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OO: Ozfan's Opinion - 1000th Monday Night RAW First Hour
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Show opener: A vignette at the start on the history of Monday Night RAW since its beginning in 1993. Highlights with Superstars like Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Razor Ramon, Yokozuna and then eventually The Rock, Stone Cold, Kane, Mankind, Triple H and lastly, Chris Jericho, Edge, Christian, Randy Orton and John Cena. And highlighting spectacular moments such as title changes, alliances and betrayals.
They get a shot of the arena with the thousands of fans and a new set as Burn It To The Ground is playing in the background. Michael Cole and Jerry The King Lawler welcome us to the 1000th Episode of RAW. Cole reminds everyone of a little bit of RAW's history and that Mr. McMahon is in the building and is doing job evaluations for everybody. Just then, out comes Good Ol' J.R. Jim Ross! J.R. comes out with his cowboy hat and a bottle of his BBQ sauce. He gets a huge reaction from the fans. He greets Lilian Garcia, Jerry Lawler, Booker T, Josh Matthews and even Michael Cole. Cole doesn't even make a comment on J.R.'s return and the first thing that J.R. says is that Cole needs to do a better apology.
Vince's music hits and out comes the Chairman.
Mr. McMahon comes out and does the classic McMahon walk. He welcomes everyone to the show and says that tonight is Raw's record breaking night. He then goes on about how the landscape of RAW is changing and that starting from tonight, Monday Night RAW is PERMANENTLY going to three hours. Vince gets straight down to business and says he is also here for evaluting the jobs of his WWE Superstars, starting with a man named John Laurinaitis. He calls out "Big Johnny" and the People Power music hits.
Johnny comes out on his scooter with Eve and David Otunga. Eve helps Johnny up the steps as Otunga holds the rope down for him. As soon as all four are in the ring, Vince asks Otunga to leave the ring. Otunga hops out and heads to the back. This leaves John and Eve. Vince then announces that Eve will no longer be Johnny's Executive Administrator. He asks her to leave and she does. He then tells Johnny that he has been keeping an eye on how business has been running since becoming both RAW and SmackDown! General Manager. He then reminds Johnny that no one really likes him and the way he runs RAW and that he has the right mind to fire him. He says he's not going to do that. The crowd boos. Vince says Johnny has to prove that he deserves his job. He says he can't wrestle a match because he is injured and that he can't get down on two knees and beg for his job like he made The Big Show do, so Vince says there is only one alternative outcome, Vince McMahon's Kiss My Ass Club is going to get a new member and his name is John Laurinaitis and if Johnny refuses, then he will be FIRED. The crowd erupts as Johnny gets a distraught look on his face. Vince exits the ring and walks back up the ramp as Johnny is still looking distraught in the ring. We go to commercial.
[B]Match No. 1 - Alberto Del Rio vs. Intercontinental Champion Christian (Non-title) [/B]
Back from the break and out comes Alberto Del Rio for the first match and he is announced by Ricardo Rodriguez. Out next is the champion, Christian. He gets a positive reaction from the crowd. Christian and Del Rio lock up and Christian gets the early advantage until Del Rio slaps Christian in the face. Christian then takes Del Rio down and starts hammering into him. Del Rio rolls out of the ring and Christian follows. Ricardo steps in Christian's way but Christian pushes him aside which allows Del Rio to get a cheap shot in on the champion. Del Rio then tosses Christian into the steps and rolls back into the ring. He taunts to the fans as the ref makes the count. Christian rolls into the ring and Del Rio begins to work on the arm. He wraps it up in the ring rope and wrenches it. Christian then quickly rolls Del Rio up for a quick two count and Del Rio comes back with a kick to the shoulder. Del Rio applies a hammerlock as Christian screams in pain.
Del Rio then picks Christian up and slams him down with a scoop slam with his arm around his back. He makes the cover and only gets two. Del Rio sets Christian up in the corner but Christian side steps him and hits a quick back kick between the ropes. He then clothelines Del Rio a couple of times and hits a bulldog. Christian Irish Whips Del Rio and hits him with a flapjack but its only good for a two count. Christian then goes to the second rope and hits a Missile Dropkick for another two count. Christian tends to his arm as Del Rio boots him in the head. Del Rio then hits a Double Knee Armbar. He then sets him up for the Cross Armbreaker but Christian counters it into a Killswitch attempt. Del Rio counters again and shoves Christian into the turnbuckle and hits the Backstabber for another two count. Del Rio begins to get frustrated and goes for the Cross Armbreaker again but Christian locks his hands and rolls through into a Jackknife cover for a near fall. Christian then hits an Edge-O-Matic for another near fall. Christian goes for the Spear but Del Rio kicks him in the arm which makes Christian land on his back. He applies the Cross Armbreaker out of nowhere as Christian screams in pain. Christian gets a foot on the ropes and the ref begins counting.
Del Rio breaks the hold at four and tries to get Christian into the middle of the ring but Jericho holds onto the rope. Christian slides onto the apron and hangs Del Rio up on the rope. Ricardo tries to intefere again but Christian side steps and tosses him into the steel steps. Christian goes back onto the apron and tries for a Springboard Sunet Flip but Del Rio drops down into the pin of his own and tries to hold onto the ropes but the referee catches him. Del Rio turns back around after arguing with the official into a Spear by Christian but Del Rio kicks out just in time. Christian goes back up and hits the Diving Reverse Elbow drop. Christian signals for the Killswitch but Del Rio counters it and hits an Enziguri for another 2 count. Del Rio goes up high but Christian jumps on the rope and cause Del Rio to lose his balance. Christian goes up on the second rope and flips Del Rio over his shoulders. He then turns around and hits the Frog Splash. 1-2-3! and its over.
[B]Winner: Christian via pinfall at 9:04 [/B]
Christian celebrates in the ring and Cody Rhodes comes out of nowhere and attacks Christian from behind. He hits a big kick to Christian's arm. Cody tries for the Disaster Kick but Christian ducks it and hits a Killswitch on Rhodes. He grabs the title belt and poses for the fans as we go to commercial.
We're back and a Classic RAW Moment video airs. It shows highlights of the first RAW episode from January 11th 1993.
We see Mr. McMahon backstage in John Laurinaitis' office. Johnny walks in with Otunga and pleads with Vince not to make him kiss is ass. Vince says he is not here for negotations, he's here for job evaluations and for Monday Night RAW.
[B]Match No. 2 - United States Championship match [/B]
[B]Santino Marella (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler w/ Vickie Guerrero and Jack Swagger [/B]
Santino comes out with the U.S. Title. He gets the cobra ready and poses for the fans. "EXCUSE ME" is shouted a couple times and out comes Vickie Guerrero. She's about to introduce Ziggler but before she can say he is going to win the title, Ziggler comes out and walks in front of her. She gets confused again as Swagger follows. Ziggler hops in the ring as we go to commercial.
The bell rings and he and Santino lock up. Ziggler quickly gets Santino in a headlock and takes him down. He arm drags Santino a couple of times, ducks a right hand and dropkicks him, which actually gets Ziggler a couple of cheers. He covers Santino but only gets a one count. Santino comes back with a couple of right hands and goes for another clothesline but Ziggler counters it and hits a German Suplex for a two count this time. Ziggler goes for a Zig Zag early but Santino side steps it and hits a Reverse Atomic Drop. He Irist Whips Ziggler, ducks him with the splits and hits a quick Hip Toss for a two count. He goes for a DDT but Ziggler spins out of it and hits a Sitout Facebuster for another two count. Ziggler tosses Santino out near Swagger and Vickie and Vickie slaps Santino. The referee sees this and forces Vickie to head backstage. Ziggler starts to shout at Vickie and the referee triest to hold Ziggler back. With the referee's back turned, Swagger charges at Santino and hits a Running Knee Lift. Ziggler taunts the fans again as we go to a commercial.
We're back and Ziggler has Santino in a kneeling headlock. Santino tries to fight out of it but Ziggler slams his head into the mat. Ziggler hits a running boot to Santino and covers and gets a two count. Ziggler whips his hair and hits a flipping neck snap to a seated Santino. He then hits a big jumping elbow drop for a near fall. He hits another jumping elbow drop but this time, he does sit ups and then covers Santino who kicks out at two and a half. Ziggler goes for the Fame-ass-er but Santino drops him on his back. He then hits a couple of quick clothelines and a dropkick. He charges in the corner but Ziggler puts his feet up which sends Santino on his back. Ziggler goes for the pin using his feet on the ropes but the referee catches him. Ziggler argues with the referee and Santino rolls up Ziggler for the two count. Santino hits a quick scoop slam and then a running diving headbutt for another two count.
Santino goes to the top rope but Swagger is on the apron. This allows Ziggler to run up to the top and hit a big Overhead Belly to Belly Suplex. Santino kicks out in the nick of time as Ziggler begins to get frustrated. Ziggler goes for the Zig Zag but Santino holds on to the rope. Santino hits a quick neckbreaker. He grabs out the sleave and goes for the Cobra. Ziggler ducks it and tries to lock in the Sleep Hold. Santino fights out of it and hits a Santino Stunner. He covers but Swagger has the referee distracted. Santino hits Swagger with the Cobra which knocks him off the apron. Ziggler goes for a roll up and gets a two count until Santino rolls back with the roll up of his own and Ziggler kicks out just before the three count. Ziggler immediately hits the Fame-ass-er and covers but Santino just gets the shoulder up. Santino starts smacking the mat in frustration. He goes to pick up Santino but the champion counters it into a Small Package for another near fall. Santino runs at Ziggler but Ziggler hangs Santino up on the top turnbuckle. The referee tends to Ziggler as Swagger gets back up on the apron and hits a big boot to Santino knocking him onto the mat. Santino stands up and Ziggler hits the Zig Zag! He covers and gets the three count! We have a new champion.
[B]Winner and NEW United States Champion: Dolph Ziggler via pinfall at 15:12 [/B]
Ziggler leaps over the ropes and grabs the belt off the timekeeper. He holds it up high and taunts Santino and the fans. Vickie Guerrero comes back out clapping and screaming. She goes to hug Dolph but Dolph avoids it and climbs on the second rope and poses some more. He then leaves the ring and heads to the back with the title.
We get another Classic RAW Moment video. This time, it shows D-Generation X invading WCW on April 27th, 1998.
We go to another commercial.
We are back. "Are you ready?" DX's music hits and out comes Road Dogg Jesse Jamesand X-Pac to a huge ovation of the crowd! James says that he is glad to be here on the 1000th episode of RAW. He then goes on about moments in DX's history back in the late 90's such as the WCW Invasion which they just saw and the time they impersonated the Nation of Domination. James then said it wouldn't be a DX reunion without a few people. He introduced The Bad Ass Billy Gunn! Gunn came out to a huge pop from the fans and said that DX is what got him noticed in WWE and he wishes that he could relive those days again. X-Pac so far has not said a word or gone to even pick up the mic. Gunn then says that there is still another couple of superstars that need to be there. They do the arm point taunt towards the stage.
Triple H's music hits! Out comes The Game in a suit and tie with his hair tied back. Hunter has a confused look on his face....well this is awkward. He asks what the hell they are doing. Pac finally says something and asks Hunter "Are You Ready?" The crowd pops at this. Hunter then goes to tell them to stop. Gunn then shouts out "No! We said: Are....You....Re--" The Game grabs the top of the mic and cuts Gunn off. He then says that they are not doing this. He then takes out his hair tie, he undoes his tie and takes off his jacket. He then grabs the mic and says "I'm supposed to ask that question." The crowd pops at this. He then undoes his shirt and takes it off. He has an old DX shirt underneath.
Triple H then asks St. Louis "Are you re--" He cuts himself off. He then adds that if they are doing this, then they are gonna do it right. He says there is one more man that needs to be in the ring. HBK chants fill the arena. The Game points to the stage while looking down at the microphone. HBK's music hits and out comes Shawn Michaels! Michaels so far has gotten the biggest pop of the night from the crowd. He struts out in jeans and an old DX t-shirt. He then poses for the fans in the ring as his fellow DX members applaud him. He hugs James and Pac. He then hugs Gunn. He has a small stare down with Hunter but then they hug as the fans cheer. HBK takes the mic and says he's glad to be back and couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the night than with a D-Generation X reunion. DX chants fill the arena as Michaels' wants to get down to business. He hands the mic back to Triple H. They line up side by side and Triple H asks the question everybody wants to hear. "St. Louis, Are You Ready?" The crowd does a small chant. Hunter then says "This is the 1000th episode of RAW, we expect better. We said: Are you reeeeaaddyyy??" The crowd cheers so loud that it makes Michaels' pop sound like a whisper. Hunter adds then for the thousands in attendance, for the millions watching around the world and for Monday Night RAW's near twenty year history, Lllllleets get ready to SSSSUCCK IIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!". HBK then takes the microphone. "And if you're not down with that, then St. Louis has two! Words! For ya!" The crowd chants "SUCK IT!" as D-Generation's music hits again with all five men in the ring pose for the fans. They then line up side by side again and do the four DX Crotch Chops as fireworks explode from the ring posts. We got to another commercial.


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British science-fiction has made a big impact at home and here in the United States recently with Doctor Who and Torchwood, but the UKs fantasy/horror is rapidly making a name for itself as well. First there was Being Human, but now theres The Fades. For those of you like me who missed it on BBC America the first time around, the show is what we here in the US would call a mini-series consisting of six episodes (UK shows often have shorter seasons than ours). To say that its unlike anything else on TV right now would be a bit of an understatement. And now, you can pick up The Fades Season One on DVD and Blu-ray!
In the premiere episode of The Fades were introduced to high school student Paul (Iain De Caestecker). A troubled young man with family issues, Paul is dragged by his overbearing best friend Mac (Daniel Kaluuya) to check out an abandoned mall. There they find more than they expected when the protagonist witnesses a bizarre creature attacking someone. Scarred by the experience, Paul begins to notice strange things going on around him and horrible dreams of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Finally hes approached by the very man he saw being attacked in the mall; he is Neil (Johnny Harris), a member of a small group of people called Angelics who can see the dead and who know whats really happening. Spirits of the recently dead have one small chance to ascend to heaven and if they dont they become the Fades: stuck on Earth and increasingly angry. And from Pauls visions things are going to get a lot worse...
As the series progresses we see Pauls evolution from a confused, scared young man into someone with a powerful destiny and the will to see it through. All the while hes supported and enriched by his family and the other Angelics, especially Neil. I really hesitate to go into much more detail on what happens since youre really going to want to watch it and find out for yourself. For such a short series The Fades is surprisingly riveting with interesting characters and a mythology thats immersive and compelling. The world is dark and dreary with little hope, but its that very glimmer that keeps everyone going.
While its been compared to other ghost story TV shows and movies (most notably Sixth Sense and other properties in which the main characters can see ghosts), The Fades really does have a feel all its own. This is achieved partly through the rich storytelling and unique take on the supernatural elements, but also through the fact that its a British series. As someone who watches mostly American TV and a little from the UK, I can tell you that their TV has an appealing aspect of otherness. They have different colloquialisms, different politics, different outlooks on social issues, and much more. The first episode has a great example of this. Upon hearing gunshots the two young men are really freaked out, way more than youd expect in an American series. Why is that? Because in England gun control means firearms are much rarer. Little things like that add another element of interest for a lot of viewers.
Other than the six episodes, the Blu-ray set of The Fades Season One includes a few neat special features. Extra scenes, deleted scenes, outtakes, and viral video-style Mac Explains segments expand the universe of the show while a couple cast interviews go behind the scenes on the production itself. Season One is available in stores and online now, and is highly recommended for fans of supernatural horror!
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Will an atheist wrestler work?
by, 01-18-2013 at 12:02 AM (15964 Views)
Hello, ladies and gentleman, this is my first blog, and as you can see, it has a controversial topic. If the subject matter does not please you, I please ask you to stop reading. However, if you enjoy the idea and want to debate it in the commentary section, please, keep it polite. And remember to focus in the wrestling aspect of the text, not a confrontation between religion and atheism.
There is few ideas that can be considered new in the world of creating stories, whether in form of a novel, a TV series, a movie or a wrestling storyline. Most of them are rehashed arguments from previous works, with different elements added here and there to make it somewhat fresher than a straightforward copy of the original one. What I propose here is more or less the same, an old story with a slight different touch.
The battle of good vs. evil is as old as one can trace it back to ancient civilizations. Still, we all enjoyed how it was presented to us by HBK and Undertaker prior to their epic clash at Wrestlemania 25. A variant of this could be something that has not necessarily to be evil, but it is perceived as such. For example, a religion alien to the dominant in one country, or a foreign nation that posed a military threat to that country. Therefore, well portrayed characters had great success, such as The Iron Sheik, others had a lot of shock value, like heel Sgt. Slaughter supporting the Iraqi cause, or the heat gathered by Muhammad Hassan before his was character was pulled from TV. What I'm proposing is to introduce a wrestler portraying an atheist gimmick. Atheists are generally perceived as people who can't be trusted, as suggested by Gervais, Norenzayan and Shariff (for further reading, check their paper Do You Believe in Atheists? Distrust Is Central to Anti-Atheist Prejudice , available here: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~will/Gerva...20Distrust.pdf ) and having a wrestler that attacks people's personal beliefs will elicit a hostile reaction from the viewers.
If we consider the kind of arguments that atheists try to use to refute the existence of any deity, they try (not that always manage to) use rational arguments, based on empiric and scientific observations. To manage them properly, it requires that the said atheist has a good educational level to comprehend, analyze and use them adequately. When you transfer those qualities into the world of wrestling, one name springs to mind at full speed: Damien Sandow. He is already portraying the gimmick of an arrogant, intellectual man who mocks the crowd for their ignorance and tries to educate them. Why not taking this character a bit further and chastise the audience for what he considers rejecting rationality in favor of sheepish obedience to a God they can't prove it exists? It will give WWE an edgier vibe without the use of cursing or blood. Just imagine that Handel's Hallelujah blasts in the arena, Sandow goes out and says the following:
- This morning, I was engaged in the reading of James Madison's A Memorial and Remonstrance, on the Religious Rights of Man, when I found a quote that you, the unwashed masses, ignore and should know by heart. It said: Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
People will instantly boo him, as the attack on religious beliefs is quite strong. But if he could end the quote, the effects would be more devastating:
Shut your mouths and let me finish. The rest of the quote, that you should be able to memorize despite your tiny intellects, goes like this: During almostfifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
(The acuteness of the quote is an interesting debate, but for a different place)
Boom! There you have an instant über heel. Not only he has made a harsh accusation on Christianity, he has used a quote (at least he claims to have done so) from James Madison, the 4th President of the United States, a man considered father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Many will find that outrageous. That will, in my view, propel him to the top heel position in the company. If booked properly (that being a big if, and one of the main cons of the issue, but I will address that later) it can give a great, comppelling storyline and, as said, a big push to Sandow's (or whoever gets the role) career.
However, this poses a big problem. Will the WWE push the envelope that hard? This idea will offend many, no matter if the program is rated PG or PG-14, many won't feel comfortable with such a confrontational character. Even if they watered it down to make it fit the PG rating, there's is a good chance of getting a massive negative reaction both from viewers and society in general. And having in mind that they pulled the Muhammad Hassan character due to the criticism they were getting from Muslim associations, I highly doubt this idea will come to fruition.
But let's imagine for a moment that Vince and HHH and the rest in command decide to take the risk and use this character. It has two big problems. As hinted above, one will be the booking. Unless a developmental talent comes with a religious-like gimmick, the current roster lacks a credible opponent to counter the atheist wrestler's arguments and look a bit credible. Who could face this character? Cena, being the quintessential good guy who demands respect for anyone's beliefs? Sheamus being offended due to his Catholic upbringing? (I can't assure he is a Catholic, but as he's from Dublin, it wouldn't sound preposterous) Those are the ones that come to mind, and quite frankly, the reasons chosen for facing our atheist wrestler sound quite weak to me. The second problem I see is the durability of the gimmick. How long can this gimmick last without becoming stale? Arguments in favor of the nonexistence of God are not that many, and when they are brought on and on people get tired of it. Now that I'm reading Joseph Anton – A Memoir, it reminds me of the Rushdie case, and how the situation became repetitive with the years. The feeling this storyline will give would be pretty much the same, at least to my eyes.
We could also bring this idea to the other big one, TNA. (Sorry, but my knowledge of ROH and the indies is pretty scarce). Being more edgy than current WWE product, they may have less problems with this storyline. Also, they have wrestlers that could portray the character without much problem, outspoken heels that have a way with words. Bobby Roode or Austin Aries are my choices. Bully Ray is also a great heel, but I'm not quite sure if he fits that good in the role, as he is more in your face, no fucking around type of heel. On the other hand, Roode and Aries would fit the mold better, as they tend to use more elaborate language and already portray an arrogant type of gimmick. But TNA will also face the same two problems as WWE. Without a religious character brought from developmental, there are no credible opponents for an atheist wrestler. Maybe AJ Styles (same good guy role as Cena) or maybe a wrestler that has strong religious beliefs in real life that can add some realism to the story. Ad then what? Same with the durability of the character. It will go stale pretty soon in my opinion.
So, despite the fact that I would like to see a wrestler portraying an atheist character, I don't think this will happen in the mid term. If it does, it will be in the long term and lots of things in real life have to change to do it without great problems for the companies and wrestlers. The three negative aspects (controversy and social pressure, lack of credible opponents and durability of the character) outweigh the positives. Plus, neither Sandow, Roode or Aries need a gimmick change in the short term, as they are doing quite well with their current ones. So, the chances of this happening are zero, at least the way I see it.
Now allow me to know your point of view in the matter.


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Bernadina looking for first hit of season
WASHINGTON -- Nationals reserve outfielder Roger Bernadina entered Wednesday hitless in 17 plate appearances this season, and manager Davey Johnson said his unorthodox spring might explain the slump.
Bernadina played for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic last month, going 3-for-22 with a double, a walk and three strikeouts. He played in just nine Spring Training games, collecting three hits -- one of them a home run -- in 12 at-bats.
Johnson said the scarcity of at-bats has been preventing Bernadina from catching his stride.
"He's just not quite there," Johnson said. "Not having a lot of playing time, not getting a lot of ABs in spring could affect him. But his approach last year was so good, his performance was so good, that we know it's going to take a little time. He got a couple starts in Houston when some guys were down, and usually that jump-starts him. It didn't quite get [him] going."
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Eight Players We Expect to Decline in 2014
1. Mike Trout
This year, my argument is more along the lines of "He can't really be a consistent 10-win player... can he?" I mean, at that point, we're talking about Willie Mays or Babe Ruth or Ted Williams. It seems like a bit of hubris to even hope that I'm in the middle of witnessing something that amazing. It feels like I'm cheating on the ghosts of the past, and in a sport obsessed with the past, that's always feels a little weird. So, maybe I'm just more hoping that Mike Trout becomes a seven- or eight-win player this year so that he's only a "really, really good player" rather than "an inner-circle Hall of Famer emerging from his cocoon before our very eyes." —Russell A. Carleton
2. Hunter Pence
But there he was at the end of last season with a career-high 5.6 WARP—a huge improvement from the 1.3 from the previous year. It wasn't his defense, though that was some of it. It was the fact that in moving from the righty's paradise of Houston to every hitter's paradise of Philadelphia to San Francisco, he hasn't paid the price for the ballpark yet. Maybe he won't this year either. Maybe there was a breakthrough last year that allowed the career high in home runs despite the tough ballpark. (He hit 10 at home and 17 on the road.) But the defense will come down from the career-high 14.8 FRAA, and at some point, the unadjusted averages will start to tell a different story. —Zachary Levine
3. Shin-Soo Choo
Last year, Choo finished the regular season with a triple slash of .285/.423/.462—which is fantastic. If you showed me that line, I would say that player walks a whole lot. And Choo does; he walked a career high 15.7 percent of the time last year, upping his career average to 12.2 percent. What isn't so obvious, however, is the number of times Choo found himself getting plunked, and that's where the regression comes in.
From his career debut to prior to last season, Choo was plunked in 1.85 percent of plate appearances. The rate nearly doubled in 2013, jumping to 3.65 percent. While he certainly finds himself receiving a free base more often that most, Choo isn't in the Carlos Quentin division of receiving punishment from a baseball (3.98% career HBP rate). I'm convinced last season was just a fluke, and while it could happen again in 2014, I'm betting it doesn't. Regression! —Ronit Shah
4. A.J. Burnett
But age isn't my concern here—and, truth be told, Burnett himself isn't, either. The trouble is that by signing with the Phillies, who topped the Orioles and Pirates for his services even though they are the least likely of the three clubs to contend, Burnett put himself in a situation in which his newfound ground-ball style is likely to become a liability. The Pirates allowed the fifth-lowest batting average on grounders last year (.224). The Phillies coughed up the second-highest (.260). And Philadelphia's infielders—most notably Chase Utley, the only defensive asset of the four—aren't getting any younger.
Opponents who hit the ball on the ground against Burnett last year wound up with a .240 average, right in line with the league mean. That number is almost certainly going to climb as he moves across the Keystone State. And unless Burnett reinvents himself again, his ERA is likely to go with it. —Daniel Rathman
5. Chris Davis
Chris Davis is remarkable for this breakout in 2013, but I've learned not to expect aberrations to become a new norm. Am I to throw out all my prior knowledge on Davis?
Granted, I only have access to his results and not the process he underwent to get these results. So maybe I'm wrong. But I'm not a hater; I still think he'll be a valuable player. Now, about that Samardzjia guy... —PECOTA (via Harry Pavlidis)
6. Yasiel Puig
Another thing that stands out for Puig is the quality of pitchers he homered against. Last year Puig hit dingers against: Clayton Richard, Cory Gearrin, Paul Maholm, Adam Warren, Jason Marquis, Adam Ottavino, Juan Perez, Curtis Partch, Hector Rondon, Dan Jennings, Michael Bowden, Dale Thayer, and Tim Stauffer. While every team throws sub-par pitchers out there at some point during the season, Puig seemed to get more than his fair share.
Finally, Puig's HR/FB percentage is extremely high for such a prolific ground-ball hitter (50.2 percent). He has enough strength to hit a number of home runs anyway, but a fall due to the lack of a fly-ball hitter's profile wouldn't be surprising in the least. —Mike Gianella
7. Jered Weaver
His awkward mechanics are also more likely to become an issue now that he's on the other side of 30. A history of back and shoulder tightness worries me that an extended DL trip (aside from a freak accident like last year's broken elbow) could be on the way.
No offense to PECOTA, but I'm thinking 3.6 WARP is optimistic. —Dan Rozenson
8. Jonathan Papelbon
Mike Fast found that "the performance of a reliever appears to be more sensitive to changes in fastball speed," and sure enough, Papelbon's strikeout rate sank by 10 percentage points last season, to a career-low 22.4 percent. That's a problem for a guy who doesn't get groundballs. Papelbon's career 184 ERA+ compares favorably with Mariano Rivera's 180 through the same age, but if his drop in velo and rise in contact rate continue, ages 33 through 43 aren't going to be anywhere close to as kind. —Ben Lindbergh
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Look at the rate of speed decline in Papplebon's slider -- down to curveball speeds. I wonder if he is using it differently, it's not really the same pitch, or if it is intentional.
Feb 19, 2014 07:15 AM
How about Mr. Boston, Pedroia?
Feb 19, 2014 07:39 AM
Dave Scott
Always missing from lists like this are the slightly bad guys who move to being terrible. Usually, you can find them on my Strat-O-Matic teams.
Feb 19, 2014 08:58 AM
Feb 19, 2014 09:26 AM
Lou Doench
Feb 20, 2014 09:04 AM
Travis Wood? Alex Cobb? Big regressions coming
Feb 19, 2014 10:55 AM
totally unsustainable LOB% of 81.4 for example
Feb 19, 2014 17:52 PM
What about Cobbs MLB experience combined with a swing and miss change up that is one of the top 5 swing and miss pitches in the AL ??? No regression here for Alexander. He is just good.
Feb 19, 2014 19:14 PM
I thought Marlon Byrd would be on here for sure.
Feb 19, 2014 11:34 AM
Shouldn't you have a reason other than "he can't possibly keep up the pace" when you project a regression for a guy like Trout? Seems a bit silly to me...
Feb 19, 2014 13:01 PM
Russell A. Carleton
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I have no specific reason to call for a Trout regression other than some sort of existential discomfort. There's always the element of Waiting for Godot in baseball. The past was always glorious and someday, another all-time great will emerge, but that time is not now. That's my entire reasoning.
Feb 21, 2014 10:42 AM
why would someone not want to see Mike Trout become "an inner-circle Hall of Famer emerging from his cocoon before our very eyes." ?????
Feb 19, 2014 13:27 PM
"A consistent 10 win player. . .like Willie Mays."
Feb 19, 2014 16:01 PM
LOL. Mays had six 10 WAR years between 1954 and 1965, in addition to two years of 9.9 WAR; the other years, his worst total was 8.3. Hard to call that inconsistent. A 10 WAR year is pretty unusual, so we'll see if he measures up to Mays. Not impossible, but certainly improbable, given that most would put Mays as the top CF in history.
Feb 19, 2014 21:23 PM
I took WAR data for Mays from baseball-reference.com
Feb 19, 2014 21:52 PM
Okay, I used the BP WAR numbers; the 10+ seasons are the same, and they came in 12 seasons. There's also the fact that Mays's 21 and 22 year old seasons were lost to military service.
Feb 19, 2014 22:40 PM
One might throw a net over every player that got "House Money" via an eye popping multi million dollar - multi year contract - and hit at a 66.6% clip or better.
Feb 19, 2014 19:21 PM
Your comments on AJ Burnett may prove spot on, but man are throwaway comments like "the Phillies infielders aren't getting any younger" are getting so tiresome. There's not a person on the globe who is getting "younger."
Feb 24, 2014 10:06 AM
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Early Exposure to Lead and Adult Antisocial Outcomes
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Prior research indicates a link between early lead exposure and risk for delinquent behavior. In this study, we follow a large birth cohort from the Cincinnati Lead Study into early adulthood to determine whether this increased risk persists. Outcome measures include official arrest records, diagnoses of Substance Abuse Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder, self-report of delinquent behavior, and a psychopathy scale. Predictors include pre-natal and post-natal blood lead levels. Multivariate statistical methods will control for potential confounders/covariates.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The latest news regarding switch-hitting third baseman Pablo Sandoval continued to be upbeat.
Head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner reported Wednesday that Sandoval, recovering from an injured right elbow, swung from both sides of the plate and played catch at about a 75-foot distance. Groescher said that Sandoval will be re-evaluated Thursday.
Though Sandoval has not played since March 16, the Giants believe that he can be game-ready for Monday's season opener at Los Angeles, due to the number of at-bats he received late in the Venezuelan Winter League season, early in Spring Training and in the World Baseball Classic.
Manager Bruce Bochy would like to play Sandoval once or twice during the three-game Bay Bridge Series against Oakland. However, if Sandoval were to aggravate his injury against the A's, they could not backdate his disabled-list assignment into March. That's why backup catcher Hector Sanchez is performing in Minor League exhibitions.
"Sure there is," Bochy said of the risk of using Sandoval against Oakland. "But that's a decision we have to make."
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There are more particles, more dimensions, more parallel realities, more energy-levels, more energy forms, more soul extensions and more multiple personalities than we can comprehend. We catch glimpses of the existential possibilities in dreams and meditations. We experience intuitions of high strangeness when in elevated states of consciousness. But these data are rarely recollected with clarity in our normal waking hours. God, we sense, is a complicated place in which to live.
One of the core ideas of the New Spirituality is the notion that there is nothing outside God. But what does this mean? For example, can we still maintain a useful distinction between what we call the creator and what we understand to be its creation?
Operating from the viewpoint of human waking consciousness in third dimension physicality here on Earth, there seems to be logic in such a distinction. The creation of a watch offers a metaphor. The watchmaker exists before the watch he makes is brought into being. He is therefore separate from the watch he makes. He is separate from it in time. In framing such a distinction, we draw on the Western concept of linear time. This is a codification of distinctions: "Yesterday is categorically different from today"; "That was then, this is now," etc.
However, we also understand that time is a matrix illusion. It is a device which we physical plane humans use, when awake, to order our perception of reality.
But at the higher spiritual levels it seems likely that time does not exist. This may be why it is possible in elevated states of consciousness, such as sometimes experienced in meditation or in lucid dreams, to recall details of both past and future lives. The viewpoint from that elevated higher dimensional perspective indicates no important difference between the past and the present as understood on the physical plane.
With regard to creators, creatrixes, creations and creatures, it is helpful, perhaps, to consider their overlapping essences as they operate at the higher spiritual levels.
The creator of our local universe - a being often called Love - is, by creator standards elsewhere, young, inexperienced, brilliant and mischievous. Love is a child. Indeed, that which we call God was quite brave to allow Love to get his hands on the Lego bricks of creation at all.
So what? Well, down here in the Mystery School we think of as Planet Earth, we are still trying to puzzle out the whole bangshoot. On a bad day the universe looks like the biggest dog's breakfast since the Schleswig-Holstein Question. Most of the Lego bricks seem to be invisible, immaterial or shapeshifting. Or at least they do when we try to perceive them while trapped in waking consciousness.
Part of what Love does is to continually create an ambit of human experience on Earth involving the illusions of physicality and temporality. It is curious. It wants to know what it is like to have the gift of ignorance and not understand these things fully.
But how does the creator think? The thoughts of the creator are the thoughts of its creations. Its creations are a direct aspect of itself processing waking experience on the physical plane. We are the creator's brains; we are the creator's ability to work things out.
The creator, of course, is self-sufficient, but if it is to have extensions of its being in all dimensions and in all parallel realities, which it does infinitely, it must allow those extensions (us) to be their own creators in every way within the system of experience (the local universe) which it has created. Perhaps this is why the New Spirituality these days often talks about humans as being co-creators.
Human beings are portions of the creator completing its experimental and experiential business within Earth-plane physicality. We are like sensory neurones conducting energy data back to the mothership up there, and like motor neurones sending impulses to oil the wheels which squeak down here.
The purpose of created life is experience, change, growth and evolution. Creator and creation together experience change, growth and evolution, and in doing so they become more.
The watchmaker makes the watch. But without the watch, he would not be a watchmaker. Watch and watchmaker are aspects of each other. Neither exists without the other. But together they are creatively engaged in becoming more.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Consumer Journalism, Gonzo Style
Until now. Six weeks ago, I lived the dream and spent an afternoon getting pissed with the editor of Loaded.
The occasion was a return to the old days of inspired consumer features: the Credit Crunch Booze Test. With a looming recession, we have to economise, so what are the best budget and supermarket own label beers? The brief was to do a proper, professional tasting job, which I tried my best to deliver. The results are in the August issue, which actually came out at the beginning of July and is due to come off the shelves any day now – I missed it the first time I looked because it's not listed in the contents section, but you can find it on page 28-29, between an article on pandas and a feature on inflatable pubs. (You can easily spot this issue on the newsagent's shelf – it's the one with a naked lady cupping her bare boobs on the front). In fact here it is:
The editor, Martin Daubney, really knew his way around beer and gave me a run for my money in pinning down the various tasting notes – or lack thereof. Buy the mag for the full results – all I'll say is that if I ever find myself on my uppers with less than 60p to spend on my beer, I'm off to Lidl. They really do pull it out of the bag. Loaded seems to have had a modest revival – it has proper articles, and interviews with actors such as Christian Bale and James MacEvoy. It is still what it is – the literary equivalent of Carling – but next to Zoo and Nuts it's like the Economist.
After we tasted the beers Martin asked me if I'd mind moving on to vodkas and whiskies, and the afternoon started to unravel. I needed something to wash away the taste of Aldi's 'Voska' (our expert commented "as they say in Withnail and I, even the wankers on the site wouldn't drink it.'"), and we repaired to Loaded's local for a very fine pint of London Pride.
Remembering the heady days of Loaded's youth, I was excited about where things might go from here. It was a Friday, it was late afternoon, and we were already well-oiled. Would the rest of the gang join us after putting the feature to bed? Perhaps they'd invite along some page three girls. Maybe on the spur of the moment we'd charter a helicopter and fly to Amsterdam for last orders. Literally, anything might happen. But I could never have predicted what did. In a sad sign of the times, Martin looked at his watch, said, "Shit," downed his pint and profusely apologised. He was running late for some market research focus groups about the magazine, which he had to attend that evening.
I'm just glad Hunter S Thompson didn't live long enough to see such a thing.
Friday, 25 July 2008
From Oak(well) to Mighty Acorns. Or something.
Allegedly you can't trademark a place name as your brand. When I wrote Three Sheets to the Wind, I always wanted to finish my round-the-world journey back in my home town of Barnsley, and compare what I'd seen with good old Barnsley Bitter, once a legendary brew, bought and killed by John Smith's in the 1960s because, if you believe the locals, it was too good to have as competition.
Such is the scale of the cask ale revival that, when I was planning my Three Sheets trip to Barnsley in early 2005, Barnsley bitter was not only back; there were three different beers claiming to be it. One of them was brewed in Blackpool, which made me doubt its authenticity somewhat. Of the other two, one was brewed in Wombwell, a village on the other side of town (or t'tarn) from where I grew up, and one was in the crumbling old Oakwell Brewery, in the shadow of Barnsley FC's famous ground, the site of the original Barnsley Brewery. I chose to write about the Oakwell one, because it seemed to have the most authentic lineage. The owners of the brewery were extremely secretive. The passage in the book was fine, but uninspiring. The beer was good. I've heard nothing about the Oakwell brewery since.
It's now looking like I backed the wrong horse.
The Wombwell-brewed Barnsley Bitter came from the Acorn Brewery. What I didn't know then was that Acorn was very new at the time, and had links with the Blackpool one, which was by then defunct. Since I wrote the book, Acorn has gone from strength to strength, and the first part of my 40th birthday jaunt north was to help them celebrate their own fifth birthday, on 4th July.
Me and Dave, the head brewer at Acorn. A vast majority of brewers in the north are called Dave.
I arrived at the brewery to be greeted by a smell of warm meat and pastry that made my stomach growl. A proper northern buffet had been laid on in the bar, the centrepiece being Percy Turner's pork pies from Jump.
You may think you know what a pork pie tastes like. Not if you haven't been to Barnsley, you don't. Pork pies are to Barnsley what truffles are to the Dordogne. There is no shortage of pork pies in Barnsley, but according to the Acorn lads there had been Soviet-style queues outside Percy Turner's shop that morning, and this was not uncommon. These were real pork pies, the pastry crumbly, the jelly runny, soaking into the soft, salty, peppery, still-warm meat as it fell apart and melted on your tongue...
Oh yes, we were supposed to be talking about the beers.
The buffet had been laid on because there was a bit of a tasting session happening, and it soon became apparent that I was leading it. I didn't mind - I do a lot of tasting session now and am good at winging them, but this one was different: the attendees were, in the main, northern publicans. Publicans tend to be an opinionated bunch. They're not accustomed to sitting quietly while other people speak. And northern publicans - well, I crossed one once. I shan't be doing it again.
First came Rob from the Gatehouse, Barnsley town centre's best pub. Rob looks a bit like how Norris out of Coronation Street would look if he was suddenly kidnapped from Weatherfield and dropped in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam, and learned to survive on his instincts and by acquiring the ability to kill with his bare hands. Rob's pub is one of the busiest on Barnsley match days, and yet he makes no secret of the fact that he's a Sheffield Wednesday fan. His hard gaze can make you void your bowels involuntarily. And that's when he's in a good mood.
But behind Rob came a man who clearly saw himself as the King of the Northern Landlords. He'd even brought an entourage.
Tetley Dave runs the Shoulder of Mutton in Castleford. He worked at Tetley's for decades before taking over the pub, and fought a 'Battle of the Alamo' when the pubco who owned it wanted to shut it down. The Acorn lads had been talking about him coming, and I guessed it was him when his voice boomed from the corridor, insisting that the only beer he'd ever stock permanently was Tetley's, but that if he was impressed, he may well take a cask of Acorn back with him. He took control of the room as soon as he entered – a tall, man with grey, close-shaved hair and glasses, wearing the trousers and waistcoat of a grey three-piece suit, a white shirt open at the neck. He found a seat that was closest to both me at the front, and Turner's pork pies down the side. "Nice bit o' growler, this," he mumbled between mouthfuls of his third one.
Tetley Dave was accompanied by a man in his late forties with bubble-permed peroxide hair. He drove a RAV-4, the kind of vehicle you normally see covered in the livery of local pop hit radio stations. "He's a professional entertainer, him," said Tetley Dave, jerking his thumb at the man who stood grinning inscrutably, leaning against the wall. "He lives wi' us." A better writer than me, someone like Jon Ronson (who I was introduced to last weekend and who was, sadly, a bit aloof, perhaps because he took it the wrong way when I described his reading as 'meandering'), would have been able to get to the story behind this. But I had beers to talk about that I hadn't yet tasted, and more people were arriving, and the moment passed.
In the brief lulls between orations on the nature of beer, pubs and the universe (well, Yorkshire, and that's practically the same thing) I managed to run through about five of Acorn's beers.
Summer Pale was an extremely pale golden ale, white gold, with a floral and sherbet aroma and pear drops washing over the tongue.
Barnsley Gold had a citrus aroma with chewy, gloopy, caramel notes followed by a gentle bitterness.
Then onto Barnsley Bitter itself, a silver medal winner two years ago at GBBF. Combining the drinkability of a true session bitter with a dark richness, a hint of chocolate and red berry fruit, this is the kind of beer that Yorkshire does better than anywhere else.
So Acorn brew good beers. But they've been going beyond that. In 2007 they brewed ten different IPAs with different British hops. This year, they're doing the same thing with American hops: the same basic beer chassis, a 5% IPA, with a different single varietal hop each month. I have to confess I'm a bastard for Cascade hops, I love them, the aromas intoxicate me on their own. So while the Liberty hop IPA was the new one, and Cascade last month's news, I was guilty of flipping them around. The Liberty IPA was great, full-bodied and rich with the hops not shouting out, but creating a complex brew to savour. But the Cascade... it was a riot, a tropical fruit salad with papaya and citrus fruits. I'd say it had about 90% of the sheer hop hit and bold character of an American IPA, but at 5%, it was distressingly sessionable. The best IPA I've tasted since the lads from Stone came over earlier in the year.
This was the point at which I really gained my audience's attention, and we talked about the legend of IPA, and my journey. One man – who had also arrived with Tetley Dave – took a very keen interest and questioned me on my Indian experience quite closely. I didn't know who he was then, but Ian Clayton is a well-known broadcaster on ITV and a stalwart of the Yorkshire arts scene. "Oh, I write books as well," he said at one point during the tasting, when I was talking about my IPA book. I did my best encouraging smile, ignorant twat that I am. Days later, Ian sent me a copy of his latest book. Richard Hawley calls it "beautiful", Robert Wyatt "a magical roller coaster", and Record Collector magazine thinks it's "One of the best books about popular music ever written". Half way through as I write this, I agree wholeheartedly with all of them. If you only buy one book this year, and you already own both of mine, buy Bringing it all Back Home.
Finally we tasted Old Moor Porter, full of fruit cake and liquorice, laced with vinous notes. I recently did a radio programme for Diageo about stout and oysters and this eternal match was fresh in my mind, so I thought my audience would appreciate the story of how porter was once the drink of the working man, and oysters were the food of poor people, and they just happened to go together in a sublime fashion. Ian nodded thoughtfully, but it was the chance Tetley Dave had been waiting for.
"I had 'alf a dozen o' them oysters t'other week." He paused. "Only two o' the buggers worked!"
I couldn't let him get away with that unchallenged. "That's it!" I said, "That's who you remind me of. You look just like Jim Bowen!"
Suddenly, Tetley Dave was out of his chair, jabbing his finger at me furiously. "Don't you mention that name in here! That bloke still owes me five hundred quid!"
As I doubled up with laughter, another no-doubt amazing anecdote slipped by, and escaped.
Tetley Dave
After that it was time for Rob to leave. He'd enjoyed himself. You could tell this because, although he still looked furious, like he was about to punch someone out, he told us that he'd enjoyed himself.
As he neared the door, Tetley Dave, ever mindful of opportunities for his entourage, called out, "Hey, have you got any entertainment at your pub?"
"We will have if tha' comes in," replied Rob, and he was out of the door before Tetley Dave could respond, victory snatched at the close.
The best endorsement for Acorn's beers is that Tetley Dave took away a cask of one of the IPAs in the back of the RAV4.
That night, the Acorn boys took me out drinking. Allegedly Sheffield has more different cask ales on tap at any given time than anywhere else in the country. We tried as many as we could, and stayed out until we started to fall asleep in our curries. We exceeded the government's recommended daily intake of units, it's fair to say. I'm keeping my diary clear for Acorn's tenth birthday in July 2013.
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Put a little Berghaus in your soul
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Beer writer in 'self-indulgent post' shocker.
Never mind.
I got two good books out during my thirties, and completed a life-changing sea voyage that will be released as my third book, on the shelves before I hit 41. Maybe that will be the one that allows me to give up the day job and write full time. I doubt it, but hope is what drags a writer back to the keyboard day after day, for eighteen months, or two years, or four, or ten.
I got hit by the brainwave to write Man Walks into a Pub (though it didn't have the cool title then - my publishers always come up with better titles than me) on 11th September 1998, two months almost to the day after my thirtieth birthday. This means my entire fourth decade - 25% of my life so far - has been devoted single-mindedly to the pursuit of trying to write about beer in a way that can entertain those who are already into it, but more importantly, to put beer in its rightful place in a broader social context, and get those who don't currently read about beer to appreciate it more.
I guess I've had some success. I've sold maybe 30,000 books, between the two titles. I've got this blog, a few stuttering TV appearances, and some magazine features. Beer has become my life, and has given me a whole cast of new friends who I am so grateful to have met, and who I feel confident I'll be drinking with for the rest of my days. I've been around the world twice, and still get a rush when I'm invited to a bar somewhere to see someone unveil a new brew they're excited about, and want to try on an audience for the first time.
My first editor once told me they had Booker Prize shortlist authors who would kill for my sales figures. I'm sure that's true, but mine are nothing to write home about. CAMRA now has 90,000 members. You've got to be passionate about beer to join CAMRA, and if every person who cared about beer enough to put their hand in their pocket every year to renew their CAMRA membership also thought my books were worth reading, well, I'd now be living mortgage-free and very happy indeed. For me, there's nothing better than an afternoon in a beer garden with a pint of TT Landlord in one hand and a good book in the other, but for many, reading and drinking just don't go together. Maybe I shouldn't have slagged CAMRA off quite so vehemently in that first book - but someone had to.
No matter.
The last ten years have been a blast. And the thing that both writing and beer exploration have in common is that, as your dreams of being a professional footballer or rock god or fashion model (only one of these three was my dream) fall away as symbols of a youth that you suddenly realise you only ever had one go at, that wasn't a rehearsal, that had no second chance at - both the craft of writing and the simple enjoyment of beer can only improve as you get older. You read more, you experience more, you know more. If you have your health, you've got the rest of your life, unless Alzheimer's rears its head, to refine your craft, and your enjoyment. I hope I get another forty years doing what I've spent the last ten doing. At this age, it's very comforting to think that, in stuff that's very important to you, you're still at the beginning of the journey.
Jesus. This is what Wonder Years would have sounded like if it hadn't been put out of its misery once Fred Savage hit puberty.
Aaaaaanyywaaay. I get the horrible feeling that in the next few days I will be wishing I had deleted the above rather than posting it.
I've spent the last week of my thirties being quite self-indulgent, on a mini-beer-tour around the Great North of England, having a whale of the time. Various posts to follow on my experiences.
More importantly, I'm celebrating the 'beginning' of my life, upstairs at the White Horse, on Saturday, 12th July, from 7pm. Any reader of this blog - even the Anonymous Twat(s) who have no knowledge about beer and no meaningful life in the real world - are invited to come along and help me celebrate/drown my sorrows, so long as you play nice on the night. We've got some free beer - good beer - and when that runs out, there's lots more excellent beer that you'll have to pay for. For fuck's sake, we're talking about the White Horse!
If you've read this far, you deserve the free stuff.
Please indulge me and cut me a bit of slack - and I hope to see you there on Saturday.


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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Offshore here, the shallow continental shelf gives way to deep water and there are sights and sounds few nature lovers have a chance to experience.
Along with the sea turtles and dolphins, the schools of game fish, perhaps even an impressive whale shark, there are birds: "pelagic" birds rarely if ever seen on land, that spend almost their entire lives on, in and over the deep water.
South Padre Island, with its wing of the World Birding Center (WBC), is one of the best and easiest places on the Gulf Coast from which to launch a pelagic birding expedition, says WBC guide John Arvin. Terns, Storm-Petrels, Albatrosses, and Shearwaters are among the pelagic birds that may be spotted off the South Texas coast, and the relative closeness of deep water makes it quicker and easier to get to them.
The WBC is sponsoring three pelagic trips for the 2004 season, all aboard the 65-foot Osprey II excursion boat based here. These popular 12-hour expeditions are scheduled for May 21, July 16 (in conjunction with the Brownsville International Birding Festival,) and Sept. 24.
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Tropical pelagic birds like the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel are a specialty off South Padre Island, adds Arvin. On a good trip, watchers might spot as many as 10 different species, from the Magnificent Frigatebird and Cory's Shearwater, to the rarer Yellow-nosed Albatross and Red-billed Tropicbird.
While the West Coast also offers a relatively narrow continental shelf and rich pelagic bird life, the only other area in the United States where tropical pelagic birds are reliably viewed is off the coast of North Carolina.
Arvin urges interested birders to sign up as soon as possible, since the trips are popular as well as infrequent. The Osprey II comfortably holds about 30-35 people, with an enclosed, air-conditioned cabin, booth seats and tables inside and bench seating outside.
Meanwhile, new developments concerning South Padre Island's wing of the WBC promise to make the island an even more attractive destination for birds — and birders. A new 7-acre acquisition of wetlands and uplands property south of the island Convention Center will protect more crucial habitat as well as open up exciting new possibilities for a planned visitors' complex, say island officials.
Headquartered in Mission, the WBC is a partnership between nine local communities, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Along with being a convenient launch-site for deep sea birding trips, South Padre Island provides an important refuge for the colorful warblers, tanagers and buntings that migrate through each spring. Its expansive saltwater flats, lagoons and marshes attract hundreds of species of shorebirds and winter residents as well.
WBC property near the convention center adjoins the Laguna Madre Nature Trail, with 1,500 feet of boardwalk over four acres of sea grass habitat. Visitors will have additional areas to explore once the new acquisition ties in, says Darla Lapeyre, executive vice president of the South Padre Island Economic Development Corporation.
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Richter Architects of Corpus Christi is working on the site plan, as well as the visitors' center design. "We just want to make it a better birding center," says Lapeyre.
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The world is a batch
ISA 88 gives process automation a native language for batch processes, and much more. Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the state of the batch in the September cover story for CONTROL magazine.
A Short History of the World…of Batch
"Batch manufacturing has been around for a long time," says Lynn Craig, batch guru and Process Automation Hall of Fame inductee. "Most societies since prehistoric times have found a way to make beer." That's a batch process. It's one of the oldest batch processes. Food processing and the making of poultices and simples (early pharmaceutical manufacturing) are so old that there is no record of who did it first.
"The process consisted of putting the right stuff in the pot, and then keeping the pot just warm enough, without letting it get too warm. Without control, beer can happen, but don't count on it. Ten years ago, or a little more," Craig continues, "batch was a process that generally speaking didn't have a whole lot of instrumentation and control, and all of the procedures were done manually. It just didn't fit into the high tech world."
In many cases, the way food is manufactured, and the way pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are made, differs hardly at all from the way they were made 100 years ago. In fact, this is true of many processes in many different industries.
What is different since the publication of the ISA S88 batch standard is that there's now a language and a way of describing batch processes, so they can be repeated precisely and reliably, anywhere in the world.
The S88 model describes any process (including continuous processes) in terms of levels or blocks (See Figure 1 below). This is similar to the ISO's Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) standard, which uses a set of building blocks that conceptually allow any process to be clearly elaborated.
ISA's S88.01 model is similar to the ISO's CIM model com. (Click image to view an enlarged PDF).
The highest three levels, Enterprise, Site and Area, aren't, strictly speaking, controlled by the batch standard, but are included to explain how the batch standard's language can interface with the business systems of the area, plant site, and business enterprise as a whole. The Enterprise is a common term for a complete business entity, while a Site is whatever the Enterprise defines it to be. A site is commonly a place where production occurs.
The second edition of Tom Fisher's seminal book on the batch standard, Batch Control Systems, which was completely rewritten after Fisher's death by William Hawkins, states that, "Areas are really political subdivisions of a plant, whose borders are subject to the whims of management…and so it (the area) joins Site and Enterprise as parts of the physical model that are defined by management, and not by control engineers."
The next two levels, Process Cell and Unit, are the building blocks of the manufacturing process. Process Cell is used in a way intentionally similar to the widely used discrete manufacturing cell concept. One or more Units are contained in a Process Cell. A Unit is a collection or set of controlled equipment, such as a reactor vessel and the ancillary equipment necessary to operate it.
Within the Unit are the Equipment Module and the Control Module. The Equipment Module is the border around a minor group of equipment with a process function. An Equipment Module may contain Control Module(s) and even subsidiary Equipment Modules.
The Control Module contains the equipment and systems that perform the actual control of the process.
Since the introduction of the S88 batch standard, every major supplier of automation equipment and software has introduced hardware and software designed to work in accordance with the standard. Many of those suppliers are corporate members of WBF, which formerly was known as World Batch Forum (See Figure 2 below). WBF was founded by Michael Saucier, then at Honeywell, as a way to promulgate the use of the S88 standards worldwide. (See the sidebar accompanying this story for an interview with Maurice Wilkins, WBF's chairman, and Lynn Craig, WBF's director.
S88 physical model. (Click image to view an enlarged PDF).
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EaglePicher Technologies, in Joplin, Mo., is a manufacturer of battery technologies for defense, aerospace and commercial uses. Bruce Henne, an engineer at EaglePicher, uses Rockwell's Batch and eProcedure software to control the batch processes he uses to make batteries and power supplies.
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Henne uses the batch software for all of his processes. "I like the fact that I can use the same software for the whole gamut from our manual processes to our automated systems."
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Tulo day to day after getting plunked in leg
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies and their fans held their collective breath in the fourth inning of Wednesday night's game when shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was hit on the lower left leg by a pitch from the D-backs Wade Miley.
Tulowitzki left the game, but walked down the right-field line to the Rockies' clubhouse without assistance. The club announced he was day to day with a left calf contusion.
"It didn't hit the bone or anything," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "He won't be in there tomorrow, but I don't think it'll be long."
Both teams had players hit by pitches. Right-hander Tommy Kahnle, a Rule 5 pick from the Yankees, hit the D-backs' Mark Trumbo in the back a half-inning before Tulowitzki was plunked.
In the bottom of the eighth, home-plate umpire Doug Eddings issued warnings to both dugouts when a pitch from the Rockies' Raul Fernandez went up and in against D-backs catcher Miguel Montero.
"You don't ever want to see guys hit," Weiss said, "but stuff happens."
The health of Tulowitzki, 29, is one of the major keys for the Rockies, who lost him to a broken rib for 25 games last season. His absence coincided with injuries to left fielder Carlos Gonzalez, center fielder Dexter Fowler (now with the Astros) and closer Rafael Betancourt (recovering from elbow injury), and the Rockies went from being a surprising contender to last place in the National League West. Tulowitzki also played in just 47 games because of a groin injury in 2012, when the Rockies also finished last in the division.
Tulowitzki has two Rawlings Gold Glove and Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Awards, as well as three All-Star Game selections -- last year's as the elected starter by the fans.
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This salad is so good, whenever I make it I wish I had more leftover chicken so I could make it again right away. I love this with regular fresh basil, but if you have Thai Basil on hand, that's even better. I guess it's time to pick up another chicken from Costco!
(Spicy Chicken Salad with Sugar Snap Peas, Cucumber, Red Bell Pepper, and Basil was updated with improved photos and step-by-step instructions, June 2013.)
Spicy Chicken Salad with Sugar Snap Peas, Cucumbers, Red Bell Pepper, and Basil
(Makes enough dressing 3-4 salads, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from many chicken salad recipes.)
Ingredients for each salad:
1 cup leftover chicken, shredded or chopped into bite-size pieces
1 cup chopped romaine lettuce
1 cucumber, chopped
1/2 cup sugar snap peas, each sliced diagonally into 3-4 pieces
1/4 cup slivered red bell pepper
1/4 cup chopped basil (or you could also use cilantro, mint, or Thai basil)
1 T chopped peanuts (optional; I originally used the peanuts but when I updated the recipe I omitted and just had a little more dressing!)
salt to taste
Dressing Ingredients:
1/4 cup peanut oil
2 T rice vinegar (not seasoned rice vinegar, which contains sugar)
2 T soy sauce (Use gluten-free soy sauce if needed.)
1 tsp. Stevia-in-the-Raw Granulated Sweetener or sweetener of your choice
1/2 tsp. Asian sesame oil
1/2 tsp. ground ginger or ginger puree (can also use finely grated fresh ginger)
1/4 cup peanut butter (use natural peanut butter without added sugar for South Beach Diet)
1/2 tsp. Sriracha Rooster Sauce or Thai red curry paste (or use your favorite hot sauce)
Chop lettuce and cucumber and slice the sugar snap peas, red pepper and basil. Toss the vegetables and basil together with the chicken that's been marinating in the dressing. Then add additional dressing to taste, depending on how wet you like your salads. Serve topped with chopped peanuts and additional basil if desired.
This dressing is also great tossed with cooked whole wheat spaghetti and all the salad ingredients except the lettuce for a slightly different combination.
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Beat-the-Heat Salads to Make with Leftover Chicken ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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Leftover Chicken Chopped Salad with Cafe Rio Style Cream Tomatillo Dressing ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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