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The American League East is the toughest, most talented division in baseball. There really isn't even a close competitor. The Yankees, after providing the rest of baseball with a brief respite from appearing in the postseason, restocked their team with multiple marquee free agents and stormed through the playoffs, only to lose to the Phillies in the World Series.
Nice thought, right?
The Red Sox feature a patient, talented offense and powerful pitching staff. The Rays are young, improving and graduating a number of high draft picks almost regularly. The Orioles sport some talented hitters and an arsenal of prospect starters nearly ready to try and alter the balance of power in the division. The Blue Jays, while clearly not in contention this year, have restocked their farm with solid prospects on a team that could already compete for the N.L. wild card.
The 2009 Season
New York Yankees (103-59, 1st)
It sort of leaves a bitter taste in the mouth to say it, but no team uses the current economic situation in baseball to its advantage better than the Yankees. A team with an impossibly large revenue stream in a league with no salary cap is a recipe for success, and the Yankees have, essentially, been a perennial powerhouse forever. They signed Mark Teixeira, A.J. Burnett and CC Sabathia out of free agency and won their 27th title. It's no accident; good players means a good team.
So, of course, like any good team, the Yankees made improvements to a team that, even if left alone, would have been a favorite to repeat in 2010. They traded for Curtis Granderson. They signed Nick Johnson. They traded for Javier Vazquez. They retained superprospect Jesus Montero in spite of all that wheeling and dealing. And at the end of the day, they're an even heavier favorite to emerge from the American League once more.
The only hope for the anti-Yankee is that this team is aging and their pitching is a bit suspect (except for that Rivera dude). Unfortunately, no one has really shown any signs of slowing down, so at least for 2010, it appears age won't really be a problem.
The pitching is pretty good. The offense is unbelievable. The Yankees are a true force.
Boston Red Sox (95-67, 2nd)
If you're going to face this team, try to catch them in your home park or they'll bludgeon you. Hitting a combined .284/.365/.498 at Fenway, as opposed to a more middling .257/.340/.414 on the road, the Red Sox hitter have a true home field advantage. Pitchers also performed better at Fenway – at least in terms of ERA – by more than half a run. In any other division, the Red Sox were division champions in 2009.
Instead, they get the glorious designation of having to play second fiddle to the Yankees once more. That isn't to say they're acting like subordinates, though; the Sox made plenty of moves of their own in an effort to keep pace with New York. Bringing in Adrian Beltre, Mike Cameron and John Lackey should help, and with a pitching staff superior to New York's and an offense that can swat a few baseballs in its own right, the Red Sox are an excellent team.
Tampa Bay Rays (84-78, 3rd)
Winning 84 games in this division is quite the feat, even if missing the playoffs is a disappointing result for the 2008 A.L. Champs. Finally reaping the rewards of high draft picks accumulated from years upon years of losing baseball, the Rays have shaped a young, talented nucleus into a winning team, yet still find themselves at a disadvantage.
The Rays ranked second in all of baseball in team WAR in 2009 – behind only those pesky Yankees – at 34.4, nearly five wins ahead of third-place Anaheim. The bulk of that came on the shoulders of breakout star Ben Zobrist, who put together a wonderful season that didn't garner nearly the attention it deserved.
Behind Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford and Zobrist, the Rays have a bumper crop of young pitchers looking to move into their primes. They also added Rafael Soriano to bolster an already tough bullpen. Like the Red Sox, the Rays would be a definite division title contender anywhere else, but such is their lot in this life.
Toronto Blue Jays (75-87, 4th)
Roy Halladay is gone, Alex Rios is gone and Vernon Wells has a franchise-hamstringing contract. Scott Rolen was traded, and lame duck G.M. J.P. Ricciardi was canned. Things are not looking bright for Toronto in 2010, but some shrewd trading from new G.M. Alex Anthopolous and top prospect graduation has the offense at least featuring a couple bright spots in Adam Lind and Aaron Hill. Former Philly prospect Kyle Drabek could contribute at the M.L. level as soon as this season, and newly-acquired Brett Wallace could see time at third and first this season.
There is a core taking shape, but Toronto is still some ways – and years – away from making serious noise in this division. Keep an eye on Travis Snider, a LF/1B/DH type who is only 22 and projects to have a big, powerful bat. He and Lind should form a powerful punch in the middle of the Toronto order for years, hopefully for long enough to allow a competitive core to mature around them.
Baltimore Orioles (64-98, 5th)
Oh, there is a light on that horizon. Nick Markakis is a solid hitter, Adam Jones is a budding superstar – revisit that Erik Bedard trade with Seattle sometime, and marvel at that horde of talent Baltimore pilfered from the unknowing hands on former Ms GM Bill Bavasi – and three stud prospect starters are inching ever closer to the Majors.
Brian Matusz, Chris Tillman and Jake Arrieta have the potential to be the next "Big Three" of starters, in the ilk of bygone days of Zito/Hudson/Mulder in Oakland. With Tillman already on the roster, Arrieta and Matusz aren't far behind. Expect the Orioles to catch a few people by surprise this year, but don't expect a winning season. They just aren't quite at that point. Yet.
Predicted Standings
|Pat Gallen
1. Red Sox: (99-63)
2. Yankees: (93-69)
3. Rays: (91-71)
4. Orioles: (71-91)
5. Blue Jays: (67-95)
|Nick Staskin
1. Yankees: (97-65)
2. Red Sox: (93-69)
3. Rays: (86-76)
4. Orioles: (76-86)
5. Blue Jays: (72-90)
|Amanda Orr
1. Yankees: (95-67)
2. Red Sox: (93-69)
3. Rays: (83-79)
4. Orioles: (73-89)
5. Blue Jays: (69-93)
|Paul Boye
1. Yankees: (99-63)
2. Red Sox: (92-70)
3. Rays: (87-75)
4. Orioles: (74-88)
5. Blue Jays: (70-92)
|Corey Seidman
1. Yankees: (103-59)
2. Red Sox: (90-72)
3. Rays: (88-74)
4. Orioles: (81-81)
5. Blue Jays: (71-91)
|Michael Baumann
1. Yankees: (102-60)
2. Red Sox: (93-69)
3. Rays: (85-77)
4. Orioles: (76-86)
5. Blue Jays: (64-98)
Now, to wrap up the American League, each writer was surveyed for their projected playoff results and league awards, as well as highlighting a player to keep an eye on that you may not already pay a great deal of attention to. With that, the prognosticating begins!
Playoff Predictions
Michael Baumann
Red Sox over Twins
Yankees over Mariners
Yankees over Red Sox
Paul Boye
Yankees over Twins
Rangers over Red Sox
Yankees over Rangers
Pat Gallen
Red Sox over Twins
Rangers over Yankees
Red Sox over Rangers
Amanda Orr
Red Sox over Twins
Yankees over Mariners
Yankees Over Red Sox
Corey Seidman
Yankees over Mariners
Angels over Twins
Yankees over Angels
Nick Staskin
Yankees over White Sox
Red Sox over Mariners
Red Sox over Yankees
American League Awards
Michael Baumann
MVP: Mark Teixeira, NYY
Cy Young: Justin Verlander, DET
Rookie of the Year: Chris "Disco" Hayes, KCR or Brett Wallace, TOR
Player to Watch: Ben Zobrist, TB
Paul Boye
MVP: Evan Longoria, TB
Cy Young: Jon Lester, BOS
Rookie of the Year: Brian Matusz, BAL
Player to Watch: Denard Span, MIN
Pat Gallen
MVP: Kevin Youkilis, BOS
Cy Young: Jon Lester, BOS
Rookie of the Year: Austin Jackson, DET
Player to Watch: Gordon Beckham, CWS
Amanda Orr
MVP: Alex Rodriguez, NYY
Cy Young: Felix Hernandez, SEA
Rookie of the Year: Brian Matusz, BAL
Player to Watch: Max Scherzer, DET
Corey Seidman
MVP: Evan Longoria, TB
Cy Young: Jon Lester, BOS
Players to Watch: Matt Wieters, BAL and John Lackey, LAA
Nick Staskin
MVP: Alex Rodriguez, NYY
Cy Young: Felix Hernandez, SEA
Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz, TEX
Player to Watch: Cliff Lee (who?), SEA
That finishes off our preview of the Junior Circuit. Team-by-team previews for the National League start soon, starting with those in the N.L. West.
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I think the easy pick is the Skanks (as much as I hate to admit it) That being said, Boston is really close, it wouldn't take much of a hiccup from the Bomber's for the Sox to pull it off. Aside from that if Boston and NY aren't both in the playoffs, it means either they had some horrendous metsesque luck (all for that!!!) or some other team really overachieved. I'm thinking Yanks, Chisox, Angels, and Boston as WC. Looking at Boston to take the Yanks in a series of 7 pitcher duels.
MVP: Milton Bradley
CY Young: Bartolo Colon
Rookie of the Year: Carlos Carrasco
Player to Watch: Sidney Ponson
LOL Scotch man keep drinking:)
I think the yankees are going to have a doner this year and won't win 90+games.
wild card but not the division
I'm with you Pat Gallen! I see the Red Sox coming on top after a three-way battle against the Rays and Yankees… Yankees taking the Wild Card..
You guys really all had the same predictions? Is that even possible? The rays aren't getting enough respect as they have the deepest team in baseball. They have about 13 position players that could be legit starters on an average team and about 7 pitchers who could start on an average team. Also the Red Sox are getting way too much respect. Their offense is very mediocre and 3 of their starting 5 are really inconsistent.
MVP: Justin Morneau
Cy Young: Feliz Hernandez
ROY: Wade Davis
Player to Watch: Sean Rodriguez
Not trying to nitpick….but the Yankees have won 27 titles, NOT 28 as you've stated.
It's bad enough that they are who they are….and that they beat our Phillies to win that last championship.
Let's not make that number any bigger than we have to…..even if it was just an honest mistake.
Oh, and yeah…..check out that Eric Bedard deal a few years back…..VERY impressive. Remember, too, that George Sherrill came to the O's as well in that trade. Adam Jones is a STUD.
Maybe we all will be saying the same thing about the "You Know Who" trade a few years from now????
Nick….A-Roid for MVP…really? I am disappointed in you buddy.
A-Roid is my most hated player on my host hated team, so I would hate to see that joker win any kind of award besides some sort of dishonorable award for cheating.
Alex Rodriguez is one of the best hitters in the game, picking him to win MVP is hardly ridiculous.
Love him or loathe him…..A-Rod is one of the best. I agree that he's worthy of MVP talk every year.
He may be one of the best players, but that doesn't mean I have to like him or root for him to win anything.
Even if he played for the Phillies, I would still hate him.
There are certain players that I love regardless of the team they play for, and others that i'd hate anywhere.
You'd hate him but if he hit game….and SERIES …..winning home runs you might learn to love him a little.
Ehh, i'd give him some credit for helping the Phillies and maybe respect him a little bit more, but I STILL wouldn't like him.
My reasons for disliking him are plentiful, and the Steroids issue isn't even the biggest one for me.
He just is too much of a showboat, self-first,overpaid, irritating clown, with vanity issues.
And I am sure that there are a sizable amount of Yankees fans who probably dislike him too, but they tolerate him because he's a good player for their team.
I don't ever recall much showboating from A-Rod. He seems to keep it pretty close to the vest, actually. He's a bit . . . odd in situations where he has to talk to people, but that's all I've noticed. And I don't really blame him for getting as much money as he could, especially considering how willing the Yankees were to pay it to him.
In fact one of the first A-Rod moments I can remember is the 2001 All-Star game, when he took the field, moved himself to third base and goaded Cal Ripken into playing short, since it was likely his last All-Star game. That showed to me that he had a lot of class.
A-Rod just took the "nice guy" act and rolled with it . . . he never tried to be cooler than Griffey Jr.
or c0ckier than Barry Bonds..
He just went about his business . . . and I only blame him for steriods, as much as I blame 80% of the other players who did it at the time..
We all know what happened… he'll have to face the music later in life when he can't get it up while sitting on his yacht
But I would welcome A-Rod to philly in a heartbeat..
I hate JOSE REYES, and RUSSELL MARTIN more than any other players in baseball
A-Rod … went and got the most money that people were willing to pay him
the same that every other person and athlete would do.
He doesn't ever stand and watch his homeruns . . .ala Bonds, Manny, David Ortiz… and ever Ryan Howard (which i've b!tched about before)
If he didn't play for the Yankees, people wouldn't care… but now that he does.. he's gone from the Seattle, Texas, "everyone's favorite" . . . to now where people can't stand him
If his power keeps vanishing I don't think you'll have to worry about Russell Martin much longer
Jose Reyes is a punk.
And Russell Martin is a thug.
A-Rod is just A-Rod…..sort of like Manny being Manny…..only more tolerable.
Scotch – I know its a late post but I just caught what you said. Players to watch – Sidney Pontoon??? Dude? You really need to put that pipe down.
im 94% sure that he was kidding Brooks.. I think Sidney Ponson might even be dead??
What a waste….Sidney Ponson.
Really talented guy that had SO MUCH potential…..and he basically just pissed it all away.
Actually, I read somewhere just recently that he just signed a contract with the Long Island Ducks (I think that's the name?) of the Independent League.
Guess he figures that he'll start his comeback.
Wow guys… way to get creative with your AL MVP's… truly thinkin' out of the box. Gotta' love that AL East.
And not that it really matters, but I do understand it's probably tough to not go with Boston or NY as 1st and/or 2nd, but you all honestly think it's going TB, Balt, and Tor the rest of the way? Come on! Stop agreeeing!
The Red Sox are an aging team lucky to win 90 games..Lowell, Ortiz and Varitek are way past their prime..Cameron and Beltre are mediorce at best and the pitching must stay healthy in order to contend in 2010..
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woot! (my third blog comment of the month – I am rockin out ). Nice theme, MAN! (hee – couldn't resist it). In complete seriousness, it is a marvelous write up.


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"The family and I have decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to move back home. We have a house in Pflugerville, which is only five minutes from my parents," Walker said.
Walker came to Beeville as the head basketball coach in 2010 and then took over as the girls' coordinator the following year.
The girls' programs have run through some rough moments over the last few years, but things stabilized under coach Walker, who has the respect and love from her charges, according to JHS coaches and players.
"Coach Walker has been a huge asset to BISD. Ever since her arrival in 2010, our girls' basketball program has made significant improvements," said BISD Athletic Director Troy Moses.
"She has been a great role model for the students she coaches and has done a great job at teaching them that you can't get anywhere in life without hard work."
Walker coached the Lady Trojan basketball program back into the playoffs and made a deep run into the postseason with a senior laden group this year.
"I wish I could just dig and pick up Beeville and replant it in Pflugerville. From the moment I came to Beeville, I was welcomed with open arms from the girls, parents, staff and community," Walker said.
"I am grateful for all of the Beeville support my family and I have gotten."
Walker also brought up the feeling of family, togetherness and spirit in the Lady Trojan programs.
"I hope that the spirit will continue to grow each season. It was such a beautiful feeling and a sight to see all the faces in the stands. I truly believe it was the community who got us over the top," Walker said.
"Thank you for everything."

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CA Paycheck Fairness Act Approved by Appropriations Committee
In an important step toward justice for victims of wage theft, AB 1164, the California Paycheck Fairness Act, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 12-5.
The bill, authored by Assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal, would hold employers accountable for paying less than the minimum wage or not paying workers for all of the hours they work, making it easier for workers to recover stolen wages.
Between 2008 and 2011, the California Labor Commissioner issued awards of unpaid wages to workers totaling $282 million dollars. This is an incredible feat, and sends a strong message to unscrupulous employers. But, shockingly, most employers do not actually pay the awards. Of all the workers who won their wage claims before the Labor Commissioner and received a judgment during that same three year period, only 17 percent of them were able to recover any money.
Why are employers able to commit wage theft with impunity? Many of the businesses that are the worst violators of our labor laws simply roll up their operations and close shop when workers try to hold them accountable, thus avoiding any responsibility for their exploitative employment practices. In fact, in over 60% of the cases in which the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement found an employer owed wages, the employer was listed as non-active, i.e., defunct. And because so much of the low-wage sector is now structured using layers of contractors and subcontractors, the real employers and beneficiaries of the work provided are able to avoid legal responsibility.
Even when it is possible to locate the actual employer, a worker must pursue the employer in civil court in order to obtain relief. This process is time consuming and challenging for anyone, and much more so for a low-wage worker dealing with agencies that lack language capacity, cultural competency, and the incentive to aggressively pursue smaller individual judgments.
In order to compel these employers to pay workers what they are owed, AB 1164 would expand California's existing Mechanic's Lien to all sectors beyond construction and farm workers, allowing workers to put a temporary hold, or lien, on the property of an employer who owes back wages while the case is being decided. Wage liens have helped workers in other states, including Wisconsin, Alaska, Idaho, Maryland, New Hampshire, Texas, and Washington, to more effectively recover their wages. Wisconsin's wage lien law helps 80% of workers recover payment for wages owed, compared to fewer than 20% in California.
LAS-ELC, along with other members of the Fair Paycheck Coalition, has advocated strongly for AB 1164, meeting with Assembly members and raising awareness about this important issue. We know from the clients served by our Wage Claims Project that this phenomenon both demoralizes workers and undermines state labor protections.
In the words of a former LAS-ELC client who won a Labor Commissioner judgment, "On one level, it feels good. It was really good that the truth came out, that the power of the employer could be overcome…On another level, it is also something negative. It's like there was no result. It makes me really sad. It's emotionally challenging, so I try not to think about it. I worked so long, and I still did not receive any pay for my hours…I will keep trying."
And that is precisely why passage of AB 1164 is so important. LAS-ELC and Coalition members will keep up the pressure – the bill has to be voted out of the Assembly by the end of the month. According to Assembly member Lowenthal, "This is an opportunity to help bring up the status of a class of workers that are often ignored."


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@GC7: Accepted. Will add you in the OP later on.
Username: GC7
Gym Leader/Elite 4: Gym Leader
FC/PO Name: Black 2 FC: 2795 8630 0735
Type: Ghost
Pokeman Badge: Um, yeah sometime soon,
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I just forgot I put the new rule for wifi is that I'm testing.
GC7, I don't need to test as that we have battled and capable.
@the-devil-arcana: I woud like to test you after I'm done with school.
Ok. Thats sounds good to me. Just be sure to let me know when please
PO or Wifi: Wifi only
@hawkmbl: Accepted.
Defeated Hawkmbl 5-0
Hey Exodus i got the badge I will be using for the the League here is the link so if you can update it sometime it would be pretty cool
Trinity League Badges
Ign: GC7
Battle with hawkmbl (Flat Battle)
Result: 1-0 in my favor. Good game.
EDIT: And Exodus, if you could please edit in my Black 2 FC? I'll be using this one from now on.
not like people get the FCs from the first page anyway...5243-9742-1027
DrasticPhase can you make links to all the gym leaders so challengers can find them easier? With all the name changes it will take forever for challengers to find a gym leader
My Fizzy Bubbles profile
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Adopt one yourself! @Pokémon Orphanage
Sorry to all of the challengers, but due to inactivity, I'm going to PM a mod to shut it down. No more posting please.
Really? Ah, oh well. Though I do see that this section is kinda meh.
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I'm in it.
Just since some people can't read one of last posts, I put it big on the OP.
Mods, you can close this.


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State Board of Education Meeting
100 N. First St.
Board Room, 4th Floor
Springfield, IL
January 23-24, 2013
Plenary Session
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
10:30 a.m.
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This meeting will also be audio cast on the Internet at: www.isbe.net
- Roll Call/Pledge of Allegiance
- Consideration of and Possible Actions on Any Requests for Participation in Meeting by Other Means
- Public Participation
- Discussion Items
- Sylvia Puente, Chairperson, Education Funding Advisory Board
- FY 14 Budget Recommendation
- Presentations/Showcases
- Urbana School District 116
- Urbana School District 116
- Resolutions & Recognition
- Monique Chism, Ph.D. Resolution
- *Superintendent's Report – Consent Agenda
All action consideration items listed with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine and will be enacted in one motion and vote. Any board member who wishes separate discussion on any item listed on the consent agenda may remove that item from the consent agenda, in which event, the item will be considered in its normal sequence.
- *Approval of Minutes:
- Plenary Minutes: December 12-13, 2012
- *Rules for Initial Review
- Part 35 (Mentoring Program for New Principals)
- Part 405 (Payments to Certain Facilities under Section 14-7.05 of the School Code)
- Part 475 (Contested Cases and other Formal Hearings)
- Part 565 (Class Size Reduction Grants)
- Part 375 (Student Records)
- *Rules for Adoption
- Part 30 (Programs for the Preparation of Principals in Illinois)
- *Contracts and Grants Over $1 Million
- Approval of Contract: Special Education System
- Approval of Contract: Web-Based Illinois Nutrition System (WINS)
- Approval of Contract: Web-Based Illinois Nutrition System (WINS)
- RFSP for Student Information System
End of Consent Agenda
- FY 2014 ISBE Budget Recommendation
- ISAT Performance Level Changes
- Legislative Proposals – Multiple Measures Index and District Interventions
- Approval of Closed Session Minutes
- Discussion Items Continued .
- Legislative Update
- Other items for discussion
- Announcements
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- Adjourn
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The Data Access Object pattern in the Core J2EE Pattern Catalog suggests that while creating a robust J2EE application, you should abstract and encapsulate all access to a data source behind a common API. In terms of programming, what this means is to create an interface defining all of the business methods that your application needs. Inside your application, you use this interface when you want to interact with your data store, and then create a separate class that implements this interface and has the logic for interacting with that particular data store.
For example, consider the sample application developed in the
article iBatis: SQL Maps. This is a Struts application that allows you to
UPDATE and
DELETE SQL queries on a
CONTACT table. In this application, we are using SQL
Maps as the persistence framework. Now say we want to change this
application so that the
CONTACT table is stored in an
XML file instead of a RDBMS, or want
to use Hibernate for
SELECT queries and SQL Map for
the other three queries, perhaps because Hibernate provides better
support for caching. This will be very hard to implement, and if we
are able to change it at all, it won't be a very clean
A better approach for this type of problem would be to create a
ContactDAO interface and define business methods for
UPDATE, and
DELETE queries in this interface. Then you'd create
separate classes containing persistence logic for each method. So
there would be a class that knows how to interact with the
CONTACT table using SQL Maps, another class that
knows how to interact with the
CONTACT table if it is
stored in a XML file instead of a RDBMS, and so on.
Inside your application, you'd choose from different
implementations of
ContactDAO, depending on your requirements. This
relationship is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.
ContactDAO interface and implementations
Related Reading
J2EE Design Patterns
iBatis Data Access
Object (DAO) is an open source framework now hosted by Apache
and targeted at solving these type of problems. It provides you
with an infrastructure for creating applications based on the DAO
pattern. What this means is that you can create a XML file and
declare that XMLContactDAO.java is the implementation class
ContactDAO, which knows how to read and write
contacts in an XML file instead of a RDBMS.
SQLMapContactDAO is an implementation class that
knows how to interact with the
CONTACT table using SQL
Maps as its persistence framework. Inside your application, you ask
the DAO framework for an implementation of
ContactDAO for
XML, and it will provide you with an
object. Also, the DAO framework provides you with a uniform
interface to handle transaction management, irrespective of what
persistence mechanism you use. It will also take care of the
low-level details of connection management and initializing
persistence frameworks.
This article is a step-by-step guide on how to use the iBatis DAO framework in your application. We will start by looking at how to change our sample application developed in the SQL Maps article to use the DAO framework. Then we will talk about the architecture of the DAO framework. Next we will look at which transaction managers are supported in DAO framework, and will finish with a section on how to create your own transaction manager.
We will start by changing our sample application developed in the SQL Maps article to use the DAO framework.
Copy the ibatis-dao-2.jar file to your WEB-INF/lib folder.
Create DAOMap.xml at the root of your JavaSource folder, like this:
<context id="sqlmap">
<transactionManager type="SQLMAP">
<property name="SqlMapConfigResource" value=
<dao interface="com.sample.contact.dao.ContactDAO"
DAOMap.xml file is a deployment descriptor for your
iBatis DAO framework.
<daoConfig> is the root
element. Each
<context> element represents one
persistence mechanism. In our example, we will use only SQL Maps for
persistence, so we so have only one
element. Every persistence mechanism should have one
<transactionManager> element, which represents
the manager used for getting a connection to the underlying data
store and marking the transaction boundary. We will talk more about
transactionManager later.
<context> element also contains a list of
DAOs for the given particular persistence mechanism. In our
example, we want to create a
ContactDAO, which will use
SQL Maps for persistence, so we will add one
<dao> element defining
Create ContactDAO.java, like this:
public interface ContactDAO extends DAO {
public int insertContact(Contact contact);
public int updateContact(Contact contact);
public Contact selectContact(int contactId);
public int deleteContact(int contactId);
ContactDAO.java defines all the business methods required
by a client for interacting with the
CONTACT table.
Please note that all the methods in ContactDAO.java take a
Contact object as a parameter, which is a data
transfer object for carrying data.
Create a SQLMapContactDAO.java file, like this:
public class SQLMapContactDAO extends
SqlMapDaoTemplate implements ContactDAO {
public SQLMapContactDAO(DaoManager arg0) {
public int deleteContact(int contactId) {
return super.delete("deleteContact",
new Integer(contactId));
public int insertContact(Contact contact) {
Integer contactId =(Integer)super.insert
return contact.getContactId();
public Contact selectContact(int contactId) {
return (Contact)super.queryForObject("getContact",
new Integer(contactId));
public int updateContact(Contact contact) {
return super.update("updateContact",contact);
SQLMapContactDAO is a concrete implementation of the
ContactDAO interface, using SQL Maps as its
persistence mechanism. Note that we are not writing any code for
initializing SQL Maps, for getting a connection, or for marking a
transaction boundary in our class. Instead, we extend our class from
SqlMapDaoTemplate.java, which will take care of all
of the underlying repetitive operations for us. Business logic is only
thing that we need to worry about in our
SQLMapContactDAO class.
Change the
execute() method of
ContactSelectAction.java, like this:
Contact contactForm = (Contact) form;
Reader reader=
DaoManager daoManager =
ContactDAO contactDAO =
(ContactDAO) daoManager.getDao(
The last step is changing the
execute() method
in our
ContactSelectAction class to use the DAO framework.
In order to initialize the DAO framework, we need a
Reader object for DAOMap.xml. The iBatis framework
provides you with the
utility method that will allow you to read a resource as a
Reader. Once you have a
Reader object
representing the DAOMap.xml file, you can pass it to
DAOManagerBuilder.buildDaoManager(). This will return
an instance of
DaoManager, which should be used for
interacting with the DAO framework in the future. Ideally, you should
initialize your DAO framework at application startup. In our
application, we can do that by putting this code in a Struts plugin, but we are initializing it in the
execute method just
to keep our example simple.
Once you have an instance of
DaoManager, you can
call the
getDao() method with name of the interface
and persistence implementation (the value of the
attribute in the
<context> element) that you
want to use. In our example, we want an instance of
SQLMapContactDAO, so we will pass
ContactDAO as the name of the interface and
"sqlmap" as the persistence mechanism. Once you have
an instance of
SQLMapContactDAO, you can start calling
business methods on it.
You can try this example by downloading the sample code from the Resources section on the last page of this article.
Since we now have a working application, thanks to the DAO framework, let's take a peek at what is going on under the hood. First take a look Figure 2, a sequence diagram of how DAO works.
Figure 2. DAO sequence diagram (click for full-size version)
To initialize the DAO framework, you start by calling
DaoManagerBuilder.buildDaoManager() and passing the
DAOMap.xml file to it. In this method, the DAO framework
will read DAOMap.xml and create a corresponding
DAOManager object from it. This object will contain
data representing the supported persistence mechanisms. Which
interfaces are implemented, and what's the implementation class for
a particular combination of interface and persistence mechanism?
Basically, this is the Java object equivalent of the
DAOMap.xml file.
Once you have a
DAOManager object, you can query it
to get the SQL Map implementation of the
interface. The DAO framework will return a
object that wraps the implementation class. In our example, it will
return a
DaoProxy object for the
SQLMapContactDAO class. The
object allows the DAO framework to intercept calls to business methods.
In our example, when you call
contactDAO.selectContact(), the DAO framework will
intercept the call and check whether the transaction is already
started. If not, it will start a new transaction call by calling
startTransaction() method on the transaction manager.
Once the transaction is started, it will call the
selectContact() method of
SQLMapContactDAO within that transaction. The
DaoProxy object will intercept the call to
selectContact() method on its way back and use it for
committing the transaction.
By the way, if you don't want your transaction to be scoped on
the method level, or if you want to call multiple methods in one
transaction, you can call
daoManager.startTransaction() before calling a
business method on
ContactDAO, and commit that
transaction when done by calling
Now the only remaining issue is who takes care of initializing
the persistence mechanism and passing control to it. In our
example, that means deciding who passes the path of
SqlMapConfig.xml to the SQL Map framework and initializes
it. This also means deciding who takes care of the actual
interaction with the SQL Maps framework. The DAO framework provides us
Template classes for every persistence mechanism. In your
application, you should extend your implementation class from this
Template class, and write only business logic in your method; after
that, pass control to this template class, which will take care of
interacting with persistence mechanism. Our example calls
Integer(contactId));, which means
SqlMapDaoTemplate will take care of initializing and
interacting with the SQL Maps framework.
Your persistence mechanism may need some information for initialization. In our example, it requires the path to SqlMapConfig.xml, which contains information like the name of the driver class, the JDBC URL, the login info, etc. Such information required by a particular transaction manager is passed as a property element to it in the DaoMap.xml file. In the next section, we will talk about which transaction managers are supported by the DAO framework and the initialization information required by each.
The DAO framework provides built-in support for a few
persistence mechanisms. To use one of the built-in
transactionManagers, you have to do two things:
<transactionManager> element and passing
required information to it as properties.
Template class for that
transactionManager while creating your DAO
implementation class.
Now we will go through the built-in
transactionManagers and find out how to use each of
them in your application.
The JDBC transaction manager is good if you don't want to use any framework for persistence and want to write your own JDBC code. If you're using JDBC as your persistence mechanism, you can use one of the three connection management options:
SIMPLE: Use
SIMPLE as the value of
DataSource element if you want to use iBatis' own
implementation of connection pooling. Pass the usual JDBC
properties (
DriverManager class, JDBC URL, etc.) to it
Properties. Look at the online iBatis
documentation to learn about advanced connection properties.
<transactionManager type="JDBC">
<property name="DataSource" value="SIMPLE"/>
<property name="JDBC.Driver"
<property name="JDBC.ConnectionURL"
<property name="JDBC.Username"
<property name="JDBC.Password"
<property name="JDBC.DefaultAutoCommit"
value="true" />
DBCP: Use DBCP when you want to use Apache DBCP for
connection management. Please see the DAO online guide for
information on how to configure the DBCP connection pool.
JNDI: When you want to use the application
server's implementation of the connection pool, all you have to do is
provide the JNDI name of your connection pool and the DAO framework
will use it for getting a connection.
<transactionManager type="JDBC">
<property name="DataSource" value="JNDI"/>
<property name="DBJndiContext"
Then you will have to create a class that extends
JdbcDaoTemplate.java to implement your business
interface. In our sample, we created JDBCContactDAO.java. In
the business method, you can ask your superclass for the connection
by calling
getConnection(). Since we are not using any
persistence framework, we'll have to create our own
SQL queries and execute them.
public int updateContact(Contact contact) {
try {
Connection conn = getConnection();
PreparedStatement updateStmt =
conn.prepareStatement("UPDATE DB2ADMIN.CONTACT
updateStmt.setString(1, contact.getFirstName());
updateStmt.setString(2, contact.getLastName());
updateStmt.setInt(3, contact.getContactId());
return updateStmt.executeUpdate();
} catch (SQLException ex) {
throw new DaoException(ex);
When using a JDBC
transactionManager, the DAO framework will
control the transaction by calling
commit and
rollback methods on the
object, so transactions will be handled at the
Connection level instead of participating in global
If you are creating a J2EE application, then it is a much better
idea to use the connection pool provided by your application
server, because it will perform much better than a
SIMPLE or
connection pool. Also, with a J2EE application, RDBMS will be only
one of the transactional sources; in addition to RDBMS, you will
also have other things like JCA, MQ Server, etc. This means you
cannot start and commit transactions at the connection level;
instead, your code should participate in global transaction by
calling the
begin() and
commit() methods
on a
UserTransaction. For this type of requirement, you
can use JTA as
transctionManager and provide the JNDI URL of both
DataSource pool and
object to it.
<transactionManager type="JTA">
<property name="DBJndiContext"
<property name="UserTransaction"
Since Hibernate is a very popular persistence framework, iBatis
DAO offers support for it. To use Hibernate in your application,
add a
<transactionManager> element in your
DAOMap.xml file, as follows.
<transactionManager type="HIBERNATE">
<property name="hibernate.dialect"
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class"
<property name="hibernate.connection.url"
<property name="hibernate.connection.username"
<property name="hibernate.connection.password"
<property name="class.1"
You also need to create a DAO class extending
HibernateDaoTemplate. Inside your DAO, you can access
the Hibernate
Session object by calling
getSession() method.
Please look at the sample application (in the Resources section) for details about how to use the SQL Map persistence framework in your application.
<transactionManager type="EXTERNAL">
There may be situations when you want to read and write data from an XML file instead of an RDBMS. For example, imagine working on a banking project where you don't have direct access to bank's database, and instead the customer provides you with sample data in the form of XML files. Your requirement is that your application should use these XML files during development, and a RDBMS in production. We will take our contact application as example and change it so that it will read and write data from an XML file instead of an RDBMS. This requires two changes:
transactionManager in
your DAOMap.xml file.
public class XMLContactDAO implements ContactDAO {
public static final String
CONTACTXMLNAME = "c:\\Contact.xml";
public XMLContactDAO(DaoManager manager) {
public int insertContact(Contact contact) {
HashMap contactMap = loadChanges();
if (contactMap.get(new Integer
(contact.getContactId())) == null)
Integer(contact.getContactId()), contact);
return contact.getContactId();
public Contact selectContact(int contactId) {
HashMap contactMap = loadChanges();
return (Contact) contactMap.get(
new Integer(contactId));
public HashMap loadChanges() {
HashMap contactMap = null;
try {
XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver());
xstream.alias("contact", Contact.class);
contactMap =
(HashMap) xstream.fromXML(
new FileReader(CONTACTXMLNAME),HashMap.class);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
return new HashMap();
return contactMap;
public void saveChanges(HashMap contactMap) {
try {
XStream xstream = new XStream();
xstream.alias("contact", Contact.class);
new FileWriter(CONTACTXMLNAME));
} catch (IOException e) {
In this example,
XMLContactDAO implements the
ContactDAO business interface. Since we are using an
EXTERNAL transaction manager, we cannot use any of the
Template classes. In our class, we have created two simple
loadChanges() and
saveChanges--for reading and writing an XML file using the XStream framework. XStream is
open source framework that helps you read an XML file as a
Java object and save a Java object as an XML file.
Nowadays, a lot of new persistence frameworks are coming up. As a developer, this is both good and bad for you. It's good because now you have many more options to choose from. But it's bad because you have to make choices. And the bigger problem is that you have to commit to one persistence framework at the start of the project, at which point you may not be completely clear on project requirements or completely sure if a particular framework can fulfill all your requirements. DAO is a very easy-to-use and useful framework that guards against changes in persistence mechanisms. It may look like you're making some investment up front, but it will definitely help you in the long run.
Sunil Patil has worked on J2EE technologies for more than five years. His areas of interest include object relational mapping tools, UI frameworks, and portals.
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And then there was one: Chad Durbin has signed a one-year, $1.635 million deal with Phillies.
Right on the heels of Jayson Werth signing a two-year, $10 million contract with the Phils, the Phillies has just signed reliever Chad Durbin to a one-year deal worth $1.635 million dollars, leaving Ryan Howard as the only one of the original arbitration eight still not under contract.
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Okay – I'll see what I can do about Howard and the Phillies! Thinking happy thoughts!
Those cards you had in the 70's are probably worth a fair bit now. Not anywhere near to where they were in the late 80's, but probably a fair bit. Looks like you guys got a 'career year,' out of Durbin last season. Well, as far as the ERA, even though he did start in the past. Those middle relieve men are always so underrated, but they do play a big role in a team's success.
To Julia: Thanks. Hopefully, we'll hear something in a week or two.
Sadly, I'd already sold the non-World Series sports cards that I'd own (I also had Football and Hockey cards to go along with the Baseball cards.). The person that I'd sold them to told me that if I had kept my cards in better condition I would have made a lot of money, since most of my cards were pre-1980. But, hey, I was not a card collector back then, I'd only collected cards. As for Durbin, hopefully that wasn't his only career year, and yes, middle relievers are overlooked, but, if they are doing their jobs, they should be, since they are not blowing games before handing it off to the eighth inning specialist and the closer.


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Steph is getting exactly what he deserves. Also Walsh and D'antoni have handled this guy very well. If D'Antoni had played Marbury during the season he would have lost the team like Isiah did last year. He played in the pre-season as a showcase to other teams. His large contract and team wreaker reputation made him impossible to move. And one more important thing, teams are bad because Marbury is on the team. It has nothing to do with who he plays with. He couldn't play with Garnett. The Nets and Phoenix both significantly improved after they dumped his ego and hopefully so will the Knicks. Face facts everyone, he is a very bad guy and an awful teammate. If he had a brain, he'd have an agent who could have advised him on how to get a buyout and move on. Instead he acts like a cheap baby. He's finished. Walsh should do what he wants to this jerk.
No player is bigger then the team, i love Marbury but i think he should go now. Should i follow him to where ever he lands? fk no. As soon as we play against him i will abuse the **** out of him. Team always comes first.
It however pisses me off seeing people take enjoyment out of this whole situation, its embarrasing and a shame.
Marbury is the best player on this team, unfortunatley himself and the coach\players have issues and its best he leaves.
Let's take a look at the various team records of all the teams Marbury has left.
He was traded from Minnesota during the 1998/1999 season. The Wolves had a record of 45-37 the previous season. They wound up with a 25-25 record in the lock out shortened 98/99 season. However in the 1999/2000 season they finished with their best record in franchise history at 50-32.
He was traded from Minny to NJ and stayed there for part of 3 seasons. His first season there they finished 16-34 (good for last place). The next season they finished 31-51. And his final season in NJ they finished 26-56. The next season while Marbury was in Phoenix, the Nets finished 52-30 and won the Eastern Conference.
In 2001 he was traded to Phoenix. Phoenix had a 51-31 record the previous season. Marbury helped get them to a 36-46 record in his first season with them. That would be second to last in the Pacific Division. In his second full season with Phoenix they were able to finish at 44-38 which was good for 8th place in the conference. They lost in the first round to the eventual NBA Champion Spurs. Marbury was traded midway through the 2003/2004 season. The Suns were 12-22 when he was traded and finished the season 29-53. The Knicks were 14-21 before the trade and finished 39-43 to be the 7th seed in the East. Phoenix finished the next season 62-20, good for first place in the Western Conference.
His first full season in NY, the Knicks finished 33-49, missing the playoffs. The next season they finished 23-59. They finished 33-49 the next season (2006/2007). And finally last year when Marbury played only 24 games, the knicks finished 23-59.
There seems to be a pattern here...
The Knicks will be a joke of a franchise long after Steph is gone. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a blind homer. This team sucks. Even if they somehow made the playoffs in the LEASTERN Conference, they'd get bumped first round. As long as D'antoni is coach, we'll be an undersized unit, that plays no defense. And that is a joke. No matter how many 130 point games there are.
The Knicks can't do a damn thing. Marbury is only willing to take 1 million less as of right now, according to reports. Dolan wants to pay Marbury as little as possible, and Walsh is against a buyout all together.
Knicks options: buy out or trade.
The issue with trading him is we will likely take back salary. Obviously the Knicks would need to come to a fair agreement with Marbury on a buyout to end this thing immediately. Ether that or live with the drama for the rest of the season.
^ i say this thing doesnt get settled till around the deadline thats when Walsh is most active
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Marbury being Out of sight and out of mind can only help the situation. Not saying I agree with but just saying this can only help.
Marbury is a scapegoat for a team who has not had a solid center, in years, something which is generally a mainstay, amongst the successful NBA teams. Without a good big man, it's tough in this league. Without having provided Marbury a good big man, I don't feel comfortable blaming him, or Crawford, for the failures of this team, contrary to many posters on this site, who point at our former backcourt, when assigning blame for our team's failures.
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01-02 52-30 .634 Year after Marbury left
00-01 51-31 .623 Year before Marbury arrived
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bye bye baby... go collect your millions and take a cry and a crap in your rolls royce,
and don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
We're all better off letting the "best point guard in the NBA"
take his negatude to another team.
This situation was a total embarrassment/disappointment to the team
and to New Yorkers, who work hard for their money, just to live in this
great town. Kudos to Walsh for taking charge and making it happen,
sooner than later.
I feel real sorry for Me-bury, he tried at first, but eventually followed a
mental downward spiral, and succumbed to being the headcase that he is.
Duhon the Dime will prove to be the better team player.
I think we're two players away from championship material:
Thabeet and LBJ.... dream on.
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My children are 3 years apart. For about a year before I got pregnant with my daughter, I had debilitating migraines. I was incapacitated for an average of 6 days a month and most of the other days of the month I had transformed migraine (daily headaches). I could not find adequate treatment and I was very scared that I would be unable to continue working. When I got pregnant with my daughter my migraines completely disappeared!
They are coming back now and I just had an amazing realization. My migraines became debilitating after my son stopped nursing. Currently, I had a 4 day migraine before Christmas and 3 days of milder "hangover" headache after. And this coincides with my "weaning" of my 14 month old daughter. We had gone down to nursing twice per day. I have had my "period" for months but they are light and irregular. I think the most recent one at the beginning of my migraine was my first "real" period.
When I had this realization, I started to nurse my daughter frequently during my 4 day Christmas weekend. I feel great now. Of course, the migraine may have run it's course but I am particularly surprised that the daily headache is gone...
So I am thinking that the prolactin that nursing stimulates is helping me. I am just speculating but what do you think? Could 4 days really spike my prolactin? Also, do we really have that much prolactin in our blood stream when we are in the late phase of breastfeeding. I thought it was mostly mechanical supply and demand type production now.
I am considering starting to pump again at lunch at work and trying to breastfeed more at home. I cut down on nursing because I was really touched out but I think I have had the respite I need and I can get back to it. It's a little exciting to think that I nursing could be like a daily preventative for me while at the same time benefitting my baby.
The other thing I have been thinking about is what will I do when I wean. I don't really want to nurse past 2 years old and I admit this is due partly to social pressure and partly to my own discomfort with the idea. Anyway, when I wean, I thought maybe taking galactagogues would increase my baseline prolactin even if I am not nursing. Is that how galactagogues work?
Do you need to be suckling?
I will be keeping a headache diary to see how this goes...
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The Tigers, who committed 15 penalties, roared back from a 28-14 halftime deficit to tie the game heading into the fourth quarter. But Edna's De'Quan Cantu scored his third touchdown of the game with 4:38 remaining to put the Cowboys ahead for good and Deonte Jones' 33-yard return of an interception secured a 41-28 win over the Tigers.
"Our kids didn't quit," Goliad coach John Mares said. "That was a very positive point about that game. We're very pleased with the way they handled themselves and came back fighting. That tells you what kind of good kids you've got and shows you that good things are going to happen."
Edna broke a 7-7 tie in a first quarter that saw both teams combine for 35 points. After Goliad quarterback Dalton Sturm, who had 155 yards rushing in the game and scored four touchdowns 0, tied the game at 7-all with 48-yard touchdown run, Tyler Kucera returned the ensuing kickoff 87 yards for a score to put the Cowboys back up 13-7.
With 1:30 remaining in the first quarter, Edna's Austin Kelley scored on a 4-yard run and threw a 2-point conversion pass to Cantu to pad the Cowboys' lead to 21-7.
Goliad answered with Sturm's 1-yard touchdown run just before halftime, but Cantu struck again in the second quarter on a 9-yard reception that sent Edna into halftime with a 28-14 lead.
The Tigers (2-1) came back in the third quarter as Sturm scored from 1 yard out and added an 8-yard TD run with 8:53 left in the game to knot the game at 28-all.
But Edna (2-1) scored on its next possession when Cantu, who rushed for 87 yards on nine carries, broke loose again on an 8-yard touchdown run to give the Cowboys a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
Edna, which lost its season opener 56-0 to Refugio, utilized its speed advantage over the Tigers to roll up 339 yards of offense.
"That's why we play people like this because you don't see speed like that," Mares said. "We'll now be better prepared to play somebody like that down the road."
Edna was flagged 19 times and both teams combined for 34 penalties in the game. Goliad's miscues occurred at inopportune times to stop potential scoring drives.
"It's back to the drawing board," Mares said. We have to eliminate those penalties. Those things tend to kill you, especially when you have drives going and you're inside the 20. That's something you work on every day in practice and for some reason Friday night it reached up and grabbed us."
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Nothing says US American like a cute, dumb, South Carolinian teenager proclaiming our need to help the "education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as"… well, I mean, nothing says US American like that and fireworks. Of course.
And boy are the fireworks a flyin'.
Satiating our drama-seeking souls, Placido Polanco provided plenty of fireworks after getting clipped in the nuts by a foul tip in last evening's 16-inning game against the Twins. He took a long, painful breather before getting back in the batter's box and hitting the game-winning single right back up the middle.
In Cincinnati, Albert Pujols — BASEBALL GOD INCARNATE — made a strong case for his being walked with the bases loaded. Instead, David Weathers (whom Albert owns) threw one right down central. Pujols wasted no time in hitting his fourth grand slam of the season.
Still, these on the field heroics have nothing on the fireworks Sarah Palin shot off Friday by announcing her resignation as governor of the great state of Alaska.
We put our faithful RSBS interns on the beat and they discovered the following reasons behind Palin's controversial gubernatorial departure:
- Alaska is boring
- wants to move to Canada, where people actually know what a "hockey mom" is
- needs more time to combat pro-choice, but only in cases involving middle to upper class white people
- Todd Palin is tired of being shown up by his librarian-hot wife
- the Washington Nationals are holding tryouts and she's been working on a knuckle ball
- wants to hunt down Katie Couric, shoot her and feed her to bears
- Lorne Michaels offered her a permanent role on SNL as the new reincarnation of Dana Carvey's Church Lady (Tina Fey's position as Palin will not change)
- experimenting with new medical procedure that will allow her to "grow a pair"
- embarrassed she misunderstood the TransCanada Pipeline project did not involve weed
- earmarked billions to provide maps to US Americans out there in our nation who don't have maps, which will eventually aid the education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as so everyone can plainly see that the "bridge to nowhere" does go to a town with a population of 50 people, all of whom desperately need maps to find that $442 million bridge
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Happy 4th, my fellow US Americans!
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Lol, hah, I knew you'd take this holiday to.. celebrate Miss South Carolina..
"the Washington Nationals are holding tryouts and she's been working on a knuckle ball" .. I don't even think they would take her.. Nationals may suckk, but they, unlike Republicans, know better than that..
If Palin is setting herself up for a run for president w/ this resignation.. we get to laugh at her all over again, what what! Lol..
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Yeeeeeeeees I was waiting for this. 🙂 RSBS never disappoints. "Bridge to nowhere" bullet point, hilarious. And feeding Katie Couric to bears. Also a good time. Hahahaha! Well done!
On the real, V. The day Palin leaves this earth is the day funny stops.
Jen — We aim to please. Seriously, that bridge goes to a town of 50 people! And Palin flip-flopped positions on the subject… MUST HAVE BULLET POINTS😉
Whether Palin is planning a Presidential run, trying out for the Nats, or moving to Canada, as long as those Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin skits continue, I don't really care what she does.
Paige — Pretty sure we'll be seeing those skits for a long time still.
and I just mispelled hear
Maybe she can get hired as one of your "interns?" She's out of work, so why not? Hope you're having a good 4th.
Maybe she's worked out a deal to fill in for Letterman on his nights off.
Steve T.
If you think Palin is funny, you'll love this: Stop by my blog to read about how FOX Sports on the 4th of July, insulted not only the USA, but both Lou Gehrig and Jamie Moyer all in one shot… http://philliesphollowers.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/07/fireworks_in_philly_-_how_fox.html
Not to mention thousands of baseball fans around the world…sad.
Well, at least we have Palin to cheer us up :O)
I always love seeing fireworks on the 4th of July. It's the biggest event of the summer.
happy 4th. very funny post!
Miss South Carolina and Sarah Palin is way too much dumb for me to take at one time. I haz hed owie.
I was about to make a crack about her being an Obamessiah supporter because of the simpleton-attracting campaign catch phase "Yes, We Can", but quickly realized I was showing wayyy too much confidence in her two, like, brain cells.
Johnny – We'll be hearing about her for years to come I'm afraid.
Jane — That's a great idea! Get me her info and we'll go from there.
Steve — Golden. That would be golden.
Jenn — Fox and Palin are in cahoots. Sad world.
Dillon — Me too. Especially on the ballfield.
FBC — Thanks. Back atchya!
Erin — I haz one tooz.
Jonestein — If you look closely, I think there are at least three.
She is still on my list of PILF, which of course doesn't include Hillary.
You got to think that a place that is famous more for a crabbing show than for anything else beside the sled race might need a better PR model than Palin.
But she did what is expected of a politician, she gave people material for a year, and they are still using the "Palin" card.
Great job by the inter. Be sure to insert an extra morsel of Snickers bar with almonds in their daily mush bowl.
Always a pleasure to visit the RSBS. Maybe you can be our 51st state……….The State of Mind.
I visit it already enough for citizenship
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RR — For that comment you get to be Governor of RSBS… if you're up for the job that is😉
I once dated a Governor's daughter for a month. That could be enough political clout for at least Lt. Governor.
I will relocate the Governor's Mansion to Belize, or maybe Honduras lol
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Chase Utley is a hard nosed player and a guy who plays the game the right way (I know some of you hate that cliche, so I brought it out just for you). He has no track record of dirty play in his past, which is what makes this strange. David Wright has a problem with the way Utley slid into second base to break up a potential double play ball. Wright, the unofficial leader of the Mets, said it was unwarranted and borderline. Disagree? Me too.
I'll preface this argument by saying I respect the hell out of Wright – more than most other MLB players, too. He's one of those guys you wish you had, even though he resides in a city you may loathe during baseball season. This is seemingly out of character for him. If Wright hadn't been so outspoken about the hard slide, it would have gone down as just another play. Yes, the Phillies announcers took note of it, but in my opinion, it looked like a good hard slide. Utley was well within the basepath and slid just as he got to the base, a more than legal play.
The Mets seem to want to "handle" this situation tonight, whatever that means. They'll likely hit Utley, which has happened several times before. But it makes little sense.
Ruben Tejada, the Mets second baseman that took the brunt of the hit, seemed OK with it after last night's game, which should tell you something. Perhaps Wright is teeming from his teams inability to win games. Frustration may have boiled over, which is understandable. But to call out Utley on a play that is well within the rules of the game is absurd.
I will ask this: if you were on the other side, would it have looked clean to you? Try to approach it as a Mets fan or player. Would you stand for that if it was the other way around? Tough call, but in the end no one was injured, so chalk it up as a gritty play by a guy that just want to win, and will at any cost.
So, as he usually does, Chase Utley will take first base after being hit by a pitch. He'll run up the first base line and if the situation occurs again, you'd better believe he'll take out the second baseman just as he was taught to.
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Funk the Mets and the horse they rode in on.
dis·grace (ds-grs)
1. Loss of honor, respect, or reputation; shame.
2. The condition of being strongly and generally disapproved.
3. One that brings disfavor or discredit
And I dont want Wright
His first ever meanigful hit will be his very first ever.
Sell loserdom someplace else. Im not buying. Try a Braves blog today.
Maybe he and Bobby Abreau can can go somewhere and declare how great they are without ever getting a meanigful hit.
I wouldnt let David Wright come to my house and mow my lawn.
Where do you guys come up with this stuff?
Oh the media told you.
Respect? Is this a joke post? Like Don M. telling me how Beltran is the difference and look out for the Metsies.
Look out here come those hard nosed Metsies. Led by David Wright.
When he or they earn this come get me and alert the media. Or you already have?
re·spect (r-spkt)
1. To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem.
2. To avoid violation of or interference with: respect the speed limit.
3. To relate or refer to; concern.
"Chase plays the game hard. He plays the game passionately. But there's a thin line between going out there and playing the game hard and going out there and trying to get somebody hurt. That's a thin line. Nobody's going to go and push us around. We're going to have our teammates' back. I think cooler heads prevailed, but we've got to let them know that over on our side, we didn't appreciate it, and we're going to go out there and have our teammates' backs. … If he doesn't mind guys coming like that after him, then everything's good."
David Wright after the game. He compliments one of the best second basemen in the game and then sticks up for his team. Perfectly normal and frankly it's kinda what you want on your team. He also said; "It's a legal slide. It's within the rules. But somebody's going to get hurt."
On the other hand, here is what Reyes had to say:
"I think it's a little dirty because I think he slid right on top of the base. He doesn't need to do that there in that situation."
If our boys were on the receiving side, the comments of David Wright are definitely within reason. Reyes on the other hand is typical of what I believe the Mess are about.
Tonight's lineup vs. NYM: Victorino CF, Polanco 3B, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Werth RF, Ibanez LF, Ruiz C, Valdez SS, KendricK
Breaking news
The Dallas Cowboys with thier 0-2 record are going to win the super bowl again this year. ESPN told me so.
Its their 9th in a row I believe.
I read somewhere else that they have won 1 playoff game since 1996 (against Mcnabb as f that counts) but I don't believe it.
But I have to give them respect. Its earned like Wright and the Metsies.
Wright is sitting in te front car of the parade in Dallas with Jerry Jones Tony Romo and JFK.
@ Jay
Just what I need some excitement.
I dont care. If you told me they can brawl and it wont affect the playoffs I am all for it. Just no injuries.
I have 0 respect for teams like the Mets and their over rated players.
My answers to Pat's questions-
IF I were on the other side …….
Would it have looked clean to me- if I were on the other side honestly, no.
Would I stand for it- honestly, no.
Why-because I'd be on the other side, I don't really think it was dirty.
That being said, how stupid can these azzholes be???
If my team were on the other side, retribution would have already taken place. My pitcher would have already done the job, against anyone on the Phillies. Or my next extra base hit or advancement of a runner(did they get any after that?) would have resulted in a hard slide. It would be done like men do. It would be done and over.
But these aren't men, these are the Muts. These crybabies scream from the dugout, then they go to the media, and do everything they can to call attention to themselves. What a bunch of wussies!
And stupid wussies at that, instead of handling it like men, they bring all the attention of umpiring crew and the league offices and every sports outlet in the country- right to the next game.
After Jerry Manuel's failure to bunt which resulted in a DP on national TV last week, I thought maybe it was just his stupidity, now I know it's their collective lack of intelligence that makes them who they are -Ladies and gentlemen meet the Muts
"His first ever meanigful hit will be his very first ever"
That's a great quote Andrew, I love it.
Here's mine-it pertains to the Jason Werth situation. I believe the club should sign him, they should meet halfway, or whatever. But I don't think they will.
"Somewhere, there's an Oswalt for every Lee"
JPB- The big piece is going to have a break out game tonight, I feel it buddy.
Oswalt better than Lee? How dare you.
Only that Oswalt is here next year and Lee regardless wouldnt have been.
I have an issue with paper champions like the Mets and in other sports I wont name again. It pisses me off.
You dont win or get crowned on sportsscenter. Even if Kornheiser would like you to believe so.
Lefty is correct. You dont announce it you just do it and they should have done it last night. They are pathetic on every level.
Continuing from the last thread re: Werth. We have absolutely no idea what the Phillies real breaking point for payroll is. It could be much higher than we know (and it probably is). Jayson Werth is great for this club. I think the problem will ultimately come down to years, not money. I would not feel comfortable giving Jayson silly money for more than 3 years. But he's gonna want 6 or 7 years, 5 at the least. You just can't get sucked into a 6y100m contract for Jayson Werth. The length of that contract would take him well past the shelf life of this team. You can't keep everybody…unless you can.
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Charlie, asked if he thinks the Mets will retaliate, issues a diplomatic response: "Whatever."
If I were on the other side as a Mets player or fan, how would I feel? Hmm, its hard to say, I meant unlike Mets fans, I have some level class and intelligence, so I suppose if I had no class, no itelligence, and no life, and was jealous of the Phillies, I might have a problem with it, but I think thats a bit of a stretch. Its jealousy. LOL. 🙂 One thing is certain, they will hit Utley, and the pitcher should be ejected right away because they said they would "take care of it". Its one thing to hit a player after one of yours was hit, but to hit a player because of a clean play from the night before, is a bit much. Just me I guess.
lefty-tonight ryan has a big night HOPEFULLY!!!!!!!!!
Charlie's response in this situation is perfect.
RT @RandyJMiller: Jimmy Rollins will start Sunday for the Phillies
One good thing is,as someone has already mentioned is that kk is pitching.That will be a good thing if we have to hit someone tonight,because who cares if he gets suspended….lol
Whatever is a slang term meaning "whatever you say" or "I don't care what you say". The term is used to dismiss a previous statement and express indifference. In the late 20th century and early 21st century, the word became a sentence in its own right; in effect an interjection, it is used as a powerful conversational blocking tool, leaving the responder without a convincing retort. Anything they do or say can simply be blocked by the retort of "whatever".
The phillies arent hitting anyone.
This is nonsense
They have won 11 in a row. Could just forfeit these next 2 games and be OK. You cant get into this with loserville.
Now certain members of the NY Mess want to act like they have heart? Now? Where were these jokers the last 2.5 months? This team was in the hunt and just rolled over. Pathetic. Maybe if it was a different team talking tough and posturing I could take it seriously. This pathetic bunch of she-males castrated themselves on July 8th. David Wright, kindly stfu & stfd. Thanks, sweetie.
Charlie was not "dismissing" the questioner (no doubt Wheels), I think he was "expressing indifference".
Meaning, we have much more important things to plan for and think about.
@ Lefty
I have determined this is all part of some vast left wing conspiracy.
Led by Steve Carlton and Sandy Koufax and Warren Spahn.
I don't want David Wright and his perfectly plucked eyebrows.
Is there a video of this anywhere?
This situation is the perfect is example of why the Phillies are the Phillies (winners of three straight and hopefully soon to be four straight NL East crowns) and the Mets are the Mets (absolute disgraceful players with no heart…outside of David Wright).
Yes, it was a hard slide. But umm was he outside the baseline…no. Did he come in spikes up….no. Was the game a blow out either way making the slide superflous….no. Was Utley just trying to win a game….yes. That is what baseball is about. You try to win the game. The Phillies have the best record in baseball because of plays like that. The Mets are in fourth place precisely because they don't do things like that, they don't lay it on the line night in and night out, and subsequently they will be playing golf when the Phillies are playing baseball in a week and a half.
The fact is…David Wright complained in essence that Utley played the game to hard. Sorry David, I did not know MLB was a 50 years and older softball league. This is the pros. Maybe his team should take note of Utley and realize this is a star player doing the little things Wright (get it!!).
The Mets at this point are just hilarious and I hope the Phils sweep them and we can clinch and celebrate in their faces on Sunday.
Way to go Big Man
Wah wah wah, pass me a box of tissues, I'm not happy.
I freakin hate david wright. Overrated pos.
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Comments: I met Brandon Palaniuk during a practice day on Logan Martin and had a short conversation, I asked his fav type swim bait. His response was, he liked hollow belly swim baits most. we spoke for a few minutes, and before we parted, he stooped down to his tackle and threw this Swim Bait over to me and asked for posts to his page with results. The next morning I was back up in the current with the Swim Bait tied on 20lb mono. I caught 10 stripers from 17 to 25lbs and looseing 6 I didn't get to see, but felt good pulling drag.Look back through my facebook posts and see the Stripers it has produced. it is an awesome bait made to attract big fish, and it does that well. The down faults I discovered, I had to replace the line clasp that came on it, it couldn't handle these Stripers. I do lose fish with the 5in bait, treble hook isn't big enough, but wouldn't run tru with bigger hook. Have lost two fins in the head section from these vicious stripers. Well worth the experience I got from this bait. I can say, I'll be having another one. This one is retired for now.
From: Anniston: AL
Comments: The fast sink CB 5" swimbait is the most versatile swimbait I've thrown. You can burn it as fast as you can reel and it tracks perfect. The top hook is a must for headfirst strikes. My favorite colors are Blueback Herring, Perch and Smallmouth.
From: Kevin: Guntersville, AL
Comments: Great Bait, worth the money. I've caught fish on it in every lake I've tried so far to include Hartwell, Keowee, Norman and Wylie. Awesome action and very durable.
From: Drew: Clemson, SC