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If people aren't in my face about religion, I don't go out of my way to confront them. My whole family knows where I stand. None of them has given their religion (Judaism lite) any thought at all, and they sure don't want to argue with me. At a recent family gathering, many speakers thanked God for their good fortune. Yech. I kept quiet.
I will soon be required to put my views into practice. Mom is 96. When she dies, I will attend her funeral but will not dress up (no skullcap or prayer shawl) or pray or -- and this is required -- say Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, which endlessly glorifies God. Even when God takes your loved one, you kiss his ass. Not gonna do that. They may not want me in their little holy house.
Never let people get away with with the stupid idea that an atheist cannot be a good, moral person.
I'm not out as an atheist with too many people for a couple reasons. First, I've learned the hard way that religious people have no problem with discriminating and holding their religious views over others if given the chance. Secondly, as someone who is affiliated with and surrounded by many libertarians (with a Congregational background), I've seen these folks have no issue ousting someone for their atheistic viewpoints (despite how accepting libertarians might lead you to believe they are, or how liberal Congregationalists might say they are).
As an example of the former, I've come dangerously close to losing my (successful) business partnership because my partner (a very religious guy) has had no issue with holding my atheism over my head when push came to shove. Unfortunately, being a minority (49%) owner, there isn't much I can do about it. All the same, I was shocked by his willingness to 'go there' without any hesitation.
And as an example of the latter, I've witnessed more than a few families & individuals essentially shunned from my kids' libertarian-philosophy private school because they've gone 'too far' with their atheistic viewpoints. It seems to them that it is perfectly acceptable to be libertarian, but somehow too much once you've taken the (to me) logical jump to anarcho-capitalism & atheism.
In my life to date, it seems that the public still has a lot of misconceptions and fear about atheism. As an example, I'm fairly certain that some of our business clients would not do business with us if they knew that I was an atheist as a partner. I don't think people largely understand the word, and much less so are willing to have challenging philosophical discourse. I'm hopeful, after finding communities like this one, that we're on the right track. But for now, I'll stay closeted about it for the most part.
Sounds like a well thought out decision, and for very rational reasons. We don't need to give believers the weapon with which to harm us.
I am puzzled why people who believe in the Abrahamic god see only the principle of "love" in both old and new testament. Even Je-sus is reported to have killed a tree because it was not the season to give him a nice fresh snack; seems pretty sophomoric to me. Or killing someone else's pigs; that is downright brash. When you get to the walking on water stuff and turning water into wine, and feeding a crowd with just a little bit of food simply makes no sense. Except, they call it "miracles"; Balderdash! Just pure, unadulterated gibberish.
Want to see real miracles? just find any science documentary, or the DNA Mysteries - Search For Adam - National Geographic, Cosmos, FIRST LIFE - Arrival - Full Documentary . These are actual miracles, no delusions here.
I am partially to mostly in the closet. My wife knows and most of our closest friends know. I certainly don't shy away from criticizing religion in most circumstances. Even some coworkers know. I have always been a man of science, and I dropped most of the religious charade over the last few years.
Most of the family does not know. (If they do, they say nothing... but my family is sort of known for denial so I doubt they'll put two and two together). My grandparents are getting up there in age, it is important to them, and they will not change. It's important to my parents as well, and I have avoided telling them because it is easier. I don't want to be the target of conversion attempts from my family. Part of me fears that they'll be more pushy to my little boy and I don't want that for him. Then again, my wife made the point this afternoon that if I am not open with them, our boy will start talking soon anyway and that we should be firm now about not indoctrinating him.
Beyond my family, I fear losing political power and economic opportunities. Most of my friends either don't care or agree with me already so I guess that's fairly moot. I just don't want to deal with the general branding associated with atheism in the MidWest.
It's not a matter of if, but when everything comes out. I'm not a big fan of lying, and I feel resentful that the way many religious people act strongly encourages that here. I think that there are more of us than we realize, but even so I am terrified to be completely open with everyone in my family about it. Which, I recognize, is yet more religious tyranny.
Hi Dan....I am impressed that you opened up to something so personal....I can relate to your story.....It is so true that we are afraid to hurt or disappoint our family with changes to our religious or non religious preferences....By the time I realized I was in denial and did not believe in all that miraculous crap fed to us over the years, my parents had passed away..So with me, my problem was with telling my brother , who was married to a religious theist, who took all the rituals seriously....As a result I kept it to myself....I live in a conservative state so the last thing I want is to be ostracized so I don't mention my Atheism....Finding forums like A/N makes it easier to communicate anonymously with like minded people where we can discuss Atheism freely...I look forward to the day when it will not matter what someone believes or doesn't believe. That we all are true Rational Thinkers who take responsibility for our own destiny.....After reading so many responses here, I feel I am gaining my confidence so that I will be proud to tell anyone that I am an Atheist....
You are an inspiration to us all....I wish you the best...
Its a personal choice,and not really any reason to be fanatical about ones beliefs I think. Iwas about 5 yrs old when I had serious doubts and at about age 8 couldn't help asking "really believe there is a god?" To which to my shock horror people would run hide sustain nervous reaction as though there actually WAS someone in the room listening to this. I was a little bolder in my teens and younger days though not actually trying to sway judgement my way but feeling a deep seeded need (hey that's three words in a row with double ee,s) Let me try that again, "But feeling three reeling deep seeded needs (that's six ,I can do better but getting on with my point.....) to express my right to believe and speak freely. I occasionally felt some discriminatory predjudice but not ever really threatened in any way, which was funny because when differing religious groups start to collide it gets as we see in the world tragically brutal. Anyhow now in my 60s I meld quite well amongst all groups of theists and they seem to tolerate me well and accept for who I am. However Deep believers usually cut themselves off and find ways not to have anything to do with me. Long winded opinion reply but..........
I wish you well with your parents and your revealing your atheism to them; and with your son.
@ Nick Very well said.....You are handling these sensitive topics with aplomb....My hat goes off to you ....
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Thanks for the responses and for the much needed support. I sure need it today.
Caiden has become increasingly more active. Crawling backwards, pulling himself up, doing pushup like moves. I can't keep him still! It's quite wonderful actually.
As for him teething....absolutely! He has been doing all of these things with some ferver lately, too.
Baby is nursing at least 5 x per day and once or twice at night. He lately has been nursing non-stop during the night, I think due to the teething/clingy factor.
He is absolutely NOT sleeping 12 hrs a night. Maybe 4 hours at a time before the teething episodes wake him up and he needs to be nursed/comforted back to sleep....which lately has been close to impossible without co-sleeping. But I'm just rolling with it.
His diaper output, as far as urine, is just fine. The poop has been the problem lately. He had not pooped since Monday. I did help him along with feeding him some prunes, and he did well. He loved the prunes and finally pooped earlier today.
Anyway....I am so upset about this peds thing. They are not just Caiden's Ped, it's my 10yr old DD's ped, who she has had since she was 2 yrs old. So leaving that practice is definately more complicated, ya know? I don't know what to do, but I know that what happened yesterday is just not okay, kwim?
I shouldn't feel bad when I leave their office. And I felt like the biggest piece of garbage and the worst mother ever.... I shouldn't ever feel that way.


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Poor guy, that Peter, Peter. Had a wife and couldn't keep her. Actually, I feel sorry for her, since (according to the nursery rhyme) he then resorted to putting the old ball-and-chain into a pumpkin shell "and there he kept her very well." These words flashed through my mind while glancing at my upcoming events schedule (www.riverreporter.com/where-when [2]) and sensing a theme emerging. Pie eating contests, hayrides and gourds are everywhere during this time of year as the harvest festivals roll on, and I soon realized that I had better make it a point to join in, in order to remain de rigueur.
Before diving into the pumpkin patch, I whistled for the wonder dog and we made a stop in Livingston Manor (www.catskillartsociety.org [3]) for a reception honoring the winners of the fifth annual Jeff Bank photo calendar contest. With the photographers on hand, it was cool to see their works, hear about where and when they were shot and get a sneak peak at the 2014 calendar, which is now available (www.jeffbank.com [4]), with proceeds going to Catskill Art Society. The theme, "Four Seasons of Nature and Landscapes in Sullivan County," is well represented by a slew of talented residents, and although there were no pumpkins to be found, Eldred, NY's George Haas managed to capture October's autumnal image beautifully. Each of the other months is equally well depicted, but I was on a mission to locate Peter and the little woman, so we bid adieu to the Manor and headed for Grahamsville, NY and the 28th annual Giant Pumpkin Party held at the fairgrounds. Having never been before, I was keen on checking it out. The children's parade and contests are legendary, and the event is a yearly tradition for hundreds who came out in droves to support the library (www.danielpiercelibrary.org [5]) and have a blast doing so. Carnival games, a haunted house and horse-drawn rides are only the tip of the iceberg at this annual celebration, and Dharma and I spent several hours, admiring all of the costumed revelers participating in a wide variety of contests, including pumpkin decorating, pumpkin growing, and a country bake-off featuring (wait for it…) pumpkins. The kids were decked out in amazing outfits, and the adults were having just as much fun competing for prizes in the (duh) Giant Pumpkin Contest, with cash awards on the line. As usual, a slew of dedicated volunteers is responsible for making this event possible and for facilitating such out-of-control fun. I spoke with folks who have been attending for decades including Eileen Dooley and her daughter Ella who were dressed as a pirate and Tinkerbell respectively, and Eileen told me that although she now lives in California, she "makes the trip every year to share a little bit of her childhood" with the next generation.
Not surprisingly, Dharma's reputation preceded her and even the guys assisting with parking (all the way in Grahamsville!) recognized her instantly, although they had no clue who I was. I sniffed with derision in their general direction, but got over it quickly as I picked out friends and neighbors in the crowd and joined in the merriment, reveling (once again) in all things country life. The dog insisted on seeing the petting zoo and (of course) I acquiesced, while sampling homemade donuts, funnel cake and the requisite pumpkin cider. All in all, it was an incredibly good time. If you've never been, mark your Jeff Bank calendar for next year, for it is (IMHO) really worth the trip.
On the way home, we passed the Catskill Harvest Market, (www.catskillharvest.com [6]), which I had noted was hosting its annual "Customer Appreciation Day" barbeque and appeared to be in full swing. Showcasing hundreds of pumpkins front and center, the market is described as "a place where farm market meets gourmet grocery," with an emphasis on local suppliers from the Catskills, the Hudson Valley and Northeast PA. I wheeled around when I (aargh) heard the dog's name being called and spied friends at a table, with their own canine in tow. We joined them for a burger (thanks, guys) and chewed the fat for a while, admiring the garden center and incredible fall day, before heading off in search of adventure.
It would seem that more pumpkins are in our future, as this weekend approaches. Pumpkin Fest 2013 (www.barryvilleny.com [7]) will take place on Saturday, October 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and The River Reporter will be on hand with our own festive photo booth, while helping to sponsor Barryville's brand of pie eating, costume and scarecrow contests. Be sure to stop by, say "hi" to you-know-who and have your snapshot taken for our photo album (www.facebook.com/theriverreporter [8]). Unlike Peter, Peter, who "had another and didn't love her," I adore my pooch (in spite of her burgeoning stardom) and we're both excited to greet you all at Pumpkin Fest, Now all I have to do (according to the poem) is "learn how to read and spell." There's always next week.


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Vermont Tops Bryant on Philie's Extra-Time Goal
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BURLINGTON, Vt. – Drew Philie scored the game winning goal 1:22 into overtime to lead Vermont past Bryant, 6-5, in non-conference men's lacrosse action on Saturday at Virtue Field. With the win, the Catamounts improve to 1-3, while Bryant falls to 0-4.
Alex Zomerfeld tallied the lone goal of the first period with 7:26 remaining on the clock. The junior received a pass from Colin Dunster and put it in the back of the net to give Bryant the 1-0 lead.
Bryant outshot Vermont 8-7 in the period, but both defenses held their ground and Bryant took the one goal lead into the second frame.
Midway through the second period, Mason Poli netted an unassisted goal to give Bryant the 2-0 lead. Zomerfeld added his second goal of the game off a feed from Shane Morrell to increase Bryant's lead to 3-0 with 5:20 to play in the half.
After a goal from Morrell pushed the Bulldog's advantage to 4-0, Vermont got on the board when A.J. Masson received a pass from Tim Yager and beat the goalie to cut Vermont's deficit to 4-1.
Bryant took the three goal lead into halftime after outshooting Vermont 23-15 in the first half.
Andrew Buckanavage opened the second half scoring with an unassisted tally at the 10:11 mark of the third period. Buckanavage cut Vermont's deficit to 4-3 with another goal two minutes later off a pass from Patrick Clark.
Graham Horvath added his team-leading ninth goal of the season at the 7:08 mark to pull Vermont even, 4-4. Ahmad Zachary scored his first goal of the year four minutes later to give Vermont the 5-4 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
After a slashing penalty put Vermont a man down, Zomerfeld tallied his third goal of the game off a feed from Matt Bletzer to tie things up, 5-5, with 10:42 to play in regulation. Both teams were held scoreless in the final 10 minutes of play to send the game into overtime.
Just over a minute into overtime, Philie worked his way around the net and fired one past Bryant goalie Tom Carey to give Vermont the sudden-death victory.
Vermont outshot Bryant 41-36 in the contest, but the Bulldogs held advantages in faceoffs (10-4) and ground balls (26-21).
Buckanavage led Vermont with two goals on the day, while four other Catamounts scored a goal apiece.
Justin Rosenberg made 12 saves in net for Vermont to earn his first career victory. Carey made 11 saves for Bryant in the losing effort.
Vermont returns to action when it travels to Charlottesville, Va. on Tuesday (Mar. 5) to take on head coach Ryan Curtis' alma mater, No. 6 Virginia, at 7 p.m. Live video of the game will be available on a pay-per-view basis via ViginiaSports.com by clicking here.
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"If we can keep the hogs out," complained Bee County farmer Troy Berthold.
"There are some good and some that are very bad," farmer Jim Sugarek said. "It just depends on where you're standing."
Such is the state of Bee County's grain crop this year as harvest season approaches in a few weeks.
Sugarek said Mathis has not received the rainfall that parts of Bee County have had.
"We're waiting on the price right now," Berthold said. He added that he would welcome some hog hunters on his place east of the city. He said the feral hogs already are hitting his crops hard.
Many farmers in South Texas lose hundreds of acres of grain to the wild porkers.
"We got an inch of rain on Friday," Berthold said. "Overall, I'm really happy."
For Berthold, 2013 could have come a couple of years earlier. His crops have been hit hard by drought in recent years, limiting the yield in grain sorghum (milo), corn and cotton.
"We zeroed out a lot of cotton in April," Bochat said. "The sorghum should do well. Corn? We'll probably make about half a crop, if that."
The county agent agreed with what the other farmers were seeing in the Coastal Bend. If you go east, the crops look pretty good. But if you go south, some of the grain in the fields looks poor.
Sugarek farms across a good swath of the area and he confirms what the others are saying. His crops around Beeville are looking pretty good this year. Not so much around Mathis.
"Some of the crop down south came up late," he said. And a lot of that simply never got enough rainfall to catch up with the crops in areas that did get some moisture.
Beeville was one of those areas that received rainfall just at the right times.
Sugarek said he planted about half his crop in milo and about half in corn. Both crops look good in the Beeville area.
But the crops south of Tynan just did not have the same chance this year.
Berthold said farmers are still three or four weeks from being able to harvest. Now would be a good time for the rain to stop falling.
In some years damp weather right before harvest time caused grain heads to sprout, reducing the quality of the crop.
Berthold worried that the grain in his fields is far enough along that it could sprout now.
Bochat said he would have liked to have seen the good conditions occur across more of the area this year.
"It has a lot to do with timing and where they got the rainfall," he said.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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Sports: Lyme's Fast Start, Top 10 Bowlers
Lyme's Indians face Sackets Harbor Friday night in boys high school basketball.
It's a rematch for the teams: last year's Lyme squad went 12-8 in the regular season, only to have Sackets beat them in the Class D semi-finals.
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Phillies Take Game 1
The Phillies hopped on board the Chooch Train last night and rode it to a win over the Dodgers; Carlos Ruiz smashed a 3-run homer in the 5th inning to give the Phillies a lead that they would never relinquish. Raul Ibanez hit a 3-run shot of his own in the 8th to pad that lead. That Ibanez guy is not too shabby either.
It was not all sunshine and roses though for the Phillies. Cole Hamels looked like the pitcher of old for 4 innings but then, after Chooch's 3-run shot and Ryan Howard's 2 RBI in the 5th blasted the Phillies to that big 5-1 lead, Hamels began to unravel. The Cardinal Sin in baseball – to give the other team a boost after you just put a hurting on them.
Hamels allowed a lead-off double, a single and then appeared to have a double play ball hit to Jimmy Rollins. The ball got stuck in his glove so the feed to Chase Utley was late and Utley overthrew to first in his haste. But Hamels still had a 3 run lead and 2 outs. Instead of focusing on that, he showed up his teammate by throwing his hands up in disgust at Utley, putting his hands on his hips and shaking his head. Cardinal Sin #2 – showing up your teammate. Hamels could not concentrate after that and gave away a 2-run homer to Manny Ramirez.
The Phillies got the win, but the gestures and attitude of Hamels is disgusting. How many times have his teammates bailed him out of bad situations? And this is the thanks they get? No double play is ever a sure thing. Besides, if Hamels had not put two men on base, he would not have been in that situation to begin with. Utley was not pitching, as near as one can tell; Hamels was. Hamels should be ashamed for the lack of respect he showed his team.
Ok, let us not dwell…we did win the game :O) The most pleasant surprise of the night was Chan Ho Park, who in his first relief appearance since 9/16/09 after an injury, came back looking sharp as ever. He pitched a scoreless, hitless inning and had a lot of movement on his pitches. Welcome back Chan Ho!
Six relievers were used in all and everyone did their job, except Ryan Madson who had a 4 hit, 2 run 8th inning. Madson has not looked good this post-season at all and it is beginning to be a real concern. Luckily, he had a 4 run lead and Brad Lidge was able to close out the game in the 9th with the 2 run lead he was left with. Lidge seems to have his confidence back, which is good to see, but Madson appears to be going to opposite direction. He did get Ramirez out to end the 8th, but how reliable is Madson going to be from now forward?
And how about that bad umpiring…again. The Dodgers decided to pinch run for Jim Thome in the 6th inning, but Randy Wolf was not ready; he did not have his spikes on. The umpire actually let the Dodgers get away with a delay of several minutes while Wolf changed his shoes in the clubhouse! JA Happ stood on the mound pacing, waiting for the game to resume. Sorry ump – BAD call. You cannot let the other team's pitcher stiffen up while you wait for someone to change shoes. If they are not ready to go, too bad for them. Game on.
Game 2 will kick off this afternoon at 4:07pm with former Dodger, Pedro Martinez facing former Phillie, Vincente Padilla. This should be another good one! Go Phillies!!!!
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Even though the Pen tried to lose it, your boyz came out on top in impressive form (man they can hurt ya… so patient at the plate!). I think, somewhere, somehow, there needs to be a rap song written about Carlos Ruiz & Pedro Feliz. Just seems right…
Rats Jenn… You got us in Game 1. I'm completely on your side re the Hamels issue. Not a good thing to do if you want to endear your buddies.
Cole did what now? I hope Uncle Charlie had a very long talk with him about that scene on the field, if his teammates didn't get to him first.
Hamels is really getting on my nerves. He has lost his composure too many times this season. Just the other night Mitch Williams was talking about earned and unearned runs, and how a good pitcher will pick up his teammates if they make an error, hence avoiding unearned runs. If only Cole had been listening! Maybe a few visits to the sports psychologist this off-season would be helpful – he really needs to get his head on straight!
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Congrats on the win! I tuned in just in time to see Lidge get the save. After reading your blog this season, I must admit I was holding my breath. But he came through!


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Danica & Ricky during Red Flag rain delay
I have to wonder how Tony and the other bosses at SHR feel about this during a race. While it may be fine during off hours, I wonder if she should be showing a little bit more restraint during the race...even if it is during a red flag for a rain delay.
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I'm a pretty evangelical Phillies fan. Sometimes I yearn for the days when upper deck tickets could be had for $6, or half a pack of smokes and a Twinkie from the prison commissary. Sometimes, I yearn for the days of trying to talk to myself into the playoff chances of a Millwood/Myers/Wolf/Padilla/Duckworth rotation (which, even now, wouldn't look too bad) and a Rolen/Brogna/Lieberthal heart of the order. Sometimes, I yearn for the days of wondering how Dan Lauria, the dad from The Wonder Years, knew so much about baseball (I was quite young during the Fregosi era). But on balance, I think the change in the Phillies' reputation and prominence over the past five years or so has been a good one, and that the bigger tent in which we hold the congregation of Phillies fans today is not even not a necessary evil, but an active good.
That's probably not a controversial statement. But this might be: If I could change one thing about the recent events that transformed the Phillies franchise and its fan base, it would be to disabuse them of this ridiculous notion that the Mets are somehow the Phillies' biggest rivals, or are at least the club most worthy of our scorn. The Mets, of course, play the Phillies for a three-game set this weekend, and I can't be bothered to care. Wake me up when the Braves come to down.
First of all, I get it. It's a New York-Philadelphia thing, and we're supposed to hate each other. I certainly do hate New York sports teams, and the idea that if you live in New Jersey you're from New York. Buy a map.
I hate the whole idea of this supposedly-gleaming metropolis, this center of art and culture to shame all other cities, this mythical Oz where fortunes are made, love is found, and essentially that whole theatre-of-dreams crock of shit that Glee tried to sell us in last week's season finale. The best city I've ever been to in the U.S. is Nashville, and while I'd live there rather than New York City no matter how much you paid me (for reasons other than the cost of living), no one dreams of making it big in Nashville except for country music stars, all because of this New York-centered cultural narrative perpetuated by New Yorkers themselves. In terms of cultural self-congratulation, New York is the macro-South Boston. Grow an imagination and set your movie someplace else.
I hate the haughty, pretentious manner in which New York looks down on the rest of the world, particularly Philadelphia, as somehow inferior, and that we ought to look up to the Big Apple in an aspirational manner, as if somehow we could shrug off the slings and arrows of living outside the Five Boroughs and one day join the elect to live on Olympus. It's like the hot chick from high school who knows that no matter how badly she treats other people, they'll worship her. New York City is the Regina George of New World cities.
Anyway, the point is that while I'm as sick of New York as the rest of you, I don't get the Mets-as-Phillies'-biggest-rivals argument. Why should they be? The history of generational, almost sectarian conflict, a la Red Sox-Yankees or Cardinals-Cubs? Well, those rivalries go back a century–the Mets only joined the NL in 1962, and for the first 15 years of their existence or so, either they or the Phillies or both were so woefully awful that their games we more about a race for the No. 1 overall draft pick than for the NL East title. Did your great-grandad sit you on his knee and make you repeat after him: "In this family, we're polite to strangers. Except Ed Kranepool"?
I've only been a Phillies fan since 1993, when I was six, but in that time, the Braves have stood out as the antagonist, with their crisp, unchanging home uniforms, their phenomenal pitching, and Chipper Jones' squinting, smirking face, often as not full of dip and buried in a Hooters waitress's, well, you get the idea. Their players (Maddux, Klesko, Javy Lopez) were bright-eyed and handsome–except for Charlie O'Brien, I grant you–and, perhaps most irritatingly, were almost all avid golfers. The Braves were the ideal, the all-smiling, all-winning starched-and-ironed All-American heroes, while the Phillies were a team that looked and played like it was assembled out of spare parts.
And they tormented us, year after year, for no other reason than that they could. Remember all those great pennant races with the Mets? The collapses of 2007 and 2008, for sure, but apart from that, do you remember going to Shea to settle the division title, once and for all, year in and year out? Me neither. The Phillies and Mets have finished 1-2 in the NL East three times in the three-division era: 2006, 2007, and 2008, and in 2006 the division was decided by 12 games. However, the Phillies and Braves have finished 1-2 in the division five times in that span, and last year and in 2001, the division title came down to a do-or-die series in the last two weeks of the season. Of course, the same could be said of 2007 and 2008, but what tips the scales for the Braves, at least for me, is that those pennant races were interspersed with the 1990s, a period of time in which these Nietzchean ubermensch from the American Southeast dashed the hopes of our boys in red pinstripes year in and year out. Beating the Braves out for the division title would have been like the dog catching the car, and when the Mets finally did in 2006, I was not so much upset that the Mets had won the division as I was that it had been them, and not the Phillies, to end Atlanta's run of dominance.
The Braves consumed my imagination throughout the 1990s. They were so beautiful, so perfect that they had to be destroyed. I was blinded by the brilliance of their reflection and I wanted nothing more than for them to be sullied, to be beaten, to prove that they could bleed just like the rest of us. The Mets? They were just another team that happened to play in our division.
The worst part I didn't realize until after it was all over: no one in Atlanta cares about the Braves. As a South Jerseyite going to college in South Carolina, in the heart of what is, ostensibly, Braves country, I expected to wear my "J-Roll for MVP" t-shirt around campus proudly, starting shouting matches and fistfights indiscriminately with those poor hicks who had the misfortune to have different geographical footholds than I. Freshman year, there was a kid from Kentucky on my hall who was a rabid Braves fan. I remember Ryan Howard hitting a home run to beat Atlanta, in Atlanta, near the end of the 2005 season, and I ran down the hall to find him swearing at his television, so I ran down to his dorm room, and very respectfully, eloquently, and maturely, stuck out my tongue at him, put my thumbs in my ears, and, more or less, did this.
And you know what happened? I never saw another serious Braves fan ever again. Not in South Carolina, not in Tennessee, and not in my frequent trips to Atlanta itself. Those Southerners just cannot be bothered to give a crap about baseball. If it's not college football, it might as well not exist. Don't get me wrong, I love college football, and I'm more awed by the spectacle of 92,000 screaming Georgians spewing invective at their neighbors than I ever will be by anything baseball-related, but the point is, the Atlanta Braves of the 1990s were, against all probability, taken for granted. I was shocked, and angered. If you have a team that good, you ought to love it and cherish it every moment. It made me want to burn Atlanta down again.
This gives the Phillies-Braves rivalry sort of an odd character, where one side cares much more about winning than the other. I'm invested in a lot of these: South Carolina-Florida, Eagles-Cowboys, and so on. But what enrages me about this more than anything is that a fan base could care as little about as great a team as the Braves. And it's not like they even care that the Braves aren't in the playoffs every year anymore–no World Series means fewer distractions from UGA or Georgia Tech football. It's unlike anything I've ever experienced. Well, unlike anything except Philadelphia before 2005 or so, before all the people starting "E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!" chants at Phillies games suddenly decided to care about baseball, and suddenly decided that we hated the Mets more than the Braves.
What's more, berating the Mets nowadays is like, in the words of the author Bruce Brooks, challenging a double amputee to a footrace before you mock him. Think about what Mets fans have had to go through: the flip side of the 2007 and 2008 collapses, Game 7 the 2006 NLCS, John Maine, Johan Santana, the Kazmir Trade, Madoff, Minaya, Luis Castillo's pop-up, Oliver Perez, Mike Piazza's Freddie Mercury period, and suffering through nearly a decade knowing that watching your team play meant watching Rey Ordonez hit four times.
Haven't they suffered enough? I just can't get myself worked up enough to get the Two-Minute Hate going. At least, not enough hate to break Michael Irvin's neck, then throw snowballs at Santa Claus while vomiting on Jimmie Johnson's daughter, who's throwing batteries at J.D. Drew. You know, Philly sports fan-style hate. I have no trouble hating the implacable foe, but the Mets aren't that. They're almost pitiable.
Maybe I'm completely out of touch with this–it wouldn't be the first time. And I know we're going to talk about rivalry, and Billy Wagner, and 2007 all weekend, and blah blah blah. Blow me. I may be the only one who feels like this, but in the same way you never get over your first love, I will never hate another baseball team the way I hate the Braves.
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Wow. Co-sign 100%. I feel the same way. The only team in sports I hate more than the Braves is the Cowboys.
Thank you so much for this article, The braves have been the only threatening team to the Phillies for as long as i can remember, I mean how could you say there is a rivalry between the Phillies and Mets, Thats like saying there is a rivalry between the Flyers and the Islanders. Maybe at some point in time, they were rivals, just like the Mets/Phils, but on a consistent basis…Rangers/Penguins/Devils, depending on the year…There is no need to hate on the mets, or constantly remind them that they suck, because if there is one thing the Mets know how to do these days, it's lose
Great article. I feel the EXACT same way- the mets are nothing more than sparring partners, much like the nats. I grew up watching the Braves kill the Phils and had to deal with my dad who was a huge fan of the Braves because he's from Tennessee… it certainly didn't help my hatred for the Braves to lessen, and I hate them just as much as I did during their golden years. Nonetheless, they were a phenomenal team, so they're "respectfully hated" by me… Braves/Phils > Mets/Phils by a longshot
i concur
"They were so beautiful, so perfect that they had to be destroyed."
My brother is a Mets fan, and the reason I loathe them so.
Your point is well taken but lets get over the Braves bashing excuse me, was it more the Braves veneration?
One more item to add to the positive side of the Braves (which is essentially the core of the evilness that is Muts heritage):
The Braves are and have been for the most part home grown talent. They infrequently spent any money outside of the teepee to bargain like a horny sailor on leave in desparation to forge gratification or (bleh) a winner of any sorts. Year after year, pitcher after pitcher, outfielder, 3rd baseman – you name it until todays Heyward, McCann, Prado, Jones, stars yet to shine like Freeman – the pitching is still rag tag and that is one of the main reasons why the Braves will not really threaten the Phils this year.
Now take the Muts – Mess whatever emotional dirge you want to throw at them. Since the early 2000's they have been burning money not unlike their Bronx neighbors yet with each new purchase, the press and the Muts themselves have spoken trash about how they are the team to beat. Well, they are bankrupt, they will be shedding some payroll maybe by the mid-summer and they stink, they smell they are going nowhere and its great by me. Their fans are a problem, with signings like Beltran, Santana, FRod, Castillo, Sheffield, Cora, Delgado (puke) – each signing they annointed themselves again and again. What a pleasure it is to watch this team go up in flames and now be dismantled, like the Pirates – in favor of financial solvency. One player and only one player on the Muts has my interest – that would be David Wright.
Realistically do I think the Braves are more of a threat to the Phils? Of course, no doubt in my mind at all but which team gets under my skin the most? The NY Metropolitans (what a name…)
Great article. As one who lives down south – I totally get it. But with that said these teams can be hated equally.
I kind of agree. But Ill always hate the Mets more… On a side note – you watch Glee and think the Braves are handsome ?….
Couldn't agree more. The Braves are just an all-around loathsome organization, evil to an extent well beyond anything the hapless Mets could hope to accomplish. So well run and put together. Smart people in the front office and excellent player development providing a constant stream of young talent. A rich history…
And yet their fans are terribly apathetic and constantly claim to make up for it in "class." Their legendary manager is a wife-beater and the face of their franchise cheats on his wife to knock up a Hooter's waitress. Not to mention the fact that the entire team concept is a racist mockery of Native Americans. THE TOMAHAWK CHOP (nothing gets me more pissed off than the Braves getting hits in Atlanta and hearing that awful chant). Yep, stay classy Atlanta.
Its not so much I hate the team (although how can you not despise Reyes Wright and Beltran) as much as it is I cant stand the fans. How many Braves fans work in your office in the middle of south jersey? The rivalry doesn't necessarily come from the play on the field but more from the close proximity of the two fan bases.
Right now the Mets rivalry is on hold. I think this year an later part of last year it is the Braves. The Braves for the foreseeable future are our biggest threat an rivalry. The Bravos are a better run organization with a farm system an excellent young pitchers. They may not spend as much money as other teams but then no one goes to the games so they develop a lot of young players much like the Phils did 6 years ago. The Mets are in shambles right now an they will probably be restructuring the whole team at the end of the year.
The only guy i hate on the Mets is Jose Reyes…. just because of all the showboat stuff.. His dancing in the dugout, etc… same reasons im not a huge Victorino fan – if Vic wasn't on the Phillies we would all dispise him.
I hate, but respect the Braves… they dominated baseball throughout my childhood
I totally hear you on this! I grew up in Georgia and have always disliked the Braves for everthing you stated in your post. My mother is from this area and I grew up a Phillies fan. I even wrote a paper about Mike Schmidtt in 2nd grade (my teacher called my mom about that one, wanted to know who I was writing about and how I knew about them). I have lived in the Philadelphia area for almost 7 years so I have seen the team grow into the Championship team it has become and it is awesome. They DEFINITELY never appreciated what they had and still have in Atlanta. I went to a few Braves games over the years (due to people giving me tickets) and I was always stunned at how ambivalent their fans are. As much as I wish that it was easier/cheaper to get a ticket to a Phillies game, I LOVE that it is always sold out, that wearing Phillies t-shirs is commonplace, how much energer is at the ballpark. I have a hard time seriously rooting for a team where the organization/players are not classy. That is what I always hated about the Braves. I know Bobby Cox is a hall of fame manager and acknowledge his accomplishments on the field, but never could respect him off the field (beat your wife again?). Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones were other ones that had quite a reputation in Atlanta. The only Braves players I liked were Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz (all classy guys) am not saying or players are angels by any means, but they are known to do good work in the community and you see it al the time. I love how the Phillies organization seems to be (in the last few years) committed to spending money on good talent and treating their veteran players with respect. The Braves were awful to their star pitchers (see above) their last few years which had them finish up their careers with other teams. So for me, Braves are definitely our biggest rival. Could care less about the Mets (kinda feel sorry for them, well sorta! ;).!!!
wow i def agree with u 100% i became a phillies phan 93 and since then it was all the braves getting on my nerves…. i dislike the braves naturally and i was taught to hate the mets… so yeah i hate the mets but they are more like a joke to me and i never really understood why to hate them… u gave plenty of reasons how our rivalry doesnt make any sense until 07 when it finally seemed like one… after 08 mets still suck and will continue to suck till the end of time… braves… another story…. they are good… scary good and thankfully they havent able to get it together and clicking and im sure our pitching staff will keep it that way for a while.
I, who actually find it pretty easy to generate some hate just bout anytime I want, don't mind the Braves so much. What's to hate? Their great G.M.s? Their terrific farm systems? Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz? Chipper Jones? I don't mind them. In order to truly hate a team it has to be personal and its just not, for me, with the Brahhh-vos. Now the Mets. Jose Reyes, Wally Backman, Lenny Dykstra, GARY CARTER, Bobby Valentine, Davey Johnson, Felix Rodrigues, Billy Wagner…and the beat goes on. They were and are thoroughly unlikable people. Why would anyone dislike Terry Pendleton? Nope. I hated the Mets because they were competing with us AND they were arrogant and obnoxious douchebags AND they were from New York. Oh, the accents on those fans! Sorry, can't jump on board with you guys but if you hate em…great! Let that energy feed you as my hate for things does me.
Pendantry police: It is "Nietzschean". Repeat: Simpler Is Better.
The Dipsy
The tomahawk chant still annoys the crap out of me…
BTW, those Met amputees will likely beat us one of three…as may those gnats.
The Pirates of the Allegheny may put one or even two together. (they won 2 of 3 in April and 2 of 2 in May against the Reds and went 2 of 3 against the Cards.) I suspect some of our position players may be gassed by then.
There is more parity than we'd like to acknowledge.
Try not to hate; it's just not good for you.
Sure the Braves are our real rival, but they are a class organization with a lukewarm at best fan base. That does not generate the pure hatred that the Mets, their obnoxious fans, and everything New York does.
One of my earliest baseball memories is sitting thru a multiple rain-delayed twi-night doubleheader at the Vet until way past my bedtime. The Phillies got swept and serenaded by the chants of lets-go-mets from the jersey shore assholes who regularly took over OUR HOUSE.
The Braves are a respected rival. The mets are an evil ass cancer.
Evil ass cancer? Classic Turtle, classic!
I actually hate the Mets fans now more than the Mets. FRod is a smack. Reyes has toned it down a little (plus I wish we had him). There is nothing like a drunken Italian dude with a Mets jersey on and a nasty Queens accent to get the blood boiling of any righteous Phils fan. K@A accents are nice too, though. I feel about the Mets they way the the Cowboys feel about the Birds. We hate them but they could actually care less about us. Their rivals are the Redskins. Sure, they don't really like us, but I think they view us as a nuisance. Like we do the Mets until they get good again or ass a couple jerks to their team.
The Dipsy
I'm an equal opportunity hater on both the Braves and the Mets, though I currently offer condolences rather than trash talk to friends/family that are Mets fans. However, fans, geography, and history make a rivalry. The Phillies have even less history with the Braves than the Mets and as you point out there's no fan-fueled rivalry.
The Braves/Phillies have faced each other just once in the postseason (1993) and have only been in the same division since 1994. During the Braves run, the Phillies were not a good team, with slight exceptions in 2001 and the end of the Braves run. There is just not a history of competition between the clubs. The Mets/Phillies have the geographical and fan edge as well as recent competition with the 2007 and 2008 triumphs.
Hate both, but it's difficult to claim the Braves as their true "rival".
New York has an arrogance. They really think everything they have is the best of the bestest.
An announcer like the idiot for the Yankees who says the Yankees win (Sterling I believe).
He isnt a charachter like Harry Caray who used to say the Cubs win. In a lovable fun way.
He is an obnoxious boob.
It isnt just for sports they also think everything about them and thier city is not only the best in America but the best in the world.
I have seen bands play in 60 plus cities all over north america. New york is one of the worst.
The fans there think they are the best and they are not.
The Mets are irrelevant now. The big news yesterday was they found a minority owner. wow good luck to you.
Sandy Alderson is a serious baseball man though. And now that Minaya and Jerry are gone things may turn around. But it will take years and years.
TheBraves have no fans for a 1 pm game ATL in sept in a pennant race there will be more Phillies fans than Braves fans. 4,000 to 3,000.
The Phillies main rival may end up being themselves. And keeping an aging team with 4 division titles, a few world series appearnces and several MVP awards from becoming stale and old.
Like the Yankees and Mets.
I remember when I was a little kid 14-16 during the Buddy Ryan years of going to see Eagles games at the Vet. When you would see fights every time.
The Cowboys fans even then were like loser types who you would feel sorry for.
The most obnoxious by far fans were the Giants fans.
Not even close.
I have hated the Braves way more than the Mets for many years —- ever since Bobby Cox, the most overrated, most arrogant wife-beating manager in baseball. The Mets fans were funny. They had swagger and many times sunk into the woodwork with tails between their legs. The were fun. The Braves fans with that awful chop just pissed me off and made me puke. They still do. Just hate 'em
AWF, Alderson is basically the guy who is watching over the "receivership" of the Mets. I doubt he could make a trade or do anything that would add payroll. In fact, they and the Dodgers might have to dump payroll at some point and wouldn't that be sweet? The Mets are just gnats that I shoo in the air. An irritant. As I think about it…all the great rivalries are gone. Celtics, Lakers, Mets. Cowboys and Giants have lost a little, I think. I don't follow hockey. Do the Union hate anyone. Rivals…anyone? Need a rival ova heya!
The Dipsy
No question Pat. They are carbon copies and thats why we hate them. That obnoxious ginzo from Queens and irish dude from K@A are basically the same guy. I like to see them fight. Very evenly matched. New York City blows. Some people love it. The so called "great melting pot" is one big freakin ashtray to me.
The Dipsy
BTW, has everyone seen "Dr. Strangelove"? Compulsory viewing for all.
The Dipsy
IMHO in the top 5 American classics with The Graduate
Love the Alfa.
Alerson is 63 years old and the Mess ara minimum of 3-5 years away so who knows what hes thinking. But he is a very serious baseball man. The previous Mets GMs were laughable clowns.
Braves fans dont even infiltrate their own stadium. So really they are no threat I agree.
But thier team is a threat to the Phillies that the Mess are not and will not be for sometime.
As far as the biggest assholes in the NL east? The Mess and their fans get first prize.
All angles covered nicely, and this is obviously true. Unfortunately, a lot of today's Phillies fans are accustomed to winning and do not remember the 90s. I'd wager that something like 60% of all fans at Citizens Bank Park on a given night could name Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz, and maybe 35% would know Steve Avery.
Because of the Short Tenured Phillies Fan, and the shorter memory derived from winning, the last real threat to these people was the 2007 Mets.
The 2010 Braves probably served as more of a challenge to the Phils than the 2008 Mets, but because so much of this current fanbase knows Atlanta only as the town that draws 20,000 fans a game and has no real in-their-prime superstars, the Braves don't evoke as much as emotion as the city with Jose Reyes, David Wright, and several million citizens with a superiority complex,
The ex-friend of mine who did my ex-girfriend and ripped me off for $300 was, (and probably no doubt still is), a Mets fanatic. I hate the Mets.
I hate the Mets.
Sure, dimiss the dogass Mets for always playing below their possible ability and below their hype, and despise Atlanta for having ignorant fans whot apparently have to have little organized cheers, chops and other distractions to keep them interested in baseball. And for sticking with the worst sportscasters in the history of blind hucksterism and boosterism.
But..beat Florida.
Lets face it: the NY/Philly rivalry will always be more compelling than anything else in the division. The biggest problem with the rivalry is that throughout history, both teams have rarely been good at the same time. There have been long stretches where one team was great and the other sucked and vice versa. I dont see the same competitiveness that the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry has enjoyed. It seems those two teams are always neck and neck in the standings all summer long which makes for great baseball and a rivalry. The Mets are 3 or 4 years away from being good again and will probably completely retool their team by then. By that time, guys like Howard, Chase Halladay and Lee will either be gone or in serious decline. Id love to have a good rivalry but now its just smack talk between loud mouthed fans of both cities.
As a die-hard Braves fan I must say I really enjoyed this article. It's nice to be reminded how miserable the 90s were for everyone else, but I digress, and don't really want to start a poo-throwing contest.
I strongly disagree with a lot of the statements you made about Braves fans and Braves nation in general. First off, Columbia is not even close to being the heart of Braves country. Geographically, Columbia is over 200 miles away from Atlanta- more than TWICE AS FAR as Philly to NY. Not exactly an easy commute to the stadium. I went to high school in Columbia and college in Atlanta, and can say from personal experience you are completely right about Columbia- it is not a baseball town. But why would it be? There's one baseball team near them and its 4 hours away, while they have great collegiate athletics. Yea there are some Braves fans in Columbia, but if you want to go to a game its a pretty big event, seeing as its an 8 hour round trip.
The Braves don't have the highest attendance in the league, and only sell out a few games each year, but it's a bit of a stretch to say no one in Atl cares about the Braves… In the past five seasons the Braves have finished in the top half of the league in average home attendance every single season. Isn't that considered good? Especially in light of the where Turner field is and the way Atl is organized. It's not the highest attendance, but we're in the top half, which is pretty damn good for a team that hasn't had a division title in that span.
I do, however, agree with you when you say "the Atlanta Braves of the 1990s were, against all probability, taken for granted." The Braves played a tremendous brand of baseball but didn't have a tremendous fan base. But I dont care. I loved watching them and have fanatically watched them for years, and I have tons of friends and family who do the same. It doesn't bother me when I go to a game and see 20,000 people, because it doesn't take 40,000 people sitting around me to make me care about my team. There's a serious logic flaw in going from lower attendance to less passionate fans. Fewer people does not equal less passion.
Also, tell Pete Orr hi. I hear he's still holding onto the pictures of Bobby Cox hitting a bong while stomping on a burning American flag. An idea what sort of leverage he used over Manuel to get playing time?
As a Braves fan I also enjoyed this article. It is true the attendances aren't in the top 5 and we don't sell out a lot, but that has a lot to do with the shitty roads trying to get to Turner Field. It is ridiculously hard to get there and the traffic is horrendous. The other thing is the TBS effect, the Braves were on tbs for the longest time and for a lot of people it was the only baseball they could see, so Braves fans are more spread out across the country and not in ATL. I live in NC and have been a braves fan since i was 6, 1993. There are so many passionate fans out there who love the Braves but can only afford to make the 6 hour trip there only once or twice a year. That being said, since I dislike the Phillies now, I could see how fans from other teams would hate the Braves of the 90's. And screw the Mets they are just LOL.
Dan, appreciate you coming to our site and reading your feedback as a Braves fan.
Now, you question the logical assumption that lower attendance means less passionate fans? Well, if we follow your logic would that mean out of the 200 some fans that go to the Fish games there are probably some passioinate fans in there somewhere?
You misinterpreted the point. The Phils fans are really a pretty exclusive, sometimes raucous bunch but definitely passionate about their sports. Passionate fans is more suggestive to filling the house, with only the weak of heart leaving before the final pitch is thrown even though we may be down 6-1 going into the 9th. Passionate fans are over 140 straight sell outs, the tickets extremely difficult to acquire. And, there are tons more people who cannot go to the games but are watching on TV every night, posting to the internet, calling the sports shows and raving about this team.
Yes, passionate fans do equate to a packed stadium, you should try it sometime, come up and enjoy the lunacy – its an experience you wont forget and will want more of.
read my comment above, most braves fans live 4+ hours away from Turner Field thus cannot afford to go to every game and have a packed house
It's difficult to believe, but there are passionate Marlins fans out there. If I did not know one personally I wouldn't believe it either, and to his credit it takes a lot of balls to love a team like the Marlins (or rather, a team with management like the Marlins). And then theres this http://tinyurl.com/3jat9mq
I think you misinterpreted my interpretation, because I wasn't talking about Philly fans at all, I was defending Braves fans. My point is that although the Braves do not sell out every night, that does not mean that the fans coming to the games (and the huge television audience the Braves enjoy) are any less passionate about their team. The Phillies have passionate fans, I'm not debating that, but Braves fans are every bit as passionate. The difference is that there are more Philly fans than Braves fans (at least now that the Phils are winning games). I have been to quite a few sold out games, and always enjoy them, but I honestly wouldn't want to go to sold out games all the time. Aside from the price going up, it takes away from the special feeling of important games (like the playoffs or when the Phils come to town). I love my team, love going to the Ted to see them, and seeing some empty upper deck seats just don't take anything away from the game for me.
Also, I saw you wrote "the pitching is still rag tag and that is one of the main reasons why the Braves will not really threaten the Phils this year" up above and, well, no. Just no. The Braves pitching is phenomenal in every statistical category, and that doesn't reflect the even more phenomenal young pitching talent coming up through the minors. Few quick stats
2011 Braves pitching staff ranks(NL only)
ERA- 1st
Shutouts- tied 1st
QS- 5th
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Plus the Braves have the most unhittable man in baseball- Jonny Venters. Prove me wrong
We could debate which team has better overall pitching- Braves or Phillies- but its an exhaustive debate that I promise is fruitless because of how close and dominate both teams are from a pitching standpoint. So lets just not go in to who has the better staff and let it play out over the season.
Im a lurking Mets fan and wanted to chime in: I do think that the most passionate fans are in the Northeast. Fans in other areas, even if they are packing their stadium dont get as loud for whatever reason. Cardinal fans are said to be great – but they dont get very loud. As a Met fan Ive been through rivalries with the Cubs, the Cardinals, the Pirates (yes they were our nemesis in the late 80s – hard to believe that they were once an elite team), then the Braves in the 90s and the Phillies today. Never really had that one true rival like the Yankees have had with Boston. I envy Philly and what they have done the past few years building a great team and atmosphere. I hope in a couple of years Sandy Alderson will get my franchise back to the upper echelon of the NL east because all the rivalry stuff is more fun when you are competitive.
I like how all of these Phils fans are all of a sudden "experts" on how to be a passionate fan…..If memory serves me correct, Twice now Jroll and once Victorino have called out Philly fans for being frontrunners…..those are two of your own calling out the fans for being frontrunners….oh yeah, that is passionate


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For the Children
Hole in the Wall Gang
Bill Schmitz, Richard Wright, Nicholas Wright (front), Krissy Schmitz, Nancy Wright, Julie Cannon and David Cannon
photographs by Craig Naumec
A bright summer day was the stage for the eleventh annual Polo for Children fundraiser at the Greenwich Polo Club. The event was held to support the Hole In the Wall Gang Camp, which was founded by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and continues to be a playtime oasis for children stricken with serious illnesses. More than 250 donors rubbed elbows with celebrity guests Jim Naughton and Jane Curtin.
Attendees savored a gourmet luncheon and bid on envy-inspiring auction items, including a trip to the Galápagos Islands and a New York Jets VIP package. This was an event for all ages, as the children enjoyed a picnic, arts and crafts, and games in their own tent.
The fun-filled day raised over $825,000 to support camp programs. holeinthewallgang.org


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Description of Service: Andrew Pfrenger began Peace Corps training on July 27, 1999 in Vladivostok, Primorski Krai, Russia Far East and completed a 10-week training program. Training included a course in the Russian language (145 hours), Cultural Awareness (81 hours), and Technical training. Cultural awareness included lectures and discussions on political developments, economic and historical issues, and living with a Russian host family throughout the training period. Technical training (129.5 hours TEFL Tech) included methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), practice teaching, and structured observations and feedback.
Andrew Pfrenger was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer on October 1, 1999. He was responsible to the Ministry of Higher Education. Andrew served as a teacher of English assigned to Secondary School #8, located in the small town of Arsenyev, Primorski Krai.
Andrew worked primarily with one English teacher to develop daily lessons and curriculums for grades 5-11. He also taught several optional classes of English a week, on themes included American history, English conversation, and business English. He reported directly to Tamara Ivanovna Yagodina, Vice-Principal of the School. He was responsible for teaching the following courses: English (grades 5-11), Conversational English, Ecology, American History, Business English (Advanced), and Business English (Beginners).
The American History course covered the period from colonization through World War I. The curriculum included a mix of lectures, readings, and debate. Students read and analyzed contemporary literary texts.
The ecology classes included the teaching of basic environmental concepts along with English vocabulary. Students practiced basic reading, writing, conversation, and grammar skills through activities which also emphasized knowledge acquisition about local ecosystems and critical thinking about environmental issues.
Andrew also organized some events in his time at School #8. These included a Halloween Party and a Haunted House (staffed by older students).
Andrew Pfrenger also wrote a grant and received funding for an English Language Resource Center, complete with a xerox machine, books, video and audio cassettes, visual aids, a TV, computer, printer, and VCR for Arsenyev's students and teachers.
In addition to regular teaching duties, Andrew conducted an English club once a week for interested adults and older students. Through word of mouth, attendance increased to a core group of 5-6 advanced speakers, with regular attendance between 10-15. Club members would decide on their own what they wanted to discuss, and Andrew would prepare discussion activities. Topics included medicine, education, holidays, the American justice system, and the environment. Along with the town's head English teacher, Andrew also organized a teacher's club which met once a month. Meetings were informal and the emphasis was on topics which would help teachers prepare their students for their exams.
Andrew Pfrenger assisted a local youth leader in building an adult KVN team in his last four months in Arsenyev. Working together with other teachers and community members, they built a team, wrote a script, and participated in a townwide KVN contest, taking second place. The youth organization Sozvezdiye presented him with a copy of their KVN curriculum and a video, in hopes that he would be able to bring KVN to American students.
After 24 months of Peace Corps service, Andrew was tested by a certified ACTFL examiner. He scored Intermediate-High in spoken Russian.
Supplemental Information: Other highlights of Andrew's service included membership in a Tourism club led by Igor Kuleshov, accompanying local gatherers into the taiga to harvest seasonal foods and medicines, learning to make samagon from a friendly OBZ instructor, and skiing recreationally with a local cross-country team.
Current Information: Andrew currently teaches at the University of Connecticut and is completing his Phd in Medieval Studies. He is the father of three children.


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25.01.12 Finance WG Meeting Summary
Date and Time: Wed, 25.01.12 10:30 am
Location: TEA Cafe
Attendees: Em & Vica
This was considered an informal meeting, as the 4 other members were not able to attend. Nevertheless we thought it was necessary to start addressing some important issues.
Signatories meeting:
– Contact last people in doubt
– Describe current situation
– Are we ready to go ahead to open the account?
Email from donor:
– explain that we are receiving only monetary donations for individuals
– that we have a limit of £3000
– that we are more interested in receiving donations in kind (use of land, buildings,etc)
People's supermarket:
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– we ask to continue the delivery to Finsbury Sq.
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Autonomy of WG:
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– A few other themes were touched, but we thought they were not in the remit of the Finance Team, but rather of OccupyLondon as a whole:
– should activities be not for profit?
– should the activities reflect occupy principles?
– who decides how the money is distributed? The WG or the GA?
– it will be inevitable that certain projects attract more money, how do we make sure that we don't create "economic inequality" within the movement?
Communication within Finance WG:
– we should set up a groupspace for the WG
– suggest to the rest of the Finance WG that we have open meetings Wednesday afternoons
– make prints of bank statements for all Finance Team
– make prints of total money in and out of the past months for Finance Team


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Dodgers let one get away at Wrigley
I really thought the Dodgers had this Saturday game wrapped when the score was Dodgers 8, Cubs 5 but the bullpen let it get away when the Cubs scored five runs in the 8th. Final score: Cubs 10, Dodgers 8. LP: Guerier. WP: Jeff Samardzija (had to look how to spell that!)
Dodgers are now at 500 with 11 wins, 11 losses. Dodgers faired the same in the last homestand with 4 wins and 4 losses when they met with the Cardinals and Braves in a four game series with both teams. They lost the series with the Cardinals and won it against the Braves.
The last homestand saw the arrival of Jerry Sands, the minor league player of the year in 2010. Jerry got his first major league hit in his first game. We were all chanting "Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!" a la Jerry Springfield everytime he was coming to bat or he was recording an out at Left Fied. Jerry also got his first major league beanball (he ducked) off Tim Hudson.
I was one of the many Dodger fans that got interviewed at Dodger Stadium to give our opinion about Bug Selig taking over over seeing the Dodgers: Here is a link to the interview from KCAL channel 9 which is owned by CBS. You have to click on one of videos about fans being interviewed at the stadium
Friends on Facebook told me they saw this picture in the LA Times sport section online. I am taking a picture of Deuce with Jerry Sands.
Rubber game on this Easter Sunday is so far Dodgers 6, Cubs 2. No lead is enough with our bullpen so Go Kuroda-san! Go Dodgers! 21 game hitting streak for Andre Either!
Happy Easter Sunday!
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With the distractions this week and the uneven footing underneath the club, hitting the .500 mark is a victory in itself. But that is what good teams do, they win with their backs to the wall.
See, even the LA Times notices talent and made sure to have the photo proof of your great talent.
Great photo of Deuce. Maybe you should be his personal photog.
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I love the photo! And I hope the Cubs don't have to face Matt Kemp or Andre Ethier again anytime soon.
Antytime soon!? Dodgers are facing the Cubs at Dodger Stadium next week. It includes a weekday game with the Dodgers wearing again the baby powder blue Brooklyn jerseys. The boys look so cute in those unis. The Indians were throwback uniforms also so I expect the Cubs will wear theirs too. The Boys of Summer look so cute in throwback unis🙂
Andre Ethier is on fire! I should just pick him every day in Beat the Streak and be done with it.🙂 That is a great photo. How neat to get in the papers.
This is a very simple game…
You should have picked Andre Ethier! 23 game hitting streak and counting!
Ah, the bullpen. Can't win with 'em, can't win without 'em.
I enjoyed the video link. I really hope that Selig and MLB can right the ship.
The L.A. Times huh? Just remember us little people on your way up. I'm dying for the commissioner to take away my team too! LOL
Yeah, the ups and downs of a bullpen. We got Padilla in the bully now. I think and hope he works out in the bully, in the meantime, he got his first save yesterday.
Not only the La Times Sport section but someone in FB told me, the picture was in Yahoo Sports. LOL. I can't forget you amigo.
Sorry I have not upated my blog. There was a death in the family of a wonderful aunt that we will all miss dearly.
25 game hitting streak! Whatever he is eating, he better keep it up. I know he likes to eat tuna and peanut butter, not together but one after the other.


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John Lackey Joins the Blogosphere
John Lackey pitches in an intrasquad game at Rancho Cucamonga on April 5, 2004.
The below press release arrived in e-mail today from Yardbarker.com.
Yardbarker.com, the premier destination on the Internet for unfiltered sports commentary by fans and bloggers, has launched an MLB blog with John Lackey, ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, it was announced today.
Lackey, a six-year major league veteran, will share his daily life experiences and answer questions from fans throughout the 2007-08 baseball season.
"I really like what Yardbarker is doing and I love the idea of connecting directly with the fans," Lackey said. "Not everyone gets to experience daily life in a clubhouse or preparing to face the Red Sox or traveling to Milwaukee to play the Indians because the weather's too bad in Cleveland. It will be fun to give the fans a little closer look at what I experience during the season."
Lackey was third in the American League with 190 strikeouts in 2006 and his 389 Ks over the last two full seasons trails only Johan Santana among AL pitchers. In 2002, Lackey became only the second rookie in MLB history to start and win a game seven of the World Series, a 4-1 decision over the San Francisco Giants.
"We started Yardbarker to offer sports fans the very best sports content on the web and there is no better source for that than hearing from the athletes themselves," Yardbarker Co-Founder Pete Vlastelica said. "Not only is John Lackey one of the best pitchers in baseball, he has a great personality and shoots straight from the hip. His blog promises to be insightful and entertaining."
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Yardbarker is a sports web site that allows fans, not editors, to post, rate and discuss the best sports content available daily on the web. Yardbarker's sports bloggers are blazing the trail for a new kind of sports journalism: witty, interactive, multimedia, refreshingly biased, and generally able to talk about sports in the language that sports fans find most engaging.
The direct link to Lack's blog is http://www.yardbarker.com/users/John_Lackey.
I have to wonder, though, how unhappy the Angels' image-conscious front office management will be about Lackey posting a blog they don't control …
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Show-stopping sparkle in quiet neutrals. Four rows of round, pear and oval stones—in hematite and silver metallic hues, greys and smoky brown. Rhodium-finish chain in back. Glass crystals; nickel-free metal. Lobster claw clasp. Adjustable length: 16.5"-18.5".
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New York Visitor's Guide | What to do in New York
Our Times Square Hotel is located in the heart of NYC's Times Square and close to many NYC Attractions and many of the most popular 'Things to do in NYC' and 'What to do in New York', including; Empire State Building, Central Park, New York City Tours, Statue of Liberty and many New York Activities that make New York City the 'World's Most Exciting City!'
Whenever you visit New York - you're likely to have questions;
What is the Best Broadway Play? Who has the Best New York-style Pizza?
Need a list of the best NY Restaurants?
What is the best Shopping in Times Square? What is the next 'can't miss' New York Event or NYC Trade Show? When is New York's Restaurant Week?
What are the Top 3 NYC City Tours? Which New York Attractions are best for families, kids or couples?
Unless you have a favorite cousin living in New York who has all the answers to these questions, you may be out of luck, but not anymore - The Manhattan Hotel at Times Square has you covered with our New York Visitor's Guide.
It's impossible to feature every New York Attraction, NYC Activities, NY Restaurants, NYC Events, NYC Shopping or best Broadway Shows, on one Website, but we've created the next best thing by combining the top selections for New York Attractions, NYC Activities, Broadway Shows, NY Restaurants, Shopping in New York and NYC Events and present them here in our New York Visitor's Guide
We update the information on our New York Visitor's Guide throughout the year so come back often and see our featured Things to do in NYC and What to do in New York.