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Cubs Lose First Series of the Year
The Cubs dropped their first series of the year losing two of three to Dusty and the Reds. The unfortunate details after the jump.
Why the Cubs Lost: Micah Hoffpauir's glove was the main culprit, costing the Cubs two to three runs. He badly misplayed a flyball by Chris Dickerson into a triple that made the game 1-0. The wind had something to do with it, but a decent RF'er definitely makes the play. Then in the 7th, with runners on 1st and 2nd, he tried to come up throwing on a single by Alex Gonzalez and the ball bounced off his glove making sure two runs score(one may have scored anyway) and Gonzalez made it to third base. A nice play on a suicide squeeze attempt by Zambrano did erase Gonzalez though.
Z pitched well for the most part, but he did throw away a pickoff throw to first base, although it did look like a play Derrek Lee could have made. Wily Taveras made it around to third base on the error and after Z struck out Dickerson, Lou came out to see if Z wanted to walk Joey "Cub-Killer" Votto and set-up the double play with the righty Edwin Encarnacion up next. Z's hubris won out and they brought the infield in and Z got ahead quickly. With Geovany Soto setting up low and outside, Z let one up on the inner half of the plate right at the belt and Votto ripped a double to left-center. The fantastic movement on Z's pitches can be a curse as much an asset at times.
After giving up that second run, the Cubs mounted a rally on a hit and error that put Alfonso Soriano at second base and a Ryan Theriot single up the middle to make it 2-1. The first pitch to Kosukue Fukudome saw Theriot stealing and get this...he was thrown out. A great throw by the catcher right on the bag, but nonetheless, Theriot stealing hasn't been a good idea since 2007.
And the bullpen gave up 3 runs in two innings....so great effort all around.
The Good: The Cubs finally scored a run and Z pitched much better than the boxscore shows, a victim of poor defense for the most part.
Death Pool: Luis Vizcaino surprisingly took the first honor but I still think Neal Cotts leads the way for the next victim. He came in to face Joey Votto and fell behind 3-1, making it 3-2 and then - afraid to walk anyone - left a few pitches down the middle that Votto fouled off and then eventually took out to left center.
Up Next: The Cubs try to find their bats in St. Louis this weekend who just finished off sweeping the Mets.
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Ugly coupla games.
Now on to St. Looey, where the Cards just swept the Mets.
Done in by the genius of Dusty again.
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It's over!!!
No chance!!
Bad management!!!
Cats running amok!!
Fan interference!!
Unchecked aggression!!
The Ivey is Brown!!
14th game in season right?
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Just got back. Honestly, ROB G., the club was just totally "flat", and Harang was on his game (fucking slow, too). No energy, listless.
Fontenot is not an everyday player. Sorry.
Miles really does suck. Bad Hendry!
Theriot is slow - you nailed it.
Soto is molasses.
Hoff is not an OF.
Bradley is a big disappointment. Bad Hendry!
There were baserunners almost every inning. As was the case last night.
What team out there will have winning records with half of the lineup hitting .200 or worse?
Then, there is Neil Cotts...
Re: What team will have a winning record with guys hitting .200
How about the team that just beat us again E-man....
Encarnacion .146
Phillips .184
Hernandez .205
Gonzalez .125
Re: What team will have a winning record with guys hitting ...
Good Point - BUT they do OK with RISP at least in two of three games.
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Thank you for illustrating how useless batting average is as a statistic.
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OT: A Friend of mine is looking to secure 4 tickets for the Twins/Cubs game for June 13th. If anyone knows who I can have him talk to send me a message. Thanks.
On a semi-related note, this team is starting to remind me of the 2004 edition. Lots of talent not playing to it's potential. This team though has a gaping hole up the middle (as much as I love TheRiot, it's hard to play both the kajun kids when one is struggling), Aaron Miles doesn't inspire confidence, and the bullpen blows.
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$100 per for shitty seats if he's interested...
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"A Friend of mine is looking to secure 4 tickets for the Twins/Cubs game for June 13th."
That is gonna be impossible, unless your friend wants to spend some real money. Probably one of the 2 or 3 most desirable summer games.
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I pretty much told him that any weekend games in the summer are going to be difficult to get, let alone to get 4 of them. I told him stubhub and some other sites, and that normally if you go to the scalpers you can bleacher seats at face value.
Unrelated note: Cubs worth $700 million http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4090999
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Dear Cubs, please quit losing games. Daddy's been very angry.
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This drama is already getting on my fucking nerves and it's only late April of his first year.
I've always been a Hendry supporter, but I really, really hate the 08-09 offseason. DeRosa, Wood, oh how I miss thee.
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What do I win for being the first to call 'bullshit' on Pinhead?
"Nothing has put me over the edge," he replied. "I don't play people unless they're totally healthy. That's been my M.O. throughout my managerial career. With Milton, when he's ready to play, we'll put him out there."
Remind me, who's been the Cubs manager the last two years when Soriano was playing at 85% because of leg woes?
Not that I don't like the decision, it's probably the right one based on his loafing last night, but players don't like it when you stare them in the face and lie, then go to the press and lie to them and Milton probably likes it less than most.
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Are you guys believers yet about Cincy? I predicted long ago that they would shock everyone and make a run at the wildcard.
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It is tough to be a believer in a team when the manager is going to cost them 10-12 games a year. :)
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When Dusty came to the Cubs as a manger he was 11 games over his expected pythagorean wins.
In his four years with the Cubs he was 7 under.
If you want to use that as a barometer of managerial skill, then he got us into the playoffs in '03 and cost us a spot in '04.
He's 4 over so far with the Reds.
However, I think a lot of us hard-core Dusty haters would say that given his rosters, the teams pretty consistently under achieved when it comes to run differential, so even if he has a knack of over-performing his pythagorean record (outside of Chicago), that is probably better explained by him turning 7-4 vicories into 6-5 victories than any managing acumen.
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If Vinny Del Negro can get a team to the playoffs, anyone can. That team has alot of young talent and if it matures this year they will be in the race for a playoff spot, especially if the Mets and Phils continue to play at a millquetoast level. It is only game 14 guys, so I would not get to wound up. Do you really think the AL playoffs will include Toronto and Seattle? We are only 2 games down in the division and a half game out of the Wild Card. I dont think we can really draw conclussions about worrisome trends until atleast game 35, which is roughly about a fifth of the season and we are still 21 games from that point.
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They've got a solid rotation, now that Harang is good again, a decent lineup despite having no leadoff hitter and a good closer. I'd say they are the 2nd best team in the division. I didn't bother to point it out earlier, because I know you all want to read my predictions about as much as you want to read Manny's recaps.
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I really don't like the Cards' defense. The Wellemeyers and Lhose' of the world are not going to look as good as they have in the past with that team playing behind them. Their best offense has got 5 inferior defenders (Glaus, Duncan, Ankiel, Schumaker and Ludwick). I think we're being fooled now by their hot starts with the bats. I'll eat a pretty big shoe if the Cardinals continue to have a .380 OBP and score 6 runs per game.
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Remember that last year they were in it despite having a run differential hovering around even. Their luck just evened out. New GM doesn't understand the synergistic effect of good defenders like old GM did. I'd guess that they will be in the 75 to 84 win range, assuming no Pujols injury. I would put the Reds maybe 2 games better than that, assuming their rotation and good hitters stay in there.
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Numbers from where?
What I can quickly find:
1st half: 23 runs above even .552 winning percentage.
(Cubs for reference 106 runs above even and won 4 more games. So they turned 83 runs more than their opponents into 4 more wins. This should have been 8-9 more wins).
2nd half: 31 runs above even .500 winning percentage.
On the season Runs/Runs Allowed Pythogorean 86 wins. For the real season they had 86 wins. 7th grade math, assuming you're in Pre-algebra at that point tells you that they overacheived during the first half, which is most of the season. 'Hovering around even' is symantics' but when the team your chasing is scoring more than a run a game over their opponents, and you're scoring about .25 a game above yours, I'd call that hovering.
Division, it's a bitch.
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At the end of the season they weren't in competition with the Cubs. When they had the Cubs in hailing distance, it was at the same time they were significantly outperforming their expected wins. When that evened out - they finished way back - in 4th place as a matter of fact.
Re: Cincy has a decent lineup
You're talking about one of the worst scoring teams in major league baseball. We just lost 2/3 at home to a team that can't hit a lick.
In the NL only San Francisco is worse.
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You're right. The Reds can't score runs and Toronto is going to break the major league record for runs scored.
Good catch.
Cincy has a pathetic lineup
Given the gaping holes in their offense,nobody, except maybe you, foresees the Reds being a run-scoring machine this year. So far they have NOT disppointed.
Nope, their hopes ride on pitching, defense and Dustbag Magic.
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You know you're smart when you read "a decent lineup" and turn that into "a run scoring machine".
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BR says the Reds are 13th in the league in scoring, despite batting .219.
Facts, they're a bitch.
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Pitching and defense, fellas. It's how you build a team that will win consistently.
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I was hoping for the headline "A Whole Votto Love Does in Cubs".
Re: Muskat scores an exclusive
Funny. He's urged to talk to the media, so he "calls Muskat over" to talk about how he doesn't like to give interviews. *high fives Bradley*
Re: as Milton Bradley's World Turns
"I never had a problem in my life until I started playing baseball. All of a sudden, there are all these things. I just want to be me. I just want to be that guy who plays baseball and enjoys his teammates and has a good time. That's what I do."
This is an odd quote. What person has a problem with the media until they are in the public spotlight?
I'm sure Blago never had many problems in his life until he became a politician.
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bradley's problems with baseball go all the way back to his youth. he lived in the hood...kids from his hood didn't play much baseball. as he grew older and talented he got hell for it in his neighborhood for playing with a bunch of white kids and supposedly he didn't have a lot of friends on his teams because they didn't run in near the same crowds outside of the game.
not like that's some blank check to be a hothead or distant, but milton is what he is and it doesn't seem like he wants to be a thug even if he's got some social/communication stuff to work on.
Re: and now Wittenmyer is peeved
It's like everything i said about Bradley before, and right when he was signed has come true, and it's only 3 weeks into the season.
Wittenmyer comes right out and calls bullshit on Bradleys excuse. But this is also an old tactic that Bradley uses to continually play the victim. Always blaming someone else but himself. Creating a controversy out of thin air where one doesn't exist. Got the victim mentality, mixed in with some racism, rinsed with stupidity, and just a pinch of uncontrolled rage.
My other complaint about Bradley milking his injuries and playing this day to day injury excuse got Pinella pissed.....
Bradley walked into Piniella's office Thursday morning and told Piniella that his strained right groin still is not 100 percent.
Although many players take the field at less than 100 percent, an exasperated-sounding Piniella seemed to want an end to the uncertainty.
Put his ass on the DL. Sorry Lou but Bradley is going to keep doing this until the day he is DFAed. And he will be by the end of his contract with the Cubs.
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But that right there is a journalist coloring what happens with his own biases.
"Although many players take the field at less than 100 percent, an exasperated-sounding Piniella seemed to want an end to the uncertainty."
If Reed Johnson said he wasn't 100% and needed a few more days rest, would that same quote have been written? Hell no.
You and Wittenmyer can have your vendetta against Bradley, but just know that it's not going to do the Cubs any good at all.
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And now you all see when I was talking about hopefully the Bradley situation doesn't become a JJ situation, which it now has started getting really close to.
So in just 14 games, Bradley has managed to get hurt, ejected, suspended, get one hit (1-23 w/a .043 AVG), get booed by the Wrigley faithful and boycotted the media. Am I missing anything?
Re: and now Wittenmyer is peeved
Should have traded for Pat Burrell instead.
... I'm just saying.
Pat Burrell <3
Re: and now Wittenmyer is peeved
Or signed Raul Ibanez?
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Overall I had some chores and stopped watching this game when it was 1-0 in the 6th. The Cubs offense wasn't encouraging and worse than that I doubted the bullpen would hold them to 1. I was sadly right on both counts.
I don't think Samardzija is the answer in the pen at all. He had a hot 6 weeks last year and then was pretty average. He's prone to wildness also, just the kind of thing that gets on Lou's nerves.
There have been stretches each of the last 2 years early in the season where the Cubs have looked pretty bad only to regroup. Let's hope this is another one of those times.
Today I had flashbacks of ghosts of Cubbie past when they would bring in big sluggers (George Bell, Candy Maldanado) and closers (Dave Smith, Mel Rojas, Rick Aguilera) only to have those guys pretty much completely crap out. I hope that isn't the case with Bradley and Gregg this hurt. It will hurt pretty bad.
Oh one more thing, Zambrano! I don't know of any other pitcher in baseball who loses his compusure so often and so easily. Every little thing that doesn't go his way completely ruffles the guy. From a bad at bat, a bad bounce, everything. I sadly thought today that I would be happy to see a guy like him melt down if I was the opposing team or an opposing fan. It doesn't take much to get it done.
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Oooh, off-topic, but Robocop is on IFC right now. Just thought you would like to know.
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Was Robocop an independent movie? I really scratched my head when I saw that one in the listings.
And speaking of Cubs and Robocop:
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It wasn't neither was Scanners which is what the show also.
IFC just can't show Blind Swordsman every day.
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Scanners? SUH-WHEET!!!!
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from ESPN: Ryan Theriot (.375 BA, .436 OBP): "It looks like he has done some things to help him handle the inside pitch, so it wouldn't surprise me to see a big season -- but not this big."
Really? You're sure the riot won't be hitting .375 all year? Amazing
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The big secret with the riot is there is no secret. He goes with the pitch. He can handle the bat with a compact swing and can recognize balls and strikes.
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I think the big secret with Theriot is the .419 BABIP - shrug.
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He's not going to hit 400 all year and I'm not claiming he will, dunderhead. He's a good hitter, though, and my original point remains intact.
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I wasn't the one who made the sarcastic remark about him batting .375, dunderhead.
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Just beginning to track the minors...
- Where's Cashner? Did the Cubs mistakenly cut ALL former #1 picks by checking the wrong box?
- Guess not, just saw Colvin's name...at Daytona? Maybe he can have Ryan Harvey's locker. The Cubs impressive record with their #1 picks continues.
The Basketball Hall of Fame just called -- apparently, they have been told to halt construction of the Derrick Rose wing.
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Big Andy Cash is at extended spring training with a minor injury and Colvin is at Daytona because they have the full-time DH at Daytona and he is recovering from Tommy John Surgery.
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Speaking of missing persons, I notice that Justin Sellers is now in the Dodger organization, at Chattanooga (AA). Not sure how/when that happened.
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in considering this weekend old home week i will make a prediction that there will be a aaron miles sighting this
weekend and it will be a positive outcome for the first time
this year.
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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
All right, I've gotten so sick of the Luna jingle they're playing at Wrigley this year after every run and XBH that I decided to create an online petition to try to stop it:
You can hear it over the telecast, but if you haven't been to a game this year you really can't fully understand how annoying it is. It's gotten so bad that a part of me was happy after Wednesday night's shutout because they couldn't play it once since the Cubs didn't score and only had singles.
Anyway, please sign it and tell your friends about it.
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Done and done. I have a friend with a dog named Luna. I won't pet the dog until they remove the jingle.
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"7 Total Signatures"
And we make up three of them...
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Hey, we're up to 9 now. I've sent the link to a couple websites (Chicagoist, Deadspin), but I kind of doubt it will have any national interest. This is going to have to be a grassroots campaign, so tell everyone you know or link the petition in any other blogs you guys read.
Re: Lineup changes this weekend...
"Theriot is hitting the ball really well, so I need to get him in the front of the lineup,"
And by really well I mean 8 for 32 with 1 BB and 5 strikeouts over his last 8 games.
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I can cherry pick too... I think by really well Lou means 8 for 24 over his last 6 games, .360 OBP, .417 SLG
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With a what, .450 BABIP?
If he's not hitting HR's and he's striking out - that's not hitting well. Sorry.
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Punk'd... admit it, bro.
If he's not hitting HR's and he's striking out - that's not hitting well...
Nice try, though. I'll give you that.
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The guy's one for his last 8. With no BB's and a K. That's a 80 K rate for the year, and his one hit was a single.
I know Wisc gets an erection every time Theriot's named gets mentioned, but if the guy was batting .600 after the first week and now he's hitting .365, even his most staunch supporter should be able to face the facts and say to himself 'Well, his batting average is falling, maybe he's not hitting well'.
I am not bashing him, but the truth is right now he is not hitting well - he's not controlling the strike zone and he's not driving the ball. The only thing he has done well over the last 10 days is had a disproportionate number of groundballs turn into singles.
It's just more evidence of Lou's increasing detachment from reality.
I don't have a problem with him batting second if we've got Johnson or Gathright in the lineup on a daily basis, just don't stay stupid shit when you put him there. Is that so much to ask?
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By the way, where do you get BABIP stats?
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Fangraphs on the season.
Do them in my head most of the time.
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Thanks, considering cutting some dead weight from my fantasy team...
But on Theriot, hitting well or not so well right now, the point is Theriot is a good hitter and perfect for hitting 2nd.
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Okay, so what's median for BABIP? About 333? 350?
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I dunno. Never seen it anywhere, just generalizations Looks like it was about .300 for 2008.
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If you're talking straight statistically, those lineup maker formulae will say to put your best hitter in the #2 slot. Theriot doesn't strike out a lot, can hit the ball the other way (though not at will like say Sandberg could), and will take a walk which are things that you want in a 2nd hitter. He also rarely gets extra base hits and hits into double plays at an alarming rate: 9 more than an average hitter over the last two years (I think that because he hits the ball where the pitchers pitch it, every time they get a guy on first they just throw the ball over the inside part to Theriot and he grounds to SS) and the knack for stealing bases he displayed in his first two years seems to be gone.
On a good offensive team, which is what we should be once everyone gets going, Theriot should be batting 9th formulaicilly or 8th reasonably. If Soriano was moved down, I would say bat him 1st, but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
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The point is you went back 8 games to get his two 0-4s, and now you are going back just 2 games because he was 0-4 two days ago. Going back 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 games his stats look great. So it depends on what Lou means by recently. If he is thinking the Cards and Reds series, then he is 8/24 and doing well. And all you have been doing is pointing out that his high average from the start of the sesaon is unrealistic, yet now you say that since he is no longer hitting .600 he is not hitting well. Don't you think it might be possible for him to have his average fall from .600 yet STILL be hitting well, like say at a .333 clip?
I only get into it when you turn the topic to Theriot because you criticize him with a vengeance like he fucked your mom or something. I thus feel I have to defend him.
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Wisc, take my hand. Take a deep breath, and say it with me.
1 walk, 5 K's, no home runs. This is not hitting well.
Ok, let's say it again.
1 walk, 5 K's, no home runs. This is not hitting well.
On the season he's 'hit' very well, due to a BABIP that is unrealistically high, if you want to define hitting as 'the vagaries of batting average given a 52 AB sample size'. He doesn't have a home run, and his ISO OBP isn't impressive, especially if you take out the IBB, which he won't get batting second. For whatever reason he's become a poor basestealer and due to his high GB rate he's a double play waiting to happen.
These are all facts.
Like I said, bat him second until Soto and Bradley get going, or better yet, move Soriano and bat him first. But to mistake him for a great or even good hitter, and to pretend like he's some un-appreciated all-star is just silly, and demand that he bat second because he's white and generally doesn't strike out much is just as silly.
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Take a sample size of any hitter and your bound to find shit Real Neal.
How about some facts for you.
For the season batting .365 with a .424 OBP, 6 BB, 5 K's. For 400k.
He has only had 3 games in which he hasn't registered a hit so far this season.
You didn't pull your sample size out of your ass when he had 5 BB and no strikeouts.
You know what isn't good? 1 fucking hit for 10 million dollars from our RF.
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So now it's walks and Ks and home runs over a new set of game that defines hitting well? Ok, gotcha. Theriot will never hit homeruns so I guess he is not a good hitter.
He is not a superstar, and I don't demand that he bat second. But to say that he is not even a "good hitter"? Really? In 1300 career ABs his OBP is .365; and in 2008-2009 he is hitting .312 with a .390 OBP. If someone who gets on base nearly 4 of 10 times is not "even a good hitter" then your standards are whack.
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"Theriot will never hit homeruns so I guess he is not a good hitter."
Should have just ended your post there. I didn't bother to read the rest. What part of 90 OPS+ is too complicated for you to grasp?
Re: Piece on Matt Harrington
Just makes you realize what a crap shoot any kind of draft is whether its the NFL, NBA or MLB. Of course the Cubs have a pretty horrible track record but it happens all over for every team in every sport.
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I find it somewhat amusing when the sun-times beat reporter is "cut and pasting" the cubs.com reporter's articles. You'd think he'd at least provide a link to make sure it wasn't misquoted.
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anyone with info on Blake Parker as a bullpen prospect at AA/Tenn?
off to a nice start in 5 IP, 2BB/12K. No runs.
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April is too early for this kind of intensity. Heck, it seems like 3 weeks into the season we should be talking about how Mariano Rivera has blown about 4-5 games and baseball news consists solely of "What's wrong with Rivera?"
Instead we have a turning point series with the Cardinals this weekend. We'll see if the Cubs get back in their game or get caught up in the negativity and series loss with the Reds.
And I'm just going to say it about Wittenmyer... I think if Bradley is a white guy, Wittenmyer isn't picking fights with him. Just my opinion, flame it if you want, but dude, leave him alone.
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"So in just 14 games, Bradley has managed to get hurt, ejected, suspended, get one hit (1-23 w/a .043 AVG), get booed by the Wrigley faithful and boycotted the media. Am I missing anything?"
Manny, it's been a long time coming, but I agree with ya.
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Ok, well we got our one time agreement quota out the way for this year, see you in 2010...:)
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IS there any reasonable explanation why Bradley was not placed on the DL?
Re: why Bradley was not placed on the DL?
I'm guessing he's not all that injured.
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They don't expect his groin will take 14 days more to heal and they still have him available for pinch hitting.
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Looks like the bradley stories are making their rounds now.
ESPN has theirs up: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4095214
While I do understand the principal part of not accepting the suspension, it makes total sense to serve it now to get it out of the way while he isn't playing anyways. He is just letting it linger and with his surely attitude letting it fester is not a good idea.
And he states he is not close to returning, so I, like E-Man have no clue why he isn't on the DL.
The season is still very very very young, but things are not playing out very well for Hendry and the Cubs thus far.
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"so I, like E-Man have no clue why he isn't on the DL"
In your link there it says:
"Piniella said Bradley would be available to pinch-hit."
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In my opinion that is not a good enough reason not to DL him if he is still not close to being 100%. In fact, PH could make the injury worse and we have already seen him not hustling while PH, so not sure how much he could help the team PH.
Re: ESPN "article"
"I want to say I am, but I'm not," Bradley told Cubs.com.
Bradley has not spoken to the media in at least a week. He spoke to Cubs.com because it is affiliated with the Cubs organization, the Web site said.
That article is a piece of crap. A total diss of Carrie Muskat who scooped the rest of the sports media. Correct me if I am wrong, BUT..She is NOT an employee of the Cubs and Cubs.com articles are not subject to approval by the Chicago Cubs. Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.Com and parts of her interview with Bradley can be found on her Muskat Ramblings blog.
Re: ESPN "article"
Cubs.com is part of MLB.com. MLB.com is owned by MLB. The Cubs are affiliated with MLB, they get lots of money from them every year, including money generated through MLB.com.
Re: ESPN "article"
AT the bottom of every Muskat article it says,
"Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs."
Is that clear enough?
Re: ESPN "article"
It's clear that you don't know what you're talking about.
MLB and the 30 MLB teams are essentially sister companies. Bradley works for one of the 30 MLB teams, and Muskett works for MLB. Some of the revenue from the shared sources winds up in Carrie's and Milton's pockets.
What part don't you understand?
Re: ESPN "article"
What I don't understand is the difference between that and Bradley and Sullivan both working for the Tribune.
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A diagram would be better, but some basic differencs.
Musket works for Cubs.com. Bradley works for 'The Chicago Cubs'.
The Tribue is owned by the Tribune Corp, which also owns the Cubs. The Tribune does not, send money to the Cubs.
The Cubs are part owner of MLB. MLB sends money directly to the Cubs. Some small portion of that money is the money derived from the Cubs.com web site.
So, if Bradley gives an interview that drives MLB.com subscriptions, that goes to pay his paycheck.
If he gives an interview that sells newspapers, he never gets any of that newspaper money.
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All you get from DL'ing him is an extra roster spot for some scrub from Iowa. What? Fox? Is Fox really going to help the team?
A: No.
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Bradley is not helping the team right now either. And by DLing him you drastically eliminate the chance of him reinjuring his injury.
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all this crap about bradley and bwwwwwwahhh bwwwwwwwahhh media...
why don't one of those "reporters" go find the story that lead to viz getting released rather than trying to turn 3 days of new out of 1 press conference after a closed-door meeting. oh no...reporter A, B, and C can't do their milton stories...go find another one.
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Or maybe call out Piniella on his differential treatment of Soriano over Bradley.
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I would love to hear about Viz's release, but not sure if there is anymore to say besides it was the move Hendry and Lou wanted to make. You'd think by now someone in Hendry's office would leak the story so to make some sense of it.
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Now that I think about it for a second, they're still trying to trade or have this guy picked up on waivers. There probably won't be any bad mouthing until after he leaves (if ever).
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Supposedly Vizcaino was late to the ballpark on three different occasions, one of the three he was pretty hungover. At least that's the rumor. Three strikes and yer out, Viz.
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If he's showing up late/unprepared, don't they have a case for getting back part of his salary?
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If that rumor is true, how about fining and/or suspending him first? Why cut off your nose to spite your face by letting one of your better relievers go and keeping vastly inferior relievers?
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Maybe they did fine him? Such fines are not always made public.
Suspensions just hurt the team... there is little value to a team suspending a player that is taking a roster spot.
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Tell that to Milton Bradley...:)
And a 3-game suspension to a reliever is not a big loss to the team. It save the Cubs some money and sends a public message of their disapproval.
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It sends the public a message of their disaproval which the public had no knowledge about?
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Exactly, now they would be making it public as the next step in the process of trying to straighten him out, explaining why the fine/suspension. Of course this is all if the rumors are true which we have had no verification of.
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It doesn't make any sense. If you want to internally suspend him, you can do that and the public wouldn't even be aware. There's no value making the public aware of the problem or the suspension, unless you feel you need to Sammy-Sosa him out of town. I don't think the Cubs sold 3 million Vizcaino jerseys this year, so that most likely isn't an issue.
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I can't say for sure, but maybe, just maybe, since Lou and Rothschild see Vizcaino every day, and watch him throw on the side they think he's not one of their better relievers. And maybe since they've been watching pitchers every day of their entire professional fucking careers they don't think any of the other Cubs relivers are inferior to Vizcaino.
That maybe they see more and know more than you, Mannny.
Of course, that's just my hypothesis.
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Thanks for your hypothesis. But the numbers in games just don't bear that out unless Lou and Rothschild and Hendry are watching a different team than I am.
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By the way... for all of those who don't like Soriano in the lead off slot....
On the Cubs, Soriano is:
#1 in PAs with the bases loaded
#2 in PAs with RISP
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I'm curious is that would be skewed by Soriano's all or nothing tendencies. Would Ramirez-Lee-Fukudome have more opportunities if there was a more typical lead-off hitter in front of them? In other words, Soriano solo homers or cleans off the bases for all that follow.
That's still pretty amazing, though.
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Well... Derrek Lee is #1 with RISP.
Even if you took at Soriano's 5 HR's, he would currently have a .333 OBP. Not great... but not awful, considering you are taking away 5 of his hits in a small sample size.
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I'm not speaking specifically about homeruns...although that's what I implied. I just mean he's the type of player that is going to clean off bases rather than leave them loaded for the next batters.
Meaning, if Reyes or Roberts or Theriot is leading off, they'd have the same opportunities, but the guys that follow might have even more opportunities.
Don't know if this is correct. That's just what I'm wondering.
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5hr, 4 doubles...9 rbi
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From the same guy who was bitching in the last thread (incorrectly) about sample size issues...
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Huh? Do you even know why sample sizes are relevant?
I posted the above numbers because I thought it was ironic. The #1 reason people want Soriano further down in the lineup is to get him more RBI opportunities. And this season, he has arguably, so far, actually gotten more opportunities batting lead off.
Nowhere did I say that it was indicative of the whole season. Nowhere did I say that it would continue. Nowhere did I imply that it was indicative of anything.
And yea... you are right. I incorrectly bitched about your idiotic use of Soriano's 9 at-bats this season as if they were relevant about anything.
Except I wasn't incorrect. Because you then responded, not with stats, but with, "But I have seen him look bad" with the bases loaded. Awesome.
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Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.


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The tremendous success of China's economic reform has attracted worldwide attention. Using a historical, comparative and analytic approach grounded in mainstream economics, Lin gave a lecture on the key reasons for China's successful economic reform. Lin attributed this to the country's successful harnessing of its comparative advantages and its "advantage of backwardness" and encouraged developing countries today to build their industrial policies on the same dual track.
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"We at UNIDO have seen that, over the past few years, industrial policy has experienced a renaissance. It is no longer a question of whether or not to have one, but what it should entail. This of course has to be tailor-made for each country and UNIDO is dedicated to assisting its member states in developing this," Luetkenhorst said.
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The Patriots should be strong in the trenches this season, but they will open their campaign with some largely untested skill-position players.
"We lost some guys in the secondary and on offense we lost all our skill guys," Fort Dorchester coach Steve LaPrad said. "Our question mark going into the season is our skill positions."
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"We feel like our strength is our front seven on defense," LaPrad said. "They are all juniors who played last year. Up front offensively we feel like we could possibly be as good as we have ever been. We have three linemen back who started every game last year plus another who played quite a bit."
The Patriots finished last season with a 5-6 record and missed the playoffs for the first time since LaPrad took over. However, several of the losses came in tight games so LaPrad is optimistic about the new season.
"All the starters who were so young last season are a year older and a year wiser," he said.
Myles White, Eurndraus Bryant and Eugene March all return to the defensive line. White and Bryant are both D-1 prospects. Bryant dropped 45 pounds over the summer so LaPrad is expecting him to be a true force.
"Bryant will be a big key for us and we hope to play him on both sides of the ball," LaPrad said. "When he is full speed and not tired, he is unblockable but he was too large last year so he ran out of gas at times. He and Kevyne Flores pretty much bottle up the middle for us."
Flores is one of four linebackers returning to the team with starting experience. He and fellow senior David Govan started there the past two seasons. Senior Ryan Chaya and junior Daniel Finley are also returning starters. Finley missed the last half of the season due to a leg injury.
Juniors Wanyae Fludd and Trent Barnes, both transfer students, should add good depth to the defensive front.
The only member of the Patriot secondary with much varsity experience is senior Deonta Morris. He and senior Cato Jenkins are the projected starters at cornerback. Juniors Jerod Lacy and Adrian McNeil will likely start at the safety positions.
"We will be young in the back, but we have put a lot of our efforts into helping those guys improve," LaPrad said.
The Fort returns four starters to the offensive line.
Junior Cody Meree returns at center. Senior Nick Tononi returns at right guard. Senior Tyese McDonald returns at tackle. Senior Brian Sanders was moved to defensive end last season but he returns to the offensive guard position this year.
Jordan Horne, a senior transfer from Florida, will likely play the tackle position opposite of McDonald.
"They have all been in the fire," LaPrad said. "Horne played on a state championship 6-A team in Tallahassee so he should really help. Depth is a concern on the offensive line but we have some defensive linemen who can also block. In fact, a lot of our second string on both sides of the ball will be from players going two ways."
The Patriots' quarterback, two leading rushers and leading receiver from last season graduated in May. However, the team does have some skill players with varsity experience as well as some promising younger skill guys.
"Matt Murray started in front of our other running backs last year before he tore his ACL so we feel pretty good about our ability to run the ball," LaPrad said. "We also have a few receivers who played a good bit."
Murray has earned the starting running back spot and transfer student Nahshon Cyrus, a senior, will also likely spend a lot of time in the offensive backfield. Sophomore Datron James has also shown great promise at the position.
Senior receiver D'Monte Bailey returns after finishing last season as the Patriots second-leading receiver. He made 15 receptions last year for 267 yards. Seniors Rashad Palmer and Corey Rawlings are also back after seeing considerable action as receivers. Both are versatile athletes who may line up at multiple positions. Newcomer Diondre Champaigne adds depth to the receiver corps.
The Patriots worked out three quarterbacks in the preseason. Junior Kobe Garrett is the projected starter but Rawlings and senior Colt Davis have both shown promise at the position the past two seasons.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
For Christians, December is the holiest of months. For others, it's the start of the holiday season and celebrations for many faiths.
For many in the Lowcountry, their season officially starts with the Bethany UMC Living Christmas Story.
In its 19th year, the church gives the event to the community at no charge, as its Christmas gift.
While it all began 2013 years ago in Bethlehem, it began here, in 1995 when then Minister of Christian Education, Ruth Ann Ivey, thought it might be nice to have a living nativity. Her thoughts were moderate…perhaps a manger scene with live animals, Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus…so they earmarked a small amount of money in the church budget for it.
Then she went to a gathering of the South Carolina Christian Educators Fellowship in Columbia and got into a conversation with someone from the Irmo UMC who described the extensive living nativity in Irmo.
Ivey came back to Summerville, shared what she learned with her tiny committee, which embraced the idea and began working on it.
The path was not without some bumps, she says.
"We had some opposition…'there is no budget for this'…it was going to cost about $7,500."
"We said we would ask for donations, and we did, and raised $8,000 by the September deadline they [church elders] had given us."
The financial problem was solved but now they only had three months to build 19 sets, create some 200 plus costumes, find animals, recruit volunteers. But one of the tenets of the church is giving…time, talents, treasures…says Patrick Wylie, chair of the LCS committee for the past two years. So many, many people came together to make this happen and give the gift to the community.
Somehow they managed to pull it all together that first year, says Ivey.
"We set up 25 sewing machines in the fellowship hall and went to work. Hundreds of costumes later [actually 2,000], there were rack after rack of clothing for villagers, Roman soldiers, shepherds, kings and children and table after table of sandals, head scarves and other costume bits and pieces."
One member of the congregation, Ivey continues, "does Styrofoam construction stuff and he was a tremendous help."
The early LCS productions had 15 scenes. It has since grown to 19 scenes.
"We made lots of phone calls," says Ivey, "put in in the newsletters and recruited at Sunday School" in order to get the 200-plus performers to enact each of the events – two per night for three nights.
They rented lighting and sound equipment. They dressed the sets with both donated and purchased items. They spread straw and pine straw throughout. Windows to the church buildings were covered.
Darkness fell, the lights came up and the miraculous transformation of the Bethany UMC parking areas took place.
Bethlehem rose from the asphalt…Herod's court, the city gate, the synagogue, the carpenter's house, the blacksmith's, the well, the net menders, Roman guards on horseback, the Angel Gabriel, the market place, the sheep, the goats, the donkeys, the inn, the stable, the crèche, the child.
Ivey, who retired six years ago, still keep her hand in the annual event. Her daughter and grandsons participate and one of her sons-in-law is in charge of the Roman Soldiers.
"They call me an advisor," she laughs as she walks through the "town of Bethlehem."
Ivey says the committee that is responsible for the LCS, starts meeting in July or August and meets right up to the December opening. The chair of the committee oversees the production. In the beginning, says Ivey, it was Deb Wilson.
She chuckles and says the reaction to that first year was very positive.
Even the naysayers became believers.
"The community feedback is so positive," she says. "Some people say it is how they begin their holiday season and others say they look forward to it every year."
Only once, in 18 years, she says, have they had to cancel a night because of rain.
Thanks to the foresight and wisdom of Ivey and her committee, in the years since this began, costumes and sets are already constructed. They live most of the year in storage in a number of buildings.
The sets are simply put together a bit like puzzle pieces. Live plants are brought in, lights and sound are wired, backdrops are hung, windows blacked out, costumes unpacked and straw and sand spread. In just a week.
"We get the animals each year from Party Animals," says Wylie. "We always have sheep, goats and donkeys and sometimes we get a cow. We never know!"
Wylie says each year they see between 5,000 and 7,000 visitors. "We have had well over 100,000 people through here since it began," he says, excusing himself to answer his cell phone with a "Downtown Bethlehem!"
However, once Thursday comes there will be nary a cell phone in sight. Nor will there be eyeglasses, makeup, jewelry, socks or jeans.
Everyone on the Bethlehem set must be true to time period. They may wear flesh colored stockings if it is cold out.
"We have participants from all over," says Wylie. "Folks from other churches, not just ours."
Today's sub-committees include a secretary/treasurer, animals, casting, costumes, children's ministry, food, greeters, outreach, plants, props, publicity, security, sets, technical, lighting, sound, scene coordinators, traffic and trams.
Sign-ups for performance slots begin in October. Becky Wylie is overseeing that this year. She is stressed, she says.
However, the Bethany UMC minister, Dr. Bob Howell, tells them "don't worry, they will come."
And every year, say the Wylies, they do come and all the slots are filled.
"This year," says Becky Wylie, "we have more signed up ahead than every before."
These days, some of the volunteers are for security. The security guards volunteer for various patrol shifts throughout the night.
During the performances, Summerville Police Department manages traffic flow. They expect about 2,000 visitors per night. Visitors can either, drive through the exhibit or park and take one of the trams. No one is allowed in on foot.
And keep an eye out for a villager in green. That will be Ruth Ann Ivey.
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Former Durango resident Robert Linus Rathjen died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 at his home in Aztec. He was 87.
Known as �R.L.�, he was born to Robert and Gladys (Boren) Rathjen on June 28, 1925, in Aztec. The Rathjen family moved extensively throughout his childhood years because of Mr. Rathjen�s father�s construction career.
Mr. Rathjen graduated from Longmont High School and attended the old Fort Lewis College in Hesperus for about two years. While in Southwest Colorado, he met his future wife, Bonnie Smith, when he was working in his aunt�s restaurant, Jackie�s Drive-In, in Cortez.
On Nov. 22, 1948, the couple married in Englewood and lived there for a short time. They soon moved back to La Plata County, living in Durango and the West Animas Valley for a total of 50 years.
Mr. Rathjen initially worked for his wife�s father as a truck driver before he established his own business, first called Bob�s Excavation and then United Construction. In the early 1970s, his construction crew was involved in building one of the biggest projects in the area, Tamarron Resort, now associated with the Glacier Club. His family said Mr. Rathjen was �very proud of that project.�
In 1985, he retired, and he and his wife enjoyed traveling in their motor home throughout California and Arizona and boating in nearby Navajo and Vallecito reservoirs.
Mr. Rathjen had a real passion for golf that started in the 1960s, his family said, and he enjoyed teaching the sport to his grandchildren. He also enjoyed hunting, camping and being with his family.
Mr. Rathjen was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Bonnie Rathjen, in 2011; son Ricky Rathjen; and granddaughter Danielle Rathjen.
He is survived by his sons Doug Rathjen and Bobby Rathjen, both of Durango; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, at Hood Mortuary Chapel, 1261 East Third Ave. A funeral will take place at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, also at Hood. The Rev. Ron Tate will officiate. Burial will occur at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango.


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I wrote a few weeks ago about how I was turning the dreaded age of 30 and after a few weeks of living as a non-20 year old, I realize that it isn't that bad.
I look back at my life, being that I am now worldly, wise and fully entrenched in adulthood, and I am amazed at all the changes that have occurred during my time.
In my life I've seen Coca-Cola become Coke and then go back to Coca-Cola. I lived through the experiment of making both Coca-Cola and Pepsi clear.
The question of why you'd want a soda that looked like Sprite and tasted like Pepsi was answered with a simple, ''because we could.''
I've also been a part of the technology explosion. I learned how to play Oregon Trail on a Mac II in middle school and only a couple years later was on the Internet, researching high school term papers on why Pepsi and Coca-Cola experimented with clear sodas.
There is also the roller coaster ride of being a Cleveland sports fan. The Browns were very good, then OK, then gone, then back, then terrible, then OK and back to terrible. Or the Indians who were terrible, then bad, then OK, then great, then bad, then good, then bad and back to good.
I lived through hair metal, grunge rock, swing music, Creed, pop-punk and whatever is popular now. I say that, because like most, I decided to get off the music train where I liked it the most and have no regrets about not moving on. For example, I have no idea what a Nicki Minaj is and have no plan on ever finding out.
I've seen a few presidents, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and as a fan of patterns, maybe another Bush.
Pluto was a planet 30 years ago and now it isn't. Pluto was also Mickey Mouse's dog 30 years ago, and thankfully, some things haven't changed.
The fashions have changed so much since I was born and for good reason. Sorry, but the '80s were a rough time for everyone.
Steve Perry was the lead singer of Journey back then, but it's hard to tell if anyone in Journey now was in it back then.
I lived to see the dismantling of the U.S.S.R. and the fall of the Berlin Wall, two Iraq wars and several military missions that received highly publicized attention.
I've seen my heroes die and learned that true heroes aren't the ones making music or acting in films, they are the men and women who fight for this country, and the people who did all they could to raise us the right way.
My parents went from the most clueless people in the world to perhaps the smartest I know.
I've grown from a child to a teen to an adult and have taken the lessons I've learned in making sure I raise my sons the right way.
There are many moments in my life when I used to sit on the pier by the home I grew up in, and I would look out over the water and in those moments I would understand the small place I hold in this world.
Time continues to pass on by and things will continue to change, as will I. There will be many more things to come along that I don't now understand but will come to accept as part of everyday life, and that is part of what makes life so exciting.
The only things we know for sure are those that have already happened and I look forward to see what will come in the next 30 years.


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Just a few weeks after their graduation, Saint Vincent College graduates of the class of 2011 are reporting success in obtaining jobs and gaining acceptance to graduate and professional schools.
Courtney Baum, director of the Saint Vincent College Career Center, reported that many of this year's graduates have already reported career or continuing education success. "Ninety students got jobs right away," she noted. "Our students are doing exceptionally well. They are getting quality jobs and being accepted into first-rate graduate and professional programs even better than last year."
Ms. Baum noted that while some students have secure plans, others are still conducting their job search. "Some students don't start seeking employment until after graduation," she explained, "because they have focused on their academics or decided to wait until they return to the geographic area where they reside to seek a job closer to their families. Others are particular about the job they accept and its accompanying salary because they have invested in a quality education and know its potential value to employers. A few opt to take a year off and work part time to save money for future educational plans."
Professional school placement this year was consistent with Saint Vincent College's experience in recent years. "Acceptances to both law schools and schools of the allied health professions are good this year," Ms. Baum observed. "Six students will be starting law school in the fall at excellent schools including Ohio Northern (two students), University of Richmond, University of Dayton, Washington and Lee and Dickinson."
Pre-med students will attend Penn State Hershey, Jefferson and Temple Medical Schools, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) and the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Three pre-optometry students will attend Salus University and another will attend the University of Houston Optometry School. A pre-chiropractic student will attend Palmer School of Chiropractic. And two pre-veterinary students were accepted at Auburn and Tufts Veterinary Schools. Two pre-dental students will attend Virginia Commonwealth Dental School and the University of Pittsburgh Dental School. Other health profession students were accepted at Mount Union Physician Assistant Program, Duquesne Pharmacy, and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's Genetic Counseling Program.
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Despite the current economic conditions, many graduates are getting lucrative job offers. "The range of salaries that most students are reporting is from $30,000 to $50,000," Ms. Baum said, "but some are doing even better. Some of our top students received salaries up to $65,000 while others are even collecting signing bonuses from some of the top companies.
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Sculptor Robert Graham (1938-2008) died December 27. Born in Mexico City, the Los Angeles artist is represented by nearly forty works in LACMA's permanent collection. One of these is a major installation currently on view and entitled Retrospective Column I. In this sculpture, planes of bronze are punctuated and indented to reveal tiny sensual human forms, mostly of women but also of couples. In other sections of the towering, floor-to-ceiling column (it is 192 inches high and 30 inches square), large female figures emerge partially exposed from previously molten metal as if rising through water. First modeled in 1981, the sculpture was cast in 1986 for LACMA's then-new Anderson Building (facing Wilshire and now known as the Art of the Americas Building). In the light-filled triangular gallery it occupies on the third floor, Graham's Retrospective Column I envelops a permanent structural column of this building, cladding the load-bearing pillar in bronze and the figurative sculpture for which is he best known.
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This is where it all started, the park across the street from Jamestown High School.
This is where the stoners hang out, next to the black-painted cannon and memorials to war dead, smoking cigarettes and griping about school, even if they don't go any more. This is where Nushawn "Face" Williams made friends, made friends into customers, made friends into lovers.
Tammy Arnold sat on a stone bench here recently, remembering a week last October when the park swarmed with camera crews, cell-phone packing producers, Rottweiler reporters, all wanting the next fresh-faced student from Jamestown High to talk about Williams. Back then one of Tammy's friends confessed to being among the infected 13 while they were eating lunch in the school cafeteria. Tammy also knew Nushawn's main girl -- her half-sister, Amber Arnold. Amber's public devotion to Nushawn catapulted her onto the front page of the New York Times and into a star role on the Montel Williams Show.
A year after the furor, Tammy imagined what would happen if Nushawn Williams had to face a jury of her peers. "People would kill him. Right here," she says, gesturing at the park. "I know they would."
Yet even though the virus has touched those close to her, Tammy doesn't faithfully protect herself from HIV. She's had condomless sex with her boyfriend, presently serving a four-month sentence in the Chautauqua County Jail for selling drugs. She gets tested regularly, but he won't.
She has a welcome home present for him, though: a home HIV test kit.
She stays with him because he comforts her. And comfort overshadows the risk.
A year later, little has changed for the lost children of Jamestown.
Nushawn is back in New York City, in a Rikers Island cell. But the young people living couch to couch -- the dropouts, runaways and throwaways -- haven't gone anywhere. They were there before Nushawn, and they remain today.
It's not a Jamestown thing. There are kids like them in Buffalo, too, in any community big enough for teen-agers on their own to find like-minded friends, crashing on floors or renting apartments. When it comes time to look for answers, for guidance, all the parents they have are each other.
After Nushawn, Chautauqua County had to face the harsh reality that some of its children weren't hearing -- or heeding -- the most basic lessons about sexual self-protection in the age of AIDS. These children valued their own lives so cheaply that they traded uncertain futures for immediate comfort.
"It's more important to some of these kids to have someone to hold them than to worry about whether they're going to live to a ripe old age," said Dr. Neal Rzepkowski, an AIDS specialist treating Chautauqua County people with HIV, including several of Nushawn's alleged victims. "Sex goes on, even in the eye of the storm."
If anyone should have wised up after Nushawn, it should have been the girls and young women he allegedly infected with HIV. Weren't they sentenced to live the rest of their lives taking precautions against spreading the virus?
The bleak truth is that out of 13, at least two have told friends that they are still having unprotected sex with men who don't know they carry the virus. In other words, Nushawning them.
"I'm going to take as many with me as I can," one told a friend. "I don't want to die alone."
A condom can protect against a virus. But what can protect against not caring?
Another young woman infected by Nushawn has a boyfriend who knows she carries the virus, but loves her anyway. Loves her so much that when she wants a baby, he agrees to make it with her -- the old-fashioned way. It could be years before the loving couple knows whether they share more than a baby.
Yet another of the infected girls started dating again, and met a guy. She decided not to tell him about the virus yet. They're were having safe sex, and she didn't want to scare him off.
Later, a condom broke. She decided not to tell him. Since she's was taking medicine, she wasn't extremely infectious, she reasoned. He probably wouldn't get it.
Still later, they ran out of condoms, and the fall was complete.
If I refuse to have sex without a condom, won't he ask why it's so important?
Layer by layer, she has abandoned all the safety she was taught. Truly, now she understands Nushawn.
If Nushawn showed up today, he could still find plenty of street kids to befriend. Ugly family situations haven't gotten any better. Teens still get hit or abused or angry and storm for the door. They stay with friends, then friends of friends, then wherever they can without being woken by police.
In the first floor of the Safe House, the Jamestown teen shelter he runs, Matt Milovich racks his brain and thought of the question:
What difference has a year made?
Well, when they get a kid in the shelter, usually they try to reach out to the parents, tell them where their kid has landed, hopefully start patching up their relationship. This year, Milovich says, more than ever, he hears: "Keep them."
Sure, his agency has gotten extra money since Nushawn, allowing two outreach workers to go full time. For the first time, the shelter has been designated a United Way agency.
With a $5,000 grant, shelter staffers assemble "survival kits" to give teens who won't come in. Condoms, a granola bar, a T-shirt, deodorant, a toothbrush, hat, gloves and a coupon for a burger meal don't seem like much to ward off the danger of the street, Milovich agrees. They're better than nothing.
But there aren't any "one-time fixes," Milovich says.
If the toxic cocktail that drives a few kids from every classroom to the streets -- bad or no parenting, hopelessness, hopelessness fueled with teen wildness -- hasn't changed, why should the kids? Put yourself in their shoes, he suggests.
"If I didn't give a s--- about myself then," he asks, "why should I give a s--- about myself now?"
Here's the short version of how Heidi Waite got to the Safe House.
First, she ran away from her adoptive mother's house after a fight. Then she fled to a boyfriend's, where they broke up and she was kicked out. A friend's house: kicked out. Another friend: kicked out. Then to her birth mother's place for three days.
Finally, she got a place of her own: the castoff couch by the dumpster behind the Big Lots store.
Here's a surprise: Heidi aches for adults who care enough to tell her what to do.
"I can't get away with anything, which is what I did with my mom," Heidi says, lounging in a chair outside her bedroom at the Safe House. "But I like that. I used to just party and come home at an awkward time, and she didn't care."
She started dabbling in drugs young.
"Crack cocaine," she yawns. "Heroin. Speeders. But I quit all the heavy drugs at 14, and went to pot and drinking."
She's made new friends at her Narcotics Anonymous meetings, people she can trust. She doesn't want to date at the moment, but she goes out with her NA sponsor, anyway.
"I could (say no), but..." her voice trails off.
"I always had a boyfriend. Since I was like 8."
A year ago, outside the county health clinic -- red pinprick from the HIV test fresh in her arm -- the 17-year-old talked about the future.
She wouldn't get caught in dead-end life. She had plans for college, move out on her own. She felt sorry for Face, and understood his need to fight the loneliness. "If he wouldn't have felt so alone, he wouldn't have gone and done this," she said then.
A year later, she has found her own brand of loneliness.
Her boyfriend's baby moves inside her. It will be half black, and she is anticipating the jeers of classmates who already label her a "nigger-lover."
Her dream of independence has burnt to a cinder. She can't even move out of her father's place.
"Having a baby worries me," she says, "but a lot of women in our family had kids young, and they handled it."
Her party days -- when she smoke and drank the night away with Nushawn and guys like him -- are history, she says. She's a mother now.
She wants what any mother would want: a comfortable house. A big yard. A way out of the cycle of neediness and hopelessness that leads to the easy, dangerous comfort than men like Nushawn have to offer.
"I'll probably have to settle for a lot less."
Andrew Z. Galarneau and Nicole Peradotto are staff writers for The News.


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LISBON - Their descriptions of the man and his van may not have been identical, but two years later five Salem teens testified Wednesday in Common Pleas Court about their alleged encounters with Joseph Kalbfell.
Kalbfell, 54, Olive Street, Salem, is charged with one count of importuning for allegedly asking a then 12-year-old boy to allow Kalbfell to perform oral sex on him.
Additionally during a two-day period in September 2010, testimony indicates Kalbfell may have approached four other youngsters - three girls and another boy - and made lewd comments. He allegedly yelled these comments from the driver's seat of his van, which was described differently by the children, who at times just after the incident and in court referred to it as gray, grayish purple, purplish-gray and even bluish.
The now 14-year-old boy the importuning charge relates to testified first. He claimed he was pushing his bicycle with a flat tire in the area of Pershing and Ohio Avenue on Sept. 2 when Kalbfell, stopped at a red light, commented on his posterior. The boy said he responded by calling Kalbfell a derogatory name. He testified Kalbfell admitted he was gay and made the offer to perform oral sex. Again the boy reportedly called him the derogatory name and Kalbfell drove away.
The boy testified he called his mother's boyfriend, who agreed to meet him at Reilly Stadium on Pershing Street. While there, the boy testified he saw the van and he saw Salem patrolman David Banner. He told Banner what had happened and pointed out the van, which he described in court as grayish color, loudish, an older model, with a right or left tail light out.
Banner later testified he stopped the van, which he confirmed had a right tail light out and talked to Kalbfell about the accusations, which he denied. While the boy testified Banner asked him to ride by on his bike to see if it was the same man in the van, Banner testified the boy did that on his own.
When he was later questioned by Detective David Talbert, Kalbfell tried to indicate the boy had asked him for a cigarette and he knew he was underage. Kalbfell told investigators he believed the boy was telling this story to get back at him for refusing to give him the cigarette.
"I should've given the underage boy a cigarette is what I should have done," Kalbfell said in a taped statement from the day he was charged, which was played in court on Wednesday. "I'd rather be arrested for that than what he accused me of."
During his testimony, the now 14-year-old boy said he did not smoke at the time Kalbfell approached him, but admitted he does smoke now. He denied at that time using alcohol or drugs, other than those he needed to take at the time for his Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and ODD, which he could not explain to defense attorney Jennifer Gorby. ODD stands for Oppositional Defiant Disorder. He admitted he also has used alcohol in the past two years.
When asked by Gorby about whether he would lie or make up the story in revenge for the man refusing to give him a cigarette, the boy denied it.
"No, that's absurd," he said. "It's not worth someone going to jail over it."
Gorby also asked the boy about other sexual accusations he was involved in making 18 months later in an unrelated matter. He denied making up that story, but did admit not going for an evaluation when investigators requested it.
At several points when he had been questioned by investigators, Kalbfell had asked them why, if he was accused of approaching the children on Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, he was not arrested until Sept. 3. Talbert said after conferring with the prosecutor's office on the morning of Sept. 3, Kalbfell was in custody and charged by afternoon.
The first girl he was accused of approaching and her mother both testified after the boy. The mother claimed her then 12-year-old daughter was upset after the man drove up on Sept. 1 and made the comment about her rear. She had called her mother upset about what happened and her mother had picked her up.
"She said he was creepy looking," the mother testified, "kind of bald and it scared her so much."
Because the girl was afraid, the mother also drove her daughter to and from school the next day and while they were at Reilly Elementary picking up the 12-year-old's sister, that was when the girl spotted the van again. The girl had put the license plate number into her phone and they had called police. The plate number matched Kalbfell's.
The girl, also now 14, testified she also saw Kalbfell once in Walmart, there with a girl with disabilities.
"I looked over at him and he stared at me," she said.
She also testified about the boy who made the accusation, claiming he hangs out with some bad boys and has lied to her in the past. She said she has also noticed him in an alley where a group hangs out to do drugs, but believed she only saw him actually doing drugs once. She said that was a long time ago, before these things happened.
Two other girls, then ages 13 and 14, who are friends and had walked home together testified next about the man in the van. They claimed he also approached them both on Sept. 1 and Sept 2. In both cases, he reportedly made comments about their rears. One girl testified he also commented about their chests. The same girl testified she told her father the first day, but it was not until it happened the second day that they called police.
The other friend testified she had yelled "pervert," at him while he drove past. During those two instances, the van did not stop and in both cases Gorby asked the girls if they were sure they could identify him with that short of a look at him.
Both of those girls said they did not know the boy making the accusation leading to the importuning charge well enough to know if he tells the truth, although one said she did date him for about a week sometime after the incidents happened.
Finally, another 14-year-old boy testified he was also approached by the man on Sept. 2 when he was 12, relating a similar story.
He also testified he knows the other boy and has been friends with him at some point, but he can be both a good friend and a bad friend. He said he did not know about how trustworthy he would be.
After the state concluded its case, Gorby brought one witness before the end of the day. Frank Ieropoli, the owner of Lisbon Auto Repair testified about an invoice for a new muffler installed by his business on Dec. 7, 2010 on a 1998 Plymouth Voyager, the same type of van Kalbfell drove. There is no name on the invoice and Ieropoli said he does not do the repair work himself, so he was unable to testify about the van or the condition of the muffler which prompted the work.
McNicol has filed a motion to quash subpoenas issued by Gorby to employees of Jobs and Family Services and a motion in limine, which would prevent the disclosure of the first 12-year-old boy's past counseling. Washam has not ruled on the motions yet, but is expected to do so before testimony is scheduled to continue on Oct. 23.


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The School provides excellence in nursing education, scholarship and practice. Now, more than ever, opportunities for nurses are expanding. The Decker School is committed to providing an outstanding educational program from the baccalaureate to the PhD level. Graduates of the School have assumed leadership roles in practice, education and administration throughout the nation.
All programs of the Decker School of Nursing are accredited by the New York State Board of Regents. The undergraduate and master degree programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) through June 30, 2019. The Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) and all advanced practice post-graduate certificate programs are accredited by CCNE through June 30, 2020.
The School is housed in the Academic Building B on the Binghamton campus. This modern facility offers classrooms, workspace for students, staff and faculty, and offices. Our newly dedicated Innovative Simulation Practice Center provides students with state-of-the-art equipment to assist their learning.
The masters and doctoral programs reflect a commitment to improving the health of rural communities through education of nurses to provide the highest quality care for rural individuals, families and communities. The PhD program is unique with its emphasis on rural health.
Thank you for visiting the Decker School. Should you have questions or want to know more about the School, you will find an abundance of information on this website. Our excellent faculty and staff can also respond to your inquiries through e-mail or telephone. I encourage you to visit the Decker School and see for yourself all that our nursing program has to offer.