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Local singers perform at Nugget today
[adrotate group="10″] FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER NEWSPAPER–
Hear the West Sacramento Singers in a free concert at 2 p.m. on Dec. 23 at the Nugget Market, Town Center Plaza in Southport.
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Cyclist from Sacramento dies in West Sac
A Sacramento man died in a car-versus-bicycle accident this morning on West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento.
According to Lieutenant Tod Sockman of the West Sacramento Police Department, both the cyclist from Sacramento and the car that struck him were going eastbound along the 2000-block of West Capitol when the collision occurred just after 7 a.m.
[adrotate group="10″] "The initial investigation indicates both the vehicle and a bicyclist were traveling eastbound on West Capitol Avenue when the bicyclist swerved to miss a large puddle of water," said Sockman in a press release. "The bicyclist pulled into the number two lane of traffic in front of the vehicle just before the collision. Weather conditions were severe and may have been a contributing factor in the collision. The bicyclist, a 51 year old male from Sacramento, suffered major head trauma and was pronounced dead on scene. His identity is being withheld until his next of kin can be notified. The driver, a resident of West Sacramento, was not injured in the accident. Speed and or alcohol does not appear to be a contributing factor in this accident."
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Photo: sign of the season
The baseball player statues in front of city hall are ready for the holidays. The real question is, are you?
These slightly-bigger-than-life statues are playing ball in front of city hall, at 1100 West Capitol Avenue. (News-Ledger photo)
The News-Ledger reported more about these statues — including how they ended up in West Sacramento — shortly after they were installed. Here's that article from 2011:
May 18, 2011
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
There are a couple of new guys playing baseball in the middle of the 1100-block of West Capitol Avenue – oversized, bronze fellows. The sculpture was installed with little fanfare several weeks ago after West Sacramento city staff saw an opportunity to pick up some "public art" from storage at Sacramento's Crocker museum. The city has a policy promoting public art.
[adrotate group="7″] "The baseball players were originally commissioned by Frank and Lee Luckenbill as part of their effort to bring a regional stadium," said Mark Zollo, a senior administrative analyst for the redevelopment agency. "At some point, the Luckenbills donated them to the Crocker. They were on display at Crocker Park. The pitcher was up on one foot, supported by a dowel, and some kids pulled the pitcher over. So the Crocker put the sculpture in storage."
"Les Bowman (a former manager in Zollo's department) contacted the Crocker. We initiated the loan with them, and in exchange for the loan, we agreed to do a restoration. We paid about $20,000 for restoration and installation. They gave us a loan through 2014, but we hope to extend that."
Zollo said that the sculpture is mounted more securely than it was in Sacramento, and the location is pretty well-trafficked and well-lighted, so he hopes it won't be vandalized.
Ultimately, the city would like to put the two baseball players on display on some city land near the entrance to Raley Field – the region's minor league baseball stadium. That site isn't ready yet, though, because it's under construction and sparsely developed nearby.
"This location (at West Capitol) was selected more as a temporary location – we wanted a place where there is a lot of activity."
The piece is called, simply, "Baseball Players," and it was designed by artist Lisa Reinertson of Davis. The two figures, who are somewhat crouched over, stand about eight to nine feet tall.
(News-Ledger photo)
"These are pretty substantial figures," said Zollo. "They weigh quite a bit – around 800 pounds apiece."
The Luckenbills are aware that the statues have been moved, and approve of the loan, he said. The artist may not yet be aware that her baseball players are having a game in the middle of West Sacramento's main street.
An attempt to reach artist Reinertson wasn't immediately successful.
EDITOR'S NOTE, 5/23/2011: After we went to press for the above article, artist Lisa Reinertson emailed us a response to an inquiry made by the News-Ledger. We had asked her whom she used as models for this artwork. We heard from citizens who thought the "hitter" might have been modeled on Rickey Henderson or Felipe Alou.
The artist responded:
"The artwork was meant to be a more universal portrayal of a pitcher and batter and not anyone's particular portraits. "To answer your question- I used models who were baseball players up at Chico State where I was teaching at the time. (1991?) They were both assistant coaches, one a pitcher and one a batter. Since the stadium the sculptures were originally planned for was to have a new baseball team, they were not to be portraits of any famous players from existing teams elsewhere. I did go and see professional games as I did my homework on the sculpture and I did look at and get inspiration from images of stances that may look familiar to those in the know.
"My concept for the sculpture was to capture the psychological battle between the pitcher and batter as they are about to throw the ball and strike it back. I wanted to portray the physical tension of each player winding up and ready- so the exact moment before the movement forward for each player was the moment I focused on capturing."
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Chamber honors several businesspeople
The West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce will install new board members and hand out its annual business awards on Jan. 17.
"Businessperson of the Year" award will go to Michelle Vandeheetkamp, Wicked West Pizza & BBQ, for "making a difference in our community."
The "Business of the Year" will be IKEA, for "outstanding contributions to the community."
[adrotate group="10″] The "West Sacramento Lifetime Achievement Award" will go to Bill Ramos of Ramos Oil, for "a lifetime of service."
The "Volunteer of the Year" will be Dan Ramos of Ramco, "for unselfish service."
The Chamber's "Ambassador of the Year" is Maria Ramos of Hampton Inn and Suites.
A note regarding the fact that three of the award-winners have the same last name: Dan Ramos is a nephew of Bill Ramos. Maria Ramos is not related to the other two.
The chamber event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the civic center galleria. For table sponsorships, tickets or other information, call 371-7042 or visit www.westsacramentochamber.com.
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Go climb a nearby mountain
Guest Commentary by Charlotte Orr
Tuleyome Association
December 11th was designated International Mountain Day. The day was created by the UN in 2003 to promote awareness about the importance of the world's mountains and highlands. Mountains are crucial to life, provide most of the world's fresh water, harbor a rich variety of plants and animals, and are home to one in ten people. Luckily in our back yard, you don't have to go far to appreciate breath taking mountains.
[adrotate group="7″] Nearby there is Berryessa Peak, the highest point of Blue Ridge; a small mountain ridge east of Lake Berryessa. In September 2008, private landowners established a trail easement that opened up 9,100 acres of public lands and gave public access to the remarkable views and summit of Berryessa Peak.
Also worth mentioning is Snow Mountain, located in the 37,000 acre Snow Mountain Wilderness in the Mendocino National Forest. The tallest peak, known as Snow Mountain East is renowned for being the highest point in both Colusa and Lake Counties. The hike to the top of East Peak is a moderate climb, providing stunning views of the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east, Clear Lake to the southwest, and the Mendocino National Forest to the North. During the winter, the summits of Snow Mountain accumulate layers of snow, or a "snowpack" that can last until June. These snow packs are an important water source that feed into nearby streams and rivers as they melt.
As we celebrate International Mountain Day and the need to protect our majestic mountains, we must also bring attention to the lands that surround them. The Berryessa Snow Mountain region is a dazzling outdoor wonderland, with beautiful scenic views, a wide range of plants and wildlife, and abundant recreational opportunities. The region and its mountains deserve to be permanently protected for the enjoyment and benefit of current and future generations.
There are currently bills in both the house (H.R.5545), and the senate (S.3375) to permanently protect 320,000 acres of Federal public lands in the Berryessa Snow Mountain region in Napa, Lake, Mendocino, and Yolo counties. For more information on permanent protection for these lands, or to get involved, please visit www.berryessasnowmountain.org
In the meantime, remember International Mountain Day, and take some time out to explore and appreciate the beautiful mountain areas closest to your home and heart.
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Free food in West Sac, Clarksburg
[adrotate group="9″] The Food Bank of Yolo County will distribute free food on Dec. 18. Locations include the West Sacramento County Building, 500 Jefferson Blvd., from 9-10 a.m.; Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1500 Park Blvd., from 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Yolo Housing Authority, 685 Lighthouse Dr., 11-noon; and the Clarksburg Firehouse, noon to 1 pm. Please bring a bag, and attend only one site. For information, call (530) 668-0690.
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'A Life's Ride': new bench is memorial
New memorial combines a West Sac man's work, and his passion —
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
In retrospect, it seems obvious:
Andrew Yokoyama was a lifelong West Sacramentan, a farmer, an enthusiastic bicyclist. Why not commemorate his life with a bicycle-themed memorial right along the road so many cyclists take across the Tower Bridge? And why not build that memorial, as much as possible, out of implements and tools from his Southport farm?
On Friday morning, that vision came to be. Next to the Tower Bridge and the state "ziggurat" building, artist Terrence Martin supervised as his one-ton "A Life's Ride" sculpture was bolted into the concrete. Passersby began sending curious glances almost immediately.
Cathy Yokoyama, Andy's surviving wife, estimated that Martin had made the piece using "about two-thirds" of the material from the Yokoyama family farm in Southport – discs, spacers, tractor wheel parts and so forth.
"We asked him to use parts from the farm, if he was good with that idea," said Cathy Yokoyama. "He was."
Family friend Carol Davis was instrumental in choosing artist Terrence Martin – whose "Jagged Edge" art studio is located near the west end of West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento. Davis also coordinated plans for the bench with the City of West Sacramento, because its new home was to be on city park property.
"Carol really was the one who organized the whole thing," added Yokoyama.
"We told (Martin) we wanted a bench," she recalled. "Carol had seen his benches at the Sacramento Zoo and at Fountains, in Roseville. We were thinking of the form of a bicycle because we were thinking of putting it along the bike path, and also because Andy really enjoyed biking."
Andy Yokoyama was the grandson of an immigrant from Japan who farmed in Sacramento's Pocket area, according to Dena Kirtley of the West Sacramento Parks and Recreation Department (Kirtley took the sculpture through the city permit process).
Andy's father was placed in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, then set up as a farmer in West Sacramento.
[adrotate group="7″] Andy himself was born in 1951. He graduated from UC Davis and joined his dad on the farm, growing green onions and spinach on a small family farm near Linden and South River road, and also farming other land leased in Southport. In 2000, he took a job with the state, but continued farming on weekends. Yokoyama planted a final crop of wheat and safflower in 2011 as he became increasingly ill. He died in January, 2012.
"Some of the local farmers helped organize and get that harvest in," said Cathy Yokoyama. "We knew about his illness for several years, but he was probably (seriously) sick for about a year."
The new sculpture has the form of a bike – complete with handlebars and a seat. It comes with a pre-rusted finish, explained Martin, and all the sharp edges have been painstakingly ground down for safety. The "bike" cradles a bench with a seat made of steel cylinders.
Yokoyama says a number of people chipped in to pay for it, although she hasn't yet seen the final cost submitted by Martin.
"I used donations from (Andy's) work, from my dinner group and my work," she said. "I work for the California State teachers' retirement system, in the big tower building nearby."
She said she's quite happy with how the memorial turned out. Within a couple of days of its installation, the sculpture had experienced – and recovered from – its first misadventure.
"It got tagged (with graffiti) over the weekend," Yokoyama reported Monday. "Someone had written their name in blue. I reported it to the parks department. They are just going to clean it up every time, until whoever does it gets tired of it."
You can see "A Life's Ride," and sit for a spell, at River Walk Park next to the "ziggurat."
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All the best metaphors and similes to describe a Phillies loss in which they blow an early lead have been exhausted over the course of this dreadful season. At this stage, you can only come out and say it: The Phillies were up 4-0 to start the third inning of tonight's game. They'd end up down 8-5 by the time the ninth inning was over. It's an outcome as predictable as the sunset at the end of a long summer's day (Turns out there was one simile left). Charlie Manuel's 1,000th win celebration will be delayed for another day, as his squad is not much in the business of winning presently.
– They've done it all year, so why should tonight have been any different? After putting up some runs early, the Phils shut it down, and the inability to tack on resulted in a loss.
– Darin Ruf stayed hot with a two-run homer in the second. The home run would spark a four-run inning for the Phils, with Lee and Jimmy Rollins accounting for the other RBIs. Ruf now has four home runs in the month of August and is posting a .984 OPS. He's been a bright spot, for sure. The Phils were helped a bit by some sloppy Nats D, but they had done the necessary damage. Unfortunately, they would go cold after that. And that is understating it.
– From the third to the seventh inning, the Phils managed only two hits. The Nats bullpen completely shut them down. Tanner Roark, a right-hander appearing for just the second time in his career, pitched particularly well, getting through two innings with just twelve pitches.
– It's been a tough start to the second half for Cliff Lee. On top of missing a start due to a stiff neck last week, he's suffered through a very poor month of July in which he's posted a 5.92 ERA and allowed eight home runs in just four starts. He would pitch better tonight, but not by much.
– After escaping the first three frames unharmed, Lee ran into trouble in the fourth. He'd allow two runs on three hits, two of them for extra bases. Lee did manage to keep the ball in the yard in the inning, something he's struggled with of late.
– He'd get hurt again in the sixth, allowing a two-out run to make it 4-3. Lee would stop the bleeding there, maintaining the slimmest of leads for the bullpen. It wasn't a terrible start for Lee (a quality start, if you buy into that sort of thing), but it still wasn't quite what you look for from the ace. He left with his team out in front, but only managed six innings. He struck out six, but walked two and allowed seven hits. Not vintage Cliff.
– Jake Diekman and his struggles with command were first out of the 'pen for the Phils. What happens when a relief pitcher with control issues enters a game? Well, he walks the leadoff man of course. In this instance, the leadoff man would come around to tie the game (not surprisingly), and the Phillies four-run lead had completely disappeared. With one out in the seventh, Diekman was done. Unfortunately, the Nats weren't.
– Zach Miner was next out of the bullpen door, asked to get out of a one-out jam with Jayson Werth at the plate. To that point, Miner had pitched pretty well in limited action, throwing 4.2 hitless innings. That changed on one pitch. Miner's first offering to Werth was a flat slider, and it was crushed. The bomb gave the Nats a 6-4 lead, and that would be all she wrote for the Phils. There was no way a comeback was happening. Miner allowed two more runs just for good measure. Another day in the books for a bullpen that can't seem to get anybody out.
– He's young, he's exciting, and he's finally living up to the lofty expectations that once surrounded him. Domonic Brown hit his 26th home run of the season in the eighth inning, a solo shot that was the team's only hit after the fourth inning. It was his second home run since returning from the DL. Guys, get excited about Brown. There's not a whole lot to watch for at this point, but Brown has been a bright spot. He's practically a shoo-in for 30 home runs, and is looking like a player to build around for the future. If nothing else, enjoy these last two months of Brown's coming out campaign. To many more successful years.
-The Phillies try to avoid a sweep tomorrow with an awkwardly scheduled 5:05 start time. Kyle Kendrick (10-8, 4.36) goes against Stephen Strasburg (5-9, 3.01).
– The Phillies are now 4-16 since the All Star Break. Pass the booze. They've lost ten straight on the road.
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Was watching the Tigers Yankees today.
They showed the Granderson trade. The tigers got Sherzer and Austin Jackson for Granderson.
The Detroit announcers talking about how the GM put himself out there and it was not the safe play.
Yes its called innovation. Thinking outside the box.
The Phillies have a General Moron ( GM ) incapable of anything but signing the fan favorites forever for ridiculous amounts.
It never changes.
Looking forward to 2 more years. As each year the team gets worse.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
P.S. Ken E. Baseball if you can do a real Mets Phils magic number Id love that.
Its disturbing to me to lose to them when they aren't even trying and Wright is said to be done for the year now.
2-1 Mets now
Magic numbers are traditionally the number of wins needed to assure you will have 1 more than the chase can claim by winning out.
A real magic number, which is what was requested is the number of wins the leader needs to likely assure clinching over the chase.
By the powers bestowed in me, as the keeper of the castle to make sure the accuracy of numbers are not abused, I now pronounce the Mets real magic number as 5. And Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler will each pitch 5 more times.
Good night from 4th place. Deep in 4th place. Quicksanded in 4th place.
I know what magic numbers are.
Was hoping youd humor me.
Nice picture of Meadowlark Lemon.
I will probably be too hung over tomorrow to care about the Phillies game.
Since they will be 3 games behind the lowly mets in the loss column.
You will have to man up and pick up my slack Ken Bland.
You can do it.
Stay golden pony boy
Kenny Durrett, and the greatness of LaSalle explorer basketball in conjunction with Larry Cannob, Roland Taylor, and Stan Woldarczick. Not Meadow.
Must be on the way to Hangover City.
What happens when a relief pitcher with control issues enters a game? Well, he walks the leadoff man of course."
Being as the leadoff guy being walked is a major pet peeve of mine, it flashes a red flagbefore my eyes when it happens. So I speak from the experience of being conscious of it, for whatever little that's worth.
Some guys do it, you have to extend a ;eash. That's fine. I get that.
But in the case of the Phillies in recent times, it's not exclusively Jake, although he's the poster guy for it.
Buiy what I wanna see, just one time (though I might get greedy) is WHEN that happens, Charlie or Dubee get out to the mound and send a message. Pull the guy.
You can't tell me that it takes time for the next guy to warm up. A guy like Jake, and he's not alone, you have to have his successor warming up before Jake even gets to the mound to throw his on field warmups becausethey've had so few relievers of late that have produced.
Send a message. Even though it's helpfulness is highly questionable.
One of my leading pet peeves, too.
Right up there with dogging it to first on a ground ball and telegraphing a bunt.
10-in-a-row and the worst second half start ever. This is getting re-goddamndiculous.
During the playoff push in '09, I remember walking around Center City with my cousin. Seeing red everywhere, draped on everything, taped up in every window, and feeling how switched on the entire town was, I wondered aloud to him how the ownership of the Phillies could ever have allowed their us to languish through the miserable late 80s and early 90s. Why the Randy Ready and Von Hayes years? Why the endless games of my youth to the empty Vet Stadium? Why the seeming indifference on the part of the ownership of a club that was so clearly a potential cash cow? What kind of idiots, I asked, could have been stupid enough to waste the energy and excitement and revenue and merchandising and lifelong loyalty that great baseball means in a town as devoted to sport at Philly. How could that have ever happened?
And now I have my answer.
There comes a time when the fan base needs to say enough is enough. I have for a long time said Cubs fans are stupid for supporting a lovable loser. It is not acceptable. At least not to me. Cubs fans accept losing so the Cubs management delivers them a loser every year. They laugh it off. As long as Amaro is GM ( General Moron ) do they want fans to come out? Does the orginazation want to win? Its all baffling to me. They are paying Rollins Howard and Utley over 50 million a year the next 2 years. They have 120 RBI combined this year. About the same as Cabrera or Chris Davis. How can amaro survive this season into next? And if he does is management caring about winning?
Diekman is pathetic. He does not have the concentration to be a big league pitcher. That goes the same for his step-brother DeFratus. They are career minor leaguers. Zach Miner is a career journeyman as well.
No amount of TV money can buy forethought, perceptiveness and creativity. Amaro has single handedly f'ed up this organization top to bottom. He needs to depart for the hills of Paolo Alto check back into Stanford, if they'll let him, and take some Six Sigma courses in how to run a major league ball club.
If the current Sixers management miraculously turns around their own team within two years, I'd hire them as consultants across the street.
Otherwise, pay the Sixers to take Ruben.
In the absence of any serious takers, hire him as their new head coach.
Can't hurt.
Now that they're out of it, every loss helps the chances of a protected draft pick. They're tied for 8th worst record, and the first ten picks are protected when signing a free agent (as well as being better picks). Need to see whether Halladay can pitch again, but Howard can wait until March.
I will never ever hope the team loses games.
this also isn't the NFL.
Lets see when the last time the 8th pick is helping in 2013?
List of 8ths overall picks in MLB draft
2013 Hunter Dozier
2012 Mark Appel
2011 Francisco Lindor
2010 Delino Deshields jr
2009 Mike Leake
2008 Gordan Beckham
2007 Casey Weathers
Maybe in 5 years or so the 8th pick might help.
Regardless not worth losing like this.
Yeah, I'd still rather win every time. But at least there's a bright side to losing.
Schmenkman my bright is the fact that after this game we're one game closer to the end of the season.
Ah I get you Schenkman.
Eternal optimist.
Always enjoy your opinions and take on things.
Not trying to be mean at all.
You could make the point that standing on the deck of the Titanic you got to hear that great band play some music.
The Mets won again.
I don't blame Amaro for all the bad signings, I blame the scouting department. I DO blame Amaro for not firing some of the fools that think relief pitchers need only to throw hard and that hitting is the only needed skill, and that players like Martinez, McDonald, D. Young, and others can help a team. Somebody has to be giving Ruben bad advice, and those are the first ones who need to go. If Amaro can't tell that the reports he's getting on players are plain horrible, then he needs to be replaced with someone who does see the stupidity of thinking a Diekman or an Aumont can ever get the ball over the plate or that a D. Young can ever catch a baseball that isn't just handed to him. No wonder he reads the backs of baseball cards. At least there's some evidence of track records there; records which some of his idiot scouts probably wouldn't see in a live ballgame.
There's no business or organization that functions like that. In reality, RAJ is responsible for everyone who reports to him – which includes the scouting department. I agree that the scouting department seems like a huge weakness (just look at a team like the Cardinals who are constantly promoting from within the organization) – but the blame falls on Amaro. If the department needs to be revamped, it's up to him to make the changes. If he's getting "bad advice", it's up to him to find people capable of giving him "good advice".
I agree with you. At the end of the day, the buck stops with the GM. In addition to having better people reporting to him, he should also embrace advanced statistics instead of mocking them. Maybe if he'd grasp the value of the walk and target players with higher OBP's, he wouldn't end up with a team full of hitters who don't walk and a bullpen full of pitchers who walk too many. Now, I'm not suggesting that sabermetrics is some be-all and end-all to building a team, but understanding the correlation between certain statistics (e.g. OBP) and team run scoring might help him avoid signing low OBP guys like Laynce Nix or Delmon Young in the future, even if his scouts suggest them. This understanding might help supplement the information provided by the scouts and allow the GM to make better decisions.
I'm constantly surprised at people's lack of attention. I SAID I blame Amaro for not firing some of the people making recommendations to him. I also said that if he can't figure out his scouts are making bad reports, then HE needs to be replaced.
I think even an idiot could see by those two statements that I believe it's still ultimately on Amaro. There's also not an organization around whose GM is the sole evaluator of talent; that was my point, in case you missed it.
Some people are just way to eager to read only what they want to read and launch debates over what they've failed to comprehend.
Funny how you're quick to jump on someone else's case about belittling another member or insinuating someone else's lack of intelligence but it's ok if you do it George??
You're a joke
George: "I don't blame Amaro for all the bad signings."
Carlos Danger: "the blame falls on Amaro."
It seems that Carlos comprehended what you wrote and he disagreed with it. I, like Carlos, think that some of the scouts may suck, but that Amaro should be blamed for every bad signing and be credited for the good ones. If he got bad information because he hired the wrong people, that's on him. If he got bad information and did not have enough knowledge to override it, that's on him. If he decided he wanted a certain player despite what the scouts said, that's on him. For example:
Back in March, many fans and bloggers predicted that Delmon Young was highly unlikely to help the team and very likely to hurt it, predictions by the way that were based on the back of his baseball card or stats that are readily available on fangraphs.com or baseball-reference.com. Why didn't Rube recognize this? If you read David Murphy's article today, Murphy claims that the team used 7-year old scouting reports, not Delmon's MLB results, as one of the justifications for signing him. If Murphy is right – and he better be to put that into print – the GM's process, not the scouting reports, are the problem.
Laynce Nix, Ty Wigginton, Chad Durbin are other similar cases where he signed or traded for bad and/or declining players whose baseball cards should have been enough to tell him to avoid (or in the case of Nix not sign for two guaranteed years).
MIchael Martinez is another case. If a scout told RAJ that Martinez is worth drafting in the Rule V, $50K and the opportunity cost of passing on other players is on the scout, but that Mini's been kept around for three different seasons and a .504 OPS is on the GM.
One more thing. Amaro's biggest failing is not his (and the rest of the front office's) failure to evaluate talent at the fringes of the roster, it's his poor contract negotiation that put the Phils in the position in which they had to acquire and give playing time to the Delmon Youngs, Laynce Nixes and Michael Martinezes of the world. Following is a list off the top of my head of players who they paid more in dollars and/or years the market seemed to indicate was appropriate:
Jamie Moyer – two years to a 45 year old.
Raul Ibanez – three years when every other corner OF on the market got 1 or 2.
Laynce Nix – 2 years to a guy who I believe had never had a guaranteed contract.
Ryan Howard – an extension for his age 32 to 36 seasons, given during his age 30 season and paying him like they expected him to continue producing like he did in his age 26 to 29 seasons.
Jon Papelbon – 4 or 5 years at ~$13M per year when the rest of the industry was realizing that you don't commit more than 2 years or $9M to a closer unless his name is Mariano Rivera. The fact that he rushed to the market to overpay Papelbon and cost the team its 1st round pick is only the icing on the cake.
Mike Adams – 2 years at $6M for a set-up man when teams like Boston were signing comparable players like Koji Uehara for 1 year and $4.5M.
Danys Baez – 2 years to a stiff.
If he had negotiated better deals with all of these players, they wouldn't have had to acquire the aforementioned stiffs.
hk, agreed on the 2-year deal for Nix, but none of Nix, Wiggy, or Durbin performed like what their baseball card said they would…
Looking at what they did in the 3 years before signing, vs. their time with the Phils:
Nix .768 OPS vs. .601
Wiggy .724 OPS vs. .688
Durbin 4.18 ERA vs. 9.00
Nix's baseball card said he could hit a little — he couldn't
Wiggy's baseball card also said he fielded multiple positions — he couldn't
Durbin's said he was a decent pitcher — he wasn't
Now, advanced fielding metrics could tell you that while Wiggy could plant himself in a position, he was not a very good fielder. And Durbin's defense-independent metrics would have told you that (aside from possibly 2008 and 2010 here) he never really was a decent pitcher. But I don't know how much those were looked at, if at all.
1. Nix put up a .727 OPS last year, which is in the realm of what you might have expected from a guy who had produced a .768 OPS the prior 3 seasons.
2. Wigginton's 2012 OPS is about what should have been expected when you factor in his age and that his 2011 stats were aided by playing half his games in Colorado.
3. Durbin had a fluky (.251 BABIP, 81.6% strand rate) 2012, which helped his three year ERA be as low as it was (4.18). Bad luck (.404 BABIP and 59.9% strand rate) in the extremely small sample size of 16 innings led to the 9.00 ERA. You know better than to make any case about they Durbin signing by comparing his 3-year ERA to his ERA in 16 innings. If they were convinced that Durbin was a 4.18 ERA pitcher, they should have kept him around and let his performance revert to the mean.
In one of my comments above, I referenced that they could have obtained a lot of information off the players in question solely by looking at the back of their baseball cards AND/OR on fangraphs.com or baseball-reference.com. Choosing to only use the back of the baseball card statistics, if that's what they did, should be used as criticism, not a defense, of their process. At a minimum, it can be reasonably argued that their failure to use (or use effectively) advanced statistics is a major reason that the team is where it is despite having the 3rd highest payroll in the game.
1. Nix: we need to either count 2013 (in which case Nix underperformed in his 2 years), or only count 2012, as you did (in which case it was an ok signing, made worse by the 2-year commitment).
2. Agree on Wiggy's offense, which is why I mentioned his defense.
3. You might have skipped the last paragraph, where I mentioned that Durbin has never been a very good pitcher, and in effect agreed that it was a bad sign.
For all of these, I was comparing what I would expect RAJ is looking at for the 3 years prior with what he got from them, without relying on advanced stats (for Nix/Wig/Durb you only referenced baseball cards).
And I completely agree with this….
"At a minimum, it can be reasonably argued that their failure to use (or use effectively) advanced statistics is a major reason that the team is where it is despite having the 3rd highest payroll in the game."
Which is what I was trying to get to in my last paragraph:
"Now, advanced fielding metrics could tell you that while Wiggy could plant himself in a position, he was not a very good fielder. And Durbin's defense-independent metrics would have told you that (aside from possibly 2008 and 2010 here) he never really was a decent pitcher. But I don't know how much those were looked at, if at all."
It's pretty easy to disagree when one take's a sentence out of context, hk. I still think it should bhe pretty evident from my statements that the responsiblity does fall on Amaro because he's the one who should control the scouting staff.
Basically, we're not in disagreement on that. Whaqt we disagree ohn is that all the baqd decisions fall on Amaro; it's as if people think he doesn't get other people's input. Bad input=bad signings.
As far as paying too much out in years and dollars could, in fact probably is, heavily influenced by scouting reports, and the idea that those contracts have lead to grabbing up the Martinez.s, Wiggintons, and Nixes, is also open to debate. Many, many, teams have made budget signings with way more success, which, to me, is also indicative of bad scouting.
If you would kindly reread my initial remarks, you will see that I'm not defending Amaro per se, but just indicating that he's not the only one responsible. I'm also not defending him because I've also indicated that if he can't tell by the team's performance that he's getting bad advice, then he needs to be replaced by someone who recognizes the fact.
And to Hogey: pointing out that someone has missed something is not even close to insinuating that they lack intelligence. Maybe it indicates that they haven't paid attention, but inattentiveness is rarely stupidity. Sometimes it is surprising, though, which is all I really said. And by the way: I have never called anyone a joke, as you seem so prone to doing. The pot has no right to call the kettle black.
I agree that we mostly agree and that I have not done a good job of explaining where we differ, so let me try….If it was my business, I would not allow those lower on the corporate ladder to be sacrificed as scape-goats first while the incompetent higher-up continued in his job. For example, if I owned this team, I would have cleaned house in early July, firing Ruben and whomever else I deemed responsible for the current state of the team, its payroll and the farm system.
To me, firing scouts but not the person responsible for hiring them and for making the final decision after reading their reports on players would send the wrong message to the organization. It would be different if the team was doing well and most of the GM's moves were panning out, but one scout was constantly making bad recommendations.
Flyers played themselves out if Seth Jones down the stretch. Baseball is different, but get a top 5 pick and manage your money right and its all good. Combine the with new spending on international players is good. 40+ million and an IF of Ruff, Revere and Brown is a start.
Ruf-Revere-Brown is the new Luzinski-Maddox-McBride. There is hope there, but I'd rather see them in the OF than the IF.
Come to think of it, given the decrepitude of the IF, maybe you're right.
Watching this team its hard to remember how much fun it was –
but what memories we have eh?
Great point. So many cities have gone generations without those kinds of memories. It didn't have to end so suddenly, if run better it could have been maintained. But I agree 100% that – at least we have those memories. Thank you Brooks for reminding me.
I just have one more thing to say about the Utley extension. Most of you may not like keeping the old guys around, I get it. Guys like Yasiel Puig, and Wil Myers and so many others bring an excitement to the game that is very desirable.
I ask that you separate the Utley signing from the others, don't lump it in with Rollins and Howard. Why? Because this one is different. This is a guy that STILL gives you so much offensive production from the one of (if not the ) the lowest offensive position in the game.
By OPS-
In the last seven days, Utley is number one among second baseman in production.
Ahead of Cano, Carpenter, Kendrick, Hill, Zobrist and Phillips.
In the last 30 games, Utley is number one among second baseman in production.
Ahead of – well you get the idea.
For the season, despite the injuries, only Cano is better, and only by .009 points. Kipnis and Utley are next and tied. If Utley continues on this pace, he will be the number one second baseman by the end of the year.
And what makes this so remarkable is that he's playing on a team that we would all agree STINKS offensively. All the rest of the guys I mentioned- Cano, Phillips, Hill, Kipnis, Carpenter, Kendrick and Zobrist all play in powerhouse lineups. They are aided by the players around them. It helps your stats when there is always a guy on base in front of you to knock in when you get a hit- Utley does not have that luxury. It aids the stats when you can score a lot of runs because you have a bunch of run producers behind you.
Chase Utley on a poor offensive team nearly leads all second basemen without the benefit of a good hitting lineup around him. No protection ( if you believe in that sort of thing) and no table setters.
In my opinion, for the contract terms as I understand them, the Phillies got a STEAL. I'll step down from my soap box now.
I think there are a lot of people who look at signings from a limited viewpoint. Age is clearly not the only thing that needs to be looked at.
There are, besides production, other factors, such as whether anyone else can better fill a certain position, what kind of salary and contract length a player might be gotten for, trade value, if production can be made up for in a different lineup spot if a player's defense and baserunning warrants him still playing, fan response, clubhouse presence, and probably other things I'm too lazy to think of.
Utley, to me, was a good extension. He's still productive, he'd be hard to replace with anyone out there, he's still very popular, he still has trade value, and his new contract is very reasonable in terms of both cost and years.
My only point is that even without the 50 million for Howard Rollins and Utley for 2014 and 2015 the team could have sucked in 2012 2013 2014 and 2015 with other people.
But I get it some of the fans like losing with guys who were good in the middle of the last decade. I am actually fine with that.
The issue is we have General Moron (GM) who is running the team like these people.
That is not acceptable.
Keep your poise, Andrew, the chances are alive and well that it gets worse still.
Wait and see what happens with Doc. That could go either way, I guess, but it's easy to see Ruben rewarding loyalty and character to still another player. He made 20, and could have made more, so what's to stop Rube from 2 at 10-15 with options and the like.
You couldn't have traded Doc, but with Chase, you could have tested the waters and seen what you might have gotten for him rather than just extending because Chase wanted to.
Doc's nuts, anyway. He said he likes some of the young talent here. Fortunately, for his sake, nobody said who do you mean. Nobody said are they that much better than the young talent around the division? If he pitches well, he'll have choices. Probably a lot more than Cliff, who carries a huge obligation. But the bottom line is so much age carries injury risk. And that's where your warnings are more on track than not. Not to mention the almost inevitable talent slippage as another year tacks on.
But their a good group of guys to wacth, so there's a tad of consolation. Some of them, anyway. I don't even know how much Cliff has left. He's still pitching well, but will he for another 2 years? Time will tell.
Please feel free to remain on your soapbox when lauding Chase Utley.
He really can't be lumped in with other mid-thirtys player.
The man is still an exceptional talent and ultimate pro in every aspect of the game.
There have been a number of players over the years who remained productive even into their 40s – and a handful even beyond.
Stan Musial hit 3 home runs in one game at age 41 and hit .330 at age 42!
Hoyt Wilhelm retired 49, Phil Niekro about 48 and who can forget Satchel throwing a major league pitch at age 59. Position players Minnie Minoso rand Julio Franco retired at ages 54 and 49, respectively.
Yeah, Chase's knees remain a time bomb but the man could probably crawl around the bases smarter most players today can run them.
Utley is certainly not part of the problem. His part of the equation for winning is not nearly what it used to be but he needs to be in the lineup. Good signing.
I can think of only one reason why my Phillies are tanking: THEY STINK !!!
Josh Willingham is coming off an injury and may be available in August. Would you take Willingham for 7mil on the last year of his deal?
DDD don't you want to get younger? If we took Willingham who's place doe's he take? Unless they get rid of M young so Ruff can move to first then what? more confusion for Ruf. They should leave it alone and let him play a position to get better at it . He'll most likely give you the same numbers that an aging Willingham will give you. And he's much younger. Josh will be down turning like our current core. Do you want more of that?
I can't believe he's going to clear American League waivers and even reach the NL to get to a point where he's tradable. He serves too much purpose for the last month for a playoff contender looking to get some good at bats out of a corner guy.
But if he does clear waivers, it comes down to who's got what to trade. That's a Phillie shortcoming for the most part.
You don't rebuild by trading up-and-coming players for a mid-thirties guy on his way out.
I can't wait until Senor Papelbon gets hius hands on the fact that Mo Rivera has now blown 3 straight saves and in a sense, compares himself to Rivera. That oughta go over real well with the anti Papelbon crowd. Real well.
To me, the worst part of that game was the 6th and 7th innings where Phils batter made 6 outs on 12 pitches. Does effin no one on this team work a damn count?!?!?


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Facebook Leading Silicon Valley Brain Drain
Can Zuck come back? Anything's possible, but, he needs Sheryl Sandberg (or somebody) to Lean In on more Facebook brainstorming sessions and fewer activist appointments. Sandberg, as COO, appeared to be the rock that kept Zuckerberg focused. She has either gone AWOL -- thanks to her celebrity (?) -- or there's just no helping a young CEO in over his head.
With the exception of folks deep inside, nobody knows what's really going on at Facebook, however, it's clear Zuckerberg conceived and built something great before hitting a creative wall. If he's the best Silicon Valley has to offer, innovation did die with Steve Jobs and only has a fighting chance thanks to Elon Musk.
What has really changed since a March 2012 Time article asked Is Innovation Dead? Or since PayPal co-founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel proclaimed innovation in Silicon Valley dead in 2011 (via Forbes):
Levchin was quick to call out the number of "me too" start-ups in the Valley today. "Innovation ultimately ends up being about solving very hard problems. If you're trying to build one more wrinkle on the Angry Birds idea," Levchin said. "You're not solving a very hard problem."
SXSW was chock full of "me-too" startups this year. A nauseating experience. Fancy business cards and uninspiring elevator talks, but barely any exciting thought outside of an increasingly rare handful of unique entrepreneurs.
In the last couple years, we have seen more refreshments from Apple
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Turmoil in EgyptJuly 06,2013
The crowds cheering the ouster of Muhammad Morsi, president of Egypt, may not be cheering in a few months. The Egyptian military has never been a champion of democracy, and in carrying out a coup to oust the elected president it has thwarted the democratic process.
In electing Morsi, the Egyptian people elected a Muslim Brotherhood candidate who has tried to promote the narrow goals of the Brotherhood. But if the people sanction the illegitimate ouster of the president whom they elected, they are undermining the very process that allowed them to vote.
The military has occupied a dominant and corrupt place in Egyptian society, enriching itself while maintaining a stranglehold on the economy. Under the former president, Hosni Mubarak, the members of the Muslim Brotherhood were subject to persecution and imprisonment. Morsis ouster could end up driving the Brotherhood underground again, which could intensify violent jihadi reaction in the region.
The liberal demonstrators of Tahrir Square were pleased that the military carried out the removal of Mubarak and allowed a constitutional process to move forward. But Egypts economy has suffered, and with crowds in the street clamoring for change, the military has acted again.
Who is to say that the military is not acting to protect its own economic interests against the incompetent management of the Morsi government? That is a more likely motive than Morsis unpopularity with the masses. The masses could have ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from office in coming elections. Now the military has turned persecuted members of the Brotherhood into martyrs.
Morsi did not exactly represent the flowering of democracy. The adoption of the constitution and the quick elections that brought him to power were of dubious legitimacy. Further, the constitution contained provisions protecting the militarys interests. Critics have charged Morsi with excluding non-Brotherhood elements of society and failing to promote inclusiveness.
From a pragmatic point of view, therefore, one may want to give the military the benefit of the doubt, as if Egyptian authorities can just keep trying at the democratic process until they get the result they like. But that is rigging the game, which is the likely aim of the military.
Jackson Diehl, writing in The Washington Post, has described how military coups mounted ostensibly to save democracy from its failings seem always to fail. He cites examples in Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey, Thailand and Pakistan. That is why its good for struggling regimes to lurch toward improving themselves without military interference.
U.S. law requires the government to withhold military aid from foreign governments that are victims of military coups. Sen. Patrick Leahy, as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid, has indicated he means to hold Egypt to a high standard. In his statement he criticized Morsi for squandering a historic opportunity, preferring to govern by fiat rather than work with other political parties to do what is best for all Egyptians. But Leahy makes clear he understands that, according to U.S. law, U.S. aid is cut off when a democratically elected government is deposed by military coup or decree.
As his subcommittee reviews future aid to Egypt, Leahy said, he will be watching to see if the Egyptian military makes good on its promise to move quickly to restore democracy. As the worlds oldest democracy, Leahy said, this is a time to reaffirm our commitment to the principle that transfers of power should be by the ballot, not by force of arms.
The Obama administration has been reluctant to use the term coup in describing the ouster of Morsi. The White House is aware that we depend on Egypt for stability in the region.
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I was the same as you. It will get better. Definately get with a lactation consultant or La Leche League Leader in your area. It worked wonders for me.
The one suggestion I have for you is to try those silicone burn pads on your nipples. my LC suggested that and it was a god send. You can keep them on until they get warm, all day long, you don't have to worry about chemicals or anything going to the baby either.
The lanolin also was a must for me. i put it on as soon as I was finished nursing. And if DS wanted to nurse five minutes later, he could.
And I don't know if you (when you are in the shower) are avoiding using soap on your nipples, but that's a must. The soap will dry them out and irritate. You should only be using water to rinse them and then if you want, you can express a little BM and rub it in (my grandma suggested this) and it helps keep your nipples supple. And letting them air dry really helps too. Especially during this sweaty time of year.
So to review:
Lanolin ( a must )
scar patches (feel so cooling)
no soap in the shower or at all on the nipples
and let those girls breathe
Hang in there.
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(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - A new study shows that a young child is rushed to a hospital every four hours in the U.S. due to an injury from a bottle, sippy cup or pacifier.¹
It is the first national study to analyze accidents involving these common products, which can lead to everything from minor cuts and bruises to more serious dental injuries involving lost or broken teeth.¹
"There are over four million children born in the United States every year, and almost all of them will use all of these products at some point during their early childhood," said Sarah Keim, Ph.D., of Nationwide Children's Hospital and the lead author of the study. "Yet, no research has examined the issue of injuries related to these products on a national level."
For her study, Keim and her team analyzed data from emergency departments across the United States between 1991 and 2010, and found more than 45,000 cases of children who were treated for these injuries, the majority of whom were around one year of age.¹
"We think that's because they're just starting to learn how to walk and they tend to trip and fall quite a bit," said Keim. "If they're walking with one of these products in their mouth, they may injure their mouth or their face."
That's just what happened to one year old Morgan Sherrill. "She was walking from her grandma to me, and the ottoman was right in front of us," said Morgan's mother Jackie. "In an instant she tripped and did a nose dive onto the ottoman with her bottle in her mouth."
"Our son always walked around with a bottle in his mouth or a pacifier," Sherrill said, "and we never thought it could chip their tooth."
That's a misconception many parent may have, said Keim, who is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine and of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health.
"Over half of the injuries we saw with two year olds in this study, were related to the use of baby bottles," said Keim, "even though age two is way beyond the time we would expect children to be using a baby bottle."
Experts suggest transitioning children to a cup without a lid at 12 months of age, to teach them good habits when it comes to drinking, and to cut down on the risk of falling and injuring themselves.
Most of the injuries noted in this study may have been prevented had parents been aware of the potential dangers of toddlers walking or playing while using these products.
Yet, for the tens of thousands of injuries that were charted by researchers, Keim says they may only be a small part of the accidents that take place every year.
"Our study only looked at injuries that required a visit to the emergency department," she said. "However, if they are less severe, many of these injuries could have been treated at home, or families might have taken their child to a dentist, rather than the emergency department. So, the numbers are likely much higher."


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CALAIS Janice (Chandler) Morse, 79, of Calais, Vt., passed away at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt., on Feb. 19, 2013, with her sons and her husband of 61 years at her bedside. She fought a long and courageous battle with Sjogrens syndrome.
Born in Montpelier, Vt., on Dec. 10, 1933, she was the daughter of Clarence and Mary (Sicely) Chandler. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1951. She was an accomplished seamstress and freelance bookkeeper. She was loved by her family and many dear friends for her good nature, generosity and fond company.
She enjoyed traveling with her nieces, Lucille, Janice, Sue, Hope and Prudence. Many of her days were shared with lifetime friend Eva Morse. In addition to her husband, Stanley Morse, she is survived by two sons, Brent Morse, of Barre, Vt., and Darryl Morse, of Calais, Vt.; three grandchildren, Angela Morse, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., Erica Morse, of Burlington, Vt., and Jack Morse, of Wellesley, Mass.; as well as three generations of nieces and nephews.
Her siblings, Gordon Chandler, Eunice Carpenter and Mildred Chandler, predeceased her.
In accordance with the familys wishes, a memorial service will be held in the spring, at a time and place to be announced.
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Mud season preview: Crosstown Road to be blocked
BERLIN — With their road superintendent predicting that the mother of all mud seasons will eventually arrive, the Select Board this week agreed to barricade Crosstown Road in an effort to prevent the popular shortcut from turning into an expensive mucky mess.
On a night when they also elected a new chairman and were told that their voter-approved plan to construct a municipal water system was making steady progress, board members agreed to allow Road Superintendent Tim Davis to close Crosstown Road at his discretion.
Though temperatures ticked up Tuesday, Davis told board members Monday night that the long-range forecast calls for them to drop back below freezing, making when to close the road something of a moving target.
However, he warned that not quickly closing it to through traffic would be a mistake.
"Once the warm weather comes it's going to come fast and hard, and the roads are going to go fast," he predicted.
According to Davis, Crosstown Road, which runs between Route 12 in Riverton and the Berlin Four Corners area, is more vulnerable than most town roads due to the high volume of traffic it sees daily.
Past traffic counts have indicated 1,800 vehicles traverse Crosstown Road on an average day, though Davis said the pothole-pocked stretch of Route 12 between Northfield and Montpelier has made the shortcut that much more attractive in recent weeks.
"Route 12 is so bad right now everybody is using Crosstown Road," he said.
That daily pounding is fine for now, but when the road begins to thaw, Davis said, keeping it open would create a significant drain on limited resources that will be needed elsewhere.
"We're going to have a bad mud season, there's no doubt about it," he said. "The frost is so deep now it's scary."
Davis predicted the $19,000 he has left in his budget to supplement the gravel he has already stockpiled won't be nearly enough to deal with mud season.
"We're looking maybe $30,000 to $40,000 buying material if we're going to fix roads so people can get home," he said, noting that assumed the board went along with his plan to close Crosstown Road.
According to Davis, putting up "Road closed" signs wouldn't cut it because they have routinely been ignored in the past.
"The signs aren't going to stop them, especially at night," he said, suggesting barricades be placed to block through traffic.
Crosstown Road residents who live on the Riverton side of the proposed barricade can use Route 12, while those on the opposite end of the road would be required to use Paine Turnpike.
Though Crosstown Road has never been barricaded during past mud seasons, Selectman Pete Kelley said this year would be a good year to experiment with that option.
"It seems like a year when it will be easy to defend that action," he said.
Given the current weather forecast, Davis said closing the road probably won't be necessary until April 1. When the road is closed, signs noting the presence of a barricade will be posted on both ends, and emergency personnel in neighboring Northfield will be notified.
In other business Monday night, board members elected Ture Nelson to replace veteran Chairman Brad Towne and received a brief update on plans to construct a municipal water system serving the Berlin Four Corners area.
Mark Youngstrom, of Otter Creek Engineering, told the board the town is preparing to convert expressions of interest in the proposed system into signed agreements. Construction plans are 90 percent complete, he added, and the project could be ready to put out to bid this summer.
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Multiple plane crashes have dominated the headlines the past few weeks. But despite these particular tragedies, safety advances and improvements in staff training have helped improve air crash survival rates in recent years. Here are 10 things that experts suggest you do to prepare yourself in the unlikely event of a problem on your next flight, according to CNN.
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Keep your seat belt securely fastened -- but remember how it unfastens. "It has been found that people who have survived emergency landings frantically search for where they expect the seat belt to fasten (on the hip as in a car)," says Andy Clubb, safety course director for British Airways. "You often find bruising and cuts in that area," he added.
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Griffey In Black & White & Centerfield (8/27/08)
The Mariners were nowhere to be found, but on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, Tim and I found ourselves at Camden Yards in Baltimore…
…we bought tickets in straight away centerfield — where Tim enjoyed some nachos before the game got underway.
The reason we came to Baltimore on a Wednesday night to sit in centerfield and watch two teams not including the Mariners? Simple…
None other than my favorite baseball player of all-time, Mr. George Kenneth Griffey, Jr., was in town. After two failed attempts (here and here) to see Griff play for the Reds, this was the first time Tim ever got to see Griffey play the great sport of Baseball.
And it may well be the only time he ever gets to see Griffey play centerfield.
As this picture shows…
…(i) Tim was excited and (ii) we had seats in the first row!
This was our view of Griff in centerfield…
…despite the White Sox uniform, isn't that beautiful? Actually, the White Sox uniform is a beautiful sight too. Because when I learned (about 26 days before this game) that Griffey was going to be wearing number 17 for the White Sox (despite the fact someone had offered him number 30), I was incredibily happy. To me, that was a huge sign that he didn't plan on sticking around with the White Sox after playing out the last two months of the season in the south side of Chicago. That meant one thing to me: he was going to come home to Seattle.
Anyway, back to the game, here is Griffey getting into this ready position:
It was awesome to get to see Griff play centerfield again. And he had plenty of action during this game — he made 5 put outs in his traditional outfield position including a catch just a few feet away from us on the warning track on the Orioles' first batter (Brian Roberts) of the night.
Check out this beautiful shot of Tim and Griff:
I love taking Tim to see Griff play. Its like sharing a piece of my own childhood with my boy. And it was awesome to be sitting right behind him as he manned centerfield like he did throughout his days in Seattle.
Actually, in that last picture, he is shifted over toward LF for the batter. Usually, he played closer to us than he is in that picture.
Generally, I am not a sign guy. I think all total, I've made a sign to take to a game four times in my life. But if ever there was a time for a sign, this was it. And so, we had one with us. And this was it:
Griff made direct eye contact with this sign several times. He has a masterful poker face as he stares into the crowd so he in no way acknolwedged the sign. But he looked directly at us several times as we politely held our sign delivering a very important message on behalf of the people of Seattle…and Mariners fans everywhere. By the way, see the red circle at the top of the sign? That circle is around five tally-marks that I drew on the sign to count Griffey's catches in centerfield.
At some point, we needed ice cream and, because Camden Yards doesn't have ice cream helmets, we were forced to get these…
Tim still liked it. But, really? Dove chocolate covered ice creamcicles at a ball game? Really? Not cool, Orioles.
Of course, we were at Camden Yards, so we had to play some make-believe baseball in the flag court. Here is Tim calling his shot:
Pretty much our game plan for this game was: (i) watch Griff play CF from the CF seats, (ii) play around in the flag court, and (iii) watch Griff hit from behind home plate.
Here is our view of Griff in the batters box as he prepared for his second at bat…
…and here is Griff preparing for a pitch…
…a couple pitches later, here are me and Tim from the cross aisle behind home plate…
…as Griffey stands on first after his second walk of the night.
Griff had his only official "at-bat" of the night in the top of the sixth inning. With a runner (Paul Konerko) on first and one out, Griffey did his job by hitting behind the runner and advancing Konerko to second on a ground out to first.
With two outs in the top of the eighth, Griff batted for the final time. Here he is showing his classic batting stance…
…and he continued to watch pitches miss the strike zone…
…after six pitches, Griff worked his third and final walk of the night. His line on the night:
0-1, 3 BB, 5 defensive put outs. Not too shabby.
And so, with Griff eventually being stranded on first, we took off. The next time we would see Griffey, we'd be in Seattle and he would be a member of the Seattle Mariners. Yes!
As for the rest of the game, the Orioles pounded John Danks and the White Sox by a final score of 11-3. There were five homeruns in the game: Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, Kevin Millar, Aubrey Huff and Melvin Mora.
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Great entry Todd! I guess your sign worked huh? One question: at the end you said there were 6 homeruns and there are only 5 names listed. Did someone double-up? Just curious, I think multi-HR games are pretty cool. Like the Griffey stories!
Uh Oh! That's a typo. Thanks for pointing it out. There were only five homeruns. I'll fix it. But, yep, the sign worked like a charm.


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The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) present the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition. Artists compete for top honors and a $25,000 fellowship in the Greater Baltimore area's most prestigious arts competition. Held in conjunction with Artscape (July 19–21), America's largest free arts festival, the finalists and semifinalists exhibitions are presented in partnership with the Walters and Maryland Institute College of Art.
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This exhibition of photographs by contemporary artist Gregory Vershbow explores the interactions of art objects within environments and circumstances ordinarily beyond public view. In storage facilities and conservation laboratories, and at monuments under restoration, Vershbow photographs art objects wrapped in plastic, protected by foam, nested in boxes and set in surprising juxtapositions with other objects from different eras.
Date: Saturday, July 6, 2013–Sunday, July 28, 2013
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Marvel at Minimalism, get excited over Expressionism and delve into Dada! In celebration of hosting the special Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize exhibition this July, we will look toward the art stars of the 20th century for our inspiration. Add color, subtract graphite and stack paint to create your own gallery-worthy work!
Date: Saturday, July 13, 2013–Sunday, September 29, 2013Every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Today, medieval books are treated as works of art, untouchable treasures to be locked away in cabinets. Yet many were intended for regular use as vital components of everyday life for monks and nuns.
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Palm Beach Zoo sets record for "best day" and "best month" of attendance including the week of Spring Break.
Last Tuesday, the Zoo had its best single day on record with 3,348 guests attending in beautiful 70-degree weather. The next three days brought more of the same – great weather and many visitors - making four straight days of attendance in excess of 3,000. With last week being Spring Break for Palm Beach, Broward, and Martin Counties combined, Zoo attendance finished the month of March at 44,641 – another milestone for best month on record at the Palm Beach Zoo. The last time the Zoo had over 3,000 guests in one day was December 28, 2011.
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The man suspected of bombing the U.S. embassy in Turkey has been described as a well-known militant from a far-left group. Meanwhile, clashes outside the presidential palace in Egypt indicate President Morsi may be losing control. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, according to a statement on a website linked to the group, news agencies reported.
The statement posted Saturday on "The People's Cry" website said Ecevit Sanli carried out "an act of self-sacrifice on Feb. 1, 2013, by entering the Ankara embassy of the United States, murderer of the peoples of the world," according to Reuters and The Associated Press.
The DHKP-C's statement also called Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan a U.S. "puppet," according to Reuters.
"Murderer America! You will not run away from people's rage," the statement read, warning Erdogan that he was also a target.
A picture the website claimed was of the bomber was posted with the statement. A government terror expert confirmed the authenticity of the website, the AP reported.
The Ankara governor's office said DNA tests showed Sanli had indeed been the attacker. Authorities said Sanli had fled Turkey 10 years ago and was wanted by the police, according to Reuters.
Sanli had previously been jailed in 1997 for attacks on a police station and a military staff college in Istanbul, but Reuters said his sentence was postponed because he became sick during a hunger strike. He was never imprisoned again.
After he was sentenced to life in prison in 2002, Sanli fled Turkey, according to Reuters. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said he was able to return to the country using false documents.
The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, is a far-left group designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Turkey and the European Union. Leftist groups such as the DHKP-C strongly oppose the United States' influence over Turkey.
Also on Saturday, Turkish state media said officials detained three people in Istanbul and Ankara in connection with the attack, Reuters reported.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to the U.S. Embassy compound in Ankara on Friday. The bomber and a Turkish guard were killed in the attack, which the U.S. described as "an act of terror."
The U.S. flag flies at half-staff a day after a suicide bomber struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
The bomber, who was wearing a suicide vest, made it to the first X-ray machine in a screening area leading to the visa section, police sources said, and then detonated the device.
The Turkish security guard standing nearby was killed, but two guards on the other side of the checkpoint, behind bulletproof glass, survived. A Turkish journalist on her way to visit the ambassador was critically wounded.
On Sept. 11 last year, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, prompting concern about security for diplomats.
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This image released by the SITE Intelligence Group on Feb. 2, shows a man identified as Ecevit Sanli on the website of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, a Turkey-based radical Marxist-Leninist group, that claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 1.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Friday that after Benghazi, every U.S. post in the world reviewed its security. She added that the embassy in Ankara is one of the posts due for a complete compound overhaul. The building housing the embassy was built in the 1950s and needs a full upgrade, Nuland said.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Classified Staff Council of Bluefield State College Minutes June 21, 2007
Classified Staff Council of Bluefield State College Minutes
June 21, 2007
Members Present: Rick Akers, Carol Baldwin, Joan Buchanan, Daniel "Frosty" Frost, Lisa Neel, and Michele Noe. Members that voted via telephone: Kim Daniels and Fred Hardee.
Council Elect Members Present: Deirdre Guyton, Tom Harrison, and Jane Richardson.
Guests Present: H. Scott Pitt
Chair, Carol Baldwin called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Room in Basic Science.
I. Minutes – A motion to accept the meeting minutes for the May 17, 2007 meeting with changes was made and seconded by Neel/Noe, all were in favor.
II. Old Business
A. Wall of Fame-Michele went over what had been discussed at the last meeting and asked the members of the new council to be thinking about it so that we can address it at the next meeting.
III. New Business-
A. Holiday Schedule-Carol handed out the Holiday Schedule for state employees that had been distributed by HEPC. She advised the group that there were certain days that would have to be taken at the times they are scheduled (i.e. 4th of July, Labor day, Thanksgiving and the day after, Christmas and New Years Eve and holidays, Martin Luther King day, and Memorial day) the remaining days would be open for discussion. She noted that the governor has given ½ days for Christmas and New Years. After much discussion, it was proposed that we take the remaining five days as follows: 1 day being split in half to take the remaining time on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve off, 3 days after Christmas, and the Friday of spring break (March 21) off. As always, we proposed two alternate days off in the case that the governor would decide to give holidays in addition to the ones on this holiday schedule on a day that we already had scheduled off. The first alternate day would be Friday, May 23, 2007 (before Memorial day holiday) and the second would be Friday, June 20, 2007 (WV Day). A motion to submit the proposed schedule to Dr. Walker for approval was made and seconded by Noe/Akers, all were in favor.
IV. Reports-
A. Board of Governors-Frosty stated the board had voted on the renewal of Dr. Walker's contract. He stated that the vote was split, and that board chair Norris Kantor cast the deciding vote to renew the contract for two years. He stated that WVU's Classified Staff had won their suit regarding the zero step funding of the salary schedule. At this time, there was discussion about issues that the incoming
council would like to try to address. Frosty then went over items for tonight's BOG meeting agenda. Items included were: A Memorandum of Agreement between BSC and NRCTC, faculty merit pay, the financial report (official budget), and enrollment.
Due to time restrictions, the meeting was adjourned at this time, with no further reports being given.
V. Next meeting/Adjournment
The next meeting time and place will be announced by the new chair, Lisa Neel, as soon as it can be scheduled.
With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned by Carol.
Minutes submitted by Michele Noe