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May 2011
Memorial Day Thoughts
I posted earlier about the hats being worn today in MLB and some other thoughts. Just wanted to remind people that not only should we appreciate our soldiers and military and more today, but to keep them in your hearts each and every day. It is because of them that we are able to watch our favorite teams play and go out and play ball ourselves.
If you watched baseball today, just think about every day that you get to watch baseball, and remember that it is a priviledge that you get to do so in a free life, many thanks to those fighting for this country.
God bless.
Memorial Day – Hats and Soldiers
Happy Memorial Day to all. I know I'm still behind on the Royals entry from last week still, but it will get done this week. Very busy.
In the mean time, I wanted to throw this post up to remind everybody to not only watch the Orioles today in Seattle at 4, but that they will be wearing the stars and stripes caps:
How ugly. I mean, I like the concept of different hats for this day and all. The past ones have been really nice. But this one just looks pretty darn… not good.
Looking back at the past ones since the beginning of this tradition:
So yeah. I think they just ran out of ideas for this year.
Either way.
Bless the soldiers. Think about them today. Think about how they fight for you to be able to freely watch baseball on this day. God bless.
Orioles JibJab Video
So MLBlogs recently posted on their community blog about a new JibJab editable video for MLB. If you've never heard of Jib Jab, they make comical political videos, but have expanded to make all sorts of fun creations.
Long story short, I made an Orioles version of this video, so check it out (the embed code for the new blog doesn't work, so just click the picture to see the video):
In it are Jeremy Guthrie, Adam Jones, Luke Scott, Brian Roberts, and Matt Wieters.
I was also at the last two games of the Royals series, so the blog for that should be up shortly as well.
If you are interested in me making a video whether with different Orioles players or for your team, leave me a comment below or shoot me an e-mail (indiansfan621 at aim dot com) and I will gladly work on any new projects.
P.s. the Orioles are .500, so let's all celebrate WOOOO!! Only 3 games back. They got this.
Orioles vs. Royals 5/24/11 (11 baseballs – personal record)
I arrived at the stadium for today's game around 4:30, and was extremely worried because there was a slight drizzle of rain at the time.
It stopped, and they hit.
Ben and Tim weren't at the game, so Matt and I knew to race out to left field to go crazy with it. And crazy it was.
By 5:07 (yes, gates open at 5), Matt and I had a combined 11 baseballs. He had 7, I had 4. He found one or two, but other than that, Mark Reynolds and a few others kept ripping HRs, and we were the ONLY people out there. The ushers and even some Royals players were laughing and shouting things at us. We must have looked insane. We were running in every direction, and by the end of that when the Orioles were finished, we were dead tired. After those 4, I got no more from the Orioles.
I put on my Royals cap when the KC pitchers started throwing:
And as I did, a ball was hit towards them, and still standing in left field, Robinson Tejeda picked it up and tossed it into the stands. Randomly. He legit just tossed it into the first row of my section, with nobody there. I raced down and picked it up. Odd.
I went over to the foul line and got Aaron Crow to throw me his warmup ball, then I ran over and picked up a ball in the seats that was overthrown (I don't remember by who), offered it back, but they let me keep it. Followed by a Blake Wood tossup, I was already at 8 on the day. 9 was my best ever (last Friday), and I had always wanted to hit double digits. Back to left field:
Well, I caught 0 Royals HRs. They hit a scattered few. Billy Butler mashed. I still got shut out.
I ran over to the bullpens, and got Rick Adair to toss me one of the balls laying in the bullpen (I was the only person with a glove asking). Then I charged over to the CF seats and got a groundskeeper to toss me a ball from the gap. 10!!! Woohoo. Note: I did text Tim telling him how mad he should be that he didn't go, because he has a ball retriever, and there were about 7 balls in the gap.
Down to the 3rd base line.
Billy Butler stretched then signed:
And I got his ugly auto:
Then Hosmer came out to stretch:
He and Mike Aviles played catch. I stood right by them, and when they finished, Aviles tossed the ball to me. Well, by that, I mean he tossed it in my direction, but about 15 rows up. WTF! To nobody! And some random girl ran over and picked it up. I looked back at him and he covered his face with his glove. It was kinda funny how bad the throw was. Whatever. Hosmer signed:
How UGLY is that autograph?!
Oh yeah, and I got some pitcher to sign my ticket. But I forgot to take a picture of it, and I'm too lazy to now. Whoops.
After giving away three balls to a family of Royals fans that I chatted with and helped me to identify one of the Royals coaches, I got this shot of my remaining baseballs once I settled in LF:
Matt came by and I wanted to take a picture of his loot. In the following picture, not only are there about 10 in his glove, but he's searching through his bag. He had at least 13-15 total or so:
Chilled with that Matt and also Matt Gardner and his buddy [Chris] Webber during the game. I had them move like 4 times so I could keep positioning myself in open rows as places filled up. But it was pretty empty, enough so that a home run within 2 sections either way would have been within reach.
Danny Duffy pitched for the Royals (only his 2nd career start):
And he destroyed the Orioles.
All throughout the game, these guys with jerseys labeled "Yard Guard" [1 and 2] would get up in the aisle and do an Orioles chant (so, so drunk).
Not to mention the girl in front of them that almost went on the field, then the guy behind her stopped her by pulling her pants halfway down. Full moon. It was a rough site to watch.
Oh yeah, there was a game.
In the late innings, Alfredo Simon got up to warm:
And he threw a pitch to Ronnie that skipped to the side. Other bullpen catcher Rudy Arias picked it up and was about to put it in his back pocket, but I asked from right above him if I could get the ball. And…
It was funny because I was over there to take pictures of Simon. SO I had my camera in one hand and phone in the other, no glove, so I caught it practically between my wrists without dropping my phone [almost] into the pen. Cool.
Simon did pitch, by the way. 1-2-3 inning. Shutdown sauce!
Then in the bottom of the 9th, I happened to snap these 2 pictures of the scoreboard as Adam Jones came up to bat:
And BAM! JONESY WITH A 2 RUN WALKOFF SHOT OFF OF TOP CLOSER JOAKIM SORIA! It was fantastic!
After the game, I went out to the players lot as always to hang out with Donna. We're just cool like that. Carmen was out there too (she had come with Donna), and as I had randomly gotten Wieters to sign my shoe on Sunday, I got Chris Tillman to sign it this time. He was like "a shoe?!". It was quite funny.
Oh, and by the way, from the Nationals series, here's the video I got of manager Jim Riggleman getting ejected in the 1st inning. Ah, the advantages of sitting right behind the dugout randomly (good view!).
And now off to Royals game two of the series. Woot.
Orioles vs. Nationals 5/20/11-5/21/11 (Battle of the Beltways)
So here's the series recap. Sorry for no daily posts this weekend, it was just so time consuming being at the ballpark, and the 4 o clock Saturday REALLY threw me off.
Friday, May 20th
So Nolan Reimold was called up (along with Ryan Adams). But this was good because it adds a power bat for BP (temporarily):
This BP was very good for me from a personal standpoint. How good? I set my personal high mark.
After catching a Mark Reynolds HR on the fly, followed by one off of Jake Fox, I ran around to the 3B side where the Nationals were throwing. I don't generally change clothes or go for toss ups, but they are one of the nicest teams in terms of toss ups, so I had to try. What did I wear, though? A Capitals hat and random Akron shirt. Nothing Nationals.
I had seen on my roster that it was Jayson Werth's birthday, so I went over to where he was throwing and wished him a happy 32nd. His return? Not a toss up. No. That would be too easy. Instead, a ball was hit right by him, which he stopped, and *kicked* over to me. I had to reach onto the field for it. I thanked him and went off.
I went then over towards the foul pole, thinking I was going back for HRs. One random trainer had a ball, and two Orioles fans were calling him for it, but I held my glove up for the hell of it, and he threw it to me. The hat was working.
A few minutes later, in LF, Ben asked Todd Coffey for a ball. Coffey asked Ben why he had an O's hat on, and in turn threw the ball to me. I had only been watching this happen, and simply held my glove up. Hat was definitely a helpful item to have.
After that, I met up with Ed in LF, and while we were talking, Al the usher (who works the left side of LF seats) shouted for me. I turned, and he pointed to under a seat. There was just a random ball sitting there. Cool. Number six. Tied my personal best.
I caught one Nats home run on the fly, followed by beating a group of people to one a bit later, which I handed to a kid who I had been talking to during BP, trying to help him catch his first ball.
And that was it.
Here was my remaining loot:
And the Nationals plastic-ish training balls from China that I had gotten:
Matt pulled in at least 14 on the day, and here's just a small portion of those:
I went over to the Nats dugout pre-game:
And got a few autos. Cole Kimball and someone else on my ticket:
And Roger Bernadina on a baseball (which I have NO idea where I put now to take a picture of it).
Ryan Adams was starting at 2B and got his first ML PAs. He went 1-4 on the night.
And I got Luke Scott to toss me his warmup ball in the 9th in LF. Number 9 for me on the day. Personal record.
And the Orioles got slaughtered:
Saturday, May 21st
Dugout Club Day. Meaning, lots of little children.
Not to mention I came 20 minutes late for some personal reasons, I got a ball BARELY from Doug Slaten late in Nats BP. He was throwing it to kids, but they all missed it, it bounced up a step, and I picked it up. Yes, I handed it right over to one of them (specifically an O's fan with a glove).
So I guess that counts.
But I got one to keep a little later on when Nats BP coach Jim Lett tossed Ben and I each a ball from the bullpen (that had been hit there during BP).
Spent the game down the 3B line by the foul pole:
It was in the shade and out of the way of the children.
No baseballs, but hung out and talked with Matt and Matt. Yes, two Matts. One is the Matt who's always there, the other is this Matt.
Was a chill day.
They showed the Preakness:
The Orioles won 8-3, and with over 33k in attendance, the place was legitimately excited:
At the lot post game where we usually hang out, Kevin Gregg stopped to sign for the children:
And Luke Scott came out behind him, so he stopped to sign as well:
And that was that.
Sunday, May 22nd
Back today, hoping the O's would take the series.
For a 1:35 game, I expected the gates to open at 11:30. Down at the park around 11:20, and the gates were open. HUH?!
Oh right. It was little league day.
The people were everywhere:
And it was only 11:27!!!
People were even already in the upper decks!
Adam Jones and Brandon Snyder were playing catch in the OF. Notice an extra ball on the ground as well:
But Brandon ran off, ignoring my call (that, or it was so loud he couldn't hear me). I legitimately thought I could get shut out today with no BP and barely any throwing even.
I saw Nats guys throwing across the field:
So I ran over.
Stood way back:
And called to Cole Kimball when he was done throwing and held up a huge target. And…
Awesomesauce. And it wasn't even a garbage training ball!
The parade of children started:
So I headed off to Eutaw Street. And saw a setup of lots of crackers and food:
So I took a whole bunch of the freebies and had my lunch for the day now in hand:
Even though some Nats came out to throw:
They gave all their balls to kids walking on the field. Damn.
I ran back to the 1B side when I saw Mike Gonzalez and Alfredo Simon throwing:
I didn't specifically need a ball, but I happened to want to talk to each of them.
Gonzo came over after and I spoke with him for a few minutes as he signed for people. Asked him about going back to his old windup and such. He knows me lately from talking to him, mainly because I'm a strong believer in him so I like to say hey when I can when he's around.
Alfredo wandered back in before I had a chance to ask him about his new off speed pitches.
Brandon Snyder signed my one ball of the day:
Got some Nats autos:
So what did I do next?
Grabbed a seat in the 2nd row behind the Nats dugout. Duh.
I wanted to get my first third out ball ever (except one I got when I was like 10 with my dad and bla bla bla I wanted one as a ballhawk, really). So when Adam Jones grounded out in the bottom of the 3rd to end the inning, I stood up (with grey shirt and Caps hat on) and as Michael Morse ran in with the ball, he tossed it to Livan Hernandez at the dugout edge. Huh?
Well, I shouted "HEY LIVO!" and waved my glove. He tossed it. Drunk guy in front of me reached up and smacked my face and hit the ball down. Livo shook his head in disbelief. The guy didn't seem to care. Two fans next to me asked if I was okay (they said it looked like he punched me). I was fine, but pissed I didn't get that ball.
So I moved over to Donna's seats on the Orioles side:
To hang out with her and Cheryl (avid Nats fan and blogger).
When Vlad homered in the close game in the 7th inning, I caught these shots when he came home:
And the O's won, 2-1.
By the lot post game, I got Matt Wieters to sign my shoe. Yes, my shoe. I had nothing else.
People know I have my Orioles shoes:
So here it was:
And zoomed in on the spot:
I took the shoe off for him to sign, I didn't like stick my foot in his face. I expected him to the my sharpie and sign while I held it, but he legit took the shoe into his car where he was and signed it and handed it back. Funny stuff.
Again, the stats are still a little messed up, so I'll bring those back next home stand after I can figure them out completely this weekend. For now, know that I have about 65-75 baseballs, but will count for sure soon. So instead of stats, here are some random notes:
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Here is a picture (credit to Uni-Watch blog) of Stephen Strasburg in an Orioles uniform:
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Orioles vs. Yankees 5/19/11
This day got off to an interesting start. After not coming the day earlier, Tim an Ben were here at this game. Tim texted me around 4:15 saying that the cage was out, surprisingly, after it had been raining on and off all day.
That raining on and off thing happened all night as well.
Walking up to the stadium, there were like 5 of these huge trucks lined up on Camden Street:
I went up to see, and it was horses. With the Preakness coming up, they had stuff going on for that. I got to pet a horse. Woooo.
Sitting at the gates, the rain took turns pouring for 10 minutes, then stopping. And repeat.
When we got in, the Orioles were taking BP. While we later found out there would be no Yankees BP, at least we were seeing almost a full O's BP, including Vlad and Markakis and such.
I snagged a HR on the fly from I think Reynolds, and another from Vlad. That was it. Ben got like a bajillion as usual. I'm sure Tim did, too. Matt got like 5 or so. Fun times.
Here's David Robertson and Joba the Hut talking with some O's pitchers (Jim Johnson, Clay Rapada, Chris Tillman):
All the Yankees did was take some scrappy infield drills:
I went down to the O's dugout to try for a warmup ball:
As you can see, there were people in front of the dugout, presumable for some award or something. Then there was first pitch. And you see grounds crew going to take the tarp off in the photo as well.
Where did I end up?
That's right, it started pouring, so no Orioles came out to warm up, and I found a seat at the top of the undercover sections.
Then, I decided to go visit Beth on Club Level (she works at the main desk there, they are so so nice). So after talking with her a bit, I found a nice view from a seat on club level on the 3rd base side:
You can see in the photo above, there are lots of words written on the jumbotron. Here:
The general message they always put up during rain delays. That's all.
The rain finally stopped. I headed back to the O's dugout:
Orioles were stretching:
And I got JJ Hardy to toss me his warmup ball (he was throwing with Brandon Snyder):
It was a disappointing ball. Not rubbed up or anything, as if some random ball from BP. Boo.
The game then happened:
This happened:
Then this happened:
That's a photo of Eduardo Nunez' HR post-shot. Ben caught the ball, marked with the #1 on his shirt. Tim is 2, positioned a few rows up. 3 is my friend Leah who came to visit, 4 is me, then 5+6 is Matt Gardner and his friend Mark (or Marc, who knows). Fun times. You can watch the highlight here. We were all standing around talking then in the 9th inning, and when he hit it, Tim and Ben ran to their rows, and Ben made a clean catch.
Then, Tim put his bag down and got a ball out, tossed it to Ben, who then launched it onto the field. People were telling him to throw it back, so he did. Sort of. We always talk about any home run against a rival, we just throw a different ball back. Perfectly executed, dudes.
Then the night ended, I headed home to sleep, and here we are.
Time for a weekend series against the Natinals.
Orioles vs. Yankees 5/18/11 (although it became 5/19/11)
So as I said in yesterday's entry that recapped the last week or so, I've been quite busy and dealing with health stuff and bla bla bla. I went to this game (the first of an 8 game home stand) hoping it would be a quick one. I knew it was the Yankees, but I had an exam the next morning (which I just got back from as I write this) and other things due, so I was hoping for a 3 hour game or less. Y'know, a normal game that goes until 10:00 and then I can get back home by 11. It was Bartolo Colon against Zach Britton, a matchup of two guys who can work pretty quickly (at least it wasn't Arrieta vs. a guy like Josh Beckett or something).
Well. No. The game went on a few ticks past midnight. And here it is:
Tim and Ben were not at the game, as there was rain or something where they live, and Tim (later on) didn't believe me still that there was no batting practice. Well, there was:
By the way, that's Brandon Snyder in the cage. He was called up to take Cesar Izturis' spot on the roster.
A few other regulars were there:
That's Matt in the grey, Ed in the black.
After missing a few balls land a few rows in front of where I was and not risking ever again jumping over rows, Ed and a few other guys snatched those up, but soon after I caught a Mark Reynolds homer on the fly. Following that, I ran over to the seats down the 3B line where Brandon Snyder had hit a ball into the seats, so I found that one before the one guy anywhere near it could. On my way back, I snagged a Jake Fox HR on the fly, followed by running 2 sections towards the foul pole to snag a Brandon Snyder HR that landed in the aisle (barely beating out some guy with a glove but in full formal attire. Odd.). That was it for me.
I went over to try for a Yankee tossup:
But no luck. And nothing else. Like a bajillion teenagers invaded the outfield from some bus trip, and it was just impossible. Matt caught one on the fly during Yankees BP over some people, but that was it. It was rough. No ground rule doubles off the warning track or anything.
And after Tom asked me for a ball to give away to a kid, I took a picture of the 3 remaining:
The Orioles wished Brooks Robinson a happy birthday (p.s. it was Reggie Jackson's birthday as well):
I did a good deed when I went to the box office to get tickets for Saturday; a soldier in full uniform was there buying ticket's to Thursday's (today's) game against the Yankees (prime game ticket prices are so much more than non-prime). Being a season ticket holder, I tapped on his shoulder, asked him if I could intervene, and told the box office employee to put them on my account and gave him my card. In the end, after helping him also pick out seats that he liked best, I had saved him $66. He bought two seats for $32 each that without my card would have been $65 each. So he actually saved a dollar on one ticket and got another free, basically. He thanked me profusely and went on his way. These are the little things a person can do to be kind, and it didn't take all the effort in the world. God bless the soldiers.
And then the game was under way.
And the game kept going.
And going.
And going.
Soon enough, it was 1-1 and the start of extra innings. To make matters worse, Matt and I were in left field and there were no home runs to be seen. But maybe a walk off soon?
The game just kept going.
I had places to be and things to do and an early day ahead of me.
But the game didn't want to end.
Soon enough, it was the 14th inning:
And I went over to the MASN set to talk to my friend Joe Pappa[something]. He's hilarious. If you ever meet Joe at a game (he works for MASN), tell him I say hey. He's the man.
And it kept going:
By the way, the Orioles had the bases loaded twice in extras. They had men in scoring position with less than two outs multiple times. It was just sad.
In the top of the 15th, Mike Gonzalez was brought on to relieve Jeremy Accardo who had left two men on (but credit to Accardo, he had pitched two innings to that point also and was keeping the O's in it). Facing Robinson Cano, it was a lefty-lefty matchup and all and… BAM. Cano doubled. Jones bobbled the ball in the right-center gap, and Cano went to 3rd. Yankees up 3-1.
Oh, by the way, also: Mike Gonzalez was the last pitcher the Orioles had in the bullpen. There was nobody left:
The man sitting there is bullpen coach Rick Adair.
So you would think Gonzalez has to pitch the O's out of this? Well, just in case, the next day's starter, Jeremy Guthrie, came to the bullpen to toss a bit JUST IN CASE:
And what happens next?
Mike Gonzalez hit Yankees scrappy outfielder Chris Dickerson (a fill-in) in the head. Straight shot. Though post-game he said it wasn't intentional, and it doesn't look that way… Gonzalez was thrown out immediately.
Reminder: he was the last pitcher.
If you watch that highlight, you even hear the broadcaster say "They don't have any other pitchers!"
Guthrie took his hoodie off, and here goes:
People didn't know what to do on the field:
Guthrie was doing some long toss from the batter's eye, as he usually does on game day when he STARTS:
And continued that out on the field (you can see him throwing from behind the mound):
Guthrie got Gardner to pop out (though Cano scored on the sacrifice) and then another fly out and ground out. The O's came up and got two men on, Brandon Snyder failed a dodging a Matt Wieters potentially loading up the bases single, and Hardy popped out to end the game.
29 left on base in the game between the two teams. Pathetic.
Here's the box score, if you really want to see the madness. 7 at bats for multiple guys.
Then the Orioles messed up at announcing the next game. Why? Well, it was already past midnight. So, the game was technically "today":
And I got home by 2 or so, studied, got a few hours of shuteye, and here we are.
And I had this waiting on my Facebook wall when I got home from my friend Aaron:
As he says, I can add my own issues. While I have many, they will come across through my writing on Baltimore Sports Report or Orioles-Nation (or both) soon enough when I am back to posting there, so will link and let you all know. But props to Aaron for the thoughts. Agree with them or not, the feeling of frustration in his post is something felt by all O's fans at this point.
Off to nap, then another game tonight. As Adam Jones would tweet: #LEGGO
Orioles vs. Rays and Mariners 5/8/11-5/12/11
The last few weeks have been pretty stressful for me, not to mention MLBlogs was down over the weekend as they switched to WordPress. Without too many details, I have been busy with health and school stuff, yet managed to go to 4 games while the blog has been not updated. I was at the final Rays game last Sunday as well as the 3 game series vs. the Mariners last week. Here are some highlights and photos from these games, along with some notes. But no, these are not nearly full game recaps like usual. Camera broken means less pictures and no time means less notes and action, so this should be quick, yet fun.
And wow. Looking at past blog entries, this new programming for MLBlogs really screwed up the layout of each entry. So sometime I'll go back through and make the paragraphs look normal again on the old stuff. In the mean time…….
Sunday, May 8th
So this Sunday was special, as Zevi and I were running a fundraiser to support The Red Devils. People bought tickets from us, and proceeds are going to the organization. With major help from Romeo, we had over 100 tickets sold for the game, and it was a lot of fun seeing some old and new friends.
BUT. There WAS batting practice. But still recovering from the health issues just a day earlier, I caught one BP home run (no idea who) and then rested some while Matt took over. Zevi came late and snatched up like 3 or 4 balls somehow.
My goal on the day was to get Evan Longoria to sign the home run ball I had caught the day before. So after BP, Matt and I went down the 3B line to see what we could find. Oh, here's a picture of Matt wearing Brandon Guyer's batting gloves he had gotten the night before (like I mentioned in the entry):
Guyer got sent down that day before the game. I guess Matt caught him at the right time.
We watched the Rays pitchers hit some:
David Price hit a HR and did a HR trot (that people seemed to know of, but I didn't realize he had one). Here he is finishing it:
Sam Fuld, Matt Joyce, and Reid Brignac came out to warm up (notice the pink bats and stuff):
And after the Oriole Bird's mother took this picture with me (in which I look quite crummy and tired):
I got Evan Longoria to sign the baseball:
He wrote "2011 83" under it, since it was his 83rd career HR. He was quite rude to me about it, and I have lost some respect for the guy. As he took it to sign, he first rejected signing sweet spot, but that was to be expected from him. But when I asked him to write 83 on it or something of the sort (after explaining that I had caught it), he gave me a whole bunch of attitude, claiming that I was going to sell it or something. 30 seconds later, he took it back out of my hand and said something like "you know what, fine" and scribbled the numbers on.
Whatever. I like it. But the guy got on my nerves.
I also got Matt Joyce and Reid Brignac to sign my ticket:
More guys warmed up:
And a fun yet very tiring day with people. I left a little early, the heat and such were getting to me on very little sleep and new meds to make me all better, but was a positive day. Well, except that the Orioles lost 3-5.
Tuesday, May 10th
Zack Hample was now in town (here's his blog entry about the day).
I snagged 5 balls on the day. A Reynolds BP homer on the fly in LF, then 3 BP homers on the fly in the flag court during Mariners BP. The 5th ball? When I went over to sit with Brittany around the 3rd inning, I looked at the ground, and there was a ball sitting under the seats. Odd. Well, 5. Yet Tom the security guard, who's hilarious and very nice to us, asked me for 2 earlier in the day (he gives them away), so here's my 3 final on the day:
Zack even acknowledged my 3 flag court catches, so I was proud to beat out his lowly 1🙂
I got Todd Wellenmeyer, Carlos Peguero, and Jack Cust to come sign my ticket:
The Orioles won 7-6.
Wednesday, May 11th
I got 2 BP balls in LF, one on the fly.
I got Justin Smoak, Adam Kennedy, and Carlos Peguero (again) to sign my ticket:
The game:
In the 9th, I got Luke Scott to chuck me his warmup ball out in left field, much to the dismay of Tim and Ben.
The O's won, 4-2. WOOOO.
Thursday, May 12th
Todd Cook and family were in town for this one. Big Mariners fans. His blog entry isn't up yet, but when it is, it will be cool. I just know it.
BP (that's Peguero and Michael Pineda standing on the field):
I snagged one ball on the day, and barely. Brandon League chucked a ball up to fans, it fell, I grabbed it, but handed it over to the girl who had been shouting "it's my birthday" for the last hour in hopes to shut her up.
She shut up.
Zach Britton pitched 9 innings of scoreless ball:
But so did Jason Vargas for the Ms.
The Orioles won, though, 2-1 in extras. SWEEEEEEEP.
That's it. The stats will be up… sometime. They are so messed up I need to correct a bunch of them anyways. Here are some random other photos:
Zack and I going for a ball Boog was tossing to us:
Some of the balls from these games are here. Not sure which are which:
A silly photo of me jumping in the seats during BP (with Tim and Zack in it). But hey, I did make the catch. Sorry for showing so much skin. My bad.
And, here's my favorite photo Zack sent me. Him and I walking to the flag court mid-BP one of the days. I just think it's a cool shot.
Off to go see the O's beat the Yankees now. Till later, folks.
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Orioles vs. Rays 5/9/11 (Longoria HR on the fly)
Just a note: for some reasons that I
rather not share publicly and all, I was in the hospital ER on Friday afternoon
well into the night (5/6). Therefore, I
obviously did not go to the game on Friday night. With finals work also piling up on me for
school, the next week or two of entries will be delayed a bit. But, working on getting better and moving on.
So this game. Saturday.
It was a 1 o clock game because it was on FOX and FOX likes messing up
everybody's schedules. After only a few
hours of sleep, I still rushed down to the park for the game, thinking there
would be BP. I was coming from my house,
so I had to stop by my apartment for my glove and drop off my computer, so I
showed up at the park in a rush in jeans and a random brown Adidas shirt. Matt and a few others even realized I looked
different. Besides the whole no sleep
thing, they saw me in jeans and not an orange shirt, two things that I have
never had at a game before. Ever. You'll understand later more why I'm
mentioning the clothes.
So I got to the gates about 3 minutes
before opening. I was supposed to be
buying Todd Cook and his son tickets
for the game, but due to the last minute complications, I could not make it in
time, so I contacted Todd and Matt, and Matt was able to hook him up. This is what connections/friends are for.
Once inside, I had to take it easy on
myself still. I got a Derrek Lee ball quickly
that he hit down the line and I picked up in the corner, followed soon after by
a Mark Reynolds HR on the fly in the aisle of 82/84. Here's a map:
So the lower red dot is the Lee ball, the
higher one is Reynolds. Yes, there's a
star there. Hold on.
Matt, Zevi, and I found seats on the
aisle between sections 80 and 82. Todd
and Tim joined us for most of the game there as well. It was a beautiful day for baseball, and
after spending most of Rays BP and then pregame down time in the shade (I
needed to rest, so it meant missing out on some baseballs, but it was needed
for my health), here we were with a great spot in LF:
Notice the open seats in front of
us. They became important.
Here's another view:
In the top of the 3rd, with 2
men on and 2 out, up steps Evan Longoria to the plate. Longoria has been on the DL for most of April
(was put there during the opening series vs. the O's in Tampa). And BAM, Longoria hit a shot to deep
left. As opposed to a few weeks ago when
I ran down the steps too quickly and overplayed an Alex Rodriguez grand slam, I
took these steps very slowly. With a lot
of room around, as seen above, I played the ball perfectly, and BAM, I caught
Evan Longoria's 3 run home run, his first shot of the season, first RBIs of the
season, and 83rd career blast.
Matt was right behind me in case I
misplayed it, as you can see in the
video, but I was in the perfect spot for it. Now why did I mention the clothes? Of course, if you watch, there I am, on
national TV, catching a HR in random street clothes. Way to represent as an Orioles fan, Avi.
No, I did not throw the Longoria ball
back. I got lots of heckles to do so,
but of course I just sat down and ignored them.
People were telling me I wasn't a real fan, Miss Kelly even came down
the steps and had to shush a fan who was pointing and screaming at me non-stop
for being a horrible person.
Here are some screen shots of the HR
catch (taken by @RobEffinBrown for
Here's the snag as it happened:
And zoomed in (with Matt right behind and
Zevi is there like 2 steps up in the orange):
Then here I am once I have the ball and
Matt is congratulating me on it:
And zoomed in:
And here's the ball itself:
Soon after, I got a text from Todd Cook
asking if Matt had caught the ball. I
told him no, I did. Then, I got lots of
tweets and texts of people asking about it.
It was exhilarating, and definitely a positive part to my day after a
really bad day before. Although it meant
the Orioles went down 4-0, so I didn't celebrate it publicly at all.
Todd and Tim came over to sit with us
soon after, as well as Nats fan and all around baseball fan Michael Jasser, who
I had never met before but who follows the blog. Was great to meet Michael and good to talk
with him for the rest of the game as he sat with us in LF for the remainder of
the afternoon.
Oh, here's Super-Jew Sam Fuld:
Tim Cook had brought a toy with him from
an Indians game that he had gotten of the mustard hot dog that runs in the hot
dog race in Cleveland, and as I was taking photos, he told me to take pictures
of the toy:
Matt had talked with Brandon Guyer the
day before (the day Guyer hit his first
ever HR on his first ever AB), so he told Matt to come by the dugout after
the game. Around the 8th
inning, Matt, Zevi, and I relocated to the Rays dugout:
Where after the game, Guyer gave Matt his
batting gloves. I attempted to get
Longoria to sign the ball, but he didn't.
I knew I could try again tomorrow, though.
Oh, and Guyer was optioned the next day.
Good stuff.
Pictured there are 2 balls (one on left
is the Reynolds HR, right is the game HR from Longo, gave away the Lee ball),
my ticket, and a kids Orioles mag I found on the way out.
Season stats (somehow, a ball got lost in translation
here, not sure where, but it's either 39 or 40):
Baseballs: 39 (28
hit, 11 on fly, 8 toss up, 3 found)
Autographs: 4
(Scherzer, Guerrero, Oliver, Pavano)
Orioles home games
attended: 14
Orioles total games
attended: 14
Total MLB games
attended: 14
Total baseball
games attended (MLB+MiLB): 14
Rainouts: 2
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People STILL are coming here looking for the post on the
Jose Valverde spitting incident. Here. Here it is.
Sorry for the delay, folks.
Finals week[s] here at school, so been bogged down with more work than
one could imagine (yes, I'm a classic procrastinator).
Last week, I was at the entire 3 game Red Sox series. I posted then about the Tuesday game when I was
on the field for BP. I got 0 baseballs
that day, but it was still fantastic.
Check out more on that entry here
(some good pictures, if I may say so myself).
So without getting a baseball at the game before, I got back
at it today. And fast.
I would add the seating chart with ball locations, but they
are all clumped together so it would be hard to direct to which is which. But here they are by description:
Ball 1 was tossed to me by an usher named Al. He works the sections in LF next to Miss
Kelly (who works 82-86). He's a cool
dude. If you're out in the LF lower box
area, be nice to him. Always says hey to
me every day.
Ball 2 was a horrible call on my part, but still got
it. Headed my way about 10 rows into
section 82 (2 over from bullpen) and I reach my glove out for it and it blows
by into the seat and I picked it up from the seat. I remember this happening and all of us
laughing about it. I still have no idea
what happened, but the best reason we could come up with is allergies acting up
and my eyes were all watery (according to like 3 people) but who knows.
Ball 3 started the streak of balls that bounced away from
Ben and right into my direction. If you
don't know who Ben is, refer back to my new glossary of people that I put up last week or so. It was a Robert Andino pulled down the
line. Ben was a full section closer, but
also 8 or so rows farther down. As he
got closer to it, it took a bounce and went right towards me and I barehanded
it off some other guy's glove.
Ball 4 was a ball that Reynolds hit to the top of section
80, and Ben ran up completely to get it, but it took a bounce off the wall of
the aisle, then hit a chair, right to me like 4 rows down a section over. No joke.
And Ben was pissed (no worries, folks, he still had 5 on the day). I would have been, too, if I were him.
Ball 5 was a Jake Fox HR, his last on the day
coincidentally, that landed somewhere and I got it. I don't remember it, I just have that written
down on my phone that it was his last on the day and I caught it just not on
the fly.
Ball 6 a Dustin Pedroia home run hit towards the beginning
of Red Sox BP that I got somewhere around section 82 I know. Don't remember how, but I know it also was
not on the fly. Just going off my basic
notes from a week ago here, people.
Okay, fine. Here's
the ball chart. Though I didn't label
each individually, but when I put them on, I did roughly estimate where each
one was to the best of my knowledge, so have fun trying to match them all up:
So there, I had 6 balls on the day, none on the fly with my
crappy vision. My record for a single
game, by the way, was 6. People are
always surprised by that since most ballhawks have their days of double digits
and such.
Well, I spent the rest of the day being just close to
baseballs, but never reaching number 7.
We had some troubles getting Mark Connor to toss us one of the 5 or so
lying in the O's bullpen, but whatever.
I ended with 6.
There are 7 pictured there.
It includes my one spare I always have on me (in case I get none and
want to a) give one away or b) get one signed).
I just didn't feel like going through my notes to figure out which was
the odd ball out.
Josh Beckett was on the mound for the Red Sox, meaning it
was going to be a looonnnggg night.
Stayed in LF with people.
Don't remember who was there besides the usuals (Matt, Ben, Tim).
Spent the last 3 innings or so between the flag court, CF
seats, and going for foul balls. Here
were some of my different views as I positioned myself all around based on the
Season stats:
Baseballs: 33 (22
hit, 7 on fly, 8 toss up, 3 found)
Autographs: 4
(Scherzer, Guerrero, Oliver, Pavano)
Orioles home games
attended: 12
Orioles total games
attended: 12
Total MLB games
attended: 12
Total baseball
games attended (MLB+MiLB): 12
Rainouts: 2
Then there was Wednesday's (4/28) game.
I got three Orioles BP home runs,
including two from Mark Reynolds, one of which was on the fly. I don't remember where around, I just know I
got them. And all of my baseballs have
gotten jumbled up lately, so I don't know which to photograph to show you. You'll just have to believe me. If you don't, well… I don't really care. I know what I did.
For Red Sox BP, I went over to the flag
court when the group came up including Carl Crawford and Big Papi. Tim and Ben were also over there, so I had
some solid competition. Papi hit a blast
that I caught on the fly about 5 feet behind where I was standing and 10 feet
in front of Ben. I guess he laid off, or
didn't see it, or something. But I
jumped a bit back and caught it uncontested.
Mission accomplished. I had gone over to the flag court for two BP
sections now in my LIFE. This time, and
the one time against the Twins. Both
times, my goal was to get a ball on the fly from the ultimate mashers from
those two teams: Jim Thome and David Ortiz.
This night was interesting. I ran back and forth between LF and the flag
court for the first 5 innings or so based on who was hitting. It was a RHP for the O's, so the Red Sox were
STACKED lefty. Then from innings 6 and
on, I spent time in the flag court or CF seats for lefties and then moved down
the 1B side playing for foul balls for righties.
I got nothing. But hey, it was fun trying it for the night,
the whole running around playing the odds for a game ball thing.
Here's a picture I got earlier in the
game of the scene:
That's Tim's head on the bottom.
Looking at my camera, that is THE only
picture I took at the game.
So yeah.
But I'm writing this on Saturday night, 5/7. I have been to a game since, and will write
about that one soon, which has MANY more pictures and a bit of exciting news. Stay tuned.
Orioles game tomorrow will be exciting for one reason: Fundraiser. I wrote about it way back in this post, and it's finally happening tomorrow. Zevi and I sold tickets to tomorrow's game to support The Red Devils, and we hope it's a big success.
Well… peace.
Season stats:
Baseballs: 37 (26
hit, 9 on fly, 8 toss up, 3 found)
Autographs: 4
(Scherzer, Guerrero, Oliver, Pavano)
Orioles home games
attended: 13
Orioles total games
attended: 13
Total MLB games
attended: 13
Total baseball
games attended (MLB+MiLB): 13
Rainouts: 2
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Pendleton County is applying for a Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment grant to provide assistance to a community undergoing the loss of a DOD-related facility, County Commissioner Gene McConnell told about 30 residents at a public hearing last week.
The grant is to help reuse and/or redevelop plans for military installations approved for closure or realignment, McConnell said.
The lower base of the Navy Information Operations Command in Sugar Grove is due to be phased out by the National Security Agency by October 2015.
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The West Virginia Economic Development Authority and Region 8 Planning and Development Council are helping in the grant process.
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The public hearing was part of a process to keep county citizens updated on the latest information concerning the impending closure of the Sugar Grove Navy Base so they "know what we know to this point … to share with you the reality of what is developing … what we know to be factual; not what we hope might happen nor any theory about what might happen," McConnell said.
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With no end in sight for the refugee crisis in Syria, providing access to education for displaced children is just one among many urgent needs as humanitarian conditions grow increasingly dire.
It's summer break for the intermediate school students in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, but their classrooms are buzzing with activity. About 300 Syrian refugees — from kindergarteners to fifth-graders — are there, eagerly practicing math, Arabic, and English. Their teachers, most of them Syrians, are equally excited.
Students are working hard to be ready to learn when the Lebanese school year starts in September.
"Coming here is the best thing that happened to me since we left [Syria]," says 8-year-old Jouri, who took part in a World Vision educational program along with her younger brother, Khaled. "When we first came to Lebanon, I started nagging my dad to register me in school, but he kept telling me there is no place for me."
Among children affected by civil war in Syria, preparing to return to school is not as simple as getting new notebooks and backpacks.
For most of the children, language is their immediate obstacle to success. In Syria, instruction was in Arabic. In Lebanese schools, math and science are taught in French or English.
Poverty sends many older children to work instead of school and keeps younger ones from accessing transportation, uniforms, and lunches.
Last year, only 20 percent of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon attended school. This year, the numbers of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon could reach 550,000, putting even more pressure on local schools.
Many schools will run two shifts of classes to accommodate more refugees. Humanitarian organizations like World Vision are struggling to find ways and the means to get more refugees into classrooms. Their programs include accelerated learning for "out-of-school" children, remedial classes for those who are struggling to keep up, and nonformal education in child-friendly meeting places.
They're also supporting more teachers, adding bathroom facilities, and providing supplies. However, less than 25 percent of the money needed for refugee education has been funded by the international community.
Due to the conflict, many children had been out of school for months before they even left Syria, because their schools were destroyed or occupied by families displaced by the conflict. This past year, Jouri only attended school in Syria for three weeks before it was bombed repeatedly.
"There were still unexploded bombs inside the school; we could not send our children there anymore," says Hala, Jouri's mother.
"The longer a child is out of school, the harder it is to catch up with peers and their education overall," says Lara Lteif, World Vision's education project coordinator. "Refugee children are among the most vulnerable to falling behind on the educational level, which might cost them their future."
The U.N. children's agency has warned that Syria's children risk becoming a "lost generation," scarred by trauma and without education or skills.
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Crona's basking in the love offered so freely by the other students at DWMA. But when Medusa appears and orders Crona to do her bidding, the chill of old fear might overpower the warmth of new friendship.
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Sasuke is already close to Madara's level, so it is logical to assume he will supass him!
No, he is the greatest prodigy, but I only see him being equal to Madara's level
Sasuke is like about 17 yrs old and he already has the EMS. Not even the legendary Madara was as strong as when he was at his age! It is very likely that Sasuke will surpass even Madara!
Do you guys agree? He is a quote from a thread:
Originally Posted by Mystikk******
You must be slow.. What can any of them do to a perfect sussanno????? Dummy they almost shitted when they seen madaras perfect Susanoo.. And I know Sasuke will get it because my fave character Itachi said Madara isn't worthy of being called the best amongst the Uchiha still living. Which means Sasuke will be on Madaras level if not pass it. I mean come on Sasuke is only 17 and has more power than Madara did at that age.
Not the greatest but top 5
Madara is still a tank.
Itachi is what you call a prodigy.
Judging from your avatar and sig i assume you are a Sasuke fanboy so you would say that, therefore it's pointless debating with you.
Originally Posted by CharlieBundels
Itachi is what you call a prodigy.
Amen bother
He did take on the 5 kages like madara & did really well but there were some down falls which he could have died but madara can't run out of chakra or die so yeah sasuke excuses are ok
If anything its Itachi.
He is after all the only source of Sasuke's power.
Besides, getting EMS is'nt hard, just take someones eyes.
Madara probably could have done so before as well, he just was'nt blind enough to do it.
naruto & sasuke where the stongest at there age there both 17 and is in the top 10 with top tier legendary ninjas
Originally Posted by CharlieBundels
Itachi is what you call a prodigy.
true this
Itachi - mastered the sharingan at 8 years old and anbu captin at 13
sasuke - barley a gennin at 13
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He's 4sure going 2 surpass madara but he's far from his current level
No Itachi is.
Itachi is as much a prodigy as Sasuke is, Sasuke only surpassed him because of Itachi so we have no idea how much further he could have gone. We also don't know when Madara got his MS and EMS, he could have been near Sasuke's age. He probably is now though seeing as Itachi didn't develop as much as he could have.
Originally Posted by MinatoTheYellowFlash
He did take on the 5 kages like madara & did really well but there were some down falls which he could have died but madara can't run out of chakra or die so yeah sasuke excuses are ok
Sasuke did well against the 5 kage you say?!? Don't make me laugh! He got his ass whupped even after getting a chakra boost from Zetsu and had to be rescued by Tobito..
Originally Posted by CharlieBundels
Itachi is what you call a prodigy.
Yeah, despite all the high class training he got (even from Madara himself), he never went past the mere "genjutsu user"... not too great if you ask me.
Sasuke on the other hand call well hold his ground without MS, and has a vast array of techniques. Sasuke's Enton and stamina (proven by sustaining Susanoo for long periods of time against Danzo) is light years ahead of Itachi's
Itachi never improved that much after obtaining the MS at age 13 (after killing Shisui), whereas Sasuke's growth only accelerated during these years, Just to define this... a true prodigy a never stops growing!
Kakashi, Orochimaru, Tobi and even Kurama itself has already acknowledged Sasuke's power. If that doesn't count as a prodigy, then I don't know what will lol
Your ignorance is painful. You seem to have forgotten Shisui!!! The greatest genjutsu caster of the Uchiha!!!
Originally Posted by ACHILLES UCHIHA
Your ignorance is painful. You seem to have forgotten Shisui!!! The greatest genjutsu caster of the Uchiha!!!
When did he awaken his Mangekyou? Did he master all the MS techniques like Sasuke did at age 16-17?
It is rather unlikely
Sasuke will NEVER be as strong as Madara or Obito....Edo Madara= Hashirama, Nagato, Himself, mega knowledge, izanagi, izanami(probably), overpowered fan, invincible, immortal, loseless chakra, 10 tails in gedou mazou(shared with Obito)....
Obito= partly Hashirama, himself, partly Nagato(sadly, if he had both rinnegans, he wouldnt be able to use stn...) and 10 tails in gedou mazou shared with Madara, big knowledge, izanagi, izanami(probably)....
yes sauske will surpass madara one day
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Now that the first drill down on the website issues by Congress is over what have we learned? It seems the only new news is that the security of our personal data may be at issue.
In my opinion the person Congress needs to hear from is President Obama himself. I would ask him: 1) Did he read the entire 2,100-plus pages of the law before signing it or rely on aides to brief him on the details? 2) When did he know the website was flawed and what corrective action did he order? Can he live with a rollback if it needs to happen in order to have a productive enrollment and/or make minor fixes to the law?
In the end, it seems the most important point of all this debate is how many younger people sign up. The goal appears to be that 40 percent are needed to balance the senior enrollees forecasted plan utilization. Failure to achieve this goal may lead to higher premiums in 2015. If that happens what is not clear is will the subsidies also increase to help offset such increase? If so where will those funds be derived?
Also what will occur if the job market slows again and members need to seek coverage alternatives such as COBRA? What is the COBRA design provided by this law? Or what will happen to the plan utilization if a disproportionate number of younger workers lose jobs?
I think it is time to retreat from the current implementation timelines and take time (at least three to six months) to avoid marginal sign-ups and to make any minor fixes already proposed. Gov. Shumlin has already taken such a step with his contingency plan, which I applaud.
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When it comes to fashion, there is a gap between men and women as wide as Sherman's March to the Sea. Women have "wardrobes." Men have "stuff to wear." Women have "accessories." Men have "gear." Women want "panache and style." Men want "worn and comfy." It's as if women are from Planet Gucci and men are from Planet Savers.
I recently came across some current research involving women's viewpoints of their personal wardrobes that has made me think that, when it comes to interplanetary fashion, we men would prefer to not boldly go where no man has gone before. Let me explain.
According to this study, the typical woman owns 107 items of clothing. That means they can wear three different pieces of apparel for over a month and not repeat a single item. Taken further, the possibilities of different combinations of three pieces of clothing in a finite group of 107 items is almost 200,000. That works out to be enough diverse ensembles for more than 500 years. Of course, some of these combinations may include all skirts or all shoes, but that's their problem.
On the other hand, the average man has possibly half the clothing stash of a woman. That would compute to be half of 107, or 53˝. The half is probably the lone athletic sock that found its way under the Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA" bandana. Or perhaps it is the half-disintegrated "Star Wars" T-shirt from 1977 that says, "Wookiee of the Year."
But, back to the research study. At least once a week the average woman says, "I don't have anything to wear." Now, taken literally, that statement is not particularly troublesome to we of the Saverian planetary persuasion. But it does reveal a bit of overdramatization on the women's part, especially coming from someone who cannot see at least one possibility in 200,000 options.
That's because the women in the study said that they felt that 36 percent of their clothes were "completely unwearable" and could never be worn again. Men, on the other hand, do not have this problem. We feel that anything and everything is quite wearable, from the jeans that suffer from split seams in all the wrong places to dress shirts with see-through elbows. And what's wrong with a pair of underwear whose elastic has gone from swag to sag?
That would explain why 64 percent of the women wind up buying something new for a special event, and 36 percent of those women wind up hiding their new purchases from their husbands. Compare that with the 100 percent of us men who can get ready for a wedding with a quick withdrawal from our closet during a commercial break. Plus, the only things we buy that we hide from our wives are eBay sports memorabilia purchases and pizza deliveries during football games.
Oh, and did you know that 75 percent of women have gone to the back of their closet and found clothes they forgot they had? The only clothes we men can't find are the stuff our wives have hidden from us because they don't want to be seen with us wearing them. I once found a pair of my favorite pants sitting in the paint clothes bin. Evidently my wife took them out of the lineup because, according to her, they looked "dilapidated and scruffy." Geesh, if that's the case, I don't think I'm too far from landing in that bin myself.
Now, I'm not trying to diminish the luster of the fairer sex. I just wanted to point out that there is a grand difference between the feminine approach to wardrobe management and our manly modus clothus.
It seems to me to be somewhat of a miracle that both our planets have even achieved shared orbits in the first place. I suppose an intermittent fashion fender-bender between us is inevitable. So, ladies, we'll put up with your wardrobe idiosyncrasies if you just keep your hands off our saggy underwear. Deal?
• Michael Penkava is a retired teacher who taught for 35 years at West Elementary School in Crystal Lake. He woke up this morning and couldn't find anything to wear, so he just wore his Chicago Blackhawks jammies all day. Tatty, yet with a locker room chicness. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday as the BBC spiraled further into scandal over its coverage of two separate sex abuse cases – one, a cover up, and the other, a possible wrongful accusation. NBC's Keir Simmons reports.
The director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday after only 54 days in the role - the latest to be caught in the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal that has thrown the 90-year-old publicly funded behemoth and other U.K. institutions into deepening turmoil.
The scandal, which began with allegations against a single former BBC employee, has since engulfed hospitals, children's homes, even the police.
It also poses questions for Mark Thompson, Entwistle's immediate predecessor, who on Monday becomes chief executive of The New York Times.
For an entire week, one of the BBC's key news shows suggested a leading Conservative party politician, who wasn't named, had been involved in the rape of a young boy in Wales decades ago. The man accused denied it; the victim himself now says it was a case of mistaken identity.
Many networks ran interviews with the victim -- one even asked whether a pedophile network had been protected by a masonic conspiracy. Did a judge who led an early inquiry into the abuse at a North Wales children's home deliberately hide the names of famous or influential abusers?
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The BBC Director General, George Entwistle, announces his resignation from the BBC outside New Broadcasting House in central London, Saturday Nov. 10.
In front of 1 million television viewers, a morning TV host handed a list of alleged pedophiles to the British Prime Minister David Cameron live on air. That list, allegedly including the names of other senior politicians, was compiled based on unsubstantiated Internet rumors.
The revelation that all of this was a mistake is once again causing Britain's media organizations to question their own values, only months after news of newspaper phone-hacking. It has filled Britain with outrage, astonishment and self-doubt.
The scandal had begun with separate claims that BBC - one of the most respected brands in journalism worldwide - had failed to expose the late BBC children's television personality and fundraiser, Jimmy Savile, as a pedophile even though it had interviewed several victims who made allegations against the star.
It's now clear those allegations are well founded. Yet the same BBC program, 'Newsnight', that shelved the original and apparently accurate Savile story was the first to broadcast the latest false allegations.
'Newsnight' has apologized on air for its mistake, another inquiry has been launched, and the program has temporarily suspended all its investigatory work. On Saturday, Entwistle, who took his post in September, resigned in response to the growing scandal after a humiliating interview on the BBC's own flagship radio news program, 'Today'. The BBC is in crisis.
BBC boss Entwistle quits amid turmoil over network's child sex abuse scandal
On Sunday, the head of the BBC's governing body - former Thatcher-era government minister Lord Patten - admitted the issue of public trust in BBC journalism was paramount, and said a "thorough, radical, structural overhaul" of the organization was now necessary.
Savile had been a British institution, presenting TV shows during the 1970s and '80s that attracted huge audiences. Now police investigators suspect that he was abusing hundreds of children, even on BBC property.
One man described how, at the age of 9, he went to be part of the audience for the Savile show "Jim'll Fix It." He says Savile abused him in a dressing room.
"He put his hand on my knee and started touching me," the man said in an interview. "And grabbed my hand and forced it on top of his trousers. I was absolutely petrified."
The allegations became public only weeks after the departure of Entwistle's predecessor, Mark Thompson, who starts his job as NYT chief executive on Monday.
In a statement last month, quoted by The New York Times, Thompson said, "During my time as director general of the BBC, I never heard any allegations or received any complaints about Jimmy Savile."
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But NBC News has spoken to one of the journalists who broke the Savile story. He says he called Thompson's office in May and outlined the allegations to his personal assistant.
"I absolutely remember saying it," says Miles Goslett. "I always felt it extraordinary that no senior people in the BBC including Mark Thompson as director general addressed this issue."
When asked about Goslett's allegations, the BBC sent NBC News a prepared statement regarding Thompson's knowledge of the affair:
"Mark Thompson has repeatedly made clear he had no personal knowledge of the allegations. While Ms. Cecil recalls Mr Goslett telephoning her to complain about a Freedom of Information request she does not recall that he mentioned the nature of the allegations against Savile." (Click here for the BBC's full statements on the affair )
Jessica Cecil is the head of the director general's office.
This week NBC News approached Thompson for an interview, after a lecture he gave at Oxford University. Thompson declined, saying he wanted to wait for the outcome of that BBC inquiry.
But whatever its conclusions, the implications for the BBC are already becoming clear. Trust in the institution had dropped from 62 percent in 2009 to 47 percent last week, according to a poll conducted by one of the BBC's own radio stations.
It is not alone. This scandal has rocked people's faith in many of Britain's institutions and left a country questioning itself and its elite.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. â David Chung of Fayetteville, N.C., was the lone Boys Division player to shoot even-par 72 on his way to claiming medalist honors at the Dunlop Carolina Junior Championship Qualifier. The Girls Division featured a tie for first between Emily Rapp of Simpsonville, S.C., and Caitlin Fortner, of Greeneville, Tenn., who finished with matching 83s.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Dunlop Carolina Junior Championship Qualifier was held at the Green Valley Country Club. The juniors were competing for 12 spots (nine boys and three girls) in this weekâs 54-hole tournament, which will feature 99 players, including five Rolex Junior All-Americans.
Chung, coming off a fifth-place finish at last weekâs Nike Golf Junior at Jacksonville, was able to navigate his way through the difficult course and completed his round with birdies on Nos. 11, 13 and 16, one bogey and a double bogey.
âThis course plays well if you drive it straight and are solid on your five-foot putts,â Chung said. âI was able to hit my irons well and I had a lot of confidence in my short-game. Once I started chipping well and making my putts, I knew I would do well,â Chung said. âI missed lots of good birdie opportunities, but I really gained confidence over my putts.â
Finishing second in the Boys Division was James Wiese of Colleyville, Texas. Wiese shot a 73 and finished one stroke ahead of Bryant Hare of St. Simons Island, Ga., Brian Hill, Jr., of North Charleston, S.C., and Joshua Howell of New Bern, N.C. Josh Brock of Wilmington, N.C., Ryan LeFevre of Boca Raton, Fla., Kirk Whitehead of Marietta, Ga., Kyle Bailey of Troutville, Va., and Matt Lawson of Raleigh, N.C., all qualified for the Dunlop Carolina Junior Championship. Also qualifying via a sudden-death playoff were Andrew Lenczyk of Knoxville, Tenn., Daniel Bruce of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and David Dannelly of Easley, S.C.
In lieu of playing this weekâs event Chung, Wiese, Whitehead, and Lawson will add a tournament exemption to their Performance Based Entry status.
In the Girls Division, Fortner was playing in her first AJGA event, while Rapp earned some revenge on the course in which she failed to qualify on last year. Rapp noted the birdie she made on No. 13 as the highlight of her round.
âI was able to play my second shot out of the hazard and land it about six feet from the hole,â Rapp said. âI was able to make birdie from there. I hope to hit my driver better and keep it in the fairway this week.â
Despite losing balls on both Nos. 2 and 10, Fortner was able to keep her concentration and card a birdie on No. 9. Fortner is looking forward to playing in the Dunlop Carolina Junior Championship.
âI am anxious to see how the competition is and excited to be playing with the entire field,â Fortner said.
Also qualifying in the Girls Division was Robyn English of Warwick, R.I., who shot an 84 and qualified via a sudden-death playoff.
The first round of the Dunlop Carolina Junior Championship will begin Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. off No. 1.
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Blizzard came out of left field yesterday (can't beat a good baseball metaphor, because if I said they emerged from third man most of you would just look at me strangely) and announced it is establishing a Mentoring programme. Considering the amount of discussion there has been across the player base in relation to how the neophite learn the game, it seems a perfect reaction... except, is this really as great an idea as it first appears? Is this simply a Hobson's choice that absolves Blizzard from the need to do the work many people feel it should be undertaking in terms of new player education?
When people apply to join our Guild, we initially ask them 10 questions:
1. What's your favourite joke?
2. What's the best 5 man instance currently in game?
3. What has been the best show on TV over the last 25 years and why?
4. If you had a choice what would it be: cake or pie?
5. Should Blizzard put more crowd control back into dungeons?
6. Have you left Trade/General chat channels at any point, and if so why?
7. Who would you choose as the next James Bond?
8. What's the best change Blizzard has made to the game in the last twelve months?
9. Who was better: Blur or Oasis, or some random third band you may now name.
10. If you had to ask me one question, what would it be?
These questions have been refined over time to give myself and the officers a pretty good idea of whether the potential applicant will fit into the gaming environment we play in. As you can see, we're pretty relaxed, and our questions reflect the fact that in Guild at any given point the conversations aren't necessarily game-related. Being in a Guild isn't simply about playing Warcraft, after all, and I'd like to think as we've been going now since Vanilla, pretty much without a single piece of Guild-splitting drama to accompany us, that we grasp that it isn't simply a case of recruiting people based on their raiding experience. This won't work for everybody, and here is the first major problem I can see in terms of mentoring: managing individual expectations.
People joining Azeroth at this stage have been educated by MMO's and other games which have spent seven years trying to be as popular as Warcraft still is. They already have a basic understanding of the quest mechanics, that classes have particular skills, but the subtleties will undoubtedly elude them, and here is where being in a Guild would be a distinct advantage. However, it would need to be a group of people willing to spend the time teaching. With the current lack of new content this is a perfect time to start a mentoring programme, encouraging older players to roll new characters in an attempt to take new players through the content and teach them 'in situ'. However, in my personal experience, a great many new players aren't bothered to learn that much at all when levelling, and just want to get to end game as quickly as conceivably possible... often by borrowing other people's 85's or (gasp) buying an 85 on Ebay. I'd be interested to know if Blizzard has any plans to restrict those people joining the programmes by their level... ^^
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One of the biggest concerns I'd have with a mentoring programme would be maintaining a decent level of communication. I had my doubts when Blizzard introduced the Guild Finder feature, and although we have found a couple of people using it, in the main it is pointless, because of the reason shown above. People don't communicate. When you can't even be bothered to type 'Hi I like your Guild advert, would you consider me?' why would you think they have any interest in being involved to begin with? It is as much about the person wanting to be taught as it is those willing to impart their knowledge. However, there is a far larger issue that needs to be addressed, and that does have nothing at all to do with the game.
Many, many people entering Warcraft at this point in its evolution do simply not grasp they are becoming part of a community, which lives and breathes. This is not like joining an Xbox party, or playing on Steam. These things are still communities, but they lack a certain something that I think you only find in Azeroth, an intangible quality that games like Guild Wars 2 hope to reproduce on launch. Guilds doing mentoring will not simply need to pass on wisdom in relation to the game, but they may find themselves having to act as social mentors to boot, and that might be a far larger problem over time. An awful lot of the player base are under 18, many of them playing below the PEGI recommended age. Then I find myself wandering into a grey area I'm not sure I even want to start discussing without a lawyer and something with caffeine in it by my side...
There is no doubt in my mind that something needs to be done in terms of educating the new players in Warcraft, because they keep on coming. Making the player base accountable for itself is an admirable idea in principle, but there are an awful lot of variables to consider. I also think, like many ideas Blizzard have thrown out to the community over the years, this could have done with a bit more work in the early planning stages...


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According to Wikipedia, a BOF session is "an informal meet-up at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda." This is your chance to try to meet up with other Perl programmers with common interests:
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This year, at PPW, there will be an extra room reserved just for BOFs. The room will hold about 20 people and will be set up conference-style, with a projector. Please use this wiki to advertise your BOF and reserve your time slot.
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According to one of the fathers of ubiquitious, insanely profitable mobile game Angry Birds, console gaming is dying.
Speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive conference, Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at Rovio Games, said innovation has moved into the mobile gaming space, because mobile game companies are more "nimble." Vesterbacka wasn't fond of the price tag of traditional console games either, pointing out that $40 to $50 is a lot of money for a game that is hard to update.
It's almost as if Vesterbacka's analysis is a direct response to Saturo Iwata's words at the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Iwata made the point that mobile game distributors have no vested interest in creating quality products, and that the industry is fracturing so much that developers may soon have a problem making enough to get by and keep making games.
To paraphrase Iwata's views, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all live or die by how good the games are on its system, where a distributor like Apple, say, really doesn't care, as long as there are a lot of little games available for their phones.
What do you think? Who's right here? Are mobile games more innovative than console games?
Source: Venture Beat


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