a military tribunal, which alone would decide "whether to believe her and release her" – or keep her locked up.)
So we are dealing with an Administration that openly admits that innocent people can be "legimately" swept up in its vast covert nets and subjected to indefinite imprisonment at the mercy of a military tribunal. And we are supposed to believe that these same officials, willing to go to such draconian lengths, are acting with scrupulous circumspection when handling the private phone records of millions of American citizens? We are supposed to believe they are using this gargantuan NSA program solely to ferret out a few terrorists?
…With access to records of billions of domestic calls, the NSA has gained a secret window into the communications habits of millions of Americans.
Customers' names, street addresses and other personal information are not being handed over as part of NSA's domestic program, the sources said. But the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information.
The NSA phone-spy program, which we are now told is only the "tip of the iceberg", is designed to identify social networks – of any kind. It is far too large to have been created solely to find a few terrorists. It beggars belief – and belies the evidence of the Administration's behavior over the past five years – to assume that other "social networks" are not also being targeted by the program: Democrats and other political opponents, internal dissidents, activist groups, journalists…basically anyone who is against Bush and the way he is fighting his self-declared, never-ending "War on Terror."
But the dictatorial powers being claimed under the aegis of this "War" are not new measures in response to an unprecedented emergency – they are old abuses long championed by the most powerful elements in the Bush Administration. These powers of surveillance, secrecy and repression of dissent were being systematically restored by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld junta long before 9/11.
In the end, the NSA program is not about "national security" or fighting terrorists. It is just another front in a long-running war against the liberties of the American people: freedoms which are despised and feared by elites who believe that their power and privilege are the only genuine "national interests."
Who knows? Tomorrow we may see Qwest in collusion with these elites on some other front. But right now, in this fight, they have been a champion of liberty and deserve our thanks. So go show them some love. But in the words of the late, great Johnny Cash: keep your eyes wide open all the time.


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Buffalo police say they are trying to find out how the Rev. Joseph F. Moreno Jr. obtained the handgun he used to end his life Saturday.
Moreno, 54, did not have a pistol permit for a .38-caliber handgun that was found next to his body in the rectory at St. Lawrence Catholic Church on East Delavan Avenue, authorities said.
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According to a Monday afternoon statement, the Truckee Police Department has recently taken several reports of stolen snowblowers, most of which were under the Honda brand and were taken from front and side yards of residences, often during daylight hours.
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The 6 Stupidest Video Game School Commercials
If you watch TV during the middle of the day or late at night, market research has discovered that you're stoned, broke, lonely, uneducated and unemployed. For a for-profit college with a video game design program, that's like discovering your blind date is a sex addict. These colleges were so excited to tell you about your "future career in gaming" that they didn't have time to look up what any of those words meant. The confusion that followed led to these ridiculous commercials.
#6. Mindfire Academy Video Game Design Bootcamp
Mindfire Academy takes a unique approach to its advertising. They bring up an aspect of electronic entertainment that most of us forget about -- poontang. They hired a spokesgirl to casually invite you inside her, but only after you've created your own video game. In a mere 15 seconds, the school makes it clear that they know nothing about gaming and less about women. Here are the actual words from their actual ad, in their entirety:
Because you're a contentious homely girl with a 14-inch TV?
Wait, what are you talking about? You know that throwing in a random gaming term doesn't magically make sense out of the rest of your sentence, right? If it did, then Donkey Kong for into my ping pong banana.
Speaking of video games, that one will probably work better if you turn the controller on.
The promise of cheap sex with unpleasant bitches does seem more realistic than the promise of a career, but does Mindfire Academy actually have some kind of vagina placement program for its graduates? Because I've read that most non-accredited schools don't even qualify you for an entry-level position in a fat girl. Hell, according to one poll, 87 percent of Everest College students have to close their eyes and finger a burrito.
#5. Collins College Game Design
Collins College knows that you have no interest in things as fleeting as sex or money. You are only watching commercials at 4 a.m. because you want to change the future. They produced an ad they called "Game Evoluation," because there is nothing more cyber than spelling everything like an idiot.
Sitting jobless at home with a Collins College Interactive Design & VCR Repair Certificate and $70,000 in student loan bills is depressing, but not as depressing as finding out the next wave of cool games is going to be shitty robots in a warehouse firing rockets at nothing. That's worse than a future where those robots are the next wave of cool everyday problems.
Before I send in my tuition, I have a quick question: Are the games of the future being sarcastic? Because that's a freaking gorilla shooting graph paper with lightning bolts. My present-day brain is having a lot of trouble figuring out if that's awesome or retarded.
Holy shit, what am I looking at, Collins College? Is that ape celebrating because it lost? But ... but that means you made a game where gorillas electrocute an empty floor and the object is to fail! Fuck your dark hearts if that's what you've done! Or wait, is he the enemy and we're the floor? Because that doesn't make any sense either! Look, you had one job -- make something that looks like a game -- and you managed to pick the one possible combination of words and shapes that doesn't. I'm not saying all people with a basic understanding of video games are smart, but Collins College is dumber than every single one of them.
#4. Minneapolis Media Institute
The strangest thing about these commercials is that each of them is targeted at completely different demographics. You've already seen Mindfire's ad for gamers too horny to make rational decisions and Collins College's ad for gamers too moronic to make rational decisions. Minneapolis Media Institute seems to be trying for an entirely different market -- senior citizens who aren't quite sure what these young people and their calculator watches are blooping and bleeping about.
You might have noticed that most game design school ads begin by mocking Pong. That's because the people who made them haven't thought about games since the exact moment they were invented. I mean, what is the actual point here? That some industry has come a long way in 40 years? I'm not even sure how to pay attention to something that obvious and pointless. And if you want me to think you know anything about technology, maybe don't lead with the exact conversation my grandma starts whenever she sees an iPad. I'll tell you the same thing I tell her: "There's not much time -- one of your doctors isn't real! Find the imposter! Destroy him!"
So to continue his point, yesterday's games were high-tech then, but today's games are state-of-the-art now. Sweet! That means I've been reading my calendar in the right direction!
And while I agree with him that Pong is old, at least it had a goal. It's better than say, a game where you jump around in a spaceship drifting aimlessly through an asteroid belt. I'm talking crazy, though. A game like that would only be useful in making a struggling actor look like an asshole.
Holy crap, Minneapolis Media Institute just named all four types of video games. I guess the reason Pong is so reviled by today's critics is because it's only three of them. Honestly, this ad is such gibberish that I'm starting to think it was written by putting a gun in a terrified kid's mouth and shouting, "Tell our copy writer about video games or die, GO!"
Science can't explain why photographing a woman holding a game controller causes it to electrocute her, but it is the most documented phenomenon in all of metaphysics.
You know, if you're unindustrious enough to let a TV commercial plan your life, maybe an 80-hour-a-week job developing games isn't for you. What is it about video games that inspires this logic? Other industries don't make commercials like this. I've never seen an ad saying, "Hey, obese! Can you believe chicken meat used to be served on the skeletons of dead birds? Not today! Modern nuggets combine the nutrition of discarded colons with the shapes you crave! So here's an idea: Take your love of fried chicken and see if you have what it takes to hand a bucket of it to someone else! Fryer accidents, diabetes and even vengeance from the chickens themselves ensure that there are always job openings in this exciting field!"


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Do a girl from behind. Let her know you're about to finish. Spit in her back. When she turns around shoot your load on her face. Yell Houdini
Hey brian how was your butt sex last night....it was great until my gay buddy pulled a houdini on me.
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As a man reaches climax whilst in the "doggie style" position, the man pulls out and spits on their partner's back, fooling them into thinking that he has ejaculated, however, when their partner turns around, the man lets loose his baby yoghurt in his partner's face.
I took my weenie and pulled a houdini in her eye, then she cried.
by j.biddy August 21, 2005
a houdini can also refer to a sex act where a male, who is fucking a chick doggy style in front of a first floor window, quickly pulls out, and his friend jumps in to continue banging her. the first man then proceeds to run naked and dance in front of his bitch outside the window. magic, eh?
nonetheless, the more accepted defineition is the genuine spit and skeet technique.
nonetheless, the more accepted defineition is the genuine spit and skeet technique.
"HEY BTICH" *dances naked" - matt s
"wtf? i thought he was fucking me?" - carly o
"haha, no bitch, im fucking you, houdini style!" - josh l
"wtf? i thought he was fucking me?" - carly o
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When having sex doggy style, when the guy is about to ejaculate, he pulls out and then proceeds to spit on the girls back so that she turns around, and blows it right in her eye.
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Guy: Sure am...
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by Steven Spears August 20, 2005
Named for the infamous magician, the houdini is a sexual act in which a male engages his partner from behind and prior to ejaculating he pulls his penis out and spits on his partners back to simulate ejaculate. When his partner turns around he then ejaculates into his partner's face.
Damn, Jenny was so surprised when I busted a houdini last night.
by Dale Gribble September 11, 2005
When a man has sex with a woman so that he is behind her and she is facing a window. The man has his friend hide in the in the room and during the middle of the act the man pulls out and his friend takes his place so that the woman does not notice. The man then runs outside and waves to the woman from outside of the window.
Me and Jim pulled the houdini perfectly last night. The girl had no idea how I escaped.
by CareyB May 13, 2008
The act of disappearing without warning whilst out clubbing or at a party with a group of friends. The disappearance being like that of Houdini's magic act; also known as "Pulling a Houdini".
Sam : Oi Jamie, have you seen Josh around here lately?
Jamie : Nah man I haven't seen him anywhere.
Sam : Damn, he's pulled a Houdini again...
Jamie : Nah man I haven't seen him anywhere.
Sam : Damn, he's pulled a Houdini again...
by Bobby Biglips May 13, 2011
when you're fucking a girl from behind and she's facing a window. You withdraw quickly and have a buddy slip in, meanwhile you walk out side and wave to her through the window
I just gave that bitch a houdini and she was like "what the fuck?"
by vengefulsorrow December 16, 2008