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To run a Peruvian restaurant in Miami, you have to learn to speak with pompano, chef Gaston Acurio said Wednesday from the 20th-floor presidential suite of Brickell Key's Mandarin Oriental.
"If a fisherman brings me pompano fresh from the sea, I have to understand the pompano, talk with the pompano, decide whether it's lean and good for tiradito, or maybe it's greasy and better for grilling," Acurio said. "But no matter what, I will find a recipe for that fish, because of the trust I have in that fisherman. And who is going to win? The customer."
Acurio -- Peru's most celebrated chef and one of the world's most prolific restaurateurs -- was in town to host a media preview of his forthcoming La Mar, which is scheduled to open in February in the Mandarin space that formerly housed Cafe Sambal. A complete gutting is ongoing (Wednesday's event was on an adjacent terrace), with the cevicheria pushing to open in time for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.
La Mar in Miami will be the 40th restaurant that Acurio has opened, including La Mar outposts in San Francisco and Chicago. He opened his Lima flagship, Astrid y Gaston, in 1994 with his wife, Astrid Gutsche. It ranked No. 14 on this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list and No. 1 on the list of Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants.
In Miami, Acurio said he hopes La Mar can keep a spotlight on Peruvian cuisine, driving people to check out the lesser-known Peruvian restaurants that dot Miami-Dade's strip malls and side streets.
"The idea is, maybe people will taste something here that they like, and that makes them want to try more dishes like it at the place up the street," he said. "We are not here to compete with other Peruvian restaurants. We want to grow together."
Before the wild-haired chef left his suite for the luncheon, where he served dishes like a Japanese-influenced ceviche with ahi tuna, tamarind and sesame oil, Acurio returned to the concept of talking with food.
"Any ingredient, for example a lime, you need to smell it, touch it, talk to it, understand it," he said. "That way, you respect and you admire the food you are cooking. If you do that, every day, you are a chef. If not, you are a robot."
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The 2013 Angels, or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept that Buttercup Might Be the Name of the Season
To paraphrase Lou Brown, easily one of the best fictional baseball coaches ever to grace the cinematic Majors: OK, we won a game Saturday. And we won Sunday. That's called "two in a row". And if we win again tomorrow, that's called a "winning streak." It has happened before!
Now, clearly, quoting the infinitely quotable Major League in reference to the 2013 Angels is hardly an original thought and I'm not even the first to sling this particular gem around this week. However, I would dearly love to be one of the last because, much like Lou Brown in his follow up comments to this bit of awesomeness, I would like to believe that the Angels are heating up. Really, I would. But this season?? Always there is the Big B…what a Buttercup!
Let me 'splain (and, you know, see if I can throw in any more random movie references from the depths of my crazed brain while I'm at it!). Towards the end of the sad, sad debacle that was Wednesday night's pitching implosion, abandon all hope…no, no, wait, here comes the Angels offense!…Nope, just kidding, more LOBsters than a large seafood chain could handle…Waaaaaiiiit, just kidding again, check out that offense!!…*facepalm* Nevermind, more LOBsters…emotional whiplash of a game, I tweeted, 'This is such a buttercup game. And the Angels have just buttercupped all over the buttercupping thing. Blah.' And, you know what? Even though the Angels have a proto-winning streak going on here – potentially their third of the season, talk about *facepalm*! – that sentiment actually sums up the whole season so far for me. Because, yes, I was in part being cute and trying to interject some much needed levity into the situation by using the name of the Angels' much hated – at least by, let's call it, all fans in their right mind; the rest of you are highly suspect – 7th inning stretch ditty as a stand in for the long, drawn out f-bomb that most of us were feeling at that point. However, my word choice meant so much more as well. Let us review the lyrics of the song, shall we?:Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin' You know that I have from the start So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don't break my heart
Forget all of the perfectly rational, 'who in the hell thought that this song would be an appropriate rooting-for-the-home-team-at-a-sporting-event song and would they please turn their marketing card in…right now!' thoughts you're having at this moment because, sadly, this season they're beside the point. Thus far the 2013 Angels are the Buttercup Angels — always building us up, just to let us down again for another inning, another game, another streak, of the 'you don't want one' kind. Offense starts coming back. Starting pitching blows a herd of goats. Starting pitching gets it done. Offense goes to sleep and/or the Angels bullpen decides to go all "flashback" on us and turns Arson Squad. Sweep the Tigers. Lose the next 5 – yes, count them, 5! – series. And so on, and so forth. So this proto-streak? I want it to be the real thing. Dear God I want it to be the real thing and the start of something great, but I just…I just don't know.
But if you're about to throw the B word at me, you just zip your lip right there. There is no bandwagon. There never was. Seth and I are bleeding red fans who have nothing to jump off of. We love this team, even if this season, like oh so many in the not so distant past, it's a heavily frustrated, profanity laced, shouting kind of love. We're still watching every game we can on TV. We're still buying tickets to the Big A though, being less excited, we'll probably attend closer to 15 games than our customary 20 – 25. It's just the focus that has shifted. In another tweet this week, I confessed to fellow Angels fans that, even though it makes me feel like a bad fan, at this point I'm just hoping for the team to straighten up enough that they're at least fun to watch play again…you know *cue hope and optimism yet again* like the last two games were! Anything more than that seems so farfetched that I just can't bring my brain to contemplate it without the Angels themselves providing significantly more incentive. But the minute they do? (And, so help me, I can feel it starting already.) Well, I'll let them build me up once more, praying the whole way that, this time? This time it's real, and they don't let me down…again.
A Little Morning Before the Game Levity: Trout Heads and Angels Wins
Oh, please excuse me. Just indulging in a bit of morning-before-the-game-after-an-off-day-and-Angels-moved-another-half-game-closer-to-a-wild-card-berth levity over here, with apologies to Barnes & Barnes and, of course, Dr. Demento.
Ah the Trout heads, as fans and various Angels vendors affectionately refer to these goofy, bright red, fish shaped, nerf weapon of a piece of head gear if I ever saw one, hats. So disturbingly silly they're absolutely awesome, am I right? Of course I am. Look, even Angels players know how great these things are:
Basically, the way I see it, these hats are but one more strong testament to the unbelievable power of Mike Trout. Don't buy it? Look, Southern Californians simply do not wear stupid hats. Not for team spirit. Not for unity. Not for nothing, unless they're Mickey Mouse ears or, apparently, Trout heads. See that? No stats or proof of increased game attendance needed. Simply put, Angels fans are awesome and Mike Trout is bigger than Mickey Mouse.🙂
…and all of this – the photos, the parody, the silliness – because the Angels successfully completed their sweep of the White Sox, the A's lost to Texas last night while the O's moved no further ahead in the standings, and I am getting so excited for this next series I can barely contain myself! Thank you for indulging me in my silliness, dear reader. We now return you to your regularly scheduled MLBlogs programming.
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Angels' Wild Card Bid Gets Even Wilder
This end of the regular season prep, ball park therapy is great and all, but I have to say that my second session was significantly less satisfying than my first. Eight innings of solid pitching love from Zack Greinke went sadly unrequited by the Angels offense and were outright spurned by the bullpen in the 9th. It was deflating. (No, worries though, subsequent Angels victories have buoyed my spirits, but I'll get to that. :) )
Now, I didn't expect the Angels to sweep the Rangers by any means. I was fairly certain they'd win the first game with Jered Weaver on the mound. But, to be honest, I rather expected the Angels would lose Wednesday night's game. Of course all of my jokes about CJ Wilson being the Arlinington Candidate are just that, but the facts of the matter are he's rarely been good for much of the second half and he hasn't been good against the Rangers this season. I did, however, think the Angels had a real chance to take the series on Thursday and, as it turns out, they did have chance. They just didn't seize that chance, as attested to even more strongly by the long line of 0's peppered with a few 1s and one 2 in the hit column than Ernesto Frieri's errant pitch turned nifty souvenir for some "lucky" fan in fair territory in the 9th. Like I said, deflating…until the White Sox series!!
I know, I know, it's only two wins and the Angels now have a long, long, looooooooong shot ahead of them to earn a wild card berth. But that would be practicality and rationality speaking. I think all diehard baseball fans are just a little bit crazy to begin with and only become more so when the post season is still a faint hope. To wit, one win against the Rangers and I was hopeful. Two straight losses against the Rangers and I believed that those faint notes I was hearing in the distance were the fabled fat lady going through her warm up scales…
…But one solid Angels victory against the White Sox (with way more than the mere requisite pieces of flair in my estimation!) and I start thinking dreamy eyed Angels happy thoughts again. You know, all the Angels have to do is sweep the White Sox and then it would just like winning both the Sox and Rangers series, right? I mean, the White Sox are only in first place in their division with a few players having career years. Pshaw, how hard could that be? Then Baltimore won today and I started hearing those scales again only to have hope return when the A's lost. Now with a second Angels victory, I'm back to dreamy thoughts of a sweep…hey it could happen. Jered Weaver is on the mound tomorrow.
And then? Okay, now I will be rational. The Angels really can't afford to lose more than one or two more games before the end of the season and the A's have to lose a lot more than that. The Angels have to stop filling the bases up with no outs only to strand every runner at the end of the inning. The starters and bullpen need to need to be spot on. No more base running gaffes. No more fielding gaffes. Practically speaking, the Angels need to play playoff baseball now and for the rest of the season however long that may be. Possible? Oh hell yes. Probable? We shall see. Fun? Absolutely! More ball park therapy, please. Stat!
And, in the meantime, enjoy a few more pics from the ballgame on Thursday:
The Late July/Early August Angels' Jekyll and Hyde Routine
In their last 5 games, the Angels have:
- Scored 46 runs!
- Allowed the opposing team to score 44 runs.
- Hit 15 home runs!
- Allowed the opposing team to hit 10 home runs.
- Struck out 30 batters!
- Were struck out 48 times.
- Came from behind to tie or pull into the lead so many times, they reminded me of the 2009 Angels who were among the league leaders in that regard.
- Blew the lead so frequently that none of those comebacks amounted to anything.
- Beat the division leading Rangers 2 times, one of which was more of a good old-fashioned shellacking.
- Lost to the division leading Rangers 2 times and the White Sox once, just for good measure.
- Left 40 guys on base.
- Went to the bullpen 16 times – 4 times apiece in the last three games.
- Moved out of 3rd place (yay!) to tie the A's for 2nd.
- Shot past the A's to a 2nd place that was just 3 games out of 1st place.
- Sank right back into 3rd place one game further out of 1st than they started.
- Brought me to my feet cheering repeatedly.
- Sat me right back down again in exasperation complete with loud expletives and an annoyed fist bump on the table for good measure repeatedly.
Wow! There is an inordinate amount of both !!! and #$@! in that list. Come to think of it, I suppose this is true in different ways both for Angels fans and for fans of the opposition. So what on Earth are we supposed to make of a crazy, simultaneously hot and cold, brilliant upside, scary downside team like this? I would say that the Angels really need to get key players back off the DL in top form, or top August form at any rate, and figure out what's broken with the starting rotation and fix it. This list just illustrates what those who have been watching the games already know – so many important pieces, essential to having a shot at the post season are already present, accounted for and how in the way the Angels are playing right now.
However, the sick and amazing bullpen of a few weeks ago has become a sick and ailing bullpen in the absence of Scott Downs. As much as Andrew Romine looks like he can fill a big league short stop's shoes in a few seasons, the defense and the base paths are both missing Erick Aybar. Recent, blessedly brief, stints with various strains for Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo did the lineup no favors. And the starting rotation is kind of, sort of, maybe just starting to come together…maybe. But Dan Haren did push back another start due to back issues. (On the one hand, way to go Danny for admitting you're hurting and taking the steps you need to fix it. On the other hand, ouch. We need him back strong and we need him back now.) Ervin Santana is restricted to three innings until he can get his head straight. And Zack Greinke, if the small sample size of the last two starts are any indication, is still working through his home vs. road issues, though I do admire a pitcher who toughs out a bad few innings and finishes strong.
The other thing I would take from this Jekyll and Hyde list is that the Angels season future is unclear. I know that a lot of folks saying it's over now, that this Rangers series was the "the moment" and the Angels blew it. But I don't buy that. Oh, I believe in momentum, but I also think that trying to pick out what "the moment" is in any season as it's happening is impossible. It's a little too much like writing history as it happens. Oh, plenty of people do write history as it happens and I can tell you as a history major that historians do value such analysis…but as primary source documents not as their intended purpose. The 2012 season is moving quickly. But we do have two solid months of baseball left and, for the Angels, much of that baseball will be played in the AL West. If they can get some guys back or start playing around their absence with more grace, well, anything is still possible.
The Crack of the Bat! The Slap of the Glove! The Long Uncomfortable Silence of the Error?
Okay, so it's only Spring Training. The sights and sounds of the game are never going to be the same in Spring Training as they are when the real deal begins. Still, after so many long days without, they sound pretty darned musical to me. So, after two entire Angels games, one of which only aired on the radio and one we watched this evening via that faithful friend of the working stiff, the DVR, I have a few thoughts.
It's only Spring Training. And believe you me, if it were going badly I would absolutely be emphasizing how much Spring Training games don't really mean anything, a fact I don't forget just because things are going well. However, it makes me really happy to see:
- Albert Pujols and that gorgeous swing looking good from the first at bat.
- C.J. Wilson looking like he's in season shape already or pretty darn close to it.
- The regular infielders doing their regular season thing in the field and at the plate.
- One possible incarnation of the outfield doing their regular season thing in the field and at the plate.
- Alberto Callaspo belting the ball and playing his position with an "Ahem. I'm still here!" swagger and chip on his shoulder.
- Angels infielders turning two in March with a decidedly May kind of ease and precision. Have you ever noticed that the sound of the ball slapping the glove during a solid 6-4-3 or 4-6-3 is just a little different than it sounds during any other play? Three fast, solid thunks in precisely measured succession. It's a lovely sound!
- Power from the catcher's position!! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spring Training ball parks. Blah, blah, blah. I don't care. I have now seen current Angels catchers look like they actually know what they are doing in the batter's box in two back to back games. And after last season? Yeah, that's a big deal.
- Angels ball players looking relaxed, rejuvenated, and very at ease with one another…until they start talking about the coming season and then there is a fire in their eyes. Love that!
Meh. It's only Spring Training:
- Oh my word, the errors. With every team, in every game. Balls zinging out of gloves. Sailing lazily past gloves. Dropping softly at the outfielders' feet… Throws going into the outfield. The backstop. The dugout. The stands… And some of the pitching and hitting? Ugh. Yes, this is why we have Spring Training but it is also why Spring Training will never be as good as the regular season.
- I'm not particularly impressed with most of the Angels kids so far. Not last season's rookies or Mike Trout who spent a fair bit of time in the Bigs last year. I think my appreciation of their efforts and the breath of fresh air they bring has been thoroughly documented on these virtual pages. No, I mean the younger prospects. I really like Alexi Amarista whose gutsy, athletic, maximum effort style of play in a diminutive package reminds a bit of Dustin Pedroia. And I like Andrew Romine who has demonstrated great instincts and a gift for pulling plays out of thin air in the past. Other than that, I don't see anything that impressive yet…of course, I wasn't that impressed with Tyler Chatwood last Spring Training, so I can't claim to have the best eye for the subtle nuances of a rookie-to-be's performance.
- The usual: No one stays in the game for very long, even when they're doing well. Small stadiums make for quiet games. Even the announcers…heck, even the sound and picture quality seem to be in training right along with the players.
We got to watch baseball. Real, current – if not precisely live – baseball over dinner for four days running now. And this evening my husband looked from the game to me with a very contented smile, all of the strain of the day gone from his face, and sighed. This is a nice evening, he said. It's great to have the back game on. I couldn't agree more…and that part needs no Spring Training specific header. That part is universal.
Keep Him In Coach. We Need Him to Play.
Hel-lo gor-geous bats! Where have you been all my season? Well, looking at the stats for the last few games, they've been in AA Arkansas with Mike Trout. Check this out:
The Angels have played ten games since Mike Trout was recalled from the minors and in that time they are 5 and 0 in games where Trout has started and 2 and 3 in games where Trout did not play or entered the game as a pinch hitter in the 8th inning. And one of those losses? That would be Friday night against Texas. Upon entering the game in the 8th inning, Trout continued a rally begun by Howie Kendrick. His hit moved Howie into position to score on Mark Trumbo's line drive single and set the stage for Russell Branyan's three run homer. Imagine what could have been if Trout had started the game?
No, I'm not saying Mike Trout is the chosen one, a one man offense here to single handedly save the Angels. But I do think he is proving himself to be the missing spark this team needs. It's not that the Angels don't have any bats, it's that we don't have enough bats and that there are far too many dead spots, all but guaranteed outs, dotted through the lineup in between them. How many times have we watched a mini rally start only to die without a single man scoring? Or bases loaded with one out turning into one measly run followed by someone grounding into a double play? This happens to every team, but it happens to the Angels so often that we've grown to expect it every inning this season. How excited do we Angels fans get when the team scores just four runs? 'Nuff said.
But what if we had just one more clutch bat in between our existing bats, someone to keep the offensive outburst going once Macier or Bourjos or Howie starts it? Someone to knock Torii Hunter in when he gets on base? Heck, just one more guy not grounding into an inning ending double play? Well, we'd have our sweep of the Orioles, or last night, or our win against Texas on Saturday, or what Friday night against Texas very easily could have been if we'd had just one more clutch bat in the game a few innings earlier.
Yes, Mike Trout is young, not even a month past 20. But he doesn't seem overwhelmed in the slightest. In addition to his bat makes good decisions in the outfield, has a fantastic glove, runs great routes for the ball and, with his speed, is a perfect complement to Peter Bourjos in the outfield and a terror on the base paths. And the frightening part is, he's still growing into his skill set and showing a lot of improvement, even just since his last trip up to the majors. His arm looks a little stronger and then there's that bat! Trout returned to the majors with a .163 batting average – hey, he only played in a handful of games on either side of the All-Star Break and, like a lot of rookies, it took him a few at bats first to connect and then to stop hitting it right at people. After five additional full games in the majors and two single at-bat pinch hit appearances, Trout has dramatically increased his batting average to .246. Between that and two homeruns and five RBIs last night, making Trout the youngest Angel to have a two-homerun game, I think it's safe to say he is no longer overly impressed by Major League pitching. What do you think?
So, this post was originally going to be a plea to Mike Scioscia to put Mike Trout back in the lineup tonight. Because, of course, he reads this blog and takes my opinions into careful consideration before making lineup decisions, why do you ask?😉 But, much to my delight, they just posted the lineup and Trout is already there!!! And suddenly I am even more excited for this game. Go Angels!!
So, I was wondering instead…Sosh, pretty please, with zesty homemade marinara sauce and good imported parmesan on top, can we keep him in the lineup now??? He'll be the offense's new best fri-end. Thanks, ever so!
– An Angels Fan on the Edge of Her Seat
Weaver Pitches 7 Shutout Innings to lead the Angels to their 6th Victory While the Ink Dries on His Brand, Spanking New Contract
We were not going to go to a game this week. Yes, we had originally planned on going to Tuesday night's game, but then the unexpected trip to Yosemite came up and it just seemed like too many things…Until Jered Weaver's press conference. I think Weaver got a great deal from the Angels. But at the same time, I am as touched as everyone else that he didn't wait to shop around as a free agent, potentially leaving significant dollars on the table to stay with the organization he grew up with.
Listening to the press conference on the radio at lunch on Tuesday and hearing Weaver say, with warmth and tears in his voice, 'I just couldn't see myself anywhere else but here,' 'How much more money do you really need?' and 'Watching all of the Angels alumni return to throw out first pitches for the 50th, I want to be part of that brotherhood.' I was thrilled. I was proud. I was moved. Heck, I even shed a few tears myself. There's just something about tough guys being moved to tears that causes a few of my own to roll down my face in sympathy. And suddenly, I really wanted to go the game on Wednesday and be part of the crowd cheering our admiration and thank yous when Weaver took the mound for his next start. I can't imagine sharing that with my non baseball fan friends. It's not like I know the guy, or much of anything about him outside of baseball. So I know they wouldn't understand needing to go to the game at that point in the slightest. But at the same time, I'm certain you all get it.🙂
Reason #3,987,542 (give or take, it's a really long list!) my husband is the best ever? When I texted that I after listening to the press conference I wanted to go Wednesday's game after all. Could we go if I could find cheap tickets? He responded almost instantly with a 'Yes, please.' He was listening to the press conference too. So, many, many thanks to the Angels fans who decided to part with club level seats for $10 each. Were it not for the generosity and/or last minute changes in plans of fans such as yourself, I would sit at home a lot more often than I do.😉
So, long story somewhat truncated, we got to see the Angels mini-sweep the White Sox (I just can't think of a two game series as a full series, sorry!), winning their sixth game in a row. The whole evening was perfect. We even got to the game in time to check out some of the warm ups which with our jobs and So Cal traffic, never happens:
The Angels bats went on a terror and guys found ways to get and base and score in a welcome trend I hope to see continue into the fall:
We saw seven Jered Weaver shutout innings followed by shutout innings from Bobby Cassevash and Fernando Rodney – note, he isn't coming in when it counts. Smart. Very smart:
And I got to see one iteration of my dream Peter Bourjos/Mike Trout outfield live and in person for an entire inning once Trout pinch hit for Vernon Wells in the 8th. Trout promptly knocked the ball into left field for his first big league pinch hit. So many firsts! *sniffles* Our baby's growing up so fast! ;):
From our vantage, we even caught random goofiness in the bullpens…or, invoking the Roger Rabbit Only When it's Funny Clause, chose to infer random goofiness:
And then, there was this. I hate the kiss cam. In fact, I think it's so stupid and pointless that until you all set me straight, I assumed it was a uniquely So Cal thing. We So Cal folk seem to need our beach balls and other lame distractions at perfectly good baseball games *rolls eyes* so it made a disturbing sort of sense. However, this season cheeky humor has arrived at the Big A. Finally, the sound guys have caught up with the times and play sarcastic music and sound effects when the visiting team strikes out, has a meeting on the mound…you know, like other teams do. In keeping with this sense of fun, the camera folks have continued their goofiness with the Kiss Cam's last victims each evening from where they left off with the Indians Bullpen back in April. The visitor's bullpen is a common target, as is the visitor's dugout – an injured Evan Longoria blowing kisses at the camera from his perch on the rail was a high point. But announcers, programmers and sound crew from visiting and home team alike aren't guaranteed a pass either. By now, this is a sufficiently well known prank that the victims usually play along, increasing the humor value considerably. The White Sox bullpen was no exception:
And, of course, all's well that ends well. Light that baby up! Hey, Shakespeare wrote it…except, you know, for that Angels-centric part there…and now you can read it on the Internets, so it absolutely has to be true:
Now, let's do it again, but in Texas shall we? I am so excited for this series! Ervin Santana and Jered Weaver are both even pitching on short rest to help get it done. Clearly the Angels are feeling extra competitive and I love it!
Angels: Not the Series I Had in Mind…Again
You all know the feeling. You have a really long day at work (or school), or even an outright bad day. You come home and all you want to do is relax in front of a good game, preferably cuddled up with your honey, and cheer. But, alas, this time it's not a good game. And somehow the day is just that much more deflating for it. This has been the story of my last week and change.
I am in the final stages of a huge project and I've been working 12 hour days during the week and eight to ten hour days on the weekend to get it done. It's a great project and I am thrilled to be involved but these have been long days, days in which I hoped to help the the last few hours of work (or, you know, the first few hours of the weekends work) feel less like work by completing them in front of a good game. Instead, I got last week's not-the-series-we-wanted-it-to-be against the White Sox, followed by the weekend's not-the-series-we-wanted-it-to-be against the Rangers and then this latest mini really-not-the-series-we-wanted-it-to-be against the A's. Sure there were a few high points, but they were buried in a mound of blah. And it just didn't pay to be an Angels starter this weekend. Come on Angels, haven't you considered my needs in all of this?😉
This evening, as you might have inferred from the score, was especially terrible. Shut out 14 – 0. Ouch. The Angels had no pitching. No bats. And I swear someone rubbed butter in a few of the gloves just to see what would happen. MST3K-ing our way through Transformers II this Saturday? An excellent strategy for turning a bad, bad movie into a really fun evening and a nostalgic nod to the bad movie Fridays of our college years. MST3K-ing our way through an Angels game, on the other hand? That's a last resort coping mechanism I would prefer not to employ again. But, desperate times, my friends. Desperate times.
…First, a brief digression for the sake of the uninitiated:
MST3K (n) – Mystery Science Theatre 3000. a cult American comedy series featuring a human and his robot sidekicks living on a space station, forced by an evil scientist to watch a series of bad Sci-Fi C and D movies for research. The audience watches the so-bad-it's-laughable movie with the series characters, who are depicted as silhouettes at the bottom of the screen and provide a hilarious running narrative to that episode's feature.
MST3K (v) – the act of improving any less than desirable spectacle by providing your own snarky, ideally hilarious, running commentary to the events in question. MST3K-ing is best when indulged in by a moderate sized group of quick wits, though it only outright requires two.
And now we return you to your originally scheduled MLBlogs programming…
So, my question for the team (Of course, they read this blog and take my comments very seriously. Why do you ask?😉 ) is this. Are you done now? With the botched plays, the WTF base running, the broken clutch at the plate, the wasted great starts, the self-destructing bullpen and all of the unnecessary "excitement" between outs two and three? Every team has off games and every team experiences minor slumps over the course of the season. So, are you done with that now? Are you ready to put it all behind you and play great baseball again? This season you have already shown that you can hit, you have great gloves and boy can you pitch and, this last week notwithstanding, all in the same game even. I love you guys like crazy and will keep watching no matter what you do, but I think we'd all have a lot more fun if you wrapped up this slumping thing and moved on from it like I know you can…oh, and someone give Jordan Walden a hug please, because boy did he look like he needed one after Monday night's game.
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So, about Kendrys Morales. He got a second opinion on the broken ankle. He will have additional surgery soon and be out for the rest of the season. And my reaction? I'm thrilled. Yes, you read that right. Between the plateau, the setbacks and the pain he it sounds like he was continuing to experience, I had serious concerns about scar tissue and his ability to return to playing in any kind of good condition. I want Kendrys back and playing now as much as anyone, but I want him to have a career playing like he used to even more. I would rather do without him for the rest of the season, than bring him back too early and risk killing his career.
Tuesday's Angels Beat White Sox & Fans Rock Their Inner Strongbad
Yay, the lit Halo enveloped in a haze of fireworks returns to my blog, meaning the Angels won last night and I was there to see it! I was a little concerned after Monday. To re-cap: these May White Sox? They are not the April White Sox. They are actually the White Sox which means that if you make mistakes, they will make you pay. Unfortunately, Monday's Angels were not the 2011 Angels, I swear they were some AA team that swiped our uniforms – which is bound to happen now and then over the course of a season…or, like, again tonight in the 8th inning. Wily AA teams. So, anyway, Monday poor Ervin Santana was dealing for an inning and then he just fell apart. Was he "inspired" by Alberto Callaspo's poor running decision? By our complete inability to cash in on an amazing scoring opportunity in the second inning…or the fourth…or the…well, you get the general idea? The pitchers couldn't keep the ball in the park, the batters couldn't hit when it counted, there were a few questionable plays in the field, Jeff Mathis became a pinch hitter (?!?) and Vernon Wells left for the 15 Day DL with a pulled groin muscle. I think he may actually be on the DL longer than that. Watching the replay of the swing where he injured himself will make you cringe, especially if you yourself have ever known the "joy" of a pulled groin. In short, it was Not A Good Game.
But back to last night. It was still the May White Sox taking the field but, fortunately, I think the Angels went to bed angry last night because they showed up on a mission to redeem themselves. They started smacking the ball right away, took the lead in the first inning and never gave it up, though the White Sox threatened at times. It was A Great Game! And here are my photos to help take you all there with me.
For this game, Seth and I entered foul ball territory. This is my view of the field without any zoom, sitting immediately behind the blue sleeved lady in the front row. (Yes, the Angels' Dodger fan siblings often come to visit when the Dodgers are out of town and we gladly return the favor. It's a lot of fun living in a two team town – for large, dual county definitions of town.) And these seats were a better price than even our last seats. The moral of my story? Angels fans are a panicky lot, especially after last season. When the Red Sox sweep the Angels at home, go to a resale site and buy cheap tickets. It will ease your pain:
Howie Kendrick runs to second for an eventual double in the 3rd as Gordon Beckham waits for the throw from Juan Pierre. I have to say, of all the outfield permutations I thought of for the evening with Wells on the DL, Howie in Left was not one of them. But watching him move out there and knowing how much I like his glove and his arm, I think it could work – he looks good tonight! Left field was really quiet for most of the game however, so rather than a fascinating Howie just standing there shot, I give you this photo (taken by Seth) instead:
Joel Pineiro stares down a runner at 2nd base as Callaspo (3rd base) switches into position. Pineiro had another excellent start, going 7 2/3 innings with five strike outs and one walk. And what he was throwing for strikes? Nice. He did give up one homerun, so the White Sox smacked some of the pretty off of his E.R.A. But it all worked out in the end and I am just glad to see Pineiro back on the mound and in the same great form he showed us last season…though I wish I could find the Angels Luchador Mask video ad he filmed with Santana somewhere online to share with you all. Pretty funny stuff:
Angels fans say, 'Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.' Because, of course, last night was also the much hyped Angels Luchador Mask night. This promotion had equal potential for being really stupid or a heck of a lot of fun and it was decidedly the latter. It didn't tread on watching the game much, if at all – which would have annoyed me – and fans had a blast. We donned the so-silly-they're-actually-pretty-darned-cool-looking-things at the top of the 5th for 10 minutes to set the record, though many wore them for most of the game. As the season progresses, I expect these masks to take on Rally Monkey-esque significance…or at least Angels Gnome-esque significance:
Some fans went all out for the occasion, donning actual Luchador regalia or, in the case of these two super Angels fans below, constructing entire Luchador costumes out of previous Angels giveaways. I thought they looked so creative and fantastic that we had to snap a photo. Well done guys!!:
Torii Hunter takes a strong swing. This at bat would turn into a single in the 5th. The Angels bats were nice and busy Tuesday night with 12 hits in all, including a homerun from Maicer Izturis…yes, Maicer. Whooo. Hooo:
Erick Aybar slides back into first to avoid a pickoff attempt as Paul Konerko catches the ball. Aybar is currently leading the team in stolen bases with 9. This thrills me to no end because it's one more sign that the Angels are back to playing Angels baseball and all is once more right with my world:
Aybar (short stop) and Mark Trumbo (first base) move with the pitch as A.J. Pierzynski, having doubled in the 7th, takes a lead off second base. Even if it was mostly so John Denks could get to Mathis, it was really funny to watch him pitch around Trumbo twice. It's enough to give a lesser rookie a big head, I'm sure:
While Fernando Rodney warms up for the last out of the 8th inning, Peter Bourjos, Torii and Reggie Willits (replacing Howie in left) chat and stretch in centerfield. Could Peter and Reggie be trying to talk Torii into long socks? Reggie in left is another outfield permutation we're likely to see a lot of while Wells is on the DL. I think this will work as a stop gap measure. I like his glove and his speed. I just hope we don't see too steep a learning curve as Willits and Bourjos adapt to one another. I should also note that, although I cringed when I saw Rodney striding out from the Bullpen (but cheered him on robustly as he passed our seats), he did really well:
Scott Downs winds up while Callaspo moves into position. Downs took over the closer role for the evening as this was technically a non-close situation. He sure pitched like a closer though, sitting them down one, two, three. Well. Okay. Maybe that was more like one, twwwwooooo, three. Pierzynski, who was less impressed than I, fouled off many pitches before grounding out. A note on Callaspo. Everything I wrote in the offseason about our hole at third base? I am pleased to say I no longer think we have one. Whether it's Maicer or Callaspo, I think third base is looking pretty darned good these days:
And that was the game. I had an absolute blast. I wanted to come home and immediately buy tickets for the rubber match, or at least post these photos, but I had to finish my meeting prep for today instead. Then today was such that…well…I got home at 8 and am posting about game 2 as game 3 heads into unecessary extra innings and the bullpen is making me ill. I tell you, this working for a living thing…well, it beats the alternative with a caber sized stick, I can tell you that much, LOL!
Game 3 Edit/Addendum – Wednesday's Angels, on the Other Hand:
Yuck! Did that just really happen? With the blown save and the self-destructing bullpen and the run. Scoring. On. An. Intentional. Walk. Wild. Pitch!? I realize it's part of the necessary learning process but Jordan Walden needs to stop working on the change-up when it's just not happening and the game is on the line. Ever since he started working on it, things have been…interesting, occasionally for Hoban Washburne definitions of interesting. He'll get it down. I'm sure of it. But in the mean time? And Kevin Jepsen? Well, are we already back to last season's two out of three rock but that third outing will kill you every time? Also, I do not like uber-specialized pitching to begin with, and I really do not like our very recent – as in, since Tampa Bay recent – moves to bring star relievers in for just one or two batters in an inning. Wouldn't it have been nice to have either Scott Downs or Rich Thompson available later in the game?
Tyler Chatwood pitched well enough to win. It's a pity the Bullpen decided to have an early April relapse. It's just one game. It's only the third series we've lost so far this season. And amateur hour is going to happen for the best of teams from time to time. I understand it. But I don't like it and I really hope my 2011 Angels show up in Texas, not this strange AA team that occasionally puts on their uniforms.
Hmmm…maybe I should go check out those ticket prices online tomorrow morning.
Angels Tame Hot Streaking Tribe Winning 2 Out of 3
The Angels took two out of three against the first-place Cleveland Indians and gave Mike Scioscia his 1,000th win as a manager, while all of Major League Baseball donned the now traditional pink accessories for Mothers' Day in support of Breast Cancer. Not a bad weekend, eh? Outside of baseball, it's actually been a weird weekend for me. I brought a lot of work home, we had my in-laws over for Mothers' Day and we got to go to the game last night (Yay!), so there wasn't a whole lot of time for extras including, sadly, blogging. We didn't even do our usual Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels. We watched the game, but it was more of a Friday leftover (but still delicious) taco salad, Kristen building PDF forms for work and Angels kind of affair…though we did enjoy Pasoport's lovely Ruby port for an extra innings dessert.
I remembered to bring an actual camera to Saturday's game instead of just my Droid, so I figured in lieu of a more detailed write-up of the games, I'd just share some of the photos I took. It was mostly a good game with lots of scuffling back and forth, and right up until Maicer Izturis' uncharacteristically terrible decision to run to third in the 8th, I thought the guys might pull this one off. Unfortunately no, so I was greeted with this very sad, very unlit Halo when we left the stadium. I mention the Halo a lot but it occurs to me that you might not all know what I'm talking about. The Giant A you see before you is the Big A's namesake and was the stadium's original scoreboard. It was moved to the parking lot and transformed into an electronic marquee when the stadium was renovated in the late 1970's to accommodate the Rams. When the Angels win, the Halo around the top lights up, which is why so many Angels fans great a win with loud variations on Light that baby up!
We had the exact same seats we had for the last game against the Indians, oddly enough. First row of the top level, two sections behind third base. What a difference a few megapixels and a real zoom makes! This is Maicer Izturis and Erick Aybar stretching and goofing around with, I believe, Orlando Cabrera before the game. I know old school rules outlaw fraternization between opposing players, but I actually like seeing the players hang out together before the game, then put their game faces on try to outdo their buddies:
I was pleased to capture this shot because you can the first long stride of Jered Weavers delivery (the right foot then lands right at the base of the mound or slightly off of it and angling towards first during his release, pretty cool stuff) and Mark Trumbo and Izturis moving into position at first and third. Weaver looked a little off all night, like he had to work for each pitch. I think he is still recovering from the weakening effects of his stomach ailment last weekend. I have no doubt he'll be back on top again soon:
Angels players hang out on the bar of the dugout in the bottom of the first. I believe that is Tyler Chatwood to the left of Bobby Wilson (#46). Chatwood pitched a great game Friday night, but was unable to earn the win – he needs to work on his walk to strike ratio. Fernando Rodney was lights out on Friday and definitely earned the win…and then he almost blew it for the Angels on Sunday. I wish he could figure things out.
Mark Trumbo (in the on deck circle) and Howie Kendrick (the RBI) congratulate Vernon Wells on his two-run homerun. He's coming around. It's taking a little while, but he's coming around:
Bobby Abreu takes a swing. It seems like such an obvious thing to say but, looking at the last several games' stats, when we hit the ball with runners in scoring position we win. When we don't we don't. The Angels had 8 hits in Saturday's losing effort compared to 6 in Sunday's winning one. Its not the hits, it's the hitting when it counts:
Mark Trumbo shown in one of what would be the many attempts to pick off Grady Sizemore at fist. Our fielding this game, and indeed in the rest of the series, was very good with the Angels committing 0 errors:
The photo I wish I had? The Kiss Cam focusing on the Indians Bullpen! Basically, in the middle of the 6th inning, the cameramen focus on couples throughout the stadium, showing them on the Jumbotron in a heart- shaped frame and any couple who finds themselves in said predicament is supposed to kiss. 90% of the time, I think it's annoying. I generally do not like any of the gimmacks geared towards the fan with no attention span. Watch the game, okay. But every now and then something funny happens with the Kiss Cam. At the Angels vs. Indians game I attended in April, the Kiss Cam panned into the Indians bullpen for the final shot, focusing tightly on two relievers (and I wish I could tell you who) who were in a deep discussion that took on overtones of "A Talk" with the Kiss Cam added context. The fans laughed uproariously and the relievers didn't even seem to notice until the last second when they just looked surprised before the Kiss Cam faded to black. This game, the Kiss Cam again panned to the Indians Bullpen (I have no idea what the story is, they don't do this with any other team). But this time the relievers (I assume the same ones) were ready for this treatment and one of them pretended to slap the other one, who jumped back and pretended to cry while the first reliever pretended to look huffy. Well played gentlemen! You are excellent sports!
So, all in all, a few things to work on in coming games, but still another great series! Congratulations to Scioscia on his 1,000th win as a manager! I wish I had been there to see it. I am looking forward to the coming series against the White Sox. They're coming into Anaheim on a few wins, so we should see some good baseball…and I have tickets to Tuesday's game. Can't wait!


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We have been talking about the money market, and the decision that households make about how to hold their wealth. How much of your wealth do you want to hold in the form of transactions balances; that is cash and checks and things that you can go shopping with? And how much of your wealth do you want to hold in the form of interest-bearing assets? See the money market is about making the decision about how to divide your wealth between these two forms. So, in order to understand the money market better, let's focus our attention now on the world of interest-bearing assets. And that means that we are going to be talking about finance.
Finance means any activity that involves borrowing, lending, or sharing risks. Let's look at what happens in a financial market. In a financial market, we have borrowers meeting lenders. Borrowers are any agents who have investment opportunities, but who lack the cash to get those projects started. For instance, businesses might have and opportunity to make a profit if they could only borrow the money the build a factory. The government has the opportunity to build roads and bridges, but it is going to need to borrow the money to get those projects done. And finally, homeowners; that is, people who would like to buy a house and live in it, would be happy to do the transaction, but they are going to have to borrow money in the form of a mortgage before they can get their house off of the ground. So borrowers are people who have projects, ideas, but don't have cash on hand to pull them off.
Lenders on the other hand are people who have surplus cash and are looking for an opportunity to earn interest. They are looking for an opportunity to earn a rate of return on their money, but they don't have projects that they would like to do themselves. Therefore, getting lenders and borrowers together is an opportunity to make the economic pie bigger, and once these projects are underway, the borrowers can share their profits with the lenders. That is what happens in a financial market.
Let's look at the flow of funds in a financial market. What happens in this financial market is that lenders send cash to borrowers, so that they can purchase plant, equipment, houses, road crews, and things like that, to create the assets out of which profits are made. In return, the borrowers give the lenders an IOU. Now this term, IOU is not an acronym that stands for anything, it's a rebus, and it's a word picture, IOU money. And an IOU is a financial security, or a financial instrument. That is, it's a contract that explains what the lender is entitled to, at what date in the future, under what circumstances. That is, it tells the world and the lender what money to expect in the future as a result of this deal that the lender and the borrower have made. Now there are all different kinds of IOU's. There are bonds, which are debt contracts that entitle the lender to a fixed interest payment in the future. And, that is the way that most other loans work too, even if it is not a bond, the loan entitles you to a fixed interest payment if it is a debt instrument. There are also particular kinds of loans called treasury bills that are issued by the United States Government. These are short -term instruments that the government uses to finance its debt, and they entitle the lender to an interest payment within a year. There are also stock instruments, and stock or equity contracts entitle the lender to a share of the profits of this business venture at some date in the future (usually paid in the form of dividends).
Now, the borrower and the lender can get together directly, in which case they are engaging in a transaction we call direct finance. That is what would happen if you bought a share of IBM stock directly yourself, from a broker; or if you lent your sister money so that she could buy a car. That is direct finance, where the borrower and lender deal with one another directly, face to face; or through a broker. However, rather than going into the world of direct finance, you may want to reduce your search cost. That is, you may not want to spend time going out and looking for someone with a good project, plus there are risks involved, if you don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket. On top of that you are going to have to draw up a contract, and monitor compliance and all of that is going to involve a lot of transactions effort that you may want to spare yourself. Therefore, you are going to go through what is called a financial intermediary. And that is an agent in the economy that specializes in bringing lenders and borrowers together.
A financial intermediary is defined by its balance sheet. So lets take a look here at a balance sheet. A balance sheet tells you two things. It tells you what you own, that is your assets, and it tells you what you owe, that is your liabilities. That is, if you own something, then the money to purchase that came from somewhere; that is, you probably borrowed it. A financial intermediary is an institution that simultaneously borrows and lends. In particular, a financial intermediary is an agent that borrows from the ultimate lenders. That is, households put money on deposit with the financial intermediary; and the financial intermediary then funnels that money, or lends it to the people in the economy, the borrowers who have the projects who can earn profits from this savings.
Lets look at some examples of financial intermediaries and I think it will make clearer what's going on in this process. One example of a financial intermediary is a bank, this is one you are probably very familiar with. A bank borrows money from households, and it gets households to lend money by offering them deposits in a form that's attractive. What people want when they go to a bank are transactions balances like checking accounts, or opportunities to earn a little bit of interest by putting your money in a savings account that you can take out whenever you want. People are attracted to savings accounts and checking accounts because they are liquid. Liquid means easily convertible into cash without any risk.
Now, when the bank gets all of its money deposited by households it goes and makes loans: loans to businesses; loans to people who are building houses in the form of mortgages; and sometimes they will even hold treasury bills, which means they are indirectly making a loan to the government. Now, if you are in a savings and loan institution, you are probably lending most of your money to houses, because savings and loan institutions typically lend at-least three-fourths of their money in the form of mortgages. There are also credit unions, which lend most of their money to their own members and mutual savings banks, which are less and less common. So, banks are one kind of financial intermediary-they stand between lenders and borrowers.
Another example of a financial intermediary is a mutual fund. Now, here is the way a mutual fund works. People go to a mutual fund and they invest their money there, they put money there on deposit because the mutual fund offers them a diversified portfolio. That is you get a mutual fund statement which tells the funds you are invested in and once you look at the prospectus for that fund you can see that it involves the holding of thousands of shares of stock in thousands of different companies. What the mutual fund typically does, is it buys stock in thousands of different companies and since you own a share of the mutual fund you own a little piece of each of these thousands of companies. Rather than putting all of your eggs in one basket, by making a big loan to one company you can put your money in a mutual fund, get a statement and a share of that mutual fund and own a little piece of the stocks of thousands of different companies. The mutual fund diversifies for you that is, it goes to the trouble of locating lots of good investments and gives you a little piece of each one so as to minimize your risk.
Another example of a financial intermediary is an insurance company. And an insurance company works this way: the insurance company buys bonds of companies, and it offers the people who have deposited there insurance policies, many of which have an annuity component. An annuity is like a financial instrument; it's like a savings account. You have heard of life insurance policies maturing. Well when you buy a whole life policy, what you are dong is you're engaging in a kind of savings activity. When your whole life policy matures, you're entitled to receive your savings with interest at a date in the future. So the insurance company takes the money that you have deposited and pays you a rate of return on the money that you have paid in. All of the money that you have paid in in the form of premiums and annuity investments, gets invested in companies as the insurance companies buys bonds. Now insurance companies work on the principle of actuarial science, that is they look at the statistics on accidents and life expectancy, and they can calculate pretty precisely, exactly how much money they are going to have to pay out each year. That means they can afford to invest the bulk of the money that's deposited there into very long term investments that typically pay higher rates of return. That's why insurance company annuities are usually a relatively attractive investment for lenders. Also, they have good tax consequences and protection from certain kinds of taxes.
One more kind of financial intermediary is the pension fund. The pension fund, again, stands between lenders and borrowers, and it offers lenders retirement accounts and pensions. That is, it plays a role in peoples retirement planning. Then the pension plan itself invests this money into the stocks of lots of companies; that is, it engages in diversification. The pension fund knows when it is going to have to have money to pay people who are approaching their retirement years, so it can also do some long term planning and leave its money in the stock market looking for the best possible return.
Now, you've seen several examples of financial intermediaries. Financial intermediaries engage in bringing lenders and borrowers together; and doing so in a form that makes the terms more attractive for both sides. Well, think about what's happening here, people are putting money into financial intermediaries where they're buying bonds. What they are doing is they are saving; and all of the money that goes into financial markets comes out the other side. That is, it's borrowed by businesses or the government or households, who are making investment decisions. Building houses, building factories, building roads. Savings equal investments: everything that goes in comes out. With that insight, it's easy to see how the financial system is related to the rest of the economy.
Consider these equations. Let Y stand for income. Now what can you do with your income? You can consume it, save it, or spend it on taxes. And since everyone in the economy is in the same position, all income in the economy winds up as consumer spending, savings, or tax payments. Now think also about income. Income is received whenever you produce goods and services, and all of the goods and services that are produced have to be purchased by someone; whether consumers, businesses in the form of investment spending, the government or foreigners in the form of our net exports. Now this income, that's equal to the sum of its uses, and this income, that's equal to the total of all spending, are the same income. So set them equal to each other and you get these equations. This equation's set equal to this one. Cancel the C off, and do a little rearrangement and you get this remarkable statement: which is, that all of the investment spending, all the money businesses are borrowing in order to purchase plant, equipment and other capital goods, all of that business spending is someone else's saving. Whether the saving of households, the saving of the government (that is the amount by which tax payments exceed government or the governments budget surplus), or whether it's our trade deficit, that is the money foreigners are lending us, so that we can buy more of their goods than they buy of ours. These three forms of savings, private saving, public saving and foreign saving have to be equal, by accounting, to the amount of investment spending that businesses do. And that's the link between the real economy and the financial system.
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San Diego Like most of their cohorts in big business, executives of Sempra Energy have been opening their checkbooks for presidential campaigns. They include Jessie Knight, the first African-American executive director of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, now Sempra's executive vice president of external affairs. He gave $1000 to Republican Mitt Romney; vice president Mark Randle gave $500. On the other hand, Lamar Frazier, of Sempra Energy Solutions in Houston, gave $4600 to Democrat Barack Obama.


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What's a company like Zappos most known for? Hands-down the answer has to be customer service. They've built their reputation on easy, friendly, and downright enjoyable customer service. Want to buy something from Zappos? Not only is shipping free, but so is return shipping. Got a problem with your order? You'll not only find capable people on the other end, but they're likely to be one of the nicest people you talk to all day. Amazing, and rare.
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I talk with job hunters and recruiters alike and I know there's a big disconnect between the two. Brazen's in a good spot to bridge that gap because they're able to mesh their deep Gen Y expertise with the perspective of cutting edge recruiters. That allows them to tailor the best professional advice to that of the job seeker. Both sides win from this exchange.
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Study Title: Spinal manipulation, medication, or home exercise with advice for acute and subacute neck pain: a randomized trial
Authors: G. Bronfort, R. Evans, A. Anderson, K. Svendson, Y. Bracha, R. Grimm
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
Date: 2012
My thoughts
- First of all, seeing this study capture the attention of many manual and rehabilitation therapists through the power of the internet reminded me of the old "Start the Car" ikea commercial.
- As a chiropractor that highly values exercise and rehabilitation, most would assume that I too would take this paper, "start the car", and run away with it. Unfortunately, I wanted to read the actual paper and see what all the hype was about beyond the good publicity from the New York Times.
- There's no question that I strongly believe manipulation and exercise may be better alternatives to medication in some if not many "pain" presentations, however, overtime I have learned to become more attached to patient-specific care more than anything else. Patient-specific care may indeed call for meds, manipulation and exercise – but patient-specific care may also call for reassurance, education, and / or soft tissue therapy.
- Now having read the actual study, the authors did do a relatively good job to prescribe individually based exercises but I do think they could have been more thorough. Gentle stretching and scapular retraction exercises, as well as neck and possibly (although not convincing in this paper) thoracic manipulations don't cut it when it comes to sending a message that SMT and exercise are better than meds. I understand that this is a research paper so I will accept some limitations in the study.
- While there was significant difference in follow up at 6 months, no significant differences were found at the 1 year mark of follow up when compared to baseline. To me, this likely indicates symptomatic relief or treating the DP (which I think is ok)…but what about the root cause? And what about integrated care? Because how often do you just manipulate or just rehab? I know quite well many of you who read this blog also combine the two. But you probably combine other therapeutic approaches as well. What I don't want to see is manipulating people's necks for the simple reason that this paper said it was more beneficial. If it is indicated, and the patient consents, then by all means. But if not, don't "start the car". We need to be more precise and we need to be accountable.
- Again, it is a research study and I get that we can't control for everything in research but I do think we can be a little more responsible when drinking the kool-aid. And responsibility means taking an objective, rather than emotional opinion…especially on social media. So please feel free to advocate that SMT and Exercise may sometimes be better a alternative than medication for neck pain (and that meds are often unnecessary), but please also recognize that generalizing the study's results to all of your patients is an act that is no different than advocating for meds alone.
Bronfort, G et al. (2012). Spinal manipulation, medication, or home exercise with advice for acute and subacute neck pain: a randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, vol 156; 1-10.…
One Response to Looking at the Literature: SMT, Meds and Exercise for Neck Pain
We can do well to remember to Reset (with manual therapy), Reinforce (with corrective exercise of some patient-specific sort) and then Reload. This adage works well when mechanical dysfunction has been identified as contributing to a dysfunctional painful neck, but may not be the first port-of-call for chemical pain. It's true that a research paper, almost by the limitations modern science places on it, can not clinically reason, so let's not all just "start the car" with the basic recommendations. Good presentation Jeff.


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A Madison man was punched and kicked in the head after being knocked to the ground during a downtown confrontation, according to a release from Madison police.
Police said the 21-year-old was walking with several friends, including two women, in the 400 block of North Frances Street at 2 a.m. Friday when they encountered a group of four men. The men began flirting with the women from the first group when 21-year-old told the men to leave his group alone.
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Emmite L. Grant Jr., 31, of Madison, was arrested on suspicion of battery.