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My lo is 11 weeks old and has been sleeping through the night consistantly for about 3 weeks or so. When I wake up in the morning my breasts are so full they're as hard as rocks. It's extremely uncomfortable and hurts when she latches on to nurse I'm so engorged. I've been pumping a little bit before she wakes up just to relieve myself a litle.
How long does it usually take for your body to stop making so much milk overnight?

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DD is just days shy of being 6 months old, and my supply has not yet adjusted to her needs. I still have WAY too much milk, leaking so much that I normally wear 4 nursing pads on each breast daily (silicone, disposable/washable cotton, and wool), and milk still seems to find its way onto my shirts most days. I also have to wear the pads and a bra at night even though DD has only been nursing about 2 times per night for quite a while now, and the friction of the bra and milk on my skin has caused quite an itchy rash in the past.
I only nurse her at one side for each feeding because I have so much milk in each breast that she gets full before the breast is even completely empty!! So I guess we have sort of involuntarily been doing block feeding, which has not helped my supply to adjust any.
It's very annoying because often my breasts spray milk, and when they do she turns her head away and milk sprays onto the sheets of the bed, couch, etc. Wet spots on the sheets (and my shirts) everyday getting REALLY old. Also many times when it sprays she readjusts her latch so that her mouth does not cover enough of my areola, which causes my nipples to be quite sore at times.
I've considered switching to one-sided nursing only, as my left breast produces the most and is the breast that DD prefers. I'd rather not do this until she is out of daycare in May, as I have to pump both breasts daily in order to give her a fresh bottle. Also, I'm not sure how to go about nursing from only one side without running into more trouble!! Does anyone do this or know how to go about this?
I am just SOOO tired of waiting for supply to adjust...I'd really love to at least night nurse DD until she's 2 years old (or maybe older)...but if I can't regulate my supply soon, I do not think I will be able to make it past 12 months.
So block feeding has not worked and not nursing for very long stretches at night has not worked to regulate my supply either!! I do not know what else to try, and while I am thankful for such an abundance of milk in many ways, at this point it is more of a curse than a gift. Does anyone know of any other techniques I might try to regulate my supply?!


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Mom accused of witness intimidation
The mother of two teens implicated in last fall's string of daytime burglaries in Marietta has been arrested for intimidation of a witness.
Jessie Morrison, 35, of 407 Lord St., was arrested at home Monday night on a warrant for intimidation of a crime witness, a third-degree felony, said Capt. Jeff Waite of the Marietta Police Department.
The intimidation took place Thursday evening when Morrison called the victim and threatened physical harm, he said.
"She also threatened to do damage to his car and his home," said Waite.
Six people, including the 15- and 17-year-old boys, were ultimately arrested in November in connection to the fall burglaries.
Also arrested was Carl Robison, 19, of 235 Johnson Road; Tiffany Conant, also known as Tiffany Johnston, 24, of 108 Riley Drive; Brandon Schmidt, 22, of 830 Ridge St.; and Steven Frances, 19, of 235 Johnson Road.
The police have been unable to pinpoint the exact number of houses affected, but at least 16 burglaries were reported in Marietta in September and October.
The man threatened by Morrison was the victim of a burglary, said Waite. However, it preceded the string of burglaries in Marietta in September and October and was not considered a part of those incidents, said Waite.
Waite declined to release the victim's identity, citing the pending status of the cases.
The arrests have so far led to one indictment, that of Robison, for three second-degree felony counts of burglary and a third-degree felony count of tampering with evidence.
The 15-year-old was charged with burglary, a second-degree felony. He was also charged with resisting arrest, vandalism, tampering with evidence and violation of supervised release.
The 17-year-old was charged with vandalism, resisting arrest and violation of supervised release.
The juveniles have not yet been tried in connection to the charges, said Waite, but are still incarcerated.
"As far as I know, the juveniles are still doing time on their parole violations," he said.
Both juveniles were on supervised release for a previous offense at the time of the fall break-ins. They had been wearing electronic monitoring bracelets, which they removed and effectively destroyed prior to their November arrests, said Waite.
It is not clear exactly what information Morrison was trying to stifle with her threat, he said.
Waite said it's likely Morrison knew the victim prior to the threat, but declined to comment on the nature of their acquaintance.
Both Morrison and the victim have homes in the Harmar district, he said.
Morrison is being held in the Washington County Jail on a $25,000 bond. A preliminary hearing in her case is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in Marietta Municipal Court.


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It may not have been a hurricane, but an earthquake and tsunami warning worried state agencies along the West Coast. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Updated at 6:23 p.m. ET: Hawaii state officials on Sunday canceled a tsunami advisory prompted by a powerful earthquake off the Canadian coast that sent thousands of people fleeing to higher ground. No major damage was reported.
The advisory was canceled shortly before 4 a.m. local time after the anticipated waves rolled in lower than expected, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Kevin Richards, earthquake and tsunami manager for Hawaii State Civil Defense, said water, gas and power lines were not damaged by the smaller-than-expected waves.
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Visitors and Oahu residents watch the water level in the Ala Wai Harbor in Hawaii for the arrival of a tsunami on Saturday.
"Everything is normal,'' Richards said. "We're in good shape with this one.''
Gov. Neil Abercrombie said the Aloha State was lucky to avoid more severe surges.
"We're very, very grateful that we can go home tonight counting our blessings," Abercrombie said.
The tsunami began shortly after 10:30 p.m. Hawaii time (4:30 a.m. ET), according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, as motorists clogged roadways in a mass exodus from low-lying areas.
"The tsunami arrived about when we expected it should," senior geophysicist Gerard Fryer told reporters at a news conference, saying: "I was expecting it to be a little bigger."
Officials earlier warned locals to treat the threat as very serious.
"This is obviously a very, very dangerous situation," Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle told Hawaii News Now earlier as officials were urging residents to move away from the coastline immediately.
Fryer said the largest wave in the first 45 minutes of the tsunami was measured in Maui at more than 5 feet -- about 2 feet higher than normal sea levels.
Tsunami warning sirens in the islands were activated on short notice due to initial confusion among scientists about the quake's undersea epicenter and the extent of the tsunami threat posted by the temblor.
Carlisle earlier announced that all police and emergency personnel were being pulled out from potential flood zones shortly before the first wave, leaving anyone defying evacuation orders to fend for themselves. He urged motorists who remained caught in harm's way due to gridlocked roads to abandon their vehicles and proceed on foot.
"If you are stuck in traffic, you might consider getting out of your car and consider walking to higher ground. You will have to assess your own situation, depending on where you are right now. Right now it is critical," he said.
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Abercrombie issued an emergency proclamation for the state.
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The warnings followed an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 that hit Canada's Pacific coastal province of British Columbia late on Saturday. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 123 miles south-southwest of Prince Rupert at a depth of 6.2 miles.
Carsten Ginsburg, who lives in the small community of Bella Coola southeast of Prince Rupert, said the quake lasted about 40 seconds.
"It shook everything. The electricity went out, the power lines were swinging all over the place and stuff was falling off the shelves," he said, Canadian Press reported.
No major damage was reported.
The Earthquakes Canada agency said the quake was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including a 6.4 magnitude tremor that struck Sunday afternoon.
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On Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island, tsunami warning sirens blared across Honolulu, the state capital, prompting an immediate crush of traffic, with many motorists stopping at service stations to top up with gasoline. At movie theaters, films were halted in mid-screening as announcements were made urging patrons to return to their homes.
The last time Oahu had a tsunami warning was after the devastating Japanese earthquake of March 2011.
NBC News' Wilson Rothman, who was staying on the island of Kauai, said that while there had been no noticeable rise in water levels, local officials and hotel staff had taken precautions.
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"Non-essential hotel functions were shut down fast, and restaurants across the island closed early," he said. "Our hotel asked all guests to evacuate 'vertically' to the 4th, 5th or 6th floor, and asked guests on those floors to 'make new friends'."
On Honolulu's famed Waikiki Beach, residents of high-rise buildings were told to move to the third floor or higher for safety.
Stephany Sofos, a resident of Diamond Head near Waikiki, said most people had either evacuated or relocated to a higher floor.
"I moved my car up the hill, packed up my computer and have my animals all packed and with me," Sofos said, saying that she had not yet seen any obvious receding of the surf, a telltale sign that a tsunami wave is imminent.
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"I'm pretty confident because we have a lot of reefs out there and that will prevent any major damage. Maybe it's a false confidence, but I'm not really worried," she said, adding, "It is nerve-wracking."
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service canceled tsunami advisories for Canada and Oregon.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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There's a new push to legalize marijuana in Hawaii. A bill would expand the medical marijuana laws in the state to allow for recreational use.
The bill introduced on Friday would allow anyone 21 yearsold and older to possess an ounce of marijuana, and to cultivate a limited number of plants.
"We wanted to give it a hearing and see what the public says. We know that there will be strong public safety concerns brought up at the hearing," said Rep. Scott Saiki.
Saiki said the bill is modeled after the initiatives approved in Washington and Colorado that allow for recreational use of marijuana. The sale of the drug would be regulated and taxed, possibly generating $20 million annually to the state.
"I think anytime you can get revenue out of the source it's good for the state. You know as a business person that's how I think," said Ozzy Boyle, who supports the bill.
If passed, the bill would also allow the state to license marijuana retail stores. The owner of Hawaii's Natural High, Greg Azus, said he would expand his business.
"I'd like to get educated about it to be able to prescribe certain kind of marijuana or edibles for people depending on their ailments," said Azus.
Currently possessing an ounce of marijuana in Hawaii is considered a misdemeanor, and you could get one year in prison and up to a $2000 fine.
HPD released a statement recently saying, "The Honolulu Police Department is opposed to the legalization, decriminalization and medicinal use of marijuana."
The police department along with others said legalizing marijuana would increase the public's willingness to use the drug.
"If we allow it, I think kids at a younger age would have easier access to it. It's not a good thing," said Thelma Madali, who is against the bill.
If the bill is approved, marijuana still remains illegal under federal law, which bans all sale and possession of the drug.
Push of a new bill that would legalize marijuana in Hawaii
There's a new push to legalize marijuana in Hawaii. A bill would expand the medical marijuana laws in the state to allow for recreational use.
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"I Ain't Got No Body…"
Though first and foremost, I am a Phillies Phan, I do like to travel and experience other ballparks, even if the Phillies are not involved. In fact, my husband and I have an ongoing quest to eventually visit all 30 major league parks. After beginning in earnest in 1996, we have reached the two-thirds mark, just 10 more to go. The first few came rather quickly, but then things like kids threw a monkey-wrench into the plans. Oh well, at least I have a goal!
As part of our quest, we made a cross-state drive in April 2006 to visit the new home of the Pirates, PNC Park. It almost pains me to say this, but I must admit that PNC Park is pretty darn nice. Factoring in the view of the surrounding city and its convenient location, I almost have to give it a slight edge over Citizen's Bank Park. Here is a photo I took during an extremely pleasant day game:
Note the sunny skies. I have it on good authority from my husband, who spent many childhood weekends and holidays visiting relatives in the Pittsburgh area, that this is highly unusual. I guess the fates were smiling on us after that long drive. They were not, however, smiling on the Pirates, who lost this game to the Dodgers 13-5.
While exploring the stadium prior to the game, we came across this statue of Ralph Kiner's Hands:
So many questions arise in my mind, just begging for answers. Such as, where is the rest of his body? Why just the hands? Did they run out of bronze? Is Ralph so unattractive they thought people would be repulsed? The plaque on the base does not shed much light on the matter. It simply states that this is a "Bronze Casting of Ralph Kiner's Hands." It goes on to recap Ralph's career in Pittsburgh and his election to the Hall of Fame, but that's it. I shall have to do some investigating. If anyone reading this has information, please let me know.
Until tomorrow, think Spring (Training, that is)!
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I share your wonder – why just the hands? Your questions were very funny! And the park is gorgeous – I love the bridge in the background! Is Fenway Park one of the parks you have visited, or is it on the list?
It is amazing to think how far the state of Pennsylvania has come from having Veterans Stadium and Three Rivers Stadium, two places I used to least look forward to seeing as a baseball beat writer. You guys have it made with CBP and PNC. That's the life!
Oh and champions all over the place…that is sick. Still on high from riding in lead vehicle in Phillies' parade! The scene coming upon City Hall and all those fan was my highlight.
Oooh, jealosy! You actually got to be IN the parade? I had to settle for watching it on TV while I tried not to mortally wound myself while carving jack-o-lanterns for my kids. Thanks for your comments to my first two postings!
Hey Sue…we went to PNC park a few years back; have to agree…it is gorgeous! Sadly, it rained like hell that day so I didn't get too many great photos, but I did accidentally get a behind the scences tour of the offices (long story) and saw all the awards and World Series trophies. That was way cool :O) Still love our CBP best though!


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The Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee has started debating a Republican bill that would overhaul the state's mining regulations.
The measure is designed to clear the regulatory path for Gogebic Taconite's plans for a huge iron mine near Lake Superior. Republicans maintain the mine would create hundreds of jobs. Democrats and environmentalists contend the bill would open the door for pollution that would devastate the pristine area.
Democrats on the committee railed against the bill during a news conference before the committee meeting Monday afternoon. But Republicans control the panel, making passage all but certain. Approval would set up votes in the full state Senate and Assembly. The GOP controls both houses.


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What started with days of traffic jams in an obscure New Jersey town has now become a major scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- one of the most prominent U.S. politicians. Here's what you need to know.
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This print started out as a baseball card more than twenty years ago. Every aspect of it is designed to preserve the original look and feel of the card, from the printing pattern to the slightly worn edges. In fact, this print started by finding the actual card in our vault and then painstakingly re-mastering it with a team of designers. The authenticity extends to manufacturing; each print is made on high-quality, cotton fine art paper that measures 1/64 inches in thickness. Framed prints feature 2-inch flat wood or metallic frames with high-end, glare-resistant glass. And all prints are officially licensed by MLB and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
STORYDwight Evans had this quote attributed to him in 1981, the year of this card: "Not many people talk to you when you're hitting .195." Evans didn't have to worry. He lead the American League in plate appearances and with 22 homers in the strike-shortened season. He was named an All-Star and won a fourth Gold Glove and first Silver Slugger Award.
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November 6, 2013 —
Two timely seasonal reminders are important to take very seriously right now. The first applies to boaters enjoying Pennsylvania's abundant waterways. The second is pertinent to all drivers utilizing PA roadways.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) notes that beginning November 1 and lasting through April 30, boaters are required to wear a life jacket while on boats less than 16 feet in length or on any canoe or kayak. The requirement applies to all Pennsylvania waters.
When a person is unexpectedly plunged into cold water, the body's first response is usually an involuntary gasp. Without a life jacket, a victim may inhale while under water and drown without coming back to the surface. If an individual makes it back to the surface, their ability to swim is usually restricted. A life jacket can make the difference between survival and death.
Visit fishandboat.com/safety.htm and www.wearitpennsylvania.com and www.safeboatingcampaign.com/new-jacket-pages/angling-hunting-jackets.htm to learn more about cold water survival.
For everyone driving regional roadways, extra caution is currently called for with deer activity on the rise. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC), several factors are in force.
The end of daylight saving time increases traffic between dusk and dawn—the peak hours for deer movement. Deer are also more active with the approach of their breeding season, known as the "rut," and are busy feeding to store energy for winter. Hunters and other recreationists might unintentionally flush deer from forests as well.
Motorists should slow down and remain alert, as deer behavior is unpredictable. Deer often travel in groups, so when one is sighted, there is a very good chance that others are nearby. Watch for the reflection of eyes and for silhouettes on the shoulder of the road.
PA residents who hit and kill a deer can take possession of the carcass, but must call the PGC within 24 hours to obtain a free permit. Antlers from bucks must be turned over to the PGC or purchased for $10 per point by the person who claims the deer. Removing antlers from road-killed bucks is illegal.
To report a dead deer for removal from state roads, call the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation at 800/FIX-ROAD.


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Sexual abuse at root of many problemsFebruary 13,2014There is a correlation between sexual abuse, substance abuse and the number of incarcerated people
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Seventy to 80 percent of all Vermont inmates are incarcerated due to a drug and alcohol problem, according to some corrections officials. Where and why did they develop this problem? There are those who assume everybody drinks and drinks a lot.
Statistics do not bear this out however. Research finds that in the United States 7 percent of the people consume 45 percent of the alcohol. Its likely that many of those in that 7 percent make up the same 70 to 80 percent of Vermont inmates. Many of those inmates only recently left Vermont public schools. What was happening to them while they were there?
When looking at substance abuse in the schools one of the key factors is determining which students are in the high-risk categories. Statistics show that one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused by age 18. Twenty-three percent of them before age 8. Only one out of 10 will report this abuse.
The rest will suffer silently or turn to other things to dull the pain, embarrassment and shame they feel. Teachers and staff will see it manifest itself in poor academic progress, behavioral problems, depression, substance abuse, promiscuity and even attempted suicide.
As a public school teacher, I have seen what I speak of. Intervention at an early age is very important to changing the lives of these students. These are not the only students who will fall into those categories. Many students today are from broken homes that are suffering financially difficult times. These children are also at risk of alleviating this stress by turning to drugs and alcohol.
Because of this its important that the topic of sexual abuse becomes much more frequent and open. By speaking of it freely and openly as a society, victims will trust that coming out with their abuse will not stigmatize them, but will stop the abuse and put the offender in prison.
Sexual abuse thrives in secrecy. The offender counts on this. He encourages this secret, telling victims they wont be believed, they will physically hurt them, they liked it, too, or they will hurt someone they care about. The longer the victim carries this secret, the worse the damage and the more likelihood that the victim turns to self-medication to deal with post-traumatic stress, shame and the feeling of self-loathing.
Often they are re-victimized by a society that blames the victim. Society is embarrassed by the discussion of sexual abuse and, therefore, blames the victim for bringing to light this embarrassing subject, rather than blaming the offender.
The above statistics show that all of society is ultimately drawn into the circle of abuse. Many victims will become trapped into the web of drug and alcohol abuse, jail, prison, rehab, over and over again, costing society not only the skills the victim would have provided, but the monetary cost of incarcerating the victim who turns to crime to feed their addiction.
To stop the cycle of abuse, society has to confront this problem. This should be the number one priority in families, Congress, courts, and the public schools. Speak out against sexual abuse. If you know someone who is abusing or being abused tell someone. Breaking the secret will ultimately make our world a safer place.
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My LO is 5 1/2. I work full time. I have to drive 30min to 40 min to get to work and then back home at the end of the day.
The past two weeks my LO has been screaming in his carseat the whole way, both ways and I am about to loose my mind.
The worst part is that I can't help him. I can't hold him and comfort him because I am driving.
I checked for comfort, I hung a toy up, I play classical music, I tried white noise, I tried rolling the window down and nothing works.
I am getting desperate. I thought about quitting my job but if I do we will loose our house and our health insurance because those two things depend on my job.
He gets himself so worked up that today for the first day when I dropped him off at daycare he cried the minute I put him down. My child is going to associate miserable with being with me because I put him through this every day and he is going to hate me. What do I do? I am so distraught.
Listening to my child cry for 30 to 40 minutes twice a day and not being able to do anything abou it is horrible. I can't handle it.


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Jump Cut Pop, which was organized by the Haggerty, features more than 50 works from the mid-1960s to 2008 inspired by the Pop Art movement. The artists confront contemporary social, political and historical issues using poster design, printmaking, painting, photography, collage and video. The works are typically graphic in execution and palette, presenting complex image relationships in multilayered collaged formats. Works by Eduardo Paolozzi, Tadanori Yokoo and Jane Hammond are drawn from the museums Permanent Collection. Acquired in the early 1980s, the two portfolios by Eduardo Paolozzi, General Dynamic F.U.N, 1970, and Conditional Probability Machine, 1970, and the vintage offset lithographs by international recognized graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo will be shown at the Haggerty for the first time. Also to be presented are works on loan from museums, galleries and private collections. Other artists in Jump Cut Pop are Cliff Evans, Nobu Fukui and Martha Rosler.
The exhibition explores the strategies of six artists who juxtapose photo-based images drawn from popular culture with text and/or seemingly unrelated popular images. The artists draw from a confluence of sources, exerting a degree of compositional freedom with little conscious regard for historical continuity or visual hierarchy. The juxtapositions often suggest that images are interesting unto themselves, divorced from their inherent meaning by their proximity to other completely unrelated images. Appropriated photos and comics are among the sources most favored by this group.
Pop Art began in the mid-50s in Britain and the late '50s in the United States. The movement challenged the importance of the artists hand that was synonymous with Abstract Expressionism, in lieu of celebrating banal images of popular culture twinged with irony. Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), one of the artists included in the exhibition, first used the word "pop in a 1952 collage. Paolozzi was a member of the Independent Group, the British collective of artists who fully embraced American popular culture and mass advertising as the source of their subject matter.
Martha Rosler, an instructor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, gave the opening talk, "Always Coming Home." Rosler was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., earned her bachelor of arts degree at Brooklyn College in 1965 and her master of fine arts degree from University of California, San Diego in '74. Rosler writes criticism and works in video, photo-text, installation and performance. She has published 10 books, including photographs, texts and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. She has produced several other "Word Works" and photo-text publications, now analyzing imagery of women or exploring responses to repression, crisis and war.
Martha Rosler presented "Always Coming Home." An instructor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Rosler works in video, photo-text collage, installation, performance and writes criticism.


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Do's and Don'ts of IRA Investing
by Robert Carlson
Individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) are supposed to be simple and flexible investment vehicles, but their investment rules are more complicated and restrictive than many investors realize.
When you invest only in publicly traded stocks, bonds and mutual funds, there are no special issues. However, the tax law prohibits or penalizes some other investments by IRAs. Though part of the law for a long time, these pitfalls are becoming more important as the investment options available to mainstream investors increase and as investors are attracted more to "hard assets" and other non-traditional investments.
The restrictions on IRA investments are not well-known and, as a result, investors often stumble into penalties or other problems. The most common mistake is using a retirement account to hold an investment that falls under one of three categories: prohibited investments, taxable investments and transactions, and prohibited transactions.
The prohibited investment rules apply to IRAs and also to other self-directed accounts, such as 401(k)s. The main category of prohibited investments is "collectibles" as defined in Section 408(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.
When an IRA acquires a collectible, the amount used for the acquisition is treated as a distribution to the IRA owner. It does not matter whether the collectible is held or eventually sold.
For example, if $10,000 of IRA funds is used to pay for a collectible in 2010, the transaction will be viewed by the IRS as a $10,000 distribution. This means the owner of the IRA will be required to report the $10,000 as gross income. In addition, if the account holder is younger than 59½ and does not qualify for any of the exceptions to the early distribution penalty, a penalty tax of 10% of the value of the distribution will also be assessed.
The prohibited transaction penalty apparently can result in double taxation. The price paid for the collectible is included in gross income in the year the IRA acquired it. Eventually, either the collectible itself or the proceeds from selling the collectible will be distributed to the IRA's account owner or his beneficiaries. The amount of this distribution also will be included as part of gross income. There is no credit or deduction for the penalty tax paid on the purchase of the collectible, and there is no provision that allows the IRA's basis to be increased by the amount that was previously taxed because of the collectibles penalty.
Collectibles include any work of art, any rug or antique, any metal or gem, any stamp or coin, any alcoholic beverage, or any other tangible personal property specified by the IRS. To date, the IRS has not issued any regulations expanding the list of collectibles.
There are exceptions to the definition. Certain bullion coins issued by the U.S. (generally the American Eagle gold, silver, and platinum coins) and any coins issued by any of the states are not collectibles. Also gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bullion is not a collectible when the metal equals or exceeds the minimum fineness required under a regulated futures contract and is in the physical possession of a qualified trustee.
Only the physical collectibles are prohibited investments. Securities of firms that produce or deal in collectibles may be purchased with IRA funds. Among the many possible collectible-related investments that can be added to an IRA are securities of precious metals mining companies, art dealers, and producers and distributors of alcoholic beverages.
IRS Treatment of Collectibles in Taxable Accounts
Collectibles are allowed to be purchased in non-IRA accounts. Collectibles held for more than one year, however, do not receive the same maximum 15% long-term capital gains rate as other capital assets. Instead, collectibles have a maximum long-term capital gains rate of 28%.
Exchange-Traded Funds
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) whose primary assets are bullion and are purchased by taxable accounts also receive special treatment, but the tax implications are different than they are for IRAs. An IRA owning a bullion ETF, such as SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), is treated as owning a share of stock. In a taxable account, however, when a share of a bullion ETF is sold, it is treated as selling a share of the bullion owned by the ETF. Any long-term capital gain on the sale is taxed at the maximum 28% rate instead of the 15% rate on securities.
In addition, bullion ETFs may periodically sell some bullion to pay expenses. These sales are passed through to the shareholder; if the bullion sold by ETF was held for more than one year, the transaction is taxed at a maximum rate of 28%.
The IRS reached these conclusions in an internal opinion, and the bullion ETFs state in their prospectuses that this is the correct tax treatment.
Exchange-Traded Notes
Exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which hold contracts rather than physical assets (e.g., gold bullion), also have different tax treatment in taxable accounts than IRAs. The tax treatment of ETNs can be complicated and for some ETNs, uncertain.
The tax consequences vary depending on the structure of the note, promises made by the issuer, and investment actions taken by the issuer. For many ETNs, the tax treatment in taxable accounts is uncertain because neither the IRS nor Congress has established firm rules.
However, the IRS has indicated that for many ETNs the appreciation of the index each year is treated as interest due to the owner. The ETNs do not make distributions until maturity, but the IRS believes ETN owners must accrue the interest each year and report it in their gross income, similar to the way zero-coupon bonds are taxed. Investors who own ETNs in taxable accounts will owe taxes on interest income they do not receive. The treatment also converts what the investor considers capital gains into interest income.
When an ETN is sold from a taxable account, the sale results in a capital gain or loss. The gain or loss is the amount realized minus the tax basis in the ETN shares. The tax basis is the original cost of acquiring the ETN plus any accrued income that was included in gross income but not distributed. This prevents double taxation, but places a recordkeeping burden on the ETN owner to avoid paying taxes twice on the same income.
This is only one treatment for some ETNs. In general, the tax law has not caught up with the financial innovations of ETNs. Because of the uncertainty of the tax treatment of ETNs, read the tax treatment section of the prospectus carefully. In many cases, the prospectus states that the tax rules are uncertain and it describes several possible tax outcomes. Until the IRS or Congress establishes rules, investors are on their own when reporting income and gains from ETNs.
ETFs With Prohibited Investments
An outright purchase of bullion that fails to meet the minimum fineness requirements is prohibited with IRA funds, but exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that hold gold or silver bullion are treated differently. These ETFs purchase physical bullion and have it stored under their names. The IRS has not issued public regulations or rulings on the issue, but the agency has made taxpayers aware of its views through private letter rulings sought by issuers of bullion ETFs. The ETFs publish the substance of these rulings in their prospectuses.
Under the private letter rulings, when shares in a bullion ETF that is organized as a trust, such as SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), are added to an IRA, the transaction is not considered to be a purchase of bullion or a share of bullion. Rather, the transaction is considered to simply be the purchase of securities—just as though shares in any other ETF, mutual fund, or company were added to the retirement account. The IRS has reasoned that shareholders are not able to force the ETF to distribute bullion or take other actions, so the IRA is not the owner of the bullion. Therefore, shares of the bullion ETF are not a collectible subject to the prohibited investment rule.
There is an exception: Should the ETF distribute its bullion in-kind to shareholders, an IRA owning the ETF shares would be treated as acquiring a collectible when the distribution is made.
An IRS private letter ruling technically applies only to the taxpayer to whom it was issued and may not be cited by others. But letter rulings do reveal the thinking of the IRS and generally are followed by its auditors. Tax advisors generally agree that you can rely on the conclusions made in these private letter rulings.
The private letter rulings apply to ETFs that are organized as trusts and buy physical precious metals, such as iShares COMEX Gold Trust (IAU), iShares Silver Trust (SLV), and SPDR Gold Shares. Currently, all precious metals-owning ETFs are organized as trusts.
The prohibited investment rules also do not apply to ETFs that use futures or derivative contracts to track the performance of metals or metal-based indexes, such as PowerShares DB Gold (DGL), PowerShares DB Silver (DBS), and PowerShares DB Precious Metals (DBP). Mutual funds and ETFs that buy the securities of companies in the bullion business, such as gold mining companies, also avoid the prohibited investment rules.
ETNs in IRAs
An exchange-traded note (ETN) is a promise to pay the investor an amount equal to the return of a specific index or other price benchmark, minus the ETN's fees and expenses. For example, the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Precious Metals Subindex Total Return ETN (JJP) is intended to reflect the unleveraged returns from futures contracts comprising the index in the name of the ETN.
This is another example of a collectible-based investment that does not involve ownership of the physical collectible. The ETN is not even a fund that holds investments, but rather a debt of the issuer. Since ETNs do not hold physical assets, the IRS does not consider them to be a direct investment in collectibles when purchased with IRA funds.
Life Insurance Prohibition
Another category of prohibited investments for IRAs is life insurance. IRA funds cannot be used to purchase a life insurance policy. However, an investor can set up an IRA through a life insurance company and hold an annuity that has incidental life insurance benefits.
The difference may sound subtle, but the IRS has clear rules on the matter. The annuity must be issued in the name of the IRA owner and the benefits can only be paid to the owner or the surviving beneficiaries. Furthermore, the entire interest in the contract must be nonforfeitable, the contract can only be transferred back to the issuer, premiums must be flexible to adjust to changing compensation and contributions cannot exceed the annual maximum for IRA contributions.
IRAs and other qualified retirement plans generally are tax-deferred vehicles. Their capital gains and income are not taxed to the plans or their owners as long as the profits remain in the accounts. Owners pay ordinary income taxes on the investment returns when they are distributed.
However, a retirement plan might pay income taxes on income that is considered unrelated business income. The unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) rules were added to the tax code to prevent tax-exempt entities from unfairly competing against tax-paying businesses. Though originally focused on charitable organizations that own businesses, the UBTI rules also apply to IRAs and other qualified retirement plans. If an IRA earns UBTI exceeding $1,000 per year, it must pay income taxes on that income. The IRA has to file Form 990-T when gross unrelated business income is more than $1,000. It also must pay estimated income taxes during the year if the adjusted UBTI exceeds $500.
Though Roth IRAs and distributions from them generally are tax free, all tax rules apply to Roths unless they are exempted specifically. Roth IRAs are not exempt from the UBTI rules, so a Roth IRA can be taxed when it earns UBTI.
The IRA owner essentially will be taxed twice on UBTI. The IRA is a separate taxpayer and will be taxed on the income as it is earned. Subsequently, the owner or beneficiary will be taxed on distributions of that income. The IRA owner receives no deduction or credit for UBTI paid by the IRA, and the tax paid by the IRA does not increase the tax basis of the IRA. For example, an IRA could receive a large amount of distributions from a master limited partnership and pay taxes on part of them. Eventually this money will be distributed to the account owner. The account owner will include the full amount in gross income and pay income taxes on it at his rate.
In most cases, the UBTI is targeted at tax-exempt entities that control businesses, but the rules can apply even when the IRA owner is not in control of a business or active in business decisions.
Master Limited Partnerships
Investors are most likely to be trapped by UBTI when an interest in a pass-through business entity (partnership, S corporation, or limited liability company) is held in an IRA. The IRA's share of a pass-through entity's income is considered UBTI regardless of the account holder's ownership percentage of the entity. Pass-through entities generally do not pay federal income taxes. Instead, their income and expenses are passed through to their owners' income tax returns.
This rule most often trips up individuals who invest their IRAs in master limited partnerships (MLPs)—such as pipeline partnerships—or real estate partnerships. Master limited partnerships are traded on major stock exchanges, and many people think of them as being the same as corporate stock. In fact, these are limited partnership units, and the income and expenses of the partnerships pass through to the owners at tax time. When distributions from master limited partnerships to an IRA exceed $1,000, taxes are due on that income.
Individuals generally are urged not to purchase master limited partnerships through IRAs. Unlike collectibles, investments in MLPs and other pass-through entities can be held in an IRA. However, the ownership triggers the UBTI tax and the requirement to possibly file a version of Form 990 and pay estimated taxes.
When an IRA does own master limited partnerships and earns income of more than $1,000 for the year, some tax advisors recommend taking the easier and cheaper route of reporting any IRA-owned pass-through income on the IRA owner's individual tax return instead of preparing a separate return for the IRA.
[See the Investment Offerings column in this issue on page 6 for more on master limited partnerships.]
Using Debt to Finance Investments
An IRA also has UBTI when debt is used to finance its investments. Any type of income can become UBTI when debt is used to finance the property that generates the income. For example, if an IRA receives a margin loan from its custodian or broker, income generated by the securities purchased with the loan proceeds would be UBTI. Real estate mortgages also are debts that convert exempt income into UBTI. The tax law allows an IRA to own real estate and earn rental income, and that rental income will be tax deferred. However, if the real estate is financed with a mortgage, the rental income becomes UBTI and is taxed as earned.
The UBTI rules are broad and extensive. It is not possible to fully explain them here. This article highlights the investments that are most likely to trigger UBTI for IRAs. IRA owners should be aware that any ownership of an operating business (other than through a regular C corporation) or use of debt to finance investments can produce UBTI.
|The following types of investments and transactions could incur additional taxes or violate regulations regarding retirement accounts.
|The amount used to acquire the collectible is treated as a taxable distribution from the IRA.
|Precious Metals
|Gold, silver and platinum must meet certain fineness requirements. In addition, restrictions exist as to what types of gold coins can be held by an IRA.
|Exchange-Traded Funds
|In the event that an ETF distributes its bullion in-kind to shareholders, the IRA would be treated as acquiring a collectible.
|Life Insurance
|IRA funds cannot be used to purchase a life insurance policy.
|Master Limited Partnerships
|Distributions to a retirement account exceeding $1,000 per year are taxable.
|Related-Party Transactions
|Funds from an IRA cannot be used for transactions involving the account owner or a related party.
The prohibited transactions rules generally outlaw transactions between the IRA and its owner or any person closely related to the owner (including businesses). The rules apply to all qualified retirement plans as well as tax-exempt organizations.
As the name implies, the prohibited transactions rules target deals or transactions involving the IRA, not necessarily investments. The basic rule is this: No deals are allowed involving the IRA and the owner or a person related to the IRA or its owner. An investor cannot borrow money from his IRA, nor can the account loan money to the account owner's business or one of his close relatives. The IRA cannot buy property from or sell property to the account owner, his business, or a close relative. It does not matter if the transaction is done at arm's length or at fair market value; the transactions are prohibited under any terms.
The prohibited transactions rules are a vast and complicated body of law. Thus, investors wanting to engage in a transaction that might be prohibited should consult a tax advisor who knows the specific rules.
The penalty for engaging in a prohibited transaction is severe. The entire IRA will be considered fully distributed when the prohibited transaction was made, even the portion of the IRA not involved in the prohibited transaction. The IRA owner must include the account's full value in gross income, regardless of the amount of the prohibited transaction. If the owner has multiple IRAs, only the IRA that engaged in the prohibited transaction is penalized.
Despite the broad and seemingly final list of prohibited transactions, exceptions are allowed under some circumstances under the regulations and rulings. In addition, an IRA owner can apply for a waiver from the Department of Labor for specific transactions. Many waivers have been issued over the years for various reasons and can be reviewed on the Department of Labor's Web site (www.dol.gov).
For example, it is possible for you to sell real estate to your IRA under either a waiver from the Labor Department or an exception in the regulations. But the penalty for violating the transaction prohibition is severe, so you need to be sure the transaction is allowed. Before engaging in a transaction with your IRA, consult with an experienced tax advisor who is familiar with the prohibited transactions rules. Determine if the transaction is clearly allowed under the regulations or if you need to apply for and receive a waiver before undertaking the transaction.
Frank from FL posted over 6 years ago:
Bruce from FL posted over 5 years ago:
Frank, why don't you start an AAII club? It's not difficult. Just contact HQ and set it up. Also, you should know that USING CAPS is the online equivalent of SHOUTING!!!!!!
Dick from TX posted over 5 years ago:
Author discusses MLP's but does not discuss ETF MLP's. Question is ETF MLP considered similar to Gold ETF's
David from TX posted over 5 years ago:
What about REIT's? Are they considered pass-through entities?
Ed from MD posted over 5 years ago:
A serious omission from this article is mention of the inability to "short" stocks using funds from a self directed IRA. This is a ludicrous rule and should be amended. Numerous are the times that I could have made money when my research showed that a company is in trouble. A perfect example is the days long drama regarding Netflix that had only one inevitable conclusion, a severe and prolonged drop in price.
Shirley surber from VA posted over 5 years ago:
How does this site know my name.. when I have never used it Shirley
Charles from IL posted over 5 years ago:
Shirley, you browser may have its auto-fill option turned on, which remembers and inserts your information onto websites. Depending your browser, you can turn off the feature by clicking on "tools" or "options" and looking for the specific box to uncheck. - Charles Rotblut, AAII
Dennis from VA posted over 5 years ago:
Are the "distributions" from MPLs subject to UBIT or is the "pro-rata income" from MLPs subject to the excise tax? Distributions are frequently made that are more than the income reported.
Charles from IL posted over 5 years ago:
Dennis - The MLP will provide you with a Form K-1 that classifies what is included in the distribution. -Charles Rotblut
Timothy from OR posted over 5 years ago:
I hold some REITs (CIM, AGNC, NLY), as do many others I'm sure. The previous question wasn't answered. Does REIT income to the IRA fall under UBTI?
And how about Royalty Trust income, like HGT?
Edward from TN posted over 5 years ago:
Typical of anything having to do with government.
John from NE posted over 5 years ago:
Wonder if this means it would be a good idea Not to invest in AMLP, one of the ETFs in the AAII Model ETF portfolio, inside of a Roth to avoid potential tax problems?
Robert from IL posted over 5 years ago:
Can someone comment on the subject of "foreign taxes withheld from income (dividends and interest) received from international investments in an IRA.
Specifically, I hold a Canadian common stock in my IRA, and they withold 15% for Canadian taxes from my dividends. Can I deduct these as an offset to U.S. taxes on my Form 1040 tax return?
Charles from IL posted over 5 years ago:
Robert, my understanding is though Canada has an income tax treaty with the U.S., t you cannot deduct foreign taxes charged on an investment held in an IRA. -Charles Rotblut
Robert from CA posted over 5 years ago:
Dear Mr. Carlson:
May an IRA own one's business?
There have been several articles (in NYT, WSJ, periodicals) featuring this as an overlooked and worthwhile IRA investment, mostly because it obviates financial market risk and allows the individual IRA owner to be in total control and with low expense.
One example I recall (NYT) is that of a fisherman whose physical capital (boats, bait, nets, tackle, etc.) and business earnings beyond the salary he paid himself were in entirety held in a self-directed IRA.
My accountant maintains that this is not self-dealing as long as one is paid a salary by the business and as long as one does not withdraw any business earnings.
Thank you.
Rob Karlin
Charles from IL posted over 5 years ago:
Robert - That gets into a complicated area of the tax code. If you are unsure about the advice your account is giving you, I would get a second opinion from another tax professional. -Charles Rotblut, AAII
John from MO posted over 4 years ago:
Why no answer on the REIT'S in an IRA?
Is there a problem with UBTI?
Charles from IL posted over 4 years ago:
REITs are different entities than MLPs, so the tax treatment is different. In general, REITs are not subject to UBTI, but there are exceptions such as a mortgage REIT that uses financings considered to be "taxable mortgage pools." If you have questions, consult a tax professional. -Charles Rotblut
Leo Sibille from LA posted over 3 years ago:
I would like to have coppied this article
but my xp computer will only handle up to the
number 8 version and this uses number 9
Dennis Hallett from CA posted over 3 years ago:
Good article- very informative
Jean Heza from NY posted over 3 years ago:
Excellent article with some great insights re IRAs
Bruce Weber from PA posted over 3 years ago:
One of the older comments mentions that "shorting stocks" is not allowed in an IRA. Can this be explained more? Does this apply to inverse ETF's?
Petaluma Al from California posted about 1 year ago:
Hi - UBIT showed up in my Roth IRA for the 2014 tax year. It was under $1,000, so it had no impact...nothing to do.
I decided I liked the investment so much, I purchased the same amount in another Roth that I have and in one my wife has. Now I expect each IRA will show less than $1,000 UBIT, but if I am required (filing jointly) to combine the UBIT in all three Roth accounts, we will be over $1,000.
What are the rules about having to combine the UBIT for these three accounts.
Thanks for thinking about this.
Charles Rotblut from IL posted about 1 year ago:
I would contact a tax professional regarding the UBIT and different accounts.


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When Jack Lochhead first looked into a federal government program to help him manage his forest land in rural Conway, Massachusetts, he had no idea that it would lead to a surprising discovery deep in the forest.
Lochhead, a retired math and physics educator who taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and institutions in New York City and Boston, moved into his home in the early 1970s. Soon thereafter, he set out to buy the land surrounding the house because he didn�t want someone else building a house next to his.
Once he accomplished that goal, he realized that he needed to figure out what to do with the 250 acres of woodland. A forester in town approached Lochhead and asked if he had thought about forest management on his land.
"At that time there were government programs that paid for thinning cuts," explains Lochhead. "So we've had our land under active forest management plans since sometime in the 1980s."
More recently, Lochhead learned from forester Mary Wigmore about the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP) available through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which could provide him with technical and financial assistance for forestry practices.
"People from the NRCS office in Greenfield came out and we walked the land looking for potential sites for oak regeneration," says Lochhead, referring to a conservation practice that calls for land around existing oak trees to be cleared to allow new oaks to take hold.
Oak regeneration is practiced in parts of Massachusetts because, historically, land was cleared for farming and timber harvesting, which led to the dominance of other species when the forest began to grow back.
"Oak regeneration is not quite as drastic as a clear cut because each big oak should have its trunk shielded from the afternoon sun and if there are enough big oaks, you get these clumps of trees that are left," explains Lochhead.
"We put [the project site] deep in the forest so if it didn't look good, we knew it would grow back soon enough. We're pleased about how it worked out visually. There are a lot of oak seedlings coming up only a year after the cut," says Lochhead.
That decision to put the four acre oak regeneration project deep in the woods lead to a startling discovery.
"Prior to the cut, we had been walking through the woods with a friend of ours," remembers Lochhead. "She looked down at the ground and said 'You've got chestnuts here.' It was in the fall and the nuts had just fallen."
What Lochhead's friend had discovered was a lone American Chestnut tree, a large, deciduous tree species of the beech family that was one of the most important forest trees in eastern North America before it was devastated by the chestnut blight, a fungal disease.
Lochhead's forester recommended that he call Brian Clark of Ashfield, the local representative for The American Chestnut Foundaton (TACF). "He came out right away, within a few hours of when I called him. We walked up and took a look. He said "Yeah, that's an American Chestnut and it's in good health," recalls Lochhead.
Lochhead asked the logger who was clearing the land for oak regeneration to ensure that the chestnut tree didn't get cut down or hurt in the operation. Clark told Lochhead that clearing the area next to the chestnut was the right thing to do.
"Because it's right on the edge of the clear cut, it's really opening up to a lot more light than it got before, so it's a much more vigorous tree now," says Lochhead.
Due to the rarity of American Chestnut trees, TACF has a breeding program to pollinate and collect chestnuts from surviving trees.
"The trees that we use in the breeding program, we refer to as 'mother' trees," explains Clark. "Many of the trees we use as mother trees are the size of Jack's. We do a controlled pollination with pollen that we get from TACF."
"You put bags over the female flowers before they become receptive to being pollinated. The normal process is that every tenth bag, you don't pollinate, that way, if there are viable nuts, you know whether there was any wild pollen present," says Clark.
"We want to make sure that the nuts that are harvested in the fall are the ones that are pollinated by our pollen source and not some other tree on the odd chance there might be another chestnut around somewhere," says Clark.
The tree was pollinated with a mixed strain of Chinese Chestnut, which is resistant to the blight, and American Chestnut. The goal is to produce a tree that is more like the American Chestnut than the Chinese because the Chinese is more like a bush.
The pollination bag is a special bag made of heavy waxed paper for this purpose and will survive the summer on the tree. The bag is twisted and secured with a wire twist tie.
The nuts are harvested, then planted in a small area. As the seedlings come up, they're deliberately infected with the blight. Those that stay healthy will be transplanted into an orchard where they'll grow to full size.
The problem with pollinating Lochhead's tree is that getting to the location requires a four-wheel drive vehicle. A 50 foot crane is needed to reach the chestnuts.
TACF has arrangements with utility companies that lend bucket trucks to help fertilize chestnut trees. The typical bucket truck, however, is designed for use on the road and wouldn't be able to get up the hill to Lochhead's site.
Clark eventually found a company in Vermont that has a bucket on a crawler.
"The chestnut, as I understand it, was a far more important food source to wildlife than the acorn," explains Lochhead. "There are theories that some wildlife were wiped out by lack of the chestnut. Prey species that ate chestnuts were diminished in numbers until the point where predators like the lynx didn't have enough food and disappeared."
"If the chestnut can be brought back, it will have a tremendous impact on the wood industry and it will very likely change the nature of wildlife in the forest," says Lochhead, noting that TACF believes that they're within 10 years of having saplings that they can start producing in numbers that will be blight resistant.
Lochhead, who is also receiving assistance through WHIP for removal of invasive barberry, honeysuckle, winged euonymus and multiflora rose on 240 acres, has enjoyed his experience working with the NRCS Greenfield staff. Now he's trying to get other landowners along the South River interested in doing similar work.
"If they can see a concrete example of what a neighbor has done, that's very interesting to them," says Lochhead.
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I think I have mastitis in my left breast. It started out feeling engorged but it didn't go away with nursing. Then I got Achy all over my body, hot/cold sweats, Toe curling pain when I nurse... or when I don't. etc. I looked it up on Kelly mom and the description sounds like exactly what I have.
So Here is my Question. My OB is out of town this week. Thus why instead of a 6 week PP check I have a 7 week PP check. I will call in the morning to see if I can see a different doctor in the office but due to insurance I think I would need a new referral. So do you think my sons Ped could treat me since I am his main source of food? He is the one who treated us both for thrush. Is this something that can be passed to my son?
Is there anything I can do in the meantime to ease the pain? Its 2:45 am my time and I haven't got any sleep from the breast pain and body aches.
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Well, we are right at the year mark. And now I have a ton more questions! I'm hoping you ladies can help. I work FT, and my mother bottle feeds DS EBM while I am at work, he nurses when I have him.
DS turns a year old on Sunday. So.. my questions:
1. when do we bottle wean? I am leaving some of it up to my mom, as she knows his comfort levels during the day. DS LOVES water..will drink from a sippy, and a cup. Hasn't gotten the hang of a straw just yet, but getting there. He eats solids, she gives him breakfast, snacks and lunch, he also eats dinner with me. My concerns are the days he doesn't eat solids well, I have always felt that BM was always right there to give him what he needs.
2. I want to pump wean... just so tired of pumping. I was thinking starting next week I could begin this, but along the lines of question 1 - should I, or should I wait a little longer...
3. Cow's milk... is it safe to start giving him some now? Seems 4 days isnt going to be a deal breaker. But then, will he be ready in 4 days?? How do you know?
ok, sorry that is a lot all in one post, but I want to be sure we are on the right track! Thanks!


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School personnel and the entire STCHM campus look forward to the luncheon each year.
"We go back about 20 years in celebrating what Pettus ISD does for our STCHM students and staff," said Mark Childs, STCHM vice president of child care. "We try to show that appreciation every summer during in-service week by providing a meal and a time for them to come out to the campus and relax with our kids and staff.
"Many of the teachers understand where our kids come from and what their needs are. They go above and beyond for our kids. It's a heartfelt thing, and it shows. And at a time in the students' lives when they truly need a strong relationship with an adult, the coaches really step up and serve as great mentors for our kids, as do many of the teachers. We cannot express enough what that means to us."
Childs added that, from the administrator's office down, the children's home has enjoyed great relationships with school personnel over the years.
"A unique and special partnership has come together between Pettus ISD and South Texas Children's Home Ministries," Childs said, "to advocate for our kids and meet their needs. And we do not take that for granted."


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The New York Mets evened the series with their 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
-Remember good Joe Blanton? We miss him. Tonight, it was Bad Joe B, which has been a disturbing trend in May. Blanton gave up six runs on nine hits in just five innings. Over his last three starts, he's allowed 19 earned runs in 13 2/3 innings.
-On May 14, Blanton's ERA was 2.96. Now, just over two weeks later, his ERA is 5.05.
-You know things are all wrong when you give up a home run to the opposing pitcher. Mets starter Jeremy Hefner went yard with two outs in the fourth inning. Scott Hairston also homered in the sixth, leading to Blanton's exit.
-All night, Blanton's pitchers were up in the zone. Early on in the season, Blanton was keeping the ball down and had good velocity. Now, the velocity means little without the control. And he is not in control right now. The Phillies will absolutely need Blanton to be much, much better in the absence of Roy Halladay.
-There hasn't been a ton to complain about lately with the Phillies other than their inability to capitalize with runners on third base and less than two outs. Tonight against the Mets, it was more of that inconsistency that consistently makes us scratch our heads – most notably, the sixth inning. In that frame, Juan Pierre led off with a single and was brought home on a double by Hunter Pence who moved to third on an error. With no outs, Pence was glued to third base as three straight Phillies went down.
-A bit of a surprise this season has been Brian Schneider. Many, including myself, left him for dead after a dismal 2011. "Scoops" as he's known by his teammates, hit his second home run of the season.
-Jimmy Rollins went 2-for-4 with a run scored on a wild pitch in the first inning. The first inning double he hit was just the second extra-base hit for Rollins since May 15. Incredibly, J-Roll's OPS hasn't been above .600 since April 18.
-Rain delay lasted one hour and four minutes.
-Jake Diekman struck out two and got Ike Davis to ground out in an ugly at-bat in the seventh inning. This kid – along with Raul Valdes, possibly – looks like a real keeper in the pen. He's got 12 strikeout in just 6 1/3 innings. Valdes, Diekman, and Joe Savery each tossed a scoreless inning tonight.
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Well the main play was when wiggy swung at ball three and grounded out to first base. That took the pressure off instead of a 3-0 count. Blanton looked bad. Never heard of half these players a d he made them look like allstars.
It wasn't just Wigginton. Victorino swung at a pitch that was nearly over his head to strike out with one out and Pence on third, and he took an awful route to the ball in the OF which would have been caught if he hadn't been running the wrong way and had to change directions, which caused his fall. That led to a couple more runs.
Just another ugly performance and Heavy B's got to get it together. 9 HR surrendered in his last 14 IP isn't going to cut it.
I didnt watch the game. Now one knows why we couldnt unload Blanton. Now with the injury to Doc we are really stuck with Joe B. Overpaid underachievers is the main problem with this year sqaud…
We need Howard and or Utley back really bad. I read that Utley has been playing left field to reduce strain on his knees. Maybe we could get him back a bit sooner then expected if they would put him in left. Keep Galvis at second since hes been playing well and let him transition into that role and boom, left field issues are solved and if we lost Victorino we have Mayberry or someone like that to scoot in there and fill the void if we don't sign anyone.
Utley has been making catches on the outfield. This doesnt necessarily mean he is doing it to take the OF. Pitchers often do this in fact thats how Mo blew his knee. I think i remember reading that it was to get his timing down. It is possible but we shouldnt look too much into it yet. Having Utley and Howard back probably wouldnt have helped today. After been impressive his few starts Blanton is headed in the wrong direction. Roy will be out till after the all star break. We have Nix on the DL, a bullpen in which only Papelbon and Bastardo are effective. Contreras is still a big question mark. Rollins, Victorino and Pence all have been under performing. Thats a lot of setbacks and adversity this club is facing right now.
And yet right now they're still just 4 games out of 1st and 2.5 games out of the final wild card spot.
I understand pitchers shag fly balls and stuff to warm up and everything but Utley has been doing a lot of work there and he is fast enough and smart enough and people on here have even talked about maybe in the future he move to the outfield to extend his career. So why not now? Just keep practicing him out there and maybe let him give it a shot in the minors.
As for having Utley and Howard back they would not necessarily directly help the team but they help the lineup. Makes pitchers pitch other guys different. They might see more pitches in the strike zone because they are afraid to put people on in front of those two guys. It would also just change things up and maybe break up the tenseness and get everyone feeling good again. People don't understand how much having them back will help. Not just because of their bats, just their presence.
You guys are crazy to think this team has a shot. The window
Has closed. Doc will not be back for a while. Who knows if he will
Get back to form. Hamels will be gone after the season. Jimmy
Contract was a waste. Wait til year two and three. We have no
Left fielder at all. Shane has been in decline. Howard needs to prove
He can comeback off that huge injury. Utley is all but done with
That knee issue. Polly still can hit but for how much longer. Blanton
Is just terrible. Kyle is doctor jeckyle mr Hyde. Ruin depleted our
Prospects with aging players. They need to start to rebuild. We are only
A few games out because the division is average. Play against the
Yankees Texas teams. Ala red sox. Sorry the truth.
The division is the worst, except for all the other ones.
Explain to me how our division is average.
*his being OUT won't help…
Truth schmuth.
"Doc will not be back for a while. Who knows if he will get back to form."
— they've been hanging on despite his 3.98 ERA. His being won't help, but let's not exaggerate the impact.
"Hamels will be gone after the season."
— Maybe. Who knows. Either we have Hamels, or we have $20-$25 MILLION per year to spend on one or more others. In any case, it doesn't matter for this year (I don't believe he'll be traded).
"Jimmy contract was a waste."
— No. It was the best option available, his fielding is still excellent, and his hitting will improve.
"We have no left fielder at all."
— Phils leftfielders have been the 8th best in the NL: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/split_stats_lg.cgi?full=1¶ms=defp%7Cas%20LF%7CNL%7C2012%7Cbat%7CAB%7C
Mayberry's OPS is up to .732 for May, and I expect he will continue improving
"Shane has been in decline."
— Since when? He's scuffling some in the early going but he was the Phillies best player overall last year (other than pitchers).
"We are only a few games out because the division is average"
— Two articles on why that's not right:
Blanton needs to keep the ball DOWN or he is raw meat out there.
Thanks, BART.
Hey Jeff, you doosh, are you T.S. Eliot with that nutty writing style? Its not stylistic or chic or cutting edge. I just looks like it been written by an 8 year old. Your post is useless blather. I am a little disappointed at myself for getting sucked into your nonsensical ramblings but you post on here a lot. Can you at least TRY to be coherent or write something maybe approaching constructive or thoughtful. At least we all try to do that. Agree…disagree…have a stupid opinion…great – you're entitled. But cmon.
Now to my actual contribution portion of my post. A few years back Ken Harrelson started dumping players even though the ChiSox were still technically in it. he just felt that his team was not going to make the playoffs, and even if they did, weren't going to do anything there. He felt the best route for the team at that point was to start building for future years – not a reclamation project, just getting rid of some dead wood and bringing in some guys that would help in the future. Guys dogged him for it at the time.
If you are RAJ, what do you do when you think your team hanging around but you feel that, ultimately, your team just doesn't have it this year – like Harrelson did?
The Dipsy
Careful Dip . . . . I once asked the same of a guy on here, telling him his posts "read like a 3rd grade book report" ……. and for 3 years since have been accused of calling him out for spelling, grammar, etc…
People fail to realize that on a blog with back-and-forth posts, comprehension is key…. nobody cares about spelling, but it's important for fellow-readers to be able to understand the point you are trying to make ………………some of the people that comment here don't seem to care that others can't understand them. Long, run-on sentences, with no paragraph breaks, and no CAPS for emphasis are hard to understand
Andrew from Waldorf's a "guy"?
I care about grammar, intelligibility and spelling. 🙁
And because I'm such a pedant about such things, here's a handy tip for everyone:
When a player quits his job, he "resigns"
When a player signs a new contract with the same team, he "re-signs"
[NBC Rainbow thing]
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*see your team hanging around – Sorry.
The Dipsy
Dipsy, forget about Jeff. As for your idea – I don't agree just yet. They are only 4 out and 2.5 out of a wild card spot. IF (and it's a big one) Utley, Howard, Doc, et al are back and healthy for the stretch drive and the Phils are still only a few back I think they could make a strong push. Funny things happen in August, September and October. By the way, Ken Harrelson's an idiot ("You can put in on the booooooaaaarrrrrd!" – WTF is that??!!)
Of course not yet, Chuck. But the point may come where RAJ – and the rest of us for that matter – may be confronted with a season where just doggy paddling for four months may find you five back of the knockout spot in late July. Don't get me wrong…I hope we are better than that…and I am going to say something people are gonna disagree with:
I don't want to forego taking logical steps to make us a stronger team next year just so we can hang on to the hope of making into the playoffs this year. ( FYI – I have already factored in the "anything can happen if you can get into the playoffs" element.)
There. I said it.
The Dipsy
Dipsy, there have been times already this season where I have said to myself, "I'm not sure this is their year." Nothing factual or statistical in that feeling, just a feeling. Just my gut talking. Yet, my head, my sense of reasoning and my attitude of not giving up says "Wait. It's early. Anything can happen."
5 games out of the knockout spot in late July? I think you gotta go for it at that point. 10 GB is a different story. Whatever it is I'm cool with it. It'll be ok.
Why forget about me chuck? I can't write something here?
As for your dip shit. I'm writing on an iPhone. Sorry I am not the
Journal you are. Nothing I wrote was not actual info. As far as the
Division it's a average division. All teams are average. Let's talk
About the rangers and Yankees. Now your taking
Hey dip shit. Where are you from. Love to meet for a nice lunch.
Jeff, I saw a long list of opinions (not "actual info"), and I for one disagreed with essentially all of them, some because I see things differently (Rollins, Halladay), and some because they just don't agree with the actual facts (Victorino, division strength).
All the teams in our division are competitive- this does not make them average. Why do you have such a hard on for the Yankees?- they're 26-23. Washington, mets, and miami have better records than that. And the Rangers? Now you're just cherry picking. Just because a division has one dominant team doesn't deem it a "Good" division".
"Hey dip shit. Where are you from. Love to meet for a nice lunch."
Now that's just stupid.
Yeah, Jeff, the Yankees are real dominating so far. 26-23, in third place. Nice.
Jeff, I love lunches. I'm from Mayfair. Would you like to meet me down here on, say a weekday? If we do it on a Friday I can take longer…maybe even turn it into a happy hour. Just leave a message in my box.
I agree that the division may come down to a tussle with a bunch of teams three or so teams with 90 wins battling for the division because or division is not particularly strong. I guess, in the end, as long as you are in it you have an obligation to your fans to try and win the thing. The problem may be defining "in it".
The Dipsy
Can I come, too? Maybe a few others would be interested. Don M? schmenkman?
I too, am from Mayfair …. SMS, near St. John's – what about you Dipsy ??
I'm right on Aldine.
The Dipsy
you're the tire slasher… ?
The slashee. You?
The Dipsy
Look at the bright side. Galvis is demonstrating he belongs in the Majors. Diekman looks real impressive and is no worse than the LOOGY the Phil's need. Now if Dom B can get his act together that's 3 very young good pieces. No need for wholesale changes at this point. Phil's will have $$$ freed up to do some things. They need to just suck it up and sign Hamels. 6/$138. Higher than it could've been.
I don't think there is any way 6/138 gets it done. I think it has to be at least $25M per. If they can get away with 6 years and not 7 it would almost be a miracle.
I agree with Chuck. My number is 7/175. As much as I love Galvis, and I do, that dude is gonna show you that he can't hit. I know what he has done so far. But I look at him up there and he's just overmatched. My over/under on his season's end batting average is .223 1/2. That said, I think they should keep him here, keep his spectacular glove in the field and work on his hitting. But there's only room for one cripple in a good team's lineup. Galvis would be ours.
The Dipsy
Galvis has over performed at the plate thus far since he's maintained his minor league line so far. A very good May, but he has struggled recently. Kid can flat out field. He would probably be better served with another year in the minors unless you can get him spot starts at 2b, SS and late innings.
Two big (little numbers): .188 road average and a .217 average against righties. Some things to work on, but he is only 22.
A year or two ago i would read people's recommendations on blogs. A lot of them had the same or similar focal point. Start to get rid of some of the elder statesmen the Utley's, Rollins, and even Werth. The logic for most part been to get rid of high payroll guys and bring in some lower salaried, younger players. I thought back then are these guys insane. Looking back i see now this had some logic. Even though there was no way people could predict Utley knees situation for instance. Fast forward to today's team. If you was to rebuild how would you do it. Basically other than the 2 remaining Ace's where would you start. Utley, Rollins and Howard are here to stay. With no upcoming prospects and the catcher market thing Chooch is a necessity for time been. Basically i asking what tradeable commodities do the Phils have?
Galvis is awesome. Last year I liked Stutes and Bastardo, but this year I like Diekman. Chooooooch is my favorite player, only because they traded Valdez- our best pitcher. Rollins sucks, I say that because I don't care about defense from my shortstop. And if you point out that he and Galvis are the same hitter (except for RBI), I'll tell you you're a moron. Ruben Amaro Jr ruined this team by not trading Utley in 2009- eventhough he was our best player at the time, and we had no chance to win without him. We should've started rebuilding.
yo! And that dude Jeff is a hater, he's def a cockroach Mets fan troll. I'm gonna call WIP and talk Eagles 3rd string LBs and how much I hate the wide-9 defense now. And then practice my E-A-G-L-E-S chant for later this summer when i'm tailgating Phillies games, but don't have a ticket or any intention of going into the game.
^^ This is funny as shit.
Amaro has really hurt himself with Hamels. Had he signed him during the offseason, he could have gotten him for much less. Now he's 8-1 and off to the best start of his career. I wonder if he will squeeze as much as he can out of Ruben after the Halladay and Worley injuries? On a positive note, if the rumor that the Phillies offered Oswalt a contract are true, that may mean that they are not afraid of going over the luxury tax for the right deal.
If they can spend on Oswalt , then they are willing to go over. IMO- Offer Cole 3 for 90. (Maybe with an option for a 4th) That's the magic number. Let him know that in three years if he keeps himself healthy and pitching well, he'll get another 3 years at whatever the highest salary is at that time. Someone has to stop the madness of these long term contracts. They are pitchers, and let me credit Don M in this thread for saying in an earlier one, that pitchers are different than position players, and can't be signed for as long a term due to the repetitive stress they put on their bodies. Cole gets to be the highest paid pitcher per year in the game, not have to uproot his family, and stay home where the fans love him. It is NOT ridiculous to expect a pitcher to take some responsibility for his health.
It may not work, but the groundswell has to start somewhere. Is he replaceable if he walks? Sure he is. We won a title with a young Cole, Myers, Eaton, Blanton and Kendrick, not a very imposing set of SP's. The Giants model is a rare one, that used a pitching friendly ballpark to it's benefit. The Cardinals, Phils and Yankees, had decent pitching, but better hitting. Spend a portion of the money on 2 decent hitters. But, who knows, maybe Cole would take it.
Forgot Moyer. DOH!
While I'm a huge fan of the giant money-short length contract, I do wonder if the Phillies are going to be the team that's able to pull it off. I kind of think that if any team is going to go that way it's going to have to be a team with a bit more payroll flexibility than the Phils. But I can hope, I guess.
When people try to blame this on Amaro not signing him yet …. it bothers the hell out of me. . .
Hamels and his agent have (and have had) an idea of what they wanted… likely 6-7 years the whole time … so the Phillies stance of 3 years, and exception to 5 years (for Lee) … doesn't fit with what Hamels is reportedly seeking.
It takes two sides to make a deal, and I feel like Hamels has every right to try to land the biggest contract possible (I'd like to get paid as much as possible too) .. and the Phillies have every right to not want to commit 7-years to a Pitcher ….because historically, that is a terrible deal in baseball
And again, I understand people saying to offer him MEGA $$$ for 3 years . . . . but if it still falls way short of what he could guarantee with a longer deal, lets be realistic. he isn't going to sign for 3/ $90 … when we can likely sign for 6/ $150 …
He's not going to pass on a chance of a huge deal NOW, for the prospects of signing that huge deal somehwere later in his career. . .
I love the idea, and would be great if it could work, I just don't think its realistic at all
Why not though? I bet a good number of players would rather make a lot more money and see free agency more frequently than be locked into a long term deal even though the market for players might drastically increase during their contracts.
Look how much money guys like Longoria and Braun have left on the table by signing their long term deals. Upwards of $100 million for Braun (who will have never seen free agency by the time he turns 38). Look at a guy like Kemp who signed an 8 year, 160 million dollar deal right before the Pujols, Votto and Fielder deals, all of which blew over $200 million. Now Kemp is locked into $20 million a season until he's 35. He easily left $40-60 million dollars on the table by signing the extension in November of 2011 instead of April of this year. The market drastically changed in 4 months. And now he's locked into a deal at something like $5 million less per year than his comparable peers.
So there's a good case as to why players would prefer to keep at least their first free agency contract short and re-enter the market at age 30-31, when they're still at Pujols' age, able to then sign another long, gargantuan contract.
Don, I hear you. But I really wonder if the Phillies were to have offered Cole 5 years at something around $100M a year ago if he would have signed??? If he would have and a deal wasn't offered then THAT'S when I would blame Amaro. I guess we'll never really know…
We'll never really know … after the 2009 he had, his 2010 season alone wouldn't have had anyone feeling confident to sign him for 5-years-$100 M
after 2011, with two consecutive strong seasons, proving 2009 was the exception ……… at that point they said that a 5-year- $85/90 M deal wasn't going to get it done (Weaver, Verlander deals etc) . . .
we'll never really now, but if negotiations don't work out, you can't JUST blame Hamels, and you can't JUST blame Amaro . . . . it needs to work for both sides, I just hope it will
Cole's 2009 was almost identical to his 2008 season. In 2009 Cole had a better BB/9, K/9, and a very slightly higher HR/9. His rate stats were identical to those in the year he won the WS MVP and finished 2009 with the exact same FIP he had in 2008. The only thing that changed was that he got a little bit unlucky with BABIP, as it bounced from .259 in 2008 to .317 in 2009. That was just a fluke, since his batted ball profile stayed essentially the same (it actually improved ever so slightly, with him giving up fewer line drives and more ground balls).
That being said, if the Phillies had a progressive front office and realized that he was the same pitcher, if not slightly improved, than he was in 2008 they could have used that "bad year" to gain some leverage into signing him long-term. Of course, it seems that the Phils front office generally has little use for advanced metrics that would have helped them out there.
RAJ is pretty much the anti Billy Beane…
Maybe advanced metrics might show some similiarities between '08 and '09 but it's pretty well documented that his '09 wasn't what he, the team and the fans wanted or expected from a LCS and WS MVP. He admitted that he hit the off-season banquet circuit pretty hard after winning the Series and he reported to camp in not his best shape. And it's no secret that he flopped in the postseason in 2009.
So Don makes a good point that a bounceback in 2010 might not be enough alone for the Phillies to sign him to a 5 year deal. But as his 2011 unfolds and he's obviously really putting it together THAT'S when it might have made sense for a deal to have been struck. Was Ruben dragging his feet? Was Cole playing the waiting game? We'll never know.
The case for not signing the short term/big money deals is as follows: 1) The risk of injury; and 2) the risk of underperformance. Had Barry Zito, citing an example, opted for the 3 year/big money contract, he would not have gotten a lucrative second contract. You sign the 7 or 8 year deal and you're totally set. You get injured on Day 1 and you're paid. Although the C.C. clause that he had in his contract may be the way for a player to have the best of both worlds.
The Dipsy
I was looking at Hamels ERA, much higher hits per 9…. Not reall the behind the scenes numbers. To me, earned runs are legit and luck is part of the game … But instead of saying he had a "bad" year in 2009, maybe he really was just a little unlucky that year compared to his norm
Yeah, but hits per 9 is generally a luck issue, so long as he wasn't giving up a lot more line drives (which he wasn't). If he's striking out guys at the same rate, walking guys at the same rate, giving up HR at the same rate, and keeping his batted ball profile the same, then his season was almost identical to the previous one, at least as far as the things he can control as a pitcher.
It just so happens that the balls that were hit found more holes in 2009. More bleeders, seeing-eye-singles and the like. And whatever happened in the post-season is just too small of a sample size to make any conclusions. You wouldn't judge the value of a pitcher based on only 19 innings, which is what he pitched in the 2009 postseason.
Whatever explanations were given for his "bad" season were classic instances of the "affirming the consequent" logical fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent ). Basically, we know instinctively that pitchers who have bad years tend to have higher ERAs and higher WHIPs. We also know that Cole Hamels had a higher ERA and a higher WHIP in 2009 than he did in 2008. Thus, it is assumed that Cole had a bad year in 2009, but that's not necessarily so, because while all bad seasons have higher ERAs/WIPs, not all seasons in which players have evevated ERA/WIP are caused by bad seasons. To use a simpler analogy, it's the old "all poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles" falsehood. All bad seasons look worse, but not all seasons that look worse are bad.
All of Cole's stats that year indicated that he was pitching equally as well as he had the year prior. The only thing that differed was that he gave up more hits despite the same batted ball profile (%grounders, %fly balls, %line drives). A pitcher cannot control where a ball goes once it's hit, so the extra hits he gave up were due to just plain bad luck (his BABIP in 2008 was a career low (at the time), so if you juxtapose his "lucky" season in '08 with his unlucky season in '09 it looks like he pitched much worse, when that's not at all the case.
Ehhhh…. the problem here is that I do think pitchers have some control over hits allowed . . . ,and their job is to prevent the other team from scoring runs . . . so when his ERA is high, whatever the reasons behind it, his ERA is still high . . .
I think that ERA gets sh!t-on by a lot of stats, but to me . . . they are knitpicking . . . if you hit are a pitcher, keep the ball low, and hit your spots, the batter has a harder time getting hits …. the more batters that struggle against you, the less runs will score, etc. .
so I think its fair to say that Hamels 2009 was not a very good year, based on his ERA ………… he was "unlucky" in the same way that Ryan Howard is "unlucky" when he hits one into the shift … both have some control over the situation, not total control, but some – but both should be held equally accountable for the outcomes ..
Cliff was 5/$120 so Hamels 6/$144 easily gets it done iMO. I think 6/$138 is a nice starting point. He turns down 6/$144 you have to let him walk and take the 2 picks. He's only slightly better than Cain so I wouldn't pay him like Walter Johnson.


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