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New Orleans is gearing up for Super Bowl XLVII and fans can only hope it lives up to the drama of the last Big Game played in the Crescent City. In that 2002 classic, the New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams on a last-second field goal - an improbable upset that earned praise for young quarterback Tom Brady and defensive coaching guru Bill Belichick. But a decade later, former Rams running back Marshall Faulk wonders if other forces were at play.
"Am I over the loss? Yeah, I'm over the loss," Faulk told CSNNE.com's Tom Curran on Tuesday. "But I'll never be over being cheated out of the Super Bowl. That's a different story. I can understand losing a Super Bowl; that's fine ... But how things happened and what took place. Obviously, the commissioner gets to handle things how he wants to handle them. But if they wanted us to shut up about what happened, show us the tapes. Don't burn 'em."
Faulk was referring to the original "Spygate" scandal, in which NFL commissioner Roger Goodell investigated reports that then-Patriots employee Matt Walsh was present at the Rams' walkthrough in the days leading up to Super Bowl XXXVI.
But Goodell said he never found evidence that New England had taped the St. Louis walkthrough, and he destroyed the tapes that he had confiscated as part of the investigation.
"The reason I destroyed the tapes is they were totally consistent with what the team told me," Goodell said in 2008. "It was the appropriate thing to do, and I think it sent a message. The actual effectiveness of taping and taking of signals from opponents -- it is something done widely in many sports. I think it probably had limited if any effect on the outcome of games. That doesn't change my perspective on violating rules and the need to be punished."
"Spygate," of course, would resurface a few years later when Belichick and the Patriots were fined $750,000 and docked a first-round draft pick for videotaping New York Jets' coaches relay defensive signals in 2007.
But Faulk, who rushed for 76 yards and was held scoreless in Super Bowl XXXVI, thinks the Patriots' shady scheming may have played a role in the NFL title game.
"I understand Bill [Belichick] is a great coach," Faulk told Curran. "But No. 13 [Kurt Warner] will tell you ... Mike Martz will tell you ... We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn't ran. I think we got to fourth down -- we ran three plays that we hadn't ran, that Mike drew up for that game. Bill's a helluva coach ... we hadn't ran them the whole year [and the Patriots were ready for them]."
He said the only time the Rams practiced those plays was at the walkthrough.
Faulk, a New Orleans native who was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 2011, compared "Spygate" to "Bountygate" - a topic that is still simmering in the Super Bowl's host city.
"... But am I bitter about how that went? Am I bitter about how the league handled them taping people? If Bountygate was that bad and [Saints coach] Sean [Payton] got suspended for a whole year? If we want to talk about some unfair assessment of how we're assessing things? Man. If you lost a game and your brother cheated you," Faulk said, "you'll remember that."


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That would be awesome actually considering.. but I still stand by 4-12 either way its an improvement from last season.
Its sad but I am happy with this team either way. Lose and the colts get better talent next year. Win and the colts build on their success.
Choke special. Nearly second in two weeks. Criticisms of 2nd half offensive approach both games are spot on.
Luck - outside the INT looked pretty good and already has consistently shown his capabilities in 2 - minute/pressure situations
Hilton - Nice to see him get involved with some big plays; too bad for the penalty on the one 30 some yard punt return; if he stays healthy gives us an explosive threat
Run game - NOT! Was thinking it might have started clicking a bit in the latter part of the game, but after further review I'm chalking it up to Jags defending pass at that time; however, did think the O-line was pretty good on pass protection, at least relative to other two games
Everything else
Vinatieri?: What is he now 2/4 on 40 or less FGs? And one of those makes yesterday was barely in. Sorry. Know he was once automatic and clutch, but at this point in his career I say he's no more than adequate. It's a crap shoot on every other kick now.
Defense: Don't care how decent you perform on all but two plays, you can't allow those types of one-strike big plays; absolute back breakers and the second one was straight horseshit in that situation of the game - straight choke.
Tough to lose like that period, but especially one of the handful you know are legit winning opportunities.
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I think it's incredible just how good Luck is three games into the season. Yeah, the interception was awful, but those things are going to happen. But man he can play. He has been so poised leading drives at the end of games. And I can't believe how athletic he is. If he can just get by with running and scrambling this season while he is still young, hopefully we can begin to shore up the line this off-season so he doesn't have to do that for the rest of his career.
This sucks. We should be 2-1. But we now have two weeks to prepare for Green Bay. We likely won't win, but it would be nice to give the Pack all they can handle.
If we won yesterday, we would have had a better record than the Pats, Steelers, and Broncos.
When I was watching the Giants-Panthers game, the announcers mentioned that everyone on the Giants' offensive line has been in the NFL for at least 7 years. No wonder the Giants are so good. They created such big holes that a no-name running back was able to torch the Panthers for over 100 yards and two touchdowns. And Eli had all the time in the world to pick the Panthers D apart. We have to improve our line this offseason.
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The people complaining about the running plays at the end are wrong IMHO. It forced Jax to burn timeouts, left less than a minute left, and put the fate of the game on the foot of your clutch veteran. And didn't Brown end up a yard away from getting the first down in 3rd down anyway? It's not the offensive strategy's fault the defense had another inopportune collapse.
at this stage, i'd rather they struggle. we need more quality players. drafting higher allows a better chance of getting those guys. granted, it is easier to acquire them in the nfl than nba but still, the chances are better.
so i am ok with losing for now.
Ouch, 1st pick of the 2013 draft can't get here quick enough. Trade it for multiple picks will be a great boost with a FA offseason with tons of cap will be a huge improvement.
Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL
A screen pass, a simple slant or curl route, anything over 8 yards essentially a wins the game and yet we choose to run it 3 plays in a row. Cowardly.
Those refs were terrible. They called 11 penalties on the Colts and only 6 on JAC.
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How about going for it on 3 and 1? Luck is big enough to get one or two yards right?
They were out of timeouts because the Colts ran the ball, and its not ridiculous to think the defefense could have stopped a qb who before his last pass had nine completions for 75 yards.
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It's not uncommon for young, inexperienced teams to not have a good grasp of putting their foot on the throats of their opponents. The fact that we're outplaying teams for large chunks of the game is really a good sign for the future once these guys "grow up" so to speak. Not gonna be the case 3 games into a new regime.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Also, 2 of our top corners were hurting and not able to go back into the game. It was a tough position to put our 4th and 5th string DB's when we didnt have to.
They should have called a few screen passes to get ball outside, being aggressive and still running time down.
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The move to introduce three-day-a-week postal delivery could unfairly disadvantage rural consumers and businesses in the remotest parts of New Zealand, say Rural Women New Zealand.
Rural Women NZ national president Liz Evans said she understood the need for NZ Post to reconsider its business model after a decrease in mail volumes, but the rural delivery service needed to be preserved.
She said rural contractors often delivered groceries, medicines, supplies or spare parts - which helped farmers, small businesses and families overcome the obstacles of living long distances from town.
NZ Post this week outlined plans to move to three-day-a-week letter deliveries and to replace some PostShops with self-service kiosks as letter volumes drop.
Rural Women NZ also opposed any fee being reintroduced for rural mail delivery services.
"Parcels posted to and from rural areas already incur extra costs, and we would not wish to see further targeting of rural customers who are so dependent on the mail service."
"Rural delivery service is a real lifeline for many people."
She said the changes would unfairly disadvantage rural businesses who need a rapid service for mail-order food at a reasonable cost, both to the supplier and the customer.
"Rural Women New Zealand actively supports and promotes such businesses and we need to be satisfied that the proposed NZ Post changes will not have a negative impact on rural enterprise and innovation."
Mrs Evans said for some living in remote areas, the rural delivery contractor is the only contact with the outside world for days at a time.
She said members mentioned how important contact with the rural delivery contractor was in combating loneliness, which can lead to depression - another very real problem.
Rural Women NZ will be further consulting with its members on the NZ Post proposals and making a formal submission.
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"We're fully aware of their concerns and we're very committed to engaging with them, but first and foremost let's let the process go, so we welcome, and the Government will welcome, their submissions ... and we'll be engaging closely with them."
He also said NZ Post would work with businesses who relied on mail deliveries to create a postal design which worked for them.
"If we went to a guaranteed minimum of say three days and we got to that point where we actually vote that, [businesses would] be paying a premium if they wanted it any more frequent," he said.
About 20 per cent of the sending customers made up 80 per cent of letter mail, he said.
"One of the first things we would look to do, for our big premium sending customers anyway, is to work with them about design."
He said it was too early to say how the proposed change would impact on PO Box mail.
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The proposed change was a guaranteed minimum which did not mean that was what it would be for a PO Box, he said.
When asked if delivery days would be increased at peak times, such as Christmas, Mr Tulloch said: "The standard letter delivery timeframe is up to three working days, so it's not necessarily next day.
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PALO ALTO -- At the end of a decade-long road to profitability, Tesla Motors and CEO Elon Musk found the reward of a record-high stock price Thursday morning, with shares rising more than 25 percent and valuing the company at more than $8 billion amid praise from analysts and critics.
Tesla stock opened Thursday morning at $70.12, a 25 percent leap from Wednesday's closing price, and moved as high as $71.40 by 10 a.m. Pacific time, when shares were selling for $70.98; at its highest point of the morning, Tesla's market capitalization would be nearly $8.2 billion. Tesla's previous record price was $62.37, set Tuesday as part of a series of new highs for Tesla since Musk announced in April that the car maker had turned its first profit, then followed that with a series of much-hyped announcements about leasing and warranties.
The impetus for Thursday's big move was Tesla's confirmation of its profitable quarter, a first for a firm that was founded in July 2003 and has always struggled with large losses in its bid to challenge the traditional automotive ways and powers.
The Palo Alto company burned through more than $230 million in cash by its initial public offering in June of 2010, when shares sold for nearly a fifth of Thursday's asking price, $17. Since the IPO, Tesla has introduced the Model S, an electric sedan that Musk's company completely developed and manufactured, the sequel to the more-expensive Roadster sports car it built with assistance from Lotus. That effort has cost even more money, however, and Tesla has posted a net loss of more than $800 million in the past three years combined.
"Increasing production by over 3,000 percent from Roadster to Model S was extremely difficult and many mistakes were made, but now we are starting to get the hang of things," Musk and Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja wrote in a letter to shareholders Wednesday.
The Model S has been Tesla's watershed offering, winning the 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year award -- a first for an electric automobile -- and receiving Wednesday a 99 score from Consumer Reports, tied with only one other car for the highest score ever awarded by the magazine.
"It accelerates, handles and brakes like a sports car. It has the ride and quietness of a luxury car and is far more energy-efficient than the best hybrid cars," Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports director of automotive testing, said Thursday in a statement.
Tesla's ability to sell nearly 5,000 Model S sedans -- with a starting price of $62,400 -- in the first quarter provided a spark for a total net profit of $11.2 million, thanks to $555.2 million in revenues from automobile sales, more than the company reaped in 2011 and 2012 combined.
Analysts took note, including Litchfield Hills Research director Theo O'Neil, who had previously refused to buy into investors' enthusiasm for Tesla, keeping his price target far below the going rate at $38. In a Wednesday email, O'Neil made a drastic change to that price target, bumping it up to $100.
"I know that looks crazy," O'Neil wrote, but he laid out his case for Tesla optimism: "Tesla is clearly taking more and more market share, the leasing opportunities are growing, it is shipping to Europe where the economics are far more compelling, it has a pipeline of new products and the Model S may be the 'perfect' car."
There are questions about whether Tesla will be able to repeat the profits: the bulk of Tesla's net gain stemmed from a one-time, $10.7 million bonus for repaying a Department of Energy loan early, and the company also derives revenues from selling excess emission credits to other carmakers, a stream that is likely to decrease in the years ahead.
A profit largely based on early repayment of a Department of Energy loan will still be celebrated loudly by clean-energy advocates who have seen Solyndra fail before repaying its loan and Tesla colleague Fisker Automotive seemingly on the verge of a similar scenario.
Beyond just surviving, Tesla sees a bright future as its next all-electric vehicle -- the Model X, similar to a minivan or SUV -- is prepped for production in late 2014.
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text: Grant boosts McDowell documentary project By Douglas Imbrogno September 15, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Elaine McMillion sounded bone-tired, but for all the best reasons.The self-described "documentary storyteller" had just left McDowell County last week after shooting almost daily there since mid-May for her interactive documentary, "Hollow." She and her crew also put cameras in the hands of more than a dozen residents, showing them how to capture their own view of the places and lives they lived."I've been insanely busy. I think I filled up around eight hard drives. It was really fun," the 24-year-old filmmaker said by cellphone from Beckley.She was headed for a short visit with family in Charleston. Then, it was on to Boston, where she was going to miss the first day of classes at Emerson College, where she's working on a master's degree in visual and media arts.All that hard-drive space is in service to an innovative documentary project that now moves to postproduction in Boston and elsewhere, boosted by a high-profile national grant. "Hollow" recently won a large grant from the Tribeca Film Institute's New Media Fund, founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and the Ford Foundation, among six projects across America that received between $50,000 and $100,000."I didn't think we had shot at all because I'm a nobody in the world of film," said McMillion, whose self-effacement shouldn't lead you to discount two previous award-winning documentaries.But the grant does place her and her team in notable company. One of last year's winners of the New Media Fund grant was celebrated documentary filmmaker Steve James, director of "Hoop Dreams" (1994) and "The Interrupters" (2011). "Even more than it being a personal honor, I was so full of pride and happy that they chose a project about West Virginia. This is exciting that people want to see another side of the state, a more uplifting side of the state than what you typically see," said McMillion.The grant is a significant injection of cash for a project whose successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year brought in $28,000. The Kickstarter money was used to get the ambitious project off the ground, as well as onto the ground in Southern West Virginia.The New Media Fund grant is also a vote of confidence for a West Virginia-centric project that uses the latest digital tools to boost the hopes of a place usually consigned to despair and hopelessness in most media accounts."Hollow" will certainly have to tackle the nitty-gritty devastation in a county "hollowed" out by remoteness and decades of coal extraction, which seemed to leave nothing in return except shuttered storefronts, impoverishment and a plummeting population. The project's title was inspired by a 2009 book by sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas titled "Hollowing Out the Middle" (Beacon Press). Its premise is that the flight from depressed rural communities fundamentally harms the economic health of a nation whose fortunes are tied to its heartland.But McMillion hunkered down in Welch and other communities specifically to document the forward-looking hopes of the old and young who call the place home."The people I have met this summer are among the most amazing people I've ever met. I really think of them as friends and family. They took care of me, fed me," she said.In return, she asked them to share their ideas and visions of a better future or to take up a camera in their own hands. A bunch of residents produced footage to be edited into "video portraits" on the project website, hollowthefilm.com. The shooting will continue on now that the documentarians have departed, as 15 "community filmmakers" who learned how to shoot now teach others, passing around the five cameras left behind."We definitely created citizen journalists -- you could call them that. I was particularly excited to get some young people interested in it," McMillion said.The "Hollow" site will also feature photography, soundscapes, aerial cartography and user-friendly data from a website powered by the more multimedia, interactive and graphic-friendly HTML5 technology. For instance, McMillion worked this summer with young people at a McDowell 4-H camp, asking them to visualize a new community center. Her team will take all the drawings and animate them for the website. "They became architects of a sort to draw their future community center, what they'd like to see come to McDowell County," she said.It's one of many tasks ahead before the project is formally unveiled sometime in May. "So, there's a lot of postproduction beyond video editing that needs to be done," she said.McMillion, a 2005 graduate of South Charleston High School, co-founded the WVU journalism school's "WV Uncovered" project, which features short video documentaries told from rural areas. 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A Saanich woman is facing numerous charges after two Saanich Police officers were assaulted and a patrol car damaged early this morning.
Shortly after 2 a.m., police were called to a home in the 3200-block of Shelley St. to a "verbal and physical disturbance" between two young women, one who was heavily intoxicated, said Sgt. Scott Treble.
"One of the women left the home and was arrested out on the street for being intoxicated in a public place," he said. "While being driven back to the police station in the secure back seat area of the police car, she began kicking the Plexiglas partition so hard that it broke a piece out and damaged the whole divider."
While being moved and secured in another police vehicle, the woman spat into the hair and face of the arresting officer, Treble said.
"After arriving at the Saanich Police station, the woman kicked the same officer in the thigh. She kicked a second officer in the groin a short time later," he added.
The woman was held overnight in police cells and was released early this afternoon after sobering up.
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About 75 faculty, staff and students shared concerns about concealed carry policies and how the university communicates them in a town hall meeting in the UMC's Aspen Room Wednesday afternoon.
CU-Boulder officials including Chancellor DiStefano, Provost Moore, Managing Senior Associate Counsel John Sleeman, Commander Robert Axmacher from the CU Police Department and the Chancellor's Chief of Staff Catherine Shea listened to questions and entertained a community discussion on how Colorado's concealed carry law applies to CU-Boulder.
Sleeman opened the event with an explanation that CU-Boulder's legal position – until a ruling last March by the Colorado Supreme Court – was that Colorado's concealed carry provisions did not apply to CU-Boulder specifically as the university wasn't specifically mentioned in the concealed carry act.
He said University of Colorado lost on that point in March, with the court holding that the law did apply to CU's campuses and that the Board of Regents did not have the power to set policies at odds with it.
He explained that under the law, individuals may not brandish or "use their weapon to intimidate any one," but that faculty could not eject someone from the classroom or take other actions against them simply due to the fear such individuals might have a concealed weapon.
"The bottom line for the campus is always the safety of our students, faculty and our staff, our goal is to make sure the university can carry out is mission of research, teaching and service in a safe manner that is in accordance with the law," said Sleeman.
The forum then opened to questions for the administrators present.
A woman who identified herself as a CU professor challenged Sleeman on why the contractual arrangement with students that forbids concealed-carry weapons in undergraduate housing, football games or performance venues at CU-Boulder cannot be applied to classrooms or faculty offices.
She asked whether or not she could issue tickets to students to be admitted to her office or classroom under the condition that ticket-holders not carry a gun into those spaces.
Sleeman reiterated that the only place where this would apply would be ticketed events and in university housing.
"Those are individual transactions with students and it's a different situation. At this point, it's the university's position that this would not be appropriate. . . this is one of the challenges of the law – you have to draw the line somewhere, and this is where we've drawn it," said Sleeman.
At the close of the meeting, she raised the issue again, saying she wasn't persuaded by CU's arguments.
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Many students in the crowd expressed support for the ruling and debated with faculty and others in the group, saying that concealed carry permit holders were the least likely to commit a gun crime and that faculty were over-reacting to the possibilities of having concealed carry permit-holders in their classes.
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LONG BEACH — A 28-year-old Long Beach woman placed herself at the mercy of the court Monday by pleading open to a charge of child endangerment for giving birth to a girl at home and leaving the newborn unattended before concocting a story of finding the baby dumped at a gas station.
In exchange for her open plea to the misdemeanor charge, considered the same as a guilty plea, Paloma Espinoza was immediately ordered to begin an intense six-month live-in drug and alcohol addiction program.
Espinoza was also issued a stern warning from Long Beach Superior Court Judge Jesse Rodriguez that if she fails to complete the program "by just one minute," she will have to serve 505 days in jail, a term stayed by the judge Monday.
Espinoza was also ordered to complete 52 weeks of parenting classes through the Department of Children and Family Services and was placed on four years probation.
The plea agreement took several weeks to hammer out as prosecutors and defense attorneys worked together to get Espinoza enrolled in the drug treatment program, run by the Salvation Army. The Long Beach branch of the Salvation Army doesn't offer the program for women, so Espinoza had to wait until there was room at the program's facility in Pasadena, authorities said.
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Espinoza's addiction was likely the driving force behind her erratic behavior earlier this year, when she gave birth to the baby girl in a bathroom in her apartment on Feb. 20, then left the child alone as she ran errands, authorities said.
Deputy City Prosecutor Mike Vela, who prosecuted case, said it was by the "grace of God" that the baby lived. Haubert said the charge was based on the belief that Espinoza initially left the child unattended in the hope the newborn wouldn't survive.
When she finally returned to the child, Espinoza gave the baby to her 52-year-old mother and the two women came up with the story about finding it at a gas station. Both women repeatedly told news reporters at the USA Gas Station, located at Seventh Street and Alamitos Avenue, that they had found the baby in a plastic bag.
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DCFS social workers took the baby into protective custody and Espinoza is now attending family court proceedings to earn back custody of her infant daughter.
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In addition to Espinoza's plea, her mother, who was also charged with a misdemeanor crime in the incident, pleaded no contest in April to one count each of obstructing justice and filing a false police report. Sonia Hernandez was ordered to serve three years summary probation, perform 45 hours of community service and pay all costs incurred by the city in investigating the false report.
Attorneys in that matter are scheduled to meet Tuesday to finalize that amount, Haubert said.
While Hernandez had no prior record, Espinoza's criminal history was extensive, authorities said.
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Neither woman ever explained why they didn't just take the baby to a hospital, fire station or other "Safe Surrender" site under the state "Safe Haven" law. The law allows anyone to turn a child over to designated sites within 72 hours of birth with no questions asked and no criminal charges.
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May 24, 2011
Painting the Black
Should the Pirates Walk the Plank?
A report linking the Rangers to Pirates closer Joel Hanrahan made slight waves over the weekend. Folks within the Rangers organization denied the speculation, as team sources are wont to do, and now the talk concerning the deal will permeate not only front offices—assuming there was some form of communication there to begin with—but also the fan and analyst communities. In related news, the July 31 trading deadline is nearing.
By now, most teams know what they need. They also know what they don't need. The most compelling aspect of the 2011 deadline is the identity of the sellers. Only two teams are more than 10 games under .500; everyone else is either in play or on the bubble, Pittsburgh included. That said, the Pirates are still very unlikely to make the postseason. Entering today, the PECOTA-generated playoff odds have them reaching the tournament less than one percent of the time.
If the playoffs are an unattainable goal, then why is Pittsburgh's potential as a seller unclear? Few teams have identities tied so closely to losing. The Cubs might, but the North Siders have a fan base rabid (or delusional) enough to fill Wrigley Field without fail. Right now, the Pirates finishing at .500 would qualify as a success for a once proud baseball city. One might imagine that the very thought of breaking even could be inspirational enough to sway Pirates GM Neil Huntington toward holding on to his vets in order to give the long-suffering city a victory, even if it proves to be a pyrrhic one.
However, it's not Huntington's style to shy away from an ugly finish in pursuit of a mediocre showing that might cost his club in the long run. Since becoming general manager at the end of the 2007 season, Huntington has orchestrated a number of midsummer trades to turn short-term fixes into long-term possibilities. Here is the CliffsNotes version of those trades:
Despite Huntington's reputation for being active on the trade market, he has not encountered a situation quite like this. The Pirates are 22-24 on May 23, good for only fourth place in the NL Central, but within five games of first and within three games of second. Of course, merely playing well through this point does not ensure future success. Huntington knows this well: on May 23, 2010, the Pirates were in fourth place at 19-23. Pittsburgh would go 38-80 the rest of the way to finish with the worst record in baseball.
The city seems to be taking the 2011 Pirates more seriously, as the team is enticing nearly 19,000 through the gates per game—at this time last season, the Bucs were topping just over 17,000 in attendance. With so many teams remaining treading water or losing ground in the attendance department, the sight of PNC Park with 2,000 more bodies per game is encouraging. Alas, just as there is no guarantee that the Pirates can maintain a record at or near .500, there are no assurances that those additional fans will continue to show up.
Rooting for the Pirates to keep their veteran pieces in order to win 81 games instead of 75 is not the sabermetric style either. Nate Silver's research on marginal wins (which is now freely available, thanks to our new open-door article policy) suggests that a team in Pittsburgh's position should look to sell in most situations based on the revenue involved. Silver did note exceptions to the rule—like when a team has converging young stars—but that does not seem to fit the Pirates.
Instead, Pittsburgh is in a position where many of its top prospects are at least a season away from the show. Kevin Goldstein pegged only four of the team's top 11 prospects with chances to reach the majors in 2011 and had their top three prospects slated to reach the Show in 2013 or later. Some in-house solutions are on the way, like catcher Tony Sanchez and pitcher Rudy Owens, but unless the Pirates make a number of waiver claims and trades, the 2012 core will bear a strong resemblance to the current core.
Therein lies the catch-22 facing Pittsburgh. In order to fit Sanchez, Owens, and even Brad Lincoln into the plans, they have to make a trade or two. The Pirates' current catching tandem of Chris Snyder and Ryan Doumit should garner interest on the open market. Doumit, at least, will appeal to teams in need of an offensive-minded catcher, first baseman, or designated hitter, as he currently owns a .286 TAv—the 10th-best mark among catchers with 50-plus plate appearances. A good-hitting catcher doesn't supply the production you want from your DH or first baseman, but hey, Doumit is out-performing Albert Pujols so far.
As for Owens and Lincoln, the Pirates rotation has pitched at a very high level, considering the club's recent history. Even by the most archaic of measures, earned run average, only James McDonald has a below league-average ERA—and even then, McDonald was the team's best starter last season and had some injury issues earlier in this campaign. It's easy to envision a contending team calling about Paul Maholm and Kevin Correia; both are under contract through the end of next season.
The Buccos still have a few veterans who could be on the move regardless of the team's record. Lyle Overbay and Matt Diaz have added little this season, so swapping them out for low-grade minor-league arms could be a means of inserting younger alternatives, like Steven Pearce and Xavier Paul. Even if the production stays the same, the costs will drop, and maybe the Pirates can throw another arm with a trace of upside onto the future bullpen pile.
All told, the Pirates are in a nice position, much like a batter in a 2-0 count. They can look for an offer and take action if they get one, but otherwise, their contracts and lack of coming attractions give them the ability to retain some short-term pieces through the end of the season. It might prove difficult to turn that patience and insistence on value into positive public relations work, but holding onto spare parts for the sake of finishing at or near. 500 wouldn't serve them well.
R.J. Anderson is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @r_j_anderson
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I don't know if I agree with your premise. I think the Pirates are in a unique situation where it might actually behoove them to hold on and try to reach .500, sabermetrics be damned. With their ongoing record for futility, marginal, even cosmetic gains like simply breaking the slide may have great repercussions in the fan base beyond what Nate Silver could have measured. As long as what they do does not hold down a good prospect from making it, they really don't have much to lose by going for .500 but may have much more to gain than the common revenue generation models allow.
May 24, 2011 04:35 AM
But, Hanrahan is their most trade-able asset. Isn't he also signed through 2013 or so? Won't they be able to get a respectable haul for him, isn't that worth it more than the repercussions?
May 24, 2011 06:43 AM
Well, the way I see things, the more a fan base is alienated, the more it will take in terms of on-field success to win them back. So, yeah, it could definitely get worse - long-term worse.
May 24, 2011 07:48 AM
Again though, the Pirates have been horrific for years now, do you really think there's a lower level for them? Cam Bonifay and Littlefield weren't the bottom?
May 24, 2011 10:45 AM
Perpetual rebuilding seems to be BPs mantra. Teams are both trying to win and to provide entertainment. You can't forget about that.
May 24, 2011 07:07 AM
PNC is beautiful, and I look forward to the day when meaningful games are played there.
May 24, 2011 07:36 AM
Provided they keep their youth, I see only one reason to keep a player who has a higher salary and not give another young guy a shot. At some point they are going to need to sign Free Agents and no one will want to go there for a long term deal with the idea that they may be traded in 7 months. That's really the only reason I can see them wanting to hang onto the older guys.
May 24, 2011 07:56 AM
Just reading the blurb of this article on the home page, my first thought was, "again?"
May 24, 2011 08:03 AM
Who on the Pirates roster could extract an impact talent in a trade? Probably only McCutchen, and obviously he's not going anywhere. If the Pirates can't add someone who can impact a pennant race, then I don't see the point of trading away the Diaz's and Correia's on the roster. The only reason would be cost savings, and how much do you really need to save when your payroll is already below $40 million?
May 24, 2011 08:46 AM
I doubt that the Pirates will be significant sellers at the deadline this year. Huntington is in the final year of his contract (unless he was given another secret extension), and a late-season swoon would all but guarantee that he would be sacrificed, regardless of whether those moves were proper in a vacuum. He may trade a few pieces away, such as Maholm, Doumit, and/or Overbay, only because they would seem to have ready-made replacements: Lincoln, Snyder, and Pearce/Jones. But if Huntington were to trade off any of the young and promising Pirates, such as Hanrahan, it would only feed the narrative in town that a player shouldn't want to succeed unless he wants to be traded away.
May 24, 2011 08:57 AM
I wouldn't call Hanrahan a young, promising player. He is 29 and has been around seemingly forever, previously as a 'failed' Dodgers prospect. To me one of the Pirates saving graces over the last few years is their ability to prove that just about anyone can become a closer. When even recent history has Matt Capps, Jose Mesa, Salomon Torres, and Octavio Dotel as closers, it just goes to show how much some teams get starry-eyed when 20+ saves show up after a guy's name.
May 25, 2011 01:38 AM
We're quite a ways off from the trade deadline, and odds are the Pirates will not be close enough to .500 at that time to make it a difficult decision. The decision will most likely be whether to try to get ~75 wins or 70 wins.
May 24, 2011 12:04 PM
"Pittsburgh is a great baseball town"??? What I recall, even when good (the Bonds and before then the Stargell years) their attendance was pretty crappy for a contender.
May 24, 2011 14:09 PM
I don't know, I am asking. Are we talking capacity % or total attendance? They had one of those cookie cutters that left you a mile away from the game in the expensive seats.
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MILWAUKEE -- Twins outfielder Wilkin Ramirez had a bit of apologizing to do Monday.
On Sunday, Ramirez was upset with manager Ron Gardenhire for placing him on the seven-day disabled list after team doctors said he had sustained a concussion. But after throwing up on the airplane ride to Milwaukee, Ramirez realized he made a mistake.
The Twins called up catcher Chris Herrmann from Triple-A Rochester to take Ramirez's roster spot.
"I guess the doctor was right," said Ramirez, who vomited once about 20 minutes into the plane ride. "I started to throw up and feel weird. Right now I don't feel very good. I have a headache, last night, too."
According to Gardenhire, team doctors sent paperwork in on Sunday showing that Ramirez had failed concussion tests, even though the outfielder felt fine.
"I got yelled at; everybody got yelled at," Gardenhire said. "But when he got sick on the airplane, he realized the doctor was right. Shocker."
Ramirez, who will have more tests Monday, said he would watch the Twins open their two-game series with the Brewers from the dugout at Miller Park but would not do any baseball-related activities.
It was the outfielder's second concussion, the first coming at just 12 years old while in the Dominican Republic. Ramirez said he and his brother, Rafael, were playing baseball when a fight broke out and a rock hit him in the back of the head. Ramirez was hospitalized for a month.
"I feel it in my stomach and a headache," Ramirez said. "I think I have to apologize for what I said yesterday, because I thought I was fine. That's why he's a doctor."
Kevin Massoth is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Barbara Abrams has lived with lupus for 40 years — her approach is to expect the unexpected and to do the best she can every day.
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Barbara has participated in lupus research for several years, providing blood samples for testing. "I love being in trials because I'm getting medical attention I wouldn't have otherwise."
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