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Manager Ryne Sandberg's Iowa Cub lineup SCORED 4 runs in 9 minutes? I LOVE THIS STAT! That translates to 26.6 runs per hour. Thankfully, they suspend games in triple-A rather than just wash them out and make it a do-over. The RPH just might go up when the game resumes in a month.
Manager Lou Piniella's Chicago Cubs GAVE UP runs at a similar velocity. After last night's 17-2 debacle vs the Rockies in an 8th inning that saw 11 consecutive hits (13 total hits but 11 hits with 2 outs) and 12 runs score...that's what I'm talking about, RUNS PER MINUTE. The only problem is that the Chicago National League franchise's role model has been Captain Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz. It was too painful for me to use a stopwatch on that fiasco. The last time the Cubs gave up 12 in one inning was Sept. 24, 1985 vs the Expos. The Expos won that game 17-15 and Expo hat wearing Andre Dawson went 4-6 with 8 rbi and 3 homers. Oddly, a pitcher named Ray Fontenot took the loss for the Cubs. At least those Cubs scored 12 runs over the last 3 innings, which is more than this inept group could claim.
Why can't the I-Cubs just play out their schedule at Wrigley and hide the lame ducks in Des Moines?
As far as the trading deadline ending later this afternoon, the Saturday morning latest says Lilly is still on the block with the Dodgers, Twins, Tigers and Yankees for some reason showing interest. "Minor sniff's" on Xavier Nada and Little Babe Ruth are out there per Ken Rosenthal. Something about interest in DBack Kelly Johnson too. If they wanted him now, it seems they missed the boat since he would have come for less when he was a free agent nobody wanted last off-season. Did Jim Hendry misread the saying as buy-high and sell-low? I hate it when we get stuff bass-ackwards.
and a bit more detail on runs-per-minute after the break...
First the good news...
July 30, 2010 (Albuquerque, NM) - The Iowa Cubs scored four runs in nine minutes in the top of the first inning before rain delay halted play at Isotopes Park tonight. After waiting approximately 90 minutes, the field was ruled unplayable and the Cubs' game against the Albuquerque Isotopes was suspended. The game will be resumed when the Cubs return to Albuquerque on Tuesday, August 31st at 5:00 p.m. Central Time.
The at-bat by at-bat details:
I-Cubs top 1st: Fuld walks. Barney singles. Scales strikes out. Hoffpauir doubles. Wright homers. LaHair 2-0 count, rain delay.
Rockies Bottom 8th: Sean Marshall pitching. Barmes doubles. Mora singles. Fowler Strikes out. Spilborghs Strikes out. HELL BREAKS LOOSE. Gonzales singles. Tulowitzki doubles. Hawpe doubles. Cashner replaces Marshall. Iannetta triples. Stewart homers. Barmes singles. Mora doubles. Fowler homers. Spilborghs singles. Schlitter replaces Cashner. Gonzalez singles. Tulowitzki doubles. Hawpe walks. Iannetta walks. Stewart flies out.
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Ken_Rosenthal: Source: Westbrook to #Cardinals close. Deal at union level. Trying to work through $$$. Westbrook gets more than 2M
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George Ofman is the source here. He does some post game work on WGN radio.
Cubs deal to D-back in their hands now. Theriot and Russell for kelly Johnson who strikes out way too much for leadoff man. Does have 17HRs
about 1 hour ago via web
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Ryan Ludwick to Padres? Doesn't say who the Cardinals are looking at in return. Apparently Jon Jay has taken Ludwick's spot in the lineup.
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Bowden says Dodgers confident Lilly deal will get done.
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thanks for the shorty george twitter link, didn't realize he is a talking head again...
saw this on one of his previous tweets:
Lilly to Dodgers. Names to consider from LA: Ron Ely and Dee Gordon SS top prospect
about 22 hours ago via web
I doubt Lilly plus Theriot would get Dee Gordon. BA had him as their #1 prospect, so I expect Shorty G just picked that name from his wishful thinking list rather than a real source. He's at AA Chattanooga this year with a line of .281/330/.368/.698 but he does run (39 steals/15 CS) in 439 PA.
We saw Ely pitch well against the Cubs but lost earlier in the year, he hasn't been quite so good of late as I recall.
Anyone see Dee Gordon lately?
...BA loved him as top prospect including best hitter for average, fastest baserunner, best athlete and best defensive infielder. They project him as the Dodger SS for their 2013 lineup.
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The Dodgers have said Gordon isn't going anywhere. Could just be talk. I don't have a link for this.
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Gordon has numbers comparable to Hak-Ju Lee (.289/.359/.363), who has 27 steals and 6 caught-stealings in 400 PA. Lee is in low-A ball but is 2-1/2 years younger.
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Gordon doesn't have a lot of baseball experience, and also it's OK to have two prospects who play the same position.
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Krasovic says Ludwick, Westbrook and Padres deals linked with the Indians getting prospects, deal waiting union approval because Westbrook gets more $$ if traded.
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Would be nice if the Cubs would do both trades. Try to pick up a pitching prospect to replace Russell in the Lilly trade, while shedding payroll, then flip Theriot and Russell for Johnson.
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Considering the trouble the Cubs had putting together a bullpen for this season, I'd rather hold onto Russell. Lefty relievers are harder to come by than righties. I'd rather give up one of the righties or someone from the minors, if this has to be done.
I'd expect Russell to improve upon his rookie season. But I could just be talking out of my arse.
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Johnson has some pretty extreme home/road splits too, 1031/695 ops. I'm not sure he'd be that much of an upgrade not playing in Arizona half the time.
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Jayson Stark saying Lilly and Theriot will go to LA together, wonder who the prospects they are looking at (probably DeWitt) specifically prospects from minors.
Bruce Levine on his radio show just said the Cubs-Dodgers deal is the most likely scenerio, the GM's had late night discussions, mentioned DeWitt to Chicago, but it's not a done deal yet.
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Levine just on saying deal with Dodgers is - very - close. Maybe within the next hour.
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Gammons just said the Lilly trade should be done within half an hour. He's on MLB Network, if you get that channel check it out, it's all trade deadline coverage today.
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EVERYONE is tweeting pretty much the same thing.
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So the Cubs will get (if the deal is wrapped up) Blake Dewitt, and pass on Kelly Johnson, because of the difference in 2011 salaries. Johnson will likely get $4-4.5 million. Dewitt gets a tiny (pre-arbitration) raise on $410k.
I like Dewitt but his power has become non-existent. At this point I'd rather have Johnson. I know Hendry should have just signed him as a free agent, but he would make the team better next year and we're really only giving up a lefty middle reliever since Theriot would almost certainly be non-tendered.
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Starting to remind me of the last Cubs-Dodgers deal where we got Izturis, when we already had good field no-hit shortstops on the roster in Perez and Cedeno. We've already got Fountainout(LH hitting 2nd basemen with career 92 OPS+), what's the point in adding a LH hitting second basemen with a career 93 OPS+?
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You didn't hear? The Cubs are getting "sniffs" on Fontenot.
Braves secondbaseman just hit the DL???
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Ask Tim Wilken.
Tim Wilken: I coordinate from 20 to 25 amateur scouts in the United States and Puerto Rico. Once the draft is over, I turn my attention to professional scouting, which I coordinate with Randy Bush and Jim Hendry. We talk frequently about potential deals between May and the trade deadline.
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Maybe if I explain to you a fifth time what "professional" baseball is you'll realize that it is not the same as "Major League" baseball? He's talking about minor leaguers here.
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Minor leagues are professional? Who knew?!
So, according to you, Wilken's comprehensive knowledge of high school and college talent and their progress through the minors is no longer useful once these same players reach the major leagues.
Yeah, that makes sense.
You do realize that Randy Bush and the other three asst.s to the GM also scout the minor leagues. Right?
The point is, after the amateur draft if not before, Tim Wilken is in part responsible for what we've been getting back in trades since 2006. It's just a fact that's pretty much ignored when judging his and the Cubs' front office's performance.
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The point is that you were replying to a post about trading for Major League players. Try to remember what we're talking about for five minutes.
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And as I said the other day, YOU are the one who constantly brings him up and calls him Teflon. You aren't using the language to comment on our discussions, you go out of your way to bring it up. It's like he killed your dog or something.
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Naw, I used it a total of once and I think it was E-man who went apeshit and couldn't get it out of his mind.
So why does it bother you? It's like I killed your dog or something.
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No, right now your Teflon references just annoy me. If it got to the level of you killing my dog, you'd know it.
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I don't understand DeWitt either. I don't know that much about him, but it seems like best case scenario he will hit .270 with a .350 OBP, but have no power or speed at all, and play an average second base, with the ability to backup at 3B.
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The second basemen fetish rears it's ugly head again. The Cubs major league scouts have done a really good job in finding some guys who are set to blossom, I guess we have to hope that this is a case of that.
Be interesting to see how much money the Cubs throw in. It certainly frees up a little payroll for the off-season.
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And Dewitt is a career .262 mlb hitter. Yuk. I liked him in 2008 but he's regressed since then.
Perhaps the Cubs are simply thinking of Dewitt as next year's bench guy who can play 2b/3b replacing Baker and they'll get a 2b somewhere else. But if that's the case, we shouldn't be giving up a good starting pitcher to get him.
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Riot and Lilly for Dewitt is completed.
no word yet on anyone else.
If it's only Dewitt then Hendry really blew this.
UPDATE: Verducci says we also get two young pitchers. We send $2.5 mil to LA.
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Agreed. DeWitt and Theriot are a wash to me. Dewitt will get on base more, Theriot will hit for a higher average and steal more, Theriot can play 2B and SS, Dewitt 2B and 3B, Dewitt is a lot cheaper. The Cubs needed to get something of value back for Lilly.
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Dewitt, Class AA pitcher and a third player
-edit- Bret Walch & Kyle Smith
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That's Brett Wallach, I think he's Tim Wallach's son. He was at A ball:
Kyle Smit was at AA:
Wow, Smit really struggled as a starter. Moved to the pen this year and is pitching well.
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Looks like a big part of Smit's struggles in 2009 were due to some poor defense behind him.
Not useless and guys who certainly can be projected to make the majors, but no #2 pitcher or closer in there.
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Baseball Prospectus' scouting report on DeWitt:
"the "prettiest swing you'll see never turned into results," calling DeWitt a "constant source of disappointment" for the Dodgers"
Well, that makes me feel better.
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I'd say Jamarillo could fix him, but he stands a better shot by talking to Byrd and his magic supplements.
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Yeah, take that Byrd for being, um, quiet and unassuming.
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just making a joke about this and Jamarillo being useless...
Jeffrey Dahmer was quiet and unassuming as well...
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Interesting article, thanks.
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Oh, then carry on Mr. Bowditch.
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Thanks for the update.
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According to Stark the Cubs got Brett Walch and Kyle Smit, send $2.5 mil to the Dodgers.
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And...sucks to be DeWitt. Nice for Lilly and Theriot.
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meh, i like dewitt...not like he's anything special.
his 15+HR power seems to have turned into 5-15 HR power, though. this season is kinda pathetic.
he can field, spell 3rd (his arm isn't junk), and like someone posted above he has a really sweet swing (and decent enough eye)...too bad it's not become much yet.
he's a nice #2 or 7/8 (real 7/8, not that soto kinda 7/8) hitter, imo.
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...about time some JA made it into a post, btw...and a good one, too.
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When DeRosa was traded, I remember reading that Archer was the key to the deal for the Cubs. I think the key to this deal is Wallach.
I keep a list of Cub pitching prospects ranked by K/9 minus H/9. I call it the Marmol Index, since Marmol is the undisputed king of K/9 minus H/9, and he's had some success. Wallach was a third-round pick last year, so this is his first full season. Relievers usually rise to the top of the Marmol index. Wallach is a starter, and he's right in there with some of the Cubs' best starting prospects:
McNutt, 3.79
Samardzija, 3.48
Archer, 3.13
Batista, 2.65
Wallach, 2.02
Diamond, 1.50
Bibens-Dirkx, 0.54
Rusin, 0.49
(Yes, believe it or not, Samardzija is pitching well this season, although he gives up too many walks, which don't hurt you in this ranking.)
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blake dewitt should start a huge chunk of the season and be the starting 2nd next year barring disaster.
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Or, you can say that Blake DeWitt as the starting second basemen next year IS the disaster.
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He's always looked promising but as the Baseball Prospectus guy said, it just hasn't turned into results.
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the 2nd base FA market is pretty much non-existant.
it helps that i don't mind dewitt. i'm not expecting much more than a contact hitting guy who can field his position and flirt with .800 ops.
mark ellis and jose lopez (not much of a 2nd defensively) are the cream of the 2nd FA market i believe...which is scary...
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DeWitt's defense will at least silence the Theriot wasn't good enough crowd. You might have gotten a clone of him offensively but you wont bitch much about his defense.
The only question is do the Cubs know what their plan is? Because i don't think the Cubs have had a plan since 1969.
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offensively dewitt has at least gap power.
riot was pretty useless aside from collecting singles and finding an occasional double. not like it's hard to hit with a little more power than him unless you're juan pierre.
dewitt is also kinda slow compared to riot, but he's not a molina or anything. dewitt's speed is low enough he turns some doubles some others would get into singles, though.
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btw, i find the whole thing very boring...even looking toward 2011.
but i like it compared to the FA market which is one of the worst for 2nd in a long time.
at least it won't add much to the bottom line of the payroll left to spend in 2011.
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Of course the Cubs have a plan.
DeWitt helps them get more left-handed.
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Joking aside, DeWitt gets Colvin's power farther down in the lineup. If we could just get Lee's lack of anything farther down, or out of the lineup, the offense would be pretty decent.
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And just in time!
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Well obviously the season is over, but that's no reason to continue to watch the Cubs needlessly lose games... oh wait, nevermind, Pinhead and Trampled are in charge - they must be angling for a top 10 draft pick.
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I'm all for that, actually.
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How the hell do you analyze pitchers without looking at their walks?
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It probably has something to do with the "Tired of OBP? Join the club." line of thinking. Virginia Phil is our own little Brandon Frazier, right out the bomb shelter and chatting up Alicia Sivlerstone.
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Brendan. You're totally out of the fan club.
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Fraser. so are you.
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Well, you can't look at everything, especially if you're trying to make predictions, publicly, about who the real prospects are when they're still at Peoria.
So I worry less about walks, especially when pitchers are on the youngish side.
Take Chris Archer and Hung-Wen Chen. Last season, Archer had 66 walks in 109 innings, all at Peoria. But he struck out 119, and only gave up 78 hits.
Chen was at Tennessee last year, two levels higher than Archer, where he yielded 32 walks in 142.2 innings, or about 2 per nine innings, close to the lowest in the organization. But Chen gave up 166 hits, so his WHIP was a bit higher than Archer's, 1.39 to 1.32 (still pretty close).
The point is that Archer has blown through two levels this season and is on a fast track to the Cubs. His walks are down to 40 in 100 innings, still on the high side. Chen, three years older, was promoted to Iowa but converted to long relief, a bridge to nowhere. He could conceivably get a shot, but we'll see who gets there first, the pitcher with the pinpoint control or the one with the filthy stuff.
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You have to be kidding me.
You do you know that you can look at walks AND strikeouts, right? And you do know that hits are very team defense dependent, right? Any analysis of pitching that ignores control/walks is no analysis at all.
I'll just say that I am glad that Cubs are not relying on you to analyze prospects.
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You're treating dependent variables as independent variables. Hits/9 innings are inversely correlated with K'/9 innings, because when you give up a hit, you don't get a K and vice versa. But strikeouts and walks are frequently correlated positively as well. Think about Greg Maddux and Kerry Wood. If Maddux got two strikes on a guy - he'd throw him another strike. When Wood got two strikes on a guy he throws him a slider low and away and a chest high fastball to try to get them to chase for strike three, and potentially wind up walking him.
You can't do any real analysis of a pitcher by disregarding his walk rate. The reason their walks rates are so high, is because they're trying to strike guys out. The reason that Chen's is low, is that he isn't afraid to let the ball be hit.
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I made it quite clear that I was talking about prospects, not major-league pitchers. Every pitcher in my list was a minor leaguer.
The question is, who is a good prospect, and when. Was Archer a good prospect last season when he walked 66 in 109 innings? How about the year before, when he walked 84 in 115? That was when the Cubs acquired him. Didn't they know what you guys know about the importance of control?
Dave is having trouble separating "good pitcher" from "good prospect"; and you are even less helpful.
Every year, thousands of pitchers with excellent control graduate high school and are never invited to pitch competitively again. Meanwhile, if there's a kid in the neighborhood who throws 95, he is heavily scouted, completely regardless of control.
What's hard about this? What does Greg Maddux have to do with it?
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Dave is having trouble separating "good pitcher" from "good prospect";
Nope... not having any trouble at all.
You cannot doing any kind of pitching analysis, including that of prospects, without looking at walks.
Every year, thousands of pitchers with excellent control graduate high school and are never invited to pitch competitively again.
This is stupid. No one, at all, is saying that you should only look at control. So don't pretend that we are.
We are saying you can't just look at hits and k's, but also have to look at walks (as well as other things that are more difficult to look at via stats, such as command/movement). But to ignore control is just plain silly.
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Here's the question, Dave. I'll spell it out for you again. I understand that you are reluctant to answer it.
Was Archer a good prospect in the fall of 2008 when the Cubs acquired him? (Reminder: 84 walks in 115 innings.)
Go ahead and say No. Follow your own logic. Be brave.
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I bet I can answer that for him from by merely using his prior comments.
Was Archer a good prospect in the fall of 2008 when the Cubs acquired him? (Reminder: 84 walks in 115 innings.)
"You cannot doing any kind of pitching analysis, including that of prospects, without looking at walks, [but] [y]ou do you know that you can look at walks AND strikeouts, right? No one, at all, is saying that you should only look at control. So don't pretend that we are.
[Basically] we are saying you can't just look at hits and k's, but also have to look at walks (as well as other things that are more difficult to look at via stats, such as command/movement). But to ignore control is just plain silly."
[So assuming that the other parts of his game were encouraging, yes he could be considered a good propsect in spite of his high walk totals.]
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I'll venture an attempt at defending the "Marmol Index" being touted by VirginiaPhil. As I understand it, it is trying to identify pitchers whose "stuff" is so nasty that hitters not only swing and miss with regularity but also fail to square up the ball very often when they do make contact. I know that, by definition, pitchers who K many batters tend to allow less contact than pitchers who pitch to contact. However, there are pitchers who get many of their strikeouts mainly with velocity (hitters are able to "square up" the ball when they manage to catch up with it) and pitchers who, because of exceptional pitch movement, change in velocity and deceptiveness are constantly causing batters to "look sick" and only make weak, if any, contact.
As I understand it, it is an attempt to identify not just those pitchers who can blow batters away but also those who consistently make batters "look sick" against them. It is an attempt to statistically identify those pitchers with Marmol-like "stuff". Clinical correlation is advised (i.e., someone should actually observe his pitching and not just rely on the numbers -- that's for you, Cubster).
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Joe I think the point is that when evaluating young pitchers, VAPhil wants to weight walks at zero while the rest of us want to weight it somewhere between 0.0000001% and 100%.
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It's an attempt, but it's a poor one.
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kerry wood is a yankee...finally.
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Didn't he used to be a Cub?
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damn now i have to root for the Yanks.
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That is a dilemma with Wood counter-balancing the ARod hate. Maybe Wood needs a nice mythical creature painting of himself.
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35m after the deadline and WSox are still holding onto e.jackson.
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Jackson might just be the difference maker the Twins were hoping for.
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Stone was just on the radio saying better off without Dunn, because his bat "is just slider speed, and too many AL pitchers would bust him inside with fastballs."
Way to rationalize, enjoy the Tehan/Kotsay Dh combo.
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never hurt reggie jackson too badly...hasn't hurt david ortiz too badly yet, either.
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Wish the National League would have thought of that....
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Friday on WSCR Stone was certain Edwin Jackson was just going to be "flipped" in a deal for someone like Adam Dunn because Edwin Jackson just didn't make sense. Heh...
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seems kenny may have thought that, too.
maybe we'll find out on season 2 of that wsox reality show nobody on this f'n planet is going to watch.
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The impression that I got from the radio (no statements of fact here) was that Rizzo told KW that if they traded for Edwin Jackson they would trade Dunn for EJ.
Then Williams went and traded for Jackson, called Rizzo, and Rizzo says, "yeah, I want what I asked for earlier and now I want one more guy, too."
Rizzo thought he could get Williams to step up his offer since Williams had it partially completed already. Rizzo recognized that KW had lost a lot of leverage in the discussions and attempted to exploit it. Williams chose to not make a deal and keep Jackson instead of Dunn.
If what I heard was true, I don't see why Williams wouldn't have insisted on a 3-team deal to avoid this.
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Quoting Ken Tremendous, formerly of FJM fame:
"DeWitt VORP: 8.8. Theriot VORP: 3.3. Sweet trade, Colletti."
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I know very little about DeWitt. I won't miss Theriot, though.
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Lots of ex-Cub action. Besides Wood to the Yankees, Ohman went to the Marlins and Farnsworth to the Braves.
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ohman to FLA is kinda...wuh?
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By sending $2.5M to the Dodgers, the Cubs save just about $2.5M in 2010 payroll by trading Lilly and Theriot, while gaining a player who will not be eligible for salary arbitration until after the 2011 season.
It appears that DeWitt basicaly duplicates Mike Fontenot (albeit with better defense at 2B), so Fontenot will likely be a 12/12 non-tender if he is not traded before then.
As for the two young pitchers acquired by the Cubs, Kyle Smit will be eligible for selection in the December 2010 Rule 5 Draft, so there's probably a pretty good chance that Smit will go to the AFL so the Cubs can get a better read on whether he is a legit prospect or not.
Speaking of the AFL, Peoria Chiefs Manager Casey Kopitzke (a rising star in the Cubs Player Development Field Staff) will be the Mesa Solar Sox manager this season.
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go casey
Alan Trammel is his own man
Colvin 9/ Castro 6/ Lee 3/ Ramirez 5/ Byrd 8/ Soriano 7/ Soto 2/ Fontenot 4/ Gorzelanny 1
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Just in case anyone was curious, no Alan Trammel does not deserve a second shot at being a manager.
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Phil, I realize that the AZ ssummer league has a month to go but does anyone in AZ now excite you much? Hard to get excited about our haul from Lilly nad Theriot.
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Submitted by chuck on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 4:56pm.
Phil, I realize that the AZ ssummer league has a month to go but does anyone in AZ now excite you much? Hard to get excited about our haul from Lilly nad Theriot.
CHUCK: 2nd round pick Reggie Golden has been down here about a week, but he hasn't made his game debut yet.
INF Vismeldy Bieneme has played very well so far. He had just a so-so EXST, but he has really been outstanding as a lead-off man for the AZL Cubs. He is a below-average defensive player no matter where he plays (and he is definitely miscast as a SS), but he is very fast and has shown a pretty quick bat. I would think 2B will be his position if he remains an everyday player.
RHP Luis Liria is probably the best pitching prospect who hasn't been moved up to Boise. He has some control issues, but he also has good stuff (decent fastball, plus-change, OK breaking ball).
RHP Aaron Reed (12th round pick out of Rancho Cucamonga HS - Rancho Cucamonga, CA) has electric stuff but sometimes struggles with his mechanics. He has long legs and a complicated delivery, but when he's on his game he is really outstanding. Reed's older brother Addison is the #1 starter at San Diego State, and it was a bit surprising that Aaron did not go there too after signing an NLI with SDSU, which is probably why he fell to the 12th round.
RHP Ryan Hartman (16th round pick out of Mt. Zion HS - Mt. Zion, IL) got a late start but has looked pretty good. He has a plus-curve.
The Cubs signed 49th round pick RHP Bryce Shafer (Valparaiso) last Tuesday, but he isn't ready for game action yet. Shafer was the #1 starter for the Crusaders this past season.
The problem with AZL baseball and the AZL Cubs in particular is that the AZL is used as an entry-level staging area, and so the better prospects usually get moved up to Boise very quickly and just aren't here very long.
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Weird to see the club make good decisions, like realize it's more important to see if Diamond can be a starter than let Z make 13 starts.
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i hope they piggyback Z on the back on diamond to let Z build up his stamina, myself.
but yeah, i wanna see what diamond can do.
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Chad Tracy has opted out of his minor league contract with the Yankees.
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The Mariners placed OF Milton Bradley on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 26, with patellar tendonitis in his right knee. I hadn't checked in on him in a while, but he is at an abysmal .205/.292/.348 for the season in 278 PAs. Jeez.
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Hence why you don't give 3 year contracts to people who only care about money and nothing else. They just let their game go to complete shit because they won in the game of life in parting a fool with his money.
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I hope Fontenot enjoys his last start with Cubs, no more cajun connection.
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currently he's our backup SS...that should be fun if castro decides to kick a fan or yell in DLee's face.
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I submit the following without further comment:
The Astros 3-5 hitters tonight are Jeff Keppinger, Hunter Pence, and Jason Michaels.
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And their collective OPS is how much higher than the Cubs 3-5 hitters?
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oh snap...
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RHP Thomas Diamond will have one minor league option left once he is added to the 40-man roster. He was one of the three Cubs minor leaguers eligible to be Rule 55 minor league free-agents (6YMiLFA) post-2010 who I thought the Cubs would add to the 40-man roster by the end of the World Series (at the latest). OF Brad Snyder and C-INF Robinson Chirinos are the other two.
Two other post-2010 Rule 55 MiLFA (RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx and 1B-3B Russ Canzler) will probably be offered minor league successor contracts for 2011 where they would get 1st time 40-man roster money (about $30K) plus an NRI to Spring Training. The only risk in that arrangement is if the player wants to try his luck with another organization or if the player signs a minor league contract for 2011 and then gets selected in the Rule 5 Draft.
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You are not fooling anyone Dlee.
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When Lee hit the homerun, something crystallized for me: Lee has been out to ruin the Cubs since the beginning of the season! Now that they are out of it, not only will he refuse trades, but he'll do everything in his power to the team win games. Of course, his ability to help the team isn't great enough to get them back into the race, but it is enough to drop them in next years draft a few spots.
What a jerk.
Good thing for the rest of the team or we might have won that game.
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I don't know if anyone else will, but I appreciated the humor in this.
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I wish him the best-He's my second favorite Cub after Mordecai Brown (I loved watching both of them pitch)-but I have a feeling Wood isn't going to be making many fans in NY.
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I am hoping we bring him back as a starter next year.
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Mordecai Brown?
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Lou Piniella.
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This site is the counterpart to the Cubs yahoo blog (which will remain nameless) so maybe the readers are jackasses, but here goes:
You know the saying "Even if you put lipstick on a pig, it still a pig"? Well, in that scenario, I always imagined putting lipstick around the mouth of the pig. Trading a cost controlled league average 2B for 10 starts of Lilly and shitty ass Theriot is like putting lipstick around the pigs behind area. We didnt even put the damn lipstick in the right place!
Reacting to the inclusion of the minor league pitchers:
What more could the Cubs want?
They got a cost controlled MLB'er (an upgrade at 2nd base) for TED Freakin Lilly.
Fuck Ned Colletti. Just fuck him. I won't let the excuse he has no funds to make trades. He shouldn't make them then.
It took not being able to afford a real starting 2B to get him a shot. You may not have been the best player, Blake, but you tried your damndest. Fuck, his defense got to be really good too.
Screw you Ned.
This makes me sad.
Let me just go on record saying I like Ted Lilly and am perfectly fine that he's on my team. But (no offense to Theriot) the rest of the deal can bite me.
He gave up on Brett Wallach? Fuck this.
We gave up Wallach? Fuck that shit
what the fuck
NO NO NO THERE IS NO EXCUSE. This is a piss poor stupid trade. No matter how much money they are getting back. This doesn't even help the team. Our pitching has been a strength, our offense is killing us. So we trade starters.
We traded a cheap 2nd basemen that can get on base…for 10 starts of Ted Lilly that wont get the team to the playoffs.
Amazingly, the offense just got worse.
in 3 years blake dewitt will be hitting 300 for the cubs, lilly will be pitching for the yankees, theriot hitting on high school girls at a mall in encino trying to lure them into his camaro, and the starting 2b for the don mattingly-managed la dodgers – juan uribe
Here's a post from a cub fan and some replies:
Hate to be Debbie Downer on you guys, but Theriot absolutely sucks. However, you guys WILL fall in love with Lilly. He's a beast. He's probably been my favorite Cub for the whole last decade. Anyone care to give me a scouting report on DeWitt?
DeWitt is better than Theriot in every way.
We know he sucks
We know Theriot is awful.. DeWitt is a gamer…
Lilly will be here for 10 starts and thats it.
When you're already way behind in the race, it doesnt matter.
i'm happy with lilly because now we may have one of the best starting rotations in baseball… on the other hand… WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE POINT IN EXCHANGING DEWITT AND RYAN FUCKING THERIOT! his ops is below ,700 too, FUCK OUTTA HERE!
Have to say —→ I once saw Ryan Theriot buy beer in Chicago a couple years ago at a Jewell. It was bud light.
Yes, he's very gritty.
This fucks us so badly for next year. No second baseman and Theriot's arb-eligibility on the payroll is crippling.
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I hate to break it to some (Jumbo, et. al.) but they weren't lined up aroumd the block for Ted Freakin' Lilly! He is a #4 pitcher on most good teams. He needs a big ball park so his home run balls can stay in the park and his velo is down 4-5 mph.
Personally, I lile him and love his competitiveness, but to get your balls in a knot over a salary dump is just wasted angst.
DeWitt is younger and will be a bench guy or stop-gap. That's it. Hopefully, one of the prospects will pan out.
This just is a move where honestly the trade chip just was not as valuable as the fans thought. And, for the amount of bitching here re Theriot, I would think many of you would be pleased that the Cubs traded our junk for new junk!
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I can't tell what you think I thought about Lilly/Theriot/DeWitt/prospects from the last post. The Dodgers fans seem to hate this trade. I'm happy with it because it gets us a league minimum second baseman to replace Theriot and a starting and relief pitching prospect.
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Sorry Jumbo. I mis-interpreted your post.
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Lilly hasn't lost 4-5 MPH on his fastball (unless you're talking about since he was 22 or something). He's third on the Dodgers in ERA was an all-star last year and flirted with a no-hitter earlier this year. There are I think three teams in baseball with three startes who have an ERA better than Lilly's - and I guess you didn't know this, but Wrigley Field is not a pitchers haven.
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Lilly was hitting 89 with ease his first year with the Cubs, and had days where the fastball reached 93 a few times. This year he seems to have been sitting pretty steadily around 85 and 86.
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Who's getting their "balls in a know?" At all?
This looks to me like a pretty good trade. DeWitt is better, younger, and cheaper than Theriot. Lilly got traded for a couple of decent but not great prospects, and the Cubs saved money.
Sounds good to me.
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It looks like a good trade for the Cubs, who were going to lose both Lilly and Theriot at the end of the season anyway without getting anything back, most likely. Now they've got DeWitt to replace Fontenot (he makes Fontenot obsolete--lefty bat that can start at 2B or backup 2b and 3B) and can use Barney to replace Theriot (as a right-handed bat that can backup SS and 2nd), all the while saving 2.5 mill this year, and paying Barney and DeWitt close to the league minimum next year instead of paying Fontenot and Theriot another $5 mill-ish? And they got a pitcher who is actually a prospect in the deal. Sounds like a great move by Hendry to me.
DeWitt, as you said, can play off the bench or act as a stop-gap 2B until the Cubs have a better sense of what their young infielders can do (and then decide whether to give or save an infield job to Hak-Ju Lee, Logan Watkins, LeMahieu, Ryan Flaherty, or Tony Thomas). None of those guys are can't-misses, but any one of them could have a breakthrough inside the next couple of years, so if DeWitt has to be the starter in 2011 to prevent the Cubs from over committing to another veteran before they know what they really have in the minors, that's just fine with me. On the other hand, if DeWitt rides the bench while the Cubs get a more reliable guy finishing up a contract or on a short contract (2 years, maybe), that's okay too.
I liked both Theriot and Lilly, but there is nothing to complain about here.
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When I read up on DeWitt being an excellent defensive 3B, I thought back to the days of Bill Mueller. While he had some injury trouble, he was a great #2 hitter. I don't know what DeWitt's ceiling would be, but if he could approach what Mueller was I'd put him back at third whenever one of the other guys take over at 2B.
I realize Vitters may be the heir apparent to 3B, but I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up at 1B instead. Who knows?
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Mueller at 3rd worked better with Sosa and Alou in the corner outfield.
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A left-handed one...
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
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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
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I've learned one thing this week: Readers care about white squirrels. After I wrote about seeing one in Riverland Terrace, I wondered where others could be found.
Two neighbors wrote to confirm that there is indeed a pair of white squirrels in my neighborhood, but so many wrote in to say that they, too, were astonished to see the white squirrels and sent photos.
Here are some of your responses with the locations:
"We started seeing white squirrels in Crowfield Plantation in Goose Creek in January 2012. We never saw more than three at one time, although I was able to get a picture of only two at once.
"Also, in Goose Creek, our daughter spotted one off of Central Avenue, and a lady I spoke to said she had seen one along St. James Avenue near Foxboro. A couple I spoke to said they had seen white squirrels in Moncks Corner."
— Denise Chastain
"My husband and I have lived on Johns Island since 1973. We had a small farm just off Chisolm Road till 1995.
"White squirrels were not seen on our farm till after Hurricane Hugo. Then a group of them moved into the area along the river behind our house. We really enjoyed them and put out food, corn and seed. They were about the same size as the gray squirrels in the area, but they were not as aggressive as the gray squirrels. The gray squirrels chased the white squirrels from the feeder, so I put several food areas out."
— Linda Matthews
"White one spotted on Daniel Island, along the Daniel Island Trail connecting Barfield with River Landing Drive. Spotting was in the pine trees on the north side of the long bridge on this section of the trail. The little one was spotted by me twice last September-October, but not again. Your column explained why I did not see pink eyes."
— Butch Phillippi
"I live near Hollywood in the Hamlet subdivision and have been seeing a white squirrel in our front yard for about a year. We have seen them in the neighborhood in the past, but I've never had one hang out in my yard. I think he lives in one of our oak trees."
— Joy Hume
"Nearly every Sunday as we head home from Mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Johns Island, we make a little detour and ride by the Angel Oak. About four months ago, as we slowly drove down the dirt lane pass the great tree, I spotted a white squirrel on the opposite side of the road. My husband stopped the car, and we sat and watched the squirrel for several minutes before it scampered out of sight. It was definitely not albino."
— Teresa Crump
"My friend, Ruth McIver saw a white squirrel near the Presbyterian church on Johns Island. We quilted together, and she made a quilt and put a white squirrel in it. It was quite a surprise."
— Mary Alma Parker, Avondale
"They are so common on the Isle of Palms that it's easy to spot one. There's a colony in the Forest Trail area. That area doesn't get as much traffic, so that's probably why they are there."
— Robie Robinson
"I live in Yemassee and see him every morning. He's a solid white, and he stands out in his patch of woods."
— Garey Gibbs
So many people responded that I can't put them all here. But one last story was very touching.
From Ann Ducker: Her father, R.W. Cook, bred and kept white squirrels on Johns Island for many years until his cages were destroyed in Hurricane Hugo and the squirrels were set free. Video from that time shows the squirrels running on wheels, climbing ropes and chasing each other. He became quite famous for a time, even bringing white squirrels to the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition.
While he's now passed on, the care and concern he had for the white squirrels lives on. Ducker shared this video of the squirrels playing.
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any Red Sox fans around?
Posted 06 May 2010 - 06:58 AM
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 08:08 AM
All wings fans represent the D and are Tigers fans too or they are not down with the Mike I and the Little Caesars possee. No one likes the red sux, their obnoxious fans or the city of boston for that matter.
..While I agree with you to a point, you're sorting of calling the kettle black there, aren't you?
Now, having said that - you're probably joking.
Posted 06 May 2010 - 08:17 AM
Posted 06 May 2010 - 08:17 AM
And shockingly, I had total faith in the Red Sox in '04 during that series, not quite sure why - even by friend in Boston had given up.
That said, I don't have the same feeling about this series, unfortunately.
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 08:31 AM
I wouldn't like to go through that again, if the Sharks somehow lose this series. I know, I will never see a championship with any of my teams.
Sharks in 2010?!
Posted 08 May 2010 - 04:26 PM
my favorite is probably Oakland, their always enjoyable to watch and root for...
even if its not an east coast team.
Posted 10 May 2010 - 12:00 AM
Lets go Oakland! The A's had series blown in the first round aganist the Yankees and the redsox and twins 2-0. And the A's blew all of that with bad luck.
I wouldn't like to go through that again, if the Sharks somehow lose this series. I know, I will never see a championship with any of my teams.
Nice perfect game.
Go Jays though!
Thanks TeeMan!
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Posted 03 June 2010 - 12:39 AM
and i dont hate the red sox as much as you all think. i just like the image!
Posted 07 August 2010 - 12:29 AM
RIP Bob Probert
RIP Wade Belak
RIP Derek Boogaard
RIP Rick Rypien
Posted 19 February 2011 - 07:26 PM
I would have to say as a Wings fan, they have a remarkable streak in the playoffs and are so rich in talent and full of veteran leadership, I would never count them out of a series down 3-0.
Posted 12 March 2011 - 01:50 AM
Only slightly less evil than the Yankees.
If you're from anywhere but New England and you're a Red Sox fan, you disgust me.
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He left his heart ... at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Crooner Tony Bennett swooned over his daughter Antonia, who is also a singer, in a Tweet accompanying a photo of him giving her away to new husband Ronen Helmann at the ceremony.
"Congratulations to my beautiful daughter, Antonia," he wrote. "What a fabulous wedding."
A source tells PEOPLE that the ceremony, which Bennett attended with his wife Susan, took place Sunday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Thursday, Bennett attended an event for his Exploring the Arts charity, held at the Pacific Palisades home of Joe and Adele Laurita. He also visited the three schools that the charity is expanding to at the end of this summer.
Reporting by PATRICK GOMEZ
Tony Bennett Gives Away Daughter Antonia at Her Wedding
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
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Goose Creek Police Department investigators are asking anyone with information regarding Johnson's whereabouts to contact their local law enforcement agency or Crime Stoppers at (843) 554-1111.
On Sept. 27, Johnson's three-year-old son Quantavious Johnson was brought to GCPD by one of Johnson's acquaintances. Quantavious was determined to be in good health and was turned over to the Department of Social Services for placement, according to a statement issued by GCPD on Monday.
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Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Preview
0. phoneArena 22 May 2013, 07:14 posted on
We've been waiting with baited breath for this year's gargantuan phone ideas from Samsung, and the Galaxy Mega 6.3 didn't disappoint with screen diagonal. Measuring 6.3 across, as the name suggests, it is not meant to be a flagship product, given the mid-range for 2013 specs, but rather fit an existing or imaginable marketing niche of users. These would be people who use their handsets mostly for media, browsing and games, rather than actual talking, and want their display as big as possible this side of a tablet screen.
This is a discussion for a review. To read the whole review, click here
1. Diego! (Posts: 575; Member since: 15 Jun 2009)
OMG!!! It's huge! hahaha I wonder how will it fit in my jeans... Why Samsung ditched the 1080p screen por this phone? That would have been awesome!
5. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Not intended to be a flagship
9. Diego! (Posts: 575; Member since: 15 Jun 2009)
Yeah but still! It would have been a killer device with the same specs as the S4 :D But I know they are saving that for Note III
56. timepilot84 (Posts: 113; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
There was a report of a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mega appearing in the spec sheet for some of Samsung's new software packages...
63. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
Exactly. Why would they throw in all of their high end, best specs on a device that isn't a Galaxy S or Note flagship device?
I mean, if this did have a 1080p display and the 13mp camera, why would you need to wait for the Note 3? lol
PS I never thought id see a device that made my Note 2 look small haha
43. shahulvm (Posts: 124; Member since: 01 Apr 2012)
They are testing the market with this screen size so that they can size note 3 screen accordingly....
Sammy wants to capture the sales in every screen size possible
31. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
The 1080p or better is being reserved for the Galaxy Note Trois.
Still, I wouldn't mind putting this beast in my basket!
62. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
i'm using Note 8.0 as phone.
2. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
720p huh pretty decent.. i wanna see this personally lol
10. feres13 (Posts: 306; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
4. Kurai (unregistered)
Samsung is again trying another screen size . . . i hope they fail . . . i hate seeing people using these kind of devices in public(it looks awkward when answering a phone call) . . . trust me don't buy gadgets like this if you're using it daily . . it looks very very awkward . . .
6. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
*i hope they fail*
23. Kurai (unregistered)
i hope they fail on the sales of this mega phone so they'll just stop . . it really looks awkward . . . really really awkward . . . and the next note is 5.9in? omg . . .
68. Doakie (Posts: 2009; Member since: 06 May 2009)
If you don't like it don't buy it. Stop trying to affect what other people buy. On top of that you must be pretty self centered to think your idea of what looks awkward should play into any adults mind.... The magic of becoming a grown up is to not care what children think, its great, and quite liberating. Except for the fact that you have to often remind children to stay in their bounds.
13. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
BTW "gadgets like this" or you actually mean all samsung gadgets? Because samsung is "lamesung" for you. Have a nice day
14. Kurai (unregistered)
i said "gadgets like this" . . .that includes all big ass screens sizes. . . and btw . . i'm not a samsung hater i own a s3 . . . but i'm not planning on buying s4 . . . i'll wait for the s5 . .IF they change the design language
20. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
Let's say people are using pillows to call each other nowerdays. Pillows with a big S behind it. Why is Samsung putting so little effort to make its devices the best in the market like Xperia is doing with their Xperia Z? Samsung just floods the market with about 100 products per month, while spending very little effort in making each product unique and stand out in the public. Many of the products have software and hardware problems but Samsung just ignores them. Xperia is constantly upgrading its firmware, making sure that their phones don't run into any software issues. Screw you, Samsung!
29. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Duhhh? Both Sony and Samsung are continuously addressing the issues of their devices.. Samsung recently updated gs4 and looking for software optimization tricks to manage internal memory.. Problems or issues will not leave this specific industry.
"Why is Samsung putting so little effort to make its devices the best in the market like Xperia is doing with their Xperia Z"
Kindly explain because galaxy s4 won Consumer Reports best smartphone titl. And galaxy note8.0 as the best tablet, and in many reviews-galaxy s4 and htc one stood out..
Samsung spent on marketing more than others. But dont forget Samsung spent on r&d more than others too.. Samsung is not one of the manufacturers that is only concerned with hardware, We are lucky to have them and LG for bringing software developments MORE than OTHERs.
Sony must be sad for having a stupid fan like you
69. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
Really? Samsung fans brag about the best features but in fact they are useless. They scold other devices for not having those 'useless' stuff which eats a huge portion of internal memory. Have you heard of 'Samsung devices fry SD cards'? Samsung devices all have no insulating materials near their card slots so they are subjected to constant heating of the CPU. Two of my friends had their SD cards fried, and both of them were S3. Samsung fans always point out other phone's tiny problems, like Xperia's bad viewing angles. WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD LOOK AT THE SCREEN AT AN ANGLE? That's one thing Sony realized and instead of putting huge effort in perfecting the viewing angles they turned their attention to actually making the device perfect. You guys always say 'Old TFT screen' but forgot about that S4's Super AMOLED screen has serious problem in the display. I'm not going into details as Phonearena had already covered that story. Would you rather want a previous-generation, safer screen than a falty and unsafe screen? Android Authority did a drop test of the iPhone 5 and the S4 at the exact same conditions and the S4's glass shattered, while the iPhone 5 survived with only a few scratches. Even the screen is cheap. Samsung is made of cheap and fake stuff! S voice is a total inconvenience for Samsung users. You can't delete it, yet it occupies storage space and is too easy to trigger. Press the home button slightly longer and it pops up, very inconvenient. Who wants physical buttons nowerdays? Samsung is still doing the dull traditional home button, instead of a new one that uses touch. The options and back button is super easy to trigger. The back button activates even if your palm starts to dig into the button slightly. Samsung just focuses in developing new useless features but ignores the basic needs of customers. GS4 DOESN"T EVEN HAVE A RADIO! Many elder people still buys smartphones, but many of them like to listen to the radio the traditional way. Buying the GS4 is a waste of their money. Samsung doesn't care about users. The Galaxy Ace 2 just received its first or second software updates while Xperia users constantly receive minor firmware updates to keep up with the market. 'Samsung spent a lot of time in marketing' Of course. Samsung spends a lot of time developing sly ways to cheat their customers. Phones go crazy after a few months of use. My friends can prove that. S2 plus, S3 mini, S3. They all moan about the overheating problem and hardware defects. Sony? 'Using the Xperia P for over a year. Great phone.' Xperia P is even cheaper than the S2 plus. Samsung = high price but low quality.
Apart from Samsung, the HTC one experiences the same heat problem after gaming. My Xperia Z consumes 15% every 45 minutes of very heavy 3D gaming but just goes up to about 37.5 degrees, 40 degrees in a hot summer day, while both phones experienced over 56 painful degrees after gaming.
Samsung should be ashamed.
33. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
The only things i find annoying with Samsung are the use of their flagship design language to their mid and low end smartphone and not making 32GB as the norm storage for their flagships. Leaving these behind, they are making complete package smartphone especially their flagships.
28. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
You hope that Samsung fail just because that you don't like to see people using these kind of devices in public places? It sounds very silly and selfish...
37. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
The next time you see someone (in public) using one of these big-ass screen phones just, look the other way. No one is forcing you to look at anyone!! Besides, mind your beeswax and stop gettin' into people's shi'aaat. For example, when I see anyone using a small micro iPhone (or the like), I don't say anything - I just continue along my merry way. I don't even fall to my knees in incredible disbelief and laughter; I just accept that it's their choice and their $700 down the drain. In short, don't be mad cuz' you can't afford one and all you have is perhaps a Craigslist recycled OG DROID!
40. Kurai (unregistered)
fyi i can afford my own gadgets with my own money . . i hope you'll be happy with you 6.3in phablet :) . . . if you'll buy that is
44. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
I know you can (afford your gadgets), considering that OG DROID cost not more than 50 bucks on CL.... or, is it a G1..... lol......
Jealous much ??!!!!??
46. Kurai (unregistered)
i didn't even know that og droid is below 50 bucks . . . i think you're the want who owns them . . . you know them very well . . .
50. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Can't say that I have the same wittle DROID's complex but, if it makes you happy.
Sent from my blazingly fast and HUMONGOUS Galaxy Note 2.......
51. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
It doesn't look any more ridiculous than using a 10 inch iPad as a camera, and I've seen that often.
7. darkkjedii (Posts: 21367; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Way too big. Note 3 size without note 3 innards, wait for note 3
8. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
What a big ass phone! But somehow I'm really interested in this phablet simply because it's more portable than a 7inch and above tablet
11. skinny95black (Posts: 113; Member since: 06 Jan 2013)
Nice tablet
12. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Lol if i see someone with this phone, ill be like.."sorry about your penis bro" haha
26. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
What you are saying when you see someone with a tablet?
32. Kurai (unregistered)
Who puts tablet on their pockets? . . .
34. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
58. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Lol thats what im saying? Who does that
52. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Probably depends on which logo is on it.
60. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
I see your point! :D
45. daddysbeenabadgirl (Posts: 157; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
That's actually funny. My wife says its average so no need to feel bad.
All jokes aside I'm interested in this phone but the the one thing that worries me is I feel like I would have little privacy in public. First it would attract a lot of attention and second everyone in my general vicinity could see everything Im doing on it . I guess it doesn't matter because I'll never get to try this phone with me being on Verizons network.
57. timepilot84 (Posts: 113; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
I generally don't concern myself with the size of other men's penises, but if that's your thing, go for it.
59. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
...so sorry bro... this phone will be great for you ;-)
15. Rehankhan (Posts: 323; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
The screen looks gorgeous on thumb nail
16. sats.mine2k4 (banned) (Posts: 208; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
Hope samsung gets the pricing on this right... Early rumors indicate a hefty $580 price tag on this which is a killer. A $400 price tag would make this big boy a winner...
17. darkvadervip (Posts: 365; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)
Samsung flooding the market. You got the note2, galaxy tabs, and this piece of junk.
53. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Correction: Samsung dominating the market.
65. MistB (Posts: 581; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
Except that Samsung utterly destroys the competition from all sides, so your opinion is an irrelevant one
18. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
Looks like printed paper to me. Samsung just uses its screen size to let the heat escape. Who needs a screen that big? My friend is complaining about his note II not being able to fit into his pocket.
22. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Lol why would he complain about it? He bought that incredible phone knowing its size''whatta lame supporting sentence/ haha.. Maybe he is complaining about the jeans you gave. :)
27. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"Lol why would he complain about it?"
Maybe because he is disappointed by choosing this phone?
30. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 797; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Have you read his statement? His friend is complaining because he cannot fit note2 in his pocket
36. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Yes, I have read. And does it somehow changes what I have said before?
47. SleepingOz (unregistered)
Dissapointed for choosing a phone that doesn't fit his jeans? Erm..
48. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Yes, why not? For example he thought that it will be fine, but after some time of usage he had decided that it is no ergonomic for him.
49. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
It happens when your expectations doesn't come true, then you are disappointed by choosing this or other product. Is it so hard to understand or some people are just living on the "moon" ? :)
54. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
It does. He knew the size when he bought it. He had a return period. Its not like he's upset because it doesn't function the way he expected or some other complaint he wouldn't have been aware of before buying.
61. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"He had a return period."
We can only guess about that since we don't know from where he get it.
"Its not like he's upset because it doesn't function the way he expected..."
Agree, it is not like he is upset because it doesn't function the way he expected, he is upset because it doesn't fit his requirements the way he expected. :)
71. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
Dude, he bought it during the summer holiday, He had no idea and no chance of wearing his school uniform during the summer holiday.
64. NOTE2OG (Posts: 11; Member since: 18 Apr 2013)
Tell your friend to stop wearing skinny jeans. Lol
70. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
That is his school uniform and our school uniform has large pockets. Xperia Z fits well.
19. ryan5609 (Posts: 107; Member since: 01 Nov 2011)
I really wish PA would make it a normal thing to show these larger phones pictured against someones face or how it fits into pockets. I am in no way shape or form ever going to be into a 6.3" phone, I just want to see how silly a normal person would look like while using this thing as a phone.


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Placer County sheriff's deputies are looking for two men seen on video carrying a safe out of a Loomis liquor story Saturday morning.
The two men forced their way into Stone Tree Liquor & Food on Taylor Road at 4:20 a.m. and took the businesses' safe, according to deputies.
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The joyous sounds of the season will fill the air Friday evening during a special choral concert at the Seneca Mall Atrium in Elkins.
Members of the Elkins Family Worship Center's Sanctuary Choir will perform traditional and contemporary sacred Christmas selections from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by Seneca Mall businesses and Elkins ON TRAC, the choir concert is free and open to the public.
Church member Dolores Magoc, owner of Sewing for the Season, organized the event.
"I thought it would be a nice evening for all to just sit and take some time to relax and listen to the Christmas music," said Magoc. "The atmosphere in the mall is beautiful and relaxing and we'd like to have the community enjoy it as well."
Magoc said she is grateful for the success she's had in her business, which opened in June, and would like to reflect and share that "Jesus is the reason for the season" with others.
Sewing for the Season and other Seneca Mall businesses, including Henry G's, The Closet, Able Nails and Mary Jo's Hair Affair, will remain open during the concert.
Project Manager Karen Carper said the event compliments ON TRAC's goal to increase activity and interest in the downtown area.
"It is great to see businesses working together to provide quality entertainment and a welcoming atmosphere for the public to enjoy," Carper said. "The Seneca Mall Atrium is the perfect venue for music. It will sound like a choir of angels."
The choir will perform under the direction of Worship Pastor John Taylor, who also accompanies the group on keyboard. Approximately 50 people are part of the Music Department at EFWC. Taylor expects 30 to 40 choir members, ranging in age from high school students to senior citizens, to participate in the performance.
Selections will include "Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration" and the pastor's own arrangement of "Mary Did You Know," featuring soprano soloist Robin Coberly. Other soloists include the pastor's wife and lead soprano, Kendyl Taylor, singing "O Holy Night," and alto Linda Weese on "Come on Ring Those Bells." The remaining songs will be performed congregational style with everyone singing together.
Music and other interpretive presentations are part of services at EFWC, located at 1402 Taylor Ave., throughout the holiday season. The choir will again perform "Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration" and "Mary Did You Know?" Dec. 16. A handbell performance by the children's ministry will open the service Dec. 23, followed by an Acoustic Christmas Worship Service. Services begin at 11 a.m.
The Seneca Mall performance is one of many activities planned for residents and visitors to enjoy downtown during the Polar Express excursion train season as part of ON TRAC's Santa's Workshop, created in partnership with the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad. For more information on other activities, see mountainrail.com/santa.
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He grew up in the suburbs of Lake Forest Park, Washington, and, like a lot of kids, Harveys' Improv headliner through Sunday, Adam Ray, would use comedy to deflect bullies when he was teased for being a fat kid in school.
A little later on he used comedy to pull a lot of pranks to win friends but at the same time get into trouble with teachers and other authority figures. In fourth grade on April Fool's Day (a milestone day for any up-and-coming comedian), Adam placed a whoopee cushion on his teacher's chair that worked perfectly. The end result: "I will not be a class clown" written 250 times in a notebook.
Having explored his creative side at the entry level of education, Adam took it to a more serious level in high school where he ran the school's morning television news program.
It was supposed to be serious just delivering the morning news but apparently Adam found that to be kind of boring so with a little help from his high school buddies it slowly turned into a weekly sketch show and the news was relegated to a much smaller portion of the morning television programming.
Airing every Friday morning for 10 minutes, it soon became a hit among the entire school.
After high school Adam traveled south to Los Angeles where he was one of 15 kids out of several thousand who was accepted into the BFA acting conservatory at USC.
This was barely into the new century and since graduating just seven years ago he has already been a fixture on the comedy club circuit in part because of incredibly savvy approach of getting his act out there through alternate means of exposure. If you go online (www.
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His Web videos have had more than 20 million hits on YouTube, which led to a nice deal with with Broadway Video, creating content for its channel Above Average.
Some of the highlights on his site have been featured on Funnyordie.com. His "Kermit the Frog reaction video to 2 girls 1 cup," is at close to 6 million hits and counting. Not bad, huh?
Through traditional modes of media you may have caught him on "Two Broke Girls," SYFY's "Insane or Inspired," Adult Swim's "NTSF:SD:SUV," MTV's "Human Giant," and cast opposite Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in Paul Feig's buddy cop comedy, "The Heat," out next April.
It's about time Adam found his way up here, performing in Tahoe, where he can test his comedic skills to see if elevation is a factor on his performance onstage. Once he returns back to Los Angeles, I believe his skills as a comedian will have increased tenfold.
The long overdue Erin Foley finally returns after a two-year absence from the Improv at Harveys.
She's been to countess auditions, criss-crossing the country performing at clubs, theaters and colleges. To her impressive credit, Erin's been featured at the Just for Laughs/TBS Comedy Festival in Chicago, the Marshall's Women in Comedy Festival and was selected to perform at the prestigious Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival. That's a lot of walking, but she's used to it, having walked from Harveys to Zephyr Cove to take a ride on the M.S. Dixie II because she wanted to experience a paddleboat trip to Emerald Bay. (The Improv host didn't give her a car ride because he was at an all-you-can-eat Indian restaurant.)
Foley has done her fair share of television appearances that include her own half-hour comedy special for Comedy Central, stints on "Chelsea Lately" and numerous other late night TV shows. On the silver screen, Erin's been in "Cried Suicide," "Squeezplay" and my favorite movie, Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" which starred Kate Hudson (who received a Best Supporting Actress nomination); Erin played the role of Allison, the fact checker for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Like so many comedians Erin almost didn't become one. The comedy career sort of found her. So typical, and having chatted with her last time she said it was almost destined she would wind up in this business.
"I really had no idea I was going to be in comedy," she said. "I moved to Manhattan because my sister lived in New York and I always wanted to live there and I had done some improv comedy in college, randomly. So I was about to apply to grad school because I was always wanted to teach, and I thought I would do some improv comedy before I went to grad school.
"So I was like, I'll do some improv and hold off on grad school for like a year or two and bum around in New York. And with the improv we were performing in standup comedy clubs and that was the first introduction to standup comedy that I had. I had never actually really heard of it before. So I kind of got a late jump on everything because by that time I was like 24 or 25 so I just started watching all this stand-up and I loved it. I fell in love with it. I loved how I didn't have to rely on six other people for a schedule and creativity and what not. I really loved the fact that you could think about something at 4 p.m. and talk about it at 8 p.m. and that's what I still love about it, the immediacy of it.
"I never made it to grad school. much to the chagrin of my mother. But yeah, that's sort of the roundabout route that I took into standup comedy."
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The Buffalo native was a graduate of St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, Canisius College and Our Lady of the Angels Seminary.
He was ordained in 1949 by Bishop John F. O'Hara and was assigned to the missionary apostolate.In 1950, he was appointed assistant pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Dunkirk and a year later moved to Most Precious Blood Church in Angola.
He then served as assistant pastor at Our Lady of Loretto in Buffalo, St. John in Jamestown and St. Bartholomew in Buffalo. He was appointed pastor of St. John Bosco in 1966. He retired in 1983. Survivors include a sister, Rita Whalen.
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Jelani Moore is 13 years old but can already say he has studied at Yale University.
Jelani, an eighth-grader at Dubose Middle School, participated in a three-week academic summer camp at the Ivy League university, located in New Haven, Conn. He returned from the camp Aug. 9.
Jelanis mom, Karimah, discovered the program, called the Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG), online and thought it would be a good way to keep him busy for a few weeks in the summer.
Jelani had to apply. Students are accepted based on test scores, participation in a gifted and talented program, academic talent search and letters of recommendation.
This was his first time being away from home without a family member, she said, adding his departure was hard on everyone including his father and younger brother. After a couple of days Jelani was pretty much over it; he was really into his schedule and the things he needed to do, so I was impressed with that.
Jelani would get up at 7:30 a.m. and had four classes to attend: business math, dance, fencing and acting, all done by early evening. Campers were given time to do assignments and work on projects and engage in downtime activities.
It was very fun, Jelani said. The classes were harder because I did not take Algebra I in school and I had a business math class, but the teacher helped me catch up with algebra.
He said his favorite class at Yale was math but he also liked his acting class teacher, who is an opera singer and performs on Broadway.
At Dubose, Jelani said he enjoys studying math and science. When he grows up he wants to be either a lawyer, a doctor or a performer like an actor, dancer or musician.
Or play sports, because I like to run track, he said.
Jelani described some of the buildings on Yales campus as resembling old castles. He said the dormitories on campus are called colleges, and he stayed in Berkeley College, in a suite that consisted of four bedrooms.
Outside of class Jelani enjoyed reading and playing ping pong and capture the flag. On Saturdays the students went on field trips to the Mystic Aquarium and Six Flags New England, and Sunday was a free day.
I knew it was going to be fun but other than that I didnt really have any expectations for the camp, he said.
Jelani said the experience improved his algebra skills and he feels more confident being on stage. He also likes knowing how to fence.
It was a great experience and Im definitely going to go next year, he said.
Karimah Moore said she is really proud of her son.
Im proud that he went there, it was his first time away from home and he did really well, she said, adding that he made a lot of friends and his instructors told her Jelani was encouraging with the other students.
He encouraged his younger brother, too, and he is all set now for the Summer Institute for the Gifted he cant wait, she said. Its cool that he is encouraging his brother as well.
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I think we would all be much better off if the Major would take a toke
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Majoritarian is right: If WV apes every liberal scheme that MD adopts, we should change our state's name to West Maryland. Do we want their problems? We have enough of our own. Next the legislature will be drafting gun bans that are copies of MD's.
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There should be no laws regarding amount. Can I carry a case of beer or just a six pack, can I carry a pint or a fifth of gin?
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I think Majoritarian is addicted ...
... to posting in the Journal's comment sections.
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WV could save a lot of money by doing the same. People being arrested and processed through our onerous system over a gram is ridiculous and expensive.
There was a time when ten grams could be found in my dust buster.
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Maryland? Who the heck cares? They are for everything that decent people are against.
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This bill should be in the WV session this term as well. But WV is always two or three sessions behind the rest of the smart state legislatures. I don't condone marijuana use, but this bill just makes good sense considering all the variables thereof.
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