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Press Release from State Senator Rodney Ellis
For Immediate Release May 24, 2001Contact: Jeremy Warren, (512) 463-0113
AUSTIN// The Senate today approved a $113.8 billion budget that meets Texas' basic needs while increasing investment in key priorities such as health and human services, state employee pay, teachers health insurance and college aid, without raising taxes.
The Senate approved the Conference Committee Report to CSSB 1, the 2002-03 budget for the state of Texas. The biennial budget increased funding $11.8 billion, an 11.6 percent increase over the FY 2000-01. The majority of the new funding is dedicated to health and human services and education. Overall, the 2002-03 appropriations bill includes $5.1 billion more for health and human services programs, $200 million more for the TEXAS Grant Program -- which will help nearly 100,000 Texas students go to college over the next two years -- and $480.1 million for state employee pay raises.
"This budget meets the basic needs of a growing Texas while making significant investments in our families," said Senate Finance Chairman Rodney Ellis (D-Houston). "We have made a strong downpayment for Texas' future."
"This budget is the product of a monumental effort by those who came together to try and do what was right, fair, and best for the people of this great state," said Senate Finance Committee Vice-Chair Chris Harris (R-Arlington).
"Just like a household budget, this biennium we were tasked with making many ends meet with limited resources ," said Senator Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock). "I believe we achieved that goal."
"I am proud of the work we did," said Senator Steve Ogden (R-Bryan). "This is a good and balanced budget for Texas."
"The conferees worked hard to prioritize the needs of Texas, particularly in areas of health and human services, education and employee pay raises, in the budget. We're delighted that our colleagues in the Senate and House reached consensus regarding the need to improve the lives of Texas, particularly future generations," said Senator Judith Zaffirini, (D-Laredo), who chaired the Senate workgroup that crafted the health and human services portion of the budget.
For public education, CSSB 1 earmarks $2.52 billion for teachers health insurance, discretionary funding for school districts, new and existing facilities, and other vital education needs. A House-Senate Conference Committee will use these funds to develop a health insurance program for Texas school teachers, address school financing equity and facilities issues, health insurance for retired teachers, and other necessary educational increases.
Other key initiatives include:
Committee Substitute to Senate Bill 1 includes funding for proposed Medicaid reforms to streamline and simplify the enrollment process. A special joint House-Senate task force has agreed to a plan that will provide coverage to the estimated 600,000 eligible children eligible but not currently served by Medicaid.
The $11.8 billion increased funding is needed to cover state government cost increases due to Texas' rapidly-growing population and rising health care costs, and to fund key priorities established by the committee. The majority of this growth comes from other funds, such as federal funds, rather than state coffers.
"I am extremely proud of this budget," said Senator Ellis. "We provided record investments in health and human services and financial aid programs, and give hard-working state employees the biggest pay raise in history. We also lay the foundation for a sound teachers health insurance program, which will help reduce the teacher shortage and improve the education of our children. Clearly, this is a budget that will help Texas families."


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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: What Moves Stocks
This program last aired July 8, 2013.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A company and its stock aren't the same thing, Jim Cramer told "Mad Money" viewers. He dedicated the show to educating investors as to how stocks really work and what makes them move.
Cramer said it's easy to assume a company and its stock are synonymous, but that's simply not the case. While over the long haul winning companies usually produce winning stocks, it would be irrational to think the two will move in lockstep with each other. There are, after all, tons of factors that can make a stock fall, many of which have little to do with the performance at the company itself.
One of those factors has been the rise of exchange-traded funds as an easy means for investors to gain exposure to an entire sector. Cramer said ETFs, many of which buy and sell with leverage, have the effect of moving an entire sector all at once, taking the good companies along with the bad and even the mediocre. This means a stock's sector has become even more important than in years past.
High-frequency trading is another factor that causes stocks to move in ways you might not expect, said Cramer. These nimble investors can hijack an entire market and cause explosive moves both to the upside and the downside.
Then there are the issues of hedge funds and short-sellers causing volatility. Cramer said when a lot of shorts pile into a stock and something good happens, the move to the upside can be mind boggling.
Markets are, after all, dominated by supply and demand, said Cramer. Once investors realize that, they will become better-informed investors.
Do Your Homework
So with stocks moving for so many different and sometimes arbitrary reasons, why should investors spend time researching and doing homework on their stocks? Isn't it all just a waste of time? Absolutely not, said Cramer.
All investors need an edge and homework can provide one, said Cramer, especially in a market where many investors panic and sell at the drop of a hat. Having done your homework and having conviction in the stocks you own will remove emotion from the equation and help you buy when others are selling.

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Fall Arts Celebration presents historic music of Paris
Posted on September 12, 2013
Fall Arts Celebration continues and will next feature "Music from La Belle Époque: Chamber Music for Winds from Turn-of-the-Century Paris," Monday, September 16, at 8 p.m., in the Louis Armstrong Theatre, PAC, Allendale Campus.
Music Department faculty and guest artists will recreate the historic music of La Belle Époque/the Beautiful Era, performing the woodwind chamber music of D'Indy, Enesco, Bernard and Stravinsky, conducted by renown guest conductor Colonel Lowell E. Graham, USAF, retired, former director of the USAF Band in Washington, D.C.
Starting with the last decades of the 19th century, and through the start of World War I, the European musical world was dominated by the late romantic aesthetics, including the German large symphonic sound of Wagner and Strauss. In Paris however, it was a time of new optimism following the Franco-Prussian War and there was a conscious search for national identity.
"French composers were moving from the German orchestral composers' jarring dissonance to focus on small chamber groups and resurrecting the unique beauty and sonority of wind instruments," said Danny Phipps, Department of Music chair. "Their compositions also reflected the melodic and clear beauty of the French language."
While the concert is primarily music from French composers, Phipps decided to also include Enesco and Stravinsky because they both lived and created compositions in Paris during this historic period. A reception will follow the performance.
All Fall Arts Celebration events are open to the public with free admission. Seating is limited for these popular performances. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/fallarts, or call x1-2185.


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I think it would be awesome if it ended like this who agrees
That would be a terrible ending
that would be the most ridiculous, plot ruined, anti-climatic ending of all time...
rule of thumb: if the anime/manga is the same name as the main character, that character isn't going to end up dying without a hell of a good reason!
That would be a terrible ending. Rin needs to show up.
Why would it end like that ? That would be a sad ending.
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New York Mets (13-9) at Philadelphia Phillies (12-9)
Jonathon Niese (0-1, 3.68 ERA) vs. Kyle Kendrick (0-0, 7.71 ERA)
Time: 7:05 p.m at Citizens Bank Park
TV:Comcast Sportsnet
Weather: Sunny, 71
Twitter: @philliesnation
Meet the Mets! Meet the Mets! Step right up and greet the Mets! Bring your kiddies, bring your wife! Guaranteed to have the time of your life. Because the Mets are really sockin' the ball, knockin' those home runs over the wall. East side, West side, everybody's coming down to meet the M-E-T-S Mets, of New York town!
If you're either too young to remember the 1990s or are a newcomer to the Philly baseball scene, you'd be inclined to believe that our northern neighbors represent the absolute nadir of baseball culture, with their creepy mascot and affinity for hard drugs.
This weekend marks the Metropolitans' first visit to Philadelphia in 2010, and the first opportunity for Phils fans to boo the bejeezus out of one of the most dysfunctional teams in baseball.
The Phillies, who came out of the gate like a rocket, are on a bit of a slide right now, avoiding the sweep in San Francisco only by pulling out a narrow victory in the 11th inning of a truly bizarre game Thursday afternoon.
While the Phillies have been lollygagging the ball around the infield, the Mets have opened up a can on the Cubs, Dodgers, and Braves, winning seven in a row to crawl back from their 2-9 start to first place in the division. In short, it's time for the Phillies to get their collective act together.
Jonathon Niese takes the ball for New York tonight against Kyle Kendrick, of whom I spoke ill the last time I wrote one of these. That was two starts ago, against the Braves, and he responded by tossing eight shutout innings. Since then he's come back down to earth some, but it's not like he's squaring off against Johan Santana or Mike Pelfrey.
One underrated stat coming into this game is Niese's absurd 4.09 BB/9 ratio, which is a good omen for a Phillies lineup stacked with players who will only swing if the KGB threatens to send their families to Siberia if they don't. In short, expect a lot of walks.
Some good news–as the bodies (Rollins, Blanton, Happ, Romero, and now Madson) seem to pile up, someone's finally coming back from injury. The Phillies have activated everyone's favorite slider-slinging son of Sacramento, Brad Lidge, which may or may not mean that Madson will keep getting the chance to lose games in the 9th inning. Now that Lidge is (reportedly) healthy, Uncle Cholly might let him blow a few saves going forward.
Lineup: Victorino (CF), Polanco (3B), Utley (2B), Howard (1B), Werth (RF), Ibanez (LF), Castro (SS), Ruiz (C), Kendrick (P)
Your Gameday Beer: Victory Donnybrook Stout
This evening's beer is a pleasant offering from a local brewery. The makers of the face-inverting Hopdevil and other potent potables have turned down the volume some and produced a rather pleasant Irish stout. As a connoisseur of such beers, I have to say that this is the best stout that you have a chance of finding on tap around here, apart from Guinness. Its creamy smoothness and rich taste make it a truly enjoyable beer, and excellent with bar food. -By Michael
Go Phillies!
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Looks like the Mets are getting their collective sh*t together. Phils need to cut the crap and get after these guys early and often. Let's close out April with a 'W'. We've had these guys down for a few years now and I see no reason to lift our boot off of their necks!
We should all gather together and throw up on the met fans that come to the game tonight??
That'll teach met fans for coming to philthy!
Keith thats kind of hard to do with Kendrick on the mound…If the Phils pull this game off tonight they'd be more luckier than the last game facing Lincecum. I'm sorry but I have NO Phaith in Kendrick. Any word on when Blanton returns? I cannot stand to see Kendrick starting another game
The hits continue. Madson to DL with a broken toe. Supposedly broke it after the game Wednesday.
Mets don't scare me. Not even a little.
I was suprised to read that the Phils had a 4.50 era on the 9 game road trip. Not surprised they averaged 4 runs per game.
Predictions: Kyle Kendrick gives up 7 runs, but hits a grand-slam and a 3-run homer to make up for it!
Ryan Howard goes cold at the plate, but pitches a scoreless 9th inning in his pitching debut.
The Silly Phillies are going to get owned this weekend!
If you ain't the lead dog, the view is the same: butt holes!
Let's hope that Kendrick figures it out tonight.
PhilliePhagatic: Your Mets probably would be more of a threat if their G.M wasn't Omar E. Newman, and weren't owned by Frank (I WAS ROBBEDEDEDED!" Wilpon.
Excited for tonights game, yes I am. Not scared of the Mets. Am afraid of the Phillies just not showing up.
Hopefully this won't be a close one. Lets go phillies!
WFC010 — You are a silly, silly child in need of some discipline. Grow up a little and join the crowd. At least you're having some fun and not hurting yourself or someone else.
WFC010 — Sex is probably a big mystery to you at your tender age. It comes with being young and silly. We all went through it.
A reference was made to the creepy Mets masot, Mr. Met. Check out this link for some historical insights. I personally think he has universal appeal.
Also, Tug McGraw was once mistaken for Mr. Met by a young fan after he was released from the hospital with highly visible stitches in his bald head following brain surgery. This story was told by Tug himself in his autobiography.
Recent David Wright quote after the Mets recent 9-1 home stand. "We now walk with a swagger." Another note, Pelfry has now gone 24 consective innings without surrendering a run. This guy is a real head case.
when does jimmy come back?? not that castro has even bothered me but i want a spark
at least we answered the question that shane is not a lead-off hitter. hard to lead off, we should give jimmy credit
Another David Wright quote:
"I now wear mascara as well as eyeliner….."
One positive thing about Ryan Madson's struggle is that it means that he will be less expensive in next year's free agency. Also, Scott Boras, his agent can't advertise him to be the next big closer anymore, which is what they were planning to do. Now, teams will pay a little bit less for a setup-man which hopefully enables the Phills to keep him.
Madson who is a waste broke his toe kicking a chair. What an idiot. Should be benched when he comes back. Players that should be gone, Madson, Lidge, Kendrick, Moyer, most of the bullpen. I doubt any team will take Rauls contract but another mistake by Jr. Get rid of him and bring up D. Brown. Sign worth. They can back end the deal with Werth. They have room in 2012. You will not find outfielders with his speed, bat, and glove.
Game on.
Top of the first, popout-groundout-flyout.
Bottom of first, groundout-groundout-walk-strikeout.
Womp womp.
Sorry but Kendrick is a waste. My buddy is a die hard Mets fan and he loves our pitching rotation for the first two games. He said Kendrick and Moyer are wastes of human space.
One man rotation, that's all this team has.
Wright with a 2 run homerun. :/
I am trying with all my might to support Kendrick. This game is really pivitol and so far it looks less than great.
Well hopefully the more the Met's smack around the Kendrick the sooner he is sent to Trip A, where he belongs.
I miss Brett Myers.
Our offense is been hitting like a high school team. Turn this one off. The only reason we won two days ago, the took the freak out.
AAA???? Maybe A
Werth!!! Shoulda been a double!!
what a catch. to bad its the mets.
pinch hit for Kyle the waste. Go home you waste.
Moyer is not a waste, he's a decent fifth starter and that is all we need him to be; however he is certainly not worth the 8mil he is being paid. Injuries are forcing him to be a third starter, which he is most certainly is not. Blanton and happ are both solid middle of the rotaion pitchers and it is huge that we don't have either of them right now. Kendrick just can't seem to find it and be competitive in the bigs, but he is still young. I think he has the potential to be a decent 4th or 5th starter but for now he belongs in leheigh valley. When everyone is healthy this pitching staff will not be as horrid as they lead us to believe they are at times.
Well yeah I agree, A is probably best but that won't happen.
how do you say moyer is not a waste. he should of retired five years ago. cant stand players that stay around this long. the only reason he has the amount of the wins is because the amount of time he has been playing.
the mets d is on fire…holy cow.
thats it howard baby. earn that 125 million. i love kevin k today from the eagles. when the press asked why he signed just the one year. he said i have to support my family. ARE YOU KIDDING ME. 4 million is so so so tough. you are no Mcnabb
Moyer is a pitcher, and a finesse pitcher at that. He is not a position player or a running back in the nfl. Guys that don't rely on power pitches can pitch well into their 40s.
You know, Raul may be sucking right now, and he is, but at least he busts it down the line on a weak grounder to 2nd. More than you can say for most.
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please get rid of kyle. my god. charlie take him out. the only reason you win is because of this team charlie.
How do you get ahead in the count to a light-hitting catcher, only to spend another eight pitches and give up a freaking homer?
the bullpen isnt much better no reason to rush to that
Sorry guys this will not be your year. Not trying to be mean. You have a minor leaguer on the mound right now. You have an old man who will give us batting practice on Saturday. Your bullpen is horrific. No closer. Hamels will never be the same. He wont even be a Philly in the years to come. Howard might hit 50 homers a year but he doesnt really do it with BIG games on the line. Utley is a monster. Raul is pathetic. Werth will be overrated when he gets the money from another team. Sorry but our lineup is much better when Beltran comes back. We have a much better bullpen.
Moyer is pitching on Sunday. Halladay will be giving you batting practice on Saturday….
We need to get Kendrick out of the rotation. Four homers tonight. Maybe he has some trade value, but he is NOT a major league pitcher, as I see it. Not even in relief. Right now, he just stinks.
5 hits given up.
2 doubles.
3 bombs.
it's time to stick his worthless A$$ in the pen and let Figgy start..this is a joke
hey craig…
Ryan Howard owns september when the games really count… look it up
I sense impending flames..
*puts on her asbestos catsuit*
you mets fans are pathetic..
it's april and you're acting like this is your year..
More heartless, undisciplined baseball. Howard jogging into second base and getting tagged out a few nights ago…now Shane sulking/jogging on a play he should have beaten out easily. Enough. Do something, Charlie.
Bench Victorino.
Yea the Howard falls apart in October. Looked great against the Yankees. Victorino really running it out on that play. What a joke he is.
The Nationals clobbered Ricky Nolasco, knocked him in out less than five innings. Get ready: The two NL East teams everyone assumed would be jockeying for last place are going to be in first and second place.
keep asking for kendrick to get taken out….welll i hope your happy
What tim said above…
who is your daddy. oh babbbby…phillies are not a very good team. polanco is about 35. raul is 40. moyer is 50. victorino is overrated. love it baby.
Wow… finally a hit that wasn't for extra bases…
The Mets fans should enjoy it while they can. They are loyal to a sinking ship. We are the NL Champs, after all. April is finished after tonight. Phils love to break hearts in New York. We really do. And we do indeed.
hey craig…. i got a question for you my man..
2007…who won the nL east???
2008.. who won the NL east? the NL…and the world series?
2009…who won the NL east and the NL??
i cant seem to remember what happened?
oh and could you also tell me the date?? i believe its april…but i could be wrong?
i also believe there are about 130 games left…but that also could be wrong?
could you help me out?
Let's all just enjoy these games in peace – Mets and Phils fans alike. No rubbing it in each other's faces – that isn't what baseball's about. It isn't mature. We Phils fans don't like the lifeless offense, the inconsistent pitching; but tomorrow's another day.
craig you are right man..
the season is over..the mets own the phillies… they beat them in game 1 of 18…
so it's totally over man..
congrats on your nl east crown and your world series
get a life and sop posting in philly blogs you worthless piece of trash
It amazes me that two years removed from the worst collapse in baseball history, and a year after a 4th place and 23 game back finish the trolls have the balls to go on anyones website and gloat just because their team is off to a good start.
Okay, we all know the pitching staff has got major problems right now. But … the bats? What gives? The difference, earlier this month, was that we'd give up runs but win in a slugfest. Now it's just the wrong end of total domination.
here is my last post of the night..
Joe Blanton..on DL…coming back this week (#3 starter)
JA Haap..on DL..had an ERA of 0.00 in two starts..coming back in a week or two (#4 starter)
Brad Lidge…just got back
Jimmy Rollins..on DL..best SS in the league…lead off hitter..be back in a week or so
the Phils HUNG AROUND WHILE HALF THEIR TEAM WAS HURT.
they'll be 1.5 back after tonight…
with half their rotation hurt.
when the rotation is Doc, Hamels, Blanton, Haap, Moyer….
and when Madson is in the 8th, Lidge the 9th…
and when Jimmy is back in the lead off spot
talk to me then Mets fans.
i tried to be nice but you guys still bash me. hey remember lee last season. 4 great starts then got his butt kicked four straight. doc is next. oh babbbby. your offense is a joke. i love it. when is the last stanley cup or superbowl you won. lol. the g men.
Speaking of Lidge, tonight would be probably be a good time to give him a no-pressure inning!
yeah bring up other sports because you know the mets suck
youre a worthless piece of F'N trash you loser…you go to other teams blogs and write stuff after one game??
how much of a joke are you..
if you KNEW ANYTHING…youd know the phillies NEVER HAVE A GOOD APRIL….
you are complete piec of trash dude…complete piece of trash
ohh babbby…your a f'n loser dude…complete and utter piece of trash
Craig, I know many Mets fans who like having calm, reasonable discussion about this rivalry. Please don't say this stuff about the Phils. I say good stuff about the Mets – while I don't like them, I admit that they've got some fantastic players who are always a handful for the Phils. I'd be willing to talk baseball with you anytime as long as it's respectful.
Mr. Baumann,
I guess it's safe to say that "dysfunctional" teams can score eight runs on any given night, right?
Jonathon Niese, the rookie lefthander, certainly making a name for himself. He is making it look easy pitching against the Phillies. As a matter of fact it is turning into a laughter for the mets tonight as they outplayed the slumping Phils in every facet of the game..fielding, hitting and pitching. And tomorrow the Phillies must face the hottest pitcher in the league in Mike Pelfrey. Oh brother!! Please hurry back Joe Blanton and ship Kendrick back to the minors.
Doc pitches tomorrow.
Phils own Pelfrey
Finally a hit from the top of the order!
The Phillies are just an overall bad team right now. Their pitching is atrocious overall, and their offense has been asleep for a long, long time. This isn't to say that they won't turn it around, but right now they're nothing resembling a good team. Hopefully by the time Jimmy comes back to the lineup, Blanton & Happ come back and the Phils resign Pedro (NEEDS to happen) they will not be too far back.
MG52, I agree that Craig needs to calm it down and quit being ridiculous. I think the same could also be said about Joe. No need to be so insulting man. Don't take the trash talk so personally. I dont know why anyone is taking craig seriously. He's clearly trying to get a rise out of everyone by posting the most ridiculous things possible.
@Ed, I dont think that mets fans are the only ones to gloat after a bad season. Last season is last season. Its over. I guarantee if the Yanks are getting beat by the O's, Sox and Rays fans are giving them crap about it even though they won last year. Im sure plenty of Phils fans talked crap long long before 2 years ago, which was the first time they had won ANYTHING in about 50 years.
Is the performance by Kendrick tonight and most of the previous games he has pitched so far this season really a surprise? Just does not have the "stuff" to win at the Major League level. What the Braves found so fascinating about the only one good game he has pitched, is hard to figure out. Like many have posted in the past, Victorino is not a leadoff hitter. Not a place for someone who hacks at most of the pitches.
you guys are funny. first off if you read my first post it was not nasty. just giving my opinion. read it above. then everyone started getting nasty. i dont live in my moms basement. i work as a resident at a hospital in robert wood n.brunswick. not married but getting there. sorry
What's amazing is not so much that the Mets people on here are embarrassing themselves, but the fact that you phillies fans actually seem to be genuinely bothered by it, and that you actually engage them. That actually makes you look a lot worse.
Good to see Lidge in form. lol
Welcome back, Lidge… 🙁
And here come the pretzels…
Lidge: That is just poetic.
the only reason this pecker eating toolbag muts fan can come on this site & talk smack is because amaro has completely ignored pitching, saddled the team with bums like amaro, overpaid for .220 hitting victorino, and once again, ignored pitching. cant wait till howard is hitting .230 w/ 20 HR's and making $25 million.
how many more 8-1 losses to the muts before ruben is fired???
shoulda said ignored pitching DEPTH
David I don't disagree that people probably do talk smack just because they like to talk but the people on this site don't do that. I have no issue if a Met's fan, or any fan wants to come here and talk baseball, but that's not what these jokers are doing. They come here spouting off for no other reason than to be ridiculous and none of the people here feel like seeing it.
Pretty sure if Phillies fans went onto a Met's blog and did the same thing then their fans would react the same way the fans are here. When you attack fans and a team then obviously people are going to get pissed and defend themselves and their teams. That's just the way it goes, so to act like Phillies fans are worse because they get annoyed at people trolling is totally ridiculous.
The Phils bats are impotent. They should rub them in viagra. maybe that would help
Remember Cliff Lee?
well said robspecial / everyone calm down , you guy's know how many games are left. mets will come back to earth,theyre a 500 team at best come sept 30th you'll see. i don't feel any different now than a month ago, phils will win 95 games this year give or take a game or two.lets get everyone back , you guys know the bats will come back.this lineup will do the same thing this summer it did the last three years . lead the NL in runs scored. like robspecial said , get haap & blanton back , lidge just needs to be somewhere between 08 & 09 , get jimmy back, dont worry guys im telling you thats a 95 win team , mets have no shot at even 90 wins in my opinion.they haven't proven anything tonite
I know it is only April, but this team looks like it is in the midst of a collapse. No pitching, not hitting. Everyone looks tired and it is only April. When should we start to panic about this team? Ruben better fix this before it is too late.
The ERA's of everyone who pitched for the Phillies tonight…
Add that to a lead off hitter batting .226 and a guy in the 6 hole batting .209…
…aren't going to win many games with that.
I have always felt that Ruben was completely over rated and spent money unwisely and this team right now is just further proof of that. We all knew going into this season that the bullpen and pitching depth was an issue and what was done to address it?
Hendron, Baez, Contreras and Figeruoa…really? Granted two of them have been good and two, absolutely awful.
You can say, well Blanton and Happ have both been hurt, very true but you know at some point your pitchers are going to get hurt, it happens, to everyone, but this team needs to have better options than Kyle Kendrick. Ruben totally failed at addressing some of the Phillies biggest needs. He was handed a champion with one of the best farm systems in baseball and now what do we have? A baron at best farm system, a farm system that won't net us anyone in a trade which means we have to give up current value on the roster to get anyone back. This team, when it is healthy better perform cause we have no way or really fixing any holes as they appear.
Mike B…
Lee has not thrown a pitch all season…so yeah I remember him, and he hasn't done anything this year, so what is your point?
I wouldn't mind if the Mets fell half a game back on the last day of the season… again. Injuries got in the way of the doing it last year but they're ripe to do it again this year.
miked63; I pretty much agree with you. When all the players are back and healthy, the Phils are just too good not to win. Mostly everyone in the East Division has had a "hot" streak so far this year. First it was the Phils, then it was the Marlins and Atlanta and now it is the Mets and the Nationals somewhat. It is a long season with teams going to go thru hot streaks and no doubt, the NL East lead will change many times before the creme of the crop, the Phils, come charging thru to win it.
Ed R.; yeh, I know what is going on with Lee. Just threw his name out there tonight just to see if anyone would say anything at this point about Amaro not keeping/signing him and in view of tonight's game and Kendrick's performance. I know about Lee's injury(s) but say he would have gotten to stay with Philly and did not wind up with injury problems while in spring training with the Phils…
Believe me MikeB. I am a big pitching guy, I would have rather they kept Lee and used the money they just gave Howard to resign Lee, but sadly that was never an option. This team was never going to keep Lee and Halladay and that was evidence by Ruben trading away Lee at the same time he traded Halladay. Ruben knew that if fans had a few days or weeks or months to consider a rotation with those two, and then traded Lee, he would be run out of town. He did what he did because he felt he had too. I disagree but it is what it is. Hopefully it does not come back to haunt this team.
I have not given up yet, it is still early but I am deeply concerned with this team and Ruben's abilities as a GM.
mike b — regarding cliff lee , i know that drums been beat to death but sometimes i think i'm not over it either. ED-R i know he's been hurt , but he's back now. they could have kept him , are u confident enough to face that GIANT pitching staff in a 5 game series? the offense carried us quite a bit in the playoffs the last few years. if we do get to the NLCS or world series we'll need halladay to pitch games 1 , 4 , and 7 . they say he can do it . however we have to get past a 5 game series 1st. i know its may 1st and i'm ahead of myself with playoff's . i'm just not backing off my earlier statement of 95 wins. i'll be here all season to talk PHILS hope i get to know some of you guy's for great phils conversation.
Ed R., I am glad you said it because I would be banned from the site if I said that. Recently talking to Phils fans at games I noticed that everyone seemed to think getting Halladay was directly linked to Lee in the same deal. I tried to continue to back him due to *a few* (unconvincing to me) arguments on this site but I still think what we got in return was not nearly what he was worth to us this year and as a franchise in general. The recent Howard signing considering the terms is a little concerning, too, and if RAJ fails to lock up Werth I completely give up. Big mistakes concerning the offense/OF defense as well as failing to address gaping holes in the pitching is truly inexcusable.
But I thought we weren't allowed to utter the name Cliff Lee until at least after his 2010 debut tonight…
All the same, I don't think the Mets will make the playoffs, but our bats have to get hot at some point, no matter who we're playing.
Ed R.; I toally agree with your posts. The Phils should have kept Lee. Regardless of all the reasons Amaro threw out there, the Phils could have found a way to keep Lee and especially in view of all the money they gave to Howard, not to debate whether or not Howard was deserving of that big contract but if they had all that money to throw at Howard, then they could have figured out a way to keep Lee. If they do not win this year, the Lee travesty will loom big.
Oh, him in sentence 3 = Ruben. Gotta proofread.
Those astronomical ERA's remind me of the days when Billy Champion was the ace of the Phils staff.
Ed R. your comment is painfully sobering. I hope Halladay is in form tomorrow since Pelfrey seems to have productively focused his unstable psychotic energy with a nasty sinker. Check out this link from a recent Pelfrey analysis.
philsgirl; you are so right in that the phillies did not get enough compensation from Seattle for Lee. Aumont and Gillies (or however you spell his last name) are fine prospects but the Phils should have insisted that Seattle additionally give them one of their top starting pitchers like Hernandez or a good relief pitcher. Lee won the Cy Young in the AL in 2008.
philsgirl : halladay was absolutely worth what we gave up for him.look up his wins and ERA in the AL. he pitched in the AL with a dh and faced the yankees and red sox all the time.that being said he still was the best pitcher in baseball , his ERA was in the high 2's and low 3's his whole career. he will absolutely win over 20 games for the phils this year maybe 25 . he was a 20 game winner in AL with nowhere near the offense he has behind him now.thats why your point on cliff lee is right on.imagine halladay , lee , hamels , haap , blanton. with this offense , book world series tickets immediately. i dont want to hear they couldn't do it , almost 4 million fans 3 years in a row , besides next year moyer and ibanez come off. i could stomach losing werth if lee was here , but since he's not they better keep him. like i said after moyer and ibanez come off after next year they'll be over theyre 140 million payroll only 1 year if they keep worth
miked63; I thought that some people have posted saying that Ibanez received a contract for 3 years.
sorry phils girl i thought you meant halladay wasn't worth it . you meant what we got in return for lee. dont let them fool u , it was all about money.
Absolutely. Phils did not want to pay Lee the big bucks in a free agent market.
yes , next year is his last year , i meant they will only be over theyre 140 million dollar payroll 1 year in 2011 cause by 2012 ibanez and moyer are gone.
doc better win tomorrow , i listen to alot of sports talk , ny included (660) if they beat doc , mets fans will be impossible to listen too.
i have a question , does anyone old enough to know any better have a problem like i do with referring to anyone as DOC besides the original. afterall lets face it even outside of philly if your old enough there was only 1 doctor when it comes to the sports world.
stop complaing about injuries. the METS dont have CARLOS BELTRAN, the best outfielder in the game and we are without our setup man, Igarashi. Injuries are apart of the game and let's face it the phils dont have anyone near half the caliber of player CARLOS is on the dl. Amaro is an iddiot plan and simple. Overpaid for Ibanez, Howard, Polanco, should have kept Lee (the prospects phils got back r nothing great)…. while omar has quietly put together a phenomenal pen and the Met's kids are phenomenal (Niese, Mejia, Davis). Let's go Mets!!!!!!! i love how metsblog says nothing as dumb as this crap site. (saying mets are dysfunctional and harping on drug problems how cruel and iddiotic) were in first and we have both the MONEY AND PROSPECTS to only get better. oh and we are NEW YORK!!!!! philly is trash
So phils fans how's it feel to have a few of your key guys hurt? And to have some of your high priced superstars not performing for once?Doesn't feel good does it? Anyway not to be mean or anything, but we all expected Kendrick to implode the way he did tonight. That's a given he's terrible. But how in the world does that phillies team… with that lineup… in that sandlot of major league park you people call home, allow Jon niese(who let's face it is in the same class as a Kyle Kendrick) to go 7 strong dominating innings. Allow one run and scatter 4 hits. And!!! Not to mention retire 14 phillies in a row at one point. My god you people have every right to be ashamed of that team.
I said in the begining of this thread that I had no Phaith in Kendrick. I wouldn't even waste my time putting him in the bullpen up at this point of the season. The Phils don't have much invested in him, so why not just let him walk? It would leave room for Bastardo to join the roster. Not to mention Lidge's not so good welcome back…Im so disgusted to be a phan right now! I sware Jimmy really is the spark plug for this team, cause whenever hes out they don't really play so good ball.
How the hell did you just compare Niese to Kendrick. One is crap (Kendrick) and the other is a stud, young left -hander (Niese)……
metsfanforlife: your a typical ny asshole , i listen to wfan all the time , every day francessa has to put up with idiotic phone calls , besides all of a sudden now you guys love omar , thats priceless , all you geniouses have been calling for omar's head for three years. oh let me guess , not you though right. dont worry about our front office , mets haven't won shit since reagan was president. read carefully 3 years , 3 div titles, 2 pennants , 1 world championship. mets haven't won shit. and do some homework/ pick up baseball america ( mets worse farm system in nl east ) feb 2010 issue. and you call our site crap and nothing dumb on mets site . the way i see it you brought the IQ of our site down about 50 points. before you come on here son be prepared or i will continue to embarass you.
Speaking of Halladay and Lee…I was just thinking about that tonight! Amaro really screwed up when he traded for Lee. If he was really smart he would of just gave Toronto who they wanted for Hallday to begin with, so our Farm system wouldn't be so damn depleted to begin with. Think about it….We'd still have everyone we gave up for Lee still in our farm system (going based on who was giving up to aquire Haladay)
You mean to tell me that at the start of this year you felt niese was gonna give you production. If you did your kidding yourself my friend. Don't get me wrong what he's done so far is wonderful this year. He's kept us in alot of games. But the jury is still out on him. All of them for that matter besides johan. It's a long season my friend.
miked63….. my point about the Met's farm system was that the kids, Niese, Mejia, and Davis have all been superb and are all HUGE reasons the Metsies are on this winning streak. Your right, new yorkers (many) not all were calling for omar's head…. new york is a what have you done for me recently city and when you dont produce we let you know… just like philly. i recall, the boo birds for jimmy rollins……
and congrats on all of your pennants etc., the phillies still have the worst world series winning percentage in the history of major league baseball…. know your facts or i will embarass you on your own crap site.
If you watched any of the games last year you would have seen Niese was REALLYYYY coming around before he got hurt. Kid is a stud.
hey jarrett: why would i be ashamed on 04/30 , are you kiddin. they have had a slump like this every year like most teams do , just came earlier this year. i would be more ashamed if my baseball team hadn't won anything substantial since reagan was president. just make sure you bring your punk ass around in september when the phils are on theyre way to 4 division titles in a row. typical ny fan , i listen to wfan everyday , you guys jump on and off the bus more than any fan base in the country. metsfanforlife was just praising omar , thats hilarious , every met fan been calling for los-mets head for 3 years , now u love him , priceless. have your fun now , it wont last , you have no shot at the division and deep down you know it . maybe wildcard . pennants aren't won on april 30th. look up who has the best record in NL AUG AND SEPT THE LAST THREE YEARS. i think you already know.
Anyone take notice what the pitcher in Seattle is doing after his stint on the DL and suspension?
Just sayin' 7 innings of work, 98 pitches, 3 hits, 0 runs and 8 K's – strike to ball ratio – 73 strikes, 25 balls.
Yes, that would be one Clifford Lee.
@mets fan,
I did watch just about every dreadful game of last season, and I know what you mean niese has progressed very nicely. I mean I had to pick my jaw off the ground a few times tonight watching him deal it was kinda unbelievable. I thought the phils would rough him up a bit. But I'm not ready to take huge heaping gulps of the orange and blue kool aid just yet. I'm close but not yet. And tomorrow will be a huge test for mr pelfrey if he can outduel halladay I think it'll be time to start considering him as the elite of the N.L starting pitcher class. I think we should be having this discussion on one of our own blogs lol. I'm starting to feel a bit weird. But It is fun screwing with Philly fans they take everything so personally. And just for the record you guys and those idiot loudmouths on your team rollins and hammels started this beef. Hopefully this year finally well end a chapter of it. And btw stop showing up to citi is those really ugly retro powder blue jerseys…. Talk about wanting to throw up on someone
metsfanforlife : world series winning perct. are u kidding , theyre 1 of the original teams back to like 1896. when did the mets come into being like 1960. thats all you got ? world series winning perct. come on son u can do better than that cant u. and thats the 2nd time u called our site crap , than ? are u here. it cant be to break balls just cause u won a game in april , is it . wow these last 3 years must have been tougher than i thought for u . oh i forgot , when was your last playoff game ? and please dont say ( many ) mets fans wanted omars head , ask anybody on wfan its at least 90% and u know it. mike francessa reported yesterday that if u guys would have gone say 4 and 6 on the homestand the manager and omar were gone.just hope for the wildcard cause u have no shot at division over a 162 game schedule and u know it. phils roster is just better by far , ask any expert , you dont win all the games theyve won in 3 years by accident. i hope u have the balls to come on here around 4th of july when your 10 games out .
I'm a Mets fan…I've posted here before because I think this is one of the better blogs in baseball.
I'm glad the rivalry's back. I enjoy the trash talking as long as it's intelligent. The Phils still scare the shit out of me and I won't be content as long as you're less than 15 games back. Long season, boys.
djp1899 : finally an intelligent mets fan. i also enjoy good spirited conversation with mets fans. however earlier tnite a few caused me to get out of character. ( read some of my earlier posts ) with metsfanforlife , he came on here insulting phillies fans making no sense.
if the situation were exactly opposite the last 3 years the last thing i would do is go on a mets blog and brag cause i won a game april 30th.
that being said , if santana gets some help at the top of the rotation i think the mets have a shot. however i posted above this was the best april the phils had the last 4 years and were pretty banged up. i still think when its all said and done phils will win 93 to 96 games this year. do u think the mets can really make that kind of turn around. how many games did they win last year? i know theres a few good new pieces this year , but how many wins do u think they can pull off ?
This is a COMPLETLEY different Met's squad.
We essentialy added Jason Bay, Jeff, Jose, Barajas, Davis to a lineup that was anemic last year due to injury, not to mention Beltran will be back imo after the all star break. Our lineup is just as good if not better than the Phillies. Our bullpen did not include igarashi, nieve, takahasi, mejia (all key components to the pen) and our rotation is now healthy and includes Niese. I really do not see how mike, you are comparing this Met's team to last year or whenever… this is a vastly improved team. the phillies have gotten better too though imo. Halladay and Lee is essentially a wash, but Halladay is obviousally better. Polanco is a big time upgrade over feliz (he is horrible), but jamie moyer is now 102 and the phils bullpen woes were not addressed. to say its an automatic that the phils will win the nl east, is iddiotic. The Mets are, of course!
you couldn't find one writer , commentator , or educated unbiased fan to say the mets line up is better than the phillies . only the yankees have the same firepower. your basing your argument over one week. go thru the lineups 1 thru 8 and compare all the players stats over the last couple years for the SEASON not a week and its not close. please try and be intelligent about this , i'm 47 years old and i dont want to talk on these blogs like high school kids. just look up the numbers , if peter gammons , jason stark , or any UNBIASED person were honest about the line ups position by position the mets dont match up with the phillies . please just look up the numbers
did you really just call stark unbiased…. he is a PHILLIES FAN! wow. Gammons hates the Mets…. he's a sox fan (1986 =). anyway, i really don't see how anyone can say the phillies have a much better lineup…. they do not. last year murphy started in lf, now it is an all star, Jason Bay. We had Church in rf, now it is Jeff, 1b, Ike Davis is one of our best prospects he has endless potential imo, david wright bulked up over the summer and looks phenomenal, baraja is and blanco handle the pitchers EXTREMLEY well, not to mention rod has pop in his bat (unlike santos/schneider) and JOSE REYES is back and healthy and ready to go. what don't you understand??????
the phillies have a GREAT lineup….. nothing against their lineup at all. but let's be real
1) raul ibanez came over to the NL and nobody knew him so he tore it up…. different second half and different beg hmmmm
2) polanco although tremendously overpaid is perfect for phils lineup good move by amaro
3) ryan howard, i am not a fan…. kills rallies, can't hit lefties for crap, but he has some serious pop…. not worth 125 m but whatever
4) chase utley and werth are gamers
5) rollins will be rollins
6) victorino is a nice complimentary player.
7) ruiz is average
but the key is RAUL IBANEZ….. 37 years old. i personally think he will suck this year, but we will see. if he sucks thats a huge difference from last year. he was essential to that lineup.
Yes, the Phillies went 11-9 last April. They went 16-13 in 08. WON THE WFC IN 08, and the NL last year. April means nothing. The Phillies are traditionally not that great in April. Not having Happ and Blanton is monumental to this pitching staff, and I think that the plug needs to be pulled on KK. Why not let Figgy be the 5th starter or, hell, dare I say even Contreras for that matter. I do agree with one post earlier that it is completely necessary for us to at least look into signing Pedro again. If this slump continues more than a week or so into May I think that maybe, just maybe we may have a reason to start thinking about worrying. Also, please do not allow yourselves to be butt-hurt by ignorant Mess fans. If they cannot contribute to an intelligent conversation about baseball and just talk about how trashy the city of Philadelphia is and just shit talk, they deserve to be ignored. Getting upset is exactly the result they desire. Just ignore these fools.


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But don't try to tell local farmers that as they finish up planting this week. They are facing what is quite likely to be the third year of staggering drought in the Coastal Bend.
This year has brought another surprise for what is usually an optimistic group of farmers. Heavy winds in recent weeks are literally sucking out what little moisture there was in the ground.
Although the area did get some rain weeks ago, only some of the farmers in the county have what they would call planting moisture.
"We don't have very good sub moisture," said Thomas Mengers.
He said he had moisture down to about two feet deep in the fields he was planting this year.
"But we really need it to be six feet deep," he said.
The prospects for getting rain in the next 30-90 days are not promising, Mengers said.
One farmer in the Skidmore area said the same thing.
Although he had enough moisture in his fields to plant this year, he was not sure how long it would hold out, especially with the recent winds.
That farmer, like many others in the area, is planting 100 percent grain sorghum (milo) this year.
"I figured it would make a better crop," Troy Berthold said. He still had a couple of days of planting left when contacted early this week. He said he is also planting nothing but milo this year.
"I think everybody's going heavy with milo," Berthold said. "It's a little more drought resistant."
Berthold, who farms east of Beeville toward Berclair, said his fields did not get as much rain as some of the areas south of Beeville in the Skidmore and Tynan areas.
"I'd liked to have seen rain the other day," Berthold said. "But we missed it."
Berthold said farmers he knows in the Seguin and Robstown areas said they did not get any of the rain that fell in Bee County about five weeks ago.
"It's just a mess," he said. And this will be the third dry year for Bee County farmers.
One farmer said the weather indicators are not good. Most of the damp weather is being blown north of Houston, and that is not a good thing for South Texas.
"It's just going to have to turn around. It's going to have to rain a whole lot," the farmer said.
Arturo Gaitan, who farms between Skidmore and Tynan, said he is planting some corn but sticking mostly to grain sorghum.
"We're the only ones who have moisture in the ground," Gaitan said. "I think it'll sustain for about three weeks.
Gaitan tried to conserve the moisture in his fields by tilling the soil as little as possible. He said that has helped him to retain the moisture for the seed he has planted.
Also, farmers are staying away from planting cotton this year.
Mengers said his family is sticking to some corn and mostly milo this year. They bought their crop insurance in January, and the likelihood of a good grain crop was looking good then.
But another farmer said recent experiences with corn in South Texas have caused insurance costs for that crop to increase to the point that it is not cost effective to plant much corn.
"Corn prices are sustaining," Gaitan said. Prices are good because stocks for the grain are low.
Much of the corn crop in the Midwest section of the country failed last year, and the amount of that grain in storage is declining.
Bee County Agricultural Extension Agent Matthew Bochat shared the concern of the county's farmers.
"We're going into the third year of drought," he said this week. Long term forecasts for rain do not look good for South Texas.
Bochat commented that last year was especially hard on farmers with a 70-80 percent loss of grain sorghum crops and an 80-90 percent loss of corn.
"Some are just hanging on," Bochat said of the county's farmers.
He agreed that soil moisture was the main concern for those planting right now. Although some farmers had enough moisture to plant, that would not be enough to keep the crops growing through the entire season.
Bochat said farmers who can take advantage of irrigation will be doing that this year. He said he is hoping to schedule a program on irrigation for farmers, probably as early as next week, in a field near Tynan.
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A Colorado man is arrested on charges of drunken horseback riding during what he claims is a 600-mile trek to Utah for a wedding.
Witnesses told University of Colorado police they saw the man hit his horse and wander in and out of traffic near the school Monday afternoon, according to The Daily Camera.
Patrick Neal Schumacher of Colorado Springs faces several charges, including animal cruelty, prohibited use of weapons and riding under the influence of alcohol.
He had a small pug named Bufford in his backpack, as well as beer cans and a black-powder pistol in his saddlebag, police told The Daily Camera.
Schumacher told officers he was headed to his brother's wedding in Bryce, Utah.
He said he had to make the journey on horse because he had lost his driver's license, according to The Associated Press.


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As workers began the grim process of recovering the dead, they heard a faint cry from the rubble. Seamstress Reshma Begum spent more than 16 days trapped in a basement mosque, subsisting on dried foods and small amounts of water. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
A mother who was pulled alive from the ruins of an eight-story factory in Bangladesh admitted Friday that she "never dreamed I'd see the daylight again" after more than 16 days in the rubble.
Reshma Begum, a seamstress who is married with a young son, was found trapped in a mosque in the building's basement after about 391 hours.
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A woman who survived more than 16 days in the rubble of a collapsed factory building in Bangladesh was rescued on Friday.
"I heard voices of the rescue workers for the past several days," Begum told private Somoy TV station from her hospital bed. "I kept hitting the wreckage with sticks and rods just to attract their attention. No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again."
She added: "There was some dried food around me. I ate the dried food for 15 days. The last two days I had nothing but water. I used to drink only a limited quantity of water to save it. I had some bottles of water around me."
The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, about 20 miles northwest of Dhaka, was the world's worst industrial accident since the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984, Reuters reported. The death toll reached at least 1,038 on Friday.
One expert rescuer said he had never heard of someone surviving for so long in a collapsed building, saying it was "incredible" Begum was still alive.
Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper said the first sign there was a survivor came when a rescuer heard groans coming from the basement at about 3:15 p.m. local time on Friday (5:15 a.m. ET).
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The rescue official said she was dehydrated but able to walk, and Moazzem Hossain, an army major, also told the Star that she was in "good health."
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The disaster, believed to have been triggered when generators were started up during a blackout, has put the spotlight on Western retailers who use the impoverished South Asian nation as a source of cheap goods.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Absolutely Unacceptable
This is so ridiculous I don't even know where to start. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the Padres have only one player representing them in the All-Star game this year, Adrian Gonzalez. This is outrageous!!!
First of all, who has the best record in the National League? That's the San Diego Padres at 49-33. Who is on the top of the NL West and has been for practically the whole season? That's right, the San Diego Padres. So why, why why why, is there only ONE San Diego Padre on the All-Star team?
Second of all, which pitching staff is like the best in the National League? The San Diego Padres have a group of exemplary pitchers. In my mind, there's four or five of them who are All-Stars. Sure, they're young, but they've been pitching consistently for a very long time. They've proved that they are All-Star worthy. But were they selected for the All-Star game? No, they were not.
I'm very glad that I can't blame this on the fans, because that would be even more frustrating if we didn't get them there. We had no say in which pitchers got in, so I can rip into whoever selected them all I want.
I don't care about the qualifications of the other pitchers that got selected. I don't care that the manager of the National League is an East coast guy. All I care about here is that we have an abundance of All-Star worthy pitchers here in San Diego and not one of them got picked. Not even HEATH BELL!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a seriously dis on the city of San Diego and all the hard work that the San Diego Padres have put into this season. This is telling me that what we've done this season with the guys we have means nothing. I mean, obviously, the All-Star game is not everything, and it's not really a measure of a team, but still. With the way we've played this season, we deserve to have more players there than we do.
Now, I have never really liked the All-Star game. First, I don't like it's placing. Right in the middle of the season is not the best place for it to be. I've always hated the fact that our guys have to go and be teammates with all of our rivals (Dodgers, Rockies, etc). I feel like that kind of defeats the point of having opponents in the regular season. I mean, why should you be forced to suddenly be civil with a guy who caused your team to lose just a week ago, or will cause your team to lose just next week? It's all about that thing where, between the lines, there's no friendships. There's no relationships. All there is is baseball and trying to win the game.
I think the All-Star game would be much more appropriate at the end of the season. That way you can look over a player's performance over an entire season, not just a handful of games. If the All-Star game was at the end of the season, Stephen Strasburg would almost certainly be there. If six games isn't enough for you, the rest of the season would be.
The All-Star game just bugs me. I know that some people like it, but I really don't. At all. Not to mention the fact that the American League always dominates.
No doubt, when you think Padres, you think Adrian Gonzalez. And Adrian is very deserving of being there again. But really, Adrian's not the only player who's contributed here. We can and have won without him being in the game. We're fine without him, but we're just even better than we would have been with him. When he's in the lineup, we might score a few more runs that we would have without him. But the point is, we can score runs without him. We can win games when he needs a break. This team is really just that: a team. Every player contributes. We aren't being carried by Adrian. Don't get me wrong, Adrian definitely deserves this. But what I'm saying is that we have many other players who should be in the All-Star game because they help this team win.
Luke Gregerson, Mat Latos, Heath Bell, you are All-Stars. I don't care what anyone says. You are All-Stars.
I am so upset about this that I'm going to be boycotting the All-Star game. I wasn't going to be able to watch it anyways, but I'm still going to boycott it. I'm actually really happy that there's no way I'll be able to follow the game. Man.
Whoever's in charge of the All-Star game, you messed up big time. My boys deserve so much more than this. You have shamed us and our city.
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Right on! I got so freaking mad when I heard that none of our Padres pitchers are going to the All-Star game. This whole voting is a joke. It's a bunch of popularity contest and like half of the players shouldn't go. Not even Heath Bell made it in. What the heck?! I hate being underrated. We just have to push ourselves and vote for him for the final vote. I'm not gonna even watch the All-Star game. That's how angry I am. Good luck to Adrian though. I guess that just means we're gonna use this break to get ourselves even better and kick some more butt in the second half of the season. FIRST-PLACE PADRES ALL THE WAY!!
The problem with the All Star Game is so many worthy players and not enough places, this is why it should have nothing to do with performance, as you say your basically telling one group of people here great job and the rest are getting the message nice job but not good enough, even the fan selections were more popularity than performance. I also think the media has more to do with this than is thought.
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I'm not very happy about the selections with no Padres pitchers, but it will motivate them and give them some much needed rest. GO PADRES!
I was shocked that no Padre pitcher was selected. It is…comical how they make the selection. Believe me alot of people are not happy with the selections. I am sure some will be rectified and we will see a Padre pitcher there.
To tell you the truth, besides Ethier, I rather Jonathan would not go so he can rest.
But no matter, I am happy to be attending the All-Star this year. This will be my second one. The first was back in 1980 way before you were born.
If you get a chance, do attend a FanFest. They are a lot of fun
I as well felt pain for the Padres, as both Latos and Bell deserve spots. Unfortunately due to the huge mistake of Votto also being placed on the Final Vote and not easily on the All-Star team, things don't look good for Bell to make it. Either way, the Padres are surprising everyone, and I wish them luck for the second half of the season, as well as to Adrian for the ASG.
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Kaybee: I agree with you. The Padres are the 2nd best team in baseball right now, so they REALLY do deserve more representation. My Yankees have 7 guys, maybe 8 if Nick Swisher wins the final vote. Isn't Heath Bell still eligible in the Final Vote Campaign? I guess I'll vote for him🙂


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He said he's been turning sketches into art since high school.
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Winner will take 98th Assembly District seat barring unlikely write-in campaign
A Wisconsin state Assembly primary race in Waukesha County with five Republicans in the running is too close to call.
Based on preliminary totals from Tuesday's primary, window cleaning business owner Adam Neylon is ahead of Village of Pewaukee Police Chief Ed Baumann by just 30 votes.
There is no automatic recount in Wisconsin, but Baumann can request one within three days after the vote totals have been verified by Waukesha County election officials.
Neylon had 2,003 votes compared with 1,973 for Baumann.
The winner faces no Democratic opposition and will take the 98th Assembly District seat barring an unlikely write-in campaign.
The other three candidates were Jeanne Tarantino, the former chief of staff to Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, graduate student Matt Morzy, and construction project manager Todd Greenwald.
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The wait will soon be over! Season 4 of True Blood premiers on HBO 6/26/11, & the next 2 installments of Sookie in print are due out in August (Home Improvement: Undead Edition (Anthology) on 8/2/11, & The Sookie Stackhouse Companion on 8/30/11.So, because our blood is true, I've teamed up with my good friend Michelle to host an awesome giveaway for Truebies everywhere...
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Does it really make a difference?
I have been attending the NRPA Legislative Forum and midyear
meetings for the past seven years. I reside in a very conservative or "red"
state. It has always been a challenge to find any support and we never have any
commitment from Utah's Senators and Congressmen. The Republican majority from
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Representative does understand the need for and value of these programs, but
supports them from a distance. Utah does not have a champion supporter for any
of what NRPA advocates for. In the past three years, lobbying has been even
more difficult to bring up the economic or financial perspective of what NRPA
values to be critical in providing for healthy lifestyles. It is true that the
federal government wants to tighten its economic belt. It is true that NRPA
needs to show the economic value of this legislation we lobby for through sound
data and results even just for the request of committed support.
I have taken time out of my schedule with my own money to
attend the Legislative Forum. I have found that my interests and passions lie
along the lines of NRPA. I am committed to help move these initiatives forward
in both the state and federal avenues. I have written papers and completed many
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the No Child Left Inside (NCLI) efforts, especially here in Utah. We are
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