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From the Phillies:
Outfielder Delmon Young has agreed to a one-year, $750,000 contract with the Phillies, Senior Vice President & General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. announced today. The contract includes performance bonuses.
Young, 27, batted .267 with 27 doubles, 18 home runs and 74 RBI in 151 games for the Detroit Tigers last year. Against left-handed pitchers, he hit .308 (56-182) with a .500 slugging percentage and, defensively, made 29 starts in left field. In 13 postseason games, Young batted .313 with three home runs and a team-best nine RBI and was named MVP of the American League Championship Series.
"Delmon is an experienced major league bat who will add some depth to our relatively inexperienced outfield and another layer of competition for playing time there as well," said Amaro.
The first overall selection of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays, Young is a .284 career hitter with 89 home runs and 482 RBI in 880 games for the Rays (2006-07), Minnesota Twins (2008-11) and Tigers (2011-12). He has made 526 career starts in left field, 156 in right field and 29 in center field. Young has batted .310 (281-905) in his career with runners in scoring position and .336 (115-342) in 89 career interleague games against the National League.
Opinion: As I stated just a few hours ago, I don't really see how this move changes the dynamic of the team. Unless the Phillies are so down on Darin Ruf and Domonic Brown that they thought they needed to do this.
Will this be a RF or LF platoon? Where does he fit in the lineup? If Domonic Brown does not get the opportunity to play a full season because of this move, then it's an awful job by the front office. At some point, we have to see what Brown can do.
Ruf is different because he's only done it at the minor league level. However, don't you want to see what the kid can do after hitting 50-plus bombs?
Amaro is hoping that Young can be the low-risk, high-reward player he's been seeking.
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delmon young is a bad baseball player and a bad person
What are you using to decide he is a bad baseball player? Outside of his fielding he is an above average hitter. A bad baseball player is someone who cannot hit, field, or run the bases the proper way. Since he is a career .284 hitter, a career .310 hitter with RISP, and a career .336 hitter against the NL I wouldn't say he is a bad player. And is he really any worse of a person than Brett Myers (Beat his wife), Carlos Ruiz (Suspended for drugs), Darren Daulton (Multiple DUI's), or Lenny Dykstra (Well everything). Those are all guys we have supported and loved throughout the years. As long as he produces on the field I have no problem with him. Do you really think he will do anything to bring down morale with guys like Halladay, Howard, Utley, Rollins, Hamels, Young, and Lee on the team? I doubt it. Good signing by Ruben… finally that is.
89 OPS+ in the last 1000 PAs, "good" for a .267/.299/.403 line and -1.4 WAR…and that's without playing the field too much. He is A Bad Baseball Player
So basically what you are saying is that because he has been an average… because the last time I checked the line you just put up is not a bad line, just an average one…. that he at the age of 26, which is around the time most players hit their prime (27-32) that he isn't worth 3/4 of a million dollars? We are also going to fail to mention that in the 5 years prior to 2011 he averaged 103 OPS+, as well as a .292/.325/.449 line I guess. And lets just forget that he has a 0.6 career WAR, which since you wanna only go off of two years I will go off of the other 5, if you eliminate these last two years he has a career 1.3 WAR. Even at 0.6 though, last time I checked that was higher than an average player? Even his -1.2 WAR in 2012 was equal or better than Ryan Howard, and Ty Wigginton. And, his 0.5 WAR in 2011 was equal or better than Domonic Brown, Ben Francisco, Ross Gload, Raul Ibanez, Michael Martinez, Wilson Valdez, and Brian Schneider. So with that being said.. Yes, he is a bad fielder/baserunner… Yes, he is a bad person… No he is not a bad hitter, he is an average hitter, entering his prime, and even an average hitter is better than what we have seen from Wigginton, Francisco, Valdez, Gload, Ibanez, Schneider, and Martinez the last two years, so why not take a chance on him?
Actually, his line generated an 89 OPS+, which means he is 11 % worse than the average MLBer. I can explain OPS+ further if needed, because you obviously don't understand what it tells you. His line is not average, it is below average once you account for ballpark and everything else.
Also, his WAR is almost guaranteed to plummet as he plays the field more and his defense costs this team runs.
Furthermore, the average line last year, context neutral, was .255/.319/.405 , so Young makes significantly more outs than the average line while slugging average. That does not an average player make.
Wow, must not be able to read huh? Let me say it again, entering prime, 2 bad years out of 7, only costing $750,000, better than Schneider, Valdez, Francisco, Brown, Mayberry, Martinez, and a few other questionable players on our team. So bringing me back to my original point he is very much worth it.
Low risk high reward move.
Why exactly do the Phillies owe Dominic Brown a full season in the OF. I, personally, have seen enough to determine that
1. The guy can play MLB ball.
2. He is NOT going to be a superstar.
3. He is unsure of himself.
I don't mind having him in the lineup but if Delmon Young can provide offense that I am all in with that.
Ruf starts in the minors unless they can move Mayberry.
Brown has been better than Young the last two years, and is more likely to be better in '13.
How has Brown been better than Young the last two years? He has a lower average by about 30 points, only 3 SB's and 10 home runs. Personally, I don't see the fascination with Brown. He has shown nothing since he's been up here except the willingness to take a walk once in a while.
Dave, there is more to hitting than batting average and home runs, as I'm sure you know.
You can add up all their hitting stats using wOBA (and wRC+ which normalizes it to the league and park), or the more mainstream OPS (and OPS+, which does the same).
No matter which you use, Brown has been better than Young in 2011-12:
Young: .305 wOBA (89 wRC+), .702 OPS (89 OPS+)
Brown: .315 wOBA (96 wRC+), .718 OPS (95 OPS+)
Brown's biggest issue over the past two seasons was his health. He missed a lot of time with various injuries. I guess we can hope that it won't happen again in 2013, but beyond that nobody knows how often he'll play.
As far as Ruf, a year ago at this time he was nothing more than minor league inventory. Nobody seriously considered him to be a real prospect. It would seem risky not to have another option in the (likely) event that he's overmatched at the major league level.
I don't know what "50 plug bombs" are, but they sound awesome.
"bombs" are also known as "homers" or "home runs"
I also think Ruf and Brown deserve a shot at the starting corner outfield spots. But what Young is getting paid if he does not work out you dump him no big deal. I hope Ruf becomes a real power hitter and again for the cost Young can be a bech bat 4th outfield guy. Overall I personally do think this is something that had to be done but for under a million dollars it is worth a shot
I think alot of people are missing the problem here.. This move does not replace Brown in the Line-up it replaces Ruf… All he can play is leftfield, and all Ruf can play is leftfield.. I personally was looking forward to seeing how Ruf would do in Left.. Now he will only get a shot if Howard or Young are injured…..I think Brown will fail again and I am tired of watching Mayberry play, and this move won't help either situation…
Amaro said he wants Delmon to be the every day right fielder.
I read play right field from several sources. None of them said "every day". Do you have a source on that?
Not doubting, just want to see it.
I haven't read or seen anything to indicate he will be anointed the right field position. I think when taken in context, RA Jr's statements are meant to motivate him- and the others.
"Ideally, he'd be playing right field every day for us but that's not etched in stone. That will happen when he shows that he can play every day in right field for us."
I just mean, isn't that what you'd want him to say?
IMO- The worst case scenario is he can't play, and then he gets traded to an AL team after July 14th (end of inter league) like Thome last year, for a prospect.
I would say that the worst case scenario is that he hits a little bit while being atrocious in the field, but Charlie and Ruben leave him on the field, taking ABs away from Ruf and Brown because they have this unhealthy obsession with "veterans."
We know exactly what Delmon Young is. He's a terrible fielder who sucks on the bases, doesn't hit righties very well, doesn't walk, and hits LHP fairly decently.
We don't know what Brown or Ruf are yet. Brown's had fewer than 500 big league at bats. Ruf's had less than 40. So, yeah, both of those guys might stink, but they also each have the potential of being much better than Young on their own. To take ABs away from them and give them to a known-quantity that isn't very good is a tactical mistake.
I'm not arguing whether or not it's a mistake, I'm on your side. I'm saying he will have to fight for it just as they will. If anything, 750K makes him just as disposable as Brown, Ruf or Nix.
Remember that acquiring ballplayers doesn't always mean keeping them- i.e. Dontrele Willis
We could use an overweight, umpire-assaulting antiSemite in right field.
Haven't had one for as long as I can remember.
At 750k, the price is right. Good for the Phillies.
It can go up to $3.5 million with roster and incentive bonuses.
So the deal is constructed in a way that he'll only get paid what he's worth. Still not an issue.
But I think you wouldn't mind if he hits those bonuses…
If on of the bonuses is for playing time or at bats I most certainly would mind if he hit those bonuses.
If Young hits LHP better than Ruf or Mayberry this year, than word up
News Flash – Mayberry is done
Delmon Young, last 2 seasons: .267/.299/.403, 89 OPS+
Mayberry, last 2 seasons: .256/ .316/.439, 103 OPS+
If Mayberry is done, then Young is well done.
Right — and that's not considering defense.
Is there any way in which Young is a better player than Mayberry.
I'm not commenting that Young is a better player than Mayberry – I am saying that Mayberry is a stiff.
I think Mayberry will be around. A 4th outfielder who can mash lefties can make a career of it — ask Cody Ross.
This is a bargain. Delmon Young CAN HIT. Despite being a goof ball, the dude can swing the
lumber indeed. And Ruf will benefit from some time at AAA to learn the outfield and face better pitching. Brown will start in right field. If Howard gets hurt, then we also have Ruf to work at first bast. Overall, I like it. If Young acts up, then dump him.
In 2011 Delmon Young had an OPS+ of 90, or 10% worse than league average.
In 2012 Delmon Young had an OPS+ of 89, or 11% worse than league average.
He's a career 98 OPS+ hitter, so basically just ever so slightly below average.
That does not equal "can swing the lumber indeed" in my book.
He's also atrocious in the field.
See this: http://gif.mocksession.com/2012/04/delmon-young/
And this: http://gif.mocksession.com/2012/10/nice-throw-delmon/
And Amaro is saying he wants him to be the every day right fielder.
He just had ankle surgery as well which means either he'll be worse than the 2011 and 2012 campaigns or the surgery corrected a problem that was the cause of his even worse than usual defense. In all, fairness, he did crunch in the ALCS and not one other Phillies outfielder can boast a series MVP award. My guess is that he'll never sniff the incentive numbers in the contract any more than Rodrigo Lopez will sniff the numbers in his.
Young's defensive numbers have been bad every single year of his career, except for the 30 games he played as a rookie in 2006. Every season in which he's had any significant amount of playing time he's been rated as a defensive liability. That's at all likely to change after microfracture surgery.
A series MVP award is irrelevant. He won that by having 3 good offensive games in a 4 game series and not playing an inning of defense. Any player, even some of the worst in the league, can have 3 good games at the plate in a week. It just so happened that Delmon's came in September.
It amazes me how many 26-year-old players the Phillies have stuck the minors who are in need of a little more seasoning. Whitey is either laughing or or crying up there.
Waste of time.
It add's depth cause it sucks but Ruf can start at AAA. Also, it gives us room to move JMJ and or Nix after looking at them in Spring. Not to mention we'll have a few extra games we'll need a DH in.
annnnd then Ruben Amaro Jr goes ahead and says he hopes Young can play RF everyday! ??
All Young needs to do is lose 50 pounds and strap on a jet pack.
Then he has a chance to be a slightly below average fielder and baserunner.
He had 112 RBI two years ago… in two years, his comparisons have gone from "Carl Yastrzemski" to "Jeff Francoeur." Which one is he? Regardless, a 27 year old with an ALCS MVP to his name who is 2 years removed from a 112 RBI season is certainly worth $750,000. It really stinks to think about the implications for Ruf/Brown but I don't think you can let that stuff impair your judgment on a deal like this.
Moot deal.
No risk.
Youve got the minor league incident and the arrest last year.
But its not like its a big signing.
Ruben is grasping and hoping. But he put himself in this situation.
If he gets bad Lee and Halladay like 2012 he is losing his job.
That would be a good thing.
If its 2011 Lee and Halladay he will get by another year.
Yeah…for $750,000 this isn't a bad deal. And competition for playing time is a good thing. Memo to Brown, Ruf, and Mayberry: Start training NOW!
If he is here to replace brown then I'm good with it. Brown cannt play a whole season without getting hurt and his.230 batting isn't something to be proud of. Brown will never get 112 RBI. If he gets in the way of ruf then raj is an ass, and needs to go.
The biggest problem with the front office is not using or trusting their rookies, or giving them a fair chance. I remember last years spring training, kratz hit the cover off the ball, but he was sent down,so that dead weight schieder could be the looser he was. I was mad as hell to see that . Also even tho I'm over seeing brown, I belame the management for ruining him. They really jerked him around,messed with batting style and turned him from a .275 hitter to a .230. Good job front office, they really know how to destroy a guy.
It appears to be getting awfully crowded in the OF. 😉
As Amaro is quoted "..another layer of competition for playing time there as well". This signing of another "low risk-high reward" retread in Delmont Young begs the question..how will Brown and Ruf fit in for playing time? Ruf have better get his suitcase ready before the season starts just in case he is handed a bus ticket to the minors.
I also have read about Young's attitude problem and bigotry. His problems does not bode well for the Phillies clubhouse and team chemistry. Apparently Amaro does not think it's a problem for the the team or for the fans. Time will tell.
First post guys…. Go Phil's
I like the signing for several reasons….
1) money, the $750,000 = no risk. The 3.5 million ceiling mean got a guy desperate to win his bread.
2) if Brown and Ruff preform he sits
3) Go strong against lefties and start Young and Ruff
4) Ruff can get 1 day a week at first and still get a few day a week in the OF
Lots of options
I want to see Brown and Ruff win the jobs, but if they don't you have arch better bat waiting than Mayberry and Nix
I can't really see why so many people are upset with this signing. Spring training is competition time, and the best guys will win the positions. What could be so bad about that?If Ruf or Brown can't beat out Young, they don't deserve the job to begin with. At least not this year, anyway.
Thank you! That's what I said earlier. I swear…some people just like to pick apart every single thing Ruben Amaro does.
I disagree here. I know it's done all the time, but in general using spring training to make roster decisions just doesn't make sense to me.
I would have thought that between past performance and scouting reports, that should provide a better gauge than a 30-game sample in the spring, against a mixture of MLB and minor league pitching, many of whom are more interested in working on their mechanics than whether they actually get people out.
Chances are one of the candidates gets hot in March, but that invariably runs its course, sometimes by April Fools' day.
Do you honestly believe that spring training decisions are made solely on how the player does in the spring? There's more to it, I'm sure, than just watching the player, although much can still be determined by doing that, too. You talk of scouting reports and past performance, and of course those are important factors. I'm pretty sure managers and scouts are intelligent and experienced enough to figure those things into their ST evaluations. Is tyhe player living up to them? Is he having the same old problems he's had in the past, or is he making improvements and listening to coaches? Maybe pitchers are working on their mechanics, but maybe batters are, too, and the guy who hits .350 against them might have solved his mechanical issues more so than the guy who hits .175 against the same guys.
In my opinion, you're being a little simplistic about what actually goes into roster decisions.
OK, George, we agree then. I was just reacting to this:
"Spring training is competition time, and the best guys will win the positions."
ST is still competition time. If two players have pretty much equal pasts and both bat from the same side, if one does better against AAAA pitching, that's going to have to be figured in.
I'd never say that all the results are based on ST numbers, but also on ST behavior. That's some of the competitiobn, too, particularly when you've signed a guy who's had issues in the past.
I probably didn't word my original comment as well as I could have, but competition is definitely there in the spring. That's all I meant; not that ST performance was the entire picture.
I could also add that just because a guy has a track record doesn't always mean he'll be what he once was even in the preceeding season. It's sometimes pretty easy to see that a fielder has lost a step or two, a bat has slowed down, or a pitcher no longer has the same stuff; or conversely, that a prospect has had something click suddenly. Scouting isn't a year-long thing, because some players are on the banquet circuit, out hunting and fishing, or just sitting in front of the TV getting fat. A team almost has to do some evaluation in spring training. Even if it seems like a mighty small sample, a lot can still be learned.
If you're using spring training as a primary guide for your roster decisions, you're Doing It Wrong
Also, since Young had ankle surgery in November, is he even going to play in ST?
When Ruben said the team needed to get younger, I didn't think he'd do it by adding a bunch of guys named Young. 🙂
He should have signed someone named "Younger," not "Young," if he indeed wanted the Phils to get younger. I think all those bad guys are dead now, but they were tough. Cole Younger survived loads of bullet wounds and lived to a ripe old age. Maybe he has a ballplaying decendant.
I'm astonished, looking at Delmon Young's stats from last year – this guy walked 20 times in 151 games… good grief.
Lefty — that is funny.
Young will need to show that he has rehabbed from his surgery… For $750K and the fact that nobody showed a lot of interest in Delmon Young over the offseason, should motivate this dude to perform and prove to the baseball world that they made a big mistake in not taking him. This guy has potential and he will not be 28 until September. This is a classic low-risk
high-reward signing full of performance incentives. Nice work , Ruben. If Young stinks or he has head problems, then get rid of him. It's that simple. We certainly did not mortgage our future on this guy.
If he takes ABs away from Brown or Ruf then yes we absolutely mortgaged the future to get a below-average hitter, league-worst fielder and overall terrible human being
He's the reigning ALCS MVP-what's your beef????!!!
lol I hope you're not serious.
Anyone can have 3 good games in a 4 game stretch. That doesn't mean they're a good player. Also, Delmon didn't play the field in the ALCS because he sucks big horse nuts in the field, and the AL conveniently has a DH in which managers may hide players who play the field like a traffic cone.
I'll say this, I hope Ben Revere really can cover the ground he's supposed to be able to. He's gonna have to be Gary Maddox like.
Seriously, he might end up giving Richie Ashburn a run for the record for most putouts on a Phillies team.
Or, alternatively, he'll collide with a lost Delmon Young and be out for some extended period of time.
I thought about that too, a collision would be bad for the 5'9″ – 170lb (soaking wet) guy.
I don't have any problems with this. If Brown and Ruf can go out there and win a starting roles then great. We are not paying Young that much so he can go to AAA or be released. If one or either do not get the job done in Spring then we have a cheap backup plan.
So you think it's a good idea to make roster decisions based on 2 weeks worth of playing time against rusty pitchers, many of whom are not even major league guys,who are working on getting their stamina back and returning to game shape in the spring?
That's probably ill conceived.
People are reading too much into this, young is merely a fallback option in case brown or ruf don't play very well in the beginning of the season. If they do play well enough to win the job, it will be theirs. If it was Scott Hairston instead would it be that different except we overspent. If your trying to win now a veteran who might be even the littlest bit better than our young guys right now is the better option. Ruf will get a look and brown has had a couple looks, maybe not extended ones but he played none the less. I'm not thrilled about a potential outfield of ruf revere and young defensively but if that gives us the best chance to win this year I'm in. If we are out at the trade deadline give the young looks for the next year and a half.
What the hell is the g—d—- fascination with Darin Ruf anyway? Just because he hit all those HRs last year in the minors and then came up here and hit a few more in 37 MLB at-bats???
If necessary he can start the year in AAA. Or he can impress right from the start of ST and Delmon can totally flop and we cut him. So freaking what!! It's $750,000 people…relax and just let this play out.
Everyone has been moaning that Ruben hasn't done enough…that there's too much inexperience amongst the OFers…so he goes out and spends freaking peanuts for another bat option….and now everyone's up in arms about that,too.
Look, I get it. Ruf and Brown. Two young guys out to prove themselves. They'll have that shot. I don't think anyone in the organization is saying that they won't.
I truly have mixed feelings about this signing. On the positive side… Young is extremely cheap and he is only 27 years old. He can certainly hit the ball and if anything, is a great option on the bench. I am worried about his fielding, but hopefully the coaches can help improve his skills.
On the negative side, this is not a "good" clubhouse guy. There have been multiple issues with his behavior. I certainly will never root for him due to his anti Semitic comments but that is only one of the many issues that teammates and managers have reported. I believe that the personality a team forms for itself is extremely beneficial to how the team performs on the field. I just hope that his behavior does not have a negative impact on the Phillies.
Young has an OPS+ of 89 over the last 1000 ABs. He certainly cannot hit, at least not at an average level
For 750K, it's a good signing. Next story…
Ruben just decided to go Young, so he acquired Michael and Delbert.
I wonder who's next on Ruben's acquisition list…Cy Young?
If you're old enough, did you feel the same way about Mike Schmidt's first 500 AB's as you do about Dom Brown's?
Well, I was only 2 years old when Schmidt broke into the league, so I don't remember his first 500 at bats. And yes, I do know that he batted .196 in 1973. But he also had a monster year the following year at the age of 24. But regarding Brown, what exactly do you see in him that makes you think he will get better? And how many more at bats do you give him until you give up? Schmidt had exactly 401 AB's before his breakout season in 74. Brown has had 433 so far.
And I know you're not comparing Brown to the greatest 3rd basemen to ever play the game 🙂
Dave, like hk said below, we don't know for sure that Dom will continue improving. But to answer your question, what is encouraging in Dom is this:
– he's been successful in the minors
– he's still relatively young, heading into his age 25 season
– he shows a combination of plate discipline and decent power that usually bodes well for a successful hitting career: over the last two years 83 players have gotten 200+ plate appearances at age 24 and under; out of those 83, he had the 5th highest walk rate, and 5th best BB/K ratio
– there is reason to believe there is more power to come, since a broken hamate bone has been shown to reduce power for 18 months
I'm not expecting Dom to achieve anything close to what Schmidt achieved. I just wonder if the mid-1970's Phillies had jerked Schmidt around like they've done with Dom, whether Schmidt would have gone on to become the greatest 3B ever. Dom may never become more than a sub-100 OPS+ hitter he's shown to be so far, but it bothers me that they've taken playing time from him over the past two seasons and given that time to players whose production was worse than Dom's disappointing results. Now, I wonder whether they're planning to do it again by giving time to a horrific fielder and worse hitter named Delmon Young.
hk, If I may sneak in here, why would they replace Young for Brown? One is a lefty and one a righty. Isn't this more about using him instead of Ruf?
I was just responding to Dave, who (higher up on the page) was comparing Young to Dom.
Oh, I see that now.
To be honest, I've never really watched Delmon Young play. So for those of you who've watched him and say he's terrible, I guess I would have to defer to your analysis. But then why would Amaro pick him up if he's terrible? Is he that desperate? I guess we will get to see who has the better year, since they will be playing the corner OF spots. If Brown plays better, you can definitely come back and tell me you told me so!!
I think this was a brilliant move, but I also think this is just a piece of a larger puzzle going on here. We just saved a ton of money on a starting right fielder and now have an over-abundance of "maybes." With Chase being "nowhere near field ready" and question marks at left, we now need someone who can play at third if Young slides over to second, but also be able to play the outfield. Enter….Michael Cuddyer. We now have the money and the ability to move Brown, Ruf or Mayberry to compensate.
That's an interesting take DB. It would also fit the profile of a couple of other players. Trevor Plouffe, and Alan Craig off the top of my head.
I must admit I have serious doubts that this is in the works, but it is interesting. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Utley is "nowhere near field ready"? I missed that — where was it?
Cuddyer has played 14 games at 3rd since 2005. Could be Wiggy-esque, or worse.
It look like Charlie Manuel is going to have several options for the platoon system this season. Whether or not this will personally benefit all the available corner outfielders, Nix, Mayberry, Brown, Ruf and now Young remains questionable. It probably means one outfielder will not be on the roster either prior to the season opener or later in the season.
I have read that Young is still recovering from his November (2012) surgery on his ankle. He also stated he would not be fully ready to play as he expects physical limitations up to 16 weeks! So that implies Young will likely be on the DL when the season starts. In the meantime, with Young on the DL, it also gives Ruf and Brown a chance (with limited time they have) to show the manager they belong with the team.
If and when Young goes on the DL and then returns to the team, he will have to relearn the RF position which he has not played there in SIX years. Of course, Manuel will also have to make a decision on which outfielder he choose not to keep. What a mess!
He better behave or I'll tie him up and whip his rear.
Another low risk, medium reward move. Reminds me of a few Amaro made last year. And yes you can get some additional info at Spring Training. I went to a few ST games last year and could see that although Juan Pierre had lost a step he still was a master at hitting the ball where defenders were not. I could see that Dontrelle Willis did not h ave it anymore. I could see that Kratz could hit and throw, I could see that Howard and Utley were nowhere. You can learn things in ST – especially with players you have not seen before or for a while. A bad performance in ST will not remove a starter but when you have to decide among many you can eliminate some.
By the way, Mayberry stays because he is the only buy other than Revere who can play CF. Ruf goes down. Brown and Young and Nix and Mayberry will probably be on the 25. I expect a lot of lineup changes and a Manuel "non-platoon". For some reason he hates the word but that is what will happen.
Brown had all of August and September to prove whether is an everyday player. I was not impressed – were you?
I was impressed by his plate discipline, and that's tough to teach. Combined with good power, there is enough there to keep the hope alive that he'll be more than a 4th OF.
Bottom line is that both Mayberry and Brown have been better than Young the last two years, so it's somewhat comical that there is debate about whether Mayberry stays because they now have Young.
would also like to know where you got Utley is not going to be ready for ST Last word I have heard any where is that he looks good and is going to be ready to go this year. Plus you have Frandsen to fill in at third to rest Utley.
This signing is like buying a disposable razor-albeit and antisemitic one. I really can't get worked up about it, at least not now. RAJ is now governed by the following maxim_ If you throw enough S**t against the wall something is bound to stick! By the way EricL I was being ever so facetious about Mr. Young's status as the reigning ALCS MVP.
"2 bad years out of 7"
The guy has a career OPS+ of 98 meaning that he's 2% below the average of all hitters. When you realize that this number is being compared to all of the hitters in the league including those who play at traditionally weak hitting positions like catcher and SS, it ishould be pretty obvious that an OPS+ of 98 is bad production from a corner OF. the thought process behind signing this guy is pretty misguided when you throw in that he is a poor fielder and poor base runner.
Also comparing Young's 2011 WAR to Dom's in a year in which Young had 3 times more PA's shows a complete misunderstanding of how WAR is calculated and should be used. Claiming that this is a good move because Young compares favorably to the other crap that RAJ has forced upon the fans is the faintest of possible praise.


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Even though by signing a strategic pact with Nokia Corp. Intel Corp. gets additional intellectual property and technologies needed to compete for handsets with its x86 microprocessors, at least one analyst believes that this is not enough for the giant chipmaker to find Atom chips inside smartphones. But is it really not enough?
"While licensing Nokia's baseband technology should help Intel in its quest to generate wireless design wins for its Atom processor, we continue to believe the deficiencies of Atom in power consumption, cost and software relative to other applications processors render it an uncompetitive product," said Christopher Danely, an analyst for J.P. Morgan, said.
Earlier this week Intel and Nokia signed an agreement that will enable Intel to license Nokia's HSPA/3G modem technologies with the aim of developing "advanced mobile computing solutions that deliver a powerful and flexible computing experience". Even though the companies did not provide details or peculiarities, it is highly likely that by "powerful computing" Intel considers its Atom platforms.
At present Intel offers Atom Z500-series microprocessors (with special chipsets they form code-named Menlow platform) produced using 45nm process technology that boast with thermal design power in the range between 0.65W and 2.4W. However, the chips are only used in several mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and are not featured inside smartphones since 0.65W thermal design power is still too high for such products. The next-generation low-power Intel architecture (LPIA) code-named Moorestown platform featuring new processor core, graphics and I/O capabilities is also not even positioned for smartphones. It is hard to say whether MIDs powered by Moorestown will be successful: they will be sleeker, slimmer, will have longer battery life, but they will end up competing against netbooks (which are more powerful) and smartphones (which are more compact).
But in 2011 Intel promises to deliver code-named Medfield platform, which the company positions for smartphones and this is exactly where it can use Nokia's technology. Obviously, Medfield will not be aimed at Nokia only, therefore, other makers may also switch to x86 technology.
All-in-all, while in the short-term and mid-term future Nokia's baseband technologies will hardly help Intel to push Atom technology into lower-power devices, in the long-term it will allow the company to address new and broader markets in the long-term future.


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The general strategy isn't too difficult with snake.
Step 1: Actually get in the snake. Some fields you may go directly there off the break some fields you may go to an insert off the break and bump later on. Just make sure you watch down field so you can have an idea on where the paint is coming from and where the other team is going.
Step 2: Shoot inside. This is where all your shots are going to be. pretty simple.
Step 3: Move up. Then repeat step 2. You'll need to trust your corner and really work with him to get this done.
Now I admit, this isn't a very good "guide" but this is really the bare bones to snake there are a ton of videos on playing the snake online with good tips.
One mistake new snake players tend to make is getting in and panicking. There's paint whizzing over your head and your adrenaline is pumping and you pop up and get your head blown off. When you get in keep your head down for a second and LISTEN. Figure out where the paint is coming from and listen to your team so you have an idea where the are before you pop up.
I'm sure you'll have at least one practice before the tournament so just practice getting in there and staying alive, the kills come naturally after that.
One more thing: Good luck! You're always nervous your first tournament it's only natural. Just stay smart and have fun.
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playing snake your first time will be pretty difficult. its going to be near impossible if you dont have someone in your corner who can back you up effectively.
you should have one of your teammates get in a position where they can shoot at/down the tape. that way you can concentrate on shooting people out in the center of the field, while your corner prevents someone from running you down/or making moves up the snake.
i play snake corner quite a bit and try to feed my snake guys as much information as possible. they enjoy being able to keep their head down when they need to and like being updated with wtf is going on. communication is key.
Talk to your corner guy. when im playing behind someone i even try to couch them when i can and let them know when they can make bumps or play wide in order to get a kill.
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text: Memetics - A Modern Day Explanation of Tulpas? 0x6a656666 posted:12/14/2012 3:00:00 PM Here's another article from the past which seemed to have been lost in a lot of irrelevance that says quite a bit about how beliefs manifest and seem to have a life of their own... The word 'meme' was first popularly used by Richard Dawkins in his book, 'The Selfish Gene'. The word 'meme' has come to mean a cultural accretion of knowledge, a package of several ideas that can be passed onto others. It's usually more complex than a single idea, and can represent a fashion/music/lifestyle or a belief. It is the mental equivalent of a gene whereby a package of many attributes is passed on. The science or study of memes in action has come to be called memetics. A meme has been regarded too narrowly I believe, and I am interested in broadening the ideas of what a meme is or can do. No matter how narrow a definition you give to a meme, sooner or later you have to consider more nebulous or abstract ideas as having acquired enough cultural accretion to have become memes. It's easy to conceive of a visual fad such as the hula-hoop as having a chartable spread through society and calling it a meme, but surely socialism, futurism or a new political idea are also memes that spread through society and are all the more interesting despite being invisible. Memes like these, just as in any fad or fashion have a zenith before arcing into decline. There will always be a few adherents of any –ism who may be the actual carriers of the meme, but eventually they may find themselves beached upon a shore that has no tides. When something has been described as instinctual, there seems never an explanation of how this mechanism works. Memetics also explains how instinct and innate behaviours operate. So how do memes work? Well something done consciously builds a meme. They aren't something you can point at, and to devolve them (or use them) happens in an unconscious way. Like a plate resting upon a table, where there are only a few disparate molecules in direct contact. Or a brain where an idea can lodge in one of several areas, a meme could be said to lodge in some of many possible minds. It may change minds often and doesn't have a constant localisation. The conscious effort builds a meme so that it can be said to have a growth period, and once built, is able to be devolved, by others often unconnected to the building process. This devolvement works best by unconscious effort and is a way for knowledge to become distributed in a way once thought to be science fiction. The potential of telepathy, although fantastic, can be explained in memetic terms. Similarly, memetics does enable unconnected people to have a shared knowledge or belief system. As when scattered cultures built pyramid structures, there was a memetic diffusion of similar goals. This is exemplified by the phenomenon known as the 100th monkey effect, and to which I'll come back to shortly. Let's consider a body of knowledge, a recently evolved meme such as 'heart surgery'. A new or trainee heart surgeon consciously learns the craft, but he/she is also memetically guided by the prior experience of others. Like acting or any trade, this memetic devolvement is best felt to be working when the subject is relaxed and have 'let themselves go'. The examples of those that did it before us are like invisible spirit guides once we are 'in the groove'. Great men may be said to sit on the shoulders of others before them, but so it is with all activity whether it is carpentry, mothering, lying or fighting. No matter how harmful or mundane, others have built tramlines of the mind. In careers, apprentices or trainees can experience this as an arbitrary choice 'fitting like a glove'. They have discovered an aptitude or just somehow 'picked it up' without really being able to explain how. In animals of lesser consciousness, this becomes a pure instinct so that all will eat, fight and sleep in a practically identical way. Is there evidence that learned behaviour is carried to others? One example would be when a rat finds it's way through a maze. A second rat seems to find its way through the maze even quicker. In experiments, the rats have been killed (to prevent telepathy) or identical new mazes substituted (to prevent scent trails), yet despite this, rats are progressively able to get through these mazes faster than the earlier ones. Where does this knowledge reside? They are able to access a meme that is being built, a meme of knowledge about the maze. I doubt that a meme is entirely independent of living things, but the crucial thing is that it acts as if it is. A meme has an arc of existence that like the life of a living organism is a self-contained pocket of energy. Perhaps the best analogy of memes in the world is that they are akin to numbers. The fantastic science of mathematics has enabled us to go to the moon and inspire computers. Yet we wouldn't be able to point to a number or say, "this is a six", we could just say there are six of something. Like memes, we use the concept of number to find linking commonalities and to make something have sense for us. To grasp that which has no real handle. One of my favourite examples of memetics in action is that referred to as the 100th monkey effect. It's covered in Primates 6 (1965), and was about studies of monkeys living on a string of Japanese islands 1952-1958. What happened was that one monkey started washing the sand off sweet potatoes, and then others started doing it. At some point, a critical mass was reached and even monkeys on other islands, though there was no obvious contact, started washing their food to remove the sand. This is almost a perfect example of a meme growing and then becoming accessible to all. A way for knowledge or learning to become transmitted to others that are not in physical contact. In human affairs, this is best seen in fashion, whereby there just seems to be zeitgeist (spirit of the age) sweeping through disparate and otherwise unconnected populations. Another form of memetics in action would be the phenomenon known as the stigmata. On my model, the conscious dwelling on Christ's wounds say by Catholics or other Christians creates a meme that grows like a cloud that gathers moisture. When it has reached an optimum size, then like lightning, the meme devolves or is discharged upon some unwitting subject. This explains why the stigmata phenomenon can appear on people who aren't especially religious or even Christian. This meme devolving upon unwitting subjects concept can be added to our interdependence on others and us all being victims of circumstance to suggest that perhaps 'moral stance' is our only true area of free will. It's possible that memes choose us rather than the other way round, and I would like to develop experiments or tests that investigate this hypothesis. Possibly studies of large families may shed some clues in this area, as I've been fascinated how large families can often contain both a crook and a cop. When we say that in life, we have to play the cards that we're dealt, memetics may indeed show this to be truth. Having intimated that memes may choose us, reflective and self-conscious people are able to attract certain memes. You can consciously do a simple test to show this. Think of something incongruous like a first world war soldier, something that you wouldn't normally think about or come across. Think of this subject several times during the day. Now very shortly (usually a three day window) thereafter, I've personally found several references to whatever it was I thought about. Maybe it was just a magazine in the newsagents or a TV advert or someone discussing the subject. Now I know this can sound a bit like hoodoo voodoo or sympathetic magic, but it is a very simple test anyone can do that shows the fabric of memetic correspondence. This is also the reason that a customs officer knows a smuggler without really knowing why a hunch works. This is why people who lose a wedding ring can catch the very fish that swallowed it or cook it for dinner. Or a man studying unusual weather can have a block of ice fall onto his car. Perhaps why lovers were made for each other. Some people have a developed lightning rod that attracts phenomena. We might tag them 'lucky' or 'unlucky', or just marvel at how certain things always seem to happen to them. Some people may even be able to create their own reality. Haven't we all had the experience of wanting something (say a particular colour and model of a car) and just about when we've given up hope of finding one at a price we can afford, a friend of a friend turns up with one at a deal of a price. This potential to affect the world in ways that we wish things to be may be an evolutionary strategy. Is it only wish fulfilment or is it something else? When I see a bluebottle housefly wait patiently on a door to enter the house, is it a tactic or does it instigate what will happen? It would seem unlikely that a fly could influence the future, but memetics can be a kind of wish fulfilment that has an actual reality in time. Not always wishes. When a train crashes, ironically a year to the day after another crash, could this have been a consequence of many minds having dwelt upon the subject? A stigmata upon society? Maybe the superstitions about speaking no evil are based upon a memetic truth? Whether memes chose us more than we choose them, has got to be the most interesting area of memetic research. Memes have been regarded as evolutionary tools in their narrow sense, but their role in a broader sense can be ever so much more dramatic for evolution. EVOLUTION Darwin's survival of the fittest has explained the variations within species, such as why dark butterflies may have an advantage over light ones during the industrial revolution. But there are many areas unexplained. Why for instance have all the mammals we are familiar with, reached an evolutionary plateau? A Darwinian might say that the changes are so gradual, that we can't see them. Yet many lifeforms have remained static for millennia. Fish like the coelacanth, once thought to be an extinct ancestor of today's fish are regularly dredged up from the deep. They have remained unchanged for thousands if not millions of years, as the fossil record shows. Also, it's incredibly difficult to see exactly how an animal can survive and prosper if it hasn't reached their optimum evolutionary potential. How for instance could a spider evolve it's complex web spinning mechanism? It either had it or it didn't, as spinning a useless web on the way to evolving an effective one, seems peculiar. In fact, evolution seems to have made sudden gigantic leaps rather than gradual ones over eons. The black obelisk of Clarke and Kubrick's '2001' that triggers a new evolutionary phase seems unlikely but may have more of a ring of truth about it than Darwin's theory. My favourite Darwin story is that when he returned home after two years from his travels, his father marvelled and exclaimed, "The shape of his head is completely different!" The theory of Lamarckism was subsumed by the Darwinian model, but claimed that acquired characteristics could be inherited. So for instance, the Lamarckian would say that if I were a carpenter, then my son would be better able to handle wood. Now actually, the memetic model has an affinity with Lamarckism, but the difference is that characteristics are not necessarily inherited. They can be passed through a bloodline, but they can just as easily be transferred to someone that isn't related. This theory of memetics can explain the discrepancies that Lamarck couldn't. How this could work in practice is that a species wide desire can translate into an evolutionary jump. Let's say that we had a high level of consciousness but were restricted to the body of a fly on a door. Our self-awareness would be limited to that of our experience, but we could form a rudimentary desire for the door to open. This would create a meme that could enact a progression of events that gave us what we wanted, or alternatively it could manifest a species wide evolutionary jump that caused us to develop door opening tools like arms and legs. These assertions are less amenable to research than some of the other aspects of memetic theory. However, I display them here to show just how radical a paradigm shift would be, once we accept the reality of memes. ADVANCED MEMETICS This is where my developed thoughts are more controversial. The tenets I hold, or the conclusions that I've reached aren't as obvious and so not part of any other memetician's theories that I've come across. Maybe a gestation period of thinking about it is required or the sudden flash of inspiration whereby you 'get it'. 1) LONGEVITY. By incorporating a little bit of its opposite into itself, a meme inoculates itself. So it can allow evil to come out of good or vice-versa. Ironically, a desired effect can be achieved by doing the exact opposite. In political terms this could be a system attuned to selfish greed giving rise to a society that has achieved the greatest good for all, whereas a society built on principles of doing things for the people can degenerate into one of dog eat dog. In terms often applied to the holy grail, you could say that only those that don't seek it will find it. All this seems initially contradictory, but is the key to understanding the survivability of memes. Without incorporating or inoculating itself to a bit of its opposite, a meme would grow but then burst as a bubble. This incorporation is what allows the pendulum to swing. It agrees with the yin-yang philosophy of how things work. More mechanically than a conceptual worldview, it can school us to expect the periodic eruption of evil from good and vice-versa. No matter how perfect a society or community we can construct, we can ever expect destructive forces ripping it apart. Or from within, as in a murder in a perfect town or family. But then also, we can expect a blooming flower of goodness from the most reviled wasteland. The most horrible things can give birth to beauty or something that binds us closer than ever. It is the nature of memes that shows we should expect the unexpected, to consider the unthinkable and understand that change is ever present within a seemingly stable present. 2) THE FUTURE. It has been said that 'coming events cast their shadows before them'. This shadow of the future that lies in the past can be understood and interpreted with the help of memetics. I've been successful with mundane and pithy examples, and I'm convinced that by being alert to wordplay and the potential for irony, that we can predict events on a national and global scale. Our destinies can be seen as ironical twists of fate, but usually best in retrospect. I've noticed scores of times how the unconscious connotations of words can guide the reality. Life imitating art, if you like. And there have been so many bizarre coincidences involving wordplay, that memetics is the only theory that could explain it. An example that I've had, is meeting someone that has an unusual name of foreign origin. Let's say for example, they were a baker. Now being interested in words, at some later point, I come across their surname someplace else and then discover that it is greek or somesuch for 'bread'. Next time I saw them, I'd remark on the coincidence of their surname being linked to their employment. I can't quite recall the specifics right now, but I do recall the subjects were surprised by the linguistic linkage and said they had no idea that their name had any relation to their career. A recent example of how wordplay can predict a future event would be the Harry Potter hype about the recent movie. If you had played around with the words, 'Harry Potter' as a headline, you may easily have come up with a similarity such as 'Harry Pothead'! An astute person could have predicted that a drug scandal involving the actor or prince Harry was about to break. Now this may seem to be a ludicrous coincidence but actually is all part of the correspondence in memetics that allows us to predict the future. Just as with astrology, it's not a moon in Leo that causes something to happen, but an indicator of the correspondence of human affairs and destiny. All coincidence is a type of memetic correspondence. Words are a potent unconscious linker of memes. You can change your name and thereby change your luck. Or consider the divinely stipulated name changes in the bible…of Saul to Paul or Abram to Abraham or that of Israel. Maybe it's that words can attract or devolve certain memes better than others. Irony is a key ingredient that can affect our future achievements. Consider someone like Canute who demonstrated to his courtiers that it was impossible for a king to turn back the tide. Ironically this demonstration has come to mean the opposite of that which he intended. He will forever be known as the king that tried to turn back the tide and got his feet wet. There's an irony that is always twisting our messages, frustrating our desires and making 'the best made plans of mice and men' unmade. Memetics will never eradicate hubris or stop us being blind to our own limitations or failings, or even allow us to dam these forces. What it will do is show that irony and coincidence are warp and weft of the same fabric. It is to be hoped that this understanding can indeed lead to a more useful model of action and consequence. 3) BLOOD SACRIFICE. I've noticed that the establishment of memes seem intertwined with the demise of certain people. The development of new ways of thinking seems to have a type of blood sacrifice associated with its gestation. Whether the meme is of Christianity, air travel or a new nation, blood seems to be inevitably spilled on the road to establishment. A new meme is ever fragile but as accidental, ritual or combative deaths rise, the meme seems to strengthen. The first rat to run through a maze cautiously senses the danger more than the thousandth to do so. Same for us with air or space travel. All new activity is dangerous and breaking the mould. It is only when established that we can treat it as routine. It's probable that our ancestors instinctively felt this memetic truth, which prompted animal and human sacrifice. This never ensured the desired results and was always a religion that was usurped. Nevertheless, some memes do seem to become much more cemented into our psyche by body count (think martyrs) and some memes seem to generate a steady toll. An example could be said to be a river, one that had a personality attributed to it. Once upon a time, a water sprite may have been blamed for a steady harvest of drownings, but now we could view it as a meme. Memes like those for nations or political viewpoints almost require a certain amount of conflict to persevere. 4) GOD. I thought I could explain everything via memetics and believed that the meme pools of good and evil were vast memes that could also explain God and the Devil. Surely I had cracked the cosmic puzzle and found the universal key. In my desert cabin where I developed the more advanced parts of my memetic theory, I was surprised by a vision or divine manifestation thereby demonstrating an independently vigorously real existence. This was a devolvement of a sort I hadn't anticipated and my jaw was paralysed for three hours following. There was a telepathic communication of approval, of some incongruous foreknowledge and in response to a specific question from me, I was referred to a piece of scripture not part of the current bible. From this experience, I became convinced that this memetics is God's governing system in place so that he isn't required to constantly tinker with our lives. Everything that will transpire and all of destiny is a memetically governed phenomenon. Just as a universe can be said to be contained in a grain of sand, so all of human affairs are known to Him by the least. Prayer could be viewed as a type of memetic mechanism. It rarely operates as a simple wish fulfilment, and there seems to be a kind of fail-safe system whereby praying for bad things to happen seems to backfire. Praying for others also seems more effective than simply for ourselves, and prayers do seem to create a meme that can affect an actuality. Praying to a false god would seem to bolster the memetic construct that is that god. Unfortunately for the believers, when the prayers stop, the construct must wane. Despite propping the construct with constant prayer, this god will only ever be a shadow to the real one. Memetics can explain the ironies in our lives. It can explain why the good can die young or why evil people can prosper. These aren't rigorous rules, but are examples of the exception proving a rule. The opposite of what we might expect or hope for, is the inoculation that preserves the rest. There are many minority or deviant behaviours that provide counter examples to the norm. Seemingly paradoxically, it is these examples that strengthen the rest. One could for instance suggest that homosexuality is the example that inoculates heterosexuality and the existence of one, gives robustness to the other's survival. The lesser end of a plank can help balance the whole. Good and evil are similarly portrayed as opposite ends of a sliding scale or plank, with gradations of good and depths of evil. On the memetic model, these are often coexistent and the greatest good is sometimes surrounded by the worst evil or can be the source of such. Similarly a sink of iniquity can throw up an example of goodness. Happy families driven asunder or murders bringing communities together would be examples of good turning bad, or bad giving rise to good. All such situations can be rendered as part of a moral grid where intention, action and consequence are weighted. The necessary evil of visiting the dentist would normally have good intentions and consequences but a bad action, and you can ascribe everything from the most mundane to the most heroic to a moral table. This may help our understanding of moral situations and thereby allow us to juggle the bigger concept of interconnectedness. I had tried to build a memetic philosophy that explained everything, even God, but was forced to consider that God created memetics. MEMETIC RATIONALITY When a meme devolves, it changes our worldview and thereby our rationality. It is a common assumption that our rationality is constant, but if you look at how people talk or act, you see that consciousness is a major player. Differing levels of consciousness are more or less varied when it comes to grasping memes. Like a mild form of schizophrenia, our beliefs vary according to our mental state. Many of us may have had the experience of knowing or intending to do something when we are in a particular state such as in love or drunk or otherwise intoxicated. Back to normal, we forget all about it, but when the state is again repeated, we re-remember that which had been closed to us until then. The more time we spend in a particular state, we are constructing another memetic reality of ourselves. Eventually, this new personality can supplant our normal self. The point I'm making is that rationality is just not the static benchmark that we can refer to. All belief systems can be coherent and all can seem true at certain times. This is why a meme can devolve and not cause a conflict with someone's belief system. You only have to see two antagonists arguing vehemently to realise that there is no time for considered and reasoned responses. Both are aware of the other's mutually exclusive viewpoint, and instinctively shoot from the lip. Hypnotism also demonstrates the myth of objective rationality. When a hypnotised subject explains why they did something upon a prompt, there is no shortage of inventive rationales that would usually be acceptable, were we not already aware of the speaker's hypnotised state. In a similar manner, we could claim that anyone is hypnotised by the beliefs that they have adopted. The phrases of rational justification can colourfully reflect a worldview. Many turns of phrase today, have derived from the rural norms of yesteryear. We could be described as 'sitting on a fence', or be 'closing the door after the horse has bolted' and the like. All this indicates that we are being used by a rationale rather more than we are using it. And one day we may even be able to claim that people have been hypnotised by the memes that have devolved upon them. MEMETICS FOR TODAY This system of memetics, regardless of its origins and outer limits, can be used to explicate all kinds of esoteric phenomena like nothing else. It can also make sense of some of today's baffling events. For instance, the spectacular terrorist success in destroying the world trade towers can be explained by operating on an auspicious date (for them) of 9/11. The meme of calling 911 emergency created an empowerment to their goals. I'm sure they hadn't picked the date for any numeric quality, but just because a Tuesday flight would have less passengers to subdue than a Monday or a Friday. Their bold plan was correspondingly enabled by memetic forces, which they weren't conscious of. Another date may have had more stumbling progress towards their goals. The unconscious energy in the meme of 911 empowered them, but now that everyone is conscious of the date, it won't work again. Memetics does suggest that there are auspicious and inauspicious dates or days for various activities. Cloning seems to have run into some problems such as producing animals that age prematurely and/or are more prone to disease such as Dolly the sheep's arthritis. I would explain this memetically as the biological organism 'tapping into' an already existing meme for itself. Normally an animal generates a meme of itself with a fresh arc of existence, that grows as does its own life. A clone doesn't need to do this so joins with a readymade meme, where the groove has already been trammelled. So it joins the meme already into an arc of existence and travels faster along it for not having to blaze a new path. Although I predicted clones would have problems in advance of the fact, without a platform to broadcast my beliefs, I am stymied as to how to get my views out there. For several years, I considered a website and am currently contacting academics, to let them know my developing philosophy. Any help with research ideas or publicity would be welcomed. An early paper of mine is on the internet at www.soli.com/jhardy/memetics.txt and I can usually be contacted via [email protected] Probably the best demonstration of memetics would be to predict something startling, and then have it unfold. However, memetics may be fantastic at alerting us to trends or possible ironies, but it can hardly guarantee them. It may be it's very essence that something seized upon as a possibility is automatically ensured that it will not become the case. Specific events may ever slip from our predictive grasp. Trends are much more amenable to a memetic rationality. By considering what could be a factor in making one culture's memes more acceptable to another, as in the case of immigration where the memes of one culture have to exist alongside another, I suspected that females would facilitate integration. More aggressive males could rapidly escalate conflict between cultural memes, although both approaches have merit. I guessed that immigrant families would have more female than male children in the host country. A cursory telephone poll of maternity nurses seemed to confirm this hypothesis. This isn't especially an axe that I wish to grind, but it is suggestive of how memes can be researched and used in the future. One of the most difficult concepts in my work for others to accept is that of memetic word play. It seems trivial to look for realistic truths in games that are akin to the 'sounds like' games of infant school. However, the interstices of truth are borne out by a theory that can encompass the ordinary, the seemingly unimportant as well as the grand. It is the little things glimpsed out of the corner of our eye that can prove ultimately the most significant. It can be the discarded evidence that proves the reality. Tracking memes is akin to the skill of the bush tracker. The broken twig or small depression, are all small clues to the wider reality of whom, what, how, when and the why. I started this work with the name of R. Dawkins who popularised the idea of memes. The meme of memes has snowballed since then, though the theorists have not really developed the outer reaches of it. This work is designed to bust open the strait jacket that unimaginative technicians would confine this meme into. The above points show that memetics is a unique and universal theory of explanation. 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can some one read japanese because these are the chapter spoilers for all shonens mangas
*time to learn japanse*
it says kakashi killed rin cause hes a dink
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that will take a while lol
it says "Wait till Wednesday"........lolz
it clearly states don't troll the naruto fans.
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"This thing is initiated in the press and then I have to ask questions about it," Walsh said, sounding somewhat perturbed. "I haven't approached [Marbury] about a buyout."
When asked whether he's reached out to the point guard to alleviate concerns about his status with the team, Walsh said, "I talked to Stephon once and he seems OK about all of this."
Marbury is coming off the worst season of his 12-year career. He had a famous falling-out with his coach, president and one-time mentor Isiah Thomas, played in only 24 games because of injury, underwent surgery on his left ankle, and averaged career-lows in points (13.9), assists (4.7), rebounds (2.5) and minutes (33.6).
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Houston, who averaged 17.3 points over his 12-year career, was forced to retire in 2005 because of an arthritic left knee. He returned briefly last season before bowing out during the Knicks training camp.
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Can we now begin discussing buying out Jerome James HAHA.
He's coming to training camp, lets see how long he lasts.
Phew! Thats a frickin huge relief! Good **** Donnie Walsh!
Im glad that marbury is going to camp. I hope the knicks hold onto him i think he will have a good year under dantoni's offense. Marbury is in good shape and also i hope Allan Houston makes the team that would be so cool. Houston and ewing in the lineup just like the 90's. just buy out james and cut roberson and then there that frees up 2 spots for ewing and houston
Good....Walsh is not as dumb as I thought he was earlier today
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Yeah, and Isiah Thomas was retained! Big deal. He is coming to camp because he is still under contract although the plan is still to get rid of him. Stay tuned.
What to do with Marbury $21 million contract?
This was one of the "Top-3" question that was given to Donnie Walsh on the day he was hired as the Knick President, and several times before the regular season ended.
Six months ago everyone wanted to know what Donnie Walsh plans for "Isiah, Zach, and Marbury" the week he was hired. This is not something new!
My question to Donnie Walsh in late September, "Why did you take on a job you did not have any answers to its problems?".
Was it to prove something to the Indiana Pacers owner that was favoring G.M. Larry Bird decisions over President Walsh?
If Donnie Walsh had plans on keeping Marbury than he should have traded "Crawford and the 6th pick" to get OJ Mayo or select SG-Gordon in the draft.... Marbury would be the prime PG to have this season with either of those young SG.
Marbury would be a KEEPER in his final contract season if the Knicks had traded Crawford.
The two guards showed me in the last 4 seasons that their is only room for one of them on this Knick Roster. They dont plan together or have chemistry together.
Both are consistent "halfcourt-offensive" guards that does not improve their teammates performance on the offensive end of the court. Plus both will promote different problems with new coach Dantoni uptempo style.
What to do with Marbury is a helluv a question at $21 million dollars...
This is just getting rediculous, instead of the opening of training camp Tuesday, its just going to be one big circus come on Media day. Walsh needs to make a decision by Friday. Either buy him out or come out and say hes going to be on the roster for the rest of his contract.
We all know nothing good can come from him being on the roster but atleast if Donnie comes out and makes a statement that Stephs here the team can move on. The only thing i can really see as holding the buyout up is Steph saying he wants all 21 million. Maybe Donnies plan is to bring him into camp and sit him on the bench and make him miserable enough that they can negitiate a more resonable buyout. Whats 4 million dollars to Dolan? Instead of starting a new era Tuesday, the presence of Marbury will bring the circus atmosphere that has surrouned us for the last 4 years, Donnie might as well invite Isiah to camp.
Crap! Just when I thought Donnie was beginning to make moves to make this team better. Now we get to watch towelhead scowling on the bench again. Another year of embarrassing knuckleheads. D'Antoni will quit by the end of the year.
My Top 5 Reasons For Being an Embarrassed Knick Fan:
1.) 23-59 record with one of the highest payrolls
2.) Isiah Thomas
3.) Jim Dolan
4.) Stephon Marbury
5.) Zach Randolph
I was hoping 4 of the 5 would have been corrected this year (nothing we can do about Jimmy D). But now it looks like only 1 (Isiah Thomas) has been removed. Many more embarrassing moments to come for Knick fans this year. Trust me.
"We have not approached Stephon with respect to a buy-out" is hardly a proclamation that he will be playing when the season begins. That weak statement plainly suggests that there will be discussions. Marbury has indicated that he will give no discounts. He wants the full $21.9M. The Knicks could make it tough on him by carrying him on the roster but never letting him play. As Chicago did with Tim Thomas, they could tell him to sit at home. Dolan knows how to play hard-ball. There will be buy-out discussions. Marbury will not want to sit at home in a "contract" year, partcularly when he is in the best shape of his career. This could get ugly.