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I have been using an Ameda Purely Yours Ultra for the last six months and today during my lunch pump it stopped working. I turn it on, the light turns on, it sounds like it is about to start, you hear a whistle and then it just stops. There is no suction. Any recommendations on what could be wrong or how I could get it to work? I called Ameda but they close 5pm eastern time and I am in CA.
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A 64-year-old man has died after being injured when the small plane he was in crashed in eastern Iowa, killing the pilot.
The Overton Funeral Home in Traer confirmed Tuesday that Max Morrison, of Traer, died Monday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.
Morrison suffered burns and other injuries when the plane crashed while approaching an unimproved airstrip in Clutier.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane clipped power lines as it headed for the airstrip. An NTSB report says the pilot and plane owner, 69-year-old William Konicek, also of Traer, may not have known the lines were there. He'd landed at the airstrip before, but the report says the power lines recently had been erected
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9/28/08 at Shea Stadium
Last game EVER at Shea Stadium?
When I got off the No. 7 train and saw the tarp covering the infield…
…I had no idea if I'd ever be back at this ballpark.
The Mets entered this day–the last day of the regular season–tied for
the Wild Card with the Brewers, who were scheduled to play the
first-place Cubs at 2:05pm at Miller Park. If both the Mets and Brewers
won, or if they both
lost, they'd face each other the next day in a one-game playoff at Shea
to determine
who'd be moving on to the post-season.
I'd never been to a game with more history and uncertainty, and yet because of the gray sky and thick damp
air, there was an eerie calmness surrounding Shea as I made my way
toward Gate C:
It was only 9:30am–more than three-and-a-half-hours until game
time–when I passed the ticket windows and saw a small line of hopeful
I already had a ticket–not a very good one, but at least I was
guaranteed to get inside the ballpark. The seat was way up in the top
corner of the upper deck. I'd bought it on StubHub
two weeks earlier (for $100 plus shipping and handling) when my plans
to spend the last weekend of the season at Camden Yards fell through.
At that time, the Mets were cruising toward a first-place finish. I
didn't expect this game to be THE final game, so I wasn't too concerned
about my seat location.
I was, however, deeply concerned about the snagging situation. I wasn't
thinking about catching 10 balls. I just wanted one. One lousy ball.
Even a training ball.
Anything. I was desperate. I just wanted to keep my streak alive. I
didn't think there was going to be batting practice, and I figured
there'd be a ton of fans showing up early, and I assumed that security
would be extra strict. Would I even be able to get into the Field Level
to try to get a player to toss me a ball? I had no idea.
Then there was the issue of the final home run at Shea. The two
starting pitchers were left-handed–Scott Olsen for the Marlins and
Oliver Perez for the Mets–which meant there'd be more right-handed
batters, which meant that if anyone DID hit a home run, it would likely
be pulled to left field, which meant it would likely land in the
bleachers. But how the hell was I possibly going to get in there? The
bleachers at Shea, as I've mentioned before, are part of the larger
"picnic area." To get in there you specifically need a "picnic" ticket, and
those are normally only sold to groups of 100 or more.
I had a trick up my sleeve, but it was risky, so I was pretty
about the whole thing…and yet I *had* to get in there. The LAST home
run at Shea was at stake. I couldn't bear the thought of being
trapped in the main part of the stadium and not even giving myself a
chance to catch it.
Well, as fate would have it, I was waiting outside Gate C (which was about to
open) when my friend Eric walked over. He'd been standing in line at
the ticket windows and was finally rewarded when the Mets released a few seats. He'd bought
one for $47. I asked him where it was. He said it was in the picnic
area. My jaw dropped and I asked him if he would be willing to trade.
"You want to sit out THERE?!" he asked. (Not everyone collects baseballs.)
"Umm, YEAH!!!" I said.
So we traded. I was in shock. This was my new ticket…
batting practice. Yes, the Mets were actually hitting. I couldn't
believe it. It wasn't just drizzling–it
was raining. Look how wet the railings were
at the front of the bleachers:
Everything was wet. Mike Pelfrey threw me a wet ball within the
first five minutes, and Brandon Knight tossed me another soon after.
The ball from Knight was commemorative. Here it is:
These were the only two balls I snagged during the Mets' portion of
BP. I should've had a third but I misjudged a home run that ended up
sailing a few feet over my glove. I'd misjudged one the day before
as well. That one fell short. I blamed the weather. The air was heavy
and damp, and the ball just didn't carry. Why, then, under identical
circumstances one day later, did this one sail too far? I couldn't
figure it out. Maybe it was me and not the weather. Maybe I was losing
my touch. It wasn't a good sign.
The Mets finished BP early, and the Marlins were nowhere in sight, so I
headed back into the main part of the stadium. This is what I saw as I approached the 3rd base dugout. Very frustrating:
Eventually a few Marlins came out and started playing catch, and when
they finished, I called out to coach Bo Porter and got him to throw me
the following ball:
I didn't know it at the time, but the Marlins had just played a
series in Washington, D.C. That's why they had one (and probably more)
of the Nationals' baseballs.
The Marlins started hitting, so I raced back out to the bleachers. My
fourth ball of the day was tossed by a pitcher that I couldn't
identify, and my fifth was a ground-rule double that bounced right to
me off the warning track in left-center.
I would've had a sixth ball if Matt Treanor were as athletic as his wife.
I got him to throw one to me from a couple hundred feet away, but his
aim was off and he didn't put quite enough velocity on it, and it
never reached me. Then the rain got more intense, and the grounds crew quickly covered the field:
I gave one of my balls to a security guard who wanted one for his nephew
and then I headed back into the main part of the stadium. This is what I
unexpectedly saw when I entered the street-level concourse:
I had no idea what was going on, and of course I couldn't see a
damn thing, so I asked around and learned that a few dozen former Mets
were entering the stadium.
I headed up the ramps and emerged in the Field Level seats. The tarp was on the field, and all the players were gone…
…so I headed up to the right field corner of the upper deck and
took a few photos of Citi Field. Here's a look at the whole stadium:
This was the view slightly to the left:
The following photo shows some of the construction clutter on the open-air concourse of the upper deck…
…and this last shot provides a peek inside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. Notice how the escalators are covered in plastic:
I headed back down to the Field Level and got a final reminder of
why Shea is such a dump. As you can see below, there was a huge puddle
in one of the tunnels that wouldn't drain:
The rain finally stopped. The grounds crew started getting the
field ready. The first pitch was pushed back to 2pm. I used the extra
time to wander and take photos of some of the many signs that fans had brought. I'm not sure
what all the names on the sign below have in common (other than all
being former Mets) but it was still cool:
These guys were intense:
This dude hit the nail on the head:
This was one of several signs that made a play on the word "Shea":
This fan needed a thicker marker and some extra glue:
This woman (for those unfamiliar with Mets history) was talking
about Mike Piazza. Notice how the actual retired numbers can be seen in
the background:
Marc Anthony sang the national anthem, and the bleachers looked more crowded than ever:
Several Marlins started playing catch in front of the
dugout, and I was tempted to run over because I *knew* I would've
gotten at least one ball. I was one of the only fans in the stadium
with Marlins gear (and believe me, I felt icky and embarrassed whenever
I wore it), but I decided to forget the Fish and head to the bleachers
instead. That section is normally general admission, but during this
final weekend of the regular season, Mets management decided that
assigned seating was the way to go. My actual seat was in the second
row behind the yellow "WISE" advertisement, but there was no way I was
gonna sit there. Second row?! Are you kidding me?! That's no way to
catch a home run ball, and anyway, I didn't want to sit all the way out
in left-center. I didn't know where I was going to sit, but I figured
it was best to head out there ASAP and start looking for a spot. On the
way, I took a photo (from behind) of some fans holding up big
orange-and-blue letters that spelled "GOODBYE SHEA":
Then I ran into Elvis…
…and made my way to the bleachers. Amazingly, I found ONE empty space on a two-person bench at the front of the cross-aisle.
If I'd had a choice, I would've picked a spot in straight-away left
field. This empty seat was closer to left-center than I wanted to be,
but hey, it was still great compared to where I was supposed to be
sitting. Anyway, once I was there, I realized that I probably wasn't
going to have to move. As you can see in the photo above, there were
little wheelchair logos embedded into the metal flooring next to the
small benches–but there weren't any fans in wheelchairs. If there had
been, they obviously would've had the right to sit there, but as things
stood, those little benches were up for grabs so I sat there guilt-free.
Everyone kept their eyes on the out-of-town scores throughout the day,
and because of the rain delay, our game basically started at the same
time as the Brewers game. This was my view of the giant
…and here's a closer look at the Cubs-Brewers game:
I hadn't been looking when the Cubs' score changed from "0" to "1"
when the whole stadium cheered wildly for no apparent reason, I took a
quick peek at the scoreboard and then joined the celebration.
This was my view straight ahead…
…and this was the view to my right:
I knew I was in a good spot to jump up and run for any ball that
might fly my way, but at the same time I knew it was going to be a mob
scene, and I wasn't THAT optimistic.
Meanwhile, there was quite a pitchers' duel in progress:
The Mets went down one-two-three in the bottom of the fifth, and
the Marlins quickly got on the board in the sixth. Cameron Maybin led
off with a ground-rule double and scored on a single by John Baker.
Jorge Cantu followed with a single of his own, and then both runners
tagged up and moved into scoring position on a deep fly out to
left-center by Mike Jacobs. Perez intentionally walked Dan Uggla to
load the bases and was promptly taken out of the game. What did
reliever Joe Smith do? He walked Josh Willingham to force in a run.
Cody Ross then popped up to third and Alfredo Amezaga ended the inning
with a soft come-backer, but the damage had been done. The Marlins were
ahead, 2-0.
In the bottom of the sixth, pinch hitter Robinson Cancel got things
started with a leadoff walk, and Jose Reyes followed with a routine fly
out to right. That brought up Carlos Beltran, a switch-hitter who was
batting from the right side. The first pitch missed the zone. The
second pitch was an 88-mph fastball, belt-high over the outside corner,
and Beltran crushed it in my direction.
It was clearly going to travel a long way, but at the instant that it
left the bat, I wasn't sure if it would be a fly out to the warning
track or a home run that traveled 50 feet over my head. The only thing
I could do was jump up and start moving. The ball was heading about 20
feet to my right, so I darted through the aisle in that direction. No
one else reacted as quickly as I had so the aisle was still fairly
empty for the first 10 feet. Then, as I realized that the ball WAS
going to leave the yard and that it WAS at least going to land
somewhere near the aisle, I had to weave in and out of a few fans. The
ball was coming. I kept moving. I kept my eye on it and sensed all the
moving bodies around me. The aisle got extremely crowded. Everyone was
standing. There were no kids. Everyone was tall. I was in a forest. I
had to elevate above the tallest trees, and I had to pick the right
spot and time it perfectly. The ball kept
coming…coming…coming…and I couldn't believe I was even going to
be close enough to be able to make an attempt to catch it, but it
descended right toward me, and I jumped up at the last second and
WILLED myself through the sea of hands and bodies that were fighting to
invade my air space. The ball came all the way down, and I went up and
caught it. Bam. Just like that. There was such a frenzy in the
bleachers at that point that my hat got knocked off. I was as stunned
and excited as ever. You know that Barry Bonds home run I caught a few
years ago? That was nothing in comparison. Check out this screen shot
of my initial reaction. It was a moment of utter
disbelief before I really started celebrating:
Then I moved on to the "Oh my God" phase:
Then there was a bit of "I think I'm the Man but this might not really be happening so I'll just keep my arms up in case":
Then people started mobbing me, not to try to steal the ball (which
I probably shouldn't have even taken out of my glove in the first place
except I had to see it to believe it) but just to celebrate with me.
It's like I was part of the play. Everyone had to touch me. I felt
someone bear-hugging me from behind while another hand started rubbing
my shaved head:
The celebration just wouldn't end:
Then, after I tucked the ball back inside my glove, there were some high-fives…
…followed by more hugging and head-rubbing:
And some more high-fives. Check it out…two at once:
It was THE…CRAZIEST…HAPPIEST…MOMENT…EVER. I'm not sure if anything will ever top it.
(Click here
to watch the actual video footage. If there's anyone reading this
who taped the game on SNY and can get me the full clip, please get in touch…)
As soon as the minute-long love-fest concluded, the potential magnitude
of the situation sunk in even more: I was holding, at least at that
point, the LAST home run hit at Shea Stadium.
"I need an authenticator!!!" I started shouting at every security guard in sight.
They were all like…huh? So I kept shouting and rambling about how
Major League Baseball has authenticators at every game and that I needed to see one right away.
One of the guards told me to talk to the supervisor–a very friendly
woman named Kim–who knew what I was talking about (thank God) and had
me wait in my seat for a few minutes. So I did…and I kept getting
mobbed (in a good way) by people who wanted to take pictures of/with me
and the ball, which I never let out of my hands. One guy was like,
"C'mon, what'm I gonna do with it?"
"I don't know," I told him, "and that's why it's not leaving my hand. You can hold the ball WITH me if you want."
He was willing to accept that…so while I had my death-grip on 90
percent of the ball, he touched as much of the remaining part of the
ball as he could and his friend took a pic.
I made an exception about letting go of the ball for the
authenticator. I figured he wasn't going to try to steal it. Kim came
and got me and led me down the steps to the area behind the bleachers.
The authenticator, pictured below…
…emerged from the gated area behind the batter's eye. I'm not
even sure what he said. The whole thing was a blur. I think he
congratulated me, or maybe I'm just hoping he did. I wanted to ask a
million questions, but he clearly didn't have too much time to spare. I
asked what his name was, and two seconds after he told me, I'd already
forgotten. All I know is that he had a pad-like clipboard thing and a
roll of stickers, each with a different serial number. He peeled one
off and stuck it on the ball and then made some notations. I'm not even
sure if he had a corresponding sticker. Like I said, it was all a blur.
This was the first ball I'd ever gotten authenticated, and my mind was
racing like you wouldn't believe.
He was very calm about the whole thing. I was kinda happy…
…and when I got back to the seats, the death-grip returned:
Here's a look at the sticker:
Here's another look at it. I took this pic when I got home to show how it changes colors in the light:
Here's the commemorative logo:
Here's the whole thing:
People kept coming up to me for the rest of the game. They wanted to
see the ball, touch the ball, shake my hand, ask me questions, etc.
Several people recognized me as THAT GUY who'd recently caught the home runs on
back-to-back nights at Yankee Stadium, and a few others recognized me
from various articles and interviews. One guy came over to talk to me
and blocked everyone's view behind him, so security told him he had to
return to his seat. What did he do next? He crouched down next to me on
my right, which meant he was completely blocking my path into the
aisle. When I told him not to block me, he said, "Don't worry, I'll get
out of the way if one comes."
"Sir," I wanted to say, "in the time it would take you to turn your big
head 45 degrees to watch the initial flight of the ball, I'd be 10
steps down the aisle. Now please, get the **** out of my way."
But instead I asked him nicely to move, and he did.
A woman returned to her seat with a mini-helmet filled with cookies-n-cream Dippin' Dots.
"Can I buy that from you?" I asked.
"I'll give it to you," she said, "in exchange for that ball you caught."
I had nine new voice-mails on my cell phone by that point. I hadn't heard my
phone ring, and I couldn't listen to the messages, because there was no
reception. (Thanks, T-Mobile.)
Who was I supposed to root for at that point? It was hard for me to
root against the Mets, but I realized that if they lost and the Brewers
(who were now leading the Cubs, 3-1, in the eighth) held on and won, there
wouldn't be another game at Shea…ever…and I might end up being the
fan who got the last home run there. I just needed the Mets and Marlins
NOT to hit another longball…and they obliged in the seventh inning.
Wow, 12 more outs to go…
In the top of the eighth, with the score still tied at 2-2, Jerry
Manuel brought in the left-handed Scott Schoeneweis to face the
left-handed hitting Jacobs. Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez answered by
pinch hitting with the right-handed Wes Helms. Three pitches into the
at-bat, Helms crushed a line drive into the bleachers.
Noooooooooooooo!!! I almost caught it and surely would have if it'd
just traveled an additional 10 feet.
"Your ball is now worthless," said an annoying fan behind me.
"Not really," I said. "It's still the last METS homer at Shea."
Uggla, a righty, was due to bat next, so Manuel replaced Blow-eneweis
with the right-handed Luis Ayala. Uggla worked a full count, and then
BOOM!!! Another home run…again into the bleachers but too far over
toward straight-away left field for me to even get near it.
"Your ball is now REALLY worthless," said Mr. Annoying.
"Okay," I told him, "then don't buy it."
I didn't have any intention of selling it–I've never sold a ball–but it
was still fun to think about how much it would potentially be worth.
Ayala retired the next three batters.
The Mets got the tying runs on base with two outs in the bottom of the
eighth, but couldn't bring them home. The Brewers game went final. They
beat the Cubs, 3-1. The Mets HAD to score at least two runs in the
bottom of the ninth or their season was done.
The Marlins didn't score in the top of the ninth. I looked at the
batters that the Mets would be sending up in the bottom of the inning:
David Wright followed by 1) a lefty, 2) a pinch hitter who was probably
going to be a lefty since the right-handed Matt Lindstrom was coming
into the game, and 3) more lefties. I decided to stay in the bleachers
for Wright and then bolt toward the Marlins' dugout.
Wright worked a full count and forced Lindstrom to throw eight pitches,
but on that final pitch, he popped up to Uggla at second base.
I took off for the main part of the stadium and used one final trick
(which I can not reveal) to get myself back into the Field Level.
Before I made it to the seats behind the dugout, Endy Chavez hit a come-backer. Two
outs. Time for a pinch hitter. Who would it be? Damion Easley?! A
righty?! Crap. Well, it was too late now. All I could do was wander on
down toward the dugout and wait. The count went full…
…and then he walked. Tying run to the plate. Ryan Church. I put
on my Marlins cap and Marlins shirt and got some mean looks from
everyone around me, which I definitely deserved, but hey, business is
Church took the first pitch for a ball and then launched the next one
380 feet. Unfortunately for the Mets, he happened to hit it to the
deepest part of the ballpark. Maybin caught the ball just shy of the
warning track in right-center, and just like that, Shea Stadium was
The Marlins players and coaches formed a line near the mound and
started shaking hands and patting each other on the butts. Nothing
unusual about that, right? Well, just about every fan in the stadium
started chanting, "OFF THE FIELD!!! OFF THE FIELD!!!"
It was really sad and embarrassing. I was sorry not only that this
would be one of my lasting memories of Shea, but that I was even there
to be a part of it. I wasn't participating in the chant, but still, I
was part of the crowd, and it hurt. That said, I couldn't blame the fans who were
chanting. Everyone was so upset about the Mets' second straight
collapse, and everyone had to find some way to express themselves. As
for me? I capitalized on the loss by turning it into an additional
collecting opportunity. If the Marlins had lost, they might've all
disappeared into the clubhouse and gotten right on their bus, but since
they won and spilled out onto the field, I knew there was a chance to
get stuff from them…and sure enough, that's exactly
what happened.
I got a batting glove from Helms as soon as he popped out of the dugout
(he tossed his other glove to a fan 10 feet away) and got Cantu's cap
as everyone headed back in.
Not bad.
I quickly got the hell away from the dugout and ran into my friend Clif
(aka "goislanders4" if you read the comments on this blog) and changed
out of my Marlins gear. The "bonus items" I'd received were nice, but
Here's a look at the (smelly) cap…
…and here's the batting glove which, as you can see below, has Helms' uniform number stitched onto the wrist:
THAT was cool. I've gotten a bunch of batting gloves over the years, and I've never seen a player's number on any of them.
Clif's mom Gail caught up with us, and we all headed up to the
Mezzanine (third deck) to watch the closing ceremony. What did we see
on our way up the ramps? Another example of Mets fans having expressed themselves:
The ceremony was fine, I guess, but I had NO interest in being
there. I'd experienced my best day ever as a collector. What more did I
need? I mean, it was nice, I suppose, to see Dwight Gooden and Darryl
Strawberry and other Mets heroes from my childhood walk back out onto
the field one last time…
….but it was as bittersweet as it gets. Everyone in
the stadium was upset. I just didn't want to be there. Neither did
Gail. Clif kinda wanted to stay–he commemorated his final minutes
inside the stadium by photographing the inside of his favorite
bathroom–but even he knew it was time.
I took a final pic of the Beltran ball as I walked through the parking lot…
…and was sent on my way with a few fireworks:
"Oh look," said Gail, "they're already blowing up the stadium."
When I got home, I was finally able to listen to my voice-mails. Here are the top three:
1) From my friend Justen: "Zack, did you just do it again? Did
you catch Beltran's ball? I got friends callin' me talking about you
because they just saw you at the Mets game…dude, you are a f*ckin'
can't believe it. I didn't even see you catch it, but like, I looked up
on the JumboTron and I saw you and your hat fall off and whatever…and
you jumped up and down and you held your three fingers up. That was
ridiculous, and like, Marco called me and he was like, 'Oh did you see
Zack Hample catch Carlos Beltran's home run?' That was ridiculolus.
This is Clif by the way, but um, yeah, okay, bye. Oh, and I saw you
getting escorted or whatever, like, they took you out of the picnic
area. They took someone off. But you probably caught the last home run
at Shea, so congratulations. Bye."
3) From my friend Mike: "Zack Hample, it is Mike Marshall,
former vendor at Shea and the old Yankee Stadium. Alright, so I had a
really emotional day and I'm pretty upset in the general scheme of
things and extremely exhausted, and I'm sitting on my computer chair,
looking at my plasma TV, and I swear to God I saw you catch Carlos
Beltran's homer, and if that's true, holy sh*t, man, you are the
American Dream. You're my hero. F*ck the bleacher creatures and all the
people who don't get it. But uh, I think that was you. I haven't had
time to check your blog, and they didn't, uh, feature you on ESPN, but
tell me that was you. Gimme a call. On a very miserable, long
homestand, I jumped out of my chair and went, 'No waaay, that can't
be!!!' and my woman doesn't understand, but you might've made my night
if you caught that ball. Take it easy. About a hundred and fifty days
until pitchers and catchers report. Later. Happy New Year! Shanah
Anyway, yeah. That pretty much sums it up.
It took a few days for me to find the time to write this monster blog
entry, and it took the same amount of time for the media to realize
that I, Zack Hample, am the guy who caught the Beltran homer. Carl
Bialik, who writes a blog on the Wall Street Journal's web site, posted
this entry
about it, and the story has been taking off ever since. It's now
12:32am ET on Wednesday, October 1st. Just a few hours ago, I started
getting blog comments and emails from people telling me I was on the
front page of Yahoo…and they weren't joking. Here's a screen shot…
…and here's the story.
This game at Shea might end up being my final game of 2008. I have no idea, but regardless, here are the stats…
? 6 balls at this game
? 539 balls in 72 games this season = 7.5 balls per game.
? 568 consecutive games with at least one ball
? 338 consecutive games at Shea Stadium with at least one ball
? 13 game balls this season (not counting game-used balls that get tossed into the crowd)
? 5 game home run balls this season (all of which were caught on a fly
at games in New York at which the attendance was at least 52,000)
? 124 lifetime game balls (115 foul balls, 8 home runs, 1 ground-rule double)
? 99 lifetime game balls in New York
? 78 lifetime game balls at Shea Stadium
? 3,816 total balls
49 Comments
You should get that ball appraised, just for kicks and giggles. It'd be fun to see how much it could be worth if you ever wanted to sell it.
Nice work Zack (minus the puke shot) ! I emailed Neil at newsday.com yesterday and sent him the link to the mlb.com loop of the homer.He didn't know that you had caught it, went to your blog and then said he was going to call you. You got to show up at some playoff games…don't end the 2008 snagging season so early. chris
Zack, you are simply amazing. I came across your blog today and am very amazed by your work. Congratulations.
-Andrew Fletcher
You're an American Hero, Zack…nothing else to say about that.
Wow, Zack, truly remarkable. Just an update from the barren wasteland that is Arizona. I have befriended many of the ushers and security guards because as you know, the dbacks dont draw a very good crowd, and at batting practice, there are around 20 people in left or right field. After looking at the glove trick, in which I gave you complete acknowledgment, they found it genius and completely allow it. I'm not really a fan of using it on the warning track just in case, but when a ball goes into the bullpen, it is as good as mine :). I would just like to thank you for the inspiration and all the good reads and experiences. I can usually manage to get 5 or 6 balls per game, and have only you to thank! I would like to share one story though, in which my own smarts earned me a ball. Number 59 on the rockies, who I later learned was a bullpen catcher, was getting annoyed by all the little kids yelling for a ball, so he approached them all. He said that he would ask each kid a riddle and if they got that riddle right, he would give them a ball. After many clever riddles on his part, I asked him to ask me one. He looked me in the eye and asked, "Are you a true dbacks fan?" I told him I was and he could ask me anything, which led to my 2 part question. He first asked me where Brandon Webb was from. Pshh easy, Kentucky. This is where the riddle came in. He asked me, "Do the people of Kentucky call their capital city Louisville or Louis-ville. (two different pronunciations) I pretended I was stumped and after a second or two I called out, "Im pretty sure they pronounce it FRANKFURT" All the parents around me were impressed while the kids had no clue what just happened. It was really funny because I challenged him to double or nothing, this time me asking him one. He was a great guy and accepted my challenge. I asked him, "So there is a hole that is 3 feet long and 2 feet deep. How much sand is in it?" He began to do division and multiplication on his hands so I knew I was in business. He cam up with some random answer with pi in it, and I quickly exclaimed, "There is actually NO sand because it is a HOLE" He thought it was very funny and rewarded me with another ball. This was special to me because not only did I get 2 balls, but I also got to interact with a member of an MLB team, which was really cool. We shook hands as the rockies left the field, both with grins from ear to ear. It was my best "get a ball" story.
Well I apologize for the long post, because I'm sure you are SWAMPED. If you did indeed read it, I hope it made you giggle or something like your blog makes me do. Take it easy, and enjoy the spotlight! :)
i have seen you on ESPN and i had heard about your blog. I think it is amazing what you do and i think that this REALLY COOOOOOL
ZACK my friend ?
WOW! I honestly think that was you are able to do is amazing. I was talking to my wife about you and all of the other ballhawks that read this and the other blogs and how every single person that walks into a baseball stadium wants to catch a baseball. In fact, you might say that it is a dream of some people to get their hands on one. WE are the few that are willing to put in the time and effort it takes to not just be "in the right place at the right time" but to KNOW where the baseballs are going to be. That is the only way to explain how you are able to catch three HISTORICAL home runs. Good luck in the playoffs (if you go). Philly and Boston are you best bets, but I'm sure you already know that. =)
Good luck again.
Phill in Utah.
Congratulations Z! Hope you get to some playoff games.
What a way to end a season. You have proved that there really is a bit of "science" to snagging baseballs and you sir are the Professor. Enjoy this Zack you have earned every second of it..Good Luck to you !…Don…RPR
Nice. What are you going to do with the ball? Label it? Put it in a case and bow down to it?
I enjoyed your story and loved the photos that really illustrated the day at Shea, but I disagree with your account of the Marlins after the game. They weren't just shaking hands and congratulating each other…they were jumping up and down on each other (like Jerry Koosman with Jerry Grote after the final out of the 1969 World Series), hugging each other, high-fiving each other and generally celebrating as if they had just clinched their division. No one booed or even noticed at first until their obviously intentional show went on for quite a few minutes. I don't believe in ever booing your own team or the opposing team, but the Marlins' behavior was obnoxious and nasty and it even interfered with the grounds crew trying to set up the ceremony.
I don't mean to detract from your otherwise great story and photos, but that was the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen.
Wow…I was just getting over the last game and this brought it all back. Another congrats on the Beltran homer! It was the highlight of an otherwise dismal day. Wished I could've been more excited that day…you know how it was. You truly are amazing! Thanks for sharing the day with us.
WOW, WOW, WOW is all I can say. You have had an awesome year so far. All the haters who responded to the Yahoo article can go jump in the pile of Shea Stadium puke in your pic.
Stats for my 1st season using the "Zack Hample Snagging Process":
209 Balls total
5 Gamers
39, 536 Crowd Avg
60 Games Attended (BP at 47 games)
4.47 Balls Per Game Avg
(Snagged tons of autos along w, batting gloves and other misc dugout items)
And I had a TON of FUN, thanks to you Zack,
Looking forward to 2009,
Mike in Detroit
Hey Zack!
I caught the highlights of the game on SportsCenter that night, and when they showed Beltran's homer, I said "holy c**p, that's Zack again!"
You are awesome!
Hey Zack!
I caught the highlights of the game on SportsCenter that night, and when they showed Beltran's homer, I said "holy c**p, that's Zack again!"
You are awesome!
Zack,your my hero!Dude,i'm 45 and have yet to grab a ball at an MLB game.Years ago the town I live Aberdeen MD,had a team in the Atlantic League called the Arsenal.I got a ball hit by Pete Ingcavalia once,my kids have lost that ball.I also have a ball autographed by the 2000 Nashua Pride managed by Butch Hobson.I met his pitching coach in the parking lot after the game.He had the hood up on his car,I asked if he needed help.He said his headlight was out.I told him I was the manager at the Western Auto in town,to stop by in the morning and I'd get him a headlight.He came in,I gave it to him.He said how much,I told him nothing,just see if he could get Butch Hobson to autograph a baseball card for me.He came back 2 days later with the card and the ball.I thought that was pretty cool.My youngest son got a ball from the 3rd base coach of the New Jersey Cardinals of the New York-Penn League.He was 2 at the time,and promptly threw it back(the coach gave it back).My wife caught a foul ball when the Ironbirds played the Staten Island Yankees from the same league.My oldest son got a autographed ball from Billy Ripken at the Cal Ripken Sr college league all-star game in 07.Thats about the extent of our ball collection.Sorry for the lengthy comment.Reading your blog just brought back great memories.Thanks for reading.
This is an amazing account of your success. I registered with an MLB account just to be able to comment on your article. I love the pics, the "inside-your-head" monologue, and, most of all, the energy and passion that you bring to something that obviously thrills you.
I'm sure that some people will call you a cut-throat or a privateer for some of the greater subtleties of your strategy (such as your wardrobe changes), but you're living proof that an effort of will is greater than what 99.99% of the masses are willing to put forth.
Well done, young man. Nice catches, all around. I'll be interested in seeing what you do next.
What a way to top off an incredible season Zack! This, along with the Yankee home runs and going over the 400 and 500 ball mark for the first time, is really something. Sorry about the Mets, but I hope you enjoy yourself in the off-season. Stay cool until next year, when you'll have two new ballparks to conquer.
I couldnt believe you caught that when i saw it,, it is still the last homer by a mets player at shea. anyway,, the mets crushed me and i cant wait til next year. i will be at opening day at the new park. i am sure you will be there too zack.
WOW that must be a pretty great feeling to get the VERY last Mets baseball hit EVER at Shea Stadium.
Good Luck in the future!
I finally have some free time! So I'm going to answer comments! Here we go…
I have a radio interview coming up on Friday (at 8:20am on WZLX in Boston) and there's going to be a sports memorabilia dealer on with me, and we're going to discuss the value of the ball.
Come on, you KNOW you liked the puke. Anyway, thanks for contacting Neil. He and I emailed back and forth a few times today.
Thanks so much.
I'm blushing.
Wow. I read the whole comment. That's fantastic. I once stumped a bullpen coach (on the Astros, I think) on a baseball trivia question, and he rewarded me with a ball. Those special interactions, in a way, are just as cool as catching a home run ball (though maybe not as cool as the Beltran ball). Anyway, I'm glad I helped inspire your snagging.
I appreciate what you said (about putting in an effort), and I couldn't have said it any better myself.
Thanks. I have a feeling I'll get to at least a few games this month…
I'm honored to be called a "professor." Heh.
I don't need to label it because it has a unique authentication sticker. But I wouldn't have labeled it anyway. The ball is too special to be written on. I probably SHOULD be bowing down to it. :-)
Seriously? I didn't even realize. Maybe I was just so focused on my own personal end-game strategy that I had no idea what was taking place on the field. In that case…screw the Marlins. Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks for sharing it with ME. After such a meltdown, it's nice to be able to complain to someone(s) who really knows me.
Nice stats, and thanks for all your support.
Thanks, and for future reference, you're allowed to say "crap" on this blog.
No need to apologize. Those are all great stories. Thanks for sharing. (I wish I had even 1,000th the knowledge about cars as I do about baseball.)
Thank you SO much for your thoughtful response. It always feels great, after I've spent so much time writing an account of my time at a game, to hear from people who enjoyed it. (I've never been called a "privateer," by the way, but I've been called far worse.)
Thanks. I'm nervous and excited about the new stadiums. I have no idea what to expect.
I couldn't believe it either. I still can't believe it, really.
It's an unbelievable feeling. I feel like I'm living a dream.
Nice. That sticker looks like the same ones that are on every single seat at Shea (were on every..) which you might not have noticed since you don't sit much.
any mlb.tv customer can download old games, shouldn't be too hard to find one download for you.
Congrats on the ball..I was there too, and I actually wondered if you were out there when he hit it. (Actually, I took pictures of you dashing back and forth in the picnic area from the Upper Deck a couple of months ago.)
The ceremony was actually kinda touching, particularly the part you left for. (Which as I'm sure you've heard by now, was Seaver throwing a pitch to Piazza and them slowly walking across the field, out the center field gate and closing it behind them.)
zack, ive posted a few times, i saw you in pittsburgh in august. just wanted to congratulate you for closing out shea on top. any time i see a home run on television, no matter what stadium, i always pause to see if you caught it. i have to admit, now that the season is over i am going to miss reading your daily blog. i do have one questions for you. im flying up to chicago tomorrow for the cubs and dodgers game and i checked to your blog to see if you had any advice. i looked through 2003 or so and couldnt find any record of you going to wrigley. just wondering if you have ever been there and you had any advice. do you need a bleacher seat, where the umps exit the field, etc. if i cant get in tomorrow night ill certainly be waiting for a manny blast out on waveland avenue. look forward to hearing back from you!
– clint
my final day recap..
the absolute only time my mom could get me to the stadium was either 7 am or noon. clearly i chose 7 am, and i wandered EVERYWHERE and took pictures of everything in sight. anyway, i got in the gate c line at 9:00 am, 1 hr and 40 mins before opening. there were people there already, too, but i was first on one of the sides. about 930, i see zack, and we talk for a while, and whatever. maybe 1015 or so, zack jokingly says i should run back up the subway ramp and see if theres bp. i have no problem and i run there and back, and they are taking the tarp off. maybe 1035 now, its raining pretty hard, and im figuring theres not gonna be bp. the rent a cops take a year and a half to check my bag twice and let me in. idiots. i run up the ramp and the mets are hitting-in the rain! i give a celebratory yell to zack and run to the picnic area, where i am meanly denied. so i grab the corner spot in left field on the field level, good for at least a ball, and the unthinkable happens. i open my bag, and theres no glove. just gone. i vividly remember putting it in my bag. no glove. ive never ever ever gone to a game without a glove. its unheard of. so now, im thinking im gonna get shutout for the first time in a year and a half. not to mention the crowd is like 4 deep behind me. i ask joe smith, and he says "you got like a hundred, and wheres your glove?" im furious (with myself) and finally, dave racaniello underhands one to nobody in particular and i barehand it as i scrape my thigh on a rail. it was commemorative. at that moment, the mets leave the field. i switch to marlins stuff and get a front spot on their dugout. on the mets side, 2 coaches are flinging balls up left and right. ugh. anyway, bo porter, jim presley, and andy fox turn down my requests even though i had marlins jersey, hat, and knew their names. they were using a whole batch of brand new balls. after hitting for 20 mins, they leave the field, and cody ross throws me a pristine (but waterlogged) ball, and that was my last ball at shea. i watched the former players come in, got rudely yelled at by the picnic area usher when i met up with zack and yanks42294, and took 564 pictures. at the marlins dugout, some guy said when you caught the ground rule double "nice catch, hey jim, you see that? by the wise sign..sign that guy up." and when i was in the upper box seats freaking out when beltran tied the game (and i had seen where you sat and knew you had a somewhat chance for it and finally saw you holding it up walking across the left center field seats) some guy was like "wow, the guy who caught that isnt making it out of there alive" also, in my depressed state, i saw you from above get the hat and glove..
anyway, i thought the ceremony was great and the game wasnt and i miss shea already.
Dude, you are the poop. Seriously. My friends at work think I am *quirky* because I have 300 baseballs and love to "hawk." Little do they know about my buddy (and fellow GuilCo alum) who is a REAL ballhawk…the king hawk, in fact. I was not surprised to see you on the tube catching Beltran's ball…it is only fitting. :-)
"To the victor go the spoils…" You work harder on this than anyone, and you deserve all the rewards.
By the way, for the Rockies fan who posted…the bullpen catcher is named Mark Strittmatter, he is the nicest dude ever. I lived in Colorado for seven years and started hawking there…I have a number of balls from him. He responds well to "Stritt," if anyone ever encounters him…he's sure to toss you a ball if you're cool to him.
Too bad the Dbacks are out, I was looking forward to some playoff hawking…nothing quite like snagging 7 balls at a playoff game, as I did before last year's NLCS Game One. Oh well. Time for the Arizona Fall League. The season opens on Tuesday, and I will be taking clients to opening day…it's break week at the rehab center, and the Program Director gets to take the kids out to play! I hope to indoctrinate a few of them into the fine world of ball hawking. Anyway, Zack and his disciples…Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World!
Hey Zack, sorry I haven't been posting in months. Congrats on the home run catches over the past few weeks. I was out in Vegas and I saw you on Sportcenter after you caught the 2 Yankee Stadium home runs. As it figures, I was in a car listening to the final Mets game, or else I would've seen you catch the Beltran bomb live on tv.
Too bad you didn't end up catching Manny's 500th at the game that I met you at. That would've been priceless!
I just saw you were mentioned on SI Hot Clicks. Did you see it?
It basically says "Remember the guy who caught home run balls on back-to-back nights at Yankee Stadium? He also caught the last Mets home run at Shea Stadium last Sunday. … " and it has a link to the Yahoo article….
just wanted to say a few things
—First, nice catch and nice luck. I agree with your sentiment that you would never sell a baseball. I've also found it cool to think about how much one of my (signed) baseballs would be worth but it would be such a greedy thing to do if I actually sold one. I have a feeling if you were the type that sold off your baseballs, you would have stopped collecting them a long time ago. As a mets fan (although I realize you aren't really one), I would treasure that ball if I were you since it is the last HR at Shea (which will never be a dump in my eyes). Great catch.
—–Second, I love reading your blog. I think I discovered it either last year or the year before and it is definitely fun to follow even though I have no actual interest in going for batting practice balls or fouls or caring about commemoratives. You are definitely a bit obsessive over this but you obviously have fun with it and thats what makes it fun to follow your exploits. The player/Zack interactions are always fantastic to read and I think more people besides me have noted how nice/cool Heath Bell must be in real life (I wish we never traded him).
——Third, I was reading the comments posted on the yahoo article. I read earlier that you do not bother to read any comments on blogs or articles about yourself since there is alot of negativity. I just wanted to say that the comments made me pause and think a little. The negativity (about half or more of all the comments- the other half was just amazed at what you accomplished) was a little bewildering because they made no sense and had so much jealousy and hatred in their words. "get a girlfriend"- check, "get a job"- probably check, "how about you give some balls to kids!?"- check, and "this guys probably faking it, where's the proof that he really caught these?"- jesus christ just look at YES/SNY footage……I'm sure you've gotten past this a long time ago and don't care about this subject but I wanted to write that this one baseball fan here sees nothing wrong/selfish with what you do and thinks that if anything, you'll promote baseball culture with your passion and perhaps will inspire other kids to have their own ball-finding fun at a stadium. There are too many haters in this world.
Btw, you blamed T-Mobile, but I think we just overloaded the airwaves with everyone checking the Brewers score with their cells, too impatient to wait for the scoreboard (which I hope is updated faster in Citi). I know Verizon also failed with service stuff a couple of times too.
Hey Zack,
Congrats on a good snagging season and the Beltran catch.
I was at the Cubs vs. Brewers game on Sunday and assumed you were at Shea (and the knew you were when I saw the Beltran highlight once I got home). Very cool game to watch as CC amazed everyone again on three days rest and put the Brewers into the W column.
They put the Mets game on the jumbotron after the Brewers finished up and I took this break in the action to move from my seat in the upper deck to down at the Brewers dugout. I had to sneak past the "Senior Citizen" security they have at Miller Park, so it wasnt hard to get to the dugout.
The final out came and the place went nuts.
I'm not even a Brewer fan (I like the Yanks —> wiscyankee442 was my old name on here, but it switched for some reason…anyway..) and it was awesome to experience something like clinching for the 1st time in 26 years.
The Brewers celebrated and shot champagne all over me and the rest of the crowd. I can now say that I have tasted Playoff Champagne :D
Here are my videos of the last out and celebration:
Once again, congrats on a great year, and hopefully I'll see ya at the New Yankee Stadium or Miller Park.
You inspire me. I have been working on learning your practices. I did come to that game with a Marlins hat and jersey, but was honestly too embarassed to put it on. The one sad thing to me is that it's seems as if you are no longer truly a Mets fan, or even a baseball fan, just a man on a mission. I am not trying to insult or take anything away from you, but it just seems hard to care about the game when you are so focused on getting balls. Please, tell me I'm wrong. Also, I hate friggin Shea, as I've always found it impossible to get into field level w/o a ticket. I know a secret or two of my own, since I worked there, but if those don't work, I have no idea what else to try. And how do you get out to SO many games; what do you do? I'm proud of tghe 40 games I attended this past year and you nearly doubled that.
Back to my original point though, you honestly do inspire me, and I've been telling everyone that would listen about you, and next year, I plan to go all out in every attempt to get baseballs.
Was watching the game on TV and could not believe my eyes that it was you!. Congrats!. What do you do for and encore?
My season ended great with 2 games in Arlington. It was unbelievable to walk into the stadium and have NOBODY in left field for a good 7 to 10 minutes. In my opinion, Rangers Ballpark is the best snagging. Glove trick heaven too! 8 Balls in 2 games that I kept and I gave away 3. All with minimal effort!
Oh well, kinda sad that my season is over. I can live vicariously through you.
Great seeing outside of YS and good luck in the playoffs!
Brendan (Helemt Guy)
Hey Zack, you reall are THE MAN! Pretty sick stuff you've been doing….Between these last two games at Yankee and Shea, did you ever try and grab something to the stadium to take back with you? I remember at Yankee Josh and I saw some great signs that we would've loved to have brought back to Florida with us lol. Are you going to any games in Philly?? I'm rooting for a Phils-Rays World Series because I'll be there in a heartbeat. Anyway, I don't have much more to say than what you are doing is unreal, and I hope you keep it up into next year! P.S. Thanks for NOT taking my upper deck ticket for that Yankees game and staying in the bleachers haha.
I did notice those stickers in the bleachers, but wow, I had no idea about Seaver and Piazza walking off together. That IS touching…and kinda sad. My cell phone hardly ever worked in the picnic area. It wasn't just the last day. (I'm waiting for my iPhone endorsement…)
The last time I was at Wrigley was more than a decade ago, so I don't remember too many details. I think you need a bleacher ticket to get into the bleachers. No idea about the umps. If it were me, and I had a regular ticket, I'd just play the foul line for thrown balls from the visiting team during BP.
Nice recap. You should have your own blog. I still can't believe you forgot your glove.
Thanks, duuuuuude. "Quirky" might in fact be the right word for 300 balls. But what do you call someone who's got 3,000? I don't know.
Don't worry about not commenting. It's all good. Thanks for that SI link. I hadn't seen that.
1) Thanks. If it ever came down to a situation where I'd either have to sell my baseballs or sleep out on the street, I'd probably sell the balls. Fortunately, I haven't (yet) had to deal with that.
2) I appreciate it, and I'm glad YOU appreciate the interactions. Sometimes, when I'm at games, stuff happens so fast that it's hard to remember every little detail, but I do my best to take notes immediately after the good exchanges.
3) Thanks again. Really really…thanks. There ARE a lot of haters, and I just try not to take it personally.
I can only imagine how excited the people in Milwaukee must've been after seeing their team reach the playoffs for the first time in a quarter of a century. Now if they could only kick the Phillies' heinies. Very cool about the champagne.
You're wrong. :-)
I'm glad to hear that I've inspired you, but as for your suggestion about my misguided passion for baseball, I can only say that I watch games ALL the time on TV (when I obviously have no chance to snag baseballs) and I read EVERY box score EVERY day throughout the season (often taking 30 to 60 minutes per day to do so) because I care deeply about how every team/player is doing. As for the Mets…I'm not *really* a Mets fan. I grew up rooting for them and still like it when they do well, but I've been rooting more for individual players than teams since the 1990s. I hope that clears things up. Also, I think baseball is a glorious/beautiful game, and I bow to its greatness.
Encore? Umm…how about a week of sleep? Seriously, that's what I could use right about now. Arlington sounds incredible. I need to get back there.
I peeled a one-inch piece of (already peeling) paint off the outfield wall at Yankee Stadium, but that was it. All I needed, really, were some balls. And after I caught the Beltran ball, I decided there wasn't ANYthing else I needed from Shea. Thanks for not making me sit with you in the upper deck.
Psh, Brewers kicked the Phillies heineys? I do not think that will happen, but hey you never know in the playoffs. Hamels looked great yesterday. Im leaving for todays game right after i get done commenting on this. That is awesome that you got the Beltran HR ball, how many interview requests have you got in the last couple days? Zack you should try to make it to a playoff game in Philly sometime.
omg you did it again! how do you do it?! don't worry zack, you're not losing your touch. otherwise, you wouldn't have so many homerun balls!
zack, all i can say is that you are truly amazing! when i told my mom about it she was like "thats so unfair!" when my dad was logging on to the internet, he was like "luke, zack is on yahoo". anyways,cya!-Luke
Hey Zack, it's Dylan, the kid you met at da Mets- Padres game. And nothing, of course, could stop you or me from goin' today. Now, if you didn't catch that home run, I would've been as good as you because I caught a career high 5 balls at the last game at Shea, from Ricardo Rincon, Joe Smith, Mark Hendrickson, Renyel Pinto, and my last ball ever at shea came from one of the top 5 best Mets starters. Pedro Martinez.
Zack… what a blog! Hey, I was at the game, too, sitting in front of you. I even took your pic and am IN one of your pics in the picnic area. I'm wearing the Wright jersey. If you want your pic, lemme know. Email me at email@example.com.
Nice job as always. I was at Shea Goodbye and also NYY's Final Game. They were both unique in their own way. Way to commemorate it. Funny when other people jump on the Zackwagon. We remember how it started…
Zack, it makes me smile to have you tell me I'm wrong. I'm glad I am.
What a great recap of a day… just wish I would have been at the last at Yankee….
Can remember my trips as kid and catching my first foul ball hit by Griffey SR. at Yankee Stadium, showed it to my son (3 yr. old) during the last game on tv… of course he wanted it as he has his own ball collection started (he has a streak of 9 games at AAA Rochester with a ball).
Does anyone know or want to sell a ball from Yankee Stadium this year to me for my son's collection? I am sure it would be something that he could show his kids. Contact me!
Keep up the good work Zack!!
Well, I gotta hand it to your Phillies. They really proved themselves as the better team in the NLDS. Let's see what the next round holds for them. I've gotten many radio interview requests…plus a few big things for TV. Very exciting!
Thanks. You have successfully made me fell better about myself.
Thanks. I love hearing stuff like that.
What's up! Congrats on getting FIVE balls at the last game at Shea. Wow. Very impressive.
I emailed you. I would love those pics. Thanks.
Yes, we certainly do…way up on the 8th floor of the Chelsea Market. :-)
Thank you, I'm sure gonna try…and I hope you find one of those balls.
during the last game on tv… of course he wanted it as he has his own ball collection started (he has a streak of 9 games at AAA Rochester with a ball).
I've never been to a game at Rochester, but hopefully I'll make it up there someday.
awesome catch!
I love your story and that was an amazing catch. Is that your favorite ball ever caught? I am Taylor and my favorite baseball team is the Angels. My least favorite is the Yankees. I saw you caught Mike Trout's first home run ever. Congrats on all of the other balls and this one. Good luck this year in 2015 hoping you can get 3,000 this year.
Awesome you are the best ballhawk


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ive done somthing similar to that on another site also, its a fun way to get fans into the "game" spirit
I have an idea. I actually got it from another site but maybe we could have a Game Picker. You pick the winner of the game,the score and a random stat. You get lets say 10 points for the right team,and 10 points for the combined score of both teams and 10 for the random stat. It's just a thought.
"One Team, One New York"
ive done somthing similar to that on another site also, its a fun way to get fans into the "game" spirit
actually, we had a game predictions forum but this december there was a hacking attempt and all posts from one month have been lost, and ever since nobody seemed interested in it. the guy who was in charge with that forum had some problems with his pc and can't visit us.
but, if the knicks go into playoffs, i'll bring it back
nice... and possibly next season maybe??
if everything works well and there will be more then 5 people playing it, sure, why not
Thanks, I would definetly do it.Originally Posted by rady
"One Team, One New York"
Also another idea to throw out there. I know it might take a lot of work, but maybe i could do it.... Put everyone's game picker points, and position under their avitar. No other site has done this, and maybe it would be cool
Yah, this would be a great idea. I would definetly help out also.Originally Posted by Peach_NYK_21
"One Team, One New York"
sounds great but i ain't that good at programming in php
it's a programming language to write websites, this whole forum uses php and MySQL databases and a big part of the site also is written in php
the game was actually pretty fun but towards the last 2 weeks we were playing ppl just stopped for some reason
i say if it was fun, we bring it back, we just have to hope everyone remembers to make their picks, and play the game
I would definitly play every game since I'm new I didn't play before but I definitly support this idea.
Its time for change!!!!!!!!
whats so interesting about making game predictions, especially score predictions? its really just a crap shoot to try and guess how many points the teams will score...the only thing you can really use to guess is if they are playing a good defense or not, and if any key guys are injured. i guess there can be other helpful signs, but basically, you really have no idea. everybody will just pull a number out of their ass...and if one person predicts the team will score 100 and another guy said it would be 98, and it turns out to be 98, does that make the person who guessed 98 a better predictor?
and with game predictions, its an 82 game season, every team wins game it should lose and loses games it should win over the course of a season. for example, i have no idea whats going to happen in the next game the knicks play, but overall, i can predict that they wont make the playoffs and finish below .500.
i like doing pregame analysis and just noticing general trends and other important notes (like nba.com does in its previews of each matchup), because thats more interesting and more useful.


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Parking Expansion DTF
Parking Expansion DTF
Parking Expansion Disappearing Task Force
- January 12, 2000
- 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Notes
Recorded by - Thad Curtz
Wendy Freeman, the chair of the DTF, introduced Thomas Bain, a new student attending from the Shelter program.
Part 1
We discussed the relevant criteria for selecting a plan. Criteria include, in alphabetical order:
A. Aesthetics of the result considered as landscaping, with some reference to the prescriptions of the campus master plan.
B. Costs of construction, operation, repair and eventual replacement, offset to some extent by the capacity of the plan to generate parking income, and by possible savings derived from a plan's avoiding other costs (such as avoiding the expense of repairing a lot by reconfiguring it.)
C. Environmental impacts, particularly on trees, water quality, and biological habitats, and perhaps (though we aren't agreed at this point on whether they should be taken into account) on more distant processes like global warming and ozone depletion.
D. Impacts on users including fees, convenience and availability of spaces, safety of parked vehicles, accident rates in the lots, and suitable provisions for visitors and handicapped parking.
E. Risks of relatively new versus familiar and predictable solutions.
Part 2
Thad Curtz asked for clarification about a number of financial details. According to Bill Zaugg, the current fees are probably not actually high enough to cover eventual repair and replacement costs on the lots, and would need to be raised some even if we didn't need more spaces. The current expenses on his spreadsheets include the costs of hiring booth attendants, people to do parking enforcement, and their vehicle. The figure in the spreadsheets for "Bad Debt Expense" represents each year's uncollected ticket fines (roughly $40,000 out of $80,000 worth of tickets in 1988-99.) The scenarios for raised fees we have explored so far produce additional yearly income ranging from roughly $150,000 to roughly $300,000. Sherry Parsons supplied the college's current expenditures on trip reduction programs - $3,000 a year.
Part 3
Darren presented a parking plan with a number of ideas, focusing on reconfiguring the lots with one-way traffic and diagonal striping, on a number of ideas about varying fees to encourage trip reduction, and on a proposal about improving drainage. According to Michel George, some ideas about drainage and layout similar to these are already under discussion; the general consensus was that the fee ideas also should get further attention. In the course of our discussion of these ideas, Michel George discussed the extensive work the students in Jim Stroh's program are doing to assess campus run-off and its effects, in connection with a grant Facilities received. He also commented that changes in the culverting on 17th may return one of the small streams on campus to viable salmon spawning habitat and lead to significant requirements about controlling the runoff reaching it (perhaps even an EPA requirement for zero runoff from the lots.) There are many possibilities for dealing with runoff, including channeling it into catchment basements and covering lots with more permeable surfaces, though the latter raises issues about oil draining into the ground.
Michel also noted that the report on parking lot management, which is looking among other things at issues about ticketing and various ways of collecting fees, may be finished by the end of this month; someone is scheduled to come and discuss this work with us soon. In discussing Darren's proposals about fees, Doug Hitch pointed out that if we collected fees as people left the lots it would greatly reduce problems about cars piling up at the entrance gate.
Part 4
In discussing the pros and cons of several possible plans, a variety of points were made.
In general, Michel said he thought the cost estimates in the SCA report seemed reasonable. He also brought to our attention the existence of the Campus Land Use Committee, which would consider any proposal we made and decide what to recommend to the trustees; this committee meets once every three or four weeks.
A. Ideas about reconfiguring the lots -
There are some quite big trees in B lot - Paul Pryzbylowitz collects lichens from some of them that he has not found anywhere else on campus.
Reconfiguring several lots, or parts of several, would allow us to distribute the additional parking, which would increase the convenience of the new spaces for users, who would like to be close to different buildings (not just those near Lot
B) and arrive from different sides of the campus (from the north as well as downtown),
Building several small new "Vanity" lots close to different buildings (and perhaps charging extra for them) would also achieve this, but might dramatically change the feeling of walking or looking out of those buildings.
Michel thinks that the cost of maintaining the lots over the next five or ten years is not going to be so large that we will be avoiding really significant maintenance expenses if we reconfigure the lots. (He thought it might cost $5,000 to $10,000 a year to maintain them for the foreseeable future.)
B. Parking on one lane of the Parkway
The county would probably strongly oppose this, since they plan to make this road four lanes all the way from the freeway to Cooper Point.
On the basis of a rough estimate, Paul Pryzbylowitz thought that 380 spaces would require about 4,000 feet of one side of the Parkway. We'd need to provide shuttle service in addition to the bus that runs along here already, but we might consider using these spaces for people who all arrive together in the morning and all leave together at night, providing very frequent shuttles for an hour or an hour and a half during these two periods, and a rapid emergency taxi for individuals at other times.
We will eventually have to rebuild the Parkway - for about $1.2 Million
- and if we only had to redo one side of it as highway, it would cost significantly less...
However, Michel remarked that expanding the road to allow parking on it would probably cost three to four times what building parking lot surfaces costs, because roads are much more carefully and solidly constructed.
Parking on one lane of the road also raises concerns about the security of the parked cars, and of the people waiting .
C. Parking at the Mall
Someone told Michel that the Mall is already renting some people parking spaces during the week, at $35-40 a month; he'll try to remember the source.
D. Parking in church lots - particularly the new St. Michael's lot
Sherry thinks that discussions with churches by Karen Parker at Intercity Transit about using lots like these for park and ride spaces ran into unresolvable complications. Questions were raised about insurance issues, the security of the parked cars, and whether or not a remote video security system or simply insuring the cars against vandalism were workable solutions.
The neighbors of these churches would probably object to traffic at commute times during the week, since they already complained about Sunday traffic during the permitting process.
E. A new lot on the corner of Cooper Point Road and the Parkway
There's a piece of land for sale there, but its price and size are still unknown, and using it would also involve shuttle service.
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alright guys me (Omar) and my younger bro (Kristian) just started paintballin a couple months ago and have been playing airball for about 4 months now and feel like we are ready to join a team. we play at CEPP but live in Fairfield. Im 21 and my bro is 16. now we were supposed to do 3 man for event 3 but our third fell out so we decided to just train somemore and join a team for 5 man event 4 for CEPL. we are really passionate bout pb so we are ready and willing to learn everything we can and put in the work and WANT to progress to higher divisions. my bro can play snake mid and back and i can play insert and back, not flexible enough for snake.... lol but where ever you need us we'll play it. we will be out there tomorrow and go every other sunday. my set up: stormtrooper etek3, liquid grey rotor, ninja 68/45 grey ghost with purple tank butt grip.
my bro's set up: olive green AXE, halo too, ninja 68/45 red tank butt grip
pm me or text me at 7076318482.ill be the one with white and black grills thnx for your time guys looking forward to play tournament pb.
2 norcal players looking for a team
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 02:50 PM
I'd be down to start doing tourney's... but I have a pump
Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:38 PM
if you guys are still down for the cepp 3 man beginner Im down also
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By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
Guy Leeder, who for decades was synonymous with Clovis softball, died Monday night at 64.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the Marshall Junior High Auditorium.
Leeder, a state softball hall of fame inductee, was called the cornerstone of the state's Amateur Softball Association by its director, Alice Cox.
"He has done more for softball in this state in the 60-some odd years he was here than anybody," Cox said. "It doesn't matter who you talk to. You say Guy Leeder, they know exactly who you're talking about and they have the utmost opinion for who he was and what he did."
Leeder, who owned an electric business, died of liver and kidney failure, according to a friend.
He was born July 21, 1942, in Sealey, Texas, to Virgil and Wilma Jean Purdy Leeder.
Former players and softball administrators described Leeder as a good family man, a friend and — in at least one case — an above-average ping-pong player.
"I played ping-pong against him a lot of times," said Don Clifton, who played for Leeder off and on for 15 years. "He was one that used a lot of English on the ball. It didn't matter what it was, he was a competitor."
It was Leeder's competitive drive that pushed him into slow-pitch softball. He coached his first game in 1967 and compiled more than 2,500 wins.
"It was just the love of playing and not wanting to give up baseball, that's all slow-pitch is," Leeder said in a 2005 interview with the Clovis News Journal. "We're all baseball players, and when we got too old to play it, we went to the alternative, which was not great, but it kept us doing something."
That love led to Leeder and other volunteers building the Clovis Softball Complex, which was named after him in 1989.
"He started out with just a single field in 1971," said Clovis City Manager Joe Thomas, a family friend and a state ASA Hall of Famer himself. "Over the years, it expanded to five fields. He would have liked to build more if space was available."
Roger Jackson is the CSA's tournament director and co-creator of the Custom Classic, the biggest tournament held at the complex.
"Everything we wanted to do, Guy would tell us how to make it better, make it an event softball players would remember," Jackson said.
Jackson said he'd exchanged e-mails and emotional phone calls with several coaches around Texas and New Mexico.
Several of those teams are planning to come and pay their respects, part of the reason services have been moved to the Marshall Junior High Auditorium.
Tributes will continue throughout the year.
Jackson said volunteers are planning to build a fountain with a bracket board on one side and a fountain on the other to serve as a backdrop for team photos.
"Guy wanted this fountain built," Jackson said, "and we're going to build it for him."
Leeder is survived by his wife, Paulette; a daughter, Laura; a granddaughter, Taya Marie; his father; a brother, Greg and a sister, Saron Jolley.


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It's BlackBerry 10 day today, and you knew we had to take a few minutes to see just what BlackBerry has to offer. Right off the bat, we're going to say it's good enough to keep folks still using the BlackBerry platform happy that they hung around, and probably even tempt a few people to give BlackBerry a try for the first time. Kevin has a good look at the hardware and some of the UI and features in the video. Give it a watch, then join us after the break we can see how it all matches up to Android.
The hardware
When looking at the hardware, you see what looks like a wider iPhone. That's because the company formerly known as RIM is using a pretty generic rectangular design, just like the did with the BlackBerry Playbook. It doesn't look bad at all, but there's nothing to make the hardware stand out. You don't have a giant flashy phone, and that will appeal to plenty of folks.
That's not to say the Z10 is little. Its 4.2-inch screen is in a body that looks very close in size to the Nexus 4. The front of the phone is all glass, but plenty of folks will like what they see on the back -- a removable battery and an SD card. Under it all, is hardware specifications that won't impress an Android fan, but should be adequate for BB10 -- until developers start to build applications to put it to the test.
The user interface
What you don't see on the Z10 is any buttons. Technically there are volume and power buttons, but to interact with the UI you use a series of gestures. Again, this is familiar to anyone who has used a PlayBook. Not having a home button sounds like it will quickly become a PITA, though.
The gesture based UI is built into the notification system as well. When you get an incoming notification, we'll use Facebook as an example because that's the one Kevin uses, you'll get a visual cue in the form of an icon and a blinking light. To have a look at what it says, you minimize any app you have open by sliding them to the top and then slide things in from the left to see your notification "inbox". These notifications are like the ones we see in Jelly Bean -- you can interact with the notification without opening the application that received it. One nice thing -- another swipe in from the left and you can filter the notifications, as they all come individually versus grouped by app as we're used to with Android.
The app situation
Finally, we have to talk about the apps. There aren't very many BB10 apps. What RIM has done is create a tool to allow developers to take existing Android apps and convert them to a format that runs on the BB. They are still Android apps, but they're BB apps, too. They run in what's called an Android player, which is just a fancy name for a virtual machine. This should help the early adopters have access to the important apps they need, but it's already become a conduit to piracy. We think RIM will continue to be vigilant and address these concerns.
I've been using BlackBerries for a long time, and this has me intrigued. Like many users, I think the most important thing the BlackBerry has to offer is their messaging features and their excellent portrait keyboard. It will be interesting to see how folks adapt, and if BlackBerry 10 can provide the boost RIM desperately needs in the market.


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#147648 - 09/10/05 02:24 PM Re: maneater
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Related to latin mortalis. Persian khvara 'eat' is related to our English swill by Pokorny: *swel- 'to eat, drink'. A strange change phonologically, but there are stranger. Eat is related to Latin edo fr. *ed- 'to bite; eat'._________________________
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#147649 - 09/10/05 04:49 PM Look out her she comes, she's a maneater
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well Kali (or Shelia na Gah) are godesses of both life (birth/sex) and death/destructions..
(shelia both invited (with her spread legs) and destroyed-(with her nashing teeth!) Kali too, was the seducer/and destroyer..
this duality is not uncommon in many early myths (of gods/goddess)_________________________
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#147650 - 09/10/05 06:49 PM Re: ecce mulier
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(with her nashing teeth!)
Vagina dentata, or just plain old pearly whites in her mouth? But seriously, Sheila na Gig, or Síla na Géige 'Sheila hunkered down'. See:
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#147651 - 09/11/05 06:04 AM Vagina dentate
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I have come across this expression before in a psychology text where it was used to draw the connection between dreams of sharks and castration anxiety.
"Symbols of oral aggression may be placed along a continuum of distance from the quality of humanness. In a dream, sharks represent the vagina dentate, or even a dentate phallus: fear of being engulfed by the preoedipal parent."
Lane, Robert, and Saralea E. Chazan, Psychoanalytic Psychology.
You can't help but wonder at its origins. Freud? Bosch? Rabelais? Medieval bestiaries? Because God forbid it comes from an actual teratological case.
#147652 - 09/11/05 06:33 AM Re: hunkypunk
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from teratology
the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism
to Ancient Taplow
what a pleasant morning's diversion!
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#147653 - 09/11/05 08:08 AM Re: Look out her she comes, she's a maneater
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godesses of both life (birth/sex) and death/destructions..
Sounds like Arga-Warga from Riddley Walker.
#147654 - 09/11/05 08:32 AM Re: Look out her she comes, she's a maneater
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Sounds like Isaac Singer.
#147655 - 09/11/05 10:17 AM Re: Vagina dentata
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You can't help but wonder at its origins.
It's a common motif in folklore stories and jokes. The first time I ran across it was in an article about jokes from US GIs in Saigon about prostitutes and broken Coke bottles. The next time was in an folklore class where the professor pointed me at Stith Thompson Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, F547.1.1. There are quite a few Native American and First Nation tales from Washington and British Columbia that use the motif._________________________
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#147656 - 09/11/05 11:13 AM Re: Look out her she comes, she's a maneater
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> maneater
ain't that Hall and Oates?_________________________
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#147657 - 09/11/05 08:58 PM Knock, knock?
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RE: "jokes from US GIs in Saigon about prostitutes and broken Coke bottles."
To wit?
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Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.
Impressed? Ace detective Harry Bosch is also on the case in other exciting Michael Connelly crime-fiction novels.
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"Brilliantly executed"
Connelley's newest brings his two most well known characters together in a masterfully crafted story of legal gamesmanship and investigatory prowess very much in the style of Law and Order that is more heavily written as a Mickey Haller courtroom procedural than a police thriller. Harry Bosch plays a significant role, maybe as much as 40% of the story --and provides much of the action in the book, but it is the interaction of the two that adds some real personal interest. The half brothers are getting to know each other a little as are their daughters and these relationships promise avenues for some terrific storytelling in the future.
I think what impressed me the most about how Connelly executed this work was what he didn't do. There were at least half a dozen times in the book where he'd left the opportunity open for fairly obvious plot devices that authors over use to manipulate the reader or force a dramatic turn of events. Connelly's skill is in understanding that jaded readers expect these things and cynically predict them as we're reading. Just as we get to the point where we expect to turn the page to find the predictable forced plot twist, the story resolves in beautiful simplicity that feels far more real than any contrived t.v. show style drama. Bravo to Connelly for resisting the obvious. That said, there were some missed opportunities here that I think hint at future stories. For example, I look forward to some adventures that feature the newly acquainted cousins. I gave this one 4 out of 5 stars. It was a good story and well executed, but may have left a little too much of the sub plot on the editing room floor.
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I made excuses to listen to this - my wife loved it because my "honey-do" list was more than completed - I found other stuff to do while listening. I have read or listened to every Michael Connelly book - and I just love his style and keeping his old characters fresh.
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"I really wanted to like this more than I did"
I will echo some of the previous reviewers; the ending seemed abrupt thus not giving credit to the developed plot, the narrator although competent,was flat and in fact sometimes it was difficult at first to tell whether it was Bosch or Haller talking, and overall the book lacked a bit of heart. I did like the team of Bosch, Haller and Maggie McFierce, especially the courtroom drama bits. I just wished for more though, and would have given a 3.5 if I could. So overall.... not terrific but also no bad.
"Haller and Bosch Together"
This story features the defense attorney Mickey Haller and the LAPD Homocide Detective, Harry Bosch. Bosch is usually he principle character in these stories, but he clearly plays a supporting role in the case. This is too bad as Mickey Haller is not a particularly likeable character and is usually quick to judge and often wrong.
The premise of the story is a bit improbable as the Haller is talked into being a prosecutor against a Jason Jessup who is being retried for a crime he was convicted of years earlier, To complicate the story, he choses his ex-wife as his second chair.
However, once you accept this set up, the story is interesting and face paced and you will likely not want to stop listening. It is one of those books that makes you drive around the block a couple of extra times or just sit in you car so you can listen to a few mintues more.
The only sligthly confusing issue was taht when Haller was speaking, the story was in the first person. For everyone else, the story was in the third person. I found this switch awkwatrd on several occassions.
The ending did not tie up all the loose ends left in the story. In fact, there were more unsolved crimes at the end of the book than at the beginning. This leaves room for a sequel or two.
If you are Michael Connelly fan, you are likely to enjoy this as much as the others.
"Left me feeling a bit empty..."
I've read all of Michael Connelly's books and love all the main characters, especially "Harry Bosch", however this book seemed like an outline...not as rich. Good storyline, however it just moved straight through to the end without much depth to the characters. What about the relationships between Harry and his half-brother; between Holler and McFierce?; the new cousins? What's the story with Jacobs? The ending fell flat and left loose ends... If Connelly would have just spent a few more hours adding some flavor to the story and giving us a more finished ending this would have been a 5 star review, instead of 3 1/2. Kind of like roast chicken without seasoning... mashed potatoes without gravy; waffles without a topping... all good, but not great...
"Flat, where is the ending?"
I have enjoyed the other Bosch books, but I really thought the ending was a total bust, dud, silent thud. The story deserved better.
Dept Q, Harry Hole... where are you?
"Connelly is superb."
I have read or listened to all but 1 of the author's works and I have never been disappointed. The Reversal is a different type of mystery, we know all along who is good and who is bad, but it is a really fun ride.
"kept me up til 1am"
Haller and Bosch in one book and great narration, like I said it kept me up listening til 1 am. Highly recommended.
"Michael Connelly does it again"
This is one of his books I can't put down. Integrating the characters of Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch was superb. Its one of his best ever.
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Written by Dangerboner on 28.12.2009 at 09:53
This would be so much better if the retarded Greek crowd didn't sing along so much, kinda like the live Iced Earth album. It fucking ruins it at times
Written by Dangerboner on 17.01.2010 at 15:23
Is that an argument? I've seen Nevermore and Candlemass live, performing better than almost any other band I've ever seen, and I didn't sing, because people who do so are fucking annoying. On this release, at times, the crowd is singing so loud that you can barely hear the music. I pay money to hear the band, not some drunk, smelly asshole who is standing next to me, yell incoherent lyrics in my ear.