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9/29/12 Tigers at Twins: Target Field
It was the late afternoon, and I was back to Target Field for my second game of Fan Appreciation Weekend:
When I got in, all I can say is: I love Fox's Saturday game-of-the-week:
Coming into this series, I figured I would have one game with batting practice (Friday) and two without (Saturday and Sunday). Because of Fox, this game got moved to 3:00 from its regular time of 12:00, thus making it so the cage was up when I got in– meaning their *would* be batting practice.
Except, on further inspection, it would only be the Tigers taking batting practice:
Whatever. I was expecting NO batting practice, so any at all was just fine with me.
As you can see, I was behind the Tigers' dugout. So when Danny Worth came out with a baseball but no throwing partner, I–as I do with most players– half-jokingly asked him if he wanted to play catch. Upon me asking, he threw me the ball. We ended up having a 5-minute catch that ended in me throwing an extremely bad slider. Here he is going out to throw after his partner showed up:
All I can say is it's always a great experience to play catch with a major league player. I don't care if it's someone most people have never heard of, it's a fun experience.
Anyway, Worth played catch for a while before heading into the field to work on his defense:
On his way to second base, he hooked me up with not the ball we played catch with but a different ball. I promptly gave it away to a kid by the dugout. (Not the one in the orange in the previous picture.)
After that, I headed down the line to try to get a ball from the Tigers' pitchers who were warming up:
Except, if you can see, the two players closest to me were the Tigers' two bullpen catchers, Scott Pickens and another one not on the roster. When Scott Pickens finished throwing, I asked him for the ball and he gladly obliged:
After that, I headed up to the left field bleachers for Miguel Cabrera's group:
And this was the view to my left:
And this was the view to my left:
Unlike the previous day, the Tigers were indeed hitting balls to the first level in left field. Unfortunately, I ended up with the same amount of baseballs after this group as I did the previous day: zero. The guy you see in the orange in the last picture was right on the staircase I wanted to be on. In addition to that, by the way he moved in the bleachers, I could tell this wasn't his first game trying to catch baseballs. In other words: he had range. This range resulted me in having to be a full section away from him if I hoped to catch anything, and the Tigers hit all of their baseballs outside of my range as a result.
In the next group, I headed over to right field as it was highlighted by Andy Dirks and Don Kelly (two lefties). While I was out in the standing room, I got this ball off the bat of Kelly:
Right off his bat, it bounced off the second deck you see in the picture. As I was running back to see where it was going, it was bouncing down the stairs. However, I wasn't the only one chasing after the ball; there was actually another guy who had me beat as it went down the stairs. What happened was he took the wrong route to the ball. Before I explain his mistake, here is the ball's path:
The ball bounced behind this souvenir stand. The other guy ran directly after the ball, going behind the stand as well. Meanwhile, I knew the concrete behind the stand in addition to the ball's trajectory meant the ball would be most quickly reached by going in front of the stand, so I did that and awaited the ball like it was a routine ground ball.
During my time in right field, I was alternating between standing in the actual seats and the standing room itself. In my "actual seat" portion of batting practice, I convinced Brayan Villarreal to toss me a ball. Actually, I think "convinced" is too active a word. I pretty much tipped my Tigers cap at him when he looked my way and he tossed me the next ball he fielded:
That would be it for batting practice. Four balls was good, but there was almost certainly not going to be batting practice the next day, so if I stayed where I was for the day, I would have had to get five balls the final day to get to my goal of 444 career baseballs. As much as I don't like to doubt what I can and can't do, I preferred my chances of getting to my goal if I got as many baseballs as I could this day and not have to rely on a ridiculous non-BP day to get to my goal. Where I'm going with in all of this is that this was my view for position player pre-game warm-ups. Except there was one problem:
There were three baseballs brought out, but only one person brought his glove out. Thankfully, Austin Jackson righted this problem by tossing the two excess baseballs into the crowd even though no one played catch with them (one of many examples I have seen of him being a nice guy):
For those math majors of you at home, you'll know that was my fifth ball of the day. This is great considering I didn't expect to have any batting practice. What's even better? This was my view for the game:
I didn't get anything there, but there was a funny aspect of this game: It was the end of September in Minnesota, yet it was very warm. As I write this, Minnesota has shown its much cooler side (it's 45 degrees), but at the time, it was so hot I had an excuse to finally buy a bottle (can?) of Harmon Killebrew root beer:
It was probably the best root beer I've ever had (but still not worth the $4.50 I paid for it…even if root beer is my favorite type of soda). Anyway, that was it for the day. It would leave me at 440 career baseballs. I would return the next day to attempt to get four baseballs in a BP-less day to reach my season's goal of 222 baseballs I set in this entry.
- 5 Baseballs at this game (4 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 436-440 for my lifetime:
- 218 Balls in 52 Games= 4.19 Balls Per Game
- 5 Balls x 32,839 Fans= 164,195 Competition Factor
- 61 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 11 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 50 Balls in 13 Games at Target Field= 3.85 Balls Per Game
- 12 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 11 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 11:07- 7:12= 8 Hours 5 Minutes
Observing Baseball's Two-Year Anniversary
Sorry it's two days late– given October 13th was Observing Baseball's two-year anniversary– (YouTube was giving me problems uploading it, FOUR TIMES) but this is a video tribute-type thing I did for two years of Observing Baseball. Feel free to pause the video to click the links below the video that I allude to in the video itself. The reason I wanted to celebrate this way is because I know a bunch of you have joined on in the past year. Also, sorry for the length. I prioritized having everything in there over making it watchable for people with ADD. Enjoy:
1. One-year anniversary of Observing Baseball
2. Sabermetrics (the explanation)
3. 2011 Baltimore Orioles Offseason Recap and Preview
4. Survey of Adults' Perception of Baseball
5. Case Study on Morality in Baseball
6. 4/17/11 Rangers at Yankees: Yankee Stadium
7. 6/15/11 Cardinals at Nationals: Nationals Park
8. 7/2/11 Cardinals at Rays: Tropicana Field (100th Ball game)
10. 8/9/11 Red Sox at Twins (First Shutout)
11. 8/23/11 Diamondbacks at Nationals: Nationals Park (Earthquake Game)
12. Re-view of the Preview: Kansas City Royals
13. Collected Baseball knick-knacks
14. Some Statistical Blog Stuff
15. 4/7/12 Twins at Orioles: Camden Yards
16. 4/10/12 Fordham Prep at Elmira: TicketReturn.com Field
17. Blast From The Baseball Past: 8/23/08 Dodgers at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park
18. 6/22/12 Nationals at Orioles: Camden Yards
19. 7/6/12 Rockies at Nationals: Nationals Park
20. 8/20/12 Braves at Nationals: Nationals Park
21. 9/13/12 Royals at Twins: Target Field (Trevor Plouffe home run game)
And one good thing about being two days late on this entry is I get to shoutout all of the cool people who wished me a happy birthday. Here are said cool people:
9/28/12 Tigers at Twins: Target Field
So I filmed a Before The Gates Open Video… Wanna see it? Too bad, I'm showing you anyway:
Since it was Friday, the stadium opened 2 hours early– or when the Twins were still hitting. I didn't get anything from the Twins. When the Tigers started to warm up, this was my view:
If you couldn't tell, those were the position players. Both them and the pitchers didn't give in to my requests for baseballs. Well not all of them, but while I was in the midst of waiting for players to finish throwing, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder's hitting group started hitting. I first saw Cabrera, so I rushed over here:
At the time, Miguel Cabrera was only a couple home runs from having an outright triple crown. Let me just say this: I can see why he was in this position. He was hitting line drives everywhere on the field. Do you want to know what's scary? It's that he's just so much more talented than other people. Major League Baseball is a place for freaks of nature. Miguel Cabrera is a freak among freaks.
Sadly, him and the other righty hitters in his group were hitting the ball too far, and were making on of the ballhawking flaws of Target Field very evident: besides the fact that you risk serious injury going up and down the bleachers due to the slope of it, this is also the view from the front row when you stare straight up:
That would be the overhang of the second deck. Because of the second deck, there are very few rows in the left field bleachers where a home run can be hit to without having to be a line drive.
It was a try unlucky day for me in general. Before the gates opened, when both Paul and Tony said they would be going into the standing room for Prince Fielder's at-bats, I stated I would be going up to the second deck because I thought he'd be hitting them up there. Instead, I decided to try my luck in the standing room for Fielder's at-bats. And whadda ya know, Fielder wasn't hitting much at all, but whatever he did hit was going into the second deck. In running to right field for Fielder's at-bats, I only missed one round of one righty hitter. In that round, Delmon Young hit THREE baseballs within five feet of where I had been standing for the righties. It was a generally disappointing group given it contained Fielder, Young, AND Cabrera. At the end of that group, I expected to have five baseballs; instead I was still at zero.
I was unable to get anything else for a long period in BP. Towards the end of it, though, I got Phil Coke to toss me a ball in the left-center field corner; I quickly gave it away to a kid right next to me who had also been calling out to him. I got a nod from Coke in response, so that was fun.
At the very end of batting practice, I went down to the Tigers' dugout. I got there just as the equipment guy for the Tigers was packing up the balls. As he was bringing them into the dugout, I asked him if I could possibly have "the dirtiest ball in the bag. A ball that's just a disgrace to the Tigers organization." As he entered the dugout, and Paul said, "I've never heard someone say that before," I thought my chances at the dugout were over. Just as I was about to leave, the guy came back out and tossed me my second ball of the game
He also tossed Paul his third ball of the game. (If you want to read Paul's full account of the game, here's the link.) (Oh, and if you want to read Tony's, here's that too. They're both running some really great blogs….unless you hate the Twins. In that case, don't read Tony's blog. He's a "real" fan. As in he writes about the team itself on his blog instead of just ballhawking/ MLB stuff like myself and Paul. If it's not the Twins but ballhawks you hate, then why are you reading this in the first place?)
Paul and I had no idea who he was, but as he was walking back into the dugout, he acknowledged a kid who called him Mario. We then both headed over to the bullpens to try to get a ball there:
I didn't get anything from the coaches, but when Gerald Laird came out to warm up, I got him to throw me his warm-up ball after he was done playing catch:
I then continued to watch my new friend, Gerald, catch the pre-game bullpen session:
While this was going on, an usher who has always patrolled the staircase nearest to the bullpens, came up to us. Ironically right after Paul had told me this usher had kicked him out of the section once. What he did was pretty much the opposite. He told us we were welcome to sit in his section if we wanted to, but we just couldn't stand on the aisle to watch the pitcher warm up; we would have to be in the bleacher-ed section of the seats. We even talked with him about how he had been an usher at Tigers Stadium for a while before going to Vietnam and then started ushering many decades ago in there Metrodome. Sadly, though, I *had* to sit in my seat in first-base foul ground, so I couldn't take him up on his offer.
For the game, this was my view of the action:
The reason I "had" to sit in foul ground was this:
My mom was in town for parent's weekend, so she decided to accompany me at game time. Actually, though, I should clarify: I wasn't in my seat *all* the time; I still went to the standing room for power-hitting lefties, but I spent the rest of the game with her– the fact that she was paying for this game didn't hurt either.
As for the game, Ryan Doumit was able to single-handedly drive in all four of the Twins' runs as they sped to a 4-2 victory, which meant I got to see Glen Perkins close the game even though the crowd got excited to see Matt Capps warming up in the bullpen as if he was going to come into the game.
- 3 Balls at this game (2 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 343- 345 for my life:
- 213 Balls in 51 Games= 4.18 Balls Per Game
- 3 Balls x 30,315 Fans= 90,945 Competition Factor
- 60 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 10 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 45 Balls in 12 Games at Target Field= 3.75 Balls Per Game
- 11 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 10 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 3:27- 10:32= 7 Hours 5 Minutes
9/24/12 Yankees at Twins: Target Field
After a week off from baseball, it was back to this place:
…for a match-up between my two favorite teams in baseball. (Well, actually I don't know about that, but I'll possibly get to that in an offseason entry.)
When I got in, this was my view:
However, the only reason I came to an 85% full Target Field was because the Yankees were a power-hitting left-handed team. Thus, I was going to try again to go exclusively for hit balls, and my view was this for almost all of batting practice:
For a while, I was misjudging balls left and right. That "while" was called batting practice. I don't know why, but when I'm on the same level as a baseball (i.e. field level), I have no problem judging fly balls. But whenever I'm elevated, I become a complete klutz trying to judge them. Despite this, I managed to snag a ball off the bat of Nick Swisher after in bounced in here:
Do you see the logo? That was an Oriole Park at Camden Yards ball. All of the balls I snagged during batting practice were.
It was about at this time that I saw how empty the section of seats in right field was compared to the standing room:
So I walked down into the section. That's when I heard a voice behind me say, "Excuse me, you need a ticket for this section." It was the usher right at the entrance to the section
"What?" I said, "Even for batting practice?"
"Is it just something for the Yankees series or the whole season?"
"The whole season."
I didn't want to blow up on him and make at least one new enemy, but that was absolute BS. That had never been a rule, and wouldn't be in any of the games I would go to afterward. Since the ushers don't always have the same usher for the same section, it was obvious he was a club-level usher or something like that and misinterpreted something his supervisor told him. Anyway, I had my one ball, so I just bit my tongue and moved on with my life.
I headed over to left field for a few hitters, but that yielded nothing but a look at some crowded bleachers:
Not to mention the searing sunlight those guys are shading their eyes from:
I forgot exactly all of the members of the group, but when a group of mostly lefties came up to hit, I went back to right field. There, I got a Curtis Granderson home run that landed in a beer vendor's ice:
So yeah, that'll be a fun fact to tell people: I've snagged a ball that was hit into ice.
Then I missed about three different balls out in the standing room. One resulted in some one getting a bloody nose and another almost took my head off because I looked away just as it was hit and didn't see it until it was about ten feet away from me. After this, though, I managed to catch my first ball on the fly in the standing room ever. I just barely did, as it missed the flagpole by less than a foot before landing in my glove. I gave this ball away to a kid out in the standing room.
Then batting practice was about to end, so I started making my way to the Yankee dugout. When I just about got there, I noticed it was too crowded around the dugout for me to get a ball. Instead of pushing through the autograph seekers, I took this picture that illustrated me not knowing who to root for in this game as the transplanted New Yorker:
This was in left field. While I was there, I noted that even though batting practice had ended, the Yankees forgot to pick up a ball in foul territory, so I headed into foul ground and this was the result:
Yes, I used the glove trick to reel in the ball.
For those of you wondering, this was where the ball had been sitting:
Well, when I reeled it in. I actually had to knock the ball closer to get it into range.
I then went back to sit in my seat in left field when I realized: "This is stupid. I'm trying to get 222 baseballs this season. Why am I limiting myself by not asking for balls today? I mean, yeah, it makes me focus on hit balls, and I may very well benefit from it, but I have a goal to reach." If you didn't know, one of my goals at the beginning of the season was to double my career ball total up to that point. Before the season my career ball count was 222, so my goal for this year was to snag that many; or get the career total up to 444.
Anyway, so when Mike Harkey came into the bullpen and picked up a ball that had been hit in there during batting practice, I called out to him and he tossed me the ball:
Obviously, I'm used to getting balls from Mike Harkey tossed to me from much longer distances, but I'll take that.
As for the game, the two lineups were mostly lefty. And given my seat was in left field, I played home runs in the standing room all day:
Out there, there were a couple things of note: 1. FSN had this camera installed right above the standing room that I had never seen before:
I was at all of the games I could possibly watch from this point on in the season, so does anyone who actually watched a game on the network know how it would possibly be used?
The second thing of note takes some setting up, so bear with me. When I'm out in the standing room, the fact that I have my glove on and stand further back than anyone watching the game often brings people to talk to me. Well to guys eventually did talk to me, and through our conversation I brought up that I give balls away to kids. A few innings after I talked to these guys, another guy showed up and asked me if I was the guy who gave baseballs away to kids in the hospitals. I'm guessing he misinterpreted what the other guys had told him, but we straightened things out. Anyway, he told me his son, Tucker was in the (I believe it is a specially children's) hospital in Mankato. He asked me if I could possibly be willing to talk to the kids about what I do. During this conversation, what ended up happening is I gave him two baseballs, one with my e-mail address for the hospital to possibly talk to me about the opportunity and the cleanest OPACY ball I had snagged during BP for Tucker:
As for the actual game itself, the Yankees' lefties were bombing away on Liam Hendricks, but I had nothing to show for it. Although, I did make it into the highlights for two of them.
1. When Curtis Granderson bombed his 40th home run of the season, it was hit so high that even though I was in the standing room when it took off, this is where I was when it landed:
I had run all the way up the stairs to the second level in right field. Link to the full video: here.
2. When Raul Ibañez yanked a ball down the right field line and the cameras cut to showing the standing room, this is where I was:
I was turned around when he hit it, but you can see I'm the first person reacting( in terms of moving) in the standing room. When the ball first showed up on the screen, this is where I and it where (hint: I'm not the one soaring through the night sky):
It felt like I was moving in slow-motion at the time, but looking at the replay, it looks like I was going really fast. Here is where I and the ball where when it bounced:
It then took a series of bounces away from me, and then a group of guys converged on it as I watched helplessly:
If you want to see the full thing, here is the link.
Suffice to say, I wasn't thrilled with the trend:
Then in the seventh inning, Pedro Florimon came up to bat. As he had been since I got to Minnesota, he had yet to hit his first career home run. Then this happened:
I was in the standing room when it landed, but when I saw that it was indeed a home run, I rushed over to see what the deal was/ if I could miraculously find it while people searched the wrong place. But there was nowhere to stand, and you had a genius who did this:
If you didn't notice it the first time, this was where I was in that highlight:
If you noticed, the guy put the flowers down just as the camera cut away. That's because this supervisor came running down the stairs yelling at them to put the flowers down:
And let me clear up that this is isn't a bad usher; it was just some fans doing something they shouldn't have been doing. The flowers had been planted the previous day, so no one wanted them to get ruined just a day after they had been planted….even if that's what eventually happened.
What ended up happening to me is this was my view for the remaining two innings of the game while I prayed no one hit a home run into the standing room:
I wanted to make sure these guys never left my sight:
After the game, this was the scene behind the flower beds:
This was the first flower pot they pulled out to search. When they found nothing there, they pulled out a second pot:
Meanwhile, I was showing the security officers the footage of the home run, so we could try to pinpoint which flower pot held the baseball. Here they are trying to figure it out:
The guy on the right even suggested I should get the ball if they found it to negotiate with Florimon. They main problem in finding it, though, was the camera was at an angle. So even though it was in the middle of the partitions in the metal fence, it was most likely one or two flower pots off that in real life. Unfortunately, the guy on the right would leave before the ball was found, so his suggestion was lost.
Meanwhile, we had become the main spectacle in the stadium:
The game ended at 9:56, and we had been there for a good half-an-hour.
Eventually, I was allowed to search in the flowers as well:
I felt like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory if you want to go by the movie's title); just hoping for that golden ticket.
Sadly, after almost an hour of searching, it was an employee, and not myself who found the ball- which will probably lead to a life of negative word association with the word "Yahtzee":
So yeah, that was a slightly anti-climactic ending, but I'm glad I was at least around to see what happened with the ball. For the record, there were a total of four flower pots pulled out to be searched. And if you're wondering; Yes, they did make a mess in the seats:
At this point, it was 10:54, or almost an hour after the game had ended, and I'm pretty sure I was the last non-employee left in the stadium:
Although, the FSN guys were still in their mini-studio out in the standing room, having just finished with their segment:
Oh, and if that wasn't late enough, I got lost for an hour and a half on my way back to my dorm when I was supposed to be studying for a test that same morning. (Yes, it was past midnight by the time I eventually got back to my dorm room.)
Numbers 428-432 lifetime (you get logos this time because I don't like to write on commemorative baseballs if I don't have to):
- 210 Balls in 50 Games= 4.20 Balls Per Game
- 5 Balls x 33,720 Fans= 168, 600 Competition Factor
- 59 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 9 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 42 Balls in 11 Games at Target Field= 3.82 Balls Per Game
- 10 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 9 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 4:15- 12:35= 8 Hours 20 Minutes
9/16/12 White Sox at Twins: Target Field
How do I spend my Sundays? I go to Twins games when there is no batting practice?
Apparently, the Twins *never* take batting practice on Sundays. I learned this from various ushers. It doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway, I was pretty much the first one at the gate, expecting there to be potential baseballs to catch, but I just had to stand outside for half-an-hour doing nothing.
When I got in, I saw that no Twins were doing anything. However, two White Sox were throwing, so I headed over there to the third base side of the field while changing my gear. Minutes later, I was the first person in the ballpark to snag a ball by getting Dylan Axelrod to toss me a ball:
Here's a cruddy diagram of the throw- with a poorly chosen color choice for the arrow:
Then, because nothing else was going on at the time, I headed over to watch Axelrod and some other White Sox pitchers throw bullpen sessions:
I did this for about ten minutes, but I then saw there were Twins pitchers warming up across the field:
So I went over there to try to get a ball from them:
There was only one problem: after about ten minutes of them stretching, there were signs of life on the White Sox's side of the field:
So I had the decision to make: go over there, or stay where I was.
For the "pro"s of staying, I had:
1. I wouldn't have to move and regret it if I didn't get anything from the group.
For the "con"s, I had:
1. I would be pretty much the only one with White Sox gear on.
2. There weren't that many people period on that side. (As opposed to this side where this was the crowd):
3. I wouldn't have to comet with a bunch of kids.
4. Since I haven't seen them that much in batting practice, I essentially knew the Twins as well as I did the White Sox.
Anyway, even though all common sense pointed to going to the White Sox's side, I stayed on the Twins side because I figured the Twins would finish first, and I could maybe get over to the White Sox side just as they were finishing.
Well, after he finished catching baseballs by running in football-esque running patterns, I yelled out to Tyler Robertson, and he tossed me a ball. Then, in the same motions I caught the ball, I handed it to the kid next to me. Here is Robertson walking away with the kid also in the shot:
Right after I took the picture, I ran over to the White Sox side. Much to my surprise, only one throwing pair had finished and headed in to the clubhouse by the time I got over there. Also to my surprise, despite this fact, I didn't get a single ball from them. They just waited to toss the balls up until when they were closer to the dugout and I wasn't by the dugout, so I missed out on all opportunities.
Although, it was fun to see Chris Sale talk for half-an-hour with some fans:
I like it when athletes don't feel so above people to for even a little time when they have nothing else to do. I don't think I worded that last sentence as well as I could have.
That was it for pre-game warm-ups snagging-wise, but there was something else interesting brewing in Target Field:
But since I had no clue what it was, I asked the teacher in charge of the operation. What I found out was they were a group of University of Minnesota students preparing to launch a weather balloon with a baseball attached to it signed by Justin Morneau. The balloon you saw in the last picture was the test balloon. This is what happened when they launched it:
Yeah, it went high.
Oh, and in between the practice balloon and the real one, I marveled at the work of art that is the Target Field visitors dugout roof:
That might not seem like much, but most dugout roofs are just slabs of concrete with paint on it. Heck, if you're at Citi Field, they didn't even put in the effort to paint it; they just put slabs of pre-made dugout designs on it:
In the pre-game ceremonies, I got to see the students inflating the balloon:
And here is the ball attached to the balloon on the Jumbotron:
As I mentioned on Twitter, I had half a mind to try to shoot down the balloon and try to snag the ball. Anyway, here is the balloon going up-up-and -away:
Fun stuff.
Anyway, this was my view for the game:
I didn't get a third-out ball, because for whatever reason, Adam Dunn and whoever tossed the ball to Alexi Ramirez, who always tossed the ball away to a section that wasn't the one I was in. When Gordon Beckham caught a line drive for the third out of the inning, I was sure I had a ball awaiting me. You see, before the game, I had yelled out happy birthday to him, and he acknowledged me by saying thank you. Unfortunately, he too threw the ball to Ramirez. As a result, the only ball I got at the dugout was a ball after he game from umpire, Gary Cederstrom:
That made three balls on the day for me. I then got to see Dan Johnson say hi to his wife and kids:
And then I got him to give me the whole bag of ball in the dugout. Well, no, but I got him to shake my hand.
- 3 Balls at this game (2 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 425-427 for my career:
- 205 Balls in 49 Games= 4.18 Balls Per Game
- 58 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 8 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 37 Balls in 10 Games at Target Field= 3.70 Balls Per Game
- 9 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 8 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 9:31- 5:06= 7 Hours 35 Minutes
9/14/12 White Sox at Twins: Target Field
Again it was back to Target Field for the fourth time in five weekdays and the sixth time in a week. The funny thing is, I really didn't feel worn out by going to all of these games along with classes at all.
Once I got in, my initial plan was to run directly to the left field, but since Denard Span and Ben Revere were the first two hitters, I thought, "What the hey, I can run over to left field in a couple pitches if Josh Willingham comes up." In waiting to head over to left field, I managed to snag a Ben Revere home run:
I then went to left field, and much to my dismay, Revere and Span put on a show (for them) while Willingham failed to hit a ball to the field level bleachers.
After this, I headed to the White Sox's dugout, where too was Tony Voda:
Tony is the guy in the white shirt, by the way. I didn't get anything by the dugout, but that was because I got impatient and headed back out to left field when I saw the White Sox were hitting mostly righties for the first group. Once again, I didn't get anything there, but I did get pretty close to balls that ended up bouncing back towards the field after they hit in the bleachers. I just wasn't judging the ball well, and since it wasn't staying in place when it touched down, it was costing me.
Eventually, I ran into the seats in right-center field to try and get a ball there. While I was there, my friend Sean—who you may remember from two entries ago. As you may also remember, he's a huge White Sox fan, so he was able to identify all of the White Sox in the outfield for me. But when he identified a guy in the outfield for me as Francisco Liriano, my first was, "No, that's him?" Just because his haircut looked ever so slightly different from when he was with the Twins. Anyway, long story short, I asked Liriano for a ball, and he tossed it to me. Unfortunately, his throw was way short, so it took a second try to get it up to me:
I didn't know it at the time, but this was a very special ball for me, because it marked the first ever time I had snagged 200 Balls in a season, as it was my 200th ball of 2012.
It was then that I headed over to the standing room section in right field. There were several balls hit there by Adam Dunn, but I just failed to judge any of them well enough to catch one. The highlight (or lowlight if you're FSN/the Twins) was that Dunn hit a ball into Fox Sports North's TV set-up in the standing room and the ball hit the TV there, breaking the screen:
The guy in the blue is the security supervisor for right field. If you ever go through Gate 34 at Target Field, you'll see him.
After the group containing Adam Dunn and A.J. Pierzynski, I headed BACK to left field. The only problem was there wasn't a way to have more than ten feet of mobility in the front few rows:
And if I wanted to go to left-center field to play for toss-ups, there were three problems all kind of shown in this picture:
1. There were a ton of kids crowding the front row.
2. Tony was playing the corner spot all the way in left-center field.
3. It wasn't the White Sox, but rather their kids who were shagging balls in the outfield. Usually, the kids tend to throw way less baseballs into the crowd than their dads do, so that cut down on the opportunities.
The White Sox actually ended batting practice a little early. Why? They took fielding practice afterwards:
While this is an anomaly nowadays, I've seen it a couple of times. It's still a strange surprise.
Anyway, while I probably would have gotten that in the extra BP time, I did manage to get a ball during this. The fielders went off in waves, so when A. J. Pierzynski came off the field, I called out to him as he was approaching the dugout. Unfortunately, he was right in the process of throwing the ball he had to a kid just as he made eye contact with me. I thought when he disappeared into the dugout that it was the end of that, but second later, a ball was rolled right across the dugout roof to me:
I'm assuming it was Pierzynski, but it could have been someone he told to toss me a ball. All I saw was a hand and a ball.
During the game I sat over where my view was this for the game:
What s that arrow you ask? In the third inning, Justing Morneau hit a foul ball waaaay over my head, which followed the path of the arrow I have drawn (okay so it's not technically an arrow since there's no head but trust me, I actually used the "arrow" tool; I just drew the head off the page). Anyway, as is always my custom, I turned around in case there was a deflection. What happened was the ball bounced off of the facing of the upper deck and bounced RIGHT to me. I didn't even have to move an inch:
Oh my goodness. It was a bit surreal to me. I've never snagged two game balls in the same month, and here I had snagged a home run and a foul ball in consecutive games. Wow.
Unfortunately, that was it for the game, but I really didn't care. I mean seriously, I can never be disappointed by a game in which I snag a game ball…unless of course I miss another game ball.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the giveaway that had attracted an excess of fans to Target Field this game. Yeah, since the Twins had just lost 6-0, I'm pretty sure I was the only one reppin' my team this late after the game had ended:
(Special thanks to Tony for taking that picture of me).
- 4 Balls at this game (3 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 421-424 for my "lifetime":
- 202 Balls in 48 Games= 4.21 Balls Per Game
- 57 straight Games with at least 1 Ball (My highest streak of this sort ever. The next highest streak was ironically broken in my first ever visit to Target Field.)
- 7 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 6 straight Games with at least 4 Balls
- 34 Balls in 9 Games at Target Field= 3.78 Balls Per Game
- 8 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 7 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- 6 straight Games with at least 4 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 3:41-11:14= 7 Hours 27 Minutes
9/12/12 Royals at Twins: Target Field
It started raining in Minneapolis at 11:00 AM. That was okay, though because according to my phone, the rain would end by 4:00 PM (before batting practice was set to start). Well, my phone was right:
Did that mean there'd be batting practice?
Yeah, when I entered this was the most exciting thing happening:
Actually, that's not hyperbole at all. See that fan in the bright orange going down the steps? That would be my guest to this game, Sean. I had been eyeing some cheap seats on Stubhub, but they were only being sold in pairs. Sean here is in my "History of Science" class. I forget how, but somehow, we revealed to each other that we were both baseball super-fans. When he said he was going to the Twins game Friday, and said he would want to catch a game with me some time, I jokingly said something like: "How about this Wednesday?" Shockingly, he accepted the offer.
Fast-foward to today: He and I- after some confusion- met up at the Washington Ave Bridge and walked to Target Field. Fast-forward to pre-game warm-ups: The Twins pitchers you saw started throwing. I played it completely wrong, so I didn't get a single ball from them while they were throwing. However, I went behind the dugout to try to get a ball from Alex Burnett, but when I got there, and usher started telling me something just as I was about to ask Burnett for the ball, so I couldn't do as I had planned. Fortunately, the usher was telling me there was a ball right by where I was standing. He suspected Burnett had thrown it just seconds before I arrived. Here is where it was in the first row:
I'm glad the usher told me, but it would have been nice to start a game with no BP with two balls right out of the gate. At this time, Sean was getting food, and although I had told him that I snag baseballs at games, he couldn't believe I had already gotten a ball when he came back.
I then changed into my Royals gear:
Yes, my actual Royals shirt hadn't showed up yet, so I taped a paper cut-out of the logo to ma blue shirt as I have done a few times previously. Anyway, there were two pitchers warming up, Kelvin Herrera and Bruce Chen. Apparently, someway, somehow, Bruce Chen learned Spanish, because he was talking to Herrera in Spanish. Anyway, Chen went off to run, and Herrera started throwing with someone else. When they finished, I asked Herrera to toss me the ball in Spanish, and he did:
That was it for pre-game activities. Normally, that would be it for the game, but did I mention where the cheapish seats were? Yeah, well let me just say I was able to try to get a ball during the pre-game position player throwing. When they came out, though, there was a problem:
You can't really tell from the picture, but everyone brought their glove, yet no one thought to bring a ball. Eventually, someone *did* bring a ball, and that ball got tossed to me by David Lough:
But let's take another look at that ball:
Yep. The Royals somehow had Oriole Park commemorative baseballs.
As for the game, this was my view:
That's a pretty nice view for $20.
I also saw something I had never seen before at Target Field. It had rained, so that combined with the natural cold to make it cold enough for the Twins to turn on the heat lamps in the concourse:
I've got to say, that's a really nice touch to have for a ballpark in Minnesota. I know the shorts-clad Sean really appreciated the Twins having them.
As you can guess, I was playing the dugout for third-out balls. Well for whatever reason, whenever Eric Hosmer recorded a third out at first base, he tossed the ball to Alcides Escobar who ALWAYS tossed the ball to a kid. I could have reached for a ball in the first inning that was meant for one of said kids, but it didn't feel right. However, in about the fifth inning, the inning ended with Mike Moustakas catching a line drive. When he got back to the dugout, he tossed the ball just to my right:
Right after I got the ball, I opened my glove up for a kid right next to me to take the ball. That was my fourth ball of the game.
Like I said before, this was a cold, rainy game to begin with, so when the Royals had Sean and I singing, "The runners on base go round and round…" it was pretty empty at Target Field:
I almost caught a Justin Morneau foul ball, but I couldn't get my glove over one of the railings in my section, and the ball took a huge bounce off the concrete after that into the seats outside of the "moat" above me.
After the game ended, I went down to the umpire tunnel and got a all from the home plate umpire, Dan Bellino:
At the time, I thought the ball was clearly intended for me, but after I jumped to catch it, I looked right behind me to see Sean staring right at me. It may have indeed been intended for him. Don't worry, though, I would give him the ball two days later when we once again went to the same game. Anyway, this was the second highest total I had ever recorded at a game with no batting practice. Even though I don't like playing third-out balls for the exact reason that they are so easy to get, it was nice to be able to get three baseballs during or after the game. Normally I would be stuck at two balls on a day like this. Also, according to mygameballs.com, this was the first ball he has ever thrown up to a member.
After the game, Sean and I got a parting picture together before heading back to the University of Minnesota:
Yeah, he's a White Sox fan as he's from Chicago, but in all fairness, he was rooting for the Twins this game, so he's forgiven for one game.
- 5 Balls at this game (4 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 412-415 for my life:
- 194 Balls in 46 Games= 4.22 Balls Per Game
- 5 Balls x 28,139 Fans = 140, 695 Competition Factor
- 55 Games with at least 1 Ball
- 5 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 4 straight Games with at least 4 Balls
- 26 Balls in 7 Games at Target Field= 3.71 Balls Per Game
- 6 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 5 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- 4 straight Games with at least 4 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 3:45- 11:39= 7 Hours 54 Minutes
9/10/12 Indians at Twins: Target Field
Now my third game at Target Field since starting school, I was starting to develop a routine by walking directly from my last class of the day to Target Field and falling asleep in the giant glove outside the gates:
The glove itself, for those who don't know, is to commemorate all of the Twins Gold Glove winners in history. (That's the plaque right over my right shoulder in the picture.) The position of the glove is to commemorate the furthest home run in Twins history; which I believe was measured at 520ft.
It isn't exactly ideal to show up two hours before the gates open, but one of the perks is being the absolute first fan to check into the game using MLB.com's At The Ballpark app. What I didn't know was the perk of that was this:
Here's the t-shirt's front design:
And here's the back design:
I didn't wear it that day, but you may see it in a couple entries (hint, hint).
Once 4:30 rolled around, I went up to the gates-as is my usual routine- and readied myself for any baseball that might reach me at the gate. It's very unlikely, but I like that there's at least a possibility of getting a ball. It makes the time go so much faster. Citi Field gate time goes slowly for reasons I have already mentioned, and Yankee Stadium minutes, if there's no one I know is at the gates, takes FORever. Long story short: I didn't get any balls that bounced to the gate, but what *did* happen was, out of the blue, a guy pulled up to me in a trolley-type thing and handed me a baseball through the gates:
Just like that, I was on the board. At that moment, I decide I wasn't going to ask for a ball for the rest of the game. I was just going to go for home runs and help other kids get baseballs.
Want to see the crowds outside the gate five minutes before it opened?
How cute.
When the gates opened, I headed straight for right field, because I figured the Indians group who had supplied with so many baseballs the first day would be hitting just as I got in. Instead of getting a hit ball, right when I got to the seats, Corey Kluber saw my Indians gear, flashed a ball he had, and threw it up to me. I realize that all of these may seem VERY unlikely given the fact I said I wasn't asking for any baseballs, but I swear, I didn't ask for *any* of these. Kluber just looked up at me, and tossed me the ball:
Given the fact I got two balls, though, I was considering asking for balls if I got in a rhythm catching hit balls. Unfortunately,those two would be the only ones I would get for the extent of batting practice. Unlike Saturday, there wasn't THAT big of a crowd, but nothing was coming close to me.
This was my view for most of Indians batting practice:
When there's enough room, so far my strategy has been to be in a spot where I can both run back to the standing room or run down to catch a ball that is hit in the seats in right field.
I then headed over to left field, but as you guessed it, not much came my way. The balls that did come my way, but I lost them in the sun even though I was wearing sunglasses:
I think Target Field left field is one of the underrated sun havens.
While I was there, though, I saw a crime against what might as well be ballhawks everywhere. It was only directed at one person (not myself), but it was pretty bad. Here 's something to help you out:
As you can see, I labeled some people. Well, it all started when Francisco Morales threw the ball snagger a ball. Esmil Rogers looked at him and tapped his foot as if he were waiting for the ball snagger to give the ball away to the kid next to. I suspect it was because he had seen the guy get a ball before. And the ball snagger *did* give the ball away, and Rogers clapped for him. That's all fine and good, but when a line drive got hit RIGHT at the ball snagger, Rogers stepped right in front of it and caught the ball on the fly. When a ball rolled right to where this guy was standing in the corner spot, Rogers stepped in front of the ball and snagged the ground ball so the guy couldn't scoop it up as it rolled to him.
I mean, yeah, he snagged ONE ball. Big deal. He did what you wanted him to do and you repay him by blocking two balls that he would have gotten. WHo was he hurting by snagging TWO baseballs? It isn't like some kid would have gotten that ground ball had he not been there. And on that note, how are you helping ANYone by then taking the ball and throwing it right back into the infield bucket? What you saved the Indians $20? Good job, Mr. Rogers. Gee double-oh dee jay oh bee; good job, good job. It'd be one thing if you tossed the ball to a recipient you deemed more deserving, but this is just being an absolute jerk over nothing.
Sorry for the mini-rant; I try not to do that too much. But I thought I needed to get that off my chest because it just makes no sense to me when people who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions of dollars a year obsess over a fan getting a couple baseballs. Fine, he already got a ball. That means you won't toss him a ball if he asks, not you have to attempt to the best of your ability to make sure he doesn't get another ball for the rest of the game.
That's all I have to say about batting practice. For the game, I sat over here:
Actually, my ticketed seat was "better" (being closer to directly behind home plate), but I figured I'd have a better chance of catching a foul ball here, since it didn't have the hindrance of the protective netting. I also kept my Indians gear on and waved my arms whenever I would have usually been yelling, because, you know, I had that whole "I'm not going to ask for balls for the rest of the game" thing going on.
At the end of the game, though, I raced down to the dugout to see if I could finally get my first line card (I didn't say anything about asking for lineup cards). I got rejected. However, I was right by where the umpires exit the field- known as the umpire tunnel. Usually, I always look up who the umpire is, but I didn't even bother to this time, since I wasn't going to ask him for a ball. Then, a weird thing happened. The only other game I had gone to the umpire tunnel, a swarm of kids ran to it just as the game ended. Since this was my only experience of it thus far, I figured that was the norm. This time NO one was at the umpire tunnel. The umpire was literally searching the crowd for people to throw balls to. Since I was the only one with a glove, he flipped me a ball:
I later searched and found out the home plate umpire's name was D. J. Reyburn.
I then went to the other side of the dugout. There were two little sister who in conjunction with their parents, had been trying all game to get a ball from the dugout, but had failed to this point. I went over, and as Dave Miller, Francisco Morales, and Armando Camacaro neared the dugout. I just pointed almost cartoonishly at the two girls; acting as a billboard for "give these two kids a ball". They both did, and as I guess a reward, Armando Camacaro also tossed me a ball:
If you're wondering (you're probably not) Camacaro's name translates to bedcar.
Geez. Why can't convincing players to toss me baseballs be this easy when I *want* them to toss me baseballs? I mean seriously, I got four toss-ups without even asking for them; yet when I want a toss-up, it seems like I'll never crack a player. Anyway, weird times at Target Field.
- 4 Balls at this game
Numbers 408- 411 for my "career":
- 189 Balls in 45 Games= 4.20 Balls Per Game
- 4 Balls x 27, 526 Fans= 110, 104 Competition Factor
- 54 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 4 straight Games with at lest 2-3 Balls
- 3 straight Games with at least 4 Balls
- 21 Balls in 6 Games at Target Field= 3.50 Balls Per Game
- 5 straight Games at Target Field with at least 1-2 Ball(s)
- 4 straight Games at Target Field with at least 3 Balls
- 3 straight Games at Target Field with at least 4 Balls
- Time Spent On Game 2:17- 10:41= 8 Hours 24 Minutes
8/28/12 Mariners at Twins: Target Field
It was the beginning of a new era for me:
Walking up to Target Field, the best word I can think of to describe the feeling is surreal. I just could *not* believe I was there again. It defied all logic. Why go to a bad ballhawking stadium for the second time in two years? Target Field is the kind of place you visit to say you've been there and then stay away for as long as you can.
Once I got to the gates, two people waved at me. It was just kind of like "Whoa, what's this?" One I actually recognized from the pictures he had of himself on his blog and that was Paul Kom. You can vaguely see him towards the right of the last picture in the white hat. He leaves comments here as paaoool123.
The second person was Tony Voda. Unlike Paul, I had no idea of his existence until a couple days prior, much less an idea of what he looked like. When Zack Hample announced in his blog that I was going off to Minnesota for college, he was one of the many people who contacted me regarding the fact. He left a comment on this blog saying that he would like to meet up some game.
First of all, I would like to say that when a ball plummeted into the gap outside the stadium between the parking garage and the rest of the walkway, Paul and I just wanted to see where the ball had landed. Meanwhile, Tony was already running after it. Apparently, that gap has Interstate 394 under it. When Tony came back with the ball several minutes later, all three of us took a picture together:
That would be me on the left, Tony in the middle, and Paul on the right.
At the gates, we did two things: awaited any balls that might've bounced to the gates (Paul nearly got one), and divvied up where we wanted to go in the stadium. Paul took the Mariners dugout, Tony took the Twins dugout, and I wandered all over the place.
My first stop was the third base foul line:
When I got there, Jesus Montero picked up a ball, and I decked out in Mariners hat and sweater (even though it was really hot), asked him for a ball. For whatever reason, he completely ignored me and tossed it into the outfield seats.
So, I made I stop along the third base foul line seats, but I eventually ended up in left field seats where I ended up getting Jason Vargas to toss me a ball:
At least I think it was Vargas. I stupidly didn't take notes about this game, so I'm basing everything on memory. Anyway, I then headed over to the "section of death" in right-center field. It's the section of death to myself and other ballhawks (I have come up with the name, but others have agreed with the sentiment.) because it's four rows of seats to begin with, and the overhang makes it so you can only really catch a home run in the first row or two. In addition to that, there's a flower bed in the front of the section which means a player has to be about five-ten feet from the wall for you to ask him for a ball.
Anyway, right as I got there, a player overthrew a kid, and the ball flew into concourse:
I then said that I would give him the next ball I snagged.
A few minutes later, I asked Stephen Pryor for a ball, and when he tossed it to me, I gave it to the kid. His sister then hugged me, which was…unexpected. Just to give you an idea of how the flower beds affect one's sight, here's a picture of Pryor standing 60+ feet away from the wall:
See? Unless you want to be talking to a bed of flowers, you either have to hope a ball stops just the perfect distance from the wall, or hope the player doesn't throw the ball right when they get to the wall.
I then pretty much stayed in the right field seats for the rest of batting practice, where the offensively anemic Mariners didn't send anything into the stands:
I then met up with Paul in foul ground along the third base line.
From there, we both headed over to the left field seats by the bullpen. At that point, he had snagged four balls. He ended up with seven by the end of the day. But don't take my word/ account for it, right….here is the link to his entry about the game.
When we were sitting there, I saw the Mariners bullpen coach, Jaime Navarro walking to the bullpen, so I put on my Mariners sweater and hat. Once he was picking up the balls that had been hit there during batting practice, I asked him for one. This was the result:
What I hadn't noticed was Paul had also stood up and had grabbed his camera. Here is the five-second video he took of me snagging the ball:
Thank you to Paul for that.
As for the game, I won't really talk about the result, but I'll say Todd Cook was made happy by it. This was my ticketed seat:
but I decided to stay out here for the majority of the game:
I can't say for certain, but I think I'll spend most of my time at Target Field out there.
However, as I suspect will be the norm for most of my time out there, nothing was hit even close to the section. After the game, I met up with both Paul and Tony (who also wrote an entry about the game, whose link can be found right….hiaaaagh.) by the dugouts. We then walked to the exit together before saying our goodbyes. I'll probably see Tony again, but it was in all likelihood Paul's last Twins game of the season. Anyway, it was good to get to meet both of them in my first "new" game at Target Field.
- 3 Balls at this game (2 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 393-395 for my "lifetime":
- 173 Balls in 42 Games= 4.12 Balls Per Game
- 3 Balls x 29,854 Fans= 89,562 Competition Factor
- 51 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 5 Balls in 3 Games at Target Field= 1.67 Balls Per Game
- 2 straight Games with at least 1 Ball at Target Field with at least 1 Ball
- 2 straight Games at Target Field with at least 2 Balls
- Time Spent On Game 4:12- 10:36= 6 Hours 24 Minutes


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Brent and his friend's wife have an unintended encounter.
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The husband finds what he needs from his nanny.
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It's gettin' there, compared to the last star trails shot. This time, 128 images at 1 shot every 30 seconds. However, I really do need to go somewhere where there's less light pollution. In California, that means driving out to the middle of nowhere! Or maybe I can take a drive up the Ortega Highway….if it's open!


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Course Description -- Food Policy: Digital Cultivation
The policies that govern our food systems -- influenced by a wide range of actors representing a breadth of interests -- bring serious effects to bear on other related systems, not least health care, education, taxes and the environment. Furthermore, our relationship to food is a constant topic in the media, to the extent that many of us spend more time ingesting media about food than we do preparing -- or even eating -- food in real life. As the media landscape continues to evolve, so does the conversation between industry spin doctors, nonprofit activists, citizens and government officials, as do so many other key public policies (energy, transport, etc). This class will explore best practices in "good food" advocacy and will look at the ways federal and state agencies engage – digitally and otherwise – with activists, producers and consumers. We will explore at least one each regional and national case study. Students will work individually or in small groups to create a digital campaign around a specific piece of food policy
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Effective teamwork can take an organization a long way towards meeting its objectives. In this article, the Career Experts at Bayt.com explore the building blocks of effective teams.
Fortune Magazine and Leadership author Max De Pree defines "teamwork as an art. The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict and how to reach our potential. The needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons."
"Teamwork" is a much flouted term in the workplace today, but it is actually only a few organizations that are really committed to fostering and nurturing this important commodity. For employees to become part of a team, it is necessary for them to feel engaged in something that is larger than their everyday job function, in something that identifies them as individually integral parts and unifies their efforts towards reaching organizational goals and ensuring overall strategic success.
Creating teamwork is a daunting task at its early stages, but it can definitely be achieved through good leadership skills and a sound commitment and the results are worth the hard work. Team building requires time and persistence.
- Time: Time is an essential component to successful team building as people need a fair amount of time to get to know each other and to learn to know, trust and respect their leader.
- Persistence: Cohesive functional teams can not be developed overnight. A leader should commit to being patient and persistent in order to ensure consistent progress and truly reap the rewards of effective teamwork.
The Stages of Team Development:
Every leader needs to be on familiar terms with how to walk his team through the different stages of team development in order to avoid stress, chaos and uncertainty. Psychologist Bruce Tuckman developed his team development model in the 1970s and it has been a great success so far. Here are the 5 essential phases of team development:
- Stage 1: Forming: This is the initial phase when the team first gets together. It is usually a stressful period, as team members do not necessarily know each other well and might approach each other with caution and trepidation. The leader's primary task at this stage is to give them the best possible start and make them feel at ease.
Bayt's leadership tips at this stage:
- Be as clear and open as can be about your goals.
- State specifically what the exact tasks of the team will be before moving on to explain the specific task for each team member.
- Shed light on the rules and the guidelines to be abided by.
- Maintain an open communication channel: this will encourage team members to share their queries and concerns, if any.
- Stage 2: Storming: This is a tricky phase that usually results because rules and roles become somewhat unclear to team members despite the fact that they have been briefed during the forming stage. The actual truth is that every team member is now looking for a way to link the team's goals to his own individual goals and agenda. The leader's skills are put to test here as the team is in need of clear direction and support.
Bayt's leadership tips at this stage:
- Gather the team together and get things out in the open.
- Make sure to go over the overall team goals with individuals and understand what this means to every individual.
- Stage 3: Norming: This is the "acceptance" phase: goals are now comprehended, responsibilities are clarified and relationships have solidified.
The leader's role at this stage is to ensure the smooth continuity of the process and the avoidance of any potential challenges.
leadership tips at this stage:
- Provide guidance to team members, one on one, to help them see where they stand in relation to the team's goals and their individual goals.
- Once they feel confident of their capabilities, start allocating additional tasks in anticipation of the "performing" phase.
- Stage 4: Performing: This is the "concentration" phase: team members have set their minds to work towards team goals in order to reap the benefits of getting there. They can now identify their strong and their weak points and can focus on developing themselves. All members who have made it to this stage will witness the birth of "team loyalty". The leader's role at this stage is to grant team members the opportunity to become self-directive while he focuses on the next step forward.
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- Encourage greater responsibilities that entail leadership roles.
- Recognize a team job well done and reward both team and individuals.
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- Provide accurate descriptions for individual roles: It is necessary to clearly communicate to all team members what every individual's scope of responsibility will be. This will keep the team focused and in sync.
- Set the best example for your team: Lecturing team members about values and ethics is not fruitful if the leader and upper management is not abiding by the same. Show commitment, persistence, and integrity and your team members will follow: "Struggle and adaptation are critical, difficult, but very necessary parts of team development", state Robbins and Finley (coauthors of best selling business book "Why Teams Don't Work", winner of Financial Times the Best Management Book of the Year in the Americas)
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I am always interested to find out who are the best X-Men characters of all time. So I decided to create this ranking system, where we rate the X-Men characters. We rate them on how much we like them and whether we think they are great characters.
Here is the Ranking system.
12 points: Goes to are favorite characters, the characters that we think are the best.
9 points: Goes to the characters that we think are very good and we like them a lot, they may not be are favourite characters, but there still great characters.
6 Points: Goes to the characters that we like and that we think are good characters.
3 Points: Goes to the characters that we think are ok, average at best.
Here is a list of the characters, I tried to include as many as I can, and I may have missed some out.
Popular X-ladies ; Jean Grey, Storm, Rogue, Psylocke, Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Rachel Grey, Polaris, Domino Magik. X-23.
Popular X-Men males : Wolverine, Magneto, Cyclops, Gambit, Cable, Colossus, Archangel, Iceman, Beast , Charles Xavier, Nightcrawler, Bishop, Havok, Banshee (Sean), Forge. Namor. Deadpool.
Villians : Sabretooth, Apocalypse, Stryfe, Omega Red, Sentinels, Onslaught, Mr Sinister, Holocaust, Juggernaut, Vargas, Silver Samurai, Daken. Mystique, Selene , Maddie Pryor, Spiral, Revanche, Lady Deathstrike, Lady Mastermind, Omega Sentinel, Cassandra Nova , Xorn, Bastion. Joseph. Vulan. Sebastian Shaw , Shadow King, Proteus. Copycat. Silver Fox. Phoenix Force.
X-Force & X-Factor characters : Madrox, Rictor, Warpath, Shattertstar, Cannonball, Sunspot, Strong Guy. Laylar Millar, Monet, Boom Boon, Feral, Wolfsbane, Fantomex , Puck, Siryn (Banshee), Darwin. E.V.A. Longshot, Caliban. Cluster. Deathlok
New Students : Armor, Hope Summers, Warbird, Anole, Bling, Broo, , Elixir, Hellion, Krakoa, Mercury. Oya. The Cuckoos. Pixie. Primal. Rockslide. Surge, Dust. Kid Omega, Genesis, Gentle. Kid Gladitor. Transonic. Velocidad. Tempus, Christopher Muse, Benjamin Deeds, Fabio Media.
Other characters : Blink, Sage, Dazzler, Dani Moonstar, Cecilia Reyes, Chamber, Cypher, Danger, Doctor Nemesis, Frenzy. Hepzibah. Husk. Karma. Legion. Lifeguard, Lockhead, Madson Jeffries. Magma. Marrow, Mimic,Morph. Northstar. Slipstream. Stacy X. Sunfire. Skin. Thunderbird, Thunderbird(Shaara). Warlock. X-Man. Hollow, Prodigy, Synch. Vanisher.
Here is my ranking for the X-Men characters
12 points
Rogue, Wolverine
Jean Grey, Magneto
Psylocke, Cable
Storm, Gambit
Jubilee, Cyclops
9 points
X-23, Colossus, Beast
Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Apocalypse
Kitty Pryde, Deadpool, Stryfe
Mystique, Charles Xavier
Domino, Bishop
6 Points
Boom Boom, Iceman, X-Man
Blink, Holocaust, Archangel
Sage, Warpath, Mr Sinister
Magik,Shatterstar, Juggernaut
Hope, Omega Red
Laylar Millar, The Sentinels
Monet, Onslaught, Phoenix Force.
3 points
Rachel Grey, Madrox, Rover(Sentinal)
Polaris,, Nightcrawler, Sunspot
Maddie Pryor, Banshee (Sean), Vargus
Revanche, Forge, Silver Samurai,
Pixie, Rictor, Havok
Dust, Cannonball, Daken
Surge, Kid Omega
Warbird, Genesis
Siryn, Vanisher
Tempus (Eva), Morph
Magma, Elixir, Copycat.
As you can see from above, I didn't rank all the characters, I only rank as much characters as I wanted to. Like me you don't have to rank them all, rank as many characters as you want. You also can include any characters I have missed out.
I think it will be fun to see what characters has the most points, who is the most popular, as well as seeing how popular the villains are, as well as the new students.
If your X-Man fan, I will it appreciate if you take part. Depending on how popular this thread is, I will try up date it once week or every 2 weeks.
As I mention before you ranking the characters on how you much like them, whether you think there good characters, not on how powerful you think they are.
I will look forward to hearing from you.


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John Krummel
John Krummel's research areas include landscape and ecosystem ecology, the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to environmental modeling, and energy-environment stewardship issues.
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Guenter Conzelmann
Mr. Conzelmann is the Director of the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis. His center develops modeling and simulation tools and provides analytical services to government institutions and private sector clients around the world on strategic energy and environmental issues.
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Ihor Hlohowskyj provides assistance to federal departments and agencies in evaluating the impacts of human activities on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Rob Ross is a pioneer in the design of parallel file systems and high-performance interfaces for managing large datasets.
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Pete Beckman is a recognized global expert in high-end computing systems. During the past 25 years, he has designed and built software and architectures for large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems.
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It is not an uncommon theme for many students to get ripped off when trying to make back some money selling their unwanted and no longer used textbooks. Most people know that students can use every dollar they can make but campus bookstores and other used bookstores who may buy these texts do not care about anything but making that almighty buck themselves. The solution is to sell your textbooks online but many students do not know how to go about that. In this article we will share ways to avoid bookstore rip-off and how to get the best dollar for your textbooks by selling online.
Know the Best Time to Sell
Sometimes you need to sell your books at a specific time. But with the offline bookstores there are certain times that you can get more money. If you sell right before school time, this is when most students are desperate for books and the bookstores will pay more if they need certain topics. But this also works against you. If the bookstore has too many of a certain title, they will refuse your books or give you pennies on the dollar.
Use Your Own Resources
Bookstores are not the only places to sell your used books. It may seem easier to just walk into your local campus store and walk out with some cash but they do not often give you a fair value. If you use your own resources such as making up flyers to post around the campus or in local store bulletin boards, or posting a free ad on sites like Craigslist or Kijiji.com. Talk to your friends, go to coffee shops and places where other students hang out and see if you can find people who are looking for certain books for a good price.
Or check into places online that will buy your textbooks. Many of these places have a system setup where you can find out the going rate for each book you would like to sell and this ensures that you will get the most for your money.
Keep everything that comes with the original book
For some textbooks there are extra little things included such as cds or workbooks. By keeping these items intact and ready to sell with the textbooks, you may get a better price depending on the demand for it. You will need to remember though that if it is something like a workbook, you cannot have writing in it or use a highlighter or else it will be of no value to the next student. Always remember not to dog ear your pages and keep your textbooks and all related material as pristine as possible to keep the garner the best deal possible.
If you are in a tight spot and really need to sell your books for instant cash, do your research online and see what the going rates of the texts are going for. If you are just looking to make back some money for spending or next year's books, then take the time to go online and check out places that will buy your books for a better price. Most places will send you the postage needed for these books too so there are no extra out of pocket expenses on your end. Also another tip is that just because you buy a textbook brand new doesn't always mean that you will get top dollar when you try to sell them back to a bookstore. It is always a supply and demand business. Local bookstores may not be able to get rid of your exact copies whereas an online buyback store sells to students from all over the country. Because of that, they will be able to ensure you a better deal. To http://www.buybacktextbooks.com/ to sell used text booksvisit the site.