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Modern applications typically require domain searching functionality--the ability to search for data within the context of the application domain. For instance, an application for tracking financial transactions might need to be able to search for all transactions over a certain cash value; a supply-chain management application might need to be able to search for all requisitions for a particular supplier. This capability could be for ad hoc searching or for the generation of reports. Since the underlying information is typically stored in a relational database, at some point the search needs to be converted from the language of the domain to the query language supported by the database (typically SQL). Though this is a variation on the well-known problem of object-relational (O-R) mapping, this particular aspect of the problem has generated less interest than the more fundamental problem of defining the relationship between domain objects and database tables.
As a consequence, I have seen many applications where the benefits of a carefully designed O-R mapping layer have been negated by ill-conceived search functionality that couples the domain objects tightly with the database. The objective of this article is to show how careful design can provide a flexible solution that is easy to maintain and adapt to different O-R mappings or native SQL. The solution I present has two main ingredients: a collection of classes that capture the information to be used for searching; and an implementation of the Visitor pattern that provides the implementation of the search, in the language of the underlying persistence service.
In this article, I use a running example to illustrate the ideas I am presenting. The example is a simple database that is used as part of a backup application to record which files are located in a specific backup volume.
This article is organized as follows: in the following section, some of the forces that influence the design are described. After that an overview of the design is given, followed by a description of the framework used in the design. The two sections after this show two different implementations of the design, and finally, the strengths and weaknesses of the design are considered.
The source code accompanying this article is available in the Resources section below. Note that for brevity I have inlined some variables and methods in this article, compared to the actual source code.
Related Reading
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When considering the problem of domain searching, a number of different forces apply and should be considered as parameters constraining potential solutions.
The first constraint is that the solution should support loose coupling between domain objects and the database. A couple of years ago this would have required no further justification, but many of the exponents of lightweight approaches to application design have argued eloquently that loose coupling is a symptom of over-engineering, so some explanation is necessary.
The objective of loose coupling in this context is to ensure clean separation between the problem domain layer and the data management layer. This separation is critical if each layer is to have well-defined responsibilities. In fact, the emerging trend towards transparent persistence makes this separation all the more important.
Any solution should also be maintainable; modifying or extending domain search functionality should not lead to wholesale changes in the application design. Loose coupling is normally necessary for maintainability, but not sufficient.
Other forces could also apply depending on the specific application, such as performance, substitutability (should a number of different databases or persistence services be supported?), and so on. However, I consider loose coupling and maintainability to be common to all solutions except perhaps the worst kind of hack thrown together on short notice (the kind we all have worked on but never admit to!).
The domain searching design I am going to present assumes a standard layered approach with a presentation layer, a problem domain layer and a data management layer. The example also uses a client layer consisting of Java Server Pages (JSPs) served to a user in a browser. To keep the example simple, I have not used a web application framework such as Struts, though there would be no problem using this design within a Struts application.
The example therefore structures the design as shown in Figure 1. The important part of the design is the third step. This is also the only step that is dependent on the underlying persistence service.
Figure 1: Solution structure
In order to help understand the example, the structure of the database used is shown in Figure 2. A volume contains a number of files, and a number of keywords may also be associated with a volume to allow for keyword-based searching. The information persisted has deliberately been kept as simple as possible to ensure that the clarity of the design is preserved.
Figure 2: Database tables
In order to demonstrate the flexibility of the design, I will present two implementations, one using SQL and one using Hibernate. However, before these implementations can be described, the overall solution framework needs to be outlined.
When designing domain searching, it is important to have a clear specification of what is to be searched, and what is to be presented as the result of the search. This might seem self-evident, but in my experience it can lead to significant discussion, especially if the users of the application fall into different constituencies.
Assuming that such a specification is in place, a number of search criterion classes should be created, which will contain the user-provided search data. In the backup database example, users can search using volume names, file names, a file's last modification date, and keywords. The result will show the volume name, file name, file size, and last modification date for each file matching the submitted search criteria. It is permitted for none of the described search criteria to be used, in which case the entire contents of the database will be returned, subject to whatever constraint is specified by the presentation tier on page size.
This leads to the class diagram shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Search criterion classes
ISearchCriterion is an interface implemented by all
search criterion classes. The methods defined by this interface are
described in the table below. For this article, the most important
method is the
accept method, which provides the entry
point for visitors. This is a standard implementation of the
Visitor pattern.
String getName()
|The name of the criterion. This is used to identify the criterion uniquely within the program.
String getDisplay()
|The display name of the criterion. This is the name used by clients to present the criterion to users.
void setValue(String value) throws
|This method is used to populate the criterion. The string value is that submitted by the user; it is parsed by this method and the object stores the result of the parse.
void accept(ISearchVisitor visitor) throws
|The entry point for visitor objects, for this criterion.
For domain searching, the Visitor pattern provides the perfect
means to traverse the search criterion classes. The interface
ISearchVisitor defines methods for visiting each kind
of search criterion. This allows the submitted search criteria to
be traversed and a query built; the search can then be executed and
a result delivered. The visitor hierarchy for this example is shown
in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Visitor classes
The following sections describe the SQL and Hibernate visitors in more detail.
The SQL visitor traverses the collection of search criteria
objects and constructs a prepared statement. This prepared
statement is then executed and a search result constructed. The
various visit methods are used to accumulate the tables to include
in the search, and the constraints on the search. The
doSearch method visits all of the search criteria and
combines the information yielded by the visitor methods to create a
prepared statement that is executed. The result set is then
traversed and a search result created. The following section shows
the accumulation of information from the search criteria by visitor
methods. After that, the actual query execution and result handling
is explained.
The visitor methods accumulate information in four instance variables; the prepared statement to be built will have the form:
SELECT <selects> FROM <tables> WHERE <constraints>
The SQL visitor uses collections to accumulate the values used
to populate this statement. The collection used for
<selects> is a list, since the order is
significant; the order provides the basis for interpretation of the
result set. Order is not significant for
<tables>, so here a set is used. In the case of
constraints, in order to be able to match actual values to the
placeholders created in the prepared statement, two lists are used.
The first contains the actual string values to be conjoined in the
prepared statement; the second contains the values to be used to
populate the placeholders.
This leads to the following instance variable declarations:
public class SQLSearchVisitor implements ISearchVisitor {
private List selects = new ArrayList();
private Set tables = new HashSet();
private List criteria = new ArrayList();
private List parameters = new ArrayList();
Having previously defined what the query should yield, it is
possible to add some values to the collection, such as the names of
the tables and columns, that need to be included for all searches.
This is done by the method
private void addFixedInformation() {
criteria.add("FILE_TB.VOLUMEFK = VOLUME_TB.ID");
Each visitor method then adds information to the instance
variables. For instance, consider
visitVolumeName from
the class
SQLSearchVisitor. The visitor method adds
the criterion that any matched volumes must include the submitted
volume name as a substring.
visitKeyword provides a
more interesting example as in this case, extra tables have to be
public void visitKeyword(SearchKeyword keyword) {
addCriterion("KEYWORD_TB.KEYWORD LIKE ?",
In this case, it is also necessary to constrain the tables so
that the relationship between the keyword and volume represented by
KEYWORD_VOLUME_REL is used. This is consigned to a
separate method to avoid repetition in the criterion list:
private void addJoins(){
if (tables.contains("KEYWORD_VOLUME_REL")){
// Must also contain KEYWORD_TB and VOLUME_TB
criteria.add("KEYWORD_VOLUME_REL.KEYWORDFK =
criteria.add("KEYWORD_VOLUME_REL.VOLUMEFK = VOLUME_TB.ID");
The remaining visitor methods can be seen in the source code.
These methods are glued together by the method
buildQuery, from
SQLSearchVisitor, which
ensures that the instance variables are populated. Having populated
these instance variables, it is possible to create and execute a
prepared statement.
Query construction falls into two phases: creating the SQL text,
and then inserting the parameters into the prepared statement,
corresponding to the placeholders in the text. This is captured by
getPreparedStatement, from
SQLSearchVisitor, which uses the instance variable
conn, which is an instance of
Creating the SQL statement is just a question of iterating over
the collections and concatenating the values to form a string. A
helper method,
addItems from
SQLSearchVisitor, is used to exploit the similarity in
the iterations. For example, if a search is submitted for files
matching the pattern
*.jpg, this would result in the
following SQL statement:
And the parameters list would contain the single value
Once the prepared statement has been created, it can be
executed. This yields a
ResultSet object that can be
traversed and a
SearchResult constructed. This
SearchResult object is returned as the result of the
search to the presentation tier for rendering in a suitable form.
Details can be found in the source code provided.
Hibernate is an object-relational persistence and query service for Java. It supports transparent persistence by allowing persistent data to be defined as plain old Java objects (POJOs). Runtime configuration is then used to map these objects to database tables, giving a clean separation between the domain object model and persistence management. Extensive literature about Hibernate is available elsewhere (see the Resources section), so I don't propose to provide a thorough introduction here.
The domain object model for the example is straightforward and is shown in Figure 5. I will briefly describe the mapping of one domain object to the database in order to give a flavor of how this is done.
Figure 5: Application domain object model
The domain class
File represents the information
stored about a backed-up file by the application. It contains a
number of instance variables (listed in the table below) with
associated getter and setter methods.
id : Integer
|A unique identifier for the file.
lastModified : Date
|The date of the last modification of the file prior to backup.
name : String
|The name of the file.
size : Integer
|The size of the file in bytes.
volume : Volume
|The volume used to back up the file. If this
File object is
returned as the result of a search, this will be null.
volumeName : String
|The name of the volume. This is only used if the volume is null.
Instances of this class correspond to rows in the
FILE_TB table shown in Figure 2; the
VOLUME_FK column in this table is used to provide the
volume and
volumeName instance variables
as needed.
The mapping between the
File class and the
FILE_TB table is provided by File.hbm.xml.
Similar mapping files for the other domain classes can be defined.
These can be seen in the accompanying source code.
Having established the object-relational mapping, Hibernate offers a number of different methods of querying. It is possible to perform a query using the underlying JDBC connection, in a similar manner to the SQL search visitor described previously. However, this approach bypasses the persistence service and is provided only if the persistence service does not support the desired behavior, which is not the case here. A second method provided by Hibernate is Hibernate Query Language, which allows SQL-style queries to be phrased in the language of domain objects. This is a very powerful approach, and for complex queries is the recommended strategy. The third approach is to use Hibernate criteria, which are objects that constrain properties of the domain object model. For simple searches, such as those needed for the example, this approach is ideal and is therefore the one I have used.
The query to be executed by Hibernate is specified using a
Criteria object. This object is built up by the
visitor as it traverses the supplied search criteria. This object
is therefore implemented as an instance variable by the visitor and
is initialized in the constructor from a supplied Hibernate
Session object:
public class HibernateSearchVisitor implements ISearchVisitor {
private Criteria criteria;
public HibernateSearchVisitor(Session session)
throws SearchException {
this.criteria = session.createCriteria(File.class);
The use of
File.class here tells Hibernate that
instances of
File are to be yielded by the search.
Each visitor then adds to the criteria object. Dependent domain
objects are tied in by creating child criteria. For example, the
visitVolumeName from
HibernateSearchVisitor constrains the name of the
Volume object by creating a child criteria
for the volume property of
File and constraining
The other visitor methods constrain the properties of
File in a similar manner. The overall search is
performed by the
doSearch method from the class
HibernateSearchVisitor, which builds the query using the
buildQuery method. The actual query is performed by
list method of the criteria object, and the result
is then used to populate a
SearchResult object.
Compared to the SQL visitor, the simplicity and elegance of
Hibernate is illustrated perfectly in this example.
In the preceding sections, I have described a design for domain searching that is based around defining domain objects to represent the search, and then using the Visitor pattern to build the actual search to be performed. I have shown two specific implementations of the visitor to illustrate the approach.
The main strengths of the design are:
Note with this last point that this isn't just a question of supporting multiple databases (in my experience, switching databases during a project is rare). It might be that a product is being developed and the flexibility to support other persistence approaches in the future needs to be built in now. Using the visitor design provides this flexibility at very little cost. Moreover, it might be that in the future the application might need to search an external information system, say, using web services. This design makes support for such functionality straightforward to incorporate.
The main weakness of the design is essentially that inherited from the use of the visitor: if the structure of the domain objects changes frequently, then all of the visitor implementations need to be updated to reflect these changes. However, in my experience domain objects change infrequently compared to the pace of change of other parts of an application.
Whatever your approach to persistence, next time you have to implement domain searching, I hope this article has added some weapons to your armory.
Paul Mukherjee works as a technical architect for Systematic Software Engineering Limited in Britain, and is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
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Sprint Cup Series Preview for Talladega
October 15, 2013
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series News and Notes
Race: Camping World RV Sales 500
Date: Sunday, October 20, 2013
Location: Talladega Superspeedway
Richard Childress Racing Leads at Talladega ... Richard Childress began his driving career at Talladega Superspeedway in 1969 and leads team owners for the most all-time victories at the storied Alabama-based race track with 12 wins. Dale Earnhardt visited Victory Lane nine times, while Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer swept the 2010 events at the 2.66-mile superspeedway. Bowyer added to the Welcome, N.C.-based organization's total by claiming RCR's 100th Sprint Cup Series win in October 2011 at Talladega. In 143 starts, RCR also has four pole awards, 37 top-five, 59 top-10 finishes and has led 1,807 laps of competition.
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Are there any differences in the Gen-6 cars at restrictor-plate events like Talladega Superspeedway? "The biggest thing is the new cars draft differently, but that's about it. My concern at Talladega Superspeedway is missing the big wreck and getting to the end of the race with a clean car and a good finish. It's been a horrendous restrictor-plate year for the No. 31 team. Last year, luck was on our side and we had a top-five average finishing position at places like Daytona (International Speedway) and Talladega and this year, there hasn't been a restrictor-plate race where we haven't been involved in a wreck. It's really frustrating, but the fans like to see pack racing so we will figure out a strategy before the race and go with it."


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March 13, 2013 —
The annual winter conference of Sullivan Renaissance was held at the CVI building in Ferndale on March 9, and was once again a magnet for the movers and shakers of the county and the region. Mingling among the crowd before the opening keynote speech were State Senator John Bonacic, Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, Congressman Chris Gibson and a host of elected officials from Sullivan County.
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Leave it Jamie Moyer to come through in the clutch. It was like he was back pitching an NL-East clinching game – when you needed him the most, he came through. Moyer allowed just two solo homers and an additional hit in his superb eight-inning outing. Brad Lidge came on in the ninth to strike out the side, but not before allowing two hits and a run himself. The Phils won 6-3.
Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth hit consecutive homers in the third inning, the 11th of the season for both of them. To all our dismay, these were the first back-to-back homers in 2010 for the Phils. Earlier in the second, Shane Victorino hit a bases-loaded triple off Yankees starter A.J. Burnett to put the Phils up 4-0. The much-maligned Greg Dobbs knocked in the first run and went 1-2 as the DH. The offense was working again but maxed out in the fourth with 6 runs and 6 hits on the board. It proved to be enough tonight.
Carlos Ruiz sat out nursing a sore ankle and an 0-for-22 slump.
The ESPN announcers said the Phillies needed this game to avoid the sweep with Andy Pettitte matched up against Kyle Kendrick tomorrow. I say they still have a chance to take the series.
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I agree with Pat. Once they knocked Burnett out of the game, I was half expecting 10 more runs to follow. Boone Logan? For one, I have never heard of him. Two, even if he is a lefty, the Phils shouldn't have looked that asleep with him. But, they are showing signs of life and a win is a win. If the ESPN folks seriously said that this was the game where they needed to avoid a sweep, I'd watch that rhetoric. Kendrick has a way of fooling hitters that have never seen him before. Not counting him out at all.
Props to Jamie Moyer on a fantastic rebound from an awful start. He's always learning and as bad as he was the other day, leave it to the veteran to get back in the game with a gem. He's something else to watch. He has a way of winning when winning is the only option. Tonight was one of those games and he came through.
How did they fail, Pat??
Moyer dominated.
Back to back HRs.
Shane's bases clearing triple…..Clutch!
Lidge ….3 Ks.
How else do you want them to make a statement?
Pat I agree with what you said about not knowing what you'll get from day to day. Other than Jamies Gem, and our offense getting an early lead in the 2nd and 3rd inning…We looked beat up and tired. Maybe its from all the critiscism, maybe its Jimmy, maybe there trying too hard…I don't know what it is. Im sure if Charlie really knew it would of been corrected by now.
One important thing I have to point out about this slump is opposing pitching. Pitchers know that were ball bashers. Its what made us world phucking champs. If you throw the ball anywhere in the zone, we beat you everytime. Pitchers figured us out…We have ZERO PATIENCE at the plate, and pitchers throw us JUNK balls all day long. I noticed pitchers always get away with first ball fast ball straight down the plate (which we need to take advantage of from time to time) than everything is everywhere but in the zone and they swing everytime. They need to get their shit together
Your wrong Pat. We have seen the Phillies put up 12 and then not hit for a while. Baby steps. I will take 6 tonight.
Call me crazy but I think right now would be a good time to take advantage of the DH and call Brown or Mayberry up because Francisco just doesnt seem to be helping out much.
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I don't think there's anybody on that bench who can step into a DH role without lukewarm groans (Francisco) or panicked screams (Dobbs–though yeah, I saw that hit tonight too). So that's never going to be a real hot spot as we stumble out of 2010 Interleague play.
My roommate is a Yankees fan and when he saw Boone Logan warming up he called him "the human white flag." Clearly he's not a guy the Yanks trot out there because he's got undeniable stopping power. And… we couldn't hit him… but we could hit Burnett. What the… eff…
Oh well. W. 'Nuff said.
SO WHAT, guys!! We won. Decisively.
I don't know….but to me a 6-3 win ……is a VERY GOOD win.
Nothing cheap about it. There was a little of everything….GREAT pitching, CLUTCH hitting (Vic!!!), your closer getting it done.
I am EXTREMELY happy…especially with the prospect of a very tough night tomorrow night with Pettitte.
Honestly I believe the reason more runs were not put on the board was Shane Victorino's bonehead moment. He stole 2nd…Awesome, but when you have a DEEP fly to the Warning track, you MUST tag and move forward. It was a mistake that didnt cost them anything except more of a "statement". Either way putting 6 runs on the board against the Yankees regardless of who it is, is a statement.
Need to remember the Yankees bullpen is probably the best in baseball if not near the top, so scoring 6 was good
Jamie moyer is just amazing though. for his age and all……awesome. thanks jamie.
Keith and I just got back from the game. Rough atmosphere.
We did sit in the center right bleachers (I have not seen those seats in a few decades) and teh crowd there was pretty rough. Lots of Phillies fans but lots of nonsense too. Fights to our left and to our right, drunks all around and lots and lots of cops.
To the game – Moyer as usual did not really have anything special. He was just getting the outside calls like he needs. The hit that Dobbs had looked like it should have been a double, perhaps he forgot what to do on the basepaths its been so long. And, he knocked in a run! Cano hit a hr that landed probably 20 some rows deep in right center, it was a smash – Jaysons hr was a line drive and Ryans shot was probably to the deepest part of the park.
I too was expecting more from the offense especially after Burnett exited. Nary a hit.
All in all, good game. Would I go back to NY for another? Only for a special occasion, like post season. Hey, the train ride up ($15), the parking at the train station ($7), the food ($11 for a 24 oz beer, which I like bigger beers..) it got a little expensive. No rain though, good win too.
Lets hope they snapped out of it.
when they do they could explode. Which will be great
Or they could stink all year.
Tomorrow will tell alot about heart.
Im excited to watch a game for the first time in awhile. It got pretty bad there for about a month.
win is a win but i'm still concerned becaue they were shut down by a bunch of no name guys i mean who is boone logan we a few other people said that to each other i was expecting them to put up at least 10 myself once burnett left the game…i think kendrick will struggle like he always does no way he shuts down a lineup like the yankees and hopefully they get his out of the starting rotation.
This is an offense that collected more than 10 hits in 12 of the first 17 games in May. They're going to need to get more than six on a consistent basis before I start to believe they're out of this funk.
I'm with Jeff on this one: I don't want to see them get 10 runs tonight and then get blanked for the rest of the week. Baseball is pass-fail; all they need to do is get 1 run more than the other team. They did their job (for a change); they got runs in more than one inning (for a change). I'm pleased with what I saw.
I love that Jamie Moyer makes history every time he does something good just by virtue of being old. He was the oldest guy to throw a complete game shut-out. Now he's the oldest guy to beat the Yankees. OLD GUYS ROCK!!!
Chase Utley's voodoo shrine worked to perfection. That's the only reasonable explanation for Moyer beating the Yankees.
I'm Ted Bell.
"Call me crazy, but this was a statement game in the making and they failed."
Put on your statement-receiving pants and get back to us. This was a strong team win.
"Moyer as usual did not really have anything special"
Yeah, nothing special about that guy 😉
How does Jamie Moyer get lit up like a Christmas tree against the Bosox, and then look like Steve Carlton against the Yanks???
I have a concern about Brad Lidge. Ot maybe its an observation. His fastball topped out at about 92 last night. While that speed is way down from what he used to throw his movement is still decent. But it appears that this year he has added a pitch and that is: the slider that actually breaks in for a strike. Its a good pitch. He threw one at 84 which also looked a little change uppy. Did anyone notice this? Has Brad changed the way he has pitched? Don't get me wrong: I know that if he could ever throw 97 again that it would be fastball and slider in the dirt again. But right now he appears to have a fastball and two different sliders. If he pitches that way, I would think that he would have to stay ahead in the count because at 3-2, he doesn't have that go to fastball to go to because he can't throw it past anyone who knows its coming. Thats said, he has been effective and I am happy for that.
The Dipsy
He's always thrown the 2 sliders. I'm trying to be patient with him since he hasn't pitched much this year. He looks better than last year at least.
I don't know Dave. Let me be more precise: He now uses that "strike-slider" regularly, as opposed to a change of pace from his fastball.
The Dipsy
Three words, brotha:
WELL LOCATED fastball.
I agree. Would you agree he has changed his pitching M.O. somewhat?
The Dipsy
I don't know. Possibly. I will have to really look closely next time he pitches.
I DO know one thing though….his confidence is there. I mean, he could have totally buckled in last night with Posada at the plate and runners on and a run already in. But he didn't…..and that's a VERY good thing!!
No saying he will be perfect in save situations for the rest of the year. But 4 for 4 is a nice start and a shot in the arm that this team needs right now.
So what if they didn't get more than six? How many times does a team actually lose a game because they "only scored six?" One should save being "peeved" for games where they look pathetic for all nine innings, don't get any steals or home runs, and don't get any bases loaded hits, and make stupid mental errors. So what if Boone Logan pitched well; he wouldn't have pitched at all if they hadn't hit the crap out of Burnett.
I'll tell ya what, if he's gonna throw that get over slider than he better keep it from breaking down and in to the lefties cause they're gonna crush it. He should try and break it in over the outside of the plate againt them. A-Rod crushed one last night.
The Dipsy
Good point.
I wouldn't say he dominated last night….because he put runners on and did give up a run. But he got it done. And didn't crumble. That's all you can really ask for from your closer.
And, to further these comments about whether or not the Phillies should have scored more last night….. Again, like I said earlier. a 6-3 win….over the defending WS champion Yankees…..is a VERY GOOD win. I could really care less if they didn't get more runs. Moyer was awesome and Lidge got it done.
I'm not understanding the "it's a win, but I wish they scored more runs" sentiment either. When you come away with a win against all odds in a game that Jamie Moyer starts against the Yankees, you should simply thank the baseball Gods and try to figure out how to get through the next game with KK on the mound. Hopefully, the baseball Gods will be generous once more. Let's hope Chase left his Voodoo shrine intact also.
I'm Ted Bell.
I think I can explain it Ted.
Everybody is looking for signs that this team slump is over.
A big, clutch (emphasis) EXTRA BASE (emphasis) hit , a couple homers…yeah that looks like it might be it.
Or was it just an aberration?
Just the night before, we saw how a good team does it- they pile on.
The Phillies quickly reverted to their old self.
Weak groundouts in the clutch ( Ibanez).
Nothing at bats.
Utley displaying his Valdez power- i.e. none.( That last AB was typical . Hit it solid- only reached the warning track.)
So the skeptical among us are still skeptical.
hahah phillie fans ur team sux ur lucky u won last night…i am goin to the game tonight just to see that no good piece of shit Kendrick get bombed!!!
and o yea Mets will sweep Cleveland too!!
Maybe the WFC in 2008 was an "aberration" too.
And that "good team" you are referring to…the Yankees from the night before…looked befuddled against Moyer. They sure "piled it on" last night, huh?
Seriously, I really don't know what some of you people are looking for.
Look…it will be tough to win tonight. No question. Andy Pettitte is like the best pitcher in the league. KK just needs to pitch his game and hold his own. And the Phillies need to be patient at the plate.
Still…let's say they lose. That's a 2-4 road trip against the two of the best teams in the AL.
So there is no reason to think that with Halladay and Hamels pitching at home that they can't take 2 of 3 from the Twins. Let's figure 2 of 3 from the Indians…at least…..and we'll maybe assume they have problems with the Jays, losing 2 of 3.
That's a 7-8 record for this stretch of interleague play…basically .500 ball. Not bad considering the Phillies history with interleague.
Then it's the Reds, a good team…but let's figure 2 of 3 there. Maybe between the Jays and Reds it's a 3-3 stretch somehow.
That's a 12-14 June record. About what it was the last two seasons.
By then, J-Roll SHOULD be back and this lineup all of a sudden looks MUCH different heading into the second half of the season.
how many of u Phillie fans actually get SNY on ur TV??
be prepared metsfan4life.
Kendrick has secretly been working on a screwball. Tonight is the night he may unveil it.
good luck with a-rod cano and swish i dont think kendricks screwball would make a huge difference
i will say this, it ticks me off that people call for moyer's head every bad start he has, and then his good starts are chalked up to a good outing.
he is a consistent starter looking at a whole years worth of work. you can peg him for 10 wins at the beginning of the year, every year. whenever anyone complains about him its that he throws too slow and he is too old, like those are the end all be all things to getting people out.
congrats to moyer on another fine win, #265 in his career. terrific back end of the rotation pitcher and mentor.
Maybe the WFC in 2008 was an "aberration" too.
And that "good team" you are referring to…the Yankees from the night before…looked befuddled against Moyer. They sure "piled it on" last night, huh?"
Give it up chuck.
You can't argue your way out of shitty performance.
2008 is past history. This is 2010.
It's pretty cut and dried.
Even good teams have bad nights.
End even bad teams have good nights.
Right now, the Yankees are the former and the Phillies are the latter.
That could all be different by next week , but then we'll have a different discussion.
Dipsy…maybe he's throwing it more often than before, but I've seen him throw it since he's been here. He likes to throw it on the first pitch to guys who sit first pitch fastball….someone like Jorge Cantu for example.
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Whoever thinks Kyle Kendrick is going to get torched tonight give me a HELL YEA!!!! I think while im at the game i'll have a couple of steveweisers and have a toast with Stone Cold
metsfan4life, if you're such a big mets fan shouldn't you be at staying at home to watch the mets game??? and not going to see the yanks/phils game….
I noted that Michael Barkann was back in his pre-game seat beside Ricky Bo right where he belongs. Coincidence?
I still say they had Jimmy Rollins on speakerphone or web cam before the game.
Moyer dominated; can't say enough good things about his performance last night and what it meant to go up against the Yankees. He blanked Jeter.
Howard and Werth got their swing back and Victorino delivered big-time on that bases-clearing triple. Even Dobbs
We can analyze this win all we want and realize there are still some pretty big problems (the big hole at the bottom of the line-up being number one on the list), but I'm just enjoying the fact that the Yankees won't be sweeping us whatever happens tonight. In the middle of this slump, that's saying something.
Keep up the growsing – "not enough runs" yada yada. The Phils won and they did fine. Like I said yesterday, I knew we were coming out of it because all the panic buttons were pushed!
The Yankees are a fine team – taking one out of three in their park is fine – 2 out of 3 would be a surprise – especially since we threw our 1-5-6 pitchers against their 1-2-3.
Calm down folks, it is baseball, nothing is consistent from game to game. That is why they play 'em.
Metsfan4life is more interested in the phillies than the choking mutts. He knows the ending to the story so he's enjoying this while he can so when the season is inevitably over for him in august he can post under a different name for a different team.
"Everything happens for a reason. Unless it doesn't". Figure that one out and you'll have the answer to the slump.
The Dipsy
Wow…Dipsy….that is sooo profound. Keep up the philosophy.
Since everyone said yesterday morning that the season was over, and we were going to get swept by the Yankees , im still not sure that we even won that game last night ..?
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I'm glad we beat the Yankees last night. Its time for us to get back on track to the World Series again!!
Is ray serious??? "Choking Mutts"…. Whose in third place again?
did anyone else hear the espn ann. basically say that scouts are saying since the binocular thing that is the reason for chase's struggles!!!boy that pissed me off!!! i can not wait for chase to catch fire and show these a-holes something!!
Jeff Y, Moyer's success or failure rides a lot on the umpires. If the ump is generous with the corners Jamie has a pretty good outing. He needs those corners.
That is why I said earlier that Jamie did not show anything out of the ordinary for him, nothing special – just his typical control and mastery over the corners that he is given.
I think the reason for Chase's struggles, its that contrary to popular belief, he's not the best player in baseball .. … he's an above-average player, who plays the right way ..
he's a career .293 hitter, who averages 29 HRs a season in his career, and used to be bad in the field, now he's probably above-average
Like ever hitter in the game, other than Albert Pujols, he'll have bad stretches at times, but he'll do everything he can to help his team win
What is said about Moyer, is the same with EVERY pitcher… looks what happened with Halladay when the low-strike, and the pitches on the corners weren't called "STRIKES" …it forces you to leave more over the plate, and belt-high .. and those are the locations that get ROCKED by MLB hitters
Don M? Hello? Above average? Just above average? Would you call him a "star player"?
The Dipsy
Scott Mathieson got called up today. Bastardo to DL.
How can you call Chase Utley just an above average player? He has been on of the best players in baseball for the last few years.
Don M, interesting point about the strike zone…..there was a world of difference between strike zones For Roy's game v Jamie's. Not taking any credit away from Jamie, but alot of pitches that were called strikes last night were balls for Roy, and that changes the tenor of the game from the first inning. Roy's frustration with the strike zone was quite obvious, for a guy who usually keeps his cool, he was TICKED OFF, and I can't say I blame him.
Let's hope the guys are coming around now, and KK keeps us in the game tonight.
I wouldn't call him a "star fielder" … overall, he's a star, an All-Star, etc … aobve-average players isn't an insult is it?
but I'm one of the few not ready to place in the Hall of Fame, or label him the Greatest Secondbaseman of all time
the past 3 years:
.292, 33 HRs, 104 RBI
.282, 31 HRs, 93 RBI
……and so far this year, .260, 10 HR, 26 RBI
which puts him on pace for lower numbers yet again.. if he's hurt, as soon as Rollins gets back he should take a few days off
Chase Utley works really hard at being a major leage player. REALLY HARD. Both physically AND mentally. He's like the first one at the park every day. His work ethic is something that 90% of all other players should look at once in awhile.
I think that because he works hard….he's an "above average" player. He's a "star".
But my thinking is that NO….he won't be in the Hall of fame someday. He doesn't have the numbers to support his election now…..and at the pace he's on…..he probably won't when he retires. I know that will send shock waves throughout the Delaware Valley, but it's true.
So you're saying that the Phillies are a "bad team that had a good night"
Wow….talk about negativity!
I really don't know how most of you can really enjoy being fans if all you're gonna do is whine and b*tch all the time.
After being harranged with a barrage of 'The Yankees Are God and The Phillies Stink' from the lame YES channel commentators (Al Leiter is one), and after the Phils appeared as though they'd decided to throw the game in the last few innings, and we STILL won, I sat disbelieving for a min. (I think a tear slipped out when Howard & Werth hit the back-to-back HRs.) It seriously seems like forEVER since something positive happened for this team. The look on Ryan Howard's face after JDub hit his homer said it all.
"So you're saying that the Phillies are a "bad team that had a good night"
Wow….talk about negativity! "
More like reality
May I ask. What team have you been watching the past month?
Yea they are a bad team. BAD. Can't buy an big hit .
Homers come as often as World Cup goal. NO evidence Utley and Ibanez
are going to start hitting any.
We'll see about Werth and Howard.
That's the state of state. TODAY.
Check back in a week
"Just get me to the plate, boys" !!!!!!!
Chuck, I hate to tell you this, but if you extrapolate his numbers he will, without question, be in the Hall of Fame. Best Second Baseman of last 50 years???? Here:
Morgan, Ryno, Alomar, Utley. Feel free to add.
The Dipsy
Can't buy a big hit, you say??
Gee, I guess that bases-clearing triple from Shane was just in my dreams then.
teej….we've been over this on this site…..the Phillies are in a slump. Just like in 2008 and 2009. Both years we had similiar records at this point in the schedule.
Were those "bad" teams?? You know, the teams that went on the the WS both years??
So I guess then, if the Phillies win 5 of their next 7, then they are then a "good' team again. (7 games….you know…."check back in a week").
Whatever happened to a good team just being in a slump?? That doesn't make them a bad team….it just means they aren't playing up to their ability AT THE TIME.
And Rod Carew, if he's not a 1B.
The Dipsy
Sandberg played for 16 seasons. Chase has 8 under his belt..6 as a full-time player. He's currently 31. Let's assume he plays for another 8 years for a total of 16.
Sandberg: 2386 hits
Utley so far: 1036 hits
If you simply double the numbers to extrapolate it out, Chase is higher in some categories and lower in others.
Here's my argument though…..I don't think Chase will keep that pace up. I don't think he will reach those numbers. We are already seeing a decline this year. Now maybe that will corrrect itself….but I just don't think you can say he a "lock" for the HoF because of his numbers.
Joe Morgan played for 22 years. 2517 Hits and a BA of .271. I don't think Chase has 14 more years in him….so you really can't compare him to Morgan.
Alomar isn't in the HoF.
Rod Carew is in a different league than any of these guys…. .328 BA and over 3000 hits. Totally different.
KK going tonight. Predicting another pimp smack on the Stankies. Pettite is a tough opponent with PED or without I suppose. But we got Polanco (prognosticating as the hero of the night!)
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Exactly my point Chuck. Alomar is not in the HOF. There are barely any great second basemen from the last 50 year but Chase is among them. If Chase ends his career with 2500 hits, 350 hrs, .285 along with all the runs he scores AND his importance to perennial WS teams (so far one winner), he's in no problem. See Pee Wee Reese. If not for being on those Dodgers teams, he's not in. I'm not saying that Chase is better than Morgan or Carew, although a case could be made that he could be. Bottom line, his stats and post seasons, AS A 2B, will get him in. Look at the list of 2B's in the HOF. He's better than half of them. Could he break down early? Sure. Will they move him to the OF eventually? Probably. I think he gose to the Hall and is one of the top 5 2B of the last 50 years.
The Dipsy
I'm listening to Jayson Werth on the MLB TV doing an interview before tonight's nationally televised game. Harold Reynolds & Greg Amsinger made the mistake of chiding Jayson about his beard – what a mistake.
Jayson jestured, looked pissed and almost walked away until Harold caught (duh) what was going on and said, "Lets talk baseball.." to which Jayson replied, "Please!"
But Jayson was open about the teams frustration and said for the mostpart we are being positive but it's been tough…
How can you say after one portion of one season, that Chase cannot keep up the pace that has elevated him to the elite status of one of today's premier second basemen?
Chuck, reality man – one month of a bad slump does not mean the end of a baseball player.
And Dipsy, Alomar will make it into the HOF. 10 GG, 11 straight AS appearances – amazing defensive second baseman.
Chase will not end his career with 2500 hits. So far he has 1036. If you double that it's just over 2000…..and that's saying that he plays another 8 years….at the same pace. I think he will slow down. If fact, I really wonder if he plays 8 more seasons.
If he played for 22 seasons like Morgan did….and put up consisten numbers….MAYBE he comes close to Morgan's stats…..but I doubt it.
Carew….there is NO WAY that Chase Utley can even be mentioned in the same sentence as Rod Carew. NO WAY.
Yeah…Alomar gets in at some point. 2724 hits in 17 seasons. .300 BA.
But that just emphasizes Utley. At 8 seasons (not quite 8) he has 1036 hits. Double that and it's 2072. Add another 175 hits for the 17th season and it's about 2257. That's still almost 500 hits less than Alomar.
I just don't see Utley being in the same group as Alomar.
not sure why the smiley face is on my post. I HATE those things.
Let's not forget Jeff Kent, Lew Whitaker, Nellie Fox (last 50 years), and
Mickey Morandini (kidding here).
Those guys are not close to Utley. Kent was a first baseman playing 2B. Chuck, Chase has played the equivalent of six seasons. I really doubt that he will retire at 37 or whatever after 8 more seasons. That said, yes, he can make 2500 hits. You should look at Joe Morgan's (one of my all time favs, BTW) stats excluding 75 and 76 and then tell how you feel about his career. Morgan is in because he had a spectacular 5 year run on back to back WS winners. Alomar was a great player but he should not have spit on that ump and he played in San Diego and Toronto. Great player. He'll get in. Nellie Foz, Bobby Doerr, Bill Mazeroski. Those guys are a joke compared to Chase. As to the Rod Carew comparison, he was a singles hitter, great bunter, good baserunner. Wade Boggs with speed. I would take Utley over Carew as a total package. Carew never won a thing. Great player, though. Utley hits for average, hits for power, runs, field and throw. Carew did two of those.
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I thought it was something "special" that you had to get the emoticons…
Anyway, in reality at this point if Chase were to make it into the HOF it would take at least 1 more WS ring, a few GG, AS appearances and maybe even 1 or more MVP awards. And I do not see the MVP awards in his future – I think collectively we as Phillies fans thought this might be happening but, not any longer.
No way he makes 2500 hits. He has just over 100 now. He's never had 200 for a season. He would have to play for 11 or 12 seasons to get there. Not a chance.
Dipsy, thanks for bringing up the legacy that most of the people on this blog remember about Roberto Alomar – the spitting incident ???
The man had a flat tire, he blew his gasket – he lost control – one time in his career. He was involved in the communities he lived in, he was charitable, well liked and respected and then this. And it will never be lived down because inevitably, someone will slap the one liner in there about a 2 minute episode in a great players career that has him branded forever as "the guy who spit on the umpire John Hirschbeck"
Brooks, I think Roberto is great. I am just telling you why I think it may take him a little longer to get in the Hall than it otherwise would.
The Dipsy
P.S. Spitting on an umpire is pretty bad. BUT what the umpire said to him (allegedly) was reprehensible


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Both of them are alone with no one to interfere
Obito no diff. this battle is pointless
Obito Wins.
Obito rapes up and down; doesn't even need gedo mazo. Just count the times Naruto's had to be saved by Bee/Hachibi/Kakashi/Gai when he's fighting Tobi, then count the times Obito's had to be saved.
haha, are you really that naive guys, so funny. Yes it is true that from begining of fight until now that manga shows, overall Obito is stronger than Naruto only if we count how much times more Naruto needed to be save in compare to Obito, but don't forget that it was KM Naruto, only some time later Bijuu Mode. Naruto being in Bijuu mode from begining could be be another history and gigantic challenge for Obito.
From title of thread I assume we are talking about fresh Naruto bijuu mode vs fresh Obito, in other words let's say that from begining of Naruto vs Obito fight, Naruto is in Bijuu mode, not i KM and Obito is with edo jinchurki as his paths.
Fight would go down like:
- Bijuu mode Naruto destroys each time edo jinchurki.
- Bijuu mode Naruto is even stronger than in manga(Naruto almost full fresh chakra + fresh Kurama chakra), so he handles all jinchurkii turned to Bijuu by Obito.
- While Naruto deals with Bijuu's Obito try to catch Naruto but Naruto is too fast.
- After Bijuu's are done or ineffective Obito summon Gedo Mazou to absorb all bijuu's back.
- Obito use Gedo Mazou to attack Naruto, Naruto counter and match Gedo Mazou power, while Obito try to capture him, but Naruto is too fast.
- Obito has enough , so he begin to ressurect Jyuubi, then protect it with Fire barrier.
- Obito is left alone to fight Naruto Bijuu mode little tired.
- Obito use Kamui trying to absorb Naruto Bijuu mode, but Naruto sense him and avoid well thanks to his amazing reflex and speed.
- Naruto try to hit Obito with his Kurama arms, but Obito is intangible so Naruto can't touch him.
- Naruto and Obito can't touch yourselves, so they are fighting until they will be low on chakra.
- Obito uses fire jutsu, Naruto block it with nine tails
- Obito uses Mokuton Naruto destroy it with sheer power.
- Obito uses Rinnengan , WHAT?!, ah yes, Obito is noob with Rinnengan, Rinnengan power is too much for Obito
Conclusion: Naruto with Kurama has much more chakra then Obito so Naruto with Kurama win!
Flame me, laugh from me but I don't care because I and Kishi know who is right
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Updated at 7:25 a.m. ET: CAIRO — Many hailed the emergence of civilian rule in Egypt when then recently elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ordered the country's armed forces back to their barracks in August, after they had led the county for close to a year and a half.
But within months, the same military was functioning as the country's auxiliary police force, ensuring the safety and integrity of the upcoming constitutional referendum, and protecting the presidency — both physically by guarding the palace and politically by acting as an intermediary to diffuse political tensions between Islamists and the opposition.
Meanwhile, the newly drafted and disputed constitution that will be up for a vote on Saturday changes little about the military's role in the state. In fact, it preserves the ability of the military to try civilians in military courts. It also maintains the secretive budget of the armed forces, which eats up a sizable chunk of the state's coffers.
So, as Egypt lurches through a crisis pitting the country's president and his Islamist supporters against opposition forces, observers are working to figure out what exactly the country's powerful military will do next.
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The dispute over a controversial decree giving Morsi near absolute powers reached a crescendo on Dec. 11, when protesters opposing the president's decision circled the presidential palace. Morsi supporters, mainly from the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties, took to the streets in counter protests. They, too headed to the palace, only this time to confront the president's opponents. What ensued were deadly clashes that left at least eight people dead and more than 700 injured.
NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin is outside the presidential palace in Cairo where hundreds of thousands are protesting what they say is an unjust constitution. They want to delay a vote on the current draft of the constitution now scheduled for December 15.
Amid the turmoil and after standing on the sidelines, the powerful armed forces weighed in and issued their first political statement since Morsi was elected on June 24.
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"Anything other than [dialogue] will force us into a dark tunnel with disastrous consequences, something which we won't allow to happen," the statement read. The call for dialogue may have struck some as a surprise because it came from an institution that served as the backbone of the country's authoritarian regimes for six decades.
Then late Sunday night, Morsi issued a decree granting the country's military law enforcement powers, essentially giving the armed forces the legal authority to act as the country's police force. The military was allowed to arrest and detain civilians in the run up to the key constitutional referendum starting Saturday. It was also tasked with securing the thousands of polling stations around the country, meaning its job was to secure the integrity and safety of the voting process and the voters.
The move has drawn sharp criticism from Human Rights Watch, an international organization, which said the military's emergence as a law enforcement authority raises serious human rights concerns.
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Islamist forces, however, remain skeptical of the military. After all, for decades it was the country's senior internal security leadership in conjunction with the military that hunted down Islamist leaders, jailing them and torturing them under strongman Hosni Mubarak and his predecessors.
Opponents of Egypt President Morsi say he's betraying the revolution, but his supporters say he wants to guarantee human rights with a controversial referendum on a new constitution. NBC's John Ray went onto the streets of Cairo to hear from both sides of the deepening divide.
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The military, which had recoiled back to its bases after it led the country for nearly 18 months following the revolution that toppled Mubarak, remains skeptical, too.
"They have not been neutral. While appearing to be sympathetic to the protesters' demands, they remain suspicious of popular mobilization's ability to induce change that goes beyond their control," said Joshua Stacher, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and author of "Adaptable Autocrats."
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The military is also not standing on the sidelines and will likely remain the last arbiter of Egypt's politics. Any appearance to the contrary is a result of the armed forces being "intentionally opaque," Stacher said.
"I don't believe that they have a plan worked out. Rather, they are waiting to see how the situation evolves before deciding what is the best course of action," he added.
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Egyptian soldiers stand in line as anti-Morsi protesters stand on top of a barricade erected by the army to protect the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Tuesday.
The best course of action may just be revealing itself. The proposed constitution also stipulates that future defense ministers must be officers.
But the real test of power, Stacher and others argue, will be whether the military retains control over its vast economic empire and secretive budget under a new constitution.
External link: English translation of Egypt's draft constitution
"The military prefers to remain behind the curtain influencing events," he said. "They also have the constitution that they want in terms of securing their interests. They would prefer that the constitution pass, they stay formally out of politics, and the protesters go home."
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